BYRD DEMANDS
REORGANIZATION,
DEFENSESETUP
Holds Social Gains Must
Yield T« U. S. Effort To
Rearm
Washington, Aug. 19. —Senator
Byrd (D-Va.) today demanded a
complete reorganization of the
defense production system and
the Senate that “socirl
ghins” and “everything else" must
yield to the rearmament effort.
“America has the capacity in
labor and raw materials to out
produce any other nation in the
production of mechanized equip
ment,” he said. “In that job for
the past two years we have fail
ed and miserably failed, and the
sooner we as a nation realize it
the beater we can remedy ou>-1
mistakes and go forward."
He called for the suspension of
the 40-hour work-week and the
substitution of a full week work
ing basis. Moreover, he charged
that not a single Army camp has
an adequate supply of military
equipment.
Deplores Overlapping
“Confusion, due to conflicting
and overlapping authority exists
to such a degree at Washington
as virtually to stymie the whole
defense program,” he said, adding
that the Office of Production
Management and the Office of
Price Administration and Civil
ian Supply were:
“Engaged in a bitter battle be
hind the scenes, and by executive
order they have been given con
flicting authority.”
The entire defense program
should be placed under a single
head, he asserted.
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glass, and bone in many fields.
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A & P’S PRODUCE
PURCHASES UP
20 IN CAMPAIGN
Final-Report on Nation-Wide
Drive Shows Sharp Rise in
Fruit, Vegetable Buying By
Food Chain’s Affiliate.
Jacksonville, Fla., August 22.
A 20.4 per cent increase in pur
chases of vitamin-bearing fresh
fruits and vegetables for sale in
A & P Tea Company stores dur
ing a ten-week national “Nutri
tian-for-Defense’ campaign was
reported today by the food chain’s
produce-buying affiliate, the At
lantic Commission Company.
The extra sales effort and con
sumer-education activities that
marked the campaign will be
continued at the request of grow
ers, Harvey Baum, vice president
and general manager of the com
mission company, said in an
nouncing the final figures for the
ation-wide drive.
The company’s purchases for
A & P amounting to 33,203
carloads of fruits and vegetables |
from the opening of the drive on
May 19 to its close on July 26
represented a 5,629-carload in
crease over the 27,574 carloads
bought during the corresponding
period of 1940, Baum said.. Prin
cipal items purchased in pro
ducing areas throughout the
country included watermelons,
peaches, beans, cabbage, oranges,
grapefruit, strawberries and to
matoes.
“The results achieved by the
A & P in its campaign to coop
erate in the federal government's
‘Food for Defense’ program ind' -
cate strongly what can be done
to help get the proper nutritious
foods onto the dining tables of the
nation,” Baum said
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Shown above is the South door to the Person Court House,
damaged Saturday morning by rocks, bottles and shoa. The half
view of the man at the side is Jailer A. M. Long. Photo by Person
County Times.
Investigation Probes
Continued from page one
ed statements to effect that that
prior to Friday night and Satur
day morning they had known of
no disturbances created by the
boys who, up to thaa time, be
haved quietly.
Assurance that “disciplinary ec
tion will be taken at once by mil
itary authorities, if after a thor
ough investigation it is proven
that any and all members of the
Negro CCC camp here had any
thing, in any way, to do with the
Saturday morning disturbance
caused by mob demonstraaion”,
I was on Monday afternono voiced
by Col. Kirk Broaddus, of Fort
Bragg, executive officer, District,
“A”, CCC.
With Col. Broaddus came LI.
J. J. Hochstim, special investiga
tor for the district. Earlier, in the
morning Col. L. W. Young, of the
Fourth Corps Area, Atlanta, Ga.,
arrived in the City and was in
conference with Mayor S. G. Win
stead, Chief of Police George C.
