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VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY THURSDAY, Dec. 14 ,1939 NUMBER TWENTY
TwoMen Charged With Theft
Will Go Before Higher Court
Eskridge And Poole, Neg
roes, Are Bound Over To
Superior Court.
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' In person county court before
Judge W. I. Newton Tuesday af
ternoon two Negroes, Ewell Esk
ridge and Lewis Poole, charged
with breaking, entering and lar
ceny as the result of robbery of
firearms from Hall Hardware
company here, were bound over
to Superior court and will face
trial at the January 1940 term.
Probable cause was found against
them and bonds were fixed at
SBOO each. Both men, unable to
give bond, are still in jail.
Also to be tried at the January
term of Superior court will be
the case of Cheatham Hamlett,
Negro, charged with man-slaugh
ter as the result of the death
Saturday night of Percy Hamlett,
whose neck was broken in the
turning over of an automobile
driven by Cheatham Hamlett.
Cheatham Hamlett entered a
plea of not guilty in Tuesday’s
county court before Judge New
ton, who found probable cause
and fixed his bond at S2OO. Bond
was given by Charles Clayton,
white man for whom Mamlett
works and the Negro was releas
ed from jail, pending trial in
higher court
Alex Winstead, the Person Ne
gro who drank too much Thanks
giving spirits and went to his
step-father’s house with a shot
gun, had his case settled in ooun.
ty court by payments of three
fines, of $5 and the costs in each
instance. He was charged with
assault with a deadly weapon on
two counts, to one of which he
pleaded not guilty, and on aj
charge of illegal possession of
whiskey.
The case against Jack Redman,
young white man, charged with
assault with a deadly weapon,!
was continued to the next term
of county court because Ward Al
kins, the young man said to have
been shot by Redman, is as. yet
unable to leave the hospital.
Archie Wilborn, white man,
charged with drunken driving
and careless and reckless driving,
was required to pay a fine of $25 J
and the costs because of a wreck
in which his car was involved
Sunday night on the Olive Hill
road.
Banks Cash, charged with pos
session for sale, case was contin
ued to the next term of court.
Albert Paykr, Negro, charged
with asault with a deadly wea- |
pon, received a sentence of four
months in the county jail, to be
assigned to work on the county
roads, had sentence suspended on
condition that he pay $45 and the
costs, for damages to the building;
owned by Mrs. C. C. Critcher.
In all 24 cases were tried in J
court and sessions were held
both in the morning and in the
afternoon.
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CALL MEETING
There will be a call meeting of
the Roxboro Chamber of Com
merce Friday, December 15, at
7:30 p. m. Members are urgent
ly requested to be present as
there are some important matters
to be discussed, according to am
rvouncement by Melvin H. Burke,
secretary.
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ATTENDS MEETING
J. Lester Clayton of this city,
attended, a meeting of the Esso
dealer* in Greensboro Tuesday
tW* meeting the two
.»ew kinds of Esso gas that go on
yfoAMlit todfty were discussed
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Jerson|Mimts
Red Cross Roll
Call Figures Are
Given By Chairman
Final reports, to date, on the
Red Cross Roll Call conducted
here and in Person county during
the past month, indicate that a
total of $483.36 has been contri
buted, This sum is the largest
yet raised in any one year for the
cause in this area, according to
local Red Cross officials, who add
ed that this figure may be in
creased slightly when a few scat
tered reports from? schools are
turned in.
In commenting on the success
ful termination of the Roll Call,
Gordon C. Hunter, chairman of
the local Red Cross organization,
said that persons desiring to do
so may make contributions to the
Red Cross Finnish Relief fund.
All such contributions are sent at
.once to Washington and will be
used exclusively for relief work
in Finland.
No special campaign is being
canduoted here Ifor this relief
fund but Mr. Hunter said he will
be pleased to receive and dispatch
any and all contributions.
According to Mr. Hunter, local
work in the Red Cross chapter is
going ahead. Last week 26 men,
employees of Collins and Aikman,
passed First Aid tests given by a
Washington representative. Cer
tificates for these men should ar
rive next week, it was said.
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MISS CARR DIES
AT HOME TODAY,
ILL MANY YEARS
Final Rites For Well Known
Young Womn To Be Held
Friday.
