THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 45 , Williamston, Martin County. North Carolina, Friday, June 5,1936 ? ESTABLISHED 1899
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19 CASES TRIED
INCOUNTYCOURT
AFTER HOLIDAY
First Session Held Sinc<
April 28; 19 Other Cases
Are Continued
Holding its first session since th?
28th of last April, the Martin Coun
ty Recorder's court handled 1# cases
Tuesday, continuing as many mors
for consideration at later dates. Th<
court met in improved surround
ings, the commissioners having hac
extensive changes made in the old
hall of justice. The improvement!
include a composition floor, several
coats of paint, and a few alterations
Although the court had a' record
number of cases on docket, the large
number of continuances held down
the total amount of fines. The flnei
amounted to $250, not mentioning a
considerable sum assessed as fines.
Several road sentences were meted
out, and quite a few cases were no]
prossed.
R. E. Luper was fined $50, taxed
with the cost and had his license to
operate a car revoked for one year
in the case charging him with
drunken driving.
The case charging Willis Bryant
with an assault with a deadly weap
on was nol prossed.
Charged with larceny, Ernest
Wynne was found not guilty.
Floyd Briggs was fined $25 and
taxed with the cost on an alleged
assault charge.
The case charging J. W. Dowdy
with reckless driving was no]
prossed.
Lizzie Jones, charged with the
theft of a check, was jsiled for 00
dsys.
George Smith, the fellow with s
barroom in an old school bus body
at the end of Williamston'a Church
Street, was sentenced to the roads
for three months for alleged viola
tion of the liquor laws.
Roosevelt Risby was fined $25 and
taxed with the cost for allegedly
violating the liquor laws.
Charged with an assault with a
deadly weapon, James Smithwick
was found not guilty.
Judgment was suspended upon the
payment of the cost in the case
charging Ernest Locust with oper
ating a motor vehicle without a
driver's license.
Dempsey Jones was jailed for 30
days on a drunken' driving charge.
He had served 38 days in jail and
was released following his trial.
His license to operate a car was re
voked for one year.
The case charging B. C. Wynne
with violating the liquor law was
nol prossed.
Ernest Phillips, charged with
drunken automobile driving, was
fined $50 and taxed with the cost,
the payment to be made at once or
accept a sentence on the roads for
00 days.
Roy Ward, said to be from Goose
Nest, was fined $50 and taxed with
the cost for the alleged violation of
the liquor laws.
Prayer for judgment was contin
ued until September in the case
eharging Dillon and Sallic Padgett
with violating the liquor laws.
Levi Wilkes was sentenced to the
roads for four months for alleged
drunken automobile driving.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of the cost in the case
charging Herman Mooring with an
assault.
Bryant Hill was sentenced to the
roads for 00 days for carrying a con
cealed weapon.
Oscar Laney was fined $50 and
taxed with the cost for drunken au
tomobile driving. His license to op
erate a car was revoked for one
year.
The session Tuesday attracted an
unusually large crowd, but most of
the spectators left before the court
adjourned shortly before 4 o'clock.
Burned About Face When
Asphalt Heater Explodes
Jos. W. Van! jwllnihim, ctatc
highway employee, was painfully
but believed not seriously burned
about the face Wednesday morning
when an asphalt heater exploded at
the highway plant near the river
here. Glasses protected his eyes,
but the Are burned oA much of the
shin of his fees.
He is able to be out and will prob
ably return to work next week.
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School Building Program
About Complete in County
Martin County's 1100,000 school.
started last Jan.
reports indicating the project!
rill be completed within the next
or six weeks. The primary
unit here is virtually ready for oc
eapancy, but, of course, it will net
he needed before next fall. Wort
is progressing rapidly on the othei
projects at Jamasvtlle, Farm Life
Jtotanonville,
Oak City.
Enterprise To Hold Election
Party Again Saturday Night
the election returns tomorrow
have been completed, ahd The
Enterprise Invitee everyone to
he ea head for the count.
Martin County returns should
start eominf in about 1:15, or a
bout one hour follow ins the
clootns of the polls. Lengthy
tickets are reported in many of
the other counties, and it is ex
pected that returns from over
the state will come in unusually
alow, there belnx some doubt as
to whether a complete vote can
bo had for a number of the state
offices that alfht. There are
only S3 names on the two tickets
others the list of candidates to
tal In the neighborhood of 1M
State returns wiU be tabulat
ed three or four times during
the evening by The Enterprise
and pasted on the blackboards
In the windows, and It Is pos
sible that a fairly accurate Idea
on the outcome can be obtained
late In the evening.
