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Watch the Labrf Oa Tow bur As It. CarriM Mm Data WIH Your Sabscripdan Sxpirva VOLUME XXXV—kUMBER 21 PARMELE STORE IS ROBBED LAST SATURDAY NIGHT Lester and Ira Matthews and Norman Currie Are Arrested In Tarboro Charged with breaking into and rob bing the store of John H. Roebuck in Parmele some time Saturday night, Lester and Ira Matthews and Norman Currie, three young white men of Tar boro, were arrested there Sunday morn ing and placed in the county jail here that afternoon to await trial. The trio, stealing a big Locomobile from J. R. Davis in Tarboro, msde a heavy raid on the store, stealing $25 worth of cigarettes, side meat, cloth, and a quantity of canned goods, all 1 valued at about $l5O or S2OO. ' Discovering the robbery early Sun day morning, Mr. Roebuck noticed the unusually large tire tracks and started an investigation. Following the tracks - Mr. Roebuck went to the,home of Joe Matthews, s relative of the Matthews boys, but he did not stop. Returning ' to Parmele, a distance of about three miles, Mr. Roebuck ssked Will Csr son to- visit the Matthews home and inquire about the car and its Mr. Matthews described the car and told who occupied it the night before. Sfberiff Roebuck was cstted in the mesntime, snd the trsil carried them to Tarboro. About the time they reached the Edgecombe town, Mr. Davis reported to Chief of Police ■ Lewis that some one had atolen his , car the night before but had returned J it. He informed the officers that some one had apparently hauled meat in the rumble seat, for there was a quantity of loose sslt left. With Mr. Davis, ] Sheriff Roebuck drove the big car back to this county to have it identified by Matthews and s colored man who saw the machine the night before. Returning to Tarboro, Sheriff Roe buck found the two Matthews boys snd Currie in jail, but they refused to admit the robbery or tell where the stolen goods were. Unsble to make {hem talk, Sheriff Roebuck returned to this county again and with Mr. Mat thews and the colored man went back to Tarboro. Currie began to weaken ' when he was faced by Matthews snd the colored man and finally told a complete story of the robbery and where the goods were hidden. Dur- , ing the sheriff's second return trip to this county, Chief Lewis had aearched one of the Matthews boy's home snd found some cloth that was later iden tified by Mr. Roebuck as his own. With Currie lesding the way, the of ficers went to s woods near the Tar River three miles from town and found all the stolen goods, Mr. Roebuck re covering every srticle with the possible exception of s few packages of cig srettes. The mest and cheese snd a few other articles were in a peanut sack swinging from s tree top. At a preliminary held before J. L. Hassell here yesterdsy, the three, men pleaded guilty, pleading for low, bonds on the grounds thst they sdmit-, tad the robbery. Each waa required to give bond in the sum of S3OO, in de fault of which they sre now in jail a waiting trial before Judge Frizzelle in Jane court. The Matthews boys were born and reared in this county, but lately they have been in Tarboro, where they worked in one of the mills. PEANUT PRICES CONTINUE LOW, Farmers Who Held Crop Off Market Receive Only j Disappointment * Martin County farmers and others who have held the 1931 crop of pea- . nuts off the market hoping for bet ter prices this spring have received j only disappointment for their trouble j aad expense so far. The price decline, which set in soon after the crop was j housed continues to prevail, and prices today are little better thsn one cent a pound, 1 1-4 cents being the top price for the average crop. Tax-liating dealt many farmers an other blow, sdding just one more expense to the crop thst will fall far ahort of returning actual coats to those producing them, There are not many of the goobers left ia this county, but it is under stood that large stocks sre held by producers aad agenta in surrounding counties. ■ The growers are at a loss ss to what to plant thia season, latest re ports indicating that they have a bellyfull of peanuta and that no large crop will be planted this year. Of course, the firmer will plsnt enough to make his hay, but the prevailing low prices have forced a decrease in the peanut acreage as in the case of tobacco. • Minted Cents ».■» —„> I. 11 —— .. r .