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Watch The Label On Your Paper. As It Carries The Date Your Subscription Expires. THE ENTERPRISE Advertisers Will Find Our Col umns A Latchkey To Over 1,000 Homes Of M s r 11 n County. VOLUME XLIV?NUMBER lfr- d illiarn*ton, Martin County, ISorlh Carolina, Tueulay, February 2.1. I'JH. ESTABLISHED 1899 Mrs. Mary G. Perry Dies At Her Home Yesterday Morning Funeral This Afternoon For Highly Reaperted Citizen Mrs. Mary G. Perry, widow of Si mon S. Perry, died at the home of her son. County Commissioner Rob ert Lee Perry, in Bear Grass Town ship yesterday morning at 8:20 o'clock following a long period of declining health. Eighty-seven years old the 18th of last July, Mrs. Per ry was active until about a year ago when the infirmities of age forced her virtual retirement from a daily and routine life that she loved in and around her home. Up until that time she was interested 111 local and State-wide events and spent much time reading the papers The weight of added years caused her to lose much interest in the af fairs of the world, but her interest in her loved ones and friends nev er waned. Since last November her condition had been regarded as crit ical, and only at times was she aware of the movements about her. The death of a daughter about ten days ago apparently aggravated her con dition and hastened the end which came peaceably. The daughter of the late Jack and Polly Woolard. Mrs. Perry was born in Pitt County, not so far from the Martin boundary, on July 18, 1853. When she was only two years old her parents moved to Martin Coun ty and located in Bear Grass Town ship where she spent the remainder of her life. Sixty-nine years ago when she was a girl ol only sixteen, she was married to Mr. Perry, who died in 1911. Mrs. Perry joined the church at" Macedonia more than half a cen tury ago, and while she was not a regular attender upon its TfTVtfHI she lived a devout life and walked humbly before the Creator. Exper iencing the hardships, trials and tribulations that confronted the South during the Civil War and the reconstruction days that followed. Mrs. Perry never murmured, but ac cepted her fate without complaint. In the way of a devoted wife and be loved mother she did her part in re building the South, rearing her chil dren to become useful citizens in the professions of medicine, business and farming. As a member of the old school and caring little for modern life's creations. Mrs. Perry found her greatest happiness with her loved ones and friends around the family hearth. She was a good woman and a devoted mother ^intil the end. She is survived by four sons, Messrs. W Amos and Robert Lee, of Bear Grass Township; B. E. Perry, of Williamston, and Dr. S. B. Perry, of Hopewell, and three daughters, Mrs. Mollie Harris, Mrs. George Rob erson, of Griffins, and Mrs. E. W Garrett, of Lenox, Ga. Mrs. Garrett, who had been here during the death (Continued on page six) - ? Three Automobile * | Wrecks In County In Past Week-end Unidentified Driver (irunhc* Into Filling Station Near Hamilton ? No one was badly hurt and little property damage resulted in three automobile accidents reported in this county during the past week-end. The scene of the accidents was shifted from U. S. No. 64 to the Ham ilton-Hassell territory where Ser geant L. L. Jackson of the Highway Patrol investigated two of them. In a third accident, an unidentified driver after crashing into Tommie Griffin's filling station, backed out and escaped. Operating a car owned by C. C. Raw Is near the Council Service Sta tion west of Hassell, DeWitt An drews, Bethel Negro, crashed into a car owned by Walter Jones. One re port stated that the Jones car was parked on the highway without lights. After investigating the wreck, Sergeant Jackson arrested Jones for the alleged operation of an automo bile while intoxicated, parking on the highway without 'lights and op erating a motor vehicle without li cense. Andrews was charged with operating an automobile without li cense. It was pointed out by the ser geant that Andrews had been denied a driving permit on account of al leged incompetency. Andrews and a passenger in the Jones car were slightly hurt. Much damage was done to the cars. While investigating the Andrews Jones wreck, Sergeant Jackson was an eye witness to another one. A car driven at an excessvie speed by Per ry Hopkins, Jr., Negro, turned over near the Council filling station on Highway No. 11. Hopkins escaped uninjured but his mother was hurt