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Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 26, 1938.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Tobacco Marketing
Quotas Announced
By AAA Authorities
North Carolina Is Allotted
494,938,000 Pounds
This Season
Under a ruling by the Agricultur
al Adjustment Administration,
North Carolina can market 494,938,
000 pounds of tobacco free of tax,
the total for the flue-cured crop
standing at 739,088,000 pounds, a re
duction of 13.4 per cent under the
record crop of 834,882,000 pounds
grown last year. Of the 494,938,000
allotted this State, 9,256,000 pounds
were set aside for new growers.
Fixed on the basis of an average
for a period of years, the 1938 quo
tas are somewhat above a normal
crnp Th. ?v?r?g? ?rr?p fnr 10-'
year period, 1927-1936 irfclusive,
was 690,051,000 and the 1936 crop
was only 682,850,000 pounds.
The AAA took as a basis the com
bined period of 1936-1937, the two
years immediately after the invali
dation of the old AAA act and the
only two recent years in which there
has been unrestricted production of
tobacco. The quotas announced are
96 per cent of that average.
The quotas for other states follow:
North Carolina, 485,678,000
pounds; South Carolina, 84,302,000
pounds; Georgia, 71,033,000 pounds;
Virginia, 65,458,000 pounds; Florida,
11,007,000 pounds; Alabama, 420,000
pounds; new farms for all states, 21.
150,000 pounds.
The department issued the follow
ing statement on regulations govern
ing individual growers:
"In administering the quotas, each
farm operator will be given a mar
keting card showing the amount of
tobacco he can sell without penalty.
The card is to be presented to a rep
resentative of the AAA at auction
warehouses for all sales to tobacco,
and all sales within the time of the
marketing, and will be paid to the
secretary of agriculture by draft,
money order, or check sent with
weekly reports to be made in ac
cordance with regulations.
"Records and reports ' of market
ings:
"Records of each sale or resale of
tobacco at the warehouse will be
kept by the warehouseman, show
ing complete information about all
marketings of tobacco. This infor
mation will be filed in regular re
ports to the tobacco section of the
AAA. Dealers also will keep records
of all transactions and make regular
reports of tobacco bought or sold.
"Copies of the regulatins will be
furnished warehousemen and will
be available to producers at county.
agents' offices."
Discontinuance Of
Trains Be Fought
'To remove >11 of the passenger!
service on the Weldon-Kinston, the
Tarboro-Plymouth and the Wash
ington-Parmele branches of the At
lantic Coast Line railroad would be
the most damaging blow that this
part of Eastern Carolina has felt in
the past ten years," according to a
statement made by N. G. Bartlett,
secretary, Eastern Carolina Chamber
of Commerce, Kinston, which organ
ization is leading the opposition of
the removal of these trains. This
statement, according to Mr. Bartlett
is purely on the basis of encourag
ing development for this section.
Recently when the Veterans' hospi
tal for Eastern Ca-olina was finally
given to the Vayetteville vicinity
one of the main reasons for placing
the hospital in that area was that
the city was served efficiently by
passenger trains in and out, accord
ing to a statement given out by one
of the officials in charge of selecting
the location. Every effort will be
made by the local towns working
through the regional organization to
retain the services of these trains
and not only to keep the trains on
but get improvements in the service
and equipment.
The hearing will be held in Ral
eigh, August 2nd at 10 a. m. before
die'Honorable' Stanley Winborne,
utilities commissioner for North
Carolina and indications point now
to a large representation of citizens
present to support the movement to
retain the trains. Data is being col
lected and assembled for the region
al organization by a committee com
prised of Judge Guy Elliott, chair
man, Kinston; Mayor J. B. Eure, Ay
den; George M. Fountain, Jr., Tar
boro; E. H. Harding, secretary,
Chamber of Commerce, Washington
and N. a Bartlett, secretary. East
ern Carolina Chamber of Commerce
of Kinston. The interest all up and
down the line is keen according to
an observer and a strong opposition
case will be presented on August
Anti-Diphtheria Campaign
Gets Underway Next Week
Between six and seven hundred
children are expected to seek free
protection against diphtheria when
a aeries of vaccination stations are
opened in this county next week. A
schedule of the clinics appears in
this paper.
