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PRESIDENT AT LAST USES STRONG WORD
WASHINGTON, June 23.—President Roosevelt, describing
actions of the United Mine Workers leadership as “intolerable,
served notice he will ask Congress for a powerful weapon to
use in event of another coal strike—the authority to draft men
up to age 65 for non-combat military service.
FS A COMPROMISE REACHED
WASHINGTON, June 23.—A compromise giving the war
food administrator complete jurisdiction over the farm security
administration’s loan and tenant purchase activities, but cur
tailing foods for the program, was accepted today by the house
on a voice vote.
The move —an alternative to the previous stand for aboli
tion of the agency completed initial house attempts to iron
out its differences with the senate on the 1944 agriculture ap
propriations bill.
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FOOD CONTROL SHOWDOWN SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, June 23. —Both houses of Congress worked
today toward a showdown on the whole issue of wartime food
control, with special emphasis on subsidies for price rollbacks.
Most sweeping of the proposals under consideration was
the one before the house agriculture committee.
Number 111 Ration
Books Now Coming
Broughton
Seeks Deeper
July Fourth
Calls On People Os North
Carolina For Dedication
To Gospel Os Work.
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RALEIGH, Jtune 23.—Design
ating Monday, July 5, as “North
Carolina Day of Dedication,”
Governor J. M. Broughton on
Wednesday issued a proclama
tion, calling' upon the citizens of
the .State to observe Independ
ence Day by seeing that every
abl-bodid person is employed
productively upon a full-time
basis. The Governor expressed
confidence that the people will
respond to the need for a full
utilization of manpower and
womanpower but declared: “If
other efforts fail, I shall feel it
my duty to use the emergency
powers granted to me by the re
cent Legislature for dealing with
these problems so vital to our
national welfare.”
Broughton at the same time
named Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris
as Person Chairman.
Commenting on the Governor’s
proclamation, Mayor S. G. Win
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John Edwin Has
Fall From Auto
John Edwin Humphries, aged
three years, a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Humphries, of near
Roxboro, on Tuesday received
painful but not serious injuries
when he fell out of the Humph
ries automobile while it was
traveling along the Virgilina
road about six miles from Rox
boro. The boy is said to have
grabbed hold of a door handle,
causing the door to swing open.
He was brought to Roxboro for
first aid treatment.
New Father Gets
Two More Days
To See Son
Corp. Edward Foushee, of
Roxboro, stationed at Florence,
S. C., will return today to his
post. He came to Roxboro about
a week ago to see his new-born
son, Richard Copley Foushee,
who came home today from
Watts hospital with his mother,
the former Miss Lois Copley.
Corp. Foushee at first expected
to return to Florence Tuesday
but received an extension of fur
lough in order to stay until his
wife and son were able to leave
the hospital.
Oil Applications
Also In Mails
Say OPA Officials
Those Who Fail To Get
Ration Books Have An
other Chance In August.
Numbers of Roxboro citizens
today received through the mails
copies of their number three war
ration books and others are ex-
( pected to arrive soon. Person
j OPA officials today issued a re
minder that recipients should
fill out in the space provided
the names of the holders of each
book, together with 'other infor
mation required.
Officials also said that persons
who do not receive their books
by August 1, or who failed to
apply for them during the speci
fied June period, will be given
opportunity to make application
through the local OPA office af
ter August 1, but that no ad
justments or applications can be
handled before August. Oil ap
plications arp also being mailed
out.
WHEAT LOANS FOR
PERSON FARMERS
CITED BY) HALL
Triple A Chairman In
dicates Benefit Plans Os
Program.
Farmers of Person County may
obtain loans on their 1943 wheat
crops at the rats of $1.46 pe~
bushel for No. 2 soft red wheat
under a national loan program
announced by the War Food Ad-
T. Hall, chairan of the Person
County AAA Committee.
Loans will be made by the
Commodity Credit Corporation
on a note and chattel mortgage
basis for wheat stored on farms,
and seven cents per bushel will
be advanced when the loan is
made to cover storage charges,
Chairman Hall said. The loans
will mature on demand, but in
all cases by April 30, 1944. Any
producer, however, may liquid
ate his loan at any time by pay
ment of the note plus interest
at three per cent from the date
of the note.
