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SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1943 AUSSIE SLANG GIVEN TWIST BY YANKSOLMERS Americana Put New Vi gor Into An Already Col orful Language. Washington, Aug. 7.—lt meant a lot of yakka, compiling those soldier dictionaries of Australian and New Zealand slang, but the Army didn’t want the folks Down Under to get the idea that our G. I. Joes were a bunch of jack aroos fresh from the woop-woop —and that’s the dinkum oil. Yakka, the Army special serv ice division explains, means hard work; a jackaroo is a tenderfoot One Day! SERVICE Call Us—Phone 3301 SERVICE DRY CLEANERS COMING ATTRACTIONS PALACE AND DOLLY MADISON THEATRES PALACE THEATRE MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, August 9-10-llth. Bud Abbott and Lon Costello with Gimmy Simms, Patric Knowles, Elyse Knox, Johnny Long and his orchestra, in “HIT THE ICE” When They’re Aces on Ice! Ski-chumps! Sleigh Belles! Sunny— Songs!——Rockin’ the Rockies with Laughter and thrills! It’s a ski-r-ream! HEADLINERS— “A REVIVAL OF MOMENTS OF CHARM” RKO PATHE NEWS—“NEWS OF THE NATION” No Morning show; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Adm. 15-30 c; Even ings daily 7:00-9:15; Adm. 15-35 c. DOLLY MADISON THEATRE MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT Sunday, August Bth. „ Joan Davis, Jinx Falkenburg. Anne Sauage, Leslie Brooks, in “TWO SENORITAS FROM CHICAGO” A screen of a team in a Musical! Dream! Jinx Jams the Air-Waves and Joan Joins the Fun! It’s Got Swing! Sing! Everything! CARTOON—“BAH WILDERNESS” PETE SMITH SPECIALTIES—“DOG HOUSE” Afternoon box office opens 2:30; Picture 2:45; Adm. 15-30 c; (One Performance only); Evening box office opens 8:45; Picture 9:00; Adm. 15-35 c; (One Performance Only). Monday, Tuesday, August 9-10th George Raft., Sydney Greenstreet, with Peter Lorre, Brenda Mar shall, in “BACKGROUND TO DANGER” G-Men get after the Gestapo! It’s a Wallop-packed hit! Don’t miss the excitement! Watch this clash! George Raft meets the Screen’s New No. 1 Menace Sidney Greenstreet. SPORTS PARADE—“HORSES HORSES” HEARST METROTONE NEWS “NEWS WHILE IT IS STILL NEWS”. „ Special morning show Monday 10:30; Afternoons daily 3:15-3:45; Adm. 15-30 c; Evenings daily 7:30-9:15; Adm. 15-30 c. -# ‘ Wednesday, August 11th. Jimmy Rogers, Noah Berry, Jr. with Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Wood worth, in “PRAIRIE CHICKEN” It’s Rootin Tootin’ Fun! Rhythm rides the range! Romance sweeps across the screen like a prairie fire! THIS IS AMERICA—“LIEUTENANT SMITH” VICTORY SHORTS—“MEN WORKING TOGETHER” Special Morning show 10:30; Afternoons 3:15-3:45; Evenirig 7:30- 9:15; Adm. sc-20c. Luray China Ware | Set or Open Stock Every home is a prouder home with this fine china. Gome in and let us show it to you. Inexpensive, yet a real treasure, that you will be proud to own. Just Recevied Glasses in this same pattern. We have been temporarily out of glass es, but now have complete selection. GREEN’S Use Your Credit on a sheep ranch; the woop-woop or bush is the hinterland or sticks, and dinkum oil is what is known locally as the real Me- Coy. Departing somewhat from usu al War Department literary style, the service booklet declares in an enthusiastic foreword: “You won’t find New Zealand ers taking any oacx seat when it comes to tossing the lingo around and you may find your self slow on the uptake until you get hep.” That goes double for the folks down Sydney way, the Austra lian volume makes clear. The Diggers (Australians) are ben zer (super) users of the pictures que and colorful phrase, and wouldn’t give a zack (sixpence) for a wowser (stuffed shirt) who spoke the stuff straight. Only a fair nark (New Zea (land for a very unpleasant per son) would skite (boast) that the rich phrases of Auckland surpass the Melbourne vernacu- I lar, or vice versa. A New Zea- ' PERSON COUNTY TIMES ROXBORO, N. C., ; ENSIGN UMSTEAD, ROXBORO HAS ADVENTURE ON PLANE (continued from fnont page) aboard was forced down on the Pacific, bobbed helplessly on 20- foot waves for 42 hours until re pairs were made, then winged on to Honolulu. The dramatic story of this saga of the sea and air was told here this week by Pan American Air ways after official Navy clear ance in Washington. In releasing the story the Navy disclosed for the first time that Pan American is engaged in na val transport flights in the Pa cific. Piloted by Captain John H. Hamilton of San Francisco, vet eran PA A skipper, who flew the Philippine Clipper in from Wake island on the first day of the war, the naval