- ' - Approximately 3,750,000,000 pennies sre minted each year by the United States Treasury Department Ji THE ENTERPRISE Few Applications for Free Seed Are Rece With only nine persons apply ing for aid, the seed fund estab lished here several days ago is holding up well, indicating that the unfortunates are too trifling to help themselves or that they started their gardens before the seed fund came into being. A 99.27 donation created by 'a collection Sunday before last dur ing the commencement sermon swelled the fund to $20.78. Up un til yesterday $4.25 worth of seed had been bought for the needy, and a quantity of field peaa and f MUSIC DIRECTOR 1 V- ' Miss Carolyn A. Hosford, who will direct the music and ai.lst In the preaching services at a reviv al to tie conducted in the (local Methodist church week after next. MAKES FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT Rev. A. Corey, Senatorial Aspirant Outlines His Platform I. a Formally announcing himself as a candidate for the nomination for State Senator, Rev. A. Corey, of Jamesville, said yesterday: "For the past ten years I have held the office of Engrossing Clerk of the North Carolina Senate, through which office a large majority of the bills in troduced in the legislature were copied, and by virtue of that work, 1 have ac quired a knowledge of legislative pro cedure and an insight of State prob lems which should be of inestimable value to any man representing his District in the State Senate. "Undoubtedly, taxation will be the greatest problem to confront the 1933 session of the General Assembly. I subscribed to the theory that taxes should be levied in accordance with one's ability to pay and that no ad ditional taxes should be levied upon those who are already struggling un der a heavy tax burden. "I believe the State Government, like every individual, should exercise rigid economy and that all useless boards, bureaus, departments and com missions ahould be abolished and that public expenditures should be curtail ed where it is possible to do so with out impairing the efficiency of the Government. "I believe education is of psramount importsnce and it should be encoursg ed and fostered by the State, and while some economy may be effected in our school system, I do not believe in curtailing school expenditures to the point where the schools cannot efficiently function. "I recognize the fact that it is ~an economical impossibility to reduce taxes by levying more tsxes, there fore, I shall stand for economies in Government and the levying of ad ditional taxes only upon such sources ss are now escsping taxation or bear ing less of the tax burden than they should." V Clarence Mizelle Died At Vandemere Last Thursday • Clsrence A. Mizelle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Mizelle, formerly of Msr tin County but for the past IS years residents of Vsndemere, died there last Thursday after suffering with os-j teo-ssrcoma for seven months. The disease first developed in the boy's j leg, amputation of that limb failing to check it, and later his chest was af fected. He was born in Vandemere about IS years ago, and has many relatives in this county. Interment was made in the family burial ground on the H. G. Modlin farm, near Jamesville, last Friday aft ernoon, Rev. W. B. Harrington, as sisted by Rec. A. Corey, condocting the last rites. . » Lincoln Farmers Mixing Their Guano At Home Lincoln County farmers are mix ing their fertilizers at home from ma terials purchased for cash. Good re sults were secured from this practice last sesson, they say. • „ l& Yavji tor s9d A London man has just completed sarving a 35-year prison sentence for the theft of 990. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 10, 1932 butter beam, donated by Commis sioner Joshua L. Coltrain, had been distributed. No additional donations will be solicited in behalf of the fund «t the present, or until there is a marked increase in the demand for seed. Donors are assured that the seed will be distributed to only the needy ones, as far as it is hu manly possible to do so. Charity ■cases are asked to take advantage of the fund or suffer the conse quences if they fail now to start digging for themselves. OFFICERS AFTER 2 THIEVES, CATCH 3 MORE ON WAY Leaman Beach and A. Z. Clark Arrested for The Theft of Car Battery Lloyd Harrison and his brother, Cross Roads Township residents, proved themselves super detectives last Saturday night when tliey missed a battery from tlieir grandfather's au tomobile and tracked the alleged thieves, Leaman Beach and A. Z. Clark, young white boys, over a course of three miles through woods and sel dom-used paths. Returning from church, the Harri son family discovered the tracks of the intruders, and once it was