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VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 74 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 18, I'J12. ESTABLISHED 1899
How Nazis Execute Russians
Thi? photo was found by Russian* in the pocket* of Kurt Seidler, a
German soldier killed on the Russo-German front and shows how the
Na*is execute Soviet citixens. They line the victim* up in front of a
trench and kill them with machine gun Are. Note the trench and the
bodies already in it. A cloud of dust spurt* on the embankment as the
Ave latest victim* are ?hot down. This picture wai flashed by radio
from Moscow to New York. (Central Prett)
Reenforeements For
Defense of Stalingrad
Believe Major Drive
Shaping Up Against
Forees In Solomons
Enemy Pays Great Price As
He Puahett On Toward
Genler of Great City
The great industrial center of Stal
ingrad may fall in time, but late re
ports from the beleaguered city tell
of no let-up in the determined Rus
sian resistance. Fighting in the city's
streets, about twelve miles from the
center of the town, was said to be
fierce with the enemy paying a great
price for all advances he has made.
Breaking into the outskirts of the
city Wednesday night, the German
spearheads were repulsed yesterday.
Losses, running intq high figures in
manpower and equipment, were re
ported for the enemy.
Under the ceaseless pounding of
Russian forces, who were ordered to
"die rather than surrender a house,"
German shock units which had slash
ed into the Soviet positions fell back
over paths clogged with hundreds
of dead and the wreckage of their
armored equipment.
A German assault army of 450,000
was storming the one narrow sector
northwest of the great Volga city,
front dispatches said.
Twelve hours earlier a communi
que had reported that the Stalingrad
(Continued on page six)
? r
Lone Vagrancy Case
Flops In Recorders
Court Last Monday
Increased Business Keeps the
Court in Session Long
er Than Usual
An official drive against vagrancy
announced by Judge Robert L. Co
burn some time ago when he warned
the idlers to either go to war or go
to work has about petered out in
this county. The lone case charging
vagrancy flopped in the court last
Monday when a nol pros was taken.
It was apparent that the evidence
in the case did not support the
charge. Despite the outcome of the
case, the warning apparently ac
complished something, reports stat
ing that more people have worked
this summer and are working now
than in years in this county.
The regular session of the court,
following one in which not a single
case was tried the week before, re
ported a marked increase in its ac
tivities last Monday. Judge Coburn
called nine cases and the court was
in session until well into the lunch
hour with a goodly number of liti
gants and spectators holding to their
seats until the final case was clear
ed from the docket
In a second case, charging Leon
ard Boston with violating the liquor
laws, the court took a nol pros.
Pleading not guilty in the case
charging them with violating the for
est fire laws, Phillip Boston and Sam
Jamas were adjudged guilty. Judg
ment was suspended upon the pay
ment of the cost. It is understood that
civil action has been started to re
(Continued on page six)
NEED NO WARDEN )
Thr squirrel season does not
open in this county until Octo
ber 1st, but according to Far
mer Billie Uurganus from over
the creek, there is little or no
need for a game warden to pro
tect the furry little rodents. The
farmer went on to explain that
the mosquitoes were so bad in
the swamps that even those who
disregard the hunting laws Just
can't disregard the skeeters.
I nofficial reports state, how
ever .that a few have braved the
pests and killed and offered for
sale a few squirrels.
Few New Tires Are
Allotted in County
By Ration Board
ApplirutioiiM Filed During the
Past Week For Ul Tires
Are (lurried Over
Dipping deep into their current al
lotment at previous sessions, mem
bers of the Martin County Ration
ing Board here yesterday issued com
paratively few new tires to the ever
increasing number of applicants No
new automobihf tires were issued,
the board carrying over for later
consideration current applications
for fifteen tires In all, the board
carried over for later consideration
applications for forty-eight tires and
thirty-three tubes.
New truck tires and tubes were
allotted as follows
Willie Mayo Gardner, Jamesville,
two tubes for farm.
William A. Mobley, Wilhamston,
one tube for farm.
Town of Robersonville, two tires
and two tubes for sanitary depart
ment.
Alvin Lowe Thompson, Williams
ton, four tires and four tubes for
hauling lumber.
A tractor tire and tube were issued
to Richard G. Slade, Hamilton, for
farm work.
R S. Edmondson, RFD 1, Hobgood,
was allotted two tractor tires for
farm work.
