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v. ■ AdvwtiMn VB Fad Our Col nni a Lttchkw to Ow fliHwa Hundred Martin Couatj Haaaaa VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 79 MANY FLOCKING FOR JOBS WITH LOCAL CWA UNIT Thorough Checkup Being Made As To Eligibility Of Applicants ♦ News of the. favorable wage scale advanced by the civil works program is spreading like wild fire, and lab orers are flocking into the fold in al most unbelievable numbers from every nook and corner. Unofficial reports indicate there is a hot race underway to see who can get the most. The employment hureal is be ing swamped with applications, many of which should never have been tnade. A report from the bureau Monday morning shows 371 people registered, that number not including the direct relief cases to be included in the works program. Nearly one-half or 221 men to l>e given employment in the county were assigned to the four projects in the county last week, calling for a $1,332.95 payroll fast Saturday. Yesterday there were many still knocking at the employ ment office bureau to register. Some of those seeking to register are farmers who produced good crop» this year and made money on tobacco with corn in their barns and hogs in their pens. Some who had borrowed from the seed-feed loan and who had met their obligations with a first load of tobacco are trying to get their names on the list. Others who have jobs are trying to get themselves in cluded in the working list, believing the sailing easier and the pay greater. The civil works program was not created to give employment to those who are experiencing a lull in their business just now and who have as sets of their own to fall back upon. Only that class of labor without work and without funds and where there are dependents is eligible, ac cording to information received here. The employment bureau is anxious to help those who really need help, and the apjilicants trying to "hog" some thing that rightfully belongs to the less fortunate might be called to answer before the program is com pleted. Martin County is scheduled to put 442 men to work. Nearly half that number was placed An the payroll last week, and it is believed the pro gram will be fully underway by the latter part of this or early next week. Investigations into eligibility of the workers will continue, and those men who have no business on the pay roll will find it to their advantage to make arrangements now to paddle their own boats. Additional projects are being con sidered, and just as soon as they are approved, the distribution of the workers will be improved, it is un derstood. At the present time, men are being transported from one sec tion to another, but sufficient pro ject* are being arranged in the local centers to care for the workers in these particular districts. When the projects are fully de veloped, a payroll amounting to more than $5,000 will be handled wdtkly in this county, it is estimated. Native Of Martin Dies Sunday In Tyrrell County Dennis Tetterton, 4 2 years old, died suddenly at his home in Englehard, Hyde County, Sunday morning fol lowing an injury to his head received j a few weeks ago. Reports received here stated that fie was hit oyer the head with a bottle during a quarrel in j an Englehard pool room. Funeral aervices were held yester-| day and interment was in the Tetter-j ton plot in the cemetery here. The son of Mrs. Joanna Tetterton and the late Henry Tetterton, lie was ■born here. Following the of his first wife, the former Miss Ada Perry, Tetterton moved to Hyde County, where he farmed. Besides his wife, he is survived by his invalid mother, one brother, John Tetterton, and one sister, Mrs. An nie Wood, all of Brooklyn, N. Y. He was married three times, but no chil dren were born to either union. Child Dies In Hospital From Effects Of Burns —_ , $ Pauline, the five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Ward, who live at the old J. H. Ward residence on the Washington highway, died in a Washington hospital-yesterday ' after noon from the effects of burns re ceived uafeen the child's clothing caught fire about four weeks ago. The little girl has been in the hos pital since that time for treatment. The child's clothing caught fire from an open fireplace early one morning while her parents were out of the house and |he was severely burned about the body. Interment was made at the Ward graveyard near the home today. THE ENTERPRISE TOBACCO MARKET The local tobacco market re- I opened yesterday after a two i day* holiday for Thanksgiving. The offerings were light, and , while the prices were not as j high as they were a week ago, j they were said to be