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Watch The Label On Your Paper, Aa It Carrie* The Date Your Subscription Expire* THE ENTERPRISE Advertuers Will rind Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1,80b Home* Of Martin County. VOLUME XLTV?NUMBER 10 ff'illiamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February I. 19-41. ESTABLISHED 1899 Blitzkrieg Party' Is Held At Expe nse Of Illicit Liquor Trade Officers, Aided By Airplane Pilot, Wreck Five Plants In County Friday Working after a blitzkrieg pattern, officers successfully invaded Bear Grass and the Free Union section of Jamesville Township last Friday, the twelve county and Federal agents holding an all-day party at the ex pense of the illicit liquor industry It was the second air raid reported by the illicit manufacturers in this f?u,nty No one was hurt and very little damage resulted, but the man ufacturers schedule of operations was greatly interrupted One report states that the "bottleneck" in the industry virtually brought the re tail business to a standstill in Wil uamston's bootleg centers. Six liquor plants were wrecked and 2,850 gallons of beer were de stroyed, but no copper was taken in the raids Meeting four Federal officers and an airplane pilot in Washington that morning, J. H. Roebuck, Martin County s ABC officer, accompanied by Deputy Roy Peel, mapped out the raids for the day Officers Smith wick and Willis, of Beaufort County, and ABC Officers Ward. Harris and McMullan, of Pitt County, joined the party there. The first spearhead was driven into Bear Grass Township where the officers wrecked a partial plant and poured out 300 gallons of beer. The manufacturing business is apparently dull or it is well hdiden there because no other plants were detected by the pilot during a three hour search. The pilot had dinner in Rocky Mount and the ground forces dined here That afternoon at 2 30 a spear head was driven into the Free Un ion section of Jamesville Township. Spotting one still right after anoth er, the pilot, using a special com munication set, almost exhausted the ground crew. Five plants were wrecked in less than two hours, the officers pouring out more than 2, 500 gallons of beer. None of the plants was in opera - toin, but several of them were about ready for use. No dates for a return blitzkrieg have been fixed, but the forces can be expected most any time, Officer Roebuck said today After the smoke of the blitzkrieg had cleared. Officer Roebuck accom panied by the sheriff, Roy Peel, Carl Wynne and Claiborne Summerlin returned to the Bear Grass section and wrecked a small steam plant and poured out 400 gallons of beer about 9 o'clock that night. Saturday night the officers raid ed Williamston's illicit liquor retail centers but failed to find the first teaspoonful in a thorough search of four houses The retailers had had their supply cut off the day before in Free Union or they had had a rushing business that day and sold out before the raids were made. Hurt In Fall From Truck On Highway William Crew, local colored man, was dangerously hurt in a fall from a truck on Highway No. 17, near Skewarkey, early last Saturday night. The man's left ankle was broken and his right one was badly sprained. Picked up by Officer J. H. Allsbrooks and Constable Charles Moore, Crew was given first aid treatment here and later removed to a Washington hospital where he is getting along very well. Crew was helping Daniel Ryan move a family from the Bear Grass section and was riding on top of the furniture On Ihcif- way hmwa they stopped a short while allegedly for a package of cigarettes. Crew, ac cording to his own story, stated that he was "nipping" rather freely, that he dropped off to sleep and fell off with part of the furniture. Ryan did not miss him until the trip to town was completed. When found, Crew was lying partly on the highway, and at first it was thought some one had run over his legs with an automo bile. Patrolman Whit Saunders, in vestigating the accidents, stated that the man was hurt in the fall. Crew hardly remembered the ac cident, and did not know where he was until Sunday morning when someone told him he was in the hos pital. Ryan, driver of the truck, was taken into custody temporarily, but was released following the investi gation Man Painfully Hurt On Highway Project John H White, employed on the Roanoke River bridge project by an Elizabeth City conatruction com pany, suffered a serious hand in jury last Friday afternoon while working on or near a pile, driver. Given first-aid treatment