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Little Time Left To Go Over the Top in $918, WO War Loan Drive MAKE BTUT TAT DAT WAS BOND DAT »-MH MUiK VOLUME XLVI—-JVUMBEiJ 77 W illuimston, Marti County, North Carol,na, Tu*»dw\ September 28, l¥J37~ THE ENTERPRISE 0\ XK THE TOP FOR VICTORY with ^ UNITED STATES WAR ^ 30NDS-STAMPS ESTABLISHED 1899 Regular Term Here Several Divorces Are Grant ed; Little Interest Shown In Proceedings -e The Martin County Superior Court is holding the finai sessions of its two-weeks’ mixed term here today, the proceedings having attracted very little attention. Actually the court has been in session hardly four days during the two weeks it was scheduled to sit. At one time today there were only four persons in the audience, but the bar was fairly crowded with litigants and wit nesses. Proceedings not previously report- : ed follow: Based on two years’ separation, a 1 divorce was granted Josie Howell ' in her case against Eli Howell. A divorce was also granted Rufus i Edwards against Ruby Edwards or. 1 similar grounds. After granting a divorce to Blon zie P. Harrell in her suit against Francis S. Harrell, the court granted the custody of their five-year-old daughter to its mother. The court stipulated, however, that the father could see the child from time to time either at the home of Mrs. J. H. Hopkins or at the home of E. N. Har- i rell for as long as a day and night at the time, but the plaintiff must have at least two days’ notice to have the child ready for the visit. Cost of the action was taxed against the plain tiff, “and the cause retained for fur ther orders relative to support and welfare of the child," the court ruled. In the case of James E. Smith wick against Josie M. Smithwick, now Mrs. Josie M. Montgomery, the plaintiff asked part-time custody of their child. The defendant was awarded custody of the child, but the plaintiff was given right to visit the child at its home in Wilmington or elsewhere where the defendant • may be living at such times as will r not cause interference. It was also ordered by the court that the plain tiff is to have custody of the child 1 for a period of two weeks during each 1 summer to live at the home of its grandmother in Jamesville. 1 The case of G. H. Harrison, sur- * viving partner, against R. L. Mizelle, administrator, was settled by agree ment, the plaintiff recovering $154.78 with interest from December, 1D34. A voluntary non-suit was taken by the plaintiff in the case of Nina Bell Riddick agalsst Js-hiv •£stfeMr.*BiA»! ■ dick. v A non-suit was ordered in the case of Mary Paxton Caldwell against Al- 1 fred Caldwell when the plaintiff fail- 11 ed to appear and prosecute the ac- 1 - Man Is Jailed For Duplicating Crime About two years ago, Roosevelt Fagan, colored man, was jailed here for the alleged larceny of an auto mobile. While he was in jail a war rant was received from Beaufort County, authorities explaining that the man was wanted there for forg ery. He was surrendered to the neighboring county authorities. For some reason or other, the man, after serving his sentence imposed upon him in Beaufort County, was given his freedom without being return ed to this county for trial on the old charge. Last week he was arrested and charged with the larceny of an au tomobile from H. F. Williams. Dur ing the meantime, Beaufort authori ties complained that he was wanted there again for forgei-y, placing Fa gan right back where he was about two years ago, Given a preliminary hearing be fore Mayor J. L. Hassell here Wed nesday evening, Fagan was placed iuMei ' ill<1 >?< Du I.,im of $800. Vm able to raise that uin&unt ho lingers the. jnaswFTP1 hat he turned to Bsaufort ti face ine forg ery charge. -* Few Minor Charges Are Heard By Mayor —— A few minor cases were heard by Trial Justice J. L. Hassell in his court here last week. Charged with being drunk and disorderly, the following defendants were taxed with costs designated: Luther William $7.50* J2 J. Neal, $8.50; Deaton Godard, $8.50; M. A. Glisson, $7.50; W. A. Perkins, $7.50. Lear Ryan, charged with violating the unemployment compensation act, was sentenced to jail for thirty days, the court suspending the sentence upon the repayment of $8.50 and $5.50 costs. A similar case brought against Lilly M. Brown was nol pressed EarJv one morning last