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PAT BAY WAS BOND DAT WOP WW?14W OOUAW THE ENTERPRISE ovnmiTOP FOR VICTORY UMTEO STATES WM BONDS-STAMPS VOLUME XLV?NUMBER 91 Williamtton, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday. November 17. 1942. ESTABLISHED 1899 Americans Win Great Naval Battle in Pacific Outlook In Solomon Islands Much Better After Fierce Battle Major Clash Between Allies And Germans Imminent In North Africa Scoring one of the greatest naval victories since the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the United States in a three-day encounter completely routed a large portion of the Japan ese fleet in the Solomon Islands ov er the week-end, the action renewing hopes of the Guadalcanal defenders and adding prestige to plans for fu ture action against the yellow scoun drels in that part of the world. In the first two days of the battle beginning last Friday, the Ameri cans wiped out twenty-three Jap ships, including one big battleship, three heavy and two light cruisers, five destroyers, eight troop trans ports and four cargo transports. It is estimated the battle cost the Japs between thirty and forty thousand men. It is not certain from the re ports released by the Navy Depart ment whether any Jap soldiers ev er reached Guadalcanal. Four troop transports were beached about ten miles from American positions on the island. Late reports state that the four beached transports were wrecked Sunday morning and that their human cargoes were torn asunder. With a complete report on the third day of the battle yet to come, American losses during the first two days were placed at two light cruis ers and six destroyers. While the battle may not be as de cisive as the one at Jutland when j the German navy was turned back and bottled up for the remainder of World War I, observers say that the Jap losses, including aonther capital ship and several smaller ones dam aged, have given our Navy the bal ance of power in the South Pacific, that a Jap drive to the New Hebri des, Fiji Islands, New Caledonia and Australia has been completely block ed. But the Japs still have a formida ble navy, and it is possible they will reorganize their forces and stage a fourth attack in an effort to regain the strategic positions of Guadalcan al and Tulagi. And they'll get anoth er licking, too. Reflecting a unified command and perfect harmony between all forces, the battle made Admiral Halsey a hero. He moved for aggressive ac- | tion during darkness, and pounded the enemy at close range. At one time he had the enemy so confused that Jap ships fired on one another. The battle was preceded by air at tacks landed by MacArthur's bomb ers. When the Jap armada started forming in New Britain and the northwestern Solomons, American scouters declared they could not see from one end to the other. For sev eral days tension was great as the defenders anticipated the arrival of the hordes. The yellow scoundrels never reached their destination, and that part of their battered fleet left afloat turned tail and limped back to shelter. Commenting in Washington this morning. Navy Secretary Frank Knox said that while the battle was a major one, it was not decisive in its scope, that the Japs can be ex pected to make another attempt to recapture Guadalcanal. That all is not going well with the Jap navy is evidenced in an order shifting per sonnel in the fleet command. The battle in Africa is now enter ing its second phase. After scoring (Continued on page ilx) Conservation Plans For Seventeen Farms By h. f. Mcknight The Coastal Plain Soil Conserva tion district which was formed in the early part of this year and voted on by the farmers of Martin County in March is getting underway. To date complete conservation plans have been written on 17 farms in the county. Applications for soil conservation work have been made by a total of 93 farmers to date. One of the farms on which a com plete soil conservation plan has oeen worked out is owned by Mr. T. B. Slade of Hamilton. Just as soon as tha crops are out of the way Mr. Slade will terrace approximately 30 acres on the steeper slopes. He also intends to plant five acres of kudzu which is a new crop in this section of the state. The kudzu will be used for grazing or hay. Mr. Slade recently seeded four acres to wild winter peas as an ex periment. As far as is known this is the first time this winter soil