FDR deufds . f H I hope Americans will figure out' for themselves addi- KSgjHg tional payroll sav- VOLUME XIV Sanders Fears For Tobacco Because of Black Shank Root Sanders Greatly Concerned Over lie-Appearance Os Tobacco Disease He And Farm Group Go To Other Counties To Study Methods Os Con trol. Report Os Their Findings Presented. Black Sbmk, a tobacco plant disease reseiWSing “sore skin” but mucn mor Person County Times PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Puts Hat In Ring >sw. - L. Y. State Senator Lynton Yates Ballentine, of Wake County, to day announced that he will seek office of Lieutenant Governor next year. He is the second candidate to so announce. Can Sell Bonds J. Bryan Boswell, postmaster at Woddsdale today announced that the Post Office there, by order of the Third Assistant Postmaster General, has been authorized to sell and is now acting as a selling agent for Uni ted States War Bonds and Stamps. Points Out That Some Stamps In New Book Will Be Use On And Af ter September 12th. Mrs. L. Sanders McWhorter, comunity service chairman of the Person OPA, Roxboro, today issued the following statement about Stamp values in War Ra tion Book 111, some of which be come effective and in me on and after Sunday, September 12: At 12:01-a. m. Sunday, Sep tember 12, 1943, the brown “point stamps” in War Ration Book 111 Will be used for ration ing meats, fats, oils, canned fish, cheese, canned milk, and all other commodities now rationed with the red stamps in War Ra tion Book 11. The order in which the stamps will become valid and their ex piration dates are shown below: Stamp A (all 16 points) valid September 12, expires October 2; B (all sixteen points) valid Sep tember 19, expires October 2; C (all 16 points) valid Septem ber 26, expires October 30; D (all 16 points) valid October 3, (turn to page eight, please) ROXBORO, N. C.% THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1943 Clubs To Hold • Joint Session Monday Night Kiwanis and Rotary, Roxboro civic clubs, on Monday night at six-thirty o’clock at Hotel Roxboro will hold a joint ses sion for purpose of discussing plans for participation in the Third War Loan drive which begins on Thursday, Septem ber 9. Hie joint meeting is being arranged by agreement of J. J. Woody and W. Wallace Woods, presidents of the respective clubs. NATIVE CHURCH PLACE OF BEAUTY SAYS CPL. BERRY Guadalcanal Structure With Palm Roof Over Altar Described By Rox boro Soldier. Somewhere in the Guadalcanal area is the “Chapel of the Wild wood”, with an altar edged with fern and roofed over with palm leaves, according to Corp. Willie A. Berry, of Roxboro, a member of the congregation {worshiping there. The Chapel, as Berry says, is a simple structure, built by the Chaplain and some of the soldiers, with the help of natives, but in its rude setting in the woods it is nevertheless truly a ‘Tfouse of God.” Cn Sundays, writes Berry, they have impressive services, with music furnished by a band and by a v quartet which sings Negro spirituals. Recently the chapel was dedicated and a spe cial communion was observed, followed "'by the chaplain’s ser mon and an appeal to come to the altar in conversion. Climax was a baptismal itual held in a river near the church. One of those who answered the call to a rededication of life and service was seated by Ber ry, who describes the experience as very moving. Berry, like many of his fellows, is more than ever convinced that the spirit of the place and not a building constitutes a church. Natives who helped build the “Chapel in the Wildwood,” inci dentally, were presented with a large Bible, gift of the Chaplain. Person Officials Look For Two Missing Citizens Officials of the Person Selec tive Service Board today report ed that they desire information on two men, Nelson Berry Far ror, of Fayetteville and Roxboro, and Robert Mason, Roxboro. Farror, a white man, whose name was transferred to the Board at Fayetteville, has failed to report for induction. His last known address was. General De livery, Fayetteville. Mason, a Negro listed as an employee of McWhorter Lumber company, with a Roxboro address, ordered to appear for examination has failed to do so. Armstrong Has Honor Here By Harris Relatives Charles Armstrong, Jr., of Sal isbury, who recently returned from an extended period of ser vice in the Pacific area, was hon ored here Tuesday-night with a buffet garden supper at the home of his grandfather, W. H. Harris, Sr. Present for the occasion were many of the members of the Har ris • family, in addition to the guest of honor and his parents. Dolian Long At Fort Bragg, Will Miss Reunion Dolian Long, popular Roxboro clothier, accepted several weeks ago for military service, left to day for Fort Bragg, where he will be assigned to duty. For the first .time in many years he iwill miss the annual Brooks and Long family jeunion which Arill be Sunday at the Kenneth Long home, near Roxboro. Reported Better IBfr '-■W %/. <■ ™ WILLIAM E. Pfc, W. E. Johnson Slightly Wounded In Pacific Action Pfc. William Earl Johnson, a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. John son, Ivey street, Roxboro, has been “slightly iwounded in action" in the Southwest Pacific, accord ing to a message received Tues day by his parents. Particulars, were not given in the War de partment message, but the John sons today received a letter from