Watch Tba Label On Your Paper. A? It Carrie* The Date Your Subscription Bxplrea THE ENTERPRISE Advertiser* Will Pind Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1,000 Home* Of Martin County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 14 H'illianigton, Martin County, \orlh Carolina, Tuesday. February 18. Itil. ESTABLISHED 1899 Threatening Crisis Looms For Britain In Balkan Country ? Fairly Apparent That Hitlrr Ha? Taken Territory By Telephone A new and threatening crisis is facing Great Britain in her strug gle against barbarism, the late de velopments on the diplomatic front leaving the heroic Greeks with lit tle hope and the British with al most insurmountable obstacles to encounter. Only last week Turkey declared that she would go into action when the first German soldier placed foot on Bulgarian soil. Yesterday, Turkey and Bulgaria signed a non-aggres sion pact, meaning that Turkey will not fight Germany now and that she will possibly stand by as Hitler's liarbarians march on little Greece. The exact meaning of the pact is not clear, but the news was well re ceived in Germany and Italy. Musso lini seeing in it some hope for his Wops in Albania. While some military observers view the developments with alarm and declare that the pact virtually pits the whole world against Britain, others are still hopeful that Hitler will run into trouble in the Balkans. It would appear just now that Greece is about to be left out on a limb, some believing that Great Britain, fighting frantically on all fronts ov er a large portion of the world, can not effectively aid Greece in re pulsing the crashing German mob. Uncertainty marks the situation in the Far East, recognized observers stating that Japan, timing her action with whatever move Germany makes, will move on Singapore in ?he South Pacific. Japan has de clared that she~wIIT decisively deal with any obstacles Birtain may lay down to impede prosecution of Ja pan's national policy. Britain has Warned Bulgaria that the free passage of German troops across the Balkan country will like ly draw her into war. Britain does not seem to be- greatly disturbed ov er the Turkish-Bulgarian pact, one report declaring that it does not nec essarily mean that Turkey will not act against Germany later on. Commenting on Germany's reports on losses on the high seas, Britain today stated that the Axis powers had lost more tonnage on the seas than she had since January 7. The comparison did not include heavy British losses last week off the coast of Portugal, however. Three Italian ships and^a German merchant ship were sunk yesterday by the British. An official report stated that deaths from German raids in Eng land last month were considerably below the average, that less than 1, 500 persons were killed and that ap proximately 2,000 others were in jured. America's part in the struggle is being focused on the lease-lend bill which is now undergoing attacks in the Senate Missouri's Senator Clark declared today that the bill will weaken the United States defense, and that in passing it Congress would abridge its powers. The pass age of the bill is predicted in time, but the slow-acting leaders in Wash ington apparently refuse to recog nize the grave situation in Europe and especially in the Balkans and over in the Far East at the present. Plans are being advanced to raise thirteen billion-dollars for financing the defense program, and small in vestors through the purchase of post al savings stamps are being called upon to raise a third of the amount. ? Hold Brotherhood Dinner Tomorrow "Hie fourth annual Brotherhood Dinner of the Disciples of Christ will be held around the world on Wednesday evening. The Williams ton Christian Church will hold its dinner in the Woman's Club room at 7 o'clock. Greetings will be read . from many, churches ot the State and nation along with those from many foreign fields. Rev. John L Goff will make the address on the subject, "The Fellowship of a World Church." The membership of the local church will Join with the Brother hood of Churches in making an of fering to assist the British Churches of Christ to carry on their mission ary work in India and Siam. The whole membership is expected and urged to attend. f Move Auto License Bureau This Week The State Automobile License bureau, maintained by the Carolina Motor Club in the Williamston Mo tor Company here for more than a dozen years, has been moved to the C. O. Moore building on Washing ton Street. Operated as a conven ience for automobile owners, the bureau in the Williamston Motor Company building was one of the oldest in the State. Mr. Dick Smith, treasurer of the county and chamber of commerce secretary will handle the aale of the tags in the future in the Moore building right next door to the Wil liamston Motor Company. I Guaranty Bank Buys Old Bank Building IN A HURRY! Walking as spry as a young man and faster than a little tot could trot. Fanner Joseph S. Qriffin. of Bear Grass, was ask ed last Saturday morning where he was going in such a big hur ry. Mr. Griffin, while no real old man. was splitting the side walk wide open as he closed in on the county agricultural build ing where, he explained, he was to get his soil conservation check. He came out smiling. "It reminds me of a Joke," Mr. Griffin said. "A Democrat and a Republican were riding in Ohio when they saw a turtle lax ity moving along the road. The Republican said il reminded him of a WPA worker. A little later they saw a jack rabbit bounding in the direction of town. Hie Democrat said it reminded him of a Republican farmer hurry - ing to get his soil conservation check made possible by a Demo cratic administration." better Cooperation [s Urged For Health Service In County ourlei'ii Percent of Draftees Kxaminetl Are Victim* Of DineaHe By DR. J. W. WILLIAMS