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BRITISH R ADIO HONORS
NORTH CAROLINA TOWNS
Greensboro, June 13.—Wash
ington on June 17, and Hertford
on June 25, are North Carolina
programs by the British Broad
casting Corporation it is announc
ed here by Edney Ridge, manager
of Radio Station WBIG m
Greensboro.
The broadcasts will honor A
merican towns having names)
similar to those of English towns.
Each program will last three to
five minutes and will include a
mention of the various cities m
the U. S. which are included on
the list.
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NURSE SAVES
C/JVADIAN VETERAN
CLEARWATER, Fla., June 14.
.—iPersistance of Mrs. Elizabeth
P. May today had saved theUife
of John Percy Barrett, 61-year
old Canadian World War veter
an.
Unable to treat Barrett at her
nursing home, Mrs. May failed to
secure his admission to the Bay
Pines, U. S. veterans hospital.
She ‘telegraphed President
Roosevelt, explaining the situa
tion.
Within a wek it was found
that through a reciprocal agree
ment. it was possible to admit
the Canadian veteran to the hos
pital.
Barrett entered the hospital
five weeks ago and today had
won his fight with death and
was released. He is the son of
the late Sir Basil Barrett and
former rowing coach at the Win
nipeg and Vancouver rowing
clubs.
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UMPIRE ADMITS
HE CAN’T TAKE IT
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 13.
—Here’s an umpire who admits
he can’t take it.
Southeastern League President
X. Stephenson last Inight an
nounced the resignation of Um
pire James C. Connors. Connors
had been charged with cursing
Ted Clawitter, Montgomery catch
er, during the Montgomery-An
niston game Wednesday. Howev
er, Stephenson had dismissed the
charge.
“I can’t take the things an um
pire has to take in this game,”
Connors told Stephenson.
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ENGLAND’S MAY
TOLL REACHES 5,394
LONDON, June 14. —German
air raiders killed 5,394 persons
in Britain and wounded 5,181
others during May, the Ministry
of Home Security announced to
day.
The figures for May were low
er th4se for April when
6,065 persons were reported kill
ed and 6,926 injured.
From last June, when heavy
raids against the British Isles
began, through May 41,150 civ
ilians have been killed and 50,037
injured, the latest JJpires Indi
cate. Deaths may be higher, how
ever, because some of those origi
nally listed as hurt may have
died.
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LAGUARDIA SEES
BRITISH VICTORY
LONDON, June 14.—Mayor
Fiorello H. LaGuardia of New
York told British Home Minister
Herbert Morrison last night that
the United States has fu}l con
fidence in British victory and will
deliver needed war' materials to
the British.
lrrson|Mimes
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
Construction Work On Two
Corner Buildings Goes Ahead
Service Station-Bus Ter
minal Slightly Delayed, But
Remodeling of Drug Store
Building Is At Full Speed.
Although work on the service
station and bus terminal now r>c
ing constructed on the Claude T.
Hall property, corner of Abbiti.
avenue and Lamar street, has for
the past few days been delayed,
bacause of tank installation delays
Mr. Hall yesterday reported that
the building, leased by the At
lantic Refinery, is expected to be
completed within contract time,
while uninterrupted progress is
being shown in renovation of the
Abbitt avenue and Main street
corner building, also owned by
Mr. Hall.
In the city last week was Wil
liam W. (Buddy) Allgood, who,
with Clement Byrd plans next
month to open a drug store in
the renovated building, where
workmen have for several days
been busy lowering the floor
level and re-installing pumbing.
Also to be put in place are at
tractive show windows.
Mr. Allgood, son of Mrs. J. W.
Allgood, on Tuesday was gradu
ated from the School of Pharm
acy, at the University of North
Carolina, and will this week go
to Raleigh to take the State Board
examinations, after which he and
his wife, the former Miss Point
er, expect to re-establish resid
ence here.
Also looking after details of
the renovation of the store is Mr.
Byrd, who several weeks ago re
signed his position as pharmacist
with Roxboro Drug company.
Building contracts for both
structures are let the George
W. Kane company, this city also
in charge of window renovation
now being done at Thomas and
Oakley’s.
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IN ASHEVILLE
In Asheville during the first
part of last week as delegates
to the Eastern Star convention
were Mrs. R. A. Whitfield and
Mrs. Thomas Brooks.
