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THE ENTERPRISE Adynrtfaera Will Fla* Ou Cat ma* t Latchkey to Orar 1.SM iomes of Martin Canity. XXXIX?NUMBERS Williunstoa, Martin County, North Cvolina, Friday, January 17, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1899 PEANUT MARKET IS OFF QUARTER CENT; FEW SALES Estimate About 60 Percent Of Crop Marketed In This Section Peanuts are now ranging around 2 3-4 cents in price, the quarter of a cent drop from the price in force on January 6 bringing closer home the apparent distressing effect fol lowing the invalidation of the AAA by the United States Supreme Court. Very few peanuts are moving at that figure, however, as the farmers are cooperating, unintentionally prob ably,. in holding their crops off the market. The market action is even more disappointing because some farmers were of the opinion that with the elimination of the process ing tax, the price would increase in favor of the grower. Numerous grow ers are determined to withhold their crops from the market until there is an increase in price. Conservative estimates indicate that at least 60 per cent of the crop has been sold. Reports from over the county state that between 10 and 15 per cent of the crop remains un picked, and that in many of those cases the farmers will incur substan tial losses because the weather has damaged the peanuts. The bad condition of the roads has das delayed the marketing of the crop to a great extent, and some time wiU be required to get those peanuts to market where sales were made weeks ago. When those pea nuts are moved, a lull in marketing activities is expected unless the price trend is upward. Hauptmann Gets 30-Day Reprieve Bruno Richard Hauptman, schedul ed to die in New Jersey's electric chair tonight at 8 o'clock for the kidnap-murder of the Lindbergh child in 1932, was granted a 30-day reprieve by Governor Harold Hoff man, of New Jersey, yesterday. The govrenor held secret any reasons for granting the condemned man the re prieve. The action had the effect of giving Hauptmann at least eight more weeks to live. After the reprieve expires, he will be re-sentenced by Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who already has told him twice that he must be electrocutedT The law speci fies that Trenchard must set the execution date not less than four weeks or more than eight weeks from the date of re-sentencing. Bad news was mixed up with the good for Hauptmann yesterday. Earlier in the afternoon the news hummed up the wires from Wash ington that the United States Su preme Court had denied Hauptman's application for a writ of habeas corpus Legal experts believed this action exhausted Hauptman's re sources in the federal courts. Work on Building Program Progressing Rapidly Now After a slow start last week, work or Martin County's $100,000 school building program was well under way at several points this week. Preparations for the foundations are being completed at this time, and with favorable weather prevailing the program should be taken a defi nite shape within a very short time. Work on the Farm Life addition is being delayed by the bad condi tion of the roads, but Construction Superintendent C. W. Buchanan states that building activities would be started there just as soon as pos sible. The program is to be completed in about six months, it is understood. a 4-Year-Old Child Is Lost in Swamp Following his father into the woods near Hamilton last Wednesday after noon, a four-year-old colored child lost its way, reports reaching here late yesterday stating that he was still missing. Large numbers of searchers were dispatched to the area, but SO hours after its disap pearance no trace of the child had been found. Officers were called there, but they were helpless to act. The child is said to have followed its father into the swamplike woods where he was cutting wood. Wil liams, the father's name, instructed the child to return to the house, and it is believed the boy lost his direc tion, took the wrong path and wan dered off into the swamps. Present Indications Are That Acreage To Tobacco Is Likely To Show Increase Despite All Efforts To Hold It Down While there U no doubt but that many farmers will plant no more to bacco than allotted under their in validated contracts, there is a creep ins prospect for ay increase in the crop as a whole. Reports indicate that there will be an increase not only in this belt but also in other belts and states. Plans for a num ber of new barns are being consid ered generally, and most of them are not planned for replacements. From down in Georgia comes a report that one farmer declares he will increase acreage from 700 last season to 2,000 acres this season. While the report was not official, its source was considered fairly relia ble. Farmer Harry W^feldo, of Hamilton, has used only 4 of his 11 tobacco barns since the control program has been in effect, but according to a statement coming directly