Watch The Label On Your Paper, Aa It Carrier The Date Your Subscription Expire* THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Find Our Col umn* A Latchkey To Over 1,600 Homes Of Martin County. \OLUME XLIII NUMBER 77 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 24, 1944). ? ESTABLISHED 1899 Methodist Bishop Preaches To Large Congregation Here| Life In Not Measured by the] Length of Days or Earth ly Possessions ? Bishop Clare BttSell. ll?S of th? North Carolina and Western North Carolina conferences, preached to a large congregation in the Methodist Church here last Sunday evening, the prominent minister's message be mg well received by members of the several denominations in attendance upon the service. Basing his subject on the fourth chapter and 14th verse according to James. "For what is your life? the churchman stressed the ideals and visions of the dreamers and declared that life could not be measured in the length or number of days or by earthly possessions. Developing his topic, Bishop Purcell said that life i was dimensional, that it had an up | reach, an horizontal or out reach and , a down reach. "There are millions of forms of life as found in the sea. on land, in the vegetable and animal kingdom. Life is full of mystery and much about it we don't understand. But that is one of God's ways of holding our attention and interest in me No one can look down upon the new born babe's face, see the myi ery | there and lose interest in life. Elim inate the mystery and life is dead This sophisticated age has offered to explian so many mysteries, that they have lost their wonder. Despite those explanations and despite our knowledge, we can't look upori the millions of stalks of corti and other living things without seeing its i mystery God is only speaking to uio We must guard against the habit | becoming familiar with the myster-1 ies of life, for when they become | familiar we lose interest." The minister stated that if the stars were to be seen only once each vear, astronomers would make prep arations to observe them, that when we see the handiwork in the heavens nightly we are not impressed It is the same with life, the bishop poinb ing out that life is so universal and throbbing with activity that we lose | interest in it. , , Continuing, the prominent church man said, "Much human life has been needlessly destroyed but hu man life is not a cheap thing We gauge every other value through its relation to human life which is su preme and which is beyond meas ure. The cynic talks about oneness and groups, that the individual is so small that he counts for little, f we believe that we lose our right fli-'Life"is also interesting because | of its uncertainty. If we were guar anteed three score and ten yea?. kindness, patience and charity would die out. It is for eternal good that God withholds certain facts from USThe Bishop recalled the acquaint-] ance of a fellow college student who had great promise. Three months ar-1 ter the brilliant young man had ac cepted his first pastorate, he died "Possibly that young man did more good in those three months than he could have done had he lived to be 75 years old. for his goodness lives on and now, 28 years later, his classmates remember his work and carry on with a greater determina tion than ever. Life, we see, is not a matter of days Sometimes, a baby s smile may do more good than a long life. The mere possession of things is not hfe, and thatt is a peril to which we are exposed. Some years ago there were 100 different com modities and only 16 of them were rated as necessities. Now there are (Continued on page six) Youth Shot While Stealing Gasolinel Tilghman James Wilson, 18-year old colored youth, is believed to have I learned that crime does not pay. But j it was a costly lesson for the way ward youth. Ananias Davis, driver of a Linds ley Ice Company truck, had been missing gasoline from the truck tank for several days and last Saturday night he decided to maintain a watch and discover the leak. Standing a short distance from the truck which was parked in his yard on the Jamesville Road, just off Washing ton Street, Davis had waited only a short time when Wilson appeared and made ready for the haul. Hardly had Davis said, "I've got you now," Wilson started to run. "Halt," yelled Davis. Wilson, in the common vernacular, "turned on the fan." Davis fired a load of No. 10 shot after him, and Wilson increased his speed. Another load was fired, and Wilson continued to run to his home on the corner of Warren Street and the Jamesville Road. It wasn't long before the police learned that at least one load and possibly both loads of shot had taken effect. Wil son was peppered with shot, two striking him in the eye. Removed to a Washington hospital, the thief was found not to be