lAtortiMra Will Pnd Our Col- VOLUME XXXIII—NUMBER 101 VETERANS LOAN BILL PASSED BY . A BIG MAJORITY Measure Goes To Senate Where Easy Passage Is Predicted MELLON OPPOSES *IT Marked Opposition Expected When Bill Goes To President Hoover Por Hi* Signature Washington Feb. 16.—The House of Representatives passed the Ba charach World War veterans loan bill today in an exciting and momentous hour of discussion. The bill now Roes j o the Senate, where an extra session threat is held by Senator James Con-/ zens, Republican, Michigan, as a club to force passage before the end of this week. Secretary of Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, foremost opponent of the ( measure, will appear before the Sen- ' ftte finance committee Wednesday when that body commences hearings on the bill. Senator James Watson, ' Republican floor leader, said no at- , tempt would be made to delay the, 1 pleasure. a veto by 1 President Hoover, Couzens said an r effort would be made to hold up j' pending appropriation bills until it was apparent that the administra tion would not filibuster to prevent | the Senate from over-riding the veto. •Couzens expects the'" •committee to | bring the bill before the Senate Wed- i nesday afternoon. The bill, estimated to cost from $375,000,000 up to $1,720,000,000 was 1 passed by far more than the neces sary two-thirds majority under sus pension of the rules. The vote was ( 363 to 39. The 39 opponents were all 1 Republicans. A bare two-thirds of the largest House attendance of the sestion would have been 268, leaving a margin of 95 over two-thirJS'. This assures that the House easily would override a veto. Definite Break The action marks the first difinite break between the Hoover adminis tration and two of it* strongest House leaders, Speaker Nicholas Longworth and Representative Isaac Bacharach, Republican, New Jersey, fßacharach, a powerful member of the ways and means committee, join ed with Democrats and forced the bill out pver the protests of Chairman Willis C. Hawley. Its passage today was made possible by the action of Longworth in waiving the strict rules of the House and recognizing Ba- ! charach to bring up his. bill. The measure increases from 22 1-2 to 50 per cent the loan value of the adjusted compensation certificates is sued to 3,400,000 veterans under the 1925 so-called "Bonus" act. The in-' terest to be- charged is to be reduced: from 6 to 4 1-2 per cent. The loan' is based on the 1945 maturity or face j of the certificates, averaging about SI,OOO each. MARTIN NATIVE DIES IN RALEIGH Miss Laudauria Hardison Dies at Home of A. J. Maxwell Sunday Mm* Laudauria Hardison, a native of the Jamesville section, this county, died at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Maxwell in Raleigh early Sunday evening of bronchial pneumonia. She was taken ill about three weeks ago inftuensa developing int6 pneumonia. S>ie was 54 years old and had been p, member of the Maxwell family for many years. J ■ , The daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Mason Hardison, of near James ville, Miss Hardison attended the schools of that sect'ort, later going to Raleigh to make her home with the Maxwells. Funeral services were conducted from the home in Raleigh yesterday afternoon by her pastor, Rev. F. S. Love, of the Edenton Street Church. Interment was made in the Willowdale Cemetery, Goldsboro. Miss Hardison is survived by relatives in this county and others in Grifton. Schedule Lenten Srvices In Episcopal Churches The regular schedule of Services during Lent will Im; as follows The Church of the Advent Services every Tuesday afternoon at 4:30. Service* every Wednesday afternoon at 4:30. Service* every Thursday afternoon at 4:30. St.Martina Church Hamilton .. Service* every Tue»day evening at 7:30. v . Holy Trinity Mission Bear Ones Rood Services every Friday evening at 7 JO. It i* moat earnestly urged that every member of these Chorche*. avail themselves of the opportunity to at tend these Services during the Season of Lent aa much as possible. .'