Watch The Label On Your Paper. As It Carries The Date ? THE ENTERPRISE - Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1,9 \OLUME XLIII?NUMBER 46 WiUiamiton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 7, I9-W. ESTABLISHED 1899 Recorder's Court In Lengthy Session Handling 10 Cases Harold Brown Take* Spot light in Court Proceed ing* Laat Monday Judge H O. Peel held the county recorder's court in session well into middle afternoon last Monday han dling ten cases. The trial of several of the cases was long drawn out, the court having often handled that many cases before the noon recess with time to spare. Harold Jones, Robersonville col ored man, held the spotlight in the proceedings when he appeared as defendant in three cases and denied the charges in every instance. The court disagreed with his pleas, and the man drew road sentences in all three cases. In the case charging him with larceny and receiving. Brown was sentenced to the roads for a term of six months. He drew an ex tra six months in the case charging him with an assault with a deadly weapon The sentence is to begin at the expiration of the term in the first case. In a third case charging him with being drunk and disorder ly and resisting arrest. Brown was sentenced to the roads for a term of three months, the sentence to run concurrently with that in the other cases. The cast- charging Willoughby | Jones wih bastardy was nol pressed A continuance was granted until June 10 in the case charging J. T. Perry with bastardy. Pleading not guilty in the case charging him with disposing of mort gaged property. Joe M. Hollis was found not guilty Levi McGowan was found not guil ty in the case charging him with an assault with a deadly weapon and with carrying a concealed weapon. Charged with reckless driving. Norman Lynn Pendleton pleaded not guilty. The court found him guilty of speeding and suspended judgment upon payment of the case costs, the court taxing the costs as "simple". Robert Lee, the young Colored man who While hrT a drunken condition took possession of the Bear Grass teacherage while the family was away last Sunday afternoon, plead ed guilty and was sentenced to the roads for thirty days. It was later reported that the road sentence was suspended upon the condition that the defendant pay a $10 fine and the case costs. The court invoked a previous sen tence in the case charging Harry Au gustus Robinson, young Bethel white man. Charged with drunken driving, hit-and-run driving and leaving the scene of an accident without mak ing known his identity, Robinson on May 20 was fined $50, taxed with the case cost, the court suspending a 12 months' term on the roads. Last Mon day he was directed to serve a ten months' road sentence. ? ? Advance Flans lo Help Relieve The Tobacco Situalion Conj(rett8ii' ti Warren Would ?Corporation To Ha die Purchase* : ? ^ Representative Lindsay Warren pointed out today another effort being made by Congress that may aid the tobacco and cotton situation. A bill has been unanimously report ed by the Banking and Currency Committees of both the House and Senate to amend the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act and permit the RFC to form corporations to ac quire critical and strategic war ma terials The Department of Agriculture and the State Department in collabora tion with Representatives Warren and Clark and a few other members of Congress succeeded in writing in to the bill the following paragraph: "Any corporation created or or ganized by the corporation under the preceding paragraph is also au thorized. with the approval of the President, to make payments against the purchase price to be paid for stiategic and critical materials in ad vance of the delivery of such mater ials. Whenever practicable, the cor poration may require the payments so made to be used for purchase* of raw or manufactured agricultural commodities to be exported from the United States " This, according to Mr. Warren, would permit a barter system where by cotton and tobacco could be ex changed for strategic war materials with foreign nations. The Depart ment of Agriculture believes that this legislation can greatly aid the ex uding situation. Mr. Warren stated today that the general outlook about the handling of the 1M0 tobacco crop looks somewhat brighter than it did two weeks ago. a Stolen Auto Found Stripped And Burned In Wooded Area ? The Mercury sedan stolen from Fred Chesson on West Main Street nearly a month ago was found a few days ago in a wooded area in Cross Roads Township. The machine had been stripped and the remaining parts burned. Martin County Is Not Playing Role of the Good Samaritan A recent check on Red Cross dona tions for the suffering millions trap ped in war-stricken countries across the seas clearly shows that Martin County people are not playing the role of the Good Samaritan. In fact, it is indeed evident that we are pass ing them by. leaving helpless chil dren to suffer and die when a small contribution would mean the tri umph of life over death. Reports from other counties state that a liberal people is coming to the aid of the suffering, but the cold figures clearly indicate that we here in Martin County are indifferent to the urgent needs of a down-trodden humanity. Martin County could well afford to give $4,000. even $40,000 when the need in the lands across the sea is considered in its real light It is in the name of suffering humanity that an appeal for donations is re newed. We have our misfortunes at home, but they are few and when we consider that entire nations have been destroyed and families separat ed we can better understand the need Traveling with the German armies in Flanders a few days ago, an Amer ican reporter said that despite the horrors associated with actual fight ing. the most pitiful aspect of the whole thing was the suffering ex perienced by old men, women and children as they trudged along the roads, their bodies blistered through the rags on their backs Make your donation today. Forward it to the Enterprise and it will be turned over to the proper authorities immediate ly Donations are acknowledged as fol lows: A Friend $ 5.00 Church of Advent ~~ 2 45 Henry Handy 1 00 N. K. Harrison 5.00 W. C Gardner . 