Court In Big Rush
To Clear Criminal
Docket Here Today
(Continued from p>(e one)
Griffin came to the rescue of the
court when they reconsidered their
excuses and offered their services.
Little Frankie Peel drew the jury
list, the court pointing out that the
first nine men would be called upon
to serve for twelve months, and the
second group of nine would be ask
ed to serve only six months to estab
lish a system of rotation. The twelve
months' jury includes. Frank Wes
ton, E. H Gaylord. David T. Griffin,
A F. Lilley, J. Daniel Lilley, L D.
Roebuck, J. C. Taylor, R C. Everett
and J. H. Crisp; the second group,
scheduled to serve only six months,
includes, Thurston Wynne, Mayo
Hardison, W. M. Savage, M. W. Bis
st ll, Zack Cowen. Jesse Keel, Arthur
Peaks, F. F. Edwards and D. D. Co
burn, foreman.
Recognizing the farm and market
ing rush, Judge Stevens explained
at the beginning of his address that
he would talk only a few minutes,
that he would confine his remarks
to the duties of the jury in an effort
to relieve the business situation De
claring it was a pleasure to come to
Martin County, the jurist briefly re
viewed the docket and outlined only
those types of cases appearing on the
docket "I am surprised to find only
two cases charging larceny on the
docket, and I want to compliment
the people oL Mart in County for it."
Judge Stevens said.
Pointing out that the duty of the
grand jury was not to try the cases,
but merely to examine the evidence
and pass on bills of indicment. He
touched on a few details in this con
nection defined and the type of cases
appearing on the docket
"Drunken driving is a misnomer,"
the jurist declared, explaining that
the law does not say :i person must
be drunk before lie can violate the
law by driving an automobile. The
law read: that a person under the
influence of intoxicating liquors or
narcotics is guilty when in that con
dition he operates a motdr vehicle.
A measuring stick has been laid
down in such cases," Judge Stevens
said, explaining that whi n a person
driving an automobile has had en
ough intoxicants to cause him to act.
do or think differently than he would
have acted without tiiem. he is guil
ty.
Rushing to complete the trial of
the criminal docket. Judge Stevens
t"l dthe jurymen that he would not
require an inspection of public of
lices and properties, that they were
to pass on the bills of indictment
only lie promised he would make
them a speech when he returned
next December.
This Week In
Defense
(Continued from page one)
higher than a year ago Treasury
Secretary Morgcnthau, speaking in
Boston, said "Inflation is no longer
distant . . . We are facing it and
if we are selfish and shortsighted
the consequences may haunt us and
our children for years, but if we
look at the problem with firm re
solve we can beat this thing."
Mr. Morgenthau said control of
consumer installment credit, pur
chase of defense bonds and stamps
and tax-anticipation notes are not
enough to prevent consumer pur
chasing power from forcing prices
up. He suggested extension and in
crease of social security benefits, an
unemployment compensation "wage"
for the workers and reduction in
non-essential expenditures in Fed
eral. State and local governments
He also suggested release of Govern
ment held surplus stocks of food to
hold down food prices.
New Plants
The Defense Plant Corporation
and the War Department authorized
and awarded contracts for construc
tion of six aluminum, magnesium
and ordnance plants, totaling $94,
579,000. OPM recommended to the
War Department construction of an
aluminum plant at Troutdale, Ore ,
to produce 90,000.000 pounds annual
ly
Agriculture
Agriculture Secretary Wickard
announced the 1942 farm program,
calling for all-time record produc
tion?especially of hogs, eggs, evap
orated milk, dry skim milk, cheese
and chickens?to improve nutrition
in this country and to aid other na
tions.
Railroad Labor Board
President Roosevelt set up a five
man board to investigate the dis
putes between unions and railways
and to report its findings within 30
days. Wayne Lyman Morse, dean of
the University of Oregon Law
School, heads the board.
Priority
As a stimulus to better inter-Am -
erican relations, some South Ameri
can countries will have higher steel
and chemical priority ratings than
some U. S. civilian industries.
And so it is, Martin County's first
permanent grand jury has been
formed with little to do at the begin
ning, but jurists have pointed out
thrft such bodies of men can have a
marked effect on law and order in
their counties, and with the repro
, m utative citizens on the first perma
I nent jury there is no reason that j
there will be an exception as far as
| this county is concerned.
BE SURE VOU 1IAVE
Complete Protection
Before The
FLAMES START
WITHOUT PROPER INSURANCE
A LIFETIME OK SAVINGS CAN
BE SWEPT AWAY WITH NO
HOPE OF RETURN.
