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VOLUME XIV
Army Officers Add
Emphasis To Tone
Os Service Appeal
Ms. T. Miller White Speaks For
iDr. Fitzgerald On Gamp Needs
Hospital Camp Council
Work Is Theme. Lieut.
Westbrook, Cpl. Waddell
And Others Guests At
Rotary Club.
Six Camp Butner officers, two
officers of the WAC recruiting
office, Durham, and a returned
Roxboro veteran of World War
11, all guests Thursday at Rox
boro Rotary Club, gave a mili
tary background for a Camp and
Hospital program sponsored by
Dr. John Fitzgerald, who had
Mrs. T. Miller White, of this
City, chairman of the Hospital
and Camp Council committee, as
guest speaker.
Mrs. White, who with others,
recently visited BCT 10 hospital,
Greensboro, and also inspected
the Camp there, described brief
ly but vividly needs for-games,
magazines and recreation equip
ment, not only in for soldiers in
Greensboro, but for those at But
ner, Fort Bragg and other camps
in the Committee’s area.
Briefly recognized were the
soldier guests, including Lieut.
Mildred Westbrook, Cpl. Edna
Waddell, both of Durham, and
Sgt. Farris Humphries, of Rox
boro, who we're introduced by
their host. Thomas J. Shaw, Jr.
With Gordon C. Hunter, as his
guests were Lieutenants Jarrell,
Lewardoiwski. Comes, Dickson,
Vebbing and Curruth, all of
Camp Butner and members of
Company B, 311 the Infantry, who
came here with other officers
and men to assist with the stag
ing of the Person and Roxboro
Sacrifice Day and War Bond auc
tion.
Lieut. Jarrell spoke briefly,
desrcibing activities of the sol
diers and expressed appreciation
for courtesies extended to them
while here. Boost to the work
being done by Mrs. White’s com
mittee was furnished in a brief
talk at the end by Humphries,
who, incidently was a close
friend of Lieut. Westbrook’s son,
Robert, first North Carolina sol
dier to be killed in action at
Pearl Harbor, where he and
Humphries were stationed.
Club action on the Committee
requests will be considered at
the next meeting. The meeting
w'as at Hotel Rloxbdno, wfth
President Walltce IJJoods presid
ing.
Along The Way
With the Editor—
You never can tell when something is going to get you in
trouble. The other day Cliff Hall’s daughter went to him and
asked him to give hex enough money to buy a two hundred
dollar war bond. Believe it or not, Cliff had the money and
hejwept to his drawer and without thinking he gave his daugh
ter two hundred dollars instead of one hundred and fifty to
’ buy the two hundred dollar bond, ewever he did make a men
tal note of the correct amount that he was to have given,
namely one hundred and fifty. Well, the young lady wer.t to
the theatre and bought the bond and she surrendered the two
hundred dollars for the bond. The lady at the theatre never
’ thought about getting two hundred dollars and so the entire
sum was turned in to Mr. Kirby, theatre owner, and that night
he checked over to the tune of fifty dollars. Nqw, Kirby was
worried but not half as much as Hall who had discovered that
he was short to the tune of a month’s grocery bill. Finally Hall
thought that he knew where the money might be and he lost
no time getting up to see Mr. Kirby. When he was told that
the money was there he breathed a sight of relief and I guess
that he slept better that night. Anyway he wiped the sweat
from his brow and went calmly back to his store.
hate lleius Bulletins
WAR LOAN OVER TEN PERCENT MARGIN
. i
District Chairman Gordon C. Hunter places Person’s con
tributions to the Third War Loan at $645,000, while on Friday
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night Lieut. Gov. R. L. Harris said that the figure at that time,
$836,000, was a ten percent increase over the original quota
of $587,000. Many buyers have pleased officials by a generous
post-rally response, and the end Is not yet in sight, it being
entirely possible that second goal of a twenty-petreentj over
subscription will be reached.
Person County Times
PUBLISHED EVERT SUNDAT AND THURSDAY
PLANNING BOARD
NAMED IN STATE;
MEET ON OCT. 8
George W. Kane, Os Rox
boro, Will Represent
Highway Division On Si-
Man Board.
RALEIGH, Oct. 2. Governor
Broughton appointed a nine
member State Planning Board,
naming George M. Ivey of Char
lotte as chairman.
