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AdrerUeen W1U IU Omr (M amas ? Latchkey to no MM tan W Mjutto Ceuty. THF. F.NTF.R PR ISF. Watch toe MM m 1mm '?to, to It Curiae toe Dale * ear Sahacrtpttoa Intra. VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 65 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina. Tuesday, August 16,1938. ESTABLISHED 1899 Leaf Marketing Cards Released Are In Two Counties! Martin Farmers Expecting] Theirs Early Part of Next Week The first 1938 tobacco marketing allotment cards of the permanent type are being released in North Carolina today, reliable reports stating that several thousand being sent out for distribution in the counties of Robeson and Colum bus. Machinery for handling the cards is turning night and day in the Ral eigh office, and the allotments will be placed in the hands of the various county agents as rapidly as possible. It is likely that the cards will be made ready for distribution among Martin- County farmers not later than the early part of next week. No advanced information as to what the average poundage allot ment will be, some guessing it will be around 800 pounds or possibly more. There will be some fluctua tions, of course, but every effort has been made to eliminate unusually high allotments on the one hand and low allotments on the other. According to reports coming from farmers direct, it is believed that with very few exceptions the mar keting allotment will amply take care of the production in this coun ty i It could not be learned just how the marketing cards will be distri buted, but it is likely that the own ers will be asked to call at a desig nated place or places for them. Far mers in this county are again as sured that the permanent marketing cards will be made ready for use when the markets open on Thurs day, August 23, in the east Carolina belt. Very few temporary marketing cards have been issued {o Martin County farmers to date, and it is understood that all of them getting the early type of cards have not of fered tobacco for sale on the border markets. A small trailer load, com ing from over Bertie way, was hauled through here last week-end, but that is about the only load that has been seen this season. Quite a few farmers in counties to the west and south of Martin are said to have carried tobacco to the borde^-for sale, but being a bit disappointed in price one or two are said'to have hauled it all the way back home. Attacks Trend Of Times In Sermon Speaking to a small congregation at the union service held in the Bap tist church here last Sunday eve ning, Cleveland Bradner, minister ial student, attacked the trend of the times and cited glaring exam ples of how the world is refuting Christian standards of living. "Thousands of dollars are being spent for a tobacco festival in Wil son," the young student said, "but few of those who will pay $2 for a dance ticket will contribute fifteen cents for a foreign missions without growling," he added. "An aged wo man traveled south a few days ago penniless and foot sore, and while thousands are invested in a festival and other material things of little lasting benefit, not a living soul would volunteer to invest even $100 to rehabilitate the life of that poor soul," the preacher said. Much of the trouble in the world today is chargeable to those lead ing brethren in the church who bow and act conspicuous during a service on Sunday and then in the business world the next day rob the coat off one's back in the relentless drive for an additional profit, the student charged. Gun Shot Victim Not Expected Tq Recover \ Arthur Harrison, young colored tan who was shot while attempting > break into a Jamesville store arly on the morning of August 7, is ot expected to live, reports coming ?om a Washington hospital today la ting that his condition became iddenly worse Sunday morning, lelirious, Harrison got out of his ed Sunday morning and the result lg shock is said to have destroyed ope of recovery. The man's coodi ?n was reported fair just two days efore. Pneumonia is believed to ave developed. Officers have abandoned efforts ? locate the man's people. Finger rints revealed nothing but a crito nal record in this and adjoining ounties. Harrison said his father, a emi-invalid, and a sister lived in rineland. Vs., but no place by that lame can be found in the neigh bor ng state. Compliance Work in County. About 80 Percent Completed Compliance work by the field su per visors continues to