North Carolina Newspapers

VOLUME XL?NUMBER 58 Williamston. Martin County, North Carolina. Tuesday. July 20.1937 BSTARI.lSHRn 1899 Deim and Wade Put ] Martins Back in Win Column Over Ayden Wade Chalks Up Eleventh Win In Fifteen Starts So Far This Season The last three days of play in the Coastal Plain Baseball League al tered little the club standings, and today the Martins remain in second place, trailing the league leaders by four games and leading Goldsboro, runners-up, by three games. Near ly three-fourths of the season sched ule has been played, the present ranking of the Martins almost as suring them a berth in the play-off that gets underway about the 28th of next month. There are some close ratings in the circuit just now, and 7 of the 8 clubs are making strong bids for places in the post-season f schedule. After losing to New Bern, 4 to 2, p on Friday and to Aydn 5-4 on Sat- * urday, the Martins staged a rally here Sunday afternoon, led by the long-distance clouting of "Pap" Deim and some pitching by Larry Wade, to make ^strong comeback and win over the Ayden Aces by a 9-3 count r I I Strunk, left-hander for the Mar tins, lost a tough game to New Bern here Friday. He allowed only 5 hits and fanned 4, but 3 of the visi tors' hits were bunched in the eighth for as many runs. Earp, Stanley, and Vilepique. with two hits each, led the stickwork for the locals, Deim and Lakatos garnering one each. Williamstdn took the lead with 1 run in the fourth, the visitors knotting the count in the sixth and forging ahead in the eighth with 3 more. The Martins scored their sec ond and last run in the eighth. Over in Ayden Saturday, the Aces turned 7 hits into 5 runs, the Mar tins converting 5 safeties into 4 tal lies. Fields, pitching for the Mar tins, allowed only 6 hits before giv ing way to Rollins in the unlucky eighth. Villepique, with two singles, led the Martins at bat, Victoria get ting a homer with one on and Stev ens and Deim getting a single apiece. Larry Wade chalked up his elev enth win in 15 starts last Sunday when Ayden was defeated 9 to 3 on Taylor Field here. He gave up 10 hits, but turned around to do some heavy work at the bat on his own account and hit safely on 3 of his 4 trips to the plate. Earp, McCay and Deim got two blows each; Deim bat ting in 3 runs when he homered in the fourth and another when he tripled in the fifth. Lakatos horn ered in the seventh with two on, the two four-base knocks that account ed for 6 runs featuring the 13-hit attack staged by the Martins. Har ward started on the mound for the visitors but was relieved in the 4th TlflaS allowed s nits in 3 2-3 innings. Gurth finished the game and gave up 7 hits. Autos Collide at Intersection Here No one was hurt but considerable damage resulted when two cars col lided at the Main and Haughton Streets intersection here last tjriday about midnight. An Oldsmobile, owned and driven by Jesse James, young white man of Fayetteville. was damaged to the extent of $325, the owner estimated. The other car, an old Chrysler, driven by a colored man from Elizabeth City, was ren dered worthless. James was driving down Main Street, when the other car, traveling into the intersection from the direc tion of the A. C. L. station, crashed ino the front of the James machine. The Chrysler had no brakes on it, and the driver entered the main street without stopping, it was said. There were four colored men in the car, and three of them, including the driver, ran from the scene of the accident. The fourth one was placed in jail. Three Cases on Mayor's Trial Docket Last Night Justice John L. Hassell called three caaee in hie court here last evening. Judgment was suspended upon payment of the cost in the case charging Willie Williams, colored, with being drunk. I over to the county court for trial in the case charging him with assaulting his John Powell was fined $2.50 and taxed with the cost in the case charging him with assaulting his John Powell was fined $2.50 and taxed with the cost in the case charg ing him with being drunk and dis orderly. Dr. Ralph Sykes To Be County Health Officer ws# MAY WIDEN ROAD I Given approval by the Fed eral Bureau of Roads, the wid ening of Highfray 64 from Tar boro to the Martin County line will be included as one at the projects In a letting the 2Mb of this month. It Is also proposed to widen the several bridges on the route The list of projects to be In cluded In the letting has not completed at this time. )eaths on Highways H State Increase In 'irst Half of Year '.eport Shows 462 Persons Lost Their Lives in State During Half of 1927 Highway deaths in North Carolina iring the first six months of this ?or totalled 642, an increase of 23 rer the first six months of 1936; but tal and non-fatal accidents during ie month of June this year showed decrease over June of last year. The State Highway patrol Otis eek reported that there were 67 illed, and 550 injured in 501 acci :nts