above the prices paid just before the mar kets closed for the holiday. Prices received here compared favorably with those on other markets for the day, it is under stood. LYMAN JONES, PITT FARMER, FATALLY SHOT Conflicting Evidence Raises Doubt As To Manner Of Shooting Lyman Jones, 32-year-old Pitt County farmer, was fatally shot just a few yards from a Hwliness church, near Brown's school house in Rober sonville Township, last Saturday night, conflicting evidence raising doubt as to whether it was suicide or the man was shot by Sani Ayers, re spected Martin County farmer. Jones, found fatally shot along the roadside about 45 yards from the little church by Rason Biggs, was removed to a doctor's office in Kobersonville. Learning his condition, doctors ad vised him that death was only a few minutes off, and that if he had any statements to make, he should make them at once. Under oath, Jones said that Sam Ayers shot him, adding that he knew no cause other than the religious zealousness of Ayers. He described the shooting, and even though he knew lie was dying, lie ex plained that he held no malice against Ayers. After shaking hands and telling a relative goodbye, Jones died shortly before midnight. Hearing the deathbed statement made by Jones, Chief William Gray arrested Ayers with a warrant charg ing murder. Coroner Biggs and Sheriff C. B. Roebuck were called, and evidence contrary to the sworn statement made by Jones was heard. John T. Bland, 12 years old and a brother-in law to Jones, said that Jones went to the Bland home and got the gun, a 410 gauge, to go opposum hunting. The boy and Jones went to the church, where services were in pro gross, and after talking there a few minutes, Jones went on down the road. The boy claims he heard a gun fire, and that he was talking to Sam Ayers at the time, indicating that Jones had sworn falsely on his death bed and raising the belief in the minds of some that Jones had taken his own life. When Jones was found, he had his ntcht shoe and sock off, hut before he died he explained that his foot, injured in a wreck several weeks be fore, was hurting him and that he had removed the shoe and sock and wa*s rubbing his foot when Ayers fame up and asked to see the gun. This evidence was corroborated by Iwo men passing the scene just be fore the shooting. When they asked why he had hi* shoe and sock off, Jones said that his foot was hurting him terribly' and that he was rub bing it. Other people at the church said they were talking with Ayers and heard the gun fire. Another it said to have been at a tobacco barn nea-r er the scene and about the time of the shooting, and heard no report of the gun. A jury was summoned, and it was decided to hold Ayers under a SI,OOO bond for the next term of Martin Superior Court convening next week. Ayers, said now to deny the shoot ing, had not been inside the church prior to the shooting, but went in and a front seat soon after Jones was fatally shot, it is understood. ♦ Dr. J. A. Eason Endorsed By Medical Examiners ♦ Dr. J. A. Katon was one of the 23 doctors in the State whose creden tials were endorsed by the North Carolina State Board of Medical Ex aminers last week. I Coming here from Virginia only a j few months ago, Dr. Eason has gained a strong friendship throughout this section, and it is with much pleasure that the people learn he has decided to make this his homfc. Little Sickness Reported For Month In County — The November health report for this county carries few cases of con tagion* disease*. There were two chickenpox cases in Griffins Town ship, two whooping cough cue* among colored resident* and one scarlet fever case in Williamcton during the period. Williamston, Martin PEANUT PRICE LIKELY TO BE 3 CENTS PER LB. —s — And Growers Agree To Accept Schedule Of Administration 1 A price of three cents a pound for the present crop of peanuts was vir tually assured in Washington last Saturday when millers and growers met there and agreed to accept a schedule approved by the farm ad ministration. The millers maintained for a price of $55 a ton while the grower* and their representatives proposed a minimum price of S6O a ton- or three cents a pound for the current crop. While the millers still maintained that the $55 price sche dule appeared fair, tliej said they would accept the $5 boost if it was approved by Secretary Wallace. Just when the agreement will be effected, it could not be learned. The glowers would have it effective from last Saturday, while it was all but agreed that the schedule would go into effect upon ratification by See- retary Wallace. As a means of pro tection for the growers, a system of borrowing on the crop is being