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Watch the Label on Your Paper, As It Carries the Date Your Subscription Expirea THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns a Latchkey to over 1,800 Homes of Martin County. VOLUME XLII?NUMBER 68 i iltianislon, Martin County, ISorth Carolina, Friday . is|IUt 25, ESTABLISHED 1899 Increase In Number Of Cases For Trial In Recorder s Court Jmlgmt'iit Suspended in Caw Charging Youth With Wrecking Home The Martin County recorder's court came, partially at least, out of its summer slump last Monday when Judge H. O. Peel called ten cases for trial. Drunken driving cases, absent from the docket for several weeks, began to make their appearance again and a pick up in fighting and scratching was reflected in the doc ket listings. William Ward, the young Rober sonviile boy who tore into the John Ward home on Williams Street in Wijliamston with an automobile about three months ago and nearly knocked the structure off its blocks, was sentenced to the roads for three months. The judgment was suspend ed upon the condition that the de fendant pay the prosecuting witness the sum of $200 for repairs to the home, and settle the case costs. No tice of appeal was filed in the case, and the defendant was placed under a $100 bond for his appearance in the superior court next month. The defendant in the case was originally booked on a drunken driving charge Charged with non-suppdVt, John E. Cooke was directed to pay the sum of $20 a month. $17.50 for the use of the prosecuting witness and $2.50 for court costs. The payments are to continue over a period of one year, at the end of which time the defendant is to reappear m tin- court tor further judgment. Bond m the sum of $250 was required by Judge Peel. Found guilty of an assault with a deadly weapon over Ins own plea of innocence. Harold Brown was gen tenced to the roads for M\t> d ys The case charging Lee Edward Best with an assault with a deadly weapon. Waj continued until next Monday. Charlie Pittman, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, was sentenced to the roads for sixty days, the court suspending judgment upon payment of the cost. The sentence is 1*> begin, at the duvrlh.n of the court at any time within two years. Charged with drunken driving, Andrew Andrews failed to answer when called in open court Monday. Sam Scott, charged with drunken driving, was adjudged not guilty. Charged with careless and reck less driving, Clarence Little was found guilty of driving on the wrong side of the road, the court suspend ing judgment upon payment of the j cost. Clyde Gay, charged with aiding the escape of a prisoner and reckless driving, was found not guilty. William Staton was sentenced to the roads for three months for the alleged theft of tobacco curing wood from the premises of Sam Long in Goose Nest Township. Schedule Of Union Services Nears End The schedule of union church ser vices observed by the several de nominations here during the summer months will come to a close Sunday evening when Rev. Edwin F. Mose ley, former local minister, will de liver the message in the Church of the Advent. Rev. Moseley is now rector of the large St. Mary's church in Kinston and is making his first return visit to occupy the pulpit of his former parish here The rector of the church, Rev. John Hardy, is extending a general invitation to the public to attend and a cordial invitation is being issued the St. Martin's membership in Ham ilton to be present for the services. With few, exceptions,? the union services this summer have been fair ly well attended, and a large congre gation is expected to greet the for mer local minister when he returns i here for the one engagement Sunday ^evening in the Church of the Advent. Immunizfitioii Of Pupils Required With the opening of the county schools less than two weeks away, representatives of the county board of education are pointing out the 1939 law requiring all beginners to be immunized against diphtheria be fore entering school. Provision is made by law for un derprivileged children to get the protection without coat through the county health department, and dur ing recent months special cam paigns have been conducted in an effort to offer protection to all chil dren of pre-school age. The law also specifies that all chil dren between the ages of six months and one year of age shall receive the protection. Parents of those children enter ing school on September 7 are urg ed to get certificates from their phy sicians showing that the prophylac tic diphtheria agent has been admin istered. In those cases where chil dren have not been immunized, par ents are urged to have the diphtheria agent administered. Illegal Slot Machine Is Found In Martin County Thursday Gambling on the slot machine I front broke over liberal bounds in this county yesterday when