State President
And Others Talk
To Group Friday
(Continued from page one)
curing the services of R Flake Shaw
as its secretary "Under his leader
ship. we can expect a strung and in
fluential organization in North Car^
olina M'
Haywood Dail the old war horse
the Farm Bureau
in North Carolina, got out of a sick
bed to come to this county and ap
peal to the people of Martin Coun
ty. to urgt them to support th? or
gamzation. "This is no time to go
backward; it is time to go forward."
he said Mr Dail spoke very highly
of Mr. Shaw but declared that the
farmers and business men of North
Carolina must gc l>ehind him if he
is to accomplish the things agricul
ture needs to accomplish in North
Carolina
Digressing from his subject for a
few remarks. Mr Dail who uppar
eutly is growing older and e ^or
dering on "rheumatism, paid his re i
speels to those who would refer to j
the present farm program as being |
advanced on the Santa Claus theory.
"The farmer has played Santa Claus
to the government all these years
by paying about1.000 ar. acre for
the privilege of .producing one acre
of tobacco." he said, his words ring
ing with a real meaning
"My friends, it is disappointing ;
to those of us who realize tin value'!
it is found necessary for you and me |
to go out and beg for support Back i
yonder when the markets were clos- f
ing. the Farm Bureau was ready to
help meet the emergency, and to
day, if it were not for the-organiza- j
tipn the tobacco markets w ould riot |
b< open The Farm Bureau is a!
worthy organization and it is worth j
w orking for. It has guided legisla-i
tion through Congress that has meant
added millions to tin farmers and j
business people of this Stat? and I!
w ant you good people to get opt arid !
support it VV< an mntdmg up a i
strong support in Pitt and other I
counties."
In conclusion, Mr Dail .-aid that
if we fail the organisation now if
will be like running the liog out of
a corn field into pen and failing
to close the gap
Mr B B. Suggs also just out of a
sick bed. addressed tin meeting "If
We have ever lived through solemn
day.-, we are today Nothing has ever
compared with conditions toda> New
areas are being opened to war. Ex
pert is being closed to one of our
mam . .commodities. Not forgetting
the horrors and tragedy of war. we
ship a single?hugshead of U,
baceo across thereat?. And yet tobac;
co is selling reasonably -high higher
than it did a year ago and following
om of the largest crops in history
and in the face ot a huge surplus.
W< know why tobacco is selling high
er Just a year ago thr markets were
reopened The emergency was met
by the Farm Bureau and now we
have a law lor the benefit and wel
fare of the farmer
"I warn against lethargy. Control
is fixed for three years, but the law
can be changed, and there's work
to be done We must be prepared for.
any erisis. b.i it w< beepnu mdif
feieni, benefit.- will slid* from tin
der us
"I would iikt to see the Farm Bur ,
eau get on a permanent basis and
know that farmers and business men ,
will rally to its support yeai after
year on their own accord. It is my
-behef-that once the wurk-of the Farm
Bureau is recognized, our farmers
and business men will not wait to!
be solicited for support."
There was no high pressure exert - j
ed in an effort to build up Farm Bur- !
eau support in this county. The three
speakers merely placed the bare
fucts before the meeting Of lending1
farmers. C. Abram Koberson. recent
president of the organization in this
county, said a few words t<? the
meeting and plans were formulated
for a membership campaign with a
goal of 800 members.
