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Welcome New Comers. J. W.'NOELL, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. VOL. XCVI. ? HOME FIRST. ABROAD NEXT ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY EVENING. MARCH 27, 1929. . $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE. NO. 13. Good Town To Live In. Evangelistic Services Begin Monday NEW SECRETARY OF J STATE ARRIVES IN WASHINGTON TUES. Henry L. Stimson Will Be The Guest Of President Hoo- I ver Rest Of Week EX-PHILIPPINE GOVERNOR Washington. March 25. ? President I Hoover's official family ' will )>e com- \ pleted tomorrow with the arrival of Henry L. Stimson, the new secretary of state, who was summoned to the | cabinet from the' governor generalship - of the Phillipplne Islands. Although originally expected here ! today, Mr. Stimson found upon reach ing' New York that he would be ob- ] liged to postpone for 24 hours the time of his coming to the national capital. He will be Mr. Hoover's guest at the "White House for the remainder of the "?week." .. * I A busy schedule of conferences on the nation's foreign problems includ ing many changes in diplomatic as * signments has been prepared for the new cabinet member. He will go into ; these subjects in detail with the pres ident and is expected, too. to jcnsult at length with Secretary Kellogg who retained the state portfolio until his arrival. fv ; ? Mrs. R. B. Adams Dies Following Brief Illness Mrs, Mettle Pierce Adams, widow of the iate Robert B. Adams,' for twenty years a prominent club woman of the city, died last night at her home. 15 Mountain avenye, S. W? following a brief illness. ? Funeral serviced will be conducted tomorrow morning at _ 11 o'clock at the Second Presbyterian church, of which she had been an ac tive member for a number of years Interment- will be in Fairview. Serv ices will be in charge of the Rev. H. Spencer Edmunds, who will be as sisted by Dr. W. C. Campbell and the Rev. S." B. Mi. Ghlselln. Leading Spirit Mrs. Adams at the time of her death was civics chairman of the Roanoke Woman's Club and in this position performed her duties with great ' en thusiasm and efficiency, it was said ,by officers of the club today. She was regarded as a kind counselor and . friend by the organization, and was its first member to be elected to hon- [ orary membership In recogrfttioir tor her outstanding work in the club and j community. She was a leading spirit 1 It was stated, in all of the 'Club's ac tivities, and at its last membership ! meeting, abouf ten days ago, was elect- ' eda member of the nominating com- ] mi t tee. Mrs. Adams was active in many | other cultural and civic organizations including the American Legion Auxil- j L_ lary and the Thursday Morning Mu- ! sic Club. She was one of the organ- ' izers Of the Legion Auxiliary in Vlr- j ginla, and served as sixth district ' chairman for a number of years and j was first vice-president for Several | years. She was active In the Virginia j ' Federation of Women's Clubs and his- [ torlan of the Roanoke Chapter, Un- , lted Daughters of the Confederacy ? The Roanoke World-News, March 25, o ? l Attend T# achers Asso. Prof. O. C. Davidson and 5?lss lAiclle Anders represented the Rox- j boro High School as delegates ' to th< North Carolina Teachers Association which met In Raleigh last week. Others who attended were Misses Or phla Allgood. Miss Marthlna Btvens. Miss Maude Barnes and County Sup erintendent Mr. B. I. Satterfleld. o Woman'* Club Meeting, The regular monthly meeting of J the Woman's Olub will be held Mon- 1 day. April 1st, at 3 o'clock. In the home of Mrs. Clyde Crowell. A full attendance Is urged as officers for the coming year will be elected.? Pres. Chm. For Person County Mr. R. O. Everett, chairman of the Bryan Memorial AMoclatloln for North Carolina, has appointed Mr. J. E. Ktrby, of Roxboro. chairman for this County If you want to ni&ke a do-" nation to this fund Mr. Ktrby will b? glad to receive game and will forward "U to the proptr authorities. ' T? ? 