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CHARLIE CHAPLIN BEGINS FOURTH INTERLUDE
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., June 16. Charles Chaplin, 54-
year-old actor-producer, was married today to his fourth youth
ful bride, Miss Oona O’Neill, New Yohk’s No. 1 debutante of
1942.
The bride, daughter of Playwright Eugene O’Neill, is 18.
KING GEORGE EMULATES ROOSEVELT •
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, June 16—.
In a sudden, spectacular flight, England’s King George VI has
visited the north African battleground, talked with astonished,
cheering British soldiers, and watched American troops pre
paring for the assault upon Europe.
MARY DUGAN’S CREATOR DIES
NEW YORK, June 16 Bayard Veiller, author of the
much-praised play “The Trial of Mary Dugan,” died today at
Doctor’s hospital after several months’ illness. The 74-year-old
Veiller entered the hospital three weeks ago.
GOES BACK TO RAZORS
WASHINGTON, June 16 Ralph J. Cordiner, former presi
dent of Schick, Inc., tonight resigned as vice chairman of the
war production board. He is expected to return to private en
terprise.
In The Marine Corps And In The Army
BWHHi’ 5k
JONES JK.
Charles Jones, Jr., of Roxboro, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Jones, has been in the Marine Corps for many months and has
been stationed at Washington, while Samuel Douglas, of Hills
boro, who has many friends here, was called back to Colorado
after a brief visit in Roxboro and has now gone to foreign ser
vice.
NEW "MARKET BASKET”
PRICE CEILING WILL
BE EFFECTIVE HERE
CANNERY WILL
REESTABLISHED
AT TIMBERLAKE
L. C. Liles Announces
New Project Will Begin
In Two Weeks.
L. C. Liles, of Helena, today
announced that a U. S. depart
ment of Education sponsored
community cannery, with a capa
city of 150 quarts per day is ex
pected to be in operation in the
Helena school within about two
weeks. The project is the first
such cannery to be established
in this cect'on and one of several
hundred to ‘be set up in North
Carolina in interest of food con
servation.
Part of the equipment is be
ing shipped from Rrahrgh and
part of it has been made in the
Helena workshop. Ii terested
citizens ere requested to se Liles
for further details.
Local Citizens
Make Up Parties
At Myrtle Beach
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G. H. Ellmore, Bobby Ellmore
and Misses Lois Ellmore, Frances
Woods, Hilma Garrett and Eve
lyn Umstead are spending a few
days at Myrtle Beach, S. C. Also
at Myrtle Beach are Mr. and Mrs.
Henry David Long, Jr., and Mr.
and Mrs. John Bullock.
IN WILMINGTON
Mrs. A. M. Burns, Jr., and
children are spending some time
at Wilmington with Mr. Burns.
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SAMUEL DOUGLAS
State OPA Office An
nounces Regulations For
Twelve Counties, Includ
ing Person.
RALEIGH, June 16. Specific
ceiling prices for the several
brands of approximately 500
staple grocery items, to become
effective in twelve eastern North
Carolina county stores on June
21, were announced today by the
Raleigh district Office of Price
Administration.
The dozen countes covered by
the communty “market basket”
price ceiling order include Per
son, Lee, Chatham, Alamance,
Caswell, Moore, Orange, Durham,
Granville, Vance, Warren, and
Franklin counties.
, The price order setting the
dollars-and-cents prices divides
all retail grocery establishments
in the twelve counties into four
classed and allows smaller inde
pendent stores to charge slight
ly more for the items covered
than may be charged by chain
stores and those with larger vol
umes of business .
Food items covered in the or
der were previously subject to
a number of separate price re
gulations which set -allowable
mark-ups by retailers. The new
specific prices reflect the appli
cation of existing regulations to
current wholesale prices and the
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FROM WASHINGTON
Leonard Earl (Buddy) Par
ham, of the U. S. Army, near
Washington, spent the week-end
here with his family.
TO GO TO YORK
Guy W. Gardner, who has
been spending several days here
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. W. Gardner, expects to return
Saturday to York, Penn.
PERSON %§? TIMES
VOLUME XIV
Duncan Believes In
And Has Praise For
Air Force Strength
Second Edition
Os Clip - Column
Appears Today
Published today is the sec
ond edition of the “Person Re
view”, a clip-column designed
to appeal especially to men and
women from Person County
and Roxboro who are now in
military service.
