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Watcfc Dm Late! On Tow Paaar At It Camas tfaa Daw Whm Toor Sofaacripooe IpirB ENTERPRISE VOLUME XXXVIII?NUMBER 8 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday. January 25. 1935 ' ESTABLISHED 1899 EXPECT BLANKS FOR ALLOTMENT REQUESTS SOON Tobacco Farmers Who Are Without Allotments May Apply Blanks for appliratinn? froiU tllOati farmers who were not eligible to sign tobacco contracts last year and who want an allotment this season are ex pected here the latter part of next week or the week following, the coun ty agent's office announced this morn ing. Farmers desiring allotments may file their applications now, but no defi nite quota can be allotted them until the blanks and rulings are received, it is understood. In making allotments, consideration i> to be given applications by: "a. Former tenants who have regu larly grown tobacco and who now own and operate farms. "b. Tobacco farmers who have lost" their farms through foreclosure since 1929. "c. Tenants who have been com pelled to move from tobacco-produc ing farms and who are now growing tobacco on farms for which no equit able allotment can be obtained under tobacco contracts. "d. Farmers who have redured then acreage and production of tobacco since 1929 to such an extent that they cannot obtain an equitable allotment tinder a contract. "e. Sons of tobacco farmers who have recently become of age and who now own or rent farms of their own. "f. Other tobacco growers who. could not obtain an equitable allot ment under tobacco contracts and whom the committee deems to be en titled to tax-payment warrants. "Tobacco growers who could obtain an equitable allotment of tobacco acre-1 age or production under a contract and who do not sign contracts are not | eligible to receive otax-payment war rants,. ...... FORM REVERSED BY LOCAL TEAMS Boys Win Over Kinston 22 To 15: Girls Defeat Hobgood fl-9 After meeting with defeat at th* hands of anybody and everybody dur ing the early season, Willianiston's basketball teams staged a comeback this week, the girls winning their firs! game by an 11 to 9 score over Hob good, ami the hoys taking two straight games, the first from Kinston, 22 to 15, and the second from Elizabeth City, 15 to 13. The local girls offered .strong opposition against Elizabeth City's sextet last night but were un able to overcome a 0 to 0 lead at thu* half and lost, 13 to 10. Playing aroun I and making only one point in the first! half against Elizabeth City's 8, Coach ? Peters' boys tightened up in the last period and with a superior brand of ball won their game. Led by VV. Jenkins last Tuesday night, the local girls went into an ex trat period to defeat Hobgood, 11 to 9, at Hobgood. Louise Cook, Evelyn Lillcy, Marie Hardison, Jessie M. Hoi Ionian, and Ruth Jenkins were also jn the line-up, assisted by Ella M. Mishoe, Frances Humble, and Addie Lee Meador. The Williamston boys were headed toward defeat at the half over in Kin ston the same night with the score standing 12 to 2 against them. In the last period, they played rings a round their opponents to.win; 22 to 15. A triple-header is scheduled for next Monday night in the gymnasium here, the gprls meeting the Hertford avxivtj in the first game, at 7 o'clock, followed' by a game between the local and Hert - ford school boys. Campbell College and the Sanitary Grocery all-star team will th? program in what won, i i*es to be a fast game. The town team defeated Belhaven here last Tues day night, 48 to 37, for the second win ' over tfiat team this season. Twilight Service at Local Baptist Church Sunday A "twilight service" will be held at the Baptist church Sunday afternoon at S o'clock, with the idea that thi might become an established custom! in the event the congregation should % approve. The pastor will preach at the morn ing hour, following the Sunday school. The twilight worship service will be held at 5 o'clock, and followed by the young peoples' meeting at 6:30 o'clock "Shall North Carolina reopen the liquor question." will be the theme at the morning hour, and since this is a vital question to the welfare of the state, the people are asked to attend in unusual numbers. At the twilight hour the theme will be a practical mes sage on modern-day reliegious appli cation to life. Tobacco Allotments For County Mailed 1 PRESIDENT'S BALL^j Definite plans have been made for the President's Ball here neat Wednesday evening, chairmen of the event announced today. The main event will be held