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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.
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AXIS ALIENS LESS
Less than 8 per cent of all
aliens registered in this country
are nationals of Axis nations.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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Largest Amount Os Fines
And Cost Paid On Any
One Day In Year Paid
Out This Week.
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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-
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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