At the Watts Theatre
September 24 and 25
'Reap the Wild Wind'
"Reap the Wild Wind", an out
standing screen spectacle in tech
nicolor, will begin a two-day run at
the Watts Theatre here, beginning
September 24th.
The period of Thelma Strabel's
Saturday Evening Post story is 1840
and the scene is Key West, Florida,
Charleston, S. C., Havana and the
sea lane between. The screenplay
deals with the operations of salvag
ers who feloniously prearrange the
wrecking of ships on the Florida
reefs so they can plunder their car
goes. The complications of the plot
involve many characters and many
incidents of violence, including fights
between men, between ships and
sand storms, finally between divers
and a giant squid.
The production equals, if it does
not excel, Cecil B. DeMille's utmost
in point of elaborateness, some of
Some Timber Need Not
Be Seasoned For Firewood
Although most trees do require
seasoning before they are used as
fuel, the small amount of moisture
in some timber at the time of cut
ting makes seasoning almost unnec
essary. Among such trees arc: black
locust, shagbark hickory, lodgepole
pine, American beech, Virginia or
scrub pine, white ash, red pine, and
a few others.
the scenes surpassing precedent in
grandeur of pigmentation, and the
DeMille direction is in consonance
with his standard.
Hay Milland, Paulette Goddard,
John Wayne, Raymond Massey,
Lynne Overman and Robert Preston,
led the large cast, in about that or
der, and momentum is preserved
with only momentary letdown from
start to finish.
Don't fail to see DeMille's latest
spectacle, "Reap the Wild Wind," at
the Watts Theatre on September
24th and 25th.
SHOOT DOWN INSECT RAIDERS . .
Sinclair P D. Insect Spray rate* "Grade AA"
in killing flies, mosquitoes, moths, gnats,
fleas, ants, bedbugs and roaches. That's the
highest rating under the National Bureau of
Standards. U. S. Department of Commerce
Specifications. Ask for Sinclair P. D. at
retail stores or at your Sinclair Dealer.
U WiliiiiiliHfillil'B
N. C. GREEN, Agent
HIXTY SIGE
-he wants ter know.
Ef you air a-sittin so prutty on a
job ther people has handed out to
you that you jest wont give it up
no how cause ther pay looks better
than enything you kin worm into
your-sef, oughtent you to keep your
fingers offn ther pennies thats need
ful to ther old-folks that brung you
into ther world?
I hear-tell that ther state of North
Caliny has got 17 aulyun dollars tax
money collected up, and dont know
what to do with it. I hear-tell that
both ther Dimocratic and Republi
kin platforms promised to stablish
a 9 months school over all ther state,
and part of ther 17 is slated for that.
And I hear-tell that ther school
teachers air anxous for sum better
pay; and it looks lak them thats d
pended on to dow ther risin genera
tions with minds and morals, sar
tanly ought to git as good pay as do
ther brick-layers, and hod-carriers,
and saw-pullers, and bull-dozer-dri
vers, pervided thay puts real mut
ton-chops into ther sheep-skins thay
hands out to graduits. And I hav
hearn-tell that ther Judges, and high
state office holders that took a little
cut in pay, back in Hoover days,
when ther treasury was dry, and
ther sales-tax was put on sos to hold
'em in easy harness, air a-waitin to
git raised back to thay old level and
beyond, and air bidin thay time
twell ther next Legislatur meets sos
to trip thay trigger on to that 17 mil
yun. Now dont it look lak them of
fice-holders thats settin so prutty
on ther 5 or 6 thousand thay air now
gittin that you cant pry 'em loose to
Buy Your Fruits and Vegetables From The
Williamston Fruit Store
WILLI AMSTON, N. C. WASHINGTON ST.
We Have A Fine Variety Of
Potatoes ? Apples
Cabbage ? Onions
Oranges ? Lemons
And Other Seasonable Fruits and Vegetables
For high grade Fruits and Vegetables, come to
W illiam&on Fruit Store
FRANK JONES, Prop. WILLIAMSTON
Next Door To Jenkin*' Barber Shop
American Soldiers in Egypt
eteoi-neimcted American troops earrytng their duffel bags are shown
arriving at a desert camp in Egypt. They are members of the rein
| forcement groups that have been pouring into Egypt from Britain and
the U, S. They'll be standing in the way if General Rommel tries to start
another pincer movement on the Middle East. This photo was radioed
from Cairo to New York. (Central Vrets)
Red dross War Aid
Hits Record Peak
Washington, D. C.?As World War
II enters its fourth year, the Amer
ican Ked Cross, in spite of added re
sponsibilities which it has taken on
with the entrance of the United
States in the conflict, will continue
its extensive foreign war relief pro
gram.
