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VOLUME XI
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News
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Week
.CRIME WAR BEGINS
New York City—A special Fed
eral Grand Jury began the study
of 500,000 pages of testimony in
a Government drive against the
alien criminal ring which con
trols the rackets of this city and
has its winter headquarters in
Miami Beach, Fla., Palm Springs,
Cal., and—oddly enough—Feder
ally operated Hot Springs, Ark,
with ramifications in Chicago and
other lar&y cities. The new drive
was spurred by the murder of an
innocent music publisher who
resembled one of the witnesses,
against the notorious Public
Enemy No. 1 Louis “The Leo
pard” Buchalter, who has been a
-fugitive for two years during
which five murders have wiped
out possible witnesses against his
activities as king-pin in the fur,
garment, restaurant and other
New York rackets.
BRITISH START OCEAN MAIL
Port Washington, L. I.—First
trans-Atlantic British mail ar
rived on the flying-boat Carbou
from Southampton, England. The
ship was refueled from the air
over Foynes, Ireland, and cover
ed the Northern course in 31 1-2
hours flying time. A novel East
bound flight via Pan-American
Airways is that of James P. Mil
ls, well known polo player, who
departed Saturday to greet his
wife in England, on her arrival
on the Normandie, which sailed
the previous Wednesday. He will
overtake the French liner carry
ing his wife some hours before
she sights the English coast.
FAIR DROPS PRICE
New York City—Attendance at
the World’s Fair, doubled dur
ing the first week-end on which
the admission price was reduced
from 75 to 50 cents. Concessions
reported long lines of waiting
patrons as an evidence of re
newed interest in the Fair.
EASTERN TENSION MOUNTS
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Shanghai, China—All the Far
East is jittery, with outbreaks
predicted at any moment on al
njost every front. Cancellation by
SHie United States of the Japanese
p trade treaty has resulted in in
■ creased affronts to Americans in
Tokyo and the Chinese Interna
tional Settlements. To the moun
ting instances of Japan’s deliber
ate insults to Great Britain was
bombing and the destruction of
two British Steamers on the
Yangtes River, followed by a
pretest which the Japs military
command paid no attention. Anti-
American demonstrations are re
ported from all parts of North
i: China.
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WPA LAYOFFS START
Washington, D. C.—Failure of
Congress in its late hours to a
mend the new relief laws made
H necessary for WPA officials to
begin laying off for a 30-day
period all WPA warkers, except
World War veterans,, who have
been regularly carried on relief
Tolls for the past 18 months.
•They will be eligible for recerti
fication (but not for immediate
re-employment) at the end of 30
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A THURSDAY
‘War Babies’ En Route to Camp
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' * Jailed to service by an arming Britain, these soldiers—part of 30,000 young men between 18 and 21 years
0 [ r je—gaily walk into London’s Waterloo railroad station, bound for their various camps and barracks. They
so. ,n the vanguard of 200,000 conscripted militiamen who were babies shortly after the World war ended, and
are an integral part of Britain’s preparedness campaign.
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Radio To Be Used
As Market Booster
Still Lives
After ISO
Foot Plunge
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Miraculously escaping death when
her car plunged 150 feet from a
viaduct, Mrs. Edna Burdick of New
York suffered only a few scratches
in the almost unbelievable accident.
The broken line indicates the de
scent of the automobile, which was
left a crumpled wreck. 'Bottom:
Mrs. Burdick treated at hospital.
SCRAPIRON
Tom’s Battery Co. is baying
scrap iron each day in the week.
If ycu have any iron or metal it
will pay you to convert it into
cash.
Bring it to our lot on Lamar
Street next to Oakley’s Service
! Station,
Tom’s Battery Co.
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, CHILD WIFE HAS SECOND
r Pennsboro, W. Va.—Already a
t mother at 14 years, a child-wife
j in the nearby hill country has
t had her second child, attended
only by her mother. Her first
. offspring died at birth, and her
> only request now is for a doll,
) something she never had in her
childhood.
Canvass For Market Ad
vertising Funds Being
Made By Chamber Os Com
merce
The decision to employ exten
sive radio advertising to boost
the local tobacco market during
the coming season was the main
outcome cf on “open” meeting
held by the directors of the
Chamber of Commerce at the
courthouse Friday afternoon.
A representative group of busi
ness men met with the directors
and offered ideas for attracting
more of the golden weed to the
local floors. It was unanimously
agreed that upon increased local
tobacco sales depends the prosp
erity and welfare of local busi
ness interests.
A carfvass of local business con
j cerns to raise a fund for adver
tising and boosting local weed
' sales was begun yesterday morn
ing by Secretary Melvin Burke
of the Chamber, accompanied by
representatives of local busineps.
No estimate of the amount raised
could be learned late yesterday.
Among other suggested boosters
for increased poundage were
“good will” tours throughout the
country and a number of special
events for opening day.
