PAT ©AT WAS BOND DAT —un MU4K THE ENTERPRISE 'VE8 THE TOP FOR VICTORY with UNITED STATES WAH BOHDS*STAMPS VOLUME XLVI—NUMBER 44 IF illiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, June l, 1913. ESTABLISHED 1899 Considerable Loss In Loeal Laundry lion Week or Ten' FJlt)g, ~ One Report Ssys - Believed to have started near an exhaust fan, fire did considerable damage to Lilley’s Laundry on West Warren Street here last evening at 7 o’clock. No official estimate on the loss could be had immediately, but according to a preliminary survey made early today by Fire Chief G. P. Hall, the damage will approximate $4,000. It is estimated that the dam age of clothes will amount to $2,000 and that repairs and machine re placements will cost about $1,000. Damage to the building will run between $700 and $1,000. Operating the plant at a loss, Mr. J. Eason Lilley, the owner, in an ef fort to curtail expenses, cancelled much or all of the insurance on the machinery and clothing only about ten days ago. Insurance on the build ing was still in force, it is under stood, but the loss there was minor compared with the damage result ing to cmuiflfflfiS machines. Starting in the wall on the west side of the building, the fire char red only a small area there and burn ed into the attic, but the main struc tural work was not materially dam aged. Rollers on the pressing ma chines were burned, and it is believ ed that some of the machinery was warped. The plant had suspended operations about an hour earlier for the day. None of the records was lost and the management explained this morning that a complete inventory was possible, that very few clothes were burned completely and that it was possible to make fairly accur ate adjustments. Very little can be done until insurance representatives make a survey of the damage, but every effort will be made to re pair the damage and resume opera tions as soon as possible, according to a statement issued this morning by the management. Patrons are asked to be patient, the management assuring them that every effort will be made to adjust every loss as quickly and as fairly as possible, but it is fairly certain * that no clothes can be handled by the laundry before some time next week, if that early. When the alarm was sounded at seven o’clock, smoke was leaking through sides and top of the build ing in volume. Work of the volun teers was unusually effective, and while the loss was considerable, it could easily have been much great- | (Continued on page six) -* Twenty-Three Men From This County Accepted by Army Number Accepted by Navy Out of Recent Call Could Not Be Learned Out of approximately sixty Mar tin County men reporting to an Army induction center last Friday, twenty three were accepted outright by the Army. Two or three were detained and their status could not be learn ed here today. Quite a few of the men were accepted by the Navy, but no official "audit” has been releas ed and the number and their names could not be learned here immed iately. The percentage of men accepted out of the last group was the largest in recent months, the rejections run ning as high as 75 per cent in sorgo cases. It is believed that possibly fifty or sixty per cent of the last con tingent to report to the induction center was accepted either by the Army or Navy. None was accepted by the Coast Guard as far as it could be learned. Most of the group, or ra ther about 36 out of the approxi mately 60 men, were mere lads, or boys in their teens just out of high school in many cases, and most of ! them ‘ stuck." Several of the older i fellows stuck, too, one report stating ! that the induction officers gobbled I up Professor C. B. Martin and At torney Paul D. Roberson. The names of the men accepted by the Army, are, as follows: Paul D. Rc'berson, Charles W. Gurkin, Jr., William B. Dickerson, Horace A. Ray, Robert Cullen Whit ley, Bernard E. Spencer, Robert L. Etehriage, Maurice D. Brinson, Jesse W. Wood, Jr., William V. Ward, Ar thur Smith, Jr., David L. Newbern, Charles B. Martin, Arthur Wallace Lilley, William H. Peel, Thomas R. Griffin, Arthur D. Johnson, Thomas L. Speller, Roy S. Hardison, Earl T. Harrell, Charles W. Coltrain, William C. Hardison, William E. Rogers. The county’s June call is to be, answered the eaily ^>ait uf ucaI j week, according to induction notices j received by some registrants this ] week. It could not be learned how j many men the draft board will be \ able to send, but the number is be j lieved to be far below the quota. The young men accepted last Fri- i day are to report for active service i on Friday of this week in most cases. War Tough On Prosecuting Attorneys In County’s Court The. war is it ltyigh. t» [to Keep the v.teis of •jc.