progress fair ly rapidly in this county, unofficial reports stating that the survey is approximately 80 per cent complete to date. It is estimated that the su pervisors have measured more than 1,300 farms and that they have about 400 more to survey before completing the 1938 compliance check. As a whole, the supervisors have received a ready cooperation in making the surveys. While there has been some opposition openly voiced against the control program, reports coming in from a cross sec tion of the county clearly indicate that Martin farmers still favor the control plan. Only one supervisor has been refused permission to measure a farm, but in a few cases' the surveyors were denied coopera tion by the land owners. No official figures are available but it is estimated that the county, as a whole, has exceeded its peanut allotment plantings by approximate ly five per cent. The farmers are be lieved to have overplanted their to bacco allotment by around three per cent. A different story is record ed for cotton, the unofficial esti mates showing that cotton farmers were nearly 10 per cent under the allotment figures. Compliance work on nearly every cotton farm in the county has been completed, and farmers applying for the cotton price adjustment pay ments should have no trouble in getting their checks in those cases where the terms of the soil conser vation program were observed Charge 'Fake' Doctor With Death of Patient EIGHT ARRESTS Following a quiet period of wvHil weeks' duration, the sheriffs office worked on a 14 hour schedule last week-end ef fecting eight arrests and invest! While Interest centered in the case charring Oeorte Barnes with poisoning a colored woman, the officers spent much time rounding up a half doxen drunks and bringing a defendant to jus tice for alleged assault. All those arrested during the period were colored. Cotton Forecast Shows Reduction! Farmers of North Carolina fore cast a harvest of 453,000 bales of cotton, their smallest crop in thir ty-seven years, as indicated in the| August 1 federal-state crop report released by the State Department of Agriculture. From growers reports, it was in dicated that North Carolina has a cotton crop of 68 per cent of nor mal, which forecasts a yield of 240 pounds of lint per acre. The report ed yield-per-acre is 98 pounds below last season and 34 pounds under the average for the past ten years. Although specific boll weevil dam age was not given, crop reporters said that "weevil infestation is the heaviest in several years'" The report listed 902,00 acres in tended for harvest compared with 1,103,000 acres harvested last sea son, or an indicated decrease in acreage of 19 per cent and the small est-acreage in 45 years. The report follows: While North Carolina's expected cotton yield is 34 pounds under the past ten-year average, the United States' yield is 38 pounds above the average for the past decade. Thus, conditions in this State are "much worse" in relation to other cotton producing areas. The unfavorable prospects for the 1938 cotton crop are attributed to continuously adverse weather con ditions since planting time. Although the time of planting was somewhat earlier than usual, dry weather in May caused poor germination of seed and consequently bad stands and much replanting. During the latter part of May and during most of June, continued rains and cool weather were crop-decreasing fac tors. Some recovery for the crop was brought about by favorable wea ther early in July, but since July 15 rains did much The present crop is characterized by poorer stands than usual, late fruiting and the heaviest boll weevil infestation in many years, however, improved weather conditions for the remainder of the season could do much to increase yields. Weather Continues On The Hot Side Locally Bouncing the mercury into the ad vanced nineties a week ago, the wea ther continues on the hot side here, and no valid promise of relief has even been mentioned by the fore casters. Shortly before noon today, the mercury was holding to a good 99 degrees and was already to jump higher as a relentless sun continued to aggravate the hot situation. But the hot records here are not so terribly bad when one considers that the mercury is riding high at 114 degrees in North Dakota. Tarboro Negro Held Following Death Of Chaney Wiggins, 60 Spirits Concocted by Geo. Barnes Are Being Analyzed ' ? ; The jll practice of conjure medi cine, posslbiy on a large scale in this and adjoining Edgecombe County was uncovered in the Hamilton sec de.ti, , following the death of Chaney Wiggins, 80-year old colored woman. Preliminary in rrr indica,e that the meth ods of the witch doctor in darkest UonZ m?derni2ed the introduc tion of certain patent medicines have *en followed in offering re, ef to area, 'ng th" an *n??hten?j George Barnes, 70-year-old Tar-i boro negro, was arrested at his home sunday m?? Edgecombp6''^' ? Roebuck a"d tagecombe officers following the death of the Wiggins woman he evening before her home near Barnes w!he SheHf' 8ta,,n? that wUb pracT, Jng'Te^ itPly f ?