5.00 Nat Israel 1.00 Previously reported 39.00 $58 45 Courtney Will Not Run For Treasurer's Office MOP COTTON For the first Umr in history. Martin County farmers are mop pint their cotton to effect a boll weevil control. Fanner VV A. Burnett, of Goose Nest, started the work this week and other farmers plan to start thr prac tice shortly. Farmer Jesse Crisp said this morninf. "Our farmers are buyinf molasses by thr bar rel and are roinc after the wee vil," Mr. Crisp said. While another dry season is threatening crop conditons in the county are considered fav orable today. Cotton and com are doing well and tobacco is look inr much better than tt did a week ago. There is a broken stand of tobacco, but the plants have doubled in size during thr past week. Reviews Work Of Public Library In appealing to the town commis sioners for a home for the public li brary, Rev. John L. Goff, chairman of the library board, interestingly re viewed the activities of the institu tion during the past 26 months The story, as revealed by the chairman, was really pathetic in places and quite encouraging in its connection with other phases. De spite a meagre financial support, the library circulated in its first year of existence more than 8,000 books. During its second year of operation, it circulated 11,000 volumes. More than 1,000 borrowers are listed pranng thp lihrnry pritri.i While the library owns no large number of books, its present quarters in the legion hutjwill hardly accom modate the institution longer. Unofficial reports now state that the library will be crowded out of the plans for remodeling the first floor of the town hall to provide a treasurer's office, mayor's head quarters and more room for the fire department. If the library is not provided space there and if the Legion Post demands its room which will be nothing more than a reasonable re quest, it is possible that the institu tion wifr be closed Williamstori9s ISew Population Count 18 Just Under 4,000 According to preliminary fig ures officially released by D. W l^ipion, supervisor of census. Williimston has a population count of 3,999. "The 1940 fig ures are preliminary and sab Ject to correction," Mr. I Tipton explained. With a few more days left in complete the drive, Mrs. L. H. Gurgantu .enumerator for this district, is anxious to round out the number to an even 4,099. A few have been added, it is un derstood around the boundary lines since the above report was released by Mr. Lupton. There is some doubt if the round figure can be reached, but anyone who has not been enumerated is earn estly urged to leave his name at The Enterprise office that a contact with the census taker can be effected immediately It la quite possible that a dosen or so people were away from home when the first and subse quent visits were aaade and their names are not Included in the list If anyone can help In rosnd ing out the count, notify The En No Second Primary Necessary In This County On June 22 Dirk Smith Concede???? that the law n quiring tin Miri innlion nf d"gn u. complied with but hesitant of taking action that will carry alleged viola tors into the courts, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck has scheduled another dog round-up at the office of Dr. A. J Oh teen here tomorrow. A similar lound-up was held last Saturday when 24B canines went under the needle. To date, approximately 2,500 dogs have been vaccinated in this county. Th" "ff"'* ' iloii?there aren't many left to vaccinate, but the round-up must be complete and dog owners are being given another chance to comply with the law. pared a list carrying the names of owners who have not had their dogs vaccinated. If those owners do not comply with the law within the next two or three weyks, warrants will be drawn and the alleged violators call ed in to explain why. /fig Variation la PotaUf Prices As Season Is Of umed Opening on a fairly large but no record sue wale, the Irish potato markets headed into a jit tery price situation this week, reports declaring that the prices varied as much as ft or more per 100 pounds In some cases. Hold ing fairly strong until Eastern Carolina started moving its crop on an appreciable scale this week, the market Is said to have weakened with prices ranging from about 11.00 to 12.10 with the average holding around SI.75-11.00 at loading points through a greater part of yes terday. The Columbia area moved out a dozen ran yesterday to start the marketing season. Shipments, as a whole, are comparatively light, reports stating that the acreage has been reduced and that the yield was curtailed by dry weather In May. Ital\ Ordering Its Ships Into !Neutral Ports Immediately: rrciirh (l.i lining Suri'etwful PfffMe tuirnl Huff f'.iTiiiiiii TanL- 1 Their hacks almost to the wall in their attempt to stem a drive on Par is in the second major phase of the Nevv World War. the Allies today re ceived an aggravated threat from Mussolini when he issued an order directing all Italian ships to seek shelter immediately in neutral ports. Mussolim's often-repeated threat to join with Germany is expected to take definite form shortly. In addi tion to ordering all Italian ships to neutral ports. II Duce canceled fu ture sailings. There are those who continue to believe, however, that Italy will not enter the war just yet. Others think Italy's entry is to be ex pected not later than Saturday of next week, that an Italian move will eSctend the war front into Egypt and draw the Balkan States and Russia into the conflict At the' present time Germany is making a desperate drive toward Paris and a bloody conflict is raging over a IJO-mile front Artillery fire from German guns, described as the most concerted in all military his tiny, is being Mumped on a dhMi'iirea where the Muginot and Weygand lines form Smbke shells, turning day into night, have been dumped into the area possibly