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PAT DAT WAK \[ BOND DAT trap mmmt?un tonus THE ENTERPRISE ovum TOT FOR VICTORY wtlk UNIT ED STATES WAS BONOS-STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 79 Williamiton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 6, 1912. ESTABLISHED 1899 County Authorities In Regular Meeting Yesterday Morning County T. B. Sanatorium Now Open After Being Clos ed for a Montli With little official business sched uled for consideration, the county commissioners in their regular ses sion here yesterday morning talked about the weather, the crops, the la bor situation and other current top ics and handled their duties in time to adjourn for lunch. The session was one of the shortest held by the authorities in some months, but de spite its brevity, county affairs were reviewed, including the health de partment. The county sanatorium, closed last month when it was impossible to find a care-taker and sufficient help to maintain the institution, has been reopened. Four or five of the pa tients who were forced to go to their homes during the period have re turned to the institution. The com missioners are convinced that it is much cheaper to maintain the pa tients in State-operated sanatoriums. Conditions have been so crowded in the State institutions, however, that there wasn't sufficient room for all the county victims and it was de cided that in the long run it would be cheaper to maintain a unit in this county than it would he to throw the victims with other people. Tax relief orders were issued in the following cases: Coy J. Roberson. poll tax listed in two townships and paid in William ston. J. H. Cooper, poll tax listed to serv ice man. Sanford Cordon, poll tax listed in error. Hubert C Roberson, poll tax, ex empt. James Keys, poll tax listed to service man. Luther Cordon, poll tax listed in error. Reviewing the tax records, Col lector Luther Peel reported the fol lowing collections: Of the 1941 levy, $192.538 29 has been collected, leaving a balance due and unpaid in the amount of $13, 695.75. Delinquent accounts are be ing advertised this week. Going back to the 1940 tax year, i Mr. Peel stated that $3,864.15 had been collected on land tax sales, leaving a balance of $3,286.31 due and unpaid. The 1940 insolvent tax list has been whittled down to $2, 528.04, Mr. Peel explaining that $3, 395 76 had been collected. The welfare department filed its September report, showing total ex penditures in the sum of $5,239 64 The expenditures were listed, as fol (Continued on page six) Slight Decrease In Octol>er Tire Quota Irrespective of promises and any relief the synthetic rubber program might offer, the October tire and tube quotas for Martin County are slightly smaller than they were in September when a marked decrease in the allotments was effected. While motor travel is holding up fairly well, the rubber shortage is being felt in many businesses. Sal vage dealers and fuel and coal yard operators, unable to get sufficient allotments, are said to have been forced to curtail their operations on account of the tire shortage. Hie allotments for September and October are compared, as follows: Automobile Tires - Tubes New Recaps Tubes Sept. 5 25 19 Oct. 5 24 17 Truck Tires - Tubes Sept. 34 38 38 Oct. 33 40 37 Receiving the October quotas too late for their meeting last Thursday the members of the rationing board have allotted no tires or tubes from the current stock pile. Applications will be considered at the meeting on Thursday of this week. 0 Oak City Man Hurt In Auto Accident M. M. Mills, of Oak City, was bad ly cut about the head and bruised on other parts of his body about 2 o'clock Sunday morning when his car, a 1939 Chevrolet, went out of control on Highway No. 125 near the J. R. Everett farm in Poplar Point Township, and plowed through ditch for some distance. Mills was rounding a curve just this side of the Everett home when his car, go ing out of control, ran off one side of the road, darted back across the highway and plowed down the ditch. He was thrown out of the car and was removed to the local hospital by J. B. Herring, of Palmyra, who was driving a short distance behind Mills. Damage to the Mills car was roughly estimated at $200 by Pa trolman W. E. Saunders who inves tigated the accident. Iron Caskets to Scrap the Axis Anxious to do his part for the national scrap drive, the owner of a funeral parlor in Alexandria. Va.t contributed these iron coflins for delivery to Tojo, Hitler and 11 Dure in the form of bombs and shells. Betty Anne Huffington and Mrs. Genevieve McCune, whose husband is stationed at Fort Bclvoit, Ya., are shown placing wreaths of scal lions and spoiled socks on the coflins. This is a phonephoto. (Central Vrcta) Plans Go Forward For Home Guard in County I CAS RATION CARDS v Holders of supplemental "H" and "C" gas rationing eards are being warned that the little booklets must be surrendered before new ones are issued. Those supplemental eards, is sued as of July 22nd. this year, expire on the 22nd of this month and applications for