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IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME xn Person Officers Make Successful Stand Against Mob Spirit Views Os The News | LENOIR COUNTY REPORTS ADVANCED TOBACO CROP Kinston, Aug. 16—Tobacco cur ing in this part of Eastern North Carolina belt was well advanced and tobacconists believed the op eration on most farms would be completed before opening of the auction markets. There is “much good leaf’ on the farms around Kinston with some that is only fair and seme damaged by weather. The crop got a late start, matured rapidly when hot weather set in in ear nest. Weather conditions were not as favorable as in some years. o SMALLEST MARINE West Asheville, N. C., Aug 17 —Private Richard Maney, 18, is the smallest U. S. Marine. He is five feet two and a half inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. Maney, visiting his parents nere, said officials were very much in doubt about ,my height” when he enlisted “and if it hadn’t been for the recruting officer ... and the good humored medical examiner in Raleigh, I couldn't have passed the physical.” At the Parris Island, S. C., base he said he convinced the medical examiner that his boxing ability and splendiid physical condition should offset his under-regulation height. o ELM CITY MAN LOST FROM FORT LANDING Columbia, Aug. 16—William Wright Carter of Elm City, who has been fishing at Fort Landing and stopping at the Dr. McClees Clubhouse, located at Fort Land ing, was reported missing afccut noon Tuesday. Carter has not been seen by any one since he left the club house early Tuesday. Sheriff B. Ray Cohoon was noti fied that Carter was missing, and has been conducting searching parties frying to locate the miss ing man who is thought probably to have drowned in the Alligator River. o BEACHAM IS SENTENCED FOR MANSLAUGHTER Clinton, N. C., Aug. 16 — Ferrell W. Beachman, former Wades boro policeman, was convicted cf manslaughter yesterday in con nection with the fatal stabbing of Private Blaney G. Lee Jr. Judge Leo Carr sentenced him to four to six years. Notice of appeal was filed. The jury return ed the verdict after being cut two hours. o ■ - JNUDIST-KREIG Moscow, Aug. 15—Germany is sending nude women to distract Russian troops in battle, a dis patch from the front said today. : ' It said Alpine divisions pre , sumably in Finland brought hun nreds of camp (followers from Hamburg. During a recent battle, the women, naked, waded into a river defended by the Russian UltoQrii. German soidiers, depend- I on the women to divert the | Russians’ attenion, attempted a crossing simultaneously at ano- Hter part of the stream. Mplhe dispatch said the Russians Igpsre not fooled." ! lersonH@imes PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY Roxboro High ! Opportunities Registration Days Set For Thursday And Friday Os This Week. Eerly Registration Important. Students expecting to attend Rwxboro high school, 1941-1942 session are requested to register for courses at the high school office, Thursday and Friday of this week, according to announce ment from Leon Couch, super vising principal of Roxboro Dis trict schools, who said today that the office will be open from 9 to 11 o’clock in the morning, from 3 tea 5 o’clock in the afternoon and from 7 to 9 at night each day. with night registration hours reserved for working students. Early registration will assure students preference as to courses and will be a help to teachers planning teaching schedules. Stu dents who delay registration may be compelled to fit themselves into class schedules previously set up. New courses, to be offered if a sufficient number of students sign for them will include: ‘ Peo ple and Music (Music Apprecia tion”) by Miss Katherine Cooper; “Occupational Information”, by Glenn Titus, “Stage and School (Dramatics”) by Miss Virginia Chapman, and “North, Carolina History” (With Emphasis on Per son County) teacher to be se lected. Choice of clubs and extra-cur ricular activities will all be made during registration periods. In addition to required courses, twenty-two electives are among those which may be given. o Graham Davis Missing From Fort Jackson Graham S. Davis, of this city, a