in the new gymnasium, while the old-time square dancers will hold forth at the Roanoke-Dixie Warehouse, proceeds from both dances going in the fund created to fight infan tile paralysis. A large portion of the money will be held in this county for use in treating paraly sis victims, it was announced. No other events are scheduled in this immediate section for that night, and large crowda are expected to attend the two dances. HAMILTON BANK MAY SURRENDER STATE CHARTER Stockholders Scheduled To Hold Meeting There Next Week > According to unofficial information j heard here this week, the Bank of | Hamilton is considering the surrender of its state banking charter, the (ireen ville Banking and Trust Company considering locating a branch there, it was said. It was also learned that the flank of Hamilton stockholders are planning to hold a meeting the early part of next week when definite action will he taken, it is planned. Earning approximately 6 per cent last year, the Bank of Hamilton can pay its depositors every penny, sus pend business and avoid a loss to any of its creditors. Last quotations j i heard here place the price of the S50 j par value took at $.17 50, a number of) shares having changed hands at that | figure, it was learned. While no official information could be gained here today, it is understood the (ireenville hanking firm still has it-* application before state and federal hanking authorities for the opening of a hank in Williainston. It is also con sidcring the establishment of a branch in Washington, according to an un official news report appearing in staff papers recently. Regular Services at Local Christian Church Sunday Kigtilai services will hf held in the local Christian church Sunday, begin ning with the Sunday school at 9:45, the pastor announced this morning At the 11 o'clock hour, the pastor will speak on "Spiritual Inheritance," and at 7:30 that evening his sermon theme will be "Jesus Lacing the Major ts= sues of Life." Mr. Jack R. Holiday will sing at the 7:30 service. Revival Starts At Local Church Tuesday Night Rev. Fred Weaver, of Mount Olive, is conducting a revival meeting at the local Pentecostal Holiness Church. The first services were held last Tuesday night, and the meeting will continue fpr two or three weeks. Services are held each night and the public is cordially invited to attend. NUMBER OPTIONS GIVEN GROWERS BY NEW FIGURES Adherence To The Smallest Allotment Considered Best for Growers All tobacco farmers in this county will have received by next Monday the acreage they will he allowed to plant and the production they can sell from the 1935 crop, it was learned today! from the office of the county agent. The information has already been mailed to about 700 tobacco farmer^ in the county, and the remaining ones, numbering about 720. wltl get tlrcict qu<ta> shortly, it was stated "Unless further checking shows that some error has been made, the an nounced figures will he final," accord ingmg to the information being sent to the farmers. "If an error is found, the figures are subject to correction." it was added. A farmer can plant 85 per cent of his base acreage, or he can plant as, much as 90 per cent of ;the base to bacco acreage. The rental payments will he reduced from about $17.50 an acre to about $8.75 if he plants 90 per cent of his base acreage. As there are likely to be no surplus marketing cardsi available this fall, it seems advisable.! and farmers will do well to bold their acreage to the minin\um figure, par ticularly in those cases where the pro duction allotment was found to he small last season. The farmer may sell 85 per cent of his base tobacco production, or he may sell an. additional amount above' the 85 per Cent equal to 12 1-2 per cent| :>f the 85 per cent figure. The adjust*} ment .payment will be reduced accord ingly it the largei amount o: pounds IB liOld. * : A proposal to allow the small farm er to plant his entire base acreage up to three acres is being considered, but the plan has not been officially deter mined, and there is some doubt if :i will be operative this year. There are rot many farmers planting under three acres in this county, but if the pro posal goes through in time they will L>e officially notified immediately. i Dr. C. J. Sawyer To Study At Harvard Next Month Dr. J. Sawyer, local eye, ear, nose ind throat specialist, plans to leave the 10th of next month for Harvard Uni ersity Medical School, Boston, for .pecial study during the following six >r eight weeks, it was