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PAT PAT WAR BOND DAY mr sramm?un toaus THE ENTERPRISE ovum?*? FOR VICTORY & UNITED STATES WAR BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 50 IFilluunston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June 23, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899 Enter Claims For Supplemental Gas Cards On Monday ? ? Fifty-one Cards Issued By Martin County Rationing Board Members Hie shortage of gasoline is being reported by an increasing number of motorists in this county, and during the past few days the rationing board released its second largest number of supplemental gas cards. KsaUsing that the present ration ing System has not measured up to expectations, rationing authorities Apparently are making ready for a strict plan effective on July 22. Hie current rationing plan, scheduled to expire on June SOth and then delay ad until July ISth, has been post poned again and will not be replac ed until July 22nd, according to information released by rationing authorities late yesterday. Supplemental gas cards were is sued in this county since Monday of last week, as follows: George W Ayers, RFD 1, Oak City, A minus two units. Boss Reid, Williamston, A minus three units. G. A. Harrison, RFD 2. Williams ton, A minus four units. Johnnie Griffin, Robersonville. A minus four units. John Edmonds, RFD 3, Williams ton, A minus one unit. Alvin Lowe Thompson, Williams ton, A. Haywood Bridges, Robersonville, A minus three units. Willie Bonner, Everetts, A minus two units. Sam Carney, RFD 2, Roberson ville, one B-l. John Little, Williamston, A minus three units. Jim Davis, RFD, Robersonville, A minus five units. G. F. Lee, RFD 3, Williamston, A minus four units. Mayo Moore, RFD 1, Roberson ville, A minus six units. Johnnie E. Mobley, RFD 3, Wil liamston, A minus one unit. ? At. S Leggett, JtFB2r Ruberson-1 ville, A minus two units. Henry Lawrence, RFD 3, William ston, A minus six units. Ernest Highsmith, Everetts, A minus four units. R. V. Bunting, Williamston, one B-l W. S. Mobley, RFD 1, Oak City, one B-l. Julius Dawson, RFD 1, Hobgood, A minus five units. C. L. Kincaid, RFD 1, Oak City, A minus three units. C. U. Rogers, Williamston, A. Woodrow Morrow, RFD 1, Hob good, A minus four units George Bonds, RFD 2, Williams ton, A minus three units. E. H. Ange, Jamesville, A Mrs Mary Henry Kirkmun Jamesville, A. John H. Wildman, Parmele, B-3 minus eight units. Pittman's Cleaners. Williamston B-l H O Gurganus, RFD 2, William ston, A minus four units. Ernest Jenkins, Williamston, A minus three units. David Wallace, Everetts, B-3. Tom Hardison, RFD 1, Williams ton, A minus five units Mrs. Effie Rogers, RFD 2, William ston, one B-3 and one B-2. W. H. Gurganus, RFD 2, William (Continued on page six) Christian Jew Is Heard In Church Dr. Joseph Cohen, Christian Jew, was heard by a large congregation in the local Baptist Church Sunday evening. Pleading for a better understand ing between Jews and Christians, Dr. Cohen reviewed Biblical history down through the ages and cited the contributions made by members of his race to culture, science and re ligion, and championed the Bibfe as the greatest of all books, surpassing the best in oratory, poetry, litera ture, science. He sadly recalled the persecution of the Jews in Europe and stated that only about 108,000 members of his race were left in Germany, that they were dying by the thousands almost daily. "In Rome there stands a church bearing the name of a Jew, but there are also persecutions of my people," he said. "Germany has driven two and one-half million of my people into Poland where they are dying by the thousands from hunger and want," he added. Many of the stories told against the Jews are unfounded. Of the 100 richest families in America, only two of them are Jews, according to the minister. Badly wounded in the first World War, the minister declared that the main problem facing the world to day would be solved when the Jews are invited into the Christian church where, according to pro phecy they will have a part in es tablishing the kingdom of Christ on earth. Touching lightly on the part the Jew is having In the current war, that while his people constituted less than three per cent of the popu lation, 8.7 per cent of the American aviators have Jewish blood in their veins. As Survivors Field from the Burning Lexington Official U. 8. Navy Thoto This photograph, just released by the Navy Department in Washington, shows launches from cruisers and destroyers loaded almost to the water's edge as they quickly picked up survivors from the stricken carrier Lexington. Men drop into the ocean and await their turn to be dragged into the launches. Plans For Gas Registration In County About Completed Preliminary plans for the second gasoline registration on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, July 9, 10, 11, have been completed in this county, and the new rationing plan will be explained at a district meeting to be held in Plymouth tomorrow evening. The registration, according to present plans, will be centered in the six white high schools in the coun ty under the direction of the follow ing local chairmen: Jamesvillc, V. B. Hairr and J. E. Manning; Farm Life, W. B Harrington and Raymond Gurkin; Bear Grass, T. O. Hickman and Urbin Rogers, Williamston. D. N. Hix and J C. Manning ;Rober I sonville, M. M. Everett and Jesse