Assurance that civilian war vic
tims of Europe and Asia will not be
overlooked by the Red Cross has
been given by Chairman Norman H.
Davis, who disclosed that approxi
mately $60,000,000 worth of Red
Cross relief supplies have been sent
overseas since the invasion of Po
land on September 1, 1939, hurled
the world into war.
More than 30,000,000 persons, most
of them women and children, have
been aided by these supplies, which
included medicine and hospital
equipment, food, clothing, bankets
and a variety of other necessities
The bulk of the assistance, reprc
srovting approximately $33,000,900,
save your soul, ought to be satis
fied with ther ease thay air a-takin,
and let ther bulk, of that 17 milyun
go to match up ther Govments of
fered 15 dollars a month (makin it
30) to ther old folks that aint got
no incum a-tall, and hav worked
thay selves out at buildin big biz
ness at little pay? $30 a month, 360
dollars a year, jest daily rashun to
go rite back into ther hands of ther
trade-people that wants bizness to
be good, erginst 5 and 6 thousand a
year for hi livers. Ther great state
of North Caliny today, makes
oldster swear hts-sef a pauper sos
to git a measley 2 or 3 dollars to
live on for 30 days, whilst ther most
of ther big corporations, and many
state de-purt-ments retires thay aged
workers on round $100 a month, witli
no questions ast, and raises ther doe
frum thay customers and tax-payers.
Kin you brag on D-MOCKRACY
when you spells it with a big-D for
sum, and a little-d for others, and
no-d a-tall for ther d-sarvin? That
no-d jest leaves it Mock-racy, which
mout well be one ther "new words"
for Mr. Webster to coporate and X
plain.~
Martin County Agricultural Fair's
Grandstand Attraction
Brilliant Spectacular Patriotic
"AMERICA ON PARADE**
A JOHN B. ROGERS PRODUCTION
Over 200 Local People in Cast
Staged in all its grandeur-Beautiful costumeg
Gorgeous Lighting ? Effective Stage Sets ? A
Riot of Life, Beauty and Color.
Martin County Fail Grounds
Sept. 29 ' 30 Oct. 1 - 2
EVERY EVENING ?8:30 O'CLOCK A .
Awarded Silver Star
>ne of the first U. S. pilots to shoot
down an enemy plane in the Euro
pean war zone, Second inert. Els
worth Shahan of St. George, West
V'a. (above), was awarded the Sil
ver Star for downing an E. W.
Courier in Reykjavik, Iceland. The
presentation was made by Maj.
Gen. Carl &paatz? eommatidcr of
the U. S. air forces in Europe; dur
ing a ceremony in England.
(Central Press)
Cotton Bale Covers
Ciiul Greater Use
Cotton bale covers or "wrappers"
will play an important part in the
marketing of this year's crop, ac
cording to J. A. Shanklin, cotton
specialist of the N. C. State College
Extension Service.
Not only will they give North Car
olina cotton growers a neat-appear
ing and well-protected bale, but al
so they will assure an opportunity !
to use a fabric manufactured from
their own product.
Shanklin explained that coopera
tive efforts of all major cotton trade
organizations and the Agricultural
Marketing Administration of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture recent
ly resulted in a program whereby
growers would receive a 7-pound
gross weight allowance when they
market their cotton.
"By using cotton covers or pat
terns," the State College specialist
said, "growers are helping to relieve
the critical shortage of jute brought
on by the war. All producers have
the right to demand that 7 pounds |
be added to the gross weight of their j
cotton-covered bales when they sell
their lint."
Jute wrappers and ties on a 500-1
pound bale weigh around 21 pounds,'
while the cotton patterns and ties1
weigh about 14 pounds. The Depart
ment of Agriculture has operated a
program to make patterns available
at a reasonable price, and the 1942
progrm provides for a production of
4,000,000 cotton patterns.
Around 11,000 bales of cotton are
used in the making of a million pat
terns, Shanklin pointed out. There
is about six yards of fabric in a pat
tern.
It is estimated that 130,000 bales
will make enough patterns to cover
a 12,000,000-bale crop.
was sent to the British Isles to aid
civilians bombed from their homes.
