THE ENTERPRISE Walck tka UW Om Tw Aa It. Curiaa tha Data VOLUME .XXXVII?NUMBER 44 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 31, 1934 ESTABLISHED 1898 MARTINS GET IN WIN COLUMN BY BEATING E. CITY Local Club Stages Rally In Ninth To Come Out With Victory After dropping five straight con tests, the Martins staged a comeback Saturday to win over Elizabeth City 3 to 2 in one of the most exciting finishes seen on the local diamond this season. The locals had lost to Elizabeth City the day before 8 to 4 at Eliza beth City after out-hitting their op ponents 10 to 7, Earp, Goodmon and Brake accounting for two safeties each. After trailing 2 to 1 from -the sec ond to the ninth inning in the game here last Saturday, the Martins stag ed a rally in the last frame with two out. Taylor struck out after fouling a half dozen, and Cherry hit safely to reach firse. Earp was out on a lon'g fly to center field, and Gaylord hit safely. Goodmon walked, loading the bases. Brake, who has broken " up more baH games than ? probably any man in the league, was next up. With two strikes and three balls constituting the count, Brake batted a fast one just inside the first base line to score Cherry and Gaylord, Earp, Gaylord, Brake and Uzzle made two hits each. Herring, Taylor and Cherry getting one each to make a total of 11 safeties. Elizabeth City made nine hits,Johnson getting one of them. s. City AB R H PO A E Johnson, 3b 5 0 1 I 1 0 Foreman, ss 4 0 12 11 C. Goodman, If 4 0 1 4 0 0 Welch, rf 4 0 1 0 0 0 Griffith, lb 4 0 0 6 3 1 Fearing, cf 4 0 2 4 0 0 Sawyer, 2b 3 0 0 2 1 1 Hall, c ? ? 4 1 1 5 1 0 Levann, p 4 1 2 1 2 T Totals 36 2 9*25 9 4 ?2 out when winning run run scored and Earp out when, hit, by and r.arp out Wtfliamaion Earp, ss 5 Gaylprd, If 5 T. Goodmon, lb 4 Frtlrt. rf 5 Uaile, 2b I.'A Herring, cf 4 Brogdcn, 3b 4 Taylor, c 4) Cherry, p 4 Totals 39 3 II 27 12 3 Score by innings R E. City 020 000 000?2 Williamston . 010 000 002?3 Summary: Runs batted in, Earp, Brake (2), Levann (2). Two-base hits,?Earp,?Brake,?hearing: Hume run, Levann. Stolen bases, T. Good mon, ' Uzzte. Left on bases, Wil Uamst??n UV-Elizabeth City 8. Double play, Griffith to Foreman. Struck out by Levann 4, by Cherry 9. Base on balls off Levann 2, off Cherry 1. Passed ball. Hall (2). Time. 2:05. Umpire, Frazier. ? COTTON CHECKS ARRIVE IN TOWN Over $12,000 to Be Distri buted Among Martin Cotton Growers Five hundred and thirty-six checks, amounting to $12,029.43, have "been received for distribution among the Kartitl County farmers participating in the cotton reduction program, it was learned yesterday from the office of Agent Tom Brandon. The checks avgpagt about $22.50 each. There are 635 farmers in this county participating in the reduction movement, leaving exactly 99 addi tonal checks to be received. Nearly half the checks were received last Friday, and the others came in yes terday. Owners of the checks re ceived last week are being distribut ed rapidly to the owners. Cards are going into the mails today notifying farmers to call for-their checks.? money will be distrbu^ed until the , farmer received his card. The re maining checks are expected shortly, j it was said. Large Number Attena First Union Meeting Although unfavorable weather was experienced last Sunday, a very large crowd it said to have attended the first union meeting held with the' Hayet Swamp Primitive Baptist Church in Griffins Township. The first of the services was held Satur day, followed by a worship program Sunday morning and a big picnic din ner on the grounds. Large crowds were also reported at th? Oak Grove Christian Church,! near Robersonville, during last Sun day. Caswell Farmers Remedy Overplanting of Tobacco la Carwetl County, measurer* arc finding that 25 per cent of the to bacco grower* have exceeded their 70 per cent bate acreage by small amount* and 10 per cent of the oth er* have exceeded the 80 per cent bate acreage. Both group* are quick to remedy the aituation. Two Members of Family Suffering Broken Arms Misfortune Uefell two members of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lindsley's family here Sunday afternoon and yesterday morning. Their son, Ken neth, Jr., about 4 years old, fell while playing in a truck Sunday afternoon and broke his leg. Monday morning Mrs. Lindsley's mother, Mrs. L. J. Pritchard, fell down the back porch steps and broke her arm near the shoulder. She was removed to *a Washington hospital for treatment. The