North Carolina Newspapers

Advertisen Will Pad Oar Col ■W • Latchkey to Over Sixteen Hundred Martin County Homes VOLUME XXXIV—NUMBER 43 Personnel Planters Warehouse Completed CLAUDE GRIFFIN, ROY GRIFFIN AND TAYLOR PROPS. Three Men Are All Well- Known To Farmers of This Section The personnel of the Planters WaretiQiise here was completed this week when Messrs. Claude Griffin, W. Joe Taylor, and Roy T. Grifhn formed a partnership to operate the house dur ing the season opening the first of September. These three men are well known to the farmers of this section, and they have been connected with the warehouse business here for a num ber of years. They are experts in their work, and the partnership will, no doubt, be well received by the farth er* of this entire section. Mr. Claude Griffin has been one of the leading warehousemen of the town for several years, having made a splen did record in the copartnership at the Roanoke-Dixie. He is ably supported by Mr. Taylor, warehouseman-farmer. Mr. Roy Griffin, an office man of note, will have charge of the office, it was stated. Mr. Roy Meador, a tobacconist of many year*' experience, will auctioneer for the house this year, it was an nounced yesterday by the proprietors. Mr. Meador was with the house last season. Noah Feel, prominent farmer of Griffins Township, James 'E. Griffin, an old employee on the local market, with Mr. K. T. Griffin, will handle the book and office work. Mr. Ben Roberson, of Griffins Town ship, assisted by Mr. Henry Johnson, of Gold Foiiit, both prominent farmers, in their sections, will be the floor man ager for the house. Mr. Johnson will also take part in soliciting tobacco for the house, it was announced. Preparations for opening the mar ket here are going forward very rap idly. Repairs are being made to the home* and arrangements are virtually for the opening the first of September. DEATH OF MRS. MARTHA PRICE Elder Cowin Conducts Last Rites at the Late Home Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Martha Price, widow of the late-William Price, of thia county, died at her home in Bear Grass Township, last. Saturday at V o'clock p. ni., fol lowing an illness lasting more than two weeks. ~ Mrs. Price was born in Pitt Coun ty, near Whichards, 53 years ago, the daughter of the late Ashley Martin and wife. In early youth she moved with ber parents to this county, mar rying Mr. Price, about 18 years ago. Twd children, Henry 16, and Fannie Prki», 14, survive. She also leaves one brother, Mr. J. W. Martin, former sheriff of Edgecombe County. Funeral services were held from the late *home, near Bear Grass, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment was in tfee burial ground at the home place. Scouts To Have Court oi Honor Here Friday Night • Members of two Boy Scout Troops at Robersonville and Williamston will' participate in a Court of Honor at the courthouse here next Friday night at 8 o'clock, it was announced by Scoutmaster Wheeler Mar tin. Nine scouts from Robersonville ' and a like number from here are ex pected to qualify lor merit badges at the 'honor court Friday evening. TV public is invited. Commerce Body Makes Survey of Rail Property In an effort to determine the value ol at railroad properties in this coun ty, the Interstate Commerce Commis sion ia conducting a survey here at the present time. Attorney Knight, of Wailiington. D. C, is studying the property values and will be here from IOMK, to sue week* in completing the worjk, it ia understood. ; a Escapes Injury When Car Ptufiges Down Creek Fill Mi. J. pf Everetta, miraculously escaped injury when his eat tore through the guard railing down the embankment at Swjj? Water Cieek early last Situr day. The car, an Oakland sedan, was bnd£ damaged. THE ENTERPRISE DIES WHILE ON VISIT TO SISTER Last Rites for Mrs. L. J. Blakey To Be Held To day In Cardiff, Md. Mrs. L. J. Blakey", of Baltimore, Md., died at the home of her sister, Mrs. B. A. Critcher, here Sunday morning at 11:30 o'clock. Mrs. Blakey, suffering with Brights Dis ease, had been ill for some time, and during the past several months she had spent much time in a Kinston hospital, coming here about two greeks ago to visit Mrs. Critcher and family. The daughter of Mr. aiwt Mrs. George K. Proctor, of Cardiff, Md., Mrs. Blakey lived in Baltimore follow ing her marriage, but during the past few months and until two weeks ago, she was with her husband, who is li quidating agent for the defunct nation al hank in Kinston. The body .accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Critchrr and children, Hurras, jr., and Alta, and Messrs. S. , K. Biggs and Charles Mobley, was car ried by motor to Mrs. Blakey's child hood home in Cardiff, where the last rites are being held this afternoon. ' Messrs. Mobley and Biggs return ed at noon today. 