Radio advertising, it was be
lieved, might bring considerable
“foreign” tobacco from other
districts where blocked sales pre
vailed while the Roxboro “hospi
: tality and good will’ tours would
| be a factor toward securing more
widespread local patronage.
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John Harris
To Talk On Home
Beautification
By VELMA BEAM
The instinct to play with grow
ing plants, to get that feel of con
act with the living earth, reaches
dewn to something fundamental
ir the human soul. All farm peo
ple experience this satisfaction
in all of their growing crops
i when the good earth yields the
! fruition of their labors. Bending
> j the forces of nature to their wills
l has a spiritual value of its own
t beyond compare, and this is
r probably felt more definitely in
, the growing of flowers,, and in the
r beautifying of the home than in
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INCORRECT DATE
Correct date: W
January To Be
Tax Listing
Time Hereafter
Tax listing, heretofore an or
deal which began in April of
each year, will henceforth begin
January 1, it was pointed out by
City Manager James C. Harris
yesterday.
The 1939 General Assembly by
statute changed the tax listing
date and the action was further
clarified at a district meeting of
fiscal officers sponsored by the
Institute of Government and held
in Durham Thursday.
Section 302 of the North Caro
lina Public Laws and Resolutions
reads: “All property, real and
personal, shall be listed cr listed
and assessed, as the case may be,
in accordance with ownership
and value as of the first day of
April, 1939, and thereafter all
property shall be listed or listed
and assessed in accordance with
ownership and value as of first
day of January each year.”
Community
Bargain Days
Tentatively Set
Ccmmunity Bargain Days, a
special trade event sponsored an
nually by the local Chamber of
Commerce, has been tentatively
set by leaders of the organizati
on for August 24, 25 and 26, it
( was announced here yesterday.
Final approval of these dates
will be subject to acticn by the
Chamber’s Board of Directors at
a session tomorrow afternoon in
the office of the secretary.
Three big days in which a feast
of bargains are offered en masse
j by local merchants will be the
| plan for this year’s event, it was
pointed out. More detailed plans
for the three-dgy event will be
worked out at tomorrow’s meet
ing.
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LITTLE IMPROVEMENT
There is little improvement in
the condition of Mrs. W. C. War
ren who has been ill for the past
several weeks at her home in the
Concord Community.
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SPEAKING
Dr. E. E. Toney of Oxford, will
speak at Cedar Grove Acadmy
this afternoon at 3:30 under the
auspices of the Person County
Negro Civic League.
The public Is cordially invited
T. H. Jeffers, Pres.
Flue-Cured Leaders Decide
Against Early Tobacco Vote
Lunsford Talks
To Rotarians
On World Affairs
Discussing Rotary as “an As
set to World Peace,” Nath Luns
ford, local attorney, addressed
the local Rotary club at its regul
ar meeting Thursday night.
With Oak Grove church the
scene of the outdoor meeting, the
ladies of the church in their usual
manner served a bountiful pic
ric supper to Rotarians and their
wives present.
Lunsford discussed present
general conditions abroad, parti
cularly the aggressor nations of
Germany, Italy, Japan and Rus
sia and the part Rotary can play
in maintaining World peace and
friendship of nations.
Dr. B. E. Love in a talk on
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
vividly outlined the history and
symptoms of the disease and ad
vised his audience of practical
ways of avoiding the infection.
Two new members were in
ducted into the club at Thurs
day’s session, Dr. J. D. Fitzgearld,
resident surgeon at Community
hospital, and Fred Saunters,
technician at the same institut
ion.
S. B. Davis, chairman of Rot
ary’s rural-urban committee, was
in charge of Thursday’s prog
ram. The next meeting will be at
Hotel Roxboro with D. S. Brooks,
chairman of the Community
Service committee, in charge of
the program.
A long The Way
With the Editor
Carl Winstead, popular grocer of this city, decided that he
needed a nice vacation at the beach. It didn’t matter with Carl how
much money he owed, he just decided to leave and that is what he i J
did. On Wednesday night while he was away his name was called j '
out at Theatre Jackpot Night for the sum of $140.00. This writer i 1
hopes that no one wrote Carl about it and that he did not hear cf it j 1
until he returned home. It would have been a shame to ruin his :
vacation by the sad news. i
F-L-A-S-H—Cephus Joyner of ,
Wilson, rode into Roxboro a few |
weeks' ago with two girls who |jj> f*
aski d
Dunam. Kir.dhcm'.cd Cephus HF' I*.
gave them a lift to Roxboro and Wt 3F>^Sr
then went on about his business JHB 1
here as usual.