one of the devices commonly known as the ?one-armed bandit" was found in operation at Robersonville. Said to have been planted there only last Tuesday, the machine was liter ally packed with nickels when Sher iff C B. Roebuck found it yester day morning. The machine, placed in the home of Mrs. Myrtle Knox, was said to have been left there by an agent of the McCormick Vending Machine Company, of Greenville. Mrs Knox explained to officers that the ma chine was left there while she was , away, but that she saw the agent when he called there Wednesday. Advised that the possession and op eration of the machine was illegal, I Mrs. Knox told officers that she advised the agent to remove it "I will get it Friday." the agent was quoted as having told Mrs.. Knox. Charges are now pending against Mrs Knox for having the illegal machine in her possession, and of ficers are making an investigation in an effort to determine ownership and prefer charges against the own er. , j It is believed that quite A few ma chines are being operated illegally in the county, and Sheriff Roebuck is contemplating bringing charges against the owners and also against those who have the machines their possession. The slot machine racket, haphaz ardly handled by a half-cocked leg islature this year, is rapidly becom ing a menace in the State, reports stating that Ihe department of reve nue cannot license hundreds of ma chines because they are being ille gally operated. It is claimed that not a single machine in a nearby county has been licensed by the department and that in Pitt County more than 100 machines are being operated il legally Peace In Europe Is? Hanging By A Thread SHIFT A marked shift in the attitude held by that group opposing control for tobacco in the last referendum has been reported in this county during the past two days. The ninety per cent of the farmers in this county who fa vored the measure still hold to their positions almost to a man. The ten per cent opposition is apparently breaking down rap idl.V, reports stating that quite a few nvho led the attack on the control program back in ^Decem ber were ??hot" for control now. There is some doubt whether the measure would carry were it put to a vote throughout the territory, but farmers say that a slight downward trend in gener al price averages will create a demand for immediate action. In Wilson today, farmer lead ers were considering plans for appealing to agricultural author ities for a referendum. $5,000 Damage Suit Filed In Superior Court On Tuesday Action Agniiml J. S. Allen Ik Slurteil Following Accident Action was started in the Martin County Superior Court this week by little Helen Waters by her next friend, G R Waters, against J. S. Allen to recover $5,000 damages al leged to have resulted when she was run down and critically injured ; by an automobile in Jamesville on Sunday, August 6. Attorney H. G. j Horton is representing the plaintiff. ?The mmpkiint maintains that the, plaintiff with others was on her way , to Sunday school and attempted and almost crossed the highway before; she was run down and critically in-1 jured. It is alleged in the complaint that the defendant, J. S. Allen, a Ber tie citizen, was operating his auto mobile in a fast and reckless man ner in a thickly populated area with in the corporate limits of the Town of Jamesville and at a speed in ex cess of that allowed by law; and, that the defendant was not keeping a proper lookout and that he negli gently, carelessly and recklessly sive rate of speed?approximately sixty miles an hour?ran into plain tiff, causing her great damage and terribly mangling her body. In the complaint it is also alleged that the plaintiff was permanently injured, that her right leg was brok en above the knee, her left leg brok en below the knee, that an arm was fractured and that she suffered a concussion of the brain, cuts and bruises and was dangerously hurt in other respects. Reports state that the little child has suffered great pain for several weeks, and the complaint sets out that she was injured in the sum of at least $5,000. The complaint continues, "And in the event execution is returned un satisfied out of property of the de fendant that execution issue against the person of the defendant, as pro vided by law." The little accident victim continues in the hospital and is getting along as, well as can be expected. Escape Injury In Minor Car Occident Yesterday s Leonard Coltrain, young Griffins Township man, and a man named Tetterton escaped uninjured when their cars crashed on a slippery road in Griffins Township late yesterday afternoon. The damage to Coltrain's 1938 model Ford was estimated at about $90. Very little damage was done to Tetterton's Model A. Troops Are Moving To The Frontiers In Increasing Numbers If Nt'tcotiiilioiiM Full Through. W ur Can Be Expected By Monday With