0 t Two quarts of Ice cream recently j travelled from Utlca. N. Y.. to Texas , via air mall, carryln# ?18 SO In stamps. * _?? Carl B. Eielson of Los Angeles. In recognition of his 2.300 mile flight over the Arctic Pastes, has been awarded a medal as the outsanding aviator of .1928 by the International League of Aviators. BID DIRIGIBLE ON PALESTINE TRIP ?Graf Zeppelin Drops Greetings ? - At Rome; Passengers Are ? Enjoying Cruise BEGINS 5,000 MILE FLIGHT Rome. March 25-. ? The dirigible Graf Zeppelin, while circling over the city this afternoon, seht a message of good-will in care of the German Am bassador here. The dirigible began , a 5.000 miles flight over the Mediter- ' ranear* at Friedrichshafen in the first hour of the morning and from here called on Naples before turning southeasterly to proceed to Palestine. Berlin. March 25. ? The .difigible* Oraf Zeppelin, largest of Germany's serial enterprises, was floating com- , fortably along towards Palestine to night on its second long distance flight. The dirigible passed over Naples at . 5:35 p. m.. and after circling the bay and flying over the island of Capri : Sailed southward across the Mediter ranean. dispatches from Rome said The weather was good. Passengers aboard the big airship. I numbering among them Paul Loebe. president of the German Reichstag and other government officials, were enjoying their voyage high in the air. reports from the dirigible indicated. A. AND T. QUAR TETTE COMING TO OLIVE HILL Music lovers of the county have a treat In store for them in the com ing of the famous A. & T. Quartette from the A. and T. College. OreertS boro. to Olive Hill . School on March 29. These negroes are quite as good as the Utlca Jubilee singers whose programs delight radio audiences. After an evening at N. c. College Wade R. Brown has this to say of them: "I am thoroughly delighted and pleased with the work of the A. As T, College quartette."? Wade R Brown. Dean of School of Music N. C. C. W. A comment from The Wilmington Sun "Before a capacity audience yes terday afternoon the famous A. and T. singer rendered one of the best concerts ever heard In the Academy of MuKlc North Carolina Educators and 8talesmen have declared them to be the greatest negro singers In the world. They were under the di rection of O. A. Fuller. Jr., well known musician 'and composer" ? Wilmington Siyi. The public Is invited to enjoy with us an evening with these singers. Fri day. March 29. at I o'clock. Admis sion, adults 50c. School children 26c. Helen W. Orave*. Summer School The Appalachian State Normal School. Boone . N. C? is announcing Its summer scho<^ to begin June 11. This school enrolled 1354 students last summer. Board Is 137.00 and the reg istration fee 15.00 for a six weeks term. This institution ?ts accessibly located In one o f( our finest mountain towns, and w*-kKows of no place where one ?ait find "more delightful Situation to stM^y. ?nd at the j?m? time enjoy a most pleasant summer vacation. ? ; .' . Two cars of drain ttle have bee& purchased by a (roup of Martin County farmers during the past month. Outstanding Aviator Meeting Will Continue As Outlined For Ten Days AMERICAN BREAKS RECORD FOR MILE Pilots "Miss America VII" At Kate Of 92.123 Miles ' ' 1 An Hour Miami. FU., March 25.? Drlv inf "Miss America VII" over the waters of Indian Creek this afternoon in special speed trials. Gar Wood, internationally famous motor boat builder and racing en- j thusiast, shattered the salt and lYesh water records by covering the mile course at the rate of 93,123 miles an hour. . ?'