James; Oak City, fi. M Ainsley and George Haislip. Huuis fui the legis tration have not yet been announced but complete details for the event will be released within the next few days. All motorists, including truck own ers, who do not have their regular motor vehicle registration cards are urged to get duplicates from Raleigh before they register Truck owners should check on their mileage driven during last month and estimate the mileage they will find it necessary to drive during the months of July, August and September and have the information ready for the registra tion authorities. Every person using gasoline in any way will have to register next week, including car, truck, motor cycle, boat, tractor operators and others. Rules and regulations, governing rationing effective July 22nd instead uf the 15th, have junt been received. A hurried glance at the instructions reveals a strict system. So much gas wijl be allotted and when that is used up, one will have to stop. FIRST BLOSSOM The first cotton blossom of the season, a white one, was display ed here yesterday by Farmer Ira Rogerson. It Is a bit early for blossoms, but the crop is well advanced and if hot weather has anything to do with the plant, and they say hot nights make it grow, then cotton picking timr can't be far off. Blossoms were reported in various parts of the county yes terday, Farmer J. A. Everett stating that the crop is blossom ing forth on the Everett Estate farm. The weevil is reported in greater numbers this year, and mopping is being advised. Farm Life School Principal Resigns The teacher problem for Martin County school authorities is becom ing more perplexing week by week, the office of the superintendent stat ing this week that the situation had further been aggravated by more resignations. Principal and Mrs Russel P Mar tin resigned their posts in the Farm Life school last week-end to go to Seaboard. Several of the faculty members there resigned several weeks ago. During their three years at Farm Life, Mr. and Mrs Martin had done an able work, Mr. Martin as principal and Mrs. Martin as teacher of^ English and French in the high school. SeveraT applica tions are before the committee but their successors have not been nam ed. Mrs. E. Ross Froneberger, of Hick ory, has accepted the position offer ed her in the Bear Grass School. Sev eral other positions in the schools are still vacant, but applicants are being reviewed and appointments are expected to follow shortly. How ever, there are one or two positions in the county that will hardly be filled, tchool luthoritifli stslc. DRAFT BOARD Holding their first meeting in recent weeks, the Martin Coun ty Draft Board members will re view preliminary appeals for deferred classifications Thurs day evening at l:M o'clock. The board will also take final action in a number of eases where in vestigations have been complet ed during recent days. Chairman k. H. Goodmon announced this Completing its preliminary classifications some time ago, the board is likely to order more questionnaires mailed to those men in the third registration Number Of Drunks Rounded Up During The Past Week-end Little Crime Wave Reported By Officer* During the Pant Few l)av? Following a fairly long period of comparative peace and quiet, a lit tle crime wave broke out in the county during the past few days with Williams ton drunks claiming the attention of county officers, members of the highway patrol and the police Eleven persons were placed in the county jail over the week-end, seven of them going there during Saturday night and early Sunday morning. While most of them were just drunk, the jail record shows that some were drunk und disor derly and that one-was drunk and down and "passed but." It was the first time in recent months that the officers were kept running to the jail with those who had little or no respect for the law. In addition to the drunks, the of ficers rounded up two alleged rogues, a drunken driver and another charg ed with an assault with a deadly weapon. After the ranks were con siderably thinned, there were those left who bordered on a riot in Wash ington Street Sunday night. A stranger, passing by Buck's place shortly before 11 o'clock that night, hurried to the police station to re port what he thought was a riot in the street there. Assured that the (Continued on page six) 1 Mrs. John OMary Passes In Hospital Mrs. Bertie Bell O'Mary, wife of John LeRoy O'Mary, died in Washington hospital this morning at 2:05 o'clock following an opera tion performed last Saturday. She had been in declining hearth for sev eral years. The daughter of Birt and Nancy Haislip Pritchett, Mrs. O'Mary was born in Hamilton on February 22, 1910. When a young woman she was married and lived in Hamilton and near Palmyra until 1940 when the family moved to Washington Coun ty and located on a farm near Plym outh. She was a member of the Baptist Church for about seventeen years. Besides her husband she leaves three children, John Burton, Gladys Evelyn and John O'Mary, Jr., a sis ter, Mary Eunice Pritchett, and two brothers, Simon Joshua and Edward Daniel Pritchett, of Hamilton. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday afternoon from the Biggs Funeral Home here and interment will follow in the Hamilton Ceme tery. , ' I Croj ) Conditions In Martin County Arc Far Br low Average Dry Vieather Han CoiiHider ably Danuignl Crops in Son*e Parts of C.oun!y 9 A gloomy crop picture is being painted in reports coming from far mers in many sections of the coun ty, numbers of farmers stating that the crops in their sections had been damaged at least 50 per cent al ready, that rains now would not materially change the outlook. Telling of crop conditions in Grif fins Township, Farmer Oscar Peel sanf this morning that bUk^rain had fallen there this "season, that the corn crop is drying up and that the tassels are withering Tl I ill falling lu the ground. Tobacco is "buttoning out" with only a few leaves on the stalk. In most cases there hasn't been enough rain to wet the fertilizer, and the plants are starving to death and literally burning up. Farmer State Roberson harvested what is believed one of the first if not the first barn of tobacCQ in the county this season last Saturday. He transplanted his crop on April 25th and while it has a fair growth, the plants are comparatively small and tin* lugs instead of ripening merely were drying and burning up. The harvesting work is from ten days to two weeks ahead of the sea son a year ago, reports today stat ing that quite a lew farmers are harvesting their lugs this week. In Bear Grass, dry weather has greatly damaged the crops, hut the damage there is hardly as great as the reports would indicate in Grif fins. Below Jamesville, one or two farmers state their tobacco lias been drowned by heavy rains, hut as a whole, dry weather has left its mark there. Dry weather has been reported in many other sections of the country, hut to the west of Williamston the seasons have* been fairly favorable and the* crops are doing very well. Cotton blossoms are being reported in numbers and peanut vines are al most covering the ground in many fields. Three Injured In Wreck Early Today Three persons were hurt, one ser iously, and their ear, a 1941 Buick, was wrecked, in an accident on Highway 17, nine miles south of here this morning at 4 o'clock. 1 Lt. G. E. Howarth, of Elizabeth City, owner of the car, and Miss Louise Palmer, of Weeksville, were painfully but not seriously injured and are expected to be released from a Washington hospital shortly. Dar rell Thomas Clark, driver of the car, suffered severe head and leg injuries. He is expected to recover. Apparently running at a high speed, the car left the highway, crossed a ditch, plowed up an em bankment and wrapped itself around a tree about 97 yards away. Damage to the car was estimated at $1000 En route to Washington for a body, a Biggs Funeral Home ambulance picked up the trio and carried them to the hospital. Leaving Elizabeth City early this morning, the party was rtaveling to Washington. HOLIDAY CHANGE In accordance with an agree ment entered into this week and plans advanced by business houses in many other towns in this section, Williamston mer chants and other business houses will observe July 4th on Mon day, July 6, R. H. Smith, secre tary of the local Chamber of Commerce, announced this morning. Business will be carried on as usual with some few exceptions on Saturday, July 4th, but ac tivities will be suspended on Monday, July 6th. ?? War As It Relates To Home Front Is Reviewed for Week W?r Kriiifi* ( in tico noniir Way of Life; Prow ciilioiiH in Rulioiiiup: Wo have taken in our belts, we have tightened our economy so that almost nothing which might be use ful in war is wasted on the non-es sentials of ordinary living. Now we are fighting another sort of waste u-hich we 1111 afford .0 littlo -is we can afford waste of materials We are lighting the waste of what we call "Manpower" but which actual ly embraces almost everyone ? man or woman or adolescent child in the U S A The Manpower Mobilization Pro gram, with its aim of seeing that everyone has a job and that each is doing the job for which he or she is best fitted, is one attack on the problem of manpower waste. An other line of attack has been stress ed in recent messages from the Pres ident himself, and from Paul V. Mc Nutt. Director of the Office oL De fense Health and Welfare Services and chairman of the War Manpower Commission This line of attack hits at the waste of industrial manpower caused by ill health. Ill health is an enemy on the production front fully as much as on the field of battle The Japanese on Bataan were aid ed by malarial fevers, which fought for them against our troops m the steaming jungles of that Peninsula. The Japs and the Nazis are aided by the disease and tHness which fights 011 their side in the war production centers of America. flood Health Compulsory But the compulsion to remain fit extends beyond the factory front it is a compulsion laid upon all of us. Indifferent health means indif ferent morale, and indifferent mor ale is an invitation to defeat. The weapons with which ill health is fought on the home front are weap ons known to every housewife ? proper food, proper, exercise, and proper rest. On the industrial front the problem IS complicated by ether factors. Several weeks before Mr. McNutt transmitted the President's message on health and morale to some 8,500 key executives in war production plants, the six Govern ment officials most directly concern ed with increasing our output for war appealed to War Production Drive Committees in more than 900 plants to fight sickness and acci dents. Their joint statement pointed out, that sickness and injury lost 6,000,000 work days every month work days