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Advertisers Will Find Our Col- | umns a Latchkey to over 1,600 Homes of Martin County. I THE ENTERPRISE Watch the Label on Your Paper, As It Carries the Date Your Subscription Expiree VOLUME XLII?NUMBER 39 Williamston, Martin County, ISorth Carolina, Tuesday, May I ft, 1939. EST ABLISHED 1899 County Woman Is Accused of Bigamy By First Husband Justice J. L. II a km-11 Has Busy Period During the Past Week-end ? Mrs. Effie Virginia Hodges Cooke Roberson was bound over to the superior court for trttt when -prob able cause was found by Justice J. L. Hassell this morning in the case charging her with bigamy. Bond was given in the sum of $100. Coming here unexpectedly yester day from Roanoke Rapids, the first husband, Grover Thomas Cook, swore out a warrant charging big amy. It was alleged in the warrant that the couple was married on March 1, 1934, that they separated on April 25, 1935, and that she was married in^ February. 1936, in this county. At the hearing this morning, the defendant claimed that she had re ceived a letter from her first hus band stating that he had procured a divorce. Relying upon that informa tion, she later married and located in the Bear Grass section of this county Cooke denied writing the letter, and alleged that he did not know where his wife was until just a short time ago. Justice Hassell had a busy week end prior to the case this morning, handling minor infractions of the law. R. Dell Little, Robersonville man, was brought into the justice's court for allegedly refusing a summons by County Forest Fire Warden S. J. Tetterton to fight fire Judgment, calling for a 30-day road sentence, was suspended upon payment of the cost. The case is the first of its kind to reach the courts in this county, it is understood. Charged with public drunkenness. U. H. Johnson was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court sus pending judgment upon payment of the case costs. Facing the court for allegedly be ing drunk and disorderly, Cole Cow en was sentenced to the roads for 30 days, the court suspending judgment upon good behavior and payment of the cost Fred Borders, charged with tres passing upon the lands of P. Brown and William Johnson, was sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending judgment upon payment of the cost. Charged with operating a motor truck more than 48 miles an hour, Hezzie Pierce was fined $5 and tax ed with the cost King Staton, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was sentenced to tha roads for thirty days, the court suspending judgment upon the paymant of the cost. Charged with operating a motor vehicle with improper licenses, Alonza Biggs was fined $10 and tax ed with the cost. a??_ Local Scouts Will Attend World Fair Selected from the Scout personnel in East Carolina, Two local Boy Woolard, Jr., will attend the World's Fair in New York from June 2 to 9 along with a group of 33 other scouts from this section Horace Ray, local scoutmaster, will accompany the boys along with other scout offi cists ? <n The group of 35 scoirts will board a train in Rocky MounvSon the eve ning of June 1 for the New York trip During their stay at the fair, they Will be assigned definite activi ties each day. Nearly 4,000 Boy Scouts are be ing selected on the basis of their scouting records, and the selection of Jimmie and J. D is a distinct hon or to them and to the council they represent. "We should feel very proud of our Scout troop and the work the boys are doing under local leadership Let's all who are interested in this work strive to see that the work is continued and assist this cause whenever finances are necessary," a local scout official said today in an nouncing the selection of the two youths to represent Williamston at the fair s Mrt. Martha Peel It Gravely III From Stroke of Paralytit a Mrs. Martha Peel, suffering a stroke of paralysis last Sunday eve ning, continues gravely ill at the home of her son, Ben Peel, in Bear Grass Township. Receiving her chil dren at an informal mother's day program, Mrs. Peel was unusually bright earlier in the day. She is 83 years old. a Serine Of Service* At Maple Grove Thit Week Rev. M. L. Ambrose, the pastor, will conduct a series of special ser vices in the Maple Grove church be ginning Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. The special services will be held each evening through Sunday including a Sunday morning service at 11 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend, Mr. B. F. Roberson, repre sentative of the church, announced. Drive Against Typhoid To Begin Next Monday j r NO PROGRAM 1 J Instead of the customary com mencement at the close of the annual Dally Vacation Bible school, this year, Friday, May 