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Adverttaerm WUI Find On CM uua a Latchkey to orer LtM of Martin OooaCjr. THE ENTERPRISE Watch the Label m Tew Taper, ae It Carries the Date Tour Subecrtptiea VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 76 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 23, 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899 Trial Of Criminal Cases Is Completed Here On Wednesday Court Starts Work on Big Civil Calendar At Once Completing the criminal docket Wednesday afternoon early, the Martin County Superior Court in the first week of a two-weeks' mix ed term immediately started work on a crowded civil calendar, re ports from the hall of justice this morning stating that the machinery of the tribunal continues to turn slowly but steadily Interest in, .the, criminal docket centered around the trial of John Small, colored man charged with burglary in the second degree and assault with intent to kill on Mrs Lyda Jenkins, aged Martin County woman. However,the court audi torium was not taxed to capacity during the one day spent in hearing . the case, and the proceedings dur ing the remainder of the first day and half of the court term were not largely attended. Proceedings in the court not prev iously reported are as follows Charlie Clark and Lin Best, charged with breaking and entering and larceny, were found guilty. Clark was sentenced to prison for from two to three years and Best for from three to five years The rase charging Jesse Mobley with false pretense was nolprossod No true b'ill wis found, and Lee Roy Jones was released in the case 'y charging him with an assault upon a female. William Penn Smith, charged with hit and run driving, was first sen tenced to the roads for twelve months the court later suspending sentence upon condition that the defendant pay $5 a month to Edison Moore, prosecuting witness, and $5 a month to the hospital where Moore received treatment for injur ies received when he was run down on the highway near Gardners Creek by Smith on the night of April 10 The payments are to con tinue for a five-year period It 'was brought out in the evidence that Smith had worked Moore's crap this year, that the defendant had a good reputation in Plymouth, his home Moore, young white farmer of Williams Township, was critical ly ill for several months, and now gets around with some difficulty Granderson Mitchell and Henry C. Heath, riding with Smith when Moore was struck, were released when the court nolprossed the case charging them with aiding and abetting hit and run driving. With savaral divorce cases on the docket, the court has already grant ed two permanent separations, both on the grounds of two years' sep aration. Eula Scott won in her suit against Jim Henry Scott. Joe Beach was given an absolute divorce in his ease against Anna Louise Beach In his suit against R. h. Barber, J S Gurganus recovered nothing, the court taxing the plaintiff with the cost. The plaintiff was asking dam ages alleged to have resulted when he was attacked while trying to ar rest the defendant in a local hotel several months ago. Is Slightly Injured In Auto Wreck Near Here ?* Mrs Arthur Levine, riding with her husband, was badly bruised but not seriously hurt in an automobile wreck near here on the Washington road early this week. She was knocked unconscious ,but recovered rapidly after receiving, first-aid treatment. Rounding a curve, Mr. Levine ap7 plied the brakes as the car struck the painted stripe and caused the machine to skid and turn over. The car was damaged considerably. Group, Is Asked To Consider An Added Month for Schools Addressing the first regular meet ing of the parent-teacher association in the high school auditorium here last Wednesday evening. Principal David N. Hi* urged the organiza tion to consider a resolution passed by the local district committee sev eral months ago endorsing the adoption of a nine-months term for the Williamston school. No action was taken at the meeting, a report stating that the membership will discuss the proposal and express its position at a later session. The school head also outlined the objectives of the organization for the coming year, and prposed ad MARKET With its sales approximating the four million pound mark, the Williamston tobacco mar ket completes today possibly one of the most successful weeks of the season. Better types of tobacco have been offered, and while prices may be no strong er, the general tone of the mar keting activities has been recog nized as more encouraging. The market w'.?l be selling late this afternoon, reports from the warehouses stating that the quality of the offering is not quite as good as it was earlier in the week. Plaits For Road In Griffins Uncertain While firmly established as a project in the State Highway Com mission's road improvement pro gram, the Old Mill Inn-Farm Life road will likely remain untouched for several months, unofficial re ports from Kaleigh stating that a definite plan for handling the im provement project had not been de termined. Several plans for giving Griffins Township an outlet over the Farm Life-Old Milf Inn route have been duly