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IF IT IS NEWS ABO IT! PERSON COUNTY, YOU’LL t FIND IT IN THE TIMES. VOLUME XU Man Charged With Car Theft Breaks Iron Pipe In Prison Second Man In Cell, Charg 'With Theft, Denies Any Participation In Pipe Busi ness ur- - —- Several nights ago Person Jail er and Court House custodian Arthur Long heard strange nois es, metal on metal, in a cell oc cupied by Herbert Boyd, 25, of Alton, Va., charged with larceny of an automobile. Long investigated but found nothing. Next day, on Tuesday, he again heard the noises. In the cell with Boyd was Willie Holt, j 23, of Lea’s Chapel, arrested that day and said to have been an accomplice of Boyd’s in the lar ceny. This time Jailer Long took with him Chief of Police George C. Robinson, Patrolman Baxter and Deputy Bob Whitt. The four of them looked over the cell, more thoroughly, and found a radiator from which had been broken a piece of pipe several feet long. The pipe, used to carry steam to the radiator, was concealed behind a door in a corner. Long is of opinion that Boyd, a man said to have a long pre vious criminal record, planned to strike the Jailer or his assist ant with it at some quiet time and then escape. Holt, who with Boyd, had been employed at Longhurst mills, denied having any part in breaking the pipe, but he and Boyd were removed to a more ■►secluded and stronger cell for Ir, safe keeping. I Officers say that Boyd, who ■ was committed to jail on the 13 I of this month after he had been ■ identified by a Warrenton filling I station operator as driver of the I car, obtained gas at the station »<and drove off without paying for I it, and that with him was Willie ■ Holt, who was arrested near Rox ■ boro three days later. The alleg ed theft occurred about the mid ■ die of last week at Longhurst, I where the car had been parked I by its owner. I Officers kept the case quiet be- I cause they wished to apprehend I both men, who are now awaiting I trial and must stay in a room ■ sans radiator connection pipes. IWOMEN HAVE AN I EXECUTIVE BOARD I SESSION JNTOWN I Business And Professional I Woman’s Club Plans Pro ■ gram For Year ■ '.Members of the Executive ■ Committee of the Roxboro unit I of the Business and Professional I Woman’s club met Monday night I with Miss Frances Weston, chair ■ man of the Year-Book commit ■ tee, at which time an outline of Hr the 1941-1942 national program, B “Strengthening Democracy,” was ■ presented. H Presiding was Miss Velma ■-Beam. Next regular meeting of H the club will be Wednesday, I) September 24, at Hotel Roxboro, Hat which time “The Spirit With- Hjjn” will be discussed by Misses Heaney Bullock, Mildred Bass, ■ Barbara Bloxam and Frances H Weston, and Mesdames A. F. H Nichols and Thomas Feathers- H ton. H Members of the committee H reached decision to offer assist- Hance to the Person County Li- Hbrary Board in distribution of H books to various communities in Hthe County. Named to work with Hthe Board, of which Mrs. J. H. of Woodsdale is chair |Knan, was Miss Julia Fisher, HLhairman of the club project B .; .. •; Imoni^tEitnes PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY EDDIE WILSON RITES CONDUCTED Person Native Meets Death In Fall From Truck; His Parents Live At Hurdle Mills f ' Eddie R. Wilson, 48, of Hope- I dale, a former resident of Hurdle Mills, who Saturday morning | suffered a fractured skull and other injuries when he fell off of a tobacco truck near near Hope ( dale, died 12 hours later in a Burlington hospital. The accident is said to have ? occurred on a dirt road on a farm where Wilson and two boys, one of whom was driver of the . truck, were working. Wilson, I standing on tobacco to hold it ( in the truck, was not missed un , til the boys stopped about 15 I minutes later to unload the truck. When found, Wilson was ’ unconscious and remained so un til his death. Funeral services were conduct ’ ed Monday at Berry’s Grove Bap- I tist Church, near Hurdle Mills, by the Rev. Mr. Cardwell, a , former pastor, with burial fol lowing in the church cemetery. I Survivors include his wife, the , former Sallie Wolfe; his parents, | ( Mr. and Mrs. Ingram Wilson of I Hurdle Mills, two sons, six | , daughters, all of the home, five . sisters and eight brothers;- ; “ The two youngest children are ! ) twins, Lelia Ann and Celia Jane, I six months of age. Other chil ( dren are Eddie, Jr., Edna, Isabel, , Margie, Douglas and Betty Lou. ! ° : MISS FISHER TO OFFER FIRST AID CLASSES IN CITY [ Program Starts Tonight At Fire Station And Will Be Offered Twice Each l Week ! i Starting tonight at 7:30 o clock at the City Hall fire station a course in first aid will be given by Miss Julia Fisher, of the nursing staff of the Person Coun ty unit of the tri-county health j department. The program, to be given two nights each week in sessions lasting