Martin County Health. Officer Martin County has a population Qf j 6,000 people. With the .exception of few miles there is not a person or n industry can know we are in any ays involved in a huge defense pro ram or gaining anything from the overnment's spending. Everything is not as it seems. We re involved and there is a way we an assist materially and profit fi ! ancially. In every piece of literature we eceive pertaining to the health work n Martin County regarding vener al disease control is the fact that in ur last war seven million days were ast by enlisted men because of the Eisease. We know that today around very army camp double guards and 11 kinds of propaganda and educa ional programs have to be started nd supervision of prostitutes car ied out. All of which is to prevent a epetition of the great number who vent down mentally under the train of army life or were other wise physically incapacitated by the rippling disease; all at a great cost n pensions, hospitalization and lives ?f misery. Now what can we do about it? ^et's see. Fourteen per cent of our Iraftees examined are infected with yphilis. No one knows the amount >f gonorrhea. We do know that some ?f our clinic patients have gone to he army. If they are detected he ?omes home and another man, per laps your son, takes his place. If an infected man gets to camp he s going to carry on his sex habits, ie infects females who pass it on ind every man so infected, white or ilack, is a charge on the country ind its taxpayers. If this man came rom Martin County we are respon ible because we did not do every hing we could to prevent it. Our employers of male labor did not give >ur patients time off for treatment >ecause his time off was an incon venience. Our employers of cooks ind nursemaids (and it is these em >loyees when infected spread the lisease) did not insist on complete reatment. The excuse is generally 'it makes them sick that day and I lave to prepare supper or I have had ler so long I hate to lose her by in isting on treatment, etc. We are all in this thing together. Everyone wants to do his or her bit 0 why not do what is at hand? Every employer of day labor pays 1 tax for us to furnish the treatments ree of cost so he profits in patriot sm and as a county citizen. The lousewife certainly benefits by safe guarding the cook and is actually oolhardy not to insist on the nurse >eing non-infective. In my opinion, I think it is our lolemn duty to inform our employ ees that we are in earnest about do ng our part, and insist, no matter what inconvenience, that examina tion be made and continuous week ly treatments be carried out. Venereal diseases keep the sol dier from his duty and industrial worker from his job. ?? Officert Wreck Three Liquor Plant In County Working in the Reedy Swamp sec tion of Williamston Township and in the Gold Point area of Roberson ville Township, county officers wrecked three liquor plants Sunday and yesterday. Officers J. H. Roebuck and Roy Peel destroyed a crude plant and poured out 400 gallons of beer in this township Sunday. Assisted by Robersonville police, the officers wrecked two plants in Robersonville Township and pour ed out 200 gallons of beer. Discontinue Plans For Construction Of A New Building liiM'al liankiu^ Institution* To Kxclinnp* ItiiiMiu^* On Or About Sept. Ul The Guaranty Bank and Trust Company yesterday purchased the old People's Bank building now oc cupied by the Branch Banking and Trust Company, it was officially an nounced today by Mr. D. V. Clayton, cashier and local representative of the Guaranty institution No pur chase price ftgitcer* were re lea sod r but it is understcMHl that the lot own ed by the Guaranty Bank between the Watts Theatre and the Wool ard Hardware Company store was of feted as a part of the purchase price At the time the purchase was effected yesterday, the Guaranty bank was about to let a contract for the construction of a building on the Main street lot. one report stating that the firm had received and open ed bids last Friday. The building was purchased by Fred Sutton, Kinston attorney, sev eral years after the People's Bank suspended business. Plans were made for opening the Bank of Williams ton in the building, but at the last minute an application for a charter was rejected. Purchasing the Farm ers and Merchants Bank, ohe of the few banks in the county tu keep its doors open through one of the worst depressions in years, the Branch Banking and Trust Company rent ed the old People's Bank building from Sutton and has carried on its activities there since that time. When the Guaranty Bank was grant ed a charter to open a branch here in 1935 the old Farmers and Mcr chants Bank building was leased from the Branch Banking and Trust Company. Both hanks have leases on the buildings now occupied by them un til Sept. 1, this year. Now that the Guaranty Bank has purchased the People's Bank building, the Branch bank will, it is understood, remodel the old Farmers and Merchants building and occupy it on or about September 1st. In announcing the purchase this morning. Mr. Clayton said that his company is planning to spend ap proximately $2,500 repairing and remodeling the big three story build ing. No definite plans have been an nounced by the Branch Banking and Trust Company in connection with renovating the old Farmers and Merchants Bank building Fire Department Gets Three Galls Local firemen answered three calls in as many days during the week end period, but very little damage was caused by fire. The first call was received last Saturday evening at 7:15 o'clock when an oil stove used for heating water went out of control in the J L. Rodgerson home on West Main Street. The fire soon burned itself out and while the piastering around the flue was burned black no dam age was done by the fire. Smoke filled