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bate neuis Bulletins VELMA BEAM WILL GIVE CLUB PEP TALK Members of Roxboro’s Business and Professional Woman’s club are looking fonward to a July 23, visit from Miss Velma Beam, now of Hayesville, who will be club speaker that night. Miss Beam, one of the organizers, of the Roxboro club, former ly lived here, where she was a popular Home Demonstration agent. CHARLIE WALKER’S BOND SET AT TWO HUNDRED State Highway Patrolman John- Hudgins this afternoon re ported that bond for Charlie Walker, whose car allegedly caused a near-serious wreck here last night, has been set at S2OO. \ “WITCH-HUNT’ SAYS HAROLD ICKES WASHINGTON, July 14. Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes yesterday denounced as a “witch-hunt” the congres sional investigation of Robert Morss Lovett, secretary of the Virgin islands and one of three government employees Congress has sought to force off the federal pay roll. , Three Women Miss Serious Injuries By Narrow Margin Prisoners Os War May Be Labor Units Italian And German Prisoners To Be Station ed at Butner. Citizens Here Interested. Announcement that Italian and German prisoners of war, possibly to Joe interned at Camp Butner, may be available for farm labor and other projects is creating interest in Roxboro, where several inquiries have re cently been made by' interested citizens. Butner has facilities to care for the men and it has long been thought that prisoners sooner or later would be placed there. The AP story, released Tuesday, is as follows: Several thousand war prison ers soon may be available, at a cost of $4 per day each, to areas of the state where critical farm labor shortages exist, Governor Broughton said. The per diem is to pay the prisoners the 80 cents they re ceive for their work, plus cost of subsistence, transportation and guards, the Governor added. He said that the army says prison ers are paid 10 cents a day if they do no twork hut are given 80 cents daily if they do. The Governor conferred with Dean I. O. Schaub, of the State college extension service; Harry Caldwell, state farm labor com missioners and army represen tatives. Governor Broughton said that “several thousand war prison ers, probably Italian,” will be brought to the state soon to be interned. They will be sent to Camp Butner. The procedure to be followed in securing the labor* will be this, Governor Broughton said: After an area is designated “critical (by him), persons need ing labor will make their re quests to their county agent. He in turn will pass it along to Schaub and Caldwell, who will notify the military authorities, and the prisoners will be sent where needed. Pfc. R. E. Whitten Finishes Course At Chanute Field Pfc. Robert E. Whitten, of Chanute Field, 111., a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Whitteh, Sr., of Roxboro, has completed training and graduated from the Chanute Field school of the Army Air Forces Training command. While at the school he received instruc tion in aircraft sheetmetal twork. » ■ - AXIS ALIENS LESS Less than 8 per cent of all aliens registered in this country are nationals of Axis nations. • CANAL 66 MILES LONG The Kiel Canal cuts 60 miles northeastward across the neck of the Genpan-Danish peninusula. Car Struck From Behind Thrown To Opposite Bank Charlie Walker, Said To Have Been Driver Os Other Machine, Jailed For Driving While In toxicated. Miss Annie M. Young and two companions, Misses Pattie Sue and Esther Gravitte, all of Route iTwo, Roxboro, last night about | ten oclock, had narrow escapes from serious injuries when the car driven by Miss Young was struck from behind by a swift ly driven car said to have been operated by Charlie Walker, of Woodsdale. Walker, charged with driving while intoxicated was immedi ately lodged in Person jail. His companion was identified as Robert Bowes, about 28, of Rox boro, Route One. Bowes, who re ceived a slight cut on one ear, may be charged with being drunk. Hearing for both men may be held Saturday. Bond for Walker has not been arranged. In the accident, which happen (turn to page eight, please) MRS. MCWHORTER WILL SERVE ON CONFERENCE UNIT One Os A Committee Os Ten To Compile Guide Book. Mrs. L. Sanders McWhorter, Person OPA Community service chairman, of this City, has been Selected as member of an'OPA and Community Service commit tee to compile an OPA and Com munity Servce Gude book. First meeting of the commit tee will be July 26, in Chapel Hill, and among others on the I