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|ipxssir''i H I f* want all tha news of I ftpr ■■ temtm unity. Plaoao 1 call us or aaod it in. nr YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS 00040 ON AROUND YOU READ TH> PERSON COUNTY TIMES— IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. VOLUME DL PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY ROXIORO, NORTH CAROLINA? SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1937 NUMBER THIRTEEN jINEWSI flf WEEK WikC'Jmk form Gilroy ■ ■—■ .. It’ -rail JAPAN CURBS PLANUS Nankin?, China—Facing stem ob jections to ruthless aerial warefare from the United States and Great Britain, and an ultimatum from Russia that any damage to the So viet Embassy would result in im mediate reprisals, Japan has"given half hearted assujrancje that their bombing planes h£rejafter would be confined to beliggerants only, and not centered upon civilian pop ulations. Throughout Europe a de mand grows for a general boycott of Japanese goods. The mass bomb ing of this city resulted in only small loss of property and life. KLAN ISSUE REVIVED Washington, D. C.—With at least one group of investigators primed for a searching inquiry into the Ku Klux Klan, following the revelation of Justice Black’s alleged affilia tion with the order, the issue is ex pected to loom large in coming elec tions. A number of high Federal of ► ' jficials, Several Governlors arid at) 5-anptiMe. -era- .listed- - as. members of the order at one time and possibly still are. Interest in the matter is increased by the ap pearance of former Senator J. Thos. Heflin of Alabama as a contestant fot' ex-Senator Black’s seat, altho Representative Lister Hill is view ed as the next Senator from Alaba ma. SPECIAL SESSION LOOMS Washington, D. C.—Far from be ing deterred from calling a mid- November session by the Black inci dent, the President is expected to go ahead with his plans for a spe cial session of Congress at that lime. Although he expects some public statement from Justice Black on the Klan question, it is said that he never asked the new Justice about his K. K. K. connec tions because his Senate record spoke for itself. RADIO “CZAR” PREDICTED New York City—Following the lead of the baseball, movie and li quor industries in appointing chief arbiters of conduct within their own ranks, it is rumored that M. H. Ay lesworth, former head of the Na tional Broadcasting Company, may be named by the big broadcasting companies to untangle differences inside the industry. Even Wall St. . is weighing the matter of a super chief of Stock Market operations. LABOR BATTLES IMPEND Denver, Col.—Advance guards of the 57th convention of the Ameri can Federation of Labor which opens here next week indicate a move to expell all units having C. L O. affi liations, led by the Metal Trades Department, which charges the John L. Lewis organization with di rect contact with Communists thru interlocking agitators. For the first -time since March, Lewis has called -a meeting of the executive officers of 32 C. I. O. unions for a conferen ce at Atlantic City one week after -the A. F. of L. convenes. One sub ject for discussion is ways and means to enforce assessments from afifi-s ■ listed unions to finance nation-wide recruiting. (For Last Fiscal Week) Receipts $276,731,090 Expenditures $177,312,317 Balance $2,866,170,505 Deficit, Fiscal Year .. $245,442,151 Public Debt $36,862,414,396 DIMES’ SUNDAY MORNING EDITION flersotfiMimes ROBBER TRYS TO ENTER WADE CROC. Heard By Night Watchman Who Turned In Police Alarm; Chased Car On Dur ham Road One robber, or several robbers, attempted to enter Wade Grocery Co. on Reams Ave. early Friday morning, but failed to gain an en trance. A brick hurled against the front door crashed the glass and aroused the night guard who quickly turned in a police alarm. As bells calling the policeman began ringing in the business district the robber quickly fled before entering the building. Police chased the car, bearing a Virginia license plate, some distance on the Durham road but failed to catch it. • Wade Grocery Co has been the scene of several robberies in recent years and this store has lost hun dreds of dollars in merchandise. Recently they decided to have a man spend the night in the building. Officers have no idea as to who the man was that tried to rob the store Friday morning. BLACK ADMITS THAT HE JOINED KLAN Later Resigned From The Klan; AjsfcetTNation To Judge His Fitness Washington, Oct.l—Justice Hugo L. Black said tonight he once join ed but later resigned from the Ku Klux Klan. He asked the nation to judge his fitness for supreme court service by his ten year senate record. That record “refutes every impli cation of racial or religious intoler ance,” he asserted in an unprece dented radio reply to those who have contended that klan member ship made him unworthy to serve upon the nation’s highest court. Pointedly, he castigated and dis avowed any organization which seeks to limit freedom of worship, and, with equal vigor, he accused his critics of attempting, by their “campaign” against him, to “create racial and religious hatred.” He Spoke from the modest resi dence of his close friend Claude Hamilton, Jr., assistant general counsel of the reconstruction fi nance corporation, while a crowd of the interested and curious, outside, brought police to the usually quiet suburban community. In contrast with the vigorous style familiar to his senate col leagues, Black spoke deliberately as though measuring each word, stres sing a phrase here, a sentence here, but always with his Alabama drawl predominant. No Intentions Os Resigning He indicated plainly that he has no intentions of resigning form pointed by President Roosevelt, and the justiceship to which he was ap declared his address would be his last word on the klan controversy. COL. HOUSE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Manchester, Mass.