Victory Bonds
Will Speed
Them Home
VOL. LXIV.
Kagawa, Jap Leader
Os Christians, Hunts
Acorns For Food
Description Os Meeting Him
Sent Here With Jap
News Sheet.
Is there anybody In Roxboro or
in Person County who can read
Japanese? That was the question
being asked this monv.ng in the
Courier-Times office after a copy
of one of the last official .publica
tions of Domci iJapanese news ag
ency* prior to the taking over by
Gen. MacArthur, was received here.
The Domci sheet, on very cheap
newsprint and covered on boih sides
by double column Japanese charac
ters, is in size about one inch less
all-round than an average-sized
sheet of business stationery and has
been sent in by Chaplain Edwin R
Hartz, of the USS Dionysus, form
erly of Roxboro and now stationed
in Japan with the U. S'. Fleet.
Enclosed with the Domci news
sheet is a letter from Hartz, to
gether with three photographs, one
of himself and Lt. (jg) John E.
Soloman, of Malta, Mo., standing in
front of the House of Peers; an
other shows the office of Kagawa,
the great Japanese Christian leader,
and a third shows a general picture
of the destruction of a Tokyo build
ing.
Chaplain Hartz writes that Ka
waga’s office and those of the
United Christian church of Japan
arc undamaged, but that "all around
is a picture or destruction."
He added, "We saw Kagawa’s
supper, a cup of tea and a half
potato, boiled.... the rice shortage
will create a problem of food this
winter such as Japan has not seen
for many years.”
Further description of Harts',
meeting with Kagawa is contained
in tile letter from the Chaplain,
Which reads:
*"*Yesteraa'J *e nSu a conierence
with Toyohiko Kagawa, Christian
leader of Japan, and listened to his
description of his imprisonment
whenever he wrote articles against
the Nipponese dream of World con
quest.
"Then, police stood beside him to
spy upon him; now they come to
eye his Christ and to learn the
meaning of the kindness of the oc
cupation army.
"When asked, ‘where and how
can Christians in America help' 1 '
he replied: 'Prayers, Bibles and
evangelistic missionaries.”
"We must bring down the ham
mer while the iron is soft,” he ex
plained. He was to leave on the
morrow to organize bands of chil
dren to gather acorns for making
bread.
"One feels that Japan is at the
cross-roads. She hesitates while
she weighs the might of nationalism
against the power of International
cooperation. Kagawa's dream,
which once embraced the universe,
may help to raise the wounded and
impoverished nation out of the rub
bish heap into a great, throbbing
and joyous destiny," says Hartz.
General Closing To
Mark Thanksgiving
General observance of Thanksgiv
ing is to take place here Thursday,
with the closing of schools, public
offices and business houses and with
special services in a number of
churches. Recreational feature of the
afternoon will be the traditional
Roxboro-Bethel Hill football game
on the Roxboro high school field.
First of several church services
commemorating the day will be the
First Baptist sunrise service at 7:30
Thanksgiving morning in charge of
members ( of the rntermediate de
partment. Program arrangements
are being made by Manley Whit-
Prevent TB
Buy Christmas Seals
J. W. NOELL, EDITOR
Fourth Case Os
Diphtheria Listed
Fourth case of diphtheria rc
perted here within the past two
weeks, was revealed Friday, it
was announced that afternoon by
the Person Health department.
The fourth case is that of a Ne
gro infant, eleven months old
Jean Odessa Brown, daughter of
Mrs. Olivia Brown, of the Bethel
Hill section, near Gentry’s store.
The child was taken Friday af
ternoon to Duke hospital and is
reported to be in a fair cond*
tion. Os the three other cases of
diphtheria reported recently, two
have proved fatal and as a conse
quence vaccination work at the
Health Department and among
private physicians has greatly in
creased.
AAA Committees
Will Be Elected
Person County farmers will take
time out from seasonal work m the
next four weeks to elect AAA Com
munity and County Committeemen
for the coming year.
