EVER. PAY DAY X* BOND DAY the enterprise: u. Par Vkttry. Vr I. t DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 31 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, April 17, 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899 Youth Gets Term on Road For Operating Car Without Permit Mil* Cases On Docket Fori Trial in County Court Last Monday Working on time borrowed from the superior tribunal, the county recorder's court was in session sever al hours last Monday clearing its docket of nine cases. Judge R. L. Co burn was on the bench with Solici tor Paul D. Roberson holding forth uT the prosecutor's table. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license, Walter Wallace Bailey, Bear Grass white youth, did some extra talking to the court and thereby added to his term on the roads, according to one spectator's version of the trial. The young man was first sentenced to the roads for 60 days. Asked if he had ever served a term on the roads, the boy said he had "pulled" sixty days. Judge Coburn reasoned that another thirty would be in order. "I'll settle it when I get back to Bear Grass," Walter ssld Asked to ex plain, the defendant said, "by join ing the army." The explanation was not altogether satisfactory and Judge Coburn, expressing the belief that the youth had something else in mind, increased the term to four months. Bailey held his tongue dur ing the remainder of his stay in the court room, but while on the way back to jail, he was quoted as saying that the judge would pay for the last thirty days. Matthew Cotton, charged with vi olating the liquor laws, had his case continued until April 27th Pleading not guilty in the case charging her with assaulting Willie Harvey Bell with a deadly weapon, Fannie Crowell was adjudged guil ty. She was sentenced to jail for 60 days, the court suspending the jail sentence upon the payment of a $25 fine, the case costs and the prosecut ing witness' doctor's bill of $10. Possibly one of the most baffling rases heard by Judge Coburn was the one in which Cecil Pippen, color ed man, was charged with throwing a pop bottle on the main street and striking Mrs. Lee Glenn on the head about two weeks ago. Pippen denied the charge but admitted that he had been drinking Several witnesses for the defense said they were not cer tain of the assailant's identity, and another declaring that it was some one else who threw the bottle admit ted that he made the distinction prin cipally by size rather than by ap pearance. Believing the man was guilty, Judge Coburn expressed the wish that the case be carried to a jury for a final decision. The defense attorney gave notice of appeal and bond was fixed in the sum of $100. The attorney reservh-d the right to withdraw the appeal and have the sere.. It.,. Wl.il.y r,,;.il yen. tence in the event additional evi dence is uncovered. Moses Gilliam, charged with vi olating the liquor laws, failed to answer when called and papers were issued for his arrest Adjudged guilty over his own plea of innocence, William Haywood La form was required to pay a $50 fine and costs and had his license revok ed for one year in the case charging him with drunken driving Nathaniel Goss, charged with as saulting a female, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. The sentence was suspended upon payment of a $25 fine and the costs and the prosecuting witness' doctor's bill. It was also stipulated in the judgment that Goss is to stay away from Bettic Outterbridge for twelve months. Charged with assaulting a female, James Jones, colored, was found not guilty. Columbus Brown, charged with non-support, was directed to pay <6 into the court now and $6 on or be fore each succeeding month for the benefit of his children. The defend ant was allowed 60 days in which to catch up with past-due payments, the court continuing the case for that length of time. All's Fairly Quiet In County Politics As far as it could be learned here this morning, no new developments have followed on the county's politi cal front in recent days. It Was also learned that one or two public posts are about to go begging for candi dates, that only last-minute filings wilt give the county a complete op erating personnel. Office aspirants must file with the chairman of the county board of elections, Mr. Syl vester Peel, at his home in Griffins Township by si* o'clock tomorrow evening. Up until the present time there are only two county political con tests scheduled for settlement at the polls on May 30. Messrs. J. C. Smith and S. H. Grimes are running for county Judge .and Messrs. Clarence