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Advertisers Will Plat Oar CM- | ?s Utokbr te ever UN [ of Martla Trffi-ENTERPRISI r? Welch the Lshei a* 1am Paper, as U Carries the Data Tear Subaeriptiaa Expiree VOLUME XLI?NUMBER 86 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina. Friday. October 28. 1938. ESTABLISHED 1899 Lengthy Session of Recorders Court Here Last Monday Sixteen Cases Are Called By Judge H. O. Peel During Day The Martin County Recorder'* court in a lengthy session last Mon day handling one of the largest doc ket* plied up in recent months. Judge Peel held the tribunal in session during most of the day call ing sixteen cases, and then several were continued for trial at a later session. "Hie case charging George Walker with an assault with a deadly wea pon was nolprossed when it was learned the defendant had returned to Georgia Charged with the larceny of a bi cycle, Gaither Lock was placed on probattoh. ? ? Dink Ward, George, Ellsworth and Henry Andrews, charged with an assault and interfering with a Par mele officer, were adjudged not guilty. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Joe L. Godard was found not guilty. Roy Lanier, colored, who is alleg ed to have on three occasions got ten drunk und wandered into homes of others and retired, was fined $25, taxed with the cost and given a six months suspended road sentence in the case charging him with trespass The defendant was in the courts for a Similar offense about a year and a half ago. Irving S.mmons, charged with an assault, was taxed with the case cost and directed to pay to John Henry Ruffin $10 for doctor's bill. Mag nolia Simmons, co-defandant in the case, was found not guilty. The Big Apple, Robersonville col-j ored cafe, was the scene where sev eral cases in the court Monday were laid. It offered a mixture of liquor fights and firearms, and Judge Peel really bore down in meting out jus tice. William Bellamy, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, was sentenced to the roads for 60 days. Jesse Roberson, charged with carrying a concealed weapon, was fined $50 and taxed with the cost. Mack Everett, charged with violat-1 ing the liquor laws, was found not| guilty. Jesse Little, charged with an! assault with n deadly weapon, was, fined $50 and sentenced to the roads for twelve months, the sentence to begin at the direction of the court. Charged with drunken driving. K W. Cope land was fined $50 and taxecf with the cost. His license to operate a motor vehicle was revoked for a period of one year. A. C. Roberson, charged with pub lic drunkenness, was fined $10 and taxed with the costs. Charged with larceny and receiv ing, Harry Wilson was adjudged not guilty. Charged with non-support, Milton Barnhill was directed to pay $3 each week to the prosecuting witness, Louise Braswell. Cases, charging Lester Bailey with drunken driving, and Jamas Whichard with public drunkenness were continued until next Monday. The judgment meted out Monday before last in the case charging Les ter McKeel with non-support was changed, the court sentencing the defendant to the roads for six months The sentence is to begin at the direction of the court. ? Sweet Potato Crop A Shock Absorber The sweet potato crop in Martin County is expected to serve as an absorber for the shock that the short tobacco crop gave the fanners. Late reports indicate that the sweet po tato is offering one of the brightest spots in the agricultural horizon this year in the county. It is estimated that Martin farm ers will produce in excess of 100,000 bushels, some say production will run as high as 150,000 bushels. The price look is encouraging, too, re liable reports maintain. "Your crop in Martin County this year will equal in quality that in any section of the nation," a representative of a large purchasing firm advised Coun ty Agent T. B. Brandon this week. "You can expect a fair price," the representative said, and when ques tioned as to what was a fair price, added, "Seventy-five to $1 a bush el and possibly a fraction more for real fancy potatoes." Farmers have just about complet ed digging the crop, and turned cur ing barns into potato curing houses. Favorable weather conditions and improved seed are given as the main factors supporting the increased pro duction and improved quality this year. Preliminary Plans A re Made For Annual Red Cross Drive Preliminary plans have been completed for conducting the an nual Red Cross membership cam paign in the two chapters in this county, Harry A. Biggs, chairman of the Martin County unit, announc ed today. Complete details for handl ing the humane drive will be an nounced in time to launch the move ment by November 11, Chairman Biggs said. No definite quota has been as signed the Martin County chapter, but it is likely that citizens in the unit will be asked to contribute be tween three and four hundred dol lars to the organzation. The cam paign is to continue until Thanks giving Day. Heretofore, the Martin County chapter included .all that territory outside of Robersonville, the Rqb ersnnville unit successfully operat ing in that town and community. The territory embracing Hamilton andu Goose Nest Townships has lee.i added to the Robersonville chapter this year, and the leaders of the unit will formulate plans to han dle the membership canvas there. The Martin County chapter has been divided into two departments, the