Three Community committeemen
and two alternates, as well as a
delegate to the County Convention,
will be chosen in each of the Coun
ty's 16 farming communities. The
delegates will later elect the three
man committee which will admin
ister AAA activities within the coun
ty.
Chairman c. T. Hell of the Coun
ty AAA committee, said today tnat
dates, hours, and places for holding
the annual election are now being
determined. Announcemet will be
made within the next few days.
In Person County approximately
2500 farmers are eligible to vote
for committeemen this year. "Eligi
ble" farmers are those who parti
cipate in the 1945 Agricultural Con
servation or Crop Insurance Pro
gram.
The County AAA Chairman, in re
minding Person County farmers of
the forthcoming ballot, appealed for
full participation.
"Solution of the postwar prob
lems ahead of us is the vital con
cern of every farmer—Consequent
ly, it is to his own best interest to
vote in the coming elections—to
make sure that the men adminis
tering AAA Programs in the coun
ty are the ones he wants to repre
sent him.”
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Willie Huff, former resident of
this city, is now spending several
days in Roxboro. Mr. Huff is now
connected with the Publishers Guild
of Atlanta, Ga.
field and Misses Edriel Knight and
Barbara Jane Woody. The Youth
choir will sing and offerings will be
taken for Baptist orphanages.
Churches of Person Circuit will
have Thanksgiving programs at
their regular Sunday services, as
will numbers of other churches in
County areas. No formal announce
ment of Thursday programs in other
Roxboro churches have been re
ceived, but it is expected that several
of them, in addition to the Baptist
church, will mark the day with
special rites.
The holiday in most instances will
be only for the one day, Thursday,
but both County and City schools
will close Wednesday afternoon and
will remain closed until Monday, ac
cording to Superintendent Griffin.
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Blalock Improves
Luther blalock of Hazelhurst, Ga„
formerly of Roxboro, has been seri
ously ill at his home from a wound
received in World War I, in break
ing the Hindenburg line. This is
the first time he has been seriously
sick since receiving his discharge.
He writes his sister that he is im
proving from having an abscess and
pneumonia In the cabinet of his
dead lung.
Couricr-TOmes
Radio-Controlled Target Plane Here Tomorrow '
The army’s radio-controlled target plane, shown above, with a seven-man team from Fort Bragg
to operate it, is appearing at a Victory Loan Bond rally to be held Tuesday afternocn in Roxboro.
During the war the plane was one of the army's closest guarded secrets. It is nine-feet long and
has a wingspread of twelve feel; There are no strings or invisible Wires attached to it; it is strictly
radio controlled. It weighs approximately 100 pounds and is driven by an eight horsepower two-cycle,
constant-speed gasoline engine.
The team which operates the model plane from the ground is led by Ist. Lt. Johnny E. Gambill.
The team rolls out a thirty-six foot launching ramp onto a large field and catapults the model target
plane into the air and proceeds to put on a spectacular performance.
Music Will Feature Victbry Loan
Program With Robot Plane Exhibit
Mrs. Dunlap's
Mother Passes
Rites Held Friday In Sanford
For Mrs. Annie Wat
kins Ross.
Held Friday morning at her home
in Sanford were funeral services for
Mrs. Annie Watkins Ross. 92, moth
er of Mrs. E. P. Dunlap, of Roxboro.
Mrs. Ross, wife of the late John M.
Ross, of Concord, died Wednesday
night at her residence after having
suffered a stroke of paralysis on the
previous Saturday.
Rites were in charge of the Rev
K. L. Hendricks, pastor of Steele
Street Methodist church, Sanford,
with interment in Buffalo cemetery
there.
Mrs. Ross was an alumna of Car
olina College, Anson county and
was a daughter of the late Culpep
per and Annie Tomlinson Watkins,
of Stanly county. Her husband, who
died in 1906, was a Confederate vet
eran. She was a member of the
Methodist church and had been a
resident of Sanford since 1906.
