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Watch the UM On Tw AM It. Carries the Data When Yoor Subscription Expiree VOLUME XXXVI—NUMBER 101 159 CWA WORKERS DROPPED FROM LIST THIS WEEK Work on Road Projects In This County Greatly Curtailed Now Meeting in the courthouse here yes terday, CWA supervisors and mem bers of the under orders from Washington and Raleigh, reduced the number of Mar tin County CWA workers Mrom 555 to 396, a reduction of 159 men. The 159 workers after today will no long er be connected with the administra tion, and it is likely that more of those at present on the job will join the ranks next week, pending orders from the federal and state authori ties. I Road projects were curtailed con siderably, the number of men being reduced from 206 to 52, but the build ing force was increased from 77 to 156. The number of men employed on drainage projects was reduced ;from 160 to 100, while sanitation work ers were reduced from 76 to 50. Work on three projects, Gold Point-Has-j eell road, road, and Hamilton drainage, were ordered suspended by the state administra tions. The number of workers on 10 projects was reduced to the figures given as follows: Hamilton-Palmyra road, 26; James vUle-Washington road, 26; Everetts drainage, 8; Parmele drainage, 8; Bear Grass drainage, 10; Oak City drainage, 16; Jamesville drainage, 15; Farm Life drainage, 10; Williamston drainage, 23; and Kobersonville drain age, 4V. The authorities are said to have giv en every case particular attention, re moving first those men best fitted to care for themselves. 7 CASES TRIED BY RECORDER Cases On The Docket Last Tuesday Considered of Little Importance The Martin County recorder's court marked time in its regular session last Tuesday, when seven cases were call ed. None of the number was of hard ly more than passing importance. Marvin Orman, operating a motor vehicle without proper brakes, was fined sls and taxed with the costs. The case charging Hezekiah Keel with aiding the manufacture of liquor, was continued for strveral months. A nol pros resulted in the case case charging Robert Leggett with an assault. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the rase charg ing Tony Ayers with operating a mo tor vehicle without proper lights. A continuation of two weeks was allowed in the case charging W. Vic tor Venters with reckless driving Charlie ("Chocolate") Harris plead ed guilty, the court continuing the case charging him with an assault and larceny. The case charging Jeffry Taylor with non-support was removed from the docket when the recorder nol prossed it with leave. The case had been hanging fire during the greater part of more than a year. Presiding Elder at Local Methodist Church Sunday "Anxiety and worry are the parents ■ of temper and disease." Why not use the church to help ward off these dis eases? They are soul killers, as well as joy kilfers. Meet us at the church next %inday and we will pray for. your body, mind, and soul. You can' not serve God with your soul and the, devil at the same time. All of you must be for or,against God. There will be a blessing awaiting for you at. the church next Sunday, come. Mr. McCracken, the presidytg elder of this district, will preach at 11 a. m. Regular services at night and through the week. Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. You are cordially'invited to attend some church Sunday. Work. Progress Rapidly I On Filling Station Here Work started this week on a new Sinclair Refining Company filling station, corner of Main and Smith wick Streets, is progressing rapidly, the contractor representative, Mr. Thompson, Tltating this morning that the project would be completed with in the next three weeks, weather per mitting. The building, built of brick and tile with a stucco finish, will cost between $5,000 and $6,000, the lot ad vancing the cost of the station up to .about SIO,OOO. The names of the station operators and the opening date could not be learned today. ■ —J THE ENTERPRISE Sales Tax Operation for Six Months Reflects Tax Saving Although recognized a* some what of a nuisance, the general ■ale* tax during the first six months of ita operation saved . Martin County property owners approximately $15,047, according to information released this week , by A. J. Maxwell, commissioner A of the State Department of Reve nue. During the first six months period, the sales tax amounted to $17,861 in this county. Tax relief afforded by the last legislature in enactment of the sales tax and other adopted measures made pos sible a reduction of $50,769 in real esUte taxes in this county. It is estimated that $35,722 will have been collected through the sales ( POOR COLLECTIONS After a record-breaking collec tion during the latter part of Jan uary, the sheriff's office reports little activity in the collection of county taxea juat at thia time. An increase in busineaa ia expected within the next several daya, or juat before the 2 per cent penalty goea into effect March 2nd. Collectiona for the year 1933 are well advanced aa compared with collections for previous yeara up to thia time of the year, the offi cer aaid. He ia alto of the atrong opinion that a large portion of the 1933 levy will have been collected before time to aell property for delinquent