senior and junior units. Mr. Biggs will head the senior depart ment and J. C. Manning, superinten dent of schools, will handle the jun ior department drive, it was an nounced. With Mrs. V. A Ward in charge, the Robersonville Chapter started its drive yesterday Last year, the Robersonville unit held 14th place among the 119 chap ers in the State. While the Martin County chapter has not actively riai ted~ils~drive. Miss Annie Glasgow, of Jamesville, CLOSING DATE 'I Williamston's tobacco market will cloae the season neat Fri day, It wa* officially announced following a meeting of the local tobacco board of trade yesterday afternoon. In announcing the closing date, the market operators ex press their hearty appreciation for the patronage accorded them by the farmers of this and neigh boring counties. And they cor dially solicit a continued patron age during the next week and the season to follow. Hoy Bowers To Go On Trial In Pitt County Next Weekj Alleged to Have Criminally | Assaulted Martin County Girl Roy Bowers, young Pitt County white man, is slated to go on trial in the Pitt County Superior court j -next Wednesday for an alleged criminal assault on a young Mar tin County white girl near Parmele on the night of October I. The young man, arrested in this county early last spring for participating in a dynamite escapade in Parmele, Robersonville and Bear Grass, stands charged with rape Bowers was arrested in this county shurtly after the alleged crime by Sheriff C. B. Roebuck who was told that the scene of the at tack was in this county, near Par mele. He was oiven a preliminary hearing before Justice J. L Hassell here the following morning, the court denying him bond. Later in vestigation proved that the crime was alleged to have taken place just across the line in Pitt County. Habeus corpus proceeding were brought following Bower's transfer to Greenville, and he was released under a $3,500 bond. The attack victim was riding with Bowers in the company of two friends, a girl and a boy named Dix on. The names of the girls have not been disclosed by officers. At the first preliminary hearing, the evi dence offered by the State tended to show that Bowers stopped the car, forced the girl. 17 years of age, out, and threatened the lives of Dixon and the other girl if they attempted to interfere. Dixon was quoted as saying that he heard the victim call ing for help, that he was afraid to interfere. ? New Volumes Added To Library Here Recently The following books have just ar rived at the Williamston Public Li-_ tsrary and will be available Satur day, Oct. 29: Rawlings, The Yearling Spring, My Son, My Son. Bottome. The Mortal Storm. Hertzler, The Horse and Buggy Doctor. Halsey, With Malice Toward Some. Armstrong, Fanny Kemble Bromfield, The Rains Came. Keyes, Honor Bright. Goudge, Towers in the Mist Lincoln, A. Hall and Co. i TO SPEAK ) J Attorney L T. Valentine, well known Nashville attorney and prominent east Carolina citi zens, will address a Democratic rally in the county courthouse next Friday evening at eight o'clock. It waa announced today by K. 8. Pool, chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee. High Spots And Hind lights 011 the Democratic Meet Loyal Party Members En joy Opportunity For Fun Making Loyal party n embers, meeting her* last Tuesday to bray over their enviable position .is Democrats in the First Congres ional District, did not hesitate to "ci .ck' a joke or jest^ with party loader tlie-raUy being crowded with high spots that brought hee-haw from the several hundred who irowded into the courthouse audito'ium Warned that the registration book' was opened that the party might i know who to write to for campaign.' and other funds, the party members were advised by Chairman Gregg Cherry that the gentleman from Pitt" was all wrong 'Those names are being gathered for use on ab sentee ballots," Cherry jokingly ex plained Mention of the Eighth Dis trict was in low tones, very low, in 1 fact. The Eighth D sirset controversy, incidentally settled while the rally was in progress here, was soft ped ailed, but the feeling that things did not look so well in the Eighth Dis trict battle ground for the Demo crats was apparent It was agreed that the First Dis trict with its prominent leader, Hon Lindsay Warren, is safe for Dem ocracy this year, next and the years to come Lindsay Warren received many fine tributes, not only from leaders prominent in State politics, but the least of the county and precinct leaders were liberal in praise of Ml Warren The meeting was agreed that Mr Warren deserved every tribute paid him. A bit bashful of his position, a mugwump slipped tnto the- meeting for a little old-time Democratic re ligion And he offered, on the side of course, some advice to his old party (riends "You had better be working on the election two years hence, for it will take just about that long to get these WPA workers to the polls," he said, explaining how slow they moved when they did move. In the hindlights were heard ru mors that the party leaders mopped up on the dinner, a rumor that was quickly denied. The party leaders vow and declare that they were left holding the bag?an empty bag. Of ficially, the Martin Democrats fed 380 visitors. ? But to climax the hindlights was ' a report of the meeting carried in a State paper one column removed from a scorching attack upon the State sales tax and the methods