Four teams were selected and
each team was charged with the task
of signing up 200 members. The
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
A man-powered bicycle fea
tured in the highway accident
record in this County last week
while the automobile was bol
storing the year's safety record
A minor auto accident was offi
cially reported, hut the bicycle
figured in the most serious acci
dent of the week. It is just an
other incident pointing out the
danger that ever lurks on the
highway. _____ _____
While the death count was in
creased by one week before
i??o th? mao record added an
other deatli to lis count for the
corresponding \ eek now under
comparison
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend first, by corresponding
for each year to the present time
41st Week Comparison
Accidents In.i'd Killed Damge
1040 2 1 05. 50
!930 101 25
Comparison To Date
104u 72 44 3 $8055
1930 40 43 8 $9740
Thirteen Jailed In
Local Jail During
The Past Week-end
> Ow tinned .from page unH
quoted as saying yesterday morn- ;
ing folio wing a watch ??f only a few j
minutes And you'd be surprised ,
to know who some of thos< white j
people were,'" the officer added
Clarence Taylor young white man
who accepted employment at* the
slaughter house hen recently, in a
reported drunken condition wander
ed into a home on North i laugh ton (
Street last Saturday night and went I
to bed. When the family returned
they found him resting in peace, po
lice hugged and bundled him off to
jail.
The record of arrests follows
Bruce Stox. white man. drunk; W.
T. Coleman, colored,man drunken
ness Cecil Pippen. colored man.
drunkenness. Willie Thompson, col
ored man. drunkenness. Lin Khodes,
colored, assault Clarence Taylor,
white, drunkenness: Charlie B Har
dison, colored, drunkenness: Jerry
Pony, white.* drunkenness Alton
Lillt > white, assault: Roosevelt Par
k? r. colored, assault:"Enoch Dolber
ry |k?sm ssion. Joseph Whitley, col
ored boy assault Elton Hodge, col
ored drunkenness, and Willie Out
law. drunken driving.
Booked too late for trial in the
county -court yesterday most - of the
cases will not be placed before the
court until next Monday.
Miss Alberta Knox* is getting along
nicely following an operation for
appendicitis in < Washington hospi
tal yesterday
drive, was started after the meeting
Friday nighr^nnd* t*a*4yk reports in
dicate that it is meeting v\ it la great
success. Few have refused to par
ticipate in the program, and the out
look is promising
The four teams
Jo. Winslow. chairman; Letter Ev
erett Sam Kvciett. John Eagles,
Charles Daniel, C A. Roherson, Her
bert Roebuck. Joe Avers. J. F Crisp.
Leman Banilull and Henry Early. !
Robert Everett, chairman. J. B. '
Whitfield, W E Ambers. T. B. Slade,
E. V Smith. Mai ion Griffin, Wen
dell Hamilton. Gaston James, and
Lin wood Knowles.
W M Harrison, chairman; A. B.
Ayeis Rossell Rogers, W B Har
rington, Claude Green, Frosty Mar
tin. George C. Griffin, J. S Ayers.
W 1. Ausbon. Jne Glifflti and Dew^
cv Edmund son
Bill Beach, chairman;' Frank Bail
ey. W M Hardison, Tom Brandon,
I). V. Clayton. V G. Taylor. Calvin
Ayeis. J H Lillard. John W. Eu
banks. Harry Roberson and George
Taylor.
Names of the members will be
published from tune to time
Marriage Licenses
r
Reach \ New High
Point I^ast Month
MiuiH-t* Month Created
For \n\ Se|?tember in
Four VcarK
Charge it to the draft or pure love,
Dan Cupid was unusually active in
this county last month, the register
of deeds issuing eighteen marriage
licenses during the period to set a
new is uance record for ine year
In September, 1936. 19 licenses were
issued in Uu county and in the two
years prior to that time the issuance
barely reached a count of twelve. In
September, a year ago. eight li
censes were issued to white and four
to colored couples Last month there
were 11 white and seven colored mar
nage> in. the county. _The largest
monthh issuance of the year prior
to last month was recorded last Jan
j uary when 15 licenses were issued
[ by th. register of deeus office, two
of the licenses going to white and
| thirteen to colored couples.
The office of Register of Deeds J.
Sam Gelsmger issued licenses to the
following couples last month:
White
Nicholas Riddick Manning and
! Daisy Vashti Starnes. both of Wil
liamston
George D James, of Roberson
, vilb. and Mary Catherine Leggett.