about the head and face. Charged with reckless driving. Hopkins was fined in the county court here yes terday. It was reported that the unidenti fied driver crashing into the Grif fin filling station near Spring Green in Hamilton Township caused a dam age estimated at |3S. CO-OWNERS OF BASKET FACTORY Purchasing the Goldman Package Manufacturing Company plant with Mr. G. II. Harrison here last week-end, Messrs. Jesse Whitley, left, and N. C. Green, right, are making plans for placing the plant in operation in late March or early April. Draft Geo. H. Harrison For Road Commission CANDIDATE Mr. G. II. Harrison was re cently drafted as Martin Coun ty's candidate for a place on the State Highway and Public Works Commission. His candidacy is assured a strong support. Mr. Ilarrsion again figured in the local news l^st week-end when he, with Messrs. Whitley and Green, purchased the basket factory here. Fire I)ej lartnient Gets Three (kills WiHiamston's volunteer firemen were on the move again last week end when three calls?two on Satur day and one yesterday?were an ?wered by them. A fire of serious possibilities was checked in the Martin-Elliott Whole sale Company building on South Haughton Street last Saturday morn ing at 9:30 o'clock. Starting from a flue, the fire burned a sizable hole in the ceiling and was eating its way to the roof timbers when the firemen reached there and brought it under control with a small hose line and chemicals. No official esti mate on the damage could be had immediately, but the loss will range around $50. it is thought Early that afternoon sparks from a flue fired the roof on Fred Ben nett's home on Washington Street. Very little damage was done. Yesterday afternoon a chimney burned out at the old Hassell home on Simmons Avenue. Cracking the chimney, the fire filled one ur two rooms with smoke but no great dam age was caused. Burning soot fell on the roof and fired it. but the fire was soon extinguished. So far this year, the local fire de partment has received sixteen calls, an average of about one every three days. Fires inside the town limits have been of little consequence, the losses ranging from a dollar or two to about $50. Most of the fires were started by sparks falling from flues on dry wooden shingles and from defective flues. UNFILLED Martin County's February Ci vilian Conservation Corps quo ta has been forfeited, the wel fare office statins yesterday that only one applicant reported for a place in the camps. The young fellow, Arrihe Brown Hardison. was advised that it would be necessary for him to wait until March or April when a special effort would be made to get sev eral others to accompany him to camp. Several youngsters not quite 17 will be ready for service in the conservation camps In April, it was stated. r . : (lounty Men Select Local Mail At Meet Id Here Recently \|?|m>iiIh W ill lt<- Ma?l? To (>o\?'rnor To Hi'cog nizc Coiin|\ (igndMlllP j?111 a recent h..iu ... the I Courthouse.'a number of county citi-j /ens drafted George It. Harrison, lo cal man. as a candidate for a place on Governor Broughton's new high-1 way commission. Leading citizens from Goose Nest, Robersonville. Williamston Griffins, Williams and Jamesvilie Townships attended the meeting and unanimously pledged their support to Mr Harrison's can didacy. Called upon for considerable sup port in financing the early highway program. Martin County citizens pointed out at the meeting that more than one-half million dollars had been advanced for main highway projects by the county taxpayers, that no direct recognition had ever I been accorded the county during the approximately 20 years the highway I commission has been in existence. It was also pointed out at the meeting that few men in North Car olina and certainly in this section of tin- State are better acquainted from a layman's standpoint than Mr. liar rison. He has given much time to a study of the secondary road system not only in this county but also in other counties in eastern North Carolina. He has recognized in the road program a means of progress' for the State, and he has studied it from every angle During the past dozen or more years he has been closely associated with the highway forces not only in this Stat, but in Washington. He has served on var ious road committees and actively cooperated with the highway com mission in its program. At a second meeting after Mr. Harrison had agreed to be a candi date for the position, a number of I citizens last Saturday night in the courthouse