2 TRAINS TAKEN FROM NORFOLK BRANCH A. C. L. Local Postal Patrotas Arc Likely To Ask for Bus Mail Schedules ♦ Mail schedules and passenger serv ice, to a small extent, were affected Sunday when the Atlantic Coast Lint- Railroad Company discontinued two trains running between Norfolk an/1 Rocky Mount. The change, however, caused no great delay in either ma I or passenger service. Mail dispatched from the local office at 9:44 a. m. does not reach Norfolk until 6:15 that evening, whereas jt reached there about 2 o'clock the same day before he trains were discon tinued. Mail received here from Nor folk at 4:28 has to be mailed before |9 in the mornings, whereas before the change letters mailed around 11 o' 'dock in Norfolk would reach here I that afternoon at 4:28 p.^m. ' While no action has been taken to better the mail service between this [point and Norfolk and between here and Kaleigh, Postmaster Jesse T. Price stated that by handling mail over-the I late bus of the Virginia Beach line, it would be possible to mail a letter here at 8:30 in the evening and have it de livered in Norfolk before the mail is dispatched from the local office under the present schedules. Mr. Price ex plained that by routing late mail over I the bus line, it .\ould recha Kd-nton 1 in time to catch the Norfolk Southern I trains plying between Raleigh and Nor folk, making possible a quick mail service between this point and Nor folk and between this point and Ra leigh. This possible schedule is likely to be asked for by local postal patrons, it is understood. Local Fire Company Has Good Record for Half Year -■ ♦ During the first six months of the year, the local fire company answered 17 call*, a number slightly less than the number recorded during the §rst six months of 1930, it was learned yes terday from records maintained by the department. Damage in 13 of the 17 calls was very limited, while in four other cases the losses were estimated at $3,675, the greater portion of this amount being confined to the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Ray in New Town. The company has not had a call since June 15. Politicians Meet With the j Legionnaires at Morehead The North Carolina department of the American Legion is meeting in Morehead City this week, and press re port* would indicate-that, a battle is. (till on. But this time it is the poli ticians who are doing the fighting with the war, fighter* constituting the au dience. Every candidate for office, al most, h*s gone before the legionnaires, which, within itself indicate# that there it strength' in the legion's vote. —, Fred Jenkins returned to his home in Charlotte Sunday after visiting relatives here and ia Robersonville for several days. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 28,1931 GEORGIA OPENING PRICES 7 TO 25 CENTS TODAY BEGIN DREDGING WORK AT MOUTH ROANOKE RIVER Senator E. S. Askew Not Impressed with Plans Of Engineers Discussing the dredging work start ed recently in the mouth of Roanoke i River, Senator E. S. Askew, of Merry Hill, this week stated that he was not | at all impressed with the engineers' iplans. Mr. Askew is of the opinion i that the government engineers have | made a big mistake in their plans 'changing the channel from the north 'side of the lighthouse to the east side. In , supporting his opinion, Mr. As kew stated that the old channel could have been dredged to a depth of fifteen feet at about the same cost .as will be required in dredging a new channel, 10 feet deep, on the opposite side of the lighthouse. In the old channel there is a mud bottom which could have beeu handled much easier than than the task of removing stumps and logs from the new j>ath where two large dredges are now at work, Mr. Askew explained. There are two distinct curves in the new channel, and the Bertie man be lieves that two beacon lights will be necessary to safe passage in and out of the river. He