Watch the Label OB TOW Paper Aa It- Carries the Data Whaa Your Subscription Kzpiraa VOLUME XXXVI—.NUMBER 97 COTTON CHECKS BEING RECEIVED IN THIS COUNTY $4730 Is Being Paid Out To 103 Martin Farmers This Week Approximately $4,730 is being dis tributed to 103 Martin County farm ers who cooperated in the cotton re duction drive last year under the op tional plan, it was learned yesterday from Miss Mary Carstarphen, secre tary to County Agent T. 8.. Brandon. About 100 additional checks are ex pected within the next few days, and they will be delivered just as soon as they are received, provided the own ers have signed contracts fry control ling acreage this year. Those farmers who signed contracts under the direct cash plan have re ceived their checks with the excep tion of one or two. Other farmers following the optional plan have re ceived checks varying in amount from $6 to sl2 an acre as their first pay ment. There are now getting an ad ditional four cents a pound, bringing the price of their cotton up to 10 cent*. They are still represented in the pool, and it is likely they will re ceive additional money later. The cotton reduction campaign con tinues to move slowly but steadily on in this county. Next Wednesday is the dead line for signing, and those growers desiring to participate in the movement should get in toiKh witli their local committees immediately. STAR OF MOVIES HERE IN PERSON Buzz Barton and Company Of Western Entertainers Here Monday, Tuesday Buzz Barton, well-known Western screen >tar and his company will ap pear in person at the Watts Theatre here Monday and Tuesday of next week. Coming direct from Holly wood and on a tour of America, in which he is making a number of per sonal appearances in theatres, he is the idol of every American boy and girl. Buzz will arrive here in his airplane type Pullmantrailer, his deluxe home on wheels. It is luxuriously appoint ed inside, equipped with a radio, tile floor, and a business office for his private secretary. He is accompanied by a clever supporting cast, including Rex Cole, Hollywood stunt man, who is famous in the film colony for his doubling for Buck Jones, Tim Mc- Coy, and Ken Maynard.. Rex is' an expert trick and fancy roper and has won prizes at various rodeos. Other features are Chief Clearwater, a Sioux Indian, and Little Bear and Running Deer, 'l2-year-old twins, great-grand children of Chief Sitting Bull, who was responsible for the Custer inat-l sacre. A. C. Griffin, popular singer of western songs, will render several melodies of the range, some new and some old. Miss Altamae Niquette, one of the world champion all-around cowgirls, is also with the company. Then there is Minnie Letcher and her Montana Melody Maids. Young Bar ton i* a crack rifle (hot and appears in person at each performance. There will also be a special feature picture each night, with a complete change of program. Program of Services At Methodist Church C. T. Rogers, pastor. "Nothing reveals one's self more accurately than the Way in which one spends his money." If this statement is true, what is the difference between men and the sorriest human being in town? How and what does he spend his money for, how and what do I spend my money for? This dwarfed, dried-up, measley little soul thinlu of •elf and maybe his family, and I, what more can be said for me? At Sunday school and church you are taught to be a "brother to man."| Here, whether you are poor or rich in this world's goods, you are taught to be the best and most loved person in town. Dont' miss the joy that the church can bring to your-life. Start Sunday, the next Sunday may be too late. Services at the usual hours./ - We will be glad to have yb|l to meet with us, but if not with us, go to chnrch somewhere Sunday. Had No Money tor Books, Saving To Buy Whiskey When asked to bring money for a textbook, a fatherless child in the lo cal school" a day or two later explained that she could not get the required amount, that her mother was saving what money she could get for the purchase of some liquor tc be used at a pea-popping, corn-shocking, or some other neighborly event on the farm. THE ENTERPRISE f A FAIR OUESTION 1 V * Stirred by the (rowing tendency of hia fellow townamen to use-the newspaper for everything but ad vertising, a South Dakota editor recently aaked them pertinently, in a page one box: "If a member of your family died, would you aend out the obit uary in a circular letter? If your wife entertained, would you run a alide on the screen of the movie