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f , tv ■ass imr PAT DAT WAB BOMB BAT mmm—un mum THE ENTERPRISE OVER THE TOR FOR VICTORY UNITED STATES WAN BONDS'STAMPS VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 38 In J William ston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, May 11, 1913. ESTABLISHED 1899 Special Panels To Aid Expert New Plan To Lighten Burden On Main Ration Board Special Panels Will Consider Applications for Tires, Gas and Fuel Oil Members of the Martin County Rationing Board, after giving free ly of their time for many months, are to get some relief in a new plan now going into effect for handling the rationing program. Heretofore, the one main board has handled vir tually all the work, studying appli cations for tires, gasoline, cars, bi cycles, special allotments and so on. The work required at least one day each week, and often the board mem bers made as many as five trips to the office each week. They were al so called upon to sit as a board of review in those cases charging vio lation of the pleasure bans and speed regulations. Under the new plan, a special board will handle applications for tires, tubes and cars. Another board is handling applications for a^soline. Another panel will continue to han dle fuel oil and kerosene allotments, and still another board wil continue to serve as a war price panel. Appointed to the tire panel, Messrs. Joe G. Corey, chairman, of William ston; Ernest C. Edmondson, of Has sell; Geo. C. Griffin, of Griffins; J. Frank Bailey, of Cross Roads, and Vance L. Roberson, of Roberson ville, held their first meeting last evening in the office of the War Price and Ration Board. These men will meet each Monday evening un til further notice. A report on their first activities could not be had im mediately, but it is understood that they encountered the same old prob lem that has been plaguing the ra tion board. It is the same old story where the demand for tires is great er than the quota. All the men on the board are farmers, it will be noted, but they are well posted on trans portation needs in all lines of en deavor. Working as a supplementary unit to the ration board, the gas panel has been on the job for the past sev eral weeks, and a downward trend j in gas rations is being reported, j Headed by W. O. Griffin, as chair man, Wiiliamston, W. Clayton House, Hamilton; J. F. Crisp, Oak City; Carl Griffin, Jamesville, and T. B. Slade, Hamilton, the gas pan el is making every effort to allot en ough gas to meet actual needs of the applicants, but the day of need ly gallivanting is fast drawing to an end in many cases. This special board is to meet once each week and review the applications for supple mental rations. The Fuel Oil and Kerosene panel, composed of W. E. Dunn, chairman, of Wiiliamston; J. C. Martin, of Rob ersonville; J. C. Norris and Albert T. Perry, Wiiliamston, has already been at work for several months, but its decisions will as is the case with the other boards be virtually final. The War Price Board, composed of W. R. Burrell, chairman, and J. C. Manning, both of Wiiliamston, and H. S. Everett, erf Robersonville, is expected to report increased activi ties as the drive to check inflation and slump out the black markets gains momentum. The work of the several groups will be handled under the direction of the County War Price and Ration Board. Few Violate New State Speed Law The new 35-mile speed law intro duced by the Council of State last Uiursday noon is being generally observed by motorists in this section, according to reports coming from State Highway Patrolmen and mem berjLof other iaw enxOrceniem agen-, cies. Severalpersorib wmtvintSF* ly charged with e-ereeding the Iter* during the first few days the law was in effect, but traffic as a whole has tempered its speed and is mov ing well within the lufft Reports from general observers maintain that defense workers from the several bases are defying the new law, but as far as it could be learned none of them has been cited to the courts. Three cases were booked in the county courts Monday, but only one of them was called. In that case the defendant was dismissed upon the payment of the court costs. It is un derstood that the defendant will now have to answer to the ration board and snow cause why ins Ra tions should not be revoked for a period. While traffic was slowing its pace over the week-end, the volume was materially increased according to reports from the highway patrol. There have been few Saturdays when more traffic was counted in this section than that moving over the streets and surrounding high ways last week-end. t£~ TWENTY-SlittST l3 The turn-over in teacher per sonnel in the white schools of this county is growing: from day to day, a report from the office of the superintendent today stating that twenty vacancies now exLs». that this number will possibly undergo another in t crease shortly. f Suppose J to submit their ap . plications/ within ten days fol ,* lowing the close of school, many teachers are slow in complying with the regulation governing teacher contracts. However, all the white schools have not been closed as many as ten days, and a complete picture of the teach er situation cannot be had at this time Jurymen For