Other members are: From the
public at large—D. Hiden Rafn
sey of Asheville, W. F. Carr of
Durham, Robert N. Hanes of
Winston - Salem; from State
agencies or institutions Capus
Waynick of High Point, chair
man of the advisory committee
of the Unemployment Compen
sation Commission; R. Bruce
Etheridge of Manteo, conserva
tion and development depart
ment director; George W. Kane
of Roxboro, State Highway and
Public Works Commission; Har
ry Caldwell of Greensboro, State
Farm Labor Commissioner; Dr.
Howard Odom of Chapel Hill,
University of North Carolina.
The!first meeting of the board
will lie held in the Governir’s
office Oct. 8 at 11 A. M.
The board was appointed un
der act of the 1943 Legislature.
Its members serve .without pay,
bdt are allowed necessary ex
penses. Its duties are to make
studies of any matters relating
to the general development of
the State or regions within the
State, with the general purpose
of accomplishing a coordinated,
adjusted and efficient develop
ment of the State.
The Governor said that he will
ask the Board to give particular
stu’dy to post war plans, as af
fecting the ’State, and to cooper
ate in this respect with the var
ious municipal planning boards
that already have bees appoint
ed in many Nirth Carolina cities.
The appointments are for no
fixed terms, but are at the dis
cretion of the Givernor. He is to
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ROXBORO, N. C. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1943
Value Increased
Half Gallon For
“A” Gas Coupon
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. The
Office of Price Administration on
Friday raised the gasoline ration
of “A” card holders on the At
lantic seaboard from 1 1-2 to 2
gallons a week and simultaneous
ly cut the value of “B” and “C”
coupons to 2 gallons everywhere
east of the Rockies.
The cut in B and C rations
was from 3 gallons in thg Mid
west. Southwest and Southeast.
Jt was from’ 2 1-2 gallons in the
Northeast. ,
“A” rations were left at 3 gal
lons in the Midwest and South
west.
The changes were effective at
midnight Friday.
SHELTON, KANE, TO
HEAD COMMITTEE
FOR ARMY SHOW
Irving Berlin’s “This Is
. The Army” Premiere
Opening Will Be Held
Next Sunday, October
10th: Technicolor Film
Os Hit Stage Show Com
ing To Palace.
Motion picture version of the
all-soldier musical, Irving Ber
lin’s “This Is The Army,” pro
duced by Warner Bros, for Army
Emergency Relief, will have its
premier at the Palace Theatre
Sunday, October 10th, at 9 o’-
clock with R. H. Shelton and
George W. Kane as chairmen of
premier ticket sales.
Kane, who has a son, Bill
Kane, in overseas service with
the Seabees, and Shelton, a vet
eran of World War I and a past
Commander of Roxboro’s Lester
Blackwell Post of the American
legion, are making elaborate
preparations for a Roxboro turn
out next Sunday night. “This Is
the Army”, is a benefit for the
Army Emergency Relief fund
and all profits go to the fund.
The film, recently completed
in Hollywood, was produced by-
Jack Warner and Hal B. Wallis,
with Michael Curtiz directing.
The entire company of 350 sol
diers, who appeared in the musi
cal on Broadway and during its
cross-country tour, appears here
with the soldiers in their origin
al roles in the picture, which in
cludes the entire stage produc
tion of “This Is The Army” as
well as additional material from
Irving Berlin’s World War I sol
dier show, “Yip, Yip Yaphank.”
Irving Berlin makes his pic
ture debut in “This Is the Army,”
singing his famed lament, “Oh,
How I Hate to Get Up in the
Morning,” as he did in the stage
version.
Also included in the cast, for
purposes of story content are
George Murphy, Joan Leslie,
Lieutenant Ronald Reagan. Alan
Hale, George Tobias, Charles
Butterworth, Una Merkel and
Sgt. Joe Louis. In addition, it is
in “This Is the Army” that Kate
Smith makes her first screen ap
pearance in ten years and new
Berlin songs are sung by Frances
Langford and Gertrude Niesen.
Screen play for the picture is
by Casey Robinson and Capt.
Claude Binyon, based on the
stage show Irving Berlin’s “This
Is the Army,” with music and
lyrics by Irving Berlin.
Tax Statements
City of Roxboro Tax state
ments are being mailed to resi
dents according to Mrs. Hattie C.
Carver, collector. Quarterly wa
ter bill are also in the mails.