also believes that it will be impossible to either get in or get out of the river when heavy fogs (all. and that a line of barges cannot be successfully brought in or taken out without a danger of grounding. The old channel, Mr. Askew continu ed. is wider and straighter and could be navigated in the dark and fog by the aid of a fifteen second bell station ed in the lighthouse. ■ Jt> - Mr. Askew stated, however, that he is only a layman and that he might be wrong: yet. he says he has as muik confidence in the laws of nature and the experience of navigator* and observation of men as he has in the scientific guess of an engineer. Efforts lo get a better entrance to the Koanoke have been made at var ious times and by many shippers for several years, and after much delay dredging work was started there re- I cently. Living at the west end of Albemarle Sound, Senator Askew is very much I interested in the dredging work just 'as he is interested in the welfare of the whole State and its people. He was recently appointed a member of j the State Board of Conservation and | Development for a six-year term, and in that work he is especially interest ed. His home is located about north of the lighthouse stationed in the mouth of the Koanoke, and although the suind is his front yard and his farm line fence, he can't fish there because the particular water is a nat ural spawning place for the famous . white shad. CHARGED WITH STEALING CORN Jasper William In County Court Today Facing Larceny Charge Jasper Williams, colored boy, is scheduled to appear before Judge Hailey in recorder's court today for removing corn from the warehouse of Harrison Brothers and Company last week. Williams is alleged to have en teerd the front door of the warehouse and carried approximately two bushels of corn out a rear door. He hid the corn back of a Washington Street store and later sold it to C. O. Moore and Company. Mr. Moore, believing the corn was stolen, started an inves tigation and it was virtually established at that time that the boy had removed the corn from the warehouse. TWO CAPTURED AT LIQUOR STILL Andrew Mobley and Jodie Haislip Fall Into Hands of Law Sunday ♦ Andrew Modley and Jodie Haislip, both white, were arrested a liquor still in Robersonville township, ber| tween the towns ol Robersonville and Gold Point Sunday morning by Offi-j cers Roebuck and Roebuck, William Grayi and C. B. 'fall. TlirtWff were given a hearing that morning and re leased from the county jail Monday afternoon, Mobley furnishing bond in the sum of SSOO, and Haislip S2OO. The plant, an old steam outfit, was destroyed. ' Haislip stated that he had been at the still only a few minutes when the officers arrived, Operating the plant, denied ownership and refused to tell the name of the owner. * Few Tobacco Barns Burned This Year; Season Half Over Few, if any, tobacco barns have burned in this section since curing was started several weeks ago, ac cording to reports coming in from all parts of the county week. More than 25 farmers, representing al most every section of the county, were questioned in this connection, and each stated that he had not lost or heard of a barn being de stroyed by fire in his section. So far die loss by fire has been the smallest known in this section in years. However, the season is hardly half over, and there might MASONIC PICNIC TO DRAWrMANY Local Lodge Members Will Have Charge of Beach Bath Houses With favorable weather prevailing large crowds are expected to attend the annual Masonic picnic at Eden House Beach Thursday of this w«ek. Six teen lodges in Eastern Carolina are 'cooperating to make the affair a suc cess, and in years past the events have received a hearty support from thous ands of people. Skewarkee Lodge, No. 90, hete is taking part this year, and its members will have charge of the bath houses, it was stated. Members of other lodges will have charge of various amusements and lunch counters. Each lodge makes a donation for the purchase of various articles and the complete proceeds go to the Oxford Orphanage. Many people from this immediate section are planning to at tend, it is understood. MANY FARMERS AT CONVENTION Number from This County Receiving Special Work At Raleigh Meeting ♦ More than 1,000 men and women from all over the State were in Ra leigh this morning for the opening of the annual State