learned that the car battery been removed the two boys started the search. From 11 o'clock until 4 the next morning, the boys were out. By tjie light of a lantern, they trailed Beach and Clark to the home of Bill Beach and found the battery under a shelter there. Re turning home, the boys called Sheriff Roebuck, and he, with Deputy Grimes, went to investigate the report. About daybreak and just before they reached the Harrison home the officers met an old Ford coupe without license tags and with only one headlight burn ing. Thinking something was wrong, the officers turned around and stopped the car, finding Chester Little, Willie Bunn, and Ernest Turner traveling j with one-half sack of fertilizer and a i sack of soybeans, said to belong to j Henry Gray, who farms in Pitt Coun , stolen the soybeans and the three men | were going tto trade them for liquor. The three were arrested and placed in jail, where they remained until yes terday, when they were removed to | Pitt County for hearings. It is un derstood that when Bunn is released in Pitt he will be called to answer a charge of driving an automobile with out license. The unexpected arrests of the three men delayed the sheriff and deputy, but even then they reached the Har rison hom about sunrise. Going from there, the officers reached the Beach home before the family was up. When questioned the boys admitted the theft and bond was later arranged. SLUMP AFFECTS SLOT MACHINES » ■ - Ben Whitfield Pays County Taxes with 1,200 Pennies Here This Week/* With three candy-chewing gum ma chines serving as a barometer, business J in Gold Point, this county, was off 64 per cent during the past 12 months.' Last year Mr. Ben Whitfield, mer-' chant of that town, collected 3,300 ol | the coppers in his machines during the 12-roonths period ending one year ago.' At the end of the next 12-months per-' iod he collected 1,200 pennies in the' , machines. | As he collects the pennies he places them in a box and when the time ar-' ( rives he delivers them to the sheriff I and applies them on his taxes. Mr. I Whitfield made a turn-over yesterday. I Therein lies a. moral: A few pennies saved every now and thsn will greatly aid one in paying his taxes. Of course, | one does not have to take the moral I literally, but he can set aside the pen-1 nies and still keep them in circulation. Farm Life School Will Present Play Thursday • Pupils of the Farm Life School eighth grade will present a play, "Marrying Margaret," in the school auditorium there Thursday night of thia week at 8 o'clock. I Announcing the event, Principal A. E. Mercer stated that the play would furnish much fun and real entertain ment for those witnessing it. No admission will be charged, and the patrons and friends of the school arc cordially invited to be present. m Nebraska's Lakes The State of Nebraska has 1,200 natural lake*. W. A. LILLEYCROP PREACHES HERE; FIRST OF SERIES Services Will Be Held Each Evening Throughout This Week "If we had served God half as well as we have served our king, we would not be so powerless and so anxious today," Rev. W. A. Lilleycrop told a large congregation here last evening in the first of a series of sermons he is delivering iu the Church of the Ad vent this week. Centering his talk around the 17th verse of Epistle of James, first chap ter, "Every good and perfect gift is from above, and eometh down from the Father, with whom is no variabl ness, neither shadow of turning," the minister said that God will take care of us today even as he did Jerusalem and Livingston. But we must sur render ourselves-eotnpletely to Christ it we would be cared for and enjoy the fullness of His blessings." he con tinued. "There is radiance in the Bible," the minister said, asking why we did not believe in the teachings of Christ that the same radiance might shine in our own lives? "We are not in touch with God. His truth calls us but we are glued to the ground; we are asleep." In strict sincerity, Mr. Lilleycrop scored hatred, selfishness, our self satisfaction when supporting the church, and other faults that make us forget God. We are so busy we for get God, but we don't want him to forget us, he said. The speaker earnestly urged his hearers to pray for guidance, read God's word and follow it, adding we must do that if we are to have power arid happiness. "If we will only do that, we will discover a soul and a life we did not know we possessed," he concluded. Kach evening throughout the week, the Greenville minister will preach in the Church of the Advent here, and a cordial invitation is exteneded