their son saying that he is in camp and is doing well. He was wounded on July 30. Johnson, who entered the Army under selective service two years ago last July, until re cently was stationed in Fiji Is lands, in the. South Pacific, His wife is the former Miss Annie Brooks Bailey, of Woodsdale, to whom he was married two ears ago this month. The Johnsons have another son Pvt. Raymond Johnson, in the service, now at Camp. I iow :e Texas. . FROM VACATION Miss Nina Abbitt has returned from a vacation spent at Bat’s Cove in the Western part of the State. Three Negroes Face Felony Charges At Next Court Term Police Obtain Confessions That Cross t Up Bumpass And Wright In Theft Case MATERNITY CLINIC WORK TO EXPAND SAYS RICHARDSON Addition Os Third Nurse Will Make Enlargement Possible. % Expansion of the materity clinic service sponsored here by the Children’s Bureau founda tion in cooperation with the tri county health department is ex pected to take place soon, accord ing to Dr. W. P. Richardson, of Chapel Hill, tri-unit head, who today said that addition of a third nurse to serve the clinic will mean that the clinic service will be available to all of Per son County. Date for arrival of the new assistant has .however, not been announced. At the present time ouly specified areas in Person are served by the maternity staff in the field, although clinic cusonltations are available to all citizens who call at the Health Department office, Roxboro. TO MONMOUTH Robert Masten, of the United States Army, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilmer Masten, of Roxboro, who has been stationed in Flori da, is spending a few days here with his parents before going to Fort Monmouth, N. J. FROM NEWPORT NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Coy Day and daughter and John Day, all of Newport News, Va.. are spend ing several days with members pt their family here. " Posthumous Silver Star Award Made To Pfc. Fisher JACK HUGHES, JR., SAYS COLLEGE NO SNAP, UNDER WAR Boys Work Hard In Mili tary Atmosphere At Davidson. Presbyterian Institution. J. H. (Jack) Hughes, Jr., a son of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Hugh es, of Roxboro, who has been a Summer-School freshman at Davidson College near Charlotte, and is now at home for a brief ten days vacation before starting I in the Fall grind of his first reg | ular college session, can tell plenty about the working hard ships of the new life of going to college in war-times. A pre-dental student. Jack thinks he will be lucky if he i gets two full years of college bc | fore the Army gets him. On the . campus, as ij i-, lie and the few j civilian students there are all | but surrounded by the Army, {Several of the fraternities h.ow iever, are managing to keep go -1 ing, and Jack who is pledged Phi Kappa Phi, says they keep I up a semblance of social life dur ing brief respites Lom really grinding class-work. Jack has an attractive room mate from Jamaica, the West In dies, and all that, but as a 1943 graduate of Roxboro. high school j what he would really like to im j press on friends who are still {there is the fact that they had j better learn wliat they can while 1 they are there because going to i college, what with long hours at ! trig and chemistry and R. O. T. 1 C . is .to country club career., i , DAUGHTER BORN ! Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Powell, of | Roxboro, are announcing the birth of a daughter, Nannie Pearl on Friday, August 27. Weight eight and one-half pounds. Arrest Came Quickly For Trio Accused Os Felony Here Saturday Night. Three Roxboro Negroes, two men and a woman, charged with robbery from the person, a felony, and now being held in Person jail in default of bonds of S3OO cash, will face trial in Person Recorders’ Court on Sep tember 14, as the result of theft of a pistol from Euliss- Strange, 50, night watchman for Roxboro Cotton Mills. The Negroes, ail said to have previous criminal records are Crawford Bumpass, 35, his wife, Rosetta Bumpas?, 25, and George (Gyp) Wright 30, who allegedly accosted Strange Saturday night about ten o’clock as he was mak ing his rounds at the Roxboro plant of the Mills near the Nor folk and Western depot. Chief of Police George C. Rob inson, of Roxboro, who with members of the department, ap prehended the Negroes, said to day that he has secured signed confessions from the three, al though Bumpass and his wife ac cuse Wright of taking the weapon from Strange and Wright, in turn, accuses Crawford Bump ass of being the one who actu ally committed the robbery. With Deputy Bob Whitt as sisting, Rosetta Bumpass and George Wright were taken into custody about twenty minutes after the robbery, when they were discovered walking on the highway near McWhorter’s Lum ber plant near the City. Craw ford Bumpass, with them at the time, ran, but was later taken about three o’clock Sunday morning in the lumber yard, where the pistol was also found. Strange, a farmer, as night watchman for about five months, is reported to have said (turn to page eight, please) Gallant Action Praised By Captain And Commanding General Os Youth Silver Star r ;M|l Hk - . iJmm SffiiL . » ‘ aHH jßfiߧBߧBngsßpßooßjfcf'. 