in a doc tor's office here, Mr. White was re moved to a Washington hospital. ' It could not be definitely learned here, but one report stated that two or three fingers on his left hand were virtually mashed off, and that possibly he would lose all of his fin ders on that hand. Iaibor Shortage of Temporary Nature in Agricultural Areas -It ?' ..? The anticipated labor shortage is fast being reflected on farms and common labor projects following the call for thousands of workers to de fense centers in this and other states. However, the threat of a labor short age on farms is believed to be of a temporary nature, and unless the government plans to double its de fense program there'll be a surplus of farm labor available some time during the coming summer or early fall The call for workers is being an swered by thousands each week, and while employment has hardly reach ed a peak there are reports stating that some of the defense centers are already more than half completed The skilled worker Will likely con tinue in demand as the defense pro gram gains momentum, but the com mon laborer is rapidly completing his work and when the rough con struction plans are rounded out he will have to turn back and seek his livelihood at home. Truck farmers, including potato and strawberry growers, are facing what some describe as an acute la bor shortage, and it is apparent that 16,000 strawberry pickers and 10. 000 potato diggers will have to btv imported from somewhere. Possi bly tobacco harvesting time will find no surplus labor available, but pea nut-digging time will likely find hungry men looking for work. It is [all a guess, and it nuglit be tin whole country'11 be working for one Adolf Hitler ere peanut-digging time rolls around. It is a great time this winter for labor. Thousands of farm hands have exchanged a grubbin' hoe and plow for a saw and square and have gone off to Holly Ridge. Fort Bragg and other defense centers. It has been a boon to some rural areas, the big pay making possible purchases of food, clothing, shoes and school books. Marketing Quotas For Peanuts Are Proposed KKCOKI) For the first time in lis history the Martin County Huildinf and loan Association this week be came a half million dollar insti tution. As of January 31, 1941, the assets of the association reached a total of 1505,812.83. For the past several years the association has shown a phe nomenal growth. Organized in 1914 the organization has been both directly and indirectly re sponsible for the building of most of the residential property in Williamston. Files Final Report - On Blood Tests for Trainees In County lit'fcul Kequirt-meiil in Con nee!ion willi Treatments (iiletl liy ll<*4i 11li Officer By DR. JOHN W. WILLIAMS Martin County Health Officer Of the two thousand blood tests made on the draftees. 922 of whom were white, one and a half per cent of the whites wi re positive and 13.0 per cent of the Negroes were posi tive. Three and a half per cent of both Negroes and whites tests were unsatisfactory and were notified to have another test made. One per cent of the whites and 3.3 per cent of the colored were doubtful and another lest had to be made. This work is now over as far as the blood tests are concerned. Now the problem is to get the wives and children of the 161 new cases of sy philis we have found examined and | all treated Martin County has adequate clin ic facilities to treat these new found | cases and those now attending our clinic but our patients will have to learn that the secret of successful treatment is the regularity of the treatments. Very little is accomplish ed with irregular attendance to clinics. It generally takes thirty in tervenous injections of the arspen amines and forty intramuscular in jections of the bismuth to produce a cure This requires seventy weeks or one years and lour months The physicians in charge of our clinics know just about as much about the disease as any other phys icians. They have the best drugs money can buy and the best equip ment to work with. They know that some few have a hard time trying to carry out standards fnr ih,. majority, therefore they are on the alei;t for any untowards symptom caused by treatment so that no dam age will be done and they try their best to impress the patients that they should attend regularly. There are legal requirements re garding treatments which were placed on the patient for public pro tection as well as for the patient's benefit to see that he or she takes the treatments regularly. One of these is in the hands of the sheriff