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DIAL 4501 , , We want all the news of your Community. Please call us or send it in. 1 VOLUME IX. NEWS OF THE WEEK \ —— "Honor” Prison Dedicated Springtown, Okla. —Governor Marland and Staff dedicated the nation’s first “honor'’ prison, planned to accommodate 1,000 trusties with no walls, bars or armed guards. Dormitory doors will not be locked at night; no fences bar the chance of escape. Prisoners selected for the new institution are those nearing the end of their terms or eligible for parole, and will spend four hours a day studying useful oc cupations. GOLD FLOW CONTINUES Washington, D. C.—On April 14th the U. S. Treasury released $1,400,000,000 of “sterilized” gold and made it available for natio na 1 credit purpose Since then $93,500,000 of ad ditional gold has been acquired jjpd “sterilized against any pos sible foreign demand for bul lion. The latter contingency is remote since there has been lit tle foreign buying of gold since the French purchase last Winter of $40,000,000’s worth. NAVAL ACCORD REACHED Washington, D. C.—Announce ment is daily expected of an a greement between the U.. S. and Great Britain fixing the new battleships to be laid down by both governments at 45,000 tons, with an armament of 16-inch guns. NEWARK BANS “RALLIES” Newark, N. J.—Another New Jersey community has followed the lead of Jersey City in ban ning political and labor harang ues. Following a riot in which Norman Thomas, Socialist can didate for the presidency, was rotten-eggad, City Commission er Bryne stated that hereafter permits, for public gatherings will be restricted to patriotic and military organizations. Old Congregation Evicted New York City—Some 300 worshippers wept at their last service in St. James Lutheran Church, the city’s oldest English Lutheran Church, which was taken over by a bank holding a mortgage thereon. In his final sermon, the Rev. Dr. Charles Trexler expressed the hope that his parishoners had erected in their hearts “a temple that no bank can take away”. RELIEF WORKERS BEATEN 1 ' New York Cfity—At least 30 relief investigators have been at tacked in recent weeks when they sought to uncover cases of “chiseling” on the part of ap plicants for aid. In one case, a 60-year-old woman held a fem inine investigator while a third woman scratched and kicked the relief worker and tried to beat her head against a fire-escape. Washington, June 10 Presi dent Roosevelt signed today a bill authorizing payment of $6,000 to J&rs. Sallle S. Twilley for the Kg# of her husband, William J,, TIMES’ SUNDAY MORNING EDITION IF YOU WOULD KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND YOU READ THE PERSON COUNTY TIMES - IT IS A PAPER FOR ALL THE PEOPLE OF PERSON AND ADJOINING COUNTIES. Good Kids Get Free Sodas pF HKiiL || - - wfEft, $Bl ? fev- ' jfc; Jfm I T =* iB IVhat a kid will do for an ice cream soda was illustrated by the < n-rlence of Charles Balaban, druggist at Camden, N. J. Balaban let known he would give a free soda to every boy and girl who receiv '» “A" in deportment on their report card. Between 100 and 150 p P-!» of the Yorkship public schools came in with “A’s.” Balaban sa ,m<l the rush got so great be had to withdraw the offer until furthei untlce- Here are some of the good pupils sipping their sodas. - Rain Damaged Person Co. Weed Crop On Whole Looks Good Over Entire County A few farmers in Person Coun ty report that the hard rain that fell last week did quite a bit of damage to a small portion of their tobacco. Some report that the rain water washed away en (tire rows of tobacco and tone plants up so that they do not look very good at the present time. Taking the county as a whole, tobacco looks good and if the proper season continues this coun ty should produce a much better crop than it has for years. Many farmers report that they have planted more than their al lotments, but they have not fig ured how they were going to sell their excess. o OBIE BOWES IS INJURS) WED. Reported That Dynamite Cap Ex ploded In Or Near His Hand It was reported in Roxboro Friday that Obie Bowes was seriously injured Wednesday when a dynamite cap exploded in or near his hand and he suf fered the loss of one or two fin gers. Obie is the eleven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Bowes of the Virgilina road. It is also understood that his sister, Ruth, was hurt in the ex plosion, but not as much so as Obie. Details of the accident were not available. Both were carried to the Gentry-Williams hospital. MOVED TO DEPOT ST. Economy Auto Supply has moved its Fire Sale stock to the Andrews Building on Depot St. next door to Ledbetter’s. They will remain in this lo cation while their store is being repaired. o OUT AGAIN Mr. W. H. Edwards who has been a patient at Gentry . Wil liams Hospital, recovering from an appendicitis operation, is able to be out again. JAPS BOMB CANTON Hong Kong, China—For seven days, Canton has been systema-1 tically bombed by jujuadfona of: Japanese airplanes, causing a ! with le r son||(Eimrs PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY C.