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Tientsin, China Arrival of
two British cargo ships without
intereference from the Japanese
blockade, creates the belief that
Japan will not seize the present
opportunity to try to oust British
and France from their conces
sions in China. What appeared
over the weekend to be a Far-
Eastern war, simmered down to
the final disposition of four Chin
ese who sought refuge in the
British Settlement.
WORK OR EXPLAIN
‘WHY NOT”
Albany, N. Y.—To rout out
hundreds of thousands of “chisel
ers,” including a veritable army
of Communists, aliens and agi
tators of alien origin now carried
on WPA rolls, everyone on re
lief in New York State must
hereafter apply at least once a
month for legitimate employ
ment. If they refuse private jobs
offered them in good faith, they
■will be denied further State and
National doles. The weeding-out
process is expected to affect 250,-
000 professional “reliefers in
New York City alone.
ancient chiefs
ASHES MOVED
Yulin, China—To guard against
possible seizure by invading Jap
anese, the silver casket believed
to contain the remains of Geng
his Khan, fabulous Asiatic con
queror of the XUIIth Century,
has been removed to a secret
mausoleum in Western China,
accompanied by an impressive
Guard of Chinese officialdom.
TREES AT 4 CENTS EACH
Washington, D. C. Depart
ment of Agriculture figures de
scribing the transformation of the
Mid-West “dust bowl” into one of
the nation’s most productive
wheat areas, estimate that it has
cost only four cents each to plant
127,000,000 trees, set out as wind
breakers on 20,000 farms. This
protective planting has stopped
erosion and consequent dust
storms in the Great Plains re
gion which three years ago seem
ed to abandonment as unprotect
ed and irredeemable.
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PROFIT SHARING
ADVOCATED
Washington, D. C.—After 10
months’ study, a Senate Finance
subcommittee reports that only
by sharing profits with workers
can capital expect to retain con
trol of industry. “Wages”, says
the report, “will never settle the
labor problem, become the
saturation point will be reached.”
TORNADO SWEEPS
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis, Minn.—A tornado
■weeping 20 miles Northwest of
here caused ten deaths and heavy
property damage. Four pas
sengers in an automobile were
Instantly killed when caught in
the vortex of the windstorm, and
another victim was carried 175
feet in the air and dropped to his
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Nation’s Loaders Gathering in New York for 29th
Boy ( Scout Conclave and Great c World’s Fair Rally
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Top loft to rights Grovor A. Wh«wf» J. Edgar Hoovor Alfred 5. Smith. Middle, left to rights Walter W. Heod John R. Mott James E. We*t-
Bottom, left to righhOwen J. Roberts Daniel Carter Beard Theodore Roo'evelt. t
What promitei to be the largest rally of Scouts ever held anywhere in the world will take place during Boy Scout Day at
the New York World’s Fair on June 29. The exercises will be combined with the 29th Annual Meeting of the National
Council, Boy Scouts of America, on June 28-29. First day sessions, Jun* 28, of the national meeting will be at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel where Alfred E. Smith, former Governor of New York State, and Dr. John R. Mott, President of tge World’s
Alliance of tha Y.M.C.A. are to speak at the luncheon and dinner sessions respectively. J. Edgar Hoover, of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, will address the id«sj gathering of 75,000 Scouts scheduled for the Court of Pyca at the
Fair on Thursday afternoon June 29, und at the sam» place Owen J. Roberts, Associate Justice of the Supreme Caqp of the
United States, 2s to officiate at a ceremony when 500 or more. 2 1-year-old Scouts or former Scouts accept thos&tcific
obligations of voting citizenship.
Grover A. Whalen, President of the World’s Fair Corporation and Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City* wiU
welcome the National Council at luncheon in t‘i« Fair’s Casino cf Nations just prior to the Scout Day ceremonies. Welter W.
Head of St. Louis, Mo., President of the Nations! Council, 'Boy Scouts of America, will occupy the chair at allMtsions.
