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■ KIS NEWS ABOUT HBSON COUNTY, YOU’LL PpP IT IN THE TIMES. WUHO X PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY | NEWS ■ OF THE iWEEK ■ CUPPER BELIEVED LOST K -Mahila, P. I.—Although all a r vailable Navy units are continu. Ping their search, a patch of oil Eon the South Pacific about 500 R Bodies from here is apparently IT the sole remaining trace of the R Hiwaii Clipper which disappear p«d on a voyage from Guam to Ir the Philippines with six pas- Q sengers and a crew of nine. I MORGAN’S SON A FARMER Y* I | Indianapolis, Ind.—An emerg- P ency operation for appendicitis »_ on a farm worker near here, known simply as “John Morgan” revealed the fact that he was really J. Pierpont Morgan, 3rd, j grandson of the international t banker, who chose to spend his 6 vacation from Harvard working - as a farm laborer. | | JAMAICA’S WORST WRECK • •» ' Kingston, J’amaica—ln the : worst railroad wreck in the is land’s history sixty persons were \ killed and seventy injured when a pusher engine of a train filled ~ with vacationists continued at ,» full speed up a steep mountain grade unaware that the engine aJtfhe head of the train had been derailed at a sharp curve. MEDICAL SOCIETY ATTACKED Washington, D. C.—The De partment of Justice has charged the American Medical Associat ion with violation of the anti trust laws through its affiliate the District of Columbia Medical Society, which is alleged in the complaint to have threatened with expulsion physicians and surgeons accepting cases through the Group Health Association. Organizations of the latter type, formed to provide hospitalization for families of modest means, are said to be operating in sixty cities, with service available to 1,500,000 persons. JAPS AND RUSSIANS CLASH Peiping, China—ln what ap pears to be a second “undeclar ed” war, Japanese and Soviet troops have clashed in the Man chukuo sector bordering on Rus sian Siberia, where Jap aggres sion has been bitterly opposed by Soviet interests. THE BUSINESS WEEK American Federation of Labor’s survey of business states that . marked improvement is felt throughout industry; that un employment has been checked and a greater degree of confi dence shown by industrial lead ers. .... July sales on the New York Stock exchange totalled 38,761,675 shares, largest months business since last October Sharp recovery i sfelt in the men’s clothing trade through the WP A’s purchase of $9,600,000 worth of garments for distribution to the needy Furniture orders for Fall delivery placed by 5,000 buyers visiting the New York Furniture Exchange display a xnounted to $25,000,000 Gold production by mines in Ontario, readied- $8,200,000 in June, only slightly short of the all-time record made in May. The year’s production is expect ed to be ahead of last year’s total of $90,6000,000. lersonipimus Exciting Moment at UAW Meeting ' yV ' '<4 ■jjPp- . If ■* ■I \ v Jr HKv . £ f jyf ? pi. . jUlfl \ V : 'vv >- v -i«r W v rmSS --v;.. m - UK m ijL Free-for-all fist fights interrupted the trial of four suspended officers of the United Automobile Workers at the headquarters at Detroit. Photo graph shows a door-guard swinging fists at some of the rank and file members of the union who dcm led admission to the trial. Along The Way- All Is Quiet - No News 0 • l _ a By The Editor It has been said, but it couldn’t be true, that a tew young fel lows in Roxboro are pulling a smart trick. They hang around the drug stores until the young ladies have bought and paid for their drinks then the boys get with the girls and have a date for the bal ance of the night. Now we know that these boys are not guilty but here are the names of a few who do hang around the drug stores a little, Bill Harris, “Puny” Allen, Boone Monk, James Harris and “Big Time Eddie” Hamlin. Several people have threatened to sue this paper because they did not like what was written in this column. We beg you all not to sue before you present a bill for damages that have been done. The manager-pays all bills (that he can) on the tenth of the month. Here comes Willie Yancey down the street and you cair bet your last dollar that he will want to know—“ How are you feeling”? Henry Gates, Ford Dealer; Melvin Burke, Lawyer and O. T. Kirby, theatre owner, have started golf. Now if that isn’t a combi nation you name one. The boys have been going to South Boston (it’s cheaper there) and it has been said that the