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IF rr IS NEWS ABOUT PERSON COUNTY. YOU’LL FIND IT IN THE TIMES. 7 VOLUME xm Unusual Views Os The News AIR RAID SPOTTERS SHOW IMPROVEMENT Raleigh, Nov. 15. The two day test by the sixth pursuit wing of the air warning system for the First Army territory showed a “great improvement in civilian spotters,’’ Colonel Law rence P. Hickey, wing comman der, said today. Colonel Hickey, optimistic ov er its chances for detecting “enemy” aircraft before they reach their targets, said “we un derstand there have been some changes in instructions to im prove the system, which might have been confusing to observ ers, but we believe now that the system ought to function much better.” GREEN WARNS LABOR HEADS THAT CONVICTIONS SHOULD BE WARNING Washington, Nov. 15. Presi dent William Green of the American Federation of Labor yesterday said exploitation of working men and women in the organized labor movement is a crime that “cannot be excused ■ or condoned.” Hss statement was made in connection with the-conviction in New York last week of George E. Browne and William Bioff, motion picture industry labor czars, for racketeering, extortion and conspiracy. PRESIDENT TO ORDER ARMING OF MERCHANTMEN Washington, Nov. 15. Presi dent Roosevelt will order the arming of American merchant vessels .within three days and authorize their dispatch into war zones where the Axis hopes to sink them on sight. Trans-Atlantic convoys prob ably are just around the corner. The navy’s practice is understood to have been to escort merchant vessels half-way across the ocean to a rendezvous with British warships. There seems to be no reason now why American escort vesels should not go the whole route into the Mersey or the Thames. REDS REJECT JAP CLAIMS .uirSHIP SINKING - Tokyo, No. 15.—Russia replied today to Japan’s protest on the sinking of the liner Kehi Maru in the Sea of Japan on Novem ber 11 and informed sources said they understood that all major Japanese claims were rejected. Ambassador Constantin Sme tanin handed' the reply to For eign Minister Shigenori Togo in a brief Foreign Office meeting. ‘MARRYING JUDGE’ FACES HEARING MONDAY Charleston, S. C., Nov. 15. A hearing on charges of “mis conduct in office” against Pro bate Judge Wililam Calvin Hill of Mondu Comer has been set tentatively for Monday. Hill, known as “The Marrying Judge,” is judge of probate of Berkeley County. As one of his last official acts as Governor of South Carolina, Burnet May bank ordered Hill'to show cause why he should not removed from office for “fail ure to perform official duties as by law.” Hill’s alleged "marriage racket” was the sub ject of investigation by naval in- Hnlp*- officers, probing alleg iid vise conditions. ||rlt charged that drunken sailors had been married to pros titutes. , UersnniPmes PUBLISHED EVERY BUNDAY Sc THURSDAY Successful Court Os Honor Conducted At Ca-Vel School Many Boy Scouts Come Up For Recognition In Per son District; Two Life Scouts. With Troop 24, Joe Gussy, Scoutmaster, as host, monthly session of the Person District Court of Honor was held Friday night at Ca-Vel school, at which a number of boys were reported] for recognition and advance ment. . Presiding was J. S. Merritt, chairman. Other leaders of the' court were Henry E. O’Briant, j Gus Deering and A. P. Patterson, the last named being the Chero- j kee Council executive, who came from Reidsi/ille for the ceremo ny. Apples were served as re freshments and concluding fea ture was showing of a motion picture by the Rev. T. Marvin | Vick. Printed below is the list of ad- J vancements: Second class—Troop 24: W. B. Humphries, Sam Moore, Jordan Puryear, Wayne Buchannan, Bill Shotwell, J. T. Saunders; Troop 48: Sonny Dawes, Merle Stew art. First Class—Troop 49: Nathan ! Fox. Safety Trowp 24: Raymond Clayton. Public Health—Troop 63:Dew- j ey Holoman. Personal Healtn Troop 24, Buck Taylor; Troop 49, Frank Jordan, Reginald Jones. Farm Home and its planning—j Troop 24, Buck Taylor, William Brickhouse. Landscape Gardening—William Brickhouse. First Aid Troop 24, Bobby I Currier. Swimming Troop 24, Jack Shotwell, Floyd Clayton. Rowing—Troop 24, Jack Shot well, Floyd Clayton. Canoeing Troop 49, Charles Hughes. Life Saving—Troop 49, Charles Hughes. ’ Athletics Troop 49, Charles Hughes; Troop 32, Charlie Har- ! ris. Life Scout Troop 24, Buck i Taylor; Troop 32, Charlie Harris. Star Scout—Troop 24, William : Brickhouse. Tenderfoot Troop 24, Bill Wallker, Carlton Clayton, Ed ward Ellis; Troop 49, Jimmy Street, George Wilson; Troop 63, Jimmy Moore. E. L. Wehrenberg Will Be Speaker j Thanksgiving Dayj Guest speaker at a special! service to be held Thanksgiving j morning at 11 o’clock at St. j Mark’s Episcopal church, Roxbo- 1 ro, will be