19th, has been set aside as Par ents' Day at which time parents of the pupils and others inter ested in the work done at this school are invited to observe the classes from nine until ten-thir ty With nearly two hundred en rolled, the school continues to attract considerable attention from the little folks, and while the attendance records will possibly fall below those of a year aco, interest in the course is considered much freater this term than last. Advance Plans For Endeavor Council Meeting in the Sweet Home church last Sunday afternoon, rep resentatives from several Christain Endeavor societies formulated plans for the permanent organization of a county Christian Endeavor con vention. Mr. J I). Taylor was named adult advisor. Mr H. D. Hardison, Jr., temporary president, Mr. Robert Leggett, treasurer, and Miss Mae Swinson, secretary. The first convention will be held at Sweet Home last Friday in June and efforts will be made to have all members of each endeavor society in the county present It will be a one day session and the county Sunday authorized its adult advisor to request Rev. John Goff to bring an inspirational ser mon at the morning session of the first convention, following the bus iness session and Rev. J. M. Perry to bring the afternoon sermon prior to the business session of the con vention Mr H I). Harrison, Jr., president, was in the county has been going! on for a year and the convention's temporary president and its adult advisor are urging all the newly or ganized locals to assist in having all churches organized and repre sented at the county's first young people's convention. The program for the convention is now being worked out und when completed will be printed and mailed to all churches prior to the convention. Among other things the Chritsian Endeavor proposes to so train its young people in leadership that churches, missions and chapels in the rural section will continue alive from one generation to another and be prepared to carry on after other leaders have passed on. A Small Crowd Hears Orphanage Singers ?Offering of their he?t pm grams in several years, the youthful singers from the Oxford Orphanage were heard by a comparatively small group in the high school building here last Friday evening. It was the annual visit of the singing class to number of years that the singers were not accompanied by their faith ful old director, the late LeRoy Al derman. It will be recalled that Mr Alderman, the man who devoted the best years of his life trying to help the less fortunate child, died sudden ly of an heart attack while traveling with the singing class in Pitt Coun ty just a few weeks ago. Although the crowd was small here last Friday evening, it was an appreciative and a liberal one. Con tributions received during the con cert and those made to solicitors who worked among the local Masonic membership, amounted to $80. Last year when a much larger crowd heard the singers, the contributions approximated the same amount as they did last week. ? a Ethiopian Joint Local Priion Camp Rankt Said to have vacated his native land before Benito Mussolini swip ed it, an Ethiopian wandered into trouble over in Elizabeth City a few days ago and landed in the Martin prison camp last week to serve a 12-months term for larceny. It could not be learned how long the man has been in this country, but the records show that he has been in trouble much of the time in recent years. Before encountering the law over in Pasquotank, he was said to have served a year or more in a Rocky Mount camp, and it is thought that he had served the State of New York in one of its prison camps. Asking permission to write a let ter, the man who claims Nathan Par ker as his name pUzzled Camp Su perintendent Edmondson by writ ing in his native language The let ter was addressed to a Catholic Priest in Ethiopia, but the contents of the two-page letter are surround ed in secrecy for no one in this sec tion could read the language. Health Officer Asks All County Citizens To Take Treatment Thoii*an<l* Are Kxpeetiu^ To| Participate in County Wide Campaign Martin County's relentless drive] against typhoid fever will be con tinued next week when the county health forces launch an extensive campaign to hold the fever in check. Successfully launching a drive three years ago. health forces are earnest ly striving tn retahlish -i m.m?