caddies give out before this Roxboro trio finished nine holes. Also scores have been kept a secret. “Ducky” Thompson, E. G. to you, wants to take up golf. He wants to be prepared when the Roxboro course is ready. Bill Walker played a game in Wake Forest ten years ago and he is of fering to teach Gene. Ed Warren has started rambling around Roxboro once again. Ed is getting ready to go back to Raleigh and prowl with the other representatives. Bet you two to one that he doesn’t want to go. Mayor R. B. Dawes and his boy, “Sonny,” went fishing last week. “Sonny” started catching the fish, the mayor was catching— Honorable Mayor had to unhang it. Finally “His Honor” got tired of “Sonny” having all the luck and also tired ot untangling the line so he put his favorite son on the bank and he tried to fish. Results were the same—Dawes was no fisherman. Curing Goes On; Tobacco Men Prepare For Opening Rites Held Here For Virginia Man Father Os Mrs. Brady Per menter Os Ca-Vel Dies. Funeral services were held here yesterday for Baxter B. Gil ley, 49, father of Mrs. Brady Permenter of Ca-Vel, whose death occurred in Nelson, Va. Friday as a result of pneumonia. Rev. J. L. Coley was in charge 1 of the services and interment was held in Providence church ceme tery. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Rebecca Blair Gilley, five sons, Ophia Gilley of Danville, Va., Oakley G., Cary, B. 8., Jr., Jack and Rudolph Gilley, all of NelJ son, two daughters, Mary Gilley of Nelson, Va., and Mrs. Brady Permenter of Ca-Vel. Pall bearers were Oscar Pamp lin, Isham Snead, Bill Brooks, Frank Holt, Oscar Satterfield and E. C. Garrison. INTO NEW HOME Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Young and family moved Thursday into a new duplex apartment that Mr. Young has recently completed on Gordon Street Most Farmers About Half Through Curfng; Some Houses Undergo Repairs. Farmers in this section report that tobacco is curing nicely and some say that they are half through harvesting their crop. Curing has been progressing rap idly for the- past week and prac tically all of the tobacco is be ing saved. Two more weeks will find a major portion of this crop cured. Warehouse proprietors in Rox boro will be about the same as last year. The Planters will be managed by Owen Pass and J. D. Perkins, Hyco by W. R. 1 Jones, George Walker, Sr., Frank I Hester and Robert Lunsford, the I Pioneer by T. T. Mitchell and I Robert Hester and the Winstead 1 Warehouse by S. B. Winstead and Co. Several of these houses have been repaired this summer and everything is expected to be 1 ready on the opening date. A large break in expected on September 27 and unless some thing happens all houses will be full and thousands will be oh hand to watch the early morning 1 sales. A few events for the opening day will likely be announced within two or three weeks. < ' ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA GEORGIA WEED QUOTASSTDDIED AAA Officials Tell County Agents To Rectify Mistakes Where Possible. Lakeland, Ga., Representa tives of the Agricultural Adjust ment Administration met here yesterday with a group of county agents and committeemen and dis cussed ways and means of read justing tobacco marketing quotas —a source of complaint from growers. J. E. Thigpen, deputy assistant chief administrator of the AAA Homer Durden, Georgia Triple A administrator; and L. R. Lan. ier, district agricultural agent told the meeting, however, that there was no provision in the law for lifting the restrictions en tirely. Thigpen and Durden admitted mistakes had been made in mak ing up the marketing quota al lotments, and said these mistak es could be corrected under the law. Lanier instructed .the coun ty agents to lift the individual quota cards which appeared to be unjust, study them and make readjustments as provided for in the control law. Some county agents' said they believed dissatisfaction among some growers over the quotas would “lead to the end of the farm program.” Meanwhile, incomplete and un official reports from the State’s tobacco markets showed slightly lower prices yesterday. Average prices ranged from 24 cents a pound at Vidalia, Hazlehurst and Metter to 20.'40 cents-In Nashville. Sales supervisor Walter Apple white at Moultrie, where the aver age price declined yesterday to 21.91 cents from 24.68 cents the day before, attributed the lower prices to selling of considerable wet tobacco. Scout Briefs Person County’s