The pollholders and others In
this county have pledged their
efforts in getting the Martin re
turns in on record time, and the
county figures should be com
plete around 9 o'clock.
Rural Electrification
Program Under Way
FOR HOUSE
Jos. W. Bailey, attorney of
WlUlamaton and Everetts, la in
the race (or the Houae of Rep
reeentatives from Martin Coun
ty. He ia one of three candi
datea for the position.
16 LICENSES TO
MARRY ISSUED
IN PAST MONTH
Issuance About Normal But
Much Larger Than In
Recent Depression
Sixteen marriage licenses were is
sued in this county last!month, the
number being about the average (or
the particular month (or the past
several years, ffiit more than twice
as large as the May issuance during
the depression years.
Licenses were Issued to 0 white
and 10 colored couples, as lollows:
White
Penel Bland antf Mary Matthews,
both of Edgecombe County.
James Garfield Manning and An
nie Weathersbee, both of Roberson
ville.
Ludie E. Hicks, of Henderson, and
Mrs. ftuth T. Eastwood, of William
ston.
Woodrow Hollidaj and Ruth
Jones, both of Martin County.
James Kader Rawls and Syble
Ray Bullotk, both of Martin County.
Vernon Lee and Ellen Earl Spell
er, both of Bertie County.
Colored
Mock Davis, of Martin County,
and Maggie Winston, of Pitt County.
Zener Williams and Rosa Lee Wil
liams, both of Martin County.
WiUie Cherry and Martha Bunch,
both of Bertie County.
Waller Rogers, of Halifax County,
and Irma Lee James, of Martin
County.
Washington Spruill and Mary
Mindies, both of Williamston.
Jimmie Bell and Elsie Mack Wor
aley, both of RobersonviUe.
Henry Land and Hettie Rodgers,
both of Martin County.
Elijah Baker and Retha Dolberry,
both of Oak City.
George Davis and Sina Whitfield,
both of Martin County.
Andrew Roberson and Connie
Crandall, both of Martin County.
Special Service for Masons
In Local Church Sunday
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There trill be a special service for
Masons at the Episcopal church this
Sunday night at I p. m. All Masons
are asked to meet tat the church
yard a few minutes before time for
the service and march into the
church in a body. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
Two Projects Have
Been Completed and
Oth ers Considered
Entire Program Will Add
More Than 100 Patrons
In Rural Sections
With two projects already com
pleted and preliminary surveys well
under way for several others, the
rural electrification program in a
number of communities of this
county is progressing rapidly, ac
cording to R. H. Goodmon, of the
Virginia Electric and Power Com
pany. which Arm is handling the
projects.
Current was turned on several
days ago on extensions in the up
per part of ti.e county, near the
Pitt and Kdgeoimbe boundaries and
on i ue leading ,ut of Jsmeiville to
Cedar Branch Baptist church The
wo extensions are serving 16 cus
tomers in this c.unty, the upper line
serving several other homes in Edge
combe and Pitt Counties.
Preliminary suiveys will be com
pleted within the next day or two
for lines to Bear Grass and to cer
tain sections of lower Jamesville
Township. The Bear Grass project
franchise will be up for it ssecond
reading at a meeting of the town
commissioners there next Tuesday,
and actual work is to get underway
soon thereafter. The 6.5 miles of
line will serve approximately 45
customers. Extensions from Bear
Grass to Highway 17 and from there
to Corey's Cross Roads has 26 po
tential customers. Another pro
posed branch of the line from the
intersection of Highway 17 nnd the
Bear Grass road to the Old-Mill Inn
and on to Lilley Brothers in Griffins
Township is expected to serve 13 or
14 customers.
Two extensions will be made in
-the Dardena section. Ohe of these
projects, three miles long and ex
tending toward the Free Union sec
tion, will have 21 customers. An
other extension, 2.6 miles long, will
serve two customers in this county
and continue into Washington Coun
ty, where 13 or 14 other customers
will be served.
Mention has been made of the
possibility of extending the Cedar
Branch line on into the Farm Life
section, but the potential number of
customers in that area has not been
definitely estimated. The project
was described as feasible.