from him a few days ago, he plans to use all of them this season. Farm leaders are appealing to the farmers to hold their plantings down to the old contract allotment level, and while many, probably even a majority, will do so, there are indi cations now that there will be an increase in the crop this year unless some system supplants the three A's Tobacco Favored in New Farm Program POULTRY CAR Arrangements are now being made for the operation of a co operative poultry ear in this county week after next. County Agent T. ft. Brandon said today. If the plans materialize, the oar will receive poultry at James vlile on January 28, YVilliamston on tha 29th, Robersonville on the 30th, and at Oak City on Fri day, the 31st. Definite announce ments and prices will be an nounced within the next few days. Cooperative loadings are bring ing around 18 cents this week, or about 3 cents more than the prices paid by truckers, accord ing to reliable reports. How ever, the price might fluctuate a cent or two either up or down before week after next, the trend to determine the loading schedule, the agent explained. Sanitary Project Is Going Forward Rapidly in County Number of Sanitary Privies Awaiting Orders For Immediate Delivery Despite unfavorable weather ex perienced during the past several weeks, Martin County's sanitary project, handled in cooperation with the Works Progress Administration, is moving along fairly rapidly, Mr. J E. Hedrick, of Jamesville, who is ir. charge of the work, stated yes terday. During the past seven days a num ber of th modern type privies have been constructed at the Williamston Supply Company plant here, and many of them have been delivered. Constructed to meet stringent san itary requirements, the privies are available to property owners and others for just the cost of the ma terial, Mr. Hedrick explaining that )16 covers the cost to the purchaser. This price calls for installation or a turn-key job, it was pointed out. The new type of house is consid ered worth more than twice those constructed and installed by the old CWA, which charged $13 a unit to cover the cost of material. Orders will be taken for delivery anywhere in the county, and it is certain that the property owners can find no bet ter or cheaper way to improve sani tary conditions on their premises t and in their communities than under the program now being carried on cooperatively by the government. Orders left with Mr. Hedrick or his representative at the Williamston Supply Company will receive im mediate attention, it was stated. Waters In Roanoke Fall Very Slowly at This Point Reaching a crest of 14 feet at this pcint last Sunday, the Roanoke con tinues to fall slowly, the weather station reporting this morning that it would be some time the early part of next week bdfergthe stream would be within itsbanks The writer was just above the 12-foot mark on the gauge at noon today. Traffic on the river is increasing alieady, the bridge keeper stating this morning that he was looking foi at least a dozen boats here with in the next three or four days. Henry Gibbe, of Dana, Henderson County, reports killing a hog weigh ing 1,819 pounds net and therefore claims producing the largest hog in this State. One Plan Suggested Would Yield Three Times Old Method Framers Realize Program Must Be Attractive To Effect Control The tobacco farmer is in line for greater benefits under the proposed I substitute for the AAA than he re ceived under the old agency, accord ing to reliable reports coming out of, Washington this week. Details of the proposed farm legislation are not yet known ,but one plan promises the tobacco farmer nearly three times as much in benefits as he re ceived under the Agricultural Ad justment Act recently invalidated by the United States Supreme Court. The "increased payments are in con templation under the soil conserva tion program which the administra tion is expected to sponsor shortly, it was said. Possibly the committee handling the tobacco section of the AAA sub stitute fully realize that attractive benefits will have to be offered to off set any increase in acreage now that the control feature is without biting teeth. While all sums that may be men tioned at this stage of the program are tentative, it is quite possible that flue-cured tobacco farmers will re ceive as much as 7 cents a pound for keeping the conditions proposed to be incorporated in the soil con servation program. That sum would be nearly three times the benefits received under the AAA, and thos? familiar with the situation thinK that the larger bene fits would serve to offset the loss of the Kerr-Smith act, which furnished another form of deterrent in the na ture of a penalty tax on excessive production. It is not now proposed to have a separate program for tobacco or any other commodity, and the plan will require some form of new taxation in order to finance it, with process ing taxes of one kind or another gen erally regarded as the most feasible means. 