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Advartban WHI Pad Oar Col on a Latchkt* to Ow lliow Hundred Martin Co—l| HOOMO VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 58 PROCEEDINGS IN MARTIN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT Criminal Docket Was Com pleted Tuesday; Many Actions Settled The Martin County Superior Court] ends the first week of its two weeks term today with much work already handled, but with a congested calen dar awaiting attention next week. I No startling cases have been called by the court, and comparatively small crowds have heard fhe proceedings. The criminal docket, completed Tues day afternoon, was one of the small est in years. Criminal cases handled by the court not previously reported are as fol lows: * Cody Kain, young white man, pleaded guilty of robbing two stores! in Everetts and was sentenced to the ' roads for 12 to 18 months in each I case, the sentences to run concurrent-' ly. The burglary charge preferred against Kain was nol prossed. Redding Tyre and Perlie Hardison, pleaded guilty of stealing meat and were sentenced to the roads for 12 months each. Sylvester Brown went to the roads for a period of six months when he pleaded guilty to stealing a small quantity of lard. Charles Johnson was sentenced to the roads for two years and Lee Jones was enrolled along with him for a 12-montht stay when they were fbund guilty of larceny and receiving. John Williams drew six months in the case charging him with larceny and receiving. j W. T. Roberts and W. T. Albrit ton, charged with housebraking and larceny, were sentenced to the roads, Roberts for a period of 18 months and! Albritton for 8 months. Probably the most important case on the civil docket was that of Mn. Lena Cochran, asking $50,000 dam ages against Dr. L. B. Mcßrayer. The case, called Wednesday, was expect ed to continue well into Thursday,' hut the action came to a sudden close , when the litigants agreed on a settlement. Mr. Cochran was award-1 ed $4,000 damages; the estate of Rob- ] ert Cochran, the man who was fa-1 tally hurt in the automobile wreck in connection with wh»ch the suit was brought, was awarded $3,000: Leighton Cochran, young boy in jured in the wreck, received SSOO. A non-suit resulted in the case of Brown, Roberson, and Coltrain vs. j J. L. Coltrain, administrator, tlie court ordering the plaintiffs to pay the costs. A divorce was granted Thessa B. Roebuck against William Roebuck. I The case of Slade, Rhodes and Company against Sarah Brown was settled by agreement. ' Judge Barnhill non-suited the case of Miss' Thelma Harrell against the Atlantic Coast Line. Miss Harrell was asking $2,500 for injuries receiv ed in an automobile-train wreck in Aulander about two years ago. R. W. Salsbury was given a judg-' ment againat Lewis H. Peel, the court! ordering the defendant to furnish bond in the sum of SI,OOO for the illegal appearance of a note endorse ment. i Judgment was given H. L. Keel against Sidney Daniel. The case of Mrs. Ethel Roebuck against Barnhill et al, in which she was asking $2,500 for damages sus tained in an elevator accident in Barn hill's store in Everetts about three years ago, was called yesterday aft ernoon. An error in the presentment delayed the action, and the case was not completed until noon today when the jury awarded the plaintiff a ver dict in the sum _of.. $2,500. The court then started on the case of Fred Everett against Dees Monu ment Works and by the time that is completed there'll be little time left for other cases, it is believed. The, court will continue its work next Monday morning. Regular Services At Baptist Church Here There will be two regular preach ing services at the Baptist church on /Sunday. The 11 o'clock service fol lowing the Sunday school, and the evening service at 8 o'clock. This, however, will be the last Sun day evening aervice to be held at 8 o'clock, for beginning with the first Sunday night in October, the evening service will be moved back to the 7:30 hour. The church has some meters of importance to come up at the Sunday services, and requests the presence of the membership. Some additions are to be made to the board of deacons and two women are to be added to that board. The B. Y. P. U. groupa will meet Sunday evening at 7 o'clock • for the purpose of organizing for the winter's work. To all these services the public is invited. THE ENTERPRISE Opening Day In Martin Cou More than 3,000 children reported (or work in the thirteen white schools in this county Monday, the enrollment being one of the l*rg e»t ever recorded. While there will be many change* in the enrollment figures as the term progresses, the following table ihowi comparative opening registration! in the elementary and high schools for the 1932-33 and 1933-34 terms: * 1932-33 1933-34 School El*. H. S. Total Ele. H. S. Total Dardens SO 50 40 40 Jamesville 254 114 368 300 113 413 Williamston 516 182 698 555 181 736 Everetts 211 60 278 233 »* 233 Gold Point 75 75 48 48 Hassell - 62 62 50 50 Hamilton 135 135 165 165 Oak City 279 97 376 265 115 380 Robersonville 323 192 515 350 210 560 Parmele 75 75 55 55 Macedonia 25 25 * * • Farm Life 103 63 166 122 70 192 Bear Grass 233 54 287 222 54 276 Lilley's Hall 33 33 31 31 Griffins 28 28 •• •• Totals . 