formulated plans for ad vancing Mr. Harrison for commis sioner from this district Special | delegations plan to call on Gover nor Hrotighton during the next few I days, and ask that Mr. Harrison's J candidacy be given favorable con sideration. The action taken by citizens in this I county came only after D. C. Barnes, of Murfreesboro, had resigned his position on the commission. Several j of the fourteen counties embracing this district are said to be advanc ing candidates. Martin County has never hnrt-ir iepicsentativr nrr ttTo commission, and in view of that fact I and the fact that it has participated | in a large way financially in pro moting the highway program it is I believed that Mr. Harrison's candi-1 dacy will receive consideration. I Selectees Viarncd Against Drinkingj Eleven Martin County selectees left yesterday for Fort Bragg where they entered Uncle Sam's Army. Warned against the use of liquor by Draft Board Chairman R. H Good mon, the young men, coming from various parts of the county, were sober as judges, nearly all of them declaring they did not use alcohol in any form. All of the young men called reported and joined about 40 others here from other counties for the trip to Fort Bragg. Five Negro trainees. James Ed ward Woo lard, Henry Howell. Jr., James Curtis Brown, Leo Harvey Butler and Bonnie Lee Peel, leave from this county Friday. Ail of the men arc volunteers, and three of them, Howell, Butler and Peel, were not included in the draft registra tion. The, other two volunteers held order numbers above 1,409. Farm Bureau Hears Timely I)i se ussion By Bertie's Agent l>r. II. K. rant Stresses the N nine of Soil-ltui|||j|iK Pr?flim Speaking before forty Martin County farmers in the agricultural building here last night. Dr. H K (?rant, Bertie County farm agent, stressed the value of soil-building crop.-. in a long-range farm program Ills talk, unusually entertaining and instructive, was quite timely the group listening intently to his sug gestions. "The mam problem facing agricul ture today is the pro|>cr care of the soil. Mi Grant said, adding that we must maintain the fertility of our soil because poor soil is good only ! for growing poor folks The history of any nation is closely related to the history of its soil," Mr Grant said ami he went on to point out why China is always 011 the verge ol starvation. He declared that China hadjm definite program for eunserv ing its soil The floods came because the timber has been depleted and 110 s id-growing crops or legumes have been planted in accordance with a well-planned program. It is true that China teems with hundreds of millions of people, but millions die of starvation with a certain de gree of regularity. Continuing, he said. Tile Tennes see Valley Authority has recognized 'he value of soil-building practices, and so have lug hydro-electric pow it operators. in the course of time, soil washes from ill kept lands and ritls The drainage basin, rendering worthless power plants that cost millions of dollars to build ?AVo-cw-North Canilnia liavi not reeognized the value of soil build nig practices, and next winter we going to find that our soil con servtdion payments have been re duced. We must gel busy and carry nit the soil-building practices. "In Alabama, I Oil,(it 10 farmers arc successfully working on a five-year program, and they are planting as much as one-fourth of their cleared im age to legumes. Each fanner is ?ceding an acre of permanent pas lure each year In Bertie County we have two gtoups ot I armors. Out group is car rying out its soil-building goal and ven going farther. The other group IS carrying out only one-third of its foal Which group will leave bette r ?oils for their children? Which ftoup will enable the generations to come to successfully fight for a live I] hood? "Gentlemen, we may have deeds for our lands, and we may not have 1 debt ,(gains! them, but no man has 1 moral right to misuse that land, dark in the pioneer days, land was bared and farmed to death. The farmer moved to new fertile soils I "day, the frontier has been reach ed. ami we have a 100 million acres d sub marginal lands not including lie lands that have been rendered jseless by erosion. If we don't do iomethiiig, our children and their children's children will he 01, the verge of starvation just as many millions 111 China are at more or less regular intervals." Mr. Grant briefly reviewed the (Continued on page six) Hitlers Submarine Offensive Scheduled For Month Of March ltrili?h Suy Tlicy Ar?