the public to attend. BARNHILL DEATH STILL A MYSTERY Coroner's Probe Brought to A Sudden Close In Pitt County The mystery surrounding the kill ing of Jesse Barnhil! in the Flat Swamp section of the 16th of last month remains unsolved, a coroner's jury concluding its investigations late last week. Coroner A. A. Elwanger, of Pitt County, said the jury had been unable to obtain sufficient information to continue the inquest longer and had declared the yotfng white man ( came to his death by a pistol in the hands of an unknown party or parties, and closed the case. The young man, son of Tom Barn hill of Pitt County, but connected in a business way in this county, was found dead beside the highway in the Flat Swamp section just across the Martin line in Pitt County about 11 o'clock, Saturday night, April 16 by Mr. (Leonard Taylor. Five bullet wounds were found in the body, three in the head and two in the chest. He was last seen by his father at his home about 8 o'clock, the young man return ing home with his father from Bethel about {hat time. He told Mr. Barn hill that he was going for %is w#e J who was waiting for him at the home of a neighbor. He failed to return and | Mr. ,Barnhill insisted that a search be made. I Young Barnhill is said to have car ried around $17,000 insurance on his ' life, and that a part of that amount ' was written under the double idemnity 1 clause. However, the many rumors j circuited as a resulted of the killing, did not mention the insurance, but surmised that he was engaged in some illicit business. The inquest which followed later was left open pending investigation, but the Pitt cornore said the mystery was so baffling that he found it ad- I visable to close the probe pending fur ther developments. Columbus Banks Help In Fight on Blue Mold ■ " 9 Local banks in Columbus County assisted the tobacco growers in buy ing 100 spray" pumps for controlling the blue mold disease in tobacco beds. l\ BANK HOLIDAY Today, Confederate Memorial or Decoration Day, is being obeerved as a holiday by the Branch Bank ing and True* Company. While the day is all bat ignored in this -1 immediate sactfcn, it is widely ob eerved in other parts of thie state and ia Kentucky. _ j The bank will reopen for trai nees aa usual tomorrow. ■■ • Large Gathering Hears Senator Morrison Speak Here Monday PROF. MEMORY IS SPEAKER FRIDAY AT FINALS HERE Twenty-One Diplomas and Certificates Awarded To Graduates | If you would be successful in life, establish a relationship with God, con sider carefully who you marry and choose a profession, Professor J. L. Memory, jr., of Wake Forest, told the youth of the community assembled i with their parents and a goodly num ber of school patrons in his address here last Friday that market the close of the local schools for another term. 1 Opened with a prayer by Rev. C'has. H. Dickey, the program had its high spots in addition to the main address by Mr. Memory. Jim RJhodes, jr. made the salutatory remarks and Vir • ginia Gurkin, class president, address ed a farewell to the school. Ben Man- I ning, seven years in school without being eigther absent or tardy and | his name on the honor roll every | month, was signalled out for the un | usual record, and Clarence Grady | Godard, Williams Township youth, i was recognized for his record in high j school, he having successfully com | pleted every course offered. The crowd I was one of the largest to attend a I commencement exercise here in years, j But the program could have started at I 9 o'clock and then some spectators | would have entered late. ' Introduced by Rev. Mr. Dickey, Professor Memory offered three point j ers to success, quoting the poets now and then to develop the i meaning. 1 Kirst of all, one should establish a re lationship with God, the speaker re ' ferring to the Bible quotation, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven." A second factor, a big one to be con sidered is Whom yau marry, Mr. Mem ory stating as his belief that it isn't advisable to marry too early in life, that the selection of a mate is im portant. As a third requisite to suc cess, the choice of a profession was mentioned by the speaker. In doing this, the beginner should list all the professions and ask himself three questions: Do you like the one you wish to choose? Can you obtain the necessary education to assure success? I Will the chosen profession enable yo\i I to render a service in the world? The service feature in choosing a profes sion was advanced as one of the most important things to Consider, and once you have chosen