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FDRda^d: i.» I hope Americana .will figure out for themselves addi tional payroll sav- Lie ■ill ■' 1 - VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAY AND THURSDAY Person War Loan " Drive Starts Today Kiwanis And Rotary Clubs Met In Joint Session Monday * J r COUNTY FAIR TO START IN ROXBORO MONDAY EVENING Kaus Exposition Shows To Be on Midway; Plenty Rides And Shows For AIL Person County’s Fair under the supervision of R. L. Bob Per kins starts Monday morning. Sept. 13th and continues through out the entire week. The fair will be held at the same place as in past years, at the fair ground on the Longhurst road. Mr. Perkins feels that he has been fortunate in scouring the services of the Kaus Exposition for the midway. These shows will feature a large variety of ' entertainment in the way of shows, rides and booths, stated Mr. Perkins. Tuesday evening of Fair Week until five o’clock twill be known es School Children's Day and all school children under the age of twelve will be admitted free of charge. Wednesday will be Colored School Children's Day and the same rule will prevail on this day for colored children as for white the day before. In spite of the war and the many difficulties that go with it, the fair management is confi dent that there will be plenty * of fun for everyone at this year’s edition of the fair. ENTIRE TRAINLOAD ITALIAN PRISONERS AT CAMP BUTNER Will Be Available For Emuloyment Under Sup ervision Os War Depart ment And Manpower Commission. CAMP BUTNER, Sept. 8. Exactly at 12:30 p. m. yesterday a prisoner of war train pulled into the Camp Butner siding with a trainload of captured Italian troops, who have recent ly been transported from the battlefields of the Mediterranean area. As the prisoners filed out of the coaches, Camp Butner armed guards lined them up in sections of three columns each, to await removal to the inter ment area. Their uniforms were of varied hues, denoting different branches of service in the Italian army. A few of the men wore American fatigue suits given them by Yan kee soldiers. Cigarettes of Amer ican make soon made their ap pearance. On their hacks they carried ncn-descript packs of all kinds — field packs musette bags, and just wrapped bundles with arti cles of clothing protuding from them. They stared ■ with quizzical expressions at the American soldiers, they marched up 8 street in long columns on their way to the interment camp, flanked by the Military Police of this garrison afoot and in jeeps. Once they have been safely placed in the compound, they will be processed and assigned to certain duties involving their own administration. After pro cessing, which is expected to take a few days, is completed, the men will be made available for employment under the super vision of the War Department and the War Manpower Cimmis sion. Colonel Huntley, post com mander, pointed out that all the rules of the Geneva Conference will be carried out to the letter and that the interned men will be treated as honorable prisoners of war. “That does not mean we will pamper them,” said the Colonel, but they will be given firm, but just humane treatment”. MUCH BETTER Miss Sue Bradsher, who has undergone an operation in a Winston Salem Hospital, is re ported to be much better. Miss Bradsher has been ill for the past several weeks. Person County Times Lt. Governor R. L. Har ris Chief Speaker; Urges All To Buy As Many Bonds As Is Possible. Meeting in joint session at Ho tel Roxboro Monday night the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs of this city launched the Third War Bond Drive for Person County. The meeting was opened with the singing of America, followed with the pledge to the flag led by Kiwanian Jack Strum. Invo cation was by Rev. W. F. West, a member of the Rotary Club. Present at the meeting were 63 Rotarians, Kiwanians and guests. The drive in this county ac tually starts today. Person Coun ty’s quota for this drive is $567,- 000. R. B. Griffin, Co: Chairman with Lieut. Governor R. L. Har ris, stated that to reach every person in Person County and to forcefully sha.v them the im portance of buying Bonds, a cer tain amount of advertising would he necessary. The cost of this advertisement, as outlined by the committee, would amount to a bout $250.00, and those present at this meeting were given on opportunity to contribute to this fund by signing pledges for the amounts they wished to contri bute, arid agreeing to use their names as sponsores of this all important campaign. 