IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
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VOLUME xn
Scouts Will Hold
Father-Son Banquet
WILL BE HELD AT HOTEL
ROXBORO ON EVENING
OF FEB. 21st AT 7 ;00 P. M.
With George W. Kane, of this
city, as toastmaster, annual “Fa
ther and Son” banquet of the
Roxboro Scout district will be
held at Hotel Rcxboro at 7 o’-
clock in the evening on Friday
February 21, according to plans
formulated at a call meeting of
the district committeemen Mon
day. Program chairman for the
event, held in connection with ob
servance of National Boy Scout
week, will be assistant commis
sioner Clyde Swartz, who will be
assisted by Dr. Robert E. Long
and Joe Guffey, all of this city.
Also assisting wil be George J.
Cushwa.
District president is C. A. Har
ris, who presided at the planning
session. C. H. Mason, scoutmaster
of Tribe 4, Bushy Fork, announc
ed that the Parents night supper
of the tribe will this year be held
on Friday, February 14, at Bushy
Fork community house and ex
tended a cordial invitation to
district officials to attend.
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Officer Wade
Gets His Man
~- A* afterrpath of an October
week-errU Hill,
Wat Liles/ Negro of this city,
who was struck on the head by a
rock alleged to have been thrown
by James Johnson, another Negro,
of Baltimore and Roxboro, was
taken to a hospital for treatment.
Time passed: Liles recovered,
but a warrant issued for Johnson
on chargs of assault with a dead
ly weapon remained on file at
the Police Department because
the alleged rock-thrower had
disappeared.
Friday of last week Officer
Charlie Wade, still on look-out
saw Johnson standing on a Main
street corner here. Making a
quick call for the warrant Wade
soon had his man under arrest.
Monday he was given a hearing
in Mayor’s court: next week he
will face trial in recorder’s court
and may thereafter have time to
contemplate the persistence and !
the good memory of men like'
Officer Wade.
Carter Rites Held
At Residence
Funeral esrvices for E. W. Car
ter, 03, prominent Cunningham
township citizen, whose death oc-J
curred Saturday at his home,
were conducted Monday after-!
noon at the residence, with inter
ment following in the family
cemetery. Death was attributed
to complications.
Surviving are three sons, W. T.
Carter, of Hammond, Ind., Walt
er Carter, of Somerset, Pa., and
Bd Carter, of Johnston, Pa., also,
two daughters, Mrs. John Tullah,
of Turbiville, Va., and Miss Ruby
Garter, of the home.
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KNIGHT WINS TROPHY
B. B. Knight, of Knight’s In
surance agency, representative of
the Ohio Life Insurance company,
has again received the President
Adams’ trophy for distinguished
•ervice. Mr. Knight, who first re
ceived the award in 1938, ranked
10th in 1940 in paid for business
.«nng representatives through
out the nation, and has for five
years been a member of the
( Agp-a-week dub.
flerson^tEimirs
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAT & THURSDAY
MURPHY TO BE
NEW SANITARIAN
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Fowler Will Leave For Mil
itary Duties. New Man
From High Point.
Sanitarian George E. Murphy,
1937 graduate pi' inoi'Ui Carolina'
SL.ie College, who later received
training in public health at the
University of North Carilina,
Chapel Hill, and has for the past
| two and one half years been con
i r.ected with the sanitation depart
ment of the City of High Point,
arrived Monday in Roxboro -and
I will next week assume duties
| of the present Person and Orange
! Sanitarian T. J. Fowler during
I Mr. Fowler’s leave of absence for
I service with the United States
army.
Lt. Fowler, who has been san
itarian for two counties of the
tri-county health department for
several years, is an officer in the
: Reserve corps and has been asked
i to report to Fort Bragg for a year
I j
j of service, beginning February 10,
jHe has been granted leave of
absence for that period of time
| and he, with Mrs. Fowler and
j their young daughter, Mary Anne,
j will leave Saturday for Monroe,
his former home, where Mrs.
I Fowler and theicydaughtqr Mill
stay for sometime, it being under - 1
stood that Lt. Fowler will go to
Fort Benning, Ga., after report
ing to Fort Bragg.
Mr. Murphy, who is a native of
Springfield, Mass., has been in
the South for seven years and was
while at State college something
of an athlete. He will spend the
next few days familarizing him
self with departmental duties
here.
During the absence of the Fow
lers from this city the Sunset
Hills residnee in which they have
lived will be occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. William Harris, 111.
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Fischer Lectures
At High Point
High Point, Feb.—Lewis Fisch- j
1 er, special European correspond-!
ent for the Nation during the
past eighteen years, who has re-!
ceived many journalistic distinc
tions will lecture at High Point
College, tonight at 8:15.
