J »! * By J. S. Merritt or Dub Hobgood, one or the other. The Bomb Explodes Again Well folks he put up a good fight while he was on his feet anyway. Who? Why Clarence (The Red) Burman, ot course. I’m sure most of us heard the fight last night, so there really isn’t much I can say that you don’t already know. This writer thinks Burman put up about as good a fight as any of the crips, so far, and that really isn’t saying much. We all know Burman was RATED as ONE of the best five heavyweights in the world. It so happens that Louis is the best heavyweight in the game today. Whether that slipped Mr. Burman’s mind or not, we can’t say. All of us have heard the remark made “why I’d step in the ring with Louis for so much money.” Well, getting down to brass tacks, I’m of the opinion to doubt that very serious ly. Even if one of us did go through with it, I’m sure we would be very sorry in every way. Very sorry that that was one night we didn’t have the tummy ache in time to call the bout off. • • • • • • Whether or not that be the case in the Burman-Louis affair last night we cannot say, but at least he didn’t back up for the five rounds he was in in there. AAU Holds Bobsled Meet e ' America's foremost bobsled racers will be paced by Paul Dupree and guffield A. Latour, holders of the A. A. V. Junior and Senior and North American titles, (upper left) when they compete for the National A. A. If. Senior two-man one-mile championship February 9-10 at Lake Placid N. Y. Miss Katharin Dewey (upper right) last year’» victor. Smile Holds Its Own In World Os j Stark Tragedy New York Jan. 30 ln a year filled with war, the amazing thing was that the stage and silver screen almost i'gnored it. Radio' capitalized on it. Not until eight months atter Poland was invaded did Rchert E. ; Sherwood come out with “There! Shall Be No Night”, and not un-| til fall did the war creep into top notch films, such “Foreign Cor-! respondent” and “The Long Voy-j age Home.” Radio brought foreign report- 1 ers and commentators, forums on international affairs and speeches on the war into American homes every day. Belligerent countries increased propaganda broadcasts, and the United States gave morc| shortwave attention to South A-! merica. Aside from a brief Abraham Lincoln rush, the trend on the stage was toward amusement ra ther than a message. The Broad way shows that lasted through the summer were all comic, and it was lucky for Broadway that it had these as a carry-over, for the fall season was slow in starting j Again comedies led the field— Ethel Waters, Ed Wynn, A1 Jolson, and Ethel Merman in musicals and young Jose Ferrer in a re vival of “Charley’s Aunt.” About the only attempts at serious dra ma were “The Corn Is Green” ( and “Johnny Belinjia.” Katharine Cornell and her pro ducer husband, Guthrie Mcclin tic, recognized the effect of. the 1 war on serious drama when they commented: We believe the lack of new productions can be at tributed partly to the general, if Somewhat ovfljrdrawn idea that only light, escapist entertainment would go at this time." ■Vcm&rtT feeble many of the gmws seam, -‘©roadway Sam/'; sponrs British Scholar | Chapel Hill, Jan. 30 “Basic j | English,” which requires only ! 850 words but can express any thought and can be learned rapid ly, “may soon become the world language for business and every -1 day purposes,” Dr. I. A. Richards, j.cne of its developers, predicted here. The noted British scholar was addressing the Inter-American ‘ j Institute at the University of i North Carolina, where he is put- 1 I ting his English-teaching methods j into practice with 110 South A merican “good neighbors.” And I just to prove his point the Cam ! bridge professor and visiting lec turer at Harvard gave them a i lecture on democracy in “850 • : word basic. c INNOCULANTS It is estimated that over $2,-' ! 