■ • ' . * ■ J ' THE ENTERPRISE Fire of Undetermined Origin Wrecks S?C. Ray Home Here Fire Gains Much Headway Before Discovered by Mrs. S. C. Ray Fire of undetermined origin to-1 tally wrecked the home of Mr. S. C. | Ray, in New Town here last Satur- j day morning and rendered valueless j practically all the household furniture j The loss partially covered by insurance, j has not been determined but is esti-j mated at more than $3,000. Starting in a closet, the fire gained j much head way before it was dis-1 covered, Mrs. Ray, in the home at the time, failing to detect the flames at first. A strong eas't wind drove the smoke away from Mrs. Ray's room, j and neighbors discovered the fires first. Receiving the call shortly before , eleven o'clock, the fire company had two streams of water turned on the J blaze in a very few minutes, connect- j ing a third line of hose a few minutes I later. The smok*, holding close to the i 'ground, handicapped the firemen, and j j they found it necessary to hold the j | streams of water on the flames for al-1 'most thirty minutes liefore bringing them under control. | Very little of the household furni- i ture was removed, the fire gaining fcuch headway that it made it impos- j | sihle for one to enter. The fire, one of the most difficult in months for the firemen to bring un der control, resulted in one of the greatest fire losses suffered here in over two years, it was learned from a review of the fire company's re | cords. j The family is living in the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A Ixggett. in New Town, temporarily. EVERETTS BANK IS DOING WELL Reduces Its Bills Payable 65 Per Cent Since Re opening, January 9 The Planters and Merchants Bank, reopening January 9, is meeting with much success in its liquidating opera tions and officers of the institution are j very much pleased with the results so far. Since reopening the, bank has reduced its bills payable >s per cent, and continues to lower those accounts rapidly. When it closed, the hank owed the Seaboard National Bank $23,000, and since the reopening, the account has been 'reduced to $9,800. A $12,500 account owed North Caro lina Bank and Trust company has also been greatly reduced, the institution owing that bank now only $3,200. j Officers of the institution state that I with any favorable trend in business i at all, they are of the opinion that all the obligations can be met within a reasonable time, and that the institu tion will be able to start paying di | vidends to their depositors so far in ' handling the - accounts, indicates that j the affairs of the hank were properly I handled, that the run on the institu tion was without founded cause. It was stated yesterday that the bank is handling fair-sized deposits, and that with favorable conditions ex isting, the institution will fully regain its position in the county's banking field. TWO CAPTURED ; IN LIQUOR RAIDS r » Arthur Mizelle and John H. 1 Biggs Are Caught By s Federal Agents ; —•— . Federal Prohibition Agents, after in near-by counties for some 1 time, returnedttoo o this county recently, , capturing an operator last Friday and another one ye»terday. I Friday, the agents went into the . wood* in Bear Grass township and found Arthur Mizelle mixing beetf i preparatory for a manufacturing. He was given a preliminary hearing and ia now being held for trial before the federal court in Washington next f April. The copper still and several barrels of beer found there were de » stroyed. Raiding yesterday in the pocosin .section of the same district, the agents « located copper plant, the operators just completing a run when J the officers arrived. Two men, one colored, escaped but John Henry » Biggs, 19-year-old white boy, was cap tured. In default of bond, Biggs now resides in the jail here. The copper still t and five gallons of liquor were des troyed. Missionary Society Holds 1 i Meeting Here Tomorrow t The Methodist Woman's Missionary i| Society will meet o«i Wednesday «f --ternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Church, n All members are cordially invited to be present. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 17, 1931. ? £ I • "LIVE AT HOME" WEEK IN OAK CITY SCHOOLS I !Radio Reception Arranged; Speaker Will Address Pupils Next Friday ! —'— The Live-at-Home" week in the j i schools of North Carolina is receiving j particular attention in the Oak City ' ! schools of the county this week, it! j was learned in a report made by Prin jcipal H. M. Ainsley. During each day j this week, the school will study some ' subject either djrectly or indirectly l connected with the live-at-home niove -1 ment. In their first study of the program j yesterday, the pupils were concerned | with the importance of daily good food | for the family. The study today has to I do with the importance of the family j cow. The program for the remainder | of the week, as outlined by Professor 'Ainsley is as follows: I Wednesday, The .. importance ofj Poultry; Thursday, The Importance of the Hog; and Friday, The Importance of the Garden. | The purpose of these programs is to acquaint each child in the elementary and high school with Governor Gard ner's live-at-home program. A radio 1 will be installed for the week and every day each child in the school will listen in to the radio broadcasting ! talks at the hour these radio talks are