THE ENTERPRISE
VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 16
Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, February 25,1938.
ESTABLISHED 1899
Place Fifty Civil
Cases on Calendar
For Trial in March
iudn Wilier JTBdoe, of
Nashville, Will Hold
Two-weeks' Court
Fifty civil can have been placed
on the trial calendar for considera
tion during the two-weeks' term of
u.rtin County Superior court con
vening Monday, March 11. The cal
endar was prepared by members of
the Martin County Bar association at
a ?< meeting a few days ago.
Judge Walter Bone, of Nashville, is
to preside over the term.
The civil calender:
Wednesday. March S3: Boston vs.
Watts; Hyman v. Matthews; Holliday
against Roberaon; Hanson v. Craw
ford et al; Fertiliser Co. v. Edwards;
Everett vs. Salsbury; Fertiliser Co.
against Petty; Fertiliser Co. versus
Tedder; Ellison v. Sills et al; Ferti
liser Co. v Marshall. Fertiliser Co
v. Ay cock; Fertiliser Co. f. Ay cock;
Jackson vs. Jackson.
Thursday. March M: Fertiliser Co.
vs. Blue, Fertiliser Co. against Whit
ley; Anderson v. Hardaway et el;
Co burn v. Heating System; Gainor j
vs. Gainer; Tetterton v. Carroll et
al; Tattarton V. Carroll et al
Friday. March ?: Cloee v. Fertn
liser Co. at al. White vs. Bottling Co.
Monday. March It: Corey vs. Lea
vister; Credit Company vs. Leavis
ter; Green vs. Green; Rhodes A Co.
against Utompson; Fertiliser Co. v.
Jordan; Boston vs. Hinson at al;
Bingham v. Thompson, Hyman vs.
Williams; Harrell v. HarrelL
Tuesday. March It: Roberson vs
11,1 II Hard won v. Cherry; Ferti
liser Co. v. Trenlor; Fertiliser Co.
v Trigden; Fertiliser Co. v. Sutton;
Co wen v. Holliday; Biggs vs. Huff;
Parkins vs. Williams; Briley vs. Rob
Wednesday. March 90: Waters vs.
Smith wick. Fertiliser Co. v. Carter;
Fertiliser Co. against Landin; Fer
tiliser Co. v. Whitley; Harrison vs.
Rogers; Town vs. Cherry. Beck vs.
Arnold; Fertiliser Co. v. Lewis,
Ltndsiey v. Butler.
The -?i??wt.r doesn't carry but one
case involving more then $1,500 cash
and the proceedings are not expect
ed to attract more than passing at
tention from anybody other than the
litigants and attorneys.
Although the damage suits have
been settled against Corey, the af
termath of the Leavister-Andrews
and Corey truck wreck near Rober.
sonville more than three years ago
is still holding attention in the courts.
J. Lloyd Corey is suing Thos. O. Le?
v later for $100 damages alleged to
have resulted to his truck in the
wreck that coat John Leavister and
Marshall Andrews their lives. The
Universal Credit company is also
suing Leavister for the remainder of
the car purchase price.
