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Watch the UM On Taw -r Pnper K, It Caniaa the Data Whaa Taw tahaexfetisa Kxpfew VOLUME XXXVIII?NUMBER 16 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, February 22,1935 ESTABLISHED 1899 SURVEY NEED OF LOCAL BUILDING FORFEDERALUSE Congressman L. C. Warren Takes Preliminary Steps For New Post Office Representative Lindsay C. Warren this week called upon the Fourth As sistant Postmaster General and re quested that surveys be immediately conducted by the Post Office Depart ment with the view of the erection of federal buildings at Wiltlamston and Ahoskie. Mr. Warren stated that even if the survey should disclose that there were need for buildings that it would not mean they would get one. The purpose of the survey is to gath er full information for the future. Williamston and Ahoskie are the only two towns in the First District whose postal receipts make them eligible for consideration. Congressman Warren also talked with the Department about the addi tion-to the Federal building at Eliza beth City. Forty-five thousand dol lars was appropriated at the last ses sion of Congress for this purpose, but a new survey shows the amount to be inadequate. The Elizabeth City case will be brought before the joint Treasury-Post Office board next week for further consideration. , The department last year approved an addition to the Federal building at Washington including the purchase of additional land. This is now waiting for an appropriation. Congressman Warren also request ed the department to make a survey with the view of additions to the Fed eral building at Greenville which he described as being entirely inadequate for postal facilities. Future action on Greenville, Wil liamston and Ahoskie will depend up on the surveys, it was said ST. MARTINS k Rector Will Hold Two Services at Hamilton Church Sunday Rev. E. F Moseley, rector. Sexagesima Sunday: Church school at 10 a# m. Holy Communion and sermon at II aV m. Evening prayer and sermon at 7:30 p. m. NOTED CHOIR Eva Jets ye Choir To Give Concert at Colored School Here Tonight The Eva Jessye choir, noted Negro musical organization, will appear in a concert ar the colored school build ing here this evening at 8 o'clock. Special seats will be reserved for white people at the concert, E. J# Hayes, principal of the school, an nounced. MEET THURSDAY Stockholders of Roanoke Warehouse Co. To Have Annual Session Stockholders of the Roankc^ To bacco Warehouse Company will hold their annual meeting Thursday aft ernoon in the rnnrthnno at 1 o'clock, it was ordered this week by the company's president, Mr. Henry D. Peel, and Secretary W. T. Mead ows. Just prior to the meeting of stock holders, the board of directors will meet in the courthouse, it was an nounced. V METHODIST Rev. R. R. Grant Anounces Regular Program of Sunday Services The regular progranFof setvices wttt be held at the Mehtodist church Sun day, as follows: Sunday school, 9:45 a. m. Preaching by the pastor, 11 a. m. Evening service, 7:30 p. m County Basketball Tournament Will Get Under Way Here Next Thursday Bear Grass, Jamesville and Farm Life Are Only Entries So Far; Medals To Be Awarded Winning Teams And Players; Also Individual Awards Martin County'* Gold Medal basket ball tournament will (et under way in the high school gymnasium here on Thursday of next week, it was an nounced today by Coach James Peters of the local school. Only three schools have entered the tournament so far. The first game will be played by the local girls and those from Bear Grass the opening eve ning at 7:10 o'clock, followed by a game between the local boys and those from Farm Life. On Friday evening, the Jamesville girls, undefeated in the county this season, will play those from Farm Life, Immediately fol lowing the girls' games, the boys' teams from Jantesville and Bear Grass will compete for a place in the finals to be played the following Monday, March 4. Numerous medals will be awarded winning teams and players, Mr. Peters said. Large cups will be given the trophy winning teams, and gold bas ketballs will be given the winning players. Silver basketballs will be awarded the runner-up players. In ' addition to these trophies, awards will be made to the best sport, high scor er, the one shooting the most fouls, and to the most valuable player. . Large crowds are expected to at tend the closing events on the basket ball schedule in the county. Measles Epidemic Subsiding; Over 700 Cases in 2 Months After attacking 699 people in this county during January and a part of February, the meaales epi demic ia rapidly subsiding, re ports from the health office this week indicate. However, the sub aiding did not set in until the number of nearly all available sub jects had been depleted. While the victims wer confined mostly to children, ther were a few adults in the group The epidemic was not at all considerate, as the poor, the rich, white, and colored, the differnt and