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VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY A THURSDAY
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HITLER GOES TO WARSAW
Berlin Reichsfuehrer Hitler
celebrated the success of his light
ning war against Poland Thurs
day with a triumphal visit to
Warsaw as a prelude to his
world-awaited declaration before
the reichstag.
In an order of the day issued
to the army after his review of
his triumphant troops in Warsaw,
Hitler said his Polish campaign
was over and his soldiers “ready
for anything.”
MINISTER CONVICTED
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Camden, N. J. The Rev.
Walter Dworecki, 45-year-old
Camden Polish Baptist minister,
was convicted of first degree
murder in the strangulation slay
ing of his 18-year-old daughter,
Wanda.
A jury of seven men and five
women fixed death in the elec
tric chair as the clergyman’s
punishment.
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“IRON LUNG” MOTHER
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Chicago A young wife, suf
fering from infantile paralysis,
was removed from a life-preserv
ing “iron lung” last week long
‘ enough to give birth to a baby.
> Both the mother, Mrs. Gertrude
Epstein, 22, and the infant girl,
yrho weighed approximately 6*4
pounds, survived the unusual
ordeal.
Mrs. Epstein was brought to the
hospital Tuesday. She was mov
ed to a special room and, when
the ordeal was over, she was
replaced in the huge booiler-like
respirator.
WAR NEWS
Paris French troops capital
ized on a lull in fighting on the
western front this week to or
ganize new lines in German bor
der territory.
A morning communique gave
no indication of action along the
40-mile northern flank, except
for sporadic artillery fire, but
the FYench were reported to
have strengthened their positions
to prevent any possible German
drive through the neutral duchy
of Luxembourg.
STIMSON HITS RAN
New York Former Secretary
of State Henry L. Stimson re
, cently urged repeal of the arms
r embargo jn order to help France
and Britain, lest the war “in case
are beaten . . . become our
battle.”
t lie suggested that the embargo
- iyas somewhat unfair to the al
lies because, after they had re
triced their nsyips in cooperation
i tilth the United States in cause
:<j| disarmament, the law "forbids
tthfm to resort to our markets in
ojaier to repair their consequent
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BOARD MEETS
lljE SfectftY hi ft* Welfcuce M>
vjpory beard was* held Saturday
|j]| the office of Mrs. T. d. Wag
staff, head of the Person County
||2|elfare department. The meet
ing began at 1:36 o’clock, with
Wagstaff, ex-officio chair
ftan and Messrs. J. M. Brewer,
I jf, D. Bailey and Rev W. F
I JFest in attendance.
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New European Peace Threat Camters On Rumania
FROM AUSTRIA-LS POLAND \ “ IbESSARABIA
HUNGARY \, kWI -from Russia
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- Fearing pressure from Germany, Kuala Md Other neighbors, Rumania appointed anti-Nazi George Ar
gesann (right) as strong-arm premier fouofripf Assassination of Premier Armand Calinescu by pro-German
Iron Guardists. Mass executions Stopped 4 threatened overthrow of the government, but Rumania still fears
her neighbors may try to regain territories shp gained from them after the World war. International observers
think these dangers might be however, Should Russia continue her apparent poliev of increasing
sway over Baltic and Balkan nations, (fits fatting off Germany’s long feared drive to the east.
A llensville High
Plans Gymnasium
SUPERIOR COURT
OPENS OCTOBER 16
Judge John J. Burney pre
sdihg; Large Civil Docket
To Come Up.
With a total of 22 civil actions,
13 of them divorce cases, the Oct
ober one-week term of Person
County Superior court, presided
over by Judge John J. Burney, of
Wilmington, resident judge of
the eighth district, will be con
vened here Monday morning,
October 16.
The court will be a mixed term
for the trial of both civil and
criminal cases and will mark the
first appearance here of Judge
Burney as a trial jurist. He was
elected to office in his district
during the last state general
election.
