War Bond Dollars Are Double Duty Dollars VOL. LXIV. H. L. Crowell, 80 Civic Leader, Dies At His Residence Funeral For Former Citv Ami 9 County Official To Be Held Tuesday Henry Lee Crowell, since 1915, a leading Roxboro business 'nan and civic leader, died last night at hi 3 North Main street home at 11:15 o'clock. In ill health several months he was seriously ill frv one week. A native of Union county and formerly a resident of Monroe, »where he was connected with a "hardware company, Mr. Crowell founded the Crowell Motor company in Roxboro. A charter member of Roxboro Rotary club, he also served as mayor of the city of Roxboro in past years and was chairman of the Board of Person County Com missioners in 1930, when the pres ent new court hoa~e was construct ed. He was for many years mem ber of the Board of Trustees at PQueens college. Charlotte. He was an active member and official of Roxboro Presbyterian church and rites which w’U be held at his home Tuesday morning at eleven o'clock, will be in charge of his pastor, the Rev. George W. Heaton. Interment will be in the Monroe City Cemetery, it being ex pected that the funeral party will reach there about four o'clock in P the afternoon where a graveside service will be held. Surviving is his wife, Mr.;. Essie Woocteide Crowell, formeiiy of Charlotte. Surviving also .tie two daughters, Mrs. Eugene Mills, of Raleigh, and Miss Nannie Crowell, of Roxboro, three sons, Clyde 0,. of Roxboro, T. A., of South Boston. Va., and O. B„ of Hendersonville ard seven grandchildren. Tobacco Holiday Plans Approved • lllumenite Is Mined In N. C. Lenoir— Wliile duPont engineers search the sound and river bottoms of Eastern North Carolina for Ile menite—a black sand used in paints—commercial quantities of the £ stuff are being taken out of a mountain in the Yadkin River val- i ley near here. Dr. J. L. Stuckey, state geologist, Dept, of Conservation and Develop ment. said that approximately 100 tons of the mineral is being recov ered per day by the Yadkin Valley Ileminite Co., a division of the Glidden Co., and is being concen trated at the company’s plant, at $ Finley, N. C. Meantime, he said, the concern is core drilling’ to determine the course of the vein and the probable reserve supply. Preliminary drill ings indicate that the mineral con tinues some distance down the side of the moutain. ‘ ,The ilmonitc'now is being recov ered through open face mining, but the drillings reveal the vein g tends to dip faster than the slope and Underground mining may be necessary in the future* o WAC Recruiting Comes To End Washington—Enlistments in the women's army corps were discon tinued yesterday, Col, Westray Bat tle Boyce, director of the corps, announced today. Other women’s service organiza tions had previously stopped re cruiting. The women marines reached their'quota and halted re cruiting some time ago. The coast guard's Spars, followed suit on August 13 and the navy’s Waves on August T 5. ts The Wacs numbered 95,000 as ~of August Whether the corps will be continued as a peacetime adjunct of the army is up to Con * gress. Unless Congress specifically authorizes its continuance, the corps will cease to exist six months after the termination of hostilities is proclaimed. Forty-four points now are needed for discharge. This score will be lowered from time to time. J. W. NOELL, EDITOR Leader Passes ' '■ ; >t» •§> HENRY L. CROWELL Grandchildren are Lt. T. A. Crow ell, Jr., and Sgt. Eugene Mills, Jr.. both on duty in the Pacific, Miss es Elizabeth and Dorothy Mills, ot Raleigh. O. B. Crowell, Jr., of Hen dersonville, and Clyde Crowell. Jr., of Roxboro, and Miss Martha Crow ell, of Hendersonville. Mr. Crowell was married tu>"*c times, his first and second .->es preceeding him in death. He came to Roxboro in 1915. Rev. W. C. Martin will also aas sist in the rites in Roxboro. Raleigh—The Bright Leaf Tobac co Warehouse association, buying' companies and farm groups voted j Saturday to declare marketing hoi-! idays next Tuesday*' tomorrow) and each subsequent Mondf.y until con gestion in redrying and processing plants is relieved. The border and eastern belts would have been cloned this Mon day, anyway, since that is Labor day. The action, which is automatic and does not need a gubernatorial proclamation, afreets currently ope rating belts and those subsequently opening until the congestion is re lieved. Named to a committee to determine when :,he holidays m-'.y be abolished were L. L. Gravely, Rocky Mount, president of the To bacco Association