a task, go to I work, the speaker said, adding that ' it is better to choose and fail than it is not to choose at all. Following the professor's address, Principal Win. R. Watson delivered certificates to 45 seventh graders who are planning to enter high school next fall. Twenty-one diplomas and cer- I tificates were awarded. FIRE DESTROYS DWELLING HERE Small Tenant House, Near River, Burns In Very Few Minutes Fire of undetermined origin destroy ed the small tenant house owned by Mrs. J. H. Ward and occupied by Mr. and Mrs, Ben Andrews and family near the river here last Saturday aft ernoon. discovered, the fire had gained much headway, destroying the house in a very few minutes. The fire burned so rapidly that several men standing at the Harris filling station just across the road could remove only a few articles before they were forced to retreat. Several members of the family were iff* the home at the time, Mrs. An drews discovering the fire when she started into the kitchen. Upon open ing the door, the flames met her. The fire company was called, and so nearly was the house destroyed, it was thought useless to fight the blaze when the apparatus reached there. Connection with the water lines was later made when fire threatened the furniture removed from the house. No insurance was carried on the contents, an almost complete loss re sulting. The house was insured for S3OO, the amount about covering the loss. Tqbacco Acreage Cut SO Per Cent in Columbus The tobacco crop of' Columbus County wijl not exceed SO per cent of the 1931 acreage as a result of disease and insect attacks' in the The Bordeaux mixture seems to con trol the blue mold disease but stunts the pUnts, say Columbus farmers. 1 SENATOR MORRISON] The Senator who scored Re publicanism in an address here yesterday afternoon. Mr. JMorri is a candidate for United States Senator. YOUNG GIRL DIES SUNDAY NIGHT; FUNERAL TODAY Miss Mary Clyde Williams Succumbs Following An Appendicitis Operation Miss Mary Clyde Williams, popular young daughter uf Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Williams, of this place, died in a Washington hospital early last Sun day night following an operation for appendicitis, which, with congested liver and other complications, result ed in her death. She had been in the hospital since last Tuesday, having been carried there following an acute attack of appendicitis. Miss Williams was thought to be in, perfect health a few days before her death, having been ill only once and that was sev eral years ago when she suffered a severe attack of pneumonia. Miss Williams, 17 years old, was graduated from the local' high school with the cja*s of 1931, and since that time she had been' studying a corre spondence course. She ii survived by her mother and father and four sisters, Annie Mae, Carrie and Virginia Williams, all of Williumston, and Mrs. Lillian Stal lings, of Conetoe, and two brothers, William Howell and James Williams, of this place. 'Funeral services are being conduct ed from the Main Street home this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by Elder B. S. Cowin and Rev. Z, T. of the local Presbyterian church, which she attended regularly difting the past •several months. Interment will be in flic Skewarkey Cemetery, near h"®- NO PROSPECT OF TAX SALE DELAY Town Tax Collector Here Preparing List for June Advertising With little or no prospect for delay ing the 1931 town tax sales longer than fhe one month stay already granted, Tax Collector W. B. Daniel is now making arrangements to have the list of delinquents advertised the first of next was learned yesterday. Upon learning .that other municipali ties are going ahead with their tax sales, jt is understood that the local, authorities are of the belief that it is advisable to proceed with the sales as soon as the 1 extension of time is spent. It is also understood that the town can meet its bdiiid maturities and in terest if the sales are not postponed longe/. As all indications point to advertising next mouth, property own ers are being urged to bear the pro posed step in mind and make settle ment of their taxes at once and there by prevent additional cost and unnec essary embarrassment. To Hold Colored School Finals Here Tonight The local colored schools will close the 1931-32 term this evening when William Stuart Nelson, president of Shaw University, Raleigh, delivers the commencement address. Certifi cates and diplomas will be awarded 20 seventh grade pupils and 12 high school students, Superintendent Man ning delivering the diplomas and