IP IT 18 NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XI PUBLISHED El ERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY „ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1939 NUMBER NINETEEN
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DR. JAMES M. SMITH
RECEIVES MORE SENTENCES
Baton Rouge, La. Dr. James
M. Smith, who received an added
8-24 years in prison sentence in
his effort to clear from the books
a mass of criminal charges aris
ing from his stewardship as presi
dent of Louisiana State univer
sity attempted to commit suicide
in his cell two days after the add
ed sentences were imposed.
He pleaded guilty to four state
charges of forgery involving
misuse of university funds while
he guided it for nine years
through a $13,000,000 expansion
program inspired by the late
Huey P. Long. In return for this
admission, the remaining 23 char
ges against him here were drop
ped.
NAZI WARSHIPS NOT TO
BOTHER “CITY OF FLINT”
Washington The German
government ordered German war
ships not to interfere with the
City of Flint on its way back to
the United States.
Alexander C. Kirk, American
./charge d’affairs in Berlin, was
by the reich foreign of-
the German naval com
; .pnand, in yiew of its understand
fc-Apg that vie cargo of the Ameri
*can freightiT had been landed at
i, Bergen, N rway, has ordered all
German craft to refrain from tak
•-ing any action against the vessel.
An official of the state depart
ment here said the German order
was* a voluntary one and did not
■result from any request by this
government.
However, it was recalled that
the United States formally re
quested both Germany and Great
■ Britain, while the City of Flint
Sfwas still in command of the Ger
p-man prize crew, to take all neces
| sary measures to avoid injury to
li the American crew.
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SPURNS
pOFFERS OF HELP
§f| Washington Many persons
n|‘6Hered help to Sculptress
®|jiide Johnson—who started to
fipestroy her best works when
flpfcced with evication from her
PKtudio home but the question
fyas whether she would accept.
KThe elderly but spirited Mrs.
v JJfohnson turned down the first
i bffer of financial aid—a SI,OOO
-|jprtifi"i check left with the A
'jjjjherican Red Cross in New York
s3by an unidentified nurse.
welfare and need,”
|pErs. Johnson said, her eyes flash*
? fbg, “are words that are not in
gjnry vocabulary.”
ffiiCAY” KYSER COMES
SpOME FOR A NIGHT
K Rocky Mount Mrs. Kyser’s
Hfijfc Kay, returned to Rocky
flMiant last week to receive one of
B||jnost tumultous receptions ev.
Plfjaccorded a Garolinian. Over
[jfcWHl of his townspeople welcom-
Hjpthe orchestra leader who re-
Hgbed to attend the world pre-
Hiiiere of his first starring motion
“ That ’ s HiEht. You’re
■w||fcfter the first riotous recep.
which had all the character-
Iglites of a Hollywood production
PjHE news reel cameramen and
||l|p» hook-up, the party toured
kSHrco Town and then rested
I||Al the afternoon and evening
At 4 o’clock a huge
featuring the University
jjftfc ferth Carolina, Wake Forest
BhEK bands wound through
Jfrrsonjpi m e$
Germany’s Guns Face West Towards ‘No Man’s Land’
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Camouflaged with clumps of grass and branches of trees, this mighty piece of German artillery faces west
as a gun crew watches activity on the other side of “no man’s land,” somewhere in Germany. This pic
ture is one of the first made on the Nazi side of the western front.
Carver Has Office
In Council Os
Social Agencies
Members of the executive com
mittee of the Person County
Council of Social agencies in a
meeting held at the Welfare of
fice Friday afternoon, elected F.
O. Carver, Jr., as vice-president
to succeed Miss Lake Allen, who
has given up that office in order
to assume the presidency.
Miss Allen takes the post left
vacant by the removal of the for
mer president, Rev. M. W. Law
rence, Methodist minister and
popular resident here, who has
established residence in Raleigh,
where he will be pastor of Per
son Street church.
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CLUB SCHEDULE *
Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2:00 p. m.,
Hurdle Mills club in the home of
Mrs. C. B. Davis.
Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2;00 p.
m., Bethel Hill club in the home
of Mrs. W. R. Day.
Thursday, Nov. 23, 10:00 a. m.:
All adults, whether parents of 4-
IJ club members or not, are invit
ed to attend the Achievement
Day for 4-H club members, Rox
boro High school auditorium.
Roxboro Market Passes
Figures For Last Year
Last Week’s Average Was
Eighteen Cents For Each
Pound Sold Here.
Roxboro’s tobacco market sold
478,832 pounds of ’tobacco last
week for the amount of $85,267.62
giving an oficial average of 18
cents for the week’s sale.
Last week’s selling pushed the
total sold on the Roxboro mar
ket to 3,791, 322 pounds. This is
more than was sold here during
the entire season of ’3B-’39. The
total for that season being 3,545,-
000 pounds.
It appears probable that Rox
boro will sell over six million
pounds of tobacco this year. Sales
are expected to be heavy from
new until Thanksgiving and
should be fair until Christmas.
The closing date for the market
has not yet been announced.
No one knows how much to
bacco remains in the county, but
it has been suggested that not
over half the crop has been sold.
<*Heavy sales are expected Mon
day and the average is figured to
hold up well.
A number of piles are bringing
from thirty to forty-five cents on
this market and individual aver
ages often run over forty.
Governor’s Thanksgiving To
Be The North Carolina Rule
SUPERVISOR TO
BE AT OFFICE
ON WEDNESDAY
Mrs. Goldie Roberts, Dis
trict WPA Supervisor Will
Visit City.
On Wednesday of this week
Mrs. Goldie Roberts, of Durham,
Area Supervisor for WPA, will
will be in Roxboro for a series
of conferences and inspections of
WPA work in Person county. Mrs.
Roberts, who will be at the Rural
Center Sewing room, has stated
that she will be pleased to meet
all people who wish to consult
with her.
Although her visit is one on a
regular schedule, it is possible
that Mrs. Roberts may wish to
confer with interested citizens
who have recently raised the
issue of WPA certification in the
county. In a report filed by the
local WPA office it has been
shown that there are now ap
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Roll Call Fund
Grows Gradually
Approximately $250 has been
contributed during the past week
to the Red Cross Roll Call now
being conducted in Roxboro and
Person county, according to in
formation received Saturday
morning from Gordon C. Hunter,
chairman of the local chapter.
This means 'an addition of a
bout $75 to the Roll Call fund
since Thursday, when the last re- ,
port was filed. Mr. Hunter said
that many county units including
the 4-H clubs have not completed
reports, although it is expected
more or less complete tabula
tions will be available by the end
of this week. The Roll Call, start
ed on Armistice Day, will close
by November 30th.
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Today’s college-age Americans
average two inches taller and
weigh about seven pounds more 1
than did their parents and grand
parents at the same time of life,
studies tend to show.
Rcxboro, Too, Will Obser
ved November 30 th As
Turkey Day.
Ladies and gentlemen, here it
is: in yesterday’s mail came
Governor Clyde R. Hoey’s official
and history-keeping “Proclam
ation” that Thanksgiving Day in
North Carolina will be observed
“on the traditional last Thursday
of the month, November 30, 1939.”
In Virginia and a number of
other states, as generally known,
the official turkey day will be
celebrated one week earlier,
November 23, in line with the
moved up national proclamation
issued by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, who made this change,
as he said, in an efort to help
merchants by giving them an ad
ditional pre-Christmas trade
business week.
Governor Hoey and a number
of other governors, have stuck to
the calendar date hallowed by
custom since the days of Wash
ington and Lincoln, and thus, for
the first time since Lincoln’s ad
ministration two Thanksgiving
days will be observed in the na
tion, the choice depending on
which school of thought will be
followed by respective governors
of the states.
As far as can be determined,
Thanksgiving Day will be offi
cially celebrated in Roxboro on
the day proclaimed by Governor
Hoey. A majority of the stores
and places of business will be
closed as a general holiday is to
be observed.