show? If you were to enlarge your atore, would you tell folka in a hotel register? If you were to have a wedding at your houae, would you tack the newa on a telephone poat? "Then why in heck don't you put your aavertiiing in the newspaper, teo ...' E. P. BUNCH DIED EARLY TUESDAY RESULT STROKE Well Known Operator of Filling Station Dies at Home of Daughter Edward Parker Bunch, local filling station operator and merchant, died at the home of his..daughter, Mri. W. D. Gurganus, in Williams Township, early last Tuesday morning following a stroke of paralysis suffered the 15th of last month. Losing the use of his right side, Mr. Bunch was able to rec ognize members of his family much of the time up until a short while before he died, but he was never able to speak plainly after the stroke. He was attending to.his regular business duties when he was taken suddenly ill. Born in Chowan County, near Edenton, 68 years ago the 29th of last month, Mr. Bunch moved here from Richmond 35 years ago. A number of years ago he established a small busi ness on the Hamilton road and pros pered. He met his obligations prompt ly and gained friends by his unusual character. He was a member of the Baptist church for a number of years. Following his stroke, he was car ried to the home of his daughter in Williams Township, where funeral s£rvices were conducted Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock by Rev. Chas. H. Dickey, pastor of the local Bap tist church. Interment followed in the cemetery here, a short distance from where he had lived for a number of years. Mrs. Bunch, with three children, Mrs. W. D. Gurganu*, /f Williams Township, and George Bunch, of Wil liamston, and Linwood Bunch, of Portsmouth, Va., survives. MAYOR HAD BUSY TIME THIS WEEK Unusually Large Number Of Minor Cases Tried by Mayor Hassell Mayor J. L. Hassell had an unusu ally busy time this week handling sev eral minor cases. John Price, charged with operating an automobile with improper licenses, was fined $lO and taxed with the cost. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost and the purchase of licenses. l,eman Cherry and Joe Taylor were fined $5 each and taxed with the coat in the case charging them with tres passing. The case charging E. C. Andrews with reckless driving was sent to the recorder's court for trial next Tues day. Bullock, prosecuting witness, claims that Andrews turned off the highway near Robersonvilie without giving proper warning, causing him to run the front wheel of his car into that of Andrews. Judgment was suspended upon pay ment of the cost in the case charging Gus Wynn with disorderly conduct. Linnie Bell Watta, colored woman, was taxed with the cost in the case charging her with slapping down Bur ras Taylor, white child. Cotton Growers Refusing To Sign Will Be Taxed Assurance was made certain Tues day at Washington that growers of cotton who do not sign with the gov-, ernment to reduce the size of their, crops in 1934 will be so heavily taxed on their surplus bales that it will al most be prohibitive to grow more than the government allotment. Pass at of the control act came in Senate Tuesday, providing for a tax of approximately 8 cents per pound on all cotton above the. 9,000,000 bales aet as the 1934 crop. The demand for restriction on acre age or a prohibitive tax against those who do not cooperate in the acreage agreement now being offered came from all the cotton-growing states as the .result of questionnaires broadcast! ovpr the cotton states. ~jrfL' j ■* • Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, February 9, 1934 RECORDER HAD NUMBER CASES LAST TUESDAY ♦ Large Number of Witnesses And Spectators at Ses sion This Week While the last Tuesday session of the county court attracted much at tention, the docket was about as usu al in that it carried a few assault cases one or two liquor manufacturing charges and one or two others of even less importance. The case charging Hezekiah Keel with aiding and abetting the manu facture of liquor was continued one week. Willie Ennerson, the young negro who stole Sheriff C. B. Roebuck's pis tol last week, was sentenced to the roads for a period of six months. A nol pros resulted in the case in which Klino Bullock was charged with reckless driving. S. L. Woolard, recaptured convict. was given an additional stay in the camp of six months when he was guil ty of larceny and escaping from the prison. Judgment was suspended in the case charging Rosie Williams with simple assault. The case charging