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VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 100
SPECIAL SESSION
OF TOWN BOARD
HELD LAST NIGHT
Representative Asks Town
To Back Movement To
Advertise Highway
Meeting in special session here last
nigfitl the town commissioners ex
pressed their interest, but took no
definite action in pledging support to
the movement to advertise United
States Highway No. 64 as one of the
main arteries from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Mr. Jack D. Lysle, of Enfield, pro
moter of the Association U. S. 64,
appeared before the meeting and ex
plained what had been done and what
is now being done to make 64 a main
Nartery for coast-to-:oast travel. Mr.
Lysle explained that the route was
264 miles shorter than any other one,
that a aeries of bridges had been
planned to connect Tyrrell County
with Roanoke Island at a cost of more
than a million\dollars, and that the
route was beccmtinff more popular all
the time throughout the west.
He said that Williamston command
ed one of the most important posi
tions along the route, as the Atlantic
Coastal Highway crosses 64 at this
point.
Old N. C. Highway No. 90 was
changed almost overnight, the United
States Government replacing the old
marking with the new number of 64.
J. Q. Peeples, representative of the
Virginia Well and Machinery Com
pany, appeared before the board to
offer information in connection with
the sinking of a new deep well and
cleaning the three now in use. The
town has an application for a loan
from PWA funds for the sinking of a
new well, but the request has not
been granted so far. Negotiations are
still underway, however, and it is
hoped some action will result before
the present water supply is exhausted.
The supply has diminished consider
ably in the last year or two, it is un
derstood.
FREEZE KILLED
ALL VEGETABLES
Farmers Turning To Tin
Cans and Smokehouses
for Daily Food
♦ '—
The all-year-round garden suffered
a temporary set-back in this county
recently when freezing weather killed
nearly all of what little vegetables
there were in the gardens of thrifty
people. W. J. Edmondson, farmer of
Hamilton Township,' said yesterday
that he had not seen a live collard in
a garden anywhere since the unusu
ally cold weather struck a few days
ago, and all his cabbage plants were
killed, he added.
As a result of the low-down action
*~of the mercury, nearly every one is
eating out of cans in these parts these
days. But winter-time vegetables do
not count for so much in Martin
County as long as there is plnety of
meat in the smokehouse and a large
supply of corn in the barn.
Council Meeting Woman's
Clubs To Meet Thursday
first county council meeting
of the home demonstration clubs to
be held this year is scheduled for
Thursday afternoon of this week at
2:30 p. m. in the home agent's office
in the courthouse. All club officers
should plan to come. A few matters
of business will be dispensed with,
including the paying of the dues and
the paying of the Jane S. McKim
mon Loan Fund pledge; reports
should be turned in from all clubs.
A real treat is in store for all who
attend this meeting, as a speaker has
been secured to come before the group
of women in the person of Mrs. Mose
ley, a former missionary to China.
Mrs. Moseley will have something
worth while to pass on to the women
relative to the customs of the Chinese
people.
Inidnt of Mr. and Mrs.
James Pate Died Friday
Claudia Leona, five-months-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Pate,
died at the home of her parents near
here on the Jamesville road last Fri
day from an attack of pneumonia.
Funeral services were conducted
from the home Saturday afternoon at
£:3O o'clock by Rev. Charles T. Rog
ers, Methodist minister. Burial was
in the Samuel Pate family plot in
Williams Township.
Woman's Club To Hold
Dance Here Friday Night
♦
There will be a dance at the Wo
man's Club this Friday night from
9:30 to 1:30. Music by Fred Roger*
Band, of Roberaooville.
THE ENTERPRISE
County Farmers Get Last
Of Cotton Plow-Up Checks
The last of the 1933 cotton
plow-up checks were received in
this county yesterday, the three
farmers getting the checks agree
ing that they are better late than
never. The first of the 465 checks
were received in the county last
fall, but somehow these three
were lost sight of in the rush.
The three farmers, all living in
Robersonville Township, received
a total of |IOO.