June Term of Superior Court Are Chosen —..» With Two Murder Cases Al ready on Docket, Court to Last Longer Than Usual Despite war, labor shortages and other urgent needs in a world gone mad, plans were made by the coun ty commissioners at their regular May meeting for holding the June term of the Martin County Superior Court as usual. Justice must be serv ed .however, and busy farmers and business men will be asked to lay down their plows and tools and re port to the courthouse on June 14 and contribute their services during two or three days for meager pay. There was a time when the jury man’s pay came in handy, but the few dollars offered now are not very attractive. Judge Clawson Williams, of San ford, is scheduled to preside over the term which is scheduled to last only one week but which will hard ly last more than two or three days. The court term was created for the trial of both criminal and civil cases, but the general practice in years past has been to limit the work of the court to the trial of criminal cases. Tire following men were drawn to serve as petit jurors: Griffins Township: Simon D, Rob erson and Marion F. Hodges. Williamston Township: R. L. Hes ter, F. M. Barnes, W. B. Watts, H. L. Daniel, James David Moore, W. A Mobley, Willie Long and H. H. Williams. Robersonville Township: E. C. House, Silas House and Charlie G. Forbes. Goose Nest Township: L. J. Daven port, E. R. Turner, J. F. Flanagan, L. A. Thomas and R. E. Turner. Tile grand jury was sworn in last term, and no changes in that body will follow before next September. All of the petit jurors for the court next month come from four town ships. Demonstrations In Food Preservation —*— Following up the victory garden production program, home econo mists and agents are conducting a series of demonstrations in food preservation. While the attendance is holding to small numbers in most cases, fairly sizable crowds are re porting in some cases. Mrs. Henry Griffin, of the Farm Security Administration, held two demonstrations in the homes of Mrs. Thurman Nicholson tnd Mrs. Per lie Holliday last week. Both of the meetings were well attended. On Thursday afternoon qf this week, Mrs. Griffin will conduct a demonstration in the Hassell school. The meeting will be held at two o’clock and the general public is urged to attend. A similar demon h" bsMwti tho ton school on Thursday, May' 20] and 17.c public is urgetTtc be present. The demonstrations center around canning by the pressure cooking method, canning by the hot water bath method, vegetable brining and the dehydration of fruits and vege tables. Other demonstrations are being planned in various parts of the county. r PATRIOTISM V. "\ Much has been said about the patriotism of miners and many, many others, but in one Martin County tows a reliable report states that one man in the arm* ed services is buying more war bonds than are bought by all the people back in the young man’s home town. The report also pointed out that the gaso line bill for pleasure driving alone would amount to more in a single day than the combined purchases of war bonds and stamps fur an entire month. Basic Machinery Is Rationed l>v Board f Recently 'f'j ■ in Peanut Planters Are Removed —.^(Ha-RaSsa y»J % Special Order -*-—— That Martin County farmers are doing aiong with their old equip ment or doing without is evidenc ed in the list of basic farm machines recently rationed by th«r special board. Reports maintain that re pair parts are faitly plentiful, that the farmers are making needed re pairs and are doing along very well with their oW equ/pgient. In oth er words, tl’ie machinery shortage offers a serious threat, but all indi cations point to a determined effort on the part of the fanners to success fully overcDm*«*ta*(«i(*tacle. Peanut planters are no longer ra tioned and may be bought wherever they are found without a certificate. Several of the planters were ration ed before they were placed on the ration free list, however. The following basic machines were recently iWlBfiT-u in this county: Robert Williams. RFD. Roberson ville, walking cultivator. S. H. Mobley. RFD 2, Williamston, peanut planter E. H. Harrell, Oak City, Cole plant er. Jarvis Perkins, RFD 1, Roberson ville, planter. S. L. Long, Sanford, planter. Robert Edward Leggett, Hobgood, transplanter. G. W. Barrett, Oak City, combine. W. L. Ausborn, Robersonville, gang plow. J. D. Wynne, RFD 1, Roberson ville, gang plow. C. L. Leggett, RFD 3, Williamston, cultivator. J. H. Johnson, RFD 3, Williamston, wheel gang plow. H. M. Peel, Hamilton, cultivator. S. T. Everett, Robersonville, trans planter. Raymond Williams, RFD 2, Rob ersonville, peanut weeder. T. B. Slade, Hamilton, peanut weeder. A. W. Hardison, RFD 1, Williams ton, peanut weeder. J. C. Rawls, RFD 2, Williamston, peanut weeder. Jasper C. Griffin, RFD 2, William ston, power mower. --* Percy D. Asheford Fatally Stabbed by Luke Parsley Here —t— Murder Was Second Reported In This County Within Two WVeks Percy David Asheford, young col ored man and a trusted employee of the Williamston Package Manufac turing Company, was fatally stabbed ay Luke Parsley, colored, on Low er Main Street near the storage tanks }f the Purol Company about 10:30 last Friday night. His heart pierced by