taxea. ATTENDANCE IN LOCAL SCHOOLS IS AT LOW POINT Eighty-six Children Fail to Attend School Each Day On An Average ——• Although there was an increased at tendance of 32 in the elementary grades and 8 in the higher grades, the local school reported a comparatively low percentage of membership in av-. erage daily attendance during the fifth month, recently ended, it was revealed in a report released yesterday by Prin cipal 1). N. Hi*. Only 88 per cent of the membership, or 682 pupils, at tended regularly, leaving 86 pupils out of school each day on an average. The non-attendance figures resulted in the elementary grades, where the daily rolls showed 74 absent on an av erage. All but 12 of the 170 mem bers of the high school were present daily. In addition to the 86 pupils who are absent daily on an average, it ii be lieved there is a goodly number of children in this district whose names are not even on the membership list, making the number of children out of school much larger than the figures show. Unfavorable weather, bad roads, and sickness no doubt effected the large number of absences, resulting in a marked decrease in the efficiency of the school. CLAUD LEGGETT IN NEW PLACE ♦ Confectionery Is Located In York Building On Washington Street ♦— — J. Claude Leggett, owner and op erator of a soda fountain and acces sories in the C. O. Moore store build ing during the past two o rthree years, is now located in the York Building just across the street from his old' stand. The large stock of patent med icines, toilet articles, uid hundreds of other items were moved to the "-new location yesterday, Mr. Leggett mak ing his formal announcement today in the new location. ( The building has been renovated and modern fixtures new from the fac tory have been arranged to make the confectionery shop one of the best equipped and most modern in thia section. Mr. Leggett carries a com plete stock of fountain goods, candies,' toilet articles, quick lunches, in addi tion to the famous seeds of T. W. Wood and Company. He is extending a ready invitation to the general public to visit him at his new locations at any and all times. Regular Services at Local Christian Church Sunday ♦ ■ ■■ Service at the Christian chup;h Sunday morning and evening at 11 and 7:30 o'clock. Sunday school at •9:45 a. m. • A very cordial invitation is extend ed to all to attend these services. Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, February 23,1934 tax system during the first year in this county, leaving a net sav ing under the new plan of $15,- 647 to Martin property owners, ex cepting, of course, the amount of sales tax they pay during the course of the particular period. Only two counties, Caldwell and Pitt, show a greater sales tax col lection than the amount of prop erty taxes, and the margins in those two cases were considered close. During the first six months period, ending January 31, the sales tax amounted to 13,317,745 as compared with a property tax reduction in the sum of $11,461,- 595 for the entire year. Property tax reductions in excess of the sales tax amount to $4326,009. PITIFUL CASE IS REVEALED WHEN FAMILY EJECTED Aged Woman Said To Be Carry on "Housework" Out Of Doors » ' Lou Manning, her two daughters, and their flock of allegedly illegiti mate children were thrown upon the mercy of the world last Tuesday when officers, under legal direction, ejected them from an humble abode in Ham ilton Township. Wednesday, the last time reports were received from the ejected group, the aged woman was said to have been singing merrily as she cooked on a big range along the roadside. The children, said to be in a really pitiful condition from veneral disease, were temporarily housed in the home of a colored neighbor. Officers, obeying orders, descnl>?d the ejectment as one of the most piti ful and disgusting events they had ever had anything to do with. No resistance was offered by any mem ber of the household when the offi cers started moving the furniture and the other few earthly belongings from the small house to the open road. Crying and weaping, the three women 'aided in bundling the few scattered articles about the house, said to have had a scent more offtnsiva. than that dispelled by a pole cat or skunk. While there is sympathy for the lowest in a case of that time, the really pathetic side of the story sur rounds the several littl echildren, and one in particular. With hardly enough clothes to cover its body, not to men tion its bare legs and unshod feet, one of the children, under a year old, is blind, its eyeballs hanging from their sockets two inches or more, the declared result of syphilitic parentage. Unwanted and spurned by nearly every one, the group is now facing, without hope ojr friends, an uncertain future. What will become of the old woman, her daughters, and the blame-' less little one nobody knows. HOLD HEARING FOR GANGSTER Papers Are Issued to Bring Proctor Here for Trial In March Court Charged with participating in more than 20 robberies fn the eastern part of the State within the past eighteen months, Worth "Tick" Proctor is being given a hearing in Raleigh to day. Sheriff C. B. Roebuck and Chief W. B. Daniel left here this morning for the hearing. A warrant has been prepared here to bring Proctor to this county