The 465 farmers participating in
the plow-up movement received
122,009.39, not including addition
al amounts recently received by
those farmers signing the option
al plan. The checks ranged in
sise from $660 down to 96, Mid
Peanut Meeting To
Be Held Saturday
ONEADDITIONTO
LIST CANDIDATES
John D. Lilley Announces
for Office of Superior
Court Clerk
♦
Interest in Martin County politics
continueds to increase, Mr. John D.
Lilley, school teacher and farmer, hav
ing announced his candidacy over the
week-end for the clerkship of the Mar
tin County Superior Court. Mr. Lil
ley's candidacy develops a three-cor
nered race for the particular office,
and there are other possible candi
dates, it is understood. There has
been no change in the line-up for
other offices, but rumors are numer
ous in connection with the- raci" for
seats in the state senate. i
The official line-up as it stands now
is as follows: "
For state senate: A. Corey, of
Jamesville; R. L. Coburn, of Wil
liamston; ami Carl L. Bailey, of Ply
mouth.
For house of representatives: HugH
G. Horton, of Williamston.
For Martin County clerk of court:
T. B. Slade, of Hamilton; L. B. Wynn,
of Williamston; and J. D. Lilley, of
Williamston, Route 1.
Truck and Auto Crash at
Road Intersection Here
A. J. Stevens, of Blounts Creek, and
Elton Andrews, of near here, miracu
lously escaped injury last Saturday
afternoon when a Studebaker driven
by Stevens and a truck driven by
Andrews crashed together at the in
tersection of the Jamesville and
Washington roads. Wood loaded on
the truck was scattered all about the
scene, but no great damage was done
to either of the vehicles.
Andrews had started across the
Washington highway into Sycamore
Street when his truck was h^. by the
new Studebaker car.
Falls Out of Car Running
About 45 Miles an Hour
Mrs. J. R. Manning was painfully
bruised when she fell out of an auto
mobile while traveling about 45 miles
an hour just out of town on the
Jamesville road early last Saturday
evening. It is believed that she suf
fered a broken bone in one foot when
she fell to the shoulder of the road,
barely missing the concrete.
Going out of town, Mr. and Mra.
Manning stopped to pick up a "bum
mer,* and in closing the door to the
Tudor sedan, Mrs. Manning caught
a glove in the door. When ahe
opened the door to release her glove
she fell out. She is said to be get
ting along very well at this time.
Bear Grass Farmer Suffers
Stroke Paralysis Saturday
A. W. Bailey, prominent farmer of
Bear Grass Township, is in a critical
condition following a stroke of paraly
sis suffered at his home there early
last Saturday morning. His condition
was said to have been slightly im
proved yesterday, but he does not
have the use of his right side.
Mr. Bailey, 67 years old that day,
had just gotten up and was found
helpless on the floor by his wife a
'few minutes later.
Plans Underway TQ Hold
County Kitchen Contest
»
Plans are going forward for th«
kitchen contest in the county. If you
are interested and have not mailed
in your name to Mist Sleeper, kind
ly do so that work may be shaped up
for the beginning of this contest.
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 20,1934
averaged about 147.54 each, the
check-up made this week revealed.
The last of the checks reached
here just as the county agent's
office started work on new cot
ton reduction contracts, sn accur
ate number of which and the acre
age affected has not been deter
mined as yet.
All tobacco contracts are in the
hands of officials in Washington
and Raleigh with one or two ex
ceptions. It is believed now that
the county agent's office will
complete the work on cotton con
tracts for this year in time to start'
work on a peanut acreage or
poundage control, provided, of
course, the peanut is made a basic
commodity.
SPEAKERS WILL
OUTLINE PLAN OF
CONTROL OBARD
Believed Present Congress
Will Make Peanuts a
Basic Commodity
The Eastern Carolina Chamber of
Commerce will sponsor a county-wide
peanut meeting in each of the 10 pe»-
nut-growing counties of the east, to
explain to the growers the program
of the Peanut Control Board recently
set up under the marketing agree
ment. These meetings will be held
Saturday, February 24th, at 11 o'clock,
in the following places: Windsor,
courthouse; l'arboro, courthouse;
Gatesville, ' courthouse; Edenton,
courthouse; Williamston, courthouse;
Plymouth. courthouse; Ahoskie;
Scotland Neck, Dixie Theater; Rich
Square, schoolhouse.