quota for the annual Boy Scout Jubilee at Chapel Hill in October has been set at 13, according to Scout Executive A. P. Pat terson of the Cherokee council. Charlie Harris has been nam ed the district camp chairman for Person County through which registrations for the camp must be made. Person County, although smaller than most of the dis tricts, led the entire council in attendance at Camp Cherokee this summer. Charlie Harris was the chairman of camping in Person County. George W. Kane is president of the Per son county council. Spotted Fever Quiz Continues Today we are presenting the second series of questions and answers on Rocky Mountain spot ted fever. As last week, today’s questions were prepared by the Times’ correspondent, from the point of view of the layman, and answered by Dr. A. L. Allen, head of the Person County Health department. Widespread local in terest has led to this method of releasing information on this dreaded disease. Q. If a tick had bitten a per son and it was thought that it might be a carrier of spotted fe ver, would iodine be effective? A lodine, if applied immediate, ly might be helpful, -although the only certain method is immediate cauterizing with carbolic acid, which should be done by physi cian. Q. How long could a person be - ■ - • . i -- r. Tobacco Men Enthusiastic Bradsher Child, 111 With Spotted Fever, Reported “Doing Splendidly” Blood Test From State Lab oratories Shows Positive Re. action, Allen Says. Charles William Bradsher, seven-yeair-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Bradsher of Bushy Fork, who is ill with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, is this morning reported to be “doing splendidly” by Dr. Alabert L. Al len, local health officer. “After a little over two weeks’ illness,” Dr. Allen said, “the patient is doing splendidly with temperature down and .rash al most gdne. Barring complicalti ons, he should be all right in a nother week.” The blood test sent to the state laboratories early this week by Dr. Allen were returned yester day and were strongly positive. “There is no question as to the diagnosis,” he said in comment ing upon the tests. J. M. Jarrett, of the State Board of Health, accompanied Dr. Allen to the Bradsher home Friday for a possible study of the ticks. Several specimens al ready caught by the patient’s little brother were brought back to the office. Young Bradsher was bitten by a Dermacentor variabilis tick on or about July 12. On July 19, he developed a fever and on July 22 a rash appeared on his thighs. These are the three typical symp toms of spotted fever, according to Dr. Allen. This is the first case of the fever reported in Person County in over two years although this year North Carolina is ranked second in the number of report ed cases. o Surl Resident Is Pneumonia Victim Funeral For Miss Genera Evans Held Yesterday. Miss Genera Evans, 53, of the Surl community, died of pneu monia Friday morning about 2 o’- clock following a 10-day illness. Funeral services were held yes terday at the home with Elder L. J. Chandler officiating. Interment was held in the family cemetery. She is survived by her mother, Mrs. Emma Evans, (six sisters, Mrs. Nola Day, Mrs. Murette Lunsford, Mrs. W. B. Cozart, Mrs. Tom Chambers, Mrs. James Ellis and Mrs. Cora Oakley, two brothers, Jim and Sam Evans of Allensville. delirious after the spotted fe ver had passed? A. That would depend upon the complications following the dis ease which in this case would be neurological. Q. Since spotted fever is in Per son County, should one use more caution concerning tick bites? A. Yes. One exposed to ticks in his daily work should re move and shake his clothes thoroughly several times a day and if he recognizes that he has been bitten, he should apply some antiseptic or at least soap and wetter and consult a physician. Q. Is Rocky Mountain spotted fever contagious? A. No. It is not contagious; it is infectious. By this is meant that the disease is not transmitted by contact but is transmitted through the medium of carrying SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1938 ENVOY TO LATVIA . mm John C. Wiley of Indiana, now the United States consul general at Vi enna, who has beep named by the elate department as minister to Lat via and Estonia. He will assume his new duties after he winds up his affairs in Vienna. THIEF ENTERS CARVER’SSTORE Lone Intruder Makes Off With 50 Cartons Os Cigar ettes, 500 