116 letters were reported sent out to other interested citizens by Publicity Chairman, W. Wallace Wiods, who reported that quite a num ber of pledges from this source had already been received, and each mail brought in additional contributions. Mr. Harris outlined in a very forceful ma'nner, the necessity of raising such a huge fund at this time. He reported that with the Invasion of the European conti nent w r e may well erpect the casuality list (will grow longer each day. To support the men of our forces and our Allies we here at home can play an im portant part in the winning of this war and the Peace that is to follow by denying ourselves ;rme of the luxuries and even necessities of life, in order that sufficient funds may bC provid ed to carry on this global war. It was pointed out that in buy ing Bonds, our citizens were riot making a donation but were making a safe investment that (turn to page eight, please) Red Cross To Collect For Army Camp All Materials Gathered Will Be For Soldiers In Piedmont Area Hosiery Campaign Will Cease To Exist After September W. W. Woods, County Salvage Chairman, received from James B. Volger, Executive Secretary of the North Carolina State Sal vage Committee, a notice that af ter the month of September the campaign for the collection of old silk and nylon hosiery would be discontinued. Anyone who has any old silk and nylon stockings to turn in will please leave them at the fol lowing stores on or before Sep tember 30th: Leggetts Depart ment Store, Peebles Department Store, Raiff’s, Roses 5 and 10 cent Store, Bruce’s 5 and 10 cent Store and Young’s Mercantile. A report from* Mr. Paul Cabot, Director of the Salvage Division of Washington, D. C., states: “The appeal has brought one of the greatest public responses thus far given to any Govern ment-sponsored campaign of vol unteer contributions to aid 1 war production. A total of over 46,- 000,000 pairs of stockings, (weigh ing more than 2,300,000 pounds, has already been collected, and September collections are expec ted to swell the amount sub stantially.” HOME CAMPAIGN STARTS IN PERSON SEPTEMBER 13 TH Will be in charge of Mis ses Reba Short and Irene Jones. Campaign To Con tinue Full Week. Person County’s “Home Front Campaign” starts Monday, Sept. 13th and continues all the week according to reports that have been received here. The cam paign will be in charge of Miss Reba Short and Miss Irene Jones of this city. People over the county will be asked to sign pledges stating that they (will pay no more than Top legal prices and that they will accept no rationed goods without giving up ration stamps. Purpose of the campaign is to impress upon each housewife and each merchant their indivi dual responsibility in helping to hold down the cost of living and to throw their support behind the vital wartime (work of their price panel. It is understood that there will be a house to house canvass and every effort will be made to get all consumers to sign the pledge. Although there has keen very little publicity concerning anyone charging more than top legal prices in this county, it is deem ed wise to impress upon all peo ple the importance of never paying more than the correct price and upon all sellers of charging only what the OPA states that they may charge. Citizens arc requested to re port at once any violation of the ceiling puce. Carriers To Take Applications For Third War Bonds Aranserrients have been mad; by which carriers on Rural Routes arc authorized to take ap plications from patrons for War Savings Bonds and the purchaser pay for the bonds at time of making application. Payments n:ay be made in cash or War Savings stamps or by check. The carrier will receipt for the pur chase price on Fortn 6387 which ir an official receipt. The appli cation can then be turned in- the Post Office and the bond issued ard sent to the purchaser or de livered as directed by the pur chaser says L. M. Carlton, Post master. All Civic Or Service Clubs Are Asked To Name Representative To Council To Help Collect Needed Things. Mrs. T. Miller White, chairman of the Hospital and Camp Coun cil of the Red Cross for this area announces that the Red Cross is now