build ing crop has been grown in this county. It has been grown with suc cess in Alabama, and if successful may prove a valuable crop in this section "as one of its good points is that it produces a yield of around 1000 pounds of seed per acre, and is also a good crop for grazing. PROHIBITION? The return ot prohibition is now considered i possibility by observers once they were advis ed of the size of liquor sales in the Williamston store last Sat urday. A new high sales record was established that day when the clerks sold 32.M1 worth of the fluid to approximately 1,335 customers. With such records be in* established, it is quite pos sible that the consumers are co in* to drink the country dry. The supply of several brands was exhausted lone before the day was spent, but not a single customer was lost, the manager explaining that another brand was readily accepted. Making a second visit to the store during the day about 50 repeat custom ers were not allowed to make purchases. The system has a more or less voluntary ration ing plan which allows or is sup posed to allow a customer to make only one purchase during a single day. Plan Another Big Scrap Harvest In The County Soon Martin Farmers Asked To Ki|iial and Better School Children's Record ? The war is still going on; in fact, the heavy fighting is still ahoad, and as long as the war continues there'll be an ever-increasing need for scrap iron and old metals. After recogniz ing the splendid record this county has made in the collection and ship ment of scrap iron, salvage authori ties are coming right back with a re newed appeal for more scrap. This time, the salvage authorities are looking to the farmers of the county to put the campaign across, and plans are being made by Coun ty Salvage Chairman V. J. Spivey in cooperation with the Farm Bur eau for a county-wide collection that will be carried into every nook and corner. The plans are not quite complete, but it is proposed to reach every farmer In the county with a direct appeal, urging them to throw their full weight into the scrap battle. Township or district captains are to be named and they will appoint lieutenants who will carry the appeal to every nook and corner in the county. The farmer will be asked if he has sold any scrap and how much. He will be ask ed if he will cooperate in the renew ed campaign and how much scrap he thinks it will be possible for him to gather up and deliver to the deal ers for sale. Salvage authorities hope to get a complete survey of the scrap metal supply in the county through the new plan, and everyone is urged to cooperate with the movement in every way possible. Details will be announced as soon as possible, and it is hoped that the drive can be launched just as soon as possible after the peanut harvest ing season is ended and the farmers have a breathing spell. The farmers are not being asked to contribute their scrap metal. They are being asked to gather It up and deliver it to their dealers for cash (Continued on page *ix) ? Legion Auxiliary In Regular Meet The regular monthly meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary of the John Walton Hassell Post No. 103 was held oh Saturday afternoon in the home of Mrs. W. H. Gray, in Hobersonville. Mrs. W. O. Griffin, the president, presided, and Mrs. R. H. Goodmon acted as secretary. The treasurer reported that two sweaters had been purchased for pa tients at Oteen, and read letters of thanks from these patients. She al so read a letter from Mrs. Claverie, the Auxiliary case worker in the hospital, who reported that there were now 900 patients at this facili ty, and of these 100 were boys of 18 an< 19 who were T.B. victims and veterans of World War II. The child welfare committee re ported that Defense Stamps and comic books had been carried to the son of one of our members. This lit tle boy has been ill for several months. The Auxiliary was privileged to have Mrs. E. G. Hudnell, of Choko winity, N. C, the First Area Chair man, for the meeting. Mrs. Hudnell in a very informal manner discuss ed transportation conditions with the unit and told of her recent visit to a meeting of the executive commit tee. She told of the work outlined for the auxiliary for the coming year, and asked the support of each and every unit in her area. Mrs. Gray served delicious sand wiches, tea and nuts. Tunis, Where U.S. Troops May Cross Thia is a view of Tunis, capital