con sidered. If the tentative arrangement ef fected stands, and there is little rea son to doubt that it will, the basis of most of the Virginia and Carolina peanuts would be s'>o, or three cents a pound. Some of the big peanut growing counties are found in North Carolina, and it was estimated if present plans are carried out, that it will insure to these North Carolina growers about $2,000,000 more than they realized from the 1932 crop. Representatives of the growers urg *d higher prices than those proposed, saying the shellers should be willing to try it out on the higher basis, as it had been determined by the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and other au thorities that the cost of production would range around three cents a pound, and Governor Ehringhaus pointed nut thai it was the intent of Congress, not only to give the farmer cost of production for his crops, but restore the buying power of agricul ture. Unless the shellers and buyers ; agreed to a higher price he feared j Jhe marketing agreement would ulli- , mately have the effect of nullifying. Ihe act of Congress. He thought j there should be a revamping, or re vision upward, of the whole scale of | prices, or the effect would be to . make a mockery of the law. There | was danger of dynamite in the pres- ' ent situation, he added. A number of shellers got to -their j I feet at the conclusion of the slate- j nient of Governor Ehringhaus, as i they thought the observations of the | North Carolina governor carried the implication that they were on the make, or were about to try on a little | profiteering, under the marketing | agreement. They asserted that, |uite to the contrary, none of them had I been able to lay up any riches, and | | that the only time any of them ever, made a dollar was when they liap- , pened to guess right on the market, I and they occasionally made some- j thing on price advances after they had acquired a goodly supply. f Many Lettebs Sent To Tobacco Farmers 1 Approximately 1,500 letters, ex-, plaining the tobacco adjustment pro- . gram, have been mailed to farmers in this county, preparatory to the reduction campaign that is scheduled j to get underway the latter part of this or early next week. County Agent Brandon was in Raleigh Monday re ceiving last-minute instructions, and the reduction campaign arrangement* are now complete. Farmers will receive cards within 'the next few days directing them to visit their respective committees, and it is hoped that the work can be com pleted within a comparatively short time. Several Injured In Sunday Wreck At Robersonville 1 Miss Louise Grimes of Roberson- Jville suffered a broken arm and a Miss | Bullock of Bethel was badly but not seriously injuerd when the car in j which they were riding turned over ' near Robersonville last Sunday af ternoon. A Miss Daniel of Roberson ville and Mayo Hardison and Jasper Moore, driver, of this place escaped with minor injuries and bruises. * Roanoke Hotel Now . Under New Management ♦ Mrs. Grace Swain, formerly of Ply mouth, has taken over the manage ment of the Roanoke Hotel here. Mrs. Swain, experienced i ntlie man agement of hotels, entered upon her new duties here last Friday, succeed j ing Mrs. W. J. Smith. mnty, North Carolina, Tuesday, December 5, 1933 NO SEED LOANS BUT SOMETHING ■ BETTER FOR 1934 Credit Needs Will Be Han dled Through Affiliate Of Land Bank Under the new laws governing the work of the Farm Credit Administra tion, new machinery is being set up for the handling of seed and fertilizer loans beginning with the IW4 season. North Carolina farmers will handle their own credit needs with the aid of the Production Credit Corporation affiliated with the Land Bank at Co lumbia. » ' I lie hew plan provides for farmers to secure adequate and permanent credit for producing crops, breeding, raising and fattening livestock and for the production of poultry and all live stock products. The Production Credit Corporation has a capital stock of $7,500,000 and will organize, provide the initial credit for and supervise the operation of lo cal production credit associations in all communities where the need ex ists, "It will be the duty of these asso ciations to make loans directly to farmer borrowers and the associations will, in turn, discount the farmers' notes directly with the Federal Inter mediate Credit Batik of Columbia," says A. F. l.ever, in charge of public relations for the bank. "If ten or more farmers manifest an interest in forming an association, the Columbia Corporations will send a representa tive to the community to help arrange the matter. County larm agents will also help." These associations arc not to be set