week a i farmer’s wife near Williamston crammed the greater portion of the family’s earthly savings—$1,301 in green backs in the various denomina tions up to $20—into the kitchen stove for safe keeping while she went to work in tobacco. Returning late that afternoon the wife started pre paring for the evening meal. A fire was built in the stove and she was preparing the dough for the biscuits when she recalled the hiding place for the money. Without offering to pour water on the fire, she reached her hand into the stove, yanked out the burning bag of money and dous ed it in water. Greatly disturbed and holding back tears with sheer might, she re ported to her banker, thinking little about the burns her hand received in recovering the precious parcel. Taking the burnt money, the bank . er was able to piece much of it to | gether, but its present value will I have to be determined by the Fed i eral Reserve Ban kin Richmond. Some of the ends were burned off while other bills were burned in two. Only the bare ashes were left in one or two cases, but t.he serial numbers were fairly discernible on the charred paper. No final account ing has been received from the bank but it is possible that the owner will lose no more than a few dollars. Apparently not certain of the amount of money she had, the good wife made a second search of the stove and found about $230 more, but it was not burned quite so badly and its value was determined locally. Assured that new money would be issued, the owner insisted that the! banker keep it for deposit. “I never I want to keep any more money.” she j was reported to have told the* bank- | er. Second Period Liquor Sales Set New Record f ROUND-UP Local and county officers had a fairly busy week-end round ing- up the drunks. Nine persons, their ages ranging from 24 to 50 years, were jailed, some of the officers stating that a lot of peo ple are getting drunk off a mighty little liquor. It is possi ble, another points out, that the legal brand is being supplement ed by the home made spirits. Seven of the nine persons ar rested and jailed were white. Tobacco Prices On Local Market Reach Record High Figure Aroutuf 260,000 Pounds Sold Yesterday for Average Above 46 Cents •■A-new high-arse f-sisss was recorded on the Williamston market yesterday when approxi mately 265,000 pounds of the golden leaf averaged over 46 cents, or ^46 11 i>er hundred pounds, to be exact. It i'.'i f'.horc, baMjwfJMft-s- ■ age clearly indicates that prices for medium and even the inferior grades were pushing to record levels. Few piles brought less than 40 cents while one after another sold for a price ranging from 44 to 50 cents. It was reliably estimated today that sales for the season to date stand right at six million pounds, that the average will push 41 cents for the entire period. A report from Supervisor of Sales C. U. Rogers this morning indicated that the big block existing ever since tfie short selling period was adopted several weeks ago will be broken to day, that it will--bypaaerejif js^ , 1 farmer with some few exceptions to deliver and sell his tobacco on the same day. Despite peanut digging and cotton picking, sales have held up well on the local market, but it is fairly apparent that the big rush is about spent. However, block sales are to be expected from time to time. Reports from the belt as a whole show that approximately 152.125,702 pounds had been sold up to and in cluding last Friday, ihat the season’s (Continued on page six) AND OUT Overly anxious w serve his country, Jimmie Mitchell vol unteered for service in the U. S. Navy a few days ago. Last Saturday he went to Raleigh and was sworn in at 11:50 a. m , but his official connection with the Navy was brief. At 1:30 p. m. the same day he was discharg ed. It was a brief service rec ord, but the seventeen-year-old admitted that his service record in the Navy was not as brief as Pat's was in the Army. The boy had wiggled consent from his father to join the serv ice, and when the final show down came he admitted that his father did not want him to join at such a tender age. “They swore me in and then cussed me out,” the boy said. “But in stead of sending me to jail for twenty years, they tore up the papers and told me to get for home—and try again,” the boy said. Total of $1,367,904.46 Is Spent For Liquor