Guests for Hospitality Week
Listed below are additional guests expected to be in Roxboro
during the third annual Hospitality Week, June 22-23.
Dr. and Mrs. John E. Briggs Washington, D. C.
Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Moore and family Oxford
Rev. and Mrs. W. B. Carr Marshville
With Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Moore
Miss Rachel Carr Marshville
With Miss Ann Briggs Moore
Miss Ellie Parrish Oxford
With Miss Ruth Franklin
Mr. and Mrs. Thelbert Apple Garner
With Miss Ora Latta
Mr. and Mrs. George B. Lockhart Gilbertsville, Ky.
Miss Rosemary Lockhart Gilbertsville, Ky.
George B. Lockhart, Jr Gilbertsville, Ky.
With Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Dunlap
Mrs. C. A. Hmes Greensboro
Miss Dorothy “Hines Greensboro
With Mrs. Mamie Merritt
James Abbitt 'l Tampa, Fla.
With Mr. and Mrs, I. O. Abbitt
Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Glidewell, Jr Reidsville
Miss Terry Glidewell Reidsville
With Mrs. Sallie Morris
Miss Annie Ruth Cash Apex, N. C.
With Mrs. B. B. Strum
Mrs. Geneva Kerr Durham
Bobby Kerr Durham
Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Ranson Durham
Ed Gordon 7 Durham
With Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Mitchell
Mr. and Mrs. Schaub Strum Shelby
With Mrs. Molly Barrett
Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Armstrong Salisbury
With W. H. Harris, Sr.
Miss Ann Fox Staley
Mrs. M. P. Boswell ......’ Burkeville, Va.
With Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Stephens
Names of guests expected should be turned in to-the Roxboro
Chamber of Commerce office or to Mrs. W. Wallace Woods
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“SHACK” MARTIN
WILL CHANGE HIS
JOB THIS FALL
Son of The Rev", and Mrs.
W. C. Martin Will Leave
Kentucky Coaching Job To
Go To University of Dela
ware.
W. Southgate Martin, director
of athletics at Kentucky Military
Institute near Louisville, a form
er Duke University athlete, and
son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. C.
Martin, of Roxboro, has resigned J
his position at the Kentucky
school and will this year be back-'
field coach at the University of !
Delaware.
Mr. Martin, better known as
“Shack”, will at the University'
of Delaware be associated with
another former Duke athlete, Bill
Murry, now director of athletics
at the Delaware University.
Mr. Martin, with Mrs. Martin
and their young daughter, will
in August come to Roxboro for a
visit with his parents. He has
been at Kentucky Military Insti
tute for the past three years.
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CCC Boys Given
Community Party
Three 4-H Clubs, Roxboro, Lee
Clay and Lee Jeffers gave a social
for the C. C. C. boys Friday night,
making them welcome to church
es, Sunday schools and other com
munity activities.
The affair under direction of
C. J. Ford, Person Negro Farm
agent, was given in the auditor
ium at Person County Training
school, where games were enjoy
ed and light refreshment were
served.
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AT DOBSON
Miss William Harris, 111 is
spending severad days with mem -
bers of her family.
DIRECTOR
life-ik. i
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W. Wallace Woods, shown a
bove, popular RcPcboro resident J
will this year direct the Third]
Annual “Hospitality Wee k,”j
which will begin next Sunday
and will continue through Sat
urday.
HELENA SCOUTS
WIN AWARD FOR
ACHIEVEMENTS
Nearly Thirty Scouts Os
This District Win Advan
cements A t Court O f
Honor. *
. June achievement award was
on Friday night presented to the
Helena troop at a district Court
of Honor held at Brooksdale
Methodist church, with chair
man J. S. Merritt presiding. Ot
her officials present were Henry
O’Briant, Gus Deering and Cher
okee Council executive A. F.
Patterson, of. Reidsville.
Approximately thirty district
Scouts were presented for ad
vancements ranging from Slav
and Life ranks to tenderfoot,
Mr. Patterson, who was in
Roxboro during the afternoon be
fore the meeting, reported that
many Scouts from the Person
area have made reservations at
Camp Cherokee and he urged as
many as possible to do so before
the July 1, opening date.
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FIRST SERVICE
Today conducting his first Sun
day morning service at St. Mark’s
Episcopal church since his ordin
ation to the priesthood, will be
the Rev. Rufus J. Womble, rec
tor, who said that Jarvis Adams,
soloist, will sing Handel’s,
“Largo.”