At the present time the rural elec
trification program, complete and to
be completed, will serve around 117
customers ih This county, not includ
ing a large number already serviced
along secondary transmission lines
such-as the one from here to Ever
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Right Preliminary Hearing
Is Waived in Spruill Case
Right of a preliminary hearing fui
Charlea Edward Spruill, young ne
gro arretted on the George Reyn
old! Hotel Are escape here last Fri
day night waa waived by hia attor
ney, H. G. Horton, yesterday. The
caae will go before the grand jury
when it convenes here Monday,
June 18. The nature of the charge
has not been determined, there be
ing three alternative charges the
jury can advance. One is for at.
tempted burglary, another for at
tempted raps and still another for
Makes Water Walk Down
Hill Instead OI Running
Dr. W. C. Houston, of Cabarrus
County is usin ga combination of
legumes and terraces to "make wa
ter walk down the hills on my farm
of running."
MARTINS OFF TO
GOOD START BY
WINNING 2 GAMES
Martins Show Considerable
Power at Bat Against
Hearne's Bunnies
Opening the season this week.
Peahead Walker's Martins perched
on a top limb position in the Coast
tal Plain League standings, defeat
ing Tarboro 13 to 5 at Tarboro, and
turning the Bunnies back 8 to 5 in
the home opening the following day.
Early activities show the Martins to
be a powerful organization with
knocking ability. There is plenty
of material and some to spare, giv.
ing rise to the belief that the Mar
ting will fly high in the Coastal
Plain this season. The team meas
ured up to expectations in the Arsl
yard-stick measurements.
Displaying a mighty wallop, the
Martins pounced on two Tarboro
hurlers to record 17 hits in the game
Tuesday and establish a unique rec
ord in the seventh inning when they
sent ITmeji to bat and made 7 hits
and 8 runs. Walters led the 7th
frame attack with a double and a
home run, tying Armstrong at 3-all
for hitting honors in the entire
game. ?
Before a crowd of more than 800
fans, a record attendance here, the
Martins turned back the Bunnies
Wednesday to add to their prestige,
Armstrong and Agcher with three
hits each taking the batting honors.
Young, a rather small chap work
ing on the mound for the visitors,
held the locals' hits very well scat
tered until the sixth inning when
the Walker boys started an effec
tive attack that netted two singles
and two doubles. Dye finished the
game, the Martins touching him for
two blows to increase the count to
12 hits. Dean worked six innings
for the locals, allowing Ave hits
uivlngood took ovar In the seventh,
and Cherry worked in the eighth
and ninth frames.
The game was one of those slow
affairs, a little dust storm delaying
the activities considerably.
Manager Walker has not deAnite
ly chosen his regular squad, but he
is fast whipping his team into shape
and igjll be all settled within a very
short time. This afternoon, Pea
Snow Hill here, and will likely use
Bumgarner, Lenoir-Rhyne athlete,
in the outAeld; Bus Male, Universi
ty of Virginia, at second, as hew ad
ditions to the squad Brown, L. S.
U. man, reported last evening for
work as pitcher, leaving only Henry
ouse to report. Archer, holder of
.econd base during the Arst two
games, has been lent to Tarboro for
a few days.
Tomorrow the Martins go to New
Bern, and return for a game with
the Bruins here Sunday when a rec
ord attendance is expected. The
Sunday game is scheduled to start
at 3 o'clock.
Box scores on page four.
Continue Plans To Have
State Relund Road'Money
Plans, pushed by the Eastern
Carolina Chamber of Commerce,
are still going forward to have the
highway commission repay to the
several counties money advanced
by them for the construction of
roads years back, A meeting was
held in Raleigh Wednesday when
discussions were held to advance
the claim of the counties. Elbert S.
Peel represented this county at the
meeting. ^
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Wheeler Martin Named
Referee in Bankruptcy
Wheeler Martin, local man and
prominent Eastern Carolina attor
ney, was appointed referee in bank
ruptcy for this district by Federal
Judge I. M. Meekins last Wednes
day; The appointment provides a
two year term in the office, and was
made following the resignation of
R. W. Herring.
Mr. Martin's jurisdiction as ref
eree in bankruptcy cases extends in
to 21 counties in this section of the
state.
$1 Waiting for Another Careful Driver
The weekly reward for careful
driving went to "Flip" f*eel laat
week after he waa seen observing a
traffic rule on Smith wick Street. He
received a $1 credit alip at Clark'a.
