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VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 78 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, September 30, 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899
Army Air Force To
Go On Parade Over
County Next Week
Main Phase of the Army
Maneuvers Begins
Week Later
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Scheduling ? series of games, the
United States Army will do its own
attacking and defending during tha
next two weeks to test its strength
and incidentally show the people of
Martin County and those in the ter
ritory extending as far west as Ral
eigh and as far south as Wilming
ton.
Based on supposition, the "enemy"
air fotce consisting of large numbers
of bombers, attack and pursuit
planes, will fly on Fort Bragg week
after next. Starting from the coast
just as a foreign enemy would in
case of an attack, the air forces will
pass over this county some time be
tween 4 and 8 a. m. and 6 and 10 p.
m. on October 10, 12, and 13th. On
October 11, planes are scheduled to
fly over the county between the
hours of 7 and U a. m. and between
6 and 10 o'clock that evening. Ma
jor Stacy Knopf, of the 3flth Field
Artillery, points out, however, that
there will be preliminary activities
in preparation for the attacks and
that planes may be seen flying over
this area beginning next Monday
between 7 and 11 a. m.
With these hours, the attacking
air force determines the time of
pressing home the attack so that any
action to be viewed at Fort Bragg
may take place at any minute dur
ing these four hour periods.
The exercise is not a maneuver or
war game but is designed primar
ily to test anti-aircraft searchlight,
machine gun and gun defense of an
area. It will test the utility of a
warning net and the various forma
tions used by attacking agd defend
ing aircraft.
The public should not expect to
see all or even a large part of the
attacking or defending flight form
ations as the air missions will be
flown at varying heights under
varying weather conditions and at
varying times within the four hour
periods
The flights next week will not
be recognized, but observers recent
ly eelected end trained, will report
activitiee of the planes during the
second week to a temporary army
post at New Bern. J. E Boykin is
corporal for this immediate terri
tory and he will handle all the
calls.
Brigadier General Fulton Q C.
Gardner, defense commander of the
coming Joint Antiaircraft-Air Corps
Exercise, announced today that in
structions have been issued to select
observers who will report the flights
of all airplanes in the warning net
area during the active hours of the
exercise, during the period October
10th to 15th, inclusive. In issuing the
instructions, General Gardner out
lined the procedure carefully in or-1
der that all might be fully inform
ed regarding the details.
The area included in the warning
net area will be bounded by Wood
leigh, Wilson, Raleigh, Siler City,
Rockingham, Lumberton and Wilm
ington (all inclusive). This area has
been divided into squares, eight
miles on a side. One telephone has
been selected in each of the squares
to be known as the observation post
in the particular square. Locations
of Uiese observation posts have be?h
carefully plotted on the defense
commander's operations maps. Gen
eral Gardner emphasized the fact
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Bishop Darst To Preach At
Church Of Advent Sunday
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The Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Darst, D.
D., Bishop of the Diocese of East
Carolina, will make his annual vis
it here Sunday. He will preach and
confirm a class in the Church of the
Advent Sunday morning at eleven
o'clock, and will be at St Martin's
at seven-thirty Sunday night. The
people of these communities are
cordially invited to attend these
services. Several persons are ex
pected to be- confirmed at both ser
vices.
Bishop Darst is one of the out
standing preachers in this country.
Several years ago, as chairman of
the Bishop's Crusade, he preached in
practically every state in the na
fion As the result of this he is one
of the most popular and widely
known bishops in the Episcopal
church. He is president of the Prov
ince of Sews nee, which is compris
ed of nine Southern states
At present he is being encourag
ed by his friends to accept the
chairmanship to the board of Ka
nuga Summer Conferences at Lake
Kanuga near Hendersonville, N. C.
This is the largest summer confer'
ence center in the Episcopal church.
Prices Continue Upward as Better Grades
Of Tobacco Are Offered on Local Market
Tobacco prices on Williams
ton's market continued to swine
upward this week, the old line
companies appearing more an
xious for the better trades than
at any time this season. Supple
menting this demand were ad
ditional orders placed In the
hands of independents.
The market this week has
piled up the best averages of
the season, and near records
would have been established
had there not been large quan
tities of inferior tobacco offered
for sale. Yesterday, the market
sold well into the afternoon
and averaged right at 26 cents
to maintain the record reported
the day before. Today, sales will
last into the middle of the af
ternoon, market observers stat
ing that offerings will continue
fairly heavy during next week.
Rain during the past two days
is holding farmers from their
peanut fields, and work is be
ing centered in the pack houses.