body will be W. E. Horner, edi tor of the Sanford Herald. Mrs. McWhorter will be expected to discuss and compile the section on organization of Community Service and will also prepare a chapter on personnel relation ships of the program with news papers. At least ten citizens, some of them from out of the State are to serve on the committee. Mrs. McWhorter’s appointment comes in recognition of work she has done here. Second meeting of the group is expected to be held in August. SON BORN Mr. and Mrs. Earl Douglas Humphries of Wilmington, form erly of Woodsdale and Roxboro, announce the birth of a son, Earl Douglas, Jr., on Saturday, July 10, at James Walker Memorial hospital, Wilmington. Mrs. Hum phries is the former Miss Loma O’Briant, of Roxboro. Mr. Hum phries is a son of Mrs. J. Y. Humphries of Bethel Hill. Weight of Earl, Jr., was eight pounds at birth. PIGS Due to the shortage of feeds, growers should fully utilize tem porary pastures of soybeans, les pedeza, millet and similar crops in growing out their late spring v.-.ialflMk.>.-i.• ... . y.. PERSON TIMES VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1943 Police Report By j . i j Robinson Reveals Vital Differences Cracks Down .mm JUDGE R. B. DAWES Drunken drivers and fighters, particularly with knives, fared badly this week in Person Re corders’ court which did a heavy day’s work Tuesday before Judge R. B. Dawes. Berry Goes To Meeting | ln Raleigh Expects To Spend Week end Here. Is Reported to Have Given Up Corner Shop Association. M. Banks Berry, of Roxboro, new member of the State Board of Barber examiners, who went to Raleigh the first of this week to be sworn in and to attend ses sions of the Board, is expected to return to Roxboro today or tomorrow for the week-end. Mrs. Berry, his wife, today confirmed reports that Berry is to devote full time to Board duties and will no longer be as sociated with the Corner Barber shop, Roxboro, although he will maintain residence in Roxboro. Berry last week was of opinion that he would be able to retain his business affiliation here, but is since reported to have decided that duties of his new office will require all of his time and at tention. No successor has as yet been named to Berry’s place on the Person County Board of Com missioners, a post made vacant by his acceptance of the Barbers’ board appointment. Now Com missioner is to be named by Per son Clerk of Superior Court, Miss Sue C. Bradsher, who' is ex pected to return to Roxboro today from a vacatin at Ridge crest. RITES HELD FOR MRS. RAMSEY, OF SOUTH BOSTON, VA. Native Os Halifax County Dies Near Cluster Springs. Held yesterday at her home near Cluster Springs, Va., were funeral services for Mrs. Ida Frances Ramsey, 63, wife of the late R. L. Ramsey, of South Bos ton, Va., whose death occurred Monday afternoon at her home. Mrs. Ramsey, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard Talley, was a native of Halifax County, Va., and .was educated in the public schools there. Funeral rites were in charge of the Rev. W. L. Gregory, with interment following in the Shady Grove cemetery. Survivors include five daugh ters, Mesdames R. J. Chandler and J. L. Gravitte, of South' Bos-, ton, Va., C. W. Williams, of Branswaod, W. Va., R. G. Whit- 1 low. of Buckeystown Md. and A. G. Boswell of South Boston, and four sons, J. L., J. H., and R. D. Ramsey, of Durham and W. E. Ramsey, of South Boston, Va. Also, .surviving" sis three broth m and three sisters., . I. Number Os Arrests Shoots Upward During Year Increases Seen In Intoxi cant Charges. Theft Cases Down. Police Chief George C. Robin son, of Roxboro, in his second complete annual report of de partmental activities, a report prepared for presentation to City Commissioners, today cited fi gures to show that from June 1942, through June 1943. 711 ar rests mere made as compared with 491 arrests for correspond ing period during the previous year, 1941-1942. The report, to be presented to Commissioners next week, was to have been given to them this week, but because of change of meeting time of the Board is , first being released to the Times by courtesy of Robinson. Anoth , er interesting comparison is 311 arrests on public drunkenness charges this year, against 193 last year. During the year just ended 141 Mayor’s Court cases of all types were sent to Recorder’s Court and fines and costs collected on City Court cases totaled $4,328.00. Added to the Department last July 1, was an additional police man, bringing the force to four regular