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lAliMlliw wot Fad Oar Col ■mi Uldttgr teOwr te>WM> VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 25 BRIEF REVIEW OF LAWS PASSED AT RECENT SESSION Appropriations Cut About 20 Per Cent; 35 Cents Tax Reduction • Until the 1933 laws are printed and distributed, much of the work of the past legislature will remain a secret, and surely after the laws are received much of the work will remain a puz zle. However, the most important activities during the term can be summed up as follows: Appropriations have been cut down about 20 per cent, as compared with those made by the 1931 General As sembly. The 15-cent ad valorem tax has been removed from property, and in addition to this, the property own ers will get an average reduction of about 20 cents in their tax bills—due to the fact that the state has taken over entire support of the eight months term of school. That means around 35 cents reduction altogether. And that's not a bad reduction at that. The school system of the state has been revolutionized and the state now haa complete supervision. All schools will run on an eight-months basis, although some individual units have the privilege of voting supplementary funds on themselves, either for the purpose of paying more salaries or extending the eight months' term to - MM months. The cost of foreclosure proceedings has been reduced so that it doesn't make any difference how big a bill of costs is incurred—the total charge can not and must not exceed $6. That's another big help. Further more, where suits already have been brought delinquent taxpayers may en ter into an agreement whereby they can make good their back payments in stallments covering a period of five years. The sale of beer has been legalized, race tracks and betting have been al lowed to six different counties in the state, including Pasquotank and New Hangver in the east—providing that the people in those counties want it. Divorce has been made easier and an election has been called for the pur pose of seeing whether the people of the state want to repeal the eighteenth amendment* or not. The highway and prison depart ments have been consolidated and the corporation commission has been abolished. Salaries have been cut and ! other economies have been instituted. 1 That is only a brief Hat of what has , been accomplished, but it gives some Mea of the scope of work which was undertaken by the legislature. And, of course, there is the 3 per cent gen eral sales tax. That will become ef fective on July 1. ■ • ■ Unusual Program At The Watts Theatre Next Week Aa unusual program of pictures is I scheduled st the Watts here for next week, it was learned from the man ageaaen here today. Next Monday and Tuesday, Helen ■ Hayes and Clerk Gable appear in "The White Sister". This is recog nized as a splendid picture. Wednes day, Joe E. Brown plays in "Elmer, ( the Great," a picture of much mirth. 'The Kid from Spain," featuring Ed die Cantor, is scheduled for Thurs day and Friday. "I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", the story snd picture that caused nation-wide comment is sche duled for Saturday, June 3. Only One Service At Baptist Church Sunday Following out an old church cus tom in this town, there will be no preaching service at the Baptist church Sunday evening, because at that time the Christian church will be hold the last of a week's series of, services. The membership and the friends of this church are invited to participate with them in this service. Following the sessions of the Sun day school Sunday morning the pas tor will preach. The morning sub ject will be, "The Church in Accord." The young people's organizations will meet Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. • Two Services in Hamilton Episcopal Church Sunday This Sunday being the fourth of the month, Rev. E. F. Moseley will be It Hamilton for both morning and| evening service. Rev. Mr. Mackie, of Windsor, will also be present for the mornipg service to celebrate the Holy Comas nil ion. In the evening the sub ject of the sermon will be, The Work of the Holy Spirit." Announce Birth ■ Mr. and Mrs. Robert Leggett an nounce the birth of a daughter st their home on Warren Stmt, Tues day morning, May 23. THE ENTERPRISE r !f HOLIDAY TUESDAY 1 i \ J r The Branch Banking and Trust ' Company and the post office will obearre next Tuesday; National t Memorial Day, as a holiday. While few other buaineM houses or in stitutions in this county will en joy a holiday that day, business «> in the larger centers of the coun try will be at a standstill. No mail deliveries will be made on [ Either