. hate neuis Bulletins
OLD BELT OPENS SEPTEMBER 20
Official opening date for the Old Belt will be Monday,
September 20, according to a scheduled fixed today by the To
bacco Association of the United States. Dates for other belts
range from July 27, through December 6. The Association
disregarded Gov. Broughton’s request for earlier opening date
of September 7, for the Old Belt, but adopted Committee re
commendations to guard against haste in auctioning.
COLLINS AND AIRMAN SHOWS NET PROFIT
Collins and Aikman Corporation and subsidiary (excluding
Canadian subsidiary) reports a net profit, after Federal and
State income taxes, of $366,447.54 for the thpee months ended
May 29, 1943. This amounts tc 56 cents a share on the company’s
common stock, after preferred dividends. It compares with net
■ loss of $240,889.33 for tHe three months ended May 30, 1942.
INVASION SOON PREDICTED
LONDON, June 30. ln a buoyant and cheering speech,
Prime Minister Churchill today forecast thrusts this summer in
the Mediterranean “and elsewhere,” triumphantly reported a
toll of 30-odd U-boats in May alone, and warned the Germans
of an air offensive of ever greater wrath' and destruction.
Hunter Makes His
Second Talk On
Abattoir Situation
Thinks City Not
Alone Responsible
For Undertaking
Says Confusion Exists
In Requirements, But
Thinks Something Should
Be Bone.
“I do not think that the Town
of Roxboro should be required
to build a slaughter-house, since
the whole County will certainly
be involved and the Town itself
only a small part of the Coun
ty’s population”, said Gordon C.
Hunter, guest speaker at Rox
boro Kiwanis club Monday night,
in the second of his public ad
dresses within the week on the
abattoir situation.
Hunter, who was introduced
toy Kiwanian R. H. Shelton, said
further that unfortunately few,
very few, people seem to be in
terested in the situation one way
or the other, although he is of
opinion that they will become
more interested if the reported
ban on the slaughtering of meats
in Person ounty, set to begin to
day (July 1) becomes effective.
His statement; thus far, appears
to be about the clearest to come
from a City official. He began
his remarks by saying that he
has been for several years very
much interested in -the diversi
fication of crops and the growth
of livestock in Person County,
and that recently the Health De
partment had notified all butch
ers of the County that 'the OPA
' wiis requiring "them to enforce
health rules and regulations in
regard so the slaughtering of
animals for sale in meat mar
kets.
“The majority of people,” said
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AUX. WHITT W
THINKS BEING AN
M.P. HAS POINTS
Frank Whitt’s Wife Puts
Music In Second Place
For Present. '
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., June
30. Although she plays four
teen musical instruments and
has a Bachelor of Science degree
in music, Auxiliary Mildred Sim
monS Whitt, of Roxboro, has no
ambition to be a band director in
the Woinen’s Army Auxiliary
Corps. Instead, she thinks she
tyould like to be an M. P. For
the past several weeks she has
lgsen.busy learning the elements
qf a close-order drill, military
courtesy, Army, and WAAC ad
ministration and other military
Civic Clubs Will
Hear W. A. Irwin
i At Joint Session
i
i W. A. Irwin, of New York
! City, widely known as an eco
\ nomist and associated with the
j American Institute of Banking,
| will be chief speaker in Rox
boro on Thursday, July 15, at
a joint dinner meeting of Rox
boro Kiwjhnis an<| Rotary
clubs, according to announce
ment made today.
Because of this joint meeting
the Kiwanis club will not meet
on Monday of that week. July
sth meeting of the club will
also be cancelled because of
the National holiday.
Irwin is regarded as an out
standing speaker and members
of the joint committee sponsor
ing his appearance here are
confident that he will have a
message of interest to all busi
ness people.
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YEARS OF AGE
TURN IN NAMES
Person Selective Service
B)»ard Releases List Os
New Registrants.
The following Person County
and Roxboro young men, white
and Negro, who have become
eighteen years of age, have reg
istered this month with the Per
son Selective Service board:
Joseph Farrish, Hendrick
Strowd Hill, George Lunsford,
Jr., John Clayton, Jr., Otha Den
qril Lawson, Marvin McCoy, Jr.,
Robert Wilkerson, Henry Phile
mon Trotter, Charles Cambell,
and Harry Yarborough Ashley.