Griffin and Iverson Skinner are in the race for county representative in the legislature. As far as it can be learned, Hugh G. Horton, local attorney, is unop posed for the State Senate. J. W. Bailey and Dick Fountain have a race for the United States Senate, and Herbert Bonner, Jack Edwards and Marvin Blount are running for Congress from this district. Large Quantities Of Material Ready For Red Cross Workers Receiving large quantities of wooli and other materials recently, the Martin County Red Cross Production Center in the Woman's Club room here is calling for an increased ac tivity, Mr. A. R. Dunning, chairman, announcing today that the center would be held open each Tuesday evening in addition to the old sched ule. An extensive knitting schedule for men in both the Army and Navy is being planned, and the chairman earnestly hopes the task will he snn ported by a united effort. A call is being issued fur idle knitting nee dles, Mrs. Dunning explaining that it has been difficult to get enough needles, and that the use of spare ones would be appreciated. . In addition to the knitting project, the production center here is doing much sewing. Special kits are being turned out in fairly large numbers for the county boys who are leav ing from time to time for the serv ice. "This is the least we can do for our own boys who are being called to duty." Mrs. Dunning said. Num bers of skirts and rompers for refu gee children are being made, and the production center, as a whole, is making splendid progress. It is a fairly well established fact that the few?have boon?faithful?and have worked long hours in handling the work while many, many others have Hesitated in offering their services in advancing the important work. Everyone is earnestly urged to visit the sewing room Tuesdays and Fri days and lend a helping hand to the projects now in progress Plans Going Forward For Rationing Sugar NO WHITK CALL The draft will take no white men from this county next month and only a comparatively small number of colored select ees will be called into the arm ed service during the period, ac cording to information received here this week. The April quo ta is being filled this week and next. t'nofficial reports state that fairly siiable calls have been received In other counties in this section for selectees. vSizable NuiiiIht Of Draftees Move To Camp from Section Ciiinpurulively Small Culls for Colored Selectees from County Pending ? Young draftees are moving to army induction centers from this section in fairly large numbers, the bus terminal here dispatching sev eral special bus loads in a single day this week Suppressing all sor row for the most part, some of the boys were apparently quite happy while others apparently attached Weeping, walling and shouting char arllTlslU1 01 the departure ot young men from this county for service in the first World War were marked by their absence. But there was an oc casional tear seen trickling down the faces of a sister or mother, and even a father bit down on his tongue to maintain a straight face us he saw his son board a special bus along with other young men for an army induction center The Martin County delegation was an impressive one, able manhood and marked intelligence being re flected in the laxly and faces of the young men who were well behaved. It is not certain that all of them will be accepted by the army. They are I to undergo physical examinations during the next few days, and it is possible one or two and possibly | more will return home very short ,ly A call for a comparatively small number of colored draftees from this county is pending, and the next group is scheduled to report to the induction centers within the next few days. The group will be follow ed by another small contingent of colored selectees next month. ? Shift From SporU To War Effort Activitiet Used for the past several seasons in transporting the local baseball team, the Martins' baseball bus has been sold by its owner, Mr. J. Eason Lilley, to a company in Wilson where it will be used in transporting work ers to army camps It is fairly apparent that the sus pension of organized baseball here in one case, at least, is aiding the war effort. W. R. Ofg, ranking official in the American Farm Bureau Federation and director of re search in the organisation's leg islative division, is scheduled to address the annual meeting of the Martin County Farm Bor eas in the high school here next Friday evening following a bar becue supper in the gymnasium. The address is expected to ell ail Farm Bureau events in this county Tickets, providing