E. L. Wehrenberg,' principal of High Plains Indian school, according to announce ment made this morning by the rector, the Rev. Rufus J. Wom ble. | Morning prayers will be said and music in keeping with the Thanksgiving season will be ren dered by the church choir. Mr. Wehrenberg, prior to his con nection -with the High Plains school 'was in the Presbyterian ministry. The public is cordially invited to attend the services. FOUSHEE BETTER Now improving at Community hospital is Merritt Foushee, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Foushee, of this city, who was on Novem ber 7, injured in an automobile motorcycle collision at Long hurst. Foushee’s right leg was crushed so severely that it had to be amputated below the knee. I SIXTEEN PERSON WHITE MEN FORM NOVEMBER QUOTA Group Leaves Here Friday Os Next Week For Fort Bragg. j Sixteen Roxboro and Person County white men have been . 1 asked to report to the Person Se i lective Service Board office at ■ nine o’clock on the morning of | Friday, November 28, at which time they will leave for Fort ! Bragg to be inducted into the U. S. Army. Those expected to report are: Charlie Frank Boleman, Claud S Lee Roberson, William Fletcher j Barton, William Emery Bowles, | Elzie Jackson Wilson, Ernest Thomas Evans and Glenn David Burch. Also, Paul Claiborne Umstead, Ivey Lester James, Jr., Dwight Lonnie Gentry, Walter Love I Wade, John Thomas Wilson, Guy j Jackson Timberlake, Clifton Earl Milam, James Eldridge Stone I and Johnnie Albert Oakley. | Office Manager Baxter Man ■ gum today said he has no infor- I mation as to possible December ' quotas or date on which such quotas might be named. The | November order for men from Person was only "recently made and was given, it was said be j cause of the large number of re i jections in October quotas of the I Corps area. i j. Hurdle Mills Has | Patriotic Program At P.-T. A. Session : November meeting of the Hur dle Mills Parent-Teacher associ : ation was held last week at the ! school, with Mrs. Boyd Horton, j president, presiding. Participants in a patriotic pro gram given later in the evening ,! were: Christine Jones, who dis j cussed the “Origin and -Meaning of the Flag’’; Margaret Ann Hawkins, who spoke of “Cour ,'tesy to the Flag,” and Valinda Moore, who recited Sir Walter Scott’s poem, “Love of Country.” Pledge to the flag was led by Mrs. J. S. Merritt, of the school faculty. Chief address, on “Pa j triotism,” was by Hubert Gentry, i j A social hour was closing fea | ture. Eldridge Talks At ! District Session Os Lodgemen Speaker at a district gathering .of Masons held here Thursday lin the hall of Person Lodge 113 was Dr. Charles P. Eldridge, of Raleigh, Grand Master of North Carolina. Also present was John Huske Anderson, of Raleigh, Grand Secretary and past Grand Master, who spoke at an after noon session of officers of the twentieth district First event 'on the evening program was a'dinner at Hotel Roxboro, with around a hundred delegates from the district in at tendance. Feature of the later program, at the Lodge hall was presentation of a twenty-five year certificate to C. A. Wrenn, of Mill Creek. Presentation was by Grand Master Eldridge. i , Active on the program was dis -1 trict deputy Grand Master C. A. . Harjriss, of the Person Lodge. ROXBORO, N C., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1941 TEACHERS PASS RESOLUTION IN DURHAM SESSION Favor One Body In Con trol At Raleigh; Bunn Wins; Address On Britain Heard. Back from their Friday district conference in Durham are Rox boro and Person public school teachers, who elected new offic ers, heard an address on Great Britain and adopted resolutions favoring a strong, central State Board of Education to take place of the present divided control. No major offices went to Person teachers. Britain will have a modified form of socialism at the end of the present war, Harvey Klem mer, United States Embassy at tache in London told delegates to the 1941 convention of the North Carolina District Teachers Association Friday night. Klem mer addressed the second and final general session of the con vention which attracted an esti mated 2,500 person to Durham. B. D. Bunn, superintendent of Granville 1 County Schools de feated B. G. Childs of Duke Un iversity in the race fo,r the pres ident of the association. Other officers, who were unopposed, are Miss Ruth Anderson, vice president, and Miss Annie Wos ter, secretary. The convention also voted to sponsor the town of Ramsgate, England, by sending money, clothing and food so the children there. It was explained to the delegates that that particular town had been hit severely by the German blitzkrieg. A number of resolutions were presented to the group, chief among which was the favoring of a central State