Dawson^Williams with the same of fense was nol prossed. Bill Daughtrie was fined SSO and taxed with the cost and Will Worley was fined $25 and taxed with the cost in the ease charging them with manu facturing, transporting, and possess ing liquor. Johnson Corey pleaded guilty in the case charging him with having com mitted an assault with a deadly weap on. Ihe court continued prayer for judgment until next week. All l|i^ monopolized since it was Barbers and Perrys had in court last Tues day. The action brought by Dennis Barber against Sarah Jane Perry was continued until next Tuesday. SCHOOL BAND IN - FIRST CONCERT Entertains Kiwanis Club at Mid-Week Luncheon Wednesday Making a first appearance here last Wednesday, Williamson's newly or ganized high school band made a marked hit with the local Kiwanis Club. The young players, accom panied by Instructor Braxton, offered three numbers, and surprised all their hearers. ,Judging from the suc cess of their first public appearance, the members of the band have a bright future before them as a musical group. Practice has been under way a com paratively short itme, but the boy* are fast mastering their instruments, and by next season the school wilt prob ably have one of the best bands cast of Raleigh. Announce Services For Baptist Church Sunday 'Coarh Peter*' basketball five marked up their sixth victory of- the seaaon last Tuesday night by defeating the Bethel quint at Bethel by a 37 to IS "1 he Sermon That Was Never Preached," will b« the theme at the Baptist church Sunday morning, while' at the evening hour the subject will be, "Old Testament Reporters." Newcomes into the community and visitors are invited to our services, and the membership is expected. The Sunday school session is held at 9:45 to 10:30 o'clock, and the young people have their evening programs at 6:30. Any one who is looking for spir itual help and moral stamina can find them in any church in this town; but few characters ever seem to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord who absent themselves from re ligious services. If one enters any house of worship in the proper spir it, he will leave benefited. Wheeler Martin, Jr., Gets West Point Appointment Wheeler Martin, jr., of this place,' this week received an appointment! from United States Senator Josiali William Bailey as principal to take the entrance examinations to the United States Military Academy at West Point. The young man left last Tuesday for New York, where he will' study prior to taking the entrance ex aminations some time in March. He was accompanied by Mrs. Martin, who will visit her sister, Mrs. Laurence' Stailings, there fa few week*. Sunday Services At Church of Advent E. F. Motley, rector. Quinquagesinia Sunday, or the Sun- 1 day iqut before Lent: Church school, 9:45 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon, 11 a. m. Evening prayer and sermon, at 7:30 p. m. { CWA PROTECTS 1 With the approval of three proj ects for thia county the early part of the week, only three Martin CWA projects are now before the authorities in Raleigh for consid eration, it is understood. * Approval of the project for a gymnaaium in Oak City and an other calling for the improvement of the road leading off Highway 90 at Holly Springs to the Farm Life section, is expected at any time. In fact, it was thought the projects would have been approv *ed before now. A third project having to do with a swimming pool for Williamston, is not ex pected to get the endorsement of the authorities, according to in formation reaching here yester day. CODE PRICES ON USED CARS BIG AID TO PUBLIC County Dealers Cooperate In Advertising Benefits To Customers ♦ To Rive the buying public an idea as to why the new automobile deal er's code book will be as much to their advantage as it is to the dealers, the automobile agencies in Martin Coun ty are today cooperating in an ad vertisement that gives the aims and purposes of the code and explains its workings in a brief concise fashion. Dealers point out that tlie new code of prices for used cars allowed by the dealers will save prospective buyers a lot of time and energy in going from one dealer o another to see where the best trade may )be obtained. All trades are made on the basis code book prices and one dealer's al- lowance must necessarily be no high er than another. It should be under stood that in order to obtain the limit code priv'e on any used car, the car should be in average condition as to mechanism and appearance. With every dealer in