Predictions made during the
growing season are coming
true now, observers pointing
out weeks ago that this section
would not have the quality to
bacco It had a year ago. As a
whole, the offerings on the lo
cal market are of the poorest
quality In many seasons. How
ever WilUamston is maintaining
an enviable reputation as com
pared with other markets, and
trade tor trade it is selllnt to
bacco just as hifh as any In
the belt.
The spotlitht this week has
been turned on the better qual
ity trades, individual farmers
averaftnf In quite a few eases
around 4# cents tor an entire
barn. One farmer sold tobacco
here this week with prices
rantlnt from IS to 59 cents,
but that farmer offered some
real tobacco for sale. It was
pointed out. Averates above IS
cents have been numerous, and
Williamston has the best satis
fied troup of customers today
it has had In years.
R. C. Holland Speaks
To.Farm Meeting Here
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EVANGELIST
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Miss Fannie Mae Morris of
the Holiness Bible Institute, is
conduct!n( a series of services
in the Pentecostal Holiness
Church here. The meetinc will
continue throufh next week.
County Teachers
Get First Salary
The 197 teachers in the Martin
county schools this week received
their first monthly salaries of the
new term, the office of the county
superintendent of schools announc
ing that the salaries amounted to
$19,458.25. A small increase in the
total amount was reported as com
pared with the salaries a year ago,
the superintendent explaining that
quite a few of the teachers had at
tended summer school and raised
their salary ratings.
The thirteen janitors in the school
received $435, little change being
noticed in the amount paid the
group.
The thirty-six bus drivers, receiv
ing $9 50 each on an average, were
paid $351.50 for their services dur
ing the first month of school end
ing last Wednesday. ,
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County Ranks High In
Collection Book Fees
Martin County schools, both!
white and colored, hold a high rank!
in the collection of fees for the ren
tal of supplementary readers, it was
learned from the office of the coun
ty board of education yesterday.
The combined schools collected j
$1,985.80 last term, the white
schools ranking fifth and the col
ored ranking sixth when grouped
with all the plants in the State.
Urg es Farmers To
Support the Farm j
Bureau Federation
Reviews Activities of the
Peanut Stabilization
Cooperative
K. C. Holland, president of (he
North Carolina Peanut Stabilization
Cooperative, made a timely address
and reviewed the activities of the
farmers' organization as a meeting
sponsored by the Martin County
Farm Bureau at the fair here on
Wednesday afternoon.
Introduced by C. Abram Rober
son, president of the Farm Bureau
in this county, Mr. Holland urged a
strong organization of farmers, say-1
ing, "We must organize if we are
to get recognition." He urged the
farmers to make certain that they
are represented in Raleigh and
Washington twenty-four hours each
day when the laws are in the mak^"
ing.
Closely associated with the task
to gain recognition for the peanut
farmer, Mr. Holland cited a few ac
complishments that have meant add
ed millions for eastern Carolina far
mers in the past few years, and pre
dicted that through the work of
the Farm Bureau and others the
lowly peanut would maintain its
rating in the list of special base
crops next year. "We are raising
this year no more than 30 per cent
of the peanut crop in this country.
We must reason with Georgia and
Alabama farmers, and ask them to
limit production that everyone may
get a fair price."
The guardian of the peanut for
farmers in this section stated the
belief that the farmers in those
states realize the precarious situa
tion' facing the peanut and that they
will cooperate to maintain it as a
special base crop.
unicial ngures, me nrsi releas
ed, were given on the cooperative':
activities in this county last season.
The organization handled 130,188
bags of peanuts and paid Martin
County farmers $402,083.60, the
price averaging $64.81 per ton. Our
farmers were highly complimented
when he said that out of the more
than 130,000 bags of peanuts just a
few over 3,000 fell into the No. 2
class. "We must maintain that high
rating if we are to gain favor with
the AAA authorities," Mr Holland
said in urging farmers not to dig
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To Study Effects of Pulp Mill
Waste on Fish in the Roanoke
A study of the possible effects
wastes from the pulp mill in Plym
outh may have on fish life was au
thorized last week by the commer
cial fisheries committee of the de
partment of conservation and de
velopment.
The committee studied means of
preserving the rapidly declining
shad supply in eastern waters. It
heard a report from Harry L Can
field, of La Crosse, Wis, of findings
on the shad industry during a two
season study in North Carolina wa
ters as a special investigator for the
Unitad States Bureau of Fisheries.,
Committee members said they
hoped to get a United States bur
eau of fisheries expert to study the
effects of paper mill waste on fish. If
harmful effects are discovered, they
said, steps will be taken to protect
commercial fish.