R. A. Bullock, asistant clerk of
the court, said Saturday that
several criminal actions will be
taken up, among them, the case
of Paul Whisnaqt, charged with
robbery with firearms in the
Woodsdale community, and the
case against C. P. Hatcher, who
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September Welfare
Report Released
Old Age assistance was grant
ed to 272 Person county residents
during the month -of September,
according to the report of Mrs.
T. C. Wagstaff, head of the Per
son county Welfare department,
while general relief was furnish
ed to 23 persons and seven hos
pitalization cases were provided
for.
Aid to Blind was given to six
people and 187 dependent child
ren received help.
Total expenditures . tor the
month of September was $3,651.-
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HEALTH WORRER HERE
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Miss Mary Louise Hewitt, of
Greensboro and Chapel Hill,
was in Roxboro' gyring the
vfeek. Miss Hewitt, who has been
taking public health courses at
the University of North Carolina,
was here for a period of student
Observation in field work. She
left here Saturday to accept ' a
position in Concord, where she
will be supervisor with the Ca
barrus county health department
N. Y. A. Would Furnish
Labor and Local People
To Give Trees.
Allensville high school is try
ing to get a gumnasium and the
officials of that school have a
unique way of going about the
project.
The N. Y. A. has promised to
supply the labor, which will be
obtained from Roxboro and Al
ier.aville cimmunity, and the
Allensville community or school
is to supply the lumber.
-Principal Satterwhite decided
that he would a:!: the landown
ers of that community to give
trees and he in turn would see
to it that the trees would be cut
and sawed into the proper
lengths. Now, Mr. Satterwhite is
making his rounds asking each
landowner how many trees he
will give. So far he has been very
successful and in a short time he
should have all the trees that he
needs.
The gymnasium will be built
on the old foundation where one
was started but never completed
by thp C. W. A. It will be large
enough to take care of basket
ball and other indoor sports. It
is badly needed and will fill a
worthwhile need in the commun
ity.
Mr. Satterwhite figures that
the work will require nine
months or perhaps longer. If he |
gets it completed by the opening
of school next year he will pro
bably be satisfied.
Schoolmasters To
Meet Monday At
Hotel Roxboro
The Person County Schoolmas
ters club composed of all men
teachers and all principals ip the
county will meet Tuesday night
as the Hotel Roxboro at 6:30. At
the first meeting the county ath
letic organization program will
be discussed. The following com
mittee, which was selected last
year, Coach Francis Ferebee,
Principal Jerry Hester and Prin
cipal L. S. Cannon, will present
o tentative outline of the athletic
j organization program.
The Schoolmaster’s club pro
gram committee, composed <4
! Messers. Satterwhite, Gaddy, j
Garrison and L. S. Cannon, pre- ■
sident of club, has arranged a
yearly program.
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Rotary Club Hears
Address By Local
Citizen Thursday
With J. S. Walker, of the
Roxboro Rotary club’s internat
ional service committee, as
speaker, the members of the local
club held their regular dinner
meeting Thursday night at the
Hotel Roxboro. Dinner was ser
ved at 6:30.
T. Miller White, chairman of
the international service commit
tee, had charge of the program.
Mr. Walker, who spoke on “Im
proved Living Standards”, a to
pic having local, national and
international significance, declar
ed we are living in an age of
invention, but that the progress
of invention within the next
twenty-five years will probably
mean still greater increases in
our standards of living.
He urged his hearers to keep
themselves informed concerning
the scientific advances of the
times and said that Rotary as an
international club can and does
help create cmrr.cn bends of un
derstanding between leaders of
art and science and business
throughout the world.
ATTENTION
Mi-Own Beauty Shop will be
open on Wednesday afternoons
through the tobacco selling- sea-
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potato is dead. He lived a long time and served a very useful
life. Some people put his age at eleven years and he was active up
to toe last. In case you don’t know who Potato was, he was a dog
and was claimed by Charles Wood. Charlie took him to the hospital
at the last, Ijut there was nothing that could be done for Potato ex
cept make his last days easy. He died in Henderson and now Charles
only (i|3 one dog that he can use for hunting.
