Watch The Label On Your Paper. Aa It Carriea The Date Your Subscription Expires. THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1.800 Homes Of Martin County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER 15 William si on. Martin County, Morth Carolina, Friday. February 21. 1VH. ESTABLISHED 1899 Committee Favors Three-Year Control Program for Peanuts Amendment To Give Old Belt Grower* Equal Allotment* I* Rejected By Group The movement to make the lowly peanut a basic crop and provide for a three-year marketing quota or control program gained momentum in Washington yesterday "when ihe House Agriculture Committee gave the measure its stamp of approval Action was taken only after an amendment proposed to eliminate discrimination against old growers had been rejected. Complaints had been raised that T the marketing quotas provided in the bill discriminated against older producing states. To remove this discrimination. Cooley proposed that the national acreage allotment be increased by 45,000 acres which would be distributed among those states having allotments less than their five-year average acreage This would have given North Carolina a 16,000-acre increased allotment. This amendment was voted down after Representative Pace, sponsor of the legislation, served notice that he was unalterably opposed to it and would request the committee not to report the bill favorably if it were included. Several changes aimed at pro tecting regular peanut producers were approved, however. One pre vents any state having its acreage cut hereafter to less than 95 per cent of its 1941 allotment. Another struck out the compulsory peanut diver sion provision and provided instead that peanuts should be placed on the same basis as other crops so far as loans are concerned. Laians will be made available for peanut growers when prices reach from 52 to 75 per cent of parity. Pointing out that the entire bill might be jeopardized if any further efforts were made to include his amendment, Cooley expressed the belief that ther ewould be no cam paigning to include it during House consideration of the measure "While I am of course disappoint ed, the situation is not so bad as it might be since North Carolina's acre age allotment already js slightly higher than it has been in any pri or years," Cooley declared. "1 shall support the bill, because even with out my amendment, it protects old peanut growers in North Carolina and other states from further rapid expansion of production on new farms." Virtually certain that no addition al allotment will be made available to North Carolina and Martin Coun ty growqrs, the county agriculture committee this week prepared the 1941 quotas. They are being submit ted to Raleigh for approval and will be released to the growers within the next few days. The county is allotted 18,375 acres this year or about the same quota assigned in 1940. Martin farmers last year planted approximately 2,000 acres in excess of their allotment. ??* Escaped Convicts Remain At Large Escaping from a Pitt County pris on road gang yesterday morning, two long-term convicts, Everett Leo Selvie, IB, and John O'Neal, 22, were reported still at large this morn ing. Catching a truck driver off his guard, the two convicts jumped in to the truck and drove away from their work along the Martin-Pitt boundary. The truck was found abandoned on the road leading from Coreys' Cross Roads to Bear Grass, about 20u yams from the Washing ton Highway. Prison officials, guards and officers from this and surround ing counties and police from Wil liamston and Robersonville joined a search for the men in the woods along the highway. The search was until day light this morning with out success. Selvie was sentenced in Gaston County to prison for a term of four to ten years on a breaking and en tering charge. O'Neal, sentenced in Durham County, was serving a 30 year term for second degree mur der. Grant Will Address Farm Bureau Group ? Drr~B. g. Qrant, Bertie County farm agent and authority on le gumes, will address the second Mar tin County Farm Bureau forum in the agricultural building here next Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock. His topic will center on winter legumes, and he is expected to explain their value as a soil builder and also as a source of income. The farm leader's talk is certain to prove of valtte, and all farmers whether they'are mem bers of the Farm Bureau or not are invited and urged to hear him. No special entertainment feature has been planned for the meeting, the program committee explaining that the address by Dr. Grant would prove entertaining as well as in formative. Moving Peanuts from Storage Warehouses To The Oil Mills Peanuts stored in this county un der the government stabilization pro gram are beginning to move to the oil mills, Mr. E G. Anderson, oper ator of several houses in Roberson ville, stating yesterday that a crush ing plant in Farmville had purchas ed around 700 tons or approximate ly 15,000 bags