of eng United States; Fred S. Royster, Henderson, president of the Eastern Belt; and E. B. Matthew’s, president of the Old Belt, Former Governor J. Melville Broughton in a radio statement Sat urday afternoon said that the new closings or holidays do not affect the opening of any Belts and that the Old Belt will open as scheduled on September 18 Tuesday. In Roxboro numbers of tobacco men and warehouse officials said they were pleased by the holiday announcement, j considerable in terest was generated in advance of the decision and numbers of people called the Courer-Times office wanting to kpow when the an nouncement Would be made. Seme of the were men with in terests in thej South Carolina mar ket and sales scheduled loi Tuesday. { Small Blaze Twenty-five dollars damage was done last night to the residence of the Rev. and Mrs. C. G. Mac Carver, at Longhurstj when a refrigerator motor blazed Aip and was destroyed about 10:30 o’clock The alarm was answered by pa-Vel and City fire men. o SNAKE KILLED A fifteen inch moccasin was killed j this morning /in the alley between Pittard's furniture store and the Roxboro Cotton Mill office building. r° Between 800 and 700 cars of sweet potatoes are now being ship ped each business day. ®ht Courter-Hime? NEW SERVICE BOARD APPROVED, MAY MEET TUESDAY MORNING ! New Board Approved, Expect ed To Meet Tuesday for First Time Dr. O. G. Davis, member of the I new Person Selective Service Board I No. 1, which as of Saturday has j been officially approved by National Selective Service headquarters, said | that he has been notified to at- I tend a Board meeting to be held to morrow (Tuesday) morning in the office of the Person Board in Rox boro Cotton Mills office build.ag. It is thught that both Haywood Bailey, of Woodsdaie, and D. M. Cash of Moriah, other two new members, have been ratified and will attend and it is expected that one of the first problems to be tak en up by the new Board will be j the matter of disposition of the ! group of boys and young men or ! iginally assigned to go to Port Bragg for pre-induction examination. This is the group, a call for which was cancelled by the resigning I Board. i Official notification of approval of the new board was sent i o Brig. .Gen. Van B. Metts, jf Raleigh, State Director of Selective Service, last week and was made public by him Saturday morning in a :itate ! ment to the News and Observer. A new Person Selective Service Board was named two weeks’ ego following the mass meeting of the i old board, composed of D. L. Whit | field, chairman, O. Y. Clayton and .| R. L. Hester, which resigned in I protest against further inductions until action by Congress. Os interest in connection with j Selective Service plans ire two an ' nouncements from Washington, one referring to lowering of age limits 'Plea For Peace Rotary Theme Os Dr. Green Rotarians Have Important Session At Hotel | Roxboro 1 Declaring that wc are living in a i new world of peace in which a moral [code is required. Dr. C. Sylvester I Green, of Durham, editor of the Morning Herald and final speaker at the Rotary District conference sponsored by the Roxboro club Thursday night, said also that the "Unfinishtd Task of Peace" is vital and must ge accomplished. Other speakers included District Governor Bert Weaver, of Leaksville, Tarvia Jones, of Graham, and Bob Madry, of Chapel Hill. Special guests at the affair which lasted three hours and was held at Hotel Roxboro. were members of the new ly organized Milton Rotary club . Emphasis of the program was on [Rotary influences and problems to , meet in the post-war world. Program was planned by Floyd Peaden, with Roxboro's club president, Dr. John Fitzgerald, former President Fred 1 Long and others, including R. H. Gatts and W. Wallace Woods, assist ing. Attendance was placed at be tween fifty and sixty. Introduction of Dr. Green was by former Lt. Gov. R. L. Harris, a club member. Dr. Green, who began by quoting Kipling's ‘Recessional”, sounded a deeply serious note about Rotary's place in the peace program but made the application fit all 1 American and world citizens. o AT SCOUT MEET In Yanceyville Sunday afternoon was C- J- Ford, chairman of the Negro Division of Person Scout Council, who attended an Inter-ra cial District Conference at Caswell Training school. He was accom panied by Thomas J. Shaw, Jr„ In ter-racial Chairman for the Person District. Soldiers Rough Night Experienced-By Police As Soldiers and Civilains Go On Loose Breaking of the plate glass window of a North Main