seriously shot, but it is thought today that he will lose the sight in one eye. No warrant has been issued by lo cal police, but it is understood that Davis will be charged with an as sault with a deadly weapon Fanners Will Vote on Cotton Control Program December 7 Cotton growers of North Caroling and of the South will go to the polls December 7th to decide whether AAA marketing quotas will be plac ed on the 1941 crop, E. Y. Floyd, AAA executive officer of State College, has announced The new national marketing quo ta just announced by Secretary of Agriculture Wickard will make pos sible the marketing of 12,000.000 bales during the next cotton year be ginning August 1, 1941 However, before an adjusted pro duction program can go into effect, two-thirds or more of the cotton growers voting must approve allot-1 ments. This year's referendum comes two days earlier than that of last year when 91 per cent of the nation's cotton producers voting favored the marketing quota program for 1940. Floyd said growers have approved the cotton program for three consec-1 utive years, voting control on them selves in 1940, 1939 and 1930. During the years the quotas have been in effect, cotton farmers, as a group, have planted well within the nation al acreage allotment. The AAA executive officer ex plained that it was necessary to call for a limited production in 1941 because of the tremendous surplus which still hangs over the market. Much of this was due to the record crop of 1937, which glutted the mar ket and forced prices down sharp ly While export markets have been demoralized as a result of the war, the national defense program in this country is expected to stimulate do mestic demand for the South's No. 1 cash crop. North Carolina's 1940 cotton acre age allotment was 930,509 acres. A good crop has been reported from most sections of the State. War Spreading to Far Corners of the World DRUNKENNESS Public drunkenness became popular in a big way here over the week end after a lull believ ed to have been the result of the stringent financial situation dur ing previous weeks. Out of the eight persons arrested and jail ed. si* of them were booked for public drunkenness. A seventh one was charged with violating the liquor laws, and the eighth was jailed for the alleged theft of 10.000 Camel cigarettes from a railroad boa car. Police and patrol cars were running at frequent intervals here during a greater part of Saturday night. Hold Funerals For Brothers, John and Columbus Hodges One Die* Shortly After Serv ires Held Here Suturduy For the Other I Funeral services were held in the Biggs Funeral Home here on West Main Street last Saturday morning at 11 o'clock for John Hodges and for Christopher Columbus Hodges, his brother, yesterday morning at the same hour. John Hodges, a patient in a Ral eigh hospital for forty years or more died there last Thursday evening. Unable to immediately contact rela tives of the man's guardians, hos pital authorities had the body bur ied in Raleigh. Learning of Hodges' death, the guardian had his body disinterred and brought here late Friday for burial. Services wery-con. ducled at tlie funeral home by Rev s. J Stames, local Methodist min ister, and burial followed in the Skewarkey Church Cemetery, near here on the Washington Highway. Hodges moved to Martin County from Palmyra following the death of his father. His mother located the family on the Cherry farm, near here, and later the family moved to Williamston. When a young man, Hodges entered the military serv ice and it is understood he served his country during the Spanish-Am erican war A short time later his health failed, and he entered the (Continued on page six) Farmers Deliver Grapes To Local Mart This Week The grape marketing season is rapidly getting underway here on an extensive scale, I.indaley Ice Company, agents for Garrett and Company, stating this morn ing that approximately M tons of delicious scuppernongs had already been delivered and that M or more additional tons are expected by the latter part of the week. "We are looking for one of the biggest seasons since we estab lished a connection with the company," Mr. K. P. Undsiey said early today. Mr. Campbell Moors, head of the Garrett Company, and Roy Fellers, chief chemist, were here yesterday inspecting the deliv eries sod it is understood they were well pleased with the quan tity and quality of the offerings. Recognising In the grape mar ket an added source of Income, quite a few Martin fanners are planting new vineyards and oth ers are enlarging their old ones, indicating that this will be an Invariant producing and mar r within the next i ye Added Trouble In Africa And Indo China Is Reported Itrilinli Itomh (Jermuiiy uml | H?