- :lv Retread Truck Tires
(Continued on page six)
Parents-Teach
Meeting Here L
Ninety parents and teachers were
present last Wednesday afternoon
when the Wilhamston Parent-Teach
er Association held its initial meet
ing of the school year. Mrs. B. W
Nash, incoming president, presided
over the session, which marked the
beginning of the new parent-teach
er year.
Attendance was larger than usual
for a first meeting, and the interest
manifested indicates that many as
sociation members will take a more
active part in school and association
activities.
Reports were heard from Mrs. W
E. Old, retiring treasurer, and from
Mrs J. B. Taylor, retiring chairman
of the lunch room committee.
Among the old projects to be con
UNCLE
SAM
BATTLING TO UPHOLD
America's
Freedom
THE 40TH WEEK OF THE WAR
All motorists in the non-rationed
areas of the country were asked by
Price Administrator Henderson to
observe the same rules in using their
cars that are enforced in the ration
ed Eastern Area, as a means of con
serving rubber tires until a national
rationing plan can be put into effect.
He said it will be several weeks be
fore coupon ration books can be
printed to carry out the nation-wide
gas rationing recommended by the
Baruch rubber committee. Unless the
nation's 27,000,000 motorists cut their
driving "to the bone," Mr Hender
son said, "we re likely to coast right
into Hitler's lap "
The White House issued a chart
prepared by the Society of Automo
tive Engineers showing that the
normal life of a tire is doubled when
the average driving speed is reduc
ed from 40 to 20 miles an hour, or
from 50 to 30 miles an hour. The
President said he thought the chart
should be brought to the attention of
the country as a persuasive argu
ment for slow driving.
The Baruch rubber committee rec
ommended that motorists be cur
tailed to a general average of 5,000
miles a year. The committee also
recommended a national speed limit
of 35 miles an hour and compulsory
periodic tire inspection. Complete re
organization of government agencies
concerned with the rubber program
and appointment of a rubber ad
ministrator with full responsibility
for conservation and synthetic pro
duction programs were also recom
mended
Additional rubber must be releas
ed to fully maintain essential civil
ian driving, reclaiming operations
must be stepped up, and to increase
synthetic production, the committee
recommended immediate expansion
of plant capacity for Buna s, Buta
diene, Neoprene, and alcohol, and
elimination of any further substitu
tion in plans tor synthetic produc
tion The President told his press con
ference virtually all of the commit
tee's recommendations except gaso
line rationing will be put into effect
immediately.
The War Front
Gen. Mac-Arthur's Australian head
quarters reported allied forces have
kept the Japanese thrust toward
Port Moresby bottled in the tower
ing Owen Stanley Mountains while
allied aircraft swept the seas sur
rounding the Island, bombing enemy
supply ships. Gen MacArthur an
nounced September 14th that United
Nations bombers attacked three Jap
anese cargo ships, apparently bound
(Continued on page six)
Victim Of Bicycle
Car Accident Dies
Fatally injured in an automobile
bicycle accident on the Roberson
viileTGold Point highway late last
Tuesday night, Linwood Johnson, 34
years old, died in a Rocky Mount hos
pital last evening at 7 o'clock. Funer
al services are being conducted at
the home, near Gold Point, this af
ternoon at 4 o'clock
Riding a bicycle, Mr Johnson was
said to have placed his foot on the
running board of a car driven by
John Roberson The front wheel of
the bicycle struck some object in
the road and went out of control,
throwing him under the car. The
rear wheel passed over his head. The
accident, the third tragedy reported
in the county this week, was similar
to one reported a few weeks ago in
Cross Roads where a small boy was
fatally injured when he took hold
of a truck and fell from his bicycle.
Mr. Johnson, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Johnson, is survived by
his wife and two children, Joyce and
Jerry, and two brothers, Messrs.
Joshua Mack Johnson, of Raleigh,
and Clinton W Johnson, of Rober
sonville, and three sisters, Mrs. Jesse
Rogers, of Robersonville, Mrs. Travis
Savage, of Rocky Mount, and Mrs.
Walter Gray, of Bethel.
ters Hold First
,ast Wednesday
tinued is the matron service which
will be instituted at both buildings
next week. The association voted to
finance the project, as was done last
term.
After presenting the new teach
ers, D. N. Hix, principal, commented
upon pupil redistribution made at
the beginning of the year, outlined
the program of studies in the new
eighth grade, and discussed other
school problems.
Those present were entertained in
the. -home economics rooms at ..the.
close of the business session. Miss
Ruth Britt and members of her
classes served refreshments.