after the health department has giv en warning. The other step is im mediate- quarantine by: the health department Heretofore, we have used the sher iffs department and it does not seem (Continued on page six) Loses Pari Of Little Finger In Truck Door Lloyd Gray "Mickey" Roberson, four-year-old son of Mr and Mrs. Will Roberson, of near Hamilton, lost a part of his left little finger in a truck door last Saturday. The youngster was playing with two or three of his brothers and sis ters in the truck when one of them accidentally closed the door on his finger. He is being treated in a lo cal doctor's office. (/rowers In Eastern Part Of State Want Minor Amendments Croup A?ks Tliul Hearing* lie Held Liter in the Month The lowly peanut, its fate uncer tain in years none by, is now in Washington seeking recognition at the hands of Congress. Briefly stated, a movement would place peanut pro duction under control along with other basic crops such as tobacco and cotton, establish marketing quo tas and provide for a referendum. Bearings have already been sched uled, but there' is an apparent oppo sition to all the provisions of the bill and a request- has been made for continuing or re-opening the hear ings before the House Agricultural Committee later in the month. Sponsored by Representative Pace of Georgia, the bill provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall proclaim a national marketing quo ta for the 1941 calendar year and call for a referendum within 30 days after its passage Thereafter, refer enda shall be conducted not later than December 15 each year to de termine if the growers .favor mar keting quotas for the next three years. One section of the measure pro vides that if growers should fcjil to approve quotas by a two-thirds ma jority, so peanut loans or peanut-di version programs would be made available to them. Such aids will be available, however, in those years when quotas are in effect. Iri its preamble the bill declares j that the proposed program is "im perative," because peanut growers are "unable to regulate effectively the orderly marketing of the com modity." It adds that "fluctuation of prices and marketings of peanuts creates an unstable and chaotic con dition in the marketing of peanuts for cleaning and shelling and for crushing for oil in the channels of interstate and foreign commerce." Quotas shall be based on the aver age quantity of nuts harvested in the five preceding years. The quota for the 1941 calendar year shall be sufficient to provide for ;< national acreage allotment of not less than (Continued on page six) Reports On Anti Paralysis Drive Martin County people offered a liberal support to the anti-paralysis movement last week when they raised $150.58, according to a vir tually complete report filed yester day by Dr. E. T. Walker, chairman of the committee in this county. The support was general, nearly every community in the county par ticipating. Two districts, Farm Life and Gold Point, had not reported the results of the drive late yester day. Proceeds from the "March of Dimes" were reported as follows: Williams ton Junior Woman's Club, $36 78; Williamston schools and col lections, $24 45; Robersonville, $24 25; Jamesville, $8.90; Everetts, $1 38; Oak City, $10; Hassell, $3 30; Bear Grass, $4.33?a total of $118.87. The sale of dance tickets amount to $131 including the sale of $9 dance tick ets in Robersonville Dance expenses were $99 29, leaving a balance of $31.71, which added to the proceeds from the March of Dimes made a to tal of $150.58. The amount was the largest ever raised in the county in any one year, and the drive was described as very successful by Chairman Walker who publicly expresses his appreciation to those who aided him in the drive and to those who so generously sup ported the worthy movement. Town Authorities In Brief Session Here Last INijjht Street lmpro\enieiit Program Still in the Air; Look To Open Market In a brief and uneventful session here last night, the local town com missioners discussed a varied sub ject matter but did not take final ae tion except in one or two cases. A bond issue, approved by the voters in 1938 for financing a street improvement program and exten sions to water and sewer lines, is still in the air. it was pointed out at the meeting. Certain changes were ordered in the bond issue dates to bring it up to date, and Congressman Herbert Bonner, on a short visit here last Saturday; was asked to visit the Reconstruct ion Finance Corporation aud determine the status of the town's loan application