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',*Vi V an \ ■ it; . -j ; ,• i: . TIMES’ SUNDAY MORNING EDITION DIAL 45 0 1 We want all the new* of four community. Please call us or send It In. IF TOC WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU READ TH> PERSON COUNTY TIMES—IT IS A PAPER FOR AI.I. THE PEOPLE OP PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. VOLUME DL PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY ROXBORO, CAROLINA, SUNDAY, MARCH 6, 1938 NUMBER THIRTY-FIVE Prisoner In Jail Almost Kills Himself By Setting Fire To Bed Clothing and Mattress Entire Cell Block Was Flooded With Smoke and Other Pri soners Were Suffering; Fire Department Called Masks Used Before En trance Could Be Gain ed To Cell Name Not Revealed To Public On Friday afternoon of last week a prisoner in the county jail almost killed himself and caused other pri soners to suffer in no small way. This man, whose name was not revealed, was placed in jail about 5:00 p. m. It was evident that he was in a drunken condition and he immediately began to cause all the disturbance that was possible. He continued to do this for several Hours, but due to the fact that an occurrence of this kind is not unus ual Jailor Long did not pay any ex tra attention to this case. About midnight Mr. Long thought-he heard something unusual about his cries end when he went to investigate he discovered that he could not even get to the man’s cell. All of the bed clothing, mattress and (everything else was on fire and the entire jail was filled with smoke. Mr. Long tried to get in but smoke was so thick that he was forced back and had to call the fire department. Masks and wet handkerchiefs were used before the cell door could be reached and by this time the prison er was about dead. Mr. Long stat ed that he believed that he would have been dead in ten minutes. ~ The other prisoners on the block had suffered, but they had caused no alarm due to the fact that they were disgusted with the man’s ac tions and then the smoke was not so bad in the section where they were confined. All of the prisoners were taken out on the roof where they could get fresh air and the unruly one was revived. This man was searched for match es before he was confined, but match must have been overlooked. ENDS RECORD CRUISE New York City Largest and fastest ship ever to cross the Equa tor, the French liner Normandie re turned from a 22-day cruise to South America with what is believed in shipping circles to be a record for income from a single voyage. Her 975 passengers are estimated to have paid total fares of more than ‘51,000,000, and /to ha\je as much more in extra services on board. They consumed 269 tons of food, 2 tons of caviar, and 150,000 quarts of champagne. Remodeling fun. You can take an old shack and remodel it for only $8,642 to equal a new $5,000 house. We Looked Back In Our Old Dusty Files * : Os Many Years Ago And Found This May 29, 1930 Mr. C. A. Hines of Greensboro, will speak here next Thursday. Mr. Hines is campaign manager for Senator Simmons. May 29, 1930 Rev. A. J. Mc- Kelway, pastor of the Presbyterian church, is attending the General Assembly which; is in session lat Charlottesville, Va. May 29, 1930 The miniature Golf Course has been crowded since the opening day and many people who thought that they would never like golf are finding out that it is £ wonderful game. May 15, 1930 Some reader handed this to us “Here it is, hard to refuse. If you like a good paper, subscribe to the Person Co. Irrson^inits CITC WORKING ON LAMAR SIDEWALK Path Is Being Graded And Leveled In Order That People Will Not Have To Walk In Road Ever since the city of Roxboro in stalled a new water line on Lamar Street the residents of South La mar have had no sidewalk. People in that section have had to walk in the street. Now the city has started to work on the sidewalk and the people will, at least, have a dirt sidewalk that is level. Only one Workman is being used, but he had done a very creditable piece of work and the dirt walk is rapidly taking shape. This piece of work should be completed by the latter part of this week. The residence of J. A. Long, Jr. on this street is rapidly nearing completion and Mr. and Mrs. Long will probably move in their new home in a week or two. HWANIANS READY FOR SING MEET Basket Ball Game Will Be Play