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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUI • • PERSON COUNTY. YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. . VOLUME xn Views Os The News ALFCLsSO, FORMER SFAINISII KLsG, DDES IN ROME Rome, Feb. 28—Alfonso XIII, 54-year-old former Monarch of Spam, died at 11:50 A. M. C 4 :o0 A. M., E. S. T.) today in the h> tel room which had been his home in exile lor a decade. He suffered a series of heart; attacks beginning on Feb. 13 and had been sitting in a chair fov the last seven days, too weak to i be placed in bed. He was cheer ful until the last. At his side when he died werej his queen, Victoria, from whom 1 he had been estranged f:r many years; his son and designaied heir to the Spanish throne, Don Juan, another son, Don Jaime; a daughter, Beatrice, who admirus- 1 tered the last rites of the Catho lic Church when death seemed in evitable Feb. 22. o ACE PARKER INVOLVED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Durham, March I.—Police said today that an unidentified hit and-run driver was operating a car in collision with one driven by Clarence (Ace) Park-; er, 28, former Duke Univer-i : sity football player, on Miltcn Avenue shortly before noon but that only property damage re- j suited. About 11:50 A. M. Parker, row a professional football s’ar, was going Ncrth on Milton Ave nue, police said when the alleged hit-and-run driver and he col lided. The unidentifier driver, in a car owned by D. T. Green, of Durham, was headed East on Wilkerson Avenue, police said. o BARBOUR SAYS N. C. TO RENT ARMORY AGAIN Durham Mar. 1 —Capain Lu ther Barbour, former commanding officer of Company D, 120 In fantry, said that he has no in dication that the State of North Carolina will not renew its con tracts for the Durham Armory this year, despite rumors to the contrary. The contract will end in June and it will be up to the State of North Carolina to renew it, Bar bour said. However, he has no word that it will be renewed. Cap tain Barbour has had charge of the Armory while the National Guard is in training at Fort Jackson, S. C. o GINGER WEEPS WHEN SHE GETS PRIZE FOR ‘KITTY FOYLE’ Hollywood, Mar. I—A weeping' Ginger Rogers, a stuttering James Stewart, and a blushing David O. Selznick accepted their “Oscars” for outstanding achievements in movie making last year. Miss Rogers, who explained sobbingly that she was weeping for joy, was acclaimed by the mo tion picture academy of arts and sciences as the year’s best actress for her work in “Kitty Foyle.” Stewart was named best actor for his comedy role in ‘The Phil adelphia Story.” He had to gulp before he could say thanks. Selznick received the prize for the year’s best movie, “Re- L m nnn O—— »«mmi GROUNDED London, Mar. 1 —Bad weather leapt both British and German planes grounded during the night. . 1 Itrstmigjdimes FUBUUUD EVERY SUNDAY A THURSDAY How To Be Happily Married Illustrated by Person Couple Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Wade of Alleasville Think The Years Have Been Good To Them. In an Allensville township farm house in Person county the old, old story of “boy meets girl” had yesterday a special significance for Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas Wade, who at 10 ..’clock on Sun | day morning, March 1, 1891 were 1 united in marriage in the low j ceilinged living room of the house, then the property of tne I bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. 13. I F. Gentry. Last night, in that same living 1 . oem, made bright by electric ights and happy memories, sur. rounded by five cf their six liv ing children and their eight grandchildren and many of their j friends of half a century, Mr | Wade and Mvs. Wade, who was Miss Mary Sophronia Gentry, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a quiet familv party. “We wouldn’t have thought of having a party”, said Mrs. Wade, who remembers her grey woollen wodding dress, a heavy model with yards and yards in it, “but the children wanted us to cele brate”. j Mrs. Wade, a quiet woman, a ] vered that there wasn’t any danc ing last nl&ht, Cut Mr. ’ Wadi*! ’ with a touch more of liveliness lin his manner, loqked as if ne ! could stand a round or two of tne fancy steps he may have once en joyed in that living room. Like many people in Person county who have for generations been living in the communities in which they were born, the Wades have a complicated fami ly history. Sometime before