>r Occupied Territory Ou-r Wide Area a The flames of war continue to I spread to the far corners of the world | and trouble is brewing in South Am erica, the recent trend of events bringing ever closer to American shores the battle between totalitar ianism and democracy. A serious trend as it relates to the United States is reported today in the Indo China territory which the Japanees < are invading. Japan has asserted its power against the French govern ment there, and threatens to exter minate any and all opposition. China is demanding certain considerations, and England and the United States are planning today to take parallel steps in checking penetrations by the Japanese beyond certain points. The war moved yesterday to the nearest point between Africa and the South American coast and direct ly across from Uruguay where not all is in perfect harmony. General DeGaulle, noble leader of independ ent Frenchmen, backed by British warships is attempting to enter the port of Dakar in French West Africa today. The success of the venture is not known, but one report states that loyalty to the puppet French government is measured in terms of distance from the puppet govern ment's headquarters in subjugated France. It was also reported ? that French colonial possessions could be depended upon to follow the De Gaulle leadership and help England. However, the French were said to be offering right much resistance at Dakar and that they might lead air attacks on English possessions in cluding Gibraltar. Late reports state that DeGaulle has withdrawn from the port to pre sent continued clashes War activities on other fronts are being accelerated, and extensive damage has followed mass raids on German and German-held territory. One of the longest and most damag ing raids of the war was directed by members of the British air force over Germany last night. Fir?s that could be seen for 80 miles were burning before the raid was ended after a four-hour period. Four German ships were sunk in the Channel by the Royal Air Force. Reprisal raids were being made by Nazi planes, but it is apparent from the reports that dam age done to factories and railway centers in and near Berlin was far greater than that inflicted upon Eng land last night and early today Estimated losses to German forces prowling around in the English Channel on practice barges have been placed as high as SO,000 men, not to mention the property dam age. A black spot in the reports came over the week-end in the announce ment of the sinking of a Canadian refugee ship which was torpedoed by a German submarine about 700 milss out in the Atlantic. Nearly 300 lives, including almost 100 children, were lost. Attention of this country is be ing centered in the Indo-China area where late reports state that the French are offering the Japanese a bitter fight in the invasion of that French colonial possession. Japan ese casualties were heavy in fight ing during the early part of today, and the French were reported hold ing their own. Start C.omtruction Of Two-Family Apartment Construction work on a two-fam ily apartment in the front yard of the old Slade-Hassell home, corner Smithwick Street and Simmons Ave nue, was started yesterday. The du plex building, measuring forty by forty feet, is being built by Messrs. C. H Godwin and Julius S. Peel. Squirrel Hunting; Out Of Season Is A Costly Practice Justice John L. Hasscll Hasj Another Busy Time in His Court Hunting out of season and taking | squirrel without licenses i?t a hit costly in this county Charles Franks, colored man of Robersonville Town ship. learned last Saturday in Jus tice J. L. Hassell's court. Fighting off a heavy mosquito attack. County Game Warden Bill Abbitt caught Franks in the swamps of Roberson ville Township earlier in the day. Booked on a bharge of hunting squirrel out of season and without a license. Franks was fined $15 and taxed with the cost. "There have been very, very few violations of the game laws in the county so far. and I I hope the hunters will buy their | licenses and wait until next Tues day before entering the woods in j search of squirrel and deer," War den Abbitt said. He added that there was a plentiful supply of squirrels in I the woods this year, and warned that | the mosquitoes were plentiful, too. Justice J. L. Hassell had another! busy period in his court last week end and yesterday straightening out the drunks and lining up a docket for Judge H. O Peel in the recorder's court next Monday. John Yarrell, back home for a special visit from New York, was charged with being drunk and down Judgment was suspended upon pay ment of the COSta. Yarrell explain ed that he did not have a cent, that he only had a return-trip ticket to New York. The trial justice accept ed the ticket as bond for payment of the costs which was effected the following morning. Boston McNeal, alias James Allen, was