- K?*u?lv Kor Vast I Roat Flirt With Scrrrt Wriipon Claiming a vast submarine fleet, Adolf Hitler in a speech at Munich yesterday, boasted that Germany was ready to direct a knock-out blow against England. Said to have built 300 small submarines during the ll,' i i . t ,. i ' lltt 1?.| i ? i???< 11?I # *r 4 F11 "i iTt' I , II 11 M I i" I ?. ,t i , i km m ' (I ilia submarine offensive for early March, (t was pointed out some time ago Lhat the mad man would launch a ?ostly attack against British shipping before making another attempt to invade* the British Isles. The Nazi leader declared yesterday that Ger man U-boats are now ready to strike British shipping on all the oceans, but intimated that the attack would be centered in the North Atlantic and around the British Isles. British quarters have" reported j that Germany is building 1,000 of the pocket submarines, but along with that report came an announcement that England is ready with a secret weapon to meet the promised U-boat blitzkrieg. According to German re ports a part of the U-boat fleet is apparently in operation now as heavy British shipping losses have been claimed in recent days. Hitler, in his 90-minute talk in the Munich beer garden cellar, did not mention old promises and he steer ed clear of the Balkan situation which is becoming more tense hour by hour. The British in Bulgaria have burned their confidential rec ords, and made ready to quit Sofia, the Bulgarian capital. Hitler's march through the Balkans toward Greece is virtually assured, late reports stat ing that the German forces have oc (Continued on page six) Goldman Package Manufacturing Company Factory To Be Placed In Operation By Local Interests CLANK'S I'll AKMAO OWAKILS Purchasing the stock uml fixtures of ('lurk's Drug Store here lust Saturday. Messrs. ('. It. ( lurk. Sr.. left, und It. ( lark. Jr.. right, opened ( lurk's Pharmacy in the same building next to the Watts Theatre here yesterday. Wets Predicting Easy Victory Over the Drys Drys ^ ill Be Liven Hearing In Haleigrh P P Thursday Afternoon fiO.IHKI I'lTsmi* IVtilion ('ailing for Itrfrrriiiliim NowiiiImt Overcoming obstacles in getting their hill into the legislative hopper, the drys are now lining up their forces to fight for a referendum on liquor. Armed with petitions carry ing 60,000 names, the prohibition leaders will invade Raleigh for pub lie lieai ing Thursday afternoon. While the hill is causing some spec ulation and much talk has followed the introduction of the hill by Rep resentative McGowan last Friday morning, the wets apparently are not greatly alarmed Reports coming out of Raleigh maintain that the bill will possibly find its way out of the committee room but that it will be defeated two to one on the floor If there has been any trading done it has been handled in a truly secret ive manner. At the beginning of Uit session, some kind (if a swap was mentioned, the wejs, according to a gentleman's agreement, to get its just representation in the Assem bly and the wets to hold their liquor in the east. In recent days there has been little heard about the liquor question until Representative Mr Ciownn uncorked the bottle last Fri day Possibly the wets are remind ing the drys of their word earlier in the session, and while the drys will be allowed free reins during committee hearings they will be giv en a slap when the proposed bill reaches the floor of the House. The Legislature, mcludmg some of the drys coming from the west, has worked with the apparent under standing that the liquor question would not come up for an open vote this session. Wine bills have been in troduced and passed which the new bill would invalidate. The McCiowan bill is believed to have uuset the eauilibriim of the legislature, and while some say that the lawmakers will close shop on March 8th and not later than the 15th, it is possible that the liquor (Continued on page six) Weather Interrupts Work On River Fill Repair work on the Roanoke Riv er fill damaged by flood waters last August has been interrupted again by unfavorable weather. Proceeding at a slow pace from the beginning, work on the job is hardly more than half complete at this time, and while unofficial reports state that the dirt contractors will complete their proj ect by early May it believed by many that it will be some time next sum mer before normal traffic can be resumed. Work on the four bridges is pro gressing at a fairly rapid rate, the foundations having been laid for three of the four spans Traffic, while