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WAR GAMES IN SOUTH
TO GET SPEED THIS WEEK
CAMDEN, S. C.. Nev. I.—The
tempo of the First Army’s Fall
maneuvers in the Carolinas will
be stepped up this week with the
entry of this nation’s two armor
ed divisierts.
The first armored division from
Camp Polk, La., with more than
1,000 tanks, artillery and motor
ized equipment, will join Major
General Charles F. Thompson's
First Corps in a field exercise
against the remaining two corps,
the Second commanded by Major
General Lloyd R. Frendendall and
the Sixth by Major General Ma
gruder, the First armored will be
concentrated in the Rock Hill, S
C., area the latter part of this
week. The Second armored di
vision, based at Fort Benning,
Ga., also will arrive in the area
about the same time.
RECORD NUMBER FLYERS
ADDED TO ARMY
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 1.
—The Southeast air corps train
ing center today bestowed diplo
mas and wings upon its eighth
and largest graduating class.
Four advanced flying schools in
the center graduated 447 new
second lieutenants who have com
pleted a course of 30 weeks in
struction. This number more than
quadruples the number in the
first class of army fliers turned
out at! the training center less
than a year ago.
BROUGHTON PLANS
ANOTHER POWER MEETING
RALEIGH, Nov. I.—Governor
Broughton plans to return to
Washington for another confer
ence with officials of the Federal
Power Commission, and possibly
President Roosevelt, on the ques
tion of diverting additional pow
er from North Carolina to other
Southern States.
The Governor and Utilities
Commissioner Stanley Winbotrte,
have taken the position that they
would be opposed to any diver
sion which could cause curtail
ment of North Carolina industries,
unless industries in other states
were similarly curtailed.
MARIE PIERCE OF VIRGINIA
AND BOSTON . ACQUITTED
BERRYVILLE, Va., Nov. I.
Marie Pierce, blonde Bostonian
socialite, today returned to her
career of raising livestock after
• a Clarke County Circuit Court
Jury found her not guilty of the
fatal shooting of Lewis T. More
' land, 58-yjear-)old neighbor who
once gave her farming advice.
The jury returned the verdict
after deliberating 30 minutes.
Miss Price, who sat tensely while
waiting for the jury to make its
report, broke into opensmiles of
relief- when she was freed, and
after shaking hands with mem
bers of the jury, grabbed and
kissed her father, Alworth
Pierce, Boston importer.
NEW FAN DANCING STYLES
PHILADELPHIA, November 1.
—Four black grosgrain bustle
dresses were put on sale at an
auction disposing of the SIOO,OOO
worth of antiques left by a 74-
year-old recluse.
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PUBLISHED EVERY BUNDAY A THURSDAY
POWER RATIONING 1
LOOMS IN DRYER ;
PARTS OF NATION
North Carolina Not So Se
verely Cut; Non-Essential
Lighting To Be Eliminated
Washington, Nov. I.—The Of
fice of Production Management
ordered an immediate blackout
of ornamental and unessential
lighting in the Southeast and an
nounced that an electricity-ra
tioning program for Siuthern in
dustry would begin November
10 unless heavy rains ended the
region’s, water shortage.
It issued a mandatory order for
immediate creation of a giant
power grid connecting 40 public
ly and privately owned systems
in 13. States, in order to bring
power fro mareas having some
power from areas having some
en industrial region.
J. A. Krug, head of OPM’s
power section, said he would
proceed to Atlanta to set up a
field office in which GPM staff
men and representatives of the
State Public Service Commis
sions affected will collaborate in
administering and curtailment
program.
Krug told a press conference
that the ban on ornamental and
non-essential lighting in the sev
en States, the curtailment pro
gram, and the power pool would
last until rains alleviated the
stringent situation. The odds
were 50-50, he said, that the
rainy season would start by De
cember 1.
Signs Affected
The word “immediate” applied
to the discontinuance of power
for sign lighting, show-window
illumination, flood - lighting of
athletic fields, ornamentation of
theatre marquees and other pro
hibited uses. “Immediate” means
as soon as OPM can acquaint
power consumers with the sacri
fices expected of them, Krug
said.
He conceded that textile mills,
particularly those of Georgia and
Alabama, would sluffer under
the curtailment order. He said,
however, that OPM had confer
red with textile manufacturers
and had received their opinion
that they “can stand a 30 per
cent reduction.”
Most Users Exempt
While most residential and
small commercial users consume
less than 10,000 kilowatt hours a
month, and thus would be ex
empt from mandatory provisions
of the rationing program, Krug
said a campaign would be
launched to enlist their support.
Conferences with state officials
have led OPM to believe, Krug
said, that) governors of the sev
en affected states would issue
proclamations calling fop volun
tary reduction on the part of
householders.