there. It is possible that the town will turn to the open market and offer its bonds for sale if the Reconstruction Fi nance Corporation takes no favor able action on the loan application within tin* next few days County Superintendent J. C Man ning and Principal I). N Hix of the local schools appeared before the board and asked that public traffic be diverted around the grammar school grounds Mayor J. L. Massed named a committee of two, Messrs. Luther Peel and V D. Godwin, to consider plans for improving streets and routing traffic around the grounds. The committee is meeting the school authorities today The town is considering selling the Bogey Clary property on Watts and Ilait<>n Streets, title to the property having been acquired by tax deed Improvements will be made to South Smith wick Street, but no at tempt to widen the thoroughfare. The flagrant violation of the Sun day blue laws was discussed brief ly, the commissioners instructing the Mayor to investigate pressing club activities on Sunday and report to the board. List Rites Are Meld For IVlrs. (fiirvaiuis Last rites were held in the Church of the Advent here last Sunday af ternoon at 3 o'clock for Mrs. Bettie Gurganus who died following a brief illness at her home on Church Street last Friday morning. Rev. John Har dy, Episcopal minister and rector of the church, officiated Interment was in the local cemetery The service was largely attended Those from out of town were, Mrs Florence Leary, Mr. and William Irwin, Mrs R 1) Lawrence and Mi and Mrs. N. S. Mobley, all of Ports outh; Mr. and Mrs. William Mobley, of Richmond; Mr. Garland Leary, of Newport News; Mrs. Robert Wal die, Mrs. Lucille Gurganus, Mr. and Mrs. Durward Gurganus and Messrs. Maynard and Sam Mobley, all of Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. J L. Mob ley, of Raleigh; Mr. Sidney Lee Mob ley, of Columbia, S. C.; Mrs Eliza beth Herrington, of Dayton, Ohio; Mr and Mrs H A. Blount; Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Blount, Mrs. Dan Dav is and Mr Emmett Blount, all of Plymouth; Mr. and Mrs. W A. Blount, Mr. Milton Clagon and Mrs. Sallie Chesson, of Roper; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Godwin and Mr. and Mrs. George Williams, of Farmville; Mr. and Mrs. W A. Tadlock, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Tadlock^ Mrs. An nie Smatlwood, Mr. and Mrs. Whit Tarkenton, Mr. David VanNortwick and Mrs. Bessie VanNortwick. of Woodard, N. C. I //paring Scheduled In knifp Attack Saturday Alton Lilley and Joe Lanier God ard, Sr., charged with knife at tacks upon Cartlon Reason and Na than Cole, will be given a prelimi nary hearing before Justice J L. Hassell here next Saturday after noon at 3 o'clock, Shwriff C. B, Roe, buck announced yesterday. The date for the hearing was fixed subject to the outcome of Reason's condition. Reports from his home in the Dar dens community state that Reason, seriously cut by Lilley omlast Satur day a week ago, is improving rapidly now, that he is able to sit up some. Lilley and Godard continue in the county jail Minnie Owens and Ber tha Morgan, witnesses in the case, are also being held in the jail. employer-chauffeur From down in Onslow County comes a unique story claiming a one-time employer is now chauf feuring his former employees around. Russian nobility once... Czar ism was "revoluted" out, waited on their former subjects in Paris cafes, and this defense revolution in this country is in troducing similar customs here. The employer, the story goes, opened an oyster-canning plant His twenty-five workers quit and went to Holly Ridge. The owner closed down his plant, got a job for himself at Holly Ridge and now he is chauffeurnig his for mer employees to and from the Ridge. No Time Extension For Listing Personal Property Allowed By Board; Penalties To Be Fixed Dug Out of Bombed Home Bombed out of her home by lierman raiders who blasted at Sheffield, England, this young mother smiles happily as she hugs her baby, begrimed but unhurt after being dug out of the ruins. First 1941 Road Death Reported in the County Six-Year-OKI Child Is Fatally Hurt On The Hamilton Road Funeral Servire* at Home Thin \fteruooii for l,il llr Marjorir Fan?iler Struck by an automobile near her home on the Hamilton Highway last j Friday afternoon shortly after two i o'clock, Marjorie Lass iter, stx years 1 old, died in a Washington hospital Sunday evening at 8:15 o'clock, her death being the first on a Martin County highway in the new year Her body badly broken and bruised, the tittle girl never regained eon