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Watch the Label On Twr Paper Aa It_ Carries the Data When Your Subscription Expiree VOLUME XXXV—NUMBER 90 STATE ACTIVIITY UNDER GARDNER DURING 4 YEARS Administration Saw Bubble Burst and Heards Woes of a Bad Depression Raleigh.—North Carolina is now looking back upon four trying years as the administration of Governor O. Max Girftlner came to an end and took inventory of what it did to meet the changing conditions. The Gardner administration, begin ning in 1929 when prosperity was in bloom, saw the bubble burst and be fore it was two years old, the State Was struggling to keep its head above the water. With the depression came other woes for North Carolina. Strikes broke out like eruptions of volcanoes; many banks collapsed as paper houses in strong winds; agri culture prices struck rock bottom; un employment became a serious problem and the need arose for emergency re lief measures. The stage's government was put to one of its most strenuous tests. There were no special legislative sessions called, the only two being held being the biennial se£3taits of 1929 and 1931, the first a comparative ly quiet affair but the second a five month even during which the woes of the State were thoroughly aired. The 1929 session was short lived and harmonious. The governor's pro gram calling for workmen's compen sation act and a secret ballot law was accepted. But sensing what the future might hold if the good times of the day did not continue, Governor Gardner alio successfully sponsored legislation to restrict the "creation of 'additional debts by local governments and spon sored legislation for reduction of lo cal taxes which were beginning to mount under increasing bond issues. When the 1931 legislature convened, the storm of depression was in its full fury. The bank debacle had swept the State, striking down many insti tutions once considered impregnable. The five-month session was the long est on record in the State. The baning laws were strengtehned and a bank department created. State expenditures, which had been reduced by Governor Gardner in 1930 under the executive budget act when it became apparent conditions would not improve in the near future, were further slashed; state maintenance of roads and schools to reduce local taxes was voted; the scope of state supervision over the fiscal affairs of local governments was broadened. The net result of the Gardner aV ministration, as cited in the same democratic manual, has been a reduc- j tion in property tax from $63,300,000 in 1928-29 to $47,680,000 in 1931-32, and a decrease in the total cost of state and local government from $102,- 000,000 in 1929-30 to $90,000,000 in ■ 1931 ■»' ■ r.T One of the major programs of the administration of the retiring chief executive was the "live-at-home" movement he proposed in his inaug '• ural address to encourage the decrease in production of cash crops and. an increase in the production of food and feedstuffs. This program, the agricultural de partment of State College estimates, increased by $5,000,000 the value of food and feedstuffs produced in the State, while the value of cash crops dropped from $293,000,000 in 4929 to $144,000,000 in 1931 because of the fall in the prices of cotton and tobacco— the state's two principal farm prod ucts. To meet unemployment conditions, * a program of road building was in augurated with federal funds. A state department of relief was established and money for its support borrowed from the Reconstruction Finance Cor poration. Although the administration came to an end with a deficit estimated be-1 tween $10,000,000 and $12,000,000, more than $19,900,000 was paid off during the four years on the State's funded debt, indicating revenue col lectiona during the period have ex ceeded the cost of government by $7,500,000, according to the tax com mission's report. Court Called Off Account Illness of Judge H. O. Peel With only a few cases on docket for trial, the today's session of the county recorder's court was called off on account of the illness of Judge H. O. Peel. The court will hold its next session Tuesday of next week, the condition of the judge's health per mitting. • No Meeting ot Masons . Will Be Held Tonight The regular meeting of the local masonic lodge will not be held to night as the East Carolina Firemen's association is meeting here at that tine, it was announced today. THE ENTERPRISE Hog-Killings O On Martin With all the major crops about marketed in this section of the State, farmers are turning their attention to meat packing for the coming season. The work is