IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY T SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1940 NUMBER THIRTY
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CHRISTIAN FRONT LEADERS
FACE TRIAL IN NEW YORK
New York ln a courtroom
aloud with the mutterings of
their sympathizers, 17 Christian
Front members accused of plot
ting an anti-Semitic campaign
bombs and terror pleaded inno
cent this past week to charges of
seditious conspriacy to overthilow
the government and conspiracy to
steal arm ammunition and ex
plosives.
An indictment charging them
with thus conspiring with other
“persons unknown” had been
handed up a short time before to
Federal Judge Matthew T. Ab
bruzzo in Brooklyn. Bail ranging
from $5,000 to $20,000 was fixed.
EVERY AID SHORT OF
MILITARY INTERVENTION
KING GIVEN FINLAND
London Britain underscored
her support for Finland against
Russia with an official statement
indicating that she is extending
virtually every war aid short of
active military intervention.
Assurance that Finland’s ap
peals for help were being answer-
House of Commons as Britain’s
own war was felt in a hitherto
untouched maritime area. The
4,30-ton Irish mail steamer
Munster sank between Liverpool
and Ireland after an explosion
apparently caused Ly a mine.
The 200 pasengers and crew
were saved.
GARNER VOTES AND BREAKS
TIE ON ECONOMY MEASURE
Washington Vice President
Gamer cast his first vote in the
senate in almost six years and
thereby helped economy advoc
ates win a hair-line victory.
Gamer struck his blow for
lower expenditures by breaking
a 34-34 tie on the frist of a series
of proposed amendments strip
ping $1,178,739 from the amount
the house had voted for the civil
aeronautics authority.
The vice president is permit
ted to vote only when a tie oc
curs. Although Gamer has had
numerous opportunities to break
ties in the seven years he has
presided in the senate, he pre
viously had availed himself of
the privilege only twice.
DROP BOMBS ON OWN MEN
DURING FOUR HOUR RAID
Helsinki Soviet Russia’s air
fleet, in a four-hour raid aimed
ait cracking Finnish morale,
bombed a prison full of Russian
prisoners of war while her armies
of the isthmus pounded again at
the Mannerheim line, reckless of
losses which Finnish military ob
servers placed at 20,000 dead and
wpunded in the past week.
The Russian prisoners were
saved by the Finns, who herded
them into bomlb-proof shelters.
ADVOCATE OF ALSATIAN
AUTONOMY SHOT AS SPY
Bar-
Nancy, France Dr. Karl
Rooe, 60, Abstain autonomy
leader who was convicted of fur
nishing information of pre-war
French troop movements to Ger
man agents, was executed by a
; squad on the garrison pa
- „ Seven, persons tried with Roos
last year were sentenced to from
Jersonigpmes
Reports Atrocities—Wages War—Heads Navy
Headliners in recent European news include three men whose activities are of world wide interest. Left:
Cardinal Blond, primate of Poland, who reported to Pope Pins that German authorities are extirpating the
Polish people and the Roman Cathollo religion in the conquered area of Poland. Center: Marshal Semion.
Mikhailvitch Budenny, present commander of Soviet troqpa attacking Finland, who is attempting a mare
forceful attack than his disgraced predecessor, General Merejfrkoff. Right: Sir Dudley Pound, admiral of the
British fleet and head of the naval department, wqo Is ’responsible for England’s war at sea.
COACH RAY] WOLF
SPEAKS THURSDAY
AT ROTARY CLUB
Bob Whitten Accompanies
Him To Roxboro; High
School Squad Present. ,
Speaking at the annual Rox
'tlaro high school “Football Night”
sponsored by the Roxboro Rotary
clUb, Head Football Coach Ray
Wolf, of the University of North
CaiMina, Chapel Hill, told the
assembled Rotarians and their
guests Thursday night that the
boy who is interested in his stu
dies, or in whatever work he is
engaged in, still makes a better
football player than the boy
whose sole interest is devoted to
athletics.
Coach Wolf,.whbi saved his ser
ious thoughts for a last minute
touchdown, gave several humor
ous stories of plays and players
and salted his advice with every
day incidents on the practice
field.