learned today. MEASLES Invading thia aection about two weeks ago, an epidemic of mew tea continuea to apread, late re ports from the health officer showing 89 caaea reported in the Williamston area since last Mon day. So far this month 252 cases have been reported with the pos sibility that many others have not been called to the attention of health authorities. All but three of the victims are white, and a large majority of the cases la in the Williamston school district. COLD WEATHER PREVAILS OVER WHOLE NATION Mercury Drops To Thirteen Degrees In This Section; Little Damage Caused Feeling its coldest wcatherot tk season last Wednesday night and fast night, this section" dug deep into its blankets and hovered close to its1 stoves and radiators, escaping any ^ serious damage generally associated with low mercury readings. The; Dunn Plumbing Company reported Only one or two urgent calls for re pairs to bursted water ipes, the own j ers in general exercising precaution in { the protection of tlteir property. More j damage will likely be discovered when , the section thaws out from the wave. Various mercury readings were re j ported here during carl; yesterday am' j this morning, the lowest Thursday ; ?????? about Id degrees this morning. Fairi. weather and sunslvin- lessened the11 grip of the cold wave is it swept ovcrj j this section yesterday and today high , ( cr temperature- were in the making. '< hut there is still plenty evidence that winter is here. , ^ In other sections of the county, 170' or more deaths were attributed in onej way ??r another to the colde wave,' Minnesota reporting a new cold fee-1 ? ord with the mercury reaching 51 de-j grees below zero at one point. Up ^ in Canada redaings wore as low a 71 degrees In-low zero. Moods took the lives of a number of people ami threatened others. Communication lines were broken in the West and transportation was halted in many parts of the country. Youngsters toss ed their first snow halls at Panama City, Florida, for the first time in his tory. it was reported. In New York, 32.0(H) men were put to w ork shoveling J' more than 11 inches of snow from the ? traffic j^nes Hundreds of families * were marooned in the flood-stricken ? districts of Mississippi and Tennessee 1 \ torni disturbance in tin South] ' wav.i to this, section and probably; ' lessened its intensity School activi- 1 ties have been carried on over the; county with the exception of the one i here wliicli was xLised by measjes earlier in the week and the one which J closed at James villi- today. \* Ktinenibering the cold season the early part of last 1-elii uavy, local pep- | le are wondering if the frigid wave i> a sample of what might he expected v\ it bin the next tw o or three weeks. scneauie ot services ar Two Episcopal Churches Third Sunday after Fpiphnnj' Holy Communion, 8 a 111. t hurlTt school, MAS a. in. St. Martin's Hamilton l IturcIt school, 10 a. in. Holy Communion ami sermon at 11 Evening prayer and sermon at 7 p Missionary To Speak In Local Church Tuesday Mrs. Cieorgc K. Springer, recently returned from India, where she spent _ much time as a missionary of the Chris (ion church, will speak to the ladies in the Christian church here next Tues day afternoon at 3 o'clock. That eve ning at 7:30 she will speak to the gen eral public in the church, using inter esting and instructive theme to pip The public is invited to be present. Pastor J. M. l'erry announced. I SAW RICHARD BRUNO HAUPTMANN By CHARLES H. DICKEY Hauptmann does not look like a I criminal. If you had met up with him before all these recent sensational hap-j per.ings, the chances are that It never' would have occurred to you that he was probably to become the arch-crim-j inal of the century. I went to Flemington, N. J., where for two days I studied the man at closc| range. I sat immediately behind him, where Charles Lindbergh was separat ed from him, to the right, by only two I people; while to his left sat his ex pressionless wife, there being only two persons separating the two. From my advantageous place in ,the Hunterdon County courthouse, I could sec Hauptmann on his way to the open court before he came into the small room; I had my eyes glued on him as he made his dramatic entrances; I saw him cast his furtive glances over the spectators as he entered, then drop his eyes; I watched him hasten to his lit tle chair before the judge, and quickly drop into it, seemingly glad of the op portunity of turning his back to the thousand eyes staring at him. It impressed me