Roxboro and Person residents
apparently have few plans for
the occasion other than to take
a day of rest. Very few special
events have been scheduled and
the majority of the citizens will
spend the day at home, and as us
ual, turkey or chicken will be the
main dish on the table at dinner
time, with a number of side dish
es to tempt the appetite.
The complete text of Governor
Hoey’s message, interesting be
cause of the national “mix-up”, is
as follows:
“One hundred and fifty years
ago George Washington, the first
president of the United States,
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CORRECTION NOTED
Due to a mistake in the “Times”
advertising department certain
errors occurred in prices quoted
for the D. Pender company in
Thursday’s issue of the paper. It
is that this occurred
and a correct copy of the adver
tisement is being printed today.
Roxboro District
Schools To Hold
Open House Day
Open House day will be ob
served in Roxboro schools on
Tuesday, November 21, accord
ing to announcement made yes
terday by H. C. Gaddy, supervis
ing principal of the city school
system.
All the schools in the Roxboro
district: Ca-Vel, Longhurst, East
Roxboro, Central Elementary and
the High school will observe
the day. It is hoped that the par
ents, relatives, and friends of the
schools will make a special effort
to visit the schools on that date.
No special effort will be made
to put on a show, or to change
the schools program of work for
this occasion. The schools will be
scheduled as usual,, and all clas
ses will be held as usual. The pur
pose of Open House day is to ac
quaint the general public and the
friends of the school with the
program of work that the schools
have set up for the children.
It is believed that as the pub
lic is informed about its schools
it will cooperate even more ful
ly and completely than in the
past. Every visitor to the schools
on November 21 is urged to spend
some time visiting the class rooms
and all parts of the school plant
in order to see what is being done
in the way of providing educa
tional opportunities for all the
children.
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To Deliver His
Parting Sermon
Rev. Jesse H. Lanning, who re
ceived an appointment to the
Methodist church at Hamlet last
week at the North Carolina Con
ference of the Methodist church
held at Fayetteville, will preach
his final sermon this morning at
Edgar Long Memorial church,
which he has served as pastor
for the past two years.
He and Mrs. Lanning will leave
in a few days to take up resid
ence in Hamlet. The service Sun
day morning will begin at 11 o’-
clock and there will be no even
ing service, although the regular
young people’s meeting will be
held at 6:45.
Rev. W. C. Martin, new min
ister for the church is expected
to arrive Wednesday from Fay
etteville.
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Two billion dollars nearly
half of which was in Federal
grants has been spent on con
struction of U. S. schoolhouses
since 1933.
Along The Way
With the Editor
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Fred Masten made a rather lengthy speech at the Rotary Club
last Thursday. At least it was long for Fred. Me said: ‘‘Gentlemen,
I present Mr. Gaddy.” ;
Doßan Long was standing on the street the other day. He was
drinking a Coca-Cola. A friend walked up and Dolian asked him to
have a drink. When the friend accepted Mr. Long pointed to the
drug store and told him to go get one. What would you call that?
Marquis Lawrence is leaving Roxboro. He is going to Raleigh
and preach to the people there. Just how long the bishop will let
him stay in Raleigh, no one knows. The peculiar thing about his
leaving here is that the bishop sent one of Lawrence’s friends here
to lake his place. Preacher Overton was his class-mate at Duke.
Maybe the bishop thought Overton could cover up Lawrence’s mis
takes better than anyone else.
Anyway, this column wishes M. W. Lawrence the very best of
luck. He did a nice job in Person county.
Garrett Stanfield, son of Lewis, saw the Duke-Carolina football
game yesterday. Garrett lives in Greenville and makes out like he is
doing fine. But the funny thing about the game is that Gene Thomp
son had to send him a free ticket before he could get in. Anyway
Garrett saw the game and our guess is that he bummed a ride to
Durham with some friends from Greenville.
S. F. Nicks, Jr., Mayor of Roxboro, is now a member of a bridge
club. Now whether that makes the mayor a sissy or not, we do not
care to say. Jack Fowler, sanitary officer is a member of the same
club.