Since Stores Opened -■*> Sali»H for Last April, May and June $35,000 Greater than in Same Months, 1942 Despite rationing but before the shortage stared the guzzlers directly in the face, liquor sales this year reached an all time high for the months of April, May and June, ac cording to an official audit just re cently released by the County Al coholic Beverages Control Board. The sales—$87,011.20—were great er by about $35,000 than those in any corresponding quarter since the stores were opened in July, 1935. On ly in two other periods, the one ending last December 31 and the one ending last Marcii 31, have liquor sales approached or passed the rec ord established during the second quarter of this year. .TKo supply -ptasteseOs. oertsip to result in a marked decrease in sales for the third quarter, but the stores even with their shelves empty of hard liquors have continued open during curtailed periods for the sale of a little rum and some wines. It is j '•WW/'-'dppareSit- «.;,i $&» i\v. ' i '‘iHfrlPUllJ 1 : ed reduction in consumption The il legal brands are well under control, and some say prohibition is nearer >a reality now than at any time in years. Increased l|quor prices, no doubt, account for some of the increase in sales reported for the second quar ter of this year, but the gain for the most part is traceable to greater con sumption. Add beer and wine sales to the total and Martin County's al coholic beverage bill for the period will approximate $150,000, it is esti mated. The sale of hard liquors in the past seven vpars has increased four times, and the trend was decidedly upward when the supply shortage struck a few weeks ago. To date, the legal stores have sold $1,367,904.46 worth of liquors, the* net profits for the same period—July, 1935 through June of this year — stand at $339,019.50. A comparison of sales, by stores, for the second quarter in 1942 and in 1943 follows: 1942 1943 Williamston $27,950.85 $45,428.05 Robersonviile 13,586.50 21,434.80 Oak City 5,112.25 9,694.40 JamesvtMf —ry'otjts by periods are reviewed as ##u'ows Williamston Robersonviile Oak Citv Jamesville 1942 $ 7,732.73 3,640.59 1,320.80 1,941.22 1943 $10,566.34 4,671.33 2,013.89 2,321.25 $14,635.34 $19,572.81 The soggy profits pie was cut as follows: Martin County, $9,555.91; State of North Carolina, $6,273.30; reserve for law enforcement, $1 ,279.61; Town of Williamston, $1 322.89; Town of Robersonviile, (Continued on page six') » ----- Warning lx sued In Lone Speeding Cane Friday Charged with exceeding the speed limit, William Alexander, driver for the W. I. Skinner Company, was warned against the practice by the County Rationing Board trial panel last Friday night. The case was the only one recorded. Hfii. ■jmm WARTIME (A weekly news digest from the rural press section of the OWI news bureau) Cut Expected in Shoe Ration ‘ The new shoe stamp, No. 1 on the [ "airplane" sheet in War Ration Book , Three, which becomes valid Novem ber 1, probably will have to last six months, OPA has announced. At the j same time OPA said that stamp 13, originally scheduled to expire Oeto , ber 31, is extended indefinitely and will overlap the next stamp. OPA’s present plan is to eliminate expira tion dates on shoe stamps and to make new stamps valid as soon as supplies warrant. This enables a per son to save shoe stamps until shoes ! a re needed. j More Leather for Shoe Repair i More leather will be available for : repair of civilian shoes, as the re | suit of a recent WPB order. More Soap Provided I Consumers will have greater soap j supplies within a few weeks. The i War Food Administration has an-1 nounced a program to provide a 28 per cent increase in soap production for civilian use. WFA emphasized that there will still be no excess and urged soap-saving by every possible method. May Requisition Idle Trucks Idle used trucks may be requisi tioned by district ODT offices or Agricultural County War Boards to transport vital agricultural products where such transport service is vi tally needed. Requisitioning will be necessary only where owners of idle used trucks are unwilling to allow the use of their vehicles in this serv ice. Market Turkeys Now Farmers are urged to market their turkeys as soon as possible so that the American armed forces overseas can have typical Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. In