sciousuess The little tot, just turned ! six years bid the 80th of last Decern her. suffered fracture., of both legs, a fractured pelvis, a broken shoul der and a fracture on the back of her head Only one cut, a small abra sion on her temple, was visible. Starting to visit a neighbor on the Joe Cherry farm just across the road with her four-year-old brother, the little girl waited beside the road for a car to pass. Watching the first car move on away, she started across the road without looking to the right. Dr. It O McAllister, local physician and driver of tin- t ar figuring in the accident, stated that lie sounded his horn, that the child slopped as if she planned to turn back and then darted into the path of his car. Her little brother, William Earl, did not continue across the road and was riot hurt. Traveling about 35 or 40 miles an hour, the car struck the child and knocked her 20 or 25 feet, the little bit of humanity all broken and bruised, landing on the shoulder of the hiahwav. She never knew | what happened, so sudden was the Hi.nth-ih'iding blow sit nu-L Picked up by Dr. McAllister and Mr. Pcrlie Moore, the child was brought here for first-aid treatment and later moved to a Washington (Continued on page six) Dies In Florida Funeral services for Mrs. Fannie Lamb Hyman, a former resident of Williamston and later of Hamilton, were held in Scotland Neck last Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock in Trinity Episcopal Church. Mrs. Hy man, 80 years old, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs Howell Fry, of Jacksonville, Fla. last Wednes day following a king period of de clining health. A native of Elizabeth City, Mrs. Hyman moved here with her par ents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Wilson G. ; Lamb. She spent her early life in Williamston, marrying Herbert S. Hyman and moving to Hamilton to make her home for a number of lyears. She lived aeWral- years lri Lincolnton and made hi i home with her son. John flyman, in Richmond, and Hamlet until his death about a year ago. Since that time she had lived with her daughter in Florida She was a sister of the late Col onel Wilson G. Lamb, of Williams ton, and often visited hi re until her health began to fail about five years ago. Besides her daughter she leaves one sister, Mrs. W. B. Morton, of Washington, N. C., and several grandchildren. Tobacco allotments for 1941 are being mailed to Martin County farmers this week, Mr. T. B. Made, of the county agent's office, announcing that the individual allotments are virtually the same as they were a year ago. Possibly a few er rors were adjusted, and proper divisions were effected in those cases where farm transfers were made since last year. The county has a tobacco al lotment this year of 9,474 acres. U.I.OTMKNTS Britain Continues Preparations For Invasion Attempt 9 dinner Ilolluliornlioii Hetweeii Krunee ami Germany Ih llelie\eil Let-lain Wt?lit* the Greek and British war I mac hines chalk up far reaching vie- j tones in Albania and Africa to fea | tui'c the cm i cut news on the actual war front: (Ileal Britain feverish- I ly continues preparations for an- | other invasion attempt, scheduled, according to military observer, for j some time within the next three or j four months. On the English-German warfront interest is now centered on the out come of plans for a closer collabora- ' tion of effort on the part of France I and Germany It is fairly apparent | that Germany has scored gains on ] the diplomatic front, and the re turn of Laval to i'etain's govern hieiit is certain. Generat wiygand, (orninandei of Fiance's larm Afri can army ha.-, refused to join Chas. de Gaulle and his Free Frenchmen in the1" fight against Germany, and declares he will act only at the wishes of Petain. and the Vichy gov ernment The surrender of the French navy to Germany is even predicted in some quarters Pc tain's representative is return ing to Vichy today following a con ference with Laval and Hitler's rep resentative in Paris It is predicted that I^aval will he the strong man in France, and the extent of France's collaboration with Germany will he determined shortly Late reports state that Italian lines in Erittrca have fallen and that the Italians are in full retreat. Greece, in her fight in Albania, is pleadnig for more British aid, and British of fleers are inspecting Turkey's de fenses, meaning possibly that Hit ler is putting up sign posts for a tiijiiIi in Hie Balkans German reports claim 43,000 tons of British stripping duftng the past week, but Britain says the tonnage is hardly in excess of 30,000 tons. British airmen have raided re peatedly invasion points along the (Continued on page six) Ilil-Kmi I irlim Ni'covi'riiifi In A II anliiiiffton lloH/iilal John Hyman Revels. Martin Coun ty man who was critically injured by a bit-run automobile driver on the Jamesville Road a little over a week ago, is reported improving iff* a Washington hospital. It u thought now that doctors will be able to save his leg for him. Denv Petitions For liuTrased Salaries For .Court Officials Several Olil-Tiniera \|>|??