t>e March wedding of 1891, Z. V. Gentry, brother of Mrs. Wede, married one of Mr. Wade’s sis ters and it was but natural that Jchn Thomas Wade and Sophro nia Gentry should visit Li each other’s homes and in the home of the Z. T. Gentry, which was also close by. After a courtship lasting sev eral months, twenty-two year old Jchn Thomas Wade, sitting in the (Continued on back page) o NO REPORT i Chief of Police S. A. Ol'ver yesterday said that he has no re port as yet on the Tuesday morn. ing robbery which occurred at Rock Inn service station. State investigators have been called J into the case and have for sever- j | »1 days been making examina j tions, but no one of them has is j sued a statement. o FIND THE MAN Person Selective Service Board office manager Baxter B. Man gum yesterday report ed that question*ires and ot- . her mail addressed to Joe Her- j man Tuck, registerant, thought to reside on Route 1, in the Olive Hill or the F. T. Whit field store community, have been returned to .the office, marked unclaimed, address unknown. Any information as to whereabouts .of Tuck, a white .man, who registered . for service last October in the general registration, .will be appreciated said Mr. Mangum, who added that at least .one or two other “lost men” have hern found through newspaper , puDucuy. I *— 1- 1 I REV. J. MCD. DICK REV, J. MCD. DICK BRINGS MESSAGE Next Lenten Speaker At St. Mark’s Church On Thursday Will Be Rev. Norville Wicker, of Dan ville, Va. Having as his theme, problems pertaining to “Sin and Salvation" the Rev. J. McDowell Dick, rec-! tor cf the Church of the Good! 'Shepherd,'’•Raleigh,- delivered an! impressive message Thursday night at St. Mark’s Episcopal church to mark the beginning of tiie Lenten season. “Lent, said the minister, “should be a season of looking inward, of .epentance and humility made! real by resolutions to do better. It is not enough that we should be serry about sin, for with con viction of it must come restitu tion which makes forgiveness possible”. In illustrating the sermon the visiting rector referred to the dramatic story of David, Bath-| sheba and Uriah, pointing out that although the King’s sin was! great, he subsequently sought' God’s grace and through humil-; ity became a man “after God’s own heart”. Here with Mr. Dick from Ra leigh were Mr. and Mrs. Womble, j parent’s of St. Mark’s Deacon in charge, the Rev. Rufus J. Worn-! ble, who was formerly associated with the Good Shepherd parish. Speaker at the service on Thurs day of this week at 7:30 o’clock in the evning will be the Rev.' Norville Wicker, of Epiphany church, Danville, Va. The public is cordially invited to attend. o Miss Griffin Os Welfare Division Leaves Roxboro i . ! Miss Marjorie Griffin, case-J worker for the Person Depart ment of Public Welfare, who re-' signed her position several weeks! ago in order to accept a place! with the Social Securities board, left Roxboro Thursday afternoon for Norfolk, Va., and Washing ton. In Norfolk she will spend a few days with members of her family trfore going to Washing ton to stay six weeks for a train ing course expected to prepare! her for her new work. Miss Griffin may at end of that time be located In Salisbury. A graduate of Sweet Brier, Miss Griffin was unusually popular in Roxboro and during her stay here entered into many social and civic activities. t • ' Federal Income Taxes Due taxes mid by married man WITH NO CHILDREN »m MaM 'Jm -4.000 — ; 104.00 *123.20 March 15 is the deadline for paying federal income taxes. With per sonal exemptions reduced from $2,5:0 to- $2,900 for heads cf famine's, and ; from $1,009 to SB3O for single persons, approximately 2.C00.030 mo.-e re turns will be fi!cn this year. Personal exemptions are lower, s-.n :a ; > i are higher, and 10 per cent has been added for national defense. Baptists To Have Special Session ... ■ i On Wednesday 1 On Wednesday, March 5, there will be a special Sunday school 'conference held at Roxboro First j Baptist Church Rev. W. F. West, ! pastor'Qf Lie church said yester-*-- aay that this is to be one of the seventy meetings to be held in ivorth Carolina anu one of 910 scheduled for the S-uthern Bap tists. The meeting is being pro moted by the Baptist Sunday- School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the as sociational Sunday school organ ziation of the Beulah Associa tion, of which Mrs. Erroll M'v ton is superintendent. The purpose of the meeting is to make plans for