soldier of Ft. Jackson, S. C. is reported missing by the command" ing officer at the Fort. The army, it was said, has had no report on Davis since August 4th. Graham is a brother of Melvin Davis, who is employed by a service station in Roxboro. In a telephone conversation yesterday, Melvin stated that he was afiaid that his brother had came to some bodily harm. He did not believe that he had simply gone A. W. O. L. He last heard from him about three weeks ago where he was located in Brooklyn, N. Y. but has not seen him since Jan. 16th. Any information concerning the whereabout of Graham Davis will be appreciated by his brother, Melvin, at Roxboro, N. C. o Masons And Order Os Eastern Star Picnic Planned Members of Person’s Masonic lodge together with members of the Order of Eastern Star, will on Tuesday afternoon, August 19, have their annual piqnic, going from Roxboro to Oxford Orph anage, Oxford, where they will meet at 4:30 o’clock for an in spection of the Orphanage, a Ma sonic institution, and will then, at 6:30 o’clock go to Munici pal Park, Oxford, where the pic nic will be served. Students Have for New Work ARMY OFFICIAL TO SPEAK ON CAMP PROGRAM Captain Shepherd of Durham To Be Rotary Club Speaker Thursday Night, Speaker at’Thursday evening dinner session of the Roxboro Rotary club to be held this week at Hotel Roxboro, at six thirty o’clock, will be Captain R. E. Shepherd, of the United States Army, who is now directing pre liminary plans for the proposed Person-Granville-Durham mili tary camp. It is expected that Captain Shepherd, now in Durham, will have much to say concerning Per son County relationships toward the camp, and those in charge of the program hope that attend ance will be large. Captain Shepherd was this last week subject of an interview in the Durham Sun, in which was given much information concern ig his work. He has given assur ances that all reasonable care of land and forest taken over by the Government will be exerted dur ing the time the area may be de voted to camp purposes. z, o Truck Drivers To Have School For Two Days Here . On September 4 and 5 a school for truck drivers will be held at Roxboro high school, where in struction will begin at 8 o’clock in the morning. Luncheon will be furnished to those attending. The program is expected to ex end into the afternoon each day. Safety courses will be offered by members of the State High way Safety division, assisted by Highway Patrolman and by Ern est Bailey, mechanic for the P-r --son County“school system. There are 48 regular drivers and the same number of substitutes in the Person set-up. Along The Way With the Editor Two months ago Garrett Stanfield of Greenville, formerly of Roxboro, promised to meet me at a drug store down town and pay me a dollar and a half that 'iie owed for this paper. I have been visiting the store every day since then and haven’t seen Garrett yet. I sure do wish that he had a dollar and a half cause I know that he would give it to me. Well, Well, Well, my old friend Jake Taylor is getting married tomorrow. Now that boy waited a long time before he took the fatal step. He must have looked over a 1000 or more girls before he decided that he had the right one. One thing that we do know is that he was a courting man in his day. This writed often had dates along with Taylor and I always had to wait for him to decide which girl he wanted and then I had to take the one that lie didn’fl Want Thert boy dressed like Clark Gable and he was a holy terror with “wimmen” Now he has to spoil all of that by up and marry ing. Good luck, Jake. This is the truth, I. N. S., International News Service, out of Chicago, called me at 4:30 A. M. Saturday aftd asked me about the mob at the Roxboro court house. I assured; I N. S. that there was no mob and that they had a bum lead. As I started to come to crawl back into bed I decided that it might be a good idea to call the police just to be sure. I called and Gilbert Oakey told me about what had been| happening all night two blocks from my house. P. S. I called I. N. S. back. Sheriff M. T. Clayton And Other Officers Keep Accused Man In Jail COY LUNSFORD RITES CONDUCTED AT HIS HOME Prospect Hill Man Dies After Illness With Pneu