^ THE ENTERPRISE VOLUME XL?NUMBER 61 Wi/liaimrtna. Mmrtin County. North CmroHmm. Friday. July 30. 1937 ESTABLISHED 1899 Rain Blocks Play in Coastal Loop; Locals Win Only Over Bugs Strunk Masters Game Here] Yesterday with His Bat Work and Pitching Weathers conditions won tiro of the three baseball games scheduled for the Martins these past three days, but as far as the lecosds < Williamston made a clean isup < ing the period. Activities during the period leave Snow Hill and Wilham ston in unchanged positions in the league standing, the Billies holding to first place by a two-game margin. Three-fourts of the current son ended yesterday, leaving 231 games on the regular schedule several other contests that were] either rained out or stalled out Next Monday, the Martins?wm journey over to Tarboro and make a bid to re-win a victory that was stalled out of the records on Sun day. June 6. The following Monday. I August i. the Martins will play: Snow Hill at Snow Hill to make up nesday, July 21. The next make-up game will be played in Kinston on August IS, and on Sunday. August 22, the Martins and Kinston Eagles are to meet here in a double-header Ladies' day will be observed at the game here tomorrow with Green ville. Club President Goodmon an nounelng that they will be admitted free to the grounds In the current activities, Raymond Strunk, the Missouri southpaw, yes terday. with just a little aid from his teammates entered an undisput ed claim to a game of his own by turning back Goldsboro here. 2 to 1. On the mound he yielded only four hits and fanned nine. At the bat he had a pel feet day. hitting 3 for 3. one blow counting for an extra base. Victoria and McCay. however, handled the run-batted-in work. Goldsboro got off to a lead in their half of the third, but the Martins tied the count at 1-all in their half of the same frame and won the game in the fourth when Stevens started an attack with a single. Stevens went to second on an infield hit by Deim. Lakatos advanced them with a sacrifice. Deim going out in an at tempt to reach third on a fielder's choice off the bat of Victoria, and Stevens scoring the winning run Kunis pitched the route for the via tors and allowed only 7 hits Attempt To Burn Store in Griffins Township Is Foiledl Owner and Officers Unable To Learn Motive for Cowardly Act An attempt to burn the thriving little country store of Mrs C. T. Roberson in the Farm Life section of Griffins Township shortly after midnight yesterday failed. Sheriff C B. Roebuck stating, after an i gallon, that no arrests made, that not even a motive for the | cowardly act had been est ibis tied-1 The owner, explaining that no enemies and that she enjoyed tne friendship of all the people in that section, had no idea who attempted to burn the store and could advance no motive for the act. Kerosene was used freely on the back wall of the building, and it eras by chance that the tire was discov ered and brought under control just as it had burned through portion of the weatherfaoarding one side of the store-filling ststum Gibe Roberson, curing tobacco near by, saw the fire as it flared up. and he called the owner and sought help Fifty people hurried there and. forming a bucket brigade, they brought the fire under control with water from a pump at the rear of the No official estimate of the age is available, the inv officer stating that probably the km would not exceed $25. Infant Dies Wednesday In Griffins Township and Mrs G. & the heme of Im Township Wednesday o'clock. She Funeral seivkea 3 o'clock by was in the Leggett 50 Qualify To Get Aid Under Social Security I BOARD MEETING I Elbert S. Peel and Zeb Vance Norman Injured in Accident Local Attorney Able To Be| Out; Attorney Norman Is Recovering in Hospital Elbert & Peel, local attorney, ant Zeb Vance Norman, attorney <4 Ivymouth. were painfully but not senmnty hurl when the car owned and driven by Peel crashed into a bridge a short distance beyond the Beaufort County line on the Wash ington Road last Tuesday aftcrmon about 3 o'clock. A rear tire w said to have blown out, throwing the car out of the driver's control and into the bridge, the impact rip-; ping away a greater part of the right of :te in iiid n..oi uf the run-. Attorney Norman, still a patient, I a Washington hospital, suffered a broken ankle, fractured hand, dis located hip and severe cuts on the face, lie b believed to have suf fered no internal injuries and tut ictuvetj is expected. The driver rered severe shock and ruts about the face. He was a patient in the hospital Tuesday night, returning to w here late Wednesday after He n