the kitchen and it looked at one time as if the back part of the house was burning. Yesterday afternoon at 12:25 o'clock, the firemen were called to the home of Perlie Willi.mr coloi ed woman, on West Warren Stxeel where they found a chimney blaz ing. The fire was confined to the chimney and no damage resulted. An over-heated flue in the home of Sarah Griffin, colored, on West Sycamore Street, tired the wall paper, but the fire was brought un der control before the fire depart was received within four hours o! the one to a home on Warren Street Three Auto Wrecks Re|)orted In County Three persons were hurl, none seriously, in three accidents report ed in the county during the past week-end. Damage to property was estimated at $380 J. W. Bellflower, Jr.,'young Goose Nest Township farmer, miraculou ly escaped death and injury when his car went out of control and turned over in several feet of wa ter in Conoho Creek between Ham ilton and Oak City late last Sunday night. Driving a new car, Bellflow er was said to have dropped off to sleep and when he woke up the machine was.plunging into the creek. The car was damaged to the extent of $178, it was estimated. Two persons were hurt when Kate Spruill wrecked his car near Gold Point last week-end As far as it could be learned here the victims were not seriously hurt. Edward Bowers, Bethel man, was injured in an accident last Saturday at the main street and highway in tersection in Robersonville. Damage to the cars was placed at $78. Second Road Death Reported In County By Highway Patrol h?lpur Kwrrtl. (!olored, Fatal ly Hurt in Accident Near Oak CItv Fatally hurt in an automobile ac riitint near Oak City on February 1. Edgar Kverett. 20 year-old color ill man. died in a Rooky Mount hos pital a few days later according to a belated report reaching the highway patrol Recording the death last week-end. Highway Patrolman Whit Saunders stated that a complete in vestigation of the accident had not been made. Learning of the death indirectly, th/patrol questioned sev eral witnesses, but could not reach others immediately. Driving an old model car said to have been worth hardly more than $10. Fa erett. -accompanied by James " and William Kvereti. Jr. brothers, and Jolt Parker. Wiley Staton and Finest Lynch, was driving toward Hamilton on Highway No. 125 when the car turned over a couple of titries.- fatallv injuring Kverett. None of the others was badly hurt. Inves tigating the accident at the time, members of the patrol were advised that no one was badly hurt, that no other car was involved and that the property damage was slight. Witnesses, questioned last week end by Patrolman Saunders, stated that Kverett was driving about 35 miles an hour and turned his head to look across a field. He ran into a ditch and in trying to turn the ear back into the road lie caused the machine to turn over a couple of times Kverett suffered no broken hones, but he was injured on the head, bruises having been detected on the forehead and on the hack of his skull The ftooonit investigation last w?-rk-end revealed that Kveretts'ap plication for a driver's license had been disapproved by highway safe ty examiners, and it is apparent that witnesses hesitated to offer any in formation immediately following the accident. Can ied to a doctor in Oak City by Jasper Peterson, near whose home the car turned over, Kverett was re moved to a Rocky Mount hospital where he died the following Tues day. Everett was a tenant on the Hy man Kthendge farm in .Goose Nest Township. Bertie Bounding P I p Tax Dodgers The Bertie Ceuuty grand jury u den*d a round-up of approximately 1,000 alleged tax dodgers in Hertie last week. Presentments were pre pared against the nearly 1,000 per sons who had failed or neglected to get their names 011 the books for poll or personal property taxis The grand jury order came after a study of the tax records had been made by a previous order of the court. In addition to tin- drive against those who failed to list poll or per sonal property taxes, the county, un der an order issued by Judge K Hunt Parker, is making a study of automobile registrations which are to he checked with the tax records. According to the Bertie Ledger Advance, Windsor newspaper, no action is expected just now, but sub poenas will likely be issued in May for the alleged tax dodgers Dr. J. L Spencer Now In Portsmouth Dr. J. L. Spencer, well known den tist and popular citicen of Wiiliams ton for a number of years, closed his office in the Tar Heel building here yesterday to engage in practice at Portsmouth. Dr. Spencer, whose many friends throughout this sec tion regret his leaving, had tonsid ered the opening for several weeks before deciding to locate in the Vir ginia city. Dr. Spencer is taking over the of fice maintained by a member of the Army reserve corps who has been called into active service. Mrs. Spencer and little daughter will join him in Portsmouth short 'y Father Of I,oeal Man Died Friday James Oscar Dudley, father of Mr W E Dudley, of this place, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. J. Wells, in Rocky Mount, last Fri day evening following a lingering illness He was 67 years old. Mr Dudley was a member of the Rocky Mount police force and later served as an officer in Scotland County. He had heen 111 feeble health for some time. Besides his son here he leaves hif widow, J(Irs. Lou L. Dudley, a daugh ter, Mrs. Wells, and a son, F N. Dudley, of Rocky Mount. Funeral services were held at his late home last Saturday afternoon by Dr. E. L. Hillman. Interment was in Pineyiew Cemetery, Rocky Mount. Quarter Million Dollar Increase In Real Estate Values Listed By White Owners In This Township Still Looking to Lease-Lend Bill to Aid Tobacco Growers Whatever the uncertainties facing I Britain may be as they relate to i f