monia, Son of T. A. Luns ford. Coy Lunsford, 43, of Prospect Hill, died Friday afternoon at 5! o’clock at his home following an illness with pneumonia. He had been in ill health five years. Funeral were conduct ed at the home Saturday after noon at 2 o’clock, 'E. S. T„ with interment following in the family! cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Lizzie Walters Lunsford,! two daughters and five sons,a 11 of the home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Lunsford-, cf Helena; four brothers, Cheatham, Tom and Henderson, of Helena, and Zeb. V., of near Roxboro, and four sisters: Mesdames Hallie Dickie, Roxie Meadows, and Myr.j tie Brann, of Tisnbejdake, and! Mrs. M. L. Blalock, of near Vox boro. Mangum Reports Eleven Men Os Service Missing The Person County Selective Service Board Manager, Baxter. Mangum, today announced that five white men: William Arthur Carver, Horace Cecil Hilton, Jose ph Peace Whitt, Edwin Mehan and Perman Brookin Tate, to gether with six Negro men. Eu gene Talley, Charlie Love Snipes, Paul Glochester Barnett, Willie Cayton, Fred Haley and Willard McNair, who registered with Se lective Service on October 16, 1940, cannot now be located and that unless they get in touch with the local board immediately, their names will be turned over to the United States District attorney and the F. B. 1., for investigation. DEFENSE BOND SALE PLAN TO BETOPICHERE Interested Citizens Requested To Meet Thursday Night At Court House To Discuss Pri gram. Gordon C. Hunter, chairman of the Person County committee for Defense Bonds and Stamps, to day announced that an organiza tion meeting to be attended- by civic leaders and all interested citizens, will be held at the Court Ileus'', Roxboro, on Thursday night, August 21, at 8 o’clock, at which time plans for the sale of Bonds and Samps will be dis cussed. Through the Peoples Bank, cf which Mr. Hunter is executive vice president, $75,000 worth of Defense Bonds and tax notes have already been sold. Honorary chairman of the De fense Bonds committee is May er S. G. Winstead, who. with Mr. Hunter, is anxious that all citi-j zens cooperate with the program and plan to attend the Thursday meeting. During*, the past week reports from two other defense activi ties have been presented. E. G. Thompson, chairman of the Per son. unit of the Committee for National Defense, said yesterday that approximately 550 pounds of aluminum have been collect ed and sent to the district depos itory, at Raleigh. Although the campaign is officially clqsed, any other contributions received' will be appreciated and will be sent on to Raleigh, said Mr. Thomp son, who particularly praised cc- Continued on back page o THOMPSON HEADS CHAMBER GROUP 'FOR NEW YEAR W. Wallace Woods Re-Elec ■ ted As Executive Secretary Os Chamber Os Commerce. E. G. Thompson, Roxboro in surance man, will during the coming year be president of the Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, (succeeding! Glenn Stovall, who retains membership on the Board cf Directors. Elected to serve with Thomp son, at August meeting of the Board, were Thomas Bowles, member at large, vice president, and' J. A. Long, Jr., of Roxboro Cotton Mills, secretary. Mr. Long is also a director. Re-elected as Executive Secre tary was W. Wallace Woods, while Mrs. Dallas Whitfield was re-elected as secretary of the merchants credit bureau dpart ment. With one exception all direc tors were present for the meet ing Chief business was a yearly resume and financial report, pre sented by Mr. Woods. New directors are: E. E. Biad sher, Sr., City Manager Percy Bloxam, S. M. Ford, Mr. Stovall, Mr. Long, Mr. Thompson, D. W. Ledbetter, D. S. Brooks and R. 1. Bumpass. This was final meet, ing for outgoing directors. SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1941 SECOND IN THREE Saturday morning’s experience marks second time in three weeks in which Sheriff Clayton has been in the forefront in checking cri minal activities. NEW TEACHERS COME TO CITY COUNTY SCHOOLS Miss Reade, Daughter Os Uie W. F. Reades, Will Teach At East Roxboro. Election of four new teachers in the Person County and Rox boro district schools was today announced by County Superin tendent of