during June this year. Last sar June saw 566 accidents kill 72 >rsons and injure 627. Sunday was the most fatal day on ie State highways during June, de >ite the fact that there were only ur Sundays in the month and five uesday and Wednesdays. Seven len were killed and 80 injured on ie four Sundays of June. Tuesdays ?there were five of them?saw 11 illed and 65 injured. Thursday roved to be the safest day with tly four killed and 44 injured. In eight of the accidents and 31 ' the non-fatal accidents, drunken ?ivers were involved. Collisions ith other automobiles resulted in ' being killed and 310 injured wenty-two pedestrians were killed id 53 were injured. Five persons ere killed when cars collided with iced objects. Twenty-two of the ital accidents and 58 non-fatal acci ents were attributed to speeding; I fatal and 79 non-fatal accidents i reckless driving. Low was the fatality rate in hit id-run cases, only one being kill i and 27 injured in such accidents, icycles were involved in four fatal rcidenls and 18 non-fatal. Non-col sion accidents killed 19 and inlured 25. Eleven children under 14 years of ge, 20 between the ages of 15 and I, 34 between 25 and 64 and two rer 65 were killed in the accidents. Although there are 529,866 motor ehicles registered in this State, only 07 vehicles were involved in the ccidents during the month. Seventy vo of these were in fatal accidents nd 735 in the non-fatal accidents. Women were involved in three ital and 74 non-fatal accidents rhile men were involved in 69 fa ll and 661 non-fatal. Patrol officers said the gain in italities for the first half of the ear was not as large as increases i automobile registration or the tie of gasoline. Malcolm Simpson Injured By Extinguisher Explosion Malcolm Simpson, local young tan, was painfuly but not seriously urt yesterday afternoon when a fire xtinguisher exploded at the factory f the W. I. Skinner Tobacco Com any. The bottom of the extinguish r blew off and struck him near the ye, inflicting two gashes that re uired several stitches to close. His ight was not damaged. f oung Child Died Early Today Near Williamston Doc Rooievelt Harrell, Ave months ild, died this morning following hort illness at the home of his par nts, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Harrell, ear here on the Hamilton road. Funeral services will be held to norrow and burial will follow in Edgecombe County. Zourrty and Local Officers Arrest Five Over Week-end Five arrests were made in this ?ounty over the week-end, four of he defendants being charged with trunkenness. The period was de icribed as very quiet by local and ounty officers. Has Been Head of ?urry Health Work For Past 18 Months Will Notify Board Friday If He Can Accept New Position Dr. Ralph Sykes, head of public health activities in Surry County for the past 18 months, was named full time health officer for this county by the Martin County Board of Health last Friday afternoon. Dr. Sykes was granted until the latter part of this week to consider the ap pointment, members of the health board in this county stating that the people of Surry County were mak ing a determined effort to have the young health doctor continue his work at Mount Airy. Severl other applications were before the health group, but no action was taken, the board explaining that developments are being held in abeyance until Dr. Sykes accepts or rejects the position offered him. Dr. Sykes, a young man who has gained recognition rapidly in public health work, is a native of North ampton County, and he explained at the meeting last Friday that he was anxious to return to this section of the State. The young man added that he could not afford to desert the health program in Surry until ar rangements were completed for its continuance under a new officer. The appointee to the position in this county is a young single man. He attended Wake Forest College and the Medical College of Virginia and was a classmate of Dr. W. F. Evans, of Williamston. He has made a splendid record in Surry County, and his appointment to the head po sition in the newly created full-time health service in this county was unanimous. Pending the receipt of word from Dr. Sykes, members of the county board of health were named to in vestigate the possibility of locating quarters for the new department, possibly in the Williamston City Hall or the county cuurthousa. Alleged Bootleggers Arrested In Tarboro made a wholesale drive on alleged liquor law violators there Sunday morning when 56 warrants were served on "men, women, wives and friends" The cases were thorwn into the court hoppers in Tarboro and Rocky Mount yesterday, Judge Stamps Howard sending some to the Rocky Mount Recorder's court and con tinuing others until next week for jury trial. The trials will run ill next week, according to reports coming out of Tarboro today. Handling a few of the cases yes terday the Edgecombe County judge lound one