officers plus the Chief, and one additional auxiliary or relief man for week-ends. Effectiveness of public ser vice rendered, Robinson bc (turn to page eight, please) j / Tar Heels, Including Those In Person, Read More Books Vote Will Be Held On Tobacco j Marketing Quotas The War Food Administra tion has announced that farm ers will vote on flue-cured to bacco marketing quotas for the 1944 crop, or for the 3-year period 1944-46, in a referendum to be held July 24, 1943. This date is in accordance with re commendations of flue-cured tobacco farmers, warehouse men, businessmen, farm organ ization leaders, and other farm leaders from the flue cured areas. The announcement follows the signing by the President on July 7, 1943, of a joint reso lution providing for the pro clamation of quotas for the 1944-45 marketing year. Na tional marketing quotas and state and farm acreage aliot i ments will be the same as for 1946, with similar provisions for adjustments as have pre vailed in the past, it was ex plained. Tobacco producers will vote by secret ballot and polling places will be designated in local communities by AAA County Committeemen, local farmers will be in charge of community polling places. Any fanner is eligible to vote who, as an owner, tenant, or share cropper, is entitled to a srare of the proceeds of the 1943 floe-cured tobaqeo crop. Be fore quotas become effective they must be approved by a two-thirds majority of all eli gible farmers voting. 1 HAS 156,000 REFUGEES I There are about 150,000 war refugees in Great Britain. FOOD CROPS In<jia reduced her cotton acre age from 25JH7.000 \ acres last year to 18,716,000 acr* this year, witb mor* acres ip fcjpd crops. . Commissioners of City Postpone July Session Roxboro City Commission ers, scheduled to have met Tuesday night in a showdown session on budget for the new fiscal year, will not meet un til Tuesday night, July 20. Ab sence of Commissioner Gor don C. Hunter, who was in Chapel Hill for the Bankers’ I institute, caused last minute cancellation of the City Board meeting here. Flaiuied tor the cancelled 1 meeting was a discussion of the proposed wine and beer curfew, desired by many citi zens for Saturday night to ! Sunday enforcement. Tax rate j is an important matter to come up. begion Takes Humphries Rs neui Member Fearl Harbor And Pur ple Heart Man Becomes First World War Two Veteran To Join Lester Blackwell Post. Newest member, and first World War II veteran to become . officially affiliated with Lester Blackwell Post No. 121 of the , Ameriran Legion in Roxboro is 1 Person County’s Pearl Harbor ; hero, Farris Humphries, who . joined the Roxboro Post at ex • ercises held at the July meeting , of the organization Saturday • night at the Legion Hut, Chub Lake street. Gordon C. Hunter, of this City, Post Commander, extended an (turn to page eight, please) Miss Beal Os .State Department Says They Do Miss Grafton, On Hand In Person. Backs Up . Statement Os Her Ad ministrator. Raleigh, July 15.—You can take it from at least one official of the State government that the American people—North Carolin ians in particular—will come out of this war better informed, so cially and geographically. This firm believer in cultural improvement is Miss Marjorie Beal, executive secretary of the North Carolina Library Commis sion. Believer in Miss Beal’s concep tion of progress in development of the reading habit among North Carolinians, particularly in Per son, Orange and Caswell coun ties, is Miss Ernestine Grafton, tri-county librarian, who is now spending her July time in Rox boro and came on Tuesday es pecially to attend a meeting of the Roxboro Board of Commis sioners at which City appropria tion for the Person Public Libra ry was to have been discussed. This meeting has been post poned until next Tuesday, July 20, but Miss Grafton will be on hand for that session and will seek additional funds, especially to take care of removal of WPA library assistance, which emerg ency was met during part of the year just passed by generous re sponse from the City. According to Miss Beal, • Tar Heels here have really stepped up their reading since the war banned the use of automobiles for pleasure driving and cut down on travel in general. They are staying at borne nights and are finding more time to read, (turn to page eight, please) Offenders Pay In Time And In Cash For Transgression First Member |Pi| i.r: &A I FARRIS HUMPHRIES First World War II veteran to become a member of Lester Blackwell Post of the