free admis sion, are to be mailed early next week to the 1,M* bureau mem bers in this county, and It is certain that most of the mem bership will attend along with ' of special guests. Com mere ia I Dealers Ordered to Register School F o r Administrator* Ami Aihinorw Will Be Held On April 22 Final and complete instructions for rationing sugar have been receiv ed in the county, and authorities are formulating .plans for handling the enormous task. The instructions cov ering nearly 100 pages, are offered in minute detail, and it is quite pos sible that some few sugar addicts will surrender any and all claims to sweets before they trouble them selves with a registration and the al most endless red tape which tightly binds the rationing business. Next Wednesday evening at eight o'clock. Rationing Administrator Herbert Lv Roebuck will hold a school of instruction for the six white school principals and six ad visers whose appointments are pend ing. The district administrators and advisers were named yesterday as follows: Jamesville; J. T. Uzzle and K H, Ange. Farm Life, Russell P. Martin and W. R. Harrington; Bear Grass, T O. Hickman and A B. Ay ers; Williamston, I). N. Hix and D. V. Clayton; Robersonville, L. W An derson and B. L. Stokes, Oak City, -H. Mr?Ainsley and Nat Johnson. These men are scheduled to meet -Mr?Ruebui k?and?other 1'Uilonlng board officials in the courthouse here Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, and make ready t" supervise the registra tion of commercial dealers, users and processors. Individual consum ers will not register until the first week in May. All commercial deal ers, including wholesalers and re tailers, cafe operators and process ors including druggists who mix their syrups and bootleggers, must register on Tuesday, April 28, or on Wednesday, April 29, at their re spective white high school. These persons are asked and directed to submti their bills of sale or invoices for the months of May and June, 1941 Filling station operators who sell sugar will find it necessary to register during the commercial reg istration, but those persons who make and sell cakes and candies as a means of a livelihood will apply (Continued on page six) ? First Aid Classes Started In County Heading the medical division for the Civilian Defense in the Martin County Red Cross Chapter, Dr. E. T. Walker announced today that much interest is being shown in first aid training throughout the chapter, that a new class was started this week, another is scheduled to get under way this evening and still another is slated for next Monday Members of the first aid instructors' class at Jamesville are meeting in the school there this evening at 8 o'clock to map plans for holding a course in this community Those interested in taking the course' there arer cordial ly invited to attend the meeting Anv one interested in first aid training in the Martin County chap ter should contact Dr Walker and when sufficient numbers sign up he will assign the class an instructor and direct the training Professor and Mrs. Johnnie Eagles started a class in the Bear Grass school Wednesday evening with about 18 nupils enrolled Dr. Walker is starting a class with the local volunteer firemen in the fire department this evening at 8:00 o'clock, and next Monday evening he will start a class in the Woman's Club hall. Instructors, graduated from the special training school held in the courthouse two weeks ago. will ^>e assigned to the classes. Mrs. M. M Levin and Miss Mary Elizabeth Keel will handle the class in the club. _V_ UNCLE SAM BATTLING TO UPHOLD Americas Freedom THE 18TI1 WEEK OF THE WAR War Production Chairman Nelson said pending conversion orders, plus those aluadv issued.?will virtually halt production of civilian durable good within the next two months He said chief current bottlenecks in conversion are machine tool short ages and difficulties in expanding industrial facilities. Chairman Nelson said expendi tures for munitions and war con struction during March exceeded $2,500 million, with an additional $500 million for pay and subsistence. He reported steel plate shipments in March set an all-time record. In the first seven days of April, he said, 444 labor-management committees re poited they had'voluntarily organiz" ed to get war production drives un derway m their plants. The War De partment announced it will place a liaison officer at each Federal He serve Bank to expedite the program of arranging government-guaranteed loans for small businesses in war production President Roosevelt, acting under the Second War Powers Act, author ized the WPB. War. and Navy and Treasury Departments, Maritime Commission and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to inspect war plants and to audit their books. The inspections will aim to avoid waste of government funds and to imple ment measures which have been un dertaken to forestall price increases. ?lousing and Construction 1 The WPB prohibited unauthorized I residential construction costing more than $500 except for maintenance and repair, agricultural construction j of more than $1,000. and all other construction costing more than $5. 