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Brews
Mews
y 1939 CRAB CATCH
TWICE THAT OF ’34
I |pji "Annapolis, March 9 Only the
; crabs can crab about the mark
,y <ed increase in the Maryland crab
f catch over the past five years.
Figures released today by the
State Conservation Commission
showed the harvest had jumped
‘ from 116,403 barrels of hard crabs
| Caught in 1934 to 246,967 barrels
; packed last year.
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STORM-HIT HOMES
W STILL LACK LIGHTS
*,
2 New York Thousands of
I homes in suburban Westchester
- county and in Connecticut and
? Northern New Jersey were still
without electric and telephone
|; service this week as repair crews
struggled to overcome the damage
wrought by Monday’s sleet storm.
SEIZE GERMAN SHIP
IN WESTERN ATLANTIC
Aruba, Netherlands West In
dies The German motorship
passenger liner Seattle, which
sailed Monday night with a lum
ber cargo, was reported today to
"* have been intercepted at sea, pre
sumablly by Allied warships
guarding the Western Atlantic a
gainst-German attempts to run
the blockade. '' ~ '
Reports received here said the
master of the Seattle had sent a
message reporting his plight.
No mention was made of an
other German vessel, the Mimi
Horn, which also sailed Monday
night.
SAYS LATIN AMERICA
OPPOSED TO NAZIS
New York Anti-German sen
timent is prevalent everywhere
in South America, even in Chile,
which in the last war favored Ger
many, according to Baron Al
bert Richter Rothschild, who re
turned to New York after com
pleting a four-month tour there.
He said business and trade pros
pects for the United States were
extremely promising.
FIND AIRLINER LOST
WITH 12 IN MEXICO
Mexico City A Mexican air
liner missing since Tuesday was
.reported located down in heavy
jungle country 30 miles north
west of Minatitlan, Vera Crus
State. The pilot of one of the
searching planes reported that
persons on the ground fired pis- j
tol shots and waved a white cloth
to attract his attention.
HUNT SABOTAGE
IN AIRPORT FIRE
New York Lieus.-Col. Brehon
Somervell, WPA administrator of
New York, declined this week to
rule out .possibility of sabotage in
the fire that swept the $1,250,000
hanger No. 4 at La Guardia Air
port Tuesday. Damage estimates
ranged from $250,000 to $500,-
000.
* Questioned about dismissal of
300 WPA employes working in or
near Hanger No. 4, whose work
ended only 20 minutes before the
flames were discovered, Somer
vell said only 35 men were “laid
off”, the others being transfer
red.
The WPA administrator dis
closed plumbers had been finish
ing a sprinkler system to be ready
- -next week. . . ' I
IrrsonMmes
Arizona Indians Renounce ‘Desecrated’ Swastika
Arizona Indians Renounce ‘Desecrated’
Four tribes of Arizona Indians, the Navajos, Papagos, Apaches, and Hopis, through their head men at
the Indian conclave in Tucson, have banned use of the swastika from all designs in their basket weaving
and blanket making. The use of the swastika by the Nazi party and the Indian’s resentment against “acts
of oppression” by the Nazi government was given as reason for their action. Florence Smiley, a Navajo
girl, signs the parchment document drawn up by one of the Indian artists.
Eby To Meet Scout
Leaders March 14*15
Roxboro Woman Is
Committee Head
Methods by which Roxboro’s
local government may be tested 1
ing offered by the National Con
sumers Tax commission of which
Mrs. R. H. Shelton, of this city:
is local chairman.
With municipal betterment as
its 1940 goal the commission has 1
suggested 'to its units in 5,000*
towns throughout the countryl
means for making friendly and
helpful examinations of local*
government services and the
town’s financiall condition.
FIVE VACANCIES
IN CAMPS OPEN
TO PERSON MEN
C. M. T. C. Will Be Held
This Year At Fort Bragg
Says Fowler
As chairman of the Military
Training Camp association in
Person county. Sanitarian T. JJ
Fowler, who is a lieutenant in
the association, today announced
that the procurement campaign
for the 1940 Citizens’ Military
Training camp, to be held at Fort
Bragg, is open and that five vaca
ncies in enrollment are to be
filled by Person county applic
ants.
