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Oar Job Is to Save faggS Dollars War Bonds L\\ —Every Pay Day VOLUME XIV Criminal Court To 1 , Bs Opened Monday By Judge Thompson Earl Lewis Harris Case On Appeal Will Come Up Second Week, For Civil Cases Will Have Judge Dixon, Os Edenton. Person Superior Court, crimi nal division, with Judge C. E. Thompson, of Elizabeth City, presiding, is scheduled to open here Monday morning and is ex pected to last one week, to be followed on Monday, Feb. 1, by a one week’s civil term under Judge Richard D. Dixon, of Edenton, since Judge Thompson is to be in Oxford for Gran ville court that week. Before Judge Thompson in Person court will be the case of Earl Lewis Harris, Negro, 24, charged with assault with a deadly weapon, and appealed by him after he and Desedee Cana da, 18, also a Negro, charged with a similar offense, had been found guilty in Friday's Record er’s court. , Harris and Canada, it will be recalled, were engaged in a fight cn Christmas eve and Cam ada was wounded by Harris' and sent to a Durham hospital for treatment. Trial of the case in lower court was delayed until his recovery. June Ragland, 21, third Negro in the affray, was found not guilty. Canada had judgement suspended, with pay ment of $5 and costs, while Har ris, under S2OO bond, appealed from a sentence of eight months on the roads, payment of sllO for Canada’s hospital expenses and the condition that he be ac cepted by the Army. Members of the Person Bar met recently to draw up the cal endar for the Civil Term, the most interesting case on it be ing that scheduled for Wednes day, Feb. 3, "State of North Carolina vs. M. T. Clayton et al”, in other words, the case con cerned with the jail-cell death of Thomas P. Whitfield in Jan uary of last year. Attorney for Whitfield’s widow, a Greens boro residest, is Harry R. Stan ley, of that City. Other Civil Actions are: Joe C. Moore vs. Vassar Jones; J. W. Chambers & wife vs. W. T. Pass, Executor et al; Eleanor Shorr vs. R. B. Dawes, Trustee, etc.; Miriam Clayton vs. Dolian Clayton; J. A. Vance Co. vs. G. E. Stephens; Lucy Whitt Owen vs. Zeb Owen; Drucilla Long Jones vs. Horace J. C. Jones; In the Matter of the Will of Paul Ross; Cora Alkins Wade vs. Ivey Wade and Beard of Commission ers of Roxboro vs. Willie Barnett & Person County. In criminal division, cases to come up include those against William Cates, 14, Negro charg ed with attempted assault with intent to commit rape; James Johnson, 25, also a Negro, charg ed wih assault with intent to kill; and Willie Thomas Aiken, Roxboro white man, 27 years of age, charged with robbery from Arthur F. Perkins, of Roxboro. And cases of John Henry Wal ker, alias John Henry Warner, 30, and George Junior Lunsford, 28, both Negroes, charged with robbery from Ernest Townsend, also a Negro. Os interest to Person residents (turn to page two, please) - TIMES - PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. Two Cub Packs Organize For New Programs About Twenty Boys In Each Group. Growth Os Work Largely Tribute To Womble. | I i Now formally organized and' re-erganized are Cub Packs No. 2 and No. 6, representing a split ting of Pack No. 2 into two units. In one Pack, with the Rev. Ru-j fus J. Womble as Cubmaster, 1 sponsorship is by Saint Mark’s 1 Episcopal church, of which the 1 Rev. Mr. Womble is rector, while! in the ether Pack, which has, Preston Satterfield, Jr., as Cub-j master, sponsorship is by Saint Mary’s and Siaint Edward’s Cath-' olic church. i Pack committeemen for the ■ Saint Mark’s group are R. P.! Michaels, Percy Bloxam and J. W. DeWolf, Jr., while commit teemen for the :cther Pack are George W. Kane, George Curri er and Gus Deering. The Rev. Mr. Womble’s Pack meets each' Wednesday afternoon at Rox boro high school and Mr. Satter-! field’s group on each Friday; night at the Community house, | Chub Lake street. Beys in the day group are:' Hugh Beam, John Ervin Brooks, i James Lester, Ruffin Woody, l James Sidney O’Briant, David Barnett, Robert Kerr, Silas Sol-! oman, Philip Thomas, Jr., Sam' Harris, Daniel Moore, John M. Humphries and Bill Bradsher, while two boys below Cub age, but associated with the Pack are, Dewey Young, Jr., and James Parham. bert Burns, Jr., Henry Walker,! In the night group are: Ro- Jr., Kirk Kynoch, Larry Woods, Latney Pittard, Jr., Heywood G. Simpson, Jr., Abner Clayton, W. T. Adcock, Vernon Thomas, Leon Long, Bill Michie, Henry O’- Briant, Jr., Russell Newell, Jr ; , Mack Abbitt and Jerry Bass, With Jack' Michie, below Cub age but associated with the Pack. Two boys, Donald Long and i John C. Dawes, will go with one of the two Packs. Other boys wh'o ar einterested and are ex pected to get into the Packs aTej Carl Thomas, Ben Williams,! Charles Barnette and John S. | Pettigrew. 