4-Year-Old Child Is Struck hy Auto Guthrie Strawbridge, jr., four j years oife, was painfully injured yes terday -afternoon when he darted i into the road near the Pentecostal Holiness church on North Haughton Street and was struck by a car driv en by Mrs. Willard Harris, of Bear Grass. The child was knocked down and the car passed over him, but he was not in the path of the wheels, it was stated. The accident was un avoidable on the part of Mrs. Har ris. who was driving at a very slow speed, witnesses said Reports from the hospital, where the child was carried last night, stated shortly before noon today that it could not be determined just how badly the boy was injured. It was feared, however, that he had possi bly suffered a slight brain injury. He was bruised on the face and legs. Banks Here To Observe Monday As a Holiday The local banks will be closed next Monday in observance of Robert E. Lee's birthday, It was announced to day. The great general's birth an niversary falls on Sunday, but, fol lowing the usual custom, the banks will observe the following day as a holiday. BRIEF SESSION OF COUNTY COURT IS HELD THIS WEEK No Fines Imposed, But Sev eral Defendants Taxed With Costs The last Tuesday session of the county recorder's court proved not quite so profitable, but Judge H. O Peel upheld justice with several sub stantial jail and road sentences. Not a single fine was imposed, but the costs taxed against the defendants in several of the cases defrayed ex penses of the court all right. Probably the feature case was that brought by a father against his own daughter and her paramour. Pos ing as man and wife, Theodore Free man and Bertha Hilliard spent sev eral nights at the home of the girl's father. The man became suspicious and when he learned they were not married he had them carried to the bar of justice. Freeman apparently did not think so much of the solu tion to the case, but before he left the courthouse he and the girl were legally "hooked up" at the direction of the court. Judgment was suspended upon payment of the cost in the case charg ing Paul Cherry with passing a school bus while discharging pas sengers. Charged with the illegal removal of certain property, T. S. and John lladley were found not guilty, a jury having decided the case. Action was dismissed in the case charging Leggett Roebuck with diunken automobile driving. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of costs in the case charg ing Robert Mobley with operating a motor vehicle with improper brakes. The case charging Esther Woolard with violating the ABC law was dis missed. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Nellie Davis was sentenced to jail for 30 days; In the case charging Robert Lee Jones with carrying a concealed weapon and assault with a deadly weapori, the court nol pressed the cnsc as to the first count, and he was found not guilty as to the second. Tom Powell drew six months on the roads and Buck Powell drew nine months for the alleged theft of a hog from Farmer Downs in Ham ilton Township. ALL AAA CHECKS WILL BE -PAID TO CONTRACT FARM Government To Keep Faith With Farmers Who Kept Faith with the Conract All AAA benefit payments due North Carolina farmers up to Janu ary 6, 1936, will be paid, according to word from Washington received by Dean I, O. Schaub, of State Col lege. The treasury department has an nounced that all AAA checks now being distributed are good and may be cashed at any time. The dean could not say just when checks for payments now due will be distributed, as preparations for these payments had not been com pleted at the time the AAA work was suspended. The tobacco marketing cards used during the past season had been checked over at the State AAA to bacco office at State College and were almost ready to be sent to Washington for final approval. The marketing cards are necessary in determining the amount of the tobacco adjustment payments for each grower, the dean said. The State AAA cotton office was making preparations for the cotton price adjustment payments which were offered to assure growers at least 12 cents a pound for their lint. Dean Schaub expressed his belief that some way will be worked out for completing these and other pay ments within a reasonable time. Farmers who kept faith with their crop adjustment contracts up to the lime the Supreme Court invalidated the AAA deserve to get the pay ments promised, the dean said, and the government intends to keep f8ith with these farmers. Special Meeting Local Masonic Lodge Tonight A special meeting of Skewarkee Lodge. No 90, A F and A. M . will be held tonight at the regular hour In the hall here. There will be work in the first degree Members and visiting Masons are invitad to at tend. MANY FARMERS OF COUNTY ASK RESETTLEMENT LOANS FOR FINANCING 1936 CROPS Local Packer Says Trend of Prices for Hogs Is Downward Purchases Are Made for As Little as Five Cents a Pound This Week A downward trend in