bound over to the higher courts for the alleged theft of 10,000 Camel cigarettes from a railroad box car. Admitting the theft. McNeal was placed in jail in default of bond in the sum of $200. Judgment was suspended upon payment of the costs in the case charging Tom Clark with being drunk , Charged with violating the liquor laws, McKinley Powell was bound over to the county court for trial Bond in the sum of $100 was re quired. Charlie White, charged with op erating a motor car with improper I lights, was fined $10 and taxed with | the costs. James Whitaker, charged with be ing drunk and disorderly and with assaulting R. Sears, was sentenced to the roads for thirty days in each case, the sentences to run consecu tively Wreck Four Liquor Plants In County I The attack against the illegal traf fic continues in this county with A1 - | coholic Beverages Control Hoard of ficers teasing down the plants about as fast as the manufacturers set them up. That the work will ever be completed is doubtful, but the continual attacks are taking their I toll and making operations difficult | for the manufacturers. Last week-end, the officers, head-1 ed by A. B. C. Officer Joe Roebuck, wrecked four plants ip the county, including two copper and two steam type plants. The officers poured out 3,000 gallons of beer. One of the plants was wrecked within hearing distance of the school grounds in Bear Grass, Officer Roebuck declar ed. C. B. Toxey Joins University Faculty I Mr Charles B Toxey, mathematics teacher in the local high school for the past two years, began teaching at the University of North Carolina last week where he is classed as an instructor ~inmalhemalics. While continuing his studies at Chapel Hill during the summer months, Mr. Tox ey resigned his post at the William ston High School to accept work in a junior high school at Charlotte, where employment is for nine months instead of the eight offered here. When a professor at the State Uni versity was called to duty with the | National Guard, the position of in- ' structor in mathematics was offered | to Mr. Toxey, whir assumed his du ties there last week. During the university year he will teach classes in freshman math-1 ematics and at the lame time con tinue his studies for an advanced degree. His many friends here are receiving the news of his sppoint ment with pleasure and regard it as a promotion richly deserved. FIRST MATTRESS Mrs. Henry Allen and Mrs. Helen Allen were the recipients Monday of the first cotton mst treoses made in the mattress project recently set up at Ever etts. The work Is handicapped by lack of funds to pay full time workers bnt leaders have been moat willing to help thus far. To HoldAgricuItxira I District Election in County Next Week -The election of community Com mittee for administering the soil con- { servation program will be held in the various districts next week, it was announced in the office of the j county agent this week. The elections have been scheduled as follows: Goose Nest. Robersonville and Bear Grass on?Wednesday. October 2. Hamilton at Hassell School. Cross Roads at Everetts, and Griffins at Farm Life School on Thursday. Oc tober 3. and Williamston-Poplar Point in agricultural building. Wil liams and Jamesville on Friday. Oc tober 4 The meetings, scheduled at 8 o'clock sharp, will be held under the direction of the Martin County Agricultural Conservation Commit tee in accordance with rules and reg ulations formulated by the Agricul tural Adjustment Administration. The meetings will elect three com mltteemen and iwo StlefrTaTes for each community and a delrgatr and alternate from each unit to the county convention where a county committee will be named. All farm era who have cooperaed with the farm program are eligible to vote. It has been pointed out that these elections determine, to a large ex~ tent. the successful operation of the farm program, that farmers who are not satisfied v\ ith tin- way the pro gram is being administered are in vited and urged to support the men of their choice The committee places are open to all farmers who have cooperated wtih the program, and their selections are entirely up to the farmers. Last year it was a gen eral practice in several communi ties for farmers to take no part in the elections and then criticise the action of the meetings Prices Are Stronger On Loeal Leaf Market Quarter Million Pounds Are Sold Here On Monday Price, (irude for (>nul?