We want to educate the peanut
growers as to the operation of the
peanut industry under the new deal,"
Secretary Bartlett said. The section
al meeting in Rich Square last, Fri
day, with five counties preOTittr-went
on record unanimously favoring mak
ing peanuts a basic commodity at this
term of Congress. Sam N. Clark,
grower-member of North Carolina on
the Control Board, outlined the glans
the board has in mind, as to produc
tion control, allotment, and the other
|>roblerns ojf the industry. All of
these will be explained and discussed
at the county meetings Saturday, No
vember 24th,
With the approval of the Senate ag
ricultural committee, the passage of a
bill making peanuts a basic commodi
ty is now considered likely. In the
face of recent developments, it is now
believed that arrangements will be
made the very near future for an
acreage or poundage control for the
crop this year. County Agent T. B.
Brandon is in Suffolk today in con
nection with the drive for recogni
tion of peanuts and acreage or pound
age control.
News from Washington indicates,
that officials there have undergone a'
complete reversal of opinion wi'hin a'
year in regard to the peanut crop.
Last year when peanuts were sought
to be included in the farm act, Sec
retary Wallace withheld his approval
and opponents of the farm program
poked fun at those who talked of
peanuts being a basic crop. Congres
sional representatives from the pea
nut-growing sections of Virginia and
North Carolina have worked hard and
long to bring about the change of
heart at Washington, and they have
been strongly urged on by represen
tatives of growers in cooperation with
millers and manufacturers of the prod
uct. The recently appointed control
board is the result of months of ac
tivity on the part of interested parties
to have the commodity included in
the adjustment act as a basic com
modity, thereby guaranteeing the 1
growers the same benefits that are
applied to other leading farm crops
in the country.
The decision to recomend produc
tion control was made after a study
of the situation indicated the poaai
bility of increases in peanut acreage
and production unless some such con
trol was inaugurated. Prices to farm
ers for peanuts from the 1933 crop
were approximately double those of
the two previous seasons.
It was pointed opt that approxi
mately 5,000,000 acres of land would
be released from production in 1934
in the areas which now produce pea
nuts commercially. Although this
land, under the cotton contract, can
not be planted to other crops which
would produce a surplus, the peanut
producers fear that farmers may u at
CWA RANKS TO BE
THINNED OUT AT
END OF WEEK
Local Authorities Ordered
To Drop 173 from List
In County Friday
The first sizeable bomb in the ranks
of Civil Works Administration work
ers is scheduled to explode Friday
of this week when 23,984 men are to
be turned off in this state. Already
the authorities are puzzled over the
task of dismissing 173 workers in this
county on Friday,, and probably 100
or more next week and so on until
the CWA is demobilized in its en
tirety by May 1, according to informa
tion received here.
Under orders from authorities in
Washington City and Raleigh, the
rural sections are receiving the blunt
end of the curtailment procedure.
Martins CWA list will be reduced
this week frof 555 to 382, a reduction
of slightly more than 31 pel 1 cent.
Plans are now under way for "fir
ing 400,000 men in the country this
week.
Although CWA (payrolls in big
cities will be maintained at full
strength during the rest of the winter,
those to be dropped first elsewhere
will be the ones with other resources,
or with some other member of their
household employed.
With the heaviest initial '"firing" to
start in the south, Hopkins figures
that those working in rural areas will
be able to find new jobs in spring
farm tasks.
The administration's long range
program for aiding present and future
jobless was pushed forward, mean
time. Hopkins said the long-time
plan rested in the President's hands.
Hugh Johnson and other NRA offic
ials concentrated on preparation for a
meeting early next month of all code
authorities, before whom will be
placed plans for a 36-hour-or-less week
in place of the present 40. Hopes are
that many discharged CWA workers
will be thus reemployed.
Secretary Perkins spoke in favor of
a 30-hour week before the house labor
committee Monday, but said it should
not be arbitrarily imposed. Both she
and Hopkins are backing an unem
ployment insurance plan.
| "The CWA administrator outlined
plans for Weeping some (employees
busy until May 1.