street store, attri | buted to unidentified soldiers, said to have been fighting on the street, j added excitement to a rather rowdy , Saturday night here, according to 1 Police Chief George C. Robinson, who said that other highlight of the ' evening was an incident Involving the arresting of a civilian charged ■ with drinking and minor tights. Plate glass window which was ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA and discharge points, the other to a change in sentiment against too hasty action in curtailing Selective Service, the continuation of which has been declared essential by President Truman. The Washington dispatches cad j as follows: Washington—The Army today or- | dered promised V-J Day cuts inj age and discharge point restrictions j to speed release of enlisted men and women. Effective today, all enlisted per sonnel of 35 years or over—who have had a minimum of two years of honorable military service—will be released from the Army upon application. The previous age lim it was 38. Washington—A poll of the house military committee showed today that a campaign for immediate end of the draff has lost its steam. Fourteen committee memDers (old a reporter they believed selective service will be allowed to continue, at least for a few months. Likewise, they said it probably will be necessary to continue in ducting 18 and 19-year-olds. Most of the committeemen said they would like to see the draft abolished or modified, but ex pressed belief it must be kept for a while for two reasons: 1. To guarantee the replacement of veteran fighting men. 2. To insure an adequate numbtr of occupation troops. They added that a demand prob ably still will be raised on the house and senate floors for a change in policy. Three Named On Board By AAA Chairman Claude T .Hall Announces Ap pointment of Crop Agents Three authorized agents have been appointed to sell Federal crop insu rance in Person County, Claude T. Hall, chairman. Person County AAA Committee has announced. Appointed as sales agents are W. Irving O'Briant, C. C. Garrett and H. Dewey Young all of Roxboro. “These sales agents will begin call ing upon farmers soon to give every producer of winter wheat a chance to protect his own crop from natural hazards through this new Federal insurance program " the AAA chair man said. In North Carolina, the last day for filing crop insurance applications on the 1946 winter wheat crop is before seeding of the crip or September 30. whichever is earlier. Highlights of the set-up under the new crop insurance program show that: Farmers may file applications for crop insurance with a sales agent appointed by the county AAA com mittee, or at the county AAA office: that, losses should be reported to the county AAA office, which is respon sible for administrative details of the program, and that inspection of crop damage and adjustments of losses will be made by the local adjuster for the county, supervised by the State Crop Insurance Director. - Alo*Uf *74e IdJatf. m Reports coming this way indicate that Henry O’Briant, Roxboro's popular fire chief, got lost going to the fire last night. The fire was at Longhurst and he wound up in Cavel. On the other hand the fire was put out so Henry might have wandered around a bit with no damage. Then too since gas is no longer rationed he might have just wanted to ride a bit. The time is about here for Brodie Riggsbie to go to Loch Lily to spend his annual vacation. He always goes there when other go to the beach. Brodie says that it is cheaper and he has swimming, golfling and fishing. What more could a poor man want? Aid In Disturbance In City smashed was that of Ledbetter’s [Electrical store. D. w. Ledbetter, i owner-manager, said there was no insurance and that it will cost around seventy-five dollars to replace the windoy. H,s was called to the scene about midnight, shortly after the window was briken. Tire soldiers made a get-a-way and no identifi cation was made of them by any per sons in a large crowd which assem bled when the crash occurred. In vestigation is still underway by po lice. A crowd estimated at two or three hundred also gathered about two hours earlier at the Person Court House lawn, where officers Wade HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT World War Now Ended Mother Shares In Eagle Honor At j Scout Court i Currier Award Spotlight’s Court. Star Rank Goes To Cozart ,; With Gus Deering, chairman, . George Currier and Joe Gussy pre j biding, high spot of the August Court ( of Honor for Boy Scouts