Farmers' and Farm Women's Convention. A number of delegates from this county left with the home agent yesterday to attend, and during the day several truck loads of the farm folks passed through in cluding several women from Dare County. Mr. H. G. Ashcraft, president, for mally opened the (Convention this morning, William A. Graham, commis sion of agriculture, extending the -vis itors a welcome. Each year, hundreds of North Car olina farmers and farm women go to Raleigh for training in various farm and home practices, early indications pointing to the most successful con vention this week ever held by the ag riculturists. The convention will In brought to a close next Friday ami Saturday. FIRE AT RAY'S CAMP MONDAY Destroys Two Buildings; Blaze Believed To Be of Incendiary Origin Fire of undetermined origin destroy ed a small residence and a log cabin and threatened leveral other buildings at Ray's Camp, on Gardner's Creek, near Jamesville, eraly last evening. It could not be learned whether "insur ance was carried covering the loss; estimated at S4OO. Mr. F. S. Dawes, taking over the operation of the camp a few days ago, I had left a short while before the fire broke out for hit home in Jameiville, a' few mile* away. He was notified at hi* home and ruihed back to the camp. Mr. J. D. Ray, owner, built the camp several yean ago and in season %iuch fishing was carried on there. Norfolk Undersellers Start | Sale Here Next Friday at 9 ' m Consolidating the bankrupt stork of F. C. Swanner, Washington, and the "50-50" Grocery Company stock, of Charlotte, here, the Norfolk Under selling Company, begining next Friday morning, will offer bargain prices to the people of the section, it was stated ] by Mr. Jack Frank, owner, here this morning. The tele will be conducted at the eld C. D. Carstarphen and Com pany stand, corner of Main and Smith-) wick Street here, and includes large; stock* of groceries and general mer chaadiae. i be a different tune before the work is completed. Farmers in certain sections of the county are carry ing group insurance, but the prac tice is not being followed to any great extent, many farmers accept • ing their own individual risks. It is believed, however, that more farmers, were they in a better fi nancial condition, would carry in surance on their curing houses and tobacco. Comparatively few bains have been lost by fire in other near-by counties, according to leports reaching here. FIVE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS ' | • I Nine Others Are Injured In Series of Accidents In This State Sunday Five persons lost their lives and , nine others were injured, some serious , ly, in automobile accidents reported in thist State last Sunday. A sixth |>-r , son, an Iredell farmer, was struck and killed by lightning during the day. A , seventh person was critically nijuivd in a train accident. | Worth Wood, young High l'oint . man, was instantly killed when he. ran his automobile into a produce truck near Chapel Hill early Sunday morn ! ing. # 1 1. Miss Margaret Williams, 16-year-old ( Asheville girl, was killed and five other , persons were injured when their car ,j overturned on a etirve, near Asheville, I Sunday afternoon. i' Falling from a truck late Saturday, . Reuben l.iulwickdied in a Salisbury I hospital Sunday from the injuries sus tained the day before. Walter M. Houpe, 37 year> old, was instantly killed by lightning at his [ home nine miles from Statesville Sun day afternoon. The lightning struck r the front porch, splintered all four posts and shot through the house, striking a post on the back porch, where Mr. Houpe was standing. A second person was shocked but not I f -eriously injured by the bolt. j i Henry Washington, colored, was found near Goldsboro along a South- J ern Railroad track early Sumkiy morn ing with his left arm and right hand I I cut off and other injuries about the ' I.tad. He was removed to a (ioldsboro ' I hospital, where he is not expected to ' live. ' | Walter Freemna, 33,, farmer of Bak | ersville, is dead and Sally Freeman, ' his -wife, is in an Asheville hospital ' j with severe injuries about the head. -| Two other occupants were injured *Twhen- the- automobile vtnitk -a hum, turned over four times and threw . Freeman through the top of the sedan. ' A middle-aged man, his identity un determined, was fatally injured late Friday near Hamlet-,'dying in a hos pital a few hours later. LINDBERGHS GET READY FOR HOP Plan To Fly Over Japan and China During the Next Few Days Washington ,J|uly 27.