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Pw> A* WW To. i UM Oa Tow It Cairiw tho Daw Tow ENTERPRISE VOLUME XXXVII?NUMBER 23 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, May 18, 1934 ESTABLISHED 1898 REPORT DECLINE IN THE COUNTY'S IDLE WORKERS Findings Show 39.2 Percent Decrease In National Unemployed Reaching what is believed an all time high peak last December, when ?t was estimated there were 1,400 men in this county out of work, unemploy ment, has gradually declined until there are no more than 325 men out of work in the county at the present time. Employment Director John W. Hines said yesterday. New construction, both public and private, is underway on a larger scale . k in this^county than in severally ears,. and ihgie is_.an encouraging outlook for a continued decrease in the num ber of unemployed. That the situa tion will be entirely cleared up with in the next few months or even to or three years, is not expected. But things are looking brighter just now locally and throughout the nation. There were 8,021,000 unemployed men in the country last March, repre senting a decrease of 589,000 from the unemployment figure reported in February, and a decline of 5,182,000, ox 39.2 percent, irom March, 1933, when employment was at its peak, ac-1 gordieq?ffr qfrre,f"hy ***-1 National Industrial Conference Board In industrial groups from which fig ures are available, the number of un employed has decreased since March of last year. The manufacturing and mechanical industries^ showed the most marked decrease in unemploy ment. That group in March, 1934, reported the total number of unem ployed as 2,599,000, or a decrease of 3,824,000 within one year. From March, 1933, to March, 1934, there was a decrease of 59.5 percent in the number of unemployed work ers in the manufacturing and me chanical group, 20.3 percent in the extraction of minerals and 10.6 per cent in transportation. ? AgrifW1'Vf rfpnrtfri wnrlr. ersvunemployed, and no decrease a year .ago. ? 1,11 ???: Unemployed in factories was de creased from 6,423,000 to 2,599,000 in a year. In one year's time, unemployment has been reduced from 13,203,000 to J 8,021,000 in the country. NEW BRIDGE NOW ACROSS HIGHWAY To Remove Traffic Hazard From Center of Road Within Few Days ? Replacing the old railroad bridge at the end of West Main Street here, the new structure was used yester day afternoon at 5:30 o'clock for the first time after passenger schedules had been delayed several hours. Bad weather greatly intcrferred with the project work and demoralized train operations here for a greater part of the day. The morning passenger train did not leave here for Tarboro until after it was due back. A Rocky Mount bound freight kept the pas senger company, while a Plymouth bound freight was held up on the other side of the bridge. Pasengers and mail were handled by automobile from this point that morning, but the train handled the last schedule of the day even though several hours late. Several days will be required to complete the steel work on the bridge, it is understood, and immediately aft er that is done the center supports to the old bridge and a hazard to traffic for years, will be removed, State En gineer Hitch said yesterday. ? Negro Spirituals at Local Methodist Church Sunday ? Professor E. J. Hayes, with his chorus of 30 voices, assisted by out side talent in solo and quartet sing ing, will be at the Methodist church Sunday night at 8 o'clock, Rev. C. T. Rogers, the pastor, announced this morning. Many who heard this choir several months ago are anxious tOhearthem again, so before disbanding for the jummer, they have kindly consented I to sing again. Sunday school and morning serv-1 ices at thf usual hours. Holly Springs Sunday school, 2:30 p. m.; preach-; ing at 3:30 p. m. The public is in vited to attend. ? ? Local Bank To Observe Next Monday as Holiday The Branch Banking and Truat Company will be cloaed next Monday in iti observance of "Mecklenburg Day" which fall* on Snnday. ? The day mark, the aigning of the Ameri can Declaration of Independence, and ia obaerved by nearly mrery bank and other bnaineaa houaea in the larger towna and citiea throughout the State. WILLIAMSTON HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS Bottom Row: Maynard Mobley, Julian Raynor, Josephine Roberson, Elsie Mae Jackson, Ruth