The icse of Joe White against the
Kelfbrd Coca Cola Bottling com
pany is II?**"*1 Suing for $1,000,
White claims that a coca cola man
ufactured by the Keiford company
contained a blow fly, that he drank
the fly into his mouth and before
he could spit it out he was made
violently sick and suffered mentally
from the experience
E. G Anderson is suing the Har
daway Construction company for
$300 damages sllrgrd to have re
sulted when the defendant remov
ed sand and dirt from a certaih lot
while paving the streets of Rober
?onville
The case carrying a claim for
more than $1,000 is that of George
t Beck, former JamesviUe police
man, against Curtis Arnold. Back is
?for $3,100 damages alleged
to have resulted when Arnold
charged him with breaking and en
tering 1 larceny and caused his
Local Young Girl Is
Honored By Governor
er and band major at a celebration
in Eden too yesterday, Governor
Clyde Hoey and Mia* Evelyn Lilley
made the trip together in (he num
ber I car from the Chowan capital
to Wilhamston lai
"It was a greet trip,"
the young lady to her hone two
miles out on the Waahii^ton rood
and bade her goodnight at the front
Home Mission Week To
Be Observed Locally
The Woman's Missionary Society
of the local Baptist church will oh
OTfam^rin he hekMn'the chivci
Stabilization Cooperative Is
Moving Peanuts to Oil Mills
The North Carolina Peanut Sta
bilization Cooperative is continuing
its efforts to boost prices by divert
ing portions of the 1937 crop to oil,
the first of the goobers moving out
of storage in Martin County this
week. Approximately 8,000 bags of
the crop are being trucked to oil
mills in Wilmington, and bids for ad
ditional lots are expected within the
near future, according to unofficial
information received here today. De
liveries are being made from the co
operative's storage warehouse in
Everetts. thousands of other bags
having been moved from various
warehouses in eastern North Caro
lina in recent weeks
Price quotations on the peanuts
moving out of this county to the
Wilmington oil mills have not been
made public. Regardless of the price
or any resulting loss, the stabilize
tion cooperative plans to divert a
sufficient quantity of peanuts from
tegular mar lew channels to boost the
out-side prices, it is understood. As
far as it can be learned here, the
cleaners have not entered' the mar
ket offered by the cooperative. Re
ports state that prices on the open
marked have shown added strength
during the past few days following
the diversion activities carried on by
the stabilization organization.
A very small percentage of the
1937 crop is now in the hands of
growers, but where they are in pri
vate storage the peanuts will likely
be held by the owners until the
market rises above the present quo
tations of 3 1.4 cents. The stabiliza
tion cooperative, under its charter,
cannot sell peanuts to cleaners at
less than 3 1-4 cents plus insurance
and storage charges and a "small"
profit.
TAX COLLECTIONS
freata
dent In
' an far according to a re
view ef tea Inhalation sheet the
sheriff la preparing far the eoun
It treaaarer thia week.
Te dale, the eaaaty collector
kaa received 9121.St7.24 la 1937
teaea ar nearly CS per cent of
. The percentage of
la alightly higher
than M waa near the ead of Feb
raary a year age. The aherlff la
la collect nearly all ef
[ 972,ItS ef the 1937
levy between new aad early fall.
Mayor J. L Hassell
Hears Dozen Cases
In Court This Week
Five Defendants Fined $2.50
Bach for Alleged
Drunkenness
A period of much calivity in May
or J. L. Haaaell'i court here this week
followed a record number of arrests
in this section over the week-end, the
trial justice handling an even dozen
cases in two days. The busy period
in the trial justice's court came af
ter a quiet season in crime circles in
this community According to re
ports coming from police headquar
ters, a record number of arrests was
made during the week-end, the rec
ord effecting a like one in the may
or's court.
Five of the defendants, charged
with being drunk and disorderly,
were fined $250 each and taxed with
the costs The names of the defen
dants: George Purrington, Riley Ras
coe. Cat Cobura, Dock Perkins and
Jamas Keys and James Rhodes,
charged with operating motor ve
hicles with improper brakes, were
each fined $10 and taxed with the
costs.
Charged with possession and the
transportation of illegal liquor, Al
cnzo Wilson was bound over under
a $90 bond for trial in the county re
corder's court.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of cost in the case charging
Rosa B Austin with simple assault.
M. B. Cahoon, charged with speed
ing within the incorporated limits of
Williamston. was fined $5 and tax
ed with the cost. This was the second
case charging speeding to be tried
in the local courts within a long
number of months
Charged with operating a motor
vehicle with improper license, Jeff
Taylor was fined $10 and taxed with
the cost.
C. L Stevens, of Broadway, was
bound over to the county court un
der a $100 bond for trial in a case
charging drunken driving.
? 0
Uninjured When Auto
Hitr Hog And Turns Over
George Mob ley. employee of W.