European peace hanging by a mere thread for several days, lead- ] ers in Great Britain, France and Po land on one side and Germany and Italy on the other, today continue preparations at mad heat for Ptfrl II of the World War. late reports stat ing that nothing less than a miracle ^ can stop a debacle that will possibly | minimize the horrors of that world j struggle of a quarter of a century | ago. Peace at this time rests upon a fee ble attempt to have Germany's Hit ler negotiate with Poland in an ef fort to settle the Danzig and Polish corridor questions. The peace move ment. however, is receiving little at tention as the opposing line-up con tinues to rush troops to vital fron i tiers by the tens of thousands. Daladier speaks tonight at nine o'clock, and a full mobilization of French troops is expected by that I time. Hitler is scheduled to speak i to the world Sunday, observers be I lieving that his talk will be the sig nal to start actual hostilities immed iately, possibly by early Monday. Observers in Paris this morning talked as if actual hostilities would be underway by tomorrow night un less something close to a miracle in tervened to check the wild orgy England virtually went on a war i basis yesterday when the nation granted its full power to the king Starting late yesterday, France was moving a troop train out of Par is every ten minutes to its frontiers. J Wives, kissing their husbands good-1 by< ,i ApriMiri?t+TT?belief?that it would be the last time they would see each other. In this country, President Roose velt is keeping in hourly touch with the foreign situation, but according to a report early this afternoon he plans no special session of congress) until it is certain that war will break out. Later reports from German news sources claimed that eight Germans ) had been killed and ten others injur ed along the Polish border. * Great Britain's stand in the crisis was made more certain this morning -w44h-4 pact with Poland. Library Tag Day Here Successful Tag Day on August 22, sponsored by the Junior Woman's club for the benefit of the town's public library, was a success. Through the efforts of The Girl Scouts, $28.68 was turned in to buy new books. Ann Meador won the first prize for having sold the most tags; Dora Twiddy was the second winner, and Betsy Manning, the third. Gloria Robertson gave the others a tight race for their prizes, however Oth er Scouts who showed their ability and willingness to work amidst the sweltering heat were Delia Jane Mobley, Mary Warren, Frances Jar man, Ann Fowden, Nancy Mercer, Madelyn Taylor, Mary O'Neal Pope, Ann Lindsley and Mary Trulah Pope. Members of the Junior Woman's club assisting the chairman, Mrs. Garland Barnhill, were: Mrs Curtis Lcggett. Miss Josephine Harriaon, Mrs Russell McAllister, Mrs. F. H. Wilson, Mrs. Urbin Rogers, Mrs. Ed Trahey. Mrs. Jim Cooke and Mrs. Sam Woolford. ? ? Mrs. Howard Hardiaon, of James viiie, is spending the week-end in Norfolk with relatives. Hearing Is Held In Highway Robbery Case on ^ ednesday ?? \\ illiuiii- Township Man Suyw ll.? W as Attacked and Robbed Alleged tu have attaekeii and then robbed Joe Roberson, near Sweet Water Creek last Tuesday night. Wil lie Buck Williams. Roanoke Rapids man. was placed under a $500 bond for his appearance before Judge Leo Carr in the Martin County Superior Court here next month. Unable to raise the bond, the former Williams Township man was placed in the county jail to await trial. At a preliminary hearing held be fore Justice J L. Hassell here Wed nesday morning at 10 o'clock, the | victim of the alleged assault and rob bery tuld the court that ho-ba^tun ed with Williams for a ride home from a Washington Street filling sta tion. When we reached a point near the Andrews'home just across Sweet Water Creek. Williams stopped thel car and started beating me," Rober son told the court. Uoborst>n ^f u| five dollars from him and pushed I him out of the car To aggravate the assault, Williams] was said to have attempted to beat his victim on the ground, TnTT Ruber son explained to the court that he I fled to the home of a colored family j and found shelter from further harm. Tom and Lee Strickland, riding in the back seat of the Williams car, were said to have told Williams to go ahead and heat and rob the man, that they would back him up, if nec essary When Ruber.son returned to Wil liamston after the alleged assault and robbery he was bloody about the -head and shoulders. At the' hearing Wednesday Ins lips gave evidence, of some kind of an attack Finding probable cause in tin case. Justice Hassell did not exam ine other witnesses in detail and Williams was bound over for trial. Williams has made his home in Roanoke Rapids during the past four or five years. Opening Oak (' i l \ School September 7 ? II lull School lli^j-lralioii \rr Sclicdulcil for I'onrlb And I'ifill