Laid To Dry Year
“This drastic order was neces
sitated by one of the driest years
years in recent history, coupled
(Continued on Sport Page)
FIRST AID CERTIFICATES
The nine adults and young
people recently received their
Standard First Aid certificates
from the American National Red
Cross for the course in First Aid
taught by Miss Ruby Jane Wells
in the Chub Lake Community
last August: Mrs. Grant Long,
Mrs. Edgar Long, Mrs. Thomas
Long 4 Mrs. C. W. Carver, Mrs.
Andrew Holt, Mrs. Mattie
Wrenn, and Misses Sallie Sue
Wrenn, Frances Long and Ruth
Brooks.
1 The following children receiv
ed Junior First Aid certificates:
Delma Holt, Elma Holt, Ida Rae
Long, Annie Mae Long, Helen
Long, John Richard Wrenn, Wil
liam Wrenn and Annie Zell
Wrenn.
PERSON CASES
NOT TO COME UP
BEFORE JANUARY
Governor And Solicitor
Reach Agreement In Ra
leigh During Week
Raleigh, Nov. 1. —After a con
ference with Solicitor William
Murdock, of Durham, Governor
Broughton has announced that ho
will not call a special term of
Person County Superior Court
for the trial of 10 persons on
charges of attempting to storm
the 'Person County jail in an
attempted lynching.
Governor Broughton said that
the trial probably would be held
during a one-week term of Per
son Superior Court scheduled to
begin on January 26. Judge R.
Hunt Parker is due to preside.
Solicitor Murdock told the
Governor that he would be so
busy in other courts of the dis
trict that a special term in Per
sin for the trial would be inad
visable.
The Person County grand jury
handed down an indictment on
October 16 charging the 10 men
with unlawful assembly in the
vicinity of the Person court house
for the purpose of forcing the
sheriff to hand over to them Cy
Winstead, a Negro who is charg
ed with rape.
The attempted lynching oc
curred on August 15.
Bethel Hill Will
Have Party And
P.-T. A. Meeting
The Bethel Hill Parent-Teach
er Association will meet at the 1
school house Monday night, No-i
vember 3, at 7:30 o’clock. An in-!
teresting program will be offer-!
ed on “The Values of Reading.”
All members of the community
are cordially invited to attend
and new members will be wel
comed.
There will be a Halloween Par
ty at the Bethel Hill school Tues
day night, Novmeber 4, at 7:30
o’clock, with a cake walk, bingo,
fishing pond, box supper and
other contests and games. It is
Halloween again, if a bit late.
Dress in costume and come pre
pared to have a good time.
TO FLORIDA
Enroute to their winter home
at St. Petersburg, Fla., Mr. and
Mrs. P. C. Boardman, o/Buriing
ton, Vermont, were on Thursday
dinner guests of their cousin,
Miss Lizzie Pixley.
Along The Way
With the Editor —
“Time Marches On.” A fevy years ago the following young
men were the shieks of Roxboro or of their respective home
towns. Boy, they drove their dad’s car and went far and wide
to see the ladies. Last Friday night they were down town
with a hand full of children letting them enjoy the Halloween
celebration •as dad looked on and grinned—Burke Mewborne
Ben Brown, John Morris, Page Brooks, Dewey Bradsher, Rainey
Hawkins—pshaw, we almost said Wallace Woods. _ ,
Just saw Garrett Stanfield of Greenville. He is here for
the week-end. If you remember, that guy owes us $1.50 and
to save our life we can’t see why he doesn’t pay it. He says
that he is making good money and that he has been paying
income tax. Maybe he will pay this time.
Great day in the morning- Glenn Stovall has let the con
tract for his mansion in Sunset Hills and the contractor has
started to work. What a place it is going to be and what a
time we are going to have at his house and at John Fitzgerald’s
place too—a big housewarming* at both places—all on the
owners. .
Jesse Rogers, mayor of Allensville, has remodeled his
service station and made it larger. He invites charge account!;.
So long—l “gotta’-’ go shine my shoes and get ready for
Sunday school. Me and H. K. Sanders sorter lead the singing
in our class—a sorter mixed tenor. Sanders leads and I hold
the book. He has a swamp root bark and I have a Lamar street
“holler.”
ROXBORO, N. C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1941
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HENRY R. DWIRE
TALK BYDWIRE
TO HAVE THEME
OF COOPERATION
Former Newspaper Man,
Now Duke University Of
ficial, Will Be Here Friday
Feature of the Annual Fall
meeting of the Person County
Duke University Alumni Asso
ciation to be held at Hotel Rox
boro, November 7, at 7 o’clock
will be an address by Henry R.