the rural or city routes that day. Exercises will be centered in Washington City, where speeches will be made by prominent nation al figures. Graves of soldiers will 1 be decorated in Arlington and oth- ' 1 er cemeteries throughout the land that day. CLUB COUNCIL I MET YESTERDAY —• — I Meeting Is Held With Mrs. C. L. Wilson At Robersonville The Martin County Council of Wo man's clubs held its second meeting of the year in the beautiful home of Mrs. C. L. Wilson in Robersonville yesterday afternoon with 51 members in attendance. Mrs. Enid Gray, president of the Woman's Club in Robersonville, pre sided over the meeting of the com bined clubs. Rev. Z. T. Piephoff, of WilliamsUm, the women, taking as his subject, "What Makes a Woman Great." The points brought out were practical helpfulness to ones fellow men, an abiding contentment, and a big faith. The women were much pleased with this timely address and regretted that work called Mr. Piephoff away before the meeting was concluded. The group sang, 'Follow the Gleam' and the county demonstration club women put on their playlet. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rogers, well-known musi cians in Robersonville, favored the group with many selections during the afternoon and young Mr. Martin, of j James ville, concluded 'the , program with a few well-selected readings, j A sandwich course with iced tea' was served and all enjoyed a social j ! hour renewing old friendships. The ' | hostess, Mrs. C. L. Wilson, invited all ftie women to go over her house and 1 gain new ideas in household furnish ! ings and color harmonies. MAKE EXTENDED PREACHING TOUR Elders Stone and Hutchin son Leave for Northern States and Canada Elders E. C. Stone and H. F. Hut chinson, of Smithwick's Creek, are j scheduled to leave tomorrow for an ' | extended tour in several of the north ern states and parts of Canada, it was* learned here yesterday. Their* first ap pointment is at Hopewell, N. J., the scene of the Lindbergh baby kid-, 1 naping tragedy. They wil then spend. 1 several" days in the Adirondack Moun-| tains. After a short stay in New • York they will go to Niagara Falls 1 'and during the Utter part of June will 1 attend the yearly meeting at the Covenant Baptist church in Ecfird, Canada. On their retprn .trip they plan to 1 visit Detroit, Indianapolis, Louisville, ' and Pineville, reaching Asheville on 1 the first Sunday in July. They are 1 scheduled to reach home on July 4. ■ During their tour the two men plan ' to attend many church meetings at ; which Elder Hutchinson has been in- j vited to preach. HALF OF TOWN'S' TAX COLLECTED l Collections Pail To Take Care of Obligations, • However ——% i Approximately one - half, tor $20,- 657.65, of the 1932 tax levy for the Town of Williamston has been col lected, it was. learned from the tress- , urer's office lucre yesterday. Compared with payments made on the 1931 levy up to the same time last year, the j receipts this year are smaller by a , sizesble sum, it is understood. Up until this year, the town had met all ita bond principal and interest ob. ligations, but collections on the 1932 levy have been insufficient for the main ' tenance of the town's bond interest and principal payments. Under the new laws, delinquent tax . accounts will be advertised the first 1 week in August, and it is believed that at least two-thirds or three-fourths of the unpaid taxes will be cared for by that time. ' t The 1932 levy amounts to $41,848.48, j compared with $43,888.38 for the c Ux year 1931. r Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, May 26,1933 11 PREDICTS CROP ' OF 675 MILLION POUNDS IN 1933 "Uncle Buck" Says There Is Encouragement for Local Market (By W. T. MEADOWS) There is much speculation going the rounds as to the tobacco situa tion now and next fall, especially as it concerns poundage and price. It is all guess work when it comes to calculating about what will be and what will not be. However, I reckon my guess is just as good as the other fellow's. I have certainly studied the situation. In the bright-tobacco grow ing states, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, I guess i around 675 million pounds will be 1 produced this season, or about 15 mil lion pounds over the 1931 crop. Now as Will Rogers would say, I base much of my guess on what I see in the papers and journals ,and the bal ance on a personal talk with some of! the best tobacco men in the tobacco business. I have also talked with I many farmers in Bertie, Halifax, Mar-J tin, Washington, Beaufort, Edge-j combe, Pitt, Nash, Wilson, Johnson, J Wayne, Wake, Durham, Orange and' Granville Counties. And in addition) to