Along The Way
With the Editor
Special attention department—James Harris, former City
Manager of Roxboro, is now at his home in Inez recovering
from an attack of measles. Mr. Harris is slated to join the
army at an early date.
Percy Bloxam, our present City Manager, has been living
alone for the past several days. His wife has been away on a
short vacation. The other morning, bright and early, Percy
took a look at his watch, saw that it was 7:30, got up, dressed,
and came up town. Everything looked funny. There was no
one on the streets and he could find no place to get a cup of
coffee. Our City Manager wondered what on earth was wrong.
Finally, in desperation, he looked at his watch again. It was
5:00 a. m. ’
This is also the truth. Glenn Titus and Thomas Feather
stone went bullfrog gigging the other night. Glenn had just
been to see the picture “Blood and Sand.” They went out to
a cow pasture and were getting on very well. All at once they
heard something thundering across the pasture. It was com
ing at them. It was a bull—a big* one and he dwT not look
friendly. They both lit out in a mad race for safety. Thomas
was a little in front; all at once he fell down, then he heard
something rush by. He was sure that it was the bull and look
ed up feeling a little better. The thing that had gone by
a tornado was nothing else but Glenn Titus.
I don’t care whether you believe it or not but I made a
hole-in-one on the golf course Thursday afternoon on the
fourth hole. Honest, I did it, I really did, no kidding. I mean
it, honest.
Wallace Woods Says Person
Ready For Hospitality Week
Attractive Book
May Be Obtained
From Relief Unit
Now on display at the Rox
boro office cf the British War
Relief society is an attractive
book, “This Realm, This Eng
land,” containing reproductions
of etchings and photographs of
historic and beautiful buildings
and scenes in the British isles.
Copies of the volume depicting
the “Citadel of a Valient Race”
may be obtained from Mrs. G.
I Prillaman, Roxboro chairman
of the War Relief office. Pub
lished in New York by Hastings
House, the book was designed
and edited by Samuel Chamber
lain, with an introduction by
Donald Moffat.
In making her weekly report
for the local unit of the Society,
Mrs. Prillaman said that $2.00
have been received from sale of
matches and that contributions
of fifty cents and twenty-five
cents, respectively, have been re
ceived from Mrs. Spivey and
from Mrs. Percy Bloxam.
Second Kiwanis
Sponsored Tonsil
Clinic Concluded
Second of two Kiwanis club
sponsored tonsil clinics for Ne
gro children was last week held
at Person County Training School
for Negroes, when Dr. R. B. Wil
kins, of Durham, performed
twenty-four operations, bringing
total for the present season to
44.
Assisting Dr. Wilkins were Dr.
A. L. Allen, of the Person Health
Department, Mrs. Rogers and Miss
Margaret Fassett, both of Durham,
nurses of the Person health de
partment and Kiwanians A. C.
Fair, R. D. Bumpass and Ed Cun
ningham, with chairman R. G.
Cole.
DRAMA GIVEN
Young people of Concord Meth
odist Church will tonight present
Dr. H. E. Spence’s. “Return of
Moses.” A silver offering will be
taken.
SUNDAY JUNE 15, 1941.
NEGRO AND SON
CAPTURED NEAR
OPERATEDSTILL
Man Whose Name Is Giv
en As Pressley Thorpe,
Placed Under SIOO Bond.
Bey Cited For Juvenile
Court. Still Taken.
Pressley Thorpe, 35, Negro of
the Allensville section, was
'Thurscfciy fenced 'under a SIOO
Ibond, following his arrest 'by
Person County Sheriff M. T.
Clayton, on charge of manufac
turing whisky at a still in Allen
sville township. Also apprehend
ed. was Thorpe’s son, James
Thorpe, 14, who wa s assist
ting his father and who was re
leased, pending a hearing in Ju
venile Court.
Sheriff Clayton reported that
the wooden still, of the steam
er type, with a copper cap and
worm, was dismantled and
brought in, together with about
two gallons of whisky. Around
fifty gallons of mash was des
troyed.
In the party with Sheriff Clay
ton were deputies Bob Whitt,
Baxter Dunn and Patrolman W.
