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VOLUME XI
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itoiANIA MAT BE NEXT
AT RUSSIAN WAR-BANQUET
Moscow The Balkans, parti
cularly Rumania, and the near
east appeared to be the next goal
of expanding Russian ambitions
as soviet soldiers struggled ag
ainst determined Finland in semi-
Polar conditions.
An article in “Communist In
> temational”, organ of the inter
national communist organization,
urged Rumania to sign a mutual
assistance pact with Russia simi
lar to those signed by Estonia,
Latvia and Lithuania. Russia
gained military bases in those
states.
(Official Rumanian quarters in
Bucharest exhibited scant inter
est in the mutual assistance pact
suggestion.)
‘'Communist International” also
carried articles denouncing Tur
key, denounced the “imperialis
tic” British and French rule in
India and Syria.
REPUBLICANS WORRY OVER
F. D. R.’s THIRD TERM
Washington Republicans ar
v riving here for,the meeting of the
executive committee of the Re
publican national committee re
gister a degree of interest sec
ond only to that felt by the De
mocrats in the attitude of Presi
dent Roosevelt relative to a third
term.
It is readily apparent that the
recent Warm Springs suggestions
of a late national convention next
year, in the interest of “econ
omy”, together with the sugges
tion of Senator Norris that the
President defer a third term de
cision for a number of months,
has occasioned no little distress in
Republican national committee
circles, for Chairman Hamilton
and his strategy board had hoped
the Democarts would meet first
next year.
PATROL TO ENFORCE
LIGHT DIMMING LAW
Raleigh State highway pat
_ rolmen have been instructed to
enforce strictly a law requiring
motorists to dim their lights in
passing other cars, according to
R. S. Harris, of Durham, district
commander.
But, he added, the patrolmen
will have a hard time enforcing
the law, because they must turn
and give chase after meeting mo
torists who do not dim their t
lights.
Harris explained that a number
of recent accidents have been
blamed on bright lights. -
HITLER HAS DIRECT
REPORT FROM ITALY
Berlin German ambassador
Hans-Georg von MacKensen’s trip
' from Rome for his father’s 90th.
birthday anniversary today gave
Adolf Hitler a chance to hear the
latest views of Premier Musso- ;
lini on the war. ‘
Hitler personally visited Field i
Marshal August von MacKensen ■
at his hereditary farm in Pom- j
meraqia to congratulate him on ,
his birthday while the entire Ger- ’
man press paid tribute to the ag- i
ed calvary leader. i
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The younger von MacKensen
arrived from his Rome post last <
weak to participate in the cele- <
y ifn
JersonlMinies
EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY
TOBACCO SALES
HERE SURPASS
PREVIOUSYEAR
353,870 Pounds Sold Last
Week, Bringing Season To
tal To 5,128,026 To Date.
Tobacco sales in Roxboro total
ed only 353,870 pounds for last
week, but the total amount sold
for the season went to 5,128,026.
r This represents about one mil
-1 lion and six hundred thousand
8 pounds more than was sold dur
‘ ing last season.
Many tobacconists estimate that
the local market will sell seven
* million pounds this year. If so,
■ that will be more tobacco than
* has bee nsold in Roxboro within
1 one season for many years.
About 75 or 80 percent of this
> year’s crop has been sold.
1 The market will close Decem
-1 her 15 for the Christmas holidays
and will re-open in January,
l Fairly heavy sales are expected
- in Roxboro this week. Since far
t mers generally sell all that they
can get ready before the holidays
) begin, this week should be very
- good.
Last week’s sales did not find
i much good tobacco on the Rox
boro market. The quality of the
weed dropped and naturally pric
es were in line with quality.
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Accomplishments
* During November
Shown In Report
According to the November re
port filed by Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff,
Person County Superintendent of
, Public Welfare, $51.70 was spent
! during the past month for dir
ect relief, and of this amount sl7
was expended for the benefit of
five cases involving 14 persons,
while the remainder, $34.70, was
utilized for the benefit of 12 non
family persons.
The sum allotted to hospitaliza
tion reached $130.80, with $25 be
ing spent for “other financial as
sistance”. In the month 272 Old
Age Aid cases received propor
tionate parts from $2,500, while
$930 was used for 185 children in
75 families. In November three
additional children were added
to the Aid to Dependent Child
ren’s roll and one client was add
ed to this division, but one death
in the group brought the total
number added to one.