for trial next month in connection with the Harrison Wholesale Company robbery back in November, 1932, Of ficers in several other counties are al so planning to prefer charges against and members of his gang, arftflp is understood that he will be triedin first one place and then an other on various counts. \Tlie three women arrested in the raid early last Monday morning con tinue in jail. Judge N. A. Sinclair ordered their release from his sick beck in a Rocky Mount hoted, but be fore they could get out of the hotel 'they were re arrested and placed in the Nash County jail by Sheriff John son. «They are to get a hearing next | Monday, it was learned here. _ Nineteen Local Boys Are Given . Athletic Awards Nineteen boys who had much to do with the Williamson High's suc cessful football season last fall re-: ceived letters at the assembly period on February 14. James E. Peters, coach, spoke briefly in making the awards. The school letters, white felt W'», were donated by Mrs. J. W. Watts, jr. NO INFORMATION YET AS TO/SEED AND FgED LOANS Preparations Now Under way for Handlings the ' Loans This Year While instructions for handling seed-feed loans have not been receiv ed, Field Representative Roy Hearne stated yeaterday that he believed ap plications could be received about the first of March or soon thereafter. Definite announcement will be made upon the receipt of forms, Mr. Hearne added. Arrangements for advancing the lows have been completed by the govfcfnment, and it is understood that contracts are being printed and made ready for distribution to the hundreds of counties in the several states. Mr. Hearne expected to be called to a dis trict meeting for definite instructions any day now, and until then the date for advancing the loans and the de tails surrounding them will hardly be learned here. It is understood that the require ments are slightly different under the new law just recently passed by the Congress, but these changes are not jenown here. Those farmers borrowing from the seed and feed loan fund last year and those who have made no efforl to re pay the loans will hardly be feligible for loans this year, it is understood. 1 here are a few farmers who could have paid t| ie j r off in , hcir en . tirety but for one reason or another they just failed to do so. Those farm* ers who are holding their peanuts off the market and, of course, have not paid their loans, will be eligible. In fact, it was pointed out, any farmer who made and is still making an hon est effort to pay off his loan will re ceive consideration this year. Loans were not made lasi year un til March 10, and the year before that it was some time in April before the money was advanced from the fund. HONOR ROLL AT FARM LIFE Attendance Holds Up Well In School There During... The Fifth Month Despite bad weather, sickness and muddy roads, the Farm I-ife school had a very good attendance record during the fifth month, Principal Charles Hough said yesterday. Dur ing the period, the school reported an average daily attendance of 93.7 per cent of the entire membership. With an average daily attendance of 62, the high school has 96.3 per cent of its membership present each day. Slightly more than 92 per cent, or a fraction more than 115 pupils, were in attendance upon the elementary 1 school, the principal said. While the weather and sickness in-1 terrupted activities in the school, 24 of the pupils had their names appear on the honor roll for the period, as follows: First grade: Tillie Gray Griffin, rhelma Ifardison, Spencer Coltrain. Second grade: Dorothy Roberson, Georgia Dean Roberson, Noah Rob erson', Nannie Margaret Roberson, Hazel Ifardison. Third grade: Lala Ifardison, Mar tha Roberson. I-ourth grade: Lala Smithwick, Vera Pearl William,s Carlyle Man ning. Fifth grade: Ida Mae Corey. Sixth grade: Bettie Louise Lilley, Evan Griffin. Seventh grade: Ruth Lilley, Sarah Getsinger, Verna Smithwick. Eighth grade: John B. Roberson, Therman Griffin, Annie Getsinger, Mamie Clyde Manning. Ninth grade: Joseph Lilley, Albert Wilson Lilley. - Tenth grade: None. Eleventh grade: Lillian Daniel. # r - Announce Regular Meet of Woman's Club Here The local Woman's club' will hold its regular monthly meeting in the club hall next Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. All members are asked to attend. Sunday Services In St. Martin's at Hamilton Second Sunday in Lent: Church school, 10 a. m. Holy Communion and sermon, 11 a. m. Evening prayer/- and sermon, 7:30 p. m. Tomato Cannery To Be Set Up in Craven County Sufficient contracts have been sign-1 the regular preaching services in the ,ed in Craven County to insure the op- | Riddick's Grove Baptist church Sun erafion of a toriiato canning factory ( day afternoon at 3 o'clock. The pub in the county. lie is invited. V ' Peanut Growers I Here Tomorrow Morning NEW CANDIDATE COMES OUT CLERK OF COURT Other Candidacies Likely, Making Season Open One for the Office With the official announcement of Mr. Henry S. Everett for clerk of the Martin County Superior Court com ing this week, the political situation in this county is rapidly reaching a climax. More interest is being added to the contest made interesting whan three other candidates, Messrs. T. B. Slade,- L. B. Wynne, and John I). Lilley announced