AT POST OFFICE
Lucy L- Murray, Recruiting
Representative of the United
States Civil Service is expected
to be at Post Office buiding in
Roxboro on October 6th and 7th.
VISITS FAMILY
Pvt. Everette J. Kendrick, of
Camp Shelby, Miss., is spending
his 16 day leave with his wife in
Danville, Va., and with his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ken
drick, of Leasburg.
Uses Gun Case
Pvt. A. R. Davis, Jr., now in
(Guadalcanal, who recently sent
his father a native grass skirt,
used a long, tube-like shell con--
tainer to pack the skirt in.y He
also made photigraphs of the
grave erf Sam €. Fisher, Jr., but
the films were returned to him
by the censor.
PUBLIC DOESN’T
GET ADEQUATE
WAR INFORMATION
Press Group Blames Mili
tary, Navy Men For Al
leged Unnecessary Res
trictions.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. The
newspaper advisory committee
of the Office of War Informa
tion (OWT) asserting that the
American public “is not being
adequately informed about the
war,” blamed “the disinclination
on the part of some high naval
and military authorities to eva
luate what is information to
(which the public is entitled.”
“If there is any complacency
or letdown in thfe war effort on
the part of the (American peo
ple, it is not due to any lack of
patriotism or desire for easy vic
tory, but rather to the absence
of full necessary understanding,”
the committee sgid in a state
ment issued after)a day-long con
ference.
The group is ijiade up of exe
cutives of a dozen newspapers,
headed by Roy A. Roberts,
managing editor’ of The Kansas
City Star.
The committee praised the
“brilliant and courageous work”
of American war correspondents,
but pointed out that it required'
Prime Minister Churchill’s speech
in the House of ommons to give
the U. S. public “much impor
tant information which was
known to American authorities
but which had not been released
to the American people.”
Fighting In Jungle
Calls For Strength
Sgt. Onslow Gentry Who Has Been
There, Praises Soldiers And Natives
RAMBLERS LOSE
TO ORPHANAGE IN
HARD STRUGGLE
•Roxboro Has Best Chance *,
In Last Quarter. Hills
boro Comes Next.
By Tom Woody, Jr.
The football game played here
Friday afternoon ' between Rox
boro High School and Raleigh
Methodist Orphanage, ended in a
6 to 0 victory for Raleigh. The
Raleigh boys scored their only
j touchdown in the first quarter
I by a short pass to the goal line
I Their attempt to kick the extra
point failed.
In the fourth quarter Roxboro
made its most serious threat of
the game by a pass being com
pleted on approximately 'he 20
yard line. They drove forward
about five yards and then lost
the ball. One minute later the
game ended.
, After the final whistle-sounded,
a rousing cheer went up from
i .the Roxboro team, signifying
j that even in defeat, they still
i had the ability to lose with
good spirit.
The lineup for Roxboro was as
follows:
Line
Taylor, RE; Jordan, RT; Wal
ker, RG; Wade, Center; Whitt,
LG; Wilkerson. LT; Blanks, LE.
Backfield
King, WB; Jonhson, BB!; Clay
ton, FB; Newell, TB.
Substitutions; Adcock, Currier,
Whitfield. Crews, and Singleton.
Officials: Ray Parrish, Referee,
and W. B. Taylor, Umpire.
Next game Friday will be in
the afternoon with Hillsboro,
there.
HIGHS AT DANCE
Students of Roxboro high
school held a dance Friday night
in the gym. Chaperones were
parents.
AUCTION SALE RESULTS
Friday and Saturday auction
sales of lands of the A. R. Fou
shee estate resulted in disposi
tion of the Main street home
place and the sale of over 100
tracts of land, both urban and
rural, with at least twenty-two
buyers for forty tracts on Fri
day. .
Hunter Reminds
Veterans Os
Fisher Program
Gordon C. Hunter, com
mander of Lester Blackwell
Post No. 138 of the American
Legion, today issued a request
that all members and other
former service men attend the
memorial exercises for Sam
C. Fisher, Jr., Private First
Class, that will be held Tues
day morning at eleven o’clock
at Roxboro high school, where
Gen. John T. Kennedy, of Fort
Bragg, will present Fisher’s
posthumously awarded Silvetr
Star to his father, Sam C.
Fisher, Sr.
Fisher, Jr., of Nathalie, Va.,
and Roxboro, was killed in ac
tion on Jan. 13, in a Guadal
canal battle. The exercises will
be open to the public.