* { It was Wood's second attempt to shatter JJic existing . marks and the banks of the creek were lined , wth spectators when Jje brought his Miss America VII around tl^e bend equipped with new pro pellers. Negro Uses His Gun Early Sunday morning a well dressed negro entered th? store of Mr. Sam Munday on Depot Street, and according to Mr. Munday, disliked the price charged for some food he had eaten. After leaving the store the negro proceeded to #take a rest on the platform located near the depot. Mr. Hugh Dav casually inquired why he was using platform for a loaf ing place, and the negro answered by whipping out his gun and firing at Mr. Day. While neither of the shots took effect. Mr. Day says they were entirely too close for comfort. Offi cers were called but the negro had made a get-a-way. I ? First Of The Union Services On Tuesday, 8 A. M., In Presbyterian Church Next Sunday there witt toegin in Roxboro what is hoped to be one of the most extensive and successful evan gelistic efforts in this history of the town. The Presbyterian First Bap tist and Edgar Long Memorial Meth odist churches are all co-operating in this special effort. Beginning with Tuesday morning -services will be held in the Presbyterian church at 8 o'clock. This service will be in the nature of a unibn: se'rvlce. all the co-operating churches taking part. The visiting ministers will alternate in conducting the morning worship. the evening services will be held in the various churches with preach ing in the Presbyterian church by Rev. Mr. Alexander., At the First Bapttst Rev. Mr. Haymore will be in charge and at* Edgar Long Memorial Rev. Mr. Smith will preach. Theso services will continue as outlined for about ten days. * ; The pastors of the town hope that all the members Of the churches will realize that this , is the time of har vest and will fall in line and work and pray that the placy*nay have' a. great spiritual awakening. They are hoping that the members of the church will make a special ef fort to be present at the first ser vice on Monday evening at 7:45 and will attend each succeeding Service. ? Every one in the place has a most cordial invitation to attend one of the churches each night. Let us lay aside material things as much as possible during these special meetiffgs and do All In our power to ehlarge the Kingdom of Ciod and save l^st men and wemen. Federal Troops Captured By Rebels Under Caraveo ? . Wake Forest Glee Club Here April 16 The Wake Forest Glee Club will be here Tuesday. April 16th. at the Rox boro High School Auditorium, at 8:30 p.' m. This Glee Club has been here before and all who heard them on that occasion will be anxious to heap them, again. All are cordially in vited. and a full house- is expected. A Splendid- Exhibit The first grade of LonghursC grided school, taught by Mrs. H. E. Lance, has on exhibit at the Longhurst Mer-. cantlle Company work done by this grade. It Is decidedly interesting, and shows remarkable skill by both pupils and . teacher. The Longhurst Mercantile Co. very kindly consented for this exhibit to be placed In their display window, where it will remain all of this week. It Is worth a trip to see the work of these children. Sheriff And Deputy Bring In A Still Sheriff Clayton and deputy R W. Oixon captured a still Sunday after noon down In the Holloway section. The still was made out of a gasfoline barrel, which- was. destroyed, along with "about 100 gallons of beer. Notice* Any property owner* ' ift Roxboro who want Curb and Outter or Side walks constructed on streets adjoin ing their property are asked to have the petitions signed and filed with the Board of Commissioners by the first Tuesday night In May. B. B. Mangum. Mgr. Local Talent On Air Misses Lorena Wade and Htqr Riley are scheduled to entertain In a (elec tion of duets Friday from 8 to 8:30 1 p. m. W r stattlon WPTF. Raleigh Thene young ladles are tatente? with rare musical ability and lovera of ra dio music will be glad to have this opportunity to tune In and listen. %fbrmv Shearer with LowelfiBher man ancfVfohn Mack Brown In "A LAD* or <?HANCE". playing at Pal ace, .Theatre. Easter Monday and Tuesday.iAprH 1-Snd Matinee Mon day 3:30-4:00 P. M Detachment Of 300 Men Taken Prisoner On The . Sonpra Chihaifhau Border Mexico City, March 23. ? The cap ture of, 300 federal troops and their commaiider. Oenerat Armenta. by 're bels led by General Marc?lo Caraveo was reported to the Presidencla this afternoon by the Mexican consulate at El Paso. The capture was effected at Demo /.ahlc. on the border of the states of j Sonora and Chlhauhau. when the rebel troops pretended they were loyal to I the federal