In connection with the clinics, the
county health department authori
ties offered the following comment:
"There were 39 cases of diphtheria
reported in Martin County in 1037.
Among this group there were two
deaths. Probably many other cases
occurred throughout the county in
which no doctor was summoned and
which, as a result, were never re
ported.
"There are certain persons known
as "diphtheria carriers." These are
individuals who. without symptoms
nf tiitratr h<"-h"r .prcqrf
the diphtheria organisms. Usually,
carriers are themselves immune to
the disease, but this is not necessar
ily the case.
"Eighty-five per cent of all deaths
from diphtheria occur in children
under six years of age, and unless a
child is immunized several years
before he reaches school age, then
he has not been protected from this
disease during the time in which it
is likely to be most fatal. Every in
fant should have diphtheria toxoid
given at six months of age. Babies
rarely show even the slightest reac
tion from the protective treatment
and every mother should have her
baby immunized by her family
physician or at one of the clinics
that are to be conducted at various
points throughout the county next
week.
"Older persons wishing to be im
mnni7??t arp HirpcleH tn lhP health
department headquarters in Wil
[ liamston where tests will be made."
MORE CARDS
Martin County cotton farmers
whose plan Unas are within the
19SI acreage allotment will be
issued white marketing cards
ere long. Those farmers who
have overptanted their acreage
allotment will receive red cards
showing the amount of cotton
that can be sold tax free.
That the cards might be dis
tributed before ginning season,
agriculture authorities are urg
ing farmers to assist the super
visors in measuring crop land as
it is necessary that compliance
be determined before cards can
be Issued, or before cotton price
adjustment payments can be
made.
Prominent County
Citizen Dies In
Hospital Monday
Funeral This Afternoon For]
Mrs. Everett in
Hamilton
Mrs. LeRoy Everett, prominent1
Hamilton woman, died in a Wash
ington hospital at 11:30 o'clock yes
terday morning following a short
illness. Taken sick just a few days
ago, Mrs. Everett was removed to
the hospital last week.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John A. Davenport, members of a
well known family in this county,
Mrs. Everett was born in Hamilton
May 4, 1899. She was married to
Mr. Everett on November 16, 1917,
and he with three sons, Hilton,
Frank and Norman; and three
daughters, Doris, Kay and Gladys,
survives. She also leaves besides
her parents, four sisters, Mrs. Wal
ter Roberson, of Robersonville; Mrs.
Verne Fulmer, of Springfield, S. C.;
Mrs. Elmer Edmondson, of Hasaell;
and Mrs. Banks Cozart, of Green
ville, and one brother, Clayton Dav
enport, of Robersonville.
Funeral services are being con
ducted this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock
from the late home in Hamilton by
Rev. E. C. Shoe, pastor of the Bap
tist church of which she was a faith
ful member. Interment will follow
in the Hamilton cemetery.
I Mrs. Everett, greatly beloved by
all who knew her, was a devoted
| wife and mother, finding pleasure
in the care of her home and in the
untiring acts of kindness for a large
friendship She was a splendid
neighbor, one who was thoughtful!
and considerate of others at all
times, and her untimely pasaing
comes as a decided shock to the
family and her many friends
throughout the county.
Government Engineer Ta
Hold Meeting Tomorrow
Municipal and county authorities
from this and a number ot eastern
Carolina counties are expected here
for a meeting in the courthouse to
morrow afternoon at three o'clock
when H. G Baity, special govern
ment engineer, will explain the pro
cedure for getting Public Works Ad
ministration loans and grants.
Tlx Public la Invited to attend the
meeting, and all town and county
officials in Martin and surrounding
territory are urged to be present
even if they are not anticipating a
project in cooperation with the
PWA.