for immediate deliv ery. Starting this week, truckers are moving round 2.000 hags of thi' goobers daily to the Farmville mill No purchases have been made for government-stored peanuts at this point, and it could not be learned to day when the more than 135,000 bags stored locally would be moved to the oil mills. While it is possible that a portion of the stored stock will be sold to the cleaners, it is understood that nearly all of the ; peanuts stored under the stabiliza tion program will be converted into oil and taken out of the edible trade. ! It is generally agreed that by di- ! verting most if not all of that part , , of the crop stored under the stabili zation program, the 1941 markets | ' will not be threatened with a big carry-over surplus Strange as it may seem, the open market continues unusually active .at this point. Several thousand bags j of the goobers are being handled daily by the local plant of the Wil liamston Peanut Company with prices holding firm and in some cases slightly higher than they were last fall. Deliveries are being made by farmers from over a wide area, a ! fairly large number of bags being , brought to the local plant from points beyond Rocky Mount. UNUSUAL The recent blitzkrieg directed against liquor manufacturing plants in the Free Union section of Jamesville Township appar ently had its results. Raiding in that territory yesterday ABC Officer J. H. Roebuck and his assistant, Roy Peel, were unable to find a plant. It was the first time in a number of years that Officer Roebuck had raided there and returned without destroying a quantity of beer or bringing out a still. The officers did not come back empty handed, however. They found two kegs and two small jugs hidden along the roadside the property offering mute evi dence that the once flourishing business is on the wane in that section. Gigantic Submarine Attack On Shipping Is Now Anticipated Turkey Muy Art If (it-riiiuny Offers To Attack Greece Even while uncertainty reigns jn the Balkans and in the Ear East an other menace of major proportions is looming for Great Britain in her fight for life. Talk of a possible gi gantic submarine attack against British shipping is being heard in semi-official quarters The Ger mans are believed to have BOO sub marines manned and about ready for an attack in the early spring, some observers pointing out the possibility that invasion attempts will await the outcome of the sub marine attack on British shipping It is also pointing out that the out come of the war will depend large ly upon Britain's power to with stand such an attack. Hitler has said that American aid to Britain would be nullified, and it is believed that he plans to use his submarine fleet to support that declaration. An apparent turn in the war is centered around the predicted sub marine warfare. It is the belief of observers that Hitler is offering Italy just enough aid to keep her in the war, and that he is anxious to maintain the status quo in the Bal kans. The action of Turkey looking tow ard repudiation of its pact with Bulgaria should Hitler attack Greece bears out the submarine policy just recently mentioned in the public press While England is forced to hold large sections of its ships and forces in the Mediterranean and Afri can campaign, Hitler calculates that his submarine fleet will be better prepared to deal with British ship ping in the North Atlantic. Hitler added to the war tension today when he Sent five detachments into Spain today presumably to aid in restoring damage following a hur ricane that swept certain areas there a few days ago. The soldiers were recognized us specialists in the prac tice of preparing for a march by Hitler's troops. It was immediately suggested that Hitler was still mak ing plans for a drive on Gibraltar through Spain. Despite her non-aggression pact with Turkey, Bulgaria today called out more troops. Many Bulgars were said to have started riots along the Danube where Hitler's troops are conducting maneuvers, including practice crossings with pontoon (Continued on page six) Problems Saturday Martin County citizens, interested in a better road and highway pro gram within the county and what is now known as the first highway district, will meet in the courthouse here tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock for a discussion of road prob lems. No definite plans have been ad vanced for the meeting, but it is generally understood that the coun ty will advance a candidate for .membership on the highway commis sion, and formulate plans for a bet ter secondary road system. Judge W .11. ( .oImhii (alls Eiglu Cases In Recorders Clourl ?>< ri??i iir (W Charging: \ i?