Dwire, vice presideht of Duke
Univeristy. His subject will be:
“Duke University in the Serv
ice of the Nation.”
In addition to the address of
the evening, there will be a num
ber of other interesting features,
including the election of offices
for the ensuing year. There will
also be brief remarks bjTmembofs
of the local association, and a
short musical program.
This annual fall meeting is one
of many to be held in North Ca
rolina and other states. These
will reach a climax in a meeting
to be held at Duke University in
December in celebration of Duke
University Day.”
Arrangements for the Person
meeting are under the direction
of Rev. T. Marvin Vick, Jr., pres
ident of the Person Association.
Other officers of the association
are: Mrs. A. F. Nichols, vice pres
ident; Mrs. Lawrence H. Rynd,
secretary and treasurer, and Mrs.
R. H. Shelton, alumnae represen
tative. Mrs. Rynd has since mov
ed to Illinois. In Person County
are an estimated 75 alumni.
SON BORN
Mr. and Mrs. Sanders Mc-
Whorter announce the birth of a
son, Friday, October 31, at Watts
hospital, Durham. *
Clubs Tie For 4-H Banner At
Annual Achievement Meeting
MORGAN GOES TO
WAKE JAIL IN
PROTEST STAND
Refuses Opportunity T o
Return For Few Days To
His Wake Forest Home
Raleigh, Nov. I. David R.
Morgan, 24-year-old Wake Forest
youth who chose to go to prison
rather than fill out his Selective
Service questionnaire, has de-
he would go to jail im
mediately rather than have a
few more days freedom.
Morgan drew a sentence of 18
months in Federal Court here
Monday, and he reported toi U.
S. Marshal Ford Worthy Thurs
day.
Worthy said that he informed
the youth and his parents, the
Rev. and Mrs S. L. Morgan of
Wake Forest, that it would be
several days before the office of
the Attorney General in Wash
ington* designates the prison in
which Morgan will be confined.
“You can go back home for a
few more days,” Worthy said he
told Morgan. He said the youth
replied that he already had told
everyone goodby” and was “rea
dy to go.” He was placed in Wake
County jail the first time since
he refused to fill out his draft
quh r stic r TfTrarrp ‘ in' 'orde’T'W'-make
“my protest against war more
effective” that he had been con
fined.
l ip Top Station
Now Being Made
Over By Rogers
Now enlarged and in process
of renovation is Tip Top service
station, Allensville road, operat
ed for the past year or more by
Jesse Rogers, who returned to
Roxboro two years ago from
Washington.
Mr. Rogers reports that floor
space at Tip Top has been doubl
ed and that many improvements
will be made.
Halloween Passes !
Quietly Here |
Roxboro’s Halloween passed i
quietly, with no major distur- 1
bances reported to 1 law enforce-,
ment officers in City or County.!
Main street was on Friday night!
filled with costumed merry-ma
kers, mostly of the younger and I
youngest sets. Given in the City
and County were numerous ben
efit and private parties. Cooper-;
ating with the spirit of the sea- i
son were many merchants who,
had their windows decorated for
the occasion.
o
Army Pigeon On
Sick List After
Accident In City
A wounded Army carrier pi
geon, with a serial number and
code message on its leg band is
being cared for by Dr. O. G.
Davis, to whom it was given af
ter it struck a car on Court street
Friday and suffered a broken
wing. The bird was found by
Thomas R. Bennett, Jr. R. H.
Shelton, of Lester Blackwell
Post of the American Legion, has
written to Army headquarters
giving the serial number and it
is expected that the pigeon will
soon« recover and be on its way
to maneuver areas.
MARTIN CLAYTON i
HAS HONOR POST
IN DISTRICT 19
I-
Longhurst Council Os J. O.
U. A. M. Represented At
Hillsboro Session
Hillsboro, Nov. L—Tyree Jones
of Durham has been elected
councilor of District No. 19, Jun
ior Order, United American Me
chanics, at a district meeting
attended by several high officials I
of the fraternal organization.
About 40 delegates were guests j
of Eno Lodge No. 173 here and
heard the Rev. C. W. Allen, chap
lain of the Junior Order Chil
dren’s Home at Lexington, re
port on orphanage work. A col
lection was taken for the home, (
which now cares for 193 children. ,
Gurney P. Hood, State Junior-
Order treasurer and North Caro
lina Banking Commissioner, was
a special guest,, as were M. G. ,
Flanigan of Graham, State vice
councilor, and J. L. White of Ox
ford, past State councilor.
District officers elected to
serve with Jones were Martin E.
Clayton of Longhurst, vice coun
cilor; the Rev. S F. Nicks of Ef
land lodge, chaplain; C. W. Stal
lings of Durham, recording sec
, retary; J. I. White of Durham,
assistant secretary; C. _W. Stall
ings of Durham, financial secre
tary and treasurer; J. R. Weaver
of Chapel Hill, conductor; F. L.