the county dis playing new 1934 model automobiles, the past week lias seen a tremendous revival in interest shown by pros pective buyers. The new Plymouth#, Chevrolets, and Fords have attract ed thousands of people to the agency showrooms, and many sales have been effected during the past few days. The hew streamline effect of the cars, many improvements that have been made in engineering, bet ter bodies, faster speeds and increased comfort are appealing to those who demand the best in'motor cars, and to those who for''the past few years have been without a car. BOYS WIN, GIRLS LOSE TUESDAY Local and Bethel Teams I Break Even in Double Bill at Bethel score. While the boys recorded a sweeping victory, Williamston girls went down in defeat to the tune of 33 to 2, Player Weaver making the lone goal for the locals. Anderson, after being forced out of play by an injured hand, was back in the game last Tuesday, and he scored 12 points to lead the scoring. Cook was second with 11 points, followed by Manning, who accounted for four field goals. Rose and Bowen made three points each. The locals were scheduled to play Hobgood a double-header here this evening with Hobgood but the games were called off by Hobgood. 1935 Auto Tags To Be Black and Silver Hardly before the motorists havej recuperated from the setback caused in the purchase of 1934 automobile li-j cense tags, State authorities began planning for making tags for next | year. The new color*, announced | this week, wiH be a silvery paint on. a black background. The new plates will be painted with a aluminum paint, giving the numbers a silvery look, but will again be on sheet steel. It was proposed at one time to use aluminum, but it proved too costly. The state prison will make the plates, some 400,000 or more sets. Up to today, 316,199 pairs of 1934 ( licenses had been issued, compared with 248,917 issuances up to the same day a year ago. The local license bureau continues the sale of tags, but the purchases are now few and far between. During the season, the bureau sold several hundred more tags than it did laat year. SEWER LINES ON 2 STREETS HERE ARE SUGGESTED Lines dn Washington and Elm Streets Studied by CWA Engineers Plans for laying sewer lines on Elm and Washington Streets are being con sidered by local authorities in con junction with sanitary engineer* op erating under the Civil Works ad ministration, it was learned yesterday. A survey of the two streets was to have been started today, but the wwather interrupted the a,iul nothing will l>e done about the pro posed project before som time next week, it is understood. Just what ruling the authorities will place in effect regarding com pulsory connections on the two pro posed lines could not he learned. It is an established fact that many homes located on lines at the present time have no connections with the dis posal system. In fact, several privies have been constructed by CWA sani tary specialists right in the business district of the town, where water and sewer lines have been in reach for about IS years. » Water service is available on Wash ington Street, but there is none on Kim Street. If water connections are made available they will be at town expense, it is understood. MRS. ELLA B. HOOKER DIES Native of This County Dies At Home in Bethel Last Friday Night Mrs. Ella it. Hooker, a native of this county, died at her home in Beth el last Friday night following a stroke of paralysis suffered only a few hours before. Funeral services were conducted in the Baptist church there last Saturday by her pastor, Rev. Leslie Newman, assisted by Rev. J. O. Long, of Beth el, and Rev. J. M. I'erry, of Rober sonville. Interment was in the Beth el cemetery. Mrs. Hooker, 54 years old, was the daughter of John A. and Martha Ben nett, late of this county. Fallowing the death of her husband she moved to Bctlvel to make her home. Three daughters, Mrs. Wade Ward, and Misses Emily Clyde and Iris Hooker, and two sons, Robert and Dan Hook ei, all of Bethel, survive. She also leaves four sisters, Mrs. Geo. W. Man ning, of Oak City; Mrs. Mack Tay lor, of Williamston; Mrs. M. L. Bel lamy, of Raleigh, and Mrs. W. T. Stinnette, of Norfolk; and four broth ers, W. B. Bennett, of Palmyra; M. K. Bennett, of Roanoke Rapids; J. T. Bennett, of Oak City; and Jule Ben nett, of Williamston. ROBBERS ENTER EVERETT DEPOT - ♦ — Roll Safe from the Station, But Fail To Find Money Robbers entered the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company's station in Kveretts and rolled