indifferent, were in cluded in the list of victims. That the epidemic is fast peter ing out in this section is clearly shown in recent reports from the health office, the number last Wednesday being only four, the smallest for any one day since the measles started several weeka ago. Seventy-five cases were reported during the past seven days, 37 of the number being among the col ored population. A new record was established a few days ago, as far as numbers are concerned, when George Mor gan, local colored man, reported 9 cases in his family at the same time. Growers of Tobacco To Meet in Raleigh FACTORY RUNNING 1 After a three-weeks period of inactivity, the local plant of the Columbian Peanut Company start ed operations again this week. Captain W. S. Pritchard, plant managpr. stating yesterday that operations would likely be con tinued until some time in May. The continued operation, he ex plained, depends upon the mov ing of cleaned goods to market. More than 100 workers are now employed at the plant, and the mill is handling from 8S0 to 950 bags of framers' stock daily. JUDGE MOORE IS TO PRESIDE OVER REYNOLDS' CASE Assignment To Hearing Is Unusual Honor for Local Jurist Judge Clayton Moore was named this week to preside at a hearing on a proposed "family settlement" of the Smith Reynolds estate in the <;orsyth County Supciior Court at Winston-Salem beginning March 11. The hearing will be held by the local jurist without a jury, it was announc tufc ???? The assignment to preside at the hearing involving millions of dollars | is recognized as an unusual honor for the local man. The list of attorney on both sides reads like a "who's who" of the North Carolina bar, there being 26 of them. range a fair and equitable division of the approximately $25,000,000 inherit |ed estate of the late Smith Reynolds among his heirs. R. J. Reynolds, Mrs. Nancy Reyn joldS, and Mrs. Mary Reynolds Bab tck proposed?the?family?settlement in an effort to terminate involved liti gation over the estate of their dead brother. In the event Judge Moore decides the division is "fair and equi table," the case will be sent to the State supreme court for a final ruling. If Judge Moore finds the proposal unfair to any one of the litigants, the case will be carried into open court. Libby Holman, Broadway actress and second wife of Smith Reynolds, would receive $750,000 under the pr<? |k sed division^ Her son, Christopher Smith Reynolds, would get approxi mately $6,000,000; Anne Cannon Rey nolds II, half lister of Christopher, i about $9,000,000, and the rest of the , estate to go for a benrvolent trust | fund in memory of Smith Reynolds {and for inheritance tax. __ ___ Wallace and Hutson To Hear Size of Crop Argued on Monday Large Delegation Expected To Attend Hearing from This County Arguments for and against a large tobacco crop this coining season willi be beard at a mass meeting in Raleigh next Monday morning at 11 o'clock,, when Federal authorities will meet with thousands of tobacco farmers! from this and other states. Martin] County is planning to send a large delegation of farmers to Raleigh that day, and other sections of the tobacco belt are expected there in large num bers-." . ?< f . "?.Henry A. VV all alee, Sfcer?*?y ? of Ag riculture, and Ja B. Hutson, head of address the meeting, it was announced this week by F-a Y. Floyd, of State College. The meeting is the outgrowth of two meetings held in Washington, at which the agricultural administration heard reports as to sentiment of to bacco growers?the delegation led by Governor Ehringhaus last week hav ing protested vehemently against in creasing the crop, and the committee | led by State College officials and in eluding members of the tri-siat* ad visory committee selected last fall in was desirable. ? Since both groups charged "that the other did not represent the true sen timent of the growers, Secretary Wal lace, who will be in Ashcville Satur day, decided to come and sec for him self, ami Mr. Hutson, who attended the meeting last fall at which the ad visory committee was named, will ac company hia^ ?; ?/? The call is going out to growers of North and Sutli Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida to attend the meeting. Secretary Wallace also is expected to explain new rulings to apply to the 1935 crop, which will include levying the full 33 1-3 per cent penalty per mitted by the Kerr-Smith act instead of the 25 per cent levied last seasn, and more stringent regulations to be imposed along with the proposed in crease in base acreage. Building Program Will Begin Soon Number of New Residences To Be Built This Spring Plans arc taking shape for a sizeable building program here during the next few months, according to reliable re ports heard this week. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Davis have let a contract for a one-story home on Academy Street, and work will be started on its construction within the next few days. Mr. M. D. Wilson is considering developing a ""portion of the Godard property by opening a new street off Hafughton Extended, near ttfe home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Watts. Mr. Wilson is planing to build sev eral homes there, bat no definite pro gram has been announced. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Wynne andj Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Andrews are I planning the construction of twol homes on Church Street within the next several months, and dthers are considering home building, it is un-j derstood And when all that is done! there will likely continue a house shortage here. ? The Colonial Oil Company is com pleting a storage* house and Mr. Roger | Critcher is constructing a small build ing for a cafe near the river. COUNTY COURT HOLDS LENGTHY SESSION TUESDAY ? i - Case Against Jamesville , School Teacher Attracts Most Interest ? Eleven cases were called in the county recorder's court last Tuesday, the case charging Professor James Uzzle, Jamesville school principal, with simple assault, probably holding fhe cerifeF of Interest Sevrat fines were imposed and one or two road sentences were meted out by Judge H O Peel The case charging the Jamesville school man with whipping a Moore J>oy there last week was continued until next Tuesday, when additional state witnesses will l>c called. The Moore boy was paddled by the prin cipal for attacking another school boy with a knife. That portion of the evi dence heard last Tuesday indicated the hoy was will whipped, but that the punishment was not unmerciful and that the boy got no more than that due him. A nol pros was considered by the state, but it was later decided to let the case go over until next Tues day, when Dr. J. H. Saunders, who examined the boy, has the opportunity to testify in the action. John Brilcy, charged with non-sup port, was ordered to pay $3 a week to his children for a period of two months and report to the court at the end of that time. Charlie Clark, young colored boy who badly cut another boy in Robcr sonville several weeks ago, was turn ed over to the juvenile court. Judge Wynne then turned the boy over to Clum Clark, the boy's father, with in structions to punish the lad before the court and keep him off the streets. The father, using the same paddle Professor J as Uzzle used in correct ing the Moore hoy, bore down upon his son, and probably did tnore with -those few "licks in discipling the lroy than at any previous time with his by Clark, is recovering. The case charging M. H# Knox with disposing of crops without pay ing certain debts or rents, was nol prossed. M. E. Smith, fined $50 for alleged violation of the prohibition laws, ap pealed to the higher courts, Judge Peel requiring bond in the sum of $150. The case charging Eugene Corey v^i(th bastardy, was continued until 1 next week. ? 1? : L Kan Manning was fined $25 and ing him with an assault j Charged with larceny, Wm Daniel was found guilty of receiving and was j sentenced to the roads for a period i of six iwfnths. Vernon Andrews was sentenced to | the roads for four months'- when " he was adjudged guilty of larceny Carey Whitehurst, charged with ope rating a car while intoxicated, fail ed to answer when called. Charlie Mack and Willie Ray Bul lock, charged with an assault, also failed to answer when called. BAPTIST CHURCH ? ' Number Questions To Be Taken Up At Forum Hour Sunday "Shall VVilliamston Have Sunday Movies?" "What Do Vou Think of the Divinity of Jesus7" 'Wnt Is tfttj Relation Between the Soul and the Body?" "Do You Take the Bible Lit erally?" These and other questions go into a forum hour at the twi-light service Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock. The above and other questions will be read at this church hour and will be briefly discussed. The pastor of the church will welcome other questions, provided they are sincere questions and some bearing on Biblical, rcligi- . ous or moral matters. The Sunday school, under the lead ership of Julian Anderson, has shown' remarkable new life in recent weeks' and should, as the spring comes on, firm up into a well-programed school of the church. The pastor wiff preach Sunday morning following the church school sessions. LAST CALL Forced by urgent necessity. The Enterprise plsns the discontinu ance of all its subscriptions that are now in arrears. Thqjfist trill be altered not later than the l<th of neat month, and subscribers whose subscriptions are now in arrears are urged to make arrange ments before that time to have the paper continue to they will not mite a tingle copy. Kindly notice the label on your paper and the numerals will (how the expiration date. If the figures are "12 ?*," it meant the sub scription expired the first of last December New Bank Will Be Located Here Within Next Few Weeks Seed & Feed Loan Bill Becomes Law President Signs I.avv For Aid of Nation's Smaller Producers Machinery for Perfecting Loans Not Yet Devised; $60,000,000 Fund A seed and feed loan bill became aw this week when tli President put lis signature to the measure creating f?