Jack fiowlgif sanitary officer, claims the ice cream eating champ
ionship of Roitboro. it's nothing unusual for Jack to make a gallon
of icf crgapi and eat five or six big helpipgs. It haj» gyifi begn said
thai when he and smother'fellow in ROxboro make a gallon, they
then Sfart }n eat the entire gallon. Jack gets mad if anyone
wa & iime 58 read y •ndjMtoiaUJwjijmmar. If
he can't eat it an at one time, he rests for a liffle ■While ami goes
back lo it in about an hour. Vanilla is his thVDrite tXSVOI. ...
Ed Hamjin, forpier city editor of this paper, is now working In
Burlington- He pats around at the cases and pays Wr his meals .one
by opjTlfor ji Wft»Ue his dad, who lives in MOjJer
stand why Ed came home every Saturday abop\ supper time
and Stayed through Sunday. As he watched ouf former city editor
eat, -the light gradually dawned upon hup, fid was fating an unus
ually large amount and seemed to be enjoying every blle of it. Now
Mr. Hamlin understands why his boy comes Koine about meal time.
Well, we have seen it—Joe B. Currin came out with the , Hat
overcoat of the year. Joe must have a new one bcause he Wa* cer
tainly parading it around Roxboro last week. Wohder if he has put
In his winter’s supply of coal?
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SUNDAY, OCT. 8, M 39
Person County Growers
Agree To Crop ~ Control
Roxboro Houses Being
Flooded With Tobacco
Tobacco Started Coming
Wednesday And Is Still On
The Road; Big Year Ex
pected.
With tobacco flooding Roxboro
from every section of the county
it looks as though this market is
off to an excellent start this
year. Two houses were about fill
ed by Friday night and the other
two were rapidly filling up. Rox
boro will probably have a half
million pounds on the warehouse
floors by Tuesday morning and
that is all that the warehouses
can take care of at one time.
Warehousemen predicted that
Roxboro will sell more tobacco
this year than it has sold in
years. It has been said that the
local market will probably han
dle eight million pounds during
the season.
The tobacco that was coming
in over the weekend appeared to
be of good quality and farmers
appeared to be fairly optimistic
concerning prices. Since “control”
was carried in a big way there
seems to be no' good reason why
the companies should not pay a
fair price.
Tuesday has been marked as a
big day for this city. Thousands
of farmers are expected here.
Many will have tobacco on the
floors and others will come to
see what it brings.
Merchants over the entire city
and county have stocked their
stores from wall to wall and
they anticipate an excellent fall
season even though it did get off
to a late start.
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Currin Enlists In
Regular Army
According to information re
ceived from Hubert H. Stephens,
Army Recruiting Agent, of Dur
ham, George Emmett Currin of
this city, has recently enlisted in
the Field Artillery of the Regul
ar Army through the Army Re
cruiting office in Durham.
Mr. Curin is the son of Mrs.
H. B. Currin, route 4, Roxboro.
He will be stationed in the
Panama Canal department.
President
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GLENN STOVALL
Mr. Stovall was named presi
dent of the Chamber of Commer
ce Friday afternoon following the
resignation of J. S. Merritt.
MERRITT RESIGNS
AS C OF C HEAD
Glenn Stovall Elected Pre
sident At Meeting Held Fri
day In Secretary’s Office.
J. S. Merritt, who has served
as the president of the Roxboro
Chamber of Commerce for the
past two months or more, resign
ed this office Friday afternoon
at the regular monthly meeting
of the directors of the organiza
tion. Merritt stated that his
health had not been so good late
ly and he thought it advisable
that he not undertake the work
of the Chamber of Commerce
for the remainder of the year.