child is recovering at his home on Haughton street here. LARGE QUANTITY TOMATOES BEING PUT UP IN CANS 10,000 Quarts Expected to Be Canned In Jamesville Area This Week Martin County's relief canning 1 program is centered in the James-J ville area this week, where many acres of tomatoes are being turned j over to the authorities, ft is esti- i mated that more than 10,000 quarts of tomatoes will have been canned in that section by the latter part of j I this week. _____ Reports from that section indicate that while the farmers are realizing little or no profits from their toma to program this season, they have j 'met with much success than they ex- I Jperienced last season. Nearly five 'cars of gr*?en tomatoes were wrapped ;and sold, the farmers realizing as 'high as 87 cents a lug fir the Jearly offerings. Prices continued downward, but the prices did not reach bottoifi until a la^t car was shipped. The tomatoes are said to have gone bad, and the price drop ped to around 13 cents a lug. Had it not been for the ill luck at the last, the farmers would have done fairly well with the crop this season, it was "itSid. In addition to .sales to the relief authorities, it is understood a few farmers around Jamesvillc are selling 'to established canneries in Plymouth, their offerings bringing around 15 ; cents a basket delivered. Price paid by the relief people are said to be 15 cents a basket, and relief labor is used in picking; |MRS. GURGANUS PASSES SUNDAY; Deceased Suffered Stroke; j Of Paralysis About Four Years Ago Mrs. Sophia Louise Giirganus, wi dow of Robert Gurganus, died at the liyjll?_ of her daughter, Mrs. Joe Cowan, on Main street here last Sunday--morning shortly before noon of a complication of diseases. Ure mic poisoning was assigned as the immediate cause of her death. Suf fering a stroke of paralysis about four years ago, Mrs. Gurganus had been in feeble health much of the time since then. However, she was I able to be up.-most of the time until about two weeks ago when she was forced to her bed to wait the cjnd. | The daughter of the late J. R. ' Leggett, Mrs. Gurganus was born in Beaufort County 79 years ago last W?tf 1 Siha h#?r oarly liff there. ; marrying and moving to this county in early womanhood. Her husband J died about 42 years ago. After j spending a number of years with her daughter, Mrs. Lester Brown, she moved to Williamston about five ' I years ago to make her home with her daughter, Mrs. Cowan and Mr. Just about 63 years ago she joined the Old Ford Christian Church, and | in all her years she lived a true Christian life. Unassuming and un , usually quiet, she had always placed I others ahead of her in her deeds and activities, never complaining but ac cepting her fate as cheerfully as it is possible for a human to accept it. Three children, Mrs. Joseph Cow an and Mrs. W. R. Cherry, of Wil liamston, and Mrs. Chester Brown, of Robersonville, survive. She also leaves ten grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Services were conducted from her late home yesterday afternoon by Rev. J. M. Perry and Rev. C. H Dickey. Interment was beside the body of her husband in the cemetery here. Junior Order to Present Educational Meetings ? ?? Arranging a series of educational meetings during the summer months, the local council. Junior Order of United American Mechanics, will hear a review of Martin County's edu cational system at its next regular meeting Thursday evening of this wcelc. The county superintendent of schools will explain the workings of the system, it was announced. EXPECT ANSWER SOON REGARDING NEW BANK HERE Belief Expressed That RFC Authorities Will Approve New Banking House With the approval of the State Banking Commission already grant ed, the opening of a new bank here by the Greenville Banking and Trust Company is now pending action on the part of Reconstruction Finance Corporation officials in Charlotte and Washington, according to information released following a conference of bank representatives and Commis sioner of Banks Gurney P. Hood in Rakigh la.'it Saturday. The commissioner is understood to I have said that he believed the open ing of a second bank here would be approved by the RFC authorities, j that a definite answer could be ex pected within a comparatively short time. The State department is said to have given its consent at the close of a conference lasting for more than j one hour in the commissioner's office ^ A meeting was