— Jriirlcs A. Lindbergh and his wife arrived at Ana costia Naval Air Station at 5:02 p. in. today for a brief visit to the ( apital before they start on their long "vara, tion" flight to "Japan and China. ' They motored from the station to the State Department, and then to the home of Acting Secretary of State Wil liam K. Castle, jr., to spend the niglit. There was an informal dinner, with a number of Mate department far eastern experts as fellow guests. They were there 11 t?ll the Lindberghs something of the country over which they must fly. F. Trubee Dav.son, as sistant secretary of war, also was there. ] l.ndbergh hopes to leave here to* morrow, flying direct to North Hav en, Me., summer home of Senator I). W. Morrow, Mr*. Lindbergh's father, for the first ovef-uight halt if he is able to get away in time. Alternative ly he will stop at New York. Young Gibson Child Dies At Parents' Home Sunday Francis E., the one-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joel Gibson, of Griffins Township, died at the home of his parent* there early Sunday morning of typhoid fever and colitis. The child had been ill for more than two weeks. : | home ye*terday afternoon at 3 o'clock [by Rev. W. B. Harrington. Inter ' ment was in the family burial ground. STRIKE LEADERS ARE ORDERED TO VACATE HOUSES Company Said To Be Hav ing Difficulty Securing New Laborers J Lewis Williams and Wiley Joy tier alleged leaders in the Standard ler i tilizer Company labor strike last week were yesterday ordered to vacate the j houses occupied by them and belong- ing to the company. The ejectment orders embraced in papers signed by Plant Manager Bondurarit were read to both Williams and Joyner yester day by Chief of Police W. B. Daniel, Both the defendants, huwexer. failed jto appear at a hearing scheduled he fore Justice of the Peace J. 1., li.issell here yesterday afternoon, the company • getting judgment- by default ! Both Williams anil. Jayner t hi ;Chief Daniel that they would vacate within a few hours, Williams ail -.ting that" he had made arrangements to tifove into Joe Gorham's home at the jfoot ♦> f the river hill. Joy her is plait niiiK to return to his old tunic in ller , tie, it was stated. J While (|tii'tness continues to sur round the strike and no disorder is expected, operations at the plant arc very limited, and unoftu'al reports iii dicate that the company i. experienc jiug difficulty in employing more lahor at its present wage .vale. No alarm is expressed by the-company, however, las operations at this tune of'the .yeai lare not very pressing in their nature. LIGHTNING HITS SCHOOL HOUSE AT JAMESVILLE Damage To Building Esti timated at $200; Tears Off Chimney Top Lightning striking the school huild iug at Jatnesville last week resulted in damage estimated_ai_tiuore"ih»n S2OO, according to Principal A,' L. Pollock and County Superiuteudeiit J. C. Man ning, who made an investigation last ' Saturday. Approximately 2(10 brick were hurled from the chimney anil several holes were torn in the root of the building. The bolt failed to tire the building. No one felt the shock. I The bolt is- known to be the fourth that lias caused damage in the county during the past few weeks, A boll struck a telephone terminal can on llaughton Street here a few w'eeks ago, she ,ckd near-by residents and burned out several radio sets, A third holt struck a telephone pole near here on the Kveretts r>ad and splintered it completely. A transmission line ptile 'of the ' Virgin la Electric ami Fowc r 'company was torn down at Sweet jWikter Creek, near here, last week FEW FIRMS ARE MAKING MONEY , . ♦ — American Telephone And Telegraph Company Re ports Larger Earnings ——• While a marked decrease in earnings was reported by some big corporations during the first 6 months of this year, others made substantial gains, their earnings sU'ements showing more and more money was heaped upon the pile. '1 he American Telephone and Tele graph Con\pany reported an increase in earnings of nearly eight and one half million dollars. Bohn Aluminum and Brass, Colgate-Palmolive- I'eet and others made substantial gains. The Westinghouse F.lectric and Mauufact- uring Company wait one of the bin concerns