000. The Board prohibited sale, pur- j chase, delivery or withdrawal from j inventory of any construction ma- ] tonal for such purposes. Projects of certain government agencies and those to restore property destroyed f tire or f by fire or floods were made exempt from the order. Local Federal Housing Adminis tration officers will determine whe ther construction projects are eligi ble for recommendation to the WPB Appeals from decisions of local FHA officers may be made to a Board composed of the Administrator of the order, a representative of labor and a third member who will repre sent the end,product branch of the WPB within whose jurisdiction the class of project would fall. Civilian Supply Tin WPB 01 deli'd ,1 ledut'iwm lb gasoline deliveries to fliling stations in 17 Eastern States, the District of Columbia, Washington and Oregon, effective yesterday, from the current four-fifth to two-thirds of the aver age amounts they received in Dc (Continued on page six) 1 )\ill Start Moving Asphalt Next Week With delivery of the first car-of as phalt scheduled for tomorrow, the State Highway and Public Works Commission plans to start moving asphalt on U. S. Highway 17 between here and the Beaufort County line next Monday, Resident Engineer J. C. Parkin said today. The engineer explained that the road will be widened fry four feet two feet on each side. Several curves will be nulumf and others will be graded. It is estimated that 20,000 tons of asphalt will be used in widening and resurfacing the road, .Mr Parkin also estimating that the trucks will make about 10,000 trips in moving the material to lo cation. According to Mr. Parkin it will take about three months to han dle the project, twenty days to wid en the road, twenty days to grade the old road and about 20 working days to resurface it. 1 Joy Hidera Are Fined m Hy Oak (lily Juatice Several youths, charged with dis turbing the peace on a boisterous joy ride in the Hamiltorf*Oak City sec tion last Sunday night, were fined a total of about $30 by Justice jrH. Hopkins in his court at Oak City last Wednesday afternoon The ride was said to have been aggravated by thoughtless horn tooting and com plete disregard for the peace and quiet of the communities. MORE CHECKS Soil conservation payment* to Martin County farmers, went Mooting by the II#0,000 mark thin week when approximately $33,000 00 were diatrlbuted to the pro a ram coo perm tor*. ' The recent payment* boosted the total to ?122,2tt.?7 To date. 1,582 check* representing 911 application* or contract*, have been diatrlbuted to the farmer* in thi* county. . Plans Go Forward For Fourth Registrations Believe About 1,800 Men Will Register In County On April 2' Nine Registration I'luees Will Ke Maintained By the Draft Hoard Tentative plans h^ve been made for handling the fourth draft regis tration in this county on Monday, April 27th. R. H. Good mo n, chair- | man of the draft board, stating that I all of the old registrars and volun teers are being called upon again to assist the work. Nine registration places instead of eighf will be main- J tained in this county for the conven ience of the "old boys," the draft l>uard offuial explaining that a fcjT~ istration -center would bo opened in Hassell for the fourth registration. None was opened there last Fehru ary and many of the men in that community found it inconvenient to travel to other places to register. All men in the 45 t>4 age group, in clusive, must register, excepting | those who registered last February Kith and who have reached the age i of 45 since that time. , No detailed information has been i received by the draft board in this county, hut it is generally believed that tin- "old tuners" who register on the 27th of this month will not be made subject to combat service, that it is possible they will be made sub ject to occupational draft. The board has received no instructions or in formation other than those ordering tiie registration of all men between the ages of 45 and 64, inclusive, .It is