Board of Ed ucation for the operation of the public schools of North Carolina. The group also went on record as being in favor of raising the compulsory school age from 14 to 16 years, and that necessary funds be made available for en forcing school attendance. Following is the list of resolu tions unanimously adopted by the delegates at their closing ses sion which were presented bv the legislative committee: “(1) —That the North Central Education Association go on rec ord as favoring the constitution al amendment which establishes one State Board of Education for the operation of the public schools of North Carolina, and that everything possible be done throughout the district, by use of the press, radio, public forums and meetings to inform school people and the lay public of the importance of voting for this amendment. (Continued On Back Page) Along The Way With the Editor How many of you remember C.ris Waggoner who once worked at a local mill? Well, Ole Cris was back in town last week and looked fairly prosperous. On the other hand he must not have had so much money because he failed to drop by this office and take out a subscription to the paper. He did have on shoes, whether they needed a sole or not, we couldn’t tell. Merrimon Winstead, Person native, now a Yankee of Ohio, was in our fair city last week. When seen here he had a saw in his hand and working clothes on his skin. I know just as well as you do that Merrimon didn’t hit one lick of work while he was in this county and why he was trying to fool people is more than I know. He didn’t do much work when he lived here on the farm. I wish Roxboro had a dignified Mayor. The other night I saw him pushing Sam Merritt’s car down the street. The car was, as usual, out of gas and the Mayor was pushing and sweating. Wyatt Monk has started golf to reduce his fallen chest. Here’s what he told the other day—quote—when I drove off at home plate—unquote—and that’s aUu GOVERNOR GIVES OFFICIAL NOTICE OF TURKEY DAY Governor Calls For Re consecration To Religious > And Democratic Causes 1 November 20 was proclaimed as the legal Thanksgiving Day holiday for North Carolina yes terday by Governor Broughton, who urged the people to make an earnest prayer for an early peace throughout the world—a peace “based upon justice, free dom and democracy.” The Governor explained that he, like the governors of the ma jority of the United States, was following the date set aside by President Roosevelt as a Nation al Thanksgiving Day holiday. He pointed out that the President has announced that Thanksgiv ing hereafter will be proclaimed on the traditional date— the last Thursday in November. President Roosevelt advanced Thanksgiving one week in the hope of eliminating confusion during the Christmas shopping season at the request of retail in terests who have admitted it did not accomplish its purpose. At the last accounting, 26 states had followed the President, 15 clug to the old date and seven were undecided. Virginia will follow’ the new’, and Georgia, South Ca rolina and Tennessee will ob serve November 27. Governor Broughton yesterday called attention to the preamble of the first Thanksgiving prdcla-' mation by George Washington Continued on back page Final Meeting Os Month Planned By Club Unit Next meeting of the Roxboro unit of the Business and Profes sional Woman’s club will be held on Tuesday, November 25, at Ho tel Roxboro, according to an nouncement made at first meet ing of the month, held this week at the Hotel. Especially honored at this time was Miss Velma Beam, leading spirit in and char ter member of the club, who will on Monday leave for Hayesville to accept her new home demon stration agent’s position, and who was recipient of an httrac tive going away gift. Major interest of the club dur ing the week was the “Gay Nineties” benefit revue given Thursday night at Roxboro high school before a medium-sized but appreciative audience. Many members of the club, assisted by prominent townspeople, appear ed in the cast. Master of cere monies was Coy Day. Unchanged Methodist Group Announced For Person Area MISS ALLEN WILL BEGIN WORK IN COUNTY MONDAY New Home Demonstration Agent Takes Position For merly Held By Miss Velma Beam. i | Miss Grace Lee Allen, of Snow j Camp, formerly connected with j Home Demostration work in Al i amance county, will arrive in ! Roxboro Monday to begin her work as Person County Home Demonstration agent, succeeding ! Miss Velma Beam, who on that ‘ date will go to similar work at | Hayesville, Clay county. Miss Allen, an alumna of Guil ford college, is a Quaker and is a member of a family long in terested in farm extension work. She also attended Woman’s Col lege of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, of which she is a