a joint state ment, Maj. Gen. E. B. Gregory, Quar termaster General, and Marvin Jones, War Food Administrator, ap pealed to farmers to “go over your turkey flocks carefully now with a view to offering as many as possible (Continued on page six) -<*> One Hundred Thirty Tires Are Allotted By Ration in«; Board Further <liirtailnieut in the IsMiunce of Crude 1 Tire* Is Announced I. liV. and KiiVPiWhg l,'tl¥'“!?P3rr •P'Vfca'sJ-tr'ilTc" iiambfi of pending appliealivm, but the situation as it relates to Grade I tires is still not very bright. Allowed a quota increase, the board wiped out a number of applications by allotting Grade III tires to those who, in many cases, wanted Grade I tires. It was learned officially that the rationing of Grade I tires is to be curtailed. The A card holder is eligi ble for no tires now and in the fu ture the motorist who has an allot ment calling for less than 600 miles of travel each month will be eligible only for Grade III tires. Grade I car and pick-up truck tires and tubes were issued to the follow ing' B. L. House, Robersonville, one tire and one tube. Geo. D. Hardison, RFD h James ville, one tube. John W Eubanks, Hassell, one tube. L. P. Holliday, RFI) 1, Jamesville, one tire. R. A. Edmondson, Hamilton, two tires and one tube. G H. Forbes, RFD 3, Williamston, one tire. Clarence Barber, Jamesville, two tires. J. W. Green, _Wlhhamston, one tire ■ww; Tint-til i.'.-' mu-< 4Ml G. C. James, Parmele, one tire and one tube. J. W. Weathersbee, RFD 1, Pal myra, two tires. J E. Johnson, Robersonville, two (Continued on page six) ! PACKAGES v_s Well over one hundred pack ages have been mailed at the lo cal post office for delivery to Martin County young men in service overseas, and the mailing is gradually increasing from day to day, according to Postmistress Susie P. Fowden. Yesterday, a dozen packages, addressed to young men in several parts of the world, were mailed here. All packages going to men in the army overseas must be mail ed by October IS if delivery by Christmas is to be expected. si $91,000 Short of Goal », >1 in i— Momentum Russia and in Pacific Issue Last Appeals In Support Of Big Financial Drive four Districts Over the Top And Several Olliers Near ing Their Coals Making a semi-final but incom plete report, D. V. Clayton, county chairman of the Third War Loan drive, stated that a total of $827, 624.75 of the $918,000 campaign quo ta had been subscribed, leaving $91, 1000 to be raised between now and ■ Saturday night of this week. It was j pointed out that the period for com ) piecing the drive had been extend i ed two days, but the chairman is I anxious to complete the work with ! in the time first allotted, and he is again appealing to all district chair men and canvassers to exert every effort in the final drive to reach and pass the goal. Individuals are urged to do more Approximately $58,529 was add ed to the total since the last report was made early last Friday morn ing. Nearly every district reported substantial gains, but in reconciling the reports the chairman found that in a few instances the actual issu ance did not quite come up to the pledges. It was pointed out, howev er, that the pledges are recognized, that the makers were a little slow in closing the transactions. Late yes terday, four districts, Bear Grass, Poplar Point, Hamilton and Goose Nest were over the top. A hurried review of the figures for Hamilton Township last Friday indicated that the goal had been reached there. A later tabulation shows that while that portion of the township headed by the Hamilton committee has pass ed its quota, the remainder of the township headed by a Hassell com mittee is about $9,000 short of its $15,000 quota. Chairman Clayton is quite certain that the district as well as most if not all the others will close the gaps and reach and possibly pass the goals before the end of the diive. Considerable gains were reported in Jamesville and Williams Township over the week-end, and Cross Roads is now less than $6,000 of its quota. The drive* is being continued there, Chairman"Piful Bailey 'directing the following personal appeal to the peo ple of his district: “As chairman of our district, I urge each individual to contact one of the banks or any oth er agency handling the sale of war rt ••si do all yoii LUliMS&HV