2,409 762 3,171 2,436 743 3,179 * Consolidated with Williamston. ** Consolidated with Farm Life. ** Consolidated with Robersonville. ' 'Fire-Bug Three Bac f FALL BEGINS 23RD J Today marks the close of sum mer, and tomorrow, beginning at 7.01 in the evening autumn will be officially recognized as the third new season of 1933. The SMion continues with us until December 22, when old man winter makes his appearance officially. Probably other season in the year do the landacapes with their golden harvests snd leaves of every hue unfold a greater and more striking beauty in this sec tion of the country than they do in the autumn season. COUNTY BOARD REVIEWS AUDIT May Turn Insolvent Tax List Over to Collector On Percentage The Martin County commissioners, in special session here yesterday aft ernoon, reviewed an audit of the gen eral county books and accepted the figures presented by Greathouse and Butler, accountants The auditors were instructed to complete individ ual office audits, and it is understood that a modern accounting system will be installed in the office of the court clerk. Complete audits will be re viewed by the commissioners at their next regular meeting on October 2, it was learned following the meeting yesterday. it is understood the commissioners are planning to turn the so-termed in solvent tax list over to a special col lector for the collection of accounts on a percentage basis. No definite action has been taken in the matter, as far as it could be learned, and nothing will likely be done about it until the tax sales are held the first Monday in December. All members of the board were present for the meeting here yester day afternoon. , 10 Per Cent Drop in Attendance Reported A 10 per cent decrease in attend ance upon the local schools was re ported for the first week by Princi pal D. N. Hix this morning. An av erage daily attendance of 159 was re ported in the high school while the attendance in the elementary school dropped from 555 to 528 pupils, the school man said. "Pink eye" was advanced at one of the main reasons for the drop in attendance. Says Cotton Crop Will Be Housed in Two Weeks "Two more weeks and the cotton crop in our section will all be housed" Mr. J. W. Eubanks, member of the Martin County Board of Education, said yesterday afternoon. With the tobacco markets closed, the farmers are rushing their cotton to the gins, but most of them are carrying their cotton home with them, Mr. Eubanks explained. He also said the the farm ers in that section apparently realize they cannot operate next year under NRA prices on 10-cent cotton no,w. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 22, 1933 BLOODHOUNDS PUT ON TRAIL; LOSS IS $6,000.00 Man Believed To Have Set Fire To Buildings Is Hiding In Woods Three packhouses on as many farms and large quantities of tobacco were destroyed by fire in Hamilton Township last night, the total loss being estimated at about $6,000. The fires are believed to have keen of in cendiary origin, but at noon today no arrests had been effected, as far as it could be learned here. County offi cers are making a thorough investiga tion of the fires, but they had dis closed no findings at noon today. The first of the three fires was dis covered by Mr. L. H, Rouse at his home on Highway No. 125, near But ler's Bridge. Tte packhouse, a two story wooden structure 16 by 32 feet with a shed attached, and 15 acres of tobacco with the exception of a smal\ quantity sold on opening week, were destroyed. No insurance was carried on the tobacco, and Mr. Rouse was not sure whether there was any cov erage on the building, which was val ued at around S7OO. Mr. Rouse, an exceptionally successful tobacco farm er, valued his tobacco at about $2,- 000, basing his estimate on prices paid About three-quarters of an hour lat er fire was discovered in the pack house belonging to Mr. W. A. White, about one-half mile from the Rouse home. The building, valued at about S4OO, and six acres of tobacco wijh the exception of the first curing, were burned, resulting in a loss estimated by Mr. White at about SI,OOO. Only SIOO insurance was carried on the building and none on the tobacco. At 3 o'clock this morning, the pack house of William Purvis, about two miles from th« White home, was burned "along with a cotton house, two and a half bales of cotton and about 12 acres of tobacco. Only 40 sticks of graded tobacco had been sold, leaving Purvis with a loss esti mated at about $2,00. It is under stod that the tobacco was insured. County officers and others hurried to that section early this morning, and it was first thought that a band of nigbtriders was responsible for the fires. This theory was soon dis credited, and it is now believed that a prowling Negro fired the buildings. Bloodhounds were called by Mr. J. W. Kubanks, and they picked up a trail which was lost about an hour later and about three miles from one of the fires. A suspicious party was seen there and a search of a woods in the section is being made in an effort to capture the man. The dogs lost the trail when the