expansion of Sunday school work in all of the | Baptist churches in the associa tion for 1941. The program will open at 10:00 a.m., and during , the day plans will be presented : for adding from 10 to 15 per cent to the present Sunday school en rollment. Included in those tak ing part on the program from j the Beulah association will be J. W. Noell, Moderator, and , Mrs. Errol Morten, Associational Sunday School Superintendent. Everyone is expected to bring luncheon. All Baptist churches in the asso ciation are urged to se that the Sunday school officers and teach ers attend the meeting. Along The Way j-—_ With the Editor D. D. V. Long thinks he is something. He has a brand new j sport model car and now he keeps riding it around to show j it to the girls. Whether it helps his case with the women or | net, we are not in a position to say, but Gene Thompson said j he bought it because he thought it would help with the weaker | sex. If it does help a few more boys around town might get , one like it. All of the above reminds us of Coleman King who just 1 had a few pictures made of himself. He has his friends wond ering what he is going to do with them. The pictures look about as good as it was possible for them to look, considering j the material, but even at that we do not know what Coleman is going to do with them. This newspaper does not want one and we know of no ladies who do. Maybe the picture taking j man was just warming up. Each year this column has something to say about Rox boro gardeners. At this time we would like to call to your at tention a real cnampion in the garden line, A. S. de Vlaming. Mr. de Vlaming goes about his garden like a man who knows his business. Each weed' is immediately taken care of and each seed receives very careful attention. When harvest time comes •i that eats like a King. We would like to match Mr. de Vlaming against A. M. Bums, Sr., not Junior. Troop 49 Holds Night Meeting y .. ; j I Last Wednesday night troop 49 met in its regular place in the Community House. The meeting was organized by the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. The busi ,.’ ess was. taken up and plans for ihe next Ccurt of Honor were dis cussed. Then plans for a play *o bp presented at the next scout meeting were made. Then all the property of the trocp was gone -vs.- siiii chocked. It was estimat ed that the following things arc ircluded in the property: 10 tents, 15 Flint and Steel Firebuilding Sets, 35 Merit Badge Pamphlets, 2 compasses. 2 shovels. 2 bugles and 2 hatchets. W ! ‘h the=e are many more books which make up the Troop Library. The troop is on the budget plan which many other troops are now using. Each scout pays fifty cents when he becomes a scout and t,hen he pays five cents a week which takes care cf the subscription to the “Boys Life”, the fifty cents fee at the, beginning cf each year, badges, money for hikes, money for the Red Cross cr any other project and many other things. The troop is one hundred percent in the subscription of the “Boys Life”. The troop at the present has about thirty-five scouts enrolled Games were played and the meeting closed by the Great I Scoutmaster benediction. — | SUNDAY MARCH 2, 1941 War Ueudj Treasurer tias Good bieport tor tebruary SPLENDID MUSIC AURaITS SMALL AUDIENCE HERE University of Georgia Glee 1 Club Gives Spirited Per formance a t Philethea Sponsored Benefit Concert « Opening with Bach’s, noble ! “Out of the Depths” and closing I with Ross.m’s pyrotechnical • In- I lJammatus” from ‘Stabat Mater' the University of Georgia glee ' c'ub, assisted by Miss Minna | Ikek.cr, guest soloist, presented | .hctcfvp a : mall but largely a.i appreciative audience in Jlox !i, ro high school auditorium Friday night a concert of rare ex ! ccllcnce. Os choral numbers, best re ceived, perhaps, were Sander | son’s “Captain Mac”, with, solo parts by Henry Wilson, and j two Nlegro spirituals, “Some ; body’s Knockin’” and “The Bat-! ' tie of Jerico,” althcugh, Krem | set’s “Hymn to the Madonna M | and Reger’s, “Lullaby,” both with solo parts by Miss Hecksr, coloratura soprano, of Atlanta, were well received, as were Miss Hecker’s solos, including thi beautiful “Shadow Song” from Meyerbeer’s’ ‘Dinorah’ and a sel-| cction from Massenet’s, “Manon. 