NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. ff illiamston, Marlin Cuunty, North Carolina, Friday, August 25, 1944. NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. VOLUME XLVII—NUMBER 67 ESTABLISHED !8^t Allied Forces Push Sweeping Drive to Trap More Nazis Rumania Leads Withdrawal Parade fur Balkan States Wanting To Quit War Advancing a mighty sweep across P rance, Allied forces today are cen tering their main attention along the Seine River where they are try ing to trap the remnants of the enemy’s Seventh Army. Climaxing a 25-mile drive late yesterday, the Allies moved to create a Dunkirk for the Germans, the first stories of the fighting there telling how the enemy was using row boats, barges and rafts in an effort to cross the river. Some were said to ho/e thrown away their light arms and plunged into the river to cross under their ovn steam. To the south, the American forces have moved inland more than 200 miles to block the Swiss border and move to within 1220 miles of Ger many. To the rear of the American drives French Partisans and three French Army divisions lead by General De Gaulle are mopping up. A German trick armistice caused the Partisans to announce that Paris had been liberated day before yesterday. Now fierce fighting continues in. some parts of the city. Allied tanks and other fighting equipment are mov ing in to help oust the enemy. Rumania this week led the parade for the Balkan countries wanting to quit the war. In the last war, Bul garia led the parade and forty days later the Armistice was signed. Russia anounced that only by ac tive military aid against the Ger man army could Rumania obtain the armistice the Balkan nation reported Wednesday night she had accepted. A broadcast statement declared: “The conclusion of an armistice between Rumania and a coalition of the Allies” could be effected only by Rumania’s military aid in the liquidation of the German armed forces. It said that if Rumanian troops stopped fighting the Russians and turned on the Germans, “or against the Hungarians for the liberation of Transyivania,” then the Red Army “will not disarm them, will keep completely intact for them their en tire equipment and help them in this honorable duty.” The Foreign Commissariat refer red to the statement made by For eign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov April 2—when the Red Army cross ed the Prut River into Rumania— that the thrust was dictated by mili tary necessity and not by any terri torial ambitions. The Moscow broadcast said the Soviet government “confirms the declaration given in April, 1944, that the Soviet Union has no intention of acquiring any part of Rumanian territory, or to change the existing social order of Rumania, or to limit her independence.” While the land fighting in France continues to hold the spotlight, ac tivities are increasing in the air over Europe and in the Pacific the ater. Nineteen hundred bombers late yesterday struck targets all the way from the Baltic to the Balkans, doing great damage to synthetic oil depots and transportation centers. Twenty-five American bombers and five fighters failed to return, but at least two of the bombers landed in Sweden. In the Pacific, American bombers again attacked Halmahera where a record bomb load was dropped, and Yap Island was badly pounded. While fighting on the fronts, an estimated four million service men are making ready to participate in fCovernoSffBtcuun. French Return To Ruins With Smiles In a brief letter to his mother, Sgt. Pete Fowden recently said, in part: “Another beautiful day in France and I’m doing fine. Really, I’m feel ing wonderful right now. Just had a bath in a little stream; shave, too, and oh, boy, I fee! like a new man. “I really feel sorry for these French. We come to a town and have ” it all to pieces to get the in ternal Germans out. Then they shell it, trying to get us. The result is a great mess for the French. They come straggling in with whatever they have left with a big smile and very heppy. I hate to have to do what we do, but when you see the happiness in their eyes and smile, you know it’s for the best. They have really been through some thing.” The young man expressed the wish that he could be home by Christmas or New Year’s. “I can’t say that, but I can say it won’t be too long,” he told his mother. Officera Wreck Cheap Liquor Still In County Raiding in Cross Roads Township last Tuesday morning, ABC Officer J. H. Roebuck and Deputy Roy Peel wrecked a 30-gallon capacity liquor still along with three fermenters and other equipment. A gas drum was being used for a still and no beer was found at the plant. fl REFUGEES BOUND FOR U, S, SHELTER THESE THREE LITTLE GIRLS from Greece were among the 984 refugees from Nazi-occupied European countries that arrived on an Army trans port at Hoboken, N. J Their mother, Anastasia Iconomu, wearing mourning clothes, is in the background. The girls’ father was killed by a Nazi bomb The family, along with other refugees, left for the emer gency refugee shelter at Ft. Ontario, near Osweeo. N. Y. IInternational) SOLDIERS’ BALLOTS That every Martin County man 21 years old or over may vote in the November election, an application form for ballots is being reprinted in this paper today. Relatives, including par