up to provide an easy way for farmers to go into debt but to help liitn get put and stay out of debt, Mr. Lever explains. He says that any one desiring definite information about how to organize one of the associa tions should talk over the matter with his farm agent or write directly to the Corporation at Columbia, South Carolina. It is the, belief of extension author ities at Statb College that this new plan will he found more satisfactory in the long run than the old seed loans of the past. PIGS PLACED IN STUMP HOLE; ESCAPE FIRE Unusual Story Reported By J. W. Hines In The Savana Woods Many .small homes and outbuildings were threatened .and a few destroyed in .recent forest fires burning in this county, but the most unusual story advanced in that connection was told this week by Farmer J. W. Hincs. Last Saturday night.Mr. Hines and liis tenants were fighting fire in the Savana woods on his farm. They heard pigs squealing in the path of the raging fire and the men rushed there just in time to-move a sow and three small singed pigs to safety. No time was had to look for additional members of the thick just then, but later Mr. Hines and his men returned to the scene. In an old stump hole, a , few feet from th?_>pot"where the f mother and three pigs were foum i. Much Damage Estimated the men discovered six more little j To Have Been Done pigs unharmed even though the fire, •»_ «.» j j * had burned all around the hole. Mr In Wooded Areas Hinei allows the mother pig realized the danger and moved the newly-born pigs to safety, and that she did not have time to inovf the others. Thirteen More Cotton Checks To Be Received Thirteen Martin County farmers participating in the cotton reduction program are yet to receive their checks from the government, it was learned this week. No cause for the extended delay could be learned, but despite the late date there is yet hope for the receipt of the money by Christmas if not before. Four hundred and fifty checks, to taling $20,994.39, have been delivered to farmers in this county for their participation in the reduction pro gram. —.— 1— ♦ Three Weddings In One Day Reported Saturday Justice of the Peace J. L. Hassell established a new record here last Saturday when lit- look the vows troni tour' young couples jumping into matrfmony. Three weddings in one day was the record broken. A small rain checked forest fires throughout the section last Sunday, but it looks as it nothing will stop this fatal leaping that got underway on a big scale in this county only last month when 42 marriage licenses were granted couples. TOWN FATHERS PLAN TO WAR ON CITY'S RATS Authorities Plan To Distri bute Several Hundred Pounds Of Poison With no special business scheduled, the town hoard of commissioners held an uneventful session here last evening. A second meeting of the month will be held within the next few days when certain business mat ters will he discussed, it was learned. _J he rat plague, already considered serious throughout tHe'unyn, will be attacked within a few days when the authorities plan to distribute several hundred pounds of rat poison. Final anangenu tits for tlie anti-rat cam paign are awaiting the re.vipt of the poison bait, it was said at the meet ing last night. During the mean time, citizens of the town are asked to make preparations to take an ac tive part in the campaign again;! the rodents. Thousands of dollars worth of property are lost each year right 'ure in the town as a result of the rats, described as ground squirrels and said to be the size of small cats. An ordinance against the use of fireworks was recalled, and it is un derstood that violators will lie handled in accordance with the laws. While no, developments have been effected in connection with sinking a new well at the water plant here, the authorities are still working on the project, and definite information is expected shortly. 1 ORGANIZE LOAN BODY SATURDAY AT WASHINGTON —♦ — H. H. Cowen On Committee To Represent Martin County Representatives from Martin, Tyr rell, Washington, Beaufort and Hyde counties met in Washington last Sat urday and perfected the organization of a regional production credit cor |ioralion. Loans made by the regional produc tion credit corporation will take the place of the seed and- feed loans of this year, as well as the loans made last spring by the regional agricul tural credit corporation. Under the new plan, to be used next spring, borrowing farmers become stockholders HI the corporation. A man applying for a SIOO loan will be required to buy $5 worth of stock in tlir corporation, that amount being deducted from the loan, it is under stood County Agent T. li Brandon and Mr. H. 