FDR da^i!
I hope Americans
will figure out for |p£
themselves addi
tional payroll sav-
VOLUME XIV PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY AND THURSDAY
Scouts To Collect
For Community.
And Camp Project
Wednesday Will Be Night When
Citizens Can Aid Mrs. White’s Project
BISHOP TUCKER
SAYS SPIRITUAL
RELIEF NEEDED
Well As Physical Rehab
ilitation Demanded B v
War.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 9.
Spiritual and moral rehabilita
tion for persons made destitute
by the war is “no less essential
than physical relief,” the Rt. Rev.
Henry St. George Tucker of
Richmond, Va., declared in key
noting the 54th triennial Protest
ant Episcopal convention.
The presiding Bishop address
ed a joint session of the bicam
eral Church conclave, which op
ened Oct. 2 with the organization
of the House of Bishops and the
House of Clerical and Lay De
puties.
“When the Church considers
God's call to apply his redemp
tive purpose to the postwar
world,” Bishop Tucker asserted,
“one major and immediate prob
lem will be the provision of phy
sical relief for the suffering and
destruction which the war has
caused, or brought to our atrer.-
tion.
“If there destitute people are
to be qualified to take their
place in a world of freedom,
peace, and righteousness, spirit
ual and moral rehabilitation is
no less essential than physical re
lief.”
Proposing close co-operaticn
between British and American
churches in postwar social recon
struction, the'Archbishop of Can
terbury, head of the Church of
England, sent greetings.
Unable to attend the conclave
because of an English law pre
venting his leaving the country
during war, the Archbishop sa>d
he would appoint an Anglican
Church committee to collaborate
with an Episcopalian commission.
Organization For
Center Complete
Mrs. C. C. Critcher Provides Court
vStreet Space: Dr. Long, Board Head *
Many Citi/ins Volunteer
To Serve On Working Com
mittees. Center Opens Oc
* tober 16.
Roxboro’s Service Center as a
clubroom operated for benefit of
nrv'n and women in all branches
of military service is to be offi
cially opened on Saturday Octo
ber 16, according to plans com
pleted here Friday night by a
group of interested citizens, in
cluding members of the Business
and Professional Woman’s club.
The Center, through courtesy
of Mrs. C. C. Critcher, will be lo
cated in the Court street biuld
ing formerly occupied by Peoples
cafe,' arrangements |with Mrs.
Ci richer, owner of the building,
raving been completed by a
building committee composed of
Mrs. Beth Brewer Pridgen, pres
ident of the Business and Pro
fessional club, Dr. Robert E.
Bong and Tromas J. Shaw, Jr.
Chairman of the Board of di
rectors for the Center is Dr.
Long, while ,other members of
the Board are the chairmen of
7 committees: S. M. Ford, fi
nance; Ed Cunningham, mainten
ance; Mrs. Pridgen, house furn
ishing; Miss Venetia Hearne,
* rules and regulations; Lawrence
Featherston, entertainment; Miss
Mildred Bass, desk group, and
Tom Shaw, publicity.
Named at the meeting, held in
the office of the Chamber of
Commerce were other members
of four of the 7 committees, al
though it is expected that some
of the chairmen will call in per
sons not yet named as assistants,
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Person County Times
Public Response To Hospi
tal Needs Will Be Expect
ed To Be Os Generous Pro
portions. .
Boy Scouts of Roxboro, cooper
ating with the American Red
Cross Camp and Hospital Sup
plies committee of the Person
chapter of which Mrs. T. Miller
White, of Roxboro, is chairman,
wilj collect items for the Com
mittee Wednesday night in a city
wide house to house canvass to
be held between seven and nine
o’clock .
Announcement of Boy Spout
assistance with the .work of the
Committee was made today by
Dr. Robert Long, Scoutmaster
of Troop 49, ,who said that items
wanted include: coathangers, pre
ferably v^iro: magazines, 1943
copies in good condition; walking
canes; tetsh 'trayis, used gjamies
and playing cards, talking mach
ine records and, also, articles
suitable for birthday presents.
