«t OVER THE TOP FOR VICTORY UNITED STATES WAR BONDS'STAMPS THE ENTERPRISE VAT BAT WAR BOND DAT -un i VOLUME XLVII—NUMBER 22 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, March 17, 1911. ESTABLISHED 1899 Tells About Trip To Army Pre-Induction Center List Friday Frank Carstarphen Declares He Was Well Received hy M>rt Bragg .Wen A large group of Martin County white men, reflecting the most ser ious mood ot any to leave here since the war started, reported for pre induction examinations last week end. Most of them had individual stories to tell about the trip, but for the most part each account held to a serious note. Frank Carstarphen, popular and well-liked local young man, yester day recalled a few of the high spots of his trip. He declared that he was well received by the Army men, that his fare was all right. The eats were good and sleeping quarters were very comfortable, but he admitted that he slept very littie that Friday night before the examination the follow ing morning. Lqj>t from the main Martin Coun ty contingent while in the “Baby Ray’’ examining room, Mr. Carstar phen was associated- with a Lenoir ! County group. “The first thing we' were told to do was ‘Hurry Up', and we hurried up just to wait one hour or two hours in line.” Taking his place in the “shake down line,” ’Starphener was hurried along, and just as he was nearing the end he saw that no red marks had been placed on his paper. “I told one of the doctors that I had a bad left ankle, and he wrote with ink across my belly. ‘R. Ankle.' But that was only one red mark, and then I pointed out that I had a weak wrist \ and a bad knee, but I don’t think that information was fully appre- j dated,” the young man said, admit ting that he had that cocked left eye working perfectly. Some of the boys declared he practiced with that eye all the way down to the Fort, but other observers declared he played fair in every way. “The psychiatrist asked me about my health, and wanted to know if 1 ever heard voices when no one was around. I asked what he meant by ’voices,’ and then I told him I thought I had heard someone call when no one was around,” Carstarphener ex plained. At the end of the line and with only one red mark on his paper, Car starphen was told by the doctor that he had a bad right ankle. “No, sir. J.t is my left one,” he explained. “The paper says it is your right one,” the doctor said. And then Frank said, “I am sorry, sir, but it is my left an kle.” Obeying orders ,the young man stood on one foot against the wall. "Oh, you are all right,” the doctor said, “and I knew I was in the Army,” Frank said as he walked ov er to see his examination sheet. Af ter waving gently the rubber stamp, the doctor inked it and rejected his charge. “Rejected, rejected,” Frank said, thinking out loud. “Yes, we don’t want you, and now you may get out,” the doctor said. “Thank you," Carstarphen was quoted as saying and he got out. The boys maintained that Frank ate but little before the examina tion, that he almost made a circle out of the cafeteria line after the examination, but the young man declares he did not "slip” under the line railing more than three times. Thirteen Cases Are Heard in County’s Court Last Monday —♦— Several Persons Convicted by Judge J. C. Smith for Drunken Driving -- With more cases on the docket than usual, the Martin County Recorder’s Court was in session quite a while 1 last Monday clearing the docket, the | proceedings attracting a fairly large ' crowd. Several defendants pleaded j guilty in the case charging them with drunken driving The thirteen cases called by Judge J. C. Smith and prosecuted by Solici tor E. S. Peel follow: Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost and the defend ant’s driver's license was revoked for ninety days in the case charging Henry ''nomas Walston with speed ing He pieadt-d guilty. The cases charging Ivory Clark and Phillip Bond with assaults with a deadly weapon were nol prossed. Howard Cherry, charged with op erating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, failed to appear when called. According to one report the man was confined to his bed by illness. Pleading not guilty in the case charging him with drunken and reckless driving, Stanley Hollis was found guilty of driving on the wrong side of the road and was fined $10 with the costs to be added. The case charging Kenneth Har rell with bastardy was continued un til July 3. H. L. Blake was fined $10 and taxed with the cost in the case charg ing him with being drunk and disor derly and with an assault. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with drunken driving, Geo. Mobley was fined $50 and the court recommended that his license to op (Continued on page six) lied Cross Donations Pass $5,000.00 Mark Ray Goodmon. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. K. II. Goodmon, of Wil liamston, was recently promoted to lieutenant - ■»•• Johnson Milling Co., Roberson ville, -oue iutt-amd one.tube. Roberson Slaughter House, Wil liamston, two tires and two tubes. A. C. Boyce, RFD 2, Williamston, two tires and two tubes. (Continued on page six) -• Volunteer Firemen (let Two Calls This Week -» Local volunteer firemen were call led out twice this week, once late Tuesday when a roof fire threatened the home of Joe Ballard ori Railroad Street and again yesterday aftei - noon at 2 o’clock when a glass fire went out of control on the Godwin property on West Main Street. INDUCTION CALL v___ According to unofficial infor mation, the approximately seven | white men in the Navy’s draft pool in this county can expect a call for induction the early part of week after next. It is be lieved that the reserve will be exhausted at that time. The re serve, however, will be built up again shortly or soon as the men reporting for pre-induction ex aminations last week are placed in the pool. The men to be called for in duction the latter part of this month had their pre-induction examinations on February 22. completed. Recognising these re ports, the chairman pointed out that every township in the county readi ed and passed its assigned quo', t Williams Township, trailing in the Iasi report, show ■ $7'. f,rs encouraging feature of this final report is the large amount of “E" bonds purchased. Nearly half, or $440,258.25 of the $881,258.25, was. invested in "E" bonds. $441,000.00 ! having been invested in negotiates, j Approximately $54,000 had been in vested since the last report was re-1 leased on March 3. It was next to im - possible to prorate all the late pur- ! chases by townships, it was explain ed. ii:\ciir.Ks mi i i A half holiday was declared in the schools of the county to day for the teachers to attend a county-wide meeting in the high school here, beginning at 2 o'clock. A large attendance was anticipated this morning by Supt. J. C. Manning. I)r. ('has. Spencer of the State Department of Education, and Miss Moore, teacher oi health and physical education at the Woman's College of the Cniver sit.v of North Carolina, Greens boro, are addressing the teach ers. The meeting is to last until about 4:30 p. m. Jesse l>. Barfield Passes In Hassell After Lon" Illness r —»— Funeral Services for Ili^liK Kespeeleil (ali/.en To Ite Held There Tomorrow Jesse I! Barfield, highly respect ed citizen and retired farmer and law-enforcement officer, died at Ins home in llassell last evening at six o’clock following a long period of de clining health. Suffering a stroke three years ago, he had been an in valid since that time. About two weeks ago lie suffered a second stroke and never regained conscious ness, An humble Christian, he suf fered Ins affliction without com j plaint and was patient until the end The son of Ephriam and Fannie Viek Hai lieltl, he was born ill llali fax 79 years ago When a young man, he moved to this county and married Miss Bettie Brown, of Hamilton, lo cating in the Hassell section Mr. Barfield farmed all his life, and was unusually active in civic j and religions affairs in his common ity. He had been a faithful servant as Hassell police officer and a conn ly deputy sheriff for a number of years. His work was handled impai fially, and while he never com pro mised with transgressions, he made (Continued on page six) Seven Cases Heard By Justi Ward, charged with disorderly conduct, were taxi'd with $8.50 costs each. Lollie Williams, facing a similai charge, was sentenced to jail for thirty days, the court suspending the f.V M1 rt'o -5-2». Jp, v ment of $8.50 eo and with the un derstanding U;«• h. pf good behavior during the suspension per iod. Charged with disorderly conduct, Robert Slade was sentenced to jail for thirty days. The jail sentence was suspended, the defendant to pay $6.50 costs and stay away from Buck’s Place. John Henry White was required to pay $7.50 costs and Kn email Baze I more was taxed $(i.50 costs in the j.oa.’v charging tlH-p> with disorderly i conduct Publicly drunk, Rufus Taylor was taxed $8.50 costs. Capt. Jas. Walters Addresses P. T. A. —«— Addressing the Jantesvilk: Par ents and Teachers Association last Tuesday evening, Captain Jas D Walters, just hack from eighteen months spent in the Southwest Pa cific, gave an interesting geographi cal sketch of New Guinea and Aus tralia. He told about the natives of New Guinea