Little Crime Wave Is'
Reported in County
Five Calls Keep
Officers On Duty
During Long Hours
Assaults, Robbery, Suicide
Attempt Hold Spotlight
In This County
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A tittle crime wave sweeping over
the county last week-end called into
action combined State, county and
local police units, the forces work
ing long hours handling four cases
and trying to solve a fifth which of
ficers described as one of the most
brutal in the section's crime annals. <
The brutal attack on Mrs. Lyda
Jenkins. 70-year-old woman, near
Robersonville some time during last
Saturday night held the spotlight.
Today, the crime remained unsolv
ed, but officers were working dili
gently on every available clue, and
developments can be expected.
Visited on several previous occa
sions, the home of Charles Sexton,
near Williamston, was entered by
robbers early last Saturday night.
The sheriff's office reported that the
thieves stole only those clothes and
articles that could not be seen 011
one's person. No clue to the identity
of the robbers has been established.
Sylvester Griffin, Griffins Town
ship colored man, was arrested and
booked on a drunken charge Sun
day evening. Griffin is said to have
attacked his wife, and threatened
the lives of neighbors when they
went to his home to learn what was
the trouble. Griffin was released
yesterday.
Charged with running his wife
and children away from home, Mar
tin Whitaker, Jamesville Township
man, was arrested and placed in jail
?yesterday afternoon. The charge
against Whitaker, reports state, is
an indirect one. Saturdu night he
took his gun and told IV wife that
he just as soon shoot a man as to
shoot a bird. Badly frightened, his
wife was afraid to go to sleep and
late in the night she called her chil
dren and went to the home of a
neighbor. Whitaker is to be given a
hearing Thursday.
Crazed drink, Eli Raynor,
young colored man living near the
Martin County prison camp, is said
to have quarrelled with his wife and
then attempted to take his life Sun
day morning. He borrowed a rifle |
and shot himself, the bullet plowing
a furrow around the top of his head.
Summoned there, officers found
Raynor at the breakfast table eat
ing a corned herring, the man's face
, partly covfrgd with blood. Raynor)
explained that he was responsible
for the quarrel with his wife, and
officers continued on to the Jenkins
case without making an arrest.
Methodist Sunday School I
Postpones Annual Picnic
On account of the rainy weather
and the reports both in newspapers
and over the radio that the rainy
weather is likely to continue for sev
eral days, it has been decided to
postpone the Methodist Sunday
achool picnic which was expected to
be had on Wednesday afternoon of
this week to some day to be an
nounced later.
Watch the Enterprise for further
announcements relative to the date
it will be held.
It is hoped the postponement will
not cause any inconvenience and
J that a good picnic can be held in
the near future, the superintendent
of the Sunday school announced.
Number Of Births
Continues Decline
In Martin County
Decrease Is Confined to
County's White
Population
For the third successive year, the
number of births in Martin Coun
ty continues to decline, a review of
the 1937 vital statistics revealing a
decrease of 20 births as compared
with the number in 1936. The de
crease was confined to the white
population, the colored race having
a slight increase last year over the
1936 figures. ?
The decline was slight in all but
two of the townships, Williamston
and Goose Nest, and in those, par
ticularly in Williamston. the num
ber uf Illegitimate blillis buusteil the
totals to show a slight gain in the
total number for the two districts.
Despite a decrease in the total
number of births, the crop of illegi
timates just about held its own as
compared with the 1936 records, the
number of such births among the
white population increasing almost
100 per cent Most of the illegitimate
births, the records show, were among
girls under 20 years of age, quite a
few of them being only 15 or 16
years old. It is understood that the
records for illegitimate births are
not contplete, that the birth regis
trations are entered in other coun
ties or states. The record for the
colored population is annarpntlv in
clusive as there were 83 such births,
thirty-two of them being located in
Williamston Township. The records
show the fottowing number of illegi
timate births: Jamesville Township,
four white and three colored; Wil
liams Township, one white and no
colored; Griffins Township, no white
and four colored; Bear Grass, one
each; Williamston Township, no
white and 32 colored; Cross Roads,
no white and one colored; Hobersoii
ville, no white and 16 colored; Pop
ftr Point, no white and two colored;
Hamilton, three white and 13 color
ed, and Goose Nest, no white and 11
colored, a total uf nine white and
83 colored.