renewals will be considered by the ration ing hoard on or about that date. Applications will be received at the rationing board. It is understood that renew als will be withheld in many rases, State Rationing Board au thorities pointing out that with some few exceptions most of the crops will have been harvest ed and marketed by that time and that liberal supplemental rations will not be necessary. Market Reports Its Best Sale Of Yeai Handling more than 200,00 pound: the Williamston Tobacco Market hat one of its best and most successfu sales of the season yesterday. Tin general floor average for the entire sale was right at $43 per hundret pounds. Sales were continued almos to the selling limit for the day, ant heartening reports came from ware housemen and farmers alike. The price trend still points up ward for the common and mediun quality grades, while the top contin ues at 48 and 49 cents a pound. So far the market has sold righ at six million pounds, and it is nov estimated that the total sales for thi season will reach and possibly pas seven million pounds before closini time the latter part of this month o early in November. Labor And Food Shortage Forcea Cafe To Clou Experiencing a shortage in hel| and finding it difficult to make lib eral purchases of food, the manage ment of the Welcome Inn last Satur day night suspended business opera tions, possibly for the duration. The large patronage enjoyed b; the cafe almost overran other cafes boarding houses and lunch counter when the business closed its doors. ROUND-UP Local and county offieecs barely held their own last week when it came to rounding up the drunks and alleged viola tors of other laws. A count of thirteen was recorded in the Jail records for the period, the number equalling the record for the previous week-end and fall ing four behind the peak reach ed several weeks ago. Twelve of the thirteen were drunk?some of them Just plain and the others deed drunk. Five of the number were white. A thirteenth man arrested and Jailed is charged with carrying a concealed weapon. Not Certain A Unit Will Be Located In Immediate Section Call far Volunteer* Kxpcetcd Throughout County Dur ing Next Few Day* Plans were advanced at a meet ing of local representative citizens and North Carolina Home Guard of ficers here last Saturday morning for the establishment, of a Home Guard unit for Martin County Meet ing with the representative group, General J. W Jenkins explained that several other applications for the unit had been received, and since only two new Home Guard compan ies could be established all the appli cations would have to be considered before definite assignments could be made. Final plans for creating a Home Guard unit will be delayed pending the receipt of a decision from the general, but preliminary plans are being advanced looking toward the creation of such a unit or one that will guarantee the internal security of the people and property. The committee, composed of Dr. W H. Barrel 1, Rev. Z T Piephoff, and Messrs. G II Harrison, R L. Perry, C B. Roebuck^ John L Has sell, R.-G, I for ton and W E Dunn, is expected to issue a call for volun teers within a short time. General Jenkins, accompanied by Colonel Sharpe, Greensboro, and Major Dorteh, of Goldsboro, advised the committee the test the potential man strength for the proposed unit and consider other plans for creating the guard. General Jenkins explained til di* tail the requirements for establish ing a Home Guard company, and it was his opinion that this county was an ideal place for a unit. To get the (Continued on page *ix) ? Schools To Reopen In County Monday All those colored schools closing during the peak of the harvesting season in this county very likely will reopen next Monday, according to information coming from the of fice of the county superintendent to day. Regular schedules will be re sumed in most of the other schools where operations have been limited during the harvest season, and it is also likely that the hours for open ing and closing the schools will be altered beginning next Monday. Making a survey of the harvest work yesterday and this morning, school authorities stated that they believed the crops will have been harvested for the most part by the latter part of this week. It was ex plained that much had been gained by closing some of the schools and altering the schedules in others. School authorities were surprised to learn yesterday that farm trucks were transporting more children to and from the fields than were ordi narily carried on the regular school busses. War As It Relates To Home Front Is Reviewed for Week We Must Do More and Do It in a Hurry If We Are To Win This War A captured Nazi document tells how Hitler plans to run his blood stained "Greater German Empire"! ?by means of an army of secret po lice, always on the job. Japanese am-| bit ion to share a conquered world with Germany isn't any secret, it's even symbolized 011 new Jap post age stamps. To be sure, these aspira tions have had some rude shocks lately? the splendid stand of the Russians once