Pennies. The store at Rougemont, own ed by H. E. Carver, was forcibly entered sometime Wednesday night, the thief getting away with 50 cartons of cigarettes and 500 pennies from the cash register. No clue as to the identity of the intruder had been found yester day. Carver’s store was entered by breaking a rear window. The robbery was discovered the next morning by M. J. “Doc” Carver, who formerly lived here in Rox boro, when he went to open the store. Deputy Sheriff J. E. Ferrell of Durham county, who investigated the break-in, said the store ap parently was entered by a large intruder. He said tracks of the man could be seen plainly in the store. p VISITOR HERE J. M. Jarrett, consultant in the Sanitary division of county heal th work of the State Board of Health, was here Friday confer ring with T. J. Fow'ler, new Sani tary inspector for the Person- Orange-Chatham health district. agents. Q. How do you account for the of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in North Carolina at this particular time? A. The summer is the season for this disease since ticks are then very much a broad and people expose themsel ves to them more in this period than usual, however the main thing is that ticks are lately be coming infected with the organ ism of Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Q. Do you think there have been cases of this disease in Person County from year to year yet was never diagnosed as Rocky Moun tain spotted fever? A. No. There has probably been (Continued On Back Page) THE TIMES IS PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPER; A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. NUMBER FOUR MEDIUM, LOWER GRADES HIGHER IN BORDER BET W. H. Harris, T. T. Mitchell ! And S. B. Winstead Report 1 Farmers Satisfied. Local tobacco men on Border Belt markets home today tow week-end visits were anything but pessimistic over the market openings in the immediate South- Medium and common grade* continue to sell high with better grades beginning to pick up a lit tle over Thursday’s opening day prices. All report that farmers aret well pleased over opening results- Wallace Harris at Whiteville said common and medium grades were about $4 up with better grades only about $2 below last year’s figures. His market aver— aged $26,90 on opening day, 733,- 000 pounds of the yellow weed be ing sold. He expected the Whiter ville market to be blocked for quite a while. j' T. T. Mitchell, local warehouse man in Conway, S. C., for the Border season, wires that hia house sold 138,000 pounds on the opening sale for an average of $25.66. - <V Sam Byrd Winstead from Fairmont also said that “medium grades are stronger than last sea son and other grades were about the same.” He quoted $27 as hie market’s average for opening sales. In Lumberton, according to re ports, there was a “very notic able advance” Friday in prices paid for better types of leaf while buyers continued to pay “war time prices” for common and medium grades. ■ o Local Blind People Receive Talking Books Records Os Best In Liters, ture Available For Blind People, Mrs. Wagstaff Says Five new “talking book” ma chines have been received here for local blind people, Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, head of the local wel fare department, said yesterday. These “talking books” were received from the State Commis sion for the Blind and are avail able for any blind person in the state, Mrs. Wagstaff said. The five machines received here are for Miss Mattie Wal thall, George Halaby and W. J. Edwards, white, and Winfred Cash and Emma Dooms, colored. Records are from some of the best literature as well a* modern fiction, she said. Records of the Bible, various biographies; volumes of poetry have all been, made and are available free of charge from the Liberty of Con gress in Washington. A record of “Gone with the Wind” has also been made, it seems. o MAY DISCUSS WAR DEBTS London, England—Although no government statement has been forthcoming, intubations come fnom semi-official sources that the British Cabinet committee entrusted with the settlement of billions in war debts to the Uni ted States is prepared to consi der “constructive proposals”. It is believed that the first step toward any liquidation of these debts and one that might be fol lowed by France, would be the elimination of all questions gs interest on the part of the tF, & Treasury.
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