Introduction |cf the speaker
was made by W. D. Merritt, pro
minent attorney and football
fan, of this city, who was also a
guest of the club. Likewise pre
sent was Bob Whitten, former
star football player len the Rox
boro high school team, who is
now a student at the University,
where he has just recently com
pleted a year of outstanding ser
vice on the freshman squad. Sev
eral other additional guests and
about thirty-two members of the
Roxboro high school squad, to
gether with Coach George Wirtz,
were present for the affair, which
was held at Hotel R|:!xboro.
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Honor Court Held
For Troop No. 49
Here Friday Night
A record number of Scouts and
Scouters attended honor court otf
tncop 49 Friday night. The act
ing judges were Rev. J. C. Petty
Scout Executive Pat Patterson,
Gus Deering and Henry O’Briant.
Scoutmaster Marvin Vick came
before the court for several
badges leading to Eagle award.
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BLESSINGS
“God bless us everyone, pray
ed Tiny Tim,
Crippled and dwarfed of body,
yet so tall
Os souL We toptoe earth to
look on him,
High towering over all.”
—Riley.
Hunting Season’s
End Does Not End
Wildlife Sorrows
Although the hunting season
closes on Fehruary 15. Thursday
of this week, Person county Game
Warden, R. G. Reynolds has is
sued an appeal, for further pro
tection of quail, and other forms
of wildlife in the county. His
appeal is based on the fact that
recent snows and heavy winter
weather have made it difficult
for birds, rabbits and other crea
tures if the woods and fields to
obtain food supplies.
Warmer and rainy weather
such as has been current during
the past few days has been a
help to wildlife, but large num
bers of rabbits and quail died
during the past weeks of extreme
cold weather and these now left
are in a weakened condition. Mr.
Reynolds said, in urging cooper
ation of all citizens in a wildlife
preservation program.
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CLAYTONS RETURN
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Clayton, of
Greenville, have returned to their
home there after a stay cf sever
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al days with Mr. Clayton’s sis
trs, Misses Bertha and Annie
Clayton, at their home on Reams
avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton
came to this city in order to at
tend the final rites for Connor,
Merritt.
Along The Way
With the Editor
A few hunters around Roxboro, Dewey Bradsher, Charles
Wood, Maynard Clayton and others, have beeft thinking about
buying a few birds, quail, and placing them on land that they
intend to hunt next season. The idea, of course, is that there
will be more birds there next year. What this column wants to
Know is where are they going to get enough money to buy even
one pair. We have an idea that they intend to borrow the mo
ney, but as far as we know the bank doesn’t lend money for
the purpose of increasing the bird family..
1 saw Dr. Fitzgerald out in his front yard Friday after
noon without a coat playing with a toy airplane. Now it was
a warm afternoon, but I do not believe that the doctor would
have advised others to go out without a coat in February.
Maybe he just felt a little playful and the airplane made him >
want to romp and play like a child.
Well, Jim Harris, city manager, is leaving Roxboro. Jim
made a splendid' record in Roxboro in every respect except
one. His record as a ladies’ man is nothing to be proud of. He
was very youiig, stayed here several years and did absolute
ly nothing about getting married. He owns a nice house near
mez, N. C., a good farm and has money in the bank. Why he
failed to step out every night with some fair damsel is more
than we can see. Here’s a warning to the girls o! Hazards—
jun is marriage thy, If you we alter a husband—try to get
Jim, but handle him with kid glove*.
FARM AND HOME
INSTITUTE WILL
BE GIVENHERE
Home Beautification Meet
ing Will Also Be Held This
Week; Speakers For All
Events Coming From Ral
eigh
Plans for a Farm and Home
institute to be held here at the
Person county court house on
Thursday and Friday of this week
are today announced by the of
ficials of the Person county farm
agent’s office. First on the pro
gram will be D. E. Jones and
Miss Pauline Gcirdon, of the ex
tension department, North Caro
lina State college, Raleigh, who
will discuss problems of electric
al equipment and wiring for rur
al homes. This .discussion .will
take plaice between the hours of
10 o'clock and 12 o’clock on
Thursday morning and will be
followed by addresses by the
same speakers, at one o’clock in
the afternoon, on water supplies
and equipment.