, The- list of needs has no limit,
says Mrs. White, but it is to be
.expected that all donations are
to be in good condition, although
they may be used and not new.
Manw items contributing to com
fort and pleasure are not furnish
ed in Army hospitals by the Gov
ernment and all gifts of such
character by civilians will be ap
preciated.
The boys who are in hospitals
at Camp Butner, at BTC 10,
Greensboro, and Fort Bragg and
other places in the Roxboro area,
are boys like those from Roxboro
and Person County and they need
every posisble consideration and
assistance while in camps and
hospitals, added Mrs. White.
Each boy who hsa a birthday
during the period of his hospi—
tabzation is given a gift, accord
ing to Mrs. Whitd, who joins Dr.
Long in urging citizens here to
have contributions ready when
Scouts call for them Wednesday
night.
The German airplane kftown
as the “Stuka” gets its name
from a contraction of the Ger
man words “dive bomber.”
State American
Legion Moving
To Raleigh
ASiHEBORO Headquarters
of the North Carolina Depart
ment of the American Legion
was being moved today from
Asheboro to Raleigh, its perm
anent site.
Plans are for the moving to be
completed during the day and
the Raleigh office opened for
business by tomorrow.
bate neuis Bulletins
HIGHEST YET FOR MARKET THIS YEAR
Thursday sales on the Rexboro market totaled 75,926
pounds 'of tobacco for average of $43.71, while Friday’s iwas up
in pounds at 214,926, for $42 97. Through Wednesday, first
three days of the week saw 298,094 pounds go at averiage of
$41.77.
THE NEWS GETS AROUND ABOUT HOME FOLKS
Master Sergeant Raymond H. Gentry of Roxboro, a son of
T. H. Gentry, recently promoted to that rank and stationed in
England, by a V-Mail letter received today, reports presenta
tion of the Purple Heart to Sgt. Roscoe-(Jimmy) Alderman.
Gentry saw it in the English edition of the Army paper, “Stars
and Stripes”. He probably knows now that Alderman is a pris
oner in Germany.
ROXBORO, N. C. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1943
STATE PATROL
BECOMES ISSUE
IN STATE CIRCLES
McMullan Will Cite List
Showing What Patrolmen
May Or May Not Do.
RALEIGH, —Attorney General
Harry McMullan is compiling a
list of the duties of State High
way Patrolmen in response to
questions which have arisen
since the North Wilkesboro li
quor trials, Governor Broughton
said today.
The Governor said that in his
opinion the chief duties of the
patrol were to protect the high
ways and to see that they were
not used for illegal purposes. Os
course, they have been given ad
ditional powers to protect the
State’s security in the war em
ergency.
The duty of highway patrol
men to participate in liquor raids
was questioned after it was testi
fied in the trial of a patrol lieu
tenant and a State Bureau of In
vestigation agent that the lieu
tenant and a patrol sergeant
were active in the seizure of sev
eral hundred cases of liquor. The
charges against the two were
dropped.
Governor Broughton said he
believed some patrolmen were
too inclined to participate in lo
cal law enforcement contrary to
their actual duties. He made the
statement after he had been ad
vised that highway patrolmen
had tried to remove several
somewhat noisy spectators from
their seats at last Saturday’s
football games.
kuhnsTearnsof
WEED AND ABOUT
PERSON CHICKEN
Hunter Has Grand Time
Showing New York Edi
tor The Ropes.
William R. Kuhns, of New
York City, editor of the magazine
“Banking”, published by the
American Bankers’ association,
was during the week a visitor in
Roxboro and Durham for the
purpose of securing information
■on the financing, growing, pro
duction and manufacturing of
tobacco.
On this his first visit to a to
bacco area, to which he came by
invitation of Dr. William A. Ir
win, of the Bankers’ association,
who recently spoke to Roxboro
civic clubs, Kuhns inspected sev
eral Person County farms mid
was particularly interested in
grading, striping and tying pro
cesses, which he had never pre
viously seen. With him on his
Person trips was Gordon C. Hunt
er, executive vice president of
the Peoples bank, this City.