Glenn StoVall, vice-president
of the organization, was elected
to fill the position of president
left vacant by Meritt’s resigna
tion. Stovall has been prominent
in civic affairs of this county for
some tune and is generally known
as a man of much ability.
At the Friday afternoon meet
ing the directors of the Chamber
of Commerce requested Secretary
Burke to keep in touch with the
American Legion and assist this
organization in staging an Arm
istice Day program in Roxboro
on Novemher 11.
Directors present at this meet
ing were J. A. Long, Jr., Glenn
Stovall, Howard Strang, J. D.
Mangum and J. S. Merritt.
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Benefit Sale Is
Now Being Held
Readers qt the Person County
Times tyaye fc§*n. requested to
*»°Jg Msry Ellen Dowd
Sj&Wl of Edgar
Long eMmorial Methodist church
is selling "§kidps’’ *s a bene
fit for tne Methodist Orphanage,
Rajlfcifb.
Cjps of this cleanser may be
from class- representa
tives, Mrs. Nat Thompson, Mrs.
Norman §tr?et |incj s4rs. Lula
Bowen, at 15 cepts. a. can, or
» .W*# er - tfTWeetiv*
purchasers are requested to place
w &»‘fte members of the
sales committee.
THE TIMES IS PERSONt
PREMIER NEWSPAPER.
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES . ..
Only 171 Os County Farm
ers Vote Against Crop-
Control.
On the basis of incomplete re
turns from the flue-cured area,
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration in Washington said
Friday that 89.8 percent of the
tobacco belt farmers over the na
tion casting ballots voted for the.
imposition of a 650,000,000-pound
marketing quita on the 1940 flue
cured crop.
In Person county the votes in.
each of the nine townships close
ly approximated the affirmative
percentage of ballots reported
from the tobacco growing belts
of the nation by the Agricul
tural Administration association
yesterday in Washington. Person
county totals favoring the crop
control referendum were 3,406,
while negative votes were only
171. These figures have been of
ficially counted and the certified
totals have been sent to Raleigh,
it was said yesterday by Agricul
tural Agent, H. K. Sanders.
Mr. Sanders also said that of
ficial records of the total vote
for and against the referendum
are on display on his office bul
letin board, together with a tabu
lation of townships.
The Person township tabula
tions for each township reveal an
almost unanimous support of the
crop-control plan by local grow
ers. In Woodsdale township no
votes were cast against the mea
sure, while only five voters were
negative in Olive Hill. Flat Ri
ver, with 36 votes against, and
232 for, had the largest num
ber of negative votes. Mt. Tir
rah, with 33 against, and 352 in
favor, was next in negative votes.
The remaining townships, Al
lensville, Bushy Fork, Cunning
ham, Holloway and Roxboro had
scattering negative votes, with a.
heavy predominance of accept
ance balloting. Slight difference*
in township totals and county to
tals were accounted for by mail
ed in and challenged ballots be
ing added to the county totals
without being ascribed to town
ship listings.
In Washington the country
wide acceptance of the referen
dum plan for 1940 was hailed by
J. B. Hutson, assistant AAA ad
ministrator, as enabling the gov
ernment to take steps to relieve'
the hardships caused by surplus
production, coupled with the
withdrawal of British buyer*
from the market.
Business Census .
Will Begin Here
First Os Year
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Secretary of the Roxboro
Chamber qf Commerce, Melvin
H - announced yesterday
that he bad received wped from
2“ °* S? P&m *»
Washmgtqp UWargin* tie Cen
sus of Business and the Censua
of Manufacturers which will be
taken in Aokbbro beginning Jan
uary L 1940. v
Ti « sumy of business and
manufacturing concern* of Rox
boro will be part of the most com
plete nation-wide survey of A
mermw business that has ever
bean.***!..Mr. Burke said, lfcb
Rational survey will embrace ap
proximately 700,000 tttiileS;
18Q.9M wholesalers; 750,000 see
vice businesses; 50,000 hoteb and
tourist campe; 50,«0e places m
amusement;
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