government, the consul- 1 1 ate said. ? General Armenta was leading his | men from Sonora Into Chlhauhau ! when they were captured. The pris- ; | oners -pere ordered taken to Chihau- 1 i hau City. j General Jaime Carillo, federal gen eral holding Mazatlan ag?in?t the rebel j 1 assaults, reported today that three of j his men were killed during the siege 1 of the city. Seven federals were wound- j ed. he said, while rebel casualties | ,were 58 dead and three wounded. Sixteen clvilans also were wounded at Mazatlan. Carillo reported. Firing Renamed The federal general said firing was resumed at Mazatlan this morning, which prevented removal of other wounded men and bodies lying outside the clttf. Reinforcements for Mazatlan Were expected to reach there tomorrow un der the leadership of Oen Evaristo Perez. The march from Irapuato, where the troops started, wms slow, and railways could not be used because rebel forces destroyed the tracks and burned bridges. - * .. Oen Laxaro Cardenas also was marching towards Mazatlan with ad ditional reinforcement* for the fed erals. Says Villa Follower* Joining Rebel* Juarez. Mexico. March 18.? Oullr lermo Martinez, Psrral merchant, ar riving here to-\ay, said 1,200 follower* of the late Pancho Villa have Joined the rebels under the leadership of Salas Barraia. confessed slayer of the famous Mexican bandit leader Cottage Prayer Meetings Cottage prayer meeting* will be held on next Friday evening at 7: JO at the fallowing homes: Mrs. Aubrey long,'' ?4#s. R. rt. Oakley. Mrs. o. A. Dun can and Mrs. Press. FeathPr*ton Fowler McCcrmlck. 28. son of Har old L. -McCormick. head of the Inter national Harvester Co.. has gone to Omaha. Neb , to leam the harvester business frbm the ground up. He ' starts at $150 a month . CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IS GIVEN GREENSBORO -* ? . Palatial Residence Will Be Con verted Into Institute For Children . o I GIFT ESTIMATED S150,000 Greensboro. - March 25.? Mrs. ' Ed ward Benjamin, of New Orleans, to day announced the gift of the home of her late parents. Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Sternberger. on. Summit ave nue,' to the city of Greensboro for use as> a * children's . hospital. The palatial home,, handsomely land scaped grounds, nuwA' home at the rear, and equipment for hospital pur poses/will" represent an outlay of over $150,000. In. addition to this Mrs; Benjamin is endowing the hos pital with a sufficient amount to partly maintain it in operation. The gift is made in .memory of her father and mother and of her sister. Amelia Sternberger. all three of whom have di^d within the past few years. Miss Sternberger died in Paris, early in January. o : Bushy Fork P. T. A. The. P. T. A. of Bushy Fork High School will meet Friday. March 29, at 3 o'clock. President. Starts at Bottom ROXBORO HIGH SCHOOL TRIMS HILLSBORO NINE Roxboro High School opened the 1929 baseball season yesterday when they Journeyed over to Hlllsboro and downed the HUlites 14-1 In three and one-half innings. ? The game was call ed on^ account of rain, and wds agreed j to be called a game since there was such a large lead In the score The local boys did no^ seem to be satisfied with the; big end of the score only, but they tooV all the spirit and hushed all of Hlllsboro when they be oan batting the ball to all earners of the lot In the first inning to score el<ht runs. Holt led the hitting for Roxboro with three hits out of four trips up. while Bikes and Clayton got long hits for extra bBH" -O Brlant made a beau tiful fcatch .when he went back deep In right field to pull one from the air with one hand. Perkins was pitching a good game. He allowed only two hits and one of these was an. Infield ball which the runner beat out. ^ The boy* In the outgarden for Hllls boro played a good game, making man/ pretty catches to stop the on slaught of Roxboro. ?