The association will meet each
month throughout the school year
on the third Wednesday afternoon
at 3:10.
Tobacco Prices On Local Market Today
Exceed Level Reported During Last War
Few Criminal Cases
Are Set For Trial
In Superior Court
Dockel, Currying 21 Canen, I*
Smallest in Many Years
For September
Comparatively few criminal cases
have been set for trial in the super
ior court convening a regular mixed
two weeks term here next Monday.
The docket, carrying only twenty
one cases is believed to bo the small
est for any September in recent
years. Eight of the cases are old
ones and some of them are almost
bewhiskered, but they are still on
the docket and some of -them will
likely be continued again. Only sev
en of the cases are being in the courts
for the first time, the others having
either been on the docket and al
ready passed tin' grand jury or were
appealed from judgments imposed
in the county recorder's court.
As a whole, the nature of the dock
et is not very serious even if the
charges in one or two cases are
bit shocking to a civilized society
The court is not expected to attract
very much attention, but quite a few
litigants and some spectators will
he on hand despite the busy farm
ing season, gas and tire shortages.
Judge J Clawson Williams, on
(if the most able judges on the
bench, is scheduled to open the
term Monday morning at 10 o'clock
Cases on the criminal docket are
listed ,as follows:
Roosevelt Fagan, larceny and re-1
ceiving. The case has been contin
ued since March of last year, and i
it is understood that the defendant
is still serving time on the roads for!
another infraction of the law alleged
to have taken place in Beaufort \
County
Henry Ellison, charged with
drunken driving, failed to appear for
trial last June after he had been ad
judged guilty in the county court,
and the case was continued.
The case charging Howard Griffin j
with forgery, Harry Davis with aid
(Continued on page six)
Thirty-Two County
White Men Return
To Army Next Week
About Twenty Percent of I^uhI
Contingent Rejected for
Army Servire
Completing their fourteen-day fur
loughs, thirty-two young Martin
County white men will return to an
Army induction center the early part
of next week According to an offi
cial report ju.st received in this coun
ty, thirty-two mere out of the last
contingent of white men were ac
cepted, ten were rejected, several
others enlisted in various branches
of the service and one was trans
ferred to another board for induc
tion. About twenty per cent of the
contingent was rejected outright on
account of physical disqualifications,
it was learned from the official re
port It was the first time that no
men from this county had been re
jected on account of low literacy
standards. Incidentally, the Select
ive Service recently announced that
more men of low literacy standards
would be accepted for service. Twen
ty-four of the men accepfed were j
given 1-A ratings and eight were
placed in the 1-B classification,
meaning possibly that they will be
subject to limited military service
only.
The names of the men who were
accepted and who are to return soon
to the induction center follow:
Clyde C. Moore, Elton Davis Car
son, LeRoy Mobley, Claude Lafay
ette Green, Jr., Martel Hardy, Noah
Turner Leggett, William Henry Rev
els, Robert Lee Mizelle, Wheeler
Martin Harris, James Redmond Har
rison, Jr., Joseph Alexander Peele,
Jr., David Elwood Davis, William
Gavin Cowan, Fate Whitfield, Jos
eph Oscar Wiggins, Franklin Ven
oie Modlin, Joseph Carnegia ttoss,
James Harold Griffin, Augusta Edi
son Moore, Joseph David Thrower,
Jr., Asa Robert Harris, Whichard Ry
larid Marshall, Obcar Hightower
Peele, Jr., James Elmer Stalls, Jas
Earl Stalls, Mayo Peel, Horace Les
lie Rodgers, James Daniel Nicholson,
Leamon Lloyd Ward, Elmer Taylor
Mizelle, John Brinkley Knox and
William Asa Taylor.
Stephen Griffin, reckless driving,
appealed from Judge Robert L. Co
burn's court.
Chester Terry, aiding and abetting
larceny, appealed from county court
judgment.
Homer Gee, disorderly conduct,
scheduled by appeal from the lower
eonfii
The following cases were placed
on the docket by warrants handled
in the various justices of the peace
courts and are subject first to ac
tion by the grand jury.
(Continued on page six)
Jap Officers Take French Leave
Japanese officers' tents are shown standing in what was once a Nip
ponese encampment on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomons. This official
U. S. Navy picture was made after the Marines landed and took over
the island and five others in a history-making sweep.