Plans wore announced virtually complete toduy for opening the Oak City school on Thursday, September Principal II. M Ainsley, beginning his seventeenth term with the school there, stating that present indica tioos point to one of the most sue eessful terms ever- held in Oak City. The newly-organized commercial de partment will function for the first time this coming term, and the dedi cation of the new gymnasium will be an added feature on the opening day program. A J. Maxwell, head of the North Carolina Department of Revenue, will address the meeting of pupils and patrons marking the formal opening of the school at 1 1 o'clock "II "'V ni'Tllint; "f thr --rYrnlli Hm'h G. Uorton, member of the State Gen eral Assembly, will introduce the speaker. An added feature for the opening exercises will be a program by the glee club. A large representa tion of school patrons is expected for) the formal opening program. Preparatory to the opening on j Thursday, Principal Am .ley i sche j uling the registration of all high school pupils on Monday and Tues day, September 4 and 5, between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock I Boys and girls entering the eighth ! and ninth grades are urged to regis ter on the first day, and those enter mg the tenth and eleventh grade's j are scheduled to report the follow j ing day, Tuesday, the fifth. Arthur Benton, who succeeds J E. Mullens as head of the Vocational agriculture department in the Oak | City school is spending this week I at White Lake with fifteen of his students. Heports from the camp; state that the Martin County boys are offering representatives Iront i twenty-three other schools some keen competition for leadership in! the camp. ? i Tri-Connty Medital Croup In Meeting lien' The Tri-County Medical Society*, comprising the counties of Martin, Washington and Tyrrell, held a reg ular meeting here last Wednesday evening in the George Reynolds ho tel dining room. The meeting, at tended by nine members, passed a resolution and welcomed Drs. Wal ker and Llewellyn into the organi zation. Rev. Verry Will I'reacli At Ever el In Chun It Sunday Rev. J. M. Perry will preach at the Christian church in Everett* next Sunday at 11 oclock. All officials and all members are asked to be present at the' morning worship Matters of interest will be discussed. The minister will preach on "The Pay Side of Christianity". Local Tobacco Market Marks Up All-Time Record Wlien Million Pounds Are Sold in Four Days Series of Fights Mar Peace and Quiet on Opening Day Here 'No Our I ta< 11 > Hurl As Finis Fl\ I'liirk anil Fast lliirinu l)n\ A s> i i<-s of tights, slamming and a'knocking maTTed the peace and quict lu-re last Tuesday, Justice J I 'L.-.-ell continuing court sessions well into the night to unravel the disturbances. No serious damage was done by swinging fists and the free flow of oaths, the trial justice prov ing very lenient when the disturbers Quite a few persons paraded about apparently attired in their fighting clothes and showing a willingness to light at the drop nf y handkerchief There was very little cause for any nf the fights, hut their very nature, one will admit, can lead to serious trouble Crowded sidewalks furnished the setting for at least two of the squab bles, and the display of manners would have smoothed over any ill feeling But clenched fists were of fered in answer to any challenge of tile right of way and one or two black eyes followed A man named Wynne was attack ed by a colored man m a down-town store, but lie was not badly hurt. The colored man, whose name could not be learned, escaped and the incident was not formally, booked on the po lice blotter. In the early afternoon. Bill Win bush rushed at his wife and attempt ed a knife attack. She turned the tables on her husbands, reports stat ing tliat she was about to whip him good when they were parted The Avife was taxed with the case costs l"i lighting, anil Wmhusli was hunk cd for t rial in I he couiTfy 'court Tor" assaulting a female The fight, grow ing out ot a long pi nod of general misunderstanding, took place in the warehouse district. Tuesday night, a free for all fight was in progress when police were called to the warehouse district. Hushing there in two police cars, the officers rounded up one member in each of the opposing groups and ear ned them before Justice Hassell about !l o'clock. Judgment was .sus pended upon payment of the costs as to Lee (Jnlfiii and L C Mclntyre after the trial justice had consider <d 30 day jail terms for the defend ants Latei that night Joe Koherson started to his home in Williams Township and was allegedly beaten and robbed by Willie Buck Wil liams. Charged with trespassing upon the property of Matilda Wiggins the night before, Jimbo Sutton was car ried before the trial jtistice who sus pended judgment upon payment of the case cost and upon condition that the defendant stay off the Wiggins |>l 4 |lUi..