scheduled. The climax of the program will lie held on Friday at 11 o'clock | when a s|>caker from the county will be 'present and the high school girls under 'direction of teachers will prepare the following menus independent of the city market. Breakfast—Canned fruits, corn meal mush, milk, corn meal muffins, butter, : jeggomelets. -1 Dinner—Potatoes Irish and sweet,J Icollards, carrots, chicken fried, mixed j pickles, egg bread, peaches with .cream, salted peanuts and milk. ! Supper-—Vegetable soap. corn bread 'sticks, raw cabbage, butter, sweet po . itatoes, and milk-. , ! The above meals w ill be prepared , and served to groups after the pro gram is completed ami everyone will i have an opportunity to visit and ob» serve these meals as they are served ; from the three tables. . I The Poultry Club will have charge l of Wednesday's program and will .(demonstrate the feed, culling and , j diseases, of poultry, | ' i j Eggs So Cheap, Grocer jj Gives Away 500 Dozen l | West Frankfort, 111., Feb. 14. — Eggs have l>ecotne so cheap in this that one grocer said he ( | had decided he could afford to give I away 500 dozen of them today to his ! customers in an effort to stimulate I business. The regular retail price is I 15 cents a dozen. | A laying spree by hen*, due to the ' j warm weather, was given as the rea -1 j son for the low prices. j 1 In Centralia eggs scfld down to 11 ; cents a dozen, the lowest price in 75 years. * * ' ; Robersonville Underlie ~~ > ~~BY PITT ROBERSON For more than five years business r i has been gradually slowing down. UII . / ' V_ * j til at present we are drawing near the j time when it will be almost impossible | for many small concerns to remain in ■ business, unless something we do njt I see happens in their favor. Consquent * ly, people are constancy asking, j ""What is the trouble?" "What, is the E reason for things going like they ('are?" To mention everything that j' might have had something to. do with bringing it about would be almost impossible. However, it is my opinion i the following are some of the major , causes for the present depression. e ' While it is true business did not go , on smoothly, without a break from the t first of the twentieth century until y'the World's war, that is commonly J thought of, in relation to business, as y 1 the nearest normal period or which ll' we have any record, in spite of the J fact there was a panic in 1907. Dur ing that time, and in some cases a few years before, many big business institutions of the major commercial countries begin to buy all the available natural resources in the rural coun y tries. At the same time they also sen) - quite a number of agricultural experts i. to teach those people how to raise or o a large scale, some of the agricultural products that were needed to develop 'RECENT RAINS CHECK FIRES IN MARTIN COUNTY • Damage To Timberlands Runs Into Thousands Of Dollars BURN LARGE TRACTS | m ■ Destruction in Past Few Months I* Said To Have Been Greatest- j Than In Many Years Forest fires,' sweeping hundreds ot | acres of wood and timberlands and j causing losses well into the hundreds ! of thousands of dollars in this coun- '■ ty alone, were checked last Saturday j when three-quarters of an inch rain fell in this, section. For several weeks past, the tires j have burned over large portions of valuable timberlands, efforts to check ' them proving almost worthless in J many cases. Dense smoke settled in j many sections of the county at times, making travel on the main highways' difficult and dangerous. No serious accidents resulted, however, as far as 1 it could be learned here. Fires, resulting in even heavier losses in certain parts of Western i North Carolina, were also said to have i | checked by the rain last week, in cer tain counties in the west, the fires forced people from their homes and numbers of buildings were burned. Forest fires in this immediate sec- j tion of the State have been witnessed 1 ' practically every year for many years, 1 but this year, probably as a result of the drought, they have been more ! numerous and of greater size. Many of the,i older residents of the county who have had the opportunity to ob serve the woodlands for many years state that the destruction of timber lands has been the greatest during the past few months than at any time in their lives. . Carelessness is said to have caused | many of the fires. Eleven Prisoners Held In | The Martin County Jail I According to sheriff's records here,' there are fewer prisoners in the coun-1 ty jail at the present time than there has been in quite a while . Five of the eleven now in the jail are awaiting trial in the federal courts, and the re maining seven, county prisoners, are