-'diee •turning, [the tribunal reporting yesterday that lit was jshart-a. solicitor again. -Aster I ney Paul I). Roberson, who has been ] ably handling the job during most of the time since Prosecutor Don E. Johnson entered the service, is to report for active duty in the Army on Friday of this week. It was known some time ago that Attorney Roberson was subject to call, but no action was taken pend ing the outcome of the young man's final physical examination at the induction center. He was accepted last Friday. Yesterday, the attorney performed the regular duties of the office, bid members of the bar good bye and expressed the keen hope The an acting .soh'eit'dTyviii likely be the first bus iness birthe calendar for ifre county commissioners when they meet next Monday morning in regular session shortly after nine o'clock to handle the appointment before the court convenes. Just what action the board will take is not known, but it is gen erally believed that the position will be offered to Attorney Wheeler Mar tin. Approached yesterday after noon for a statement, Attorney Mar tin said he had not thought about the appointment, that he enjoyed the work when he was pinch-hitting for Solicitor Don E. Johnson and that he would consider the appointment if it was offered him. Youth Fatally Hurt In Auto-Bicycle Accident Ask Volunteers To Fill In Forms For No. 3 Ration Rook Finding that many people in the county are improperly filling in their applications for Ration Book No. 3, the Martin County War Price and Rationing Board this week is appealing to a num ber of citizens in the several communities to assist the appli cants in preparing the forms. The task is quite simple, but so many of the cards are being im properly prepared, that it was deemed necessary to name a group of persons to help han dle the task. However, it is per fectly all right for the individ ual to prepare the application or get some one who knows how to do it for him. The following persons are be ing called upon to help handle the work: J. Rossell Rogers, Bear Grass; Dick Smith, Woo lard Hardware Co,, Wiliiamston; Mrs. Katherine Harrell, Hamilton; J. W. Eubanks, Hassell; II. M. Ainsley, Oak City; David Grimes, Robersonville, and Mrs. Clyde Brown, Jamesville. j Fatal Accident Is Fifth Reported in The County In 1943 -e—L_ liimral Services Held Mon day Afternoon for Homer Lee Raynor, Eleven -- Homer Lee Raynor, eleven years old, died in a local doctor’s office early last Saturday evening, a few minutes after he had run his bi cycle head on into a car on N. C. Highway 125 in Poplar Point Town ship. His neck broken, the youth died without regaining conscious ness. The accident was the fifth fatal one reported in the county so far this year, the highway death toll exceeding the county’s war casual ties in the corresponding period. Returning from an errand to u filling station, the child was riding his wheel behind a cart. Failing to hear or unmindful of a warning from "Buf” Gurganus, who was riding in the cart, the boy turned out to pass and went into the path of a car driv I en by Merlin Hollis toward Hamil i ton. Hollis, about 90 or 100 feet away when he saw the boy turn from be I hind the cart, started applying brakes ' and turned to the side of the road, j the car and bicycle crashing on the edge of the hard surface Knocked from his wheel the boy is believed to have suffered the broken neck when he fell to the pavement. The car traveled only nine or ten feet across a ditch after str.king the boy. Hollis, a tenant on the Everett farm near Palmyra, stands charged with involuntary manslaughter and will be given a hearing before Justice Hassell in Williamston on June 9th. Damage, estimated at about $25, was done to his old 1933 model car The bike was badly bent. The accident the third involv ing a car and bicycle on the high ways of the county during the week. Funeral services for the youth were conducted at the Vernon Meth odist Church on the old Williams ton-Everetts road Monday afternoon at 4:30 o’clock by Rev. Thomas L. House, the family’s pastor. Interment was in the family cemetery near the church. Besides his parents, Mr. Sylvester (Pete) Raynor and Mrs. Dailie Wil liams Raynor, he is survived by the fdllowing brothers and sisters, Julia, Jerry, Frances and Margaret. His brother, Jerry, is in the serv ice and was called home by the trag edy. The young service man. home on a visit a few weeks ago, discov (Conlinued on page six) Boy Painfully Hurt When Struck By Car j —«— Gurney Howard, young delivery buy for a locaJ grocery, was painful ly but not seriously hurt when he was truck and knocked off his bi cycle in front of the Sinclair Serv ice Station, cornet Main and Smith -} wick Streets here last Saturday night about 8:45 o’clock. Slightly cut on the nose, the boy was skinned in several places on his face and one leg, but no bones were broken. Af ter receiving treatment in a doctor’s office he was able to continue to his home. Riding down the main street, the boy crashed into the side of a car driven by E. J. Eatrnan. The car, traveling down the main street 1 started to make a left turn into the filling station, suddenly blocking the path of the boy on the bike. No charges have been brought in the case n was reported by tr.e po lice department. Earlier in the week, a young col ored grocery delivery boy was thrown from his wheel when a car backed suddenly out of its parking place on the main street. The boy, slightly bruised and his wheel bad ly damaged, was “balled out” for running into the back of the car. Heavy Explosion Is Felt Over Big Area Early This Morning -—— Nil inherit of People Frighten* e