of Person district held Friday night at the Rox boro USO Service Center was award ing of the Eagle Badge to Robert [ (Bobby) Currier, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Currier, of Cavel circle. Mrs. Currier, mother of the win ner, pinned the award on her son, [ who has been a Scout for several years and has been a leader at ' i Camp Cherokee and in the Person ; District. Presentation of the badge ' was by Joe Gussy, Currier's former j Scoutmaster of Troop 24. r Gene Cozart was up for the Star 1 Scout award. Cozart is a member of Troop 49. Second class badge was awarded to Arthur Hanks. Jr., of Troop 24. Alos up for second class badge was Larry Woods, son of Mr. ■ and Mrs. Lawerence Woods, with Mrs. Woods present for the cere mony. Those coming up for merit badges were: W. T. Adcock, Jr.. Joe Feath erston, Billy Johnson, Edward Sin gleton and Gus F. Deering, while iup for tenderfoot were Ruffin Woody and Malcolm Todd. | The meeting opened witlt the Scout oath led by Joe Featherston. | Benediction, the Scoutmaster's bene diction. was led by Bobby Currier. Among those present, in addition to Court of Honor officials and Scouts concerned, were C. A Harris, Sr.. Dr. Robert E. Long, Collins Ab blf. *and a number of mothers of the boys. Next meeting of the Court will be at the USO Center on Fri . day night, September 28, when three Scouts, Bobby Crumption, Howard Fox and Claude Duncan, will come , I up for merit badge awards and one Scout, Dickie Knott, of Troop 24, . j will seek second class award. ,! At the July court E. Pierce Bruce 'awarded a flag to the district and discussed the Fellowship fund to i which all members of troops are expected to contribute. Star Scout .! award was given to Carlton Painter, and second class to Bobby Kerr, Gene ■ Britt. Bill Michie and Kirk Kynoch, 1 with mothers of the last two attend- I ing. Bronze Palm was awarded to Regi nald Jones and First Class to George . W. Gentry, Jr., while merit badges were presented to Bill Michie for , home repairs, Jimmy Street, farm home planning and forestry, wood carving and carpentry; Gene Co ; zart, handicrafts and personal health; and Bobby Currier, civics. Presiding were Mr. Deering and Mr. Currier. Opening exercises were in charge of Jimmy Street and bene diction was by the Rev. E. C. Maness. COW STOPS TRAIN A cow on the Norfolk and West i efn tracks stopped the three o'clock : train to South Boston yesterday • jt'tertoon, between Rougemont and Helena, until trainmen shooed the animal off. and Walker Os City Police are said lo have had a nip and tuck strug gle with a young white man identi fied as Johnny Eddie Briggs, of near i Bushy Fork, who was lender arrest on a drinking charge, f Briggs, given a hearing this morn ing in City Court, is under one hun- I dred dollar bond for appearance at next term of Recorders court. Char jges Include resisting arrest. Chief Robinson said that the crowd that gathered showed no disposition to aid the officers and that in the group ! which milled around were several soldiers who allegedly made angry remarks, punctuated with curses and cat-calls. | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1945 $2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Schools Ashed To Plan Exhibits For Person Fair i | Annual Person Fair Opens Week of October First i Says Perkins Annual Person County Agricul tural fail will be held here for one week, beginning October 1. accord- , ing to announcement made today , by R. L. (Bob) Perkins owner- man- , I ager, who has revealfd plans for |an increased emphasis oh agri | cultural theme through a coopcra- J live program to be worked out j through Roxboro and Pei son Coun !ty grammar schools and high . ! schools. Under the scuooi pain'ipation i plan as worked out :u a conference < with Person Superin:,m.'ien: of . Schools R. B. Griffin, each gram mar school and each high school is being invited and urged to pre i pare for the fair an agricultural ‘ exhibit. Two cash prizes for giam | mar school winners and two for jhign school winners will be pre sented. Amounts of the prizes are ex- J pected to be large enough to stim ulate interest and it is hoped that; the response will be immediaw and spontaneous. The fair will be staged at the : fairgrounds on Longhurst Highway [ and will also offer an attractive [ array of shows, rides, games and other features traditional wi h fails. Miss Cothran Is r Church Talker /, ■■ * On Peace Theme Young people of the Methodist I Youth Fellowship of Edgar Long Me , mortal church