Watch The Isabel On Your Paper. Ai It Carries The Date Your Subscription Expires. Advertisers Will rind Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1,800 Homes Of Martin County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 51 Williamston* Martin County* North Carolina* Friday* Jam* 27* 1941. low Several Thousand Immunized Against Typhoid In County Health Officer l!r|n Friday at Oak City, and any day iff the week at Williamston but* we would rather have them come on Thursdays and Saturday mornings with the one exception of the 4th of July because the office will be clos ed the 4th and the 5th of that month.'' The numbers attending, both white and colored, are shown m the 'following tabulations, by districts: Typhoid ...... ? ?"? White Col. WiUiamston 351 43 Boar Grass 353 184 Lilley's Store 240 167 Farm Life 282 79 Jamesville . 291 68 Hardens 113 242 No. 90 Filling Sta ?155 ? "77 Robersonville 253 51 Everetts 296 188 Gold Point 121 151 Parmele 51 86 Cross Roads 277 128 2783 1464 Diphtheria White Col. Williamston 17 0 Bear Grass 9 8 Lilley's Store 0 0 Farm Life 5 6 Jamesville 20 1 Dardens 3 2 No. 90 Filling Sta 8 7 Robersonville 7 0 Everetts 0 11 Gold Point 9 15 Parmele 0 3 Cross Roads 11 4 89 57 Exhaust One-Third Registration List Approximately one-third of the first registration list will have been exhausted by the time July draft quotas are filled, according to unof ficial information received here to day. It has been estimated that the draft board will have to dig down to the number, "1049" to get the 42 men called in this county to report for service in July. The demand on the order num bers is likely to increase in greater proportions from now on than was the case in the past. It has been point ed out that quite a few volunteers delayed the call from the regular list of registrants. Comparatively few young men are volunteering their services now, Draft Board Clerk Marion Cobb stating this week thai only four volunteers ? two while and two colored?are now on the waiting list. Dallie Mary'and Vfcr non Ward Bryant will be included ir the group of 27 young white men U leave the county nn July 23. Slinor Howard and Frank Felton Slade art Willi U? llwig iif HUsn colored men scheduled to report t< Fort Jackson on July 17. To date, 2,251 questionnaires havi been forwarded to registrants in thii county. Many Farmers in the County Gambling With Boll Weevil I Checked by weather conditions last year, the boll weevil is expected to catch quite a few Martin CoUnty cotton farmers napping before the | current season is spent. Reliable re ports state that many Martin County | farmers are gambling with the wee | vil this year, most of them betting that because the pest did not make his appearance on a large scale last I year he will not come this season. I Others are apparently not worried about the weevil; in fact, they j frankly declare that they naa noV even thought about the weevil and tthe threat he holds over the grow ing crop. In some section^, farmers are pre paring a sizable blitzkrieg against the weevil by mopping the growing plants with a poison mixture. Near ly every farmer in the upper part of the county is talung no chances^ A<;\1NST Onr Robert Rice Reynolds, attain gallivanting over the country, declared yesterday that he was "iineonivmallv opposed to any sort of aid to Russia, no matter what the general opin ion of the Congress will be." Reynolds. North Carolina's No. 1 Disappointment in the United States Senate, was down in Charlotte inspecting the new air base there, and his stand against aiding Russia is little different to thr one he has maintained against helping Britain. A hi milium Shortage P Is Facing Country This nation, two years after a grim ! emergency first presented itself, is ; just now finding out that it*? defense ! has been threatened all the while | by a shortage irt aluminum, that the shortage is not the result of labor troubles or strikes. An investigating j committee of the United States Sen ae said this week. "It is reasonable to conclude that the Aluminum Com* I pany of America had convinced the Office of Production Management of the adequacy of the supply in or der to avoid the possibility that any one else would go into a field which they had for so many years success fully monopolized." Sleepy-headed Dollar-a Year men in.'Washington would not listen even when small producers, including the Reynolds Metal Company, pointed out that there was a shortage of the important metal and that serious consequences could be expected. It would appear that the profiteert* have pushed into the background the saboteurs, the strikers, the insurrec tionists, the German spies and all others when it comes to retarding America's defense efforts While the situation can hardly be corrected, a drive is now in the mak ini? to partially relieve the situation by calling on the common people of this nation to surrender their alum mum pots and pans and by rationing electricity. The collection of second j hand aluminum is already underway in some sections of the country. The local power company has been in structed to ship back all its alumi num wire. Men Act Quickly In "Gas Station" Fort Bragg?The Ninth Division "Gas Station," where men are train ed in actual field gas condition, has been in operation since last week The First Battalion. 