000,000 worth of commercial j legume innoculants are sold an nually in the United States now as compared with cnly $1,000,000 worth in 1930. o DEMAND Improvements in the domestic , demand for farm products is be-1 coming increasingly apparent as! the defense prograrryspeeds up,' . says the U. S. Bureau of Agri-j cultural Economks. a/ / ' leading ticket broker, reported ' business/neavier this winter than since predepression years, i Frequency modulation Maj. E. H. Aamstrcmg’s system of high class/proadcast signals on the al- Vrfiost statk-free ultra short waves ! —led the 1940 march of radio. It ' emerged from the experimental ■ stage. Television made important ■ technical advances but took a : back seat pending solution of op • erating standard problems on ■ which a committee hoped to re- I port to the federal communica i tions commission in January. 'i The third great field cf enter- SPORTS OF THE TIMES PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N- C. Ramblers Trim Bethel High, Lassies Lose The Roxboro Ramblers, unde feated in school competition, con tinued to roll over their oppon ents by crushing Bethel Hill Fri- 1 day night 44 _ 38 on the Bethel Hill court. The score may indi cate a nip and tuck battle but the Bethel Hill boys showed noj, opposition what-so-ever. Not un-; til Coach Wirtz began substitut-! ing did the losing team show strength. ‘ | : Buddy Beam was again tops in' scoring honors with 26 points, ( Buddy Clayton came next with 8. S Little Jimmie Winstead 88 j , pound forward for the local school ; played a good game while he ; was in there. He scored 2 points. The local lassies were out classed through the entire con-j test but continued to show the! Rambler spirit throughout the game. The locals play two games here next week, Monday night with Allensville and Friday night with Hurdle Mills. Friday night’s lineup: T. Clayton F 2. B. Beam F 26. E. Clayton C. 8. S. Davis G. H. Whitfield G. 4.' o “Elsie,” The Cow Elsie, the bucolic belle of the New York World’s Fair, is cur rently playing the role of “But tercup” in RKO Radio’s film ver sion of Louisa May Alcolt’s “Little Men.” showing Monday and Tuesday at Dolly Madison. “Elsie” is one of the noted Lo belia Clan (her real name before she asumed a stage name, was > “You’ll Do Lobelia”). Her father was the late prominent “You’ll Do’s Volunteer” and her mother “Perennial Lobelia.” “Elsie” appeared for two years !< as the star of the Borden exhibit' at the Fair. Her Glamor and lat ent made her an immediate sen sation and her comet-like was culminated when Producers Gene Towne and Graham Baker I signed her to a screen contract following a test of her acting abilities. During her Hollywood stay “Elsie” became the mother cf a 55-pound calf, “Beulah.” o New Fred Astaire Dance Creation Jitterbug Delight As if in answer to a jitterbug’s prayer, Fred Astaire, America's most popular dancing favorite, has created a new dance. The new routine is danced by Astaire and by new screen danc ing partner, Paulette Goddard, in the new Paramount picture, “Sec ond Chorus” which opens Mon day at the Palace Theatre, fea turing Artie Shaw and his band, Burgess Meredith and Charles Butterworth. Astaire fashioned the dance, which is called the “Dig It,” af ter a song written by Johnny Mercer, “I Ain’t Hep to That Step But ril Dig It,” one of the hit tunes of the new screen enter tainment While in reality it is a gay, simple dance, its steps give tl:t impression of being spectacular. But Astaire so devised the dance ! that it can be done even on small - er dance floors, with only a bit of modification for the more con servative dance enthusiasts. t tainment outdoor shows—was best exemplified by the San Francisco and New York fain. Both opened with more fun , more sex, more music and less education. Up'tO'tfc e*Minu te Sport News Solicited State Trims Blue Devils Durham, Jan. 30.