or two defendants not guilty, and in several cases where guilt was established the defend ants were sentenced to the roads for three months. The warrants for the arrests of those charged with selling liquor were sworn out by special men sent into Edgecombe by the State ABC board, to cooperate with the county ABC board and sheriff's office. Ptomaine Poison Victims Given Hospital Treatment Stricken suddenly last Saturday with ptomaine poisoning, Jackie, 3, and George Harris, jr. IB months old. are getting along very well after receiving treatment in a Washington hospital during the week-end. Tak en deathly sick, the children were carried to the hospital last Saturday noon by their parents and were re turned to their home here Sunday. Eleven Local Boy Scouts Leave lor Camp Charles ' Eleven local Boy Scouts are va cationing at Camp Charles, near Wilson, the group leaving here Sun day for a stay of two weeks. The names of those enjoying the outing are: John and Joseph Thigpen, Bil lie Biggs, Bob Everett, jr., Jim and Stuart Critcher, Jesse Ray Howard, Buddy Wier, Edgar Gurganus, John Ward. jr.. and Reg Griffin. Mrs. J. F. Thigpen. Miss Kate Philpott, BiUie Griffin and Julian Roebuck carried the boys to camp Over 100 Farmers To Make Tour of Farms In County Thursday Various Demonstrations On Ten Farms Will Be Observed by Group With favorable weather prevail ing. large numbers of farmers from this and adjoining counties will go on a tour of farms in this county on Thursday of this week. County Agent T. B Brandon said today. It ntima!<>H tHat mnr?? than lflO farm en from Martin, Bertie. Washington. Pitt, Halifax, and Edgecombe Coun ties are planning to make the lour that will carry then to 10 farms in the county The tour gets underway 1 the county agricultural building at 8 o' clock. The first stop will be on the J. G. Staton Kelvin Grove farm, near Williamston. where demonstrations in raising sheep and hogs will be checked. At 8:45 the touring farm en will visit a timber thinning drm onstration on the R L Perry farm Leaving there the grot/p will view a demonstration in permanent pas tures on the farm of Oscar Rober son at 9:25. The party goes from there to the farm of Linwood Knowles at Dardens at 10:30 to check results of cotton variety tests. Leaving Dardens at 11 30 the farmers will return to Williamston for lunch, and start the afternoon visits from the agricultural building at 1 30 o'clock, going to the farm of A. E. Smith, near Robersonvilir at 2:15 for a demonstration in raising Poland-China hogs. Tobacco fer tilizer tests will be observed on the farm of County Commissmnrr C. Abram Rober son at 2.45 o'clock Go ing from there into the Hassell s lion, the fanners will check a com variety test on the farm of Dewty Leggett at 3:30 o'clock. The farm of W. Robert Everett, near Palmyra, will be visited at 4:30 for inspection of beef cattle, sheep and cotton va riety tests. At 5:30 hog feeding dem ons* rations on the farm of Mayo Hardison in Poplar Point will be checked, and a last stop mill be made on the farm of T. B Slade. the touring farmers observing tests with summer legumes. Tobacco Specialist Lloyd Weeks, former assistant Martin County farm agent, and J. F. Cnsmell. of the ex tension division, Raleigh, will ac company the group, which will in clude. besides farmers, several of the county farm agents in this sec tion. County Agent T. B. Brandon is anxious to have as many Martin farmers who can to go on the tour, the prugram of the day being recog nlzed as one ol value to the farmers of this and surrounding counties Leaf Curing Takes From 84 To % Hours The time required to properly cure a barn of tobacco varies from M to M hours, depending upon the rapid ity of the various curing processes After hanging the arced, maintain a temperature about 10 degrees high er than the outside temperature un til the leaf is fairly yellow The heat is then raised 4 to 5 degrees an hour until a temperature of 130 to 125 degrees is reached. This tem perature is held until the tips of the leaves are dry and then raised to 140 degrees This will dry out the entire leaf. The temperature b gain raised to ISO or 100 degrees and held until all parts of the leaf stem is dry in all parts of the barn. Follow Truck Crops With Soybeans and Field Peas Operated on in pita] yesterday. Mrs. J. H local wcenan. aras reported today lie feiting along way well Farmers of New Hanover County are busy planting soybeans and Held peas on land given to truck crops earlier in the year. Practically all of these crops will be turned under green manure. Two Williamston People In Richmond Hospitals going an operation in a hospital in the Virginia city this afternoon 3 o'clock, reports stating that her Mr Anderson is at her bedside at Mr and Mia. Wheeler Martin left this morning for Richmond. Tt? were accompanied by Mean. G. 1 Hardison and Henry & Manna who will offer their blood d a traa fusion is nmsssry. Mrs. Warren