ed Immediately After Sing ing Festival Members of the Roxboro Kiwanis Club have been trying to reach high “C” this week in an effort to get in a little practice for the sing ing contest that will be held Mon day night at 6:30 P. M. in the Com munity House. The contest will take place the Oxford Kiwanis Club and the Roxboro Club. Altho no prizes will be given each member will try to outsing the other. Immediately after the singing test is over the members of the two clubs will go to the high school gymnasium and there the two basket ball teams of each club will engage in another contest. Tickets for the game may be se cured from any drug store in Rox boro or from any .Kiwanian. .The game will start at 8:00 P. M. and a good game is expected. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Born to Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Long, Jr., a daughter, born March 4th, 1938. o RECENT ARRIVAL A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Love Perkins, March 3, 1938. Mother and daughter getting along nicely. May 15, 1930 Charles V. Clay ton, who last December shot and killed Lemuel Clayton, was arrest ed last week in Mobile, Ala. May 15, 1930 Mr. W. L. Fou shee of Durham, delivered the an nual Commencement address at Hurdle Mills school last Saturday night May 8, 1930 Rev. T. -A. Sikes will be out of the city this week. He has been called to Dallas, Texas, as a member of the General Confer ence Commission. May 8, 1930 Mr. Walter Rogers had the misfortune to lose his home by fire last Thursday night. May 1, 1930 Mr. Ben Stalvey of Duke University, spent last week end in Roxboro. SERIES OF ARTICLES BY PROF. MEYER BEGINS TODAY , The Times is pleased to an nounce that timely series of art icles on the European situation by Prof. Harold D. Meyer, of the University of North Carolina, is starting today. These articles will be continued from week to week and the publishers of this paper believe that the articles will prove to be among the best to be published in this connection. Start with the article in today’s paper and continue to read them each week. Person Motors Offers Values In Used Cars Person Motors, local Ford Agency in Roxboro, is offering a number of values in used cars for National Used Car Exchange Week, March 5 to 12. If you are interested in secur ing a value in a used car then you are interested in their ad in today’s Times. You are invited to read the ad and then see the cars. Germany Has Form Os Voluntary Aid For Needy That Is Really Compulsor More Than Three Million Dollars Was Collected In One Day Thru So-Called Voluntary Contributions To Street Solicitors* —ln Various Ways People Are Given Opportunity To Help And They Don’t Try To Dodge Editorial Note: This is the first of a series of articles by Harold D. Meyer, professor of Sociology in the University of North Carolina, who in making a study of youth move ments in Europe, especially in Ger many and Italy. Professor Meyer is one of the country’s outstanding authorities on youth movements and has been for many years edu cational director for the Boy Scouts in the Southern States. His present tour was made possible by a Kenan Traveling Professorship awarded him by the University of North Carolina. By Harold D. Meyer It has been interesting to observe winter relief work in Germany and to contrast it with the plan we fol low in America. “No one shall suffer hunger and cold” is the slogan under which the Winter Aid Organization works. The Committee functions throughout the year but special emphasis to the plan of relief is given at this time. While there are well defined laws for relief on the part of the Govern ment this work of Winter Aid is sponsored by the National Socialist Party and not the Government. It is strictly a party program in which all the people of the nation, in and out of the party, participate. It is an attempt to “express the con sciousness of the nations indissolu-] ble community, its social unity and; destiny and its spontaneity of a self imposed task of succoring those in its midst or in want.” | We could compare it with our Red Cross drive and Christmas Seal Sale and also our numerous private agencies in their various campaigns. Here the toatlitarian idea works along all lines and hence the Win ter Aid work assumes national force as it is the only organization functioning in