the blade of a pocketknife, the man died before medical aid could reach him. The boy, prepared for burial by a local undertaker, was removed to Atkinson, Pender Coun ty, Sunday afternoon for burial. Parsley, a comparatively new comer to this section, took an im mediate leave by foot and boarded a late bus a short distance out of town for Wash' lgton. Picking up his trail, Officer Chas. R. Moore and Pa trolman W. E. Saunders had the man picked up in Washington and they returned him to the jail here in less than three hours after the fatal at tack. He will be given a preliminary bearing before Justice J. L. Hassell here later in the week. Coming here from Wilmington about two years ago, Asheford had made his employers a good worker, and had made many friends among both the white and colored popula tions. Parsley, the husband of Asheford’s sister, told officers that the two had quarreled over liquor. Other reports caching—»he. if . story"' and declare that Asheford had pi ea ded wW^'M^r WT, ‘UTg*’ ing him to stop imposing upon and beating his sister. One report stat ed that Asheford had warned Pars ley that relief would be asked of the police, that the attack followed a short time later. The murder was the second re ported in this county within two weeks, Sheppard Spruill, Goose Nest colored farmer, fatally shooting his young wife on the Mizelle farm the latter part of April. Jamesville Changes Its Town Officials Janagginllg rfinnrfinB in small number to the polls last week, effected several changes in their town government for the next two years. Joe H. Holliday is succeeding W. W. Walters who is resigning as mayor. The new board of commis sioners include O. G. Carson and John Long, new members, and W. B. Gaylord who succeeds himself. Retiring board members are, Her beit L. Sexton and O. W. Hamilton. U. S. SUB SUBDUES A JAP SHIP IN THE PACIFIC 4 r? ;• -t. ♦ .. * * ? ’ * -1 V. MEMBERS OF AN AMERICAN SUBMARINE CREW give the coup de grace to a Japanese trawler after subduing it with gunfire somewhere near the land of the Rising Sun. The jwwr.vce t :sslng fire bombs, also railed "Molotov cocktaiis” aboard the Nipponese vessel to burn the hulk. V. S. Navy photo, (international) WPA Closes Office Doors In This District Last Saturday Born out of the depression, the Works Progress Administration af ter almost ten years of steady and solid growth last Saturday folded its tent, locked its office doors and was for the most part absorbed by industry, war and increased de mands for labor on the home front. Closing its doors last Saturday, the district office was opened here back in September 1936. Well over 100 persons were employed in the offices during the organization’s hey day, but for months the forces have been dwindling to keep up with the changing times. Even before the war, the forces were being curtailed, and at the curtain last Saturday there were only four persons in the office, and they had been asked to remain at their posts until all unfinished bus iness could be handled. The closing was effected without ceremony, but it was a different story back in the thirties when the office was opened here and when a man's labor was rated as low as 40 and 50 cents a day. The organization was burdened with political appoint ments, and there were the trifling, but measured in unbiased terms it accomplished far more than many of its critics say it did. Plans and methods were possibly advanced contrary to the ideas of big business, but for the approxi mately one billion the organization spent each year during the past ten, national income went up several bil lion, And today right here in this county are schoolhouses, gymna siums, streets, roads, municipal projects and a record of service in lunch rooms and sewing rooms to offset the expenditures. Possibly it muddled its way through, but the WPA served its purpose. r ABUSED v. ] Said to bav,e .been abused, the emergency issuance of kerosene and fuel oil has been ordered suspended by the Office of Price Administration. Rations will have to come through the coun ty War Price and Ration Board or the consumer will have to do without, according to definite instructions received by the board in this county this week. It is understood that thousands of gallons of fuel oil and kero sene were issued under the em ergency ration system in this county, that the emergency ra tions exceeded a reasonable point. Ban On Beer Sales Aid To Sobriety Placing prohibition in effect for a day, the ban on beer sales from 11:30 Saturday night to 7 o’clock Monday morning was a great aid to sobriety, according to reports corning from law enforcement headquarters for the county and town. Individuals even noticed a marked improvement in lomraon decency. With one or two exceptions, the ban was strictly observed. A report from one joint where sales were ad vanced after a bootleg fashion stat ing that rowdism was present and that one beer-soaked drunk was ripped by a knife in several spots. Several filling stations with the bus iness centered around beer sales dosed Sunday for the first time in many months, and several cafes and eating joints suspended business dm - ing all or u part of ihr-dtry?