em ployed by the revenue department in collecting it. ? Library To Observe National Book Week ?? Beginning Monday, October 31st, and extending through Friday, No vember 11th, a poster contest will be sponsored by the Public Library to call attention to National Book week November 13-18. There will be two separate contests, one for the gram mar school and one for the high school students. Prizes will be giv en for the best poster illustrating the value of reading good books and for the best one illustrating some book the student has read. Each con testant may enter one poster in each class. Helpful suggestions and ideas may be found in the high school library I and the grammar school office. The completed posters are to be turned in at tha Public Library by eight | o'clock Friday Evening, Nov. 11th. (Commission Again Delays Action On Claims To Refund Martin Authorities Hopeful Their Claim Will Get Consideration Passed back and forth by the law-makers, committees, and coin missions, the claims of 81 counties to J53.000.000 road refunds remain unsettled, the highway commission now holding the hot potato, again delaying action in the matter yes terday until November 17. A final decision is expected at that time Unofficial reports coming from the meeting of the highway com mission yesteTday were considered favorable by Martin authorities. "We believe we have a valid claim to several hundred thousand dot lars, while it is understood that a J number of counties are asking the] State to accept its bonded debt ere-] ated for the construction and UP keep oT all types of roads within , their boundaries," a Martin official explained." Martin is asking that its obliga tions created for the construction of main highway routes be taken over by the State, the records showing that close to half a million dollars| were spent in the construction of three main routes in this county. The reports released following the meeting indicated that the commis sion had dismissed quite a few claims, that it was still considering others apparently having a founda tion. Martin authorities can't help but believe that this county's claim, is still before the commission and, that it will receive due considera tion. Yesterday's meeting had been bill ed as providing a possible end to the controversy, which has raged for nearly a decade and which has bounced from legislature to legisla ture and special commission to the highway commission. The 81 claiming counties contend the States owes them money for roads they built and which the State took over in 1931 The day's discussions brought this statement from Chairman Frank ' "After full discussion of the many features of the matter, the commis sion came to the conclusion that it did not care to make a final decision at this time because there are a few claims the commission wished to give further consideration. The com mission wanted to go deeper into some claims the commission was not fully decided about." Dunlap added the commission did not want to announce action on any claims until it was ready to give its decision on all 81. Asked if he could say which counties the commission still is studying, Dunlap replied: "No, sir, I can't." Asked to elaborate on the differ ence between the claims still being studied and the others", Dunlap^ re plied: "The commission felt like possibly there might be some different status in those counties from others." Dunlap did not indicate whether the claims not included in those still being discussed had been dis missed or allowed. Effect Shift In Patrol Personnel 11. W Rothrock, wl\o has efficient ly s< ved the highway patrol in this ri strict since entering the ser vice more than a year ago, has been ordered to New Bern, the order becoming effective next Tuesday. Patrolman W. D. Kinsey will suc ceed Mr. Rothrock here, it was re Patrolman Rothrock was out of town and Patrolman Hunt could not be reached for a statement today, it was rumored that the change was the work of politics in Jones Coun ty and Raleigh. Unofficial reports eoming from reliable sources Indi cated that the politicians were "rail roading" Kinsey out of the New Bern district. The change was or dered by the head of the State pa trol after Patrolman Kinsey arrest ed a Jones County official a few days ago for alleged violation of the traffic laws, the reports received here indicated Kinsey was said to have asked for a hearing in the case, but as far as it could be learned here none has been held. , Patrolman Rothrock received his transfer orders yesterday Return from Honeymoon 0 Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Peele have returned from their honeymoon to northern points. Farmers May Get Five Cents A Pound for Tobacco Surplus The sale of surplus tobacco mar keting quotas is encountering a wide speculative movement throughout this section, according to unoffi cial reports heard here today. Far mers are offering their surplus for as little as three cents, one or two having sold for less. The story thatj there will be no further demand for the cards has been told, and farmers are jumping at the chance to sell their surplus poundage at whatever price they can get. Unofficial but reliable reports maintain that one section in a near by state can use at least 100,000 I pounds and pay five cents a pound. Producers in the old belt are said to have a larger yield than they antici pated and it is quite certain