Money linibls ? Fire Destroy*
Insiiranee Rebuibis!
HARRISON And
CARSTARPHEN
General Insurance
PHONE 83 WILLIAMSTON
FIRST Sale!
FRIDAY
SEPTEMBER 19th
At The
Central Warehouse
ROBKRSONVILLE, N. C.
Second Sale
At the RED FRONT WAREHOUSE
For Higher Prices, For Better
Service, Sell With tlsl
JIM GRAY, ANDY ANDERSON
And CHARLEY GRA^, Props.
Several Are Jailed
And Several Given
Medical T reatment
(Continued from page one)
on the main street late Saturday af
ternoon. According to witnesses at
a hearing before Justice J. L. Has
sell. Biggs bumped into Nicholson.
Nicholson asked Biggs if he could
not see, and Biggs asked him why
he did not get out of the middle of
the sidewalk. A hard blow with the
right hand was directed by Nichol
son to Biggs' mouth Biggs drew his
knife, but Roy 'Wynne advised
against an attack with a deadly wea
pon. Judgment was suspended upon
payment of $5.50 court costs in the
case against Nicholson. Biggs was
bound over to the county court for
trial on September 2flth under bond
in the sum of $50.
John Thomas Bunting, young
white man employed at Jamesville,
went on a drunken escapade Satur
day evening about 8:30 o'clock on
Washington Street. Taken in tow by
Officer John Roebuck, Bunting was
brought down the main street with
half-block-long parade following.
The officer, despite resistance and
a well-versed cursing bombardment,
did not use a blackjack on the young
man's head, but J. D. Harrison, call
ed to assist the officer, broke two
fingers when he hit the boy after
the boy had struck him. Placed in
the jail. Bunting declared next
morning he knew nothing about his
antics of the evening before. Rais
ing bond for his appearance in Jus
tice Hassell's court this evening at
7 o'clock, Bunting was also held in
a case charging him with not listing
property for taxation. The tax ac
count was paid and he was releas
ed Sunday.
An hour later, Jesse Whitley, col
ored, was arrested for public drunk
enness. Flushed with money, Whit
ley was said to have bought clothes
and food for members of his family,
and sent them home. With well over
one hundred dollars in his pocket he
started celebrating and landed in
jail He did not lose his money, but
he w as on the streets again Sunday
night about half drunk, and barely
missed another stay in jail. He was
carried before Justice Hassell and
judgment was suspended upon pay
ment of $6 50 costs.
Thirty minutes later, police were
called to Railroad Street where Jum
bo Wilson was allegedly about to
beat his common-law wife to death.
He was jailed.
Several were patched up in doc
tors' offices in the early part of the
evening, but the little and sudden
crime wave did not reach a climax
until about midnight when Bunn
Godard fell victim of a meaningful
knife attack in the warehouse dis
trict A hearing in the case is sched
uled for tonight at 7 o'clock before
Justice J 1,. Hassell.
According to reports, Godard and
Leon Williams, both of Jamesville,
had been traveling close to trouble
on the streets earlier in the night,
and had been warned by police to
go home. They were at Jones' filling
station when H. D. Dixon, young
white man of Bear Grass accompan
ied by Will Knox, also of Bear Grass,
started to back his car from its park
ing place. Godard was said to have
asked Dixon if he was trying to run
over him. A fight followed in due
course, the details of which are yet
not quite clear. When Officer John
Roebuck reached the scene, he
found Godwd?with?his-throat bad
ly cut. a knife wound in the boy's
arm and his back scraped. Despite
his condition, Godard was said to
have had Dixon down and whip
ping him. During the squabbto, Knox
was stabbed in the arm, presumably
by Williams. There's a warrant
pending against Dixon for cutting
Godard .and Knox swore out one
against Williams. About eight
stitches were necessary to,close God
ard's throat wound. The young man
was released from the local institu
tion today.
Adding to the crime wave itself,
were reports of disturbances in oth
er section!) of the county. Some one
in Everetts called county officers
Saturday night and declared that a
man was after him with a shot gun.
Instructed to get a warrant, the man
was said to have taken no action and
the case was dropped. No killings
had been reported in that section up
until noon today.
"There's a drunk down here and I
want you to get him," a drunk in
Jamesville was quoted as saying to
county officers. It was only a short
time later that the other drunk call
ed the county officers and urged
them to arrest the first drunk. The
cases did not reach the police blot
ter and it is possible the two char
acters have sobered up by now.
