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FAMED BRITISH ACTOR LOST
LONDON, JUNE 2. An unarmed British commercial plane
, en route here from Lisbon With 13 passengers including Leslie
Howard, famed actor-producer, was shot down yesterday over
the Bay of Biscay by enemy action and allied diplomats im
mediately suggested the attack was an axis attempt to kill
Prime Minister Winstcn Churchill.
POPE PIUS ISSUES APPEAL
NEW YORK, June 3. Pope Pius XII was quoted by the
Rome radio yesterday (Wednesday) as exhorting the belliger
ents “to respect the laws of humanity in the aerial war.”
The broadcast, recorded by the Associated Press, said the pope
made his remarks in an address to the 19 cardinals present in
Rome on the occasion of his name day, the anniversary of the
death of St. Eugene. # The only account of his speech at once
’■•available was that which was broadcast by the axis source.
\
DR. DAFOE, QUINT SPECIALIST, DIES
NORTH BAY, Ont., June 2. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the
country doctor who brought the Dionne quintuplets into the
world and kept them alive, thus winning himself a unique place
in medicine’s hall of fame, died today of pneumonia. He was 60.
The modest village practitioner succumbed in a hospital five
minutes after he had been admitted for treatment. He had been
ill only a brief time.
WALDENSIAN MONUMENT APPROVED
WASHINGTON, June 2. Senator Reynolds announced to
day that.he had been advised by R. Bruce Puckett, chief of the
construction section, regional priorities department, war pro
duction board, that as a result of the investigation made by
that board at his request the application for permission to con
struct a monument commemorating the 50th anniversary of the
settling of the town cf Valdese by the Waldensians had been
approved.
New Stop Law For
Motorists Cited By
Mrs. Bill P. Flythe
Field Worker
Os Safety Unit
Visits Roxboro
Points Out That Parents
Should Come With
Youthful Applicants.
Mrs. Bill Pleasants Flythe, of
Raleigh, field representative of
the North Carolina Division of
Highway Safety and interested
chiefly in highway safety for
public schools, who was in Rox
boro yesterday for a series of
conferences, said that bus driv
ing training schools are schedul
ed here in August.
Discussing the regulations that
permit youths cf fifteen to ob
tain limited driving licenses, Mrs.
Flythe issued a reminder that
permits will be granted only
when parents, either father or
mother, accompany the applicant.
All sehool bus drivers, however,
must be at, least sixteen years of
age before' they can , qualify as
regular drivers, although they
may begin training at the age of
fifteen.
For benefit of motorists Mrs.
Flythe also cited the new regula
tions on stopping for school buss
es, a modification of previous
laws. Drivers must come to a
complete stop when school busses
stop and must remain stopped
until the buss is ready to move
on.
The regulation, as changed by
the 1943 General Assembly, is
intended to prevent accidents of
a serious character when busses
are taking on or putting off pu
pil passengers. A number of such
accidents occurred last year in
and near Person County, accord
ing to Mrs. Flythe and she is
anxious that the motoring public
should understand the new law.
The laiw is as follows:
That Chapter two hundred and j
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VISITS PARENTS
Warrant Officer L. M. Carl
ton, of Fort Benning, Ga., has
been spending several days here
with his parents, Postmaster and
Mrs. L. M. Carlton.
Chaplain and Mrs. C. P. Deane
and daughter, of Camp Butner,
are living with Mr. and Mrs. B.
G. Clayton.
Two Boards To
Meet In Separate
Sessions Soon
Roxbcro’s Board of City
Commissicners will met in re
gular session on Tuesday night,
June 8, at which time budget
matters and the re-appoint
ment of appointive officials
may constitute the business at
hand. No mention has been
made as to possible selection of
a success** to the late Percy
Bloxam as City Manager, al
though it is virtually a cer
tainty that the matter will be
discussed.
Also expected to come up for
! discussion is the Sunday pro
j hibition of wine and beer, and
possibly, the abattoir question.
Both topics, as well as their
own budget, will probably get
| the attention of County Co^i- v
I missioners at their regular Ses
] sion on Monday, June 7, one
day earlier, than the scheduled
meeting of the City Board.
It is said that one or two ap
plications for the Roxboro City
manager post have been re
ceived, but at least one official
has expressed the view that
slowness rather than haste in
filling the post should he the
policy to be folktwed.
