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SIZEABLE NUMBER ARMY
PLANES SENT TO PACIFIC
Washington, February 22.—A
strengthening of American armed
forces in the Pacific proceeded to
day, emphasizing the continued
seriousness with which the Far
■Eastern situation is viewed beer.
Most phases of the operations
were cloaked with secrecy, hut
it was established that a sizeable
- number of anny planes are being
dispatched to Hawaii, the key
stone of the whole American de
fense system in the Pacific.
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LEGISLATORS STILL FACE
MUCH WORK BEFORE AD
JOURNMENT |
Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 22.—Those
who predicted the Legislature’s
adjournment by March 8 were oe
ginning to hedge a little today
as the assemblymen returned to
their desks after a downstate sor
tie to inspect the mammoth ex-!
pansion program at Fort Bragg.
Only two full legislative weeks
remain for consideration of scores
of bills if tile assembly is to go
home by Saturday, March a—
the day tagged by the admini
stration for sine die adjournment.
Among those bills are the all-1
important appropriations meas
ure, already far behind the rev
enue measure which it must bal
ance.
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Fort Bragg Corporal
Is Killed By Accident
Fort Bragg, Feb. 22—Corporal
Chester A. Haines, 20, of Battery
A. 36th Field Artillery, whose
home is in Masontown, Pa., was
killed yesterday on the firing
range, authorities announced to.
day.
Haines and others were fight-1
ing a brush fire when the acci
dent occurred. While the other
ate their lunch they heard an ex
plosion and found Haines wound
ed. He died later at the post
hospital.
Companions said Haines ap
parently was trying to put out a
burning log when a dud shell
under the log was exploded by
the heat.
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178 Americans Await
Transportation Home
Washington, Feb22—The Red
Cross said today that there were
178 Americans in Lisbon now a
waiting transportation to this
country. About 230 others, it said,
are expected to reach Lisbon,
most of them coming from Paris,
during the remainder of Febru
ary.
Arrangements have been made
for 100 to sail on American ex
port ships in February and the
remainder on savings in March.
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National Income Pat
At 74 Billion
Washington, Feb. 22—Jesse H.
Jones, Secretary of Commerce,
estimated today that the national
income last year was $73, 800,-
000,000, an increase of $4,400,>-
000,000 over 1939.
He added, however, that in
come-payments received by indi
viduals in the form of wages,
dividends and other forms were
larger than the national income.
They totaled $74,300,000,000. The,
difference was due to the fact
that some of the income payments
were made on borrowed money
in connection with near projects
for the defense program. I
lersonl^Simes
EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY
Rev* J. McDowell Dick I
To Open Lenten Services
WUI Speak At St Mark’s
Episcopal Church. The Rev.
Mr. Vombie Declines Mary
land Call.
Speaker at the first of a series
of weekly services at St. Mark's
Episcopal church in observance
cf the Lenten season, will be the
Rev. James McDowell Dick of
Raleigh, rector of the Church of
the Go-d Shepherd, who will be
at St. Mark’s on Thursday even
ing, February 27, according to an
nouncement made today by the
Rev. Rufus J. Womble, deacon in
charge at that church.
r onowing a meeting of St.
1 Marks’ parishoners held at the
church Thursday, Mr. Womble.
who came to this parish eight
months ago from Raleigh, said
| that he has declined a recently
I received call to a church in the
diocese of Maryland. In making
this statement the Rev. Mr. Wom
ble said that he felt he should re
main in Roxboro and expressed
his pleasure over the cooperation 1
he has received since coming
here.
Following the Rev. Mr. DickJ
rector of the church with
the Roxboro minister was affil
iated, will be number of other
clergymen, who will be in Rox.
bori on successive Thursday ev-|
enings. Among those invited to!
speak are the Rev. Norville
Wicker, Epiphany church, Dan
ville, Va., the Rev. John A.
Wright, of Christ church, Ra
leigh and the Rev. Robert Man,
of Rockingham. Also invited to
speak is W. T. Bost, Raleigh news
paper man and a prominent lay
man.
All services will begin at 7:30
o’clock in the evening. Presiding
at Thursday’s parish meeting was
Senior Worden Arthur Croslcy,
who for the members of the
church expressed pleasure that
Mr. Womble will remain here. It
is hoped, said Mr. Womble, that
many people in the community
will attend the Lenten services,
intended as a means of deepen
ing spiritual faith and as prepar
ation for Holy Week and the ob
servance of Easter.
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P.H. FONTAINE
PASSES ATHOME
Rites For Prominent Bethel
Hill Resident Held Yester
day In Virginia.