in need of a number of sup plementary supplies for the army camps of the Piedmont area. These supplies are to be used in hospitals, day rooms re creation rooms, officers and en listed mens clubs, etc. The government is asking the Red Cross to come to their aid because the government cannot meet the demands as fast as they are now coming in. Mrs. White has asked every civic or service club in this coun ty to appoint a representative to this council to work with the Red Cross on the gathering of the items that are needed. If any club has not been contacted they are asked to see or call Mrs. White and appoint a representa tive. Belotw is a list of the things that are badly and urgently needed: Scraps of plywood, paint for woodwork and pipes, doors, etc., in building and offices. Estimate for entire building are ping pong tables, basket ball (outdoor), basketball bas kets, basketball nets, softball bases, home plates, badminton ROXBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1943 FORTY AND EIGHT MET AND BOUGHT WAR LOAN BONDS Served Barbecue Supper At Home Os Fletcher Carver; Camp Butner Officers Present. * The Person County Chapter of the 40 and 8 met Tuesday after noon at the home of Fletcher Carver in the Olive Hill section Os , the county where they were served a barbecue chicken sup per. Immediately after the supper R. L. Perkins offered a free tic ket to the fair to everyone pre sent who would buy a SIOO War Bond. When the boys had finish ed subscribing they had bought $3,100 worth of War Bonds in lue 3rd Loan. J. N. Dillard. Chef de Gare, presided over the meeting. Distinguished visitors at the meeting from Camp Butner were Col. M. E. Glmstead, commander Os 311 Infantry, Lt. Col. Tabor, Mayor Guthrie. Capt. Moore and Lt. Blair. Col. Olmstead was a member of the Army of Occupation in Germany in 1918. FINAL RITES HELD FOR IRA GLENN ATOAKGROYE Had Been In 111 Health Past Several Years, Hos pitalized One Month. Ira T. Glenn, 73. of Roseville, Person County, died at 9 o'clock Tuesday night at Community Hospital, following a long ill ness lasting several years. He had been in the Roxboro hospi- I tul one month. Fun; ral sei vices were held | Wednesday aft-' moon at 5 o'clock at the Oak Grove Methodist church, conducted by the Rev. M. D. Fleming. Burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving are two sons, T .K. Glenn of Roxboro, Stephen Glenn of the Army, overseas; one daughter. Mrs. Carol Wil liams of the home; tivo sisters, Mrs. Jule Daniel, Miss Minnie Glenn, both of Person County. Active pallbearers were B. B. Bullock, V. O. Blalock. Alex Wrcnn, Hasscl Long,. R. H. Gates and Tuttle Williams. Honorary pallbearers were R. D. Bumpass. Lex Bltilock. S. G. Stevens, John Blalock, M. T. Clayton, J. B. Riggsbee. £>. S. Brooks, Ralph Long, Robert ; Long, Georg Harri-, R. E. I Crumpton. Joe Burch, James j Burch. G. M. Crowder, Charlie | Williams. A. M. Burns, J. B. | Dunn, J. E. Latta. Henry O'- I Briant, Marvin Burch, Arch j Wrenn, Weldon Wrerin, Wyatt J Monk and J. W. Taylor. JONES BACK HOME W. R. Jones, (warehouseman of this city, has returned to Rox boro after spending about three weeks at Duke Hospital under going treatment. He is much better and will soon be out greeting his friends. Private Foushee in Bomber School, Seventeen Weeks Keesler Field, Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 9 F*vt. Merriman Na t.Oaniel Foushee, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Foushee, Route 1, Roxboro, was promoted to - the grade of private first class this week and enrolled in Keesler’s huge B-24 Liberator bomber mechanics school. Private Foushee’s promotion and his selection for technical training were results of qualify ing for a technical school through high marks received in the Aimy mechanical aptitude tests. His course, directed by the Army Air Forces Training Command, will last approximately 17 weeks and will include training in all phases of “first echelon” main tenance for B-24 Liberators. The last phase of the course will place him in the open under simulated battle conditions where he will get his first taste of the job before him. Upon graduating he will be ready for active duty, maintaining the sting in the Liberators by keeping them in good condition, or will be sent to a factory or gunnery school. Stabilization Plan To Be Strictly Enforced In County Negro