: of Williamston R F.D No. 2
Starr C Busbee. of Springfield,
I S. C. and Mary Elizabeth Roberson.
of Roberstmvilie
Charles A Askew, of Jamesville,
and Eva Gray Manning, of R.FD.
1, Williamston.
Lew e Revels and Myrtle Nichol
son. both of Plymouth.
Rufus Lee Corey, of R.F-D. No. 1.
Williamston. and Maybell Modi in,
of Jamesville
J. D Gurganus and Mary Eliza
beth Gli.eon, both of Pitt County.
Oil is Whitehurst, of R F.D. No. 3.
Williamston, and Luey C. Silver
thoroe. of Williamston.
Henry Vernon Hardison and Ruby
Lee Griffin, both of \SLilliamstOn.
William S. Riddick. tS" Hobbsville,
and Margaret Peel Norman, of Rob
erson ville ? ?
Stewart Brown, of Bethel, and
Violet Edwards, of Greenville.
Colored
Dallas Pi e 1 and Mamie May. both ;
of Williamston.
Riley Williams and Ethel Barn-1
hill, both of Hamilton.
William Brown and Eva Perkins,
both of Robersonville.
Clarence Lloyd and Delia Milliard, i
both of Williumston.
Thomas Evans and Lossie Ebron. |
both of H F.D No. 3. Williamston. H
Roberta Lancaster and Mattie Lee ]
Can. both of Oak City
Tom M? Keel and Ada Hedgepoth,
both" of It.F.D. No. 2. Williamston.
(.oilon ) ielila Per Acre
Iteller In !\ or I ham (tlon
Per acre yields of cotton in North- I
ampton County appear to be high- j
er this > i ;ir than in the past sever
al years, says H. G. Snipes, assistant
farm agent of the State College Ex
tension Service.
Mis Bill Haislip continues ill in
a Washington hospital where she was
received for treatment of a stubborn '
ease of asthma a few weeks ago.
(t.(MH).OOO M:^ JOBS
National defers? outlays will
bring a more rapid increase in
employment during .1941 than
for any similar period in Amer
ican history, Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins predicted last
week
The Bureau of Labor Statis
tics, slir xaid, outimnted that 4,
000.000 more workers will be
employed in defense industries
and another 2.000.000 in other
industries by the end of next
year
Of these, one-third will be
skilled workmen. two-fifths
semi-skilled, and a fourth un
skilled
4T R< ?BKRSO!N VILLfc
Rev. John Harrlay. able min
ister and student of w orld af -
fairs, is conducting a series of
religious services in the Rober
sonville Christian Church. Local
friends of the church and the
minister are invited to the serv
ices each evening at 7:30 o'clock.
Forty \olunteers
Prepare To Handle
Registration Here
(Continued from page one)
er. registrars may call for any aid
they need. All tobacco markets will
be closed tomorrow, but there'll be
no holiday for general business.
Registrations, as far as possible,
will be effected at the regular- poll
ing places throughout the county
Happenings In The
Farm Life School
The Farm Life school reaped a
bountiful harvest in the way of a
fifty dollar cash prize for the "sew
ing" as well as for the canning and
other products of home industry that
were so effectively arranged in the
community booth sponsored at the
fair.
The booth displayed practically
every item that can be raised or
made by the residents of the Farm
Life community?their canning dis
play included meats of all kinds, veg
etables, jellies, jams, \ preserves,
pickles and juices. There were hand
made rugs, belts, purses, dish tow
els. bedspreads, quilts, pillow cases.
buffi t sets and" every other type of
handiwork at which the ladies of
the community are so adept.
The quality of the products shown
as well as the variety were remark
ed about and complimented by many
of the visitors. The entire school is
indebted to the community as a
whole for the wonderful cooperation
that was shown in putting 011 the
booth.