that the man was really glad to come out of the cloae atmosphere of hit closely guarded cell, into the freer air of the "tourtroom. Court generally adjourns between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Haupt mann leaves the court for his cell im mediately after the men and women on the jury file out and has to remain in it until well up into the following day. As is well known, he spends those 17 or 18 hours under the peering eyes of his guards, and, in addition, sleep* ?when he does sleep-?under the white glare of an electric light which never goes out. So I got the distinct im pression that the man welcomes es-j cape from his solitude under such cir cumstances, and is glad when his guards come for him each morning between 9:30 and 10 o'clock. He walks briskly into the courtroom. apparently speeding up the deputy sheriff and the trooper who walk with him, holding his arms tightly with* their big hands. He sits down and reminds one of a setting hen, trying to get fixed on her nest of eggs. Haupt mann twists about in the little chair, shuffling for an easy position; then, when he finally nettles down, he re- c mains there, almost immovable. Wat effing him very closely, I got the impression that he and Judge ^ Trenchant appeared to be the best composed men in that assembly. Of . all the restless, nervous, high-strung o human beings who stand on tip-toe in the old 107-year-old courtroom, Hauptinann seems to be the most at ' ease of them all. He rarely ever moves 0 his body. Now and then he moves J his head very slightly to the right or " left, as some witness begins talking, or * as some chart is being illustrated on in the wall. But for tin most part; h' e just sits there, quiet, composed, art; ease, and self-possessed. 'I Lindbergh walks right by him each 18 day, and sits very near him. Once I ls saw Hauptinann turn his head in Lind bergh's direction; rarely dcMULJ>e ever d look at his wife, except during the t< court recess. He seems to be star- h ing straight ahead most of the times, h< his eyes apparently resting on th?* m base of the elevated bench on which ft the quietly dignified Tren-:hard pre-(tt sides so calmly. If a new witness is cl tiled on, or if one of them lets loose >nie startling bits of evidence, lie >oka, momentarily, but quickly re nnes bis stare straight ahead. 1 have card people say that when any dam ping evidence comes out he blushes ehind the ears: I never saw his do it nee! A good actor is Richard liruno lauptmann. Good actors are careful their expressions. His great abili to keep cool under the most damag g evidence is one of the points liich makes of him one of the niostl tensely human-interest studies I have er seen anywhere. 'One does noT ke one's eyes from him very fre icntly. He dominates everything. He the center of times, proceedings. He the show! Hauptmann is rather tall, and slen rr. It is. very noticeable that he is Her than the guards who sit with im all day. His hair is a sort of :avy drak brown, with a tinge of the uddy. Hit appearance is most youth I. It is only when they tell one at he is 36 years old, and was tained to a machine gun in the World War, fighting against us. that one real zes that lie is more than a mere la<!. ro look t him in the ha k, you would tet the impression that he is no more llian 19 or 20. To look into his fare jrou'd think he was no more than 2(i jr 27. I think he does not look like a mean nan. Now that the evidence is pil ng up against him, people are read ng all sorts of things into his char tcter. Hut if one should see him, and >e dispossessed of all that has oc :ured since last September, I believe wouldn't brand the man as a no orious criminit. The truth is that Richard Bruno Ilauptniaun is some vhat attractive in his personal appear, nice. As an instance, he appeals to the women in the courtroom. They gaze it him; they are enthralled at being so iear the man; they speak of his youth ul appearance; they sigh and say, 'We feel so sorry for him." In fact, >ne of fhe best woman writers inside lie courtroom at Flemington said of lini: "He has a certain good look, a (<?ni tinued on buck page) Little Chance of State Taking Over Road Bonds of Counties 10 CASES TRIED BY RECORDER LAST TUESDAY Court Gets Back to Normal After Rush During Post Christmas Season Following .1 rush caused by rmvcl> , sin during the holiday season, the! ro.unty recorder's court settled down, o a normal schedule last Tuesda> j tv-ueii 10 cases were called Several .uhstatitial fines were imposed, and; wo or three lengthy sonten e- were] daced on defendants. A settlement was agreed upon inj .he case chargiiig"J ohn Mohley withj issaulting an Dak City officer -sonic.J nne ago. The defendatr, lielJ m jail I or the past several days. was released| inder the condition that he pay the ?50 fine by next Tuesda\ Prayer for judgment was Continued for two years in tlvt ?.u charging] I.omre Pilrrinutoii with 1."vmiv + Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the ca ? charg iiVg^jLurtis Perkins w ith damaging j ifoperty. Defendant Perkins is to pa> ' lire damage also. t barged with larceny. David Joill^ a as sentenced to the roads tor lt> nouths. and l.eanion Jones f?