47th Infantry, was given a taste of chloricetophen one, or tear gas at the station recent ly when the men, wearing gas masks, were grouped in the already exposed chamber. This served as a measure to check on the efficiency of all masks antl then, to add a more realistic touch, the men were order ed not to don masks until after they had entered. There was a twofold purpose here: first, to give the men a taste of the gas, and second, to check on ability to don a mask rap imy: And there wasn't one laggard here. The impetus was furnished by dis integrating capsules of the chemi cal which filled the room \vith an almost colorless vapor. If any man underrated the instructions caution ing against delay in following the prescribed procedure, he didn't hold long to that opinion. After a short time in the chamber each man was ordered to remove his mask prior to his leaving It would have done any football coach's heart good to see the way the men came charging out?heads low. legs churning like 1 pistons. Building Home On Rhodet Property IStvir Ball Park Construction work on a new home for Mr and Mrs. W. B. Nash and i family- on the Rhodes property, near > the baseball park, was started this week. The house is located on a new street recently opened |>y Dr. J. S Rhodes. It will be of frame construc tion and will have five rooms. and is said to be doing everything possible to successfully combat the weevil. - As far as it can be learned here, the weevil has not yet made his ap pearance. but the setting is next to ideafl for him in some communi ties and he is expected iiv due time. The drive against the weevil got un~ derway in earnest last week in sev eral sections when farmers prepai I ed poisons and sUM"*rd applying them laeejjcUM^' to"recommendations. The crop situation is a bit spotted in the county at the present time, farmers in some areas reporting ex cessive rains while others report damaging dry conditions. The spread of the mosaic disease is being report ed in many fields over the county. Agent Brandon stating that it' was more damaging thik year than possi bly ever before. - - Tax Collections In County Increase As Late Listers Report \ll KiiuU of Kxciim'm Offi-r?*<' town improvements. The Groves' property on Smith vVU-k Ml eel tins heen mipmvul by new fence. There arc about 35 regular pupils at the Academy and about 20 music scholars. Mr. J. I) Li ggett has had a new barn built on the lane in the rear of W T Crawford's. Mr. Matthews, representing the Sanboi n-Pcrris Map Co., of New York, was in town making a new in surance map of Williamston. Wilhamston public school com menced Monday, CO scholars on roll Mrs. C M Lanier, principal, ariff Miss Clyde Hassell, assistant.? Williamston is now minus about a dozen of its young people, the same being aw??y attending various schools and colleges in the State. Sheriff Crawford notifies the tax payers of Martin County of the dates and places he will visit for the pur pose of collecting taxes. Mr. P. R. Rives, of Hamilton, was in town yesterday and called at The Enterprise office to renew his sub scription and to give us an ad. Littleton Female College will have a special train from Weldon to Lit tleton September* 17th, to leave Wel don on arrival of the Atlantic uoasi Line afternoon train from the South. Dr. J B H. Knight, of Williams tonr N C , has a scholarship in a rep utable medical college to bestow on some worthy young man of good morals, and who is qualified to take up the study of medicine. Those wish ing to study medicine could do well to apply to him at once. Martin Coun ty young man to have the prefer ence. Mr. Dennis Simmons, who has been quite sick since his return from Buffalo Lithia Springs is much bet in- at this writing. Mrs. Arthur Anderson and broth er, Grover Hardison, returned from Mt. Olive Sunday evening FIRST BLOSSOM Farmer R. S. Edmund son. of Goose Nest is displaying the first cotton blossom plucked from a Martin County field this season. The blossom, a deep pink, was detected by Mr. Ed mondson's daughter, Miss Alice, on Tuesday, June 24. Reporting the first blossom of the year, Compensation Agency Prosecutes Violators County's Court In Session Hardly An j Hour liUst Monday FuiirUM'ii Cliurn?-?l xilli K?* reiving Compensation Co der False Pretense Handling the largest docket to i come before it in recent months, the Martin County Recorder's Court last Monday chalked up a new record by j disposing of approximately two doz en cases in a little over one hour The court machinery with Judge W Cobum on the bench and Attorney Don K Johnson prosecuting ground out justice rapidly hut surely. No ap peals were noted and nothing out of the ordinary marked the proceed ings One thing was firmly established |m in., fm.iine- of a iinmhi-T ill tla defendants and spectators and that was the Unemployment Compensa tion Commission is not to be played ?with. Foui Uen of thc 24 defendants facing the court were charged with obtaining compensation by misrepre senting the facts'or under false pre tense. Representing the commission. Attorney Overton stated that- the al leged violations were noted when Compensation payments were cheek id against employment records, the workers having claimed unemploy ment compensation when they were actually employed. Much time was required in checking the records, some of the cases being based on AM11V *'? v... - ell checks made of pay rolls as far back as the latter part of 1939 Proceedings of the court The ease charging Fenner Respass with aiding and abetting in lareenry. was nol prossed with leave. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost after the defen dant. Nelson Mason, pleaded guilty in the case charging him with Iut ceny Charged with violating the liquor laws, Alexander Jones pleaded guil ty of possessing illegal liquor, the court suspending judgment upon payment of the cost. The ease charging Jurdan White hurst with drunken driving was con tinued until June 30. The case charging Claude Spruill with destroying personal property was nol pressed Tilt- two eases charging Howard. Cherry with drunken driving on sue cessive days were continued until July 7 by the court. Continuances were granted until next Monday in the cases charging Z. T. Sawyer and O- R. Boyd with assaults with a deadly weapon Lewis Cherry Outterbridge, charg oil with larceny and receiving, pleaib ed guilty and was sentenced to the roads for a term of three months. Pleading guilty in the case charg nig him with drunken driving, Char lie Mainy Ldinoiidsoii wii.i fini d >50 ni- i?i?n iv j . -?- ?? taxed with the court costs and had Ins license revoked for a period of one year. The defendants in all the cases brought 111 connection with the al leged violation of the unemployment compensation laws pleaded guilty, Judge Coburn suspending thirty day road sentences upon payment of the costs and the repayment of compen sation allegedly drawn bjt-falsifying their claims. Justice Andrews, false pretense, 30 days on the roads suspended upon payment of the court costs and $4.50 to the Unemployment Compensation Commission Walter Stokes, false pretense, 30 days on the roads suspended upon payment of the cost and $7.50 to the Unemployment Compensation Com mission. . Robert Purvis, false pretense, 30 days on the roads suspended upon payment of $5 to the Unemployment Compensation Commission. Caesar Purvis, false pretense, 30 payment of cost and $31 to the Un employment Compensation Commis sion. William Livingston, false pretense 30 days on the roads suspended upon payment of the case costs and $35 50 to the Unemployment Compensation (Continued on page six) Thousand Cattle Tested In County The drive against bangs disease among rattle in this county contin ues. a late report from Dr. Heflin. representing the United States De partment of Agriculture, stating that 1,000 cattle had been tested and that about one per cent of the cases are found to be positive. Five of the dis eased cattle were found in a single herd, the report stating that all of them had been killed. Assisted by Paul Ballard, Dr. Hef lin is now Working in the HasseTI area, tests having been completed or virtually so rast of Highway No. 125 With one or two exceptions, own ers are willingly cooperating in tha drive, it was learned. BOM) QUIZ Q. What is a IT. S. Defense 8ftvifl|l Rond? A. This bond is proof that you have loaned money to the I'nit ed States (Government for na tional defense. Your bond bears interest at the rate of 2.9 per cent a year, if held to maturity (ten years). _ Q. Why should I buy Defense Bonds? A. Because money talks. To dictators it speaks defiance. To friends of freedom, it says, "Here's my hand." Note?To purchase Defense Bonds and Stampo, ro to the nearest post office or bank, or write for information to the Treasurer of the United States. Washington, D. C. Work On Deep Well Nearin^ (lompleiion Work on the town's 814.800 deep well, near the county courthouse, is, nearly completed, but connections i with the water mains are likely to be held .up by the delayed shipment of pumps and equipment, Jack Sun quiest. vice president of the l.ayne Atlantic and representative of the contractors, said here yesterday. 'Digging operations were complet ed Several days ago after a depth of i 51H 12 feet hod been reached?A-i Large eighteen-mch casing was low- i ered to a depth of 250 feet and was sealed with 401 bags of cement, mak .ing it next to impossible for water above the 250-foot level to get into the well. All eight inch rnsirig, in | eluding forty foot of bronze screen j ing. was then placed in the well, the bottom resting 500 feet in the ground Yesterday afternoon. Superintendent j C. II. Brown and his men started j packing rock or fine gravel in the bottom of the well to filter the wa ter The well crew worked until 2 20 this morning and resumed operations a few hours later They are expect ed to complete the task today. Ap proximately '17 yards, or almost a carload of fine rock taken out of the ocean off the-roast of New Jer sey. will have been packed into the well by the time the job is complet ed Part of the pumping equipment has been shipped, but government demands have delayed tlie. shipment of complete units. The pumping equipment includes a pump to draw the water froni the ground, another to force it into the mains and the el evated tank at the water plant, and an auxiliary gasoline engine for use in emergencies Welfare Worker Dies In Durham Tit*my DTTFarrell, at one time head of welfare activities in this section of the Slate with headquarters in Wil liamston, died in a Durham hospital last Monday afternoon .following a long illness. He was 42 years old, a graduate of the University of North Carolina and a member of the var sity football team. Graduated with the class of 1925, he soon entered welfare work and made a splendid record' m that field. Sympathetic in his dealings with the less fortunate, Mr Farrell. work ed hard, placing his own welfare second to that of others He made rriany friends here and throughout this section of the State, and was highly regarded a$ a conscientious worker and a valued friend by his co-workers. Funeral