The ages of mothers ranged from
14 to 47 years, the age of one father
being recorded in Hamilton Town
ship at 71 years. Ten mothers were
only fifteen years of age and there
were more than 50 who were 17
years or younger. The ages of quite
a few fathers were between 50 and
62 years.
The following table shows the
number of white and colored births
for last year and the totals for 1937
and 1936, by townships:
Wb. Col. 1937 1938
Jamesville . 37 25 62 74
Williams . 19 15 34 35
Griffins . 16 13 29 34
Bear Grass 49 22 71 67
Williamston . 70 105 175 185
Cross Roads 25 24 49 52
Robersonville . 41 78 119 128
Poplar Point 11 22 33 42
Hamilton . 28 54 82 84
Goose Nest 16 87 103 96
Totals 312 445 757 777
In five townships, the number of
white births was slightly greater
than for the colored population, but
in the five others tha number of col
ored births far exceeded the white,
the ratio exceeding five to one in
Goose Nest.
In 1936 there were 349 white
births in the county compared with
the 312 last year, the number of
colored births increasing from 428
to 445 last year.
formal Rainfall Reported
In County So Far In July
While rain has fallen on one out
of every two days so far this month
on an average, the July rainfall to
date in this immediate section is
slightly below normal. Nearly half
up until noort today fell during the
week-end and yesterday.
Some sections of the county have
reported only small showers, and
others have had several cloudbursts.
Possible damage to some crops has
resulted, but the corn crop has been
made by recent rains, farmers state.
The Roanoke, even with its banks
today, is expected to reach a crest
of 13 feet at this point by the week
end. Hugh Spruill, bridge ' keeper,
states that the stream will overflow
its banks by a depth of three feet, at
least, or about six inches above the
recent high -water.
Skewarkey Masons Will
- Hold Meeting Tonight
Work in the third degree will be
handled at the regular meeting of
the Skewarkey lodge membership
here this evening at eight o'clock,
Worshipful Master L. Bruce Wynne
announced this morning.
Applications Must Be Filed
Before Leaf Quotas Are Given
Farmers have been notified direct j
and warning after warning has beeni
given that no tobacco allotments I
can be made until after proper ap
plications have been filed with the
county agent's office. The county
agent is urgently requesting all those
farmers who have not yet filed an
application to do so at onre Already,
there is some doubt if the applica
tions filed now will be in time for
the grower to get his allotment prior
to the opening of the markets next
month.
Between 1,500 and 1,600 applica
tions for individual marketing al
lotments have been sent to Raleigh
from this county, the authorities in
timating that the cards should be
ready for distribution in ample time
for the opening of the markets in
this belt on August 25. There are
approximately 150 farmers in the
county who have not yet filed an ap
plication for a marketing allotment.
If they are to market any tobacco
tax free they must file the required
application, it has been repeatedly
pointed out. Delay in offering re
quired information is certain to in
convenience the farmer who con
tinue neglectful nnw
The county agent's office is anx
ious for every farmer to benefit to
the greatest extent possible under
the agricultural program, anH that
they might enjoy the benefits all
, farmers are urged to cooperate by
offering the information required in
determining the marketing allot
ments. Every farmer whether he is
cooperating with the soil conserva
' tion program or not must file an ap
plication if he is to market any to
bacco tax free.
Georgia Tobacco
Jflarkets To Open
Season Thursday
Number of Local People to
Spend Several Weeks
There
Tobacconists, including warehouse
operators, auctioneers, buyers, book
men, speculators, and common lab
orers, started moving in on Georgia
over the week-end for the opening
of the markets there on Thursday of
this week. Quite a few Williamston
people will be on the markets in
Florida and Georgia during the next
few weeks.