The R’eview is being publish
ed at intervals of two weeks
and contains brief digests of
stories published in the Per
son County Times during that
period. Comments from service
men and women and from par
ents and friends at home have
been favorable, but the Times
is interested in getting addi
tional reactions.
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B. J. Gentry
HasManySons
In This War
Two Sons And Eight
Grandsons In The Fray.
Family Has 14th Annual
Reunion.
(By Mrs. A. R. Davis)
Members of the family of B.
J. Gentry, 81, a native of Person
County and a retired miller, who
has two <sons and eight grand
sons in military service in World
War 11, met Sunday at the home
of his daughter, Mrs. G. L. Jef
feries, in Rougemont, for their
fourteenth annual family gather*
ing.
Gentry, whose wife was the
former Miss Stella Blalock, had
eighteen children, fourteen of
whom are still living, and he
jokingly avers that he has four
teen homes and that he takes ad
vantage of the situation by going
on a six month’s vacation twice
each year.
Looking back on his fifty years
as a miller and farmer, Gentry
says family reunions remind him
of the time* when he went ‘a
courtin’: “on his way to his girl’s
house he would be thinking what
he was going to say when he got
there: coming away he would be
thinking of all the things he
meant to say.”
Sons in the service are .Pvt.
Kendall S. Gentry, of Fort Jack
son, Columbia, S. C., and Sgt. On
slow R. Gentry, who was at
Pearl Harbor and has since then
been on Pacific duty.
Grandsons in the service are:
Rvt. William L. Gentry, now.
overseas, Staff !9gt. R. H. Gen
try, of the Air Corps in Georgia,
Pvt. Clyde L. Jefferies, Camp
Swift, Texas, and Corp. Royce L.
Jefferies, who is now said to be
on sick leave after eighteen
months in the Pacific combat
zone. ,
Also, Pvt. Floyd C. Gentry, Jr.,
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Volume Larger
£. C. Garrett, chief of the
Money Order department at Rox
boro Post Office, today reported
that heaviest volume of money
orders in any two days in his- i
tory of the service here was i
recorded Monday and Tuesday, :
chiefly because of the large num- .
her of citizens who sent in quar- 1
terly income tax payments. 1
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1943
General, Person
Native, Speaks
To Kiwanians
Commander Os Lincoln
Air Base Believes Bomb
ing Os Germany Will Be
Crushing Blow.
“Our men and equipment are
superior to anything the Axis
has and we will win this war,
j have no fear'Vwere the words of
Brig. Gen. Early E. W. Duncan,
[ commander of Lincoln Airbase,
| Lincoln, Neb., in an address this
I week to Roxboro Kiwanis club
I in which he said, “I do not think
|in terms of a thousand or two
j thousand planes bombing a ccr
j tain target, rather I look for
ward eagerly to seeing Wave af
ter wave of planes continuously
blasting the enemy into absolute
; defeat”.
“This is not only possible but
(will soon be a positive fact," con
tinued Gen. Duncan, who added
| that “Italy is getting how what
i Germany will soon get when she
will be bombed continuously
from all sides at one time, and
when this happens the war will
be over.”
| Gen. Duncan, a native of Per
| son County and a graduate of the
j University of North Carolina, is,
’ well known in Roxboro. where
|he is visiting his mother, Mrs.
j Florence Duncan, and his broth
-1 er, Virgil Duncan, both of whom
were honor guests at the Ki
iWanis session.
In the Army for about twenty
five years, Gen. Duncan in 1937
was sent to Germany on a fact
finding tour, but, as he expres
sed it, many officials back home
would not listen to the reports
then presented and would not
listen “even when Hitler himself
told them in words before he told
them in action.”
While praising all branches of
the United Nations’ military ser
vice, Gen. Duncan placed great
est emphasis on air power, re
calling what happened at Mid
way, at Bismark Sea and many
other places where air superiori
ty meant victory.
Additional guests included W.
Reade Jones, Arthur H. Rimmer,
Gordon C. Hunter, Dr. George W.
Gentry and D. S. Brooks. Tne
meeting was at Hotel Roxboro
at the usual Monday night hour.