Surviving, in addition to Mrs.
Dunlap, are three other daughters,
Miss Judith M. Ross, of Sanford,
Mrs. D. L. Saint Clair, also of San
ford. and Miss Glenn Ross, of Wash
ington. Also surviving are two sons,
John B. Ross, of Washington and
Harold D. Ross of Augusta, Ga.,
two grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.
The Dunlaps were called to San
ford Saturday when Mrs. Ross first
became ill. Mrs. Dunlap remained
there and Mr. Dunlap, who had
come back to Roxboro, returned to
Sanford for the funeral.
Parhams Attend
Sister's Rites
Held yesterday at White Oak
Baptist church, Archer Lodge, were
funeral services for Mrs. Mary P.
Whitley, 59, of 322 Hillsboro street,
Raleigh, a sister of Jack and Jim
Parham of Roxboro. Mrs. Whitley
died Saturday morning at her home
after a long illness.
Rites were in charge of the Rev.
A. D. Parrish, with interment in lh3
church cemetery. Survivors, in ad
dition to her Roxboro brothers, in
clude four daughters, two sisters,
three other brothers and two gr ind
chil(iren. At Archer Lodge for the
funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Parham and their daughter, Miss
Madeline Parham of Roxboro.
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BENEFIT STEW
Women of Theresa Baptist church
will give a benefit brunswick stew
Thursday at noon, Thanksgiving
Day, for the building fund of the
Sunday school building, it was an
nounced today.
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Mayor S. G. Winstead of this city,
together with Gordon C. Hunter,
district chairman for the Victory
Loan drive which is in progress
here, will be speakers tomorrow ai
ternoon at o'cloek at Roxboro
high school at exercises to be held
in connection with the robot plane
demonstration it, was announced
today by R. B. Griffin, co-chairman.
A parade by the Roxboro hign
! school band at 1:30 o’clock in the
| afternoon prior to beginning of the
1 demonstration. The band will then
I return to the high school grounds
and will play at intervals Until the
I demonstration begins. A bond sales
] booth will be set up on the grounds
|by Peoples bank and it is expected
jthat sales will be considerably sum •
j ulated.
I General arrangements for the
I plane demonstration are in chargt
j of J. A. Long, Jr., aviation enthus
j last. Initial plans for appearance
j of the plane, from Fort Bragg and
now on a State tour, were mad,:
Jby R. L. Harris, co-chairman of
j the Victory Loan drive here.
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New Presbyterian
Minister Accepts
Yanceyville Call
The Rev. Herman J. Womeldori
iof Frankfurt, Kentucky, arrived in
J Yanceyville, last Sunday to enter
| upon his duties as minister for the
I Yanceyville and Bethesda Presby
j terian churches. He and Mrs.
Womcldorf and their two children,
Ann and Jimmy, were entertained
with a dinner at the church Sun
day evening prior to a service by
the church young people.
Mr. Womeldorf delivered his first
sermon at the Yanceyville church
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and
will be at Bethesda on Sundaly, No
ivember 25 at 11 a. m.
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Two Days
Roxboro Tobacco market will
close both Thursday and Friday
for Thanksgiving. Pounds sold
Thursday were for an aver
age of $46.90 and on Friday reach
ed 264,066 for $47.38. Total for
the season is well over eight mil
lion pounds, with a - general av
erage of over $44. The market
will open again Monday.
- Alatty *ll*. Way
Tom Ellis, the mayor and part owner of Cedar Grove, N. C„ and
also an accountant, is a man of no mean ability. He may have many
accomplishments but I know of two wry definite ones. First he
can play a pipe organ and I mean that boy can really play that
organ. Actually he can make tears come into your eyes as he plays
those old songs of long ago. I have seen it happen.
Then he turns right around and does the same thing with a
pencil, I mean he brings the tears again. This week he was figur
ing my Income tax. He figured and worked and worked and fin
ally he arrived at the total figure that I jiad to pay as I was look
ing over his shoulder. Lo and BehcW the tears were coming silently
from my eyes as he played me a new tune.