Dick Warren Os
Roxboro Among
Cadet Graduates
Cadet Richard W. Warren, of
Roxboro, a son of Mr. and Mrs.
A. R. Warren, was among U. S.
Army Aviation cadets of Class
43-G, who were graduated this
week from Marana Basic Flying
school, Tucson, Ariz., according
to Col. Charles Backes, comman
dant of that training station.
Cadet Warren, an alumnus of
Roxboro high school was employ
ed by Collins and Aikman, Corp.,
Ca-Vel, before he entered the
service.
Hertford County growers are
finding that Government feed
wheat is considerably lower in
cost than corn and that this feed
wheat is satisfactory, says Coun
ty Agent Ballentine.
PERSON TIMES
VOLUME XIV
Congressmen Reply
To Small Business
Probe Started Here
Beulah Group
To Meet Soon
In Roxboro
Baptist Association To
Gather At North Rox
boro Church On Tuesday.
I
North Roxboro Baptist church, I
on Tuesday, June 8, will be meet- !
ing place for the forty-first an
-1 nual Baptist Woman’s Mission- :
1 ary Union, auxiliary to the Beu
lah association, at which chief i
speaker will toe the Rev. Dr. D.
F. Stamps, of Raleigh, a return
ed missionary from central
China.
First session will begin at 10
o’clock in the morning. Another j
speaker will be Miss Charlotte !
Green, of Danville, Va., a gradu- I
ate of Meredith college and
daughter of Dr. Green, a mission
ary in Africa.
Miss Ella Sue Gravitt, of Rox
boro and Providence church, the
Association’s only Baptist train
ing school student, will repre
sent the school. Morning session
will be presided over by Mrs.
J. F. Funderburke, of Roxboro,
Association superintendent, and
afternoon session, devoted to
young Peoples’ work, will have
Mrs. L. V. Coggins, of Semora,
as chairman.
Among women taking active
roles in the programs to be pre
sented will be Mesdames R. P.
Bunrs, Z. R. Clayton and A. R.
Warren, of Roxboro, A. F. Yar
borough, of Milton, and P. T.
Worrell of Yanceyville. Also,
Miss Ella Thompson, of Leas
burg, and Mesdames R. L. Wil
burn, and Curtis H. Oakley and
Miss Mary Gentry, all of Rox
boro, and Mrs. S. O. Garrett, of
Semora.
Pastor of the host church at
North Roxboro is the Rev. J. N.
Bowman, who also serves Provi
dence church.
RITES HELD FOR
MRS. LEU BASS
AT FIRST CHURCH
!
| Funeral services for Mrs. Lulu
’ Jordan Bass, 67, wife of the late
Rev. John Bass, a Baptist minis
ter, whose death occurred Mon
i day night at 7:10 o’clock at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. W.
i Y. Pass, of Reams avenue, Rox
-1 boro, were conducted Wednes
| 7
■ day afternoon at two o’clock at
Roxiboro First Baptist church by
the Rev. H. B. Andersen, pastor
of Grace Baptist church, Dur
ham, and the Rev. W. F. West,
her pastor.
i Mrs. Bass, who had lived in
: Roxboro many years, had been
in ill health for more than a
year. Death was attributed to
complications. Interment was in
t the cemetery at Winn’s Creek
Baptist church, Halifax County,
Va., a church served for many j
years by her late husband.
In addition to Mrs. Pass, other
survivors are another daughter,
Miss Mildred Bass, a deputy
sheriff of Person County and of
fice assistant to Sheriff M. T.
Clayton, of Roxboro; three grand
children, Marion, John and Lee
Pass, all of Roxboro; two sisters,
Mrs. Lena Thornton, of Winston-
Salem, and Mrs. F. L. Moore, of
Greensboro, and one brother, Dr.
S. R. Jordan, of Carolina Beach.
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1943
Cooley, Folger
And Patman
Answer Quickly
Senator Bailey More Con
servative. Reynold: Gives
No Sign Os Interest.
Roxboro small bus: .less mer.
and merchants, beli.ving that
proposed OPA plaits to ••require
manufacturers to produce goods
under fixed standards and speci
fications’’ are dangerous to,-that
economic welfare and to the vvel- J
fare of the nation, are getting :
energetic replies from Senators. 1
and Representatives.
The order under discussion, M.