Meeting next Monday will be
‘Farmers’ Night”, with each
member expected to bring one
or more farmer guests.
Not forgetting the other war
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Committee Will
Meet To Name
Board Member
R. B. Dawes, chairman of the
Person County Democratic Exe
cutive committee, today said that
a meeting of the committee will
be called at an early date to de
signate a successor to the late
W. R. Wilkerson on the Person
County School board.
Wilkerson, who was chairman
of the Board, was third member
of that body to die in less than
three months. Ralph Cole and B.
G. Crumpton, two other members
died shortly after the April ses
sion and were succeeded by Dr.
John Fitzgerald and Clyde Sat
terfield. Next regular meeting of 1
the Board will be in July.
Citizens Urged
To Boost June --
Bond Sales Here
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Gordon C. Hunter, Person
War bond chairman, today is
sued an appeal to citizens to
redouble efforts to meet the
Person and Roxboro June quo
ta of $57,000, it being reported
that less than SIO,OOO worth of
bonds were sold here during
the first fifteen days of June
and that sales have sunk to
lowest ebb sinc'e Pearl Har
bor.
Hunter further pointed out
that the State of North Caro
lina, which has done exception
ally well in meeting quotas, is
being called upon to do its part
in meeting the 337 million dol
lar deficit in the National goal,
| a deficit from a campaign
; I which is based upon the ideal
of contributions totaling one
billion dollars per month.
Wilkerson
Rites Held At
Lea’s Chapel
Large Crowd , Attends
Services For Bushy Fork
Man And School Board
Chairman.
Held yesterday afternoon at
four o'clock at Lea’s Chapel
Methodist church, near Roxboro,
! were funeral services for Wil
j liam Robert Wilkerson, 72,
: prominent Person landowner and
’■(■ leader' —in — -educational circles,
whose death occurred Monday
morning at six o’clock at Rex
Hospital, Raleigh, after an ill
jiess lasting several months.
For more than thirty years a
member of the Person County
r j Board of education, on which he
| served as chairman for twenty
years, Wilkerson was throughout
his life interested in the cause
of education, particularly in in
creasing the length of the school
I term.
F
j ! Rites were in charge of the
Rev. W. L. Maness, of Jackson,
a former pastor and interment
was in the church cemetery.
Wilkerson was a member of
Lea’s Chapel for the better part
of his life and served the insti
tution both as a member of the
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Board of Stewards and as super-:
intendent of the Sunday school.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Ara Brooks, thir
’ teen children, three brothers,
one sister, four half brothers,
three half sisters, twenty-eight
' grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Daughters are Mesdames Carl
E H.ester, Roxboro, Clarence L.
Boyd, Durham, C. M. Andrews,
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Men Entering
Service Listed
By Person Unit
Person Selective Service Board
today released the names of the
following men accepted for mili
tary service from May and June
quotas:
Aster Blair, Edward R. Farri
or, Merriman N. Foushee, Nor
wood C. Newman, David B. Day,
John F. Whitt, Earl L. Hill, Has
sell H. Painter, Jr., Jack D. Mil
am, William A. Jordan, Royal P.
Todd, Reuben E. Watson, Ivie L.
Clayton, Taylor L. O’Brien and
Jack A. Shotwell.
TO CAMP BUTNER
Frank Jerger, of the U. S.
Army, Camp Butner, returned to
camp Tuesday night after spend
ing his leave in Roxboro.
Jerry L. Hester Steps
Into Shoes Os Couch
In Roxboro District
Abattoir’s
Fate Hangs
In Balance
Private Firms May Take
Action, But If They Do
Not, Suspension O f
Slaughtering Expected
Tqfcnollow.
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Showdown' may be expected
here this week or next in the
j much discussed and long de
j.fayed abattoir problem. It is in
; cheated that possibility of con
i struction of a slaughter house by
I one cr more ■ private concern?
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Still exists, although W. B. Tay
lir, Person sanitarian, who has
been interested in seeing that
' some action be taken, dclmrd to
;be quoted on progress of the
. movement at this time.
Person County commissioners
at their June session definitely
declined to consider County part
-1 icipation in cooperation with
the City of Roxboro. and the
, City of Roxboro, for itself, rcach
: ed virtually the same conclusion
! at a Commissioners’ session held
one day later.