Funeral services for Patrick
Henry Fontaine, 63, prominent
! Bethel Hill resident, whose death
occurred Thursday afternoon at
his rome following an illness of
eight days with pneumonia, will
be conducted at 3 o’clock Satur
day afternoon at Capeville, Va.,
' with interment in the Capeville
i Methodist church cemetery. Ser
vices originally schedultd for Fri
day afternoon at Bethel Hill Bap
tist church have been cancelled.
A descendant cf Patrick Henry
and of the Spottswoods of Vir
gilina, Mr. Fountaine was \he son
of the late Rev. and Mrs. Patrick
H. Fontaine and was a native of
Rockingham county. Survivors in
clude a son Lamar Fontaine, of
Linwood ,N. J., two daughters,
Mrs. Dorothy Mister and Mrs.
Elizabeth Gladden, of Capeville,
Va., three brothers, John W. Fon
taine, of Wilson, Jmaes Fontaine,
of North Carolina State college
division of the University, Ra
leigh, and M. Maury Fontaine, of
Greenbelt, N. J., and two sisters,
Mrs. W. F. Creath, of Paces, Va.,
and Mrs. Ella P, Stoddard, of
Richmond, Va.
EARLY HISTORY
OF MiOU l TROOP
SENT TO HARRIS ,
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Troop One Roxboro, Found.
ed Nearly 25 Years Ago
With Dr. Vickers As Scout-
Master.
-! Observance of Boy Scout week,
which culminated Friday night
1 mth a father and son banquet
attended by more than 200 boys
: and men, including Lt. Gov. R.
L. Harris, and a number of fem
-1 inine guests, was to Scouts of
the Person district cf more than
■ unusual significance because
this year marks the 25th anniver-!
sary of the founding of scout work 1
in Roxboro.
Early history of Roxborc.’s
! Troop 1, established in 1916,
with the late Dr. G. C. Vickers as !
scoutmaster, was revealed in a !
‘ letter the Person district presi
dent C. A. Harris, who was a
j charter member of Dr. Vickers’
troop, received last week from
O. D. Sharpe, director of regis
tration, division of personnel, of
national headquarters, Boy Scouls
of America.
| According *to the records,
Troop 1, with W. R. Hambrick, \
Hugh Woods and W. H. Harris,
. Sr., as committeemen, was ..or
ganized and going strong at some
i time between June 1, 1916 and
the same date in .1917. Assistant;
scoutmaster, inking with Dr.
Vickers was Elmer B. Pixley, a
young man who died in 1917 and
: at whese funeral scouts served
as pallbearers. ,
Os the fourteen boys in the
troop nine still live in Roxboro
and at least three or four are
still actively interested in scout
ing. One of the most active of
these boys was C. A. Harris, a
bove referred to, now a success
ful business man here. Another
was his brother Wallace H.
Harris, tobacconist, and it goes)
I without saying that W. H. Harris,
Sr., the committeeman, father of
C. A., W. H„ and the Lt. Gov., R.;
L. is still a boy at heart ancl!
was one of the attendants at the
banquet.
Others of the “boys” who are
still in Roxboro are Guthrie
Bradsher, now a Collins and Aik
man official; R. Flemming
Brooks, also connected with the
oempany; George W. Thomas,
operator of West End Service
station; Laurence Woods now as-i
sociated with his father, Hugh j
Woods, in their grocery business;
Bryant K. Barnett, wholesaler;
Wallace W. Woods, another son
of Hugh Woods, who is secretary
of the Roxboro Chamber of Com-!
merce and the operator of an
ice business, and J. Brodie Rigg
sbee, of the Peoples bank.
Graham Mcßroom, brother of |
O. B. Mcßroom, is now in Wash- j
ington, and Arch Boyd Stalvey
is in Conway, S. C., while three 1
others, Dewey T. Winstead, Dew-'
ey E. Dickerson and Viva Vea-[
sey are dead.
From such a troop as this,
made up of average fathers and
sons has come the present Per
son county scout organization
with its active district committee,
its well organized troops, its
Cub pack and its trained leaders.
President Harris and the other
“boys” feel that old Troop 1 mad?
a good beginning.
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TO Meet
Circle No. 4 of Roxboro First
Baptist will meet with Mrs. H.
M. Beam.
Knox-Knox, Who Goes There? |
The Cia/y and war dopartmerl employees, from the office ioy to the
sec retary, have to show identification badges carrying their picture before
i hey can enter the departments. This new ruling is now in effect. Photo
shows Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox showing his budge to guard on
duty at entrance to navy department.