reporting a deficit during lh- six-months period. Paramount I'ublix reported a loss of nearly tliree mil lion dollars. Local B. Y. P. U.s Enjoy Beach Picnic Yesterday Members of the local Baptist Young Peoples Union and a number of invit ed guests picnicked at Eden House Beach yesterday afternoon. The pic nic is an annual event planned by flic members of the local B. Y. P. U. Freak Ear of Corn Placed On Display Here Monday An ear of corn, patterned after the human arm and hand, was displayed here yesterday and today by Mrs. W. S. Mallory, who lives between VVil liamston and Everetts. Especially does the freak ear of corn resemble around -the thumb part failed to de velop, the remainder of the ear has a normal development. Watch the Label On Your Paper As It Carries the Bate When Your Subscription Expires * ESTABLISHED 1898 Average Seems To Be Around 9 to 11 Cents PRICE IS HIGHER £ ; Blackshear Averages 10 1-2 Cents With Reynolds Buying Heavily j Opinion prices reported on I two tobacco markets in Georgia today averaged around 10 rents, Hlackshc tr, one of th. 1 average , markets of th.it state, reporting | an average of It) 1-2 rents, a [ pound, -''"d Tifton reported an average of *OJ2 per hundred I>IJiTncIIT: Prices at Tifton are said to have ranged from 7 cents to 25 cents, a slightly higher fig ure than was reported there on opening day last year. Reynolds \\as said to have lieen the heavy buyer at Black- . shear, but impris on the ac tivities on other -companies were not available at 2 o'clock this afternoon. j \ comparison tif te|«irts shows that ill"' prices ||,,S \ car' ;IIV sligldt* high jer (MI the. markets there o|>euiug day than they were on the opening dav | last year n lien an average slightly be llow nine cents was reported. I'otitiilavte «>licrci| and- llie (|iiaJjty of the tobaco■ placed oil flie floods vvere . not mentioned in the early reports rccei* ed" liei v ■ I I'.arlv coiimicnts In i*rnwer-s werv | not mentioned. j A marked shortage in tin -'crop there jha.s . been repotted t> (he govern • inen't, and w nivlioilsemen are of the opinion that the poundage will be .50 to .15 p i iem le.s tlian.it was last season. ( 'l'lie nat.ou s iii vs tobacco crop • siaited to inariUi this morning, inaug urating the l'"ed.eial government's first lattenipt lo repvit average prices paid for standard Rl des and types, j Daily (|uotations, a p«rt of the 000 tobacco. inaikct nnv > service an Uhorued by the last I ynt/ress, will jbe posted l>> licit) elli> es in eight iiil porlant districts. .Reports will be made only on J0 lot sales of standard inediiiin colored or orange grade id wrappers, leaf, cut'fei* fciuf lugs. Ac companying . trade comments w ill show comparable values of lemon and 'mahogany grades. FEWIviARRIAGES | TAKING PLAGE i ' » Only Three Certificates Is sued Here So Far In Month of July "The ipiietness in the marital ad vancement oi the county is reaching .serious proportions," Register of Deeds J Sam (ietsinger stated here yester day morning. Up until noon yester day, the register of deeds had issued only three license certificates 'since June .10, ( ine of the certificates went to a white couple and two to colored parties. Marriages in the county have been more, limited «o far this year than last, but it now looks as if the number will reach a new Tow level this" month. Eighteen licenses were issued from tliY* county office last March. Twelve were issued in April, eight during May and only six lasCliiOnth. IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT ON GIRL Spence Gurganus Is Jailed For Alleged Assault on Young Cobufn Girl Charged with 'criminally assaulting Helen Coburn, ! ( >-ycar-old white girl, of near Robersonville, Spence Gur ganus, young white man, was jailed here late yesterday, C. M. Hurst, Rob ersonville mayor and trial justice, who heard the preliminary action, refusing the man bond. \ Gurganus is said to have called for the girl Saturday evening, explaining to her people that he was taking her to a show. The next morning, the couple is said to have returned in- an allegedly drunken condition. Follow ing a heated argument with the girl's people, the couple left in Gurganus' car a second time. It was advanced that Gurganus car ried the girl to an old vacjnt house; where he is said to have given her liquor and committed the alleged as sault during the night.