graduate, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va., where she majored in Home | Economics and extension meth j ods. Miss Beam's work at Hayes ' ville is to be in connection with j the Tennessee Valley authority and is considered a promotion of importance. She came to Roxboro from Greensboro and she and her ; mother, Mrs. Dora Beam have yFeeri active residents here for j nearly three years, RITES WILL BE CONDUCTED HERE FOR CA-VEL WOMAN Mrs. James A. Satterfield Passes Friday In Durham Hospital; Funeral Today. Funeral services for Mrs. James A. Satterfield, 27, of Ca- Vel, whose death occurred Fri | J day night at Watts hospital. Dur j ham, after an illness lasting sev j cral months., will be conducted : Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock at | Brooksdale Methodist church, near Roxboro, with interment in I Burchwood cemetery. Roxboro. Death was attributed to compli j cations. | Mrs. Satterfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Davis, of j Woodsdale, was admitted to the t : Durham hospital Tuesday and had previously been a patient at ' Community hospital, Roxboro. , j Surviving, in addition to her j husband and her parents, are: two brothers, E. T. Davis, of I | Woodsdale, and Amos Davis, j Roxboro, and one sister, Mrs. R. W. Bow’es. of Woodsdale. Mrs. Satterfield had for many years been a member of the Churcli of the Latter Day Saints, Durham, and rites will be in charge of Elders C. H. Smith and William Link of that city. Miss Fisher To Speak To Group November meeting of Roxboro Central Grammar School Parent- Teacher association will be held on Monday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with Miss Julia Fisher of the nursing staff of the Person County health department as speaker. Her topic will be, “Are Our Children Physically Fit?’’. Also on the program will be motion pictures of tty Kiwanis club tonsil clinic held here sev eral months ago. Presiding will be Mrs. Logan H. Umstead, pres ident, who has requested a full attendance. ill RED CROSS NUMBER TWELVE All Local Ministers Re turned; Board Os Stew ards To Be Installed At Long Memorial. Returned to their pastoral ap pointments were all Methodist ministers of the North Carolina conference serving in Roxboro and Person County, according to a list read Friday at closing ses sion of the Conference in Dur ham. There were in Durham sev eral changes, among them the temporary retirement of the Rev. Carlos P. Womack, popular young minister, who is in ill health. Principal feature at the Sun day morning service at Edgar Long Memorial Church to which the Rev. W. C. Martin has been returned, w’ill be installation of the new Board of Stewards. The Rev. Mr, Martin, who will oc cupy his pulpit and w’ill deliver the morning sermon yesterday expressed his pleasure over re maining in Roxboro. Announcement of the Thanks giving service will be made this morning. Other Person ministers re turned are the Rev. T. Marvin Vick, Jr., the Rev. F. B. Peele, the Rev. E. L. Hill and the Rev. D. A. Petty. Following is a list of pastoral appointments in the Durham district for the North Carolina ■Methodist 'Conference "as read Friday morning by Bishop Clare Purcell: A. J. Hobbs. District Superinten dent Alamance, H. B. Lewis. Andrews Chapel, W. L. Sturd evant, supply. Bahama, O. I. Hinson. Brooksdale, D. A. Petty. Burlington—Davis Street, J. O. Lon; Front Street, F. S. Love; Webb Avenue-Fcuntain Place, C. J. Andrews; West Burlington, L. L. Parrish; Burlington Circuit, M. C. Ellerbe. Bynum, K. F. Duval. Carrboro, V. E. Queen. Cedar Grove, J. C. Williams. Chapel Hill, J. M. Culbreth. Duke Chapel, H. R. Simpson. Durham —Branson, John Cline; | Calvary, D. E. Earnhart; Carr, M. i C. Dunn; Duke Memorial. H. C. | Smith; Lakewood, W. K. Barrs; Trinity, J. G. Huggins, Jr.; West Durham, W. L. Clegg. Durham Circuit, S. J. Starnes. Eno, to be supplied Glen Raven-Haw River. J. F. Coble. Graham, J. J. Boone. Hillsboro, S. F. Nicks. Leasburg, F. A. Lupton. Mebane—Central, T. B. Hough; First Church, J. W. Sneeden. Milton, F. M. Patterson. Mt. Herman Circuit, W. B. Cotton Mt. Tirzah, E. L. Hill. Orange Circuit, C. P. Morris. Person Circuit, F. B. Peele. Pittsbo.ro, R. Z. Newton. Rougemont, Kermitt Wheeler. Roxboro Long Memorial, W. C. Martin. Roxboro Circuit, T. M. Vick, Jr. Saxapahaw, M. C. Henderson. Swepsonville, I. T. Poole. Yancey ville, J. C. Early. CREDITABLE SUM RAISED IN ROLL CALL FIRST WEEK Contributions thus far to the Person and Roxboro Red Crocs Roll Call total around S4OO, ac cording to the Rev. J. M. Walker, chairman, who last week held a follow-up meeting of workers. Goal has been set at SI,OOO and it is expected that aditional con tributions will come in this week.
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