this field. Wholesale Solicitation The most important day of this period was held on December 4th and known throughout the Reich as “The Day of National Solidarity.” Within a period of six to eight hours the Committee collected near ly eight million marks or someth ing over three million dollars. On this day at special hours hundreds of thousands of German men and women from all ranks of life ir PNfiIMONIA CLAIMS tk - VEL RESIDENT i Raymond W. Price Died Thurs day P. M. After Being 111 For One Week R. W. Price, 39, son of Mr. and Mrs. ;George Price, died Thursday P. M.; at 11:10. He had been ill for one and death was caused by pneumonia. He was a resident of Ca-VeL The deceased is survived by his sister, Mrs. W. C. Parker of Rox boro; mother and father, Mr. and Mrs, George W. Price of Mobile, Ala. and one son of Mobile. Funeral services will be held at Woody’s Funeral Home in Roxboro Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Hartz will be in charge of the ser vices. Active pall bearers will be Floyd Murray, John Horner, Francis Whit lock, Bill Brooks, Jimmy Berry and B. T. Wright. Honorary pall bearers will be G. R. Currier, W. M. Warren, J. E. Spake, R. T. Smith, J. R. Boyd and T. D. Loftis. Interment will be in Burchwood cemetery. respective of class and calling, took up their stand in the streets, col lecting box in hand and did what they could to have everyone con tribute. This event was our first intro duction to Germany. As we left Hamburg for Berlin and travelled through the little towns we were frequently stopped and asked to contribute. We soon learned the German phrase for “we have given." Berlin was in full holiday array crowds of people everywhere. Here the principal collectors were promi nent men in government, leaders of the army, outstanding business men and women and all the leading actors and singers from grand opera, vaudeville and motion pict ures. Bands were playing and speeches being made on all the street corners. It appeared to be a gala holiday and the collections indicated a most successful campaign. The press stated that the amount collected throughout the Reich was a thirty five per cent increase over last year. The press heralded the success as “an absolute declaration of al legiance to the Fuhrer, an effort of exceeding beauty and impressive ness and without parallel in the world.” German Youth Helps On the days from the seventeen th to the nineteenth of December it was the turn of the German Youth to collect for Winter Aid. Gigantic 'plans on a nation-wide basis are ar ranged and the nine million organi zed youths of Germany sold bright ly colored figures representative of familiar German fairy characters. We are told that these youths let no one escape and the collections are enormous. Directly at Christmas time is the Christmas Offertory. This is the last event of this special period. Here a token is give nin the name of the Christ Child for the aid of the needy. In the national organizations for girls and women many articles are made for the use by the Winter Aid Committee or to be sold and the funds given to the Committee. The Youth organization for Boys col lects old toys and remakes them in their handicraft shops. These toys 1 Continued To Back Page GENTRY - WILLIAMS HOSPITAL NEWS Mrs. Lillian Shaw - admitted for tonsilectomy - discharged March 2nd - getting along fine. Paul Barnette, Jr. - admitted March 2nd - tonsilectomy - dis charged March 3rd. Mrs. Eva Roberson - admitted March 2nd - surgical treatment. Mr. J. A. Hamlin - admitted Mar. 2nd - medical treatment. Mrs. Donie Carver - admitted 3rd - discharged 4th. Mr. Willie Latta - admitted Mar. 3rd - appenectomy - getting along fine. Mr. W. G. Clayton - readmitted Friday night for medical treatment. Mrs. Susie Griffin - admitted Fri day night for medical treatment. Mr. J. H. Stephens - admitted Jan. 9th. - amputation of leg - dis charged March 3rd. - getting along fine. Mrs. Julia Lowery - underwent surgical treatment - discharged March 3rd. Mrs. Evelyn Newman - admitted Feb. 28 - discharged March Ist - taken to Watts hospital for treat ment that couldn’t be given here. ROXBORO NATIVE 1 DIESJN TROY Mrs. F. A. Wright Died Wed. 1 Morning Os Heart Attack; Funeral Services Held Friday Troy Mrs. F. A. Wright, one of ' the most prominent women of Troy, died Wednesday morning of a heart [ attack. She