more threatens Nazi aggressors with stalemate and ap proaching winter, Nazi General Rom mel still is stalled in the African des-, ert, the far-extended Jap flanks have been dealt bloWs by U S. forces in the Solomons. Australians in New Guinea, Americans and Canadians at | Kiska in the Aleutians. But if we are to defeat the savage purpose of our enemies, if we are to grind them into the dust, we all must do more, and in a hurry. Our war output is huge?in August munitions alone were produced in a volume more than three and one-half times that of November, 1941 but the plain fact is that over-all production 111 August lagged about 14 per cent behind forecasts. Must Ration Scarce Goods The siphoning of vast stores ofi materials to war uses, together with loss of our sources of many raw ma-! terials, points the fact that we face! a return to "depression" living stan dards?but with the difference that whereas in 1932 millions of us lack ed buying power although goods were plentiful, today the situation is reversed. Today excess buying power must be drained off, scarce gOpds divided up or rationed. Fuel oil is not scarce but the means of transporting it thanks to Nazi subs are at a premium. Petroleum supplies and terminal facilities 011 the Atlantic Seaboard have been pooled, but still there will be only about two-thirds of the normal sup ply this winter for the 30 states in which fuel oil has been rationed. |This means tightening up heat leaks, saying fuel, changing over to coal I wherever possible. The cost of chang ing from oil to coal may be shared I by tenant and landlord, if the tenant I agrees. Must Boost Coal Output Unless our coal output is increased we'll be short of this fuel, too. next I year ? by 42 million tons. Coal Pro duction will be speeded through 91 new Labor-Management committees in the soft coal mines, and longer work hours in the mines are likely. Shifting thousands of railway tank cars to fuel oil service slowed movement by tank car of vegetable (Continued on page six) # Local Citizen Dies In Hospital Sunday After Short Illness Fiincriil Service* llel<l llere for Mi** IVuina Rober son Monday Afternoon Miss Prnina Roberson, highly cs U'cmcd Willinmston citizen, (lied in ii Washington hospital last Sunday afternoon. Suffering a broken hip in a fall on September 10th, she was removed to the hospital for treat ment Two operations were perform ed in an effort to better her condi tion, but she gradually grew worse. Pneumonia developed, causing her death. She was the daughter of Sallie Peel and Harry Roberson, and was born August 28th, 1861, at the family home near Bear Grass, where her father was a large planter before the Civil War dissipated his fortune. When her parents died, she came to Wil liamston to live with her cousin, Mr. W. H. Roberson, at the age of four teen She has lived here ever since with the exception of two years and helped to rear three generations of children born in her home. She was loved and revered as a mother by all of these children and though she never married, she lived a full and abundant life. Never once was she ever heard to mention the sac (Continucd on page six) WAR PROJECT? - Rumors, without any confirm ation whatever, have it that the government Is considering some type of project for this section. No details could be learned, but the rumors would indicate that another Army camp is to be es tablished in the State possibly within a few miles of Wllliam ston. No official information could be had here, and little credence is given the rumors heard over the grapevine system last week end. September Bond Sales Not Up To Quota Assigned the County After exceeding the first few quo- ] tas, Martin County citizens have been falling behind with the war bond j purchases in recent months A fair ly complete report for September. shows that $30,638.75 was invested I in bonds during that period, the to tal falling about $26,861.25 below the ' figure Martin County people* had been asked and urged to buy. These figures, representing the actual value of the bond at the time of purchase and not maturity value, were reported as follows: Guaranty Bank and Trust Company. Roberson ville. $5,418.75; Williamston, Guaran ? ty Bank and Trust Company, $5.-! 137.50; Branch Banking and Trust i Company. $11,743.75; Martin County j Building and Loan Association. $6.