Canfieid said he had found cat
fish, carp and eels to be the dead
liest enemies of shad. Upon his sug
gestion, the committee recommend
ed to the conservation board that
fisherman -be -encouraged. Iil take
catfish and carp commercially
Fishermen along the Roanoke are
uncertain about the effects the
waste from the mill has on the
fishing Industry. Quite a few of
them believe the acids from the
mill are turning back many fish
and killing others in large numbers.
The run of herring last spring was
small, but rock and shed were tak
en in greater numbers than the
year before. However, shad remain
ed scarce.
Plans for the survey will proba
bly be advanced at a meeting of
the Congressional Committee on
Merchant Marine and Fisheries in
Belhave nnext Tuesday.
Cotton Marketing
Cards Ready Next
Monday in County
Quotas Arc Not Transfer
able Under the New
Cotrol Law
While the harvesting and mar
keting season is yet several weeks
off, the offiee of the county agent
is completing arrangements to start
the distribution of cotton market
ing cards to Martin farmers the
early part of next wee. It is esti
mated that 1,500 cards will be is
sued in the county this year, unof
ficial reports stating.that . Martin
farmers have complied with the
program, as a whole, und that in
most of these eases where plantings
exceeded allotments they were not
intentional.
Those farmers whose plantings are
not in excess of the acreage allot
ments will receive white cards
which entitle them to sell all the
cotton they raised without penalty.
Those farmers who exceeded their
plantings will receive red cards
which entitle them to sell a certain
amount tax free. All excess cotton
is subject to tax", and exacting rec
ords must be kept from the time the
staple is carried to the gtn until the
time it is sold.
Quite a few Martin farmers, learn
ing about the complications connect
ed with selling surplus cotton and
realizing the benefits will be far
greater if requirements are complied
with, plowed under surplus acre
ages. No penulty is imposed when
the production is less than 1,00(1
pounds on a farm.
County agents point out that mar
keting quotas may not be assigned
or otherwise transferred in whole
or in part to any other farmer Cot
ton must be identified by an own
er's marketing card at the gin and
again when the staple is offered for
sale Unless the cotton is identified,
it is subject to the penalty of two
cents a pound.
Operators of the seven gins in
this county recently were instruct
ed in the handling of reports which
give the dat^ of ginning, name of
operator of the farm where the cot
ton wps grown, the name of the
producer, gin bale number or mark,
the county in which the cotton was
produced, the gross weight, and
serial number of farm where cot
ton was produced. Buyers are also
required to keep certain reports.
H unting Season Opens
In County Tomorrow
Hunters, hopeful fur a break in
the weather, are today cleaning up
their guns making ready for trips
into the woods tomorrow in search
of deer and squirrels. Indications
are that numerous sportsmen will
try their shooting skill the first day
the scasoh opens.
ON THE SPOT
Trying to establish the time
a certian incident took place,
Attorney H. O. Horton in the
Martin Superior court yester
day asked an opposition witness
how he knew the happening
took place before election "Be
cause someone handed me a can
didate's card," the witness re
plied. Judge Walter Bone, on
the bench, remembered he is
sued a few cards himself along
about that time, and It was al
most apparent that he would
have advised againsta question
as to ownership of the card.
Attorney Horton was more
Interested In determining the
time than he was In cards. "And
whose card was It?" he asked.
"Yours," the witness replied.
Bone looked greatly relieved,
Attorney Horton smiled, and
Blbert 8. reel, of the opposing
Court Clears Large
Number Cases From
Docket This Week
Judge Bone Adjourns Tri
bunal Yesterday
Afternoon
Handling approximately SO of the
71 cases on the calendar, the Mar
tin County Superior court adjourn
ed a two-weeks mixed term here
yesterday afternoon, the tribunal,'
under the guidance of Judge Walter]
Bone, hearing nearly 30 criminal'
actions in addition to the civil cases
during the period.
The term accomplished more in
the way of relieving congested doc
kets than at any other time in re
cent years, court observers said
following adjournment yesterday
afternoon.
There were no big cases before
the court, but iust as much time was
required to handle small ones, it
was pointed out.
Proceedings not previously re
ported:
S A Mobley, trading as City
Motor Company, was declared own
er of property valued at $123 in the
case against J. D. Mason.
K. G. Strawbridge was awarded
a judgment in the sum of $123
against J. B. Cherry.