Jenkins, Sudie Mallory, Jessie Mse Anderson, Maude Hadley, Dora Ballard, Mattie Gurganus Katherine Harrison. Middle Row: Shelbon Hall, Raymond Matthews, Ben Hopkins, Mary Hadley, Vada Edwards, Alvareta Weaver, Lavinia Lilley, Leslie Gurganus and Billie Clark. Top Row: Oscar Anderson, jr., Nell Harrison, Jack Manning, Walter Cooke, Davis Harrison, Arthur Gurganus, Saunders Revels, Christine Manning and Wheeler Martin. LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD IN MEET THIS MORNING! Several -Faculty Members-] 1 Announce They Will Quit Profession #? A general discussion of plans for i electing teachers to the Williamston i School faculty for the 1934-35 term \ was held at a meeting of the district 1 board here this morning. No applications were considered^ at the meeting today, the board stating that a meeting for the election of 'teachers would be held within the! next few days, probably some time next weelc. It is understood that | three members of the 1933-34 faculty, Mrs. D. M. Roberson, Mrs. Harrell Everett and Mrs. L. H. Barnhill, ?filed their announcements that they quitting -the teaching piufcssiunr ? - n ? r> ' " In discussing'plans fof'^h'e VVcrllon of new teachers to tip faculty for the next term, the begird passed a resolu I tion limiting the election of teachers I to those holding A-grade certificates. ' Applications from married women will not be considered, members of the old faculty, excepted, the board ruled. There'll be no change in the num ber of teachers for next term, ac cording to an announcement made by Principal Hix, following the meet ing, unlets new orders are received from the State Board in Raleigh. "There" were 21 members of the facul ty during the term just closed. While it could not be learned to day, it is understood that many of the members of the last term faculty members had filed applications for re-election or were planning to file. FINALS AT BEAR GRASS TONIGHT School There Sends Out Its First Class of Young Graduates The last of the commencement ex |eiices marking the cTose oTa success ffil ?Gib i i fjiliuuh will be held this evening at 8 o'clocl when Dr*. M. K. Fort, of Greenville delivers the literary address. Th exercises there this evening are th< last to b held in the county this year Special significance is attached t< the closing program at Bear Gras this year, as the school is awardinj its first full-fledged diplomas to higl ?school graduates. It is true that th' number is small, but it is a beginninj and one that reflects a worthy inter 'est on the part of the people there ii [the education of their children. Mucl I progress has been made there durini the past two or three years, particu larly So last year under the directioi of Principal Hickman with the assist ance of an able corps of teacheri The names of the school's first grad uates are, A. B. Ayers, jr., Georg< Peel, jr., Miss Theresa Rogers an< Miss Callie May Cherry. The closing exercises this yea have been well attended, and a largt audience is expected for the fina event this evening. ? Another Baseball Meet! In Windsor This Even ? Meeting time and again and failii to perfect an organization, officii of aeveral baaeball club, in thi, ,e tion hope to complete arrangemen for operating the AlbemazJe leag at a meeting tonight in Windaor. '-?teat report, indicate a league either four or ,ix team, will be fori ed tonight, with the po??ibility th ?i* game, will be played each we during the sea,on to open ne month. Summer School Opens Here Next Thursday ? A summer school, conducted at the WHluiitnton High School building, will begin on next Thursday, May 24. yhi ragsilaimiu "I 1^"t sttar,? itrnart* mcnt of Education with a term of six weeks or thirty school days. Credits earned are accepted in high or grammar school. All students who wish to remove conditions or take special work are asked to register Monday morning May 21 between the hours of 9-11. AWARDS MADE TO LOCAL STUDENTS Twenty-five Girls and Boys Get Certificates And Diplomas Friday Doing meritorious service,- in the loral school during the term jiuUawI* ed, sever# awarded cups .as honorable "icwatds for their leadership at the closing program last Frday evening. The awards were made to the fol lowing pupils: Valedictorian, Class 1934?Jessie Mae Anderson; cup donated by W. G. Manning. Btst all-around student .1. I*. BoW en; cup donated by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Staton. Sarah M. Manning Home Econom ics Cup?Allie Harrison, best student in jjotne Economics vOutstamling Athlete-?f>scaT .All-4 derson, jr.; trophy donated by Mr. Ray H. Goodmon. Civic Award?Presented to the Home Economics Department, Miss Ora Finch, teacher; donated by the Woman's .club. All awards with the exception of the one donated by Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Staton remain the property of the school, and will be awarded from year to year to the outstanding stu dents in Williamston High School. The Staton award is a permanent one. The various awards in the course of time wilf show the names of the honor students attending the school. The names of the twenty-five scnioc*^ receiving diplopias from the high school?here jlm yeai are: ~ Ovrar S. Anderson, jr., jftssir Mae Anderson, Dora Ballard, William Clark, Helen Coltrain, Roger Critch er, jr., Vada Edwards, Katherinc Harrison, Nell Harrison, Elsie Mae Jackson, Alvareta Weaver, Shelbon Hall, Maude Hadley, Jack Manning, Raymond Matthewfe, Hardy Rose, Lavinia Li 1 ley, Jeanette Carson, Mat tie Gurganus, Lucille Gurganus, Christine Manning, Julian Raynor, Saunders Revels, Josephine Rober son and Marvin Roberson. ??? SCOTLAND NECK CHOIR SERVICE Chorus of 25 Members Will Sing in Baptist Church Here Sunday Night The Scotland Neck Baptist choir? a vested choir?will appear in Wil liamston next Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the auditorium of the Memorial Baptist Church, where its members will conduct an -entire serv ice of special music. There will be twenty-five members in the group, and they come to their neighboring town well trained and very highly recommended. Doubtless their program will meet with a warn) reception by the people who tifcar them. V They have sung at many points in Eastern Carolina, Raleigh and Wil mington included. They come to our community, therefore, after much practice at home and great success abroad. Their, work has been widely publicised in the press, and it ia very generally believed that their program Sunday evening will be a rare musi cal. tr?t. ' * ? CALL 8 CASES IN COUNTY COURT ! HERE TUESDAY ??? fcveral Fines-Are-Imposed But No Road Sentences Were Meted Out j Catling only eight cases in Martin ' i County's recorder's court here last ' Tuesday, Judge H. O. Tecl and So licitor W. H. Coburti had a rather uneventful session. While the court 'did not experience a complete slump, 'it apaprently reached about an aver Iage docket common to the season oi jtlie year. A few fines were imposed,^ but no sentences on the roads were j meted out. H. P. Perry, charged with operat ing an automobile while intoxicated, failed to appear for triah and when T7T> "aTrejd comhj notK" llVmd war Wftrtcd. ??*?? Judgment was. suspended upon the i payment of the cost in the case charg- | 1 Elijah Jones with an aasult with a deadly weapon. W. K. Dean, alleged rum runner, was found guilty of reckless driving, the court suspending judgment upon payment of tlie cost. Dean, with a man named Kiggs, wrecked a hig pnwercd Cord car at the corner of I Haughton and Church Streets the ? early part of the month. They had j about twenty 5-gallon demijohns in 1 the- car but they were empty. A rather suspicious scent was present, however. ( Ida Sutton, (iussie Rogers and I Lawrence Woolard were called into^ court on a liquor violation charge. | Rogers was found * not guilty. Ida sutton, adjudged guilty, was directed . to pay $15 or go to jail for 60 days. I Woolard was found guilty, the court '.directing him to pay a $25 fine or go jto the roads for 00 days. A nol prose resulted in the case charging l'enner Respass with an as- j sault with a deadly weapon. Bithel Bradley and Lucus Which-^ ard, young white men, were found guilty of manufacturing liquor, and thecase was continued one week un der prayer for judgment. C. B. Sheppard failed to appear ?the t'li.ic ili.HK"' hllll UIW1 his brother, Louis Sheppard with disorderly con- j duct. Louis pleaded guilty and was j directed to pay one-half the costs of I the case or go to jail for 30 days. | Henry Jones, adjudged guilty of 1 selling liquor, was fined $25 and tax ed with the costs. If he fails to pay the fine and cost, he is to go to I the roads for 60 days. 1 ? i Fire