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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME xn Views Os The News ALL CHICAGO SERVICES RUNNING AS USUAL NOW Cicago, Jan.—All municipal services were resumed on a nor mal basis Friday after settle ment of a short-lived strike that affected 5,194 city employees Six hours after union workers struck m protest against propos ed pay cut yesterday the con tending parties agreed on a wage scale that Mayor Edward J. Kelly said was almost what the city wanted. o editor and former embassy attache TO SPEAK AT DUKE Durham, Jan. 12.—Herbert A gar, editor of the Louisville, Ken tucky, Courier-Journal, author and former attache to the Amer ican Embassy in London, will speak at Duke University on next Tuesday evening, Jan. 14, on “American Politics and the War.” Agar’s lecture third in the 1940- 41 series of Duke University lec tures will be heard at 8 p. m. in Page Auditorium. A brilliant economist, historian and authority on the national and international scene, Agar, today i& recognized as one of America’s outstanding lecturers! 'Among his books are "The People’s Choice," Which won him the Pulitze" Prize, “Land of the Free,” and “Beyond German Victory.” o POWERFUL STUFF FOUND IN SOUTH CAROLINA Columbia, S. C., Jan. —Colum- bia’s police department, can attest to the potency of South Carolina s illicit liquor. They arrested a woman on a charge of bootlegging and eon ficated a gallon of her brew. The woman obtained her release on an appeal bond. ... Minutes later the jar of evidence exploded. The police went back and got the woman and more evidence. o HADN’T MISSED THEM BUT THEY WERE FOUND Durham, N. C. January 11.-* Melvin S. Mayes, State Deputy Revenue Commissioner, had his overcoat and gloves stolen from hia office near that of Sheriff E. G. Belvin —but before he knew they were stolen, they had been recovered by police and the al leged robber apprehended. Police detectives said W. R. iwv 37-year-old man who iden tified himself as a soldier from Fort Jackson, S. C., stole the coat gloves and sold them for $3. The unidentified purchaser, de tectives said, recognized the arti cles as belonging to the Revenue official and returned them. All of this occurred within about an hour. Beck faces charges of larceny in Recorder’s Court. ■ O " discord may lengthen SESSION OF LEGISLATURE Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 11.—Shad cWS of discord that may portend prolonged future disputes lay ov er the' House of Representatives as the 1941 General Assembly ; ; convened for regular business af ter devoting Thursday to inaug ural festivities. Although Friday’s meetings, was expected until committees Jrrson||(Eimes PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY CITY MANAGERS MEET AT NOTE , Roxboro Represented At Greensboro By City Man ager Bloxam. Reporting on a City Managers ound-table conference which he attended in Greensboro on Wed nesday, Roxboro City Manager .-ercy Bloxam today said that an! * mportant topic discussed 'Was ise of city fire fighting facilities o control fires outside of city * mits, a problem which is con fronting nearly all cities with s suburban areas. Announcement was made that rpeaker at a League of Munici -5 palities session to be held in Ra f leigh on January 23 is expected ’ to be Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, of New York City, and that in vitation to the meeting and din ner will be extended to Munici pal authorities throughout the state. Also discussed was matter of airport facilities, said Mr. Blox ::m, although no more definite r information than has been previ | ously secured in regard to such facilities for cities of the size of Roxboro was brought out. , In discussion of the forthcom ing Roxboro City Council meet ing which will be held Tuesday night, Mr. Bloxam said that re solutions pertaining to repairs to Morgan street and to highway announced that with cooperation [ from the State Highway depart -5 , Burch avenue, Sugar hill road way going towards Virgilina. j After attending the Greensboro conference, held at Sedgefield, Inn, Mr. Bloxapi was in Raleigh for the Broughton-Harris inaug ural. o ; Hopson Given 5 5-Year Term i ! For Looting 1 New York, Jan—Howard C. ' Hopson, who ran $300,00 of bor rowed money into a $1,000,000,000 t utilities empire, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for looting the Associated Gas & E lectric System of nearly $20,000,- 000. The short, fat, bald, 58-year-old - f master of bootstrap financing was 5 sentenced by Federal Judge Al ( fred A. Coxe in the same court where just a week-ago, he heard ’ a jury pronounced him guilty on 17 mail fraud counts. o SCHEDULES REVISED Two revisions in schedules for l Person Home Demonstration club t meetings were announced today . by Miss Velma Beam, home a - gent, who reported that the Chub - Lake dhfh Wjill meet Tuesday, i January 14, with Mrs. Grant Long, and that the AllensvlUe l club will meet at 2:30 o’clock on Thursday, January 16, at the f school. 