*.iicing medicine without ? license and with treating Ch.ney Wiggins unlawfully and with .7 ministering some poison:1." drug that^ resulted in the death of quanitvT/T Confi4c"t'n? a small have beei? medicin* alleged to ficerstT concocted by Barnes, of lcer, are merely marking time in the case pending the announcement I I' . Ch^ca' analy.i? finding in the b5! " atory- Member, of the medical profession, called to the na t'ent are said to hold the belie, thai cate ?7v7nf it","'" * death ^"fl ea u,e nf h 7 a* 0,6 ""mediate e77J h'r death "There was ev ry ndication of poisoning," one of he attending physicians was qUot ed as saying. w Investigating the case, a coroner's Jury composed of Messrs J B P Zetk w F Thomas C D Perkfn." W. Davis, r A Edmondson . R ner^T'B rnlaCC?rding to C? & K Bl**? that death was from Patient .^ZTZlZ'T Jtomaeh , ,hort ^ ^ ^her own* action of the jury a war ram ,w.. issued calling for Barn",' Waa pee'ormed, leav eapped' in".' ?' n* C?nJure doctor usSTf.7 T ,ruit )ar which he used as a container for his special Preparation o, herbs, root. .7d a mixture of certain medicines. If the preparation is proved to be a harm le? herb and root juice The serious charge against Barnes "win w lace the courts on the char*#, nt cense'0'it* medicine without a li ?^ToriL .,poaalble the authorities will order the body disinterred and *ut?pey performed in an effort the caua? bf fcl case is a7.Uj action the StateVb:^."^^ tbe owTr^tori de"d W?man'a wid tbe ^e.?f?Zt^)he ?^rd but that 7,e o7h, JUre doctor' Barne. ... ^ ""n* calUrf beginnina. "7? ""P'0'0". 'rom the beginning and when my wife ^ eumewor^, I .upped thejaroLrf toW o?^Tred by Barne?." Wiggin, told officer, when he turned the concoction over to them )u? 'ZT fT"* bF the ooroner's Jury. Barnes first explained to the (Continued on page four) Resume Hearing Petition To Stop Passenger Trains Railroad Presented Case Early Part of August A petition by the Atlantic Coast Line to discontinue its passenger trains on all branch lines in eastern Carolina is again before the State Utilities commission, tha train oper ators having presented their evi dence the early part of this month. Resuming the hearing yesterday, Stanley Winborne, State Utility commissioner, heard a dozen or more witnesses off^ testimony against the company's proposal to discontinue passenger trains operat ing from Kinston to Weldon. Plym outh to Tarborp and from W..hi?r ton to Parmele. The oposition, doubting the testi mony offered by the railroad com pany which maintained that the op erating loss ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars on the branch lines annually, referred to the poor schedules. Pointing out that there was a three-hour wait in Weldon for | the patron traveling from Williams ton to Richmond, the opposiUon was advised that the schedule was ar ranged for patrons who wanted an opportunity to shop in Weldon. The oppositin reiterated its belief that the company is not losing any mon ey on branch lines, taking into con sideration the operating revenue from fleight, express, passengers and mail. Williamston, receiving its main mail service over the passenger train and supporting a large express volume on the line, was not direct ly represented at the hearing yester day. J- A. Canady, of Kinston, one of the protesting witnesses, told Com missioner Stanley/Winborne that he thought the "raij/oads are trying to kill their business instead of making business." The witness said he had never I seen the general superintendent of j the railroad until he came to Kins ton to ask business men to support the removal plea. Would not it have been better if | he had come there and asked us to cooperate and give the railroad more business?" queried Canady. "I am not trying to tell you how to run your business," Canady said, "but if the freight lines go, your main lines are going too. Watch what 1 