- j 300.00. and post office. $1,968.75. Re-1. ports from other institutions or ugencies handling war bond sales could not be had immediately, but it is believed that complete figures will change the total very little. The sales are indeed disappointing since September is rated as one of the best financial months in the year for this immediate section. Complete records are not to be had. but it is reliably understood that the sale of intoxicating beverages in this coun ty last month was more than double the amount invested in war bonds. Other counties in eastern North Carolina are meeting their quotas, and several have exceeded the ex pectations by sizable margins. The Town of Plymouth, it was reported, bought more than the quota for all of Washington County last month. Scrap Drive Gaining Momentum In County School Children In Successful Canvass For Scrap Material Little T?ls \\ al lied A|iiiiii?l (loiifiNcalinp: \ iiliuililc mid I'Mihlc Vrliclox Martin County's repeat for old iron and scrap metals and materials is gaining momentum, and with the school children solidly behind it the campaign is eertain to meet with suc cess. The drive is on in earnest, and it will he interesting to learn who really is behind the war effort when the deliveries are checked later in the month Prizes, amounting to $0, .100, are being offered by the news papers of the State to the campaign winners. The county reporting the largest per capita collection will re ceive a $1,000 war bond. Schools, clubs and other organizations are in line to win prizes offered in the Stale-wide contest Much of the iron and scrap is be ing donated to the schools for sale to recognized dealers. Individuals may sell direct to the denier, hut they are asked to keep records and report to their respective school or to County Chairman V. J Spivcy, It is important to keep records on the sale of every pound, and it is far more important that every possible pound of old scrap be collected and turned into trade channels. Kvcry farmer is earnestly urged to join in the movement to get the scrap into battle. No direct reports on the scrap drive 111 this county are available at this time, hut, boy, the rumors, pointing to a clean sweep, are en couraging There was the little youngster who eyed a cow's tie chain. No, he didn't take it, but before the last bomb is exploded it might he that the owner will have to watch the chain as well as the cow. Scrap J is being retrieved from the trash I piles, and a few andirons have been snatched from the fire places Then there was the accommodating fellow who surrendered his iron dumb-bells, agreeing to turn to honest toil for his bodily exercise Little tots can be seen struggling along with turns of scrap, and by the end of this week the collections of old metals will have attained some size. Reports from Robcrsonville state that more than ten tons of scrap have uircadjr been collected in that com munity by the school children and marie available *to the hungry blast furnaces. Martin County has already collect fContinued on page six) Number Of White Oral tees Rejected; No official report is yet available ' but according to information coming from several sources about sixteen of the more than half hundred Mar tin County white men reporting to an Army induction center for medical examinations this week were reject ed Severul young men were detain ed for further examinations, and the total number of rejectees is subject to change. One young man returning last night, stated that he heard only 24 out of the group passed the ex amination, but apparently his in formation was unfounded The Army (induction center will hardly make an official report before the lattei I'art of next week. No report on the examinations given nearly 100 col ored draftees from the county last week has been received. Two out of the group of more than half hundred white draftees sched uled to leave the county this week Tailed to report, one was transferred, four joined the Navy at the last min ute, and the remainder traveled to the center in two busses. Downed 8 Jap Planes School Tots Collect Quantity Scrap Iron With their scrap campaign sched uled to begin yesterday, pupils in the local schools "jumped the gun" j last Thursday, and began to b/ing in sizable quantities of scrap mtn.al and | rubber. This morning the various I room thermometers, posted in the grammar school showed that ap proximately 5,000 pounds had been brought to the grammar school scrap pile ? At the high school approximately 1500 pounds of scrap are on hand with 2000 pounds spotted and col lecti-d fur ptek trp by truck today. It is expected that the scrap piles at the local schools wlil be increased to sizable proportions before the con test ends on October 17th. That parents.are cooperating with pupils in the search for metal is evi denced by the fact that little "tots" in the first and second grades have brought or had delivered hags pack id with scrap. There is no doubt that thi' students are scrap conscious and contributing wholeheartedly to this phase of the war effort. Eighth grade boys, led by Richard I,evin, spotted and collected 1500 pounds at a local plant, proving that where interested citizens cooperate in the search metal can be found. _* ?? ?? County Draft Itoard To Hold Meeting Monday ? Tlir Martin County Draft Board is bring culled into special session by Chairman K. II Goodnton next Mon day night at 8 o'clock to handle re classifications and to consider claims for deferments, Hoard Clerk Mar ion Cobb announced this morning. It is understood that the board will reclassify 1-H registrants. NO BUSINESS The regular session of the lo cat town commissioners last eve ning was an uneventful one, the official body considering no new business and limiting its conser vation topics to the high spots of the war. The