F-L-A-S-H again!—Mrs. Joyner IK. .JljBH ,
came with Cephus the next time. (
ton’s business" had dropped off
considerably this summer. His
brother in law. Henry Cates, lor- ew.
merly lived close to Thco’s store B|j|ipP ».
and Henry gave him all his busi- | gBL.
ness and paid cash. When Henry - '.m
moved ovc rto the other side of /■ Wt 1
the city he just couldn’t get to - jHS
Clayton’s store and so his busi-
ness was lost to Theo. CEPHUS JOYNER
Robert Whitfield walked into this office one day last week and,
wanted to know if his credit was any good. We hadn’t doubted it
unti 1 Robert mentioned it. Anyway we sold him two or three dol
lars worth of paper and now we have been wondering why Robert
thought his credit might hot be good.
Curtis Oakley has been sick for three weeks. During the three
weeks he lost twenty five pounds of flesh around the middle and so
his illness was not exactly in vain. Curtis does not look handsome
yet, Lut his size is a little better than before. In other words he lost
that middle age spread.
We have been watching Ben Wade for the past two or three
years. Ben dropped out of business life a year or so ago and re
' tiled to his country estate. He raises what he eats and eats what
he raises. Now we wouldn’t ever suggest that Ben isn’t doing some
work, but he is living the life of a country squire and doesn’t seem
to be worrying about the war in Europe.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939
SHORE TO PREACH
Rev. J. H. Shore, retired minis
ter of this county will preach at
the local Presbyterian church
this morning at the 11 o’clock
service, Rev. T. H. Hamilton ad
vised this week.
Many Receive
Badges At Scout
Court of Honor
The Person County Court of
Honor met in the basement of
the Methodist church Friday night
with approximately thirty scouts
present for the presentations.
The court of honor consisted)
of Henry O’Briant, A. P. Patter
son, James Harris and J. S. Mer
ritt. j
Several scouts were before the
court to receive their second and
| first class badges, but a majority
were present for merit dadge
work.
Among the mothers present
were Mrs. Joe Amen, Mrs. T. C.
Wagstaff, Mrs. Joe Crowell and
Mrs. Fred Long.
All the scouts had been at
camp Cherokee during a part of
the summer and it was there that
1 the scouts passed their work. All
work was passed under a counse-'
lor.
The court of honor did not
meet last month, but will hold
its regular meeting in September.
“No one is so savage that he
cannot become civilized, if 'he
will lend a patient ear to culture.”
Horace.
THE TIMES IS PERSO*%
PREMIER NEWSPAjPMMF
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES
NUMBER FIVE
Growers Base Hope For
Better Prices By Curtail
ment Prospect In 1940
Tobacco growers of Person
county, working long hours in a
desperate effort to save their fast
ripening tobacco, paused briefly
to study the report that their
farmer representatives in Wash
ington conferring with buyers
and Department of Agriculture
had decided to place their hopes
for better prices for the 1939
crop on prospects for sharp curt
ailment of production in 1940
with quota restrictions on mark
eting.
Claude T. Hall, local farm lead
er and chairman of the state ad
visory committee, headed the
farmer’s delegation at the Wash
lington conference.
The representatives concluded,
j after a meeting with buyers, that
it would be better to let the re
cord breaking 1939 crop be sold
in the usual manner with hope it
would average between sls and
$lB per hundred pounds. Plans
for an early farmer election on
the question of invoking market
ing quotas on the 1940 crop, a
procedure made possible when
Fresident Roosevelt signed the to
bacco amendments to the 1938
farm law, were put aside.
At the conclusion of the Wash
ington meeting, Hall along with
ether Tar Heels attending expres
sed themselves as being well
satisfied with the conclusions
reached. Asked if he believed
the buyers would continue to
take the rest of the flue-cured
crop at approximately the ex
isting price levels, Hall replied,
“I hope so, and I don’t see any
reason why they shouldn’t.
Prices Stronger
Meanwhile reports from bord
er markets revealed the average
approximated $18.25, with the
price trend upwards as growers
offered some of their later prim
ings.
That prices offered on markets
of Georgia and Florida are de
pressed by the inferior quality
of the tobacco and by the fact
fact that the Wages and Hour
■ Act is making it possible for re
i drying plants to employ only
j these workers who can meetpro
j duction requirements in tieing
and stemming tobacco became
more apparent. Some prominent
tobacconists have expressed the
belief that Georgia growers
would tie their crop next year be
fore offering it for sale.
Opening of the Georgia mark
ets with disappointing prices had
electrified growers to action in
the belief that a referendum
might be called for control of pro
duction next year in the hope of
bolstering prices for the 1939
crop. However, as a result of the
Washington conference, it was
concluded best to wait until later
in the fall to formulate plans fo**
the 1940 crop.
Buyers attending the Washing
ton meeting, representing virtual-
by every large tobacco buying
company, told the growers a crop
between 675,000,000 and 750,000,-
000 probably could be taken by
the market next year at a satis
factory price to the growers. The
buyers contended that the crcp
reporting board’s estimate of this
year’s production is excessive and
said production probably would
be between 850,000,000 and one
billion pounds.
“Democracy is on trial in the
world, on a more colossal scale
than ever before."
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