hog prices was reported on the markets today, the general price average running about one cent a pound below the j figure prevailing the early part of the month. While some offerings are ' bringing around 9 and 10 cents, pur chases by local packers in Georgia this week were made for from 5 to 7 1-2 cents. Mr. D. M. Roberson. owner of the local packing plant, explained that most of the hogs purchased at that price were soft and of inconvenient size In other words, the pigs were too small for packing and too large for barbecue. Continuing. Mr. Rob erson said that it would pay the farmer to sell part of his pigs in Sep tember or October, when they weigh aroun d70 or 80 pounds, than to hold them until January or March, use el-' the surplus feed, and then sell them when they weigh around 120 pcundk. placing the packer at a dis advantage in handling them If the farmer would sell part of his hogs early and as a result save more feed U. keep the remaining ones until they weigh 150 pounds or more, he would realize a greater profit, the packer added. Quarterly Meet of Firemen Held Here The quarterly meeting of the East ern Carolina Firemen's Association was held in the Woman's Club hall here last Tuesday evening with more than 100 members present represent ing nearly everyone of the com panies in the district. Following two false alarms and the quieting of two or three fellows who had imbibed a little too freely, the meeting got underway at 7:30 and proved very instructive as well as interesting. The program, includ ing several brief talks by local min isters. centered around a fire pre vention paper read by E. O. Book man, safety engineer for the Virginia Electric and Power Company, with headquarters in Richmond. The business program included the reelection of all officers and statis tics on fires and losses during the past year. President Joyner ex plained that with the exception of one or two towns, the district had experienced one of the smallest fire l< sses in a number of years The next meeting of the associa tion will be held in either Ayden or Farmville next April. Episcopalians Announce Schedule of Services Ckureh of Ike Advent Rev. E. F. Moseley. rector Second Sunday after Epiphany Church school, 9:45 a. m Morning prayer and sermon, 11 m. Evening prayer and sermon. 7 30 p. m Holy Trinity Minion Church school and preaching. 2 30 p m. Schedule ol Baptist Services Announced by Rev. Smith Bible school, 9:45 a. m Morning worship, 11 a. m B. T. U.. 6:30 p. m Evening worship, 7:30 p. m. Those who are, "and those who should be, members of our B T. U are especially requested to attend this Sunday's services The sermons are planned to emphasise the work of our young peoples' department It can be said with emphasis that your devotion to the B T. U will be prufltable for your own life and will mean growth for our church ? Farmer Has Incubator Of 42.000 Egg Capacity S. L Cline of Vaidese. has an i cubalor capacity at 42,000 eggs and is using thane from blood-tested poultry flocks in the vicinity of Morgan ton. " 1 TWO POJECTS Two Martin County projects, the widening of Highway St in the town of Robersonville and the surfacing of the road from Rob ersonviile to Highway 125, near Spring fireen, have been includ ed in the next contract letting to be held on the !8th of this month. The widening of the street through Robersonville will cost approximately $11,000. the dis tance being nearly one mile. The other project to be included in the letting is estimated to cost nearly $100,000 The road project is about S 1-2 miles long. A project railing for the wid ening of IVilliamstonS .Main Street, will probably be includ ed in a letting to be held within the next three or four months, it is understood. The proposed project here was just approved this week by local authorities. Mrs. Nancy Suggs Dies Wednesday at Home Near Here Burial Was In Ward Plot In Bear Grass Township Yesterday Afternoon Mrs. Nancy Suggs, wife of J A Suggs, died at her home. Kelvin Grove, on the Washington road, near here. Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock, following an illness of about three months' duration During that time she had received treatment in a Washington hospital for about one month and a half, returning to her home the day before Christmas Mrs Suggs, 38 years old, was a native of Greene County. In early womanhood she was married to Mr. Suggs, later moving to Washington County, where they lived before lo cating in this county about four years ago. Mr. Suggs has superin tended the Staton Kelvin Grove farm since that time. She was a member of the Free Will Baptist church. Besides Mr. Suggs she leaves two daughters, Mrs. Hoy Ward, of near the Beaufort-Martin line, and Janice Ann, two months old. She also leaves one brother and one sister, of Greene County. Funeral services were conducted from the late home yesterday after noon, and interment followed in the Ward cemetery in Bear Grass town ship. | # Welfare Office