considered, but it will be pos stDly some time next spring before a definite one is agreed upon, it was learned here this week It is very likely that the State Commission will not undertake to handle the construction work on the nine-mile project The authori ties are expected to consider let ting a contract for widening and giading the road after the winter is spent and letting a contract for the surfacing at a later date. How ever, tf federal road money is avail able, it may be possible to let a contract for the complete project sometime in the early spring. Engineers have been assigned to the project, but it isn't known when they will start their survey. The proposed p oject constitutes the largest secondary road lmprove ment program .:i the county. Work on a secondary road project from U. S. Highway 17 to Bear Grass is nearing completion. Codnty Insurance Exchange Meets Here Last Tuesday At a special meeting, the Martin County Insurance Exchange met here Tuesday night in tne office of Harrison & Carstarpl.en, local in surance men. A gen-rat discussion of insurance laws and policies was discussed with Mr ty H Carstar phen. president, conducting the meeting Mr. Asa Crawford, anoth er local man, is vice-president of this 01 ganlmion. lhe but of 16WH peo ple attending were Mrs Lyda Tay lor and Mr. H. C. Norman, of Rob ersonville, Mr N. W Johnson, of Hassell. ditional library facilities that the elementary school standard may be raised to meet State requirements. Largely attended, the meeting was presided over by the president. Mrs. A. J. Osteen. Rev. John Hardy led the devotional program, and Miss Mary Benson, secretary, read the by-laws of the parent-teacher association. After a brief business session, the members attended a tea in the new high school lunch room. Reports coming out of the meet j ing indicate that the organization is entering what promises to be one of its most eventful and successful years Welfare Board And Advisory Committee ff I? Hold Joint Meeting Applications For Old Age, Assistance Are Approved The Martin County Welfare board] and the County Child Welfare Ad visory Committee met in joint ses sion with the staff of the Coimty Welfare department in their offices | on Tuesday. September 20, to study] the functions of each unit in rela tion to the community, the client, the board member and the social case worker. Miss Margaret Lane, consultant, with the children's division of the State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, made a very interesting talk to the group on the plans and policies of the child welfare division and particularly insofar as their pro gram relates to Martin County. Boarding homes for children, place ments in foster homes, and ade quate medical attention and diets for children were discussed by the entire group. Two recent additions to the Mar tin County Welfare Department's staff were introduced to those pres ent at the meeting. Miss Audrey Wil liams, who is a graduate of sociology at tho University t\f~ North Carolina with three months' special training in social work, began work on the 19th of this month. Miss Williams had practiced field work under the supervision of Miss Elma H. Ash ton, of Raleigh, who is consultant ] with the State Board of Charities ' and Public Welfare. Miss Williams will be paid from county funds. Dol lie Patillo, colored, received her so cial work training at the Atlanta School of Social Work. She is from , Edgecombe county and is well known in Williamston where she was for ] merly employed as a teacher in the ! Negro schools The WPA is paying j her salary and traveling expenses. After a brief discussion of addi tional plans which have been for mulated for the organization of | {he rojihty rouncil of social work, the Child Welfare Advisory Com mittee adjourned and the Welfare Board remained for a discussion of the applications for Old Age Assist ance and Aid to Dependent Chil dren. Six new applications for Old Age Assistance were approved, eight were rejected and three grants which had already been approved by the board were increased. Three aid to dependent children applica tions were approved and one was [ rpjgctoH ? - A short resume of the Public As sistance prugt-am in Martin County was given to the Board by Mary W. Taylor, superintendent of Public Welfare. The board adjourn ad to meat again Tucodny, October 25. 1938. Youth Follows In The Footsteps Of Brother Prominent Speakers To Be on Farmers Day Fair Program Three prominent speakers who i In addition to the business pro are in close touch with the federal j gram and schedule of addresses, a and state agricultural activities will series of entertainments have been appear on the program for Farmers' Day at the Williamston Fair next Wednesday noon, it was announced planned by the management, in cluding a pole-climbing contest, bag race, mule back riding and mule today by J. P. Vroodard, assistant i show. Liberal prizes will be award County agent Congressman John Kerr, a man who has championed recognition for farmers; R. C. Hol land. president of the North Caro lina Stabilization Cooperative, and E. F. Arnold, secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau, will