American Legion is Farris Humphries, who was injured at Pearl Harbor. Surgical Work To Begin Again Immediately Mrs. J. H. Hughes, Roxboro, director of the surgical dress ing units of the Person and Roxboro chapter of the Amer ican Red Cross, today announc ed that new surgical dressing supplies have been received and that immdiate resumption of regular schedules among workers is expected. June quotas were completed within the time limit set and it is hoped that response for July quotas will be as effec tive. First place at which work will be started again will be at rooms in Roxboro Central Grammar school, where office of Mrs. Sue Featherston, Red Cross executive secretary, is also located. HOW’S THAT AGAIN? In August, 1937, Premier Mus solini said in a speech in Sicily: “Nat one enemy soldier will ever land in Sicily.” Australian Papers Give Conservative Reflection Os War. Commissioners’ Association To Meet In August RALEIGH, July 15. 36th an nual conference of the State As sociation of County Commission ers and Association of County Accountants will be held in Ral eigh August 10-11-12. Speakers for the three-day ses sion include Governor J. M. Broughton, State Treasurer Charles M. Johnson, State Sena tor Gregg Cherry, Supt. Clyde A. Erwin, Attorney-General Har ry McMullan, and Josephus Daniels, Raleigh Publisher and Former Ambassador to Mexico. Officers will be elected, the 1944 meeting place chosen and committee reports submitted at the concluding session on Thurs day, August 12. IN BUTNER HOSPITAL Private Odell. J. Davis, of Camp Howze, Texas, who_ has been spending his furlough'here with his parents and wife for the last week, has been removed from his home, where he Was taken side, to the Military hospi tal at Camp Butner. NUMBER 79 Drunk Drivers And Fighters Swarm Court - Largest Amount Os Fines And Cost Paid On Any One Day In Year Paid Out This Week. ——— - i R. B. Dawes, of this City, judge of Person recorders’ court, | in an all day session on Tuesday j cracked down on citizens charg i ed with traffic violations and on j those alleged to have engaged in - assaults, with deadly weapons, ■ many of whom, in both classifi | cations, paid heavy fines and : costs and swelled the total paid 1 over to R. A. Bullock, assistant clerk of court, to $1,139.80, be l lieved to be largest amount col lected at any one session of the lower court -within 12 months. ! Cases tried included: Blue Brooks, a Granville Negro, as jsault with deadly weapon, six months in jail; L. D. Downey, , Negro, same charge, sixty days, suspended with $25 and costs; ! John B. Tate, no operator’s li cense, costs, and Albert Reed Tate, permitting an unlicensed | operator to drive, suspended 1 with costs. Also, John Edward Allen, Ne ■ gro, assault with deadly weapon, | $35 and costs; Aura R. Smith, j same charge, continued; T. C. Hester, driving with license re i yoked, continued; A. W. Hicks, | drunken driving, SSO and costs, license revoked 12 months; Roy j Critcher, larceny, 12 months, ' with sentence suspended on pay ment of S4O to Jesse Duncan in restitution for larceny, with good behavior, and George Willia Johnson, Negro, no li cense, suspended with costs, 1 Also, L. C. Wilkerson, drunken driving, SSO and costs with license revoked; Walter Paylor, Negro, same charge, same settlement; Doc I. Williams, $25 and costs; Percy Wilkins, assault with a deadly weapon, $5; Heiibert Torian, Negro, same charge, $lO and costs with sl6 to Dr. H. M. I Beam; Mike Williams, alias Lacy j Falkner, Negro, speeding and no brakes, costs; Boss Winstead, j Negro, assault on female, chang ed to simple assault, with costs. L. M. Mangum, Negro, non- I (turn to page eight, please) One Leans Toward American Scene, Other European ,! Ads On Front Page Are Shocking. Pictures Small, Stories Brief. * What some citizens in the “Land Down Under” see and read and think about during War time is graphically illustrated in copies of “The Argus” and “The Age”, two Melbourne, Australia, news papers for May 8, received this week at the Times office. Interesting to Americans is the condensation of war items, the smallness of pictures, the ab sence of sensational headlines and the generally conservative tone, although both papers are of full size and seemingly xepA., resentative of a City at ***** > 100,000 souls. Small, single column page head in ‘"Die Age” read|«ii “U. S. Coal Dispute, Threat By Union”, while front page of *33&e Argus” contains an advertisement
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