Lieut. Broadway
To Visit Sister
And Brother Here
Lieut/ Lembert E. Broadway,
of Summerton, S. C„ (who has
just received his wings at Altus,
Texas, is expected to arrive in
Roxboro in a few days to visit
his sister, Mis Virginia Broad
way, technician, Community hos
pital, and his brother Arthur E.
Broadway. Mrs. Agnes D. Broad
way, of Roanoke Rapids, mother
I of the three, will also come here
' for a visit.
Person Man, Back From
Guadalcanal, Reviews Lo
cal Parade And Tells Os
Experiences In Last Four
Years.
(By Mrs. A. R. Davis, as told to
Thomas J. Shaw. Jr.)
Sgt. Onslow Gentry, 26, of
Roxboro, a son of B. J. Gentry,
also of this City, after four
years of overseas service, includ
ing such hot spots as Pearl Har
bor and Guadalcanal, has a right
to say that he comes from the
“fighting Gentry clan." One of
his brothers was i i Word War I
and he has innumerable kins
folks in this war, among them a
nephew, Sgt. Raymond Gentry,
now in England.
Buffeted around by attacks of
malaria that began six months
ago, Sgt. Onslow Gentry, en
route to the United States from
the Pacific area, spent weeks at
|a time in various island hospi
i tals before he arrived in San
Francisco and was then sent to
Kennedy General hospital. Mem
phis, Tenn., from which he sec
ured a thirty day leave in order
to come to Roxboro.
He got here last week, in time
to review the Sacrifice Day War
I Bond parade staged by Company
B of Butner’s Infantry. Standing
in salute as the Company flag
went by, he observed to a friend,
“If those boys back on Guadal
canal could know of the effort
the people here are making to
buy Bonds, it would make them
feel good.”
Sgt. Gentry himself, for that
matter, knows the fighting “ef
fort” by experience. Has ribbons
include stars for service in an
American theatre of rwar and for
combat duty in the Pacific. He
also has a good conduct njedal
and one as a veteran of foreign
wars. In 1941, having been in
service for two years, he was
thinking of coming home, but it
happened he was in Haw ! i,
another way of saying that Pearl
Harbor “changed all that.” In
stead, he went to the Fiji islands,
and from there to Guadalcanal,
where he was in the thick of the
first fighting to rid the place of
Japs.
“In the vast jungles there”, he
says, “in the heated atmosphere,
there seemed at first to be a Jap
sniper behind every tree, and no
iway to get supplies to oiitposts
except by killing men and slash
ing at jungle undergrowth. This
we did, only to find ourselves
face to face in-battle with the
Japs.”
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Accident Cases Not
Yet Settled Says
Patrolman Hudgins
Bus And Car Collision Near Concord
Latest In Series Os Accidents Here
RALEIGH CHOSEN
FOR CONVENTION
OF ESTATE BOARDS
Raleigh Man Named
Slate President As An
nual Meet Closes.
WINSTON-SALEM, Oct. 2.
E. V. Denton if Raleigh was
elected president and Raleigh
was picked as the 1944 conven
tion city as the North Carolina
Association of Real Estate Boards
closed their 22nd annual conven
tion.
C. E. Phillips of Durham was
elected first vice president;
Henry V. Koontz of High Point,
second vice president, and Victor
Stonebanks of Raleigh, secretary
and treasurer.
Members of the of di
rectors are: Frank D. Elliott of
Winston-Salem; A. G. Craver of
Asheville; J. E. Barrentine of
Charlotte; J. Q. Davis of Dur
ham; Julien Johnston of Greens
boro; Harry Tatum of Golds
boro; James Conrad of High
Point; E. R. Allen of Raleigh;
R. H. Gregory, Jr., of Rocky
Mount: H. E. Isenhour of Salis
bury; Frank G. Harris of Wilm
ington; S. E. Tillett of Elizabeth
City and R. Don Harris of
Mcoresville. -
i- ...
Lieut. Westbrook
And Cpl. Waddell
Return To Durham
Lieut. Mildred Westbrook and
Cpl. Edna Waddell, of the Dur
ham recruiting office for the
WAC’s, returned to Durham yes
terday after spending four days
in Roxboro. Lieut. Westbrook,
who said that she was pleased at
at recruiting response shown
here, also said that she. hopes to
return to Roxboro soon.