tell you." Mrs. Lucy MizelJe Dies In Bear Grass Mrs. Lucy Ward Mizelle, widow of James Allen Mizelle, died at the home of her niece, Mrs. John Rob eraon, at Roberson's Chapel in Bear Grass Township, last Saturday eve ning at six o'clock following a long illness. A. widow of the Confederacy, Mrs. Mizelle was born in Bear Grass about 80 years ago, the daughter of the late William and Louisa Ward. She spent her early life there, but following her marriage to Mr Mi zelle she moved to Williamston Township where she made her home on the old Mizelle farm until about two months ago when she went to live with Mr. and Mrs. Roberson. She was a member of the Primi | tive church, taking membership at I Bear Grass about a year ago Funeral services were conducted from the Roberson home Sunday afternoon at three o'clock by Elders B. S. Cowin and A. B. Ayers. Inter ment was in the family plot on the i Mizelle farm. ' Farmers To Meet In Greenville Tomorrow More than 3,000 farmers are ex pected at the annual*state meeting of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation in Greenville tomorrow. Martin will be well represented when the program gets underway at 10 o clock in the campus building of East Carolina Teachers College. Edward A. U'Neal, president or the American Farm Bureau Federa tion, will be the main speaker. J. B. Hutson, chief of the tobacco section and assistant Agricultural Adjust ment administrator, F. R. Wilcox, di rector of the market adjustment section and John W. Goodmon, as sistant director of extension service, will also address the meeting. A big barbecue dinner will be served in a warehouse, holders of 1037-38 membership cards gaining admission free. a Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Coburn, Miss Ellen Coburn, Misses Jerry and Frances Humble and Mr. Urshel White spent Sunday at Morehead City. County Farmers Apply for Cotton Adjustment Payments While comparatively few entered , applications during last week, a good number of Martin County far i mers are applying at the county i agent's office for cotton price ad-1 justment payments this week, T. B Slade. assistant to Agent T. B. Bran- j don stating today that the first fifty applications had been completed and are being forwarded to Raleigh. All farmers who grew cottony last year and who are complying with the soil conservation program this season are entitled to file appli-! cations and receive the price adjust ment payments. It is estimated that the several hundred cotton farmers in this coun ty will receive around $35,000 in special payments which will be made available in the near future Application* must be filed, huwov er, before a farmer's bid for the pay ments cart be considered. The amount of cotton eligible for payment is that percentage of the 1937 cotton base on all eligible farms which the secretary of agriculture determine will result in the total payment for all producers of ap proximately but not in excess of 130 million dollars. It is roughly esti mated that farmers in this county are eligible Jo receive the price ad justment payment on around 80 to 85 percent of their 1937 production base, the payments to average around three cents a pound. In filing an application with the county agent's office, all the farmer has to do is produce evidence of sales or gin record for the 1937 crop. Those farmers who did not comply with the 1937 program are eligible for the payments also, but they will also have to give number of acres and names of tenants Hunting Season Change Is Meeting With Opposition Hunters in Four Counties Sign Petition for Old Season That the new hunting season pro posed by the Stale Board of Consed vatton and Development is facing, opposition^ expressed in an article, appearing in the Scotland (teckl Commonwealth last week. No rec-l ord of the opposition has been pub-| llcly expressed in this county, but there is some opposition and many! have signed a petition to have the old season reinstated. The article in the Scotland Neck paper pertaining' to the season follows: Aroused over the action of the State Board of Conservation and Development in changing the open hunting season for quail and wild turkey from November 20-February 15 to December 15-February 20, rep resentative citizens, county officials and sportsmen of the counties of Halifax, Martin, Bertie and North ampton?aU counties bordering on the swamps of the Roanoke river are signing petitions requesting that they be granted a hearing by the board