were in charge of the ! regular 8 o'clock Sunday evening j service last night. Miss Nancy Will , son was leader. Miss Virginia Anne Featherstohe gave the evening prayer which was | followed by the scripture by Donnie Long. Tlie message of the hour was ‘ ! given bv Miss Lucille Cothran, adult counselor of the the fellowship, who ■ used as her subject. “Prepare Ye I The Way," Miss Cothran in a very : interesting manner told how we as [ individuals must prepare our lives .ahd become christains, in order that • we may prepare the way for others. | She also stated that today is the ! greatest of all times for the church to serve humanity, and it needs men j and women with a strong faith in | God to carry on the work of the , ! church and to meet the needs of the j people. The future peace of the 1 ! world depends on the church, stated | Miss Cothran. ! 0 Greensboro College Ready To Open I Greensboro Greensboro College , will begin the one hundred and eighth year of its chartered exis- j tence on September 4. when an en- j rollment of over 400 students tax ing the capacity of the buildings j to the limit will report for the year's 1 work, according to Dr. Luther L. I Gobbel. president. The frist group of students to j reach the campus will be the mem bers of the Y W. C, A. cabinet, j headed by Miss Marie Johnson, of ; Mocksville, president, who will be ■ gin arriving Sunday to be on hand i for the purpose of welcoming new 1 ! students, most of whom will arrive j 1 Monday, September 3. In the City were a number of Mili tary Police from Camp Butner, but Robinson said that Col. Smith, pro vost marshal, who was also here Sat urday night assured him of a more adequate MP firce by next week-end. j Breaking of Ledbetter’s window, against which one soldier is alleged to have pushed another, was describ ed by Chief Robinson and others as one of the worst incidents here at tributed to visiting soldiers. Aside i from comparatively harmless fights,' it is said to have been the first in stance in which property was dam , aged to any considerable extent by I visiting military men. President Truman Leads In V-J Day Observance; Jap Nation Now Subject To Rule Os General MacArthur President Truman last night in a second message for V-J Day pro claimed the end of mankind's blood iest war and the beginning of all era of world peace and prosperity ‘assured of fruitition by the same [ free skill and energy which produced the atomic bomb." Speaking on what lie had officially designated as V-J Day, although he characterized it as no formal holi day, the President, with the Armed Forces particularly in mind, said: "With the destructive force of war removed from the world we can turn now to the grave task of preserving the peace which you gallant men and women have won. It is a task which requires our most urgent at tention. It is one in which we must collaborate with our Allies and the other nations of the world “They are as determined as we 'are that war must be abolished from the earth, it the earth, as we know it. is to remain. Civilization cannot survive another- total war. It was Mr. Truman's second radio j talk within 24 hours. Saturday night when word of the formal capitula i tion of the surrender of the Japa nese had been transmitted to the | mainland, he proclaimed Sunday; as V-J Day. ! Highlights of President Truman's Saturday night address were: "We shall not forget Pearl Har bor. The Japanese militarists will not forget the U. S. S. Missouri." "As President of the United States 1 proclaim Sunday. Sept. 2, 1945 to rbe V-J Day—the day of tile formal surrender of Japan. "... It is a day which we Amer icans shall remember as a day of Clayton Again Wants To Leave Fifty Randolph School Soys Put On Probation Asheboro. — Five Randlman boys, all in their late teens or early twenties, today were bound over to December criminal Superior court as probable cause was found by Magistrate E. H. Morris oil char ges of assault with deadly weapon in connection with a brawl at thy Randleman Beer Garden on the ! night of August 20. when two Ashe boro boys were seriously injured. Bonds of SI,OOO eacli remain in ef fect. The young men who pleaded not guilty to the charges—Claude and Bill Fultz, brothers; Charles and Everett Daniels, brothers, and John nie Barnhart—are alleged to have attacked Herbert and James Rich i ardson, inflicting a knife stab i wound in Herbert's back and caus ing the loss of sight in James’ left ! eye from a bottle glass cut. Bill j Fultz is a soldier, just returned from i two