"One of these projects,' he said,
"is the rebuilding, the extension and
building of new consolidated rural
schools in those states that have a
consolidated school system. Other
similar projects are underway which
can be completed by May 1."
Asked how the school building plan
would work in the light of orders that
no new workers were to be employed,
he replied, "There are many ways to
kill a cat."
TENANT FARMER
ASSURED RELIEF
Contract Violators Forfeit
All Rights To Rentals—*.
or Stated Benefits
♦
Memphis, Tenn.—Tenant cotton
farmers today were assured by Oscar
Johnston, manager of the A. A. A.
cotton option poo!, of government re
lief from possible mistreatment by
land owners.
Land owners who violate the pro
visions of the 1934 production con
trol contract, which apply to the treat
ment of labor, will forfeit all right to
rentals or benefits provdied for in the
contract," Mr. Johnson said in a
telephone conversation from his plan
tation home at Scott, Miss.
Hunters Enjoying Last
Of Quail Season Today
Hunters in this section are said to
be taking advantage of the last day
for hunting quail. Numbers were out
bright and early this morning to take
parting shots with the birds until the
''opening of next season.
Culling of Poultry Flock
Begins With Baby Chick
Culling of the poultry flo:k should'
begin with the baby chicks. All crip
pled and weak chicks should be de
stroyed as soon after hatching as pos
sible, as such chicks are always first
to contract colds, roup, or pox. They
may also be carriers of diseases that
will cause heavy losses in the flock.
After this period the birds should be
carefully watched for slow develop
ing, blunted, and undersized pullets
or cockerels. These should be tak
en from the flock and sold as broilers
j or fryers.
their extra labor and equipment to
plant peanuts on land not covered by
the contracts, at the two cropt are
natural alternatives for each other.
Leader of Eastern
Gang of Robbers Is Caught
HOLD HEARING
IN TELEPHONE
CONTROVERSY
—♦ —
City of Henderson Pressing
Effort for Municipal
* • Ownership
♦
The temporary receivership for the
Henderson p operties of the Carolina
Telephone and Telegraph Company
ordered by Judge Henry A. Grady in
Raleigh on February 1, was dissolved
by Judge Clayton Moore at a hear
ing in Bertie County Superior Court
in Windsor last Friday, and the
property was tuurned back to the
telephone company under the couit
order. At the same time Judge
Moore set up an injunction against
the company requiring it to continue
service in Henderson and forbidding
it to remove any of its property from
the city pending final adjudication of
the issues in the controversy.
The court's order further requires
the company to proceed at once at its
own expense to remove its poles and
wires from Garnett Street, Hender
son's main business thoroughfare, in
order to make way for installation of
a modern lighting system and white
way in connection with the repaying
of the street.
Considerable interest was aroused
over the State in the outcome of the
issue, in view of the fa;t that the
privileges and practices of a large
utility company were invoked, with
potential influence on other utilities
and other municipalities. The major
battle is still to come, however, and
will get under way in Superior court
March 12 at Henderson.
PLAYER HURT
IN AUTO WRECK
Gladys Lilley Recovering
From Injuries Received
In Plymouth Wreck
Miss Gladys Lilley, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. J, Dawson Lilley, of
Griffins Township and a student in
the Farm Life school, was painfully
but not seriously jiurt in an automo
bile wreck at Plymouth last Friday
afternoon. She was cut about the
face, and has not yet returned to
school, it was learned here fpday.
Miss Lilley was riding with Thur
lowe Spruill and Mike Atamanchuck,
Plymouth boys, when the car, travel
ing at a rapid speed, ran off the high
way into an electric light pole, cut
ting the pole in two. Spruill was
dangerously cut ois the neck, but is
expected to recover.
Light service was interrupted here
for a few seconds when the electric
wires were thrown together.
Miss Lilley-Hiad accompanied the
Farm Life basketball team to Plym
outh, and was returning home, it was
said.
Finds Money Blown Away
By Hurricane in September
New Bern.—Lost since September
IS, when it was washed away in a
clock from his home on Adams Creek
during the hurricane that demolished
liis home, a roll of paper money worth
,$22 was found this week by a promi
nent Craven County farmer as he was
fixing a fence in his field.