While here she renewed friend
ship with • Mrs. W. Wallace
Woods, whom she knew in
Laurinburg, and she also met
for the first time Sgt. Farris
Humphries, friend of her son,
Robert Westbrook, of the U. S.
Army, first North Carolinian
killed at Pearl Harbor.
Salvage Campaign
To Come Up Next
..r>*
Chairman W. Wallace Woods May
Announce New Plans Very Soon
Miss Davis And
R. P. Burns Will
Be On Program
Longhurst P.-T. A. ,will meet
Tuesday, October 5, at 7:30 o’-
clock. Theme for the meeting
will be: “How Safe Are Our
Children and Youth.”
Miss Davis, of the ' Person
Health department and Robert
P. Burns, prominent lawyer, of
Roxboro, will speak. Music -by
the Longhurst Baptist choir will
be a feature.
Choir Has Supper
Some, thirty-ftwo members of
the Choir of Edgar Long Mem
orial Methodist church, with a
number of additional guests, had
supper .Friday night at the
church. Chef was Louis Long.
There are more than 4,000,0&)
books in the public libraries of
New York City.
Phone 4501
If you have any news items
or for advertising or com
mercial printing service.
NUMBER 100
Jones Funeral May Be
Held Tuesday. Negro
Tenant Farmer And War
Veteran Hurt When His
Car And Bush Crash.
Second major traffic accident
of the week in Person, County,
the collision of a Danville, Va„
to Durham bus with a car driven
by George Russell, 56, a Negro
of Person County, is still under
investigation by State Highway
Patrolman John Hudgins, of Rox
boro, who today said that his in
vestigation cannot be closed until
Russell, who received three frac
tured ribs, returns from a Dan
ville hospital.
Hudgins also reported today
that the condition of Reginald
Carr Rogers, 23, unconcious in
Community hospital since Tues
day night when he was injured
in accident here in which Law
rence James Jones, 18, was kil
led, remains the same and that
Rogers cannot be questioned yet
as to who* was driving the se
dan involved in that accident.
The Russell collision occured
near C. A. Long’s store, at Con
cord, Thursday at midnight. Driv
er of the bus was E. C. Oakley,
about 34, of Durham, whose bus
had no passengers and who him
self escaped injury. In Russell’s
car, with him, were his wife,
Mablc, a twin son and daughter,
Charles Henry and Charlotte,
fifteen months of age, and an
other son, Thomas, 6, all of whom
received lacerations and bruises.
The Russells, first brought to
Community hospital, were later
taken to Danville, but only Geor
ge, who was driving, and Charl
otte, remained there. Both are
expected to return home today.
Funeral for Jones is expected
to be held Tuerday if a brother,
Sga. Bedford L. Jones, of Camp
White, Ore., ,and now enroute
here is able to arrive by Monday.
Another brother, Cpl. John S.
Jones, of Fort Devens, Mass.,
Came to Roxboro Thursday. It
was at first reported that Rog
ers’ driving license had been re
voked after a trial in Person
Recorder’s Court, but it has since
been said that the revocation,
was held up in Raleigh on techi
nical grounds, although Rogers
is at present debarred from driv
ing under a suspeded sentence
imposed by Judge R. B. Dawes.
In the bus wreck no charges
have as yet been preferred a
gainst either Russell or Oakley
and no bonds required. Russell,
said to be a veteran of World
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i State Officials Os Drive
Will Again Offer School;
Prizes For Good Work.
W. Wallace Woods, Person Sal
vage chairman, today said that
plans are now being made here
for participation in the State
wide scrap drive which opened
Friday and will continue through
November 15, as announced by
State chairman, N. E. Edgerton,
in Raleigh.
It is rather expected that some
organization methods so success
fully used last year in Roxboro
will be ■ employed again this
year, said Woods, who indicated
that public schools will resume
their places of leadership as col
lectors. There will be a district
conference for some officials.
Tuesday in Raleigh, but it is not
yet known whether any Roxboro
citizens will be able to attend it.
The State campaign will offer
$3,000 in iwar bonds to counties,,
cities and schools leading in their
respective divisions, Edgerton
said. He listed these prizes in
three categories: S.jrM
Counties: First place 1 , SI,OOO,
bond; second, $500; thirds SIOO, '
Cities: First, $500; second, t3M£i
third, $100; public schools (i«n
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