which might otherwise have brought victory over the Ax is that much nearer. And it pointed out the need for active public health departments in every community, with enough doctors, nurses, and hospital, beds to care for workers and their families. The President, commending Gov ernment and community efforts to improve health and morale, empha sized the need for eliminating from war industry centers, thai "major son??? of infection" the Red Light District, just as such districts have been eliminated from the neighbor hood of Army camps and Naval Sta tions. And the War Manpower Com mission chairman, addressing "war industry executives" called vener eal diseases "one of the most men acing" of the hazards 111 the health of workers, added that "many mil lions of lost work days could be saved and Needless accidents and spoilage of materials . . . pre vented, with improvement to work ers' health." Drives Seek Rubber, Tin We are in the midst of a brief and concentrated drive to get all the scrap rubber we can back to the re claiming plant. We are launching another drive to collect tin cans so that we may have tin for bushings which reduce friction in the engines of our military aircraft and for oth er vital military purposes. Response to these drives once more empha sizes our united effort against the common enemy. (Continued on page six) Rubber Collection Quite Successful The collection of old rubber, en tering its second week, has been quite successful so far, according to incomplete reports received here this morning. It is now estimated that the total collection in the coun ty will approximately 20,000 pounds, that several thousand additional pounds will have been collected be fore the drive is brought to a close next week. As far as it could bo learned, the Sinclair Station in Williamston is leading in the collection in the coun ty and possibly in this entire section. Shortly before noon today, the sta tion reported 12,757 pounds of old tires, lubes, water bottles, hose, balls, over shoes, boots and similar items had been placed on the pile in front of the station on" Main Street. While little tots, old folks and mid dle-aged folks are combing Q)e by ways and hedges for the discarded material, word comes from Wash ington that a bunch of "patriotic scoundrels in Washington are mu tilating the synthetic rubber pro gram. APPRECIATIVE ...* niumi linWII^i crowding into thr Martin Coun ty Rationing Board office for tire allotments, supplemental gas cards and sugar for canning are quite appreciative of the at tention given by members of the board who are serving with out pay and express their ap preciation for any consideration given them. There are others who never express any appre ciation. and then there are those who are down right common about it. "All of you can step to hell," a woman told thr board yesteiUay after the hoard nau extended her every considera tion possible. Then there was the man who charged thr board with showing favoritism because he could not get favorable action on a tire request immediately. Rationing Board Is Literally Swamped With Applications Sixteen Haiius Lurried Ovei From Meet Monday For I alter 4 .oii*ideratimi ?# Literally swamped with claims (or tires, 'new and recapped and tubes, the Martin County Rationing Board this week issued its quota and car ried over sixteen applications for consideration at a later meeting, Their tires failing in hot weather caused the applicants to enter ap pealing claims, but when the quota was exhausted the "dishing-out" work was stopped No accurate es timate could be had immediately but it is likely that .requests for more than 100 tires are pending in the board files. Only two new car tires were al lotted this week and they went t< John Arnold Ward, postal employei m Williamston Hr was also allot ted two new ear tire tubes. ?Recapped car tirer. were allotted to tjie following: Joe Bunting, Palmyra, three tires for farm use. Williamston Package and Manu factoring Company ,two tires and one tube for sales work Carl Robert Wynne, Williamston, four tires for special deputy work. New truck tires were allotted to the following: Carl Brown, Jamesville, three tires and tubes fur hauling lumber. J. Sam Godard, Jamesville, three tires and three tubes for logging. G. M. Anderson, Jamesville, two tires and two tubes for logging. John W Green, RFi) 2, Williams ton, one tube for farm work. Chester Taylor, Williamston, one tube for farm tractor. Recapped truck tires were allotted to the following. Fred I> Ayers, RFD 2, Williams ton, two tires for public transport!! tion (Continued on page six) o Mold Hearing On Mow Bus Route Applying last Dect^fhber ? fur a Timefuse t<> operate a bus line from Williamston to Roanoke Rapids, the Ricks Transfer Company, of Green ville, will go before the Utilities Commission in Raleigh on Friday of this week to support its request, Mr Paul Ricks, manager, announced this morning. It is expected that a num ber of local citizens will go to Ral ?igh for the hearing. Granted a franchise, the com pany plans to maintain two round trip schedules daily, connecting with bus lines operating to and from Richmond at Roanoke Rapids and with those operating through the lo :al terminal Definite schedules are being de layed pending the outcome 61the petition?rttpw?be fore ihe Utilities Commission, Mr. Ricks said, but the proposed line will offer a modern I and convenient service