While the teachers and many of
the students did much of the work
that went into the making of the
booth, it was Miss Marguerite Cook,
sixth grade teacher in the school,
who supervised the work and add
ed the artistic touch.
Besides the fifty dollar prize,
many other prizes were won by the
school for individual entries
Enpinwr* Kill Kuiih
Sua ken la llrriir County
Still a bit shaky, Wendell Peel and
"Shorty" Corey. Virginia Electric
and Power Company engineers, yes
terday afternoon told about killing
two rattlesnakes over in Bertie earl
ier iir the day. Corey, catching one
of the reptiles under his foot, was
still stepping high this morning. The
rattles, wrapped in a paper, could be
heard as Engineer Peel displayed
them with a nervous shake.
It is a bit late for snakes, but Peel
and Corey are sold on the idea of
maintaining a careful watch all year
around.
Reorganization Of
IxK*al High School
Band Is Underway
(Continued from page one)
st rumen ts. It is known that there are
I several instruments in lown which
| are not being used. The school is
| anxious to have the owners of these
j instruments contact it so that we
I may make arrangements to look at
t instruments and either purchase
I or have the instrument donated to
j the school.
To carry out a program of this
I type financial aid is necessary As
j funds available are not sufficient to
| enable us to purchase a complete
instrumentation for the band we will
purchase a few while the pupils
themselves will be expected to pur
chase their instruments as the sil
? uation demands. Efforts will be
J made to get these instruments at the
| lowest cost possible, yet still have
them of good make and material. As
soon as the instruments can be made
available the program will get un
derway. and anyone who would care
to may come to the school and dis
cuss the situation with the band
director or Mr Hix."
Any and all former band members
who still like to play and would be
interested, are invited to sit in on
the various rehearsals once they
get underway, Mr. Butler added.
The work of the old high school
band here was not in vain, although
its set-up was too expensive for the
I students who had to furnish tbew
mstruments and pay tuition. No
| tuition will be charged under the
! new program, and the band is be
| ing created so as to perpetuate itself,
i Several of thf former .band students
1 are now members of college and
| university organizations and are do
| ing unusually well. The new direc
tor is vitally interested in his work,
and with a loyal support the local
high school can produce a strong
band.
Opposition Looms
For The Nazis In
The Balkan Areas
(Continued from page one)
sented its claims to a part of Indo
China. but its claim has been den
ied. Commenting on the 84-year-old
head of what is left of the French
government, Countess Margaret
Brown l^abaut stated while on a vis
it with relatives and friends here
Sunday that she believed Petain w;
doing all in his power to hold France
Together, me Countess knew Petain
when she lived in France a few
yearfc ago.
On this side of the Atlantic a great
er solidarity of the several nations
is apparent. Far-reaching pacts are
now in the making between the Unit
ed States and countries to the South
for the establishment of bases that
would guarantee this hemisphere a
strong defense.
Quietness marks the Far East front
but a flare-up is expected in some
quarters when England reopens the
Burma Road oh Thursday. The route
is a vital one for moving supplies
into China.
Tonight, Wendelli Willkie will talk
1 about the draft and tomorrow morn
| ing at 8 o'clock, President Roosevelt
; will talk about selective service.
%
: Junior ( Inb Members
In Regular Meeting
I^ast Tuesday night, the Junior
Woman's Club held its regular
monthly meeting in the club room.
The program was given by the
Fine Aria Department under the
chairmanship of Mrs. Henry Man
ning. Mrs. C. B Basse 11 and Miss
Mary Whitley also appeared on the
program.
A pledge of twenty dollars was
given to the high school, during the
business session, to aid in getting a
band. Members were asked to at
tend the district meeting in Green
ville today
Wants
I
SOUTHERN BEAUTY SCHOOL ?