On Friday at the same morn
ing and afternoon hours, Mrs.
Cornelia C. Morris and A. C.
Kimrey, also of the State college
extension department, will pre
sent discussions of handicrafts
and of butter making and grad
ing problems connected with it.
Mr. Kimrey will also give practi
cal demonstrations of butter
grading.
Coming a few days earlier in
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Bushy Fork Parents’ Program
Opens Scout Week In Person
STOCKARD RITES
HELD FRIDAY AT
LATE RESIDENCE
Former Local Citizen Dies
After Being Struck By Re
bounding Limb From Fall
ing Tree.
Funeral services for William
P. Stockard, 63, former Roxboro
resident, who died Thursday
morning at his home near Gar
ham from the effects of injuries
received when he was struck by
a limb from a falling tree, were
conducted Friday afternoon at
2:30 o’clock at the Stockard home.
The rites were in charge of the
Rev. M. C. Hutchinson, a Metho
dist minster, and interment took
place at Moore’s Chapel ceme
tery.
Mr. Stockard, who was well
known in Roxboro, where he liv
ed for several years and where
he operated a livestock business,
had resided at his family home
place, near Graham, for the past
two years or more. He was a
member of a Methodist church in
Roxboro.
Mr. Stockard, at the time of the
accident, was helping his broth
er, Percy Stockard, and another
man cut wood near the Stookard
home. A tree had just been fell
ed and a limb unsuspectingly re
bounded and hit Mr. Stockard,
who fell to the ground. He was
unconscious when his brother
reached him.
He was carried home and put
to bed but never rallied. He is
thought to have died from an in
jury on top of the head which
was not discovered at first. The
only other injuries apparent were
sligjht scratches on nose, hand
and leg.
Surviving are two sisters, Mrs.
W. R. Hinton, Sr., of Greensboro,
and Miss Ava Stockard, of Gra
ham, and Percy Stockard, of
Graham, route one. He was the
sen of the late George R. Stock
ard and Della Moore Stockard.
Mr. Stockard was well known
over a considerable section of the
state. For years he was engaged
in the livestock business at Reids
ville, later going to Roxboro.
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CCC Camp Idea
Wins Approval
Endorsement of a proposal to
secure a CCC camp to serve Per
son county and its surronding
area was given by the board of
directors of the Roxboro Cham
ber of Commerce, following pre
sentation of the matter to the dir
ectors by J. B. Snipes, assistant
county farm agent, at the meet
ing of the board held Wednesday
evening of last week.
After Mr. Snipes address
•considerable discussion of the
matter of CCC camps took place,
although it has later developed
that though the Chamlber direct
ors and civic clubs of the city,
as well as county residents, may
favor the proposal, definite act
ion on the securing of a camp
cannot take place until later in
the year, perhaps, early in the
fall, at which time relocations of
camps can be made.
Other business at the Chamber
of Commerce meeting, consisted
of general reports presented by
Secretary Wallace W. Woods and
approved by the directors.
Additional Delay
Os One Day For
Schools Announced
Additional delay of one
day in the re-opening of
Person County rural schools
which were closed again last
week on account of contin
ued bad roads following
previous snows, was today
' announced by Person coun
ty Superintendent of Schools,
R. B. Griffin, who said that
1 plans are now being made
to have these schools open
again on Tuesday, February
> 13. Original plans called for
opening on Monday, the 12.
Schools in Roxboro, at Ca-
Vel and Longhurst and at
one or two other places in
the county have been in op
eration since Monday, Feb
-1 ruary 5.
NUMBER OF HIGH
SCHOOL ORATORS
SEEKINGJIONORS
Roxboro High School De
baters Training For Trian-.
• gtg-Detoles-With Chapel
Hill and Hillsboro.
More than fifteen Roxboro high
school students are trying out for
positions on the triangular de
bating teams which will be chos
en to represent Roxboro high
school, according to recent an
nouncement from supervising
principal, H. C. Gaddy. The finals
in the state contest will be, as
usual, held in Chapel Hill, in the
early spring.
