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THE ENTERPRISE MAKE i EVERY i PAYDAY ' BOND DAY Fir Vkfrj Bmy 9.1 DEFENSE r BONDS STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 27 ff'illiamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, i/iril ESTABLISHED 1899 Order Draft Boards To Reclassify Many Married Registrants j Deferment (Cannot Be Claim-1 e<l Where Families Are Self-Supporting Under a ruling issued by the Se lective Service System numbers of I married men will be made subject | to service in the armed forces with in the near future in some counties The now order calling for the classification of married men whose wives are self-supporting or who may easily support themselves, is prefaced by the following sentence "Local boards should complete the original classification and utilize all | 1-A men of the first and second reg istrations before subjecting to call I those registrants whose classifica- | tions in 3-A are to be reviewed un der the new ruling." Apparently the new order is con ditional, but is necessary to meet I certain conditions in those counties | where the 1-A classifications have been or are about to be exhausted. In this county, hardly 2,000 of the aprpoximately 3,500 registrants in the first two registrations have been exhausted in calling for draftees. All of the registrants in the first two registrations have not yet received . their questionnaires, indicating that | It will not be necessarily immediate ly to reclassify married men coming | under the group signaled out in the recent Selective Service order. The ruling issued a few days ago | reads as follows: "It is felt that the time has come when married men whose wives are | self-supporting will have to be call ed to military service. We do not | feel however, that conditions exist ing today warrant a 1-A classifica tion of registrants who have chil dren dependent upon them or whose wives are pregnant. Local and ap peal boards, therefore, should re frain from a 1-A classification in | such cases until further announce ment from this headquarters. "The criterion to be used in deter mining dependency in . cases where the wife works should be whether the wife will suffer a material re duction in the normal standard of living.' It appears that such a crit erion is too elastic and that the test ' which should be used is whether the : wife is 'self-supporting.' If the wife j does not work and has not worked i for the past several years, and there is not sufficient income from sources other than earnings of her husband for her support, then a true case of dependency would seem to exist, and a classification in Class 111-A would be proper. If the wife has been work ing but has given up such employ ment within the past year, it is felt | that the local board might properly | investigate the prospects of the wife again beginning to wuik. and if tin local board is of the opinion that the become self-supporting, the regis trant should be advised of the re (Continued on page six) # Indian Question Is Still Hanging Fire As Japs Go Forward Discouraging Rrporln Heard From Burma; Jap* With in 75 Miles of Burma ? Efforts to swing India into line against the on-rushing Japs are about to bog down completely and at a most crucial time for the Al lies. The Japs, overrunning the Brit ish at Prome, are now within 70 miles of India's border and are not so many miles from important oil fields. Sir Stafford Cripps, special British envoy to Delhi, and Gener al Wavell held a conference in In dia this morning and they are to meet with leaders of the All-Indian Congress this afternoon. Arguing dominion status for India after the war, Britain, in a last and desperate effort, has empowered Cripps to bargain anyway he possibly can to swing India into line. It has been in timated in some quarters that Pres ident Roosevelt may be called upon ot help save the situation. British proposals for handling the situation in India have been reject ed by all conflicting groups in the vast country. Even the forty-three million untouchables have rejected the offer, and the situation at noon today was regarded as serious. Much activity is being reported from day to day on the Russian and Philippine fronts. Russia continues its counter-offensives, one Moscow report stating that 25,000 Germans haud been killed during the past 13 days. In Bataan, the American and Filipino forces have halted an elev en-day drive by a strong counter-at tack. Hie main defense lines were cut, but the gaps have been closed and the defenders are today busy