Several daya paaaed before an
other obaervance of the simple traf
fic rulea waa noticed, but there were
caaea that were not aeen, to be aura
Car with licenae No. 202-217 atopped
at the Haughton-Main intersection
yesterday morning, the driver snak
ing certain it waa aafe to enter the
main thoroughfare before continu
ing on hia way. The car 'ith a
trailer attached waa aeen at a die
Between 3,000 and 3,600 Voters
Are Expected To Participate in
Primary Throughout County
2-Inch Rain Yesterday Was
Worth Million To Farmers
The illfhtly more than two
lncheo of rain falling In this see
tlon yesterday afternoon was
roughly valued by some farm
era at a cool million dollars to
the crops in this county alone.
However, the rain comes a bit
too late to insure normal crops,
many believe.
As far as it could be learned,
the rain yesterday was general.
some sections having probably
more than others, but all report
Inc "gnod" lalus. ?
Nearly twice as much rain fell
yesterday afternoon from 1:45
o'clock to 8 o'clock than was re
corded by the local weather sta
tion during all of May and much
of April. The fall. 2.04 inches,
was the largest recorded In this
section since April 7, when 2.47
inches were reported.
vnli -1 yphoid Drive
Is Planned in County
Definite Schedule Is
Being Worked Out
By Health Officials
Campaign Expected To Get
Underway Latter Part
Of This Month
Thousands ol Martin County peo
ple?men, women and children,
white and colored?are expected to
insure themselves against typhoid
feyer when the anti-typhoid cam
paign gets under way in every com
munity in the county within the
next tew weeks. A complete sched
ule (or the campaign is being for
mulated and will be announced dur
ing the next few days, Dr. J, II.
Saunders, county health officer, said
today.
Three years ago more than 12,400
people were given the vaccine free,
the health record since that time
well supporting any and all claims
to the value of such a health move
ment. Martin, probably reporting
the largest proportional number tak
ing the vacun& of any county in
the state, is one of a few counties
reporting no typhoid deaths during
the past two or three years. And
there have been scarcely any cases
of the fever th the county during
that time.
The immunization program, han
dled by the county in cooperation
with the State Board of Health, is
ittered free to every person in Mar
tin County. The only requirement
the board of health makes is that
those wishing to take the vaccine be
at the designated places at the time
specified Free vaccinations can
narflly be expected?except at the
clinics.
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Employment Office
Open 2 Days Week
The Martin County branch em
ployment bureau, maintained here
by the Federal government, ia now
open only two days each week, the
office transacting business only on
Wednesday and Fridays, according
to an announcement released this
week. A reduced appropriation
was mentioned as the cause for the
curtailed program.
During the past several weeks
there has been an actual shortage
of labor locally, it is understood.
Contractdrs, handling Federal work
projects, employed all surplus la
bor, the employment bureau then
furnishing the workers work cards.
One or two of the projects will
be completed shortly, and a slight
increase in unemployment is ex
pected.
tance, and the identity of the driver
could not be determined. However,
all he haa to do to get a $1 trade al
lowance at Davis* free la to clip
this and drive hia car to the front
of the drug atore, report to the man
agement and have the number veri
fied.
While the traffic rule* were ob
aerved in thia aingle ina'ance, num.
ben of drivera darted into buay
atreet interaectiona with little re
gard for their own or the aafety of
othera. No accidenta resulted, how
ever, but the chances for wrecks
.1 HEAR COMPLAINTS
Meeting as a board of equal!
aatlon and review on Monday,
June 15, the Martin County
commissioners will hear any
complaints in connection with
values placed recently on prop
erty by the 10 list takers in the
county. Except in unusual cases
very little change was made in
values on real property, and
naturally, not many if any, com
plaints dee anticipated.
All property owners have a
right to appeal to the board,
however, it was pointed out in
a notice of the meeting issued
today.
Graham Rally Is
Held Last Night
"We'll wash our dirty clothes in
our own back yard, and we won't
ask a Georgia Talmadge, ,or a man
from Kentucky, South Carolina, or
Illinois to help us do it,'' D. P. Mc
DufTee, Henderson attorney, told 40
or more voters at a Sandy Graham
for Governor rally in the court
house here last night. The speaker,
holding forth for more than an
hour, sized up all three of the ma
jor candidates for the high state of
fice, reviewing at length the ecord
of Dr Ralph McDonald and his
promises, and pointing out his rea
sons why Graham should he nomi
nated and elected Governor of North
Carolina.
McDufTee, in substance, pleaded
with his hearers to vote for Gra
ham, but if they could not do that
then vnte for Hnev in preference to
McDonald.