|aiioll ?f I.iquor Ijiuh _ Ca"ing fight cast's, Judge w j( ? u iivifjr VV (J Coburn held u snappy session of the ? county recorder s court last Monday with Solicitor Don E. Johnson pros' ecutmg the docket. The court clear ??d its calendar and adjourned he ipllo the session at .racting hardly an average-.,^ Judge Churn, meting ?ut justice for an allegedly old-time violator of the liquor laws, bore down on the {Uicit business and fined Verm,,, NMroSle** To Combat S.'I.IHNI Fire On Wath 14iin* Near Here Its origin not definitely known, fire destroyed Co wen's meat packing plant just outside the town limits 011 Watts Lane 1 ust Wednesday morn uig at 2:30 o'clock, an official esti mate placing the loss at $2,900, ac cording to a report released yester day by Fire Chief G. P. Hall. , Housed in a cheaply constructed shack, the plant was in full blaze be fore an alarm was sounded, and then a neighbor hurriedly dressed and re ported to the fire station in person before .1 general alarm was heard. Carrying the fire-fighting equip ment to the scene, firemen, more than a quarter of a mile from a wa fer mam. stood help loss as the fire ate its way into a costly refrigerat ing plant and devonied hams, saus age and other meats in large quan tities Making certain that the fire would not spread to nearby build ings. the firemen hesitating a minute or two longer to warm their hands and faces by the glowing fire in the freezing weather returned the ap paratus to the station. Joe Henry Purvis, trusted colored employee, was sleeping in the build ing with his dog. "I felt the heat and woke up to see the fire burning one of the walls of the 10pm I was in." Purvis said that morning, adding that he grabbed bis dog and got out of the building in record time. Noth ing was 1 eniov800, but costly refrigerating units iind meat stocks boosted Hie total loss to almost $3,000. the owner. Mr. Herbert H Coweii, stating that in surance was carried 111 the sum of M.000 on building and all contents. Purvis, 111 a statement to Fire Chief Hall, explained that a fire was burning 111 the heater in the room where he slept, .that a supply >f wood had been placed near the stove It is possible that the fire started in the pile of wood. No definite plans have been an nounced, but it is understood that Mr. Cowen. is planning to rebuild and continue the business. Seventh (traders Visited Raleigh Mrs I lass. It's sevenili grade room returned from tin- sU.tr capital last night after spending an enjoyable day visiting points of interest there. Arriving at the capitol yesterday as both houses were convening, the local students were greeted by Rep re tentative Clarence Griffin and S. nator Hugh Horton who asked that the courtesies of the galleries be extended to them by both the House and the Senate. Proceedings as the law making bodies were called to order were observed with great in terest by the youthful visitors. Points of interest visited by the indents included the State School for the Blind, Andrew Johnson's house, Supreme Court building. State Museum, State Hospital, peniten tiary, a broadcasting station, North Carolina State College, and the News and Observer office. hat ill Accident lie/nut hili'il Here tly Coroner fn a formal report drawn by Cor oner S. R. Biggs this week, the acci dent which cost little Marion.- f.as iter her life on the Hamilton High way near here on January 31 was declared Unavoidable of thc^car driv er, ft. G McAllister, local medical doctor. The verdict, returned fol lowing an informal investigation, exonerated the car driver. Coroner S. R Biggs stated that he had examined the witnesses, and deemed an inquest unnecessary. The re port was filed after the* father of the child stated that the car driver did afl he could to avoid the acci dent, and that no court action was considered. . hin WKATHKR No ?nr Is doing any appreci able amount of complaining, but many arr talking about how dry the wrathrr is. I.ittlr rain has ?alien so lar this month and winds, reminding one of the month of March, have dried out the land and roads. "During more than ten years on the ru ral roads of the county, I have never sren during the month of February more dust on Ihem than in the past few days," Ar thur White, postal rmployre, said this week. I'p until today less than two inches of rain had been record ed during the currrnt month on Koanoke River here. The river itself has held to an unusually low point for the season of the year, the average ranging be tween 7 and II feet which is sev eral feet within the banks. ? ? Eleven Trainees Will Enter Service Mondav Increased Mont lily Quotas Are Likely After This Month VI inning VraiusI OrinWiitR Given Kejiort ing for Army Scniri Answering the third draft rail in tins county, eleven young white men will leave here next Monday morn ing for service in the United States Army at Fort Bragg They will be followed on the 28th by five colored U unices. the current quota boosting the number of young men to leave the county for army service to 41, 29 white and 11 colored The names of the eleven white voting men leaving here next Mon day are. Jesse Edmondson, of W U liamston Route 3; Aaron Brown, of Oak City Route I. Geofgra Ben Manning, of -Robersonville; Richard Randolph Davis, of Oak City Route I; Russell Warren Corey, of James villi- Route 1. Vernon Gray