that they will be in the market for pos sibly several hundred thousand pounds. It is possible that supply and de mand for the cards will not balance to a pound, but reliable information points to the fact that farmers in this and other counties, too, mav still receive five cents a pound for any surplus they now hold County agents have been author ized 10 collect any unused cards and send them to county agents in those areas whei * they are needed and will be bought at five cents a pound. With these facts before them, Mar tin farmers may find it to their ad vantage to make further investiga tions before offering their unused cards for sale at less than five cents a pound It is estimated that farmers in this county will have sold within the and one-half million surplus pounds from their marketing cards Farmers In Cross Roads Will Likely Vote For Control Cross Section Opinion In-1 dicates Strong Sup port There ? Will the farmers of the nation vote for control for 1939? That question is often asked throughout the farming areas, some of the an swers indicating the vote will fa -vor a continuance-t?f the AAA pro gram and othvrs indicating the ifteasure will go down in defeat. December 10 has been definitely I set for the cotton referendum, and I it is almost certain tobacco farmers will vote the same day. However, the date for holding the tobacco vote has not been definitely deter mined. Present plans of AAA au thorities call for an announcement of quotas before the farmers vote, and until those quotas are definite ly determined the date for holding the tobacco referendum will hardly be fixed, some think. The tobacco quota, 750,090,000 pounds for 1938, nounced a few days ago following a two-day conference between grower representatives and Department of Agriculture officials. Reaction following the release of individual quotas is expected to in fluence the vote in the tobacco ter ritory. If a farmer's poundage comes up to his expectation or if he was satisfied with his allotment this year, that farmer will likely support control when the referendum is held. Farmers, while thinking the program is a good thing but who are dissatisfied with their individual al lotments, are almost certain to vote against conlfol. The merits of the program, as a whole, will not enter into the referendum to any appreci Asked their opinion this week, a group of forty farmers in Cross Roads Township stated they believ ed that district would give a large majority to the control program in the referendum. Very little opposi tion is evident in that territory, and there are some ardent supporters pf the program there. Mr. John Bailey, eighty-year-old farmer, explained that he would hate to see the farm ers abandon the organized program. Control opposition, while believed not so powerful, is centered in the lower part of Jamesville Township, it was learned Wednesday evening when a group of eighty farmers meeting in the Jamesville school, of (Continued on page six) Farm Agency Gets Loan Applications Looking forward to another year, a number of farmers in this county are already filing applications with the Farm Security Administration for loans to finance their operations in 193?: A preliminary study of the finan cial status of farmers in this county shows that the number of applica tions will possibly be greater for the coming year than th^ were for 1938. The Farm Security Adminis tration, it is understood, will be able to handle equally as many loans for next year as it did this and possibly a fairly sizeable increase. Approximately 83 loans were ad vanced by the agency for financing 1938 farm activities, incomplete re ports stating that many of the loans have been retired and that collec tions have been up to expectations in this county. Applications are being received by Supervisor D. G. Modlin in the office of the Farm Security Admin istration in the courthouse. NEW ELECTOR I It doe* not necessanl.v mean that the Democratic party la losing out in Martin County, but the (act that only one person has registered (or the election next month clearly shows that there isn't a great deal o( interest in the approaching event. All the precincts in the coun ty have not been heard (rum. but reports coming (rom a ma Jority of them state that only one name has been added to the registration books during the past two Saturdays. Tomorrow is the HaT illy lor registrations. No New Evidence Found In Murder Case At Tarboro Hearing For Three Men to Be Held in Tarboro Next Monday Mystery continues to surround the killing of James Monroe Everett, 33-year-old llobeisonville man, this county or near Tarboro during the early part of last Sunday eve ning Everett was found dead in the back seat of Paul Bullock's car near Tarboro about 9:30 Sunday night He was said to have left Bul lock's filling station between JParm ele and Bethel and gone to the Cali fornia Inn, near Tarboro some time during the early part of the eve ning. His companions claim they went into the inn and when they return ed they found Everett shot in thei forehead The theory of suicide was advanced, but officers believe the man was killed, according to re" ports reaching here. Learning that a poker game wasj alleged to have been in progress at i Bullock's filling station possibly a short time before the man was found dead, officers are of the be- j lief that Everett was murdered in this county, and that his body