two hours each, is ex pected to be of interest to fire men, school officials and teach ers, Boy and Girl scouts and cit izens generally, according to Fire - Chief Henry E. O’Briant, who is t assisting Miss Fisher with the l program. t Twenty houfs of will be ■ required for finishing the course, • at conclusion of which certifi- E cates will be awarded. Similar , courses have been given in this s City for the past several years with considerable success, i o E PLYMOUTHS HERE » ————— , Now on display at Arch Jones • Motor company,, Depot street 5 agency for Plymouth, Dodge and , Buick, are new, 1942 models of 5 Plymouth cars. Mr. Jones and • other members of the sales force ■ today said they will be pleased to have their friends and cus i tomers make inspection of their - new Plymouths and other cars. ■ o * C CONDITION SERIOUS i , i The condition of R. L. Wilborn, . who has been ill at his home on - South Main street, this city, is , considered very serious. He has t been in declining health for the past several months. MOB REPORT NOW COMPLETE SBI CHIEF INDICATES Material Now Turned Over To Solicitor Murdock, Dur ham; Grand Jury Next Move The State Bureau of Investiga tion has completed its report on the recent Roxboro mob incident, and the records have been turn ed over to Solicitor William Murdock of the Tenth Judicial District, Gov. J. M. Broughton said Tuesday. The incident occurred when about 200 men tried to remove Cy Winstead, a Negro rape su spect, from the Person County Jail. Broughton said details of the SBI report would not be releas ed until action is taken by the Grand Jury for the term of Per son County court which begins October 13. Broughton had said earlier that the reports were “definite and specific” and would ‘impli cate a number of persons.” R. D. BUMPASS AND OTHERS TO ATTEND JSESSION Bumpass Heads Young Democrats; Elected At Tuesday Meeting - President of Person County Young Democrats is R. D. Bum pass, Roxboro business man, chosen at a meeting of the Per son unit of the organization held Thursday night. Other officers are Philip L. Thomas, vice presi dent, re-elected, and E. G. Thompson, secretary-treasurer. Bumpass, Thomas and Thomp son, together with Lieutenant Governor R. L. Harris, J. Sam Merritt, and Gordon C. Hunter, will attend the Y. D. C. conven tion in Winston-Salem. The Lieu tenant Governor and Mr. Thomp son will go today, other Friday. Introduction of Governor Broughton at the Saturday luncheon is expected to be made by Fifth district Congressman John H Folger, of Mt. Airy. Highlight of the meeting, ex pceted to be a harmonious one in political and social sense, will be a bruswick stew to be given Friday night. Meeting of the Person unit was held at Person County court house. It was agreed that all members in good standing who attend the sessions at Winston- Salem will be considered official delegates. o Bert Lunsford And T. H. Clayton Head Ramblers Co-captains of Roxboro High School Ramblers football team, elected at a meeting held Mon day night, are Bert Lunsford, fullback, and Tom Kill Clayton, quarterback, both Rambler vet erans, who saw service in Fri day’s opening contest with Dur j ham high school, lost by the Ramblers after a hard contest, 14 to 0. Coach George Wirtz this morn ing said that lights on the Rox boro playing field are being re arranged for gridiron service and that to date no game has been scheduled for this week. MRS. BYRD DIES AT DUKE, RITES SET FOR FRIDAY Wife Os Druggist Had Been Seriously 111 Several Weeks V Mis. Clement By/|d, well known resident of this Spty, died - this morning at 7:20 qfclock, at i j Duke hospital, Durhafij), where , she had for several weeks been ■ critically ill. Death was; attribut i e-d to heart trouble with compli -11 cations. t Mrs. Byrd was formerly a res- j ident of Raleigh and funeral ser- ! i vices will be conducted at First > Baptist church in that city Fri ■ day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, r Survivors include her husband, co-owner of the A. B. Drug com : pany, Roxboro, a daughter. Mrs. ■ Chreston Holoman, of 2116 Coun : i try Club drive, Raleigh, and - grandchildren. ; Also surviving is a son, J. Marshall Barber, by her first • | marriage. ; j Mrs. Byrd, before her first - • marriage, was Miss Luna Craw- I ford, daughter of the late Mr. j and Mrs. William Riley Crjaw j ford, of Raleigh and was educat ed at St. Mary's, attending both I school and college divisions The body will remain at Mar tin- Yelverton funeral home, Raleigh, until the hour of the i service. Mrs. Holoman's tele-! phone is 4786, Raleigh. ' o » Tobacco Prices Please Person l \ Folks No End ' Third day of the 1941 Roxboro 5 Market opened this morning in good form. It is expected that to ’ day’s offerings will reach 60,000 pounds- at a 30 cent, estimated . average. Wednesday’s sales to t taled. officially, 34,714 pounds /for $10,142.38, at average of $29.