1 City O’Possum Makes One Trip Too Many ForWade and Walker A City opossum (species, Di delphis virginiana) "chiefly noc turnal, largely arboreal and al most omnivorous”, met its match here early Friday morning on Lamar street, when two Roxboro Policemen, Charles Wade and George Walker, looking for more human game, came upon the slick-tailed animal near W. C. Bullock’s lumber plant. The ’possum blinked under the search-light held by Walker. Boon the chase was on. Wade, A. L. GOODWIN HAS PRAISES FOR JOB RESPONSE HERE Says Roxboro And Per son Young Men And Wo- j men Want Courses A. L. Goodwin, district repre sentative of the War Manpower | cemmission under NYA, today, said that work of accuring young people for training is progressing at good rate in the Roxboro ' area, where the ratio is three toj I one in comparison with response! j and acceptance in Caswell and j Granville, two other counties in i his district. | Goodwin, who has residence! jin Roxboro and is in his office j l here on Friday and Saturday; mornings in the Post Office’ j building frem 8:30 until 10, saysi that need now is particularly I acute for girls and young women j in radio work, many of whom, ( can be trained in Raleigh, j Women, according to Good- j ' win, have greater finger dexter -1 itj* than men and their skill in such work as radio repairs has j been repeatedly illustrated. I Bob Whitten To i Leave Soon For 1 Army Service Robert Estes (Bob) Whitten, of Roxbcro and Atlanta, Ga., a , former University of North Car j olina athlete and son of Mr. and I Mrs. S. R. Whitten, of Roxboro, [ is among Roxboro boys expect j ed to go to Camp Croft, S. C., j for induction Wednesday. His ! wife is the former Miss Smith, of, , Mullins, S. C. Mr. Whitten ar-1 j rived in Roxboro Friday and his! wife 'is expected to join rim here j i during periodl of his furlough. | Mr. Whitten for the past sev-i eral months has been in defense work. Royster Speaks j To Rotarians On i FSA Program T. S. Royster, of Lexington, district supervisor of the Farm Security administration, guest' speaker Thursday at Roxboro Rotary club on a program spon sored by Rotarian J. Y. Blanks, discussed the farm program for j 1943 and gave assurance that the FISA is cooperating in all possi ble ways. Special guest was Charles Spencer, of Raleigh, who after j wards spoke at meeting of the’ j Person Schoolmasters’ club. Ro- J I tary session was at Hotel Rox- j boro. who made the actual capture, got down on his hands and knees, and pulled the six-pound animal from its hiding place un der lumber. Strangle-hold was on its tail. Wade made the capture, but Walker was the practical one: he totok the critter to the country! to fatten. Soon there will be stew. That is the price the ’pos sum will pay for making just! one trip too many to a garbage, can across the street. C., SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 1943 Corps Plan Outlined By Spencer I i i ■■ i Couch And Griffin Pre- | side. Organization Will j Be Made Here. I Listing eight objectives of the 1 high schol Victory Corps pro-j gram, Charles Spencer, of the | 'State Department of Public in- j j struction, Raleigh, en Thursday I night told members of the Per-. ! son Schoolmaster’s club and, 1 1 ! special guests that the Corps is ' expected to: j Act' as guide in helpful war! ' 'work, especially In critical ser- j ! vices and occupations; deal with' [wartime citizenship problems; 1 provide physical fitness; give [military drill; provide basic trailing in mathematics and f science; offer pre-flight train-; ing in aeronautics; provide! training i noccupational courses' and stimulate community ser-j vice. Requirement's for general Corps membership include: tak- 1 ing course best suited to indivi-! dual needs, participating in phy-| sical fitness training and partici pating in recurring wartime act-! ivities. Requirements for mem ! berships in the Service divisions | are mere complex. Badges for I both general and sevice mem i berships are available. | Presiding over the session, : held in Roxboro high school lib j rary, was Leon Couch, club pres ! ident. General discussion of the t Corps plan was held and plans! | (turn to page two. please) | I PRENTISS BROWN i ASSUMES DUTIES AS HEAD OF OPA i Promises To Safeguard In- i terests Os Consumers; Sees Slcjw Price Rise. WASHINGTON, January 23. Prentiss M. Brown, Lson Hen derson’s successor as