The total amount spent by the
Person Welfare department dur
ing November reached $3,727.50,
as against $3,649.46, which was
spent in October. This means* that
the additional sum of $78.04 was
required in November, but this
increase is not regarded as unus
ual, since seasonal demands should
normally necessitate greater ex
penditure.
In commenting on the compara
tive reports Mrs. Wagstaff obser
ved that on the basis of allotted
funds the department has been l
unable to render as much service
as it deserved to those citizens .
needing direct relief. ,
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NO QUOTAS YET
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COC enrollment quotas may not ,
be available until next week or >
later Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, Person
County«lWelfare and WPA ad- j
mmistrator said yesterday. Boys ;
who are to be selected will not ,
go to camp before the first of ;
January end it is posible, Mrs.
Wagstaff said, that the quota to
go at that time will be based on
sixty percent of the October quota.
In October 10 young men went
to the camp. This may mean that ,
the new quota will be reduced to j
six. ■
Scout Good Turn
Carrying books to shut-ins and those remote from libraries is a practical
Scout Good Turn encouraged by Dr. James E. West (inset). Chief Scout
Executive of the Boy Scouts of America and Editor of Boys’ Life, whose
conviction that the greatest single influence over the mind of man is still
the printed word is based on the stimulation and inspiration derived from
reading habits started during boyhood in a Washington, D. C., orphanage.
Holiday Program
To Be Given By
Helena P. T. A.
The Helena Parent Teachers as
sociation will meet Thursday ev
ening, December 14, at 7:30 in the
school auditorium, according to
announcement made yesterday.
The annual Christmas program
sponsored by the Public School
Music department under the dir
ection of Miss Mary Elizabeth
Sanders, public school music
teacher, will be presented at this
meeting.
A Christmas operetta in two
scenes will be staged. The first
secen will show the origin of
many Yuletide customs, the use
of holly, miseltoe, the Christmas
tree, and other customs. The sec
ond scene will show the “Nati
vity".
The following characters will
take part in the program:
Mother, Inez Rogers; Father,
James Aiken; Children, Effret
Clayton, Sylvia Mooney and Ann
Rogers; Mary, the mother of Je
sus, Gracie Russell; The Three
Kings, Thomas Clayton, Wilton
Hicks, Elbert Jones; The Shep
herds, Carlysle Clayton, Donald
Lunsf.orc|, Thomas Pickard; A
group of children from Bethle
hem, Carolyn Pickard, Rayme
Blalock, Janie Sue Blalock, Ruth
Hudgins, Claire Noell, Rachel
Lunsford; Attendants for the
Three Kings, Julius Woody, Pau
line Dickie, Philip Jones, Harold
Thomas Brooks, Lawrence Bar
ton, Reid Wilkerson; A group of
carollers, Seventh grade; Cath
edral Choir, Sixth grade; Angel
Choir, Fifth grade; Yulelog car
rierboys, Walter Blalock, Thomas
Tilley and Hugh Blalock.
The singing will be accom
panied by piano music furnished
by Miss Sanders and by violin
music, by Miss Billie Street, of
Roxboro.
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MR. AUSTIN ILL
T. E. Austin, prominent busi
ness man of this city,.has been
ill for several days at his South
Main street residence.
C. E. Spencer To
Address Teachers
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C. E. Spencer, of Raleigh, in
charge of the Physical Education
Division of the State Department
of Education, will be chief speak
er at the December meeting of
the Person County Schoolmasters
club, which will be held in this
city at the Hotel Roxboro, Tues
day evening, December 12, at
6:30 o’clock, according to an
nouncement made Friday by L.
S. Cannon, of Bethel Hill, presi
dent of the club.
It is expected that Mr. Spen
cer will discuss various phases of
physical education work in the
public schools. All members of
the club are urged to be present
Tuesday night.
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Construction Os
Privies Is Resumed
Following a suspension period i
of several weeks, WPA construc
tion of privies in Person County
has been resumed, according to a
statement from County Sanitar
ian, T. Fowler, who said, also,
that privies will be built for any
citizen who will furnish needed
materials of construction, since
WPA funds pay only for actual
construction and for labor in
volved.