Sunday afternoon, Spruill John
son went on a cursing spree in the
local streets, and he was arrested by
Chief W. B Daniel. He was fined
$2.50 and taxed with the costs in
Justice Hassell's court.
While officers were battling crime
outbreaks, a long parade of liquor
addicts continued to move to and
from more or less open barrooms on
Railroad Street, and brazen young
men in fairly large numbers parad
ed the streets in a half drunken con
dition. It was a situation that any
respectabte ctttzen would deeply re
gret. Several local citizens are ex
pected to direct an urgent request
to town officials for more police
protection and for the arrest of
Rrriral Infieruxxy At The
Rote Of Sharon Church
Opening last Sunday evening, a
lories of revival services will be con
tinued in the Rose of Sharon Free
Will Baptist Church in Bear Grass
Fownship for two weeks. The Rev.
Zheater Pelt, of Greenville, is con
lucting the services and the public
is cordially invited to attend.
THE RECORD
SPEAKS . . .
Despite a steadily increasing
volume of traffic, motorists on
Martin Count yhighways went
through last week with only one
miscue. A year ago, the motor
ists traveled through the corre
sponding week without a single
accident. That's a record worth
working for, and it behooves ev
ery motorist and every pedes
trian to join the movement in
the name of human life and limb
and property.
The following tabulations of
fer a comparison of the accident
trend: first, "by corresponding
weeks in this year and last and
for each year to the present time.
37th Week Comparison
Accidents Inj'd Killed Dam'ge
1940 0 0 0 000
1941 1 1 0 $ 300
Comparison To Data
1941 64 51 3 $18,730
1940 64 42 2 7,780
Court To Complete
Trial Of Criminal
Cases in Afternoon
(Continued from page one)
Central Cafe more than a year ago,
was adjudged guilty and was sen
tenced to prison for from two to
three years.
O R Boyd, charged with an as
sault with a deadly weapon, failed
to appear when called.
Pleading guilty of bastardy, Leon
ard Mobley, colored, was directed to
pay $5 a month for the support of
his child and to pay the attending
doctor. No costs were assessed, the
court suspending a 12 months road
sentence.
Charged with an assault with a
deadly weapon and robbery, John
nie Powell was adjudged guilty of
the assault, and was sentenced to
the roads for six months.
Only three cases were left on the
docket for trial in the court this af
ternoon.
Recreation Group
Reports Progress
???
The committees appointed to raise
funds to complete the recreation
building for the colored race were
assembled in the Shiloh ? Baptist
Church Sunday at 3:30 o'clock to
make their reports.
G. H. Hill, chairman, said this was
the first drive made by the various
committees and in the report made
last Sunday a total of $101.60 was ac
counted for. A fe wof the commit
tees failed to make their reports and
when a final tabulation is made from
this particular drive the fund will
likely amount to $125.00 or more.
Chairman Hill stated the next
drive for funds will be made in Oc
tober.
County Veteran* Improving
In Fayelleville Hospital
Indirect reports received here yes
terday stated that World War veter
ans Jesse Melson and P. P. Peel are
getting along as well as could be ex
pected in a Fayettevillc hospital,
that there was some slight improve
ment noted in the condition of each.
Mr. Melson is expected home within
the next two or three weeks, but it
could not be learned how long it
would be before Mr. Peel would be
able to return. Their many friends
wish for Ixith of them a speedy re
covery.
Mi's. Melson and two daughters,
Nonie and Jessie Mae, and Miss Ra^
chel Johnson and Mrs. George Har
ris and daughter, Jackie, visited Mr.
Melson and Fort Bragg Sunday.
??
Young Man Leaves For
Work In Puerto Rico
?
Employed by an international con
struction company, John Ward, Jr.,
left here yesterday to start work in
San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico. Re
lying on his thumb to assist him in
his travels, the young man goes to
New Orleans, where he plans to fall
back on his own cash for ship trans
portation. He leaves for an indefi
nite stay.
?
Farm Work Forces Two
Negro Schools To Close
?
Their attendance figures dropping
to an unusually low point as a re
sult of rushing activities on the
farms, two Negro schools, Poplar
Point and Oak Cjty, closed for an
indefinite period yesterday. Reports
from the superintendent of schools
this morning stated that several oth
er colored schools are likely to sus
pend classes today until the farm
rush is over. Orders have been is
sued, directing the schools to close
when the tatendance figures drop
below sixty per cent of normal.
*
Mr. F. /. Herriott
Passes In Des Moines
. ?