All applications for loans
must be made at the County
AAA office, he said, and will be
administered by the County
AAA Committee.
“The present loan rate is nine
cents per bushel higher than the
$1.37 offered last year” the
chairman said. “This gives farm
ers an opportunity to obtain
ready cash for their wheat .and
at the same time utilize existing
storage space on their farms,
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PERSON TIMES
VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1943
Woman’s Angle In
Farming Presented
For Club Members
Farmers Must
File Acreage
Reports Soon
All farm operators in Per
son County have been mailed
letters requesting them to irifcet
with Township Committeemen
to report their acreage, of to
bacco and wheat, and their
conservation practices. A list
of meeting places and dates
was given in these letters. The
last of the meetings will be
held during this Week, ending
June 26th. It will not be posi
ble to give in these reports to
the Person AAA office.
A Tobacco Marketing Card
will not be issued for farms
until these reports are given
to Township Committeemen.
|F. B. Peele,
Minister, Dies
In Hospital
Pastor Os Person Circuit
Dies After Illness Last
ing Ten Days.
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The Rev. F. Boyd Peele, 57,
for twenty years a member of
the Nonth Carolina Conference
and for the past three years pas
tor of the Person Circuit of the
Methodist church and a resident
of Roxboro, died this morning at
Watts hospital, Durham, where
he had been a patient about ten
days.
Dfeafch resiuflted from compli
cations. He underwent an oper-
I ation a few days ago and since
then had been in a critical con
dition. He was a brother of Bis
hop W. W. Peele, of Richmond,
Va., and was a native of Scotland
County and an alumnus of
Rutherford college.
His first pastorate was at Bis
coe and he subsequently served
churches in Fairmont, Siler City,
Selma and the Durham circuit.
Funeral will be held at eleven
Fri. a. m., at Hall-Wynn funeral
home, Durham, with interment
following at Gibson.
Survivors include his wife, one
son, Carlyle, two daughters,
Miss Louise Peele, all of Rox
boro, and Miss Frances Peele, of
Durham. Also surviving are the
following brothers, Rev. C. E.
Peele, of Chester, Si. C., Dr. D.
D. Peele, of College Park, S. C.,
Mack Peele, of State Park hos
pital, Columbia, S. C., Bishop W.
W. Peele, Richmond, Va., and
Raymond Peele, of Gibson, and
one sister, Mrs. *D. C. Lytch, of
Gibson.
Rites For Wirtz
Held Yesterday
At Princeton, Ind.
Funeral for Chief Petty Offi
cer George W. Wirtz, of Prince
ton, Ind., and Roxboro, was con
ducted yesterday in Prihceton,
Ind., the home of his parents. E.
E. Bradsher, Sr., and Lieut. D’-
Arcy Bradsher, his father-in-law
and brother-in-law, both of Rox
boro, left Sunday for Princeton.
Wirtz, «a graduate of Wake
Forest college and former coach
at Roxboro high school, died
Thursday at Napanee, Ind.
Miss Qaniel, Os
Agents Office,
Guest Speaker
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Members Os Business
And Professional Wo
man’s Club Also Hear Os
Convention Plans.
Practical experience in farm
ingv particularly from the wo
man’s angle, was discussed by
Miss Bessie Daniel, ecretary to
Peron Farm Agent H. K. Sand
ers and a member of Roxboro’s
unit of the Business and Profes
sional Woman’s club at a picnic
session of the club held Tues
day in Roxboro high school
grove.
Miss Daniel, who has for
years been the mistress of her
ancestral farm near Roxboro,
combined wit and wisdom with
practical facts and gave to her
fellow-members the challenge
that farming, especially now, can
be woman’s work.
Attendance at the session was
around twenty-five and special
guests included Miss Christine
Buck, of the FSA staff, Miss Wil
son, Miss Billie Vogler and Mes
dames W. Y. Pass, D. R. Taylor,
Bert Dark, all of Roxboro, and
Mrs. de Joseph, of New York, a
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Lieut. Harrington
Spends Day Here
But Won’t Talk
Lieut. Craige Harrington, of
Roxboro and Durham, of the
United States Army Air Corps,
injured about two months ago in
a plane crash near Boise, Idaho,
is now on furlough. He and Mrs.