Company Called To j Horhe Below River Hill ? | The local fire company had its first ( call in several weeks last Tuesday j evening when fire threatened the ( home of Lizzie Ashley, aged colored woman, just to the fobt of the river hill. Starting from a stove, the fire burned a few articles <>f clothing ami damaged the walls in one room. Oc cupants of the home and neighbors had the fire Under control when the company reached the scene, making unnecessary any us of the apparatus. First Typhoid Death In Sometime Reported Here Thi? community had its first ty-' phoid death a few day* a?u when | Cephut Moore died. The nian, re moved from a hospital a few hours 1 before, died while he was beinK car ried into hia home here, it wai said. Whitsunday Services at Church of the Advent Rev E. P. Moseley, Rector Church school, 9:45 a. m. Morning prayer and sermon 11 a. m. ftveqjng privcr.-AiiiLifrmon, fl P PART OF $1100.00 LOST IN BETHEL IS RECOVERED > Finder Deposits $940 of the Amount in Bank Here; Owners Gets $240.21 ? Last February 4, G. A. Moore, far mer in the Bethel section, lost $1,100 in cofci cash. Yesterday morning he recovered $240.21 of the amount, re ports indicating that Luke Morris, Franklin Carson and S. B. White hurst had lived in comfort and al most modern luxury on the remaind er of the farmer's hard-earned cash. ?Said to have found the money on the streets of Bethel, Luke Morris, young white man, reported his - pos sesion of the sma4 fortune to his next and best friends. Franklin Carson and ,S. B. Whitehurst. Planning to buy and operate slot machines on a business basis, W hitehurst was ap pointed guardian of the money, the others advising liiin to deposit it a bank. On February 10, Whitehurst deposited $500 in the Branch Bank ing and Trust Company at William ston, and is said to have returned to Bethel and explained to Morris that they had made a mistake in counting the money, that there was only $500 i instead of $1,100 the farmer had lost. I Whether an argument fdloyyy.vLjir jjftl J, If K>dRi hot be leariied. bul tT^^sTTn*TT was continued by the three men. A week later Whitehurst is said to have deposited $400 more in the bank here and on the 27th of that month, mad a $40 deposit. Since then the ac count wis drawn oh regularly and heavily, and by the time Pitt Coun ty's efficient and hard-working sheriff had developed the case all but $240.21 of the $1,100 had been spent. An order was served on the hank yester day, restraining the invtitoiknt^ii oin ' cashing any more checks drawn a gainst the account identified by the name of S. B. Whitehurst. Sheriff Whitehurst, it is said, learn ed about the young men displaying sizeable bills and soon after that he dfyclu|icd tilt1 usr: 1 ' ~ It was reported" at one time {he money was stolen from Moore, but Morris, after he was taken into cus- , tody, explained that'lie found it on 1 the streets. Charges will be brought against the young men, it is under stood, in Pitt : "in pronation of property or for larceny. HURRIED BURIAL REPORTED HERE ?*? ! Man Dies at 11 o'Clock and Is Buried Less Than Three Hours Later Dying about 11 o'clock one morn- r ing last week in his little one-room ], hut on Washington Street here, Jim] Smithwick, colored-man, was buried ' within three hours, the burial being ' recognized as one of the most hurried ever to take place here. While the hurried burial was prob ably just, as good as one delayed an j entire week, it is not customary a mong the Colored citizens to dispose 1 of their dead within two days, and the holding out of a corpse from five to six days for a Sunday funeral is i 110 rare practice with them. Smithwick, an invalid, had been close to death for sniim.limn, ?? W-trmr derstood and the condition of his tj body probably called tor an early i burial. So with a pair of socks on his I feet and a sheet around his waist,, he ' was laid to rest hi Potter's Field, the I county furnishing the crude coffin. j Pathetic were the conditions sur- 1 rounding the little one-room " hut ] where the old colored man, his chif- | dren and one illegitimate grandchild existed. Only a fiw weeks ago, the mother of the alleged illegitimate child was fatally burned there. I Three Are Hurt in Auto Accident Near Jamesville * ?' Miss Elizabeth Sexton, Roy and j Archie Coltrain were painfully but , not acriously hurt last Wednesday'( evening when their car was struck by j another and caused to turn over near , Jamesville on Highway No. 64. The j driver, I). W. Watson, of the other car, was not hurt. Both machines , were damaged, the wreck tearing off ( one wheel and demolishing the bodyj j on the Ford sedan driven by Roy. Col train. 