held by the bank authorities in Greenville last even ing, when necessary resolutions were prepared and passed. Papers will be forwarded immediately to officials in Charlotte for consideration and later sent to Washington for a final answer. During the meantime, no action will be taken by the Greenville insti tution in view to locating a building (here, it is understood. TOBACCO LAND SURVEY IS STILL PROGRESSING ? ? Farmers Cooperating With Surveyors, And Very .. . Few Errors Found The survey of the several thou sand acres of tobacco land in this county continues to progress very favorably, Supervisor T. B. Slade' said yesterday. The surveyors are making very few errors, and, as a whole, are turning out exceptionally good work, Mr. Slade said. Farmers arc willingly cooperating in the work, and unless unforsccn difficul ties arise, the work should be com pletcd and marketing cards placed in the hands of the growers by the time the inaikcts open August 23. Kt> instruction have ftiij) issued by the county Committee advising those farmers with an excess acreage to destroy a portion of their crop, it was learned. However, reports state that many farmers have voluntarily destroyed lany overage they may have had. t ? PLAN CANNING DAY AT OAK CITYj All Day Canning School To Be Held In School Building Friday An all-l 'children winter without which nfany will be unable to attend school regularly. Hot hmch I and" possibly a -chicken dinner will be served by committee in charge. Bring corn and beans, try and gather the same morning it is to be canned. Mr. Raleigh Manning of the welfare de partment, Williamston, will send tomatoes and steam cookers to aid in the work."_ ? ' - The goal is 200 quarts and all school patrons arc asked to help meet the goal. Pheasant Attacks Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank * Tommie, 13-nionths-old ?on of Mr. and Mrs. Dallas Frank, was savage ly attacked by a pheasant at the home of his parents in New Town early yesterday morning. The bird pecked and scratched the little fellow about the face, head and back and caused the blood to flow freely from several wounds. Alleghany Will Produce Large Crop of Potatoes ? The best farming and growing sea son in years is reported by farmers of Alleghany County who say they will produce the biggest crop of Irish potatoes in five years. MARKETS OPEN While they are a bit removed from this section, the Georgia tobacco markets, opening the sea aon tomorrow, will attract much attention from tobacco farmers here and throughout all the to bacco belts. With a short crop?estimated at less than forty million pounds ?and with the Agricultural Ad justment Act in operation, the opening of the markets will prob ably attract more attention this year than in some time. Although the prices received for the Georgia crop do not al ways reflect what they trill be in this belt, the trend set by them is considered of importance in forecasting prices on markets In this belt. STATE MUST GET NEW RESIDENTS TO CUT TAX RATE! Additional Residents Will Burden Charlotte. July ?Tax problems of the Carolinas can be soled .more quickly from without than from I within the two states, in the opinion of Coleman W. Roberts, executive j vice president of The Carolinas, Inc., a non-profit, non-politidal organiza tion seeking to adequately advertise the scenic, climatic, agricultural, in dualml and naiuraJ resources ol the two states. This reduction in taxes can be brought about by attracting thousands of addtional homeseekers and invest ors to the Carolinas, he says, where upon they will share the tax levies. Unless tourist travel is developed to proportions of a major industry in number, of people will continue to bear the annual taxes necessary to run state, county and municipal gov ernments.? "If through inducing an additional 500,000 people to become residents of the Carolines and develop $500,000,000 annual tourist business, then taxes of present residents will be propor tionately reduced," Mr. Roberts pontcd out. _ The jCarolinas, Inc., was recently organized ai?a?gathering-of nearly 100 outstanding citizens of the Caro linas. It will be financed through the | sale of?stamps?dcscribng?various points of interest throughout the two Carolinas. Contract has already been awarded to printers ami engravers for the first series of 25 stamps, the ini tial order calling for a total run of 1,000,000 stamps. the These attractive stamps? will ?be-, sold by worthy