was the widow of the Rev. W. L. Wright, former pastor of the Reidsville Baptist Church, Reidsville, and Lee Street Baptist j Church of Richmond, Va. She had been a resident of Troy for 35 years | or more. She was the former Fredoria I Pleasant of Roxboro, was the or ganizer and superintendent for years of the Woman’s Missionary Union of Montgomery Baptist As . sociation. She was active in church work, the Freddie Wright Circle of Troy Baptist Church having been named for her. Surviving are one son, W. L. Wright; three daughters, Miss Mar garet, Miss Bertha and Miss Willie Wright, all of Troy, and two sisters, Mrs. E. D. Cheek and Mrs. Ida Allen of Roxboro. Funeral services were conducted at Troy Baptist Church Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock. Burial was at the family plot at Reidsville. WOMAN’S CLUB TO MEET The Woman’s Club will meet on Monday afternoon at (two o’clock! at the Community House. A very interesting program on Education will be given with Mrs. A. F. Nichols in charge. ALONG THE WAY— ALL APPEARS * TO BE QUIET - NO NEWS f Just because the Duke basketball team was not so strong this year a number of fans from Roxboro, who usually oppose Duke, decided to pull for the Blue Devils. Fans just do not like to pull for the strong team all the time. B. B. Knight will see action on the basketball court Monday night when the local Kiwanians meet the boys from Oxford. “B. 8.,” as usual, will wear a cap the entire game. The Roxboro boys plan to feed the Oxford players a heavy meal just before the game starts and in this way break them down before the game even starts. This may work a hf’-dship on the Roxboro players as Marquis Lawrence, Methodist PUBLISHED SUNDAY AND THURSDAY SACRED CONCERT , AT METHODIST CHURCH TONIGHT Sperandeos Will Present An Un usual Type of Program Un der The Auspices Os The Young People’s Division Concert To Begin At 7:30 Giovanni Sperandeo, tenor, and. Elsie Sperandeo, pianist and accom panist, will give a program at Long Memorial Methodist church tonight at 7:30. The public is invited to at tend this program that is rated as one of the best ever to be in this section. Below is part of the program that will be given tonight. The Lord’s Prayer S. K. Emuriaa Face to Face Herbert Johnson Giovanni Sperandeo Just For Today B. E. Seaver Open The Gates of the Temple J. F. Knapp. Giovanni Sperandeo Kammenoi - Ostrow Anton Ru benstein. Elsie Sperandeo I Heard The Voice Os Jesus Say F. G. Rathbun. The Holy City Stephen Adam 1 Giovanni Sperandeo There are several other num bers on the program that the au dience will enjoy. j This concert will begin at 7:30 pi. m. and the people are urged to come on time. A silver offering will be taken. BCTHEL HILL GIRLS ■ LOSE TO BRAGTOWN 1 Bethel Had Been Undefeated ! In Four Years Os Regular Competition ' - Hillsboro, March 2.—Led by Bet -1 ty Sorrells, Bragtown high school 1 girls blasted the highly-favoited Bethel Hill aggregation out of the 1 meet as the fourth annual gold ' medal basketball tournament got u.ider way tonight. Bethel Hill, undefeated in four years of regular competition, [ found the Bragtown guards too : strong which, along with the bril -1 liant shooting exhibition of Miss Sorrells, carried Bragtown to a 34- 20 decision. The Bragtown center dropped in a total of 24 points. Gra -1 veley led Bethel Hill with 14 mark ers. In other first round gamdb to night Haw River girls turned back Mebane 21 to 15 while Efland boys conquered Bethel Hill 28 to 14. o BETHEL HILL P. T. A. Mr. Fitz Davis, Roxboro lawyer, is to speak to the Bethel Hill P. T. A. Monday night, March 7th at 7:30 i o’clock in the grammar grade audi- • torium. Founders’ Day will be cel ebrated with a formal ceremony and demonstration of the P. T. A. sym bol. preacher, always carries a good ap petite and Jimmy Milligan packs a mean meal. Roxboro has two young men to enter the insurance field, Lester James and Robert Featherstone have opened an insurance office. Now they will really find out how; cruel this old world can be. Speaking of gardens, we haven’t heard from our friend Aubrey Long. He generally bas an early one but so far he has made no report. He may be waiting to bring the evidence to this office. Well, we can’t talk about every one in one day so here’s the end for today.
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