'j-' Climax was reached with the!' “Inflammatus” in which Miss Hecker’s solo parts supported were by an excellent choral back ground. Also appreciated were violin j ! solos by Robert Harriscn, partic | ularly his rendition of deFalla’s ‘Ritual of Fire.” The glee club, composed of more than thirty young men from the university, at Athens, was under direction of Hugo Hodgson. After spending the night in Roxboro the club left Saturday morning for Washing ton, D. C. and Annapolis, where! programs will be given beforej the close of its annual tour. The; Roxboro appearance was arrang ed through Miss Virginia Wilson, of this city, brother of Henry Wilson, and was sponsored by the Philathea class of the First . Baptist church as a benefit for the building fund. Not in many months has Rox boro had opportunity to hear mu . sic of such quality as was pre ; sented Friday night: unfortunate- 1 . ly those persons who did not at- j tend were in the majority, and some of those who were there ! applauded like “Yankees”, with | out expectation of encores. o 200 CHINESE KILLED WHEN THEATRE COLLAPSES Kunming, China, Mar. i— ; More than 200 persons were be-1 lieved killed cr injured when a theater collapsed here shortly before mid-night. So far as is known all the vic tims were Chinese. o TEACHERS MEET R. B. Griffin, Person Super intendent of Schools, yester ! day said that teachers in the i | public schools will have their ' | monthly county-wide meeting Tuesday afternoon, March 4, i at 4 o’clock at Central Gram mar School, Roxboro, and that Negro teachers will meet on the same date at 7 o’clock In the evening ml Person County Training school. Programs at both meetings will deal with new textbooks motived here rrcmttj. t-o/’Vv s -’y THE TIMES 13 PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMEB. NUMBER SEVENTEEN Local Unit of British War Relief Society Plans Tea For Thursday At Which Goods Will Be Displayed. Representing cash contribution* received by the Roxboro unit of tne British "War Relief society from January 23 through Febru ary 21, a check for $240 was last uteK forwarded to New York headquarters of the society by the local unit’s treasurer, James Brooks, v\ ho reported that total cash contributions since orgiiu kation of the Roxboro unit, early in January stand at $285. Contiibutnr.s received here lasi week total $22.50. ■Recently t w o boxes were packed and shipped to New York abdwork in the sewing and knit ting divisions is continuing with increased interest. Displays of knitted goods, which will be sent this week, are now on display in local headquarters and on Thurs day Mrs. S. M. Ford, chairman. ! assisted by Mesdames Sanders McWhorter, Arch Jones, Percy ; Bloxam and others actively asso | dated with the Roxboro unit will have a benefit silver English tea at headquarters between the hours cf three and five o’clock .n the aftern:on, (Continued on back page) o COURT EXCHANGE By arrangements between Judge Leo Carr, of Burlington. 1 1 esident Superior court jurist of | this district, and Judge J. Paul ; Frizelle, cf Snow Hill, a number of Spring court terms, including one to be held in Person County during the week of April 21, have teen exchanged, according to an nouncement by Miss Sue Brad sher, Person Clerk of the ccuit The exchange will enable the Snow Hill and Burlington judges to remain closer to home districts and will accordingly bring Judge i Carr to Person in April. n— AVIATION EXPERTS STUDY WRECKAGE Atlanta, Ga. Mar. 1, —Seven Federal aviation experts delved ! into the twisted wreckage of an Eastern Airlines sleeper seeking the cause of a crash in whicn seven persons . died Thursday and nine survived although three, including Captain Eddie V. Rick- I enbacker, remained in serious j condition. Airline officials are also inves tigating the crash and in Wash ington a third inquiry was being: organized by Congressmen. Rep resentative William D. Byron (D-Md) was one of those killed in the crack-up. o CLASHES I Amsterdam, Mar. I. The i Netherlands, (Via Berlin) ! Clashes between civilians p and German military police brought death to at least six persons and injuries to several others. A “great number of persons re sponsible for the disturbances or having participated therein’ were arrested, a brief German announcement said last night j o TO JOIN AXIS Berlin, Mar. I—Press reports that Bulgaria was slated to join the Rome-Berlln-Tokyo alliance brought an authorized statement that “officially nothing is known” on the subject I The spokesman parried other questions in that connection al though never JtiMßMKdteny- I ing that Bulgaria wwidHpjfcn. .1- wS*
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