Both Theodore Roosevelt, Vice-Prcbivlont of vhv National CdUncil, and Daniel Carter Beard, National Scout Cc^l^siioner»
are to take part in the sessions. Dr. Jams* E Y» vil, Chief Scout i£xecut’.ve and Editor of ‘‘Boys’ Life,” will make public
the Movement’s annual report for 19li J, she •*»*•.« rocilent progress in all fialds and a \2A r ,‘o gain in membershin. T-e Boy
Scout Foimdation of Greater New Ycr’*, host Co’ completing extensive plans to receive and entertain the delegates.
343 Person County Farmers
Secure GPCA Loan For ’39
Claude T. Hall Is President
Os Association; C. C. Wil
kerson, Representative.
According to figures just re
leased by the Graham Production
Credit association, loans made to
farmer-memtoers in the nine
counties of Alamance, Caswell,
Chatham, Durham, Guilford; Or
ange, Person, Randolph and
Rockingham, served by the as
sociation for the first five months
of 1939, ending May 31, total 1,-
695, for an aggregate amount of
$381,969.86. This compares with
1,592 loans, for $323,184.17, made
in the like period of 1938, and
represents an increase of 103
loans, for $58,785.69.
In Person County, through May
31 of this year, 343 farmers
have borrowed $90,010.00, against
314 farmers securing loans for
$76,236.62 for the comparative
period last season.
Both figures evidence substan
tial increases and indicate that
farmers in this territory are
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Today's "Hospitality
Week” Invitation List
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Newsome Durham, N. C.
Mayor and Mrs. W. F. Carr ~.., Durham, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Boatwright
Mrs. Eugene Mills Raleigh, N. C.
Miss Elizabeth Mills .., Raleigh, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Crowell
Miss Elizabeth Holmes Weldon, N. C.
Miss Katharine Harris
Rev. and Mrs. H. I. Jackson . A. Raleigh, N. C.
Mrs .Hattie Mborfe
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Claytor ; Hillsboro, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. John Pasco Durham, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Babb Durham, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Clayton
ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
Two Local
Youths On Elon’s
Honor Roll
Wesley Hall Brooks and Lonnie
Dwight Gentry, of Roxboro, are
on the honor roll for the spring
semester at Elon Colelge, a list
released by Registrar A. L. Hook
today shows.
The two Roxboro boys attain
ed the required average of 90 on
th’iir subjects to gain the rating
of honor students. Both have had
a high average consistently while
at Elon, each being outstanding
in class work as well as extra
curricular activities.
A total of 96 were on the hon
or roll for the semester. This
number is slightly under the pre
vious high mark, but this is ac
counted for by the fact that only
students who are carrying full
college schedule were included.
30 Person
4-H Clubbers
To Attend Camp
Person County’s 4-H clubbers,
30 strong will leave tomorrow for
r. week’s stay at Camp Millstone.
Under the leadership of Miss
Velma Beam, J. B. Snipes and
Mrs. B. B. Mangum, the fol
lowing will make the trip:
Gertrude Berry, Timberlake;
Nelle Breeze, Hurdle Mills; Edna
Clayton, Ca-Vel; Mildred Clay
ton, Roxboro; Serena Crews,
Roxboro; Hallie Crumpton, Rox
boro; Hazeline Davis, Roxboro;
Louise Davis, Roxboro; Merilyn
Dillard, Ca-Vel; Ed Gentry, Rox
boro; Polly Hall, James Horner
Holeman, Timberlake; Richard B.
Holeman, Jr., Timberlake; Mary
Ann Howard, Roxboro; Carol
Leigh Humphries, Woodsdale;
Sara Venable Mangum, Ca-Vel;
Penn Noell, Jr., Timberlake; Pete
Pridgen, Roxboro; Nellie Ramsey,
RoxborofCarlyle Slaughter, Rox.
boro; Hazel Slaughter, Roxboro;
Edith Thomas, Timterlake; Dor
is Timberlake, Timberlake; Peg
gy Timberlake. Timberlake; Bob
Wagstaff, Roxboro; Nanc* Whit
field, Roxboro; Billy WilSb.i, Tim
lake; Ray Wilson, Timberlake;
berlak, Donald Wilaon, Timber-
Ephriam Yarboro, Roxboro.