'i Miss Sexton was hurt about the head and shoulders and was confined , to her bed yesterday. Roy Coltrain | was bady cut and bruised about the head and face, and his brother suf fered a bruised hip. Said to have been blinded, Watson drove too far to the "left side of the road going toward Plymouth. The left wheels on the two c*rs hooked, causing the Coltrain machine to swerve and turn over down a small embankment. Wataoti, a native of Washington County, has been living in Florida for two years, and was home on a B aa'd ' EMERGENCY LOANS 1 / i Those Martin farmers applying for loans through the Crop Pro duction Corporation before the ISth of this month, and their ap plications failing to pass, wll be entitled to seek loans from the Emergency Loan Fund, it was announced this week. Applications must be in by the first of June, it was stated. The j extension was granted only for those farmers who had applied | and failed to get their loans ap proved by the Crop Production association. No applications will be received from those farmers who have filed no applications for loans, it is understood. PLAN VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL IN COMMUNITY Similar School Conducted Here Last Spring Was Very Successful VVilliainston is to have another community Daily V aea tion Bible School this spring is present plans inatcrialtie, it was learned from re- | i- ?.... 7.1 Ligunu. kudc.JigfJhfc week. The community remembers tfiej great scl/>ol that was held here sev- j eral years ago when hundreds of lo- j cal children went daily to the gram mar school for five mornings out of each week, and were given light in struction by an efficient group of teachers from the community -and from the several churches. Now that the schools are out and hundreds of children are left with out anything to do, it is believed that both the children and their par ents would rally to such an under taking and make of jt a success, sim ilar to that marking the first school. Definite plans have not been per icctudx,he >1 wddy> > f^m'oil Monday, May 28, and con liiiuc mornings only lor not iliore F than .two weeks. COTTON QUOTAS . ARE ASSIGNED Only Two of The Several Hundred Contracts Are Cancelled ? -AJthouglrTar Trom settled, the cot ton adjustment program is moving J?4~ along?fairfy ui'll ill Uiis" county, it was learned from County Agent T.' H. Brandon's office today. The work is almost completed in two or three of the main cotton- districts in the bounty, it was stated. Only two contracts have been can celled outright so far, but several far- . finer sare holding theirs for consider . ation before signing them, it was learned. I The work was further balled up | when it. was reported that farmers ? could plant fit) percent of their base acreage. And while the report was | correct, it meant -60? percent of the : corrected base acreage and not the original or one claimed. In other, words,, it would have been about right | for the farmers in this county to j plant about 4U ixrcent of j1"' ?*-qpnal contract acreage. J, A puzzling problem in the cotton situation this week when it was un- ! officially reported that nearby coun- ' lies were not* required to accept a re- | tuition as was required in this coun- \ ly. Probably the acreage was exag- 5 Keratrd to a greater extent in this county than in others, and then this might not have been the case. More Than Two Inches of Rain Reported This Week This section had one of the heaviest rainfalls this week than in any period n several years, according to reports coming from Hugh Spruill on Roa noke River here. Since Tuesday, ap proximately two and "jy-qiiarter in ches of rain fell, bringing the total or the month up to 2.93 inches. Last month 4.02 inches of rainfall ivas reported here, or slightly more ban one-half an inch below the fall n April a year ago. So far this month, the rainfall is ibout the same as it was in May of ast yeaj^when 5.45 Inches of rain was ?eporfed. t Baptist Pastor Announces Sunday Sermon Subject "(living the Son of God a