being carried on very rapidly in this county at this time, and it now looks as if the old hog jowl and cornbread with home-made mo lasses aa a finishing touch are coming back into their own as nev er before. Unusually large hog killings are Few Tenants Have Places To Move To NINE APPLY FOR DIVORCES IN 1932 —♦ — Number Is About Same As For Previous Year; Few Cases Completed Nine applications for divorce were filed with the clerk of the court, R. J. Peel, in this county last year, it was learned from a review of the records this week. In 6nly there cases were judgments made complete, the applicants failing to pay the proper fees. In one or two other cases, de fendants could not be found, tempor arily delaying the decrees. It is understood that one or two of the applicants have married again, leaving the question unsettled as to whether they have an absolute divorce or not when the costs are not paid. The number demanding freedom from their mates last year was about the same as the number applying for divorces in 1931. The number has been materially decreased during the past two or three years, as compared with the number of divorces granted back in the twenties. TEACHERS MEET HERE THIS WEEK Southern Group To Hold Session Here Saturday Morning The Martin County teachers in the' southern group of schools will meet here Saturday morning of this week, at 10 o'clock, it was learned from the office of the Martin County Board of Education here this week. The south ern group includes the Bear Grass, Macedonia, Lilley's Hill, Smithwick, Farm Life, Dardens, Jamesville, and 1 Williamston schools. The northern group, made up of the Oak City, Hassell, Gold Point, Kobcr sonville, and Everetts schools, held its monthly meeting in Robersonville last Saturday. Each group will hold three meet ings and work for the term will be brought to a close by a joint meeting the latter part of the school year, ac cording to present plans. No scheduled program for the meet ing here Saturday of this week has been released. Everetts 4-H Club Held Regular Meeting Friday The senior 4-H club met Janoary 9, 1933, at Everetts schoolhouse. The meeting opened with the roll call, re peating of the club pledge in unison and a few club songs. The club girls are planning to keep expense ai counts for a period of two or three months, the blanks to be given out at the February meeting. All girls are making a study of clothing costs , and needs for 1933. This includes a clothing to pc taken by each club girl to determine what cloth ing shortage she may have and meth ods of taking care of the shortage. At the meeting Monday each girl in the club esimated the cost of the clothing which she was wearing for one day at school. It was found that the total amount spent by the 16 girls in the club was $111.67. Tbia represented the cost for one day's clothing requir ed in going to school. exercises concluded the meeting. • Play To Be Given At Bear Grass On Friday Members of the Bear Grass School faculty will appear in a play, "When a Woman Decides," in the school au ditorium there Friday night of this week at 7:30 o'clock, it was announced last week by Principal Hickman. Pro ceeds from the 10 and 15 cents ad mission fees will go to the school, it was stated. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 10, 1933 reported throughout the section, farmers everywhere stating that they have pianty of 'taterm, corn and meat to run them twelve months or longer. While the weather has not been ideal for hog killings this season, it has been ffJBTe favorable so far than it was last year. ,So far as'it can be learned here, no meat has spoiled this season on account of warm weather. However, every precaution should be exercised a gainst possible loss. CONDITIONS IN MANY CASES ARE EXTREMELY BAD Usual Moving Rush in This Section Is Conspicuous By Its Absence Because th'ey have no place to go, very fdW tenant families have vacated the homes occupied by them during the past year, and the moving rush or dinarily witnessed on the highways and by-ways in tlfls section has not been in evidence this year. Landlords who have carried their tenants duting the past year at a loss, and some for two or more years, are still lenient in that they arc hot forcing the tenants' from their homes, event though tio crops will be cultivated by tenants on many farms this year. It is bclievtftl, basing the estimate on reports received from farmers all over the county, that more tenants will be without crops and homes in this j county during 1933 than ever before. The landless farmers are hardly more than squatters on their