A voluntary non-suit was taken
by the plaintiff in the case of Stan
dard Fertilizer Company against W
O. White
The Standard Fertilizer Company
was given a judgment in the sum
of $343 43 against Theresa Ander
son and W. R. Smith.
A mistrial was, unified in the case
of W. R Roberson against Lucy F.
Holliday
Roy Martin was given a $17.25
judgment against H. H. Cowen
Jack Dixon, suing for damages
resulting to his car in an auto-truck
wreck, was awarded $417 98 against
Isaac Fass
A judgment in the sum of $333.39
was awarded the Standard Fertiliz
er Company against Mrs. Emma
Evans.
The case of J D. Wynne against
Sam Crowell was settled out of
court, the plaintiff receiving $25
damages alleged to have resulted in
an automobile crash at the fair
grounds on September 9.
The Standard Fertilizer Company
was, awarded $209.58 in its case
against L. R. Gladstone
Judgment of $225 was awarded
Mrs. Lizzie Coltrain in her case
against J. D Francis.
Based on two years' separation,
divorces were granted J, L. Spencer
against Sidney Bentley Spencer and
Alice Smith against George Smith.
Charlie Moore, young Williams
ton man, was awarded $36 in his
? case against J. B. Cherry.
E. R Chesson was awarded a
judgment in the sum of $110 80 in
his case against J. B. Cherry.
An agreement was reached in the
case of Harrison against W H.
Hopkins and others.
In the case <>f Standard Fertiliz
er Company against C. W. Moore,
the court declared a former judg
men giving the plaintiff $107 30 null
and void
The case of Commercial Credit
Company against W. K Parker was
settled by agreement, the plaintiff
getting a judgment in the sum of
$300.
In the $1,000 damage suit brought
by Perlie Lilley against Patrolmen
Hunt and Rnthrnrk, the court de
nied the plaintiff damages.
Charging she had suffered great
mental anguish, Lillian Wynne, col
ored woman of Jamesville, was
awarded $50 damages against Ma
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Honorable John Kerr
Addresses Farm Meet
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TEACHER
Miss Augusta C. Carstarphrn.
distant relativr o( the < arstar
plit*ns here, recently began her
sixtieth year as a teacher in the
Washington County schools at
Koper. Seventy-nine years old.
Miss (laQdtarphen has taught
over 3.060 children in her life
and is one of the oldest teach
ers in the public schools of the
State.
"There's no retirement fund
for teachers, and as I need the
money for living expenses. I
guess I will Jeach as teug as I
can handle the job satisfactor
ily." the faithful teacher said
when asked if she was planning
to retire.
Peace At Expense
Of Czechoslovakia
The war scare was ended in Eu
rope yesterday and peace was as
sured temporarily, at least, at the
expense of little -Czechoslovakia
yesterday when a four-power con
ference agreed to give Hitler a
slice of territory known as the Su
deten lands.
Going into a huddle at Munich,
Germany, yesterday, reperesenta
tives of England. France, Italy and
Germany agreed for Hitler to take
over that part of Czechoslovakia
predominantly occupied by Ger
mans.
The agreement, leaving many
things to be settled by the confer
ence in the future, provides for a
German march into the territory
tomorrow, the Czechs to clear out
by Monday week.
Disappointment was the Czechs
in full measure, for they realize
they will lose by the peace plan just
as they would have lost if war de
veloped.
All is "riot quiet around the 'bor
der of the little country, and nor
mal peace is not to be expected un
til Poland either gets a slice of
Czechoslovakia or is told to with
draw by the four powers. Germany
guarantees no borders until the Pol
ish claim is settled
Meeting At Cross Roads
Begins Monday Evening
Hev. W. ??. Ambrose, beginning
next Monday night at 7:30 o'clock,
will conduct a series of services at
Christian Chapel at Cross Koads.
The meeting will last one week, and
the public is cordially invited to at
tend
Gives Keview Of
Farm Legislation
In United States
Small Crowd Is Present for
Farmers Day Program
At Fair Here
Approximately 300 farmers at
tending a special Farm Bureau pro
gram at the Williamston Fair Wed
nesday afternoon heard Congress
man John Kerr proclaim this sec
tion of North Carolina as the great
est in all the world, a section that
can raise crops of greater value per
acre than any- other on earth?ex
cept Denmark and Belgium, the
speaker declared '
Coming her 1 as the f -attire speak
er on the Ma-tin County Farm Bur
eau federation program, the con
gressman reviewed legislation af
fecting agriculture during the past
fifteen years, and he pointed out
that the farmers of this nation should
be grateful to their g >verriment for
the interest shown and aid given
them during more recent years.