- 21, per hundred pounds Opening day was bigger, when . 161,994 pounds sold for $47,458.- . 50, at an official average of $29,- 29, about 12 points higher per pound than last season’s aver age. Farmers are pleased, and so ' is everybody else. Prices on op ; ening day went as high as 46 1 cents. o ;P.T. A. LEADERS . TO MEET FOR ; PROGRAMPLANS Called Session Os County Presidents Or Accredited Representatives Will Be L 1 Held Saturday Afternoon In Roxboro. Leaders at a called meeting of presidents or representatives of [ all Parent Teacher Associations ; in Person County and Roxboro, to be held Saturday afternoon, i September 20, at three o”clock at 4 the residence of Mrs. Logan H. ’ 1 Umstead, North Main street, this j city, will be Mrs. H. W. O’Sheay, • ’ of Durham, and Mrs. G. C. Vick- - ers, of Roxboro. ! Mrs Vickers, president of the 1 [ Person County council of P. T. A,. ' will, with Mrs. Umstead and oth- > er officials, assist plans for ! , the program to be presented at the District P. T. A. Conference ' to be held in Roxboro on Octob er 9. The meeting this Saturday is ■ regarded as 1 of uttermost im- ■ ■ portance and Mrs. Umstead re * quests attendance of all P. T. A. < 1 presidents or duly accredited ' representatives, 1 ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1941 Chub Lake Street Residents Opposed To Proposed Garage Second Fire Training Event To Be Held Here Next Week Combination Defense And Fire Program To Draw Represent atives From Many Cities Local leaders at a two day i \ Fire College Training school to be conducted in Roxboro on Sep tember 25 and 26 will be Chief J. E. Spake, of the Collins and Aikman fire department, Ca-Vel, and Chief Henry E. O'Briant, of the Roxboro department. , Held in conjunction with the I training school, second of its type to be held here within the year, will be an evening program devoted to problems pertaining j to National Defense, at which particular emphasis will be plac ed on relationships of firemen and their departments to Defense work. Speaker on this program. Thursday evening at 8 o”clock at the Court House will be Theo-! dose S. Johnson, of Raleigh, j State Director of Civilian de | sense. Also expected to speak at this session will be Forrest Miles, of' Greensboro, of the Federal Re- f serve, and State Fire Marshal i and Deputy Commissoner Sher-, wood Brockwell, of Raleigh. J Asked to preside is Gordon C. j Hunter, Roxboro bank official. , Johnson will also address the! Roxboro Rotary club at its Thursday night dinner meeting; at Hotel Roxboro. The fireman's training school, proper, will begin each' afternoon j at 3:30 o’clock at Roxboro Cen-| tral Grammar school, and in ad dition to local men firemen from Asheboro. Burlington, Dur ham, Yanceyville, Oxford; Hen derson, Carrboro. Chapel Hill and other cities will participate. It j Continued on back page persoFscouts I GO TO CAROLINA FOR JUBILEE District Leaders Are Dr. Robert E. Long And The Rev. T. Marvin Vick Reidsville, Sept. 18.—One hun- i dred forty six Scouts of Chero kee Council and their leaders left this afternoon for the Chap el Hill Jubilee, Approximately 2500 Scouts are expected from North and South Carolina and Georgia to attend this huge dem onstration of Scouting The Scouts will camp in their own tents on the edge of the university campus and will eat in the university cafeteria. The program will include: a tour of the university campus Friday morning, a Scout Rodeo Friday afternoon, camporee demonstra tion Saturday morning, attend ance at the Carolina - Lenoir- Rhyne football game Saturday afternoon, and a convocation Sunday morning. There will also be campfire programs Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, feat uring demonstrations, ceremonies, singing and Governor Broughton. Scouts from the Person dis trict are under the leadership of Dr. Robert Long, and the Rev. T. M. Vick, Jr. o DAUGHTER BORN Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Dixon, of Route 1, Roxboro, announce the birth of a daughter, on Mon day, September 15, at their home. PLANS FOR SALE * OF BONDS AND j STAMPS REVIEWED ; c Hunter Talks To Civic t Groups In Absence Os Miles, Tuesday Morning f I With Gordon C. Hunter, ex- £ ecutive vice president of the Peoples bank and chairman of g the Person unit for sale of Do- sense Bonds and stamps, presid- ( - ing, a meeting was on Tuesday t ; morning held by a group of rep- g resentative citizens interested in g promotion of a more wide-spread sale of both Bonds and Stamps ( in the County. Mr. Hunter announced that to date $129,400 worth of Tax notes, g ; Defense bonds and savings ! stamps has been sold here. j Among those present, who j j ! agreed to participate in a series : .of addresses to be given on the ; sales of bonds and stamps, were !G. 11. Ellmorc, Mayor S. G. Win- j stead, W. Wallace Woods, J. W.!, j Noell, R. B. Griffin and R. H. j , Shelton. Others present were i j j Mesdames Percy Bloxam. Wil | liam Pickering, R. C. Hall and j Edwin Bowles, who discussed . I c j plans for booths in the Post Os- j fice, stores and other public . buildings. Also present were City Man- ( j ager Percy Bloxam, Miss Nancy i Bullock, William Smith Humph ries, Tom Shaw, Jr., R. Edgar ( Long, George Wirtz and Jerry L.; 1 Hester. 