Robinson, and Cither officials.
| All three men came to Rox
iboro in response to a request
| made Saturday by Gov. J. Mel
jville Broughton for an investiga
tion of report tha: Roxboro CCC
| boys were in a party of Negroes
, who marched down Main street
l near the Court House and at
tempted to participate in the
| Court Square distu bance occas
sioned by the arrest of Cy Win
! stead, Person Negro, charged
1 with criminally attacking a
: young white woman.
| Col. Broaddus said further, af
;ter an afternoon conference with
Mayor Winstead, City Manager
Percy Bloxam, Chief Robinson
end Sheriff M. T. Clayton, that
investigation of City and County
records show that only three
Roxboro CCC boys have been ar
i rested (since establishment of
the camp three months ago) and
jthat these arrests were occasion
ed by miner offenses, and that
: City and County officials state
| that they have had “no trouble
; with the boys’’.
I Citizens residing on South Main
street through which the march
ing Negroes are alleged to have
I passed, have said that, as many
;ns 10 to 25 of the marchers ap
peared to have been CCC boys
land that they were armed with
■sticks and baseball bats. The
marchers were dispersed by shots
| fired at random toward them by
white persons forming part of tne
! crowd at the court house.
! Absent from the City at time
of the disturbance was Camp
Superintendent M. W. Shugart,
Lt. R. Thomas, Camp military
officer, declined to comment, al
though he was present at ahe
afternoon conference.
Col. Young, former Adjutant
General of North Carolina, came
in response to request of Major
General Smith, Commanded of
.Fourth Corps area. It has been
Governor Expresses
Continued from page one
in discussing yesterday with Per
son County Attorney Robert P.
Burns aspects of the CCC investi
gation gave to him copies of tele
grams exchanged between the
Governor and J. J. McEntee, of
Washington, head cf the CCC.
Also given to Mr. Burns was
a copy of the letter sent by the
Governor to director McEntce in
which was discussed evidence
showing a “serious lack of disci
pline.”
Reproduced below are the two
telegrams, the Governor’s, first,
and ’ then Mr. McEntee’s reply,
which is apparently in line with i
investigations now being conduct
ed by Lt. Hochstim. Lt. Hochstim
was out of the City Wednesday
night and could not be reached
for comment.
Mr. Burns, who was in Raleigh
yesterday afternoon, would this
morning make no public state
mtnt concerning his conference.
Raleigh, N. C.
August 16, 1941
Hon. J. J. McEntee, Director
Civilian Conservation Corps
Washington. D. C.
In connection with ataempted
lynching last night of negro
charged with raping white girl,
which attempted lynching was
made at Roxboro, North Carolina
and was thwarted by regular law
enforcement officials of this state,
I am advised that approximately
fifty negroes from Civilian Con
servation Camp near Roxboro
marched into the town without
request and without authority
and engaged in action and con
duct that was harmful to the
work of the law enforcement of
ficers and added greatly to the
very serious crisis that was pre
dicted. On behalf of the State I
desire to protest most vigorous
ly'against this conduct and to
ask that an immediate investiga
tion be made to the end that no
recurrence will take place. We
are prepared to uphold the law
in this state and any interfer
ence on the part of negro mem
bers of Givilian Conservation
Corps in matters of this sort only
serves to aggrevate the condi
tions.
J. NT. BROUGHTON,
Governor of North Carolina
Washington, D. C.
Aug. 19, 1941
i Honorable J. Melville Brougnton
i Governor State of North Carolina
Raleigh, N. C.
Reference made your letter and
telegram August 15 advising fif
ty CCC enrol lees entered Roxboro
intent on releasing prisoner, net
learned here that any CCC boy 3
who did participate in the Sat
urday affair (about two o’clock
in the morning) were absent from
camp without permission. ,
COURT CHOSEN J
FOR FESTIVAL
Among Those Named Is
Miss Eloise Newell, Who
Will Represent Roxboro.