able to be up and out | today ox Norman and Peel were an their way to Washington where they In join Attorneys Rodman and and continue to Myrtle Beach. S C. for a meeting of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad legal Liquor Profits To Be Divided Next Week The four liquor-store towns. Wil and Jamesville. will likely tcceisc their liquor profits distribution checks the early part of next week. The payments will probably be call ed to the attention of the county ] Bmoaooers at their meeting ne Monday, but the distribution will bs| tde under the direction of state law. it was explained. No official copy of the second quarter liquor store audit has been j .reived at this tone, but it b ex jpeeled today or tomorrow. Under the distribution of profits I law. the four store towns are 10 re-1 a follows Williamston. IS370M. Robersooviiel. $20237 Oak I City. sue. and Jamesville. $20400. uuiity receiving $4,404 75 as its of the second-quarter net pcof Its from the sale of legal liquor. Mrs. Swain Honored At Meeting of Legion Mrs H L Swain, local woman se rve m American Legion Ancillary as signally honored at the Expect About Fifty More Will Be Added During Next Month Security Program Costs To ? County About $142.40 During First Month The cloar of the first month of the social security program in this county finds 40 old persons and 10 blind people sharing the benefits jointly provided by county, state ami Federal governments. Other ap plications are pending and by the rod of August well over 100 people. including dependent children and the blind, are almost certain to have their names cm the pension lists No July checks have been received by tr-.r rurccssl-1 applicants so far. but the payments averaging around (*. Holding Us second meeting of the month last Wednesday afternoon, the county board of welfare approved the applications of 29 dependent chil dren apd 3 for those persons 95 years or older. The 29 children, repre senting 9 families, are the first to have their applications approved, the a elf are department head explaining that so far no dependent children had had their applications rejected by the board The payments to these children total SI39 and average al . must $5 per child, or about (13.30 per family Their applications aie| now before the state and federal au thorities The applications of 10 blind per sons have been approved both h>-{ rally and by the State Blind Cm mission, and they are to receive, on I an average. $10(0 per month. To date. 100 old-age assistance ap plications have been received by the; welfare department in this county j Two of the applicants, just as a m hope about to materialize for them.) passed away this month before their j applications could receive at lent n The applications of 14 others w? ?ejected outright by the county de-1 partmcnt Forty three applications have been approved, leaving 411 others for investigation and consid ,eiation later by the county board of | [welfare members The security program operations' in the county for July are costing approximately (322 90. the county I paying (14220 as tlx share of the| |c&st No particgiation percentages are' I available ui this county at the pres ent tune, but in soane states there as few as 5 out of every 109 per l-ots 95 years or over enjoying the benefits of the program In other states, it ? sard that as many as 43 cut of every 100 persons over years of age are participating in the| | program benefits The first month activities in ti county and state clearly indicate that the benefits will be limited to i?m? who are really entitled to them, that because one is 93 years or ald er it does not mean that that person will get his name in the coveted list Machinery fa handling applica tions m this county continues at a I rt.~io.ll but the pleas of depend ent children and the aged will be| heard on or about the 13th of Aug Tobacco Control Is Seen As Possibility a Danville. Va.?While there is scant hope fa the passage of a genet crop control lull at this season of Congress. Representative Thomas C. Burch. rating at Martinsville, today said it is quite possible that a tobac co control bell will be adopted I fore August IS. when, he belie wex. [ Congress will adjourn He said the final draft of a b patterned on the old AAA. but de of features which might invali date it on a legal test, has been ap [psnscd by the fecial committee of from the southern t H. B. Russefls Resigns MS Principal Everetts School] State Employment Sendee Office Will Be Located Herel Definite Details Connection! With Shift from Edenton Are Not Yet Known The State Employment