before putting the new regu lations into effect. These petitions have been circu lated widely in the past few days and will shortly be forwarded to John D Chalk, of Raleigh, game commissioner for the state. It is ex pected that the board will grant the request for a hearing at a later date and large delegations are expected to present themselves at Raleigh at that time. The petitioners allege that condi tions in Halifax, Martin, Bertie and Northampton counties are different from these in other sections insofar as hunting is concerned and the be bef is expressed that elimination of the first three and a half weeks of the old season?thai is from Novem ber 20 to December 15?will play in to the hands of the pot hunters and poachers who care little for game preservation or regulation, while it Will penalize the honest sportsmen who are ready and willing to ob serve all laws designed for the pro tection of game. The letter of trans mittal accompanying the petitions further points out that the changes were made by the Board at its re r'witho"t prior notice that the old regulations, which had been in effect for several years, would come up for consideration an. changes, also arguments would hav. been presented at that meeting. In the four counties mentioned the petition alleges that the wish. ofan overwhelming majority ol 'uae uhti u.led are against Tht changes. It is stated that the four counties mentioned all border on the Roanoke river and a large part c" the best hunting territory lies in th lowlands and swamps of that rivei The length of the season now in ef Ten, ?na which the petitioners wis] to continue, i, 88 days, and with l: Sundays omitted is 7# days It is .1 ?o pointed out that the Roanoke riv er floods usually about three time, during the hunting season, and thes? freshets put an end to hunting foi from five to fifteen days each, since the prwnt lew to hunt Within 500 yards of high water dur ing a freshet. It is estimated that i least twenty days per season are lot because of the freshets and this r? duces the season to 58 days. Quail and wild turkey, the peti tion continues, are now protected b day and season bag limits, an. such provisions limit the law-abid ing hunters without affecting po hunters and law violators. MEETING 1 Young Democrats of Martin County have been called to meet in the office of Attorney Hufh . (i. llorton In Williamston on Thursday evening of this week at eight o'clock. Delegates to the state meeting of Young Democrats to be held In Durham on September 8, 9 and 19, will be named from this county, Mr. Horton, president of the club announced through the lecrt tary. Attorney Carter Studdert, today. Huge Surpluses Are Threatening Wheat And Cotton Markets Acreage Reductions Neces sary to Prevent Farm Demoralization ? Washington, Aug. 15 ? The agri cultural adjustment administration announced today that it would pay the nation's wheat farmers a subsidy of from 26 cents to 30 cents a bush el for compliance with a planting program calling for a 31 per cent re duction in acreage next year. The benefit payment rate compar ed with 12 cents offered under this yeur's program. Increased rates were promised for several other ma jor crops. Funds totaling $712,000,000 ae ex pected to be available for the pay ments, officials said At the same time, the AAA an nounced several other phases of next year's crop programs, includ ing a proposal that cotton growers plan for another small crop and approve, in a referendum to be con ducted this fall, the use of market ing quotas to restrict sale of their products. This year's crop will be sold under quotas. The AAA hinted that it was pos sible corn growers of the commer cial belt, many of whom protested against a 20 per cent acreage reduc tion this year, might be asked to plant less of the feed grain next year. Officials said problems arising from increased crop surpluses made further acreage reductions neces sary to prevent "demoralization of farm prices and income." Faced with prospects of the larg est wheat surplus?on record,?the AAA asked growers recently to lim it seeding for next year's crop to 55.000,000 acres. The area seeded to the crop now being harvested was about 80,000,000 acres. The announcement of an increase of more than 100 per cent in the wheat subsidy rate was made at a time when protests against the re strictive program and comRlainta aguinst slumping grain prices were being heard In the wheat belL - Rates of benefit payments for oth er