HOME FIRST, ABROAD NEXT
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1945
Riles Held For
former Teacher
Mrs. Flovd Whitfield Dies At.
Home After Long Illness.
Mrs. Floyd Whitfield, 50, of near
Mount Harmony. Person County,
died Friday afternoon at 2:45 o’clock
at. her home from complications, al
ter an illness lasting two years.
The former Miss Ina Mae Brooks,
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs.
John Brooks, she was an alumna of
Greensboro College and formerly a
I teacher in Person County.
I Funeral was held Sunday after-
Inoon at 2 o’clock in Brooksdale
[ Methodist Church, of which she was
a member by her pastor, the Rev.
E. C. Maness, with interment in
Burchwood Cemetery, Roxboro.
Survivors are her husband, three
sons, John, James and Alex; three
daughters, Misses Dorothy, Joyce,
and Cornelia, all of the home; two
brothers, Earl anl Ira Brooks, both
of Brooksdale and four sisters, Mrs.
Edgar Blalock of Brooksdale, Mrs.
Jack Sherman of Rougemont, Mrs.
Arthur Wiley of Woodsdale and
Miss Mallie Brooks of Raleigh.
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Boy Loses Eye
In Paint Accident
Robert Lee King, 9-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. King, lust
one eye as a result, of an accident at
Barlett Yancey school on Monday,
November 5.
Several children were on top of
the grandstand scaling off flakes of
dried paint, it was reported, and
one of these pieces struck the youth
in the eye. cutting the eyebail in
half. He was carried to a Danville
hospital and later removed to Duke
Hospital where the injured eye was
removed.
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Scout District
November meeting of Person
Scent district will be held Tuesday
night at 7:30 in' Roxboro Chamber
of Commerce office. A full at
tendance is requested as officer,
for the new year are to be elected.
$2.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Mayor Issues Proclamation As
Seal Sale Under Civic Club Begins
Frank Jeler, Os j
Raleigh, Points
Out State Plan
i Alumni Association And Civic
Club In Joint Session.
Making a plea for full utilization
of agricultural and industrial op
portunities in North Carolina and
the South, Frank K. Jeter, of Ra
leigh, for many years an official con
nected with State College and the
Agricultural department, was guest
speaker Thursday night at Hotel
j Roxboro at a joint meeting of State
College alumni and members of Rox
born Rotary club.
The speaker. who illustrated his
| program of progress for the State
by telling the familar story of the
house with the golden windows, was
positive in his declaration that
young people returning from the war
| are coming back with a confident
| belief in their State and in oppor
tunities for the future. He pointed
j out. also that the "doctrine of live
at home" needs a renewed applica
• tion and that the way to progress
[lies through cooperation between ag
jTicultural workers and workers in
| industry.
i Here with Jeter was "Pops" Tay
lor, State college alumni secretary,
i Presiding officer was the Rev. Dan
: iel Lane, vice president of tile Ro
; tary club.
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Semora Boy Dies
In School Bus
And Wagon Crash
Ernest McGee, Negro. 10-year-old
| child of Nick McGee, of Semora,
| was almost Instantly killed when he
j was struck by a bus from the Cas
j well County Training School, of
[Yanceyville, Nov. 7th.
,[ The accident happened about 4:30
arid the child died within a few
| minutes.
The bus was driven by Archie
j Richmond. There were conflicting
[ statements about the accident, but
lit seems that the bus was approach-
I ing a wagon on the highway and
several occupants of the wagon
| jumped off on the left side of the
road.
[ To avoid striking these persons
land also the wagon, the driver, it
i was said, pulled the truck oil the
j right shoulder of the road and
[struck the McGee child, who had
[jumped off the wagon on that side.
It was third school bus accident
| and second, fatality from school
! busses report in Caswell since Sept
' ember.