that I have had letters from many! personal friends in other states. Re-j gardless of what many of them said, I am sticking to my guess that the crop will not be over 675 million, pounds. Some of those 1 heard from j believe the crop now in the making' will be the largest ever produced. Of! course all these things are based on' a normal crop. Now as to prices that is another i guess. I could guess if 1 knew any thing about the farm bill recently' passed by Congress. Everybody says' with few exceptions that that bill is' a jig saw puzzle. A very intelligent! man told be a few days ago that they had knocked "it" out of it far as j a farmer was concerned; thai they; would not even guarantee the cost of production. Others say exactly' the oppsite thing. They say let to-' bacco start selling at below cost of ! production and Mr. Roosevelt would 1 I send his men down here and close' ! every warehouse in the county, and intake them give the farmer a profit on his tobacco. I hope they are right. If the poor warehouseman and the poor farmer ever needed anything they certainly need it now. They I have been naked, despised and for sakened for three years. In about ten days I hope to have more definite views to offer. Locally, things look bright for our market this year. An old school mate of mine who is now in the tobacco business in the middle belt took din-1 ner with me a few days ago. I show-' ed him our town, our steam plant and i storage houses. He was greatly sur-| prised to know th«t we had a steam 1 plant the sue of the one in operation here. I told him that the company was the largest bifyer on our market 1 and represented nearly every inde- 1 | pendent concern in the United States 1 and Europe. i There is more encouragement this year for our tobacco market. I have I always been 100 per cent simon pure c for the local market, and I am still i 100 percent for it. In my 31 years of I , labor here, Williamston has always .| held its own. And I promise my i friends that it will have the greatest i backing this year from all clubs and | citizens, warehousemen and farmers i it has ever had. There have been fat years and there have been lean years, but during it all the warehousemen' j and others have worked for their J money and their reputations were at stake. Watch Williamston this year, and you'll see a hustling tobacco mar. ket, ; I wish all the boys luck this year, and hope they will make a good crop, i. And I hope and pray they get a good I" price for it. Let me remind you here and now that Williamston is a good place to sell your tobacco., * Few Seed and Feed Loans Are Incomplete • i The exact amount of money lent t Martin County farmers through the seed and feed loan act has not beea j made public here, there being a few loans yet incomplete, it was learned from Field Inspector Roy'Hearne here this week. It is understood that the amount advanced this year is considerably . greater than it was last season, the number of loans having been increased by several hundred. » 1 Riddick's Grove Services \ For Sunday Announced Rev. W. B. Harrington will con- 2 duct the regular preaching services at ( Riddick's Grove Baptist church Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock, it wai an- i nounced today. j s f NEW POSTMASTER 1 v. J Mr. Leslie T. Fowden, for many years an inaurance man, a peanut broker, and all-around man, en tered upon the appointive duties as postmaster at the local office yesterday morning, succeeding Mrs. Fannie Biggs Anderson, who was acting postmistress from Feb ruary 28 up to laat Wednesday night. Mr. Fowden is completing the unexpired term of former Post master Jesse T. Price, who resign ed several montha ago. Mr. Fow den's insurance bueiness will be continued by Mr. Price and Reg Simpaon, it is understood. REFEREE HEARS CIVIL ACTION Proceedings Here Attract Number of Lawyers And Witnesses A civil action, apparently contain ing a number of complicated issues, was called before Referee W. L. Whitley, Plymouth attorney, here on Wednesday morning, with the Messrs. I'. L. Gladstone, Watson Sherrod, and J. R. Bunting as the principal par ties to the suit, The case developed back in 1931, when Bunting rented the Sherrod farm, near Hamilton, from Sherrod, and Gladstone agreed to finance the operations, taking a mortgage on the personal property as collateral. As the case is understood here, Sherrod agreed to give the holder of the mort gage first claims on the property, in cluding his half. The property was sold, Bunting claiming the action was illegal, that part of the crops was sold in adition to the personal prop erty included in the mortgage. Much evidence