0 SHORT COURSE OPENS Many Person tobacco growers - and farmers are expected to at l tend the fifth anuual Tobacco - Short course, starting Tuesday, : January 14, at State College Ra r leigh, according to announcement - made today by the Person Farm - Agent’s office. A number of im portant subjects, particularly , grading, will be discussed before ; the course ends on the 17th. o b : Mr. and Mm. Glenn Stovall, i 1 who were recently married, have K returned to Roxboro and are now > | at Mr*. Marteq’e residence, North President Roosevelt will be Inaugurated SCOUT AFFAIRS i jmm Mgail DURING JANUARY & wßm ,' - Qhl The third-term tradition will be Roosevelt is inaugurated as Presid term. At the same time former Sec lace, will succeed John N. Garner President Roosevelt as he stood it during bis inauguration in 1936. State Follow-up Conference Will Be Conducted Conforming to a nation-wide plan adopted by the White House Conference on Children in a De mocracy in Washington last June, North Carolina will have a state follow-up conference of the Wash ington meeting to be held in Ral eigh, February 6, at the City Au ditorium. Purpose of the North Carolina conference will be to get state action on and local adoption of 1940 White "House Conference concerning the needs of childrern in America. It is expected that cut of this local conference will come a state-wide program using every child welfare agency in the state and counties for further ex panding and enriching state, county and community serivees for needy children. Dr. Frank Graham, president of the University of North Caro lina who was a delegate to the 1940 White House Conference on Children in a Democracy from North Carolina, will serve as chairman of the state committee. Others appointed to serve with him are Dr. John S. Bradway of Duke University, president of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service, first vice-chair n?an; Mrs. W. T. Bost, State Com missioner of Public Welfare and also a North Carolina delegate to the White House Conference, second vice-chairman; and Dr. Rol M. Brown, of the Division of Social Work and Public Welfare School at Chapel Hill, secretary. At a recent meeting of a plan ning group that was called by Mrs. W. B. Waddlll, of Hender son, chairman of the Committee on Children of North Carolina further plans were made for the Conference for Social Service, state follow-up conference. Governor J. M. Broughton was made honorary chairman, and Dr. Albert S. Root of Raleigh, who heads the division of pediatri cians of the North Carolina State Medical Society was made chair man of the committee on local arrangements. o NEGROES TO GO Next draftees from Person Will be selected from among Negro tesidents, according to announce ment made by Baxter Man gum, office manager of the selective service board. Three Negroes will be called and are expected to re port to the office on Wednesday, January 29. It is said that men selected be chosen from a mong a number who have vol unteered. -——-o \ JET jmm xg j op J* [j a . ! broken January 20 whefc Franklin D. dent of the United States for a third cretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wal f as vice president. Arrow points to In the rain to review passing troops j* , ■ BRITISH POSITION DESCRIBED BY CITY MANAGER BLOXAM Says America aad Other Democratic Nations Will Be Os Great Aid In Conflict. > ■ ■ 1 1 — ” ■ Describing the British position • in the present war, Roxboro City • Manager Percy Bloxam, native of England but for many years an American citizen, said Thursday 1 night that the United States can ! and will assist thpse nations now • engaged in a struggle for preser ■ - vatic* of dffliroesatic principles. ! In his address, given before 1 fellow members of Roxboro Ro • tary club, at Hotel Roxboro, Mr. L Bloxam reiterated his faith in • democracy, mentioned recent let : ters testifying to the determin ■ etion of the English people and > urged his hearers to remember 1 that in time to come there is nope that all peoples of Europe, in • eluding Germans, will adopt the ■ democratic way. ! Given as the second part of a 1 program devoted to discussion of 1 German and English attitudes to -1 ward the war, Mr. Bloxam’s rnes ■ sage was received with apprecia -1 tion. Program