man's tracks were erased by a road drag, it was said. The farmers had signed tobacco acreage reduction contracts and took part in the cotton reduction move ment, it was learned. Salisbury Man Accepts Position in Robersonville B. A. Barringer, of Salisbury, has accepted a position in the Koberson- 1 ville High School, taking the place made vacant by Professor J. H. Smith who resigned last week to continue his work in a Louisville Seminary. MANY CHILDREN ARE BEING KEPT OUT OF SCHOOLS Poverty and "Pink Eye" Are Given as Main Causes While no definite figures will be a vailahle until a survey is completed in the several school districts in this county, it is estimated that several hundred children arc being held at home by "pink eye" or near-poverty. In some sections of the county, the contagious "pink eye" is said to be | very common among the smaller chil dren, some families reporting all mem I hers as victims. Children suffering | with this disease are advised to remain ,at home. While the "pink eye" causes ; the eye to itch and burn and the 1 pupil to turn pink, it is not consid ered dangerous in most cases. The delayed tobacco opening has developed hardships among hundreds of families, and it is believed that several hundred children are being held out of school because they have very little clothing to put on their backs. Many requests for aid have reached the county welfare office here from parents throughout the coun ty, the authorities stating that they were finding it next to impossible to meet the requests for clothing for the needy school children. The welfare agents are doing all they can to re lieve the situation, but an average at tendance upon the schools will hard ly be possible before the markets are open at least a week or more, enabling the parents to get money for needed clothing and supplies. In the meantime, school and wel fare authorities are urging the par ents to place their children whenever it is humanly possible for them to do so. It is agreed that a whole lot of clothing is not necessary just at this time, and that many children who are not now attending school could do so if they so desired. Williamston Wins Over Bear Grass Yesterday Playing a benefit game for the local high school football eleven, William iston's all-star nine defeated the strong Bear Grass baseball team l»y a 12 to 7 count on the local lot yes terday afternoon. It was another pne of those "hot" games in which several of the local •."Stars almost play out. liurganus and Peele working on the mound for the visitors allowed seven hits; Cooke, for Williamston, was touched for 9 hits. No accurate rec ord of errors was available. But the game was enjoyed just the same. Next Wednesday) afternoon, Dak City's strong nine will play the lo cals here, and the receipts will be used in financing the football schedule here this season. 0 Program of Services at Christian Church Here A regular schedule of services will be held in the local Christian church Sunday. Sunday school coneves at 9:54. At the morning service, the pastor will (speak on "Spiritual Measurements." The evening service will be held at 7:30 o'clock, the pastor preaching on "A Social Religion." All members are urged to attend •and a cordial invitation awaits visi tors. Program of Services At Methodist Church C. T. Rogers, pastor. The worship program of the Sun day school begins at 9:45 sharp. You are asked to be in your place by 9:40. Church services at 11 a. m and 8 Epworth League Monday at K p. in- You are cordially invited to meet with us. The congregation will be asked to make a special pryaer for the absent members. Revival Services To Begin At Rid dicks Grove Sunday Following the regular service jtt Riddicks Grove Baptist Church Sun day afternoon at 3 o'clock, a series of revival services will be conducted there, it was" announced by the pas tor, Rev. W. B. Harrinton this week. The meeting, opening Sunday night, will continue through the week, it was said. The public is invited to attend the services. Respected Colored Woman Of Hassell Dies Last Week Nannie Jones, very highly respect ed colored woman of the Hassell sec tion, died at her home there last week following a long illness. Well advanced in age, she had been an ar dent member of) the Primitive Bap tist church for nearly 40 years. Plans Go Foward Market Opening Ask Donations for Relief of Storm Sufferers Along Coast With hundreds of families home less and all their earthly belong ings destroyed as a result of the recent storm in eastern North Carolina, the Ked Cross is appeal ing to local people for funds. Fed eral Relief Director Hopkins has 1 . ruled that Federal funds, cannot be used to rebuild or repair the thousands of homes destroyed or damaged by the storm, the decis ion placing the entire burden on the people themselves with only the aid of the Red Cross. The people, in many cases, are in des > titute circumstances, with no place to turn except to the Red Cross, and that organization is without sufficient funds to meet the emer gency. Mrs. A. R. Dunning, chairman of the Martin County chapter of GETS 8 MONTHS FOR KILLING SUNDAY NIGHT Jasper Page Pleads Guilty To Manslaughter in Court