Service ] will establish district offices in Wil liamston neat Monday according to | unofficial information reaching herel this week Few details are avail able in connection with the removal | of the headquarters from Edenton. I nove. The office now employs five persons, but it could not be learned today w hether the personnel would remain the same or would be decreased after ?t is established here Fourteen counties are included the "WW ifdflTt fTt-im and il X un derstood that several branches will be handled under the direction of the local headquarters Reports state that Edenton wasj highly disturbed by the definite i that the district office will be moved | from there, the Chamber of Com merce there wiring an appeal-) the change "Despite the addition of Beaufort | and Hyde Counties and the rtimina lion of Northampton from this dis-| tnct. Edenton will remain more cen trally located than the Martin Conn ty Capttp!.- Harry MrMullsn. sec retary of Eden ton's live chamber of i commerce pointed out to K Mayor, Albright, director of the State Em ployment Service, m urging that the district headquarters be allowed to remain in Edenton "Particularly will this be true when the Albemarle Sound highway bridge is complete." j McMullan added There was slight hope that the proposed rhinge would be stopped.! however, as arrangements are virtu 1 ally completed for establishing the headquarters here * Three of the employees. Floyd 1 ^ White. Mrs Kate Worelka and Mi Mildred Munden. are natives of | Chowan, and the other two are Mrs Randolph Holloman. of Jar Wsi -n. and j Miss Mildred Stevenson, of Elizabeth] City Quarterly Mcft of MethodistsSatunlav By A. J. COX. 1 The third quarterly conference of' the Holly Springs-WiUiamston I charge wil be held Saturday. July) 29. at Holly Springs church All of final members, as well as every j church member of the two churches! ?s expected to attend An interest ing program will be pce-srnted Rev B B. Slaughter, the presiding rider.] will peak at II. although the con ference actually begins at 10 o'clock. I Afterwards dinner will be served on] the grounds Our Church School Training Class | will begin on August t All the af finals and teachers of the church school are most earnestly urged to attend and any others who may be interested are invited to 04 will meet Monday night at ? o'clock, the class session lasting one hour, and every night thereafter at the same tune through Friday night. The course to be studied is: "The Educa ttonal Work of the Small Church" The books have been ordered and| will be distributed Sunday mon The ladies of the Woman's smnary Society at Holly Spring* are! reminded of their meeting at S dock Saturday night, at which tune! their mission study course will again] be presented. On Friday night the newly organ ized Young People's group will meet I at Holly Springs All the young peo ple of the church are invited to at tend The Gurganus brothers are minted to 1 Ball Qub Now Set For Rest of Season p team personnel and that y c wane in occur they < to he filled by players On the few days. Irving Biggie, the at here by the St Louis d Dick Sharkey the hand-' Watson Executed in Raleigh Today; Still Stieks To Statement Pays Supreme Penalty for Murder of Young Man In Robersonville AKin W. Watson. 21-year-old Georgia while man. paid with his life in North Carolina's gas chamber this morning at 11:17 o'clock (or the murder of Thomas Holbday. young white man. at a filling station in Robersonville early on the morning of last November 22. AdmUiing part m the crime. Watson entered the gas chamber at 11:17 o'clock, and was pronounced dead eight tntn utes and SB seconds later by the prnmi physician, the chamber exe cot ion being the shortest on record, prison officials said In a glsfrnrr?1 ^hmlt fhl.- R Roebuck, of this county, just a few minutes before the execution. Wat son admitted his part m the crime that cost Thomas Holliday his life, but the young man call led to his death the statement that Willis Bui lock, young Martin County white usl killing "I am guilty of robbery, but I did not kill him." he told Sheriff R?r buck and reiterated the statement made the day before, as follow > "God is my witness. Christ knoi that I am not facing him with a lie on my hps." "T an ready and wilting lo die."' the duuened man told the sheriff, "and I am thankful that my sins are under the blood of Christ. I can I sink standing on such a rock ~ Deputy Sheriff J. H. Roebuck. Chief Wm Gray and Arch Griffin of Robersonville. were the only wit nrsses to the execution from this county. Sheriff C B Roebuck went! to Raleigh