Charles Junius Burton, David
Roy Moore, Edgar Newton
Moore, Jr., Irving King, Nash
Nicks Winstead, Clem Herman
Williams, Roy Edward Bradsher,
James Dock Barnett, Flint Pay
lor, Russell Bolton, Lawrence
Clay Hamlett, Dan Allen Wiley,
and Rufus Odell Wythe.
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CORP. BILL AT HOME
Corp. Bill Clay, of Drew Field,
Tampa, Fla., a son of Mrs. Ome
ga Clay, of Roxboro, is spending
his furlough here, his first in
Roxboro in nine months.
FROM CHARLESTON
James C. Thomas, of Charles*
ton, W. Va., formerly of Roxboro,
has been spending several days
here with members of his family.
TO NEW YORK
Mrs. A1 Martin, who has been
here for several weeks, has gone
to New York pity to be with her
husband.
PERSON ==? TIMES
VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1943
Landon Whitt, Who
Got Edge On Others ,
Has First Furlough
Three Negroes
Will Come To
Higher Court
Drunk Driving And
Fighting Cases Move Up
From Mayor’s Tribunal.
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Three Roxboro Negro men, one
charged with drunken driving
and the other two with assaults
upon each other, will face trial
in Person Recorders’ Court July
13, after having been brought up
this week in Mayor’s Court in
Roxboro. Bonds have been set
for all three, the largest amount
of SIOO being for Darcy Brad
sher, 41, the Negro charged with
drunken driving.
The fighters are Edmund Wal
ker, charged with assault and
battery, and Cooper Jones, charg
ed with assault. Walker is 19 and
Jones 16, according to police
court records. Bond for Walker
is $75, and for Jones, SSO.
Other Mayor’s Court cases,
disposed of ithere, included:
Charlie Pride, Negro, 26, drunk,
$9.25; Green Poindexter, 33,
drunk and disorderly, $8.25;
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Chairmanship
Os Board To
Be Decided
Education Group Meet Mon
day In Griffin’s Office.
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The Person County Board of
Education, argumented by three
new members, will disregard
Monday as the National holiday
to meet in regular quarterly ses
sion, chiefly for purposes of
electing a new chairman and
passing upon the school budget
to be submitted to the County
Commissioners.
Chairmanship of the Board,
according to unofficial report, is
expected to go either to E. E.
Bradsher, Sr., or to Claude T.
Hall, two surviving members of
the Board, a group thrice deci
mated by death since the April
session. Newest member present
is to be Robert L. Hester, of
Bushy Fork, designated to the
Board last week. Other two new
members are Dr. Johni D. Fitz
gerald, of Roxboro, and Clyde
Satterfield, a County resident.
Hester succeeds W. R. Wilk
erson, former chairman, whose
death occurred June 14, while
Fitzgerald and Satterfield take
the places of B. G. Crumpton
and Ralph Cole, whose deaths in
April occurred within less than
three days after April session of
the Board. Neither Bradsher nor
Hall, incidentally, was present
at that session.
Meeting Monday will be at 10
A. M., in the Board office, Chub
Lake street.
Scouts Now
At Cherokee
Person Boy Scouts in large 1
number left Sunday to spend a |
week or more at the Scout Camp 1
at Cheroikee, near Reidsville. The
trip was made in trucks by ar
rangement of C. A. Harris, camp
ing chairman for the Person Dis
trict. , |
Fresh From His
Porto Rican Base,
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To Stay Month
Son Os Mr. and Mrs. 1\
T. Whitt Thinks War
Will End Soon.
.
Corp. Landon G. Whitt, 25, of j
Roxboro, a Mr. and Mrs. j
P. T. Whitt, Sr., of this City, 1
“who saw it coming” nearly two :
years ago and volunteered for
Army service on August 23,
1941, believes that “the war will
be over in a year or two.”
Maybe, it is just a hunch, may
be, it stems from something he
has learned in some twenty j
months of service in Porto Rico, j
from where he has just returned
for a thirty day leave, but that
is the way Corp. Whitt feels.