>, I-call ing; in WillinniMloii, Au thentic li<|>orl- Declare Williamston is rapidly paining ground in the marketing of leaf to bacco. Sales Supervisor K B. Craw ford stating this morning that one of thi* largest and one of the very best sales of the season was held here yesterday. "General market av erages are not high, to be sure, but tobacco of any quality is really sell ing good here," Mr Crawford said With prices ranging up to 3(1 cents a pound for bonafide sales, the mar ket handled 258,438 pounds yester day for an average in excess of 17 cents a pound. Individual averages for whole barns were reported at 33 cents. Averages between 25 and 30 cents were numerous. However, there was a large quantity of infer-, ior tobacco offered, especially tips and those leaves next to the tips, and the prices for these types while hold ing firm were not on the high side "Those types don't seem to have a friend in the world," a farmer re marked, "but I did very well with my sale," he added I Farmer after farmer, questioned here during the past few days, de | flare that tobacco is selling just as high in Williamston as it is on any market, that they have successfully marketed their crop here with great er advantage than they could have expected on other markets Sales have run smoothly and there has been very little delay in the ached ules. In a semi-official statement issued by a well known buyer, it was an thentically pointed out that tobacco prices are holding a slight edge on the Williuiusluu market, that grade comparisons show the local market holding an advantage. That there have been variations 111 individual sales are admitted and are to be expected However, a lit tie story heard here last week speaks highly of the Williamston market Leaving one of the warehouses earl ier in the week, a tobacco former waved goodbye to the proprietors, and explained that be bad sold Ins last pound of tobacco with them La ter in the week, the same farmer re turned with a big load of tobacco, and explained that he had visited one of the large markets and had learned hts lesson. "They almost burned me out," the farmer was quoted as saying, "and I am back to stay," he added. Strange as it may seem, farmers are nut complaining about tobacco prices, and it is an established fact that farmers in large numbers are voluntarily stating that prices on Williamston's tobacco market are holding an advantage Today, the market is selling well over 100,0(10 pounds with prices hold ing to the level reached on what Su pervisor Crawford explained was one of the most successful sales of the season yesterday. Farmers were here yesterday from -ten counties, the number including several from the Rocky Mount area It was poitned out today that 'With some very few exceptions far mers are selling their entire crops' here this season and not offering i their inferior grades on this market and carrying their better quality to bacco to other markets. ? ? I'eanut /tigging /* Sow (Inderimy On l.argr Scalf Peanut digging, uff to un earlier start than usual possibly on account of the favorable weather, is fast reaching a climax in this county. More farmers are digging peanuts this week than in any corresponding period in reccnKyears, reports state Quality of the Crop is said to be far better than il-t^as a year ago in many sections, but the quantity is hardly normal, farmers say. Draft Leader As head of the joint army and navy committee in charge of selective service plana, Lieut. Col. Lewi* 11. Hershey ia unofficial director of the first U. S. peacetime draft. Bookmobile domes To Marl in Comity For A Bellini Visit Will (lurry Itook* To All Vrcu* During Brloher ami INovniibrr A WI'A ' B<M?krtiobile" will opt i atr throughout Martin County dtir ing the tponrjli ?>t <k'tobef and No vemher, 111 inging TFTo hooks to county eros:- roads, stores and rural homes. The boo!,.- are made available by the sponsmin;' State Library Commission and the WI'A This serv ice is being furnished rural residents of Martin County to demonstrate the value of this type of library service. The annual library reports discloses that about one-half of the population of North Carolina is without library service of any kind Other than pro viding worthwhile employment for many needy, the WPA objectives are to awaken interest throughout the State to the end that permanent li xContinued~ on page fik; Cotton Chocks Arc Being Delivered To Formers of County Issued under the cotton price adjustment program. 