The clock has not yet been found.
The money was recovered a distance
from the house, in the same condition
in which it had been hidden, in a wad
wrapped with a rubber band.
Highly Respected Colored
Woman Dies In Williams
Mary Clemmons, middle-aged col
ored woman, died at her hofcie in
Williams Township last week from an
attack of pneumonia. She was high
ly respected by all who knew her and
made her life useful in the community
[■where she lived.
Only One Farmer Fails to
Sign Contract in Hamilton
Turning the contracts into the
county committee yesterday, Mr. T.
B. Slade, committeeman, said every
farmer but one had signed the cotton
contract in Hamilton Township. The
name of that one was withheld. There
were a few others who were not eli
gible to sign.
The campaign results have not been
tabulated for the county, but the drive
is considered very successful, judging
from early reports.
Postal Receipts at Post
Office Here Increasing
Reporting an increase of approxi
mately 37 per cent in its receipts last
month over the receipts of January,
1933, the local post office was off to
a good start this year. A year ago
Jast month, the office here sold stamps
valued at $902.69, as compared with
stamp sales of $1,432.62 last month.
Postmaster Pete Fowden said yes
terday that the office was just getting
warmed up for a bigger and better
record than ever before.
DEATH OF MRS.
LUCY A. BLAND
Last Rites Held at Home in
Cross Roads Township
Monday at 1 O'clock
Mrs. Lucy Ausborn Bland, highly
respected woman of the Cross Roads
church community died at her home
there at 5 o'clock Sunday morning
following a stroke of paralysis. She
had been in declining health for some
time and had been confined to her
bed forVeveral weeks, the end com
ing graclmlly
The the late VV. A. and
Charlotte Ausborn, Mrs. Bland was
born in this county 67 years ago. In
early womanhood she was married to
Mr. Bland, who, with four children,
three sons, \V. Bland, John D.
Bland. J. H. Bland, and one daugh
ter, Mrs. Lucy Warren, all of this
county, survives.
I'uneral services were conducted
from the late home Monday after
noon at 1 o'clock by Rev. J. M. Per
ry, of Kobersonvtlle. Interment fol
lowed in the family plot in the Joe
Ausborn cemetery in Cross Roads
Township.
TO WIDEN EAST
MAIN STREET
No Action on Other Town
Projects Has Been
Reported
Bids for tlie contract on widening
the main street here in the courthouse
block to the river hill were asked the
latter part of last week by the State
Highway Commission.
No actiiui has been taken on other
projects calling for the widening of
Main Street front the river hill to the
bridge and from the home of MA
Herbert Cowen to'the railroad bridge
on the west end of Main Street, and
the widening of Washington Street
from the warehouses to the railroad,
near the plant of the Columbian Pea
nut Company.
Tlic contract has been let for the
construction of an overhead bridge
over highway 90 at the west end of
Main Street, but work has not been
started on the project.
LOCAL GIRLS
FINALLY WIN
Boyß Win From Hobgood
and Hertford Here
Last Week
*
After a series of losses, the local
high school girls registered their first
win of the season here last Friday
night when they defeated Plymouth's
basketball team by a score of 12 to 3.
The night before the locals lost to
Hobgood by a 16 to 7 score. Start
ing the season with all new material,
'Coach Peters is fast developing an
able team.
The local boys, after meeting de
feat at the hands of Hobgood to the
tune of 36 to 21 on the 25th of last
I month turned the tables last Thurs
day night and won from the Halifax
lads by a score of 24 to 12, Anderson
and Cook leading in the scoring with
9 points each. The following night
I Williamston's five defeated Plymouth
by a 21 to IS count.
A double-header is scheduled her:
tonight with Bethel's teams. Thurs
day, the local boys will" play Hert
ford's five at Hertford. Windsor
plays the boys here Friday night.
Field Work on School
Census Is Completed
The census planned to bring infor
mation up to date on children of
school age has been completed in the
field and the enumerators are now clas
sifying their findings. Results of the
survey will be made public within the
next week or two, it is believed.