for William ! ston, Hamilton, Oak City and those people traveling to and from Rich mond. The proposed line will short ten the present travel distance to Richmond by about 24 miles and re-, duce the trip time by several hourfe. I The hearing will be held at 10 o'clock in the old supreme court building. PRICE LISTS In accordance with definite instructions from the Federal Office of Price Administration, three merchant* in this county have submitted a price ceiling lint to the county rationing board In Williamston. The time for submitting the ceiling price liata has already been extended one month, and June .tilth, a week from today, will be the laat day for turning the lint* over to the rationing board. It is fairly aafe to aasume that those business house*, including filling station operators, will be checked where the price list* have not been prepared and aub mitted to the rationing board. Vxis Hav ing Their Innin Fronts At Present KfviTM'H Offer Gloomy Onl look for Allies on Battle Fields of the W orlil Scoring successes in Libya 'and driving forward in Russia and ex pandtng ever closer to American shores, ttie Axis partners. Musso lint excepted, are having their inn mr mi 11 if t ii flu nr. n'.ii front. .. i the present tune. It doesn't mean that the Allies are whipped. l>ut the loss of Libya, the critical situation at Sevastopol, the shelling of the coast of Oregon and Canada and the moving of Jap forces 200 miles nearer on the Aleu tians certainly offer a gloomy out look for the present at least Add to that the confusion in England and America, the wishy-washy leader ship. the acts of greedy hogs in the high places and the serious situa tion can be recognized for what it is worth Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt, after talking over many things, have called in experts from the two nations to dis cuss the shipping situation which i> regarded as the most serious prob lem facing tin- war effort. "Fed up" ou empty promises, the people of Britain are demanding a complete and detailed story of the big fizzle in Libya They want to know why Germany can get neces sary supplies to that country while their own country can't beat them to the draw They want to know why German tanks, planes and men art far superior to those of their own It now appears that Britain had only a civilian army in Libya, that while many of her men have been killed and Captured they fought a .losing fight from the start. The Libyan sit uation has been aggravated by a re port on the Mediterranean battle last week Britain lost seven war lost a lone cruiser, two destroyers and 75 planes. A German battleship was damaged. Britain announced that reinforce ments are being delivered for the defense of Egypt, that American and British pilots are fighting side, by side m Africa now. At tin- same time Germany was reported to be mov ing up large truck columns to the Libyan-Egyptian border and that a quarter of a million men were being assembled * for a parachute attack back of British lines. The Germans claim that they have already reach ed the border, but envoys, safe in the mountains of western North Caro lina, still declare that the Suez is safe Tliey dismiss the fall of Tobruk about as casually as they dismissed the fall of Singapore Sevastopol is still hanging on, hut the situation there is critical. Wo imen and children, after participating in the actual fighting, are being evacuated, hut the Germans did not gel to announce the capture of the important naval base on the anni versary of the Kusso German war Laval, France's No. 1 yellow trait or, is calling for more of his people to go to Germany for enslaved la bor The French beast has announc ed Ins stand for a complete Ger man victory. The Oregon coast shelling was in significant as far as damage WHS concerned. The shelly apparently-in tended for the Fort Stevens defense, landed in a swamp Apparently finding the going in Russia difficult and costly, the Ger mans have started a propaganda drive to get Japan tp attack the Sov iets in Siberia. The British announced that the (Continued on page six) ,a> With Local Young Men In the Scrvic With them scattered to nearly all <>f the four corners-of-the world. 114 tle detailed information can be gain ed from Martin County youths. Mow ever, occasionally word concerning the activities of those nearer home Is received directly or indirectly. From Jones field down in Texas word comes telling about young Dick Dunn's first solo flight. He made it and is doing well in his work. Writing from the Naval Reserve Aviation Base down in Georgia, young Ray Goodmon says they are putting him through the mill, that he likes it even though he goes to hool from 5:30 in the morning*un til 5 30 in the afternoon. There are only ten classes a day find the course of study is all-inclusive. The reports state that the young man is making the grade, that he hopes to start fly ing in about two more weeks. "The food is very good and there is a fine group of boys here. There are about twenty North Carolina young men and about 200 boys who were in the Royal Canadian Air Force until they transferred. In fact three boys here have six ttr seven German planes - to their credit," to quote Ray. Concluding Ray said, "I like it here very much, but regardleaa of how much I live in a place there is still no spot like good old William ston." By way of post script, he "Mail is a wondqrful thing here."