a few dayago. It is, without question, open season for the clerkship, and others are ex pected to announce their candidacies within next few days, according to rumors heard here. Mr. Everett, prominent citizen o{ Rubcrsunvillc, is at pics?ut a mem ber of the board of Martin County Commissioners, jl lis announcement for the court clerkship will create an opening in the race for county com missioners in the-June primary. Little activity has been reported in other county contests, and the list of candidates for the general assembly remains unchanged, it is understood. SAFE IS STOLEN FROM HASSELL POST, OFFICE —A" — Robbers Get $45 In Fifth of Series of Break-ins In County Recently Martin County's fifth safe robbery in about that many weeks was re ported about 2 o'clock yesterday morning, when robbers broke into the post office at Ilassell and carried off the iron safe estimated to weigh be- twecn 800 and 1,000 pounds. Forcing an entrance through the front door, the robbers used a small railroad push truck to haul the heavy safe out. They then attached a rope to the truck and towed it behind an automobile about 300 yards out on the Gold Point road. A hole about the size of a big water bucket was torn iu the back of the safe and about $45 in cash was stolen. A number of stamps were found around the safe, but no definite check on the loss had been reported yesterday afternoon, and it is not known whether the rob f>ers carried away any with them. Citizens in the town are said to have heard a noise about 2 o'clock, but they paid no attention to it, and the robbery was not discovered until early yesterday morning. A small tire track was found near the spot where the safe was torn into, but officers are without clues as to who the parties were. It is generally believed that the same gang connect ed with outlier robberies of late in the county did the job. Robberies or attempts to rob rail road stations at Robersonville, James ville, Everetts, Oak City were report ed within the past few weeks. Fol lowing the robbery at Hassell early yesterday, there are only a few towns left in the county unmolested by the intruders. Approximately $12,000 Is Paid Teachers In County *~7 1 lie 186 teachers in /this' county are receiving this week tUeir fifth month salary amounting to* approximately $12,000, it was learned from the office of County Superintendent J. C. Man ning yesterday. Representative Explains Contracts To Agent Here Instruction for handling cotton contracts by the offices of county farm agents were offered to the agents and their assistants here yes terday afternoon, a representative front Raleigh explaining in detail how the contracts are to be prepared be fore they arc forwarded to the au thorities in Raleigh and Washington. All contracts front this county are now in the office of Agent Brandon, and employees have already started work preparatory to forwarding them to Raleigh. Sunday Services at the Riddicks Grove Church $ Rev. W. B. Harrington will conduct RAINFALL v With a rainfall of 3.40 inches to far this month, it now looks as if February will be one of the wet teat months since bat August, when 6.08 inches of rsin were re ported. The largest rain of the season fell last Monday and Tuesday, Hugh Spruill reporting 1.07 inches at the river. Last month the rainfall was 2.51 inches, or about one-tenth of an inch more than the fall in January, 1933, but one and one-quarter inches below that in the same month of 1932. Snow on the 9th accounted for nearly one-fifth of an Inch of the rainfall during this month. AID IN PLACING FARM TENANTS TO BE OFFERED Unemployed Farmers Are Asked To Register In This County A registration of all unemployed farmers was ordered in Martin Coun ty this week, the registration being planned as a part of the program to place those unemployed who have been unable to get places to locate and who prefer farming to other types of work. Other than the ordering of a registration, few details arc known here in connection with the placement program. Home H. B. Mask, representative of the farm placement section, was here this week making arrangements for having all unemployed farmers to register. The government plans to place those farmers who are unable to get places to locate, it is under stood. It could not be learned definitely, but it is understood that some Martin farmers who care to go may be sent to government farming projects in I'ender County. It is also understood that arrangements will be made to care for the 500 farmers estimated to be out of places in this state. Author ities estimate that there are 25 unem- ployed farming families in this coun ty, hut it i» generally believed by oth ers that there are more than that num ber without farms this year. According to reports reaching here, it is believed the government plans to make a careful survey of the unem ployed tenants and other farmers throughout the country. Those land owners who have ttimed off tenants are subject to have their cotton and tobacco contract rentals or benefits forfeited, it was indicated in a report released recently. I'armers who have no place to go and desire to farm are directed to register at the employment office in the county courthouse as soon as pos sible. Local Basketball Boys Add Two More Victories to List