( . , One or two alleged drunken auto drivers in the county were jailed, and a lone drunk was arrested to climax police activities for the day. Two Badly Hurl In Auto Accident Guilford Brown, about 25, and Tom Watson, 24, wen- seriously hurt this morning at 2 30 o'clock when their car, a 1934 model Chevrolet, blown! into a slowly ninvlhg H'luk on the Washington Hood at Skewar key Brown, dti.vci <f tic Car, had the right side of his face ripped near ly off and suffered bruises and oth er cuts about the body. Suffering an apparent skull fracture, Watson was rendered unconscious and it could not be learned how seriously he was injured Unofficial reports received here today indicated that hi recov ery was doubtful Unable to get anyone to guaran tee payment, the two men were haul ed here and there for possibly more than two hours before they were re moved to a hospital in Washington. Brown and Watson were following into town a truck, loaded with to bacco and belonging to Farmer Mar ion Hodges. The driver of the truck, a tenant on the Hodges farm, slow (d down to make a h ft turn at the Skewarkey cemetery, but was de layed by an approaching car Brown apparently failed to gel a turn sig nal vfrom the truck driver and he drove his car into the truck at a fast clip, the front part of the Chevrolet burying itself up to the windshield under the truck body The truck dri ver and a passenger riding on the back of the truck were not hurt and very little damage was done to the big vehicle. Mrs. Dare Brown and son, El wood, and Carroll Brown, Jr., of Jamesville, are attending the World's Fair, New York City. HOT IX m; I t Marked im-reaves in activities were reported by various busi ness houses here last Tuesday when the firts sales of the to bacco marketing season attraet rd thousands of vsiitors to the town. Soda shops and barbecue houses re|H?rted substantial gains over the 1!KIK opening day business, hut Wier's lunch count er established a record when 1.500 bin dogs were passed out to hungry customers on Wash ington Street. It was estimated hv some that more than 7.000 visitors were here lot the market opening Nil than Lille > Dies Thursday at Home Near James\ille \\ .-II-KnowII ('.utility Faniii-r \\ I* III Httrtlly Mori limn a Motilli Nathan l.illey. well known county j farmer, died ratlu-r suddenly at his home near Janiesville yesterday af ternoon at 12 30 oVloek. new ? of he. death coming as a deeided shock to relatives and Ins many tneiids 1 throughout this section ?__ j During early last spring. Mr tat ley told members- ol his family that he was not feeling well, and although 1 his condition gradually became w 01se i he continued at work on tus farm, finishing the cultivation and the j harvesting of his. tobacco-crop l?c j fore he consulted a doctor late in I July It is thought that he Illegally I worked himself t?? death. following |a physical ? xaminafion, Mi Lilley \Vu?l said by his alleiujnig |>h.V>UdalL to he in critical, condition and he was ordered to hod immediately lie gn w vv.oise rapidly and hospital treat ment was administered in .1 l i t el fort to save*Ins life, hut disease eon tinned to spread rapidly over Ins body and he returned home last Wed liesday. The so nof Mt v Lei torn Lilley and the late Ml Lilley. lie was born in I Janiesville Township forty-four j years ago. In early manhood he mar ried Miss Mabel Sykes, and settled 'down not far from the old family 1 farm where he proved an able h hacco farther. When a youth In joined tin Bapti. 1 church at Cedar Branch, and while not at all pretentious, he was a good and useful citi/cn in his community and county Kindheaited, he was al I ways ready and willing to help his feliowman, and no one was ret used j a reasonable request. Mr Lilley had worked hard all his life, and one an obligation was made he seemed to) enjoy meeting it lie valued the | j friendship of others, and found peace | and contentment 111 Ins simple and J | plain way <>f life : lie i h I 1 1'.' 'I III' ll" ' . In II- XI I j vived by his widow and nine chil ' df en. William Lilley. of Portsmouth. Mrs Ha/el Peel, of Beaufort Coun ty, Cecil Lilley, Kdwin JK Lilley, Miss Kthel Lilley, Herman. Archie, Klhert and Nathan B. Lilley. Jr. He also leaves two brothers, Messrs Herbert Lilley, qf^JVyiiainston, and Berime Lilley* o'f" Janiesville Township Funeral services are being eon ducted this afternoon at it DO o'clock from the late home by Kcv W. B Harrington Interment will follow in the old family cemetery, near the home Youthful Rolilx TS Face Charges lloro Wanted for the robbery of the to tal Western Union Telegraph office here, Arnold Wallace lf?, and Ar thur Kdmondson, 15, were arre.sj.ed in Wilmington yesterday where they are being held for rnimty i.ffiei i-; They will be returned here late to day or tomorrow, Sheriff C. H Roebuck stating that he did not know just when he Could send for the wayward youths. Climbing on the roof ?