Guthrie of Durham, warden;
Alex Riley of Hillsboro, inside
sentinel, and C. C. Clark of
Lowes Grove, outside sentinel.
J. Frank Adams of Durham is
district junior past councilor. (
The Nineteenth District in
cludes lodges of Durham, Orange
and Person Counties,
Crabtree Rites
To Be Held At
Berry’s Grove
Artemus Crabtree. 54, World
War veteran and native of Per
son, died Saturday morning at
! four o'clock at Veteran’s hospi
j tal, Fayetteville, where he had
i been a patient for about a month. I
i Death was attributed to pnt u
j monia.
1 1 A resident of Hurdle Mills, Mr.
•j Crabtree is survived by his wife,;
■ ’ the former Miss Bertha Allison, ;
■! and five children. Funeral ar- j
-, rangements are incomplete, but:
• | rites, with military honors, will j
11 be held sometime Sunday after
’ j noon at Berry’s Grove Baptist:
-! church, Person County.
i|Ransom Frederick
Goes With Justice
In Greensboro
W. Ransom Frederick, former
Roxboro resident, who has for
the past year been connected
with the Johnson Drug Co., Dan
ville, Va., has accepted a posi
tion with the Justice Drug Co.,
1 Greensboro, a wholesale house.
3 Mr. Frederick while in Roxboro
. was with Roxboro Drug Co. He
- began working in Greensboro
t yesterday and it is expected that
J he and Mrs. Frederick will estab
r lish residence there.
1 MRS. RHEW ILL
s Mrs. Lessie Rhew is a patient
s at Community hospital, where
t she underwent an operation Fri
-1 day night. Her condition remains
y about the same, hospital attaches
said Saturday morning.
THE TIMES IS PERSONS
PREMIER NEWSPAPER,
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER EIGHT
Miss Slaughter Wins Indi
vidual Honors; Miss Beam
Receives Gift; Many Win
Certificates
Climax of the annual Achieve
ment Day program held here
Thursday night by Person Coun
ty 4-H clubs was presentation of
certificates of achievement to
135 members of the various
clubs,, and recognition of Miss
Mary Elizabeth Slaughter, daug
ter of Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Slaugh
ter, as county champion.
Bushy Fork and Olive Hill
tied as winning clubs for 1940-
1941 and will share the banner.
Prize for the best banner went
to the Ca-Vel club. Pictures of
officers of the County Cou,nciL
and of individual clubs were
taken by Gordon C. Hunter and
S. M. Ford.
Presentation of certificates, at
exercises held at Roxboro high
school, was by L. R. Harrill. of
Raleigh, State 4-H club leader,,
while installation of officers was
by Miss Frances MsGregor, also
of Raleigh, assistant leader.
Tribute to Miss Vela Beam, 4-
H leader and Person County
Home Demonstration agent, who
will this month go to her 1 , new
work in Clay county, was final
part of an evevning crowded
with events illustrating progress
of club work in the Person area.
Presented to Miss Beam from
the combined clubs was a gift
“for which she expressed sincere
appreciation. Presentation was
by Miss Elsie West, president of
the County Council of clubs.
General theme of the program,
“4-H Strengthens Democracy,”'
was illustrated by brief address
es given by members. Also a fea
ture was patriotic music. Stage
decorations were autumn leaves,
combined with flags and ban
ners.
Attendance was unusually good
at this, the first such program
given at night.
Cow ‘Arranged
For Milking,’ Says
Young London Boy
London, Nov. I.—A cow has
“six sides” and is “arranged for
milking.” according to an essay
written by a 10-year-old boy
from the East End slums of Lon
don and released by Ernest
Brown, Minister of Health.
The boy had been evacuated
from the city to the country
where his amazed eyes beheld a
cow for the first time.
"The cow is a mammal,” he
j wrote, "it has six sides, right and
loft and upper and below. At the
back it lias a tail on which hangs
a brush. With this he sends flies
away so they don’t fall into the
milk. The head is for the purpose
of growing horns and so his
mouth can be somewhere. The
horns are to butt with and the
mouth to moo with. Under the
cow hangs milk. It is arranged
for milking.
“When people milk, milk
comes and there never is an end
to the supply. How 1 the cow
does it I have not yet realized
but it make more and more. The
cow has a fine sense of smell and
one can smell it far away. This
is the reason fir the fresh air in
is the reason for the fresh air in
“A man cow is< called an ox.
. The cow does not eat much but
• what it eats it eats twice so that
it gets enough. When it is hun
gry it moos and when it says
nothing at all it is because its
insides are full up with grass.”