lias been offered by both V\ atson and Bunting, around whom the litigation is centered. l"air-sized crowds, including wit nesses and -attorneys mostly, attend ed the hearing Wednesday and yes terday. Evidence was concluded late yesterday afternoon, and Referee Whitley now has the case in his hands. PENSIONS FOR' CIVIL WAR VETS SHOW DECLINE Total of $3,030 Paid Out in This County Last Year To Vets and Widows Sixty-eight years have passed since ' Appomattox and time has taken a j heavy toll of Lee's and Jackson's men, ' but the South still spends more than ' $8,000,000 annually in pensions to Confederate veterans, their widows, and in some states, servants. Figures from eight of ten states, from Virginia to Texas, show fewer than 7,000 who wore the grey uniform of the south on the pension rolls. Widows receiving a bonus number al most 20,000. Unlike the hosts of Grant, the Con federate veteran draws his small hon or pay directly from the state. Union men are pensioned by the national | government. Historians have figured I the youngest veteran of the War Be l ' tween the States now is about 85 years old. Five years, many historians be-j lieve, will find only a handful of the Confederate pensioners left, Virginians appropriate about $643,- i 200 annually to pension 900 veterans , and 4,000 widowi. The net decline in total pensioners during the past year in Virginia has been about 10 per cent. North Carolina appropriated $720,- 600 for veterans and their widows in 1933-34 and $630,000 for 1934-35. The j money comes from the general fund i 1 and i« set aside by legislative action. I Martin County's lone veteran and its 23 veterans' widows received ap- j proximately $3,030 last year. Several of the widows have died since the last pension checks were prepared. The amount paid veterans has been de creased from well over $2,000 to a round $365 a year within a compara tively short time. • Revival To Begin at Local Methodist Church Monday Church services Sunday at 10:30 a. m. Service will last about 45 min utes. Take notice of the change. No services Sunday night. Sunday school at 9:45. Monday night at 8 o'clock, Rev. Mr. Rees, of Washington, will begin what we hope may be a-revival. Begin at the beginning. Don't miss a service. An educational institute will be held at this church Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Out-of-town speakers will be present. During the week morning services will be held at 10 o'clock. Evening [services at 8 o'clock. "All are invited. SHORT DOCKET IN RECORDER'S COURT TUESDAY Negro Sent to Roads for 18 Months as Aftermath of Shooting Scrape The county recorder's court last Tuesday had one of its shortest dock ets in several months. Judge H. O. Peel calling only five cases. One of the number was continued. S. L. Woolard, colored man, plead ing guilty of shooting one Theodore Freeman, also colored, at a party sev eral weeks ago, was sentenced to the roads for eighteen months, twelve | months for the assault and six months for carrying a concealed weapon. The shooting took place on the Joe Lilley ' farm near Williamston. Freeman, | while he still carries a part of the lead in his body, is getting along all right. Fannie Ruffin was fined $lO and taxed with the costs in a case charg ing her with an assault with a deadly weapon. 1 homas Cain was found not guilty in the case charging him with larceny and receiving. J. D. Riddick was fined $25 and taxed with a part of the cost in the cftse charging him with an assault with a deadly weapon. Junior Wynn, a defendant in the same case, asked prayer for judgment be continued until August 22. The case charging Oliver Gilliam with reckless driving was continued. Despite the stringent times, partic ularly in the financial realm, the court imposed sufficient costs and fines to pay its way. MUCH INTEREST IN BALL TEAM Number Aspirants from All Parts of County to Try Out Next Week 1 According to information received here there is much interest through out the county in the approaching baseball season here. Players from several sections of the county are planning lo report and take part in the initial practices next week. No line-up has been suggested so far, but jit is understood that several of the 1 6ut-of-county players holding pos itions on the county team last year are planning to return. However, contracts have been closed in only one or two cases, it is understood. The managers are planning to have the team ready for action week alter j next, hut even after that time several 'changes might he made. | Material'from Jamcsville .Koherson iv i 11, Bear Grass, Oak City, ami Wil- I liamston has already been assured, and