Also, he has a hunch it won’t be
many more months before he'll
be seeing service in Africa or
Europe, much further from home
than San Juan, Porto Rico,
Whitt, who is one of five mem
bers of his family now in mili
tary service, left Roxboro when
it was fairly quiet here, seven
days after the famous Cy Win
stead, Jr., court house mob epi
sode. He did not know then that
he was headed for Porto Rico,
since become famous as another
place where Governor Gtneral
Rexford Guy Tugwell has had an
opportunity to discover that
facts are more adamant than
theories.
Tugwell’s experiences there,
recently recorded in Life Maga
zine, are faithfully represented
in that magazine, according to
Whitt. The island, since 1938 has
become an important military
base and much improvement in
social conditions, particularly a
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No Sunday Edition
There will be no Sunday,
July 4, issue of the Person
County Times, but publication
will be resumed on Thursday,
July 8, when a special edition
of the Times will be released.
Collins and AikmenEmployees
Hear Epic South Seas Story
Guadalcanal
Hero Has 15
Days On Raft /
Patriotic Rally Featured
By Boost For Workers
As Soldiers By Edward
sin And Dorwart, Army
Officers.
Collins and Aikman, Plant E,
employees, of Ca-Vel, together
with mill officials and citizens of
Roxboro, yesterday at a patriotic
rally held at Plant E, heard the
story of a grotip of U. S. Army
Air Corps officers and men, who
spent fifteen days floating in the
South Seas on two rubber rafts,
were marooned on an island and
later made a £hfe return to their
base after they had long since
been officially listed as dead.
Narrator was Lieut. Robert
Dorwart, of the War Depart?
Final Report
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Pfc. Lewell T. Huff, of Payne’s
Tavern, reported killed in ac
tion in North Africa on Dec. 10,
1942, becomes probably the first
Person man to be killed in ac
tion in this war. He was a son
of Mrs. Emma Huff, who receiv
ed the final notice from the War
Department Tuesday.
Racial Unity
Sought By
Conference
Richmond, Va,, Groups Say
Intelligent Discussion And
Fact Facing Necessary.
RICHMOND, Va., June 30.
A collaboration committee of 33
white and 33 Negro leaders from
southern states meeting here for
a searching analysis of the prin
cipal issues involved in race re
lations, has agreed that some af
firmative action is needed and
has named a continuing commit
tee to work out methods and
practical means of approach.
The continuing committee com
posed of from 12 to 14 members
from each race, will meet at At
lanta on August 4 and 5 and in
turn will name subcommittees
to consider the various phases of
such broad problems as political
and civil rights, industry and
labor,, service occupations, edu
cation, agriculture, military ser
j yice, social welfare and health.
Statement Made Public
“We urge especially that ef
forts to prepare the postwar
world for a wise and successful
reception of our returning sol
diers and to prepare both our
soldiers and the people for atti
tudes and procedures adequate
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ment’s Bureau of Public relations
for this area, one of the surviv
ors, who, accompanied by Capt.
John Edwardsin, also qf the Bu
reau, was guest of honor at a
luncheon given at Hotel Roxboro
by Plant E officials.
Dorwart, who had a story in
which heroism vied .with humor
as factors in the rescue, was in
troduced by Capt. Edwardsin as
a man who has had more than
1,000 hours of combat flying and
been a participant in at least
thirty five combat trips. He was
also at Pearl Harbor and Mid
way and was awarded both the
Purple Heart and the Distin
guished Service Cross.
Edwardsin, introduced by S. M.
Ford, Plant E’s resident man
ager, paid tribute to workers on
the home front and told first and
second shift Plant E employees,
who attended the exercises at
three o’clock in the afternoon*
just as shifts changed, that, “The
soldier of production is today
Pfc. Lewell T. Huff
First Person Man
Killed In Action
Mrs. Snipes Has
Brother Said To
Be Jap Prisoner
John J. Vaughan, 21, of Bul
lock, Granville county, who be
fore the fall of the Philippine
Islands was in the United
States Army, is reported to be
a prison’er of the Japanese, ac
cording to an official message
received by Vaughan's sister,
Mrs. George Y. Snipes, of
Bushy Fork.
Vaughan, previously reported
as missing, is presumed to be
in a prison camp in the Philip
pines. His mother is Mrs. Nora
Snipes Vaughan, a native of
Person County, now living at
Bullock, as is his father, Mr.