A. Baxter.
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FATHERS BOW IN
DEFEAT BEFORE
SONS IN QUIZ
Rotarians Have “Father
and Son” Night Program
Thursday At Hotel Rox
boro.
Roxboro Rotarians at their ev
ening dinner session held Thurs
day at Hotel Roxboro staged
their annual “Father and Son”
night, with an attendance esti
mated at more than 70, including
the special guests.
Program, in charge of George
W. Kane, club member, was de
voted to a question and answer
Series in which the sons showed
theinselved to be generally more
learned than the fathers. Music
was in charge of Wallace
Woods, with Mrs. Woods at the
piano, and presiding was Presi
dent Gordon C. Hunter.
Numbers of the “sons” present
were in the “adopted for the ev
ening” classification but both the
hosts and Quests bespoke their
complete enjoyment of the af
fair. C. A. Harris, present as a
son of W. H. Harris, Sr., aroused
dinner table interest by announce
ment of J. Sam Merritt’s “hole
in-one”, scored during the after
noon on the Roxboro Country
club golf course.
HERE FOR VISIT
Mrs. E. A. Payne, resident of
Dublin, Va., is visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Puckett,
in this city, before she joins Mr.
Payne at Northwestern Univer
sity, Chicago, where Mr. Payne
is taking Summer School work.
Mr. and Mrs. Payne will in the
Fall go to Fork Union, Va., where
Mr. Payne will be connected with
the schools there.
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IN ONE DAY
About seventeen cases were
on Tuesday disposed of in Per
son’s Recorder’s court, with Judge
R. B. Dawes presiding. Work of
the court was completed in one
day.
section,
THE TIMES IS PERSON’9
PREMIER NEWSPAPER*
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER THIRTY-THREE
Third Annual Celebra
tion of Week Will Begin
Next Sunday And Will
Continue Through Satur
day.
Within one week from today
ushered in by appropriate home
coming services in various chur
ches in the City and in Person
county, will begin the third an
ar.ual "Hospitality Week” to be
celebrated in this rural and ur
i ban tobaccoiand community.
Social, athletic and aome-folks
events expected to appeal to re
turning natives and “just plain
I visitors” have been calendared
! for each day in the week, with
'civic club sponsored picnics and
1 dances as highlights of day and
nights of hospitality.
Director of this year’s “Hospi
tality” program is W. Wallace
Woods, song-leader extraordin
ary, who knows and appreciates
I the Person County way of liv
! ing and who is at any other time
lof year busily engaged in chur
ch and civic club work, when he
is not telling the world about
town and county via the Roxboro
Chamber of Commerce, of which
he is executive secretary.
Working with Mr. Woods is a
steering' committee of fourteen
to fifteen leading citizens, ini-’*
eluding the “Hospitality Week”
founder, Mrs. B. G. Clayton, who
two years ago devised and direc
ed the first prgram and follow
ed it up last year with a succes
sful repeat performance.
There will this year be two
parades instead of one. Free air
plane rides will be offered to
guests, who will also be given
theatre passes. New feature will
be an old fashioned Frog-jump
ing contest and a terrapin race,
together with additional athletic
events and band music by the
Roxboro high school. Final e
vent, Saturday night will be the
annual American Legion square
dance, invitations for the
whole week are already being
accepted by guests, many of
them from a distance.
Published elsewhere in today’s
Times is a tentative outline of
the complete program to be fol
lowed. jfdil
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Boy Scouts ‘Guard*
Body Os Uncle Dan
Suffern, N. Y., June 14—The
body of “Uncle Dan” Beard will
lie in state in his house in the
woods he loved so well, guarded
by the Boy Scouts of American,
whose organization he helped
found.
The honor guard has been
posted and private funeral ser
vices’ will be held Sunday. He
will be buried in the Brick
Church Cemetery, about four
miles from his home.
President Roosevelt addressed
a message of sympathy to Dan
iel Bartlett Beard, son the old
Scout who died: “I have learned
with deep personal sorrow of
the passing of your devoted fath
er. Uncle Dan was an outstand
ing champion of American boy
hood and a long-time friend,
whose passing brings a deep
sense of personal loss. Mrs. Roose
velt joins in this assurance of
heartfelt sympathy.”
Stephen Early, the President's
secretary, said that “White Houses
custom” prevented the Pralfl
dent from being an honary pall jji
bearer.