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SPEEDY APPROVAL
OP AID FUND URGED
Washington, March 22. —Three
key defense officials were report-j
ed reliably to have advised a Sen
ate committee that speedy ap
proval of the $7,000,000,600 British
aid appropriation would deal a
powerful psychological blow to
the Axis powers.
The three—Secretary of War
Stimson, Secretary of Navy Knox
and General George C. Marshall,
Army Chief of Staff—testified
before a Senate Appropriations
Sub-Committee yesterday as Ad
ministration leaders worked to,
rush the progress of the big cash
allotment so that it would be
ready to go to the White House
by Monday nigh.
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LINDBERGH WARNS AGAINST
WAR PARTICIPATION
New York, March 22. —Charles
A. Lindbergh said that the United
States is rearming “too late” for
a war which, if we enter it now,
can end only “in defeat and hu-j
miliation.”
He called on opponents of war
to flood Congress with demands
for peace, demands for a slate-'
ment of “our war aims,” and de
mands for “our plan of defense
snd attack” in terms of soldiers
killed and years of war.”
In “a letter to Americans,”
published by Collier’s Magazine,
the famous flier declared that
any departure from the country’s
post-World War isolationism
would result "in national disas
ter.”
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CHOPPY BEA DELAYS
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Port Everglades, Fla., March j
22. —A moderate southerly wind
chopping up the sea off South
Florida delayed President Roose
velt’s departure for a 10-day va
cation at sea.
Accompanied by his confidante
Harry L. Hopkins, Secretary of
Interior Harold L. Ickes and At-1
tomey General Robert H. Jack- 1
son, Mr. Roosevelt hoped to put
out this morning aboard the Pres-1
idential yacht, Potomac.
He boarded the yacht last
night, having come here by
special train from Washington.
Suspecting that his party were
“fair weather sailors,” he decided
to spend the night tied up to the
dock here, allowing his calling,
companions to acquire their sea
legs gradually.
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PLANS FOR ARMORED
DIVISIONS LUKE NAZI
PANZER UNITS REVEALED
Washington, March 22.—The!
House Appropriations Committee
approved a fifth supplemental
army and navy appropriation bill
totaling approximately $4,000,-
and revealed that the
army iiigh command has receiv
ed hew and “more exact data”
on German Panzer division op
erations in France early last
Summer.
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POPE CANCELS EABTEE
mass Because of war
Vatican City, March 22.—An
thorilltive sources said today that
Pope Pi us XII had cancelled the
usual papal Easter mass in Saint
Peter’s and benediction from the
church’s bakony for the lint time
in hine years because Os war con
ditions.
Jmon|Mitnes
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
SENIORS WORK ON
ANNUAL JARAMA
“Anne Os Green Gables”
Stars Arline Newell With
Large Supporting Cast.
Work on L. M. Montgomerys,
“Anne of Green Gables,” senior
class play to be given on the eve
nings of April 7 and 8 in Rox
boro high school auditorium, is
now going forward, according to
j announcement -made today and
| it is expected by those in charge
| of production that this familiar
! story, recently made into a mo
tion picture, will in its local dra
matic form be greatly enjoyed.
It will be noted that the play
will be given for two nights, this
being the first time that such
a schedule has been arranged for
a senior class play. The leading
feminine role will be portrayed
by Miss Arline Newell, while the
masculine lead will be interpret
ed by George Long. Miss Newell
is the daughter of Mr. and Mis.
Wheeler Newell and Mr. Long is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G.
Long. Both students have been
active in the high school dramatic
club. Also in the play will be a
number of other young men and
women.
The role of Anne Shirley will
be portrayed by Miss Newell, with
Enna Bailey Jones playing the
i part of Florence Remsen, super-
J intendent of an orphanage. Oth
ers appearing in the play, are:
Zelda H-clleman as Minnie Steam,
Anita Kirby as Mrs. Spence.-,]
Buddy Begun as Mathew Cuthber:,
Mary Virginia Clayton as Manila
Cuthbert, his sister, Katherine]
j Spencer as Mrs. Rachel Lyniie, *
Eleanor Winstead as Mrs. Barry,
Nannie Willie Cushwa as Diana,
her daughter, Doris Hamlin as
Mrs. Allen, a minister’s wife, j
Ethel Newell Winstead as Josie
Pye, Harry Kirby as Moody Spur
geon, George Long as Gilbert
Blythe and Billy Murphy as Tra
Mills.