years overseas. • Defense today tended to show that the fight, supposedly started by the Randleman boys as a result jof the current schoolboy feud be tween Asheboro and Randleman, was a mutual one. Evidence failed to show just who was responsible ; for the wounds the Richardson brothers received. Yesterday, fifty Asheboro and Randleman school boys, for the most part younger than those in volved in the assault charge, were given 30-day road sentences, sus pended for 12 months, for affray charges growing out of a street fight in Randleman August 15. The assault case was a follow-up of this original outbreak. o Negro Health To Be Discussed The Negro Health club will meet Wednesday night at 8 o'clock at the Negro Community Center, according to William Nichols, chairman, who says that a free movie will be shown and a general discussion of import ant community health problems will take place. Full attendance is re quested. Fatal Highway ** Accidents IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1841 DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI DRIVE CAREFULLY NUMBER 79 retribution —as we remember that other day. the day of infamy.” "We move toward a new era of security at home. With the other United Nations we move toward a new and better world. "Our first thoughts of course— thoughts of gratefulness and deep obligation—go out, to thoses of our loved ones who have been killed or maimed in this terrible war." "We think of our departed, gal lant leader, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a defender of democracy, architect of world peace and coojieraton. "This is a victory of liberty over tyranny." Description oi the actual signing of surrender terms is contained in the l.illowing dispatch of Sunday, September 2: Aboard U. S. S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay Japan surrendered formally, finally and unconditionally to the United States and its allied powers Sunday: Oil Hie starboard bow deck of the U. S. S. Missouri in Tokyo bay, her representatives signed a surrender document, which made her 80,000,- 000 people from Emperor Hirhito down subject to the authority of Gen. Douglas MacArthur, the supreme al lied commander. At the moment of signing Japan was reduced to her four main islands and much minor islands as the allies grant her. Hfer people, her government, her demi-god em peror. her industry, her very life came under allied military rule and will remain them until the day when she is deemed to have for the tickt (continued on page 6) County Home Head Presses His Desire To Leave By December Alvis T. Clayton, for many years superintendent of the Person Coun ty home, tendered his resignation this morning at September meet ing of the Person County Commis : sioners, the resignation to be effec tive as of December 1, according to J. A. Long, chairman of the Commissioners. ! Mr. Clayton assigned ill health of j his wife, his assistant at the County Home, as reason for the resignation. | Applications for Mr. Clayton’s suc | cessor will be considered at October ! meeting of the Commissioners, says 1 Mr. Long, who adds that applicants interested are requested to see County Auditor Carlyle Broooks at tlie Court House for further details i before that date. Mr. Clayton has several times in [the past, year or two resigned or offered to resign, but has been per j sanded to keep the position by j reason of a scarcity of suitable ap- { plicants. It was said that Mr. j Clayton means business this time ! about resigning. | Considered at today’s meeting of tlie Commissioners, attended by all of the Commissioners, together with i County Attorney R. F. Burns and ; Auditor Brooks, was the paayment iof regular bills which Were re i viewed and passed. Also drawn up I was the list of jurors for October term of Person Superior Court. o Beam Chosen As State Director Raleigh—chancellor J. W. Harrel* son of State college announced to day the appointment of Robert D Beam, of Raleigh, as director of foundations at the college. A former trust officer of thl) Wachovia Bank and Trust Compaq; Beam will supervise the solicitation of funds for the six foundations at the college, which now have prop erty exceeding (1,000,000. He suc ceeds Roy L. Williamson, who re signed to become city manager of Burlington. » . / v He formerly was in charge of physical properties of JKe ■ state school commission and was jg.STß fessional engineer. He graduated at State in 192# and is permanent president of his graduating class.' He is a native of Shelby. » 3 jJ •