(Central Preut)
Child Is Instantly
Killed In I nusual
Accident This Vicek
FuiirraeSt'rviri'H in Oak (iilt
'I'llis Afternoon for Little
Sidiie> (1. 11 > mil ii
Sidney Carroll Hymun, seven
years old, was instantly killed in an
unusual accident at the home of
Willie Hackney High, Jr . his youth
ful playmate, in .Oak City about 5:00
o'clock Wednesday afternoon The
youths were playing hide under
some old cardboard boxes in the
driveway when Mr Nat W. Johnson*
driving an auto.niob.ili* with a trail
or attached, started through the yard
to get a load of tobacco from a pack
house just back of the home. Mr
Johnson had driven over the card
board box before and did not know
anyone was under it. lb* was driv
ing very slowly when he felt the j
car bump and before the front wheel
passed over the box, the driver
backed the car off tin* cardboard. I
j The young High boy, his back
scratched a bit, screamed, but the
other little fellow did not yell and I
apparently never knew what struck
him. The car wheel mashed his stom
ach and he died instantly. It could I
hardly be explained how the High I
child escaped with only minor In
juries. |
Investigating the death, Coroner
|S. H. Biggs stated that it was pure
(Continued on page six)
Indicted lor Alleged
Draft I jaw V iolation
| John Williams, Goose Nest Town- |
| ship colored man, was formally j
charged with violating the draft laws
| tins week when he was given a pre
| liminary hearing before a United I
States Commissioner in Wilson. Ac '
cording to unofficial information
reaching here, Williams was placed
under bond in the sum of $1,000. Un '
I able to raise that amount hi* was
placed in the Wilson jail to await ]
trial in the federal court convening!
theiv the fifth of next month.
Action was taken against Williams
following an investigation by an
FBI agent earlier in the week The I
man is charged with refusing to reg
ister, one report stating that he
would not even make a mark after]
a registration card had been prepar j
ed for him by the FBI Agent Still.
It was learned this week that the
FBI agent had started investigating.
Other cases of apparent delinquen
j ry. One of the delinquents is now
I serving time on the roads, but his
erase has been recorded and action
will be taken in due time.
Pentecostal Holiness Church
To Hold Annual Sessions Here
The North Carolina Conference of ference sessions which open Friday,
the Pentecostal Holiness Church will
hold its 1942 sessions in Williamston,
it has been announced by the Rev.
W. Eddie Morris, of Kenly, confer
ence superintendent.
The conference site was moved
from Goldsboro when it became ap
parent that housing of ministerial
and lay delegates would become a
problem because of activity in the
Wayne capital arising Jrom the
Goldsboro base or trie Artfty Air
Forces Technical School.
Conference Superintendent Mor
ris said that the assignment from the
General Board of the Church would
be for Bishop J. H. King, of Wash
ington, D. C , to preside over the con
October 23rd.
Preliminary to the official open
ing of the conference Friday eve
ning, the North Carolina Conference
Official Board, the Board of Exam
iners of Candidates for the Ministry
and the nominating committee will
hold sessions. The conference will
continue its sessions through Mon
day, October 26th, the last item of
business being, the assignment of
'niirifeltis f?M a new year.
The local church entertained the
conference three years ago, and the
membership with the aid of others
will ably care for the visitors and
their needs next month, representa
tives said this morning.
rOSITONUD
v )
A meeting of the Martin Coun
ty Draft Hoard scheduled to have
been held for the consideration
of deferment claims and the re
classification of men in the 1-li
group was postponed, Chairman
It. H. Condition stating that no
date for the meeting had beeu
definitely determined. It was
explained that the I It men will
have to be re-examined by the
local physical examining board
before classifications can be
changed. The board was just re
cently instructed to reclassify
the registrants in the 1 II group,
and in accordance with instruc
tions twenty-five per cent of the
men are to be removed from
that group to either I-A or 4-F.
Those cases where the regis
trants are asking deferments,
will be held in abeyance until
the board meets, meaning that
one of them will be called for
induction until their claims are
duly considered.
Two Drivers Fined
For Passing School
P
Bus in the County
Ten Oilier Defendant* (lur
ried llefore Justice llas
sell This Week
Two persons were fined and a
third one was taxed with the costs
by Justice J I, Hassell in his court
here tins week for allegedly passing
rhool busses while discharging
school children passengers. The jus
ticc pointed out that many people
apparently failed to realize that it
is unlawful to pass a school' bus on
the highway when it is receiving or
discharging passengers, that it is
lawful to pass one of the human car
go carriers only when it is in mo
tion
William Robert Roberson, of Or
iental, was fined $10 and taxed with
the cost for the alleged violation
Merrill Alligood was fined $20 and
taxed with the cost for the same al
leged violation. At the hearing, it
was declared that the man drove
by the bus on its right side, that he
did not declare his identity, (i. D.