Miss Berta O. Carr, 23, adopted
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
G. Long, of the Oak Grove com
munity, died at their home Thurs
day morning at 10:30 o’clock
Death came as a result of a com
plication of diseases. Miss Carr
had been in ill health for 10
years and her condition had been
serious for the past two or three
weeks.
Funeral services will be held
Friday afternocn at 2:30 o’clock
at Oak Grove Methodist church
by her pastor, the Rev. E. G. Over
ton. Interment will take place in
the church cemetery.
In addition to her adopted par
ents, Miss Carr is survived by her
father, Jesse M. Carr, and by her
stepmother, Mrs. Ruth Carr, of
Roxboro; by one brother, Ben
Carr, of Waynesboro, Pa., and by
two sisters, Miss Sue Carr, of
Shelton ,Conn., and Miss Virginia
L. Carr, of Roxboro. Her mother
was the late Mrs. Roxie Carr.
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BOOKS SELECTED
More than 130 new books have
been ordered by Hurdle Mills
school officials and the Parent-
Teachers association for the
school library, according to an-,
nouncement from Thomas O. Gen
try, principal of the school. The
books are of varied types, with
some fiction, a wide selection of
biography and a few volumes of
poetry and travel. Selections were
made by the library committee
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“And he that invents a machine
augments the pqwer of a man
and the well-being of mankind.’*
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Werse Than Bombs? Yes, Said Doctor
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Raucous, brass-voiced air raid sirens, like this one in Sydney, Aus
tralia, are blamed by Dr. Edward Toulouse, president of the French
league of mental hygiene, for a rise in mental disorders. Dr. Toulouse,
adviser to the French ministry of public health, advocates softer-voiced
alarms lest France become a nation of nervous wrecks. Effects of the
present sirens, be says, are worse than bombing.
Long Memorial
Members Present
Gifts To Martins
Members of Edgar Long Me
morial Methodist church present
ed their pastor and his wife, Rev.
and Mrs. W. C. Martin, with an
old fashioned pounding Tuesday
night. The pounding took place
in the Sunday School room of the
church at 7:30 o’clock. First,
members of the church gather
ed and then K. L. Street was sent
for Mr. and Mrs. Martin, who
were ushered into the room
where the gifts had been placed.
Dr. B. E. Love, chairman of the
board of stewards, presented S.
G. Winstead and Mr. Winstead
presented the pounding to the
pastor and his wife. Both Mr. and
Mrs. Martin expressed their ap
preciation.
The peunding consisted of
flour, sugar, meal, canned goods,
meat and many other things in
the grocery line.
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CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
A Christmas program will be
given at Bnookland Methodist
church on Sunday night, Christ
mas Eve, December 23, at 7:30
o’clock. The public is cordially
invited.
National Highway Discussed
At Delegation Conference
Local Committee Appoint
ed To Consider Suggestions
Made By Representatives
From Virginia.
Creation of a proposed new
national highway to be formed
out of state highways between
Richmond, Va., and Jacksonville,
Fla., and passing through Rox
boro and other adjacent cities and
towns in Virginia, North Carolina
and South Carolina, was discussed
at a meeting attended by repre
sentatives from Roxboro and Bur
lington and from Chase City, Vir
gilma, Crewe and Victoria, in Vir
ginia, this mornng at the Person
C:unty courthouse.
Vrginia spokesmen for the plan,
including Mayor C. E. Geohegan,
of Chase City, pointed out that the
new route would offer a consid
erably shortened distance between
Richmond and Jacksonville. The
proposed highway, passing
through the Virginia towns men
tioned, would, after reaching Rox
boro, make use of highways
144 and 62 to Burlington and ten
tative suggestions indicate ' that
it would then pass through Asbe
boro, and Rockingham in this state
and go from thence to Chetaw, 8.
Two Children
Have Attacks Os
Typhoid Fever
Two cases of typhoid fever,
both in one family, have been re
ported to the Person County
Health department. The victims
are the small son and daughtei
of Mrs. Lily Smith, of the Surl
community, near Timberlake.
Little Miss Irene Smith, eight
years of age, is a patient in Duke
hospital, Durham, while her bro
ther, Russell, aged four and a
half years, is confined to his
bed at the bcme.