H. Biggs Dies Sunday After Long Illness Here Last Rites for Prominent Resident Held In Baptist Church Yesterday Mrs. Lettw Critchcr Bnp wife of Win? H Biggs. died at her home on Smith wick Street here Sunday afternoon at 111 o'clock following an illness of nearly eight months' duration She had received treatment in the leading hospitals of the South, but during the past several months she was confined to her home here, suffering patiently and without complaint until the end which came peacefully. Mrs. Biggs, one of Williamston's most highly respected citizens, was born in Granville County -M years of Mr R S Critchcr and the late Mrs Critchcr She moved to this county when a young girl and made her home in Williams ton In 191-4 she was mar iied to Mr Biggs, who survives with one daughter. Miss Mildred Biggs She was a thoughtful wife and a life being marked by its gentleness and understanding She was a good woman and embodied in her living the true ideals of Christian charar ler. A member of the Baptist church for a number of years, she served the church as organist for a long period, and until her hralth began to fail she always found tune to han die the religious duties so willingly accepted by her. By her acts and deeds the town and community was made a better place in which to bve Mrs. Biggs was a music scholar and numbers of local youths reeeiv ; ed valuable training at her direr lion. She found happiness in her work and enjoyed life Besides her husband and daugh ler. she is survived by her aged father and five brothers. Messrs B A. Roger A. and Titus S. Critchcr. all of Wilhamston. and Percy Crilch er. of Lexington, and Rev. B. Duke Cnlcher. of Snow Hill Funeral services were conducted at i o'clock yesterday afternoon in the Memorial Baptist church by Rev J 11. Smith, pastor, assisted by Rev R R Grant, of the Methodist church, and Rev Edwin F Moseley. rector of the Church of the Advent. Bur tal was in the family plot ui the lo cal cemetery, the large crowd at tending the last rites, and the ex tensive floral offering carrying a a lent tribute to her memory and at testing the high respect and esteem in which she was held by all who knew her. ^ ashiiigton Road Being Repaired Repairs are being made to High - fay 17 flocn Williamston to the Beaufort-Martin line, reports stat ing that appropriations have been made to recover the road later in its entirety. Special highway forces, camping at Skewarkey. are handling the work. People along the Bear Grass road and those m Bear Gras were high ly elated a few days ago. when they saw highway forces hauling asphalt on the road. Highway forces ex plained that the road material was carried there only for mixing, that no plans have been made for surfac ing the Bear Grass road or any oth ers in the farm-to-market group in this county. Drunk Objects to Marriage While Ceremony Goes On' Performing a wedding ceremony here last week. Justice John I. Ha, sell was greatly disconcerted whm objections to the marriage were! made The justice has performed many wedding ceremonies, and nrv ; er before had he heard anyone oh ject The objections, filed in uncer . tain words by a drunk, were dtscred - ?led by the couple and friends, and the ceremony was concluded after the brief interruption The wedding party was from an other state, and the name of the objector could not be learned. Langley Enters Upon Ne Duties with Planters Here Parlyle Langley. tobacconist with the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse here nas atrepuJ a position with Messrs Ingram and Gurkm at the Planters house this ifeenn Mr. I anghy amved here Sunday ere ag to enter upon his new duties, d he and his family are 1 with Mir. and Mrs. Coy La County Budget Little More Than Last Year f PEANUT MEETING V Last Rites Held Fori Mrs. J. (1H. Johnson In Oak Cilv Friday} Well-known Woman Dies At Her Home There After Short Illness Mrs. J. C H Johnson, well-known f citizen of Oak City, died at her| home there last Thursday afternoonf at 1:30 o'clock. Mrs Johnson had f been in declining health for some time, but her condition was not con sidered serious until just a few weeks ago. Death was from.a com plication of ailments. Funeral services were conducted last Friday afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, ?n the Oak City Baptist church, and interment followed in the family pint ?.?! Mrs. Johnson enjoyed a large friendship in her community, and was a devoted wife and a loving mother. She was held in high es teem by all who knew her Besides her husband she leaves two children. Mrs C. L. Sanders, jr of Rocky Mount, and Miss Ora ?l<?hn<nn of Norfolk 5vK*? k al<n >urvived by her mother. Mrs Annie Belflower. of Palmyra, and one brother. J. W Belflower. also of Palmyra, and three sisters. Mrs J J. Pi land, of Oak City, and Mrs L L Harrell and Mrs H. E Brown, both of Palmyra. Child Dies After Being Hit hy Car Struck by an automobile in Bertie County at the Log Cabin Filling Sta tiun between Windsor and William -too last Friday about noon, Louise Whitakcr. 