1 , o ( POWER IN AREA ; TO BE OFF SAYS ; T. MILLER WHITE j; ! < i In Effect Here And In Yanceyville Sunday After- | j noon For Three Hours ; I - “. ■■ ' ■ i T. Miller White, of Roxboro, district manager for the Caro lina Power and Light Company, today announced that electric; i power will be interrupted here | and in Yanceyville from two to five o”clock Sunday afternoon, i (Daylight Saving Time) to per mit company engineers and line men to make a general inspection ! of the transmission and distri- 1 bution facilities in these com- ( munities. < In addition to the general in- t spection, Mr. White said new 1 (equipment will be installed in .< some instances so as to improve ’ electric service and also to en- : able the company to render the < best service possible. e Mr. White said his company J regretted the necessity of having j to interrupt electric service, but said the time picked for the in- j terruption was at a period dur- \ ing the day when it was hoped < the public would be least incon- \ venienced. He also pointed out that his company has been engaged for ■ some time in supplying many ; concerns with national defense orders with large amounts of electric power and added that the improvements being made here and at other points on the company’s system is part of the company’s policy to keep ahead of ithe electric power needs of the communities it serves. V - • VV'Y. THE TIMES IS PERSON’S PREMIER NEWSPAPER A LEADER AT ALL TIMES- NUMBER FORTY-EIGHT Sign Petition To Be Pre sented To Planning And Zoning Commission. R. C. Hall May Make Statement Sunday. Disturbed by reports that a garage building, regarded by them as unsuited to the largely residential section in which they live, is to be erected at the corn er of Chub Lake street and Leas burg road, residents of that vi cinity this week signed a peti tion of protest. Among the signers are Mr. and Mrs. Hubert O’Briant, of Chub Lake street. Mr O’Briant, in dis cussing the matter yesterday, said that the petition, signed by seven other residents, is now- on file at the City Hall and that City Manager Percy Bloxam, af ter discussing the matter with several City Commissioners, has said that the petition will be pre sented the Planning and Zoning commission at its next regular session, October 7. City Manager Bloxam today said no application for a permit to build a garage on the lot. a lot said to be property of R. C. Hall, who is himself a member of the Planning and Zoning Com mission. has been received. Ac cording to O'Briant. Hall recent ly purchased the lot front Ben Wade and proposes to erect a -structure for the use of E. L. * Harris garage. City Manager Bloxam. aside from duties as City Manager, is an ex-offico member of the Plan ning and Zoning commission, and by virtue of appointment is also City Building inspector, through whom all construction permits in the City are issued. Other signers are Mr. and Mrs. O. Z. Gentry, Mr. and Mrs. Mar vin Long and Maxie U. Daniel. Two other residents, R W. Dick erson and Mrs. W J. Winstead, signed the document of protest and then later requested that their names be withdrawn. In the neighborhood are other resi dents, six to eight of whom have not signed, although only three or four have said they will not. Crux of the matter, regarded in some circles as a test case for the Planning and Zoning com mission, appears to be the fear Continued on back page o Four Directors Named Monday At the yearly meeting of the members of the Roxboro Coun try Club Monday night in the courthouse, the following gov ernors were elected to serve a term of three years: D. W. Led better, T. B. Woody, E. E. Brad sher, Sr., and J. S. Merritt. These men will serve in addition to the other governors of the club whose term did not expire at this time. Terms of four governors automatically ex pire each year. On next Monday night the governors of the club will meet to elect a president and treasur er. Present president and treas urer, Jack Hughes and Bill Walker, have stated that they would not be candidate for these positions for the coming year. Both have served since the club was organized. Its Monday night meeting will be held in the court house at 7:30 p. m. It was also voted at this year . ly meeting to have a club tourna ment at an early date. Qegftile , will be worked cot by the tpur- 1 nament committee, John Fitzgerald. 'Jifl