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Person Women To
Make Articles For
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Washington Show
Home Demonstration Club wo
j men of Person County who made
the comforter and mattress pad
for the North Carolina State Fair
in Raleigh last fall have been
asked to make one comforter, a
mattress pad from unbleached
domestic and one from pad sacks
for the mattress Exhibit for the
U. S. Department of Agriculture’s
Ratio Exhibit in Washington dur
ing the week of April 7.
Miss Ruth Whitfield of the
Bushy Fork Club and Mrs. Dan
Whitfield of the Hurdle Mills
club will have charge of getting
these articles made for Miss Pau.
line Gordon, of Raleigh, Exten
sion Specialist in Home Furnish,
ings and Home management.
This request comes as a com
pliment to the splendid work thc|
Person Club women have done.!
Home Demonstration Schedule
Tuesday, March El, 2:00 p. tn.j
Cunningham Citib irill irtCCt in
the Jno. C. Terrfell Club room.
Wednesday, tthrefa 28, 2:30 p.
m. Bethel Hill Club will meet,
with Mrs. S. P. Gentry.
Thursday, March 27 2:30 p. m.
The Pace’s Tavern group will
meet With Mrs. Job Burch.
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Masotis Have Dinner
Masons of Pbi&n Lodge 113
Will cm Tueadftf Right at 8:30
o’clock have dinner at Hotel Rox
boro, prior tb the regular meet
ing which will be held at the
Lodge hall. Reservations have
been made for 3$ dinner guests.}
CONTRIBUTIONS
TOWAKRW
GIVEN FOR WEEK
Good Sum Os Money Re
ceived - Seventh Grade of
Hurdle Mills Gives Cloth.
British War Relief society con
tributions, including member
ships, cash contributions and pro
ceeds from sale of emblems, re
ported for the week ending Mar
ch 21 by Mrs. S. M. Ford, chair
man of the Roxboro unit, totaled
$25.50, according to announce,
ment made today.
Also contributed were three
boxes of clothing by the Seventh
Grade of Hurdle Mills school of
which Mrs. J. S. Merritt is teach
er. The clothing was gathered
and packed by the children who
came to the City today to deliv
er the boxes and to whom Mrs.
Fcrd exppressed the apprecia
tion of the Society.
Sewing and knitting continued
through the week and interest in
these activities of the unit is con
stantly growing, said Mrs. Ford,
who also reported that the so
ciety now has on sale at its of
fice in the Kirby building attrsc-
I tive cartons of book matches, as
j well as emblems, pins, vanity
cases and cigarette cases, toget.
her with a few more “Aviator’s”
pins.
Memberships were received
j this week form Fred Masten and
] Mrs. R. H. Shelton and contri
| butions .from Mrs. O. Page Long
and Mrs. Nelson Williams.
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Grammar Grade
I To Give Drama
At Allensville
At 7:45 on Tuesday evening,
March 25 in the auditorium at
Allensville School sixth grade
boys and girls will give a play.
There will be no admission
charge, and the public is cordiaL
ly invited to attend
Relatives and friends of the
students are especially invited to
be present.
An additional feature will be
music by the Rythm Rand.
A very brief business session
cf the P. T. A. at 7:30 o’clock on
the same evening, will be held.
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Troop 49 Meets
Regular meeting of Troop 49,
Boy Sccuts, was held this week
at Edgar Long Memorial church.
Chief business discussed was the
stationery project by which mon
ey for the troop treasury is be
ing raised. Also discussed was
division of the troop to form a
new troop at Brooksdale Metho
dist church, of which the new
Scoutmaster is expected to be
Hillman Stanfield, present as
sistant Scoutmaster of Troop 49.
It is expected that about twenty
boys will remain with Troop 49.
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New Plan
A newt protective insurance
plan, offering SIO,OOO accident
insurance, $5,000 bail bond cer
tificate and SIOO emergency ben
efit, is being offered at no extra
cost on any new or used car sel
ling for S2OO or more and finanr.
ed by the Person Motors Inc ,
dealers in Fords and Mercury
automobiles. Announcement of
the plan is being made in to
day’s limes.
MR. WINSTEAD ILL
Tom Winstead, of this city, is
seriously ill at his home tin North
Main street.
Royal Blood for Britain
Her majesty, the Ranee of Sarawak, who is the only white Ranee
in the world, ts pictured here at the Presbyterian hospital in New York
city. She is giving her blood for the blood-bank which will be drawn
upon by Great Britain from time to time. Attending the Ranee aic
nurse Miss M. Clark and Dr. Earl Taylor.
BENEFIT SONG
FESTIVAL TO BE
GIVEN IN MAY
Part Os Hospital Day Cele
bration. Benefit Bridge
Party Will Be Given For
Uospitat Next Week.