chairman was R. ■ M. Spencer, who introduced the ! city manager and at meeting of the previous week presented the ■ first speaker, Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., who gave a newsman’s im • pressions of the case for Germ ’ any. • o ■ NEW JOB . Bedford Perkins has accepted a position with the A and M . Food Shop. Along The Way ; With the Editor A few nights ago officer Charlie Wade was cruising around ‘ the city. He was hunting for lawbreakers and hunting was poor on that particular night. It Was around Christmas time and he had been trying to stop kids from shooting firecrack . ers. All at once on Academy Street he saw a boy stoop, light a match and apply it to the fuse of a fire-cracker. The boy 1 threw it away and then ran. He never knew that officer Wade was watching him After a minute or two Mr. Wade drove in the direction that the boy had gone and caught him. It was none other than Henry Sergeant, better known as “Pete”, eon of Alex. He had been celebrating in the good old way and he meant no harm, or so he explained to the officer of the law. We have an idea that Mr. Wade laughed a bit and told Pete to go hit way and > do it no more. 1 Percy Bloxam is a “Knight” or so a diploma or something hanging on the wan ht the City Manager’s office says. Now i how Percy got to be a I?Knight” is more than we can see. Os course he comes from Enjgland, but an of our story hooka said that “Knights” were btft. tall, strong, handsome men. Then too “Knights” should Mv* horses and Bloxam doesn't have one unless Torn Bennett, nas recently so*d another. . t • J ti HB t James Brooks, son oi DgyM, h# Joined the Khyanis club. i td- %o ‘ ■ ,'•■l O’Briant And Bryan Speak At Bushy Fork - Patterson In City. Speakers at regular Friday meeting of Tribe 4, Bushy Fork Boy Scouts were Henry E. O’- Briant, member o fthe Court of Honor, Roxboro district ,and Jake Briant, member of the Court of fire department and first aid work. Presiding was Scout Master C. H. Mason. In the city for a visit with Rox loro district leaders was A. P. Patterson, Cherckee Council ex ecutive. Mr. Patterson, whose central office is at Reidsvilte, was pleased with reports for the past year, especially in the Roxboro district, Charter for the re-instat ed Roxboro Cub Pack has not yet [been received, although it is ex pected that it will be received prior to January 20, date of the monthly Pack meeting at the community house. Most important Scouting event on the January calendar will be the annual Cherokee council y meeting and dinner, attended by f approximately 200 district lead -1 ers, in Reidsville on January 21. y It is expected that the Person a district meeting regularly sched v uled for the same night will be J held at another date, probably jijiext Tuesday. r - °—; Will Meet Wednesday il ■ H e January meeting of the Com .! munity hospital woman’s auxil e! iary will be held Wednesday af | ternoon at 3:30 o’clock, at Rox- a 1 boro Community house, Chub f Lake street, according to annouce ment from the President, Mrs. . Mollie Strum Barrett, who to -i day said that she wishes to ex t.l press her personal appreciation e for cooperation shown by mem f bers during the past year. e ! It is escpected that principal J business at the meeting will be .j discussion of a year ’round pro . ject. Mrs. Barrett said that mem bers of the executive committee will at that time have reports to present. Membership in the aux iliary has reached 100 or more l ! and it is felt that work accomp *j lished has been worthwhile. SUNDAY JANUARY 12th 1941. Roxboro Postal Receipts For Quarter Largest In History COMPTROLLER GENERAL RAPS MANY IN REPORT Washington, Jan. 10—The Mari time Commission, Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren told Congress, has permitted irregu larities in administering ship sub sidies. Warren’s annual report also criticized expense accounts paid to officials of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board an its subsid iaries, the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation and the Federal Sav ings and Loan Corporation. The Comptroller General de clared’ without revealing partic ulars, that the Maritime Commi sion had granted subsidies to two ship operators who were in de fault, in the face of a law making ; defaulting cooperators for inelg.