At Hunter’s invitation Kuhns
bed another first —a barbecued
chicken supper at Louis Long's
Raleigh Division
Will Meet In
Durham Church
Women of he Raleigh division
of the Baptist W. M. U., will
meet at Watts Street Baptist
church, Durham, on Oct., 20, at
ten o’clock in the morning. Of
ficers and leaders of the Beulah
association and presidents of the
W. M. U. groups and their offic
ers are especially urged to at
tend. One of the chief speakers
will be Miss Mary Christian, of
Birmingham, Ala., according to
Mrs. J. F. Funderburke, superin
tendent of the W. M. U. Beulah
association.
GOVERNMENT HAS
NEED OF PENNIES
AGAIN THIS YEAR
It takes a lot of pennies to
make a thousand dollars, but
that is the way Roxboro folks
responded one day last year
when Gordon C. Hunter, exe
cutive vice president of the
Peoples bank, this City, issued
an appeal on behalf of the
Government when a call was
made for turning in of pennies
due to copper shortages.
The same shortages are with
us again, not in money, but in
copper, and so Hunter issues
the appeal again today. He
hopes the response will be as
great and that many Person
and Roxboro citizens will bring
their pennies to the bank. One
additional reason for the de
mand for pennies is that the
Government has stopped mak
ing those new ones in a non
copper metfl, they look too
much like dimes.
Ration Book Four
Another School Job
Ration Book Registration Will
Take Place Last Os This Month
Schools In Which liejristra
litrn Will Be Held Listed
By OPA.
Person OPA officials today an
nounced that plans for issuance
of War Ration Book Four during
the week of October 24, are be
ing completed and that medium
for registration will again ho the
public schools, with teachers and
other interested citizens as reg
istrars.
Book Four, expected to 'go into
use in November, contains eight
pages with a total of 384 stamps,
in blue/red, green and black
Book Four is designed to last ap
proximately two years and citi
zens who apply for it must at
time of application bring with
them War Ration Book Three as
a moans of certification and iden
tification.
In Person County and Roxboro
the issuance of Book Four will
take place in thirteen white
schools and at High Plains In
dian school as well as at three
schools for Negroes, namely Per
son County Training School, Ol
ive Hill Negro school and Lee
Jeffers school.
The registration is expected to
be sample in form, since there
will be no requirement of de
claration as to commodities on
hand. Only remaining stamp in
Book One that now has • value is
No 18, the shoe stamp.
CAPT. WARLICK
WILL SPEAK TO
SCHOOLMASTERS
Other Guests May Come
To Wednesday Meeting
If They Wish To.
Person Schoomaster's club will
meet Wednesday night at 6:30
oclock at Hotel Roxboro, with
Mrs. R. B. Dawes as program
chairman. Speakers will be Capt
George C. Warlick, on “How The
Pubbck Sthools Can Meet The
Needs Os The Armed Forces”.
With Captain Warlick will be
Lieutenant Martha Holzenthaler,
a member of the Women’s Army
Corps, jwho will also speak.
All teachers who are not reg
ular members of the Schoolmast
ers Club, but are interested in
attending the meeting, should no
tify Mrs. Dawes not later than
Tuesday night, so that the Hotel
may be notified as to the number
expecting to attend.
President of the Schoolmasters’
Club is C. H. Mason, principal
of Bushy Fork school, who will
preiide.
Pullium Leaves
Sgt. Lewis E. Pulliam, of the
U. Sk Army Air corps, who has
bean here on leave for a visit
with his wife and parents, left
Wedsesday for his station in Cali
fornia.
An old superstition holds that
when five bees come buzzing a
round your head they are sup
posed to bring bad luck.
Present Work And Postwar
Problems Theme Os Harris
Person Zone To
Meet Soon At
Methodist Church
Mrs. W. M. Fox, of Roxboro,
leaner of the Person Zone, today
saul that speaker at the Fall
meeting to be held here on Oct
ober 31, at Edgar Long Memor
ir-1 Methodist church will be
Mrs. A. L. Borland, of Durham,
district secretary. The meeting
will begin at 2 o’clock and will
last until 4 in an afternoon ses
sion and a full attendance is de
sire d.