Health department officials
said that all sanitary precautions
are being observed and vaccin
ations are being given in the com
munity. One other child in the
Smith family, previously vaccin
ated, has not developed the dis
ease ,and the fourth child has
been given the treatment.
Officials said they have not
yet been able to discover the
source cf pollution.
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MRS. WINSTEAD BETTER
The condition of Mrs. Harry
Winstead is much improved. Mrs.
Winstead has been a patient at
Watt’s hospital since Sunday.
“Opportunities ’ *
On another page in this pa
per are listed a number of
“Christmas Cases” or “Oppor
tunities”. Readers who desire
to make the holiday season
more cheerful for some unfor
tunate children or more hope
ful for some distressed adults
are requested to read these it
emized reports, which have
been prepared by members of
the staff of the Person Coun
ty Welfare department. Offi
cials of the Department will be
glad to consult with individ
uals or groups who plan to
render assistance to these
worthy cases.
C., and would join national high
way 17 at Waterboro, S. C., go
ing on to Jacksonville.
It was pointed out at the meet
ing that the towns mentioned
would not only profit from the
establishment of such a national
highway ,but considerable con
gestion now existing on national
highways No. I and No, 15 would
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Broughton Announces Candidacy
Shortly After Appearance Here
Mrs. Rowe, Mother
Os Local Citizen
Dies In Georgia
Mrs. Emma Warren Rowe, wi
dow of W. E. Rowe, of Chattan
ooga, Tenn., and mother of E. D.
Rowe, of Roxboro, died at the
home of another son, J. H. Rowe,
in Savannah, Ga., Wednesday
morning at 11:30 o’clock, accord
ing to a message received here by
members of the family. Mrs.
Rowe, until recently, made her
home in Roxboro, and had made
her home in Durham for five
years prior to establishing resi
dence here.
Mr. Rowe left here Wednesday
night for Chattanooga, where fun
eral services were conducted from
the Chapman Funeral parlor at 3
o’clock this afternoon. Interment
took place at Chattenooga in Me
morial Park cemetery.
Mrs. Rowe sufered a stroke of
paralysis about ten years ago and
a second stroke last Sunday.
Pneumonia was the immediate
cause of her death. Surviving are
the two sons, and one daughter,
Mrs. W. Otho Moss, of Durham;
one sister, Mrs. Will Meredith, of
Chattanooga, and six grandchild
ren.
Mrs. Rowe was a member of
the First Baptist church, Rox
boro, and was well known here.
She had recently been with her
Savannah, Ga., son in the inter
est 'of her health.
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ONE MAN BEING
HELD, A SECOND
IS STILL_FREE
Lewis Paylor Wanted On
Murder Charge For Death
Os Fleming Talley.
Although Lewis Paylor, Person
county Negro, wanted on a char
ge of murder in connection with
the slaying of another Negro re
sident, Fleming Talley, Sunday
night, is still at large, Paylor’s
brother, Henry Paylor, was plac
ed in jail yesterday afternoon on
the same charge.
Sheriff M. T. Clayton, and oth
er officers making an investiga
tion, report that Henry Paylor is
said to have held Talley while
Lewis Paylor struck at Talley
with a knife or some other sharp
instrument, inflicting severe body
wounds from the effects of which
Talley died Sunday night at Duke
hospital, Durham, where he was
taken immediately after the af
fray, which occurred in front of
Guy Clayton’s store on the Rox
boro-Concord church road about
7 o’clock Sunday night.
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FIDDLERS CONVENTION
Tomorrow night at Allensville
high school at 7:45 o’clock there
is to be a benefit “Fiddlers Con
vention” and nil interested citi
zens are asked to attend. One
fourth of the proceeds will be
used to award prizes for the best
band, the best duet, and the best
fiddle, banjo, and guitar solos.
The remainder of the profits will
be used to pay for new curtains'
in Allensville high school audi
torium.
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“Remember, I pray thee, who
ever perished, being innocent?
or where were the righteous cut
«*?”
HE SAYS “YES”
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J. M. BROUGHTON
Residents Urged
To Avoid Holiday
Fire Hazards
With the approach of the holi
days and the season for Christmas
trees and the use of candles in
decoration, members of the Rox
boro Fire department today urg
ed residents to use proper precau
tions to avoid fire hazards. Spec
ial care must be observed, it was
said, where candles are in use on
Christmas trees.