crops, which will be calculated in a manner similar to that for wheat, were announced as follows: Cotton, 3.6 to 4 cents a pound, compared with about 5 cents this year; corn. 13 to 16 cents a bushel, compared with 10 cents this year; rice, 20 to 25 cents per 100 pounds, cOmptfSJ with" T2.5 cents "this year; tobacco, probably the same as this year, or from .5 to 1.53 cents ? pound; and potatoes, 3 cents a bush el, compared with from 3 6 to 8.4 cents thy year. The AAA said that in view of the fact that there was a cotton surplus of 13,400,000 bales, growers would be asked to plant no more than 27, 500,000 acres, compared with 34, 000,000 in 1937 and a normal acre age of about 4,000,000. Farmers of Union County who used poison on their cotton regular ly have a low infestation of boll wee vlla. Oldest Church In County Holds Its Yearly Meet Here Formed in 1787 By the Late Elder Joseph Biggs Of This County Formed in 1787, the Skewarkey Primitive Baptist church held its 181st yearly meeting in the big pine grove at the edge of Williamston last Saturday ana Sunday, the event at trading the full membership, a large number of visitors from other churches in the Kehukee associa tion and friends from over the sec tion The attendance upon the ses sions was reported larger than us ual. Visitors from churches in several counties were entertained in the private homes, leaders in the lneal denomination stating that more in terest was shown in the sessions than in some time. Attaining a mem- * bership of more than 130 at one time, the church here now has 14 members, the fourteenth affiliating with it last week-end. Elder Juseph Biggs founded the church at Skewarkey when the membership at Flat Swamp just across the Martin line became so large, and a new unit in the Kehu kee association was formed for the convenience of its followers. Elder Martin Ross who was later to play a prominent part in the organization of the Baptist (Missionary) conven tion in North Carolina, was, as far of the church here. Under the leadership of the late Elder C. B. Hassell and his son. the late Elder Sylvester Hassell, the Skewarkey church gained national and even international recognition These two men. writers of a church history and able editors ?> of religious journals, supplied the pul pit here for eighty years, their teachings and writings gaining wide circulation in many of the States and in Canada. Following the late Elder Sylvester Hassell, Elder B. S Cowin has sup plied the pulpit and he with Elder A. B. Ayers of the church at Bear Grass, preached Saturday and Sun day. Ephraim Peel, prominent lay man in the church, addressed the assembly from the floor. Highway Fatalities Show Sharp Decline ??? Deaths from automobiles in North Carolina dropped sharply last month compared with July, 1937, the bur eau of vital statistics reported this week. The bureau listed 53 automobile fatalities, as against 75 in the corre sponding month last year. The total released by the bureau, however, usually is lower than the death toll compiled by the state highway safe ty division. The number of deaths from all aceidents was 107, compared "With 121 in July, 1937, the bureau said. Two persons died in airplane mis haps, 21 were drowned. 13 were burned to death, and three died in automobile-train collisions. Suicides increases from 18 to 23, but homicides dropped from 36 to 34 The number of births dropped from 6,270 in July, 1937, to 8,120 last month. Deaths increased from 2.598 to 2,635 Deaths from cancer, tuberculous, and syphilis showed increases, but decreases occurred in infant and maternal deaths. Tobacco Prices Up On Border Markets Good quality tobacco brought slightly higher prices today on most North Carolina and Ouutli CiroUia border belt markets, the state-fed eral departments of agriculture re ported In general prices remained firm and sales continued heavy. Few of fers were rejected. Principal offerings were fair?to? choice lugs and low to good cuttera and leaf. Prices, confined "'to the ranges at which the bulk of the to bacco sold, follow: ? Leaf?Fine, $31 to $33: good. $25 to $31; fair, $17 to $25; low, $11 to $18 50. Cutters?good, $32 to $35; fair, $29 to $33; low, $25 to $29 Lugs?choice, $29 to $32; fine, $26 to $30; good, $20.50 to $26; fair, $16 to $21.50 Primings?choice, $28 to $31; fine, $25 to $29; good, $19.50 to $26; fair. $14 to $21. Oscar Tice is recovering from an operation for appendicitis and la ex pected home from a Washington hoapital soon.