11 B Sam C. Fishrr, Jr. Second posthumous honor ! come- to the late Pic. Sian C. Fisher, Jr., to r,\hom the 5.1... | Star is to be awarded, according Ito a dispatch from Army rieau ! quarters in the Guadalcanal area. 0. Y. CLAYTON, JR., GETS CERTIFICATE OF VISITATION Has Proof Thai Ke Has Been To Holy S -nik hre Os Our Lord. O. Y. Clayton Jr., of t:.' Unit ed States Array now in ■■Egypt. a Roxboro young man, Whose vis its tof places in the Holy Land several months ago furni hed, an {interesting feature story lor Tar I Heel newspapers, this week sent to his parents. Mr. and Mrs. proof of his visit to the Holy O. Y. Clayton. Sr., the visible Sepulchre: it is a signed “Cer tificate of Pilgrimage”, in Er.g --| lish, with the signature of the | Very Rcverand Archimandrite ! Kyriakos, guardian and superior I of the Church cf the Holy Sep ‘ ulchre. The document is in English, • testifying that Clayton has “made ! therein his pious devotions on ( this, the eight day of July, {1943, and ends . with a prayer for the srfatv and wellbeing ot the pilgrim that he may be protec ted from all evil and danger, but the S( a! of the Archmnndrite is in Greek, as is the. lettering on the coat cf arms used as a let ter-head. GOES TO DUNN Miss Naomi Daniel, daughter of the C .G. Daniels’, Roxboro. has gone to Dunn to accept a position there as a hospital lab oratory technician. School Opens With W orthy Attendance New Large Flag Floats To Breeze On Person Lawn Now flying from the flagpole on the Person County Court House lawn is the new ten by fifteen foot American flag re cently ordered by County Com missioners. Larger than any ban ner hitherto flown from the County standard, the flag has hand-sewed stripes and stars and is said to be of a size suited to the height of the pole. The flag (was first raised Mon day in informal exercises by W. L. King, Court House custodian and jailor. W. Wallace Woods, secretary of Roxboro Chamber of Commerce, togethe wirth mem bers of the City of Roxboro po lice department, Court House of ficials and others, watched the ceremony. Phone 4501 If you have any news items or for advertising or com mercial printing service. NUMBER 93 Memorial Day Exercises Held In Cemetery Where Fisher Is Buried On Guadalcanal. Posthumous awarding of the Silver Star for “gallantry in ac tion” to Pfc. Sam C. Fisher, Jr., 21, of Nathalie, Va., and Rox boro, killed in action on Guadal canal on January 13, was an nounced today by the War De partment in a communique sent to the Person County Times from U. S. Army Headquarters in the South Pacific. The award, made by direction of the President, carries a cita tion signed by Lieut. Gen. Mil lard F. Harmon, commanding U. S. Army forces in the* South Pacific area. Fisher, in the Army about three years arid a Pearl Harbor veteran, was the son of Sam C. Fisher, of Roxboro, and { of the late Mrs. Myrtle Guthria j Fisher, of Nathalie, where he :lived for a number of years with i his aunt. Miss Sajlie Fisher. ; The Fisher.', when informed ,by the Times of the receipt of the Silver Star citation, said that they had recently received from. | Pvt. Willie Berry, of Roxboro, '■who is also in Guadalcanal, a description of the grave of their Is - -: in the American cemetery ! there, where Memorial Day ex ercises were held on April 20. | Berry, who pictures the ceme tery as a beautiful, well-kept | spot, sent the description to Mrs. j A, R. Davis, who in turn showed j the letter to the Fishers, the {father, stepmother and half ! brothers, and sisters who live ■ here. Harmon's citation reads as fol ; low;: j To Sam C. Fisher, Jr., Private (First Class,. Infantry, United States Army for grjlantry in ac tion at Guadalcanal, the Silver | Star (posthomous). During tho | attack on an important hill Pri i vale Fisher’s 1 machine gun posi j lions were subjected on two sep arate occasions to concentrated enemy fire necessitating dis | placement to new positions. In j the final position, while firing in j support of an advancing rifle I company, he was killeU by ene my fire. During the entire ac ! lion, up to the time of his death, j Private Fisher remained con jstantly with his gun, effectively placed his fire on enemy posi tions. and contributed immeasu ably to the success of his com pany's assault.” Ft rther comment on the spirit With which Fisher fought is con tained in a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, under date of June 19, from Capt. Kenneth C. Robert son, under whom he served. Robertson writes: “I want you to know that dur nig combat he fought with a de termination and bravery seldom equaled on any battlefield. His (turn to page eight, please) FROM NORFOLK Miss Billie Vogler has return ed from a visit in Norfolk, Va. Harris Introduces New- , bold At Final Series Os ’ County - Wide Teacher Sessions. ; f Person Superintendent of I Schools, R. B. Griffin, today re ported that opening of schools yesterday, which sent some seven thousand Person and Rox boro youngsters back to work, went off without a hitch. Many schools had special opening ex ercises for the first session of a school year operating under an atoreviatdd nine month plan. Pinal large gatherings for . teachers were held Tuesday, with Dr. N. C. Newbold, of Raleigh,, as chief speaker at separate ses sions for white and Negro teach* ers. Introduction of Newbold was by Lieut. Gov. R. I* Harris. Invocation was by the Rev.-J. B. Currin, Baptist minister. V v /, Other speakers included Mrs. Logan Umstead, who disctUwH work of the Junior Red Craas, Dr. W. P. Richardson. Why? (Turn to page four please) i