Harrington spent Tuesday here
and will also go to Moncure to
visit his family.
Lieut. Harrington received
head injuries in the plane crash,
but has now almost completely
recovered. He had no comments
to make concerning the accident,
but expressed himself as quite
willing and ready io resume fly
ing. He and Mrs. Harrington
spent the week-end in Greens
boro with Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Allen. Mr. Allen is also in the
Air Corps.
Corp. H. T. Clayton
Dances And Talks
To His Father
Corp. Harold T. Clayton, of
Roxboro, an alumnus of tbe
University of Noifth Carolina
and formerly a tobacco ware
house clerk, who is now sta
tioned at Dodge City Army Air
Field, Kan., has not forgotten
how to dance. He took top
honors at a USO dance at
Dodge City and won a prize, a
three minute long distance
•“Father’s Day’’ ' conversation
with his father, Thomas Clay
ton, at Timberlake.
Corp. Clayton, in addition to
being a dancer, is assistant
post librarian and is skilled in
baseball, being a star perform
er on his squadron’s team. He
has been at Dodge City Air
Field since Feb-17, and is with
455th Base Headquarters and
Air Base, a B-26 Marauder
pilot school.
Official Report
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Alvin Thornton Talbott
Seaman Second Class Alvin
Thornton Talbott, at left a
brother of F. R. Talbott, of Rox
boro, lost his life in sinking of
the U. S . S. Sims.
F. R. TALBOTT’S
BROTHER SAID TO
BE DEAD AT SEA
Seaman Second Class Al
vin Thornton Talbott,
Presumably Lost Life
When U. S. S. Sims Sank
In Coral Sea.
F. R. Talbott, of Roxboro, to
day said that his brother, Sea
! man Second Class Alvin Thorn
ton Talbott, of South Boston,
Va., and Roxboro, reported as
j missing in action on May 7, 1942,
(following sinking of the U. S. S.
Sims, is now reported as dead,
j the official communication hav
ing come to Talbott’s mother,
I Mrs. Lottie Green Talbott, of
( Harmony and South Boston, Va.,
from Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox.
_ Seaman Talbott, 21, before en
tering the service was a minis
terial student at Fern College in
Virginia. A memorial service
will be held at a date to be an
nounced, at the Harmony Metho
dist church, of which he was a
member. In addition io his moth
er and the brother previously
mentioned, other survivors in
clude three sisters and four
brothers.
Sisters are Mrs. Clyde War
ren, of Harmony, and Misses
Louise and Bernice Marie Tal
bott, both of South Boston. Oth
er brothers are Ira, of Richmond,
Va., Ammon, of Harmony, and
Herman and Johnny Talbott, of
South Boston.
Secretary Knox, in writing to
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Ellis Hits Loafers
Who Deter Work
Os Food Production
Farmer’s Night
Speaker Says
Numbers Shirk
If Os Opinion There Is
Enough Food Here If All
Will Work To Produce.
“There is now in Person Coun
ty enough labor to meet local
problems of food production, if
loafers Would go to work”, de
clared Joe Ellis, of the Deep
River Soil conservation service,
in a Farmer’s Night address at
Roxboro Kiwanis club Monday.
Ellis, whose chief theme was
the gravity of the food situation
and the possibility of- shortages,
even in Person County, drove
his “loafers protest” home by say
ing that some, although certain
ly not all rejected draftees act as
if their rejection by the Army
gives them a life long permit to
Speeders Jam Court
Tuesday; Hudgins
Is Cracking Down
Duncan Case Not !
To Be Heard
Before Friday
Danville, Va., interest in the
“pleasure driving’’ case of
John Lewis Duncan, of Route
1, Roxboro, continues in un
abat’ed form, although it is not
expected that the case will be
given a Roxboro hearing be
fore Friday, when Sam Byrd
Winstead, chairman of the
hearing panel, returns to the
City.
Negroes Say
Overlapping
Hurts Work
Farm Leaders Meet In
Roxboro To Discuss Pro
grams.