Quarterly
Conference
Quarterly conference for Person
Circuit will be held Sunday after
noon at Oak Grove Methodist
church following luncheon to be
served on the grounds, it was an
nounced today by the Rev. Daniel
Lane, pastor, chief event of the
morning will be dedication of the
Peele Memorial education building,
with Bishop Peele, of Richmond,
Va„ as speaker.
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To Open Office
Dr. Harry William Reinitz, of
Durham, an associate of Dr. N.
Rosenstein. of that city, will es
tablish an office here for practice
of optomery and will be in Roxboro
each Wednesday, it is announced to
day. Dr. Reinitz, 26, received his
professional degree from Pennsyl
vania College of Optomery and his
A. B. degree from Brooklyn col
lege. He came to Durham from
Wilmington.
With Bank
Wallace L. Wright, formerly cap
tain in the Army Air corps and hus
band of the former Miss Frances
Critcher, has accpeted a position
with Peoples bank. He began work
today.
BENEFIT DANCE
Benefit dance for crippled chil
dren to be sponsored by Roxboro
Exchange club will be held Friday
night in Roxboro high school gym
nasium, with music by Jimmy Full
er's orchestra.
Seal Sales Head
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JACK STRUM
IT. S. Averelte,
Os Allensville,
'Dies At Home
I
[Rites For Former Virsyilina
Man Held There At Chris
tian Church.
[ Funeral for Thomas Staley Aver
j r'et't, 66. of Allensville, whose death
l occurred Thursday night at ten
| thirty o'clock at his home from
complications after an illness last
-1 ing ten days, was held Saturday af
j ternoon at three o'clock at the
! Christian church. Virgilina. Va„ of
which he was for many years an ac
tive member.
i Rites were in Charge of his pastor,
[the Rev. C. E. Newman, with inter -
[ rnent in Union cemetery, Virgilina.
i A native of Halifax county, Virginia,
Mr. Averrett lived near Virgilina un
it il 1930, when he moved to Person
county, where he engaged in farm
ing. He had been in ill health for
three years.
Surviving are his wfe, the former
Miss Norah Ellen Bowen, of the
home, two daughters, Mrs. Martha
Watts and Mrs. Mary Gravitte. both
of Virgilina, three sons, William W..
Walter T„ and James P. Averrett.
all of Roxboro. twelve grand chil
dren and two great-grandchildren.
Tough Luck In
Political Circles
Atlanta. Ga.—Edgar E. Schukraft,
who seeks to be Mayor of Atlanta
on tile Republican ticket, may not
even get his name on the ballot for
the city election Dec. 5, it was dis
closed today.
The office of Secretary of State
John B. Wilson pointed out that any
candidate must file a petition of
five per cent of the registered vot
ers in order to get on the ballot if
his party polled less than five per
cent of the votes in the preceding
election.
In this cose the Republicans had
no candidate in the preceding elec
tion, apparently forcing Schukraft
to file the petition. Several hundred
napies would be required.
RETURN TO CITY
Mrs. E. J. Wilson and Mrs. J. W.
Walker, of this City, have returned
from Fort Knox, Ky., where they
spent some time with their hus
bands, who are with the United
States Army.
TOBACCONISTS LEAVE
Jack Rogers,- Walter Cox and
Paul D. Smith, who have been here
since the opening of the Roxboro
market with which they are con
nected, will leave Wednesday for
Greenville, Tenn„ where they will
be during that market's season.
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FITZ INCIDENT
Still under investigation here by
police is the tieing up of a young
white boy named Fitz, who last
week allegedly was bound and gag
ged back of a Court Street store
and held by his trapping in a terra
cotta pipe. The youth says he does
not know the name of the offender
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Uncle Sam Is making about 4 mil
lion tons of food available to liber
ated European countries and French
North Africa this fall.
Fatal Highway'
** Accidents
IN PERSON COUNTY IN 1841
DON'T HELP INCREASE ITI
DRIVE CAREFULLY
NUMBER 101
I Cooperation Os All Beini;
Sought In Civic Venture.