with mopping up operations. The us ual official communique did not cqme through on schedule from Ba taan today, but war department of ficials said that the delay was not to be taken as meaning that the situa tion on the peninsula had changed. Japan may be mopping up in Bur ma at this time, but a tabulation of (Continued on page tlx) Red Cross Graduating First Aid Instructors Tonight Struggling for two weeks with a compact but verv meaningful text and receiving special and expert instruction from Professor Sam Howell, able first aid teacher sent to this county by the American Ked Cross, members of the above group are hoping they'd be graduated bv the first aid instructors' school closing this evening in the courthouse. Pictured abo c are, Professor llowell (with/the threatening fin ger), Lois York, patient; and members of the closs. Comity's Tire Allotment For A priI Sma Iler 7 ha 11 In Ma rch Running well over 1(H) short in I filling tin- March demand, the Mar tin County Tire Rationing Board is heading into more difficult sledding this month, according to C. C. Mar tin, chairman of the board Quotas for new tires, just announced, are slightly smaller than they were in March, but the rationing system is fairly liberal m releasing re tread jobs. The April quota is offered in corn- , parison with the March allotment, as follows: April March New car tires 14 16 Car retreads 00 Car tin l>es 24 13 New truck tire.N 32 30 Truck retreads 211 17 Truck tubes 30 44 Troubled vs ith a large number of applications carried over from pre vious meetings, the members of the tire rationing board in this county had hoped the new tire allotments would be increased There are com paratively few retread tires in this county for sale, and, it is quite pos-1 sible that the tire shortage will bej even more acute at the end of this ' month than it was last Warm wea ther is at hand and the demand for tires is quite likely to increase In addition In tnat the government con tracts have been awarded a pub lic corner in the county for the transportation of workers to de fense areas and it is' understood the carrier's tire needs will have to be nn I' from the regular quota Judge R.L (loluirn Calls Kiglit Cases In County's Court Alleged liipior laiu Violator Is Fim?<l 875 at Srs sion Lu*l Moinlax Attracting an unusually large Col ored audience, th? Martin (Vainly' Recorder's court last Monday, meet ing fur tlw fitv.1 1 inu? in was in session longer than usual ' handling the right cases called by j Judge Robert L Coburn Nearly two hours was 'spent on one case, the private prosecution going into lengthy detail with the questioning; and disturbing the peace and quiet 1 of the court at times. The trial, con- I tering around a whipping admin is- i ten d a school boy, heard sharp word exchanges between attorneys I figuring in the case. - Judge Coburn's announced stand against the liquor traffic has been altered little, and it is quite notice- ; able that the liquor cases are not as ' numerous as they once were or be fore the jurist explained that al- j leged liquor law violators could ex pect substantial fines or long road terms Proceedings in the court: In the case charging him wrthbc- ] ing drunk on the public highway, j George Peel pleaded guilty, the court J requiring payment of the cost and continuing the case under prayer for judgment for twelve months. Charged with violating the liquor laws, pus Teel, Jr., pleaded guilty of possessing just a sgiall amount of illicit liquor. He was sentenced to the roads for sixty days, the court suspending the road term upon pay ment of the cost of the case and a $25 fine. ? After spending nearly two hours trying the case charging W. V. Or mond, Biggs School principal, with whipping Joe Walter Williams. 15 year-old school boy, the court found . the school man not guilty. Heard to have threatened the school man af ter the trial, the boy's father, Chas. Williams, was warned to refrain from any such drastic action. The (Continued on page six) INVESTMENT The Martin County Infantile Paralysis Fund is investing Its surplus cash in two $100 bonds. Dr. E. T. Walker, chairman of the fund, explaining that thr money could be made availablr upon short notice to meet any emergency. There is no immed iate need for thr surplus cash, but should there be an epidemic of paralysis or other emergency needs to be met. the bonds could be converted into cash, it was explained. "There's no use for the money to lie idle in the bank," the custodian of the fund was quoted as saying. COMMISSIONKKS Meeting in