bf,this v/t - ft i. d;.. i.nrH wait until someone calls to see yoinj Let’s go over the top now, so we can look with some degree of pride to our boys when they return and say we did our best." A late report from Robersonville received just before noon today stat ed that the total sales there stand now at $248,427.50, a figure consid erably in excess of the sales report ed late yesterday. The district, ac cording to Chairman D. R. Everett, Will hold a final big rally on the main street Saturday afternoon of this week at 4 o’clock, and everyone is invited to attend Valuable prizes will be offered, it was announced. (Continued on page six) Victim Of Accident Passes In Hospital Injured in an automobile accident near Greenville on September 18, S. G. Bunting, brother of R. Vernon Bunting of Williamston, died in a GreenvilL hospital last Friday after noon. A son of the late J R. and Sallie Taylor Bont_i^j^Jje_ was born in .uLLiiJ where,.!..- spent, most of his iu5?’l,e eliiJgiW SiT" was a World War I veteran. Besides his brother here he leaves a son, J. R. Bunting, of Bethel, and three brothers, Z. V. and John B. Bunting, of Bethel, and J. A. Bunt ing, of Bethel, and four sisters, Mrs. H. V. Staton, and Mrs. D. C. Carson, of Bethel; Mrs. Christine B. James, of Newport News, and Mrs. W. R. Pollard, of Greenville. Funeral services were conducted in the Bethel Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock and interment was in the cemetery there. Fireman Lulled Out Here Sunday Evening ——<*> Mmhers of the local volunteer fire department were called out Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock when 3parks from a blazing chimney threatened the home of Mrs. Maude Mizelle on West Main Street. Water was thrown on the shingle roof to keep it safe, but no damage was done. IN PLANE CRASH Sgt. Geo. II. Wynne, suffer ing several broken bones and a severe cut on his left arm in an airplane crash, is expected to be out within a few days following a stay of nearly two months in a State of Washington hospital. He is the son of Mrs. Geo. D. Wynne and the late Mr. Wynne Col. Win. B. Wynne Passes In Hospital At Oteen Yesterday Served with Eddie Rickeu backer in East War; Was First to Enter lterlin Lt. Colonel William 13. Wynne, World War I veteran and a citizen of this county for about >bx years, died in a government hospital at Oteen yesterday morning at 12:45 o’clock following a long illness. In declining health for some time, he entered the hospital last February. The son of the late Joseph and Mi y”- f 11 air,,f/, Wynne, Ire was born Frtr near Jackson, Mississippi, fifty years ago last January. Whenja_ yoijne m.'m he volunteered for service in the army and when war broke out in 11)17 he entered the Air Corps as a lieutenant. Before its end he was made a lieutenant colonel and retir ed from that post about ten years | with Eddie Hickenbacker in the U. j S. Air Corps while in France and was one of the first American serv icemen to enter Berlin following the 1918 armistice. During his service he was hurt several times, once ser iously when his plane crashed. He was married twice and three children survive the first union, Robert Wynne, of Washington City: Susanne, of Chicago, and Billy, of the U. S. Army Air Corps. He met his second wife some years ago in Mississippi and during a visit with relatives in this county about six years ago they were married. She was the former Miss Elsie Green he ioreTier David Gt’i/iiii. Besides his three children and wife, he leaves four step-children, Su sanne, David, Billy and Cleo Grif fin. The funeral party left Oteen early this morning and will reach Arling ton, Va., late this evening, where the final rites will be held in the chapel tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock. In terment will follow m the National cemetery. r SHORTAGE BMfflSko. imMuiiwnWt*' bumped in Impossibly or.e of th< most perplexing anil serious problems last Friday night when they were asked to ration 115 coal and wood heaters from a quota of ten. While the board is looking for an increased quota in October, it is fairly apparent that many persons will have to resort to other means of keeping warm. Tin heaters may be purchased without a certificate. Old heat ers may be repaired, and it is possible to have a heater built around the castings of a worn