Mr. Fowler reported that since
the privy project was first begun
in the county more than 500 pro
perly built and installed privies
have been placed. Work on priv
ies is now being handled at the
Person County Fair association
grounds, rather than in the lo
cal lumber yards of the city.
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WILL MEET MONDAY
The Woman’s Missionary so
ciety of the First Baptist church,
Roxboro, will meet Monday af
ternoon at 3 o’clock, at the church,
and Circle No. 5 will meet at
the residence of Mrs. E. D. Rowe
at 7:45 Monday night. Circle Na
6 will have its December meeting
Tuesday evening at 7:45 at the
home of Mm. Berdice Lunsford,
Reams avenue.
STATE CONGRESS
OF P. T. A. PLANS
SAFETY MIRVEY
Family Accidents Being In
vestigated In Order To De
termine Safety Program.
Raleigh, Dec. 9 The North
Carolina Congress of Parents and
teachers is now cooperating in a
nation-wide Family Accident sur
vey conducted by the Traffic Sa
fety Project of the National Con
gress of Parents and teachers in
an effort to determine the direct
responsibility of the Parent-
Teacher safety program toward
the whole accident situation.
One hundred and twenty-five
report blanks have been distri
buted to as many North Carolina
families by Mrs. D. D. Hocutt of
Henderson, state safety chairman
of the Ncrth Carolina Congress
of Parents and Teachers, through
the ten district directors. These
participating families scattered
throughout the State will assist
by keeping a week by week re
cord of all types of accidents oc
curring in the family. For a per
iod of three months, November 1,
1939, to January 31, 1940, every
accident must be recorded wheth
er it be Father’s fingre chopped
along with the fire wood, Moth
er’s arm burned on the oven door,
or baby sister run over by an
automobile.
Statistics will be compiled and
made available to the public at
the end of the study by the Nat
ional Committee on Safety of
which Miss Marian Telford is
chairman. Five thousand fami
lies are expected to participate in
the Survey which was planned at
regional conferences during the
past summer, attended by repre
sentatives of forty-six state
branches of the National Parent-
Teacher Congress.
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Banks Cash Faces
Trial Next Week
Banks Cash, of Mt. Tirzah town
ship, will face trial in Person
County court, before Judge W. I.
Newton, Tuesday morning on a
charge of possession of whiskey
for sale, following his arrest by
Sheriff M. T. Clayton early last
week. Cash is now at liberty un
der a SIOO bond.
Sheriff Clayton arrested Cash
at his home after he had discov
ered 26 gallons of whiskey on the
premises. The whiskey was stor
ed in various places, some of it
being buried in the yard of the
house.
Along The Way
With the Editor
December 10, 1939
North Pole, U. S. A.
Dear Santa Claus,
Since writing to you last week, we have been reminded
that there are many others in this section who would like to
be remembered at Christmas time and so we pen this second
letter to you directed to the North Pole, U. S. A.
Just happened to see Frank Whitfield on the street and
then began to wonder what Frank wanted or needed. Since he
has plenty of money, there is little that you could bring him
in the way of ties, clothes, etc., so you might bring him the in
spiration to play golf. He would look good on a golf course and
they say that all politicians should play golf. That would mean
that Frank could get out and have a round with Commission
ers Cash and Thomas
Bring Lester (Joe Billy) Clayton a place to invest his mo
ney. They say that he is doing so well that he has bought a roll
top deck for his service station and that he now rears back
like a big executive. At least that’s what Dick Woody says and
Dick should know because he cnarges things over there.
And now there’s K. L. Street. You might think that he
needed a new car. It is true that his present car has been about
100,000 miles, but that doesn't mean a thing. He doesn’t want
a new car. All he wants is another quart of oil for the one he
ha&
Bring Jack Fowler, sanitary officer, a stocking to hang in
front of the fire on Christmas night. It is understood that he
has bought a lot and that he is going to build a house. If that
is true we do not see how he will have enough money left to
buy a stocking for the “Night Before Christmas.”
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1939
Rotary Hears Two
Members Discuss
Ideas Os Service
With Glenn Stovall and Dr.
J. D. Fitzgerald, two fellow mem
bers, as speakers, the Roxboro Ro
tary club at a dinner meeting
held Thursday night at the Hotel
Roxboro, heard addresses on
“Community Service”. Both
speakers mentioned definitions of
such service and emphasized the
part played in community pro
gress by Rotary International. D.