services were conducted in Chapel Hill yesterday afternoon, interment following in the cemetery there. Misses Nell Johnston, Kloise Banning and Mary Taylor attended the last rites from here. Funeral Wednesday For Marialt Finch Funeral services were held here Wednesday afternoon for Mariah Finch, 52-year-old colored woman who was found dead in bed at her home here early last Monday morn ing. Burial was in the family ceme tery near here. She was a respected citizen. Complaining with what was believed to have been an attack of "indigestion Sunday, she was believ ed to have died of an heart attack during the early hours of Monday morning, A son, Noah Anderson, was pain fully injured in an automobile acci dent near here just about the same time his mother's death was discov ered. ? Weather Condition* Are Extreme in The County ? The extreme tn weather conditions was reported in the county this week with some farmers reporting parch ing crops and others declaring their land was too wet for plowing. The dry group saw possible relief in clouds early this afternoon. Germans Are Facing Stubborn Resistance Offered bv Russians llriti well established as the first week.iof the Russo-Ger ma.ii \var draws to a close that the Red Russians are offering the Nazi invaders a stubborn resistance, that the loss of life and destruction of property are reaching into big fig ures It is also apparent that Hitler is beginning to realize that he has a war on his hands, with Russia, the nation that has struggled under the curse and ridicule of other nations, intervening in behalf of democratic nations w ithout a request for help While Germany is claiming that her march into Russia is advancing according to plan," it is then evi dent that Hitler anticipated hard sailing. for independent hews sources declare that German tank divisions have been turned back in -several drives, and that the Rus sians have successfully couiiter-at tacked. ? '' Soviet troops again repulsed Ger man efforts to force the Prut River on the southern end of the long bat tlefnmt ttt eastern Europe and sue cessfully engaged German tank un fits filtering through Rod defenses "in the direction .of Minsk," white Rus sijin capital, the Soviet information * bureau announced yesterday. The Russian radio challenged Ger many with heavy sarcasm last night to come forth with its "baffling rev elations which the Berlin radio has promised to the world repeatedly for the last two days." (The Russian announcer said in a broadcast heard by NBC at New York that the Germans had not an nounced anything hut generalities because there "were novmiracles to I tip reported ? ? ?"> A great tank battle is being fought ' in former Poland and "continued throughout the day with a manifest advantage for our troops." the Rus Isinn communique said. ? Much of this action is in the Ger 'man effort to drive toward Lutsk, 5(1 miles east of tho Bug 'River boun dary. ! Soviet troops holding the Prut River boundary between Rumania and Soviet Bessarabia were said to... have frustrated repeated German 1 attempts to fold that river, partic ularly in the t'ernauti area. Minsk, the White Russia capital 'and apparent goal of one 'German (h ive as 1 (ill nulleast ??f the.eastern - most tip ot German Ka t Prussia, It was in this direction that Soviet troops were said to he lighting Nazi ' tanks that crashed through advance ?rRed positions." The Russian inaneuvei of throw ing masses of men around these ad ? vanced Nazi meeliaiu/ed lorces was ?' nineil at cutting them off hom their .Niip-porting infantry : and annihilat illg thrill. ? At one point counter attacking : Red troops were said to have crossed the Prut Rivei to successfully raid enemy p"^dI " 'L'*1" " I11*1*'"1'' "" ers and guns. Tlie Russians also accuWif the Ger j mans of landing parachutists cjress |(d in Red army uniforms, but said thanl>s to the vigilance of our ' troops this imposition of the perfid ious enemy was exposed in time and diversionist groups were annihilat ed or captured." Tla se parachute spies, as they Were catted, were, said to be carrying wireless equipment. Some were cap ttiled by peasants and turned over j to the military. | Gen-nan Rumanian batteries on the western side of the Prut River ' were silenced by Soviet artillery, and three pontoon bridges thrown across the river were wrecked, the j communique said. I The Russians reported Rumanian I prisoners as saying that in each of I then regiments 4(1 German soldiers I and officers were mingled because ! the German command does not trust i the Rumanian soldiers, and that Ger ! man artillery units were planted be hinil the Rumanian troops as an ex tra precaution. The German and Rumanian troops losses" also near Skuleni on the Prut River (Continued on 1 1? Marine Corps Calls For Additional Men In a patriotic message addressed to young men between the ages of 17 and 30 years, the United States Marine Corps this week asked for additional volunteers AH men be tween those ages, in sound physical condition, without dependents, and of good character, with common school education are urged to see the recruiting officer at the post of fice building in Rocky Mount be tween July 1st and 12th. Volunteers may enlist for the dur ation of the present emergency in the Marine Corp* Reserve, and may return to private life when the em ergency no longer exists. John M. Greer, captain, declares that the chances are 100 to 1 that the volunteer will leave the service a much better man In all respects.