transport plane developed motor trouble 600 miles out of Pearl Harbor while en route from an unnamed Paci fic island. The port outboard motor be gan blazing, but before the ship came down on the mountainous seas the flames were extinguish ed. All but two of those aboard be came violently seasick, including the engineering officers, so the first officer had to take over the repair job. Crewmen were all from the Bay Area. Seven of the passengers were naval officers. Spare parts and two mechan ics were flown out by another flying boat and transferred to the stricken craft in a perilous, dra ma-fraught episode. But the me chanics were of no use; they, too, came down with a terrific case of mal de mer. Repair equipment included a new propeller, motor and a bag of cement to plug up a bad leak in the hull through which the sea poured at the rate of 50 gal lons an hour. Throughout the ride on thr endless swells, including two lander who told you that his boss went crook a fair treat would expect you to understand that his employer had given vent to his wrath in a big way. The Army’s glossaries prepare its charges for almost any con tingency, including the remote possibility of a three-day pass which might make possible a shivoo, or party. A sheila, it explains, is a girl. A diner is another. With that, the special service division drops the bundle (gives up). DOLLY MADISON THEATRE Monday - Tuesday, Aug. 9-10th I . f . '•••pMr i 1 • v ' v %^|,;;vys I - ; '? ~- ip with PETER LORRE * Brenda Marshall 'MncM b, RAOUL WALSH • Screen May by W. R. Burnett • From a Noval by Eric Ambit r Special Morning Show Monday 10:30; Afternoons Daily 3:15- 3:45; Adm. 15-30 c; Evenings Daily 3:15-3:45; Adm. 15-30 c; Ev enings Daily 7:30-9:15; Adm. 15- 30c. HHk. IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE IN " THE TIMES blacked-out nights—lights were verboten because of the fear of prowling enemy subs—the men took turns bailing. And throughout this ordeal, the big plane rose and fell constant ly, like a crazy elevator, literally turning stomachs inside out. A high light of the sea drama was one of those coincidences that send Ripley into raptures. One of the passengers was Lieu tenant Commander Thomas C. Peifer of Spartanburg, S. C., en route to Pearl Harbor to take command of a new destroyer. A destroyer had been dispatched to the scene by the Navy and near the end of the second day it came up over the horizon. Wouldn’t it be a hot one,” com mented Commander Peifer, “if it turned out to be my new de stroyer?” It was. And so, Commander Peifer took over his new charge in mid-Paci fic. Dramatic details of the forced landing were described by Cap tain Hamilton in his report to Pan-American here. “While cruising at 7,000 feet, normal cruising in smooth, clear air,” he reported, “left outboard ; motor (the No. 1 motor) over revved to approximately 3000 r. J p. m., due to the failure of the j braking mechanicsm in the elec trical propeller motor unit. “The motor was immediately cut, gas turned off and the plane slowed down with flaps to 90 knots calibrated, in an attempt to slow the propeller down. We were unsuccessful in doing so, and the engine turned over be tween 2600 and 2800 until after the landing was made.” With the No. 1 propeller turn ing oyer at such speed, the Cap tain said, the plane was direc tionally uncontrollable as long as the No. 4 motor (right outboard) was not at any power. And then fire broke out in the No. 1 motor, filling the cabin with smoke. The master electrical switch was cut, and the flames died out. “The word was passed, said Captain Hamilton, “that an em ergency landing was to be made, and all crew and passengers were issued life jackets and were seat ed with belts on when the land ing was made.” With the electrical circuit out and the process of lowering wing flaps and pontoons slowed to such an extent that the plane was too low for much maneuvering by the time they were lowered, the landing, said the Captain, was “no easy matter.” He had to land into the wind, gainst the swells. The plane thumped against the top of a swell, bounced 50 feet into the air and settled down onto the next swell, where it rode safely. A checkup disclosed rivet holes in the metal covering and “skin splits” along the rivet lines. “The rivet holes,” the Captain reported, “were plugged by driv ing the sharpened end of a pen cil into them, and rags dipped in Lecral Notice IN THE SUPERIOR COURT NORTH CAROLINA PERSON COUNTY. J. Grafiam Oakley -VS- Arch Allen, Melvin Strange, Willie Strange, George Cates, et als. NOTICE The