IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL
FIND IT IN THE TIMES.
VOLUME XI PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1940 NUMBER FIFTY-TWO
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HITLER AND MUSSOLINI
PLAN TO FORESTALL
U. S. ENTRY IN WAR
Rome A smashing winter as
sault upon the British Isles in an
effort to end the war before
Spring and thwart possible U. S.
intervention on Britain’s side was
reported to have been mapped by
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
in a council of war at Brenner
Pass Friday.
There were reports, wholly un
confirmed that Italian forces may
join in the effort to deliver a
“knockout” blow to the British
Isles, simultaneous with a speed
up of Italy’s drive across Egypt
toward the Suez Canal.
WILLKIE ASSERTS
HE HAS PEACE KEY
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Philadelphia Wendell L.
Willkie, returning to Philadel
phia four months after his nomi
nation as Republican Presidential
candidate, accused the New Deal
of putting politics before defense
needs and declared that, if elect
ed, he would “lead this nation
back to work.”
“If we are to make America
strong, we must go to york,” he
toßt a crowd under footlights at
Park, home of Philadel
phia's big league base ball clubs.
T “Only production,' ribt orders, can
defend us from aggressors.”
LONDON ROCKED
AS NAZIS REPEAT
London All London was un
der attack early today in the 28th
consecutive nightly German air
raid, and the streets were littered
with spent schrapnel falling from
an anti-aircraft barrage winch
hour upon hour was lifted above
the city.
The assault was concentrated
in the northwestern and south
western areas, but bombs fell, too,
in the very center of London.
One smashed through the'glass
roof of a railway station, just mis
sing a ticket collector and a pas
senger, but no casualties were
reported there.
PRESIDENT STRESSES AH)
TO-BRITAIN PLAN AGAIN
Wagungton ln response to
a press conference question, Pre
sident Roosevelt quickly and
pointedly called attention today
|to a newspaper dispatch from
I Rome saying that the Axis powers
s . were “but to defeat him in the
coming election.”
To this he added an assertion that
generally speaking, all aid short
•f war was going to England and
—Shat discussions have been in pro
gress on the posibility of training
Canadian fliers in private avia
tion schools in this country dur
ing the coming winter.
CONGRESS NEARS
END OF ITS TASK
Wlahington Congress today
completed the legislative frame
| ««k es the nation’s most gigantic
peacetime defense program and
then prepared to recess Tue»4«y,
probably until after the .Novem-
The War Department followed
through by completing the entire
orderipg prpgram for 18,641 Army
planes. It awarded the last of *
series of. aircraft contracts to
tslittf $ 1 the air
I‘ataa July 1.
lersonMmes
Episcopal Men’s
Club Will Meet
Second meeting of tyie recently
organized Men’s club at St. Mark’s
Episcopal church will be held
Wednesday night at the William
Warren resiednce, Ca-Vel circle,
at 7:30 o'clock, according to an
nouncement made this morning.
Elected as temporary officers
at the first meeting last week
v> ere Arthur Crosley, chairman,
and Mr. Warren, secretary. A ttcn
oance at this meeting held at the
Crosley residence, Durham road,
was about 10 and considerable in
terest was reported by the Rev.
Rufus J. Womble, deacon in
charge, of St. Mark’s, who came
to this city late last summer.
Church school will be held
Sunday morning at 9:30 and
Morning Prayer and the sermon
will follow at 11 o’clock.
WARRENSGROVE
RESIDENT PASSES
Mrs. Sidney O’Briant Dies
Friday At Home. Rites To
Be Held Today.
Mrs. Sidney O’Briant, the tor
mer Miss Maye Love Harris,
daughter of A. J. Harris, well
known Person resident, and the
late Mrs. Harris, was found dead
Saturday morning about 12:15
o’clock at her home near this
city. Her husband, who had just
returned from work, summoned
Dr. A. F. Nichols, Person County
Coroner, who said that Mrs.
O’Briant apparently died of a
heart attack about two hours ear
lier. She had been in ill health
for several years and had suffered
from prsistent attacks of asthma.
A popular young woman, Mrs.
O’Briant was active in civic and
church affairs as long as her
health permitted. Funeral ser
vices will be conducted this af
ternoon at 2 o’clock at Warren’s
Grove Methodist church, of which
she was a member, by the pas
tor, the Rev. E. G. Overton, as
sisted by the Rev. M. W. Law
rence, of Raleigh, a former pas
tor, and by Elder J. A. Herndon.