*ul To Itonril For lnerfuuM III IVllHIOtlN v Warning all property owners to list their earthly belongings and polls, the Martin Cmuity eoniniLs uoners hi rcgulai session yesterday Instructed the tax supervisor to ad visc the several lust takers to keep a ?oioplete record of the late listers with the promise that penalties, pro vided by law. will be invoked in due that at least a $1 penalty will be Added to those accounts placed on the books after February 1. and it us possible that the penalty will be jpped to 10 per cent of the listings. Those who do not list at all will be made subject to the penalties and prosecution in the courts. It is ap aarent that the commissioners mean business, and delinquent h.?lers can well make ready to accept the con ;eq uences. No accurate estimates for the coun ty are available just at this time, but in Wdtiamston Township there are approximately 225 persons 100 white and 125 colored who have not listed theiimpersonal holdings or polls, last taker 11 M Hurras states that 00 per cent of tfte property is .hi the books, that 75 per cent of those who have nut yet listed are subject to poll tax only. The real estate assessors have Vir tually completed then work except in Kobersbnville and WilUamston The Williamston hoard plans to complete its survey the latter part uf next week, and the Kobersonvilie group will possibly complete the work tlu- latter pait ol this week or early next . week. Both boards are now appraising town properties. The Williamslon board 18 almost through with the isurvey on the iouth side of Mam Street with the ?xception of tin* business district. The comtmssioncrs ordered that the "$2,092.(Hi State school funds canceled by tlu- State hi- transferred to the debt service fund for schools m the county This amount was due the State as a result of a 17 cent tax levied in the county about nine years ngo, and represents uncollected ac count?* Petitions advanced by the judge ? 1111 solicitor of the recorder's court for salary increases did not receive favorable consideration, and the $75 salary for the judge and $65 month ly pay check for the solicitor will remain unchanged In a discussion id the finances surrounding the op elation of tin court, it was learned that the tribunal showed a net op [?rating profit of a I suit $1,000 last year. Several old-timers, finding it next lo humanly impossible to survive on the mere cash pittances issued them each month, pleaded With the hoard for small pension increases Several athers appealed to the hoard in an effort to get their names on the pension list. The pensioners in this county are receiving slightly more than $9 a month, on an average. An unusual ease was heard by the commissioners when a middle-aged man rcuueslcd the board to adnut Ins niothei I,, the county home Their have luni use. ivhctc ilul dren have hauled their paients to the institution foi I lie aged and in firm in an automobile and dumped them out, hut the request yesterday was the first heard by the board in years. The petitioner was referred to the welfare department where the merits of his ease will he^ weigh ly has something. Luther Hardison appeared before the hoard again and asked that ev ery effurt be made to get the high way commission to take over a road (Continued on page six I No Trace ()i Negro Missing From Boat Mystery continues to surround the disappearance of Eddie Moore, young colored man, from a Roanoke River log barge at Jamesville last Wednesday afternoon. While the ease has nut been closed by the sher iff's office, it is believed by officers that the man fell off the boat and drowned. Eforts to locate the body in the river at Jamesvilie were continued without success last Saturday when the stream was dynamited at the direction of Sheriff C. B. Roebuck. No trace of the man was found, but today a sorrowing mother posted a $2.1 reward for any information about her son. Moore was working behind a pile of logs on the barge and out at vigpe of fellow workers when he i ly disappeared.