4 years old died in Washington hospital the following irrmng at S o'clock The little gul never regained consciousness after the car driven by Stcrbnc L. Davis, Providence R I. man. struck her Funeral services were held Sun day and burial was in Bertie Coun ty The child was the daughter of Becky and Dennis Wlutatcr asl lived in this county until a short tunc ago. Her tie officers were here Sunday afternoon investigating the accident, but no report on their findings is available here Davis, driver of the death car. is said to have rendered all the aid he could and accepted I be hospital and burial expenses, and said be would return for a bearing It could not be learned today wheth er plans had been made or whether a hearing would even be held m the: Find Aged Man After Search of Two Days John Dawson Wynn. aged inmate who fled from the Martin County I borne last Thursday morning, was found on the bark porch of a col ored home in Cross Bonds Township last Friday night after a sear I h that carried officers and others through woods and swamps near the during Thursday and Friday Wynn. suffering from a jail and is now awaitu^ removal to State hospital He was said hare suffered bad scratches on I body during his wander wigs through the woods Thursday afternoon ai night and part of Friday His dition was said t following his removal to the i Jail Last Friday officers search wet* afraid the maw I tun m the woods of he went thrash the Rale. However, Will Be 2 Cents Less; Set At $1.11 Tentatively Rate of $1.41 Expected To Raise $160,642.65 In Current Year The annual Martin County budget estimate prepared this week by Au ditor J Sam Getsmger calls (or a tax rate of 1 41 on the $100 property valuation this year, the figure being 2 rents under the 1W rate The budget based on a $12000,000 prop efts?% ilini.? ? ?* . - .. o.ov~-? ?o h"-l adoption at the next regular meet ing of the county board of commis sioners. Auditor Getsinger explained. However, few changes, if any. are likely to be made in the financial luslg11 siTTtlii iriiiltnn lilt On tt ?bi ?? ?.. Miuinr rate. On UodiT of last week, the com 55?J?fn i;l He ul mijioh. ten - taurely placed the 1937 rate at $1.41 1-2 and instructed the auditor to make another res em of the figures and place the reduction in rate at 2 cents. The 1-2 cent was chopped trum the current expense fund for schools It ts estimated that $210,466 65 trill be required to finance the county government and the several agen cirs this year, the $1 41 tax rate to raise 16677* Nearly $$0,000 will be raised, it is estimated, from fees, tuft fines and liquor sales. The general county fund for the year is estnnatcd at $44 $44 and calls for a rale of 9 rents, against 7 cents on the Sou -? > ,?;?n last year. The rate for the general fund Is 6 cents un der the maximum allowed by law. It n estimated that $21.2*8 will be needed for the poor fund The a ? ? tIuJci social security costs ited - " j vuao and B. baaed cm a 17-cent rate, a gainst 14 rents a year ago The health fund b figured at $7,800 and calls for a 7 cent rate xgaintl . 6 cent levy imposed m 1936. The county debt service fund, the Jinx in the whole tax situation, calls for $81, 236 6$. or a rate of $3 cents against $9 cents levied m 1936 The eight month school term lists the foifommg requirements Current rspense. $22,128 and a rate of 8 cents uguma* $ cents levied last year: cap ital outlay. K3N. and a rate of I cents against 3 cents in 1938, and debt service. $47,000. and a rate of 41 rents against 49 a year ago. It b estimated that $8,136$$ of the $16*77* lax amount will be un collected. or mote than enough to supfKiet the new full-time health pro In 1937 Martin County is due to pay IIm(2X($ in bond interest and prmrrpst tne dicissm being about equal After paying $26,378 $2 on county bond principal and $30,000 on school bond principal in 1936, the county now has a bonded indebted ness of WI.OI The budget estimate for the cur cent fiscal year appearing in this .paper show s a dec lease in debt re quirements. but general expenses rail for an increased levy Search for Lost Fliers Miandoned Amelia Euluit. kM flier, and her unah*. Frederick Noonan, sere len to U*n fate in the broad flaiii Oman late Sunday afternoon when snxiitn abandoned the hunt and beaded tjunevard Lost on a ZSfb-szule bop from Ne* Guinea to small Hum land Island, the tiro per sons bare been the objects of an ex tensile search since July 2 Esti mates of Use costs for carrying on the mmh ranee as high as one mil lsoq dollars a slay, but the time and money were spent m vain, the search rung home with only the theory that the 3?-jrenr-old woman narngator perished some where along the route from New Guinea toward the tiny island. Navy surface and aircraft covered ban St.M square miles of nd lonely South Sea island before quilting the search.