—Colonel Ed ward M. House, confidant of Presi dent Wilson and during the World War regarded as the most influen tial American citizen, is putting the final touches in his autobiography, which will be published early next year. Six upright silos and many trench silos have been constructed in Buncombe County this fall. The Waccamaw Bank and Trust Company provided each com club member in Columbus County with enough pure seed of the Latham’s Double variety to plant one acre and the boys now have surplus seed to sell this winter. TAX NOTICES HAVE BEEN MAILED OUT If You Have Not Received One You May Call For It At City Office Tax notices for the city of Rox boro have been mailed to all tax payers in the city and just in case you failed to receive yours you may get the amount at the city mana gers office. Twelve hundred notices were mailed and the city expects to collect $34,620 from these notices. Tax collectors always regard faljr of the year as the time to collect and if tobacco continues to sell as high in this city as it opened on Thursday they will be right in their decision. In a short time the city will pub lish the delinquent tax list and those who have failed to pay will see their name in he paper. Then if they do not pay the property will be sold. CHIEF POLICE WARNS AGAINST SCHEMERS Many Tricks Will Be Offered The Public This Fall; Watch Your Step Police Chief S. A. Oliver wishes, to warn all people against trick artists or ichteMrs whb will proba bly be well represented in Roxboro this fall. Mr. Oliver warns the pub lic to not have anything to do with those who are offering you some thing for nothing or selling you a rare bargain at a small price. On Thursday of last week a young negro in Roxboro lost S3O or more by buying half-interest in a pock et book that was supposed to have been found and contain $500.00. The young negro paid for his interest, shook hands with the stranger and then waited for him to get the mo ney changed. He is still waiting. This trick is as old as the hills, but is still worked in cities andi towns. Every year it bobs up again and there is always someone to fall for it. Mr. Oliver advises the public to hold to their money or put it in a safe place. No one, he says, is going | to give you something for nothing. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Evans are re ceiving congratulations on a 12 lb. baby girl born on September 20. Both mother and baby fine, s Union County farmers are har vesting approximately two tons of prime lespedeza hay per acre. They also have a good crop of seed. ALONG THE WAY- ALL APPEARS TO BE QUIET - NO NEWS You can’t tell about people. Now take Jack Strum for instance. Last week he was in a nearby city and f missed the bus that was bringing him home. After missing the bus Jack decided that he had to stay in J that particular city all day unfil ( another bus left He never once thought about the nice air-condi-| tioned train that runs through Rox boro. Yes, Jack has lived here all | his life, but evidently he didn’t know[ that we had trains here. The least thing he could do would be to join the Chamber of Commerce. .Hie big Person County Fair is over. As far as we know the fair was clean and there were very few complaints, maybe none. R. L. Per kins, president, is going to try to make the fair larger and better each year and he asks you all for plenty of co-operation. Will you help? Now the boys are talking about football. So far there has been no Roxboro Market Av erages $28.81 Per Hundred Lbs. Opening Day SCO|T TRAINING COURSE NOW ON Taking t’lace At Bushy Fork And Will Be Brought To An End Today The boy scout training course is now going on at Bushy Fork school and will be brought to an end to night (Sunday) after having been in session for two days Approximately ten scout leaders have been present for this course and now they expect to start active work with the scouts. This course was in charge of Pat Patterson, scout executive of this council* and when Pat teaches a course you can bet that much has been learned. All of those who Were present spent last night on cots and they all took a part in the cooking. Several Person County men who plan to t®ke a part in scouting were present for the course and from many other sections of the council. ' o STREET APPOINTED ACTING P. MASTER Popular Citizen In City To Suc ceed Dr. E. J. Tucker K. L. Street, prominent Roxboro citizen, has been appointed acting postmaster and will succeed Dr. E. J. Tucker who served as postmas ter until his death about ten days ago. Mr. Street expects to take office this week and in an interview Saturday he stated that he was go ing to manage the postoffice as it should be managed and that he ap preciated all that his friends had done for him in lending their influ ence to help him get this position. A permanent postmaster wil pro bably be appointed in a few months and Mr. Street is eligible to receive this appointment. Clarence OaJdey At Tom’s Battery Company Mr. Clarence Oakley has accept ed a position with Tom’s Battery Co. of Roxboro, and will enter upon his new duties tomorrow. For the past several years Mr. Oakley has been connected with a local service station and has a large number of friends in this county. He invites all to drop by his new place of business and pay him a visit. mention of any N. C, team going to the Rose Bowl. That talk may start ! later, but we have an idea that Rose Bowl talk in this section will be a hard subject to start. Carolina | and Duke will meet again on Nov. ( 13th. at Durham and here is where you can see a good game. | Saturday morning 9:3o—we pick .Alabama to beat Sewanee, Duke [over Davidson, North Carolina over ( N. C. State, Elon over Davis Elkin] ( (Abbitt should do the trick), Navy over Citadel, Tennessee over