- rawirtt - and create a greater security around the health of every human in the county. Extensive preparations have been advanced for handling the thousands who are expected to in sure themselves against the fever for another three-year period The dispensaries, to be located as con veniently as possible for the popula tion throughout the county, arr open to everyone without charge. The people are urged to take advantage of the opportunity to protect them selves against the fever that has cost many lives in this county in years gone by, not to mention the inestimable financial burden that bore heavily upon the rich and the poor alike. The campaign will get underway! in three communities next Monday as follows No. 90 Filling Station in Williams Township at 8;30 a. m.;j Jamesville school at 10 a. m , and Jordan's Store at 2 p. m On Tuesday. May 23. the follow ing schedule will be observed: Farm Life School, 8:30 a. m.; Eason Lil ley's store, 10 a m., and Bear Grass School, 2 p. m. On Wednesday, May 24, the health forces will be located at Corey's Fill ing Station in Bear Grass Town ship. On Thursday, May 25. the clinic will be opened in the Williamston colored school. The following day, May 26, the vaccine will be given for white only in the offices of the health depart ment in the town hall. The same schedule will be follow ed each week during four weeks, the fourth week having been added to | care for those who are unable to take the first of the three "shots" on | the first day of the schedule. Completing the campaign in one half of the county on June 18, the I health authorities will wait two | weeks and continue the drive in the other section of the county begin ning on or about July 3. Realizing that the definite sched ule will not be convenient and an-1 xious that the protection be afford ed every person in the county, the health office has made arrange ments with private physicians toad minister the vaccine for $1, this amount covering the three injec tions. This arrangement was made just for those who will not be able to attend ttie- regular the vaccinations will be held without| any cost whatever. Having reduced typhoid fever from a large number of cases an nually to an almost minimum in this j county, the health authorities are looking forward to a near unani mous response to the health call Three years ago, 12,856 persons re- | ported at the various clinics in the county to protect themselves against typhoid. There were 38,568 injec tions made in that campaign at an estimated cost of mote than $5,000. This year with a full time health de partment functioning, there'll be little or no additional cost to the county other than the normal oper ating cost of the department itself Girl Seriously Hurt In Gar Wreck Sunilay A young girl, said to have been a student in Duke University, was cri- j tically hurt and a young man com panion was slightly injured when their car turned over near Oak City on the Tarboro road last Sunday I evening The injuried parties were riding in one of a group of three cars .traveling from Durham to | Ahoskie when a driver of another car allegedly hit their car, caused it to turn over, and Sped from the j scene of the wreck The young girl, thought to have | suffered a broken back, was entered in the Duke hospital. The young man, treated in a Tarboro hospital, has been released, according to re ports reaching here. Wauketha Man Survey! Holdinga In This County L. A. Thompson, of Waukesha, Wis , owner of the vast J. and W tract of timberlands in the old Dy mond City area of this county, made a personal survey of his holdings this week. The Wisconsin capitalist left today. He could not be reached for a statement and it could hot be learn ed whether he was considering de veloping the property into a ranch as he once planned several years ago. Cotton Marketing Regulations Are Outlined For 1039 Three-Cent Tax Will Be Im on All Kxeew Production Red, white and blue cards will be issued cotton growers this year to regulate their sales of the 1939 crop under the marketing quota provi sions of the farm law, it was announ ced in Washington a few days ago. Providing for a national market ing quota of 12,000,000 bales, the law provides for a three cent pen alty on each pound of cotton sold in excess of a grower's quota. This quo ta was approved by cotton growers last December in a special referen dum that saw the defeat of tobacco quotas. The marketing quota of a farm will be the normal or actual pro duction of the farm's cotton acreage or planting allotment, whichever is the greater, plus the amount of any penalty-free cotton carried over from last year when quotas also were in effect. White cards will be issued grow ers who plant within their cotton acreage allotments; such growers will be allowed to sell without pen- ; alty all cotton they produce Red cards are to be given farm*! era who overplant their allotments but such cards will specify how much the holder may sell free of the penalty tax. All cotton grown this year above the quota will be subject to the penalty tax of three cents per pound if marketed. Growers who hold cotton