awaiting trial either, in the recorder's court or the superior court. The number of men six 'colored and I five white is much smaller than the number held in the jail here at the , same time last year, the records show. '( ANSWER BOX V > Q. When wiaa 'Martin County formed? A. In 1774. ' Q. Who was Martin County named in honor of? A. Josiah Martin, the last royal * governor of North Carolina: Q. Prom what counties was Martin formed? * A. Halifax and Tyrrell. i Q. How many practicing phy * ' siciana arc there in Martin Coun ty? A. Ten, or one for every 2,340 people. Q. How many practicing at- I torney* are there in Martin Coun -5 ty? I A Eleven. Man Discusses Causes That despread Business many of the commodities for foreign ; 4 domestic needs.. This was done in 1 order that they might establish giant L. industries, for the purpose of raising e and manufacturing the finished pro-j e ducts th«re instead of raising, manu n facturing and shipping from here. I t The World's War created an ex- , cessive demand for practically all the ( world's available rtsoures, i greatly increased trade between all e nations. When the young men of all I y the countries that were engaged in t the war, began to take their places in l« the army they were taken from their t civil occupations by the millions. In i u jorder to take-care of the increased de r , niand for the commodities that the war brought about, with less people o'to work, industries, the world over, e were forced to increase their rate of i il Output per capita. That was accom- y 'plished by combining capital and ins- j s tailing improved machinery and more h efficient clerical systems. When the e ' war was over and the soldiers began •-'to return home to take up their civil a 'occupations a perplexing state of af s fairs followed. There was a decreased il rate of consumption of the world's e greatly increased industrial output, i- At the same time there was in in it creased number of laborers with the :s' productive capacity of each greatly a- n j celerated. That produced a compli il Icated problem in relation to the law p 'of supply and demand. I Vital Statistics For Past Year In Four Townships Filed Here . : « MRS. W. T. AMBERS DIES FOLLOWING SHORT ILLNESS ♦ Suffered Stroke of Paralysis at 11 This Morning and Dies In Few Minutes Suffering a stroke of paralysis at 11 o'clock this morning, Mrs. W. T. Am bers died at her home on West Main j Street here a few minutes later, bring i ing to a close a life marked for its | Christian-like character and quitenes*. I Several weeks ago, .she suffered a first j paralytic stroke and since that time fhe had been confined to her bed, but she was getting along very well until ! shortly before the second stroke this morning that resulted in death. The daughter of the late Bill Moore I and wife, Mrs. Ambers was born in j j Washington County 74 years ago! ! More than fifty,years ago she married , | Mr. Ambers, the two moving from i Washington to Pit! county. After i living there several years, they moved to this county and made their home near Fveretts, moving to Williamston about fifteen years ago. A devoted mother and wife. Mrs, j Ambers made many friendships where she lived. In early life she affiliated herself with the Free Will BaptisF Church in her native county. Mr. Ambers, with two sons, Messrs. W. D. and Jesse S. Ambers, both of Williamston, survives. She also leaves j ! one brother, Mr. Geo. S. Mrtore'. of Williamston. . Burial -arrangements had not. been completed shortly alter noon today, ■ but services will be held from the j home tomorrow afternoon, it is under ! stood. PITT SCHOOLS MIGHT CLOSE Will Be Unable To Begin Extended Term If Taxes Are Not Collected j 1 A financial crisis, that may result in the closing of twenty schools in Pitt county was reported' in that county re cently. Members i f the board of coun ty commissioners meeting last week in 'Greenville, instructed the secretary to notify the county board of education | that the commissioners would be un able to advance from current funds .against uncollected special school taxes the necessary cost to operate the 'extended school term for the fiscal ■ year 1930-31. The order will affect more than •twenty schools of the county. 