P. R. 339, effects Rayon Hosiery, •
but merchants and manufactur
ers in the Roxboro area see in
that order a vision of ether or
ders more directly affecting
them.
W. Wallace Woods, executive
secretary of the Roxboro cham
ber of Commerce, acting for the
Roxboro group, today said that
he has had replies from Rep.
Wright Patman, of Texas, chair
man of the House Select Com
mittee on Small Business; from
John H. Folger, of Mount Airy,
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First Aid Class
Will Start Here
Monday Night
R. B. Griffin, Person and Rox
boro chairman of Red Cross First
I Aid work, today issued a remind
ler that George R. Barber, of
I Alexanderia, Va., instructor, will
begin his series of First Aid and
Water Course lectures and dem
onstrations Monday night, June
7, at 7:30 o’clock at Roxboro
high school.
A complete schedule will be
worked out at the first meeting j
and all interested citizens, parti- j
cularly those with some previous !
training, are urged to attend. I
Brother Os Roxboro
Man Depicts Stukas
NEW FEATURE IN
TIMES RESUME
OF PERSON NEWS
j
Times Presents Clip-Sheet
Which Can Be Sent To i
Men And Women In Ser
vice.
The Person County Times, be- 1
lieving that a digest of home-;
front news, summarizing Person
.County and Roxboro items each
two weeks, will prove to be of
interest to men and women in
military service, is this week in
augurating the digest as a clip
column which can be sent by rel
atives and friends. I
“Person Home Front . News” 1
will appear every two -weeks and ;
will cover all subjects from gov- J
ernment and schools to society 1
and sports, with a good sprink- <
ling of items about Person men
and women who are in the ser
(tum to page five, please
Alleged Vagrancy Situation
Causes Local Investigation
For Two Years
i | P
I 'WILLIAM SPENCER
!, Corp. William Spencer, of
! Greenville Air Base, Greenville,
Miss., a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
Spencer, of Roxboro, has been in
.the Army nearly two years. A
big man when he left, Bill is
larger now. He has a brother,
Carroll Spencer, a paratrooper at
Mackall, who with Bradsher
Clayton, another Person para
trooper, was at home this week.
Bill is the one who got his post
age stamp picture in Life maga
zine.
R. L. Harris
Has Job For
Next Monday
Will Present Diplomas
At Woman’s College In
Greensboro.
GREENSBORO, June 2. Lt.
Gov. Reginald L. Harris, of Rox
boro, will present diplomas to
417 graduates at the 51st com
mencement program of Woman’s
college next Monday morning;
replacing Gov. J. Melville
Broughton, who has canceled his
acceptance of this traditional
role on the commencement pro
gram because of a business trip
| north at that time, Dr. W. C.
| Jackson, dean of administration,
1 announced.
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Frank Ledbetter
Has Harrowing
iTime In Battle
Says German Dive-Bomb
l ers Deliberately Hit Hos
pital Units.
Os interest in Roxiboro is a
! United Press story released yes
| terday from Fort Devens, Mass.,
concerning adventures of Pvt.
Franklin Ledbetter, of New 'tfork
City and Statesville, a brother
of D. W. Lsdbetter, of Roxboro,
in which Pvt. Ledbetter, wound
ed in North Africa and only re
cently returhed to the United
States, was quoted as saying that,
“Dive-bombing nazi Stukas show
ed no mercy for first-aid station
hospitals or hospital trains, even
though they were plainly mark
ed as such.”
Pvt. Ledbetter, driver of a half
truck in the First Armoured
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SLOWER PACE
WILL BE FEATURE
OF NEW SEASON
Auction System Os To
bacco Marketing Will
Serve Under Longer Sea
son This Year.
RALEIGH, June 3. Market
ing of North Carolina’s multi
millicn-dollar tobacco crop this
year will probably be carried out
under an auction system designed
to eliminate any conflict be
tween the tobacco marketing sea
son and the harvesting of other
essential crops.
The marketing program, adop
ted at a meeting of growers,
warehousemen, and members of
.the tobacco industry here May
18, has yet to be accepted by the
! sales committee of the U. S. Tti-
I bacco Association,
| In the event of its acceptance
; by the governing body of the
auction system, the plan would
be effective in all flue-cured
areas this year. It is designed to
relieve current and prospective
labor shortages.