— ' -sBPfejr applicable only to sales in the town, the old habituals footed it to filling stations just outside the town limits to find that conditions were bone dry there too. Driven by an acute thirst, one ad dict grabbed a bottle of beer from an ice box in a local business Sun day and ran out, but the frequent trips to the beer boxes by errand boys were eliminated from the start. Advanced on a county-wide basis, the ban is applicable each night from 11:30 to 7 o’clock the follow ing morning and from 11:30 Satur day night to the following Monday KSFRiSfif st 7 o’clock. Private Henry Harrison Gets Promotion In Army -Si Fort Bragg—Private First Class Henry D. Harrison, Jr, of Route 2, Williamston ,has been promoted to the grade of Corporal at the Head quarters of Fort Bragg’s Field Ar ■ iillery Replacement Training Cen ter. jBuilding And Loan j StocklioTders Hold Annual Meet Today J --- # Marked DrrrraNi' in Number uml Amount of Loans Not ed aw Result of War Holding their annual meeting in the county courthouse this morning, stockholders of the Martin County Building and Loan Association re elected all the directors and heard a brief review of the organization’s activities for the year ending last December 31. The meeting, while poorly attend ed, had the required stock represen tation and was in session only a short time. Earnings, according to the secre tary’s report read before the meet ing, for the period amounted to 7.02 percent, the association still offer ing an attractive investment. Despite the curtailment of build ing activities on the home front as a result of the war, the organization handled 31 loans during the period as follows: fourteen for new home construction in the sum of $19,346.42; seven for the purchase of homes in the amount of $18,500, and ten for other purchases in the sum of $7, 805.99, making a grand total of $45. 652.41 in loans. At the present time the associa tion has 6,748 installment shares and 2,028 full-paid shares of stock in force. In addition to its regular activi ties, the association has been active in promoting the sale of war bonds j a no "7)7oft 10i ftijf’Tffe ' w”F**otbPf;fm '",fn' ec-ery t/ay-possible. - Ther .. vwr& vi are TP-" elected: C. D. Carstarphen, C. B. Clark, K. B. Crawford, N. C. Green, J. E. King, W. C Manning, Frank Margolis, Wheeler Martin, D. G. Matthews and Jesse Whitley. The group is scheduled to meet in the secretary's office on Thursday night of this week and elect officers for the new year and to handle other business for the organization. ————* Guns Trained On Local Fishing Party At Beach -%—— Taking time out for a swim some where along the shores of Nags Head la^t 'eeek-enr^ members of a fishing party from this section had machine guns trained on them as they started to leave the surf, ac cording to reports heard here yes terday. Names of the parties could not be learned, but. or.e report stat ed that the Coast Guardsmen were ready for action. The -.wimmers do not refer to the incident as another joke, it was de clared. Issues New Warning Against Illegal Use Of B And C Gasoline —*— Order Comes When Supplies On East Coast Are Low est Since War Started Declaring that cast coast gasoline supplies “are shorter now than at any time since the war began,’’ Price Administrator Prentiss Brown last week announced a nationwide cam paign against pleasure driving on supplemental rations. This time cars will not be stopped on the highway, Brown said in de claring that it will not be a ’’snoop ing’’ campaign, but— Drivers will be interviewed by po lice and OPA investigators on occa sion, and in some cases “license num bers will be noted and the drivers will bo asked to present an explana tion to the district OPA office. The drive is aimed at non-essen tial use of B and C gasoline rations. Holders of A bocks only need not worry, and those who have extra ra tions are ' G.K. if they can prove their pleasure driving is burning up only the 'gasoline acquired with their A book. However Brown stressed that "with the limited amount of driv ing that an A book permits it is im possible for anyone to travel very far or very often to race tracks, or to distant resorts, or for any other non-essential purposes. Motorists found doing so and hold ing B or C rations probably are mis using their rations, he added. He said the police will cooperate with the OPA investigators in turn ing in license numbers of drivers who attend race tracks, and other amusement spots “out of keeping with their gas allowance.” Wheeler Peaks Died Suddenly On Friday Funeral services were conducted last Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o’clock from the home for Wheeler Foster Peaks, farmer, who died suddenly last Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock. Rev. Dennis Warren Davis conduct ed the last rites and interment was in the Harris Cemetery in Bear Grass Township. A victim of arthritis, Mr. Peaks had been a patient sufferer for about eight years. Despite his af fliction, he was able to be up and about most of the time, supervising his farm operations. During last Fri day he complained about a pain in his chest, but his condition was not considered alarming until shortly be fore 4 o’clock. K> was sitting in the swing on the front porch, when he TOgt v.