Interment will be in the family
cemetery.
Surviving are her husband,
Sidney O’Briant, of the Collins
and Aikman corporation; two
children, Sidney, Jr., and Miss
Sarah O’Briant; her father and
step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Harris, all of Roxboro; six sis
ters, Mesdames Alex Wrenn, Joe
Y. Blanks, Irving Brooks, and
Felton Hamlin, of Roxboro, and
Mesdames Fred Hunt, of Fuquay
Springs and Fred Page, of Zebu
lon, and two brothers, Claude and
Robert Harris, also of Roxboro.
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE
_ Sponsored by the athletic clubs
of Hurdle Mills high school, a be
nefit performance wil be given by
the Tennesseans, radio musical
group, on Tuesday evening, Octo
8, at the Hurdle Mills high school
auditorium.
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PLANT BLAST IN INDIANA
KILLS ONE, HURTS TWO
Terre Haute, Ind. At least
one man was trapped and behav
ed killed Thursday when three
explosions blasted the main build
ing of the Commercial Solvent
Company plant here.
Nine other persons who were
in the building when the first
blast occurred escaped, two suf
fering minor injuries.
The plant manufactures com
mercial alcohols and chemicial
products.
The blasts occurred in’ the main
building, in the center of a 20-
acre lot checkered with large
tanks of chenacals. Fire broke out
after the blasts and officials said
there was danger of more explos
ions.
It’s Going to Be a Hot Election!
President Rnosevelt, en route to ground breaking errrmonies for the new Recorder of Deeds l.ii' i.-g ..
Washington, is pictured as his car was parked before the Kooseveit Republican club headquarters. Rig.;t:
ihe Republican presidential candidate, Wendell Willkie, is here shown shaking hands with E. E. Matthews
when his train stopped at Dickinson, N. D. People came from far and near to see Willkie ar.d to licai
him speak, while on his western tour.
‘Roxborough’ On
High Seas Soon
Name of one of the United
States destroyers being sent
to England in exchange for
military bases will be the
Roxborough, according to in
formation received here to
day. Naval officials explain
ed that names for the des
troyers are being selected on
the basis of combined Amer
ican and Anglo-Saxon appeal
and significance. Years ago
this city’s name was spelled
“Roxborough”, following the
form still used by tbe Scot
tish highland shire and the
noble family for which the
American village in Person
county was named. Many lo
cal citizens are hoping that
the destroyer’s patronymic
will be good amen for its
future service.
A Scotchman named Wil
liamson, who was an early
settler in Person county is
said to have been the one
who re-christened the then
new county seat with a name
from his home land and thus
blotted out its former title,
Moccasin Gap.
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Group Has Supper
At Legion Hut
Employees of the Roxboro Fur
niture Co., joined by managers of
the local store and from the Reids
ville organization had a get-to
gether supper Thursday evening
at the American Legion hut in
Roxboro. Supper was served at
7 o’clock and afterwards a pro
gram of games and songs was en
joyed. Coming over from Reids
ville were Mr. and Mrs. H. K.
Williams, and their guests, Mr.
and Mrs. Wright Williams, of
North Wilkesboro, and Mr. and
Mrs. Mutt Burton. Manager John
Clayton and Mrs. Clayton, of the
local store were also present with
the local staff.
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ROPING ’EM IN
IS ALEX KNIOLA
Michigan City, Ind. Twirling
his makeshift lasso with the awk
ward abandon of the greenest
tenderfoot, Alex Kniola, volnntee 1-
cowboy, roped a real live buffalo
last week with the aid of his hor
se and an obliging tree.
The buffalo, one of two that
escaped from W. L. Williamson’s
trailer south of here, was so da.z
ed after crashing into a trqe that
it stumbled into a creek and wa3
an easy victim.
J.Y. BLANKS AND
JOE ELLIS WILL
ADDRESS CLUBS
Farm Clubs Meet This
Week in Various Person
Communities.
With J. Y. Blanks, of the Farm
Security administration, and Jos
Ellis, of the Dan River Soil Con
servation district, as speakers, a
series of farm club meetings to
which all Person cdunty farmers
and their families are invited will
be held this week, according to
announcement made today by
County Agent H. K. Sanders.