charitable, fraternal , and benevolent organizations and J proceeds wll be used to further ai tensive advertisng program in tional magazines, metropolitan n : papers, publications within the Ca ex na ws iro linas, radio and also to permt pub lication of literature and data scribing the advantages- of these tWo HOW MARTINS BAT^ \ Although he participated in only three Raines during the past three weeks, Howard Earp, shortstop for th\ Martins, boosted his batting mark from .345 to .364, and is now leadink the regular members of the team. This, of course, excepts Manager D^ll Spivey, wlio put on the mitt and mask for the first time this season over at Edenton on July 10th, and collected a single in his only appearance at the plate, topping the whole list with 1000. Brake went iaseball. teams disbanded last week, leaving VVilliamston, Plymouth, Ahoskic and Edcntnn?active?m?t4+*?Alhr marie League. A new schedule is being pre pared, and it is the aim of the four clubs to continue throUgout the re mainder of the season with six games each week in the league and a sev enth one every now and then with a team from some other league, proh ably the Coastal Plain circuit. No Sunday games will be scheduled here, according to reports coming from the local team managers. A game is being considered with New Ucrn at New Bern Sunday afternoon. | The four active clubs are effecting a reorganization of their lineups, se lecting players from the disbanded clubs. Johnny Johnson, third base man for Elizabeth City, has joined the Martins and will be located on second base, a posTlTonT that has caus ed the managers much worry -during a greater part of the season so far. Johnson is captain-elect of the I^J5 State College team, ami the Martins are expected to take on new life dur ing the remainder of the schedule. Ahoskie plays here today and Eden ton tomorrow. The Martins go to Edenton Thursday. A new schedule is now being arranged and will be [announced ahortlXi Dick Clayton Displays Record Breaking Tomato ? Dick Clayton, gardener par-excel lence, is believed to have established an all-time record today when he produced a tomato weighing one pound and nine ounces. He explain ed that he was picking tomatoes by the bushel, and that he all but ig nored the fruit when the units were under a pound in weight. Mr. ( Uj ton is gardening on a plot in East Main street. FENCING LAND | FOR HERD OF 500 WESTERN CATTLE ?? Shipment uf Droughf Arejf Cattle Expected Here Last of This Week * Relief workers are fencing hund reds of acres of woodland in James* villc and Griffins Townships this I week making ready for the shipment of 500 of cattle from western drought stricken areas. The cattle were un tast wccETlt is understood. and the -shipment schetl uletl for this county has been increas ed from 300 to 500, according to in formation reaching here yesterday The cattle will likely reach here be fore the latter part of the week. Around 3,000 cattle were alloted this county, but reports now indicate other arrangements will be 'made to handle the surplus stock from drought stricken areas in the West. Huge canning plants are being planned, hut it could not he learned whether thecetmty?allotments"" udtl l>e can celled and the cows shipped to the slaughtering houses or not. Food' canned in the relief slaughtering houses will he distributed among re itiff"" families, it rs nmln stood As far as it can be learned here, no disposition of the cattle alloted this county has been planned. PRELIMINARY ! HEARING HELD i IN MURDER CASE Indicated That Negro Will Face Charge of First De gree Murder Joe VVheeler James, colored, was denied bond and Henry Rogers, also colored, was placed under a $500 bond by Justice of the Peace John L. Hassell here last Friday afternoon in the rase growing out of the toll ing by James of Will Worley 14 days ago. Reports clearly indicate that James will fa-ce a first-degree charge IIV tWAfariin fnmity Superior Court in September. Rogers, a cripple, was implicated in the killing on the grounds that be was alleged to have' quarreled with Worley before James reached the home of Arnecia Hrown in the Hickory Grove section of Williams ton Township, and that he procured the weapon for James. The killer testified in the case against Rogers, but his testimony was not substanti ated by other witnesses. Josephine Brown, the only other witness, stated Ithat she . heard James and Rogers talking in the road near the house where the murder