()0,(XX),000 for use by small farmers >ver the country. Machinery for ban ning the loans- has not been set up, ind it will probably he some time in March before money from the fund will be available to eligible farmer borrowers. The passage of the bill, sponsored >y Representative Warren and others acquainted with actual condition's, has been eagerly awaited by a large num ber of fritters in this county. And it s safe Mo say that many farmers who were hcadd for the relief rolls will be able to care for themselves and estab lish a foundation fr future self-sup porting activities now that the fund lias been made available. Just as soon as arrangements arc completed for handling the loans, eli gible borrowers will he notified. Mr "Roosevelt signed a seed loan !>ill last year and expressed the hope it would he the , last. Congress,, how ever. sent another to the; White..Mou^C this session and there was speculation that the President might veto it. He lias said that expenditures outside the budget should be paid through new taxes. In approving the bill, the chief ex ecutive made public a letter to Speaker Hyrns in which he suggested that since the funds were primarily for drought relief they "should therefore he defrayed from the general appropria tion for relief purposes." This, he added, would "tiot have the effect ol increasing the budget estimate of ex penditures." The paradox of attempting to re (luce productin through the AAA ami at the same time providing means for expanding iT through financing crop* was pointed out several times. PRESBYTERIAN Program of Services for Coming Week Is Announced by Pastor # Sumlay, February 24, 1935; Church school at 9:45 a. m. Bear Grass Church school at 9:30 a. m. Young Peoples' League, 6:15 p m. Worship service and sermon at 7:15 p. ni. Poplar Point Church school at 1:30 p. ni. Rpberson's Chapel Church school at 3 p. ni. Prayer meeting every Thursday night at 7 p. in Prison Camp Services every Sunday afternoon. Go to church Sunday?Sunday school, too. Ladies Night Is Held By Kiwanians Here District Governor LeRoy, of Elizabeth City, Makes Impressive Talk Williamston Kiwanians enjoyed one ?f their best meetings in years last Wednesday evening when the club ob served "Ladies' Night" with members ?f the local faculty, wives ami friends *f tbe members a* special guests. District Lieutenant Governor J. H. LeRoy, of Elizabeth City, was present and lie made a brief but impressive talk dealing with principles of Ki vanis. Tom Averk, of Rocky Mount, sras the star entertainer of the eve ning with his Negro sermon. Mr. Avera announced that he would not fisctt** the mysteries of creation, but vould take as his text, "The Creation >f Mysteries." During ten minutes ic told of womefV, their pecularities, heir weaknesses, strength and their aults. He then talked on the other >ide of the question, paying great ribute to women, exalting them a* >ov? all of God's creation. The program was well balanced by nutical selections, and was closed irith a solo, "The End of Perfect Day" >y H. J. Holliday. PEANUT PRICES Peanut prices reached a new fligh mark for the season this week when extra quality goobers wiere selling for 4 1-2 cents a pound, with a possibility that the quotations would advance to the 5-cent mark before the crop is moved in its entirety. The unusually strong market comes, however, when the crop is just about out of the hands of the farmers, reliable estimates indicat ing that there are less than 15,000 bags of peanuts in the hands of farmers in this county. Reports fom othe sections also indicate the crop is about out of the hands of the growers. It is believed that there are fewer peanuts in the hands of growers at this season of the year than at any time in several years. PEANUT CONTROL PROGRAM IS NOW AT STANDSTILL Marked Discrepancies Are Uncovered in Several Townships The peanut control .program in this r^aHivd *a <T ulu If t i tr*irim Aveek when additional measurements of con traded acreage failed to conform with the claims advanced by growers in signing the contracts Some marked discrepancies hav? been uncovered in two or three townships, hut the total acreage claimed by the growers com I urements in some districts, it was un officially learned yesterday. County Agent Brandon and assist ants are planning a trip to Raleigh f??r further instructions today. It I might be that a measurement of all , j peanut?LaxuU -w+H- -be?ordered,?or "it I ! might he that the acreage claimed will' ! he accented, as it is or w ith a small I horizontal cut?b?r the?