S. Brooks was in charge of the
program.
Prior to the presentation of the
program announcement was made
that Ed Harding, of Washington,
D. C., a humorist of state-wide
reputation, has been secured as
guest speaker for the annual Ro
tary Club “Ladies Night” to be
staged next Thursday, December
14, at the Hotel Roxboro. General
Chairman of the program for
that night will be Gene Thomp
son.
Mr. Thompson said today that
all husbands in the clubs have
invited their wives and that sin
gle men will be expected to in
vite ladies of their choice to be
present. An informal but enjoy
able schedule of events has been
planned and it is expected that
there will be a full attendance.
Dinner will be served at 7 o’-
clock.
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Schools To Close
Soon For Holidays
With the ending of classes on
Friday of this week all public
schools in the city system will
close for Christmas holidays and
will remain closed for a period of
two weeks, until Monday, Jan
uary 1, 1940, according to an
nouncement from Superintend
ent of Person county schools, R.
B. Griffin. Schools closing Dec
ember 15, include: Roxboro high
school, Central Grammar school,
and schools at Ca-Vel, Longhurst,
and East Roxboro.
Other schools in the county,
both white and Negro, will close
four days later, on December 19,
but will re-open on the same date,
January 1. Counting time out so
Christmas vacations, four months
of school will have been complet
ed by January 10, and mid-term
examinations will be scheduled
during the latter part of the
month.
THE TIMES IS PERSON 1
PREMIER NEWSPAPER!'
A LEADER AT ALL TIMER
NUMBER TWENTY
EARLY MAILING ,
REQUESTED BY
POSTMASTER }
Mailing Season Shorter By
A Day This Year And Pub
lic Cooperation Will Bo
Needed.
Early Christmas mailing of
both packages and cards is be
ing requested of local citizens by
L. M. Carlton, Roxboro postmas
ter. In a statement issued yester
day Mr. Carlton said that early
mailing is especially necessary
this year since Christmas day
comes on Monday and postal ser
vice, with the exception of box
delivery and special delivery will
be one day shorter than usual.
“During the holiday time,” said
Mr. Carlton, “the volume of mail
increases approximately 200 per
cent and it is a physical impossi
bility to handle ths great mass of
mail matter efficiently and
promptly within a few days.
“To assure delivery of Christ
mas, according to the distance,
by Christmas day, the public
should shop and mail early. Pack
ages should be mailed at least a
week or ten days before Christ
mas, according to the distance,
This will not only make it cer
tain that holiday mail is received
before Chrstmas, but will be a
great aid to postal service and to
postal employees and enable them
to spend the Christmas holiday
with their families.”
Mr. Carlton also called atten
tion to the fact that care must ba
exercised in packing, wrapping
and tying articles and package®
to be mailed. Fragile and perish
able goods should be marked as
such and addresses should be
plainly written, printed or typed,
with the sender’s return name and
address in the upper left hand
corner. Valuable mail, of
should be insured or sent by regis
tered mail.
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Jack Redman Is
Free Under Bond r
\
Jack Redman, who has been in
jail, pending the outcome of in
juries sustained about two week®
ago by Ward Alkins in what wa®
said to have been an accidental
shooting incident, was released
from jail Thursday, under a slo*
bond posted by his bondsman^
J. R. Moore, following informa
tion from the Community hospi
tal .where Alkins is a patient, to
the effect that the wounded man
is apparently out of danger and
will probably recover.
Alkins was struck in the abdo
men by a bullet said to have been
discharged from a pistol beflag
handled by Redman. The shoot
ing occurred at the home of Dee
Alkins, father of Ward Alkins, in
Person county. Until Redman’s
release was effected he was held
in the county jail without privi
lege of bond.
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Salvation Army
To Seek Funds
Coin boxes for contributions to
the Salvation Army Christmas
Cheer fund have been received
in the city from the Post head
quarters in Durham and have
been placed in public buildings
and other stragetic points.
Although the Salvation Army *
does not maintain an active Post
in Roxboro, officials from Dur
ham visit the city once each week
and during the holidays consider
able “Christmas Cheer” aid Is
given to poorer people here. Laet
year a number of generously fill
ed baskets were distributed fca
the city. ■- •■tidal