Fifth Graders Will Soon
Read Warren’s Text Book
Fashion - Show
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And Feminine
Wedding Planned
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Members of Roxboro Central
Grammar School Parent Teacher
association, sponsors of a benefit
performance including a fashion
show and a “Manless Wedding ”
are busily engaged in working
out details for the production
which will be presented on Tues
day evening, February 25, at 3
o’clock in the school auditorium.
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The fashion show, showing
spring styles for women and men
will be produced with assistance
of a number of leading merchants
in the city, including: Carney s,
Raiff’s, Peebles and Leggetts.
Participants in the fashion show
will also include Mayor S. G. |
Winstead and City Manager Percy
Bloxam .while the cast of the
feminine wedding, a unique ev
ent, will include more than fifty
women. Rehearsal will be held
Tuesday afternoon from three to
five o’clock.
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German Subs Awaiting
Hitler’s Big Drive
Berlin, Feb. 22—Dienst Aus
Deutschland, a source close to
German officialdom, said today
that Nazi submarines were sink
ing comparatively few British
ships because “many of the lU
boat) crews now are engaged in
preparation for the big offensive
which Hitler proclaimed.”
Along The Way
With the Editor
The writer of this column had a birthday Friday. He
was mighty proud of the day, being one year older, a lot wiser
and much poorer than a year ago. Anyway he came to work
expecting his desk to be covered with gifts from Tom Shaw
and Maynard Clayton. They all speke as they entered the of
fice but said nothing about any birhday. They produced no
gifts and finally in desperation the writer told them
that it was his birthday. They both said—“ That’s nice” and
went on with their work. The entire day passed and nothing
happened. The boys didn’t remember it ten minutes.
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Here's a typical Jack Fowler trick. Before he and his fam
ily left Roxboro his house was rented to Bill Harris ni. Jack
had oil heat and everything about the heat had been going
fine. The first night that Bill moved in the heat went off and
upon investigation he discovered that the oil had given out,
Jack had bought just enugh oil to take him through his last
night and no more. It was a cold reception that Bill received.
However we later learned that Jack also got a cold re-,
ception. When he arrived at camp he was put in a small tent
and there he had to stay whether he liked it or not As you ,
probably know army tents have no oil heat and are not so
warm. Uncle Sam pkid Jack back for Bill.
Griffin Also Announces Date
For County-Wide Teach
ers Meeting.
Person county school children,
some seven hundred of them in
fifth grades, will soon be reading
Jule B. Warren’s much discusse 1
history 'cf North Carolina, sub
ject in recent weeks of a text
book controversy precipitated
when the Newsom and Lefler
book on same theme was not se
lected.
Person County Superintendent
of schools R.JB. Griffin in making
announcement Saturday that
approximately 5,000 copies of var
ious recently adopted text-oocks,
including Warren’s, have been re
ceived or will soon be received
and distributed to primary, gram j
mar grades and others, said that
speakers at the March county
wide teachers meeting to be held
on Tuesday, March 4, at 4 o’clock
at Central Grammar school will
include publishing company rep
resentatives who will discuss the
new books.
Also on the program will be
11. Arnold Perry, of Raleigh of
the department of supervision A
similar program for Negro teach-1
ers will be presented on the same
clay at 7 o’clock in the evening j
at Person Ocunty Training school, j
Teachers who attend these j
meetings will at the time vote on
selection of a vice president for
he North Carolina Education as
sociation. The two candidates are
lohn C. Lockhart, of
superintendent of Meck’r.iburg
schools, and Dr. R. W. Ca.ver,
superintendent of the Hickory j
schools.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1941,
Dix Brings Inspirational
Message To Roxboro Scouts
State Holds First
i
Meeting Following
White House Partv
North Carolina in February
held its follow-up conference
supplementing the work of the
1940 White House Conference on
Children in a Democracy when
400 interested citizens met in
Raleigh Memorial Auditorium.
Wake county shortly after the
state conference held its own
meeting to discuss the future of
child welfare as a part of inter
nal social security.
Frank P. Graham, president of
the University told the State
Conference that prepoesd plans
for federal aid to public schools
will provide for State control of
expenditures and would not re
sult in national “dictatorship’’ of
the country’s educational system.
Four charges are generally
made against the proposal, the a
mount of money involved, the
problem raised in the South by
the Negro, that part of the money
would go to sectarian schools,
and that the whole thing would
result in federal dictatorship of
schools, but every single one of
these objections is groundless,”;
the University head said.