group was in ses sion hardly half an hour. A romplaint about the promis cuous and careless handling of air rifles was heard in unoffi cial session, but no action to check the practice was taken when the board opened their meeting officiallq The rxtenaion of Gurganus Street, near the cemetery, was proposed, but ac tion was delayed. During three weeks of operations in the Solomon Islands, Donald E, Itunyon, 29, shot 'down eight Jap planes. Winking with his carrier based squadron, he downed two Zeros, five dive bombers and a twin engined torpedo bomber using a minimum of ammunition Itun yon's mates attribute his success to "smooth piloting and accurate murksmanship." (Central I'rees) Germans Are Held At Bay By Soviets Around Stalingrad V ,S. Forces Start Big Drive Against Japs in the Aleutians Hitler has not yet withdrawn his order calling for tne capture of Stal ingrad, but late reports, from Mos cow indicate that the Germans, fac ing a supreme resistance, have not obeyed the order. Despite furious German attacks, the Russians are holding the invaders at bay, and are actually making some gains in some sections of the great industrial city on the Volga. Official communiques coming from Moscow do not go into detail, but as the Russians enter their 44th day of the defense of Stalingrad, the tide of battle has a brighter side for the Soviets, Dispatches, covering the ac tivities Sunday and yesterday, indi cated that Marshal Timoshenko's troops both within and outside the city were pressing the initiative, driving the invaders from part of an industrial settlement in the north west metropolitan area, forcing them out of a large section to the south west and cutting deeper into the Nazi flank across the Don-Volga corri dor. Hitler's troops are trying their ut most to fulfil his promise to take the city. They are losing heavily, but continue to pour in more manpower to replace their losses and maintain incessant pressure on the stubborn Russians. Red Star, however, notes that Ger man losses are so great that they out number the Nazi reinforcements. Raw reserves, poorly conditioned and ill trained for street fighting, are being poured into the Nazi beaches blasted by concentrated Soviet ar tillery fire. ' Outside the city, Timoshenko's forces battling to cut through the enemy's left flank "continued active j operations." Izveztia said Soviet troops advanced 200 yards in one | important sector in their drive to I join the defenders of the city. A Rus I si-an unit, battling for another height, (damaged two Nazi tanks, wiped out a large force of enemy troops and (captured considerable equipment. I Half a dozen strong enemy attacks j in the Mozdok region of the Cauca sus cost the Germans seven tanks and two companies of infantry with out making any headway in their (Continued oft page six) Wrecked Airplane Moved To Norfolk Damaged' in a forced landing in a soybean patch near Spring Green last Tuesday afternoon, an Army pursuit plane was moved over land hack t<> its base, presumably in Nor folk, early Sunday evening. The pi lot, said to have been from Apex, is back hi hi* flying clothes, unofficial reports stated. Losing his way and running low on gasoline, the pilot, whose name was not revealed, placed the ship down in a perfect belly landing, root ing up a small area in Farmer Guy Forbes4 soybean patch. Dispatched from an operating base to guard the plane, two army men are said to have enjoyed their stay in this section. The mechanical crew, moving in Thursday to dis mantle the ship, expressed a keen desire to tarry in this section as long as possible. Some weeks ago a pilot bailed out when his ship went out of control over the lower part of this county. While he suffered a hit from expo sure, his injuries were slight. So far no one has been injured in air acci dents over this county, the first two pilots to figure in accidents having escaped. The accident last week will lin ger in the mind of a small farm boy who was near the spot where the plane landed. "I was too scared to run," he said, adding that the pilot first asked if he was in North Car olina or Virginia. 1 Red ( ross Room To Reopen Wednesday ??? Closed a few weeks ago when the | supply of material was exhausted, the Hi d Cross room over the West ern Auto store on Main Street here will reopen tomorrow morning at 9 30 o'clock, and as many volunteers as possible are urged to report for duty. A new supply of material for mak ing surgical dressings was delivered to the Red Cross rooms this morn ing, and Mrs. Tom Barnhill, super visor of the project, made arrange ments to renew activities at once. Sufficient material to make 22,000 dreaaings is now available. The spec ial material was shipped from upper New York State about the middle of last month. The room will be open each day from 9:30 a. m. to 3 p. m. and Monday, Wednesday and Friday < ning. Get Into the Fight on the Home Front by Collecting Scrap for the War MaaMMMMMBMMaMM?aBWWWMBW?w?w?BMBawMBnBMaaMBMBaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinBmBaMMMaaanDaiiiiiiiiiiiiBiiiMHBni^MiM^MMMMMM? ? ??