of Tunisia, the North African province that divides French Algeria from Italian Libya. In the foreground is the minaret of the Grand Mosque. It was disclosed that President Roosevelt has sent a letter to the Bey of Tunisia requesting permission for the passage of American troops through his country "to enable them to accomplish their mission ?the elimination of the forces of evil from North Africa." Allied headquarters announced that there has been no attack on Tunisia. (Central Frees) More Than 5,000 Register In County For Kerosene Quotas Approximately 5,000 persons reg istered at the various school houses in this county last week for kerosene and agricultural fuel oil allotments. The exbct number signing up for the quotas could not be determined, a report from the rationing board stat ing that more than 6,000 registration blanks were distributed to the schools and that a few were unused in some places while in other cen ters especially in the towns the sup ply was exhausted before the regis tration was completed. According to rationing schedules, the board is to review each one of Peanut Market Sags Under Heavy Sales The Past Few Days Price Still HoI<Im To Around Seven Onto with Few at Seven and a Quarter Burdened by record sales and night-and-day deliveries, the peanut market showed some signs of weak ness here this morning. However, the outlook continues encouraging and no radical change in the price situa tion is anticipated, certainly not as far as some of the buyers are con cerned. Sales extended well into the twen ty thousand of bags yesterday, and deliveries were unofficially estimat ed at 9,000 bags for the day, includ ing several hundred bags deliver ed to the government warehouses for oil During the past several days the market has held firm at 7 cents with some of the buyers paying a quarter. Seven cents was fairly gen eral this morning, but when the Wil liamston Peanut Company withdrew its buyers late yesterday its price was ranging right up to seven and a quarter cents and holding firm. In a direct statement this morning, the Williamston Company management explained that it would take a week or ten days to catch up with their sales. Unloading operations have been underway at the p^ant night and day, and yet the plant is run ning far behind despite the fact that it is operating two shifts in the plant and continuing receiving operatons (Continued on page six) Wilson Property Is Resold At Auction The $17,500 bid having been rais ed, the Marshall D. Wilson home place and (arm here were re-sold at public auction by the commission ers, Messrs. B. A. Critcher and Vance Bunting, in front of the court house here yesterday noon. The prop erty was sold to Roy T. Griffin for an announced sum of $21,075. The sale was made subject to dower rights. Bids are also said to have been raised on other property offered at a first sale a little over two weeks ago, and other sales will be held soon. The re-sale yesterday was start etTSl about $18,375 and several In terested bidders pushed the pur chase price up in spurts, two of them dropping out when the price went beyond $20,000. 0. Heart Game Broadcast Three Miles In The Air Breezing through the air at 220 miles an hour and at an altitude of 16,000 feet. Bay Goodmon, Jr.. lis tened to the Carolina-Duke football game last Saturday afternoon. He was about 100 miles from his base at Jacksonville, Fla., at times, but the reception was good, he advised his parents in a letter. the applications and get the coupons i or rationing cards into the hands of the registrants the early part of next week. It is hardly possible for the board to handle the task by that j time, and in all probability limited sales will be made possible when the purchaser signs a credit memoran dum promising to surrender to the dealer a certain number of coupons when the rationing cards ure dis tributed It is not quite clear how the distribution of the coupons or ration ing cards will be effected, but the job, no matter how it is handled, will be a big one. The registration is believed to be fairly complete, but anyone who did not register last week is directed to write or call for a registration blank and prepare it himself or get some one to preparb it for him and mail it to the board at once. The supply of 300 application forms for fuel oil used in central heating plants is temporarily ex hausted, but additional forms are ex