Specifically, the plan calls for
an extended marketing season, i
with earlier opening and closing I
dates; a general slow-down of j
sales, and an educational pro- j
| gram designed to press home the
necessity of each grower slowing
down the marketing of his to
bacco so that all food, grain and
oil crops essential to the war ef
fort can be harvested on sche
dule.
The current shortage of farm
I labor—said to be the greatest in
the history of flue-cured auc
tioning —and the prospects of no
immediate alleviation, especially
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| MRS. A. P. CLAYTON,
WIDOW OF POST
OFFICIAL, PASSES !
_ i
Riles Held This Morning
At I. L. James’ Resi
dence.
Mrs. Anna Foushee Clayton,
73, of Roxboro, whose husband
was the late A. P. Clayton, Rox
boro Potmaster for ten years
until his death in 1934, died Tues
day morning at eleven o’clock
from a sudden heart attack suf
fered at the residence of a
daughter, Mrs. I. L. James, La
mar street, with whom she made
her home.
Funeral was at the James resi
dence Thursday morning at ten
o’clock by Elder J. A. Herndon,
,of Chapel Hill, pastor of Roxboro
Primitive Baptist church, and I
the Rev. W. C. Martin, pastor of
JSdgar Long Memorial Methodist
church, with interment following i
in Burchwood cemetery, Rox
boro.
Mrs. Clayton first became ill
about eight o’clock Tuesday
morning. Survivor include one
son, six daughters, three broth
ers, five sisters and a number of
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AT REUNION
Alamance County residents
who attended the Long-Clay ton
family reunion held Sunday at
Lpa’s Chapel Methodist church,
included the Rev. and Mrs. H. L.
Isley and son, Melvin- Hubert,
and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rudd,
Charles H. Isley, Mrs. Ella Isley
Moser and Misses Madeline
Moser and Audrey Capps. Speak
er was Farris Humphries, Pearl
Harbor veteran.
NUMBER 68
McMullan And
Patton, State
Officials, Reply
i
Woods, Os Chamber Os
Commerce, Seeks Answ
ers To Questions Pro
pounded By Citizens.
Vagrancy, and its alleged per
sistence in Roxboro, is disturb
ing some Roxboro citizens, ac
cording to W. Walla,'e Woods,
executive secretary of the Rox
boro Chamber of Common e, who
today said that he has received
replies on the subject from Harry
McMullan, of Raleigh, State At
torney General and from Geo
rge B. Patton, McMullen’s as
sistant.
According to Woods, a number
of Roxboro citizens in the past
week or so have made allega
tions that numbers of men here,
rejectees from military service,
but nevertheless able to do a
“fair day’s work”, are not inter
ested in Work and contrive to
exist without working regularly
although they find means enough
to get into trouble frequently
I and consequently into courts to
| such an extent that they clutter
| up court dockets at almost every
j session.
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Ned Dillard To *
Be New Head Os
Forty And Eight
J. N. (Ned) Dillard is chief
de gare-elect of the Roxboro
voiture of the Forty and Eight,
while chef de train-elect is J.
Irvin Brooks, also of Roxboro.
Retiring chef de gare is Gor
don C. Hunter. Dillard, prior to
election to his new office has
i served as chef de train and
{ will continue in that office un
| til formal installation exercises
1 are held.
i Other officers of the Voiture
i will be appointed by Dillard.
• •.«
according to Hunter, who will
continue as chef until Dillard
goes into office. The election
was held at the regular Tues
day night monthly session of
the Voiture at Hotel Roxboro.
PERSON COUNTY
MAY QUOTA GOES
TO FORT BRAGG
i
Men Leave Mondjaty For
Examination And Indac
| tion. *>
May Selective Service quota
for white men from Roxbort
and Person County included the
following men, who reported
Monday to Fort Bragg for eUljgi
dnation and possible induction
into military service:
Earl Lennox Hill, transferee!
from another board, Aster Blair,
Nelson Berry Farrar,
sell Hayes, Jr., Edward
Farrior, Jack Dempsey Jtfßgg|
Walter Thomas Tuck,
Obie Morris, Joseph
Slaughter, Norwood C a r' Vwlj
Newman, Burley AndersQ&eSfl
ton and William Samuel ¥s£»
Also, David Beas&y M S
Merriman Nathaniel
Luther Thomas Oakley, jfijifew.
ell Day, Jack Dempsey. Lite om! ,
Paul Watkins Carvel;
Clyde Bradsher,- Hhhidjj
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