still traveling over the route today, found the road slippery and muddy Widening of the fill has just about been completed, and the contractors will start work shortly tearing up and moving the concrete left by the flood waters. hi stoki: Purchasing the stock and fix lures of the \\illiainston llard ware Company here last week, (leorgc Harris, Jr., announeed today his operating personnel for the firm on Washington Street. Day Of Prayer To l>e Observed Mere This year the Woi Id Day of Pray er will come on February 28, the | First Friday in Lent The theme of j the program for this service is "Thy ' Kingdom Come." There is a special significance about tins particular service since it was written by the [committee m Shanghai, composed of j Americans. Chinese. .Tapitnere Kv i ery sen tenet* comes -to Us-freighted with their new incredible under standing of what the Kingdom of j (iod implies m penitence, in for givefjess, in confession, and in that worm searching for new power The everlasting mercy breathes through every line, ready to bless the con gregation in our town of William ston as it has obviously blessed the 1 Shanghai committer A group of women, representatives I from the locaK churches, met a | month ago to make plans for local j participation in this world-wide ob servance. All details have been com pleted and every person in William ston is urged to attend this service. It will be held in the Presbyterian Church on Friday afternoon, Feb ruary 28th, at 3 30 o'clock. CKKKK KI ND Receiving renewed urgent ap peals for funds, the local com mittee headed bv Rev. J. W. Hardy for Cireek Relief is call ing for additional donations. A check for $100 has been sent from this County to the commit tee in New York. Renewed drives are being conducted throughout the country in an effort to raise ten milium dol lars for the suffering Greek ci vilians. A total of $7.50 has been con tributed on the second campaign here as follows: J. McKimmon Saunders $5.00 G. H. Harrison 2.50 Donations will be received by Rev. Hardy oivat the Enterprise office. Iliirrisou. Green and Miile\ Hi,x Basket Mcifiii iirinir Pinn NXi,li; Man., Co. To Star! 'Ix-raiiitiiM in \,,rj| I'urtha.s,,,,; ,|lo $|5(luoo SSSHKn I'-'-'r >> nil lr\ ;llui M pl.Hl.s IikIjiv to sr..,.', 14,1 a,t' makin? l.ittt I I f operations the ,,r "arly rTTV~^T~7rt~fIT7;?- - -'"nouncpd ? ..i il?- ?..w TC-. , w'ls ininrporatcd as th,. 1,ll '.""s'"" ?'Manufactur > Conit>-iiiy with M, SMs u..rr. " '">?<?11 and Wliitli'v , th ri!"m ^"< khold.-r, Nu nurd ' pr,nc,Pa' -latiiii; th-,, V "r'e,' wus ,,a,2 a PUri|,asi' '? <v by loca,reEsu "f plan, ,,!i"5nf0r Jh" <Jp"ra"?" M. Harris. .i, stating* that"1, Thr , ,:,;lar8l'sl-Wt,h1rU tall fm .i man.s ill.' annuaIIv . wurkrrs- ?*" ? '""WHy I'as not an '"kaniral,.,,,. ,1 ,s muK-tst^.d ' :r rr-~r::d'S ^?EU?-^i=J , ,l'' "I"" f.Kh.lV IMT.- h. u.,.",?l,:,:;:l;",;il iriyieii^i''1 "I" I.il?,?s ilui in(."t'| at 'tij,','. v:?"i \ .if it ln steam ? v\ws iHiinted out. ? ?per;ition ?,f tin- i,Ion i . "n am t.^Jra r,ur ??? i-w "y ,h - t l? nil wnik.ns. but no details I ?ert,mi, '"" ?""""""?..d in that con Votuiir Fanner Dies Hosftitul Early Sunday IVlorniucr r?iwrul Serviw* Are He|,| >? ner,|n> Afternoon For tr.nl tariff in 'sr&rScsra A "3 declining health during that time, but his condition was not consider ed critical until just a few weeks ago. He entered the hospital about ten days ago, the end coming grad ually. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Alonza I) Griffin, he was horn in Griffins Township 38 years ago. He married Miss Minnie Rogers on December 30, 1933, and after a stay of a few years in Griffins Township, he lo cated on a farm near Williamston. He was a successful farmer and a highly respected citizen, taking an interest in community affairs and in the welfare of his fcllowman. He possessed a friendly character and had many friends over the county. Besides his wife, he leaves two small children. Susie and Alfred Haul. Jr. He also leaves his parents, a sister. Mrs. Heber Peel and a bro ther. Coy Griffin, both of Griffins Township. Funeral services were conducted from the home of his parents in Griffins Township yesterday after noon at 2 o'clock by Elder J. L. Roes, of the Primitive Baptist Church, as sisted by Rev. W B. Harrington, county Baptist minister. Interment was in the family plot on the home farm in Griffins Township. A large crowd was present to pay a last tribute to the memory of the young man.il
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