expressly to help make, aiangements for the delivery of the tasty to the old family home in Georgia and not to see the man > life snuffed out by the deadly hydro cyanic gas It was Watson's last re , qeust before leaving the county jail j that the sheriff please see that his body waa sent to Georgia if pleasj gissf mother, and I want my body sent hiene for her sake." he told the' sheriff just before starting the tfip ( k. Raleigh just before the Christ IT.a . season last year The Is sly was turned over to Qdell Watsisi. a brother who had borrow ed muny and bummed his way to Raleigh to handle the last detail that marked the end of the youth's mm. career Turned over to a Raleigh undertaker, the body is being pie pared for shipment to Wat kins. die. Georgia, a link- town of U5 people Watsun was scheduled to die at 10 30 o'cluck this morning, but his rireulsai was delayed until IWu PecTy. young negro man. jiaid ?" his life for raping a colored woman Last minute appeals were dire, ted ... tiw pardon authorities in an ef fort to save Watson's life, but the young man's past record presented Itself and blocked each appeal, it was said Prior to his coming to this county with the Hardaway Constiuc lion Company last fall. Watson had been tried and convicted of assault with attempt to kill, housebreaking and rubbery He was driving a stol en car when arrested in this county Watson and Bullock were tried in this county last December for the robbery of the Ri.bersonville filling station and the murder of young Holiday Watson admitted he par Ucipaled in the robbery, but alleged that Bullock used a hammer and dd the- actual killing He maintained i truth of the statement to the hu but it was only his evidence that an plica led Bullock and the trial jury refused to accept it and re lea nt Bullock Watson was found guilty by a jury brought here from Beaufort County the day after Bui lock's trial. Only One Case for Recortler Monday i in months, the county record ex's court last Monday called the ; case on the docket and adjourn ad a few minutes later. The raw. ; Sam Coffield with bastardy. Since the court was established IB years ago there have been just a few the docket for trial, but the docket "'il arai?rrngnifaL Three cases, besides the charge a pad Coffield. are awaiting action. One defendant ia to hear sentence next Monday, and two others are the objects of starches by officers Solicitor Robert L Co Georgia Markets Open With 23-Cent Average PAYS WITH LIFE I / year. ^ abon Second Man (.on\ icted in County Executed at Raleigh Was First White Man To Die In Execution Room From Martin County ?Alvin W. Watoon. murderer, was! the first man convicted in the courts of thts county to die in the State's, gas chamber. Raleigh, and the sec ond sentenced in the county, to be executed since the rope and scaffold were outlawed in North Carolina! more than a quarter of a century] ago Watson, who was killed thrs' tried and convicted lir this county to pay the supreme penalty since the gallows were abolished Brad Bagley. colored man convict ed of murder in this county in 1911. was the first from this county to die in the electric chair Bagley mur die red Policeman White in William stem on the night of August 15. 1911 He was tried the following month and found guilty. Judge C M Cooke sentencing him to die on November 17. 1911 Bagley appealed and lust There are variations in the records, but it is believed that the man was electrocuted on May 17. 1912 The* certificate at death, sighed by prison iiithnnlut mit writnews thai Pag ley was electrocuted on Friday. May 17. 1911. but that was nearly months before the murder George Frank Baremore. Martin County colored nan. was electrocut ed in 1927 for the murder of Gordon Yetverton in November. 1926 The crime, however, took place in Greene County. Commissioners Will Meet Monday Ni^lil A tax levy for the current year will receive attention when the Wil l amston tow n commissioners meet in regular session next Monday eve ning at 8 o'clock, the treasurer stat ing this morning that the audit of the books was just about completed and that the budget figures would be available by meeting time next Monday ** A reduction, perhaps small, has teen recognised as a possibility in I ie town rate this year, but the ex tent at the change rests on problems thai will be discussed by the author ities As far as it could be learned to day. no other official business ex cept that of a routine nature has been scheduled for consideration at the next Monday evening meeting One ol Three Positions In Local School Faculty Filled Samurl K Edward*, young Wan ur