The camp will be held from
June 12, to July 11, Lt. Fowler
said, adding that applicants are
required to furnish a certificate
of good moral character, must
be between 17 and 28 years of
age, must be American citizen,
must pass a physical examination:
and must have been recently in-’
noculated against typhoid and
shew a vacillation against small- 1
pox as of since January 1937.
The mission of these training!
camps is to bring together under*
healthful surroundings, on a com
mon basis of equality, young men
from all walks of life; and, by
supervised athletics, military
drills, and instruction in citizen
ship to develop them mentally,
morally, and physically; promote
wholesome respect for American
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Official of Boy Scout Or
ganization Will Meet and
Talk With Cherokee Coun.
cilmen.
Harry K. Eby, assistant Nation
al Director of Education will be in
-Cherokee council Wednesday--end
Thursday. March 13 and 14, to
meet with the leadership training
chairmen of all the districts of
Cherokee and map out a well
rounded training program for the
remainder of the year. Mr. Eby
will hold conferences with Presi
dent Holland MoSwain, J. O. Tho
mas, chairman of Leadership
Training and with Executive A.
P. Patterson on Wednesday.
Scout leaders from all of Chero
kee council will hear Mr. Eby at
8 o’clock Wednesday night in
in Burlington. On Thursday Mr.
Eby will meet with key leaders
of the various districts and all
leadership training chairmen will
be the guests of the Reidsville
Kwanis club Thursday night. D.
C. Swartz of the Person district
is chairman of training here.
Mr. Eby has a rich background
as leader in boys’ work for 20
years. While a member of the
Chicago Council staff, his respon
sibilities in training men for posi
tions of Scout leadership and his
relationships with many Chicago
institutions and groups eminent
ly qualify him for his present
post to which he was appointed
by the National Council on Oct
ober 16, 1937.
Mr. Eby has a wide education
al background, having attended
Carnegie Tech, Muskingum col
lege at Ne# Concord, Ohio and
done part time graduate work in
psychology at the University of
Chicago from 1925 to 1929. Dur
ing the summer of 1923 he was
of a party of 18 persons repre
senting the International Y. M.
t C. A. He tcured twelve European
j countries studying student con
ditions
i Mr. Eby has served as a pro-
I fcssional leader in the Boy Scouts
| of America since 1923. He served
j 12 years in the Chicago council.
His work in Leadership Training
in Chicago involved general sup
ervision of approximately 75
courses a year completed by a
total of 1,500 or more Scout lead
ers.
Mr. Eby has also had wide ex
perience in camping. Before en
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Hold Services For
Brother Os Local
Man In New York
Funeral services for Isadore
Raiff, prominent business man
and a founder and the president
of the Rayless Stores corporation,
will be held in New York city
this afternoon. Mr. Raiff, who
was a native of Russia, lived for
many years at South Boston, Va.,
and was a brother of Harry Raiff,
leading Roxß&ro v merAhaJltr : —" -
Mr. Raiff, who had come to
Durham on business last Wednes
day was stricken with a heart at
tack early Thursday morning
while staying at the Washington
Duke hotel and died a short time
later at Watts hospital. Following
his death the remains were tak
en to New York city. Surviving
and his wife and two sons. Three
brothers -and three sisters also
survive. Mr. Raiff, of this city,
accompanied the body to New
York.
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CLUB WILL MEET
Monthly meeting of the School
masters’ club will be held Tues
day, March 12, at 6:30 o’clock at
Hotel Roxboro, according to an
nouncement from the club presi
dent, Lewis S. Cannon, who stated
that an interesting program has
been prepared.
Along The Way
With the Editor
o—o—o—o
Yes, I have mekJhe new city manager. He apge ars to be a
very nice fellow main thing that I have heard against
him is that people j»y. he looks likf George Cushwa. Mr. Blox
am came to the U. S. A. from England about twenty years ago
and ever since that time he has been looking for the best city
in this (Country. Now that he has found it he decided to set
tle down and do some real living in good old Roxboro, U. S. A.
Mayor Freeman Nicks has let the contract for his new resi
dence. He expects to move in his new house in about three
months and in the meantime he will appreciate any gifts of
lumiture that you might matte to him at his residence on La
mar street.