Preliminary reports maintain that
the markets there are anticipating a
record year. The acreage is said to
have been increased from 80,600 a
year ago to 99,200 this year, and the
outlook is for a 1,001 per acre pound
age as compared with 931 a year
ago and an average of 800 for the
period from 1927 to 1936. If the esti
mates prove anything like correct
Georgia will market right at 100 mil
lion pounds this season, or about
twenty-five per cent more than the
marketing total in 1937.
Georgia has been allotted 71,053,
000 pounds for free marketing this
season. If the preliminary estimates
prove correct then farmers of that
state will have to pay a marketing
tax on more than 25 million pounds,
it is estimated. The Georgia belt was
allotted 97.6 per cent of its produc
tion for 1936 and 1937.
On opening day, July 29, of last
^eajy^the-Georgia-markets avwaged
approximately 23 cents a pound. The
South Carolina markets, opening on
August 10, last year, averaged
around 25 cents for the first-day
sales.
Among tbose from here leaving
for Georgia were, Joel Muse, Adel;
E. P. Cunningham, Tifton; Dick
Clayton, Valdosta; J. E. Griffin, Live
|Oak, Fla. Messrs. John Gurkin and
W. R. Ingram left this morning for
Douglas, where they will attend the
opening. .
Held Under Bond For
Alleged False Pretense
Charged with obtaining goods un
der false pretense, BarneV Wynne,
local painter, was bound over to su
perior court under a $200 bond by
Justice J. L Hassell this morning.
Wynne is said to have charged
paint to his employees and sold it
at a reduced profit, converting the
money to his own use. "It is the first
time I eve rdid such a thing," the
defendant told the court in directing
a plea for leniency.
Increase Bonds To $1,000
For Alleged Bootleggers
Arrested at a liquor plant in this
county last week. Wade Harrell,
white, William Black and Jackson
Bonds are being transferred from
the jail here today to Raleigh by fed
eral authorities. Bonds, first set at
$500 by United States Commission
er Walter Halberstadt, have been
three men.
Dr. J. H. Saunders is confined to
his home by a slight illness. He is
expected out shortly.
PRODUCTION
leased by the government prove
correct, North Carolina will
raise 43,462.000 more pounds o(
tobacco than it can sell tax free.
The government estimates that
this State will produce 538,400.
000 pounds ot the leaf this sea
son. the total allotment an
nounced last week-end by the
Agricultural Adjustment admin
istration being only 494.938,000
pounds.
The government estimates
that the per acre poundage in
this belt this season will be
around 873 pounds compared
with 925 last season, that the to
tal belt production will drop
from 305,250,000 produced last
year to 271,250,000 pounds this
season.
Fire Destroys Two
Windsor Buildings
' Fire of undetermined origin
wrecked two two-story buildings
and threatened a considerable por
tion of Windsor's Granville street
I business property, citizens describ
ing the fire as one of the town's
largest in a number of years. The
Perry hardware store and stock
were virtually destroyed and an
adjoining vacant store belonging to
the Bazemore heirs was wrecked.
No estimate on the loss has been of
fered, reports stating that the dam
age to the buildings will exceed $10,
000. Stocks, including those of the
Basnight Furniture Company and
the' D. L. Mardre, Jr., haberdashery
! were moved from buildings in the
path of the fire.
Called to the scene, fire-fighting
equipment was rushed there by
Ahoskie, Edenton and Williamston,
Aulander's recently organized fire
fighting group rendering a valuable
man service. The Williamston de
partment pumped thre<? streams?of_
water on the fire for nearly two
hours before the combined forces
brought it under control Leaving
here at 9:35 the firemen returned
with the equipment at one o'clock.
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Registration Books For
Election Close Saturday
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Local citizens wishing to partici
pate in the special $72,000 bond im
who have not done so are advised
to register this week. The books
will close on Saturday of this week,
reports from Registrar C. B. Has
sell stating that less than 100 people
had registered to date.