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Fifth Period
At Scout Camp
A fifth period has been added
to the camping season at Camp
Cherokee.
Enthusiasm over the Boy Scout
Camp has made it necessary to
add a fifth period in order to
take care of the deluge of appli
cations that have flown into the
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City Assumes Festive Air
On Eve Os Hospitality Week;
Lon Folger M ay Visit City
Tobacco Growers To Seek
Changes In Sale Season
Person Growers Contacted
In Poll To Determine Far
mers Attitude.
With Claude T. Hall as spokes
man and representative of Old
Belt farmers, five tobacco grow
ers Friday were selected to meet
with the United States Tobacco
association at White Sulphur
Springs June 29 to seek two
weeks earlier market opening in
each belt, longer sales season and
a seven-hour sales day.
Meeting Friday were represen
tatives of the State Tobacco ad
visory committee, the North
Carolina Farm Bureau, and the
State Agricultural Conservation
committee who passed resolutions
insisting upon the opening of all
markets, beginning in Georgia,
two weeks earlier than in 1938,
that a sales day of 7 hours be
continued with 360 piles per
hour, that a permanent opening
date be fixed for each when it
is ready so as to eliminate the ne
cessity of growers of one belt
hauling tobacco to another belt
to market.
Friday’s gathering also passed
a resolution urging the commit
tee to work for more uniform
prices over the entire season.
This year will mark the first
time farmers have had a voice
•i the session to fix sales and pro
cedure.
The resolutions adopted Fri
day came as a result of a recent
poll in which 28,167 North Caro
lina farmers were contacted.
Os 594 Person county farmers
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Al ong The Way
With the Editor
Well our Mayor of Roxboro is a proud papa once again. A
brand new baby has been born to the Mayor and his wife and Mr.
Nicks is all smiles. As strange as it may seem he failed to pass out
any cigars on the date of arrival.
L. T. Heffner of Maiden, our former school teacher, is now
safely entrenched in the happy field of marriage. He said “I will”
yesterday and thus tied himself up for life. W. W. Woods and Sam
Merritt were present for the wedding. They were forced to rent
a full-dress suit for the occasion and had to rush back from Red
Springs to Durham in order to get the suit back to the store before
another day’s rent started. Three dollars and fifty cents was more
than either one could afford.
The president of the United States stated that it was impos
sible for him to be here for “Hospitality Week.” We wish that he
could have found it convenient to be here. The one spot that we
had in mind for him to stay was at the home of Ralph Cole. Ralph
can really do things up right when it comes to entertaining and the
fact that he used to be a Republican would not have mattered.
Wonder how Sam Byrd Winstead, Curtis Oakley, Wallace Har
ris and Landon Harvey managed to get to the beach this week
end?
Reade Jones and T. Miller White have certainly been working
on the Rotary picnic for Wednesday of this week. Reade asks the
grocers for the lemons for the lemonade and then T. Miller asks
for the sugar to sweeten it. When they get through the boys- have
really been cleaned out as far as lemons and sugar are concerned.
Edward Whitfield, former Person resident, but now a prosper
ous merchant of Danville sent us a dollar and a half for the pa
jper last week. He sent it by Rainey Hawkins and believe it or not
Rainey delivered it.
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In the interest of accuracy, the business manager of this publi.
cation finds it necessary to correct some of the statements made by
the editor above. Mr. Merritt did attend the Heffner wedding but
the facts about renting the dress suit were misleading. After he was
informed that the suits rented for $3.50 per day, he began scouring
the town for one to borrow and Bick Long finally came to the res
cue. The suit didn’t cost him one red cent, he borrowed M. C. Clay
ton’s car and $lO in cash from Gip Prillaman, charged the gas and
oil, took Radford Gentry to help share the expenses on the road and
his plans were to look up R. A. Burch, who now lives in Red
Springs and spend the night with him.