out an iron safe. The thieves left the safe a short dis tance from the station when they found the door was not locked and there was no money in the iron box. The robbery, was the fourth report ed on railroad property in this coun ty during the past few weeks. The station at Jamesville was robbed, and a small amount of money was stolen. The station at Oak City was entered twice since that time, but nothing was missed from the property. On their first visit, the robbers rolled the I safe to the strtion door and left it when they fount! the door open and no money in the container. Officers are of the opinion that the same robber* entered all thrre sta tions. Governor's Chauffeur Gets Ticket for Fast Driving G&ernor Juhn C. H. Khringiiaus' plea for greater safety on North Carolina highways WHS heeded by Al bemarle police a few day?- ago when they preferred charges against the ex ecutive'* chauffeur for speeding through the streets of that town. Ac cording to report*, the chauffeur drove the car carrying the Governor through the streets there about 50 or 53 miles an hour, or just about 15 rnilei an hour glower than ths chauffeur, ril ing alone, is said to have (riven the limousine through Everett* two or three weesk ago. When the driver, traveling toward Elizabeth City, reached here he had slowed the ma chine down considerably and went through the main street here at about 40 miles an hour. 4 FIRST SNOW The section's first inow of the current winter fell early this morn ing, covering the ground with a blanket about 1 1-2 inchea deep. Yesterday afternoon tha mer cury dropped about 10 degree* in an hour or two, and that with a dark sky caused many to predict early last evening a fall of several inches during tha Ttyia morning the thermometer contin ued downward, reaching the 10- degree mark shortly before 9 o'- clock. Occasional snow fell during the early morning, but the sun made its appearance and by noon tha snow was rapidly making its dis appearance. Fair and warmer weather is predicted for tomrrow. URGING TOBACCO MARKETING TAX FOR NONSIGNERS Would Make It Prohibitive for Non-signer To Sell His Tobacco Raleigh—Flue-cured tobacco grow ers who have signed acreage reduc tion contracts are being called upon to urge immediate action in placing a federal production tax'oti weed sold by non-signers. ' Claude T. Hall, of Woodsdale. president of the North Carolina to bacco advisory board, said an emer gency situation has been created by the danger that new growers and non-signers may break down the re duction program by planting large acreages. He urged that growers in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia who have signed the government reduction contracts press their congressmen and the agricul- 1 tural adjustment administration for' a compulsory coperation provi*iW»by imposition of a federal tax on tobat-j co marketed by non-signers. Mall said dispatches from \Vash-| ington indicated the government ap-' patently was abandoning the'idea of I compulsory cooperation and is niak-' ing no plans to deal with the new I grower or the old grower who may i increase production, or the contract evader. Hall proposed that a special tobac co marketing tax of 20 cents a pound, or a figure sufficiently high to dis courage "chiseling," be placed on non-cooperating 'growers and that this plan be incorporated in the cot ton control bill now pending in Con gress. Under Hall's plan, a non-signer or growers attempting to market more than their alloted poundage of to bacco would be heavily taxed for each pound they sold above their al lotments, the tax to be collected be fore the check is made out to the producer at the selling warehouse. Hall conferred here recently with Dean I. U. Schaub and E. Y. Floyd, of North Carolina State College, on the plan. APPROVE TWO COUNTY LOANS Bonds of Home Loan Group Go Up and More Loans Expected Only two loans have berti approved in this county by tlie Home Owners' Loan Corporation recently, it was learned here yesterday. Several loans were approved some time ago, but so far no bonds or money have been re ceived by the depressed home owit- Honds of the corporation have ad vanced in price during the. past few days, and it js now believed that mort gage holders will readily accept the bonds. The delay in advancing the loans resulted when the creditors re fused to accept the bonds offered by the corporation whtn they were worth only 82' cents on th dollar. Recent quotations valued the bonds at 96 cents on the dollar. It is the opin