regular session next Monday, the Martin Coun ty commissioners will possibly review the 1012 property valua tions and consider a proposal to advance the sale of real estate for delinquent taxes. There has been a fairly siz able increase in the assessed property valuations, hut definite figures are not yet available, and if is possible that the revipw will he delayed. With tax collections running considerably ahead of those of a year ago, the commis sioners will he asked, it is un derstood, by tbe collector to change the time of sale from November possibly to June. Company A Of The a!)lh Cn^inccrs To Ylcet Here Today Chilli, for Kilti-rtuiniii^ \ i-it in>{ Solilirr* \niunm<Til Bv I SO Offii iiil ?Wi 11 Icj oxA t x ti ? n * i vc p la ns have been formally advanced, local peo ple are niak ing .vvery 'offort t<>make live stay u? the - members of ..Com? pany A detachment, 3b|h Engineers, pleasant and enjoyable, Rev. John W Hardy, chairman of the USOen tei tainment -committee, said this morning. Th< first members of the Com pany moved in early this week and established temporary headquarters in the fairgrounds. Late this after noon the company will be brought up to full strength when the several detachments converge here for a banquet in the high school gymna sium this evening and for inspection and division tomorrow morning. The approximately 120 men moving in the early part of the week are here for a scheduled stay of about six weeks. The other members of the company, about thirty in Wilson and about twenty-five in Windsor, will return to their posts late Sunday, it was unofficially learned. The ladies of the town are prepar ing a steak supper for the combined company in the gym this evening, and the party will be confined more or less to the engineers, it is under stood. The first centralized entertain ment program is scheduled for to morrow evening when a dance will be held in the Legion Hut on Watts Street from 8 30 to 11:30 o'clock. Miss .Katherine Hardison is chair man and she will be assisted by members of the various civic clubs and organizations and others. A main recreation center for the engineers will be opened in the Le gion Hut next Monday with Mrs. E. P. Cunningham and Miss Katherine Hardison as official hostesses, it was learned from the chairman, the Rev. (Continued on page six) Overdose Ouiiiine Is Fatal To Infant Asa J., foul tcen-moiVths-old sail of Mr. and Mrs. A J. Manning, died in a Greenville hospital shortly after 10 o'clock last night from an exces- j sivi* dose of quinine. Playing with his two older sis- | U rs at il'ieir borne oti Williams S%r< et between 6:30 and 7 o'clock last evening, the Ijtil ? chi i in >nu way got hold of a bottle of the sugar coated quinine table ts and ate- ai nunibei of them. It is not certain but it is believed that the children took j the bottle from the mantel and while playing with it the lid came off and he helped Himself. Returning to the j X^oin, -Mrs Manning saw thy bottle on tin- floor and picked it up and I put i1 awav Many of the tablets were [ still then, and thinking the children I had scattered a few around the floor j she was not immediately alarmed r The family had the evening meal, the child showing no ill effects from | the fatal dose After the meal he j played with the children, but aboutj 8 o'clock lie started-jerking his head and a doctor was summoned He was given an emetic, but his condi tion became worse rapidly and he was removed to the hospital. Besides his parents, the infant is ?survived by two sisters, Joyce and Blanche Funeral .?-rvic? s will be conducted at the home of the child's gfandnio j ther Mrs Blanche- Manning, on Sim uion's Avemic tins afternoon at 5:15 I o'clock. -Rev. Jonh H doff, assisted j by Rev. 'V Piephoff, will officiate | and interment wjll follow m the lo jcal cemetery. Agwits Search For Workers in (ounty Scouringthe town's of this .section, agents indirectly working for the novel nmont, are igmiig workers for jobs in defense areas. Given a trans portation contract, tin! Martin Coun ty Transfer Company, Hobersonville, was reported to fiaye moved out be tween CS an<T7u workers to-ttrrnra riiYe base at Cherry Point yesterday. Other calls for men at Camp Butner, near Durham, are pending. The workers, gathered up princi pally" in the Everetts, Hobersonville and Permele aiT??.s go and coine each day. As far as it could be learned few [ill the Workers ?o? hcihg recruiitfd from the farms'. Exprvns Parka#** tiivv* Krai Mranin# Jo War The reports from the far removed battlefronts are read, but a