Mr. F. I. Herriott, father of Mr.
Charles Herriott, former Williams
ton resident, died at his home in
Des Moines. Iowa, Sunday night at
10 o'clock, friends were advised here
yesterday. Funeral services are be
ng conducted in the Iowa city this
ifternoon.
a
Otaas
National defense has caused the
[lass container industry to take on a
tew significance, since no raw ma
erials essential to rearmament are
tied in making the containers.
ft ell Over Half Of
Tobacco Crop Has
Been Sold To Date
(Continued from page one)
38.00
Lemon Lugs
Choice 40.00 39.00
Fine 39.00 38.00
Lood 38.00 38.00
Fair 32.00 30.00
Orange Lugs
Fine 38.00 37.00
3ood 37.00 35.00
Fair 32.00 27.00
Low 21.00 18.50
Paving Second Side
Of The River Fill
Completing one-half of the Roan
oke River fill paving project last
Friday, the contractors shifted their
equipment over the week-end and
started pouring the second half of
the causeway yesterday afternoon.
Only a start was made at that time,
but this morning operations were
underway on a large scale with 11
trucks feeding the big eight-bag mix
er.
Traffic is now running on that
portion of the newly paved road be
tween Conine Creek bridge and the
eastern end of the fill Reports from
the contractor representatives state
that the paving work will progress
just as rapidly as the first half of the
fill is opened to traffic, weather per
mitting
Wants
CLARK'S MALARIAL TONIC
For Chills and Fever. Guaranteed,
or money refunded. Clark's Phar
macy. m23-tf
HOMES FOR CHILDREN WANT
ed: Colored, ages 7 and 9. Both
boys. If interested, kindly get in
touch with the Martin County Wel
fare Department. sl2-3t
RADIO
REPAIRING
Bring us your Radio
for Repairs. All work
guaranteed. Reason
able Charges.
Western Auto Store
W. J. Miller, Owner
Atking Aid For School
Lunch Room Projecta
?
Representatives of the Hamilton
and Hassell Schools are appearing
before the county board of educa
tion in special session here today,
seeking aid for lunch room projects.
Action of the board could not be
learned immediately.
Mr, L. R. Everett represented
Hamilton and Mr. George Ayers was
here from Hassell.
TWO-HORSE FARM FOR SOLID
rent (money). Mn. Kate York.
FRESH COW FOR SALE OR Ex
change for dry cow. Also lot of
feeder shoats or pigs. If interested,
call the Enterprise.
HOG STRAYED AND IN MY POS
session: White gilt, weighs -about
150 pounds. Owner kindly call for
hog at E. M. Bland's, Lassiter Place,
near Dardens.
LARGE SUPPLY WIRE CABLE ?
Williamston Parts and Metal Co.
DEALER!
We Are Glad To Announce
THAT WE HAVE BEEN
MADE DISTRIBUTORS
Of
Allis - Chalmers
Tractors
AND FARM EQUIPMENT
In Martin County
Tractor On Display At Oar Store
A. O. Roberson
And Company
ROBERSONVILLE, N. C.
Highest Average
In The Entire State
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15th, We Sold
286.156 pounds of leaf for an offieial average of
$31.55
LOOK THESE SALES OVER!
R. F~ HOUSE
Scotland Neck, N. C.
pound?
price
amount
244
38c __
$ 92.72
194
39c __
__ 75.66
204
41c __
__ 83.64
424
44c __
__ 186.56
308
41c __
__ 126.28
40
50c
__ 20.00
1418
$584.86
Average $40.53
BAILEY and BAILEY
Evcretts, N. C.
pound? price amount
120 40c -.I. $ 48.00
268 45c 120.60
28 48c 13.44
416 $182.04
Average $43.76
WARREN and BRILEY
Rohcrsoiivillo, N. C.
' -V ,
pound* price amount
150 37c $ 55.50
80 40c 32.00
138 42c 57.96
78 42c 32.76
102 42c 42.84
106 45c 47.70
116 47c 54.52
770 S323.48
Average $42.00
First Sale Thursday, Sept. 18
Our official average was the highest in the State Monday. We
sold tobacco as high as 60 cents per pound with many individual
averages running from 44 to 45 rents. Yes, we sell tobacco and
we -ell it higher. Sell with us THURSDAY and we'll show you
just what it means when we saf we sell it HIGHER!
Adkins & Bailey
WAREHOUSE ROBERSONVILLE, N. C.
GARLYLE LANGLEY, Assistant Sales Manager