REV. F. S. LOVE
TO SPEAK SUNDAY
AT TRINITY RITES
Home Coming; Day And
Conference Will Be Held.
Home coming Day will b? ob
served in the Trinity Methodist
Church of the Brooksdale charge
on Sunday, October 10. The Sup
erintendent of the Durham. Dis
trict, Rev. F. S. Love, will preach
at 11:00 o’clock and wall hold
the,Fourth Quarterly Conference
ior the Brooksdale Charge.
Picnic lunch will be served at
the Church and a special after
loon service will be held. The new
p,v,s and new pulpit furniture
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Friend Os Editor
On Job In Plane
Greensboro Boy Now In Charge Os
Destructive Air Rnids In Europe
I Colonel l Vbe'-t Anderson,
( Blonde, With Bine Eyes.
Determined Fighter, Bayes
Way For Invasion.
!
STATION IN BRITAIN. Oct. 9
—The chief of the new American
i Marauder force in Britain said
| last week that the heavy pound
ing these craft have been giving
j Germany’s major air bases in
France and the low countries is
sapping much of the strength out
of the German air force and driv
ing it deeper inland,
j The leader of this new force,
j which has teamed up with RAF
| spitfires to give the allies a pow
erful ne;w bombing arm for beat
ing an invasion path across Eu
| lope, is Col. Samuel Egbert And
erson, of Greensboro, a-graduate
of West Point and a high school
ciass-mate and long-time friend
of Thomas J. Shaw, Jr., City Ed
itor of the Person County Times.
Anderson, who has seen peace
time service in the Philippines
and at time war was declared
was in Washington, is the son of
Mrs. W. E. Anderson, of Guil
ford avenue, Greensboro, who
has three or four other sons in
the service.
In an interview renewing the
first two-and-a-half months of
activity of the B-26s in this
theater, Colonel Anderson, a
blonde, with blue eyes and a firm
mouth, and in service since 1928,
said that the nazis already had
been forced to evacuate a large
number of key fighter bases in
western France, and that service
had been disrupted at many oth
ers serviing as main springboards
for defense against allied heavy
bombers.
While the exact number of
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Textile Head Assures That Jobs
Will Await Employees Now In Army
MISS GRAVELY NEW
COUNTY COUNCIL
FOUR-H LEADER
Dress Revue and Canning
Contest Features Os Meet
ing. Attendance Large.
Miss Mary Eleanor Gravely,
President of Bethel Hill 4-H
Club, was elected President of
the Person County Council of
4-H clubs at regular meeting of
the Council Saturday afternoon.
Other officers elected were,
VioPresident, Martha Louise
Hester of Roxboro Sr. Club. Sec
retary-Treasurer Etonny Win
stead of Central Club and Song
Leader, Wilhelmina Wehrenberg,
of Bethel Hill Club.
Special features of the meet
ing were the Annual 4-H Dress
: evue and the canning contest.
In the dress contest, Mary Elean
or Gravely was awarded first
piac* : Mary Elizabeth Slaughter,
second; and Colien Long, third.
Others entering were Norma Mae
Clayton, Martha Louise Hester,
and Mary Ruth Moore. Mary
Eleanor Gravely will r: present
Person County at the District
Contest to be held October 22nd,
in Oxford .
In the Junior Dress Contest,
Sara Allen, from the Bushy Fork
Club, was awarded first place;
Bara Jean Hester, second and
F.niiy Frances Williams. 3rd.
Other Junior girls were Hilda
Adcock, Sybil Pentecost. Ann G.
Williams and Wilhelmina Weh
renix rg.
The canning contest entries
Ivv re also separated into Junior
land Senior groups. In the Junior
Group. Sybil Pentecost was giv
en first place, and Emily Frances
i Williams, second.
in the Senior group. Norma
Mae Clayton’s exhibit won first
place. Others exhibiting canned
goods from their food preserva
tion projects were: Martha
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M issWeinel Here
For Red Cross
. > ■*; ;. -/,;/• / *
! Miss Marian Weinel, of Ra
i Icigh. field ' secretary of the
American Red Cross, was in Rox
j boro Friday for monthly session
ms the Person County chapter,
j which was held at the Court
| House, with Mr. Robert E. Long,
man-man, presiding.