the initial practice week is expected lo attract much attention. ♦— Balanced Ration Should Be Fed Chicks Regularly * When eggs have watery whites and weak yolks, the exhausted condition of the egg producing organs is the , cause. In the spring there is a ten dency for eggs to heroine watery due i to the increase in water and green j feed consumption A properly bal | sliced ration in addition to the green I feed should be fed at all times es pecially during the spring months. The frequent collection and careful storage of eggs in warm weather will also help. | To Visit in Enfield Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Mishoe and family are spending the week-end in Enfield. - In Greenville for We*k-end Mr. and Mrs. P. V. Jones are spending the week-end in Greenville. 1 Returns from Tenn'esee Mr. D. M. Koherson has returned from a business trip to Tennessee. | In Elizabeth City Yesterday Sheriff C. B. Roebuck made a busi ness trip to Elizabeth City yester-j day, returning Joe Davis, colored,' who is charged with the theft of a pair of trousers from Harrison Bros.' and Company here about a month' ago. j .. I \ BUSY DAYS ) i J Farmers in this section are ad-, hering strictly to the old adsgs, "Make hay whils the sun shines." These days are busy dsys on the farms. AU available forces are completing the resetting of tobac co, chopping cotton, planting pes nuts, plowing corn and tobacco, setting sweet potato plants. And they sre working rapidly in aa ef fort to check the rapidly growing grass and planting before the season passes. f PROPERTY VALUES 1 *•— / "It is difficult to estimate the decrease just at this time, but there'll be no unusually large drop in personal property values in our township," Mr. T. B. Slade, list taker for Hamilton Township said this week. Few replacements have been made and the main loss in values will be due to depreciation, Mr. Slade explained. Of course, there'll be the 33 1-3 per cent de crease in real estate values, that percentage being agTeed upon for all districts in the county. No reports have been filed on values throughout the county so far, and just at this time it is hu manly impossible to even offer a guess as to the county-wide de crease In property values. HONOR ROLL AT FARM LIFE Final Honor Roll of Term Lists Total of 38 Students The names of 38 pupils in the Farm Life school appear on the eighth and last month honor roll, as follows: First grade: Reha Fay Griffin, Jo sephine Hardison, Noah Koberson, Dorothy Koberson, (ieorgie Dean Koberson, McDonald Hardison. Second grade: Paisley Corey, Lola Hardisn, Hael Corey, Blanche Heath, Mary Manning, Kliazbeth Manning, B. F. Lilley, Martha A. Koberson. Third grade: Thomas Daniel. Robert Whitley, Francis Manning, Vera Pearl Williams. Fourth grade: Ida Mae Corey, Maur ice Koberson; Flbert Heath, Oscar Wiggins, G. W. Corey. Sixth grade: Sarah Gvtsinger, Ver na Smithwick, Joe Peel. Seventh grade: Fva Manning, Eve lyn Peel. Fighth grade:. Joseph Lilley, James Feel. Ninth grade: Thelnia Coltrain, Bet tie Hutli Heath, Heulali Koberson, Sarah Koberson. I catli grade: Lillian Daniel, Louise Manning. Flevenlh grade: Eva Drown Col train, V'eona Koberson. BAPTISTS UNITED AFTER 88 YEARS Split Over Slavery Question Finally Closed at Meet In Washington I Washington. May 23, —Witli a warm | handclasp of their leaders, northern • and southern Baptists, long split over I the slavery question, got together to day for the first tfnie in 88 years. Meeting in the huge Washington {auditorium, Dr. M. K. Dodd, president |(rf the southern Baptist convention, (clasped hands with Dr. C. Oscar John -1 son, head of the northern organization across what Dr. Dodd termed "an imaginary Mason-Dixon' line." i Earlier the Baptists united to dedi cate thq new Baptist memorial church here with prayer, sermon, and song. Hundreds were turned away* An attack on sweatshops was made by Rev. Clyde Turner, of Greensboro, N. C., who made the address for the southern church at the morning serv ice. The Rev. John MacNeill, of Hamil ton, Ont, the speaker for the north ern Baptists, said: "My presence here swings the whole northern continent into this meeting all imaginary lineß have disappeared." Announcing the hymn, "Blessed Be the Tie That Binds," Dr. Dodd said, "Novy forget north and s*uth, you rebels and you Yanks, and shake hands with your neighbors, saying to ( each other, 'I love you.