speak. The addresses of these men will be timely and should be of interest to every farmer in this section of North Carolina. Local Farm Bureau officials are looking forward to a big day at the fair Wednesday, the pro gram to get underway promptly at It o'clock, noon. ed in each of the events Quite a few entries have already been booked, and considerabl interest is being si town in the mule race and show. That evening the fair manage ment will present a special feature, the National Barn Dance, which will likely prove of interest to farmers and others. The barn dance could not be scheduled that afternoon, it was learned. All farmers of Martin and sur rounding counties are invited to 'at tend and participate in the farmer's day program. Declaring to the court he had to steal to keep from getting hungry, James Melton, 16-year-old colored boy, was bound over to the county recorder's court by Justice J. L. Hassell at a hearing held here last Tuesday evening. Melton with Louis A. Brown, 14 years old, was arrest ed for the theft of five chickens from Mack Clark, colored man, liv ing near here. Brown was placed in the custody of his father until the case can be handled in the juvenile court by Judge L. B Wynne. Melton is following in the foot steps of his older brother, William, who was sentenced to prison this week in superior court for two years in a case charging him with the theft of a cow. . Wednesday evening in Justice Hassell's court. Jumbo Whitley was tried for being drunk and disorder ly. The court suspended judgment upon payment of the cost. Several cases are scheduled for trial in Justice Hassell's court this evening. Block Collections New Farm Act Now In Federal Court; Warehousemen Ordered to Refrain From Col lecting Tax The life of the new farm program is now at stake with government forces rushing to Valdosta. Ga., to day to defend the constitutionality of the act against attacks by Geor gia growers who seek to eliminate the quota and penalty tax provisions exacted for tobacco marketing. The case is before a three-pian court, at torneys taking part in the case for the government explaining that should the three judges rule against them the case will be immediately appealed to the Supreme Court. 1 Constitutionality of the act has I been raised in a so-called test case which involves _ tobacco growers | who charge that the broad control I features of the program place pow | ers of unwarranted discrimination j in the hands of the government. The anti-crop control movement is spreading throughout the tobac co belt, and as the government lines up to defend the program ware housemen in Williamston and those in other tobacco marketing centers are being asked under court order why they should not be restrained from collecting the penalty tax this year Papers, asking why they should not be restrained in collect 1 ing the penalty tax. were served on | all of Williamston's warehousemen i this week. Papers have been served ! on nearly 350 other warehousemen r in the State as a result of an action1 | brought against the farm program I i by the Anti-Crop Control associa i ! tion in Wake County. The action created by the anti-j control group is returnable in Ral-| eigh next Tuesday before Judge W ' C. Harris who signed the temporary injunction. J B. Hutson, chief of the tobacco section of the Agricul tural administration, has stated that the AAA attorneys will appear at | the hearing for the government. I The process servers, calling upon the aid of county sheriffs, plan to complete the work by tomorrow or I early Monday. At the hearing next I Tuesday the court is expected uT| rule as to whether the restraining order should be made permanent or he dissolved Changes Announced In Employment Personnel I John D Enright, who for the past 1 nine months, has been claims inter jvuwer in the Williamstpri" office of I the State Employment Service, re ! cently was promoted to junior dep. I uty, for duty in the Goldsboro of i fice, and he left few d^ys ago for ; his new position there. He is sue i ceeded in the local employment of - j i fice by Earl Dean, of Fayetteviile. Mr Enright. by his efficient work I here, received promotion and has been in his new work in Goldsboro j | since September T71HT Mr. Earl Dean, of the Eayetteville Employment office, began his work | here Saturday as junior claims in-' 1 terviewer in the local employment ] office. He is a native of Elizabeth City, and comes to Williamston af ter being in the Unemployment Compensii 'i>n service since January of this year. Aged Colored Man Dies At His Home Wednesday nank evbiuu, a wuiihy i?t?i id orcd citizen, died at his home here Tuesday morning at 11:45 o'clock following a brief illness of pneu monia?He was 75 yeau ollT Quitting the farm some years ago, the old man worked faithfully un til just a few days before his death. Funeral services were conducted today. War Talk War talk crowded out the prices , of tobacco and other topics in the conversations on the streets here this afternoon, as people awaited late reports from Europe. r L SHOW ARRIVAL There'll be no special attrac tion Sunday afternoon for the old regulars who, for years past, waited the arrival of the show train to watch the wagons move off the flat cars and on to the fair grounds. Playing in Rutherfordton, a greater part of the way across the State, the Art Lewis shows will not be able to reach here Sunday af ternoon. The special train la schedul ed to leave Rutherfordton some time late Sunday and reach here Monday afternoon at 4:M o'clock the advance agent said today. Plans Announced Complete For Opening Williamston's Annual Fair on Tuesday of Next Week Official Fair Program The following program for the first two days of the fair is as follows: Tuesday, Sept. 27?Children's Day 12:00 Noon?Gates open, exhibit hall and departmental buildings open to public. Art Lewis shows on midway. 