WPA Report Shows
Forty-Two Enrolled
Red Cross Worker
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Helen Keller, famous blind schol
ar and lecturer, has her new Red
Cross bonnet adjusted by nine-year
old Betty Lou Morris. Miss Keller
added to her other activities by join
ing the organization at the roil call
workers’ rally held in Philadelphia.
HEAD OF DUKE
ENDOWMENT PAYS
HOSPITAL VISIT
Dr. W. S. Rankin Here To
Inspect Community Hospi
tal; Finds It In Good Shape
Here for an inspection of Com
munity hospital, Dr. W. S. Ran
kin ,of Charlotte, who is head of
the hospital division of the Duke
endowment, reported Friday
morning that he was favorably
impressed with the facilities of
fered by the local hospital and
that he was pleased with the
methods of its operation.
Dr. Rankin, who was invited to
come to Roxboro in order to in
vestigate possibilities of financial
assistance from the Duke endow
ment for the Community hospital,
conferred with Nathan Lunsford,
prominent attorney, who is chair
man of the hospital’s board of di
rectors, and with a number of
representative citizens and phy
sicians and surgeons Friday
morning in Mr. Lunsford’s office.
Mr. Lunsford said Saturday
morning that he is of the opin
ion that Duke endowment aid
may be secured for the hospital,
provided local citizens will do
their part in cooperating with the
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THE TIMES IS
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!
A LEADER AT ALL TIMEU '
Figures For Past Three
Months Also Indicate That
39 Person Citizens Have
Been Referred For Certifi
cation.
From August Ist. th. ough No
vember 17th. 48 Person county
citizens have made application at
the local Welfare and WPA of
fice for certification as workers
on Person WPA projects, accord
ing to information received from
the local WPA headquarters
Saturday morning. Os these 48
applicants 39 have been referred
for acceptance and only nine out
of the 48 have been rejected.
In this connection, referring to
statements made in the press that
only 15 or 20 WPA laborers are
now engaged in Person county
projects, Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, di
rector of the Person county De
partment of Public Welfare and
Administrator of WPA here, said
that in reality there are appro
ximately 42 WPA workers now
engaged in county projects. Os
this number it is estimated that
17 are women working in the
sewing room and that about 10
persons are connected with the
i library part of the WPA program.
Mrs. Wagstaff, who declined to
make further comment on the
criticism of WPA labor certifi
cation made here Tuesday night
at a joint meeting of the Rox
boro city council and the Person
County Board of Commissioners,
did go into an analysis of the rea
sons why nine rejections have
been made since last AugUStr- 2 -**^
According to her report, of the
nine persons unable to obtain
certification for WPA employ
ment, one was rejected because
her husband, a farmer, is receiv
ing assistance from the Federal
Farm Security board. Although
this was true, the applicant’s
daughter has been given NYA
work. Four of the applicants re
jected were men who had served
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“Youth” Is Topic
Os Address At
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Rotary Meeting
Speaking on the topic of
“Youth”, H. C. Gaddy, supervis
ing principal of the Roxboro Pub
lic schools, addressed the mem
bers of the local Rotary club at
their meeting at the Community
house Thursday night. Mr. Gad
dy’s informative discussion foL
lowed a dinner served at 6:30 o’-
clock by women of the Brooks
dale Methodist church.
“Youth that is well bred, well
fed, well lead, wel-read an/4
well wed/’ Mr. Gaddy declared,
“will have all of the advantages
most of us want for our young
people”. He added further, that
the best parents, in the best com
munities, want the best things
in life for their children and these
parents, in his opinion, set an ex
ample for other parents to fol
low.
Mr. Gaddy, who explained that
he did not pretend to know all
that he should know about
“Youth”, presented an interesting
exposition on the subject.
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ATTEND CONVENTION
Rev. W. F. West, pastor of the
Roxboro First Baptist church, and
Mrs. West will leave Monday to
attend the State Baptist conven
tion being held in Winston-Salem.
The convention opens Tuesday
and will continue through ’nunt
ejay. Mr. and Mrs. West will net \
retum until Thursday. ,