Negro agricultural workers of
Person County mot Saturday in
a roundtable to discuss the best
method of taking the agricultur
al program to Negroes of Person
County. After some discussion
it was agreed that unity among
the agricultural workers them
selves was the first step.
It was brought out that for the
past nine years Person County
has had a Negro County Agent,
that for seventeen years voca
tional agriculture and home eco
nomics have been taught to Ne
gro boys and girls; that a Negro
home agent has been in the
county for two years and that
for eighteen months Farm Sec
urity has added two Negro work
ers as assistant home manage
ment supervisor and assistant
rural rehabilitation farm uper
visor.
Five Negro workers have
worked a total of twenty-nine
and one half years, more than a
quarter of a century among Ne
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loaf. He furtrer asserted that
many citizens dis'jai-.i work and
accept privileges of freedom, but
refuse to share th ? responsibili
ties demanded by freedom.
In making cle.v- the abundance
of food production possible in
Person County, Ellis cited fig
ures to show that the 1940 census
gives Person County a popula
tion of 25,000, with 17,000 rural
residents and 8,000 in Rtocboro
and adjoining industrial com
munities such as Ca-Vel and
Longhurst. He also mentioned
the Person USDA War Board,
the Gas Rationing and Farm De
ferment committee and other co
operating agencies. He stressed
the value of balanced living, and
particularly the value of the
production of livestock.
Guests present included John
R. Jones, Clyde T. Satterfield,
James Foushee, Roy Gentry, J.
C. and Lindsay T. Wagstaff, Reu
ben Strum, Frank Timberlake
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NUMBER 74
| At Least Four
Lose Licenses
On Other Counts ;
Long Docket Filled With
j Traffic Violations. Num
ber Os Assault Cases
Come Up.
State Highway Patrolman John
! Hudgins, of Roxboro, together
| with members of the City Police
J department, cited many motor
j ists for traffic violations, includ
j ing speeding, careless and reck
j less and drunken driving and
operating without licenses dur
ing the past week and cases deal
ing with these offenses crowded
Person Recorders’ court at the
second July term held Tuesday
before Judge R. B. Dawes.
Ledford Long, charged with
driving drunk, paid SSO and
costs, with license revoked for
12 months, while Walter Thomas
; Wade, charged with drunken
| driving and careless and reck
j less, driving and speeding, paid
, SSO for driving intoxicated, $lO
! for other charges and had li
cense revoked for 12 months.
James Hubert Lunsford, charg
ed with having no operator’s li
cense, paid costs and was debar
red from operating an automo
| bile for twelve months, and Ellis
| Asa Lee Overby, charged with
i drunken driving and no opera
tor’s license, paid SSO and costs,
with license revoked for 12
months.
Other cases included: Clay
| Thomas, Negro, careless and
reckless driving, $lO and costs;
Marcus Jordan, no operator’s li—
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High Point Dogs
Find Night Life
Curbed By Law
HIGH POINT, June 23.—Dogs
(shall lead respectful lives in
j High Point, which means stay
j ing out of victory gardens or
running at large any time be
tween 8 o’clock at night and 6 o’-
clock in the morning or violate a
curfew ordinance adopted by the
city council.
Restriction of dog privileges
came about because of numer
ous complaints of citizens culti
vating vegetable plots, com
plaints of which the council took
due note and got arSund to a
mending the present rabies-con
trol regulation to impound and
“dispose of according to the pre
sent law” all dogs which run at
large at night or which trample
through victory gardens.
Police said they are at a loss
to know how to enforce the add
ed regulation. They pointed out
that they get more complaints
about dogs after 12 o’clock at
night than at any other time.
The poundmaster, J. O. Poin
dexter, works during the day.
Still, a law is a law, and ariy dog
caught off his or her master’s
premises during the curfew may
be impounded for 48 hours and
then disposed of as the old law
provides—to be sold or killed, if
not claimed by the owner.
AT CAMP SUTTON j
Pvt. Jack White, a son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. White, of Hiirdte
Mills, is receiving basic training
at Camp Sutton, near Charlotte.
Another son, Pfc. D. L. White, fe
stationed at Fort Benning. Q*.