Mr. Fischer is expected to pre-j
sent an up-to-the minute survey
of news behind the news in Eu
rope. He is an experienced war
observer, having covered the civil
war in Spain. He is expected to
speak on Stalin and Hitler, bring
ing in the present struggle in his
lecture.
The lecturer, who is the second
speaker in the lyceum series this
year at the college, is the author
of several well-known books.
about foreign affairs. He is pre-i
paring the manuscript now for a
book covering the highlights of,
his experience in Europe.
Sun-Up Will
Be Presented
High Point, Feb. 6.—“ Sun-Up”,
the Pulitzer prize winning play
portraying life in the mountains
of North Carolina upon Ameri
ca’s entry in World War I, will
be given by the Footlighters of
High. Point College Friday, Feb
ruary 7, in the college auditorium
and again February 11, in High
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WARREN RITES 1
HELD YESTERDAY
IN PHIADELPHIA
Resident Engineer at Col
lins and Aikman Plant E,
Dies Sunday After Illness
Lasting Three Months.
William Warren, 42, since 1934,
reesident engineer, Collins and
Aikman corporaton, plant E, Ca-
Vei, died Sunday morning at 11:45
■o.’cLck at the home of his mother
at 243 Dupont street, Philadel
phia, Pa., following an illness last
ing about three months, according'
to a message received here that'
night by S. M. Ford, resident
manager, Plant E.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday afterno n at 2:30
o’clock a t Stetler’s Funeral
Home, Ridge avenue and Martin
street. Roxborough, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Last November Mr. Warren re
ceived treatment at a hospital
here and later underwent an ppV
oration at Watts hispital, Durham, 1
but his health failed rapidly un-i
til the end came in Philadelphia,'
to which city he was taken several
weeks ago.
Os a quiet disposition, Mr. War
ren was popular with those who
knew him in this city. He was a!
Mason, being a member of Rox
berough Lodge No. 135, Philadei-j
phia, and was a frequent visitor!
at sessions of Person Lodge 113. j
He was a past president of the!
Roxboro Kiwanis cluD, wlyph.-he |
also served as secretary and was
a vestryman of St- Mark’s Epis
copal church, this city.
He first became connected with
the Collins and Aikman corpora-]
tion, at Philadelphia in 1924, but
came to Roxboro frequently after
1931 arid with exception of a brief
interval in 1933-’34 had resided
here continuously since 1934,
having residence on Ca-Vel circle.
Surviving are his wife and a|
son, Robert Warren, who were'
with him when he died. Also'
surviving are his mother, two (
sisters and a number of other]
relatives, all of Philadelphia.
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Rites Held For
Janitors Wife
Funeral services for Esther
Parrish, respected Negro resi
dent of this city, who died Mon
day at her home here, were con
ducted Wednesday at 3 o’clock at
Allen’s Chapel Methodist church,
with interment in the church
cemetery. Surviving are her hus
band, Baxter Parrish, her mother,
a grandmother and a number of.
brothers and sisters.
Baxter Parrish is janitor at
Roxboro High School.
Man HavsflO tor Musteline
Mammal, Vv ants Information
Person County Superintendent
of Schools R. B. Griffin is an ed
ucated man. Anyhow, that is his
local reputation. This morning he
was in his office, busy at his desk ■
work, when a timid knock sound,
ed on the door.
In Walked Thomas Green, Per
son Negro, carrying a strange
looking, sleek, dark brown ani
mal. It did not take Mr. Griffin
long to discover that Green, who
had purchased the animal earlier
in the morning from Harvey Rus
sell, having made the trade want
ed to know what he had.
Turning to a row of books, the
obliging Mr. Griffin went in pur
suit of encyclopedic knowledge.
Before long he turned to the
section, marked “Ott” read down
£ L .u'n
William Warren, former Ki
ivanis club president and" Coll-.n :
and Aikman official, who die:!
Sunday in Philadelphia. Mr. War
ren and lived in Roxboro for sev
eral years.
STEPHEN P WADE
PASSES AT SURL
Rites For Man Whose Death
Occurred This Morning
Will Be Held Tomorrow.
Final rites for Stephen P. Wade;
62, of Surl,’ whose death occurred
this morning at 7 o’clock at his
home, following a sudden heart
attack, will be held Friday after
noon at 2 o’clock at the graveside
in the family cemetery near Surl.
Officiating minister will bo Eider
Lex J. Chandler.
Mr. Wade, a brother of Sterl
ing Wade and Bpn Wade, of this
city,- had been in Til health for!
sometime, although his condition
did not become serious until this
morning.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Mary G. Wade; three sons, Pump,!