Fire Chief Henry O’Briant re
ported that Christmas tree fire
dangers may be checked by
spraying the trees with an am
monium sulphate sclution. This
solution, obtainable at drug stor
es, gives trees a desired fres
ty effect and makes thorn fire
proof.
Residents are requested to re
member that even electrical de
corative equipment should be of
an approved underwriters stand
ard, and that the use of cotton
batting for artificial snow should
be avoided.
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Dates For Health
Clinics Selected
Two regularly scheduled health
clinics will be conducted in this
city next week by the Person
County Health Department staff,
it was learned today. The first
clinic, which will be held in the
basement of the Roxboro Com
munity house Tuesday afternoon
between 1 o’clock and 3 o’clock,
will be a Maternity clinic for Ne
gro mothers.
The second clinic, a chest cli
nic for the examination and
treatment of tubercular patients,
Will be conducted at the Person
Health department on Wednes
day, December 20.
Persons wishing consultation at
this clinic are requested to file
applications prior to the date of
the clinic.
Officials of the Health depart
ment said today that they are
anxious to serve residents of this'
county who are in need of aid
from either of these clinics and
that they are especially anxious
to have an increased attendance!
of Negro mothers who desire ma
ternity instruction.
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EVENING SHOPPING
HOURS OBSERVED
Starting Friday night and con
tinuing until Christmas eve,
stores in Roxboro will observe
evening shopping hours from 7
until 9 o’clock. Decision on the
starting date for hours
was reached bar the merchants
THE TIMES IS PERSON”® "
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMHA
Raleigh Barrister And .
Churchman Is Second TO
Say He Will Seek Gover
norship Next Year.
Late Tuesday afternoon, within
less than twenty-four hours after
he had been guest speaker at the
Roxboro Kiwanis clujb Charter
night dinner, J. M. Broughton,
prominent Raleigh attorney, made
the long expected announcement
that he will be a candidate for
governor of North Carolina in
the Democratic primary to be
conducted next May.
The Broughton announcement
is the second made in recent
weeks in regard to the governor
ship, the first having come two
weeks ago from the present Lieu
tenant-Governor, Wilkins P. Hor
ton, of Pittsboro. When Mr.
Broughton was in Roxboro Mon
day night he avoided committing
himself, although the Tuesday
announcement was doubtlessly
already prepared and stamped
for mailing.
In the prepared statement mail
ed to the “Times” Mr. Brough
ton said, in part:
“I will be a candidate for gov
ernor of North Carolina in the
Democratic Primary next May.
“In entering this campaign I
do so upon my own initiative and
responsibility and not as the can
didate of any group, bloc or poli
tical faction. My candidacy will
be addressed to all Democrats in
the State. If nominated and elect
ed, I will be under no obligation
except to serve the people of
North Carolina to the best of my
ability.
“It will be my purpose during
the campaign next spring to dis
cuss fully the issues that may a
rise upon all public questions in
which the people are interested.
I plan to speak in every county
in the State, so that the people
may have opportunity to hear my
views on these questions and pass
upon my qualifications for this
high office. While it is not feas
ible this far in advance of the
campaign to disucss in detail all
public questions that may con
cern the people of the State, I
would be unwilling to make an
announcement for the office of
Governor without at least start
ing in general my views on essen
tial matters of government. I have
no panaceas to offer, no magio
formulas to propose. Sound gov
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Spencer Speaks
To Schoolmasters
“In any well-rounded educa
tional program in wheih health,
physical education and recrea
tion are considered as vital fac
tors, it will be discovered that
these factors are so closely re
lated tone to another that there
should be no distinctions made
between them,” said C. E. Spen
cer, of Raleigh, State Supervisor
of Physical Education, Health and
Recreation in the Public schools,
in an informal address delivered
here Tuesday night before the
members iof the Person County
Schoolmasters club.
Speaker at the regular monthly
dinner meeting held at the Hotel
Roxboro, Mr. Spencer was in
troduced by the club president,
L. S. Cannon, who also presided
over the question and answer
discussion which followed Mr.
Spencer’s talk. Attendance w«t
quite large and many member*
said they were deeply imprna»i(|| j
by Mr. Spencer's remarks.
The nest meeting of the club
will be held January 9, at