—Rallying midway of the second half, with Jim Mills leading the way, N. cJ State’s Red Terrors nosed out Duke’s “Five-man Gang,” 39-38, in a thriller-diller basketball ( game. Only cnce during this hectic contest, which saw plenty of bod ily contact, were the two teams j separated by more than five points. Early in the first half, the Blue Devils led by six points and later they led by five, but most of the time first one team and. then tile other was in front. | Duke had the lead seven times,j State had it six times, and the' sccre was tied seven times. So fast was the action that, with four seconds left and the j ball a toss-up in the opposite end of the floor, Duke managed to| get two shots at the basket Hcl-j ley batted the ball down the I court to Shokes—and after Shok es’ shot rimmed the basket, Roth-j baum followed up and missed as; the gun sounded. Jim Bangs ’Em In. But it all ccmes back to Jim Mills. With Duke leading at 32- 23 after eight minutes and 30 sec onds of the second half, Mill's went on a little spreed all his Town and scored eight points which— with a free throw by Cromartie, against a field goal, by Rothbaum and a foul by Brown—put State out in front by 38-35, with six minutes and a half remaining to play. Smith made a free-throw, but Holley pulled Duke within two points with a onehander from the side as the clock hit five and a half to go. PALACE THEATRE Monday - Tuesday February 3-4th Fred swings the trumpet! Paulette’s a dancing marvel! Ifs 1940’s miracle musical hit! »fd r p* uLETTt IhnaafUnUl I ARTIE SHAW § CHARLES BUTTERWORTH I BURGESS MEREDITH i I mkmit Boris Moms-ttKMw | I * C Pttttr Irina Sbv, I, Fnat EM Special morning show Monday 18:30; Afternoons dally 5:15-3:45; Admission 10-36 c; Evenings daily 7:15-940. Admission 1545 c With about three minutes to go the Techs started freezing the ball until Valesek intercepted a pass and tossed it to Holley. Hol ley was fouled by Smith and made his free throw and it was 1 39-38 with two minutes and a i . . 1 half remaining. j The game then got as wild as ’ quail are after being shot at all j season. The boys raced up and down the floor, with both teams missing plenty of easy shots. Ed | die Shokes was unintentionally hit in the face by Roy Cromartie and tried a free throw but he 1 wavered as he tossed for game -1 tying point with 45 seconds to 1 go. j What happened after that has ! already been told. State w'as i freezing and Duke was trying frantically to get the ball. Tied Often In the first half, the ball game w'as tied up at 2-2, 4-4, and 3-8. | In the second half it was tied at ! 26-26, 28-28, and 33-33. Duke was iin command mcst of the time during that last half until Jim Mills put on his show, i There were plenty of fouls cali ! ed, and most of them were cor ! rect although many of them didn’t | meet with the approval of the i crowd which apparently was ev-j 1 enly divided. Officials Joby Hawn | and Johnny Morriss called a to il tal of 30—18 on State and 12 on Duke. Cromartie Shines. It was Jim Mills and Roy Cro martie all the way for State. Cromartie was faking the Blue Devils Out of position and shoot ing both pot-shots and onehand ers. Mills simply shot them from everywhere. Roy and Jim tallied 13 points apiece. Chuck Holley was the top man of the night, with 14 points, and he and Cy Valasek shared the honors for Duke. Valasek had 11 points. o WANTS LINDY TO VISIT NAZIS Marion, Feb.—Paul O. Nafe, edi tor of the McDowell News and a personal friend of Colonel Chas. A. Lindbergh, announced he had appealed to Colonel Lindbergh to visit Germany and investigate conditions there. Nafe, former Science Monitor, said Colonel Lindbergh could DOLLY MADISON THEATRE Monday - Tuesday February 3-4th j ■ J S*s n I rko • RADIO " Ndw* S*!* Mracted by NORMAN Z. MdJOO. dvc«d by San* Torn* and 8«kn» later. Scraaa Play by Mark Kally aad Artfear Caaaar. No morning shows; Afternoons ; daily 3:15-345; Admhihm l#-39c; ’ Evenings daily 7:15-949; Admis sion 15-39 c mm Jack Gardner, above, Elon Col lege junior, is playing his most brilliant ball this season, which means quite a bit Gardner, sixj feet, three inch forward, from Portsmouth, Ohio, was selected on the all-North State conference teams in both his freshman and sophomore years, an honor which is seldom given. This year he isj regarded by many as the best all around basketball man in the. state. He has scored 190 points in 14 games