All meetings are scheduled at
7:30 oclock in the evening and
are expected to last no longer
than one hour. First meeting will
be held Tuesday at Payne’s Tav
ern. Club officers for this group
are N. E. Davis, James Burch and
Roy Huff. Second meeting will
be on Wednesday at the Olive
Hill club, of which James Win
stead is president, with John D.
Winstead, Jr., vice president and
Emory Winstead, third member.
Third session will be on Thurs
day with the Mt. Tirazh club, of
which John R. Jones, W. W. Peed
and E. N. Tillet are officers, and
the fourth and final session for
the week will be held Friday at
Cunningham, where the officers in
charge will be K. O. Brewer, W.
R. Parker and J. E. Pulliam.
Along The Way
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There are quite a few men in Roxboro who are afraid
that this column is going to call the names of many who went
to see the so called “girl shows” at the fair last week. Now
we are going to put them at ease. We are not going to di
vulge any names. It would be a shame to indict so many pub
lic officials, professional men and newspaper people and o
thers that the writer of this- column, for once decided to let
matters stand as they now are.
Bill Harris, I, has built a fence around a part of his yard.
He has been around town telling people that he built the fence.
No one was surprised. You could look at it and tell who built
it the minute you saw it.
Notice please, Otto Clayton is paying Ivey James’ bills.
Ivey placed a small ad in this paper a few days ago and Otto
called this writer in and paid the quarter. Now we don’t know
how much Ivey owes, but if he owes you anything you might
see Otto.
John “Billy” Clayton likes turnip salad. If you have any
extra salad, please bring it to John. The other night his com
pany had a big feast. kinds of good things had been cook
ed, but on John’s plate was nothing but turnip salad and corn
bread. We understand that he ate It and “maybe” liked it.
Gordon Hunter has returned from Atlantic City and re
fuses to tell all the things he did. However he attended a
bankers convention and that must have been a tame affair.
Growing Older
And Also Better
Although there are no
candles over the masthead,
The Person County Times
today is eleven years of age
In early October of 1929
Sam Merritt, better known
as “Slick-duck”, and May
nard Clayton, still equal to
the nickname of “Heavy”
formed a partnership des
tined to give their home
town folks a new newspaper.
Despite the fateful market
crash which greeted the in
fant sheet, despite vagaries
of the tobacco market and a
depression which has culmin
ated in beter times, off-set
by the rising price of news
print, these two young gent
lemen, who were younger
then and somewhat green to
the game, have succeeded.
They will probably take out
the day by playing golf, and
that’s all there is to this
story.
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GOOD SALE
C. T. Neatherly and Wood sold
566 pounds of tobacco at the
Planters Warehouse Friday for
$180.62, an average of $32.00. The
high pile brought $34.00, low pile
$31.00.
Selective Service Board
For Person County Chosen
Contest Winners
Go To State Revue
Accompanied by Miss Velma
Beam, Person Home Demonstra
tion agent, and Mrs. G. S. Slaugh
ter, local 4-H leader, Misses Ynn
Broach, of Bushy Fork, first place
winner in the Person 4-H dress
making contest, Miss Ann Scott,
of John C. Terrell school, second
winner, and Miss Nellie Ramsey,
of Bethel Hill, third winner, ce
in Raleigh yesterday for the State
4 H Dress revue.
In the Person county contest
there were 11 entrants, accord
ing tc Miss Beam, who said that
although the county contest was
of unusual excellence, no attempt
was made this year to enter the
Person winners in the sta f e con
test, since the dress making pro
ject has only been carried on ! n
Person for the past two years and
the gills have need of more ex
perience before attempting to en
ter the state contest.
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EVERETT GILL ,
SPEAKS OUT ON
EUROPEANCRISIS
Wake Forest Resident
Heard By Large Numbe-
At Rotary Club.
Declaring that dictator ruled
nations in Europe are now suf
feding from what he hopes is
only a temporary “throw-hack”
so totalitarism practiced by kings
and emperors prior to the Prot
estant reformation, and urging
Americans to aid the British por
tion of the Anglo-Saxon race in
its stand for democracy, Dr. Ev
erett Gill, of Wake Forest, retir
ed leader of Southern Baptist
mission work in Europe, deliver
ed a provocative address at the
Rcxboro Rotary club dinner
Thursday night.