carried over from last year will be issued blue cards. If the holder of a blue card'"who plants within his allot ment produces less than his pound age quota, he may sell up to his quo ta of carry-over and current crop without penalty. However, carry over cotton sold in excess of the 1939 quota will be subject to a two cent tax, the same penalty levied on all excess marketings last year. Cotton with a stople of 1.5 inches or more will be exempt from quota . restrictions. Buyers will be held re sponsible for collecting the penal- j ty and will be required, to keep a record of and report each transac tion to AAA. * Faithful la Their Service To Prison Opening for business on March 28, 1832, the State prison camp in this county has had several faithful sei vants during a greater part of that time. Entering the camp for the first time in April of that year, George White, commonly known as "Dan Dusty", has served eleven terms, rendering Superintendent Edmond son an efficient service as a trust ed road man with a shovel. The cause for White's repeated trips to the prison campus "not traceable to any physical defect, but rather the chunky little colored fellow of about 25 years of age has an insatiable de sire for things that belong to other people. On every count he was con victed of petty larceny; his sentences running from three to six motnhs on an average A resident of Elizabeth City when he is not in the camp in this county, White was Out for a whole six months. Superintendent Edmondson became uneasy but not upset about his protege. The camp head had an ideu "Dusty" would he back, and or day sure enough he reported at the end of a pistol. White had been in the CCC for a change, he explained to Mr. Edmondson "I'm through," White told parties at the prison camp just before com pleting his eleventh term and leav ing for Elizabeth City yesterday. Superintendent Edmondson, antici pating White's return, will reserve a bed for him. The nearest approach to the rec ord set by White is that of Joe Rice, another Elizabeth City Negro Rice, a splendid cook, is serving his ninth term at the county camp. Petty lar ceny is Rice's weakness, too. White's release, it was feared, would upset the equilibrium of an able quartet, but Superintendent Edmondson explains that new sing ers come in most every day and that it would be no trouble to find a substitute during the singer's ab sence. N 1 CANCER FUND A total of I61.5S wan collect ed in the recent cancer control drive. This represents fifty en listment fees of S1.00 each and SI 1.65 in small contributions. Seventy per cent of the amount will be used for a can cer clinic in this State, and 30 per cent will be sent to New York for the purchase of edu cational material. Miss Sleeper, who had charfe of the canvass in the county, explained. The fees were secured from merchants, nine home demon stration clubs and citixens. Those helping to secure funds were as follows: Mrs. Jim Cooke, Mrs. Urbln Rogers, Mrs. S. P. Wool ford, Mr*. Ray Goodmon. Mrs. Julian Harrell, Mrs. Harold Ev erett and Mrs. C. B. Leggett. Billion-Pound Tobacco Crop Now Predicted As Farmers Strive for Increased Acreages at Last Minute Leaf Tra nsplanting Virtna Ily Completed in Martin County \ Greatly worried by excessive rains that many thought had wash ed away their, plant beds early in the yeai and then badly upset by a heavy blue mold infestation, Martin County farmers are greatly pleased with the outlook as they virtually complete the transplanting of the tobacco crop this week. With cverv few exceptions, farmers will nave completed the transplanting of the crop in this county by tomorrow evening or late Thursday, many of them having already re-set and started cultivation of the crop Despite the heavy rains early in the season and the heavy blue mold attack, the crop is looking equally as well as the one last year looked at the same time Prospects at the present time are bright, and all indi cations point to a record production. Fearful the supply of plants would not be sufficient to transplant a normal crop plus a planned in crease of 25 per cent, a few farmers turned to common and low-down practices to get plants. The bed of Tomirie Holliday in Jamesville Township and that of John Jackson in Cross Roads Township were raid ed lasi week, the thieves taking enough plants from the Holliday bed to t r.msplrint :i Imnst tvv.i '.rr.s rind enough from the Jackson bed to transplant possibly four or five acres Farmer Jesse Raw Is, out Bear Grass, stated yesterday that there was a "world of plants" left, that while some few farmers failed to get a normal supply, others.had more than enough for their own needs: Rains falling during last week- end were ideal for the crop, but the accompanying cold weather