SUNDAY, JUNE 25,1939
Organization
Begun For New
Civic Club Here
A movement to organize a Ci
vitan club here in Roxboro was
launched this week by members
cf the Durham organization.
Mr. Chandler, a member of the
Durham club, was here all day
Wednesday talking to prospec
tive members and getting a tenta
tive lineup for membership.
Local young men interested in
the organization, yesterday said
a dinner meeting would probably
be held at Hotel Roxboro Wed
nesday at which time a number
of outside speakers would be on
hand to help inaugurate a Rox
boro club.
The Civitan organization was
founded in 1917 in Birmingham,
Ala. and now has over 300 char
ter clubs. Members are selected
upon classification basis, one rep
resentative from each recognized
business or profession. Giving as
its ideal, “Builders of Good Citi
zenship,” Civitan International
has as “its major objectives the
curbing of crime and the elimina
tion.of tuberculosis.
The Civitan, when organized
will bring to three the number of
civic service clubs in Roxboro.
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SERIOUSLY ILL
Mrs. Arthur Rimmer is ser
iously ill at her home on Court
street. Her condition was report
ed late yesterday as “about the
same.”
THE TIMES IS PERSOItIO
PREMIER NEWSPAPER, k
A LEADER AT ALL TIMER.
NUMBER FIFTY
Jones Announces Program
Os Rotary Picnic Event
Wednesday.
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As the proverbial “lull before
ihe storm,” local citizens and
“Hospitality Week” committees
are today enjoying a brief res
pite before the opening of a
week’s round of entertainment
tomorrow afternoon.
Yesterday’s latest development
was the announcement by Mrs.
B. G. Clayton that Rep. Lon Fol
ger might be able to attend the
Wednesday event. The Congress
man advised Mrs. Clayton by
letter that if Congressional duties
allowed, he would be happy to
attend. His letter stated he would
advise her later by wire if he
found it possible to make the
trip.
Welcome banners in many col
ors have gone up from one end
of the local business section to
the other, giving a festive appear
ance to the city. Store windows
have been decorated with Wel
come posters and stickers to add
to the general effect .
O. T. Kirby, local theatre man
ager, yesterday announced that
motion picture? would be taken
at many events during next
week and later be shown on the—
local screen.
W. Reade Jones, general chair
man of the Rotary club’s mam
moth picnic at the High school
grove Wednesday, yesterday an
nounced final plans for the ev
ent.
With festivities beginning at
5:30, a period of entertainment
will be under the direction of S
B. Davis and W. W. Woods. Be
ginning at 6 o’clock, an address
of welcome will be made by J.
W. Noell which will be followed
by the introduction of the speak
er by R. L. Harris and the prin
cipal address by Former Con
gressman William B. Umstead.
Blessing will be pronounced
by Rev. W. F. West after which
the picnic lunch will be held at
6:45. In a message to every Per
son county family Chairman
Jones said, “Be sure to come and
bring a basket as we are expect
ing a big time for all. We are
looking for you and your family.
There’ll be plenty of lemonade
and other drinks for all,” he as
serted.
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Bick Long
Sails Friday On
European Tour
Bick Long, son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Long, left Wednesday for
New York city where he was
scheduled to sail Friday night
for Europe.
While in Europe the planned
tour, with whom he is making
the trip, plans to visit England,
France, Germany, Italy, Belgium,
and possibly several other Euro
pean countries. He expects to b 2
gone about two months.
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OFF FOR GEORGIA
W. C. Warren, Person County
Tobacconist, is leaving today fer
Baxley, Ga. where he will oper
ate warehouses during the cur
rent season. He expects to be
rone until the Georgia selling sea.
son is over.
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