Tuesday RolK'isonville, N. Sept. 21. Jasper Page, colored, was sentenced to the roads for a period of eight months by Judge M. V. Barnhill in the Martin 'County Superior Court last Tuesday afternoon for the killing of Jasper Staton, colored, near here last Sunday night Page pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and evidence in the case proved favorable to him. Judge Barnhill, it was unofficially learned, would have favored Page's released had the man limited the num ber of shots fired into Staton's body. \ cry little evidence was heard, and the case was disposed of in short order. Staton, employed locally during the past year or two, went to the honie of Nan Coffield, colored woman liv ing on the James Daniel farm, near here, last Sunday evening. While there he quarreled with Mary Jane Andrews, an occupant of the Coffield home. The Coffield woman attempt ed lo run him away when he attacked the girl, and when she failed in her efforts she called to Page, who also lived in the Coffield home. Page, ap parently excited, ran for a pistol, and upon his return he used it freely. One shot struck Staton and one ball entered the lace of the girl, hut she was not seriuusly wounded. Staton was removed to a Washington hos pital, where he died about 3 o'clock Monday morning. Agent Is Appointed For Cotton Growers Group James M. Rogers, son of Rev. C. T. Rogers, of Williamston, was named authorized agent of the North Caro lina Cotton Growers Cooperative As sociation for Martin County this week. Growers are directed to get in touch with Mr. Rogers when plan ning to make cotton deliveries. Services at Hamilton Church Next Sunday There will be morning and evening prayer with sermon each time at St. M|ariiti)i Church, Iflanul ton, this Sunday. It is hoped that every member wil Intake a special ef fort to attend these services, as an nouncements will lie made for the fall work. We cordially invite all our friends to worship with us, 100. Supreme Court Sends Case Back for Retrial •The Stale Supreme Court this week granted Hoyt Barber,- Martin Coun ty farmer, a new trial in the case in stituted by the Colt Company, mak ers of carbide plants, to recover ap proximately S4OO claimed due it by the farmer. Upon wliatjflrounds a new trial was granted «, Mr. by the court could not Judge Hunt f'arker did nol Wu.hmil the charge* of fraud to the juJH, nor did he charge the jury in the Itse, it is understood. The case will lilely be called at the November term If the Martin Coun ty Superior Couii. Catawba Count! farmers have pur chased more in the past three months than they have in the whole of the past three years. the Red Cross organization, has been asked to direct an appeal to Martin County people, and it is hoped that a substantial support will be given the appeal. All funds will be used directly in the stricken areas. Thousands of dollars will be required to meet the minimum needs of those fam ilies without resources whatever. Since the appeal comes in be half of near by neighbors, it is believed the people of Martin County will respond willingly and liberally. An organization to canvass the people of the county is being planned, but in the mean time all those willing to contrib ute to the worthy cause are ask ed to forward their donations to Mrs. Dunning, chairman, at Wil liamston. I PUT OFF TAX SALE I V : V Martin County tax sates (or the year 1932, held up by an injunc tion several weeks ago, were again delayed this week when Judge M. V. Barnhill signed an order scheduling the sales for the fi«at Monday in December. The de linquent list was scheduled to be advertised the first week in Oc tober and the sales were to fol low on the first Monday in No vember, Under the new order, the list will be advertised the first week in November, and the sales held the first Monday in Decem ber. The second delay in holding the sales was granted, it is under stood, becuase the tobacco holiday had delayed the income of many property owners. County author ities are confident that many of * the tax accounts will have been settled by the first week in No vember now that the property owners have been given added op porunity to pay their taxea. I SEEK UNIFORM PEANUT PRICE * Meeting Is Held at Rich Square Tuesday To Make Plans ' Rich Square, Sept 20 -Plans were § laid here Tuesday afternoon to seek ! to carry to a successful culmination the stabilization of peanut prices by the steering committee of the Kastern Carolina ( lumber of Commerce, spon I'sor of this movement In the absence of Chairman J. II . Matthews, Secretary N. (I. Bartlett acted as chairman of the meeting, j Congressman John 11. Kerr made an address to the gathering. Judge Kerr will accompany the committee to f Wasl lington for the furtherance of the plan at a later date. T he meeting went on record as asking for a minimum of .1 12 cents per pound for the 193.? crop with a' ! ,25 perrfceut acreage reduction for l'> 34 and 1935. The meeting also fa vored entering into a marketing agree ment with the cleaners and shelters I for handling the crop, l'lans were laid for-carrying forward a campaign to J get peanuts under the wing of the i agricultural adjustment