Mrs. Sue Featherston, execu
tive secretary, and Mrs. T. Mill
er White, chairman of the Camp
and Community service commit
tee, were among those making
reports.
Along The Way
With the Editor ——
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lam guilty of a very serious crime. I have totally destroy- \
ed a valuable antique. I really did not know what I was doing V"
when I did this but now I know that. lam guilty. A few days Jfl
ago I was down at the office of R. B. Griffin, Superintendent 'ill
of Education, and he offered me a cigar. I took the thing,
is all it really twas, and tried to smoke it. The cigar was . about
as old as I was and it was as stiff as a piece of board. In
words it was an antique and notirng else. When I fired
saw something funny and upon looking I discovered that
were running for their dear lives and that they were j
from a dozen holes in the cigar. Honestly the cigar
ing like a steam engine and all around the cigar. I had prOvra
ously noticed, when I tried to bite off the end so that
draw, that it was so hard that my teeth were almost brttl&L
Finally I saw that I was getting sick so I threw It awmfl J ‘ v
went home to kt nature take its course. ' dL.
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NUMBER 102
Roxboro District Teachers
j Are Guests At Annual Af
j lair Sponsored By Rotary
! Assurance that all employees
of the corporation wnich he now
heads who have or may be called
to military service will have op
po: tunity to resume their employ
ment with the mills after they
complete military service, was
voiced here Thursday night by
Liutt. Gov. R. L. Harris, president
of Roxboro Cotton mills, jn a
civic club address in which he
discussed with feeling and em
phasis the necessity oi concen
trated war effort now and the
obligation of planning for postwar
readjustments.
Occasion for the Harris address
.was the annual Teachers’ night
cf Roxboro Rotary club, of which
the Lieutenant Governor is a
mmi bcr. Guests included all of
the teachers in Roxboro district
schools, together with Board
members and other citizens and
; Rotarians. Introduction of Harris
I was by David S. Brooks and pre
! siding official was Rotary pres
‘ id*, nt, W. Wallace Woods.
Pointing out innumerable soc
ial, economic and business pro
j b’.ems, including peacetime demo
bilization of military forces and.
the leconv.rsion of labor and in
j custry to peacetime ways, the
S Lieutenant Governor said it is not
now necessary that we should
j draw a blueprint of what is to
come; that there can be no post
war until peace comes, but that
I We, after putting all effort into
| the present war, must bo prepar
ed to meet peacetime conditions,
f, “War comes first now,” said,
i the speaker, “and there can be
no question concerning the dr.di-. ..
cation of every resource to it.”
This is true, he added, despite
the fact that there is every rea
son for practice of second econo
my in both business and govern
ment, a structure that must be
adhered to if war debts are to be
paid off in so short a time as the
next hundred years.
After the singing of “America”
by the group, Rev. Rufus W«n
--| He, rector‘ of St. Mark’s Episco
; pal church, gave the invocation
! President Woods welcomed the:
guests and the response was giv
| en by Miss Mable Massey, a mem
| her of Roxboro high school sac-
I 11l tV. . >•;*'
R. B. Griffin, Person superin
: tendent introduced principals of
I the District, who in turn presen
; tod teachers form their respect
ive schools. Griffin also intro
i upced the following guests: Mrs.
R. B. Griffin, Mrs, Jerry Hester,
C. A. (Harris, a member of the
School Board, Revs. R. W. Hovis,
[ R. J. Womble and W. T. Medlin,
I Jr., the latter three, teachers of
Bible in Roxboro high school. Al
|so present were Griffin’s co- v
I workers tram the Person Board
|of Education, office Mrs. Ben
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Two In Marines
. vAf.
Samuel H. Winstead and Bus*
sell E. Lee, two of the Person '
selectees who last week in Sept*
ember reported jw.ith that quota!
to Fort Bragg for induction and '*
examination, have been assigned ‘
to Marine Corps duty. They will
be in Roxboro until Oct., 16.