D.
a hog
Highway 11$,
Oak City. Wednesday Mr
he was not driving
10 or 10 miles an houi
to the
Hit-Run Driver Held
Under$2,000.00Bond
Bond Set at $500.00
For James Moore's
Three Companions
Moore Pleads Not Guilty to
Murder Charge, But
Admits Hit-Run
James Moore, young county color
ed man charged with hit-and-run
driving and the murder of Robert
Coltrain, young county youth, here
last Saturday night, was held in de
fault of a $2,000 bond at a hearing
before Justice John L. Hassell in the
county courthouse Wednesday morn
ing. James Wallace, Carrie Bell
Ward and Alameda Edwards, com
panions of Moore, were placed un
der $500 bonds each, the trial justice
upon learning the Edwards girl was
the mother of a young child, later re
leased her. Unable to raise the $500
the Ward woman was remanded to
jail. Wallace gained his freedom. The
four are slated for trial in the super
ior court during the week beginning
March 21.
The preliminary hearing offered
few facts in addition to those carried
in Moore's confession gained by of
ficers soon after the young colored
man's arrest last Monday afternoon.
The State called only four wiinesses.
Justice Hassell ruling that their evi
dence was sufficient to hold the
gioup as charged in the warrants. J.
Calvin Smith, representing Moore,
admitted probable guilt as to that
part of the warrant charging hit-and
run driving, but entered a plea of
not guilty to the murder charge The
motion advanced by Attorney Hugh
G. Horton, representing James Wal
lace, and asking that the charges of
aiding and abetting the crime be dis
missed, was denied.
The only new evidence offered at
the preliminary hearing was given
by Officer J. H. Allsbrooks who with
other officers had questioned the
Edwards girl. According to that evi
dence, Moore and his companions
left a well-known club on Washing
ton street and were on their way to
Edwards' home on West Main street
when they crashed into the group
of three pedestrians, fatally injuring
the Coltrain youth and critically in
juring Mrs. Charles Bullock and her
14-year-old son. The Edwards wo
man, according to Officer Allsbrooks,
claims Moore drove his car to the
right side of the road to make a left
turn and put her out in front of hei
home on the other side of the road
or almost directly across from the
spot where the three people were
run down. A recognized weak point
in the story was offered by the wo
man when she told the officers that
she thought the car struck a post. It
was further brought out in the evi
dence that Moore speeded away
from the accident, turned into a lit
tle-used road paralleling the rail
road and stopped to put the Edwards
girls out. She is said to have crossed
the railroad and entered her home
without offering any assistance to
the hit-run victims or reporting to
the law.
While the evidence offered at the
preliminary hearing failed to estab
lish Moore's guilt as to wilful mur
der, it did 4*?Ve he ess driving the
car and that he did speed from the
scene of the tragedy. Moore is claim
ed to have been frightened and did
not know what he was doing when
he hurried away, but it has been
pointed out that he had presence of
mind to remember the little-used
ode road and effect a temporary
tape
Measles Appear In
County for the First
Time in Three Years
Few Cases Are Reported
Near Williamston Dur
ing Week
Alter reaching epidemic propor
tions in a number of sections of this
State in recent weeks, measles were
reported this week in Martin Coun
ty lor the first time since 1933. No
serious outbreak of the communica
ble disease is expected in this county,
however, reports stating that the
health authorities are effecting strict
quarantine regulations and closely
observing for any possible spread in
to neighboring territories. The few
current cases now on record were
reported among the colored popula
tion near Williamston.
In January and a part of Febru
ary. 1935. more than 700 cases of
measles were reported in this coun
ty, and it is reasonable to believe
that another crop of youngsters is
just now ready to fall victims of the
disease This week, three years ago,
the number of measles cases in the
county started declining rapidly, and
it is thought that the disease made
it appearance here too late to reach
serious proportions this season.
There were 1,600 cases of measles
reported in the State in a single week
recently, and many schools in a
number of counties were closed by
the epidemic.
Commenting on the disease, Or. E
W Furgurson, head of Martin Coun
ty's full-time health department,
says:
"Measles is most infectious in the
early stages before the appearance
of the rash and it is acquired through
the secretions of the nose and mouth
by contact with someone ill of the
disease The onset is gradual, with
fever, a little cough, cold in tha
head, and inflamed eyes. The fam
ily physician can frequently diagnose
measles before the appearance of
the rash, so that if a child has any
of the above symptoms, he should be
kept away from school and the doc
tor called at once.