landlord's land, where they are awaiting a return of prosperity or something to turn up. Some, it is e'ertain, will be forced to seek shelter in other places, but •thanks to a majority of the landlords, the number facing several months of winter weather in the wide-open spaces is not so great. About thirty families in this school 'district have shipped in this school district so far, Principal William R. Watson, of the local schools, said yes terday, causing a turn-over of about 50 children. Most of the pupils mov ing with their parents lived in the rur ill communities and are now locate! in other districts of this county, in Pitt and Beaufort. Professor Pollock, principal of the Jamesville schoofs, said ttiat they had had only three changes up to'last Fri day, and that the order of' locations would not be greatly disturbed-this season. At the post office here, very few changes in addresses were reported yesterday, and the few were confined mainly to local territory. Eviction papers have been issued in two or three instances in the county, but so far officers have not found it necessary to throw the tenants and their furniture out into the open. Moving is now in evidence almost the year around, but the usual rush this month is conspicuous by its ab sence, indicating that nearly every one is holding on tight to another year as they did last year. SCHOOL NEWS OF OAK CITY Mid-Term Exams Are Now Being Held; Work Is Running Smoothly The Oak City school, opened with good attendance after the holidays. Mid-term examinations are in full progress. Principal H. M. Ainsley is much improved from an attack of lar yngitis and school work is running smoothly. Negro Minstrel A negro minstrel was rendered by members of the Hassell community in the Oak City school auditorium Fri day night, January 6. This entertain ment was given for the purpose of obtaining funds to aid in the building of the Christian church in Hassell. Door receipts amounted to $9, Has sell receiving $7 and the Oak City school $2. -• Christinas Program i The primary department of the Oak, City school presents its Christmas program on Friday afternoon, Janu ary 6, 1933. The tardiness of the pre sentation of the program was due to the fact that school closed unexpect edly before the program could be giv en. The children appeared to enjoy it very much. UNEMPLOYMENT SERIOUS IN SOME PARTS COUNTY 40 Workmen Called For at Oak City Monday; 100 Respond- Unemployment in the upper part of the county has reached a serious point, according to reports reaching here yes terday. Acting upon an announce ment made by the State Highway Commission calling for the services of 40 men, nearly 100 residents of that section reported for work this week there. Sadness marked the nearly 60 men when they were turned away, probably because they remembered the hungry and needy back home. Receiving as little as 8 cents an hour and that amount to come from the relief fund, the men were eager for work. And the type of work is not very pleasant, it having to do with ditching in mud and water. At the present time a large number of men are working throughout the county under the direction of relief agencies. Probably the conditions are not as serious in the middle and low er parts of the county as they arc in the upper section, but reports indi cate that there is a plentiful supply of workers in all parts. It has been said that people will not work, or that many of them will not, but the report from Goose Nest indi cates that they are ready and willing to do anything that comes to hand. Probably the peak of unemployment ft being experienced in this the present time. Many of the jobless are coming from the rural sections, as farming operations for the new year arc hardly under way just at this tuny.. Spring plowing will soon hg in order, and it is believed the number of unemployed in the rural sections will be materially lessened. NEAR END OF LICENSE SALE 1,675 Plates Have Been Sold At Local Bureau Up To Last flight f —•—~ With 2,50(J license plates on hand back in the middle of December, the local bureau had sold 1,675 of that number up until last night, Manager N.. C. Green said today. Approxi mately S33,(KM) has been collected by the bureau since it opened. According, to the latest information received here, the local bureau will close next Saturday. After that time, auto owners who have not placed the new tages on their cars will have to buy them direct from Raleigh or one of the bureaus r&iaining open through out the year. —As far asii could Be learned yes terday no time extension will be grant ed auto owners and those whose cars do not carry the new plates will be subject to indictment from no& 7m uU less the time is extended. HOUSE CLERKS GET LESS PAY Received More Money for Work Done Outside of General Assembly Raleigh.