took place, but*she did not know what was said. Rogers, unable to raise the $500 jbond, was remanded to jaiT over' the | protests of his attorney, H. I,, Swain. James was not represented by counsel, it was said. 1 MISS BLAND, 80, ! DIES MONDAY : ? i = Aged Lady Passes Away at T Home of John Bland, a Nephew ? Miss Emma Bland, 80 years old, died at the home of. her nephew, Mr J John Bland, near here, yesterday af J ternoon at 1 o'clock. She had heen | in declining health fur some time, the end coming gradually. However, she was not confined to her bed un til about three weeks ago. Miss Bland was the daughter of the late Bill and Bettie Lloyd Bland, and had made her home with her nepjiew and family for a number of years. Other than two sisters, Miss Fan nie Bland, of near here, and Mrs Jule Roberson, of VVilliamston, she leaves no immediate relatives. Funeral services arc being conduct ed from her late home this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will follow in the local cemetery. Orange County Farmers Plan For Electrification ? More than 200 Orange County farmer' recently met to diicusi rural electrification in the county and to make plana (or obtaining current in IJ communities. SIZEABLE SUIT IS BEGUN IN MARTIN COUNTY COURT ? Plaintiff Seeking $100,000 On Grounds of Contract With Late Mr. Gladstone Basing her claim upon a contract ^ alleged to have been entered into by her mother and the late Frank L. Gladstone. Mary Flizabeth (Gladstone Barnhill has entered suit in the Mar tin County Superior Court against Mrs. Ft 1j. Gladstone, cxecunix, fui ~ $100,000 or an amount equal the value of the estate left by the late husband of the defendant. The suit was ^tart ed in tlm mmru of I'm County some time ago, but was recently transferred to the court in this county. The answer to the complaint was signed by Mrs. Gat tie C. Gladstone, the de fendant, in Chicago, the 16th of this month. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the daughter of Frank L. Gladstone, deceased, and of Helen Taylor, now Helen Muuxc, neither of whom~wcrc married at the time nf~ plaintiff's birth; that from her in fancy for about 13 years, plaintiff re sided with her mother in Hamilton and was provided for and supported by her said father. It is further alleged in the com plaint that no bastardy or other legal action on account of the illegitimate birth of the plaintitT, Mary Elizabeth Gladstone, was ever instituted against F. F. Gladstone by the mother <>f the plaintitT in that and for the reason that when the said Hraiik?L, Glad Stone discovered that the said Helen Taylor was to become a mother by reason and on account and result of the intimate relations that had exist ed between them; arid that i child would bc'born by the said I le-len Tay lor, of which lie was the father, the v said Fj |itk 1,. .Gladstone proposed and entered into an agreement "with ?the said Helen Taylor Ohttt nl- -she I.'? 'il... ?? i ? ? i?" . would hear the Gttdj child ami "rarse" and care for it as his own -and would, institute no legal procedure against htllt arrd cause no public outcry or embarrassment to him, that lie would provide and care for the said as his own and at his. death would leave and give all of his property to the said ehijd The plaintitT further alleges that the agreement between her mother and the late F. I. Gladstone was ob served and lived -tip to by F. F. Glad stone who gave the plaintiff his own name and showed eveiy alTectiun of a father for her and provided and ?cai cd fur her ~ " ~ It is also alleged upon information ami belief that plaintiff was born when Gladstone was a widower with tin child and alwut 3(J years old, and? that the mother of the said plaintiff, and that when the plaintiff was 13 years old her mother, Helen Taylor, married?and-?became?Mrs.?Helen Moore. ?-? ? ? The plaintiff maintains that the pro visions of !? I,. Gladstone's will are in a total disregard and breach of the proposal and agreement of the said F. L. Gladstone with" the said Helen laylor to. leave and give all his prop erty to plaintiff at his death, and asks Attorney S. Justus Kverett is rep resenting the plaintiff. In her answer, the defendant main tains the complaint of fTTc piaintiit docs not state facts sufficient to con stitute a cause of action against the defendant. That it nowhere appears in the complaint that the demurring defendant is in any manner concern ed with the alleged contract, alleged to have bc