"Measles is not infrequently com
plicated by pneumonia, as well as
by infections of the middle ear and
mastoid, involvement of the sinuses,
and inflamation and swelling of the
glands of the neck. On account of the
frequency of pneunf^nia, measles
may be'quite serious in children un
der three years of age, and most of
the deaths occurring from this dis
ease are limited to this group.
Methodist Youth to
Meet in Washington
The Methodist young people of the
Elizabeth City district will turn
their faces toward Washington, N. C.
next Monday for a regional Alders
gate Youth rally. Following a rally
for the general membership of the
church during the day, the young
Methodists will convene at seven
thirty o'clock in the evening. The
purpose of the meeting is to provide
information and inspiration for com
memoration in the local church of
the two hundredth anniversary of
the heart-warming experience of
John Wesley which led him to or
ganize the religious societies out of
which grew the various branches of
the Methodist church.
Except for the speakers, the en
tire program has been arranged by
the Albemarle Young People's Union
in cooperation with the Methodist
Young People in Washington. The
speakers will include Bishop Edwin
Holt Hughes of Washington, D. C.
and another prominent minister with
special appeal for youth. Pastors and
young people's leaders in the local
churches are arranging for the trans
portation of delegations from
churches throughout this section.
Farm Life Rural
Line Now Certain
The construction of a rural elec
trification line into Griffins Town
ship was made certain this week
when 51 contracts were turned in
to the district office of the Virginia
Electric and Power Company here.
Preliminary surveys of the line
route into the Farm Life area will
get underway the early part of next
week. Once the survey is eomplet.
ed. easements will be sought and
as soon as that work is handled, the
prospective customers will be ask
ed to wire their homes. During the
meantime, the company will order
cut material for the line, R. H.
Goodmon, manager of the Williams
ton district, announcing this morn
ing that electricity will probably be
made available to th epeople in the
new territory within six weeks.
Commissioners Are Revising,
Jury List for Next Two Years
Martin County s w crop is un
dergoing a close retjpion by the
board or commissioners this week.'
preliminary reports stating that
numerous changes are being effect
ed in the jury box lists. Quite a few
citizens who served as members of
juries for many years have passed
away, and their names are being re
! moved from the box along with
many others who have moved their
residence to other counties and
states. Many new names are ap
pearing in the box for the first
time
In strict accordance with the law,
names of some few colored citizens
are being placed in ^ie box again
this year. It is quite evident, howev
er, that no large number of colored
citizens are qualified to serve as
jurors, reliable reports stating that
quite a few white citizens are not
eligible to serve.
The names of colored citizens
were placed in the jury box in July.
1935. for th?? first time in?many
years. Since that time only one has
been drawn for active service. He
served as a member of the grand
jury, and no case has been tried
in the county with a colored citi
zen as a member of the jury.
Hie revision work is almost com
plete. but no estimate as to the
number of names placed in the box
is available at this tune. There are
over sewn thousand taxpayers in
the couio >. but it isn't likely that
more than three-fourths of them
are eligible to serve as jurors, the
custom being in this county to,
draw no * omen for jury service.
Revision work will be completed
possibly early next week, and the
jury for the special term of April
court is to be drawn from the new
list.
Bailey Asked To
Attack Farm Bill
Opponents of the federal crop
control act have invited Senator Jo
siah William Bailey to address a
mass meeting of farmers in Ral
eigh's Memorial auditorium 011
some date before the referendum
of March !$. the date most agree
able to the senator being acceptable
to farmers who are opposing com
pulsory regulation of the tobacco
crop.
The movement is being engineer
ed by B. J. Beasley, Johnston coun
ty farmer, and Raleigh wholesale
merchant, who deals with the to
bacco business at both ends. lie
grows enough of the crop on his
farm to make him dubious about j
the benefits of the law. and he sees
the people as a merchant who knows
their distress. He is joined by num
erous Johnston and surrounding
counties' citizens who wish their
neighbors to have the benefit, ofi
Senator Bailey's study
"We are going to get the Raleigh
auditorium and pay our own money
for its use." Farmer-Merchant Beas
ley said today. "1 don't like the idea
of somebody outside North Carolina
telling our farmers what they shall
or shall not raise, nor how much of
it. All that I know about this bill
makes me think that it ruins the lit
tle tenant farmers and helps the big
landlord and nobody else. At least.