-everal?t"\vn [ ships. Definite action ill the matter I will probably he taken following the | meeting with State authorities in Ra I h igh today NEW CHEVROLET First of New Master Six Models Is Received Here Yesterday Chevrolet's new 1935 master de luxe sedan was placed on display in the showrooms of the Roanoke Chevrolet Company here ami the Better Chev rolet Company in Rohersonville ycs I tefday. The'car with its streamline styling and body of solid steel and ; "turret top" attracted much attention in both places The car is the latest | in automobile manufacure. and the i public is invited to inspect it CHRISTIAN Regular Services To Be Held at Local Church Next Sunday ? The regular program of services will be held at-the Christian Church Sunday, at 11 a. in. and 7:30 p. m. ' Sunday school at 9:4$. A cordial welcome is extended to all Greenville Banking & Trust Co. To Have 2 Banks in County Secure Charter for Branches In Williamston and Hamilton Procuring a charter this week, own ers of the Greenville Banking and [Trust Company are making arrange ments for the opening of a branch here within the next two or three weeks, it was officially learned yester day. The exact location of the hank has not been determined as far a> it could he learned today, hut it was unofficially stated that the officials re considering occupying the build ling lot ted next to Clark's drug store j and recently vacated by the A and P Tea Company. The personnel of the local branch ha** not been an nounced Reports heaid here this morning stated that preliminary arrangements for the opening of the local branch would be completed very shortly and that the intstiution would start regu lar hanking activities as soon as pos sible there after According to un official information reaching here, the bank .will probably be known under sonieotlier name than Greenville Banking and Trust Company. * Arrangements havi* been made and a, charter granted the ^Greenville Banking and Trust Company to take over the Bank of Hamilton and oper ate a branch there. The new institu tion' will likely take over the active iwMtagrrmFimirrm-tairtr there tiy the first ??l next month. The C.reenville institution i^ also completing arrange ments for opening ,t branch in Wash ington. The Greenville batik, of which K. G. Ilanagan is president, already has branches at Bethel, Belhaven and Snow Ilill Mr I lanagan has been 1 head of the hank sin.e it was started grown to an institution with $507,500 j capital and surplus at the present time with resources of $5,000,000. \V II Woolard, a native of Martin -dounty a U41 ??pre-ridettf, told the stockholders at their thirty i fourth annualmeeting that in i tiim to the eoiitlilioii fcHrrtrd in _the__ last statement, the hank had substan tial equity in real estate, bonds and reserves, lie. said that the hank was | taking care of all justifiable loans ! and was in the market for good loans. At that time, J H# Waldrop, cashier f the bank, submitted an operating of business December 31, 1034, of $4, 030,413 02 as compared to $2,835,945. al the close of 1032. Six percent regu lar and six percent special dividend I was paid for the year 1034. CHILD DIES Funeral Held Thursday for Rebecca Ruth Bowen, 9 Months Old Rebecca Ruth Bowen, nine months 1 old, died at the home of her parents, Mr and Mis < H Bowen, near here, last Wednesday morning at 10:30 o' clock following a short illness with pneumonia The child is believed to have had the measles, which developed nit-, pneumonia, causing death. Funeral services were held by Rev. Tom Harris m the Bethany Holiness Church yesterday afternoon at 2 o' clock# Interment was in the family plot, near the home. rire truck Cets Stuck in Mud on Wav ToF ire; House Completely Destroyed Three-Room Colored Tenant House Occupied by Mamie Brooks Burned To Ground Wednesday, With No Insurance on House or Contents Receiving a call from ocupant* of tenant house on Warren Street on. j Wednesday morning, volunteer fire i men were rendered almost helpless when the fire truck mired down in the soft earth a short distance from the ' burning structure. Direct connection i with the water lines was made, but, | handicapped as they were, the firemen I could do little inor than watch the three-room house, occupied by Mamie Brooks, colored, burn to the ground/ In answering the call, the firemen ex pri fenced the greatest difficulty of any they have encountered since the com pany was organized a number of years ago. William Rogers, owner of the house, carried no insurance and he estimat led his loss at about $300. While 'many of the contents were damaged in the hurried move or by fire when they were left too near the burning house, most of the household and kit Mien furniture was saved, it was said. The total loss will run around $350 on house and contents^ The fire was first discovered in the kitchen, but its origin could not be explained. The tenant sfT&^there had been no fire in a stove in that part of the house in three weeks, as she had been cooking in the main part of the I building. It was the second call received by I the fire department this week, a call having been answered the day be fore at the home of Sheppard Rice on Sycamore Street.
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