Price Ad | I ministrator, pledged himself to safeguard the consumer’s inter-1 ests, but warned that a slow and i orderly rise in living costs is in- j evitable. “I don’t think you can hold prices at a flat level,” the form er Michigan Senator said on ilcrmally taking over the job. He appealed for public cooper ation in the price control and ra- I tioning programs and reiterated that the keynote of his adminis- J tration would be that price con trols should be- viewed as pro tection for the people rather than an imposition. He told a press conference that he hoped he could do a job satisfactory to the people and to the Congress "as far as those two groups can be satisfied,” but acknowledged that “we will be unable to please everyone— there always will be disagree ments and dissatisfaction.” Meeting the newsmen a few hours after he was sworn in by Associate Supreme Court' Jus tice William O. Douglas, the soft-spoken and unassuming new OPA boss parried a question whether he would be “tough” by saying: “I don’t think I can change my personality at the age pf 53.” Even as he spoke, Henderson said in a letter transmitting his final report to Congress that inflation can be held in check, but that economic stabilization (turn to page two, please) JANUARY QUOTA OF WHITE MEN TO LEAVE WEDNESDAY Names Os Negroes Who Are Going Back Are Giv en. Other List Held Back. j January quota of Person and Roxboro white men expected to leave under Selective Service on Wednesday morning for Camp Croft .Spartanburg, S’. C., where final examinations will take place, is expected to be large, according to Mrs. James Brooks, Selective Service office manager, but final list of those going may not be available before first of the week. It is understood that some changes in the list may be oc casioned by farm deferments. Among the men expected to leave are a number of well known young men, / seme of whom have returned to Roxboro from other cities in order to join the group here and comply with regulations. Released today is a list of Ne gro men, first sent to Fort Bragg on January, 15, who have spent furloughs here and have retum- I ed or will return to the service. | They are: James O. Hester, j James P. Carrington, John D Featherston, Joseph E. Lee, Zeb | ulon V. Woods, Jr., Carl Wyche, ! Henderson Stanfield, Alfred F. 1 Blackwell, Christmas C. Petti- I ferd, James P. Torlan, Robert E : Cole, Spencer Thomas, Jr., Rob ert L. Lawson, Winard F. Talley. Malvin Pulliam, Charlie New man, Clemon Jay, Bruce Woody, Floyd Hamlett and Leroy J. Crump. Also, Felix F. Pettiford, Rufus F. Taylor, Jonnie B. Villines, Willie J. Johnson, Cathern Ram- I sey, William H. Bradsher, Floyd I D. Blackwell, Jchnnie C. Villines, | Lonnie Rogers, James R. Bar j nette, Alex Fuller, Jr., Otha L. Blackwell, Charlie J. Pierce, Wil lie D. Royster, Eugene Jordan, Robert L. Ragland, Willia J. Stanfield, John E. Brand and 1 Charlie M. Vanhook. | Nmber of Negroes being re turned is less than one half of those examined. HAS TONSILS OUT Miss Ruth Alene Young, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Dewey Young, of Roxboro, is re ! covering nicely after having had j her tonsils removed at Commun ! ity hospital. I Along The Way With the Editor It has been very seldom that this column has ever had any thing to say about women and every time that anything has' been said the writer lived to regret it. However, once again it will ba tried. I simply cannot resist the temptation and to be perfectly frank about the matter I think that these women that I am going to talk 1 about deserve what is coming to them. On Wednesday of this last week four wtmen, who did not v care to walk or who were too old to walk, had to go to the Re search Club. There was a rule against riding in a car or rather against pleasure riding, and so they engaged a wagon and a team of mules t'o haul them to th|e club. They decided to g’o right down Main iStreet on the wagon, just to show off I guess. There could have been no other reason, and down Main Street they went. One of the ladies even wanted a horn to blow but' why I Cculd not see as they attracted enough attention as they were. ' These women were not young girls. They were grandmoth ers, every last one of them. One had a birthday the next day and I .just do not have the nerve to tell you how old she was. They had to have help getting in the wagon and it .' took two big men to help them in and out. As it happened this re was not a broken leg in the bunch. As a young boy my mother would have never let' me do anything as 1 dangerous as that. The wagon could have broken down or the mules could have run away. Their names—Oh yes, I almost Iforgot, Mrs. Mamie Merritt, Mrs. E. P. Dunlap, Mrs. R. L. 