Schools, R. B. Griffin, who said that teacher of 3 and 4 grades at East Roxboro will be Miss Pamelal Reade, of Mt. Tir zah, who will also serve as prin cipal. Miss Reade succeeds Mrs. Tony Duncan, resigned. At Bushy Fork, C. E. Mabe, of Prospect Hill, will teach the 7th grade and direct playground ac tivities, and at Roxboro Central Grammar School, Miss Helen Harkrader, of Dobson, will suc ceed Miss Virginia Wilson, re signed. Miss Harkrader, a grad uate of Greensboro college, taught last year at Elizabeth City. She is a sister of Mrs. William Har ris, 111, of Roxboro. At Allensville high school teacher of agriculture and has un department of agriculture will be a Mr. Simmons, of Tennessee. Mr. Simmons comes to Allensville with six years of experience as a teacher of agriculture ad has un usually high recommendations in his chosen field, said Mr. Grif fin. o- TRANSFERRED W. Carl Flowers, for the past six years associated with the CCC, first at Yanceyville, then at Rox boro, Camp 38,. has been trans ferred to Camp 29 at Raleigh, where he will continue service as senior foreman, of labor, ac cording I|o announcement made today. o WRENN REUNION Members of the Wrenn family meet Sunday, Aug. 24th at the home of Tom Wrenn on the Rox boro-Woodsdale road for their annual reunion, stated a member of this family last week. All members of the family are invited to come and bring a lunch. Rev. J. M. Walker of Roxboro, will address the group. THE TIMES IS PERSON S PREMIER NEWSPAPER. A LEADER AT ALL TIMES. NUMBER FORTY TWO Negro Later Taken To Raleigh Prison Girl Reports Man Assaulted Her Near Northern Edge Os Roxboro. After being locked in the Per son County jail atop, the court house for eleven hours, six of them marked by early morning rear-mob violence of angry citi zens, Cy Winstead, 20, Negro, ac cused of criminal assault upon a 22 year old white woman, was yesterday at 5 A .M. taken for safe keeping to State prison, Raleigh. In the convoy carrying Win stead to Raleigh after a night of terror, were five to six. cars of State Highway patrolmen, head ed. by I.t. A. T. Moore, of Fayette ville and Raleigh, who responded to calls for assistance sent in by officers and citizens. Hero of the day was Person Sheriff M. T. Clayton, 57, who captured the accused Negro aaout 6 o’clock Friday afternoon, within forty minutes after the as sault is said to have occurred, and later that night, about 11 o’clock, together with his depu ties, City policemen, and other officers, the last named called in from Raleigh and Durham, lock ed himself in the court house, where the Negro had five hours earlier been placed. Kept out of the court house by tear gas with which the besieged officers flooded the lower floor of the five story court house, ci tizens, mostly from two mill com munities near scene of the preci pitating incident, wrecked ven geance upon the court house, by smashing two of four plate glass entrance doorways and by shoot ing out and rocking countless windows on two sides of the struc ture. Damage to the court house is estimated at SI,OOO or more. Greatest period of disturbance from the crowd came around mid- I night. Some shots were fired in direction of the court house but no officers and no spectators were injured. The crowd was in apparent good humor, noisy ra their than quiet, until arrival of a second detachment of Patrolmen from Durham, men who set off tear-gas bombs on the Court house lawn. Later in the morning remants of the crowd gathered at the rear doer, listened to a talk on Ameri canism and avoidance of lynch law by Lt. Moore; then heard an appeal to Peflson County’s fair name from County Attorney and Continued on back page o MEN WITH FIRM George T Jackson, who has since the first of last month been head of the cleaning department cf Service Dry Cleaners, Rox boro, is spending a few days in Silver Springs, Md., where he is attending the C. C. Herbert In stitute for Cleaning and Re-Dy ing. Mr. Jackson was formerly 1 connected with Archer’s Laundry ' and Dry Cleaning company, Bal timore, Md. Also connected with '■ the Service Dry Cleaners is Hs#> • bert E. Jones, formerly wfljfcl > Crutchfield’s Cleaned »iu. nnw Lynchburg, Va.
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