1 hese schools will complete their six months' term in about three weeks and will be unable to begin the ex • tended term unless tax Collections, held entirely responsible for the dilemma, pick up considerably during the next several days. The order pertaining to the opera tion of the county schools will not affect the Greenville schools system. This school is operated under special charter independent of the county school system. • •.. Near the close of the World's War, Russia fell into Sovietism, wlu«h was something morK deadly to the allied cause than a German Victory would have been. Consequently, all of the major commercial nations, for some time, refused to recognize that form oi government, and would not have any thing to do with them, at all, commer cially. , 1 ' ! For centuries China and India have been the principle rural countries of the world, and extensive consumers of westefn made products. For more than fifty years their people have he?n as sociated with American and Kuropean Foreign Christian Missionary and 'Commercial influenc. At th same time they have been sending many of their students to the Western World .to become educated. As a result they have acquired a great deal of the Wes ' tern. Spirit of Freedom and Economic Independence. That steadily increased until it crystalized into political ex pression. Finally they grew tired of foreign influence. So they began to insist the Western Countries cease political and trading domination. That was refused. Since then they have had so much civil strife, and hatred towards foreign business that they have ceased to be extensive consumers of western made products. Relatively speaking, many of the rural countries have recently become industralized. As a result the major I . ESTABLISHED 1898 v 1 TO RUN POULTRY ICAR NEXT WEEK ' Will Release Prices Late Next Friday Or Early " Saturday Morning A second poultry car of the season .will be operated in .the county tour 'days next week,* beginning. in Janies- Ville Tuesday morning and continuing 1 to Oak City, making a stop at this point Wednesday and another at Rob- I j"ersonvilfce Thursday, it was learned . I yesterday following arrangement made j »by County Agent T. B Brandon with 3 : the division of markets, Raleigh. |f i Prices for the next week's offerings.! I I have not been released at this time, |. . and will not be until kite next I-'fiday !. •or early Saturday morning It was | , jlearned, however, that the prices pre • vailing this week were lower than 1 4those offered for the shipment . made s I from the county last month, that it | was hoped better prices would be K made possible in contracts to be let i I the latter part of this week. I'he chief 1 of the bureau of markets,' Raleigh, had " t very little to say regarding the pros-!' pective prices. Agent Brandon stated 1 yesterday. The market is understood ' to be very weak at this time, however and it is believed that the prices next I . week will not be greater than those 1 paiil for the first car operated in the 1 couhty this year. 1 DOINGS IN THE LEGISLATURE ' m I State-wide Measures Are Expected To Come Up At An Early Date 1 i I lie lite of the North I .irolina l.egi-- t lature is more than hall spent, ami i there has been very, little loiistructivc ( I work put tui record to mark its work . j during these past few weeks; Swamped t 1 by what is said to be the largest group of lobbyists ever to make a charge on the capital of this state, the law-mak- | ling body, it is lielieved, will fiiid it , difficult to do much constructive work , , 1 during the remainder of its life Apparently the members id the gen eral assembly are serving as mediums, i J the people lined oil one side and the \ , interests 011 the other More tharf one j i 'of the astute body is said to—W searching for safe anchorage Many , I attacks have been made on the school I bill by the interests, but the people \ , here at home are lined U|i to sec that , I the mandate is not tampered with. The roal bill continues as a center , of interest, although local bills con- , L , tinue to flow almost continuously into t jt he legislative hopper. Wry few bills: s ,of a State-wide nature have been pass- , .led sc» far, but now and then one oi i t I little consequence goes through the .' e 'mill. The House yesterday passed a', bill providing a thitteentit or alternate | j juror iu a|l criminal or civil cases at | .. I the direction of the trial judge, t j There has much committee (.-'jwork in progress during the past few 1 | weeks and beginning shortly, it is lie- ! ,/ lieved that the legislature will have be- : .fore it important matters of a State -1 wide nature. MRSTJTBTAYERS . DIES MONDAY » Services Held at Home In r,! Cross Roads Township * I This Afternoon (I j ' (| j Mrs. Mollie Ayers, widow of the e ! late Joseph B. Ayers died at her home near l.eggetts Mill, Cross Roads ,1 | township, yesterday of pnetiiuouia. y She was taken ill with influenza a ■. lew days ago, pneumonia developing. The daughter of James T. (iardner e and wife, Mrs. Ayers \yas born in ,f (iriffins township 47 years ago. After ,f marrying Mr. Ayers, she made her II home here while her husband was con i- nee led with the rural letter carriers' n department in the local department in d, the local postoffice. The family later _ e moved to Cross Roads township where ,[ j Mr. Ayers died about a year and aj it halt ago. Her father, one brother and y two .sisters survive. i-j Services were held from the home' c ji( one o'clock today, interment follow-' d) ii>K in the Stanley Ayers Cemetery in .