<f tin leje graph office, the youths are said to have entered the building through a skylight. A few dollars in change were stolen from the office, accord ing to reports coming from the local police station. The youths are said to have of fected one or two minor robberies in New Hanover County where they were carried before a juvenile court judge who ordered them turned ov er to Martin authorities. ItifC Hanehtdl Schedule Here For The Week-end A full baseball week-end is sched ; uled here, the Snow Hill Billies I coming here tomorrow and the Ea I gles from Kinaton Sunday. Tobacco Prices Arc Low. Ibil Farmers Not ( lomplainiiiv Onalit\ 2."> lYrcnil Better and Prins 2") Pcrrcnl Loner l lian A rar \s?? WilliamMoi1' ? "'M 111?" 1 ^? 1 I- - cliulkmg up an all timo sales rec ord -as tin fust period of marketing activities conies to a brief end to day. official reports front Supervi sor.K B Crawford stating that more than one million pounds of the gold en leaf v\ ill have been sold by lat** .illis afternoon wht-n the tohnrm population takes a brief breathing spoil to make reacly for a fresh start next Monday morning The eombmed sales up until this "inommg. totaled slightly above 822.- ~ j 000 pounds, the market supervisor ^stating that the three-day price aver age stood right at $15.60 per hun dred at that time While the price is on tin low side, the supervisor ex plained that it represented the true figures, that he did not think it right to say prices were high when they were really low "The others may mist?-present their figures, but we want the farmers to know the facts when it comes to our market," Mr. Crawford explained j Commenting on Thy quality and i price. an observer n nlhe m.n-U.l thiv j week pointed out that the quality was 25 per ivnl better and that tin prices were 25 pci cent lower than last year After establishing an enviable ree Old opening day When prices aver i/ged m excess of seventeen cents, the sales appeared some weaker the fol lowing day and yesterday. The qual ily of tht' tobacco was possibly not up hi till* standard of?that on the opening, ami it, was apparent that war threats in Europe made them ?Ives felt on the market here and on others throughout the belt yes terday Special messages were re ceived from early morning, until elosmg lime, advising various 'buy ing activities Late messages ear i u d a note of optimism, and tile mar ket became fairly regular after ex periencing what was described as a severe case of the jitters off and on during yesterday I 'rice - appeared oil the low side a- ales progressed today, but a fair and close observation revealed the presence el inferior tobacco types. There was a fair sprinkling of tips on the floor , and the quality gener ally did not measure up to what re I ported earlier m the week No fancy prices were seen for .my grades, the top figures stopping more or less 1 abruptly at 52 cents, and those piles were very,' very few Those grades I of primings, possessing quality sim ilar t<> that of the opening day offer ings, were commanding virtually the same prices as Were paid earlier in [ the week I Clrars Block The openi ng day block{ approxi I mating nearly three-quarters* of a I million pounds, was finally cleared -about noon yesterday, and the mar ket will char its floors late this af ternoon to he ready for a return to (Continued on page six) District Governor Vddrcsscs Lions Aiiitn.-s.sing a regular meeting of the Linns Club here last evening. Neil Hester, Carolina's District Gov ernor, spurred the local membership to greater action and compared the two types of club membership. Hes ter, telegraph editor of the News and Observer, arid a prominent Ugure in the Lions organization, urged the local club to "build up a group of ac tive members, members who will go out and look for something to do that will promote the welfare of the community. "Don't sit back and wait for something to do; go out and find something to do and then do it," Hister advised the club in his mas terly Way of building up interest within the organization. "The meeting, held in the Woman's club hall, was well attended by the local membership and by quite a few visitors from the clubs at Bel haven and Washington. An added interest in the work of the club was reported as a result of Heater's address, and already the or ganization is anticipating an increas ed membership. The local club recently elected the following officers, and under their direction anticipates a continued growth: Charles Leonard, president; J. H. Edwards, first vice-president; A. H. Manning, second vice-president; J. H Ward, third vice-president; W. L. HowelJ, secretary; Irving Margolis, treasurer; Ben Courtney, lion tarn* er; Eugene Rice, tail twister.