Once again the Kiwanians will meet the Rotarians on the
basketballl court and once again old men like Jimmy Millican,
George Currier, Gene Thompson, Glen Titus, Gus Deering and
others will try to be young boys for an hour or so. It will pro
bably require two weeks for Gus Deering to walk like a hu
man being after playing in the game and George Currier may
Keep a hump in his back for a month or so.
Flash Thomas Bowles plans to defeat the high costs of
-by raising a nice garden this year. By this we mean that
he should raise a garden, but it may require more work on the
lart of his wife to get Thomas to plant a garden than the gar
den would be worth
Wonder if E. G. Overton will try to have a garden that is
as good as the one that Marquis Lawrence had last year. Earn
est is rather stout and we doubt his bending ability.
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Pre-School Clinics
Carded To Start
Monday Morning
Starting Monday morning at
9:30 o’clock at Person County
Training school the first of a ser
ise of nine or more pre-school
clinics to be conducted in Person
county during the month of March
will be instituted by the tri-coun
ty health department, of which
Dr. A. L. Allen is Person director.
These clinics are being held
in both white and Negro schools,
and conducted annually in the
spring in order to examine child
ren who are expected to enter the
first grade in the fall. Dr. Allen
said today requests for pre-school
clinics to be held at any school
net listed below may be answer
ed at the discretion of the health
department, for which a week has
been left open between March 21
and 28.
The announced schedule of pre
school clinics, all to begin at 9:30
o’clock in the morning, is as fol
lows: Ca-Vel, Wednesday, March
13; Woedsdale (c) Thursday,
March 14; Hurdle Mills, Friday,
March 15; Bushy Fork, Monday.
March 18; Central (Roxboro),
Friday, March 22; Bethel Hill,
Wednesday, March 20; Lee Jef
fers (c) Thursday, March 21, and
Olive Hill (c) Thursday, March
28.
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Helena Scouts Give
Play At School
A play the “Mock trfaTof a far
mer for robbing his soil”, music
by local talent, songs by the Glee
club, and several Scout demon
strations were features of an all
variety program sponsored by
the Boy Scouts of Helena Friday
night in the school auditorium.
Characters were as follows:
John Robbitt - Ray Wilson, Jud
ge - Dickey Holeman; Attorney
for State, Earl Hill; Sheriff, Ber
nard Gentry; Attorney for de
fendant, Peter Cooper; Witnesses.
County agent, Mr. Wilson, voca
tional teacher, L. C. Liles; Pat
Hooligan, Penn NoeU, Jr., Will
Knowit, Paul Garrison; B. A.
Humbug, Eugene Pickard; Clerk,
Billy Wilson; Swen Swanson.
Junior Mcßrcom; Mrs. McCarthy,
Mellba Hill; Hanna Hale, Joyce
Chambers; Mrs. Cross, Margaret
Hill and Pleasant Newkirk, Tal
mage Timberlake.
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Light is cheap—Sight is price
less.
SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1940
Times Makes Excellent
Offer On Subscriptions
Board Discusses
Spring Club Plans
Although complete plans for
the spring and summer season
have not yet been announced,
members of the board of gover
nors of the Roxboro country
■club, in session Thursday night
with the club committeemen,
said after the meeting that the
golf course, beginning today,
will be open for playing.
Formal opening of the spring l
season may be arranged for a
round the first of April. Presid
ing over the meeting was the club
president, Dr. J. H. Hughes.
BENEFIT GAME'
WILL BE PLAYED
P. T. A. Sponsored Double-
Header Monday Night Ex
pected to Draw Crowd
Under the direction of Mes
dames B. B. Knight and C. B.
Kirby, some two score women of
the Roxboro Parent Teachers as
sociation are preparing for active
participation in the P. T. A. spon
sored basketball game to be play
ed tomorrow night betwen mem
bers of the association and women
of the faculty of the city schools.
The game will be called at eight
o’clock in Roxboro high school
gymnasium and will be one game
in a doubie-hea3er series, Tt hav
ing been arranged that there will
also be a contest between men of
the faculty and business men
here. Members of the faculty com
mittee are Miss Virginia Wilson
and H. C. Gaddy.
For the teachers a feminine star
of the evening is expected to be
Miss Inda Collins, while the P. T.