"South'! Foremost Beauty School",
Wainwrigth Bldg , 424 Duke St. Nor
folk, Va. Accredited. o4-4t
FARMS FOB SALE ? REASON
ably price* and terms. Co burn and
Cobum. Williamston. s24-llt
FOR SALE: FOUR NICE SADDLE
horses. I -adv-hmtren, the pleasure
kind. H S. Johnson, Hamilton.
o8-4t
FOR SALE ? 3 LOTS 35x105. S.
Pearl St between Main and Rail- i
road St. Phone 84. o8-2t
WANTED ? EGGS FOR HATCH- ;
ery. See Martin FCX Service. Wil
liamston. o8-2t
WOOD FOR SALE. PINE $2A0 PER
cord. Large supply. See or write <
Hugh Daniel, Williamston, R. F. D.
No. 1. o4-4t
FOR SALE ? WE HAVE A NICE
assortment of used suits in all
styles and sizes. $4 05 to $12.50. Pitt
man Cleaners. Phone 150. s27-26t
SOUTHERN BEAUTY SCHOOL ?
"South s Foremost Beauty School".
Wainwnght Bid*.. 424 Duke St. Nor
folk. Va Accredited Telephone
16475. oll-4t
FOB SALE AT SACB1FICE?1 1-2
ton Dodge truck with body. 1937
model, good condition. Jack Frank
jare Margolis Bros. Williams ton
il5-2t
Fl'RNISHED HOUSE FOR RENT?
eall 40 ol5-2t
WE ARE LN POSITION TO STORE
your sweet potatoes. House now
open to receive same Slade Rhodes
and Co. Hamilton, N. C. t* 15-41
BRICK FOR SALE: 1M.9M GOOD
brick in kiln walls. $5 00 per
thousand Plymouth Brick Works
Plymouth. N. C. ol5-4t
FURNISHED APARTMENTS AND
rooms for rent. Hot and cold wa
ter. Call 339-J.
SPECIAL! TUESDAY. WEDNES
day, Thursday. Friday. Any three
garments cleaned and pressed (or
$1.00. Call early for prompt service
Pittman Cleaners Phone 159
DONT WAIT?NOW IS THE TIME
and Pitlmun is the place to get
your new fall suit. We have your
size, your color and your price $19.75
up. Pittman Cleaners
GET READY FOR
COLD Weather
GKT OUT YOUK OLD
Stoves & Heaters
Have Them Reliaed ami Repaired
\\ c run pill lliriii in u? gooii I'oinlilion
an they were when they came from the
farlorv.
J. C. NORRIS
I'liinibiiiK and Sheet Metal ff ork
PHONE 57 WILLIAMSTON, N. C.
ATTENTION
Farmers & Truckers
WE ARE NOW BUYING
Scrap Tobacco
W e (lull Use l>ir|(e (Jiiantitie* of (>oihI
Scrap Tobamt NOW. ilriiifc ^oitr
Scrap lol.ucco Directly to Our I'lanl.
W. I. SKINNER
Tobacco Co., Inc.
WILLI AMSTON, N. C.
GREENY ILL E
"BEST MARKET l!S STATE"
LAST WEEK'S SALES ? 6,1# 1.21 H POUNDS?$1,368,527.16
Average $21.12
To illuatrale I In- -lability of I lie Greenville Market ami the uniform price* il pay*, official figure? for the entire week are given in
*tead of ahigh average for ju*t one *elling ilay. The figure* above include every pound of tobacco . . . Good, Medium and
Gonimon l-caf. *old in GKKK!NYII,I,K lunt week , , From Monday through Friday. ?
UKADh (iKAI)K . . . I)A^ B\ l)A> . . . (IKKKNVILI.K'S Priees Are Stable. Uniform and Higher Than the Market I^evel . .
Tobacco Sells (Gotx! in (Greenville on Monday*, Tuesday*, Wednesdays, Thursday* and Frulays
DAILY REPORTS ? WFTC - 12:00 WGTC -12:20 WPTF -12:25 *GBR ? 12:45
FIVE SETS OF BUYERS?FIVE FIRST SALES DAILY