-imm1?!,'e rttsmttca: * - i t Sallie Williams Peaks, he was born near Williamston 55 years ago last December 28. He lived in the com munity all his life and engaged in farming. In 1911 he was married to Miss Carrie Rogers who survives with the following children, Arthur Peaks, of Bear Grass Township; Jo (Continued on page six) ROUND-UP Maybe it was or maybe it was not as a result of the beer sale ban, but the rsusd up sf drunks in this section hit a low point last week-end. The number of arrests dropped from nine dur ing the week-end before to four last week-end. Two of the four were booked for drunkenness, one for murder and one for larceuy and receiving. Only one of the four was white, and the ages of the group ranged from 23 to 39 years. World Is Anxiously Awaiting Plans for aCoy^fjeiij Invasion ■-#-*—■— Allied Success in North Afri •—<sf» Ref8P:kA-a;, ■a—Mcj&r - - Turning Point in W-ir -» Following the great Allied suc cesses in North Africa, the world is now anxiously awaiting develop ments in the further prosecution of the war. Heartened by the sweep ing victories in Tunisi.^ the Allied nations see Hitler’s fate hanging in the balance, but how the Allied command will move to |eal that fate is a great military secr/t. However the observers are doing some wild guessing, and if the plans of pro cedure follow the guesses, Adolf Hitler will be snow'ed under from all sides. The observers have Pow erful armies marching dow/i on Germany from North Africa,'" from England through France, froth Nor way, from Greece through the Bal kans and from Russia. Or.’e guess is that the Allies while ^finishing mopping-up operations m North Africa will clear the /islands of Sicily and Sardinia, plu® one or two smaller one in the area. The in vasion of Italy will offer little more than the elimination of the Italian fleet, leaving Hitler intact behind thi' Alps In the eyes ot some observers, France is still the logical point for launching an invasion. Short sup ply routes can support a drive there. The Middle East, while out of the main picture just now, may be back in the limelight over night with the possibility that the attack will be launched at Hitler's back door. Dur ing the meantime, Hitler is suffer ing with a severe case of the invas ion jitters. While the Germans have worked feverishly to fortify the long borders to the European fort ress, they are now said to be with drawing from the coasts and locating their strength at strategic points for quick dispatch to invasion centers. Most of the Germans’ defense pow er-other that that concentrated at vulernable points—is well back from the coast, held ready to be thrown at whatever point is threatened. If Hitler has followed the guesses of the observers, there is little wonder he has the Sitters. Very little has been heard from cf tieial sources about invasion plans, but General Henri Giraud is quoted as saying that an invasion of Europe is “not far off”. Unconfirmed re ports today stated that General Geo. C Marshall will likely be placed at the head of the Allied supreme com mand. L)ui ing the meantime, Gen Devers has reached England to take over command of the American forces. He succeeds General Frank Andrews who lost his life in a plane crash in Iceland the early part of lust week. It is generally believed that no breathing spell will be allowed the continent defenders, that softening up activities have already started or will be launched immediately. The suddenness marking the cli max reached in the Tunisian fight dazed the world, the Allies soon re covering from the shock to taste sweet revenge. The Germans, how ever, are still dazed, their worries and troubles aggravated many fold. In the conquered countries, the downcast and enslaved people are showing new signs of hope. The fall of Bizerte and Tunis came last Friday afternoon, a review of the activities showing that the A mericans in their drive into Bizerte were from six to eight miles ahead of the battle progress reports. The gains were made against stubborn resistance and the fall of the two ports came only after the enemy had about exhausted his ammunition. (Continued on page six) Transplanting Of Tobacco Resumed <► Delayed a week or ten days by blue mold and strong winds, tobac co transplanting is being resumed -. . *yv- T.t.c fas’.-.. is yet fa-" <«. ®~ iis-SUnvaa, a-mi- b is—fiow' -et-s latest since 1932^wa rf? ing was continued well into June in this county. if The task is being resumed despite the unusually dry weather, the far mers trusting that transplantings now will catch a rain in a “day or two.” Rain fell in some parts of the county over the week-end and a few outlying areas reported light rains Monday afternoon, but the county as a whole is unusually dry. In some sections about one-half of the crop has already been trans olanted, while in others hardly more than from 10 to 15 per cent of the crop has been transferred from the Ov-d i.O Ult xielda. T. i ihoae v uju where early plantings were effected, extensive resettings ar now under way. Weather conditions are almost ideal for the peanut crop, but cotton and corn have not done so well. Cold weather resulted in poor stands a short time ago, and many farmers plowed their fields and replanted the crops in their entirety in a num ber of cases.
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