Ross, local man, facing a similar
charge, reported to the court" and
explained that he passed the bus
unconsciously. Judgment was sus
pended upon the payment of the
cost in his case. . **
There wen- eight other defend
ants, charged mainly with being
I publicly drunk or being drunk and
(disorderly
I Henry Rogers?" c harged with dis
continued on page six)
(General Advance Is
Noted In The Price
For Medium Grades
1 \ cry Little Tubuccu Is Bcin^r
Left on Work llcrc This
Afternoon
Tobacco prices, ruled satisfactory
for the most part since the opening
of the markets the latter part of
August, today passed those levels re
ported during and immediately fol
lowing the last war The record high
prices, however, are not applicable
to the superior quality types, but
able farmer judges of. tobacco de
clare without reservation that the
medium quality grades are at new
high peaks. For intsance, inferior
looking tips are bringing prices rang
ing well into the forties, and only
those real black and mixed green
ish types are falling below fifteen
cents The superior quality grades
are selling no higher with the appar
ent top price holding right at 47
cents. Occasionally, the price breaks
uver into the fifties, but those sales
are indeed rare.
The general price average is not
Ty encouraging, but when consid
ered on a basis of grades, prices are
very satisfactory, and few complaints
are being heard from farmer's.
Except in those cases where agents
are hired, most tobacco farmers in
this section are patronizing the home
market. They are recognizing the
seriousness of the gas and tire situa^
tion and many who have been travel
ing long distances are turning to the
home markets And they are finding
that they are saving money and re
ceiving just as much for their to
bacco.
Sales on the local market are push
ing toward the four million-pound
mark, and according to estimates
they will easily pass seven million
pounds this season despite a short
crop in this immediate section. Re
ports from many farmers indicate
that about fifty per cent of the crop
in this area has already been sold,
that quite a number of farmers have
already finished the marketing of
their crops.
While the local market has had
blocked sales all week, the sales have
been running smoothly. It has been
possible to clear the block the follow
ing day, and while the floors will not
be cleared this afternoon, it is ap
parent that the block can bo lifted
in a comparatively short time Mon
day morning However, a large sale
is certain that day and on succeed
ing days, too, the offerings are ex
pected to be large.
Well realizing that no sale could
be bad today, quite a few farmers
were unloading tobacco on the local
warehouse floors early this afternoon
for the first sales next Monday.
While it is impossible for warehouse
men to tell exactly the selling sched
ule for any length of time in ad
vance, they assure their patrons that
sales can be made as quickly, con
veniently arid as advantageously
here as on any market.
4
|Well-Known Martin
County Farmer Is
Victim Of Suicide
Kiiiit-ral Smires Wednesday
Afternoon at Home for
J. W. Harria
Fatally wounding himself early
Tuesday morning by firing a rifle
bullet into his head, Jimmy W. Har
ris, well-known and highly respect
ed Martin County farmer, died in a
Washington hospital that afternoon
at J 15 o'clock. Despondent over ill
health which he had suffered for
several years, Mr. Harris was said
to have talked about ending his life.
However, his health was considered
much improved this year than it was
last, and the drastic act came as a
marked shock to his immediate fam
ily and his many friends throughout
the county. Seating himself on the
side of the bed, he placed the rifle
>n thg floor and fired the bullet into
his head near the ear. He was re
moved to a Washington hospital but
never regained consciousness.
Apparently feeling worse that us
ual, Mr. Harris did not get up that
morning and when Mrs. Harris left
for the tobacco packhouse he took
the gun and fatally wounded him
self. His small son heard the shot and
called for help.
The son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Harris, he w^s born in Bear
Grass Township 44 years ago. About
seven years ago he bought a farm and
located in the Spring Green com
munity in Poplar Point Township
where he soon became recognised aa
a leading citizen and a good neigh
bor. He was a successful fanner, and
in his home he was a devoted hus
band and a thoughtful father, plac
ing a great value on high id eels and
the Christian way of life.
Mr Harris married Miss Margaret
(Continued on page Ms)