small, well-crated express package deliv ered here today brought a more real istic meaning of the war to those who by chance noticed the names of the sender and addressee. Shipped from Pearl Harbor, the small box contained what is believ ed to be the personal effects of Aus tin Randolph Jackson, Jamesville youth, who recently lost his life in the service of his country. The pack TTge was addressed to his mother, Mrs. Ora Lee Burnette KM ICY TUBES | / The Red Cross is in urgent need of old shaving cream and toothpaste tubes. This organi zation has been giving kits, eon taining these items to each draf tee when he left for ramp. Be cause of the new ruling that an old tube must he made avail able in exchange for a new tube of toothpaste or shaving rrram, the Red Cross is asking for con tributions of old tubrs in order that new ones might be given to the soldiers. A box. marked for the Red Cross will be placed in Davis Pharmacy, and those who have old shaving cream or tooth paste tubes are urged to contrib ute them so that this good work may be continued. UNCLE SAM BATTLING TO UPHOLD Americas Freedom TIIF itiTII WEKK OF THE WAR President Roosevelt announced the creation of a Pacific war council which will sit in Washington, tvpre souring Australia, Now Zealand, the Netherlands. Canada, China. Britain and the United States. The first meeting was held this week at the White House Mr. Roosevelt -aid, It is imperative that all of th? United Nations now actively engaged in the Pacific conflict consider together matters of policy relating to our joint war effort." He said the coun cil "will be m intimate contact with a .similar body in liondon." Production and Conversion The President authorized the War and Navy Departments and the Mar itime Commission to guarantee to make direct loans to small businesses seeking to engage in war production. Any Federal Reserve Bank may serve as agent for the departments concerned Loans, discounts, ad vances and commitments may be ar ranged with private banks. The War Production Board reported organi zation of a Bureau of Finance with 35 representatives located in WPB Field Offices to help contractors and subcontractors in solving financial problems arising in connection with war orders The Federal Reserve Board said ?-'feel producticn "Was at 98 per cent of capacity in third week of March W; v .-Production Chairman Nelson said more than 11)0 war plants have already organized management la bia production drives. The President approved a plan by Attorney Gehcral Biddle to defer Federal ant i-trust action which would "interfere" with the output of guns, tanks, planes and ships. Rationing The CPA said county clerks throughout the "country now have 180 million sugar rationing books which will he transferred to schools for registration of commercial su gar users April 28 and 29. and of in dividual consumers May 4th through May 7th The Office released for ra tinning beginning April 13th more than 100,000 new typewriters now in the hands of distributors,, whole salers and dealers. April quotas for tires provide 102, 000 new tires and 470,000 recapped tiles for essential passenger cars and motorcycles, 275,000 pew tires and 250.00 recapped for trucks, and a limited numbei of recapped tires for war workers, tax-icahs. farmers, sali snien and L'overninent agencies. The OPA released for rationing sev era I -classes nf 'higher priced cars and those ordered by state and lo cal agencies during 1941. The Office of pi l\ use Transportation will ra tion ambulance;. hearse, and sta tion wagons. Civilian Defense The President .signed a bill provid ing Federal insurance for homes, factories and farms damaged by enemy action Civilian Defense l)i (Continued on page six) -i Local Debaters To (;o To Chapel Hill Lor Filial Contests Win Deeihioih 0\er ('re^m-ll Vtiil Columbia in I'rrlimi narv Coiitchtrt YoKtenlu) ?? For the first time in many years debating teams representing the Wilhamston High School in the Uni versity-sponsored debating contests were victories in classes with their opponents, both affirmative and negative teams winning decisions in the annual debates held yesterday in Creswell-and Columbia. The affirmative team of Bill Peole and Richard Margolis received a two to one decision from the judges in theri encounter with Columbia High at Creswell; the decision for the negative team of Emma Belle Ward and J I). Woolard, Jr., was unanimous in their debate with Cres well at Columbia. The query discuss ed this year was,?Resolved, "That a Union of Western Hemisphere Na tions