Roxboro is in a triangle with
Hillsboro and Chapel Hill. The
debates to see which school rep
resents this triangle will be held
on March 29. The winner cf both
the Negative and Affirmative
sides of the debate will meet the
representatives of other triang
les at Chapel Hill in April. Four
Iboys and girls will win the right
in a perliminary debate to rep
resent Roxboro. The four boys
and girls selected will have alter
nates.
The following is a list of local
high school students now training
for the teams:- Joyce Spake, Eth
el Johnson, Frances Davis, Bera
Mae Laws, Lula Chaney, Annie
Laurie Day, John McWhorter,
Sam Umstead, Margaret Green,
Nobie Sue Nelson, Annie Sue
Barrett, Noel Jones, Ted
Robert Hunt, Maude Chambers,
Arlene Newell and Kathryn Tapp.
Roxboro high school will like
wise enter representatives in the
State Latin, French and Physics
contests. The best paper from the
school will be sent to a commit
tee which will judge these papers
in competition with papers pre
sented from the other high schools
of the state. The winner in Latin,
French and Physics will be pre
sented a beautiful trophy. Rox
iboro high school won the state
Championship in Latin in 1928
and in 1932.
Roxboro will also enter repre
sentatives in the state Glee Club
contest. The names of the boys
and girls who will represent the
school in all the various contests
will be given just as soon as they
are finally selected in all the
various contests will make a
creditable showing as they have
always done. Students of th© lo-
I cal school will enter the State
I Mathematics contest also.
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THE TIMES IS PERSON?
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES
Church Service Today And
County-Wide Banquet This
Friday Are Other Events
On Program Here.
Outstanding event of the week
in Person county’s celebration of
the thirtieth anniversary of the
founding of the Boy Scouts of A
merica, was the Parent’s Night
brunswick stew supper held Fri
day evening by Scouts of the
Bushy Fork troop, of which C. H.
Mason is scoutmaster. The affair,
the first to be held in the county
during anniversary week, was
staged at Bushy Fork community
house, a recently completed struc
ture near the school house.
A feature of the observance of
Scout week in Roxboro will be
the annual Scout church service
to be held' this year at the Rox
boro Predbyterian church. This
service, with a sermon by the
minister, the Rev. Thomas H.
Hamilton, will be held today at
the regular morning service.
On Friday evening, Febru*.
ary 16, at Hotel Roxboro a
■theij and Son’’ Scout banquet
will be held and speaker at this
banquet, which will be the sec
ond major event in the local ce
lebration program, will be Hol
land McSwain, of Yanceyville,
president of the Cherokee Coun
cil, in which the ePrson and Rox
boro council is a unit Mr. Mc-
Swain will speak in place of
Frank Dix, Greensboro Scout ex
ecutive. who had been asked to
make the address, but who had
to cancel this engagement becau
se of a conflicting one in another
city.
'Speaker at the Bushy Fork
brunswick stew was R. B. Grif
fin, superintendent of Person
county schools, who commended
the parents, the boys and Mr. Ma
son for the excellent showing of
the Scout organization at Bushy
Fork. Other special guests at the
supper included James C. Harris,
Roxfy.ro city manager and! F.
O. Carver, Jr., and Thomas J.
Shaw, Jr., as representatives of
Person county’s newspapers. Al
so present were various civic
leaders in the Bushy Fork com
munity and’ the Rev. Floyd Ad
ams, Primitive Baptist minister,
of Willow Springs. Also Misses
Lake Allen and Velma Beam, of
Roxboro.
The program for the evening
was entirely in charge of the
Scouts, who presided over the
supper, gave toasts and directed
other details of the affair. Around
one hundred people were present.
“Ladies Night”, ;
Phillips’ Address
Feature Program
With Guy B. Phillips, of the
education department of the Uni
versity of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, as speaker, the regular
monthly dinner meeting of the
Person County Schoolmasters’
club will be held Tuesday ev
ening, February 13. at 6:30 o’-
clock at Hotel Roxboro, it is to
day announced by L. S. Cannon,
club president.
Mr. Cannon said also that in
conjunction with the Phillips’ ad
dress, the chib “Ladies’ Night”
will be held for the first time and
that a worthwhile program with
these double features is being
planned. All members are urged
to attend.
“And when you axe desirous to
be blessed
I’ll blessing beg of you.”