1 want to hear the bill discussed
and 1 know Senator Bailey under -1
stands it. As soon as we hear from
him and he announces the date
most agreeable for his visit, we are
going to get up a crowd to hear
him."
Proposed Fuel Oil
Tax Stirs Action
Introduction in Congress of the
Boland bill levying a one cent per
gallon tax on fuel oil used for heat
ing and power production has
brought quick action on the part of
the oil industry, which sees in the
bill a threat to millions of families.
According to G. A. Harrison, chair-[
man of the Martin County Petrol
eum Industries Committee, "The bur
den of the tax in this state would
fall on the home owners of North
Carolina. More than ten per cent of
them have already installed oil burn
ers to obtain the comfort and econ
omy of oil heat. The Boland bill
would increase their annual fuel bill
$21 on the average, or nearly $2 pel
month for each family using oil
heat"
He pointed out that a cent a gal
lon levy in North Carolina would be
in effect a fuel oil sales tax of ap
proximately 12 1-2 per cent (the av
erage price in North Carolina being
about eight cents a gallon l. which u
in addition to the three per cent
sales tax already in effect on all
fuel oil. s
Not only would home owners be
hard hit, he contended, but dwellers
in apartment houses would be forced
to pay increased rent because of in
creased cost of heating the buildings
Hotels, he estimated, would in many
cases find their fuel bills increased
as much as one-third.
"The proposal to impose a cent a
gallon tax is not only a big step
backward, but is an imposition on
the intelligence of the American peo
ple," he said
Regular Services To Be
Held At Riddick's Grove
Regular services will be held
at Riddick's Grove church Sunday
February 27th, at three o'clock- The
public is cordially invited to at
tend.
THAT TAX MAN
nil bi m.
bdp jrMi tell
And t'rdrral
how TOW raw |ct i
to pay it. It i
proper lilac
return
iiiac task, so nhrw hrtp is offer
Nest Mowtir sad Tuesday.
Marrh I sad 2. s repreaewtaUre
from the Stale Departasewt of
Reveawe will he ta the rowrt
prepare their retwrws. Ow Thwrv
day, a represeatative from the
Federal Tress
wiU he ta the Wil
of fire to help da the i
Ow Monday a
will he ta Rohenowrille. and the
work wiU he ismptelrd ta the
rowaty whew the Stale a?ata
neads a representative here ow
Marrh It aad IV
(lolored Youth Robs
Motor Coni|>aiiv and
Rejiorts to Officers
Wayward Little Rascal Said
to Have Admitted
Daring Crime
Breaking through a Hide window.
LaVerne MuF Roberson. 12 year-old
colored boy. entered the Williamston
Motor company budding on Wash,
ington Street here last Wednesday
morning and stole about $12 from a
cash drawer Arrested that after
noon, the little \andal surrendered
most of the money or all that he
liad not spent He is now a charge of
the county welfare department,
proving one big problem to the au-,
I hori ties
Holier son. a victim of disease, will
not be accepted by correctional in
stitutions because of tus degrading
ailment, and it is unlawful to keep
one of such tender age in jail The
rascal offered a solution, and as.
much as the police, court judge and
welfare authorities would like to fol
low his own suggestion, they cannot
I do it. "Just put me in a bag and
throw us into the river." the boy sug
gested
A pert, saury tittle imp, Roberson
{ was recngnued as a leader of youths
even older than he By offering him
training, it was thought that other
wayward youths could be corrected
in their waywardness But. lo' and
behold' the little brat reversed the
order, and all of his subjects have
been convicted in the courts and sent
tu correctional institutions or to the
1 roads And how he has committed a
serious crime himself, and there's no
place for him to go They are keep
ing him in jail just now. and it has
been suggested that he be held there
until he can be given medical treat
ment.