estimated that around men will register in this county dur ing the registration period, 7 a. m. to 9 p. in. on Monday, April 27. The draft registration is not to be confused with the sugar rationing registration which will be held the same day in the white .high schools of the county The following persons are being called on to serve as registrars and assist '"other volunteers in handling the registration in the assigned dis tricts: F. C Stallings, Jamesville W B. Harrington, Farm Life J. Rossel Rogers and T O. Hick man, Brar Grass. V. J. Spivey and J. C Manning, Williamston. C B. Riddick and Paul Bailey, Evoretts. .J R. W tnslow, Rnh*?rv;nn\AiHo P. C\ Edmondsou, Hassell. R R Bawls flint .1 H A,v. rs, Oak City. W. J. Reach, Hamilton. No independent places bT Tegistra tion will be maintained in the coUn ty for the fourth registration, the draft officials pointing out that those places of business employing large numbers of workers had few men on their rolls over 45 years of age and that those few could possibly find tune to register at the regular registration places in their respect ! ive districts No school of instruction for the registrars will l>o held, draft author ities stating that the registration will he quite similar to the last one held j on February 16th About the only things that will differentiate the coming registration from the prev-1 ious ones are the color of the cards! and the ages of the registrants: Bookmobile In The County Next Week ? Miss Marjorie Beal, director of the North Carolina Library Com mission, visited in the BHM region last week. She is greatly interested in the progress being made in pub lic library development and book mobile service in the three counties, Beaufort, Hyde and Martin. While on her visit here, Miss Beal met with two library boards and discussed plans for the new fiscal year which begins July 1st. The BHM Bookmobile will re turn to this county Monday, April 20th. The schedule follows: Monday?9:15, C. B. Allen's Serv ice Station; 10:00, Hamilton School; 11:05, In front of Hamilton Bank; J2:4IL_Gold Point School; 1:35, Jim Johnson's Service Station; 2:10, Kob ersonville Public Library. Tuesday ? 9:30, Hassell School; 10:20, Hassell Post Office; 11:15, Oak City School; 1 05, Wilbur Barrett's Drug Store; 145, Smith's Stort; on Palmyra Road Wednesday ? 9:00, Williamston High School; 9 45, Everetts School, 10:35, J S. Ayers Store, Everetts; 11:30, Cross Roads Church; 12:30~ Elementary School, Robersonville; 1:45, Robersonville High School; 2:10 Parmele Post Office. Thursday?9:00, Williamston Ele mentary School; 11:00, Farm Life School; 1:15, Corey's Cross Roads; 2:00, Bear Grass School Friday?9:30, Jordan's Store, Dar dens; 10:25, Browning's Store; 11:00, Ange town by intersection of road; 11:30, Poplar Chapel Church; 12:45, Jamesville School, 2 20, Brown's Store, Jamesville. INGENt'ITY Their supply of copper cut off and facing a sugar shortage, il licit liquor manufacturers in this county are advancing a bit of individual ingenuity to main t:iin th*?ir hnsinevs The latest innovation was uncovered this week by Officers Joe Roebuck and Roy Peel when they raided in the Free I nion section of Jamesville Township and found a manufacturer using a regular old ham cooking boiler for a still. The kettle held hardly twen ty gallons but it was well suit ed for the illicit business. Army Officer I rues r Increased "Support For Civilian Defense Lieutenant Hurl Lk \f casualties. Red army reports said. In an adjoining sector, General Kleiner Kareps threw in the 280th and 449th regiments and their re serves, including engineers Twelve counterattacks failed; and the Ger mans sent up two more regiments plus eight reserve battalions in a desperate effort to block the Rus sians from the water barrier guard ing their base. (Continued on page six) Local Liquor Store Outgrows Quarters Outgrowing its present quarters, the local ABC store is to move to the building formerly occupied by the bowling alley next door on Main Street. Workmen are?)remodeling the ?Id one-story building and the ABC board plans to occupy its new quar ters within the next two or three weeks. ? ? The front will !>o remodeled along with the inside, u spokesman from the owners, Messrs. Critcher. Peel and Coburn, said. Warren H Biggs has leased the quarters now occupied by the liquor store and he plans to open a drug store there. Announcing his plana, Mr Biggs stated Uiat his shop would handle nothing but drugs, that it would be the town'i first real drug store and nothing else. He plans to open for business within the next three weeks.