Plans for a “Community Song
Festival” to be held in May as a
benefit for the Community hos
pital and for a benefit party for
the same institution, scheduled :
for Friday, April 4, at 8 o’clock
at Roxboro Community house,
were considered Friday at a com
mittee membersof the
Woman’s Auxiliaryof the hospital
yesterday.
The “Community Song Festival'
will be held at the Court House
in Roxboro on national hospital
day, Saturday, May 10, at 8 o’-
clock, under direction of Wallace
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W. Woods, with Mrs. Woods, pian- 1
ist, and it is expected that groups
from various communities in the
county will participate. Prizes
will be given and it is hoped tnat
many will participate. During
the day the hospital auxiliary will
stage an open house and tea at
the hospital.
Those on the committee for the
April benefit party at which
bridge, Chinese checkers, bingo
and other games will be played,
are Mcsdames J. D. Fitzgerald,
T. T. Mitchell, C. B. Kirby, Lo-‘
pan H. Umstead and Miss Evie
I.eng and those interested in mak
ing reservations are requested to
place them with the committee.
March meeting of the Auxiliary
was held last week, with Nathan
Lunsford, chairman of the hospi
tal board of directors as speak
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Along The Way
With the Editor
I wish that I had a picture, but it was impossible
to get one. Anyway Burleigh Clayton has been seen
working his garden in an overcoat Now you can just
bet your last dollar that “B. G.” is going to have a real
garden this year with all the good things to eat. We
print this bit of news in order that Jack Strum, Clyde
Bowen and Wilmer Malone might not get the idea that
they will have to starve this summer.
Jesse Rogers, so called Mayor of Allensville, had
hard luck last week. His prize dog was very sick, so sick
that Jess thought the dog might die. Then his cat left
home and evidently left for good. On top of that two
fellows drove up in a car with a flat tire and Jess had
to get out and help fix the tire. That’s enough hard luck
for any two men in one week.
A few nights ago Coy Day was invited out to sup
per. Coy was mighty hungry and all set for a big meal.
Now here’s the story, he did not like oysters and when
he sat down to eat he saw that the meat dish was
oysters, plenty of them, fried nice and brown and look
ing so good to every one except Coy Day. Well the boy
decided that he had to eat them and so he tasted and
when he did he liked them and then he proceeded to see
how many he could eat. He did O. K, too.
One Cent
Sale Starts
Wednesday
Thomas & Oakley, Walgreen
Agency drug store will stage its
semi-annual one cent sale this
week. The sale will begin Wed
nesday morning March 26th and
will continue through Wednes
day, Thursday, Friday and Sat
urday, of the same week.
Many items will be placed on
sale at the regular price, but ano
ther of the same kind can be
purchased for one penny.
Proprietors of the firm state
that hundreds of new items have
been purchased for this event.
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Prisoner Did Not
Escape, Only Sleep
Durham, Mar. 22—Durham po
lice were notified that a prisoner,
Jerry Barnes, Durham County
white man had “escaped” from
the County Home while serving
a 60-day term. The alarm was
broadcast to the various officers
and a search was instituted.
But Mrs. E. T. Mangum, ma
tron at the home, disclosed to
day that Jerry had not escaped.
He only had fallen asleep in a
boiler room.
A guard through a mistake
had given the alarm about the
“escape,” and police subsequent
ly had been advised that Barnes
was at large.
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IN HOSPITAL
Victor Kaplan is a patient at
Watt’s hospital, Durham.
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 1941
Largest High School Class
To Be Graduated This Year
FIVE NEGROES
GO TO CAMP ON
FRIDAY MORNING
Four White Men Left Yes
terday. Three Negroes And
Sixteen White Men Go
Next Week.
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Next group of Person selective'
service men to leave for Fort
Bragg will be five Negroes, Wiley
James Villines, William Mason
Tuck, Mose Winbush, John Arthur
Tucker and Ivory McKimley Wag
staff, all of whom have volun ]
teered, and will report to Fort
Bragg on Friday, March 28, after
first reporting at 9 o’clock that,
morning at the office of the Per-;
son board, where they will be'
given final instructions.
Four white men, Willie 011iC|
Long, and three volunteers, Wil- j
liam David Gentry, Jr., Thurman
Lee Ladd and Roh(ert Wilburn
Hicks, left yesterday for camp.