Vaughan. .. T - ’* *
Monday Will Be
Holiday Here For
Many Merchants
People? Bank, of Roxboro, will
observe Monday, July 5, as a
holiday, according to announce
ment made today. The holiday
'will also be generally observed
by stores and business houses
here, although it is expected that
some merchants who normally
close each Wednesday afternoon
will be open on Wednesday, July
7, to make up for Monday’s
closing.-
Walkers Visit
Son In Army
At Knoxville
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Walker and
daughters, Peggy and Margaret,
together with Mrs. Abner Day
and Miss Jessie Walker, spent
the week-end in Knoxville,
Tenn., visiting Ennis A. Walker,
a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walker,
who is in the U. S. Army Air
Corps and in trainirg at the Uni
versity of Tennessee.
soldier”. He also urged continu
ed cooperation of the 130 million
Americans on all fronts, at home
and abroad and drove home the
patriotic duty of all workers to
stay by the jobs they have as a
contribution towards getting the
war over with. The Captain’s
final word was, “Let’s get to
gether.”
Beginning of the epic experi
ence undergone by Dorwent and
his companions was an air bat
tle in which their plane downed
at least two Jap planes, possibly
others, before the U. S. plane
was struak and forced into the
sea, giving the survivors exactly
one minute and a half to trans
fer to their two rubber rafts.
First chapter of this stage of
their reconnaissance flight in the
Guadalcanal area, said the Lieu
tenant, began with the discovery
that they had food for three or
four days, except for emergency
rations that lasted for ten of
of ‘wandering
NUMBER 76
Final Word
Comes On Fate
| Os Missing Man
Son Os Mrs. Emma Huff,
Os Payne’s Tavern, Miss
ing Since December 10,
In Africa, Now Reported
As Killed In Action.
| Pfc. Lewell T. Huff, 23. of
Payne's Tavern, Person County,
| a son of Mrs. Emma Huff, since
[December 27, 1942, reported as
| missing in action in North Africa,
was killed in action on December
j 10, 1942, according to an-official
i message received Tuesday by
j Mrs. Huff from the War Depart
-1 ment.
j Huff, a volunteer, who enter
led the Army Feb., 17, 1941, went
: to Ireland in May 1942 and was
in the Engineers corps, among
I first troops to land in Africa in
November of that year. He was
[ among first of Person soldiers
reported as missing in action and
j was probably the first from Per
son to be killed in action. A
graduate of Hurdle Mills high
j school, he was well known in
Roxboro, where he "was connect
j ed with Plant E, the Collins and
Aikman corporation.
! Huff at first went to Fort
I Bragg, then to Fort Knox and to
i For* Dix, before being sent to
I Ireland.
| He was a member of Mill
j Creek Baptist church, where it
|is expected a memorial service
| will be held soon, and he was a
| cousin of Pvt. Flint Whitfield, a
I son of George Whitfield, also of
: Person County. •'
His father was the late Billy
Huff, who died in 1922. In ad
dition to his mother, other sur
vivors include: two sisters, Mrs.
Rose Bradsher and Mrs. Arthur
Burch, also four brothers, Bax
ter, Royce, Kelly and Clyde
Huff, all of Person County and
Roxboro.
Royce Huff, in an interview at
the Times office, today said that
| members of the family received
i several letters from* Huff while
he was in Ireland, but that only
one, a brief message informing
them of his landing, came from
Africa. A more complete letter
of explanation concerning his
ddath is expected from the War
Department, according to Royce
Huff.
Huff’s death occurred on the
day on which he was previously
reported as missing. The death
message came almost exactly six
months after the missing in ac
tion report was received. .;
Rally Day Will
Be Held Sunday
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At St. Mark’s
Members of Saint Mark’s
Episcopal chuifch oh Sunday,
July 4, will hold a rally day ser
vice at eleven o’clodk in the
morning. The Rev. Rufus J.
Womble, rector, will deliver a
special sermon and the sacra
ment of Holy Communion will
be observed. It is hoped that all',
members of the parish and oth
ers interested in the church will!
attend.
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E. T. Wrenn, of the U. S. Army,
stationed in Greenland, has been
(advanced to rank of Sergeant.
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