Moved from Courthouse To Town Hall The Martin County welfare office was moved this week from the Court house to the special offices on the second floor of the Williamston town hall. The director, Mrs. Wiggins, and assistant, Miss Ayers, are i vcstigating needy cases over the county and are rapidly perfecting an organization for handling ap peals from the less fortunate. In the meantime, unofficial reports state that the relief situation will probably be given more considera tion by the county authorities with the view of making some changes in Itandling the work. No alternate plans were announced, however. Burglar Is Routed From Home Here The home of Mr and Mrs. W J Keel on Watta Street was entered by a burglar early last night, the man escaping empty handed when Mr Keel tried to trap him in the kitchen. It was the second or third time the home had been entered dur ing recent weeks, it was stated. Returning home about 9 o'clock, Mi Keel, as he was driving his car into the back yard, saw the colored man look out the kitchen door. Aft er calling to members of the fam ily, who were in the front part of the house, for his gun, Mr. Keel ran to the kitchen and held the door. The man on the inside wrung the knob off in an effort to get out, and, after failing in his attempt to gain freedom there, he turned to another door that opened at the back and Forty Applications Approved Already, Representative Says Farmers Required To File Applications Before First of February I>??ubtful of finding credit avail able to them through the regular channels, many farmers in this eoun |ty are turning to the Farm,Resettle ment Administration for loans to finance their farming operations this >tar, David G Modlin, rehabilitation [supervisor for the administration, 'said this week. More than 40 appli cations. averaging around $400 each, have been approved already, and the administration is prepared to handle about three times that many, the sup jervisor said. However, under a rul ing, applications must be filed before the first of next month, making it necessary for those w ho would rely en the resettlement organization for financial support to apply immedi ately for their loans. r Apparently supplanting the source c f credit made available during the past severals years by the seed and feed loan fund, the resettlement ad ministration promises to be the main credit agency for a large, jiumber of farmers in the county this season, it i; understood! In other words, the farmer, whether he be tenant, rent er, or land-owner, who found it nec essary to rely upon the. seed aiid feed loan fund for his financing in the pgst, will probably find it to his ad vantage to turn to the resettlement administration at once with an ap plication. While drifters, so to speak, will hardly qualify for loans, meritorious casesywill receive every consideration* was stated. Time is at hand for completing plans for the 1 D3t> crop year, and those farmers who doubtful of obtaining loans through regular sources or other agencies, w ill sure ly make no mistake in seeing the re habilitation supervisor at his office in the tow n hall, Williamston, for all details at once. - The rehabilitation supervisor, Mr* Modlin, will be glad to explain fully the plans for advancing loans, but farmers planning to use this source of credit are warned to enter their applications before February 1. Local Teams Win One And Lose Three Games After dropping hoth Karnes of a double bill with Columbia on the small court in the Tyrrell capital last Tuesday night, Williamston*s basketball teams played their best games of the season with Elizabeth City here last night. The girls play ed their first real basketball game but lost by one point, the visitors taking the large end of a 19 to 18 score. The local boys won their game 21 to 14. In the Tuesday night contests, the Columbia girls won 12 to 7, and the | boys 23 to 16 Beat' Grass Teams Win Three and Lose One In two double-headers so far this week, the Bear Grass basketball teams won three of the four games, the boys dropping their first game of the season to Columbia. 29 to 10 last Wednesday evening. While the boys went down in defeat, the Bear Grass girls almost whitewashed the Columbia sextet, turning their op ponents by a count of 23 to 2. Earlier in the week, the girls and boys from out Bear Grass way de feated Windsor in u double bill, the boys winning 18 to 18 and the girls 26 to 13. with Hogerson and Raw Is leading the Martin County girls. ? Schedule of Presbyterian Services Is Announced 9 30 a. m , Sunday school at Wil liamston. 9:45 a. m , Sunday school at Bear Grass 11:00 a. m, worship per vice at Wil liamaton. 3:00 p. m., Sunday school at Rob erson's Chapel and at Ppplar Point. 6:15, Young people's meeting at Bear Grass. 7:00 p. m., worship service at Bear Grass. The Auxiliary will meet tonight in Williamston at 7:30 o'clock. The Union young people's group will meet Monday night at 7:00 in the Presbyterian church.