and recalled their cus toms. He referred briefly to the war in that part of the world, and declared that Allied forces controlled hard ly half of the island of New Guinea, that tne remaining half was still in the hands of the Japs who are stub bornly holding on there. The talk proved very interesting. Twenty-five Civil (!ases on Calendar In Superior Court Oiou! Half lh»* eases Are Brought By Plaintiffs —- Divorces Twenty-five cases have been plac ed nr. the civil calendar for trial dur ing (In' second week of a two weeks’ term of the Martin County Super ior Court opening here next Monday. In twelve of the cases, the plaintiffs a:v seeking divorces and basing their claims on two years of separation. Fu,- the most part, the calendar car ries few cases of any great lmport snce, and the civil proceedings are not likely to attract very much at tention. Most of the twelve divorce cases were booked for colored litigants. In a few instances, the plaintiffs con template duty in the armed services and do not “relish” the idea of sup porting allotments for their estrang ed wives. Ordinarily there are very lew divorce cases brought by mem b< i s of the colored race, and the number on the calendar for trial week after next approaches an all time record, it is believed. The calendar is briefly reviewed, as follows: Standard Fertilizer Co. is suing Farter and Monk for an account. Robert Nelson is asking $125 dam ages of D. M. Roberson as a result of a motor vehicle wreck on the Hamilton Highway on August 23, 1941. I lie ease of Critcher Brothers against J. S, Whitley is again on the docket, the plaintiffs seeking to re eover $1,509 damages alleged to have resulted when their truck collided with the defendant’s on the Hamil Ion Highway on April 8, 1943. The ease was tried last November, the judge setting aside the verdict al lowing the plaintiffs $750. The court, it is understood, held that if the de fendant’s agent was negligent the full amount should have been allow - ed. Will Roberson is seeking to recov er $345 from the Farm Bureau Insur ance Company allegedly due him as a result of a truck fire. Roberson’s Slaughter House is ask ing $400 damages of the Maxwell Company as a result of a wreck on West Mam Street on August 17, 1943. Lonnie Manning is suing J. C. Ruf fin, Oi., for $274 to cover damages ■sustained in an auto accident in April of last year between here and EveretN. Fannie M feel, administratrix, is suing Stanley Ayers to recover rent for certain property. Clarence Williams is suing P. T. Edmondson for $371.78, the amount of an account plaintiff claims is due him. Janu s Gray is suing C. C. Fleming for $228.30, the amount of an account the plaintiff alleges is due turn. Clayton Hoard is suing J. H. Ches son for»$179.24. Joseph Keys is seeking to recover $88.60 from Robert Boston. In the case of Hattie Ruffin against Allred Boston, the plaintiff brought suit to recover rental fees. The Lmdsley Ice Company brought uit against Willie Boston to support (Continued on pagt six) -® I nbercnlin Exams Planned for Pupils In Comity Schools S|»«‘cial I’ietures To Be Shown In ( oinily lie^iiiiiiii^' Next Monday Every school child over twelve years of age in the county will be oui u .hi opportunity of a scientific examination for "TubercuTosis. Tins examination will include a tubercu lin Kiii 11■t ana if Viecessary an X ray film will be made of the chest to be studied by specialists at the State Sanatorium, according to an announcement eotjung from the county health department. The educational part of the pro gram will begin March 20. Pictures will he shown at the school accord ing to the schedule below. The titles of the four films to be shown are: Goodbye, Mr. Germ”. "Let My Peo -««Nwmm* Shadow” and the Roh of the Public Health Nurse”. After the pictures are shown, literature will he furnished each child and the teachers will see that the facts about the disease are studied. The following is the schedule to which the public is in vited to hear representatives of the State and County Tuberculosis As sociations speak: March 20: Roberson ville High School, 9:15 a. m.; Robersonville Col ored School 11 a. m.; Parmele High School, 1 p. m.; Everetts White School, 3 p. ni March 21: Oak City High School, 11.15 a. m.; Oak City Colored School, | 11 a. m.; Hamilton White School, : 1 p. m.; Hamilton Colored School, 3 p. m. March 22: Jamesville High School, : 9:15 a. m ; Jamesville Colored School ill a. in.; Farm Life, 1 p. nr.; Bear ! Grass High School, 3 p. m. March 23: Williarnston Colored School, 9 a. m.; Whilliamston White I High School, 11 a. m.; Williarnston White Elementary School, 1 p. m.