Mr. C. A. Harrison the certificates, it was announced by the principal, Edgar J. Hayes. Advertisers Will Fad Oar Cot ame • Latchkey to Ow Uumb Hundred Mtartfa Cmmty Hence ESTABLISHED 1898 TELLS HIS STAND ON IMPORTANT ISSUES OF DAY Ably Proves He Is Not An Ad Valorem Tax Advocate Cameron Morrison, United States Senator and for years an ardent sup porter of the Democratic Party and its principles, ably defended himself in a stirring political address before a large audience in the courthouse here yesterday afternoon against charges made against him by opponents seek ing a seat in the Senate. At the out- ' set he reviewed his work as one of the first men in North Carolina advo cating the removal of an ad valorem ,tax for the support of the state, and branded the accusations directed a gainst him by his opponents in the Senate race as unfounded and unkind. Back yonder when I was running for (iovernor of the great State of North C arolina. I was the first to' lift a voice against ad valorem taxes for State use. and in my inaugural ad dress 1 advocated an amendment to the constitution making it right to tax \unearned incomes," the Senator /re minded his hearers. "At that time," he said, "I pointed out to the General Assembly that a new system of, taxa tion'must Ix; adopted, that ad valorem taxes be left for the counties and oth er locil governments. And yet a few have run to Raleigh 'and studied the question a little, and now they are trying to misrepresent me before the farmers and other people of Eastern North Carolina after I had advocated and worked during the past years for removing all ad valorem taxes as one of the principles of the Democratic Party." The Senator slung no mud, and in fur liter defending-.liinrseH.he explained a telegram forwarded to Governor Gardner by him after he (Morrison) had been "chunked" into the Senate. "In that telegram 1 said get all the tax off property that can be gotten off, but don't levy upon food and clothing," the speaker said, in declar ing that his platform has been and will | always be for the people. He stated his belief that the 15-cent ad valorem ' tax now levied by the State will be [ done away with in the next general assembly. After answering those two charges, I the Senator displayed his old-time ora | tory, declaring that the troubles facing ' us today arc not the result of our af ! fairs of state, but are the result of the I Republican Party in the United States I and its selfish activities. "After Wood- I row Wilson, as head of the Democratic Party, had built up a government for the people, the Republicans came a long and knocked down the rights of the masses, set up high tariff walls and established banking systems and cur rency schemes of their own, and as a result the wholeworld resented it, and today foreign trade has fallen in vol ume until the'fe are fewer farm prod ucts being shipped from this country at the# present than at any time dur ing the past 40 years," Senator Mor rison declared. Continuing the speaker said that the blessings of the Wilson administra tion were felt even after the party had gone down in defeat. "But then Grundy, of Pennsylvania, went to Washington and called for a still high-; !er tarilf wall that has wrecked every- ♦ J thing and everybody, even those who wanted it passed," he said. "Yes; they say the panic is world wide, and so it is, but the Republicans caused it, caused it by paralyzing commerce and administering currency policies that would not work. You sell your cot ton at 7 cents in our money, and those in the east pay 28 cents a pound for it in their money. The Republicans' wilt do nothing about it, aniT it looks as if they would see tint they are wreck ing themselves." The Senator pointed to his attentive j audience that a bill had been passed authorizing negotiations be opened with the world in an effort to cut down the tariff and restore prosperi ty. "President Hoover has not yet* vetoed it, but he is going to, for the hands holding the lash are going to make him veto'it." Mr. Morrison predicted that a bill would be passed in Congress that would either depreciate the dollar through the great Federal Reserve system or enhance the value of prod ucts. "But we have to bear it a little longer or until the Republicans are removed from Washington," he de clared. So thoroughly disgusted with, the Republican regime in the nation's capi tal is be that the Senator said, "I don't - know who will be the Democratic nominee for the Presidency, but I will Continued on back page)
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