out heater. As a last resort to keep from freezing to death, one may build a big fire in the yard if he is able to get and pay for the necessary fuel. Those persons allotted heat ers are being notified to call for their certificates. If they fail to call for them within thirty days, the certificate will expire and the board will then issue them to other applicants. JFopgiu Falls to Eighth Army; j Russians Smash Across Dnieper River Allied drives are gaining more momentum in Russia, Italy and in the Pacific, late reports stating that the enemies are withdrawing to points almost unbelievably distant before even considering making a stand. In Italy, the important air base across the boot from Naples, has fall en to the British Eighth Army giving the Allies an ideal opportunity to rush down and overpower Naples. During the meantime, General C lark s Fifth Army has been sweep ing the enemy back on its march toward Naples. In Russia, the Red Army has just about gained its summer objective with no great let down immediately m sight.. The Russians have already crossed the Dnieper at several points, penetrating the western approaches as many as ten miles in some sectors. It was the opinion of military ob servers that the Germans would of fer a stand at the Dnieper, but ap parently such action will hardly be taken until the Polish border is reached. More than two-thirds of the territor ycaptured and ravished by the Germans is back in Russian hands, but not until great cities were devastated. In a personal order of the day yesterday, Hitler ordered the complete destruction of Kiev, capi tal of the Ukraine and Russia’s third and most beautiful city. The fall of Kiev has not been announced, but the Russians are said to have cross ed the Dnieper on both sides of the city and that the flanking movement is endangering the enemy. Late re ports indicate that the German re treat has been turned into a general rout along some of the roads leading back home. Many Germans are throwing down their guns and large stores of ammunition and equipment an1 being abandoned, one report claimed. Farther to the south, the Russians have about mastered the opposition ■n the Kuban area, and at the other end of the line around Smolensk, the advancing Soviets are streaming . westward toward Orsha. lit the Pacific the Allies are in | creasing their pressure on the strong i Jap base of Firishhafen on New Guinea, and increased action is an ticipated in. Runaa..where the Japs have increased their defenses. Talk of more action in the Balkans is being heard, one report stating tContinued on page six) ---<f>-' - ies srxKuiiocUhi In County Sunday W Augustus Bullock, 55 years of age, died at his home on the John son farm in Poplar Point Sunday morning at 7 o’clock following an illness of about three weeks’ dura tion. He underwent an operation for appendicitis about three weeks ago. After a stay of nine days in the hos pital he returned home and was thought to be getting along very well until the latter part of last week when he suffered a relapse, death following about two days later. lie was Uuf sttti of the late Thomas Bullock and wife, and lived in this county all his life, engaging in farm ing. When a young man he was mar ried to Miss Ella Taylor. She died several years ago. He leaves six daughters, Muybelle Bullock, Pretta Bullock, Mrs. John Fenner Bcacham Mrs. Charles Bcacham, Mrs. Ches ter Terry and Mrs. Irving Wynne and two sons, Willie and Charlie Me Bullock. Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. Tom Hart is. Interment in U-.e Wvnne Cemetery in CYOti^aB&adfc Surrenders Hotel Lease This Week —•— After ten years of successful op eration, Mrs. Grace Swain this week is surrendering her lease on the Ho tel George Reynolds here. Mr. and Mrs. K. A. White will take over the lease and continue the operation of the property. Accepting a position in the Roper schools, Mrs. Swain will return to her old home near Roper. Mr. Swain, Who haj man.tallied a paiieni diligent watch in the lobby, during the ten years, is leaving on Friday of this week. No official announcement has been made by the owners, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Cunningham, but one report stated that they planned to reno vate the budding. It was also stated that the new leasors were planning to ret-pen the dining room.