1:30 P. M.?Street parade, led by Kobersonville High School Band with Higgins' Famous Band, floaglan's Combination. Torelli's Circus, Continental Kevue cast, ponies and bicycles and clowns forming the unit. 2:00 P. M.?Big children's day program. 3:00 P. M.?Grandstand attractions booked by the management, including trick auto racers. Iloaglan's Combination, push bail, auto pftlo^ TorrIll's oiycu*-amF-high?pote act. Daylight fireworks. 7:30 P. M.?Grandstand attractions, featuring the Contineatal Revue and repeat attractions. A brilliant fireworks program starts about 9 o'clock. Wednesday, Sept. 28?Farmer's Day 12:1S P. M.?Program gets underway in grandstand Nationally known speakers and special entertainment program including pole climbing contests, bag races, mule show and bare back mule riding contests. Flbert Kawls. Hear (irass boy. is latest entry for the contest. 3:00 P. M.?Regular grandstand program. 7:30 P. M.?(iraudstand attractions, supplemented by a National Harn Dance presented by a speeial east from WLS. Chicago. 9:30 P. M.?Fireworks display. Other daily programs to be announced. Second Truck For Colored Studejits Placing in operation its second bus for the transportation of colored high school pupils, Martin County today has the largest colored high school enrollment in its history, au thorities explaining that gome diffi culty was being experienced in ad justing the schedule to care for the! increased number of students who' are entering the Williamston school for the first time. Starting two and one-half miles out ot Dardens yesterday, the new | bus handled 35 children. Today, the bus hauled almost fifty and! more are expected next Monday ! Pupils are being brought to the plant here from several schools in | Jamesville and Williams Township.! A first bus for the transportation j of colored high school children was J placed in operation last term to serve the Parmele plant. The bus operates from llassell. through Oak City and Robersonville. With the ^addition of* the second t bus yesterday to the system, school authorities point out that the con- ( solidation program for colored schools is virtually complete in this county John Small Will Not Have To Go To War John Small, sentenced to life im-1 prisonment for second degree burg-. lary, is not as crazy as some would) believe, according to stories com- j ing back home following his lasti trip. Traveling to prison with three other prisons, Small jokingly talk-1 ?'d about his fate. "You boys will get out just about in time to fight,"j he told his comp?nions, "hut 1 won't have to go now," he added, j "In two or three years you guys[ will be booking for jobs, but rill have one," he commented. "The judge kinder stepped on you," a prison official remarked aa Small went in to start paying for the crime. "Yes, sir, and with both feet," Small, still smiling, said. "He's a typical fellow of his race," Judge Bone remarked upon hear-J ing about Small's outlook on life. ? Mrs. Thessie tfarnhill Buys City Beauty Shop *? Mrs. Thessie Barnhill has recent ly purchased City Beauty Shop, for merly owned by Miss Dolores Long. Mrs Barnhill is retaining the same operators, who have so efficiently pleased their many customers in the past and a cordial invitation is ex tended to the ladies of Williamston J and the surrounding territory to visit the beauty shop. ? Fairview Revival Meet Has Been Postponed The revival meeting scheduled to be held at Fairview church begin ning September 19th. has been post poned until October 17th, officials of the church announced yesterday The meeting will last for one week and the services will be con ducted by Rev. J. M. Perry, of the Robersonville Christian church. r I CHECKS - Entering their applications several weeks ago. 207 Martin farmers are receiving this week. $5,710.91 representing the first cotton price adju?tmen4 pay ments due in this county. The 107 checks represent KM appli cations. More than 700 applications have been filed with the coun ty agent. and additional checks are expected within a few days. Approximately 350 cotton far ed applications for the payments. Bear Grass Host To Church Croup The annual meeting of Group one of the Woman's Auxiliary of Albe marle Presbytery was held with the Bear Grass church yesterday with large representations present hom nearly every church in the section embracing the territory | from Elizabeth City and Tarboro. I Varioup reports were heard from secretaries of the several