was1 carried to Edgecombe County. They discount the suicide theory, reports stating that there were no powder burns on the man. It was also pointed out that blood was found on the running board of the car, in dicating that the man was shot out side and then dragged into the ma chine. No new evidence lias been disclos- ! ed in the case, and the facts sur rounding the killing remain as much a mystery at this time as they were soon after the three men found him dead. Violent Blatiton Hall, claiming she saw the three companions in the car and did not see Everett, was re leased Wednesday by Edgecombe officers fololwina her arrestthe night before. Investigations show ed that the woman was in Ayden that evening. A hearing has been scheduled in Tarboro for next Monday morning Bullock, Ayers and Whitehuist con tinue tn the Edgecombe Jail. Martin County has gained much recognition because it la one of the best balanced agri cultural unita in all the world, but other factors have entered upon the scene to carry Martin's fame to the very steps of the nation's capitol. Speaking to a district Demo cratic meeting here last Tues day, Congressman Lindsay War ren said that Vice President John Nance Garner looked for ward to Martin County hog kill ings each fall when several far mers favored him wtih a mess of chitterlings. Farmers Showing Much Interest In The A A A Elections Few Changes Are Made in Personnel Handling Soil Program The series of meetings being bald in the county for the election of community committeemen and dele gates to the county convention under the agricultural administration act is fast drawing to a close, the office ot the county agent announcing to day that the elections would be com pleted in Williams Township next Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. Considerable interest is being shown in the elections this year, farmers in several of th'e districts where -thg~ meetings ~h3VP~alreadV~ been held endorsed the old eommit temen except in a few instances. ? Fat miffs are more interested in the soil program than ever before,'' Agent T B Brandon said today "They are attending the meetings in large numbers, and they are asking questions," he added. Tuesday, forty Cross Kuads far mers met in the Everetts school and effected a slight change in their rep resentation 011 the AAA community board Willie Ausbon was named chairman of the community com mittee. Herbert Roebuck, an alter nate last year, is now vice chairman and I, A. Clark, member. Messrs Henry D. Feel and Marion Griffin are first and second alternates on the community committee respec -Uvely L. A Claik was named dele gate and Herbert L. Roebuck alter nate to the county convention. The group offered quite a few farmers for the positions, including Messrs. Jesse Keel, John 11. Wynne, Gar land Forbes, George Taylor and Gordon Bailey. Not one was report ed to have voted for himself Down at Jamesville last Wednes day evening, eighty farmers attend ed the community meeting and par ticipated in the election. J. L. Knowles led the ticket with 56 votes, followed by Arthur Modlin with 48 votes C. C. "Frosty" Mar tin was third with 46 votes. F. J Mudlin fouilh with 3D and John A. .Gardner fifth with 36 votes. The first three form the community commit tee and the last two are first and second alternates, respectively. Mr Knowles and Mr. Arthur Modlm were chosen as delegate and alter nate to the county convention. Out in Farm Life the same eve ning. fifty-seven farmers selected their committeemen and delegates, as follows Committeemen. George C Griffin. *43; J C Gurkm, 39; Asa J Hardison, 34; fust alternate, A C Roberson, 33. and second alternate, I. II Roberson, 32 George C Grif fin was elected delegate and L?. H. -Roberson alternate Id ffie county convention Sixty farmers at Oak City last evening elected the following com munity committeemen J. F. Crisp, '37; J. C Ross, 33; first alternate, W Z. Wilson. 32; second alternate, L II. Ilux, 29 J C Ross was named delegate and Julian Mi/.elle alter nate to the county convention which convenes here next Tuesday aftei noon at 2 o'cloOe Hamilton ToWTiship farmers meet ing in Hassell at the same time, showed considerable interest in the election and the soil conservation program The following were elect ed COhimunity committeemen; D. R Edmondson, 34, C L. Nelson, 31, J. 11 Ullard, 22; first alternate, Wood row Purvis. 2U; second alternate, K. B Etheridge, 15 Mr. Edmondson was elected delegate and Mr Nel son was chosen alternate to^ the county convention Elections will be held in the agri cultural building and at Roberson Ville tonight and in Williams Town ship next Monday night at 7:30. Meeting here next Tuesday after noon at 2 o'clock, the county dele gate will elect a county committee. Burns Prove Fatal To Small Colored Child ??? Burned when he fell into a pot of hot grease about five weeks ago, Clarence Johnson, four-year-old colored child, died in a Washington hospital the early part of this week. The child was playing in the kitchen of his grandmother, Anna Mason, when he accidentally fell over back ward into the pan of hot grease Firemen Get First Call In Nearly Two Months a Local firemen were called out this morning at 10:20 o'clock to the home of Dealia Allen, colored, on East Main Street. Soot in the chim ney caught fire, but no damage was The call was the first received by local firemen in nearly two months.