*" The huge congregation sang with much shaking of hands and smiling. Temperature Goes Above 90 Two Days This Week The record-breaking hot and sultry days this week started i&ople talking about the weather, but stilt nothing more than predictions has been done about it. Mercury readings have been unusually high during the past two days, reaching above the VO-niark. While this section has experinced unusually favorable seasons so far, other parts of the State have not fared so well, it is said. Weather prophets are already predicting a hot and dry summer. Holding Hearing in Civil Lawsuit Here Today A referee hearing was started here this morning in the case of Salibury against Davenport, with Attorney E. S. Peel acting as referee. The action developed over a period of three year*, the defendant claiming certain accounts were paid during that time. Watch the Label On Tow P>pw As It. Carries the Dm* When Your Subscription Kipiraa ESTABLISHED 1898 SEE BODY OF MAN FLOATING DOWN ROANOKE RIVER Seen Near Hamilton by Two Men; Has Not Yet Been Recovered The body of a colored man believed to have been drovtned at Norfleet, above Palmyra, was seen floating down/the Roanoke River near Ham*: ilton early this week, it was learned here yesterday. Mr. Boh Brown and VY ilium Lynch are said to have seen the body and reported it to authorities. I hose seeing the body are said to have reported it in a badly decomposed and that the birds of the air were feeding on it The.y nude no effort to recover the body. Authorities are said t.i have failed 1 to find, the body when they made a 1 search for it later:- A. -cording to reports reaching here the man was drowned about a month ago while floating logs. More than a month ago 11. O Gil lespie, white man, was drowned in the Roanoke at (.Tarksville, Va. Whether the body of that man has been recovered is not known here, and while those seeing the body at Hamilton described it as that of a colored man, it is possible for them to he mistaken in the identity he cause they were some distance from the body when they saw it. The Clarksville man dressed in high-top laced boots, laced pants, black sweat er and cap when drowned The sup erintendent of the Wisconsin Bridge and Iron Works, E Kasilund, posted a SSO reward for the recovery of Gil lespie's body, hut the reward expired the Nth of this month. Efforts art- being made to locate and establish the identity of the body seen near Hamilton, but as far as it could be learned today, there have been no .new developments in the case. SELECT COUNTY HEALTH CHAMP Miss Doris Thomas, of Rob ersonville, Makes High Score of 98 Miss DOHH Thomas, 4-H club mem j her, of Kobersonville, was selected county health champion in a contest conducted here Wednesday afternoon ' Examinations were made by Drs. : Saunders and Warren, Miss Thomas , receiving a score of MH. | Other competing here yesterday I were Doris Teel, of Williamston, Glen t Willouglhby, of Hamilton, Selma Ange, of Jamesville, and Jdel Wells, of Jamesville. Health defects were I largely teeth, bad shoulders, and bad I feet. Those girls failing to notify the reason for not being examined were I Irene Hodges, from Hear (irass, Al berta Keel, front Kveretts, and Flor i»e Moye, from Oak City. Miss Thomas will go to Washing ton, N. C., Monday, May 29, tu par ticipate in the district health contest. I • Government Holding Peanuts Off Market Receipts for peanuts held in stor age as collateral for loans advanced farmers in this section by the govern- I tuent last year have been returned to headquarters in Washington, indicate ing that the government will continue ,to aid peanut farmers to hold the crop off the market for better prices, it was unofficially learned this week. While many of tlue peanuts held in storage as collateral for the loans have been sold, there are a number of lots yet 011 hand. It is understood the government recalled the receipts when the market weakened a few days ago. Robert Everett, Jr., Is Badly Hurt in Fall • Hubert Everett, jr., young local boy, was painfully but not seriously hurt last Tuesday afternoon when he fell from the arch over the Better Chev rolet Company garage entrance. The cement cap to the arch broke off, throwing the boy to the paved side walk about 15 feet below. His head struck an unpaved surface, and the remainder of his body fell on the con crete, causing a painful injury to his hip. The child continues in bed, and yesterday afternoon lie was not get ting along so well. Arrested for Stealing From Inmate of County Home • Levi Williams and Lee Winbush, both colored, were arrested near here last Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff C. B. Roebuck and placed in jail in con nection with the theft oft set of car penter's tools from Ben Gliaaon, in mate at the county home. Williams, a former charge of the welfare authorities, is said to. have stolen the tools.and went to work.