Should Be Established." Three of the debaters, Bill PeCle, Richard Margolis, and J. D. Woolard, Jr., are juniors and the fourth member of the team, Emma Belle Ward, is a senior Members of the debating teams as well as local students are enthusias tic over the fine victories achieved in State-wide contest. The youthful debaters and their coach, Miss Doris Lead), are being com mended for their splendid work. Both teams from the local school are now eligible to participate in the finals of tin- contest to be held in Chapel Hill April 17 under Dr. K R. Rankin, and will make the trip provided transportation can be se cured. It was about eightten years age that the local schools participated in the debates at Chapel Hill. The de baters were accompanied by Mrs. Joyner, their teacher. Martin County Farms Figure In War Effort \ Kl?l ( M ION ItOVRI) | V ^ Holding i regular meeting here next Monday, the Martin County lioard ot Education is expected to formulate "plans for adding a twelfth grade to the school system in this county. Tentative {dans w-ere- ?liseussed by the hoard members at a spec ial meeting held recently. According to one report, some members of the board are not in favor of interrupting the pres cut graduation schedule for the seniors or juniors, but suggest delaying the graduation one year for the rising ninth grade, (irad nates this year and next will be offered extra courses of instruc tion should they care to return voluntarily. A poll of the pa trons is being taken and the re sults will possibly determine fu ture action of the board in pro viding the extra work. Special Red dross First \id ("lasses (Hosing In County r Li^hty-fivc (laiulitlaleii in Line Lor Diplomas in Three Different ('.lasses First aid schools, conducted under the supervision .of and by the Atner I ican Ked Cross, arc holding their | graduation exercises in the county j this week and next. The exercises j are quite informal in that final ex aminations will hold the program jspot^Tght | The first of-the schools, and in cidentally the first of the type eV 11 held in tins county, was opened several wo ks ago in the Woman's Club by Dr K T Walker, Williams | ton physician Classes wi re eon j dueled "for an hour and a half two evenings each week The doctor held I his last class of instruction Wednes day evening and the candidates for the standard first aid course cei 1 tificates will be subjected to a I gruelling ? xanvin'htioil next Wednes I day | Twenty-eight persons are in line j for graduation, I)r. Walker stating that the attendance has lieen almost ' perfect, that the pupils showed a i< al interest hi the course The i | names of those completing the! J course .of instruction offered volun ! jtanly and without compensation by ?Hi?Wa 11u? i, an1 Mary Jane Sauh- ' dels, Susan C Hardy. Josephine H llnldmg mi Feii. II iModlin, Etta j C Sharp* F.vi lyn F Daniels, Juan 1 ita II Coltiam Sarah C Simpson, Kthelyn F, Simpson, Elizabeth C Weston. Anrn* B Dunn, Minerva K Lev in, Cat l ie Dell Cunningham, Ev elyn T (ioodrnori, Grace C. Lupton, j Mary O Worrell. Thelma II Peel, I Maude C Thorpe. Verda M Walker. | Blanche Harrison, Jerry Mumble, Clanne Duke, Katherine Bradley. Estelle Crawford, Helen Whitehead, Audrey 1. Williams, Mary W Tuy- I lot and Trulah W Page. The second and third schools were opened at Jamesville on Monday af -ternoon of last week, and in the I county courthouse here that eve-j rung. Sam Howell, special rep resell- ' tative of the American Ked Cross and a trained first aid instructor, is i holding his final classcjr this after noon and tohight His classes were irranged by the. -Red Cross qsdcct iallyto equip instructors who, upon tTie successful completion of the nurse, will be subject to call. It was, more or less, agreed that those who took the training and passed the course were to teach the standard course to any group of persons de siring then services. Well .realizing that what has happened in London, m Chungking and other places in the war zones, millions of Americans are taking the first aid courses in preparation for any eventuality that might follow Those taking the in Itructor'H course, not forgetting to point out to the last, "if they pass," have expressed already a willingness to head up a series of classes any where in the county. "Possibly there won't be a lot of teaching done, hut we'll certainly try to learn the im (Continued on page six) Special Deputy Carlylr l.ang ley, assisted by Deputy Rill Hal slip, has started rounding up vrnrreal disease victims delin quent in their attendance