The meeting was marked by its
quietness, but his audience listened
attentively to the long address that
marked the close -of the political
speech-making in this county, for a
while at least
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Roberson's Chapel Plans
Extensive Program Soon
Beginning Sunday night at R p
m., at Roberson's Chapel, Dr E E
Gillespie will preach each night for
one week. On Monday morning at
9 a. m. the fourth annual vacation
Bible school will begin. The ses
sions will fill the whole of the morn
ing. Teachers In the school will 6C
Miss Ezefferlee Griffin, Miss Mar
jofie Taylor, Mrs. Earl Bailey, Mrs.
John H. Roberson, Rev. John C.
Whitley and Rev 7r T. PiephofT, On
Sunday, July 14th, Dr. Gillespie will
dedicate the Roberson's Chapel Mis
sion which is now entirely free of
debt, in the morning. The Bible
school commencement will be held
in the afternoon and the meeting
will come to a close Sunday night.
are considered excellent.
The main purpoae of the small re
wards offered by The Enterprise is
to promote as muph as possible a
greater observance of Williamston's
traffic regulations and add to the
safety of everyone. Just now no
public mention of the traffic viola
tions will be considered, but disre
gard of the rules is noticed fre
quently, and in many cases the re
sulting danger is great. It is planned
to point out traffic violations, but
not with any intention of signaling
out in particular any person or
group of persona,
Gubernatorial Race
Is Just About Whole
Show in This Section
Record-size Vote of About
450,000 Predicted In
Entire State
Between 3,000 and 3,600 voters
are expected to go to the polls in
the^. 12 precincts of this county to
morrow and participate in the Dem
ocratic primary. - While the contest
for the gubernatorial nomination
has just about stolen the whole
campaign show, all candidate^ are
expected to poll a large vote with
the exception of that good man, Jno.
A. McRae, and he doesn't stand a
ghost of a chance of being gover
nor?or he doesn't right at this par..
ticular time. Probably some of the
other candidates will not poll as
many votes as they hope to get, but
the present indications point to Mr.
McRae as the certain holder of low
point honors.
The campaign drawing to a close
tomorrow evening, aside from lo
cal contests, has been marked by its
backliring, and new vote>getting
tactics. Probably it was the first
time that candidates for the high
state office ever found time to pa.
rade the by-ways and hedges to
clasp the hand of every Tom, Dick
and Harry in their . paths. Few
campaigns for any office have been
conducted on any more extensive
scale than those of Gubernatorial -
Candidates Graham, McDonald and
Hoey. They have combed the state
from head to tail and gone to all
sides for support. And tomorrow
the showdown comes, the count de
termining future action on the bat
tlefield of politics.
Estimates already entered in The
Enterprise vote guessing contest
average slightly over 3,400, or about
400 less than the total cast in the
second primary of 1934, when Wynn
and Lilley were running for clerk
of the superior court. Approximate
ly 450,000 voles will be cast over
the state.
Two Hurt In Far
Wrecks Yesterday.
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G. T. Davis and Wm. Powell,
Windsor men, were hurt but not
seriously, when their car* skidded
and turned over between here anil
Windsor yesterday afternoon about
3 o'clock. Reports reaching here
stated that one of th? men suffered
a broken arm. Considerable dam
age was done to the car.
Early last evening a log truck,
driven by Tommie CoWand, of Hob
good. skidded into a Chevrolet drivr:
en by F. A. Kneekamp, shoe sales
man out of Ironton, Ohio, on the
Roanoke River fill, damaging both
machines considerably but causing
no injury to occupants of the truck
and car. Cowand was arrested and
placed in jail to await develop
mnets in the case charging him with
drunken driving. The Ohio man
vas said to have driven his car al
most into the right-hand railing
when he saw the truck swerving
from one side of the road to the
other, but he would have had to
gone through the railing, to avoid
the crash, gt was stated. A hitch
hiker started to Windsor with
Cowand, but fearful for his lite ne
asked the driver to stop the truck
and he got out before the crash
took place.
Health Re|)ort
For Past Month
Thirteen cases,of contagious dis
eases were reported in the county
last month, most of the number be
ing located in Williamston Town
ship. Robersonville reported three
cases of chickenpox, the other dis
tricts apparently having perfect
health records.
In Williamston there were six
case* of diphtheria, one whooping
cough, and three cases of chicken
pox. Additional casea of diphtheria
have been unofficially reported In
Williamston since last week
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Nitrogen Side Applications
To Cotton Are Necessary
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Side applications of quickly avail
able nitrogen to cotton right aftei
chopping and to corn at knee high
will be needed this season.