- ble subsidy. o George W. Kane Gets Defense Order George W. Kane, Roxboro and Durham contractor, has, been se lected as the contractor for the construction of defense housing projects to be built between Fay etteville and Fort Bragg, accord ing to information received here Friday. The projects will house 700 fam ilies, 550 of which will be those of white non-commissioned offi cers at Fort Bragg and 150 will be those of Negro non-commis sioned officers. The job will be done ®n a cost plus-fixed fee basis, but the for mal contract has. not been award ed pending the allocation of gov ernment funds. o Man’s Bottles Come Home From Strange Places San. Marino, California. An impulse to throw bottles, to which he yielded 14 years ago, is still giving Col. Edward P. Bailey, a lot of fun, recently, a lot of headache. Col. Bailey, a well-to-do retir ed physician, tossed the bottles overboard from a boat bound from Vancouver to Sydney, in 1926, in mid-Pacific, south of Honolulu. They were whiskey bottles--a dozen or so. They were sealed with red wax, to make them more noticeable, and they contained messages giving their latitude, longitude and date, and asking the finders to let him know when and where they were recovered. Things went along on an even tenor for Col. Bailey thereafter, v/ith a new bottle report drifting back every other year or so from' some outlandish place. Then, just this year, word got out that Col. Bailey had organiz ed an “International Bottle Club.’’ At once the deluge of mail set in. “Some of the letter-writers,” says CoL Bailey, “want to know what kind of bottles and paper to use for ocean messages. “Others want to know how to join the club. One woman asks if wives are admitted with their husbands, Another wants to Know if her father’s achievement in dropping a bottle into the Brazos River in Texas and learning of its recovery in England qualifies her for membership. Advmtoren’ Ch*. “Actually there i»,po bottle l organized the iitornattontf I A I TOE TIMES IS PERSONS PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. NUMBER ELEVEN Postmaster Carlton Also * Reports Large Increase In Postal Savings And In Christmas Cancellations.. Receipts at Roxboro Post Of fice during the past quarter, end ing December 31, 1940, reached 86,729.43 according to report re leased today by Postmaster L. M. Carlton, who said that the quar ter’s receipts were the largest in the history of the local office. Increase of 26 percent in money order business over 1939 was al so reported by C. C. Garrett of that department, who also said that there has been a large in crease in postal savings, which leached highest peak in the Oc tober through December quarter and is in this month still mount ing at constant ratio. In the ten day period prior to Christmas 1940, according to Hen ry E. O’Briant, a total of 75,880 letters and cards, largest holiday total yet recorded here, passed through cancellation machines. Mr. O’Briant also said that many packages were dispatched, al though figures on the number were not available. Mr. Carlton, who seemed quite pleased with the records estab lished by the Roxboro office, did rot divulge figures for all quar ters of the year just ended, al though it is understood that a consistent average increase was <T maintained throughout the year. Next quarterly report wilLhe filed after April 1, said Mr. Carl ton, who also commented on the increasing volume of sale of gov ernment bonds through the local office. Mr. Carlton, a prominent member of the Person Bar, al though he is not now engaged in practice of his profession, was appointed Roxboro Postmaster about two years ago and is an official of the district Postmast er’s association. ALLEN REPORTS CLINIC RESULTS j Eye Clinic Sponsored By Three Agencies Held Here. Reporting on success of the re cently held Eye Clinic, under sponsorship of the Person Unit of the tri-county health depart ment, the Security Admin istration and the State Blind commission, Dr. A. L. Allen, health department director, to day said that examinations were given to sixty-seven persons, in- > eluding adults and children of both races. Os the 67 examined 42 will re ceive glasses, said Dr-, Allen, while 20 could not, lorfVanam. reasons, be helped by gasses. IzSgfe eluded in this number were eral who hdd ho need of visual assistance. Five of the patients examined '.'Jp* were referred to Duie hoj&iUlW for treatment Examinations were \ made by Dr. E. H. Thornhill, as- V. Stated by R. y. Eusat Mrs. Blanch* pt the health department L. Thom as. JAM Mary Southerland, and Miss CtesSae Bo*knr4it the Rax boro FSA office, and by Mrs. Gay Allen, of Com- : : mission, Raleigh, e,. £ < V* More than 80 persons wer ex a mined at a chest clinic held hgf« at the same time by Dr. W. P. Richardson, of Chapel Hill, di rector of the tri-county health de partment t INJURES ARM . G C. Garrett Jr, Ca-Vel Corporation, ta receiving treatment At
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