Wesley and Crockett Wade, and
two daughters, Misses Eunice and
Pella Wade, all of the home, to
gether with a number of brothers
and sisters.
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Austrian Refugee
Now At College
High Point, Feb. 6.—An Aus
trian refugee, Oswald Blatt, has
enrolled as a Freshman at High
Point College for the second sem
ester. Blatt was in his native
country on March 11, 1938, when
the German army marched in,
but soon after he came to Ameri -
ca to live with his cousins in New
York, thus escaping the punish
ment the Jews were undergoing
in his native country. His parents
are still in Austria.
Blatt will major in Chemistry
at the local college and when he
graduates here, expects to settle
down in the United States. In the
meantime he has all confidence
that he will see his parents again,
who hope to come to America in
the future.
| the columns until he came to
“Otter”. He looked at the animal,
then at the page, and back again,
coming to conclusion that the de
scription: “Any one of several
aquatic, fish-eating, fur-bearing,
musteline mammals (genus Lu.
tra)”, fitted the appearance of the
animal Thomas was holding, in
his hands.
The ottor blinked, as his own
er, satisfied with Mr. Griffin’s
knowledge, strode out into the
court house hall, down the steps
and back home. Money passed
between Mr. Russell, who found
the animal in a honeysuckle patch
on the Brooks place near this
city, -amounted to $lO, but even
at that the new owner may make
a profit.
Stirring Appeal Made
For Naval Cooperation
FOUNDATION unit
iO BE FORMED
IN THIS CITY
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Good results obtained from
Infantile Paralysis Fund |
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Drive Under Dolian D.
Long.
Following successful conciu- ]
slop of the President's Birthday'
(.'ckbration campaign for Inl'uri- ,
t!e Paralysis funds in which
approximately S9O was raised hut
wick. Dolian D. Long, Person
. at Roxboro chairman, today ar..
iioiitu i r that a local chapter of
the. Infantile Paralysis founda
t:on will be established here.
Funds contributed this year, ns
! previous years, will be equally
divided between the Nation.;'!
Inundation and the local chapter,
said Mr. Long, indicating that if
an epidemic of the paralysis
should arise in this area both the
local chapter and the National
foundation will be prepared to
: lender assistance.
About SSO of the nearly $lO9
• contributed here was raised from '
.the sale of tags, the remainder!
from a benefit basket ball game 1
and a dance. In expressing bis'
appreciation to people of the ]
community who assisted with the i
| campaign and again made it suc
cessful, perhaps more successful
than any yet conducted for the
cause. Mr. Long mentioned es
-1 pecially the program committee
chairman, Coleman C. King and
' his assistants, William Harris, 111,
and E. B. Craven, Jr.
Others who rendered valuable
assistance were: B. B. Mangum,
K. L. Street, Glenn Titus and
Frederick Moore, and members of
the American Legion, and Misses
Helen Latta, Shirley King, Tnda
| Collins and Mrs. Elizabeth M.
i Cheek.
Junior Dinner
Will Be Held j
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Friday Evening
j- I
Decision to hold their monthly j
| membership dinner on Friday,!
' February 7, at 7 o’clock at Hotel!
I Roxboro, at which time brief ad-j
j dresses will be made by several
I members, was reached by mem-!
] bers of Longhurst council of the!
]J. O. U. A. M., at their weekly ,
meeting held Monday at the
Junior headquarters,
j Presiding at the dinner will be
B. B. Knight, councilor, cf Rox-.
boro, who said that members who.
j by Friday night present accepta-j
I ble applicants for membership
| will receive dinner free of charge.
A special feature of the program
will be a dance number by Miss
Julia Jones, and associates, of Ox
ford, who won special saver for
their dances at the December
dinner. Vocal music will again
be furnished by Miss Annie Lee
Rose, Bethel Hill Music teacher,
who also contributed to the Dec
ember program.
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LEGGETT'S PRICES
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The prices po, the coats and'
suits in Leggett’s ad was omitted
in today’s copy. 1 Prices on these
items are $7:95 and $9.95.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941
Meredith Alumnae
To Meet Friday
At Mrs. Gardner’s
Person and Caswell county al
umnae of Meredith college will
on Friday afternoon join in the
celebration of “Founder’s Day”
by meeting in this city that af
ternoon a 4 o’clock at Mrs. Card,
ncr's Dining room to hear a radio
broadcast of the program at ihe
college at which the speaker wil!
be Carlyle Campbell, president of
the college.
Dr. Campbell’s address will be
gin at 4:15 o'clock and all plan
ning to attend the radio party are
requested to arrive promptly, said
Mrs, T. C. Wagstaff, president of
the Person chapter, who will pre
side over a brief business session
to be held immediately after the
program from Raleigh is received.