—The chief clerk of both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly arc drawing less pay for! their legislative duties than they drew on their regular jobs, which they are compelled to resign for the period they serve in the General Assembly. Leßoy Martin, clerk of the Senate, is executive secretary of the Board of Equalization, which pays an annual salary of $3,600, and Tliad Fure, prin cipal clerk of the House, is Assistant Director of Personnel, also a $3,600 job. Both clerks make $7 a day during the session of the legislature, compar ed to a little over $lO .a day on their regular jobs. Some uninformed criti cism of the clerks "holding down two jobs" has been going the rounds in some quarters, but the North Carolina law compels them to resign their regu lar jobs for the* duration of the legis lature, and they are serving as clerks at actually a lower salary then they ordinarily get. • ' Colored Man Arrested For Assault Yesterday Charged with assaulting a female, Jodie Thompson, colored, was given a preliminary hearing before Justice J. L. Hassell yesterday and was bound over to the recorder's court for trial today. • Railroads ot Country Require Lot of Water The railroads of (he country use at much water annually in their locomo tives as Chicago or New York uses in a like period for all purposes. Three Men Jailed for Recent Robberies of Stores in County BUS AND TRUCK LEGISLATION IS IN THE MAKING Truck and Bus Groups Are Expected To Enter Vigorous Protest The truck and bus operators in North Carolina and especially the franchise operators, are going to be copie the targets of another attack in this general assembly and an ef fort will be made to tighten up the laws to see that they pay at least their proportionate share of the gasoline and license taxes, according to pre liminary rumblings heard during the past few days. It is regarded as significant that the reports both of the state tax commission and of the state highway commission recommend tightening up the laws affecting brtth trucks and busses. The report of the highway' commission specifically rec ommends making changes in the pres ent basis of taxing franchise bus and truck lines.. Operators of franchise bus and truck lines do not pay a single cent into the state highway fund from li cense taxes, as do all other trucks and busses, with the result that the only revenue the highway fund gets from these carriers is from the gasoline tax they pay, it is pointed out in the biennial report of the state highway commission. It is true, of course, that the franchise bus and truck lines .ire supposed to pay a franchise tax of 6 per cent on their gross earnings and that this tax carries with it the right to operate, so that they do not pay anything for their operating licenses. It is also pointed out that all the rev enue from this 6 percent license tax goes into the general fund and not in to the highway fund. The result is that the state gets thousands of dol lars a year less revenue from the franchise truc-ks and busses than from | ilinse,owned by individuals. Yet . al most without exception the franchise trucks and busses are owned and oper ated by corporations atul thus re garded as. better able to pay an oper ating license fee than those owned by individuals. Those who have been studying the question are also inclined to agree that the present laws providing for the collection of the 6 per cent tax on the gross earnings of franchise truck and bus lines are due to be materially changed and strengthened especially to prevent any tax evasion. For while there is no proof- of any tax evasion under the~ present laws, there are a good many who frankly do not be lieve that the franchise truck and bus lines are paying the full amount of tax that tliey should*. Xhere is no I doubt that bills will be offered to ma terially tighten up existing laws and that will make more difficult to evade the payment of any portion of the present 6 percent license tax. It is also regarded as certain that bills will be intrdouced to require the franchise busses and trucks to pay the same li cense fees that privately owned trucks and busses pay. Any effort to change the present laws will, of course, be bitterly fought by the North Carolina Truck Own ers' Association and the expensive and powerful lobby which it is expect ed to maintain here. The organization already has several thousand mem bers, has collected a large "war chest" from its members for the pur pose of fighting any changes to the present laws that may be proposed. CAMPAIN COSTS $1,638,177 IN 1932 National Democratic Group Now Has Deficit Of $769,055.00 Washington.