Boy Roberson, possessing an art
for "snooping" around has served of
licers as a "stool pigeon" in months
gone by. last Thanksgiving day he
leported the robbery of a local
store He told how a chum had en
tered the store's coal chute and stole
1 money Following his a treat, the
' chum told how Roberson had ma
neuvered the law breaking venture
Last Wednesday, another holiday for
some, the boy told police about the
motor company n-borry before it
was discovered He promised details
before night Suspicious from the
beginning, officers questioned the
boy and he admitted the Job.
Mr Willie B Everett, of Ruber
aonville, has accepted a posrlwn
with the Standard Fertilizer Co. In
Ha
State Gets Liberal
Allotment 580,000
Acres In Tobacco
Believed Farmers in This
County Will Get
11.000 Acres
Tentative tobacco allotments for
the several states growing flua
cured leaf were announced this
week by the Agricultural Adjust,
ment Administration, unofficial re
ports pointing out that the approx
imately 575.000 acres allotted this
state constituted a very liberal al
lowance Georgia was allotted 71*
000 acres. South Carolina. 89.000
acres; Florida, between 9.000 and
10.000. and Virginia, between H
000 and 96.000
The announcement of the state
allotment is fciving rules to specu
lation as to how much Martin coun
ty will be allowed to plant Until
all claims are studied, it will be
impossible to offer reliable infor
mation. However, it is reasonable to
believe that Martin county farmers
will be allowed to plant between
11.000 and 11.500 acres, possible a
little less or a Little more than the
minimum and maximum figures
given here.
Martin County has a base of
about 15.000 acres All indications
are that the acreage will be reduc
ed around 70 per cent as a whole
If the county's tobacco base acre
age stands up under the scrutiny of
the state allotment group, it is reas
onable to believe that the farmers
in this county will be given 11.0U0
or more
Efforts are being made to have
-the county allotments prepared i:t
ample tune for the farmer to make
his plans for the coming crop. The
individual allotments will possibly
be announced within the next three
or (pur weeks However, no official
information has been released tr
this connection, visits to the various
offices of the county agents find
the employees working long hours
in an effort to handle the big task
that is before them
This afternoon the county agents
and local committeemen are meet
ing with others in Bertie fur a de
tailed study of the program Farm
ti meetings w ill be held in every
1 one of the 80 counties growing to
bacco between now and March 10
I M. L. Barnes will address a meet
ing of farmers in Williamston next
| Friday at 7.30 o'clock, and all far
I mers are urged to be present
Several Are Hurl lu
Automobile W rtrk
Mis. Augustus Williams, of Wind
sor. was badly cut and bruised and
several others were painfully hurt
when the car in which they were nd
ing skidded and turned over on the
fill near Sweet Water creek last
Wednesday noon Mrs Williams was
' hurt about the knee, reports stating
I that more than 25 stitches were nec
1 essary to close the wound She was
also cut about the face and hands
R. E Owens. Jr, of Norfolk was
driving the car. a Dodge sedan. Be
sides Mrs Williams, he was accom
I panted by Mrs Owens, Mrs Came
Sykes, and Mr and Mrs Vance Car
i hart, all of Norfolk The party was
>aid to have been traveling to Col
; umbia to attend a funeral
Owens stated that the car started
! skidding on the wet concrete and
w hen he applied the brakes, the ma
chine swerved and plunged over the
10-foot embankment, landing bottom
side up Damage to the tar was es
Light And Power Service
Interrupted Short Time
Light and power service was in
terrupted here a short while Wed
nesday morning when an unknown
party short circuited the high-power
ed lines of the Virginia Electric and
Power Company between Creswell
and Columbia A piece of wire was
thrown on the lines deep in a swamp
about five miles from the highway.
Service on the lines from Tartars
to Plymouth was restored in about
thirty minutes, or in time to
no great inconvenience to
wives in the preparation of the i
day meal
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Continue Work On New
Baptist Church In Griffins
Baptist church
ship will be
rv. W. B
said yesterday
vitatton to anyone who