administration 1 at the next session of Congress. Judge) Kerr expressed the feeling that there would not be so much trouble encoun ' tered in getting peanuts put back into the bill by an amendment now, be ause the authorities at Washington are more familiar now with the im portance of this crop. The adoption of the peanut code wdl be the next thing of importance to the industry, the committee feels. Reports by thosej present from five counties indicated! |an unusually short crop this year. | Presbyterians Announce Week's Program Services "The Church with an open door." The usual services will be held at all points Sunday, September 24. A series of meetings will begin at Roberson's Chapel Thursday night, October sth, at 7:30 p. in., and at Bear Grass on Monday night, Oc tober 16th. The Rev. M. O. Som-, mers, of Clinton, N. C, will bring the messages at Roberson's Chapel and the Rev. W. S. Harden, of Green ville, N. C, the ones at Bear Grass. Make a new deal with yourself and come to church Sunday. &9* •• SOOWIMT ESTABLISHED 1898 LARGE QUANTITY WEED HAS BEEN PUT ON FLOORS Agreement Is Still Hanging • Fire Between Buyers and Government Reports received from Wash ington at noon today stated that the conference arranged to boost tobacco prices was still in ses sion, but that an early agreement was expected. While government officials and to bacco bmers and manufacturers have failed to adopt an agreement advanc ing prices to a certain point, tobacco farmers throughout eastern Carolina continued their preparation today to I place a portion of their crop on the warehouse floors for sale Monday morning Already millions of pounds of the crop have been placed on ware | bouse floors for sale next Monday, anil while there is a possibility that warehouses will continue closed, it is believed that sales will be resumed that day with the understanding that the government will see to it that he | farmer gets a higher price for his to ; bacco. Ihe warehouses here are receiving tobacco right along now, it was re ported this afternoon. It was generally believed and hoped in these parts that some agreement had already been reached that would l have resulted in parity prices for the | remainder of the present crop, that | the conference scheduled in Wash ington yesterday was for the formal adoption of the proposals advanced la--l week The meeting scheduled for yesterday morning, was recessed until that afternoon, and when no settlement could be reached the con ference then recessed until today, j I*arm administration officials sat in on the meetings of domestic and ex port buyers. The domestic buyers I outlined a tentative proposal which . was taken under consideration by ad ministration officials. It would bind the larger domestic buyers' to pay prices close to parity for the remainder of the marketing year up to June 30, but the buying Would be based on consumption of flue-cured by the manufacturers over the last few years. (in its face, the proposition sound ed good to farm officials, but they said they wanted to do a little re search before they accepted it, es pecially to find out how much tobac co would be bought Growers complained that the larg er domestic buyers hail paid parity prices for the belter grades of tobac co they acquired in the past, but that the real problem was the lower grades and the tobacco exported. fieorge N. I'eek, administrator of the farm act, ( liester C\ Mavis, direc tor of production, and J B. Hutson, head of the tobacco section, discussed the new proposal with the domestic buyers, including St lay Williams, president of the R. J Reynolds To bacco Company, and several others, but no conclusion was reached. The export buyers held preliminary discussions during the morning and early in the afternoon they withdrew to a closed room in a hotel for a ses sion which lasted hours. The proposed agreement on which the hearing was held, or rather sched uled, would have bound both the larg er domestic and export purchasers to pay -prices to be set by the Secretary of Agriculture. The pact was presented to the to bacco men last week by the farm ad ministration, it being the first pro posed marketing agreement offered by Secretary Wallace. After the meeting it was indicated that the buyers would accept the pact, but over the week end a good many of them changed their mindsr The export buyers, who handle on an average more than one-half the flue-cured crop, balked at entering an agreement along with the domestic group The' export reprsentatives said their situation was different and should be handled through a sepa rate pact. .■ Farm officials tentatively agVeed, provided the proposals by the export group were satisfactory. A phase of the flue-cured export situation which has encouraged the farm officials is the low level of the dollar. This, they said, would enabl/ the foreign purchasers to pay a price approaching parity and yet the actoal cost of their tobacco in term* of gold would be relatively low. A bit disappointed because of the delay, the administration group re ported "progress" and reiterated de termination to obtain higher prices to the growers.
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