—The Democratic nat j ional committee told Congress recent ly it had spent $1;638,177 last year, an amount many times greater than the cost of keeping a president in the White House during four years. The report of the Democrats filed with South Trimble, clerk of the house, showed receipts for the same period totalled $1,708,507, leaving a balance of $70,330. However, the report also listed un paid obligation* of $839,385 so. deduct ing the balance from these the net deficit appeared to be $769,055. The report indicates that even though there was a loud cry for a Democratic president and congress, there wasn't such a ready effort to pay for it. But the deficit is in keep ing with the national committee, for it would hardly know how it felt to be out of debt. ? The Republican reports has yet to be made. TOWN TAGS HERE 1 Three hundred blue and white j tags for local automobiles were re- > ceived here yesterday and are now offered for sale at the mayor's of fice and by Chief of Police W. B. Daniel. The plates were late in reaching here, and automobile owners will be given until the first of February to display them on their cars. After that time, own ers who fail to buy and display the plates will be subject to indict ment, Chief Daniel said yesterday. The tags are patterned after those sold by the State. NEGRO JAILED FOR ROBBERY • Ananias Keel Charged with Stealing Watch in Grif fins Township * Ananias Keel, colored, ami one of the wandering group, was arrested last Friday by Chief of Police W. If? Dan- ' iel and placed in jail on a housebreak- j ing and larceny charge. Keel is alleged to have entered the 1 home ot Mr. John Gurkin in Griffins Township the day before and stole a s)s Hamilton watch and a" few other articles of small worth. He is said tiv have carried tHc,. watch to Jesse Rogers, colored, and. pawned it for ttrtr'snratt ytmr-of $2.4 j. Hngefs-Ut— er tried to borrow money by offering the watch as collateral, lie tried sev eral places and failed, but sonic of, those as)icd to advance the loan re-J membercd that Mr. Gorkin had lost; a watch and officers were notified. I Rogers turned over the watch when the officer questioned Itini and told from whom and how if came, into his' possession. A warrant was issued and Keel was placed irr jail to await trial today. ' ■ - ■ Just a week before his arrest, Keel indicted Joe Davis fur the alleged theft of a pair of shoes, Davis was sen tenced to the roads for a'period of 90 days, and present indications, are that Keel will join him ere long. ASK DONATIONS CANNED GOODS Home Agent Urges Those Who Have Food to Spare To Help Others -♦ - By Miss LORA E. SLEERER With the burdens of 828 families ap pjying'to the county for food, it should become cvyry one's responsibility to help during the year 1933. All women who have canned" the past year and have canned food t> spaTe should tithe with canned foods, contributing every tenth jar to help lack food. All who can supply land for gardens this spring can help the county very I much in cutting down the burden an other year, and all who can supply seed for these families will help very much; Food for the families of Martin Coun ty should be first for 1935. If you can tithe with your canneds foods and | not rob your own family, leave your I jars of canned foods at the courthouse with Mr. Raleigh Manning or as Miss 1 Sleeper conies into your community she will carry these jars to Mr. Man ning's office for you. Help youi; neighbor applying for food to have a' garden this year. Help your neigh-j bor to can this year and provide food! for winter storage another year, lie- j gin early to make plans'for your gar-, j ilen. Your home agent is willing to help you in every way with your home' problems. Are you willing to coop erate and help cut the burden :on the county of families now without, food and clothing? ' Garden budgets and -effimng budgets for your .family can be given you by the home agent, • • . Plymouth Negro Wrecks Wagon Here Saturday — John Robbins, Plymouth negro, ran into and demolished a wagon owned and driven by Solomon Hodge on the Washington road near here last Satur day afternoon. Frank Scott, riding in the wagon with Hodge was slightly hurt about the.head. Robbins was driving a truck belong ing to a Plymouth Hardware concern and was said to have been unable to stop it when he ran up behind the wagon and could not pass as a