for a 13 1-2 point av erage. He is a master of practical-1 ly any shot and can play any po-. sition. His work on defense is equally as brilliant as his offen- 1 sive play, a combination which is seldom, if ever, found. Although Elon is not a one man team, Gard ner is without doubt the Chris tians’ biggest star. make an investigation such as Wendell L. Willkie is now mak ing in England. DOLLY MADISON ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, February 3rd, thru’ Wednesday, Feb. sth. Motion Pictures Are Your Best Entertainment. Monday, Tuesday, Feb. 3 - 4th Kay Frahcis, Jack Oakie, George Bancroft, Ann Gillis, Jimmy Lydon and Elsie (the glamour cow) in Gene Towne’s “LITTLE MEN” (First Run) All the laughs, excitement, drama suspense and riotous fun yon could ask for—in the picture made from the great companion novel to “Little Women” by the same author! It’s the grandest comedy—ro mance of the year! And Elsie's first screen appearance! A Fascinating Journey—“THE SACRED GANGES”. Fox Movietone News—News cf the Nation... No morning shows; afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; £<lm. 10-30 c( I Evenings daily 7:15-9:00; Adm. 15-30 c. Wednesday, February sth Bargain And Gift Day Ralph Byrd, Lorna Gray, Man tan Moreland, Peter George Lynn in “Drums Os The Desert” (First Run) Temestuous Romance in the heart of the burning Sahara! Unwanted, forgotten men of tbe Foreign Legion—living on ly to kill! Broadway Brevity: “Alice In Movieland”. Special morning show 19:30. afternoon 3:15 - 3:45. Evening 7:15 • 949; Adm. 1949 c. ($19.99 in eaah to be given to some SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1941. Chevrolet Hits New Sales Mark , t In History OP Detroit, Feb. I.—During the second 10-day period in January, Chevrolet dealers bolstered the record sales report submitted m the previous 10-day period by es tablishing new sales marks in company history, both for the period and for the first 20 days of the month, it was announced here today by W. E. Holler, gen eral sales manager. In the period, dealers sold at retail a total of 30,479 new pas senger and commercial cars, a gain of 20.3 per cent over the comparable period last year and an increase of 6.7 per cent over the preceding 10 days this year. Combined sales during the 20 days totalled 58,978, a 24.4 pec cent advance over the same per - iod in 1940. Used car sales in the 10-day period were 47,493, an increase of 22.7 per cent over the same period last year and a gain of 16.9 per cent over the preceding 10 days this year. The 20-day re port shows used car sales 25 per cent in advance of the same per iod in 1940. Retail truck sales also held to the upward course established since the new models were intro duced last fall, advancing 36 per cent over Jan. 1-20 last year, with total sales being 12,336 for the 20-day period. T9ADI-MA9K PALACE THEATRE ADVANCE PROGRAM From Monday, February 3rd, thru’ Wednesday, February stb Motion Pictures are Your Best Entertainment Monday - Tuesday- Feb. 3-4th Fred Astaire, Paulette Good ard, Artie Shaw and His Band, Charles Butterworth, Burgess Meredith in “SECOND CHORUS” Here’s the screen surprise of the year! Paulette dances! Fred plays! Everybody (including yourself) has a whale of a time! Plus more song than ev er Hit Parade across the screen! It’s Fred’s greatest hit! I and—Paulette’s best yet! Walt Disney Cartoon “Timber”. Hearst Metrotone News—News while it is Still News. Special morning show Monday, 10:20; afternoons daily 3:15 - 3:45; a dm. 10-30 c; Evenings daily 7:15 - 940. Adm. 15-35e. Wednesday, February sth. Bargain And Gift Day Leon Errol, Helen, Parrish, Charles Lang, Eddie Qnllan, Stanley Fields in “WHERE DSD YOU GET THAT GIRL”. Yonth laughs—and fights its way to a ‘place in the son’—! Cinescoyi: ‘((NICE WORK IF YOU CAN DO IT”. Father Hubbard’s Alaskaln: “ESKIMO TRAILS”. No morning show, afternoon 3:15-3:45; evening 7:15 - 949; Adm. 1940 c, (51949 In cash will be given to some tacky ’ poison today).

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