There is a possibility in event
private concern fail to reach a
greement, that slaughtering of
all meats to be commercially
i sold will be forbidden in the
I County. Ruling is being held up
jin the hope that private slaugh
j terers can reach agreement, but
I it is not known how much long
i era delay in arriving at decision
j will be permitted.
SCOUT LEADERS
HOLD MONTHLY
DISTRICT SESSION
Good Reports Made.
Camp Plans Discussed.
Person District Scout leaders
at their monthly session held
Tuesday night heard reports of
, | progress of the Negro division of
the District from C. J. Ford divi
j
i sion chairman, and discussed
| matters pertaining to this divi
! sion and to regular work of the
district, chiefly plans for troop
attendance at Camp Cherokee,
near Reidsville, which opens this
month.
Cherokee Executive E. Pierce
Bruce, of Reidsville, was unable
to attend but sent word that at
least twenty-five more of Per
son and Roxboro Scouts can be
taken care of in the camp. Tra
vel to the camp is expected to be
truck, with arangements in
charge of C. A. Harris.
Also 'unable to be present was
H. K. Griggs, of Reidsville, new
Negro assistant executive, al
though members of the Negro di
vision subsequently had their
meeting as planned. Council re
presentatives present included
C. A. Harris and Thomas J.
Shaw, Jr., of the inter-racial
committee.
Three Person Negro Scouts
are expected to go for one week
to camp Carlson at Greensboro.
FROM CINCINNATI
James Brodhead, of Cincinnati,
formerly of Roxboro, is spending ’
today and Friday here as the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Har
ris. Brodhead was formerly with
the Baker corporation here, now
Plant E of Collins and Aikman.
NUMBER 72
| Helena And
Bushy Fork
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I Man Moves U P u
f
Selection Comes Quickly
At Tuesday Night Board
i Session.
Jerry L. Hester, of Timber
lake, a Duke University gradu
-1 ate and for seven years a school
j executive in Person County, will
1 become, supervising principal of
j Roxboro district school, succeed
ing Leon Couch, resigned.
Selection of Hester for the
Roxboro post was announced
thi morning bv R. B. Griffin,
Per so n Superintendent of
schools, following a Tuesday
night session of the Roxboro dis
trict board. Hester, for the past
two years has been principal of
Helena high school and for five
years previou ly h.uded Bushy
Fork school. He also has had
teaching experience in Wilson
county and in South America.
Members of the Board in ac
cepting the resignation of Couch
i expressed keen rgret that he is
to leave and praised him for
work accomplished. Action of
the Board in selecting Hester
came quickly and apparently
with little debate.
In addition to Griffin, Board
i members present included W. C.
Bullock, C. A. Harris, R. M.
Spencer and Bruce Newell. Dr.
B. A, Thaxton, chairman, was
absent.
Note to Griffin from Couch,
dated Friday, June 11, reads:
j ‘This letter tenders my re
; signation as supervising princi
! pal of the Roxboro City Schools.
On July Ist., I shall begin work.
, in the Methodist ministry.
“May I take this opportunity
to thank you for your many
courtesies and to express my
| gratitude for the. cordial rela
tions which exist between you,
the city school board and my
self.”
Hester has accepted the posi
: tion and will move his family
here before September. Griffin
made no comment regarding
j Hester’s successor at Helena.
SCHOOL FOLKS
ASKED TO CARRY
ON BOND WORK
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School Children Being
Asked To Help With War
Bond Sales.
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ELIZABETHTOWN, June 16-
School children of North Caro
lina were asked to contribute to
the war effort by buying and
selling war bonds and stamps
during the summer months.
The appeal was made by Mrs.
J. S. Blair, of Elizabethtown,
State Education Chairman of the
War Savings Staff and president
of the North Carolina Congress
of Parents and Teachers.
“We shall have to depend on
the cooperation of the parents to
assure the success of this pro
gram,” Mrs. Blair said.
Here is what the children are
being asked to do under this new
program: Decide how many
stamps you expect to buy each
week. Mark the dates in your
stamp album as if your life de
pended on it. If you earn any
money during the summer, put
most of it in stamps beyond your a
original pledge. When you re- Jl
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