pected by the latter part of the week. The supply of regular kerosene ap plication forms is adequate, howev er. Man Jailed Here For Attempting to Break Into Country Home Walter Cliamhlee llu<l Served TerniH for IVepiug into Alionkie llonieH a Walter Chamblee, 42-ycar-old Hertford County Negro, was jailed here late last Saturday afternoon for allegedly attempting to break into the home of Mrs. Essie Beacham with the intent to commit a felony. Sent to the prison camp here as a peeping torn from Ahoskie, Cham blee only a few days before had com pleted his third road sentence, and it is believed that while he was an inmate of the prison he had learned that Mrs. Beacham lived alone with her children in the home near the prison camp. Going to the home about 11 o'clock, Chamblee raised a window, placed his hands on the head of a bed and had one foot inside a room where a member of the family was sleeping. Darrell Simpson, a State Highway employee at the camp and a visitor in the home at the time, heard the intruder and rushed out to catch him. Chamblee ran and as he cross the yafd he caught a clothes wire under his neck and was thrown to the ground. Simpson struck him over the head several times with a stick, but the intruder got up and escaped. Calling for help, Simpson overtook the man further down the country road, but was un able to hold him. Chamblee is believed to have tried to break into another home in the neighborhood earlier that night. Some one tried to enter the home, (Continued on page six) r TOO OLD! Men forty-five years old or i.l/lur arp l/ui nlH f<?r uct i vp mil? ? 'WW ?WIT V ??? ? ? Itary nervier and will not be sub ject to service in the armed serv Icea, according to telegraphic in atructionn received by the coun ty draft board Iant Saturday. If a regiatnuit reachea hln 4Mb birthday before he ia ordered to report for induction he la ex empt from military aervice, ac cording to the apecial Inatruc tiona received by the draft Two or three Martin County men 45 year* old or older have already been inducted into the Army. It isn't likely that they will be discharge If- \ War As It Relates To Home Front Is Reviewed for Week in Afrira Calls For Greater Sacrifice# on Tlw Home Front The world-shaking events taking I place along the southern shores of the Mediterranean already have ser iously affected Axis strategy, now | on the defensive. At home, they call for greater sacrifices, speeding up of salvage drives, tire and fuel sav ings, tightening of all our efforts to provide our fighting men in Africa land elsewhere with whatever they need to defeat the enemy. The crushing defeat of Nazi Gen eral Rommel's army by the British Eighth Army, strengthened by U. S. air fighters and other Allied forces, was made possible in part by the great volume of lend-lease ship ments of war materials and equip ment to Egypt during the past nine months. During this period we ship ped to Egypt more than 1,000 planes, many hundreds of tanks, of which more than 500 were mediums, 20,000 trucks and hundreds of pieces of ar tillery. The American landing in force on the French North African coast, to I forestall Hitler's intention to make ; use of French possessions as military | bases, called also for transporting I huge quantities of war materials from this country to the Mediter ranean, and much rhore must be sent to maintain our strategic actions. I Says "Petrol Necessary as Blood" At a critical moment in the last ; war, Premier Clemenceau of France said, "Petrol is as necessary as blood {in the battles of tomorrow." At that time we sent all the gasoline that France asked for, and now we must I send fuel oil and gasoline to our men battling for freedom in French colonial soil. To do this means that more than ever we'll have to la* sparing in our use of fuel oil, drive as little? as possible to save gasoline and rubber. Motorists who need more mileage than their basic ration will have to give good reasons for re questing an extra allowance of gas oline, and supplemental gasoline ra tions in most cases will not be grant ed unless the applicant belongs to a bona fide car sharing group of at least four members. Ration books will not be issued until December 1 because of unavoidable delays in dis tribution. (Continued on page six) * Deserter Returned To Camp Saturday Charged with being absent with out leave, David Elwood Davis, 21 year-old white man, was arrested here last Friday and jailed by Pa trolman W EV Saunders. Davis, ex trolman W Saunders. Davis, ex plaining l^HMong stay at home, told several different stories. He was said to have been away from the the Army about five weeks. Army police called here Saturday and re turned him to camp to face court martial and punishment. When confronted with the AWOL charge, Davis was quoted as saying he just could not take it. As far as it could be learned, Da vis is the second man to be rounded Up' In this County for deserting the Army. Orphanage Superiniendent To Make Radio Addre?