>r tour Months. Defendant David Jones ap >ealed, the court requiring bond in the turn of $200. l acing two charges, cruelty to ani iials and simple assault, Jerry Smith was required to pay the court costs n the second, and the court non-suit?: ?d the first case. Smith was pllei^P :o have shot a cow in Jamesville Town; .hip,-and was said to have badly beat-J u the father of two witnesses to th? ! -hooting. )ile while intoxicated, Joe Day is was rined $25 and taxed w-ith thfc. cosu. Henry Jones was fined $25 and taxed with tlie cost in the case charging him vitli an assault w ith a dvadlv wcap The case charging Luther C lark with isolating the liquor law was continued.; A three months sentence was sus >ended Upon the payment of the 'cost J n the ease charging Jumbo Whitley ?vitli an assault. he case charging Milton Barnhitl with ihandonment arid non-support. SPECIAL ELECTION Preliminary arrangements have been completed whereby the citi zens of Parmele will vote on the sale of their light and power fran chise to the Virginia Electric and Power Company. The vote will be taken Tuesday, March 5. The town board has already ap proved the contract which must now be placed before the voters for their ratification or rejection. It i* understood that ths propow al will effect a saving of about 35 per cent for Parmele light and power users. They are now pay ing 10 cents per kilowatt hour, the prevailing rate of the power com pany being 6 1-2 cents for the firsi 60 kilowatts, 3 1-2 cents for the next 60, and 1 1-2 centa a kilowatt hour for all over that amount. [building outlook] While there are no immediate plans for building construction in this community, several new struc tures are likely to be added to the property list before the year is spent, it is understood, but the building record will hardly equal that of last year. At least 12 structures were built or extensively repaired during 1934 at a cost estimated at about $60,000. The construction includ ed three filling stations, five res idences. one store, a gymnasium, one office and apartment build ing. and extensive repairs to the Hotel George Reynolds and the Christian church. TAX COLLECTION FOR TOWN AHEAD OF 1934 RECORD Approximately $15,000 Has Been Collected on 1934 Levy of $40,010.04 t olfecting approximately $15,000 to ? I.ili on the fy<$4 tax levy. pic town of WiHianiston is outsideral>l> ahead with its tax receipts for the current levy that it wa- at flic same time last year, according to information receiv ed from the treasurer's office this week The treasurer i> of the opinion that the collections will have been more than half completed by the sec ond of next month, when the 1 per te'nt penalty goes into effect .The 1034 levy amounting to $40, 010 04, is* about $2,000 fess than th.it f<>r. (Tie previous year. All of The !^33 ? bu y ia collected lint aln.nt most of which amount is secured by land sales, it was stated. While a few of the larger property owners have paid their taxes for the ygW 1934. more owners with Small holdings have settled their tax a counts up to the present time thanc was the Case up to the same-"period la.?t year, it was pointed out. WILL CONTINUE PEANUT DRIVE Campaign Will Be Closed In This County Latter Part of Next Week Although^ .virtually c< unplete, t lie I eanut production control campaign will con tin tie m this county through "?next" week, Assistant" County Agent M L. Raines announced today. The ?movement must be brought to a close at that time, and farmers who have not signed and who desire to do so, should apply for a contract at the agent's office at once. Several of the townships have re poi ted?100 per rent sign up>, and tlu outlook over the .ountv is for at least a 99'per cent support of the measure. Arrangements will he made within the next few days to check acreagej measurements, it was stated today.' Contracts are being ? hecked in the <>fficer the authorities behevrng The" workings of the peanut program will prove very successful. REPORT MADE BY ROAD COMMITTEE IS UNFAVORABLE ???