car was meeting him. He was given a preliminary' hearing before Justice J. L. Hassell and was required to give bond in the sum of SIOO for his ap pearance in recorder's court here to day. The truck was not damaged, « . Advertisers Wffl Fnd Oar Cot urns a Latchkey to Over Sixteen , Hundred Martin County Home ESTABLISHED 1898 CONFESS SERIES OF ROBBERIES IN !EAST CAROLINA ♦ ■ George Bailey, T. C. Poole and Joe Berry, Raleigh Men Awaiting Trial ♦ T. C. Poole, Joe Berry and George Bailey, white men, are now in jail awaiting trial in connection with a series of daring' rolitieries reported in this and other counties throughout Eastern North Carolina during the past few months. Making his first public statement in connection with the bold robberies, Sheriff C. B. Roe buck said today that preparations were well advanced for breaking up and convicting the group of robbers that has caused much terror- through out hamlets and towns in this part of the State at various times since last August. The three men, all of Wake County, waived preliminary examination and now face trial in Martin, Pitt, Chat bain, Cumberland, Robeson, Greene | and Edgecombe Counties where they arc alleged to have robbed a large .number of stores. Bailey, a young j 'man of only 20 years and a victim of the older heads in the group, is the : >son of~a Raleigh detective. He is be- - : ing held in jail here. P£fte is being held ju the Wake jail, Berry is oveFTn Pitt. / J. P. 'W atson, Roseboro" merchant, was arrested and placed under a SI,OOO bond in Sampson C.ouiTty~~yesterday.~ He is scheduled to appear here next Tuesday before Justice of the Peace i J. L. Hassell in connection with re | reiving stolen goods, claimed*, to have I been delivered and sold to him on or ' derby the the gang. Only a small portion of the property stolen in this • i county has been recovered, J. S. Ayers and Company, Fveretts merchants, identifying and recovering a quantity of goods, stolen from tlieir store*' and found in the home of Berry.' The first robbery was reported. in Fveretts last August when the store of Taylor,- Bailey and Brother was entered. A second robbery handled by the group aided by others was at Williani- I stou on the lith of November when I the Harrison Wholesale store was ' robbed of cigarettes valued at $1,300. | A minute description of the robber I has been given by Poole who told how they narrowly missed the pight j police atrd how Bailey stood guard I with an automatic shot gun. The cig iiri'tli s werernrriedtn—R-nsehoro, *e-~ cording to the lengthy confession sign ed by Poole, where around 16 cases arc alleged to have been *old to Wat son. The remainder of tTTe cigarettes were i .it riril into K»leig4r. Describing the second robbery in Fveretts and the third one in the county, Poole Sirttfr"We went—up to a place in Fveretts (Taylor, Bailey | anil Brother), and looked it over. We I succeeded iu opening a little door in side the safe this time. We "got the cash box, but there was no money in that. Then we went up to another store (J. S. Aycrs and Co.-). We went in there and blew the safe. We got around SIOO in cash and some clothes whicji we carried to Berry's house in Raleigh. We went to an«tfyer store I where the post office is, and we went I back to the safe, and it had a sign on it, 'Please do not damage safe. Ihis I safe is open,' We burst a little in- I side door and got S2OO in cash that ' was there 1 know. We then rode to ! Raleigh." Telling about the Hamilton and ! Oak City robbery on December 2, | Poole said: "We looked into a store window and thought somebody was I sleeping there and left, going to Oak " i City. We rode around inside the ' city and looked at the bank, and went I j back to a filling station to tank up. ' I After we tanked up with gas we saw 1 a safe inside the building. We put the safe inside the car and started towards Hamilton when a car pulled in behind us and gave chase. We threw the - safe off the car. Some one in the car, fired a shot gun, a rifle and a pistol at , the following car." [ Centering their activities on Wat . son, the Sampson County merchant, . officers and victims of the robbers , went to Roseboro yesterday but were r (Continued on the back page) Margolis Brothers Starting Big Clearance Sale Friday Starting their annual January clear ance sale Thursday of this week, Mar golis Brothers, local merchants, are offering the greatest opportunities ever made to the buying public in this section. Every item has been reduc ed, making possible fancy bargains In quality and standard merchandise.
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