ion of many that additional loans to property owners in this county will be approved and completed in a com paratively short time, Additional applications are being made for loans from the corporation, running the number well over the 100 'mark in this county. Federal Land Hank loans are being approved almost 'daily, it was learned. To Hold Pie Party At Macedonia Next Friday The adult class of the Macedonia Bible taught by Mrs. W. O. Peel, will give a basket and pie party ,a the school house there next Friday night, February 16, at 7:30 o'clock. Proceeds will be used in the pur chase of a rug for the pulpit in the Macedonia church. Evreyone is in vited to attend the-party. mmwumt ESTABLISHED 1898 SMALL LOADINGS AT POULTRY CAR HERE THIS WEEK Only 1,000 Pounds Loaded At James; 5,000 Here; Receipts $661.22 Comparatively small poultry load ings were reported at Jamesville on Wednesday and here yesterday by the cooperativ poultry car, County Agent T. B. Brandon said this morning. Jamesville loaded 1,177 pounds for $110.87, and Williamstn sold 5,254 pounds for $550.45, making a total at the two points of 6,431 pounds and $661.22 in receipts. Hucksters took more than 1,000 pounds of hens from the car here, it was estimated. While there is a marked decrease of chickens in the county this year as compared with the number of last year, the light loadings this week were the result of comparatively low price*, it is believed. '1 he operators handled the loadings at a decided loss this week, the of ferings falling short by about 10,000 pounds of tilling a car. It could not be learned today wheth er plans would he considered for op erating another car next month or JOHN HOLLIDAY PASSES AT HOME IN JAMESVILLE Last Rites Are Being Held There This Afternoon at 1:00 O'clock John Franklin Ilolliday, one of Martin County's oldest citizens, died at the home of his son, Joe Holliday, near Jamesville, at 6 o'clock yester day morning following an illness of only a lew days' duration. He suffer ed a stroke of paralysis last week, but prior to that time he was said to be in fairly good health and very active for his advanced age. He have been 81 years old March IS. Mr. Holliday was born near James ville where he spent his entire life farming. He was an honorable gen tleman of the old school, and was highly respected tiy all who knew him. Horn just a few years before the outbreak of the Civil War, Mr. Holliday experienced many hardships common of that period, but he work ed hard from early life to establish himself and provide for his family. His wife died about two years ago, and he leaves two daughters, Mrs. Waldo Holliday and Miss Maggie Holliday, and two sons, Walter and Joe I'. Holliday, all of this county. He also leaves two brothers, Messrs. Leonard I'. Holliday, a former mem ber of the Martin County Board of Commissioners, and Hardy M. Holli dSy, and one sister, Mrs. Estella Gardner, all of near Jamesville. !■ uneral servcies are being conduct ed from his late home this after noon at 1 o'clock by Daniel Hardi son. Interment will follow in the family burial ground near the home of If. M. Holliday in Jnniesville Township. [_ HUNTERS HAVE FEW DAYS LEFT w .. , Hunters From Other Sec tions Taking Advantage Of Extended Season Tlie extended hunting season for nail in this county and a few others iii causing local hunters some con cern, it is understood. Hunters from those sections where the season has already closed are making frequent and regular visits to this territory to hunt, and they are said to be taking home the game in large quantities. Some of the visitors are from more than 100 miles away, one group car rying out 30 or 40 quail at a clip. While the size of the bird groups is said to be smaller this year than last, the current season has been a very favorable one for most sports men. With only about 10 more days left before the season closes in this 'county, hunters are visiting the fields in large numbers, reports state. Preaching Services at the Christian Church Sunday Regular services will be held at the local Christian church Sunday morn ing at 11 o'clock and that evening at 7: JO o'clouk. A cordial welcome a waits all {jjio will attend. Sunday school at 9:45. Come and bring a friend. Masonic Meeting To Be„- Held Next Tuesday Night ——• Work r tn the second degrw will feature the meeting of the Skewarkfee Lodge Maaons here next Tuesday night, Member Milton J. Moye an nounced today. The meeting will not last over an hour and a half, and all members are urged to attend.