Assistance to Russia already has
passed the $4,000,000 mark, and sup
plies valued at an equal sum also
have been sent to China, where an
estimated 4,245,000 persons, includ
ing 1,600,000 children, were aided.
Polish, Green and Yugoslavian refu
gees who escaped to the middle East
and civilian war sufferers in Eri
trea and Ethiopia also have received
Red Cross aid.
More than 1,500,000 volunteer
Red Cross workers assisted in mak
ing the garments and surgical dress
ings sent overseas.
Another impprtant item of Red
Cross foreign war relief has been
the distribution of food packages to
prisoners of war in Europe through
the International Red Cross Commit
tee in Geneva. To date, more than
a half-million such packages and
large quantities of tobacco and
clothing have been sent over for dis
tribution. Through Itftjnquiry serv
ice, the Red Cross aiso has aided per
sons in the United States in estab
lishing communication with rela
tives and friends, both civilian and
military, in occupied countries, thus
relieving anxiety over their safety.
8tstemsnt of ths Ownership, Manage
mant. Circulation, Etc., Required by
the Act of Congraaa of Auguat 24,
1912, of The Enterprise, published
semi-weekly, at Williamston, N. C.,
October. 1942.
State of North Carolina, County of
Martin, ss:
Before me, a notary public in and
tor the state and county aforesaid, per
sonally appeared W. C. Manning, Jr.,
who having been duly sworn accord
ing to law, deposes and says that he
is the business manager of the En
terprise. and the following is. to
the best of his knowledge and be
lief, a true statement of the own
ership, management (and if a daily
paper, the circulation), etc.. of the
aforesaid publication for the date
shown in the above caption, required
by the Act of August 24. 1912, em
bodied in section 411, Postal Laws and
Regulations, printed on the reverse of
this form, to wit:
1. That the names and addresses of
the publisher, editor, managing editor,
and busities managers are:
Publisher. W H. Booker, Plym
outh. N. C.; Editor, F. M. Manning,
Williamston, N. C.; business man
ager. W. C. Manning, Jr., Williams- j
ton, N. C.
2. That the owners are; F. M.
Manning, Williamston, N. C.; W. H.
Booker. Plymouth. N. C.; William I
C. Manning, Jr., Williamston. N. C. |
3. That the known bondholders.
mortgagees, and- other security hold
era owning or holding 1 per cent or
more of total amount of bonds, mort
gages, or other securities are: Mer
genthaler Linotype Co.
4. That the two paragraphs next a
bove, giving the names of the owners,
stockholders, and security holders, if
any, contain not only the list of stock
holders and security holders as they
appear upon the books of the company
but also, in cases where the stockhold
er or security holder appears upon the
books of the company as trustee or
in other fiduciary relation, the name of
the person or corporation for whom
such trustee is acting, is given; also
statements embracing affiant's full
knowledge and belief as to the circum
stances and conditions under which
stockholders and security holders who
do not appear upon the books of the
company as trustee, hold stock and
securities in a capacity other than that
of a bona fide owner; and this affiant
has no reason to believe that any other
person, association, of corporation has
I any interest direct or indirect in the
' -aid stock, bonds, or other securities
than as so stated by him.
W. C. MANNING. JR.
Business Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 21st?day of Sept., 1942.
OLLIE MARIE WHEDBEE,
Notary Public.
(My commission expires 5-3-43.)
Keep Your
Defense Hands
SAFE
from
FIKE Ami THEFT
In a SAFE DEPOSIT BOX
You'll find it convenient to keep your bonds in the bank where
you come to purchase them. It costs just a few dollars a year to
enjoy the protection of a safe deposit box to which only you
have the key! Surely your bonds and other valuable are
worth many, many times the rental fee!
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Guaranty Bank & Trust Co.
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URNITURE VALUE
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At the Store of
B. S. Courtney
HERE'S A FRIENDLY
WARNING!
We Mill have many item* that will
he hard to replace, hut when these
are gone there'll he 110 more. There
is a scarcity of Living Room Suites
and Studio douches. Visit our store
today and select yours!
PLANNINd to BUY a HEATER?
?77iey'// he hard to get later. Buy
now while oar stock is complete.
Join the hundred* of thrifty families who buy
their Furniture here. They have learned that
Furniture doesn't have to be expensive for it to
udd to th enjoyment and eomfort of your home. \
Shop here und you'll save enough to buy WAR
BONDS ami STAMPS!
B. S. Courtney