^ 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 <Pa I man. today was
once tnrtwr and athlrtn director
jm Mr Wat high aliuul
Larry Wade, resigned
are pending far 'he 'wo poor,
made varanl early thts week by thel
resignations of Miss Annie Shield,
VaaDykr and Professor Milton Grif
fin All positrons in the faculty will
likely be filled within the next few
days. Principal D. N. His said today
Young Edwards is a graduate of
the Pennsylvania State Teachers'
College and during the past two
years was a menitai of the Cum
tuck school faculty.
Price Range About
Same as Last Year;
Quality Is Excellent
Reports Say Middle Grades
Bringing Higher Prices
Than Year Ago
Pms on the Georgia tirbacco mar
ket opening yesterday, while not as
high as sotnc had hoped for. were
?vRsidered fair and the-, averages
were considered fair and the aver
ages were considered encouraging to
farmers in this section, who will start
rr.artHihg the Jblh ol next month.
The general average ranged
around 23 cents for the first-day of
ferings. according to direct informa
tion received here from Warehouse
mart Jnrrrie Tayior who is tempor
arily located on the Hahira market.
-K P Ciifinuigimi! lepcuiwl an eati
r ated average of 22 cents at Vi
daha. some markets claiming aver
ages ranging as high as 26 and 27
cents- Prices for the lower and top
grades were about the same as they
were last year, but the middle
grades were believed some stronger.
Ik? qualrt* tiMhe first day ufleiuigs ~
was described as good, and farmers
were said to be veTy well pleased
w ith the prices paid
Bids ranged from ^_few cents a
pound for inferior grades to as high
m 50 cents, the pnee range for the
hulk of the offerings standing be
tween 35 and 39 cents a pound
llazelhurst reports heavy sales,
and an average price of 24 cents.
The quality of the offerings was
good Common grades were three
to five cents a pound higher than
they were a year ago Medium and
good grades are about the same as
they were last season. ?
On the VaMwb market, the
growers that offered their weed to
vear were satisfied that the price
was gOL*d Millions of pounds were
? ?flered. and the sale on the first 20
baskets averaged 26 cents. L A
Sentersit. of Naylor. received the
high at noon, with 27 cents
From Nashville. Ga; the report
| was "Quality fair, tobacco is aver
aging between 30 and 23 cents."*
Development of Old
Hassell Pro|HTtv To
Oct I iiderwa^Sooa
Promoters Plan To Convert
BuildingsTnio Apartments
And Tourists' Home
Purchasing the old Hassell hot or
on Smith wick Street a few days ago
from the Central Investment Cor
poration. Messrs Julius S Peel and
C H Gudwin are making extensive
plans to develop the property in the
early fall, the near owners an
nounced today
Tentative arrangements are now
underway to convert the home into
five apartments and add possibly IS
tooms for tourists, the present pro
gram railing frw a complete remod
eling of the present structure Defi
nite plans for developing the prop
erty will be formulated as rapidly
as posablr preparatory to starting
?at the protect early this fall
No rast estimates are available
just now. but the project promoters
esplainrd that they planned to con
vert the propel ty into a modern
apartment-tourist home, the total
cost approximately probably $12,000
or S1S.000
The need for additional Irving
quarters continues acute here, and
I be undertaking proposed by Messrs
Peel and Gudw in should relieve, par
tially. at least, the situation Calls
for homes, and business property,
too. continue with regularity, and
?t js with interest that the local peo
ple learn of the proposed new de
Service Cleaners To Move
To Main Street Location
g , ?
The Service Chasm I. Coy