'Wilburn and Mrs. S. G. Winstead. I i Bloxam And W oods Send Folger Airport Messages From City Surgical Unit Os Red Cross j Gets Demands i i \ j largest Quota Yet Re ,! eived Cals For 30,000 In j February. .1 Mrs. J. H. Hughes, of this city, ' chairman of the surgical dress -1 i ings unit of the Person and Rox '' boro Chapter of the American Red Cross, tolay said that she 1 has been informed that February 1 quota of surgical dressings for 1 the Chapter has been set at 30,- 000, more than three times larg er than the previous largest re ’ quest of 9,000. This means, says Mrs. Hughes, that the need for more workers • in the surgical dressings unit is > urgent. Work room of this unit '• is in the Satterfield building, Main street, and it is kept open ’ each weekday except Saturday • and is frequently open at night. ' The office has a working capa '• city of 25. Morning hours are 10 " to 12; afternoons, 2 to 5, and ’ I nights, 7 to 9. “I Much good work is being >| done here, but more is needed, [particularly in view of the in j creased quota, according to Mrs. 3 , Hughes, and d further response > j by both City and County women ■ ; will be appreciated. Workers, 1, too, are needed for the produc >jtion unit of the Chapter, which " has it's offices in the Hall build • i ing, Abbitt Avenue. In the sur ' i gical dressings division, espeei >' ally, there is nee d for more ■ 1 workers who can come on fj Thursdays and Fridays and at I night. '! Some indication of the work f| that surgical dressing units | throughout the nation are up a | gainst is contained in a letter | Mrs. Hughes has received from ;,' Cordelia D. Wolf, of the Eastern !. Area office, the American Red - Cross, Alexanderia, Va. The let- I ter reveals that January War - Department schedule calls for ! (turn to page two, please) Buy DEFENSE BONDS-STAMPS NUMBER 31 Seek To Work With Oxford On Airport Project Roxboro Citizens Still In terested In Plan First j Proposed In 1940. j ; City Manager Percy Bloxam j and W. Wallace Woods, executive | secretary of the Roxboro Cham j her of Commerce, who have 1 with other Roxboro citizens been in location of a pro j posed new airport in the Rox | boro-Oxford area, yesterday dis [ patched to Representative John H. Folger, of Washington, tele grams requesting him to use his influence in getting the airport placed on a joint highway be- I tween Oxford and Roxboro, near Camp Butner. This action was taken by Bloxam and Woods after Folger, , on Thursday, announced that he j would be in favor of a site near | Oxford. Knowledge that a new i airport may be constructed has been current here for sbme weeks and it was discussed at I last meeting of Roxboro City . commissioners, although no offi i cial statement was issued at that j time by the Commissioners. First! mention of an airport I fer the Roxboro area was made j in November 1940, when a trn i tative appropriation of $123,000 was announced and Roxboro was included in a list of cities under consideration by the Civil Aeronautics division. Under sub sequent developments the Ral eigh-Durham airport came into being, but nothing was dona about the Roxboro plan. Secretary Woods has written to William S. Mason, secretary of Oxford Chamber of commerce, promising full support and co j operation & obtaining a joint airport, buffrt is not known what decision Folger and the War De partment will make, j The Durham Morning Herald i on Friday carried a story saying I that "the War Department has ; promised full consideration of I the proposal to locate the airport j near Oxford rather near Dur ham.” i Folger’s statement as quoted i by that paper indicates he is fa-, | voring “any site near Oxford”. | “There already is an airport i between Durham and Raleigh,” I Folger said, adding “and there ! is no airport north of Camp But ! ner until you get into Virginia. I That is why I am favoring any site near Oxford. The Army is now investigating and will ad vise me so'en.” 6 IMPROVED j Mrs. Lucy Pass Featherston, j of Academy street, who has been I ill for sometime at her home here, is now much improved. NOW BETTER Rev. W. F. West, pastor of Roxboro First’ Baptist chureh. who has been ill for several weeks, is improving, although hi is still confined to his home. Hi son, W. F. West, Jr., student At Wake Forest college, is spending several days here. J AT A AND P G. E. McCorple, of Durhltia, . is now manager at A. and P. : j succeeding James Maness, Charlotte, now in the Army. ’