11. Cowan were the only at tendants at the from this county, and Mr , Cowan was made a member of the committee, represent- i*iM Martin County. ll is understood thai (he live coun lies in this district will be able to se cure loans totalling up to at least a half million dollars. RAIN CHECKS FOREST FIRES IN THIS SECTION Rains falling last Sunday evening checked temporarily if not altogether many forest fires throughout this sec tion, but not until damage, estimated in the thousands of dollars had been done to timber and other property. For more than a month fires have raged in first one section and then in another in this county. Several of the fire* are said to have burned across small streams and open fields, destroying small quantities of corn. A few buildings were damaged and any other* threatened by the fire* that filled the atmosphcte for miles and miles with smoke. In the dis mal, bordering the lieaufort County line, fire is said to Jiave burned into the earth a* much as two feet and destroyed sizeable trees. t Hertie had its fires over the week end, and traveliiiK was made danger-' LIU* between lieu: and Windsor at] times The C. C. C. boys and otfiifirS were called into fire-fighting service. 1 Other counties, with forest protection service, had their fires also; in fact, woods have burned in twenty-five or more counties throughout the State during the~pa*ffrw yeeks ■ Woman's Club To Sponsor Dance Friday At Club Hall The Woman'* (?lub will sponsor a dance Friday night of thii week at the club hall. Music will be furnished by Fred Rogers and his 'Robersonville orchestra. Tlpe public -i* cordially in vited to attend. TAGS GOING FAST - Opening last Friday, the local State automobile license bureau in the Williamston Motor Com pany building here had sold fifty plates up until this morning. While the sale is very small, it is far larger than for the first three opening days last year. Automobile owners have been warned that there will be no time extension for the purchase of 1934 tegs, and that it i 8 advis able to procure tags before the first of the year. The first plate issued by the local bureau this year went to J. W. Walters, a Bertie car owner. The second went to our own Nor man K. Harrison. Maintained under the direction of the Carolina Motor Club for the convenience of automobile owners in this section, the local bureau is now operating on a full-time basis. TEN DWELLINGS I RUINED BY FIRE IN PLYMOUTH Live Ashes Emptied In Dry Grass Spreads Blaze To Frame Buildings Plymouth, N. Opr. 4,—Flames completely destroyed ten dwelling houses on Thanksgiving Day in a suburban settlement of Plymouth known as White City. The first house caught fire from a burning broomstraw patch that ignited when a young Negro boy emptied a pan of live ashes in it There being a high wind blowing directly northeast, every building within two blocks was in danger and every precaution was used by the home owners for quite a little, distance from the scene of the tire. Due to tiie untiring efforts of Ihe Plymouth volunteer fire department and an emergency squad under, the direction of Fire thief 1.. W. (iur kin, the (lames were soon conquered by tisfiig llie fire truck pump water fioin I'mieby t reek, which ruits pa rallel with White City. This section being unincorporated, and not un der public fire protection, the fire hydrants were too remote from the scene "f the fire to be of any avail. Homeless families crowded the welfare office appealing for aid. Some were entirely homeless and penniless ,others were ragged and hail lust everything, others had only their furniture left with no place to put' it. Fooil for immediate needs was supplied, and the next day' the Wo man's Club put on a house-to-house canvass. » COLORED MAN PUT IN JAIL ON THEFT CHARGE Alleged To Have Attempt ed To Steal Corn From Kelly Hardison John Gray, young colored man, was arrested and placed in the county jail here yesterday for I lie alleged attempt to steal com from the barn of Kelly Hardison, ( ross Koads farmer, Sun day night. Hearing some one breaking into lijs barn late that night, Mr. Hardi son fired a load of shot at the thieves, but he did not know whether he hit his mark. Officers were called and they followed tracks that led to Cray's home, but his arrest did not follow at that lime. Yesterday when he was taken into ■.ustory, Cray is ( believed to have carried evidence in bis back. There were several small shot just under his skin. However, in jail yesterday, he vigorously denied the attempted theft, but be failed to explain the small holes in a jumper and the ' slight wounds in bis back. Other arrests in the case were pre dicted yesterday by the