Later in the afternoon refresh
ments will be served.
An additional feature of the
program from Meredith is ex
pected to be music by the glee
club. Earlier in the day, at 11
o’clock in the morning chief ad
dress of the occasion will be de
livered by Gerald W. Johnson, of
the editorial staff of the Balti
more Evening Sun.
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Elon Alumni To
Meet Saturday
Elon College, N. C., Feb. 6.
The annual mid-year session of
the Elon College Alumni associa
tion will be held here Saturday
afternoon at 2 o’clock, George D.
Colclough, executive secretary,
announced here today.
Dr. W. H. Boone, of Durham,
president, will preside over the
business session. During the meet
ing alumni will form plans for
their participation in commence
ment exercises this spring and a
report will be heard from W. C.
Elder, of Burlngton, chairman of
the alumni stadium commission
which is sponsoring a new ath
letic field for the college.
Other matters of business are
also expected to come up before
the body, but these two items are
the most important on the
schedule.
A large crowd is expetced to
attend since the meeting coin
cides with the traditional rush
week-end of fraternities and sor
orities and many of the alumni
wil be returning for that event.
Local Voiture
Meets For Dinner
At Hotel Roxboro.
The members of the Roxboro
40-8 Voiture met at the Hotel
Roxboro Tuesday, for an evening
dinner session.
All of the members signed a Na
tional Defense questionnaire as to
the individual veterans available,
and qualifications for volunteer
emergency service in case of
need.
' The questionnaires contained
68 questions relating to various
and sundry occupations and ex
peri encei the veterans had had.
This was the onty business item
taken up at the meeting.
PERSON SUPT.—D. C. HEAD—
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER THIRTEEN
ADMIRAL PERCY FOOTE.
U. S. N. RETIRED DELIV
ERED ADDRESS; FOL- ’
LOWED BY JACQUES
HARDRE, FRENCH SOL
DIER.
A stirring appeal for continued
Anglo-American naval coopera
tion, with the suggestion that*
iimit of the United States’ mili
ary participation in World Wa"
II may be on the sea, especially
in convoy service, was the cli
max of an informal address given
before a large and apparently ap
preciative audience here Monday
night by Admiral Percy Foote,
U. S. .N., retired, of Chapel Hill,
who appeared on a program with
Jacques Hardre, French soldier.
Mr. Hardre, second speaker ors
a program presented at the Per
son County courthouse under au
spices of the Roxboro unit of the
British War Relief society, began
by mentioning his loyalty to
France, in which he has spent
half of his life, and to the United
States in which he has lived for
approximately 12 yaers, most of
that time in Greensboro, where
his father Professor Rene Hardre
is connected with the department
of Romance Languages, at Wo
man’s college.
Briefly sketching his call to
French army service in the Fall
of 1939, the speaker described his
ocean voyage to France; this per
ception on arrival in Paris that
neither the French nor the Brit
ish wanted or at that time were
prepared for war; his participa
tion in conflicts in northern
France, where military supplies
were inadequate and training was.
of 1918 vintage, his going to the
South, the fall of Paris and his
escape to Northern Africa, to
Lisbon and finally his return to
the United States and North Car
olina, where he is now a graduate
student at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Most informing was Mr. Har
dre’s analysis of the respect which
the French have for Marshal Pe
tain and of the way in which
Pierre Laval once rose to power.
Os serious import was his declar
ation that he has no wish to see
the fate of France repeated in
this country.
In an open discussion held at
the conclusion of the formal pro
! gram Mr. Hardre expressed opin
i ion that work of the British War
/ Relief society is of vital import
! ance but that no assurance can be
| given that similar relief for peo
! pie of France will be effective
i because of the fact that such sup
plies, especially in occupied
France may be siezed by those
1 now irk control of it.
Presiding at the session was the
i
i society s vice chairman, Robert
Edgar Long. Roxboro attorney,
also present were Frank L. Ful
ler, Jr., of Durham, who made
introductory remarks, and Mr.
and Mrs. James Clark, of Chapel
Hill, all of whom were dinner
guests of Roxboro Kiwanis club.
Immediately after the meeting an
inspection of the local 1 British
War Relief society office was
made.
A number of memberships and
contributions were received Mon
day and. a more extensive mem
bership campaign will be made
during the remainder of this
week. Work of the Roxboro unit
of the society was begun last
month, with Mrs. S. M. Ford, as
-chairman, Mrs. Sanders Me-'
Whorter as secretary, James
Brooks as treasurer and Mr. Lang
as vice chairman. First shipment
of clothing and funds wa*^naj§M|
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