- > Outstanding Road Debt In This County Amounts To $765,000.00 ? j While there in great doubt o# it j passing, a bill wax introduced in the ' State House of Representatives this I week to have the State take over tne_ counties' road bonds. The propossal | would add a mere $96,000,000 to the I state's bonded indebtedness, according ' to the estimate furnished by Capux I Waynick. chairman of the State High-. way and Public Works Commission. In the few words which accompa nied the introduction of the bill. Rep resentative Cole Kunderburk, of Union [.County, mentioned the fact that the 1 state had taken over tlic operation ot i the couny roads, and that, by taking lover the road bonds it would further relieve the counties and owners of real | estate. - Returning troni the legislature last night, Representative Hugh,G. Morton Istated that the bill failed to receive 1 serious consideration and was report ed unfavorably by the house commit t tee on roads A proposal to have the State Highway 'Coniniissioii maintain !highway- through towns and cities al ien received an unfavorable report by j the committee, it was - fated 1 his ac tion by the'committee practically spells defeat for both proposals at the pres ! ent session of the legislature. With an outstanding bonded road j indebtedness of $7o5,()QO Martin ! County vv .uhl stand tw-profit to a coil I erable extent by the .pa-sage of the hill, and all efforts to Vift the burden a re'* Vo< en ed - oh gcioi.il favor' by propcYty ovviui- Ii the state refuses t<? take nvcr the bonds. Martin Coun ty property owners wi'l be faced with I a hi?H tax rati- !\>r the next quarter .?f a century, the last b<>ntl ot $150,000 falling One in 1W. With the partial unilerstaiuIinK that "the Stale vvoutd later acvmne the debt. Martin l oiintv rushed into the road huihlmg program, supplementing that of the state with one sizeable issue ait atiolher, beginning ha h in 1919. Sixleeu years ago, tin c unity floated $1511,000 hi bonds toward the con struction of the Kpa.ioke Rivcr brage. I lure years later it floated $.100,000 bonds for the Washington roa.1 and highway 00 hour years later $175, iHHI was added to the debt for the ! Hamilton road Prior to that time the , s,veial road districts were carrying on spending orgy, issuing bonds amount to $210,000, divided as follows: W.lhaiiislon, S40,000; Robersonville. $41141014,-.lais-r Xest, $40,000; llalilil ti.il $40,000; and Cross Roads, $50,000. s V...,rlv ill, or .<1X2.000. of these ^bomU ,ue still outstanding. The original is ! sues for the river bridge, the Wash ington road. Highway 90, and Ham ilton road, amounting to $t>25,000, have I been reduced by only $16,000, with \ $2fi,IMHi 111 default With o"lv three exceptions, the bonds draw interest at the rate of 6 per cent Itridge tolls are being lifted on the highways and even to the "watering place-," but Martin County property owners and others in several coun | ticl apparently are to continue to con t tribute p.I tlie easy travef of the nio turist from lure and everywhere. With I , huge -urplus in the highway funds, I property owners in those counties where there is a heavy road debt do not know whether the state will be "saddled" in taking over the bonds.? Tint they are sure they will be unsad dled" if the state accepts the debts in curred in the construction of a state | highway road program. \ quarter ot a million dollars is un .tctstourt trr have been allotmd by the state to a scenic highway, and yet the spenders of that money turn a deaf ear to the pleas for relief of v I people burdened with general property ' taxes imposed for what is strktly a | state highway program. Ministerial Students Will Hold Presbyterian Services hive ministerial students of Presby terian Church in the United States will have charge of Presbyterian serv f$*eT"throughout the county this Sun day. | These men will sing at the follow I ing points at the regular hours: Wtl i liamston, 44 ?. nr., Poplar Point, 1:30 p. m., Roberson's Chapel, 3 p. m.. Bear Grass Young People's League at 6:15 p. m. snd at the regular wor ship service at 7:15 p. m. Mr. John Whitley who spent the past summer in Williamston assisting in the work of this field will be one of the visiting students. The public is cordially invited to ?U of these services.
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