* C. K. Proctor, superintendent of the Oxford Orphanage, will deliv er his annual Thanksgiving message to North Carolina Masons and the general public over Radio Station WPTF next Sunday afternoon gi 1:45 o'clock. Secretary Ben Courtney of the Skewarkey Lodge, is urging all Ma sons to hear the orphanage head as he delivers an appeal in the name of humanity. ' More County Men Are Called For Induction ROUND-UP A marked decrease in the number of drunks rounded up by local and county officers last week-end is noted in the jail rec ords for the period. Only eight persons were arrested and jail ed, and four of them were jailed for other causes, one for desert ing the Army, one for drunken driving, one for larceny and re ceiving and one for housebreak ing. Three of the eight were young white men. New State License Taps One-tenth As Large As Old Ones The 1913 Tag* Will LohI Just An Mneli uiul Will Be Harder To Buy Raleigh Although Tar Heel auto j owners will get only one tiny slip I of precious metal for an auto tag? | instead of the formidable two large i tags of previous years?they will go to twice as much trouble and spend I three times as much time in getting I them. And they'll cost just as much. Consequently, it is anticipated that : tens of thousands of last-minute ap plicants may be earless as well as j gasless January 1st, according to the i N C. Motor Vehicle Department; I which is rather frantically trying to' | warn motorists to start buying their I tags on Dec. 1st, first day of sales. Must Have Old Card In the first place, no 1943 tabs will I be issued until the motorist has turn ed in his 1942 registration card.. if the motorist has lost his 1942 card, there is only one way to get it re placed?via the Motor Vehicle of fice in Raleigh. Branch offices of the Carolina Motor Club, which is handl ing sales in about (50 cities, are for bidden to issue replacements for lost 1942 cards. This is the first year the autoist has had to turn in his last ! year's card, and officials estimate that some thousands of Tar Heels will suddenly discover that they do! not have one. They recommend that motorists check now to see if they have such a card, and, if, not, to make application for replacement immediately. Their concern over this comes from the experience they had dur ing the OPA gasoline registration. At that time, some 40,000 North Car-1 olinians discovered they had lost j their 1942 registration cards, and the Raleigh Motor Vehicle office was flooded for weeks with?applications j for replacements At one time, around 1,000 letters and telegrams | were being received each day. said j Boddie Ward, chief of the bureau. Must List Occupation In the second place, each appli cant's occupation must be written j on the second of the four cards of the new registration strip- also a! new step to save time when the 1943 cards are received, applicants are asked t?> write their occupation right ' above the line "Alphabetical file"] which appears on the bottom of the second card. This is a requirement of the War Department this year. (Continued on page six) Mans Clothes Are Found Near River The discovery of a body in Ho an-1 oke River at Jamcsville a short time ago is being followed by a series of i mysterious circumstances which may \ or may noj he connected with the discovery. Officers, baffled by recent I developments, believe the incidents j are to be directly or indirectly asso- | ciated with the drowning or mur der of Sam Jones, colored man, sev-! era I weeks ago. Recovering the body from the riv ?r, officers were unable to identify j it or have it identified. Interment was in Potter's Field at the old eoun- j ty home. Last week it was reported that Sam Jones, an employee of Fore man-Blades Lumber Company, had disappeared without calling for his pay check. He Was working when last seen at the