sheriff's of fice. "Deacon Dubbs" To Be Presented This Friday For three weeks a company of lo cal actors have been practicing for "Deacon Dubbs." t"J»e ac tors iVe Leslie Fowden, Maurice Watta, Frank Pittman, Murt ( Stubbs, Chick Manning, Mrs. Sam Get'singer, Miss Lucille Hassell, Miss Trulah Ward Pa'ge, Miss Margaret Everett and Mjss Katherine Harrison, __ j Mrs. Lanier has been coaching the players. Mrs. W. B. Watts will have charge of the music, assisted by sev eral others. There will be a number of extra singers and dancers. The play will be givep at the high school Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock. The proceeds are for the benefit of the parish house fund of the Church of the Advent. w M«WMn ESTABLISHED 1898 COMMISSIONERS TRANSACT ONLY ROUTINE DUTIES Meet In Another Room As Their Office Was Filled With Job Hunters $ Ihp Martin County erN, in regular session Monday, were all .but overshadowed by people in the Courthouse seeking v, rk under the Civil Works \ilmini-.|ral ; on The commissioners found their r oni oc cupied, so they repaired to Register' of Deeds J, Satn (ietinger's quarters further down the hall. All ; ie court house was in a stir during a greater part of the day, hut IHI, matter what the other attractions were, the com missioners listened t.. tr.» pleas in \ connection with dogs an I real prop erty. 1 hen there were the routine duties that kept the con u;.ssioncrs in session 1 a greater part of t ,e day. Bonds of the severa'. county otYi cials were reviewed and approved. The hoard recommended that the State Highway CVinimission take over that road leading from the James ville-\N ashington highway near the home of Mrs. (ieorge Y\ Martin, ex tending northwardly by Henry Mod lilt s hack io the fir*t road, a distance of about one mile . Ihe hoard also recommended the State commission taking over the Conoho road from the Roanoke River wharf to Highway 125. J. (i. Staton was relieved of (axes oii twenty and one-half acres of Coun cil land valued at S6OO in Roberson- '* ville Township. 11. B. Burnette was relieved of $2 dog tax for 1M33 listed through error in (ioo.se Nest Township John Bland was reappointed super intendent of the Martin County home for the aged and infirm. DR. GLAZEBROOK HERE THIS WEEK Lay Evangelist Of Episco pal Ciiurch Will Be Here For Several Days From Thursda} noon through Sun day, IV l.arkiii Glazebrook of the department uf evangelism, of the Episcopal church will be in town. Dr. (ila/elirook was f> r main years a suc- cessful practioner of medicine in the national capital, hut gave up this work 1" engage in lay evangelism. He has been very successful in this work and Williauistoit is luituiiate to have him. The following i-. a list of services while Dr. (ila/ebrixik is here: Smoker lor men at the ( liur.h of the Advent parish house, Thursday evening ai 7:30; meeting fur women at the home of Mrs. Clayton Moore on Church street, Friday afternoon at 3;30; itiornitiK and evening at Church of the Advent, Sunday; St. Martin's, Hamil ton, Sunday afternoon at 3:30. The public is cordially invited to any or all of these services. Any per sons desiring private interviews with Dr. (Ilazebrook are requested to speak to Rev E. T. Moseley. Negro Child Dies Alter Run Down By Auto Matthew brazier, four anil one hah year old colored child, the s«n of Le mon brazier and wife, was run down aml fatally injured by an automobile driven by Daw Wilson, colored, last Sunday afterno >n on the Hamilton road, about four miles front, here. The child was removed to a Wash ington hospital, where be died early yesterday morning. The chibl, playing with other chil dren, dashed into the road just ahead of the car aftec he had been pulled from the path of the car just a few scions before The driver was held blameless. The Fraziers are tenants on M. D. Wilson's farm, ♦- Boyr. Set Fire To Buildings While Out Hunting Rabbits Several colored boys went rabbit bunting on the Spruill farm in Poplar Point Township one day last week, and in order to run the rabbits out, set fire to the dry grass and weeds in the uncultivated fields. The fire soon got away from their control and burned every building on the farm. The property belong*--to Wr K. Par ker. The premises were unoccupied and the buildings were not very valuable. Choral Club Will Meet In Woman's Club Hall The Williamston Choral Club will hold a regular meeting in the Wo man's Club hall here tomorrow even ing at 7:30 o'clock. All members are urged to be present. The organization of the society is about complete, and no new mem bers will be taken in after tomorrow evening, it was stated.
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