> Saturday afternoon, March 30. at 3 o'clock the locals cross bats with Danville High 'School on the Roxboro field. A good game Is expected and alio a good crowd. Be there and support your team. Ladles are In vited and we will try to provide seats for ladles If possible. Buck (*awson Arrested ' Sunday night about 10 o'clock. Buck Lawson. colored, was arrested by Chief Oliver on a -whiskey charge, and was released after he had given bond In the su?i of $50.00. Later some more attractions were found In the feed barn near the home of Lawson and he was again taken In custody. One Chines* railway reports that II Is doing more business than ever be fore. Tuesday. March 19th. was a banner day in Roxboro lor the 'farmers of Person' County by reason of the fact that something happened on that day that proved to them ' the wisdom of farm diverstcation. The day had beet) set aside for the marketing of -any surplus poultry that might be In the hands of the farmers of the county ' and by early in the forenoon, old hens, ducks, turkeys, friers and one ' old goose began to park' on the court house square on west side, which by noon had put on the aspect of a real curb market. The sale was. conducted under tfie direct supervision of our worthy county Demonstartor. H. K. Sandtrs.. who gave out the following encouraging figures: 6200 pounds of poultry* was sold for the neat sum of SI ,550.00, and was. sold to Meyers <fe Co.. Qreensboro, placing in the hands of 150 farmers a nice Uttle rainy day check. " With such flattering results coming from t he first ? salr we so. no reason why thi good farmers of this county should not materially bring up the shortage In the past, tobacco crop. Bethel Hilfwins First Ball- Game Bethel Hill defeated Turbevllle In the first baseball game of the season | by a 2-0 score. -.Montague worked out* a very nice game tightening up on several occasions when Turbevllle had i men on bases'. There were a num ber of strike outs on both sides with the bethel Hill batters being especially slow in getting clean hits. This how ever will be considerably better with a few more days of practice. The next game is with Danville here on Saturday. March 30. at 10 a- m Tte.d* lhe onIy Saturd?iy game scheduled ancf a large crowd Is ex nected. Admission will be 25 cents. PERSON COUNTY'S BIG POULTRY SALE GOES OVER FINE 150 Farmers Receive Checks And Were Highly Pleased With Prices ? 6200 LBS. SOLD FOR $1,550.09 Won Gold Basket Ball Rflgnald Warren won the sold bas ket ball. I announced at the begin' Hing of the season that I would give a gold basketball to the player mak ing the highest- scholarship. Reg inald" put his studies first, and that is what we expect all athletes to do. He refrained from smoking cigarette* all The season. He is to be congrat ulated for showing his team mates what comes first. We lost games be cause~(!oo<r players failed on their work and had to be left out of a. ftame I just want to say we were njembers of the high school league and lived up to It. I will be glad to assist In any way I can. but I am through with coach ing. I feel like I can give better ser vice as an academic man. This Is my main reason for not coaching" after this year. I want to give spe-. clal study to princlpalship and super vision of school work. I want to thank the people who havo supported basket ball. It Is a pleas ure to work for people like you. B. B. KNIOHT. Principal R IT. S. o'" ? ? High Pressure Salesmanship > It has come to bur eacs that there is operating in this County some high pressure salesman or smooth artist, who Is getting people in this county to put . their earnings In another county with certain companies with the promise of fabulous profit*. We wish to call the attention of the peo ple of this and adjoining counties that In Roxboro we have the second best rated building and loan osaocla^ Hon in the State, and that being the case why take a chance. Better ask your banker before making a change. Revival At. Concord ' ' 1 / The revival meeting at Concord church will begin on next Sundar Tfvere will be all day services and you are cordially invited to ? attend these meetings. W. L. MANE8S, P. 0 0 . . ..ii At <th? Palace Baxter Monday and. Tuesdiy? Norma Shearer In a Robt. Z Leonard Production "A LADY OP CHANCE". Matinee at 3:90-4 p. m. r ?