defendants, Melvin Strange, Willie Strange and George Cates, will take notice that an action entitled as above, hsa been commenced in the Su erior Court of ,Person County, North Carolina, for the purpose of selling real estate in which the defendants have an interest; and the said defendants will further take notice that they are required to at the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said County in the Courthouse in Roxboro, North Carolina, on the 24th day of August, 1943, and answer or de mur to the complaint in said ac tion, or the plaintiff will apply for the relief demanded in said complaint. This 23rd day of'July, 1943. R. A. BULLOCK, Asst. Clerk Superior Court, Person County, N. C. July 25 Au?. 1-8-15 shellac were inserted in the skin splits.” Because of the position of structural members, the biggest leak was inaccessible and re quired periodic bailing. First Radio Officer Leroy D. Paulsen, Alamenda, got in im mediate touch with Pearl Harb or, and four hours later, just be fore dark, Captain W. B. Biggers, San Mateo, was circuling over the disabled craft. But neither he nor Captain Harry J. Beyer, also of San Mateo, who flaw out later, landed. The new propeller motor, sack of cement and two mechanics were brought out by Assistant Chief Pilot Gordon F. Maxwell, Oakland. They were transferred by means of a rubber raft. Another who flew to the dis abled ship’s aid was Captain Frank Martin, PAA, of Pied mont. From The Side Lines Meantime, First Officer D. W. SauLberry, Oakland, had the damaged motor set up for the repair job. He had been coach ed from the side lines by First Engineer D. E. Weeks, Lafayette, who moaned out instructions be tween fits of seasickness Sauls berry also had to put in the new motor. There was plenty of food a board, but it was spurned. Besides Commander Peifer, the other naval officers and one Pan- American oficial, C, E. Young, assistant division traffic manag er, transferred to the destroyer. A gasoline bilge pump from the destroyer did the bailing job on the leaky plane the second night, so crew members could sleep. After all repairs were made the big plane took off for Hono lulu with greater ease than a pelican and, reported Captain Hamilton, “the “flight was un eventful.” Other crew members of the crippled ship were Second Offi cer-Navigator Wiley Umstead, Berkeley; Third Officer John D. Stouten, Oakland; Supernumer ary Navigator James Heimer, Piedmont; Second Engineer Wal ter H. Elkins, San Francisco; Supernumerary Engineer Roy E. Welch, Berkeley; Second Radio Office Ralph J. Lawn, San Fran ciso, and Flight Steward Ralph Flanigan, San Francisco. AUTO QUOTA ANNOUNCED RALEIGH, Aug. 5 —OPA today announced a 719 passenger auto mobile quota for August for the eastern half of the state. The section embrances 35 counties. $25 REWARD For any watch or clock that we faU to repair. GREEN’S “The Square Deal Jeweler" NOW IS THE TIME TO INSURE YOUR PACK BARM Why take the many chances with fire that you will have to take without fire insurance? Walker Insurance Agency J. S. Walker Dewey Young W. Irving O’Briant Bill Walker Correction Last Sunday’s Times carried an ad from Green’s Jewelry store calling attention to Shaeffer’s Voyager. The price carried in the ad was $1.50. This price was in correct. The price should have been SI.OO. The Voyager Set consists of V rnail stationery, V-mail ink, black, calendar, etc.; ready to mail to boys overseas. WITH MOTHER Matt Long, Jr., of the United States Army, a son of Mrs. O. Page Long, of Roxboro, who is being transferred to a Virginia station, is spending several days here with his mother. VISITS PARENTS Mrs. W. Murray Linker, Jr., of Raleigh, who has been spend ing several dayb here with her Pay Your Telephone Bill By The 10th WALNUT VENEER BEDROOM SUITES Beautiful Walnut Veneer Bed Room Suites. Large, heavy Poster Bed, Vanity Dresser and Chest of daw ers. We have others in different sty les, that add beauty to your home. Buy on Our Easy Payment Plan. ROXBORO FURNITURE CO. “Where Most Folks Buy” John (Billy) Clayton, Manager. PAGE THREE parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Marie Fox, wiU return to her home Sunday. Buy War Bonds and Stamps STANDARD OIL PRODUCTS Washing, Greasing and Polishing LANGSFORD ESSO SERVICE WORK CLOTHES SHIRTS, PANTS, GLOVES AND SOCKS LET US FIT YOU FOR WORKING WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE WE BUILD FOR Roxboro and Person County With All Work Guaranteed. No Job Too Large and None Too Small. GEORGE~W. KANE Roxboro, N. C.
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