A. lineup will be taken from the
following:
Mesdames Wallace Harris, Vay
ton Hall, Elizabeth Cheek. Cy
Kirby, Gilmer Masten, Rufus Har
ris, R. H. Shelton, E. V. Boat
wright, Dewey Bradsher, R. B.
Dawes, Martin Michie, Lawrence
Woods, Jack Hughes, Robert
Whitfield, Stonewall Jackson,
Henry Walker, Charlie Stewart,
and Misses Anna Chandler, Inez
I Hight and Helen Slaughter.
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Bushy Fork Has
Court of Honor
Tribe No. 4 of Bushy Fork held
its monthly court of honor Friday
night in the Bushy Fork school.
On the court were C. H. Mason,
Bill Van Hook, E. P. Warren and
Byrd Long. Merit badges passed
were Carpentry, by P. T. Hower
ton, Reuben Joe Long,,
Boy*s» Blalock, Prod
Rae Moore, Albert Warren, Nath,
anitui Broach, Harold Hester,
James Earl Hester, Fred Yar
boro.
First Aid. by Beverly Bullock.
Safety, by Reuben Bowes.
Reading, Iby Fred Long.
Pioneering and Cooking, by Joe
Long. •
Civics, by Reuben Bowes and
David Rae Moore.
First Class badges, Joe Long
Tenderfoot, Nathan Hurdle.
The meeting dosed with the
pledge to the flag.
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RETURNS HOME
L. W. Thacker has returned to
Roxboro after undergoing an op
eration at Watts hospital, Dur
ham. It is understood that he is
recovering nicety.
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THE TIMES IS PERSON***
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A LEADER AT ALL TIMERS
NUMBER THIRTY-FOUR
For Limited Time Each
New or Renewal Subscrip
tion Will Get One Set of
Cutlery Free of Charge.
The Person County Times is
now making an offer that people
of this section can hardly afford
to refuse. For each new or re
newal subscription to this paper
the publishers will give one of
the three sets of cutlery that are
pictured in an ad cn the inside
of today’s paper.
One set consists of three kit
i chen knives and they are really
knives that you will appreciate
and should last a long time.
Another set consists of a knife
and fork, this set is known as
a steak set and once you see it
you are sure to want it.
The third set is a big kitchen
knife and it appears to be one
of the best that we have ever
seen. This knife will come in
handy for a hundred things a
round the house or in the kitchen.
The company that makes these
sets has the following to say, con
cerning them:
“The Cattaraugus Vanadium
Steel Knife set is a tribute to fine
cutlery. It has been carefully tem
pered and adroitly fashioned .by
experienced cutlery craftsmen to
give you a Knife Set that will
render satisfactory service for
many, many years to come.
“The blades are made of finest
Vanadium steel which is one ot
the hardest and purest metals
known to science and, therefore,
capable of holding an edge much
longer than blades made of soft,
er, mirror-like stainless steel. .
“Because of the Vanadium con.
tent in the steel, the blades eg
your set are equal in cutting qual
ities to blades of the most expen
sive cutlery sets.”
Every time you come in and
place $1.50 on our desk for a new
subscription or a renewal, you
take your pick of a set. Os course,
the time is limited and right now
it is not known how long the of
fer will last. Come in today if you
want one.
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PERSON HEALTH ;
REPORT OF PAST
MONTH IS GIVEN
Whooping Cough Only Un
usual Feature During Feb.-
ruary, Dr. Allen Reports
1 In presenting the February re
r port of the Person unit of the tri
. county health department, Dr.
■ A. L. Allen, Person director of
l the department, today said that
l nothing significant in the nature
■ of disease spread had occurred
’ duTin month except an in
’ tense epidemic of
. cough. Gn one day, for example;
► he, as twenty-three
cases were reported in twenty
four hours. All cases were qua
, rantined after having been re
ported.
In hygiene 209 children were
i examined by a dentist, with 1065
as the total of operations per
i formed, while 82 children receiv
ed medical examinations by a
?! physician. Vaccinations for small
pox reached 56 and diptheria im
; munizations were given to 28.
Twenty tuberculosis nursing
visits were recorded and fluro
scopic examinations were given
23 times. In the syphilis camp
-3 aign 454 treatments were admini
- stored to 155 patients enrolled
- and 74 blood tests were mads,
s Maternity service included the
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