organ iza i tions, and the all day meeting was i featured by an inspirational ad- I dress by Rev Norman Johnson, of i ? the Rockv Mount church The approximately 100 church I representatives were appreciative guests of the host church at a plen tiful and delicious lunch sqrved in the new Community house on the Bear Grass church grounds. Emma Jane Peyton Dies At Home Here ? ? Emma Jane Peyton, respected colored woman, died at her home here last Tuesday morning at nine o'clock following a long period of duclniii.H hunlih 111 u ni u5 75 yea is of age Funeral services are being con ducted |f?rOiV :.iul inliM-mi-nl will fnl low in the Odd Fellows' Ceme tery Record Number of School Children Fa pec ted Tuesday Strong Competition For Prizes in Several Departments ? Plans were announced complete for holding Williamston's annual fair beginning next Tuesday, Resi dent Manager Harvey Walker stat ing today that a splendid program for a well-balanced exhibition had been formulated in detail. "We are looking for a large ar ray of agricultural exhibits with some unusually keen competition assured in most of the departments, Walker explained. The Art Lewis shows, rated as the most complete t amusement unit traveling the South this season; are slated to come in on a special train at 4.30 Monday afternoon. Already a number of the fair attendants have entered the fair grounds, and many more are expected tomorrow and early Mon day A greater part of next Mon day w ill be used in placing exhibits, the 4 11 club boys and girls plan ning to be well represented in sev eral of The-"departments Special attention has been given to the program for Tuesday -chil dren's (lav The manager has invit ed all white school children as guests up until four o'clock that afternoon. A half holiday has been called for in all the white schools of the coun ty, and a large representation is ex pected from all of them Following a big parade, led by the Kobersonville High School band, the children are scheduled to wit ness a special grandstand program including pony races, bag and bi cycte races, fancy dress and tap dancing. Torelli's cirrus and?day light fireworks. The parade forms at 1 30 o'clock, and the grandstand program is to get underway about 30 minutes later. Special prizes are being offered for the participants in the children's day contests, as follows: bag race for boys 13 years and older, $1 50, and a bag of nitrate of soda, and 75 cents for second prize. Boys' bi cycle race, ages 13 to 17, $1 50 and 75 cents Girls' bicycle race. 12 to 16 years. $1.50 and 75 cent*. Boya' bicycle race, 9 to 12 years, $1 50 and 75 cents. Girls' tap dancing, ages up to 16 years. $1 50 and 75 cents. Boys' tap dancing, 8 to 13 years, $1.50 and 75 cents Girls' fancy dress dance, 8 to 14 years, $1 50 and 75 cents Boys' three legged race. 12 to 15 years of age. $1 50 and 75 centa. p..ye' loniiing-moo- ages t4 "to TT; $1 50 and 75 cents Girls' potato race 8 to 10 years, $1 50 and 75 cents. Pony race for boys or girls. 13 to 15 years, $1 50 and 75 cents For the best decorated bicycle in parade and to the best clown, boy or girl, in the parade, the fair management will pay $150 each Revival Meeting Begins At Cedar Grove October 2 * Beginning Sunday, October 2, Rev Marshall Joyner, of Farmville, will TCinmu'l a a'ei ies of revival services in the Cedar Grove Free Will Bap tist Church The evening services dlllP'Q th" P"1'""! wtll he held?at 7 30 o'clock The public is cordially invited to attend World Nearer Brink of War Today Than Since Yea r 1914 Unofficial dispatches reaching here at noon today from areas of unrest in Europe indicated that the world is now nearer the brink of war than at anytime since the year 1914 Germany's Hitler, conceded Sudeten territory, was reported to have increased his demands, and a conference scheduled between the Nazi leader and England's Prime* Minister Chamberlain was called off. Peace seemed far removed as members of world power nations resigned their places in cabinets and thousands of Common people?peo ple who know they will have to carry guns if war is declared, cla mored ?for the resignation of those who have bowed to Hitler's de mands This afternoon the world is await ing developments, but what those developments will be no one seems to know Something may be done to stave off u.iother world confla gration, but just now the war clouds are darkening the horizon of Eu rope Disorders, reported along the Czechoslovakia-German border, continue, but they do not enter in to the picture so much as the out come of conferences among the world powers. If Oreat Britain and Francy deny Hitler's demands, it will mean they are ready to fight, and in that case the only solution will be for Hitler to withdraw his demands. The war spirit is gaining even in this country. Mr Average Citizen declares France and England are yellow, but Mr. Average Citizen here adds that he does not want to see war. Yet, the civil war continues in Spain, and Japan continues Ma march on the helpless Chinese! The events in those countries have I crowded off by happenings to home.
The Enterprise (Williamston, N.C.)
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