Today marks the beginning of the
11945 Christmas Seal sale to relicVfe
j and eradicate tuberculosis and
i sponsored here by the Kiwanis club
with Jack Strum as chairman. Mr.
; Strum in launching his campaign
j said that all members of the club
i will take an active part in the cam
paign. which will continue until
Christmas and has a local goal of
[52,300. much more than has ever
1 been asked for here before,
i In connection with the opening
lof the campaign Mayor Ej. G. Win
stead of this city, has issued an of
j ficial proclamation calling atten
tion to the fact that the better
! part of funds collected will be used
| lor local and State purposes and urg
-1 ing the united support of citizens
here in the Kiwanis sponsored drive.
Mayor Winstead's proclamation
reads as follows:
“Whereas, the weeks from Novem
ber 19, to Christmas have been de
[ signaled as the period of time for
the sale of Tuberculosis Christmas
! Seals, and
"Whereas, the North Carolina,
i Tuberculosis Association conducting
the Seal Sale uses 95 per cent of
the Seal funds for a North Carolina
: health program, and
’•Whereas, tuberculosis, as a com
municable disease, took 57,000 lives
j in America last year, and may pos
sibly increase in North Carolina as
[ it has already in Europe, and
j "Whereas, the people of Roxboro
, and Person County can help to pre
j vent such a situation by supporting
[. this 39th annual Christmas Seal
Sale, which makes possible a health
program designed to protect us from
the spread of this public enemy.
Now. therefore, with this in min'd,
I, Mayor S. G. Winstead, of the city
of Roxboro, call upon the citizens
to help make P».«,:Lie the complete
eradication of tuberculosis by buy
ing and using Christmas Seals dur
ing the weeks between November 19,
and Christmas."
Rev. J. A. Dailey,
Retired, Dies
Funeral for the Rev. J. A. Dailey,
of Roxboro. retired Methodist mint
isfer and formerly pastor of PerJ
son Circuit, whose death occurred
Sunday morning at Duke hospital,
Durham, from complications after
an illness lasting five weeks, will
be held this afternoon at three
o'clock at Front Street Methodist
church. Burlington, by tits Rev. L.
C. Larkin, with interment in a Burl
ington cemetery.
The Rev. Mr. Dailey was frequent
ly a visitor in Roxboro and returned
here last May to make his home,
having residence with W. M. Fox,
South Main street.
The Rev. Mr. Dailey is survivied
jby one daughter. Mrs. Edwin For
bes of Tuscon, Ariz.; one brother,
[W. F. Dailey of Burlington; five
[sisters, Miss Nettie Dailey, and Mrs.
W. G. Cox of Burlington, Mrs. J. P.
Moore of Durham, Mrs. T. J. Hat
[ chett of Roxboro and Mrs. J. A.
1 Taylor of Kinston.
' He , served many pastorates
throughout this area and in East
; ern North Carolina.
Surplus Paints !
! Put On Market
A large quantity of pigmented lac
quer dopes used principally for Im
pregnating airplane fabrics, has
been declared surplus and Is being
i offered for sale at 90 cents a gallon,
■ delivered, according to an announce
i ment made today by the FinanoA
Corporation, the disposal agency de
signated by the Surplus Property
Administration for this type of pro
duct.
These lacquer dopes may also find
use on porch and lawn furniture,
trunks and other luggage,
seats, canvas canoes and dn-Pf*
products. They are available In i
variety of colors, Including bMKN*
white, reds, grays, blues and SRI
drab.
The minimqm quantity that CM.
be sold is 25 gallons. A certiflM
check must accompany all onMIHt
which should be adressed to the R—» !
construction Finance
Office of Surplus Property, 41i Sec
ond Street, N. W„ Washington* '
D. C.
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Eleven counties in North CanOattg
have alarm income of more thaje
a mnli ,a dollars a year from dairy*
ing. *•. ’-vV.T-i