?- Unofficial reports maintain that
there is some opposition to the elec
tion, and that a heavy registration is
almost certain at the last minute.
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Young Griffins Man Is
Hurt In Auto Accident
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Harold Griffin, sen of Mr. and
Mrs G. C Griffin, of Griffins Town
ship, was painfully but not serious
ly hurt in an automobile wreck near
Washington, last Sunday evening.
The young man was cut on the ai
Hilton Alligood, Washington man
who was in the other car figuring
in the wreck, is in a Washington hos
pital where he is being treated for
a slight brain concusaion.
County Woman Victim of Brutal
Attack Late Last Saturday Night
At Her Home Near Robersonville
Search Underway
For John Small,
Alleged Attacker
Mrs. Lyda Jenkins Is Said
To Be in Critical
Condition
Brutally attacked late last Satur
day night or early Sunday morning,
Mrs l.vda Jenkins, widow of Alfred
Jenkins, was reported in a critical
condition today at her home on the
old Williamston-Greenville Road in
KobqrsonviIIe Township. Struck on
the head five times by a fire poker,
Mrs. Jenkins has remained uncon
scious since the attack except for a
short while when she rallied and
accused John Small, 25-year-old
colored man, with the attack. Real
izing her condition, investigating of
ficers have delayed questioning her
and a direct motive for the attack
has not been learned.
Three possible motives have
been advanced, but officers are
withholding details until the case is
mure fully developed, f hidings nr~
a medical examination have not
been divulged, causing some to
doubt that the 70-year-old woman
was criminally assaulted before she
was brutally beaten. Little evidence
has been found to support a second
motive, that of robbery. Officers are
said to have found articles in dress
er drawers and trunks in proper or
der. However, the robbery motive is
claiming most attention from inves
tigators in their search ToT the at="'
tacker. It is possible, officers are
quoted as saying, that the attacker,
believed to have been under the in
fluence of liquor at the time, made
a mistake, broke into the Jenkins
home thinking it was another and
attacked Mrs Jenkins for another
person.
Living alone, Mrs. Jenkins is be
lieved to have been attacked about
midnight Saturday. Beaten into un
consciousness, she was not found un
til neighbors called at the home
about nine o'clock Sunday morning
and found where someone had brok
en through a window. County Com
missioner C. Abram Roberson was
called to investigate and he broke
into the home with others and found
Mrs. Jenkins lying on a bed. Medi
cal aid was summoned at his direc
tion, and officers were immediate
ly notified. A combined force of
county, town and state officers start
ed work on the case immediately,
and their first clue was established
when Mrs. Jenkins rallied a few
minutes and accused Small.
Late yesterday, no trace of Small
had been determined, officers stat
ting that he had been placed near
the Jenkins home about midnight
Saturday, that he had returned from
~a logging camp, near Palmyra, earl
ier that day and threatened the life
of his wife. He was seen with a pint
of liquor in his pocket that after
noon, but officers could not identi
fy the bottle as the one found juat
outside a window at the Jenkins
home. _
During the TirstTweniy-four hours
the search carried officers into sev
eral sections of this county and into
Small's old home in Beaufort coun
ty, but he has not been identified
since he was last seen walking tow
ard Stokes between 12 and one
o'clock Sunday morning.
Mrs. Jenkins was reported to have
recently sold some timber to a log
ging firm operating in her commun
ity, and as Small worked with the
logging firm for a long time before
he was fired a few days ago, some
believe he knew about the transac
tion and went to the home to rob
Mrs. Jenkins.
District Commissioner
In Richmond Hospital
D. Collin Barneg, first district
highway commissioner of Murfrees
boro, continues ill in a Richmond
hospital, reports stating that he is
getting along very well. However, it
could not be learned when Mr.
Barnes would be able to return
home.
Pending the commissioner's re
turn, no action has been taken in
connection with alloting $36,000 for
county. Unofficial reporta received
here state that the propoead project
will not be included in the neat
highway letting, that action will pos
sibly be delayed six or eight