793 checks, amounting to $11,070.19, are be ing delivered to Martin County farmers. Quite a few of the checks were placed in the hands of farmers last week-end, and distribution is being advanced rapidly at this time with the re ceipt of several hundred addi tional checks. Nearly 500 of the_ 902 applications filrd with the county office have been approv ed. Approximately 400 addition al applications are before agri cultural authorities in Raleigh and Washington for approval, and additional checks are ex pected within the next few days. It is estimated that there are 130 applications for the price adjust ment payments still In the office of the county agent awaiting fi nal signatures. The checks, averaging about 125 for each cotton farm, are slightly smaller than they were last year, the reduction being attributable in part to the reduc ed production reported In this county during the past two or three ye r C^lear Many Cases From Civil Docket Iii Sufxrior Court N"l u Sin^lr (1mm* Reaches the Jury in Court Here ^ raterday |_ Ihc M.iilin County Superior Cuurt under the direction of Judge J J Buiney. the popular jurist who is presiding over his first term in this county established a new record yesterday when seven cam's were cleared from the civil docket with out the aid of the petit jury Appar ently in a compromising mood, the litigants and attorneys did a big day s work in short prder and in a comparatively short time made ready lor a recess until this morning Proceedings in the court A settlement was effected in the (use of Butler Brothers against Mrs Jasper Johnson, the plaintiffs re ia'.V'J" a judgment in the sum of $?413 30 with interest from October I. I -Mil | he execution of the judg menl is not to issue before next No vombcr 15 A compromise judgment was en tered in the case of James T Daniel against. CI 11 Manning and others, the plaintiff receiving a certain check front a farm produce sale in the sum "I $146.80 and the defendant get ting possession of certain hay and corn on his premises. In the case of Direct Shoe Com Puny against Mrs. M Johnson a was in the sum of S.ui 40 with interest from August 2d. 1939, for the plaintiff The execu tion ol the judgment is not to issue before next November 15 A consent judgment was recorded 111 the case of Mrs J n Saunders against V K Brown, the parties agreeing to all provisions m the judgment which calls for certain rents and vacancy of a building on Smithwick Street in Williamston by December A settlement was reached in the ?use of Daniel Miller Company against Mrs Jasper L. Johnson, the plaintiff company receiving a judg 'he"l hi the sum of $.14135 with in tercst from December I, 1939 The execution of the judgment is not to issue prior to November 15 of this yea I 1" the case of H. F IVrrv against Colonial Oil Company and T B -siPerson, the court awarded the plaintiff a judgment in the sum of 5_n" and directed the defendants to pay the eosts ,,f the ease The dam age suit was the outgrowth of an automobile incident last December between here 1,11(1 Windsor III the Compromise settlement ef fueled 111 the ease of |lelirv Little and others against t) p Roherson. the defendant received certain eon suit-rations on a note s, , '" '' Hodges cast- against (.corgi- ii MizHIr involving certain rents and improvements u as-settled by agreement. t It Lcggett, trading as Economy Auto, was given possession of a n r tain old automobile in the case against Wynne's, Incorporated, and ' 1) Everett. The court also ruled that the defendant Everett, was fur ther indebted to the plaintiff in the aim of $45 15 Just before noon today, the court tailed the iuSe rjf Theodore Ruber son against Life Insurance Company ol V nginia. The plamitff, pointing ? 'lit disability following a permanent injury in November. 1938, is asking that premiums due on three certain life insurance policies be waived. There an- five more cases on the docket, a report from the court < arly this afternoon indicating that -IlLL trial of those actions would be compli ted in time for adjournment tomorrow afternoon. Cases before the court are, Harrison against Liv erman, Harrison against Mills, Hai slip against grocery company, Long against Clark, administrator, and TTTggs against TiTe insurance com pany. Farm Drive Off To A (yood Start I he Martin County Farm Bureau Federation drive for members is ;off to an encouraging start, the sec retary, John I Kagles, stating today that 211 farmers and others inter ested in agriculture had renewed their memberships before plans for a drive had been formulated. "Cousin" Charlie Daniel from over ot Williams Township hi calling his co-workers together in a meeting to morrow night to map out plans for an extensive membership drive. That the people of the county might know who is supporting the movement for an organized agricul ture in the county and State, names of the members will be published from week to week during the cam paign The first list follows; R. L. Perry, R H Peel. W M Har rison, Calvin Ayers, E. C. Harrison. Paul Dixun, Harrell Everett. Mayo llardiaon, W. H. While, T. B. Bran don, F M Manning, John I. Eagles, all of Williamston; V. G. Taylor, Ev cretts; E V. Smith, J A. Everett, W. R. Everett, Henry A Early, all of Pal myra; J. F. Crisp and Tlieodore Smith, both of Oak City; J. B. Whit field. of Hobgood; H L Everett, R. S. Everett, Seth Council, Buck Shep pard, C. Abram Robcrson and James Daniel, all of Robeiaonville. 'v

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