%
W MOW NOT
ESTABLISHED 1898
OFFICERS OF 4
COUNTIES JOIN
IN FINAL RAID
One of Gang Will Be Tried
Here for the Harrison
Wholesale Robbery
Worth "Tic" Proctor, notorious
robber and rated as North Carolina's
Public Enemy No. 1, with several of
his companions, was arrested in Rocky
Mount early yesterday morning fol
lowing a search conducted by officers
throughout eastern Carolina sinq4 the
Harrison Wholesale Company ' store
robbery hefe 15 months ago. The 26-
year-old criminal was trapped in his
nice home just outside of Rocky
Mount about daybreak by Sheriff C.
B. Roebuck, Patrolman *• Rodman,
Sheriff Whitehurst, Lieutenant Jones,
Sheriff Johnson, and several members
of the Raleigh police department
when they surrounded the home.
Proctor surrendered without offer
ing opposition, arid the officers start
ed a search of the home occupied by
Proctor and members of his gang
during the past three months.
Eugene Gunner, 28 years old, was«
arrested along with a Mrs. Johnson
and two young women who refused to
tell their names. The women were
said to have been front Winston-Salem
Greensboro, and High Point. A child
about 18 months old was in the cus
tody of Mrs. Johnson.
Another confederate was arrested
earlier in Petersburg, Va., by Chief
Harbour, of the Raleigh police.
Two stolen autos, one an Imperial
Chrysler, Vaid to have been seen in
Washington the day S9OO was stolen
from a store safe there recently, and
a Ford, were found on the premises. -
Five acetylene torches and five tanks
of gas, dynamite, caps, fuse, and nitro
glycerine were found in the garage,
l'ive pistols and two shot guns were
found in the home, along with a truck
load of ammunition, men's and wom
en's wearing apparel, radios, cigar
ettes, toilet Articles, and other stolen
property. J
The threernen are now in the Wake
County jajrfT The women are being
held in Nashville.
Proctor, said to be a Wake County
man, and his two companions, will be
tried in Raleigh on a hit-and-run
charge following an auto wreck there
Sunday. Plans are beftig made, Sher
iff C. B. Roebuck said this morning,
to bring Proctor here for trial in con
nection with the Harrison Wholesale
Company robbery back in November,
| 1932, another robbery at Everetts a
I few days later and still a third robbery
at Hamilton and Oak City about two
weeks after the second visit to this
county. Twenty-six cases of cigar
ettes were stolen from the wholesale
company here on November 14, 1932.
Ten days later Proctor is alleged to
have robbed the stores of J. S. Peel,
J. S. Ayers, and Taylor, Bailey and
Brother in Everetts, stealing about
$450 in cash and a quantity of mer
chandise. On December 3, lie figured
in a robbery at Oak City and assault
upon Messrs. Jesse Everett and Frank
Haislip, jr., when the two young men
were trailing the robbers from Oak
City "to Hamilton.
I'roctor is said to have admitted he
robbed the wholesale company-store
here and figured in the robberies at
Everetts, Hamilton, and Oak City.
He also told Sheriff Kocbuck that he
sold the cigarettes to J. Neal Watson
in Roseboro. While the young crim
inal admits his part in the robberies
in this county, he refused to talk in
connection with tire other darink
break-ins and hold-ups that have ter
rorized eastern Carolina business men
for many months.
Four of Proctor's companions in the
robberies in this county were captured
more than a year ago, Joe Berry
drawing 7 to 10 years, T. C. Poole
from 10 to IS years, and George Bailey
from 12 to 18 months in the State
penitentiary following their trials in
the Martin Superior court last
March. Coley King was later arrest
ed and he was sentenced to from 12
to 18 months on the roads. A sixth
party, a man named Tyson, said to
have been connected with the rob
beries in this county, continues at
large, as far as it is known here.
Post office and Bank Will
Have Holiday Thursday
Although Thursday—George Wash
ington's birthday—is a national holi
day, the day will be observed as inch
by only a few institutions here, it is
understood. The will suspend
operations, and thre will be no de
livery service in the village or oa the
rural routes that day. General busi
ness will be conducted as usual.
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