South Boston, Va„ Aug. 21. —
The court of the queen of the
seventh annual National Tobac
co Festival is about complete,
with the naming of 90 beautiful
girls from as many as seven
states. These girls, appointed by
governors, congressmen, senators,
mayors and civic organizations,
will serve in the court of Senor
ita Christina Michels, Regina To
bacco VII, daughter of the Chi
lean Ambassador to the United
States.
The girls will begin to arrive
in South Boston at 9 o’clock Fri
day morning, September 5, and
at the festival offices in the
Main Street Grammar School
building they will be given their
instructions. Most cf them will b-;
accompanied by their escorts, who
will immediately take them to
princess headquarters at historic
Buffalo Mineral Springs, 15 min
utes from South Boston. Here the
girls will change to their even
ing dresses and return in time
for the feature float and band
parade at 2:30 o’clock, EDT.
Immediately after the parade, all
will return to the springs, where
a tea dance is planned and where
movies will be taken.
At 8 p. m., they will return to
South Boston, where the corona
tion ceremony will be held in
the natural amphitheatre in the
corporate limits of the town. Here
each girl will be spolighted and
identified and will be given an
opportunity to speak a short plug
for her particular section. Im
mediately following will be the
final showing of the tobacco
dramatization, “The Tobacco
Farmer’s Daughter’, a comic
melodram of tobacco history dur
ing the “Gay Nineties.”
The final feature will be the
coronation ball, with round danc
ing from 10 till 3, with no inter
mission, featuring the music of
two top flight bands,
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erollee, from county jail. Pre
liminary investigation shows
twelve CCC enrollees were in
town on leave when trouble start
ed. Mob around jail chased en
rollees who hastily returned
Camp and informed company
commander what had happened.
He advised them to go to bed.
Nothing in investigation ahus far
shows any enrollees left camp to
proceed to Roxboro. Investigation
still being continued. Would ap
predate your letting me know if
facts you have are contrary to
those above. Thank you for call
ing matter to my attention.
J. J. McENTEE, Director
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Senorita Christina Michels, daughter of the Chilean ambassador
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September 4 anl 5, as Regina Tobacco VII.
GIGOLO’DEFEATS i
ONE AIRHAZARD
Vibration Tester Shows Up
Spots in Propeller That
Will Go Bad
Dayton, O.—Back in 1935 a
sleek little plane, streaking acros'
New Mexico in a transcontinental
race crashed because the propell
er went to pieces in mid-air.
Bennie (Howard, the speed flier,
and his wife were injured badly.
Such an accident couldnt happen
today, aviation men say, b-cause
the Army Air Corps laboratories
at Wright Field have invented the
“gigolo,” a device to determine
the natural vibration frequency
cf propeller blades and locate the
points of maximum stress on
them.
The gigolo costs practically
nothing to build and operate.
A propeller under test is sus
pended in a rubber band, and is
vibrated by a 1-4-horsepower air
mdtor 'to which an unbalanced
weight is fixed. It can break any
propeller, regardless of strength
or size.
Important to the safety of the
thousands of war planes now roll
ing off factory assembly lines is
a knowledge of what causes pro
pellers to break. The vibration
test of the gigolo supplies an an
swer for the test engineers.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1941
As the points of maximum
stress are found, strain gauges
are mounted on the blade and
stress measurements are made in
flight to determine whether the
propeller can take it.
Wright Field paraphrases the
saying: It isn’t work that kills a
man, it’s use that causes a pro
peller to fly to pieces, it’s vibra
tion.
Engine crankshaft vibration of
dangerous frequency can be trans
mitted to a propeller. The solu
tion lies in' smoothing out an en
gine so that it does not excite the
natural vibration of a propeller
gigolo and the strai"
gauges have explained a lot of
things which happened in the
past.*A few years ago a propellet,
built to several times the norn
al strength, flew apart at Bolling
Field, near Washington, and kill
ed an Army officer.
One engineer using the gigolo
forecaster recently that a propel!
or blade, subjected to vibration,
would break at a given point
rear the tip. He was just two one
hundredths of an inch off.
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