invited the wire, and cut wdri'ns and possi ; bly much re setting will be neces I sary. Diversified Research On Peanuts Planned Will Work To Solve Fertility, Breeding And Disease Control Experiment* Made Possible liv Keeent l egislative Appropriation A comprehensive program of re search and experimentation for aid ing the peanut growers of North Carolina in solving problems of soil fertility and adaptability, breeding better varieties of peanuts, and con trol of diseases was outlined by Dean 1 (). Schaub, chief of exten sion division of State College exper imental station who met with direc tors of the Peanut Stabilization in Kdenton recently to discuss with them and leading peanut growers a program of expanded experimental work with peanuts, made possible by the appropriation of $12,500 00 annually by tell last general assem bly. Stating that what experimenta tion had done thus far had tended only to reveal the diversity and magnitude of th< .problems t hat eon- - front peanut growers, together with the paucity of knowledge eoncern ing the peanut and its culture, Dean Sehaub said he hoped to make pro gress under the expanded program within the next two years In the studies that will be made special attention will be given to ex nuts and the effects of land plaster. Hand-in-hand with these experi ments will be carried on increased use of soil-testing to determine the soil treatment and fertilization re quired by individual fields, it having been already determined that fertili zation according to soil types can not Ije depended upon with reliabil ity. At the same time, the research and experimental work will be di rected toward breeding varieties of peanuts more resistent to disease and in developing practical methods of disease control. The experiments vdTi be carried on in greenhouses, in the State Col lege laboratories, at the Edgecombe test farm, and to a larger degree than heretofore on test plots on the farms of growers throughout the peanut belt. During the meeting, which was turned into a round-table discus sion following the explanation of the plan of research worked out by the extension specialists, various prob lems were advanced by the peanut growers present and these discussed some of which were explained and others of which gave leads for add ed experimentation. It was the gen eral belief that more of the experi ments should be* made on various farms due to different crop condi tions, and that any individual prob lems or unusual conditions arising should be made known to the ex tension division for the help the di vision might give in the solution of the growers' problems and for the information it would give as a basis for further study. R. C. Holland, who as president of the Peanut Stabilization Cooper ative with the cooperation of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, was active in presenting the demands of peanut growers to the last legisla ture which resulted in the $12,500 yearly appropriation for this pur I pose, presided over the meeting. TA<; MAY In urgent need of funds for the purc hase of children's books, the YYilliamston Public Library sponsors are promoting tomor row a tag sale which it is sincere ly hoped the public will liberal ly support. The tags, bearing the wordsr "LIBRARY DAY" will be de livered to Boy Scouts and mem bers of the Junior Woman's club early tomorrow morning by Mrs. J. ('. Cooke in the lobby of the Tar lleel building, the sale to get underway immediately. Enforcement (?rou| Having Oniet Time Conducting an effective drive dur ing the first months of the year, en forcement officers of the Martin | County Alcoholic Beverages Con | trol Board have just about worked themselves out of jobs. Up until last | week not a single arrest had been made or a single still captured, j Apparently operators of the Ft.F.D. j manufactories had turned their at ! (with that work about completed; j tin y :>ri- wandering back in thf old j business. Last week, the officers j captured two stills, one in Bear j Grass and one in Cross Roads to register their first effective activi ' ties of the month The plant in Bear; Grass was equipped with a 100-gal . Ion capacity copper kettle, hut there j was little beer on hand when the officers reached the plant A medio-1 ere steam plant was wrecked in ! Cross Roads. Leinan James. Free Union color ! ed man and the only person arrest ed so far this month, stumbled into | the hands of the officers as he war ! bled down a country road in that section, last Friday afternoon. James, i about three-fourths drunk, had sev i en and one-half pints of the raw spirits on his person, the officers j venturing no guess as to the amount j he had inside. Suspicioning the man as they saw him walking down the road, Officers