Wcath erbee, of Robersonville Route 2; V ir gil Edmondson. of Oak City Route 1. Bert Toler. formerly of this county hut now of Vanceboro Route 3; Ed gar Monroe Taylor. Mack C.ilbert Wynne and Joseph Edward Roger so'n. all of Williainston Route 3. All eleven of the young men are volun teers. hilt four of them. Wcatherboe, Taylor, Wynne and Virgil Edmond son were not subject to the draft , registration. Nolle of the young nu n . was subject to immediate call under the selective service act, and one of them had legitimate exemptions if he had cared to exercise those rights llis wife stated that it was perfectly all right for him to volunteer and enter the service. I.anee Button llardy, Joseph Carl j Williams. Julius Melvin Warren. Roy Avant Hinson und Douglas Al hert Currie have been notified to be ready to replace any of the eleven trainees w ho may be rejected Holding Order No 39. Douglas Al bel t Currie has volunteered'lus serv ices, and It IS quite likely he will he called next month. He is the only white volunteer now m reserve in this county, but there are 37 col ored hoys anxiously awaiting ordeis to report. Troubled by an unusually huge number of trainees reporting at holt Bragg in various stages of inloxica Hon. the authorities have issued or ders against the practice. Group lead ers will direst bus drivers to drive to police headquarters in any town iliu| have the officers to take neces sary action to insure the sober ur rival of the future soldiers at camp. Printed forms from Adjutant Gen ,-ral J. Van B Mcttx were received by the Martin County Draft Board recently warning against the. use of alcohol by trainees reporting for service. , ( I I Vlll . Deploring tin- large nunibei draftees intoxicated at the time of their arrival at the army post. Gen eral Melts wrote that many need drugs and hospital care hefvre physi cal examinations can be made I his fact may be responsible for some of I ill I mujr I" ?' * I Ill A the rejections because of high blood III' ' J *"?? I V 4 pressure and false pulse beats, While admitting that the imbibing of intoxicants on the way to the fort was the gesture of "high spirited young nu n having their last cele bration." General Melts advised the 111 Cl I I* 'I 1| V1 | . - local hoards to have care in selecting men as group leaders who refrain from alcoholic indulgence themselves and who will have influence over h NuIikmI V I More Than I.IKIII lit Fire I .ii,| 1 car Placed at $34,600. Wilhamston's 1940 fire loss was the largest rejiovt ed in recent years. As far as official l eports show, it was the largest an nual loss on record Not since 1030 when the old Brick Warehouse was horned has tin- fire loss exceeded $25,000, a hurried review of the rec ords shows The fire dumatfe in 1040 was almost five times greater than it was the year before A greater portion of the damage is traceable to the Saunders and Cox lumber mill fire the early part of last summer. The loss there was es timated at approximately $20,000, including the mill, a filling station and three small homes. The fire loss was considerably increased when the Anderson home, corner of Simmons Avenue and Ilaughton Street, was burned the early'part' of. the year. The loss there was esti mated at about $7,000. hossrs rang ecf from $25 to $10,000 on individual | buildings While the town reported over ,000 gains m new construction jand a remodeling program, more \ than one-sixth of the gam was off set by fire losses The past year was just a had one ftu fires. The volunteer lire depart ment received thirty four calls lo rally and three out of town during the year as compared with 27 calls m 1039 Property losses were record ed m sixteen eases, the damage be ing limited to a dollar or two in mi^st of the other cases. The loss on buildings, including homes and com menial, was placed at $30,250 by Fire Chief (J. P. Hall Damage to household goods and stocks was os timuted at $4,350, this amount boost | ing the total for the yeai to $34,600 In 1939, the loss on buildings was placed at $3,200 and on contents at $4,300. Fire Chief Hall offered little com ment in releasing the report, hut he did point out that quite a few of the fires were caused by defective flues arid that at least one-third of the fires were started by sparks falling from chimneys or flues on shingle roofs. It is estimated ttiat the property threatened or destroyed by fire was worth well over $100.000. that while the loss was nearly $35,000 it could easily have been in excess'of $100, 000 The average number of firemen answering the calls last year was slightly under the count in 1939, but even with a limited force,the com* pany handled nearly a mile of hose in fighting the fires. The work of the company was without serious accident. Volunteer firemen are paid at the late of $2.50 a month for their serv ices, but they are subject to a fine of 50 cents when absent at a regular meeting. W 11 I $200.