upon the various clinics held weekly in the county. The work was started yesterday in cooperation with the federal government. No official report could be had. but it was reliably learned that approximately 69 victims of the disease were delinquent in their treatments at^pne of the four clinics, that there are about 38 draftees who have escaped army service because they were unfit physically and who are to be rounded up for treatment. Preliminary Plans Do Not Measure 1 ,> To War Needs ??? Half of IVaiiul Vrreap- \?t<1 cd l? IMi il^rd; F<-u Farm ?t? Have Knn-lii Bond That Martin County farmers are figuring m tl" war effort is certain, but that they are not figuring in that effort in an all-out way is equally certain, according to an official sur vey recently made by farm leaders. Possibly there are good reasons for the sluggish response to the call for increased production and the request to purchase bonds and more bonds for the prosecution of the war, but the facts clearly indicate that the seriousness ^4?the situation facing this nation has not been, brought home to a majority of the people. Asked to plant 11.000 acres of pea nuts for oil purposes, Martin Coun ty farmers agreed to plant 5.279 1 acres. Asked to plant approximately 5,000 acres of soy beans for oil, Mar tin County farmers tentatively agreed to plant 6,523.7 acres. Out of 1.364 farmers contacted, 413 stated they had delivered or sold scrap iron. Out of the same number 268 stated they had bought war bonds or savings stamps. To offset.the poor record surrounding the purchase of bonds and stamps, 836 farmers stat ed they planned to buy bonds, but 372 others declared they had no in tention of purchasing bonds or stamps These are the cold facts, and .while they are traceable to the farmers, it can be said with almost absolute certainty that t he farmer's record - supporting the war effort is better than that for other groups Asked to meet, with and discuss the war effort program, many farm ers did not even have tithe to re port. riol to mention participation. For instance'out of 144 farmers in Williamston Township, only 44 were contacted and in some of those cases the committeemen had to run them down for a statement of their plans in cooperation with the war pro gram. Out of the approximately 1, 619 farmers in the county the com mitteemen contacted 1.420 in the re cent survey The table below reflects the co operation pledged to the war effort by Martin County farmers. The first column of figures, expressed in acre ages, represented peanut production (Continued on page six) More Martin Men (>el IVison Terms In Court Tuesday SriilriHT* in^ Sev enteen Vrurn Imposed l?\ Jml^e I. M. Meekill* Handling a docket crowded with eases charging defendants with vio lating the liquor laws, the federal court in Washington was late Tues day afternoon completing "its work Several Martin County men were given terms in prison last Monday by Judge 1 M Meekins. and the WOrk was continued -Tuesday morn ing and afternoon R. K Brink ley and Albright No bles kehaiged with transporting ll licit bquor, were ''placed on proba tion for eighteen months, the court ordering their ear, a 38 model, con fiscated and sold. John James and his son, John, Jr.. charged with possession and sale, were each sentenced to Atlanta for eighteen months. Michael Boston, charged with pos session and sale, was sentenced to prison for a term of eighteen months. After failing to answer when call ed for trial Monday, N. S. Godard, charged with, possession and sale, appe&red in court Tuesday after noon. "Things looked bad Monday and I got scared and left," Godard was said to have told the judge. He was sentenced to Atlanta for eigh teen months. His house boat, valued in excess of $2,000, was ordered con fiscated and sold. Willis Pierce, charged with pos session of material for the purpose <?f manufacture and with manufac turing. was sentenced to Atlanta for eighteen months Pierce had just re turned from the prison last August where he served time for alleged vi olation of the liquor laws. It is the opinion of some of the officers that Pierce rather than tell on others and make enemies of them accepted the blame and took the "rap", so to speak The man was employed in cutting pulp wood in the area where the liquor still was found and cap tured and he just happened to be around when the officers made the raid. "I made my mistake when T went to the still," Pierce was quoted as saying. % Fifteen defendants from this coun ty faced Judge Meekins during the (Continued on page six)