; “The cost of federal aid in the
1 first year of operation would be
less than the amount of money
spent in producing a single bat
tleship. In the sixth year of op
-1 oration the cost would run to
$200,000,000, one-third less than
the amount now spent on the
j 300,000 beys in the Civilian Con
servation Corps, and no one
thinks that is not money well
spent.
Dr. Graham spoke at the morn,
ing session and presented Gov
ernor J. M. Broughtcn as hon
orary chairman to welcome the
conference to Raleigh.
The Governor termed child
welfare more important now than
in any time in the past 100 years.
“Much cf the danger and harm
j done to the children of Europe
in the preciously valuable time
j of their lives can not be helped
|by the people in America. We
can help the children in America
for they should have no peril
except that of ignorance and
superstition,” the honorary
i chairman stated.
“This sort of meeting,” Brough
| ton stressed, “is dedicated to the
J sort of teachings that we find in
the Bible. In our service we not
only serve the children but find
for ourselves the best program.
We are dealing with something
that progresses our culture and
civilization.”
Miss Ida H. Curry of Washing
ton, acting director cf the Na
tional citizens commitee formed
as a result of the 1940 White
House Conference, was present
ed by State Welfare Commission
(Continued on back page)
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Troop 49 Meets
Wednesday Night
The biggest part of the meet
ing held at seven o’clock, Wed-j
nesday night, by Troop 49 was
taken up by discussing the Fath-|
er - Son Banquet that was held
Friday night at the Hotel. Dur- 1
ing the meeting business was
taken up and songs were sung.
A first aid game was played
which played a big part in re-1
viewing the scouts on first aid.
3. A. Harris was present to talk I
ibout the banquet The meeting
was dismissed by the Great
Scoutmasters’ Benediction.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER SIXTEEN
Having as his theme “The
Business of Being a Father and
a Son,” Frank Dix, Greensboro
Scout Executive, who was guest
speaker at the annual Person
and Roxboro District Boy Scout
father and son banquet held here
Friday night, with great serious
ness urged fathers and sons to
share with one another the ex
perience cf living.
In the course of his address,
Mr. Dix, who was introduced by
F. O. Carver, Jr., paid tribute to
the Scout organization as one
which is contributing to a better
father and sen relationship and
cited recollections of his own
father who was for many year:
a scoutmaster. The impoprtant
thing, said Mr. Dix, “Is not doing
for ycur boy, but with him.”
In conclusion the speakc
stressed the fact that many
younger men, active in scout
leadership, are being called a
way from their homes and that
these leaders many of whom do
not have sons cf scout age, de
spite their willingness to work
with the organization often time-;
cannot do as good a job of lead
ership as could men who are
fathers of boys of scout age. The
real job, he said, should be up
to these fathers.
Greatest interest was shown
in announcement of winners of
the attendance banner, which
went to Cub Pack No. 2, and to 1
Troop 49 as a tie, attendance
being based on percentage. Hon
orable mention went to Tribe 4,
Bushy Fork. At the banquet,
which was»served at Hotel Rox
boro, reservations numbered 211.
The attendance reward was pre
sented by District President C.
A. Harris, who also read an in
teresting letter from National
headquarters giving history and
membership of the first troop
organized in Roxboro in 1916-17.
Report on achievements during
I 1940, derogatory fashion by the
! Rev. T. Marvin Vick, was inter
, rupted with vigorous protests
from Mrs. Robert Long, who
spoke in defense cf scoutmasters
and scout widows, from Sonny(R.
B. Dawes, Jr., who defended
the Cubs, from Thomas Long, wh >
rallied support for Torop 49 and
from spokesmen for various ot
| her troops mentioned in Mr.
! Vick’s report.
Welcome to fathers and other
I guests was extended by Scouts
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Japs Move South
Toward Hainan Island
Shanghai, Feb. 22. —Japanese
troop transports were reported
steaming southward today from
Formosa and Japan herself,
haeded presumably for Hainan
Island —a likely way station in
any drive that might be made
upon Singapore— or for Northern
French Indo-China.
The story was heard here with
out confirmation but, coming as
it did so soon after the arrival
of heavy Australian reinforce
ments in Singapore it was accep
ted in some quarters as indicat
ing a Japanese answer to the.
British action’ in strengthening
that vital Pacific base.
Small contingents of Japanese
troops in recent weeks have bet;,
steadily .entering Indo-China,
which lies next to Thailand (SL
am), a country which in turn,
dominates the land approach to
the Malay Peninsuk and to Sing
apore itself.