Dr. Gill, who attempted to show
the .essential spirit of fraternity
between all English speaking peo
ple, emphasized a belief that the
fate of America is linked with the
fate of England. He also envis
ioned the possibility of a super
world state in which all nations
would have certain rights bet
would no longer have, or be l'rr
rritted to have, the rights to dic
tate one to another.
Dr. Gill, who has been in Amer
ica only a year, after more than
twenty-five years of service a
bioad, said that upon his arrival
in the United Statees he was am
azed at the spirit of pacifism
manifested here and that only
within the past few months hss
he had the feeling that Americans
are beginning to understand is
sues at stake in the present world
conflict.
Dr. Gill was presented to the
club by program chairman, Rvv.
W. F. West. Numbers of addition
al guests were present for the ad
drss, which was delivered at Ho
tel Roxboro.
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Troop 49 Holds
Weekly Meeting
Troop 49 held its regular meet
ing Wednesday night at 7 o’clock
in the basement of the Commun
ity house, and the meeting was
opened with the Scout Oath and
followed by good turns. The boys
were also asked to give a safety
or first aid rule.
After the books were checked,
songs were sung and the meeting
was closed with the “Great Scout
master’s Benediction.”
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
Appeal Agent and Physic
ian Also Named By Com
mittee of Three.
; Named as members of the Per
son County Selective Service
board, in accordance with the re
i quest of Gov. Clyde R. Hoey, are
J. W. Noel], editor of the Roxboro
Courier, o.*B. Mcßroom, and O.
( Y. Clayton, business men, of this
, city, The appointments were
made under provisions of the Se
lective Service act by a committee
I composed of Miss Sue C. Brad
sher, clerk of Superior court, F.
, O. Carver, Jr., chairman of the
, county board of elections, and
Person Superintendent of schools,
t R. B. Griffin, who met Thursday
although the appointments were
|. not announced until yesterday.
. Also appointed at the same
t meeting were R. B. Dawes, Rox
i boro attorney, as appeal agent,
. and Dr. B. A. Thaxton, examin
. ing physician. It is understood that
j all appointees have accepted. Un-
I der provisions of appointment
. they must serve without compen
. sation. Mr. Noell and Mr. Mc-
Broom are Democrats, while Mr.
Clayton is a Republican, and both
Mr. Dawes and Dr. Thaxton are
Democrats.
On Monday, according to an
nouncement from Mr. Carver, the
elections board will meet for
the purpose of making plans for
the selective service registration
which will be held on Wednesday,
October 16, when all men between
the ages of 21 to 35, inclusive,
will be expected to register at
their accustomed polling places
in the county and city. It was
at first planned that the local
elections board should meet Fri
day of the past week,- but the ses
sion was postponed until Monday.
It is understood that none of the
present appointees to the Person
Selective service board saw ser
vice on the 1917-1918 Draft board,
although all of them are now ov
er 36 years of age.
DR. A. F.NICHOLS
IS CHAIRMAN OF
NEW COMMITTEE .
Defense Group Named At
Request of State Medical
Society President.
A medical preparedness com
i mittee, expected to cooperate
t with the National Defense pro
• gram was Friday night appointed
■ at a call meeting of the Person
county Medical Society, held at
■ the request of Dr. Webb Miller,
i Asheville physician, who is pres
• ident elect of the North Carolina
l Medical society and chairman of
- that body’s committee for medi
i cal preparedness.
r Chairman of the Person socie
s j ty’s committee is Dr. A. F. Nick
!|Ols, other members being Dr.
•.George W. Gentry and Dr. B. A.
1 Thaxton. Duties of the committee
I will be to recommend which, if
! any, local physicians coming wit
• hin selective service age shall be
■ released for such service. It is
' understood that reports of thi
' committee will be submitted to
Dr. Webb. Presideng at the meet
ing was Dr. H. M. Beam, presi
dent.
Other business discussed at
the session included the estab
lishment of a well baby clinic
at which parents may have their
infants examined and may re
ceive advice on problems per
:; tabling to child care. The propo
sal, presented by Dr. A. L. Allen,
; director of the Person unit of the
l tri-county health department,
i was approved by the society, al
r al months will elapse before the '
I though it is expected that sever
,j clinic wfyjch will met two days
' each month,, with one day each •
-jdevoted to white and negro in-
I fants, can be established. 'M