Sporting Chance," will he the sermon subject it the Baptist church Sunday morn ng, with Miss Catherine Harrison at he organ. ?? ? -frHH At 8 o'clock Sunday evening, the Scotland Neck chorus, consisting of wenty-five mixed voices, will put on i musical program to which the public s_ invited*? ? ~~ * MEASLES SPREAD TO ALL SECTIONS OF THIS COUNTY ??? Lower Part of County Has Several Cases; Two In This Community ? Starting several weeks ago in two or three districts, measles are said to be spreading now to all sections of the county and a county-wide epi demic of the disease is now predicted. With most of the cases so far re ported being in Robersonville, Gold Point, Poplar and Cross Roads com munities, the measles have spread to the lower part of the county wher; five cases were reported the middle uf this week. Only a lew?two to be exact have?been reported m?t+rrs immediate community. One of the victims is said to have visited town last Saturday night, attended the show and returned to his home in the country the following morning. The other case, located in the prison camp, is expected to be confined to other prisoners. As a warning to outsiders, Superintendent Chas. R. Klobley is displaying a measles sign over the sick-room door in the camp. While health authorities do not rigar.l the epidemic to be alarming, they do say measles are not to be considered lightly. They advise the victims Jo go to bed immediately aft main there until well. The greatest danger accompanying measles is the posibility of a pneumonia attack. The number of cases in the Rober sonville section is said t<> be gradually decreasing, reports from there stating there'll hardly be another epidemic of measles in that section until another crop of children come along. SCHOOL CLOSES AT OAK CITY ??? Literary Address Delivered By Mr. R. T. Fountain ? ?Tuesday Evening """ The closing of one of Oak City's most. successful school terms this week 'was marked by the best com mencement programs ever presented, Principal II. M. Ainsley said yester day. ? ' grcises were well at tended. tin school marT>**L. and the several programs received close^rt^^ tention from all. i ne last ot the series of programs; featured by ji solo bv Miss Nixon, - and Lijjey's Hall youthful quartet, was held Tuesday evening when for nier Lieutenant1 Governor K, T. Foun tain delivered the main address to a large audience. Mr. Fountain spoke on the "New Deal" linked with new conditions, and during his talk he referred to the sales tax as something uncalled for, and voiced his opposition to that method of raising fevcntuT Addressing his remarks to the graduates, he warned them not to . despise the little things in life, for the abundance of life is made up of small things. He said that education must not only he cultural, but it must lie practical also. The importance of sustaining and improving the schools was stressed by him, but he did not fully agree with the State leaders in their claim that out- prcv. lit Sl'h0oltf~ ire as good as they might be, and he Hitimatcd that TTTe schools were not netting quite a fair deal. In his at tack upon the sales tax, lie said our schools should not have to depend too hhkIi on penny taxes. He described the Roosevelt New Deal as only a returning to Jeflfer lonian Democracy under which labor md capital are both given a square leal. If the New Deal had not in tervened, business would have, by fliis time, pulled down the teniple up in itself and caused its destruction, he speaker declared. The IJlley's Hall quartet "took [lie house with the greatest applause >f anything on the program," Profes sor Ainslcy declared. WEATHER IS BAD FOR FORD SHOW Necessary To Cancel Part of Special Program Here Yesterday An unusual and interesting display irranged here Wednesday and yes erday by the Ford Motor Company vas all but rained out, making it lecessary to curtail the program con siderably. However, large crowds dewed the exhibits on the opening lay, but rain and threatening weather yesterday stopped the program. Probably the most interesting fea ure to the show was the exhibit lemonstrating free action of all four vhcels, and exclusive Ford features. The next exhibit, attracting the moat mention was the cut-away chassis, ihowing all moving * parts of motor ind chassis. The moving pLdliit* "Tho- Thirty? fears," proved very interesting.