( New Books Added By Local Library Although handicapped by limit od funds or no funds at all, the lo cal public library this week manag ed by hook or crook to add a num ber of ne w volumes to its shelves. Every effort possible is being mude by the library forces to add new books, and they are apparently do ing very well with the limited in come derived principally from fines and individual donations. The following books were pluced on the shelves this week: "l^and Be low the Wind," "Europe in Spring," "The Belove dReturned," "For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Oliver Wiswell." "Chad Hanna," "Fame Is the Spur," "Sapphire and the Slave Girl," "The Voyage," "Invitation to Liva," "World's End," "You Can't Go Home Again," "I Wanted To Murder," and "Fielding's Folly." Liquor Referendum Pro|M)sed In House Rill I his Morning S|al<- K\|?cnililur?'n \ irliially Fix.-,I ill S lf?.'t.(?IHMMM) hor \?*xt Two Years News jpproaclimK ll" xnsaliuii al come <>ut <>( North Carolina's oth riwtse pbi'id jitil eut a ltd-dried leg islatun this morning when Pender County' representative. C D Me llow an. dropped . bill into the leg islative h??pp? i calling for a state w ide ft ft i t iiduni on the liquor ques tion. Predicted from the beginning of the session, the proposed bill would all for a vote next November and Iry up the State ninety days later rhe bill came as a bombshell and luring a full hour it was a topic of tisrussion in the House The legislature was m session liM'dW'?iin hour U.ulav,-and little was ict ompTished A propo ed law re tuning marrying ministers to issue iddittonal marriage certificates to lu ii victim* was defeated. A change n the bill regulating the sale nf for died wines in dry counties was pro H?scd. the sponsors asking that wine *1 illilpiaLl?nlv to liconsi-rf. dealers.? \nothcr bill would permit employ e's of tdwns, cities and counties to larticipate in the retirement fund at heir own expense and at the expense ?I the political subdivisions. Still an other bill would promote sanitation it bus and filling stations Passing without opposition and in ? cord tune a new revenue bill, the Morth Carolina State Senate yester la\ paved the way for record ex tenditun s during the next two *ais. The bill, now awaiting rat if i - at ion to become a law, provides for mi expenditure of $t 03,600.000 dur fig the next bicmuum. Kffofts to ?ave the sales tax applied to all mrchascs at the rate of two per cent net with defeat in the Senate All ood for the home table will be ex ?mp'ted at a cost to the State treas ir\ o! three million dollars. The evenue anticipated by the budget ?ers was also reduced by about *300,000 whei.i the Senate voted to {ivo the towns and counties 75 per .?eiit instead of a proposWl till per ?out of the intangible taxi's The passage of the revenue bill yesterday paves the was for ad inurnment within the next two or hree weeks, observers say. llowev i . there is much yet to he done, but here is I lie possibility that the law nakers, following the cut and ?dried lattern, will leave much undone The scliotd^Tk'ublem lias been dis .'ussetl at length but little or nothing Wis been done ahold it other than to Te.ile .i retirement fund for teach ?is and other State ? mployecs. The ninth month and the twelfth grade lang in the balance, and there c. wane doubt about the pa.-.sage of a Lull providing tenure for teachers. In addition to gallavantmg over die country t underway in connection with the proposed program Several ?ounties in-this highway district are Aoi kmg to get into other districts, he reports stating that this district ias used up its allotment for years o come m the construction of sound jridges ami lake-bottom roads. Ac (Continued on page six; People Disgusted \\ it li Boh Reynolds Thai the people in this section and possibly in. other sections, too, are iisgustrd with Hot) Reynolds, so [?alled United States Senator from North Carolina, was voiced freely by them at- every turn after they had learned about his spoken opposition to the lease-lend bill yesterday in the Senate. Called everything from J yellow dog on down, Reynolds merely is playing lhe same role he played back yonder when he alight ed from his black charging horse in his home town of Asheville and re signed from further service in the army reserve when it appeared ht> would have to fight for his country. The yellow streak in North Caro lina's-big.... disappointment in the United States Senate apparently was offered in bold relief yesterday when he represented himself in a three hour virtuperation against the lend lease bill. His talk was in direct opposition to one delivered by Senator Josiah W Bailey, who the day before ap parently read the Gallup poll in North Carolina and championed the bill without reservation. It is frank ly admitted by those who have not admired Mr. Bailey in the past that he went to the aid of the bill with all the power at his command. While local people were praising Mr. Bailey's stand, they wish ing Bob Reynolds could be recalled and the stench cast by him on North Carolina could be removed.