& A. TO TREAT CA-VEL SCOUTS Will Send Each Scout To Camp Cherokee With All Expen ses Paid Collins and Aikman Corp. has agreed to send every member of the Ca-Vel scout troop to Camp Cherokee this summer for one entire week. This announcement was made last week and was received with great joy by the Ca-Vel troop. About 24 £>oys will be included. Joe Guffey is scoutmaster of this troop and he will probably go with the boys to camp. Joe is assisted by Frank Williams and Earl Moore. Camp Cherokee, located near Reidsville, has three separate camp periods this summer, but the Ca-Vel boys have not decid ed which period they will attend. Many other scouts from Rox boro and Person County will go, to camp this summer. Some will probably be present at each per iod. All are counting on a big time. o RECENT ARRIVAL Born to Mr. and Mrs. Percy J. Woodall, a baby girl, born May 28th., 1938. Mother and daughter are get ting along nicely. ALONG THE WAY- ALL APPEARS TO BE QUIET - NO NEWS Harold Thaxton has moved back to South Hill where it is said that he will go in business. Harold once lived there and managed a theatre for the Kirby’s. Then he moved back to Roxboro, but travelled over to South Hill and was married. He then lived here and his wife in the Virgi nia city. Now Harold has gone back again to conquer the world. Best of Luck to him. Chas. Wood has eye trouble and is taking treatment. That just goes to show you how < hard a man can really look for business —until he strains his eyes. Yes, William “Chick” Thomas, of Washington, D. C. is going to be present in Norfolk when Sam Byrd Winstead gets married. Says he wouldn’t miss it for the world. Henry Gates, our auto dealer, started out playing tennis every .morning about six o’clock. Then came the primary and Henry got HhH MRS. WILBHN TO ADDRESSpROUP Auxiliary Group Of«W. M. U To Meet In Yanceynle Tues ■ * Miss Green Will Deli r er Message ' When* 1 Mr. Pick< ring’s Boy Scout buglers blow the call to worship at 2 o’cloc : on next Tuesday afternoon ( une 14) at the Yanceyville Bap ist Church, a large crowd of y ung people and children is exp cted to be present for a most interesting mission meeting. Thii is the Aux iliary group of the W (man’s Mis sionary Union and up of Girls’ Auxiliaries, Royal Ambas sador Chapters an| Sunbeam Bands. One of the 1 important speakers will be Mng. R. L. Wil burn, President of 'the Woman’s Missionary Union. Other inter esting numbers will |be given by the young people. ’ An interesting feature of the meeting is the mid-afternoon re creational period whep sandwich es, brought by the guests, and re freshments furnished'by the hos tess church will be epjoyed. Then will follow games and good times led by chosen leaders from the various age groups. An unusual feature of the pro gram will be the message brought by Miss Charlotte Grfeen of Dan ville, Va. Miss Green lathe daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs,, Geo. W. Green, Southern BapttSt mission aries to Nigeria, Africa. She her self was born in Africa and has spent a number of years in this interesting country. She will bring many curious and other things typical of Africa which will make her talk exceedingly interesting to all. Her charming, teen-age personality will be an inspiration to the’ young peo ple. Boys and girls, also older people of all the churches of the Beulah Association are cordially invited as well as visitors. o MR. STEWART NOW LOCATED IN ELIZABETH CITY Mr. Charlie Stewart has accept ed a position with the U. S. Gov ernment, inspecting fruits and vegetables that are shipped in carload lots. At the present time he is located in Elizabeth City. DIAL 4501 FOR NEWSPAPER SERVICE busy—so he says—and didn’t have time for tennis. The boys may say that he was too lazy to get up at six and that his game got worse, not better. Henry is not playing any tennis now. R. B. Griffin is about ready to move into his new house. Altho he failed to say anything about it, he is willing to accept any little gift of new furniture that his friends might take over there. No, Gaddy - I do not think a cocktail set would be appropriate. E. B. Craven, Jr., the r , (how do you spe" ?oat?), brought the writer of th*.