Three additional Negroes will :
leave on Wednesday, April 2, and
sixteen white men will leave on
Friday, April 4. A number of
these men may come from vol
unteer ranks, said Mr. Mangum.
but it is expected that most of
them will be drawn from regular!
selective service ranks. - |
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Final Rites For
Ed Thomas, 71,
Held Yesterday
Mr. Ed Thomas, 71, son of the
late Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas, of
the Thomas store community, Per
son county, died at noon Friday
in an Oxford hospital, following
a heart attack. He had been ill
for one week.
A member of a family promin
ent in Person county, Mr. Tho
mas, who had never married,
made his home with his brother,
Will Thomas at whose residence
the funeral service was conduc
ted yesterday afternoon by the
Rev. L. J. Raney. Interment took
place in the A1 Moore family
cemetery.
Survivors include: three bro
thers, John, Ernest and Will!
Thomas, one sister, Mrs. Mary
Mooney, all of Person county,
and a number of nephews and
nieces.
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KAY KYSER NAMED AS
ALUMNI VICE PRESIDENT
Chapel Hill, N. C., March 22 -
Band Leader Kay Kyser has been
elected first vice president of the
University of North Carolina
Alumni Association, tabulated
ballots in the annual election
showed today.
Kyser overwhelmingly defeated
Thomas J. Wilson HI of New
York.
W. A. Dees, Goldsboro attorn,
ey, was elected president to suc
ceed Fred I. Sutton of Kinston,
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OLD HEADQUARTERS IN
SOMALILAND TAKEN
FROM FLEEING FOES
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Nairobi, Kenya, March 22
British troops have retaken Har
geisha, main point between Ber.
bera, British Somaliland and Eth.
iopia, a South African beadquar-,
ten common lq<* ittfe |
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER TWENTY
School Board Hears Os
Plans For Commencement,
Scheduled For First Week
In May.
Reporting that the Roxboro
high school 1941 graduating class
is expected to include 90 boy-;
and girls, the largest class eve.'
to graduate from the local insti
tution, Supervising Principal H.
C, Gaddy yesterday announced
the commencement dates, decided
upon at the March meeting of the
Roxboro District Schqol board,
held Thursday night. Temporary
vice chairman of the session war
Dr. B. A. Thaxton, who presided
in the absence of J. A. Long, Sr.,
Chairman of the board, who ha-
Xor the past several weeks been
a patient at Duke hospital Dur
ham.
Other than election of the vice
chairman, chief business before
the board was consideration of
a report on physical plants with,
in the district, attention Being
called to conditions of the build
ings and their equipment.
Another matter discussed was
selection o f commencement
speakers for Roxboro high school.
Dates for graduation exercises
were announcer as being Sun
day, May 4, through Tuesday,
May, 6, although names of speak
ers, characterised by Super-vis
ing Principal 11. C. Gaddy as
“men of outstanding ability,’
Will not be announced until la
ter. Pattern for the exercises '
will be the same as observed
last year, with the baccalaureate
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address on Sunday night, a Sen
ior's day program on Monday
and the finals on Tuesday night
all at the high school auditorium.
Present for the board session
were C. A. Harris, B. B. Newell,
and W. C. Bullock, Dr. Thaxton
and Mr. Gaddy. It is under
stood that no change in tin
personnel of the board is con
templated this year and tha:
matter of teacher appointments
for next year was not discussed
Prior to adjournm)ent members
of the board voted to express to
Mr. Long, their regrets over his
illness, their appreciation for his
past services and their hope tha:
he will continue to improve in
health.
Schools coming under juris
diction of the board are Roxboro
high school, Roxboro Central
Grammar school, and schools at
Ca-Vel, Longhurst and East Rox
boro. Naming of the board has
in recent years been delegated,
to Roxboro’s City Commissioners.
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Students From
Bethel Hill Visit
Historic Scenes
Students of the seventh grade.
Bethel Hill, accompanied by Mrs.
Lewis S. Cannon, D. Walker, R
H. Evans, Jr., Beasley Moore and
Mrs. W. E. Rudder, spent the day
last week in Raleigh where they
visited the Museum ,the Capitol,
the Hall of History, Dix Hill aftd
many other places of interest
Inspection was also made of
North Carolina State college, of
Meredith and of Duke University.
Students making the trip were:
Jane lie Owen, Lucy Stigall, Myr
tle Adcock, Warren Yarboro, Lil
lie Morris, Clinton Vatighan, John
Wilson, Cedric Evans, Loretha
Phui, James Sullivan, Mary Oliv
efr, Berley Bium, Audrey Ttotit.
Cecil Gentry, Billie Kidder, John ,
Woody, Atfred Oliver, Mary #.
Gentry, Marjorie Gentry, Bmt&i
RuMeU, Bruce Murray, Gla#s .
In May.