Arrested For Forcing Store Entrance Monday Charlie Curry, Negro, was ar rested Monday morning on a charge of breaking and entering. He is now in the county jail without privilege of bond. Curry, it is alleged, on Sun day night forced his way into the Western Auto Store located or. Court Street, through the r ear door and stole a number of shirts and razor blades, valued at about $20.00 He, the charge stated, also entered the rear door of Long, Bradsher Hardware. Seveal items such as 22 rifles and tools were missing there. Evidence also pointed to the fact that Curry tried to enter the “of Will Moore and Hobgood’s ! Fruit Store but failed, j Curry was arrested by officers ; early Monday morning as they j were investigating the scene of | the crime. Curry was only re j cently released from prison, i j Mr. and Mrs, Roy Chandler of j Washington, D. C., were Roxboro i visitors last Friday and Satur- Local Market Ready For Opening On 20 Ail Four Houses Will Be Operated L nder Practically Same Management As Last Year; Prices Exoected To Be Good. INCREASE NOTED jIN WEED PRICES Rise On Eastern Carolina Markets Is From One To Two Cents On Some Grades. ; Slight change; in average ! prices for leaf sold on the New Bright Tobacco B.Tt were r-o --! ported by the War Food Admin -1 istration arid the State Dcpart , ment of Agriculture. Increases were from one to !.two cents per pound, and no do- I crease was more than one cent. General quality of the tobacco | was slightly better, with an in creased percentage in the a | mount of damaged tobacco pre | sent and a number of lots in | doubtful keeping order. | Bulk of the sales consisted of common to fair quality leaf, fair jto fine lugs and nondescript j grades. Gross sales Monday were G 508,436 pounds at an average of 35.08 cents per pound, bring ing the season’s sales to 72,370,- 307 pounds at an average of 36.79 cents. Average prices today on a limited number of grades: Leaf Fair lemon .44, low lemon .43, good orange .44 (down .01), low orange .42, common orange .39, low red .40 up .01), common red .32 (down .01, -common green .27 (down .01). •Lugs—Fine lemon 45. (up .01), good lemon .44 (up .01) good orange .43, fair orange .41 (down .01), low orange .39 (up .01). Primings Fair lemon .42 (down .01), low orange .37 (up .02). Nondescript Best thin .26 (up .02), best crude .18 (up .01). — NO PAPER SUNDAY Due to the fact that the en tire force of the Times will be engaged in the printing of the annual tobacco edition this week-end, there will be no Sunday edition of this paper. The Tobacco Edition is ex pected to come from the press Thursday, Sept. 16th and will be larger than the regular Thursday edition. Jim Winstead left Monday for Mars Hill college where he will be in school this year. War Manpower Commission Issues Statement For Durham Area Lt. Glenn Stovall In Roxboro After Completing Course Lt. (jg) Glenn Stovall of the United States Navy, is spending several days in Roxboro after completing a course of study at Babson Park, Wellsley, Mass. Lt. Stovall has been in service about five weeks. Prior to the time that he was commissioned in the navy he was manager of Tar Heel Chevrolet Company of this city. Ater spending several days here he will report: to Boston, Mass., where he will be on tem porary assignment. MRS. WIRTZ IN' ROXBORO Mrs. George Wirtz and son have arrived in Roxboro from San Francisco. . Mrs, Wirtz was .accompanied home by Mrs. Ben Brown and her daughter. Mrs. Brown is expected to join her husband. Lt. Brawn in Texas, in a short time. • With four Roxboro Ware houses awaiting the sound of th-• gong everything is in readiness lor the opening of the tobacco market on Sept. 20th. Prospects for a successful season cf the lo cal market appear to b? good and although farmers say that their crap suffered -omewhat on ac count of dry weather it is thought tnat.it all will sell very good. Again all major companies will hjive representatives here. There v\ ill be a g'cod market for all types of tobacco. Houses have riot announced ■their forces yet but it is thought that in most Ca cs th same men as last year will be found work ing at the same places. . The. sou: houses that are to operate hero are The Printers, the Hyco, th: Pioneer and the Winstead. All arc ready for the sale of the weed with repairs having been made to the house; in a number of instances. For the