"Fifteen years ago. leading econo
mist. saw and realized that the far
mer was not getting a square deal.
Others were being cared for with
the industrial tariff, but the farmer
was left to battlfe alone. Something
had YtrOe done, and fourteen years
ago the McNary-Haugen bill was
passed by Congress in an effort to
raise farm prices. The proposal was
vetoed by the President twice. Six
years later, the Farm board bill was
created Surpluses were bought with
half a billion dollars, but the mar
kets were soon depressed with the
big supply of wheat and cotton on
hand."
Continuing Mr. Kerr said that the
next farm legislation was passed in
1933 with the creation of the AAA.
Conditions during" that period were
described, the speaker stating that
the cwmtry?eame nearer having a
revolution than at any time since
The Civ it War. Iowa farmers defied
judge and sheriff when lands were
offered for sale Tobacco sold for
hardly enough to pay the fertilizer
bill, he declared
The congressman with the Hon
orable Lindsay Warren went to bat
for the farmers of this great agricul
I tural section and established a par
: ity price based on the period from
\ 1919 to 1928. The next year, accord
ing to tht* speaker, farmers sold
their tobacco for more than 100
million dollars. "And during the
time the AAA has been in operation
it has put into the pockets of to
bacco farmers over 500 million dol
lars. One hundred million was re
ceived by farmers in this section.
"If the three A's had not been
killed by the court. Martin County
farmers and others in this great
section would have been within a
few years the richest on earth." The
speaker did not have much to say
about the action of the court, but it
was apparent that the former court
judge believed the farmers of thia
section suffered an irreparable loss
in the deal
ii was buck in 1933 when Con
gressman Kerr was visiting in Mar
tm- County that-he first became in
terested in a plan to include pea
nuts in the national (arm plan. "I
saw a farmer deliver 100 bags of
peanuts to a warehouse, and the
buyer offer him no more than three
fourths of one cent a pound for
them-," he recalled. The struggle the
lowly goober had in the legislative
halls was reviewed, Mr. Kerr point
ing nut?the efforts mnHp hy the
Farm Bureau and its members to
get recognition there. "Tariffs were
sef lip To protect the domestic crop"
against cheap peanuts that were
brought to this country from Chi
na and sold in Suffolk for less than
two cents a pound," he said, but no
mention was made of the fact that
the tariff got a pocket veto. "Far
mers, you remember what a strug
gle it was to get peanuts included in
the list of special base crops, and
how diligently R. C. Holland, now
president of the North Carolina Pea
nut Stabilization Cooperative, and
others worked to get a base price,"
the congressman said, adding that
the farmer should be thankful to
the government ? for what it had
dune for agriculture.
Concluding his address that last
ed more than gn hour, the Con
gressman wandered from the farm
program, and declared that our
main trouble today is that we are
ignorant of our government and its
policies. "We should have faith
first In God, in our neighbor, in
each other and in our
Predict Small Peanut Yield
In Martin County This Year
Prelim inary reports from WOK
fields where digging operations have
gotten underway indicate a small
peanut yield for Martin County this
season. Stating that the production
will not exceed 80 per cent of a
crop, many believe the yield will
be the smallest in the county in a
number of years.
Reports on quality vary as to sec
tions, some farmers pointing out
that weather conditions were not
very favorable during a greater
part of the season and that the
quality will be inferior to that re
ported last season. Other farmers
maintain that they have examined
the crap and find the quality up to
normal and In some cases better
than it was last season.
Examining his crop thoroughly a
day or so ago, Mr. flill Roebuck,
Bear Grass farmer, stated that he
will not get over 60 per cent of a
crop, but that the quality of the
goobers is good "i puliert a fairly
large number of bunches from my
field, and none of them had more
than 28 nuts on them," Mr Roebuck
explained.
In those crops where the seed
was planted early, the nuts are said
to be swelling as a result of heavy
rains the early part oTTast week,
but such conditions are not general.
The greatest trouble came when
rains washed the blossoms from the
vines and prevented a large or even
a normal yield
Digging operations, while start
ed in some sections of the county
last week, will hardly get under
way on any appreciable scale with
-nr the next eight or tan days Tnps
of the vines are unusually green
or this season of the year, and pros
pects are fair for a good hay crop.
The price outlook is more favor
able this year than last .the stabil
ization cooperative offering higher
prices for premium crops.