- -olumn a few vegetables, two carrots, one on ion, one potato, one turnip, one 3mall head of cabbage and one beet. Said that he just wanted to prove that he had all kinds, but that this writer would get no more than the sample he had cent. The only way that we caa use this assortment is to make 3oup and he didn’t even include any meat for the soup. ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 1938 r:EW SPEED KIN~, Floyd Roberts of Van Nuys, Calif., 3 shown after winning the 500-mMe Indianapolis motor speedway race. Roberts finished about five miles ihead of Wilbnr Shaw, winner ol the 1937 classic. Driving a stream lined, all-aluminum Miller-built car, he established the remarkable av erage of 117.2 miles an hour, smash ing the record of 113.58 hong np by Shaw last year. Roberts drove the entire distance without relief an- 1 made only one 30-second stop. R;b erts’ victory won him $38,003. scon SEES STATE CROP PLAN FAILING State Commissioner Terms North Carolina Program “Mere Shot In Arm” Charlotte, June 10 The fed eral government’s $10,000,000 crop control program in North Carolina was termed “a mere shot in the arm,” by Kerr Scott, state commissioner of agriculture, in an address here tonight. Scott said the program was certain to fail unless better mar keting conditions were developed. Scott spoke before the Mecklen burg chapter of the State College Alumni association. Millions spent for limiting farm production might placate the farmers temporarily, Scott said, and added that artificial scarcity in a land where millions are ill fed was “foolish.” Instruction Neglected “The instruction of North Carolina farmers in the techni que of marketing has been sadly neglected,” he said. “Milk, eggs, butter, and other foodstuff are pouring into our state from places as remote as Wisconsin. “Our farmers are good enough at raising crops, but when they are ready to sell their products, they take a beating. “Marketing is largely a matter of processing crops so that the buyer will be pleased. Down in the eastern part of the state, the surplus commodities commission recently bought large quantities of cabbages and other ‘distress’ crops. “The agent found that there wasn’t as much ‘distress’ as he had been told there was in the cabbage markets. Buy ers were insisting that cabbages be packed in away that pleased housewives. The farmers didn’t know how it was done.” o— Mr. And Mrs. Emory Fanning Spend Few Minutes Here Mr. and Mrs. Emory Fanning and son, of Wilmingjton, Dela ware, spent about one hour in Roxboro Friday afternoon. Emory taught school in Rox boro- in 1927 and 1928. For the past ten years he has been with the DuPont Company in Wilming ton, Del. Two sons, one two months old, mother and father, make his fam ily. DUKE AND DUCHESS WILL VISIT THE U.S. British Government Will Ap prove If Social Studies Are Avoided London, June 10 Bucking ham Palace will approve the pro posed visit to the United States next year of the Duke and Duch ess of Windsor if they refrain from any organized investigation of social conditions here, it was reported today. If the Windsors make any in cidental observation of social and labor conditions, they must be entirely “accidental” and not part of the itinerary, it was said. The memory still is vivid here of the storm which arose when the Duke returned from an in vestigations of labor conditions in Nazi Germany and announced he would visit the United States under the sponsorship of Char les E. Bedaux, industrial engineer. The British government, it was said, hopes that on the visit there will be no embarrassing official receptions, such as at the British Embassy in Washington or at the White House. Government circles were tak en by surprise today when the British press republished the ex clusive United Press report of the visit plans. It was understood that the Duke had hoped to keep his trav el plans secret until near the time for his departure. The revel ation, however, was not consid ered likely to affect his plans to leave from Paris about mid- March. The