J. H Roebuck and | Bill Haislip stopped and spoke to him "What have you got?" Officer, Roebuck asked him. Bulling a pint of white liquor from his shirt, James | said, "See," adding that he had an other and still another. The man ac-j ' cepted the offer of a ride, and did I not recognize the officers until he crawled into the car. r u ... useipB . "Now, I'm m a mess," James, ! shaking his head, said James fell into the hands* of the liquor law enforcement officers for the first time when he was only 12 years old Two /in/d/M' Injury In II reck Here \ e$lerday Miss Ella.Mae Gaylord and Mr G. I P. Hall escaped without injury when their cars crashed at the intersection of Church and Smithwick Streets here yesterday morning at eight 1 o'clock. Considerable damage was i done to both cars, rough estimates I placing the damages to Miss Gay i lord's car at $80 and that to Mr. Hall's Pontiac at about $150. Are Visiting Here This Week Mr. and Mrs P. C Scott, of En field, are guests of the George Rey nolds hotel here this week. hirnirrs Reported Plowinw Up Cotton To Plant Tobac ?eo ' in One (;roil|) lo UM/'{ to Their I ransplauij||?jrN rr zxt-zs* a Suz - ?4* MS sK?siss?ae "-'t C tMTnVjnac.Tpr^' idonce-will keep the parkhouses and "ntdl""S "u?"n" *,3?. f?H. ? ?o?piua product1,,, next , T 'hat ninny farmers - are literally bowing down and wor s 'ippnig the crop, some having ac ?"ally sacrificed honor and thrown reason <" the four winds to get plants Plant's7'aS' (tht 'r plant'"?s- Tender ? Is hi ir' eVankl'd fru'" their h?ds by thieves Farmers have dnv o hei's"! I for pla,,ts' a"d close.\ ' ''"",b<'d th>' countrys.de ? bc""1' Just as lf their soul and their ^hded UP"" ,he ?? ?" Heliable reports state that ten far ?"??is questioned out of a group of ten have actually increased their plantings in .one township of the county by 1711 acres, a jump of ap proximately 50 per cent over last otherSfi'7, aKt' 1,1 '' KroUp of '''teen I fanners questioned yesterday seven Of them frankly said they had plowed up cotton and corn and transplanted the acreage to tobacco these reports, subject to scrutiny originated in Martin County Simi lar report* are coming out of other counties Over in Beaufort, a farm h'.char Tn pluw'"K "p corn knee high to follow it with the golden Only one farmer out of the more than two hundred questioned in the past four days hinted that he plan ned to decrease his crop. l)r J s oh odes said that after making prep arations to plant ,us aaual acreage lie had about decided to curtail his plantings decidedly. The decrease planned by the doctor will be wiped out in a second when it faces the stampede that is featuring the late transplanting.-, ?i this county Indications are that Martin Coun v w ill increase its crop more than til 25 per cent predicted just a short line ago Che increase is not limited to the large, medium or small grow er they are all increasing with a pos slide exception now and then. Small farmers, planting a normal crop, are sanl to be throwing in an acre an antT a half of IWoTitTeS?hfflt f("" measure. I.ale ollici.il repol Is llolll over tha S ate are not available, but should y Weeks, former assistant farm agent in this county and now State tobacco specialist, make another survey now, he would possibly move _his_mpiies upward and nrerii.i an increase between 20 and 25 p^FTent Last week, Weeks predicted an in crease of 15 per cent in the Bright Holt. nusily engaged getting their crops set out and then increases in far mers are giving little or no thought to price possibilities next fall. Near ly everybody is hoping and trans planting more tobacco while they arc* hoping Fire Damages Local Home Early Monday Accumulating over a period of several years, soot in the home of Mr and Mrs. J. W. Andrews on Church Street caught fire early yes terday morning and caused much damage to the walls. While the fire itself was confined to the chimney the heat was so intense that the walls cracked and smoke seeped through to darken several rooms in the house. The fire department was called there at 7 20 and the volunteers stood by ready for action if the blaze broke through the sides of the chimney. Flames, roaring as a steel mill furnace, reached several feet above the chimney top. Asbestos . shingles kept the soot and sparks I from starting a fire on the roof. It was the second call the depart ment received since last Friday when the firemen were called to the town trash dump on Roanoke River to keep a fire there from spreading I to the warehouses at the dock. ? It (ink* Will Ob tar re Next Saturday At A Holiday Local banks will observe next Saturday, Mecklenburg Independ ence day, as a holiday, Banker D. V. Clayton announced today. The holi day Will be confined to the two banking institutions.