Williamston's high school boys add ed two more to their long list of bas ketball victories so far this week, de feating Bethel here last Tuesday night by a 27 to II score. With Anderson out of the game, Look led the scor ing with 10 points, followed by Hop kins with 6 markers. I.ast night the hoys went to Hert ford and defeated that team by the staggering score of 28 to 6. Cook, Anderson, and Manning accounted for 26 of the 28 points in the contest. The local girls lost another con test here last Tuesday night, when they were defeated by Ilethel to the tune of 20 to 11. The local team continues to show improvement, and should have a successful season next year, Rights of Prisoners Pointed Out by Attorney General Any person held in custody by po lice, regardless of whether any charge has been preferred, has a right to see counsel, Attorney General Dennis G. Jirtiiimiitt said this week. The point was brought up follow-| ing criticism by Raleigh officers of action of the Nash County sheriff in allowing three women arrested in a roundup of the Proctor gang to see their attorneys. The women filed pe tion for writ,o( habeas corpus. The State Constitution provides that "the privileges of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspend ed." Denial of the right of prisoners to see their attorneys would amount to suspension of the right of habeas corpus. w HWR MIT ESTABLISHED 1898 PROTECTION OF INTERESTS TO BE TOPIC DISCUSSED —4 Meeting Will Be Held In County Courthouse at 11 O'clock A lartfc representation of peanut tarmers is expected here tomorrow, when plans for protecting the inter ests of the peanut grower will be dis cusseil. Plans will likely be formu lated for advancing the cause of the peanut, and other points of vital im portance to the grower will be given consideration. With no restrictions of the peanut acreage now fn effect, it is believed one of the largest accreages ever planted to the crop will be in the making this year unless some step* arc taken immediately to guard against expansion. All farmers are urged to be present. Sam N. Clark, grower member of North Carolina on the National Pea nut Control Board, has the following idea for control, and it will be dis cussed at the meeting. Saturday: ganizcd by county agents under the extension director of State College. (. ommittees must sign all growers for their allotment for production in 1934. "Only allotment certificate peanuts may be warehoused by growers and receive government loans available on the same basis as other basij com modities. Growers will be asked to agree to an assessment not to exceed 1 per tent of the sales of the 1934 crop to be deducted by the millers and for warded to the Secretary to pay the expense of setting up the allotment program outlined above, varying it for the 1934 crop." 1 hose who are growing peanuts in this county should attend this meet ing. and their expressions in the mat ter of outlining a plan will be hea'd. and the local men will have present a speaker who will answer questions and explain the plan to all. Ihe purpose of the meeting is to explain the program of the peanut con tpol hoard recently set up under tffir marketing agreement. Also the farm ers will be asked for expressions as to the plan they favor for controlling production this year. "The allotment program is to be formulated with regional, state, and county associations of growers or "The county committee is to make daily summaries of the sign-up for the county agent, who in turn will re port to the state officials and they to the national leaders. Signers of these contracts have the right of elect ing their representatives to state meetings. "Allotments will be made on the basis of tonnage to the farm, rather than tonnage or acreage to the grow- i'he base allotment for 1934 is to M the average of the total production In pounds for the three years, 1931, 1932, and 1933, County committees under the farm agent are allowed to make equitable adjustments of allot ments, if possible, but must hold the county totals within the base of al- Itilpient to the county by the state officials. "The miller's marketing agreement and license is to be amended to pro vide that they purchase peanuts from those holding allotment certificates un less authorized otherwise. Growers will not be allowed to obtain peanuts from others to complete their allot ments. Two Basketball games Scheduled Here Tonight I wo basketball names are scheduled for tonight at the Farmers Warehouse the local boys meeting the Windsor team and tlie girls' team playing the Hear Grass girls. The girls game is scheduled to begin promptly at 7:30. With the basketball season drawing to a close the Williamston boys will probably participate in one of the numerous basketball tournaments be ing held in this state. Application has been made for entrance in the tournament to be held at N. C. State College 011 March Bth. Robber Enters Commissary Here Last Tuesday Night Forcing an entrance through a side window, a robber last Tuesday night stole a pair of No. 8 shoes from Jim Staton's commissary on Washington Street here. Manager John R. Peel stated that tHi shoes were the only articles missed. Ko clue as to the identity of the robber has been estab lished, it was learned yesterday from police headquarters.