couple will be ac companied by only a small re tinue. NO REPORT ON GOLF-COURSE Application For Money Has Been Approved By District Office And Is Now In Washington $12,000 BEING ASKED The W. P. A. officials in Wash ington, D. C. have had nothing to say as yet concerning the ap propriation for the Roxboro Country Club and golf course. The amount of money that was approved by the district office was for a little over $12,000 and this approval is now on the ap plication in the National office. Altho nothing has been heard from it in about three weeks lo cal authorities are not inclined to believe that the money will not be granted. On the other hand they believe that the entire project will fse approved in a short time. Washington offices always require plenty of time and this project is no exception. The money will be used to beia’utify ,’the grounds, improve the club house and fix the golf course. A large amount of this work has already been done by the members of the Country Club, but there is plenty left for which the $12,000 can be used. The site at Loch Lily is one of the most beautiful to be found in this section. It will make an ideal course and beautiful place. Sunday School Class At Luna Lake Tuesday The Methodist Sunday School class, taught by J. B. Snipes, spent last Tuesday afternoon at Luna Lake, near Danville. Sixteen boys were carried to the lake by J. B. Snipes, T. T. and Elmo Mitchell, j. D. Oliver and Miss Edith Walker. The boys enjoyed swimming and a picnic lunch. PUBLISHED SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request. NUMBER FORTY . NINE SPECULATION ON HANCOCK’S PLANS RIFEJNOXFORD Friends Os Opinion He Will Remain In Some Field Os National Service From Oxford Ledger Oxford, N. C. What will Frank Hancock do at the expir ation of his present Congressional term next December 31 ? That question is on many ton gues and even many more minds. Mr. Hancock has made no state ment, other than to say that he will remain at the call of hia party for such public service as he may be able to render. In Washington, the suggestion is being heard that he may go with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, because of his close friendship with Jesse H. Jones, the chairman, and the fact that Hancock is a recognized author ity on governmental matters. The long service by the Oxford man on the House Committee on Banking and Currency has en abled him to demonstrate that he has head and shoulders above the average committeeman in a bility and understanding of the finances of the government ad mittedly a puzzle to the shrewd est. Another suggestion is heard that he would land on the Fed eral Reserve Bank or in some oth er high post, if he is interested. He was even mentioned for Comp troller General. Jesse Cottrell, Washington correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, says Han. cock has always been counted as “hand-in-glove” with the big wigs of the Treasury Depart ment, not only because he has always been ready to aid the administration, but because he is more astute than most of them, and has been able to save them, several times from embarrass ment on some of the proposals that have come before his com mittee, by straightening them out and bringing them within the scope of the purview of Congress. o RAMBLING NEWS OF LAST WEEK Sporting News Os St. Louis Carries Story Os Roxboro’s New Fireman The Sporting News of St. Louis and the Durham Sun carried the story of Enos Slaughter being made an honorary member of the Roxboro Fire Department. Perhaps it was just in cele bration of the acquisition of the new fireman, but the Roxboro Fire Department has ordered several new flashlights to use in fighting a fire with a large a_ mount of smoke. These lights are supposed to throw a beam right through the smoke. R. L. Perkins, president of the county fair, stated that every thing was working fine as far w the fair was concerned and he was expecting to have one at the largest and best. He hopes Re build a fence around the grounds at an early date, perhaps by next year. Bill Pickering reported that the Ca-Vel scouts have about ed their cabin; the swimming poot has been completed and' th» 1 scouts will have a formal open ing soon. - ~3M ° - . jagM Mexico City, June 10 Jggj slight earthquake, which wmjEml corded on the seismograph xtjß local observatory, shook tfgtf City at 12:05 p. m. today. -2 ■.
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