company's camp on Devil's Gut, a few miles up the riv-1 er from Jamesville. Officers have been unable to learn Jones' address, but his social -security*card -haa bean turned over to the authorities who are trying to check his records. Last Saturday, company employ ees found in the swamps near the camp, a shirt with four $1 bills in the pocket, a pair of overalls, a jumper, gloves, double-barrel shot gun, flashlight and a pair of boots. But the owner has not been found. Officers say it might be the clothes were those of the drowned man, but whuL the body wm. found It Wll fully clothed except for the feet. The recovery fo the body, Jones' disap pearance and the discovery of the abandoned clothes form a mystery that officers have not yet been able to solve. Next White Group To Leave Includes N umber of 1-B Men I>.'f?Tiii, ?|, Expire for Sever al Orafleo I.caring the County "Soon" One of the largest number of young <Tan? V ,U' T" b" summoned an Army induction center for fi nal examination and subsequent ac ceptance or rejection will move out within the next few days. "nTyoung remlrt" hl f ad> '"'' n ",slrut'ted to their ? !l " f "r'y Certal" tha' their seven -day furlough will per Zn!r7^:" Day No complete check could be had str ndsT'l "V "f ?r"aP Stiuct.d to report "soon" have al r ad> reported for induction at one z:v:iTr di,r,"K ??? 'wo serv-ie ,i, aS Unf" f,,r military I a ? ,Werc '''-wed in I B and A remedial classifications. Since I hat time, rules have been changed ,lho although reject p 'e^ l< usl> are now subject to military service, possibly that of a limuS '".lure Quite a feu of those young men to answer the current call had ?<n deferred for one reason or an other but mainly on account of farm ing operations Their deferments are then"!'? a"d "uy arr now taking then places .,i regular order. It is mn > 'Stood that the l)eceml,er call, ?"id n ,s understood to be a large ???"? will be fillTd by those young men Whose deferments expire the fnM of next month. 1 he names and addresses of the men to report "soon" for a visit to the induction center are. as follows: I .-"ice Dutton Hardy, RFD 2 Wil hamston Hardy was the first white mm drafte,! ,,i this county. Report mi, to the induction center. Hardy underwent the Army physical ex ?'nn.ianoi, and was rejected on March City*"' Duniel Bakl'r. RfD 1, Oak William Henry Ange. RFD 1 Jamesvillc. Will,;,.,, Ernest (Cotton) Davis, W.lhamslon and Tarhoro Young Mr Davis was rejected in May of last' Cushing Biggs Bailey, RFD 2, Wil liamston. J Hugh Burras Bailey, RFD 2 Wil hamston. vine""'"' R",!,'re- KKD '? Rnherson st(!n'""n R"g,'rso"' RfD 2. Wilharn v |Ke"y Warren. RFD 2. Hobcrson tieorge Hynian Harrison. Jr Wil liamston. " t, """ EIP,'",lsa J"hnson. Williams t"" Mr Johnson, former county solictor, recently enlisted in the Navy, but his name is in the list of those instructed to report for in duction. vjUoyd Ayers. RFD I, Roberson F""ih Keel, Wilhamston c,nd (icorjjctown, S. C. Joe Thomas Thompson, Jr., RFD I Kobcrsonvillc ' Charlie Thomas Edmondson, RFD ?>. Williamston. ^Robert Asa Edmondson, Jr., Ham e,I'1nv.Hm"S"n **"'*? RF? 1 Rob' Rtiiasr K?ursoni rfd Cyril Harrison Respass, RFD 1 Robersonville. Lloyd Monroe Hassell, Jamesville. Onward Lloyd Gardner, RFD 1 Janu'svillc. ' Ernest Daniel Ward. RFD 1 Rob ersonville. _ Charge Washington Taylor, Ever ttt.s and Albemarle. riiomas Frederick Grimes. RFD 3, Wilhamston Young Mr. Grimes is (Continued on page six) ? Motorist Is Badly Hurt In Accident Williiini Alexander Rogers, young Bear Grass Township colored man, was hurt, possibly seriously, when , Ins car crashed into a wagon load I of wood on the Fones' bridge road in Griffins Township late last Satur day afternoon Suffering a broken collar bone and possible internal in juries, the man is in a Washington hospital for treatment. According to reports Rogers continues in a half dazed condition after having shown igns of marked improvement the day following the accident. Apparently driving at a rapid speed, Rogers rounded a curve in the dirt road just as Charles Butler, al so colored, started to drive the wa gon into his yard. The car struck the left rear wheel of the wagon and scattered wood all over the place, ;one piece flying through the wind shield and striking him on the collar bone. Another piece flew through the hood and tore partly through the dash board. The wreck damage was estimated in excess of $100.