- Cross Roads township. 1 j if . • o Masons In Regular Meet e Here This Evenfag, 7:45 j it a e The Skewarkey lodge will hold a d regular communication here this eve y ning at 7:45 when work in the third 's degree will be handjed. Visitors from lodges in near-by districts are ex e jected, and- all local masons are urged e to attend, Mr. N. K. Harrison, niem >r ber, stated this morning. I * ■ « » Watch the Label On Your Paper As It Carries the Date When Your Subscription Expires ft VARYING RATES ARE REPORTED IN 4 TOWNSHIPS ——« Town of Everetts Has the Lowest Birth Rate and Highest Death Rate ♦ 437 BIRTHS 202 DEATHS Nearly One-tenth of the Births Re corded In Four Districts Were Illegitimate » V ital statistics from four townships " and live towns iu Martin county re-, flett a narked variation in the uijni- ' her of deaths ,:n I births recorded in the various districts and t.wns, In Kveretts, the birth rate is as low as 14 8 per 1,01(1 popu'ation, the lowest so far reported in the county. At the same time, Kveretts has.an unusually high death rate. 222" i |ier»;'l,ooo popula tion. Ihe town, of Williamston, ac cording to the statistics filed iu the office of the register of deeds, has the third highest rate reported iu any town or township so far, the rate here being 18.2 per 1,0011 population. In a close study of the statistics re ported in the four townships and five towns there are several deplorable conditions ex-tstitig in the county, but two especially stand out. One reflects lax morals among «mu> of the eo- . lured population, and to a limited ex tent among the whites. The most ap pealing one of the two. 'and one that ctjiuhinfs poverty and ignorance in some few cases, is the number of people dying in the county without any jittcmpt being made unfile part of re latives to provide medical aid, Ln a large number of cases no doctor, was catted in, tli" subjects dviitg wuljout anyone kuowing the contributing cause for death As a result, records are incomplete,, aiid it is believed that there are several who went to an early grave. Forty-three, -or nearly one-tenth of the births so - far reported in the coun ty, were illegitimate ones, distributed mainly among the colored population, as follows: truss Roads, 2; W'illianis ton township, 8; \\ illianistoii, 7; Ham ilton Township, 5: Hamilton, 1. Williams, .1; Rohersonville township, 12; Kobersonville, 7; Parniele. 2. In Cross' Roads last year there were 45 births, 25 white and 2(1 colored I he. , 22 deaths were equally divided as to ♦ lie two races. Kveretts reported four white births and six deaths among the whites and none among the colored. Fifty-four fiirths, 22 -white and 32 colored, were reported iu the town of i Williauiston. There were fifty deaths, 38 colored and 12 white, according to the report filed. In the township there were Ml births, 58 colored and 3.1 white. ;The 25 deaths were divided 13 among the whites and twelve among the co lored. Thirteen of the 1') births in Haniil | ton were colored ones. len deaths 1 reported there were divided, four a j niong the whites and six among the colored. Fifty-nine births, 18 whites and 41 colored were reported in the township. 'There were 22 colored iu the township There were 22 colored deaths and eight white ones reported in tile district: " ' " According to the reports filed so far, the birtlis are leading 437.t0 202. | The death and birth rates for the various towns and townships, based on the 1430 ,population follow: Death Birth C ross Roads 13.7 '28.1 F.veretts, town 22.2 14.8 Winston T'ship 5.1 14-5 Winston, town 18.2 14.7 Hamilton T'ship 13 5 26.(> Hamilton, town 14.7 37.4 Williams 13 8 29.5 R'ville T'ship 10.2 25.4 R'ville, town 7.(> 27.4 I'armele 11-7 35.2 BEAR GRASS MAN V DIES YESTERDAY Former Employe of Peele Motor Company of i - Williamston Walter Harrison, former mechanic' of the l'eele Motor company of this place, died at his home on the Thomas farm in Rohersonville township early I yesterday morning of pneumonia. He i had been ill only a short time. I Mr. Harrison, a native of Bear Grass moved to Williamston several years ago and was employed by the. Peek Motor company. His wife died while living here, leaving several small child ren who survive their father. Funeral services were held fVom the hopie this morning, interment fol lowing in the Mobley Cemetery, near ( here.