V. P. L, I Cornell over Colgate, South Caro lina - Georgia - tie. Now you can tell how we came out. I This column would like for a few of the football fans around here, not too many, to make predic tions each week. We will be glad to | print them and then we can have a ; bit of fun Sunday morning seeing » how we came out. All Farmers More Than Well Pleased With First And Second Day Sales And Roxboro Looks Forward To A Great Year HURDLE MILLS TO HOLD P. T. A. MEET First Os Year Will Be Held At School Bldg. October 7th. The P T .A. of Hurdle Mills will hold its first meeting of this school year at the school building on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 7th. at 3:15 o’clock. Mrs. C. B Davis, the new presi dent, will preside at the meeting and plans for P. T. A. work for this year will be definitely started. Every father and every mother is urged to attend this meeting. Work in the Hurdle Mills school is off to a good start. The enroll ment has increased considerably, over last year. Over 100 students I are in the high school and between 175 and 200 in the grades. Every thing points to a good year. Mission Study Class At North Roxboro Church Tuesday There will be a joint Mission! Study Class of all Missionary So cieties of Beulah Baptist Associa tion W. M.| U. at North Roxboro church Tuesday, October 5 begin ning at 10 a. m. The book to be studied is “Save to Serve” by Blanche Sydnor White and two splendid teachers selected to teach the class, Mrs. W. F. West and Mrs. L. V. Coggins. Our women know that to hear these two trained and capable teachers is always a great pleasure as well as most instructive. The members will bring lunch and spend the day. One class in the morning at 10 and the other in the afternoon. The Superintendent of the Union desires a large attendance of mem bers of the 21 societies comprising the Union. INVESTMENT REGULATION New York City—As the outcome of a long study of investment coun sel methods by .the Securities Ex change Commission, Wall Street ex pects with the new year more dras tic regulations of investment-mana gement concerns, in all probability through a revision of the Securities Act. THE HITLER - MUSSOLINI MEETING Berlin, Germany—Although all Germany turned out in honor of II Duce’s visit of state to Chancellor Hitler, diplomats expect nothing concrete in the way of action be yond a reaffirmation of the “com mon purposes” of fascism and naz ism. Small Fire Yesterday The apartment occupied by Mr. and Mrs. George Lowe on Sergeant Blvd. caught fire Friday afternoon, but little damage was done. It is understood that the fire was caus ed by a short circuit. I Board Os Education Meeting Postponed The county board of education will not meet Monday, Oct. 4th. This is due to the fact that some of the members can not be present on this date. The meeting will be held on. Saturday, October 9th. Rufus Johnson of the Governor’s Island community in Swain County, has dug four trench silos this fall and says nothing beats silage as a j winter feed for all cattle. EIGHT PAGES TODAY 250,000 Pounds On Hand F«B First Day The official average for the first day’s tobacco sales in Roxboro was $28.81 per hundred pounds. This average is correct, there is nor stretching of the truth and nothing estimated about this price. 250,000 pounds of tobacco were sold on the opening day. All farmers appeared to be well pleased, there were very few tick ets turned and many were frank to admit that they received much mors than they expected. The two houses with first and sec ond sales were practically filled last Thursday and the others had a nice lot of thobacco on hand. Three houses were sold the first day. The average for Friday was also high, estimated at $28.50, but there was not so much tobacco on hand. Many farmers reported that they sold what they stripped on the open ing day, but that they would have more ready by this week. A large break is expected tomorrow, Mon day. and tobacco will probably con tinue to pour in all the week. Roxboro is looking forward to its greatest tobacco selling season and it now looks like this market will sell at least two or three million pounds more this year than last year. Three new buyers are on the i Roxboro market this year and they are all good experienced men. Farm ers expressed keen satisfaction in regard to the new men. HITLER TO RETURN MUSSOLINI’S VISIT No Date Set—ltalian Dictator Welcomed Back In “Roman Conqueror” Style Berlin, Sept 30.—Plans for an other meeting between Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy are in the off ing. It was announced offically to night Hiller had accepted Musso lini’s invitation to visit Italy No date was given. Before their meeting, just con cluded in Germany, the two lead ers conferred in 1934 in Venice. DUCE WELCOMED HOME Rome, Sept 30.—Premier Musso lini told the cheering throng which welcomed him home from Berlin tonight that Italy and Germany are joined to seek a “rebirth of Europe.” “Blackshirts—l bring a profound and indelible memory of my con versations with the fuehrer of Ger many. Italian and Germany friend ship, consecrated in the policy of the Roman-Berlin axis, has become engraved on the heart of two na tions in these days and there it will remain. “The objects of this friendship are strict solidarity between the two revolutions (Facist and Nazi) the rebirth of Europe and peace between the peoples worthy of the name.” Supt. Griffin To Address Bushy Fork P. T. A. a* - ■ Supt R. B. Griffin will address the Bushy Fork P. T. A. next Thursady evening, Oct. 7th., on the subject “Value of Recreation.* Everyone is urged to attend. Because they secured increased yields of com this season from the growing and plowing under of crim son clover last season, Orange farm ers are sowing a large crop this fall-..
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