past several years sales on this market have been increasing and it is thought that more tobacco will be sold here this year than has been sold here for a number of years. With a ceiling price on, tobacco is ex pected to average about the same on one market as on the other. FREDRICK ADVANCES Ransom Fredrick, former citi zen of Roxboro. now with Uncle Sam's flying forces at Garden City, Kansas, has been transfer red from the primary flying school to basis flying school. He has recently been transferred from Texas to Kansas. liate neuis Bulletins YARBORO CAN’T KILL YET Victor Yarboro, Person Slaughterer, who has %een promi- ’ nent is killing cattle here and selling them, stated today that j he had been to Hillsboro to kill his cattle and had been refused v permission to kill at the abattoir and also that those in charge { refused to kill or let anyone kill for him. Reason given was that t he had no Federal License. { Yarboro stated that he did not know that he had to have f a license from the Federal government and that he had not f been able to find out where to get one. He said that he ha& f been using the- wires today in an effort to locate the office that i would issue a license but so far had failed to find out anything / definite. ; .' I « " He has a large number of cattle on hand and does not f know iwhat to do but intends to keep trying to get the Federal f license. * ■ ■ wii i • £■. - v £ 'wnlw Phone 4501 If you have any news items or for advertising or com mercial printing service. NUMBER 95 Section 11-C of the Stabilizat ion Plan will be strictly enforc ed in the Durham Area begin ning Monday, September 6,1943 k according to an announcement made by P. B. Pollock, Area Director of War Manpower Commission, who is in Durham on official business today. This section of the Plan states* that “if the employer fails to is sue a Statement of Availability, Employment Service of the Wa» a worker may request the U. S. Manpower Commission to issue such a statement to him. Until such time as the Statement of Availibility is issued to the worker by the U. S. Employ ment Service of the War Man power Commission, the workers shall remain on his job”. If the worker is discharged o* ! has a realease from his employ j er. he may come to the Employ ment Office to request a State ment of Availability, entitilinsl him to seek essential employment. ! Hinveyer, if the worker voluntar | ily leaves his job, the Employ jment Service will refuse to | take a request for a Statement of Availability until the workex returns to his job. If the employer refuses to re employ the worker and the Em ployment Service has definitely c \;';i’:.T.; d that fact, the em ployer will be asked to give the worker a release, the worker j may file n request for a state ment of Availability with the j Employment. Service. Workers leaving “other than | essential” Industries in the Due. j ham Area or in commuting dis tance from the Durham Area may be employed by having the* I Certificate of Most Recent Em ployment .signed by the worker. Workers leaving essential jobtf ;n the Durham Area or in com muting distance from the Dur j ham Area may be employed with eith.r the employer’s re release or a Statement of Availa bility from the Employment Ser vice. Workers coming from othen areas are requested to obtain 3 I Statement of Availability from the Employment Service befora being employed by any employer. No employer shall hire or soli cit any worker last employed ir» a critical occupation or for worl4 in a critical occupation except upon referral by the U. S. Em j pldyment Service of the Waij Manpower Commission. This ap-. plies to workers in critical oo eupatons. both in the Durhanf area; or workers coming front other areas. Some of the critical occupat ions found in the Durham Area j ai\ : ; Electrical Tester, Power Equip trner.t. Electrician, Installation ani% Maintenance; Ail Around. (turn to page eight, please) j Pvt. Whitlock Is Killed In Action Mrs. John Whitlock of Burl ington. N. C. has received word that her son Private Sherwopd Whitlock, was killed in action Mrs. Whitlock was visiting her on the 7th day of August in Sici ly. son F. A. “Red” Whitlock of Ca- Vel Village when she received the telegram. Private Whitlock was 28 years of age and was em ployed at a textile plant in Bur lington (when he was inducted ' into service eight months ago.