ents, brothers or sisters or chil dren, may prepare the applica tion and mail it to Mr. Sylvester Peel, Chairman of the Martin County Board of Elections, RED 1, Williamston, N. C., and the ballots will be mailed immed iately to the given address. Servicemen may use the form in applying directly for the general election absentee bal lots. It is still time to get the bal lots to the young people in the service, but to wait will certain ly mean that their votes will not get counted. Story Tells About Attack Local Boy Helped Prosecute —— Little Pete Fowilen Ih a Mem ber of Thirtieth Infan try Division -* The following story, while a bit late, was written by Hal Boyle and tells about the capture of St. Lo by the Thirtieth Infantry Division of which Sgt. Pete Fowden, local boy, is a member “The Thirtieth Infantry Division, ‘Old Hickory' of World War I fame shared in the glory of the capture of St. Lo, hardest American clash with the Germans in the battle of France. “Troops of the -Twenty-ninth Di vision did the actual storming of the German stronghold, but men of the Thirtieth made the attack possible by a spectacular and smoothly ex ecuted dciriil. cjuAsWt of- the River Vire, to anchor the American right flank and tie up strong German forces west of St. Lo. “This predominantly southern out fit—it originally was drawn from North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, but now numbers men from every state in the union— moved from the beach to the battle. “Splashing ashore from channel ships on June 14, elements of the Division which participated in three Allied drives in the last war and helped crack the Hindenburg Line, smashed against the Germans June 15 in the area of Mont Martin en Graignen, south of Isigny. "They drove the enemy back, and on the second day commanded the Canal de Vire Tanta linking these two rivers. “For the next three weeks they held a static battleline, harassing the Nazis and probing with patrols to locate enemy positions. “Then on July 7, under cover of the heaviest barrage Yank artillery had inflicted up to then, they forded the Vire in small rubber boats at dawn and bayoneted shell-terrified enemy in foxholes on the otherside. It was a difficult operation, per fectly carried out as the result of weeks of planning. The doughboys, after securing the bridgehead, quick ly took the village of Aire and Pont du St. Fremond, and by dusk were reinforced by other divisional troops who crossed the Vire at Taute Canal at La Triange to join the offensive. “Cracking through stiffening re sistance by the Germans who threw armored infantry into the battle, the Thirtieth Division advanced slowly (Continued on page six) ' Judge Calvin Smith Handles Five Cases In County’s Court Speedster Fined $20 and Tax ed with Costs During Session Monday -$> With only five cases on the docket for trial, Judge J. Calvin Smith held the Martin County Recorder’s Court in session hardly an hour last Monday morning. Despite the brev ity of the session, fines amounted to more than $200. The judge frown ed upon speeding and imposed a $20 fine upon one defendant. Prosecut ing Attorney Elbert Peel was back at his table, and the wheels of just tice turned rapidly an deffectively. Proceedings: Pleading guilty of drunken driv ing, W. E. Sitterson received the usual dosage—a $50 fine plus c ists and the withdrawal of his opertor’s license for one year. James Thomas, Jr., young white man who allegedly went on a ram page on the Mary Cherry farm, near Williamston, a few days before, was sentenced to the roads for ninety days. The road term was suspend ed upon the payment of a $40 fine and costs and on the further condi tion that he be regularly employed and use no intoxicating beverages for one year. Thomas was said to have visited a tobacco barn on the farm where his wife was working. He took their seven- or eight-months old baby and carried it away, re turning a short time later with the baby under one arm and a shot gun under the other, defying anyone to stop him. Some one finally got the gun away from him and the young man was turned over to officers. Thomas, pleading not guilty, main tained that he was only going to kill a squirrel or two. He admitted he knew it was unlawful to kill squir rels at this season. Charged with drunken driving and operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license, Ernest Stal lings pleaded not guilty. Adjudg ed guilty, he was sentenced to the roads for four months, the court suspending the road sentence upon the payment of a $60 fine and ‘ j costs. Charlie Speller was fined $50 and taxed with the costs and had his opertor’s license revoked for one yea rfor drunken driving. Ramsey Toler, charged with speeding, was fined $20 and taxed with the court costs, the cotrSi*aa» u ense be revoked for a period of .hilly day.;. " Tidv.v « man, was said to have driven a (Continued on page six) -$ County Man Loses His Auto At Beach —f.— While eating supper last Sunday night at Virginia Beach, Hassell Worsley, Oak City man, lost his car, the thieves finding the tank full of gas and two handbags with the clothes of Mrs. Myrtle Bunting and Miss Mildred Everett, of Hamilton, in the trunk. No trace of the car has been found. Mr. Worsley and his sister. Miss Nancy Worsley, with Mrs. Bunting and Miss Everett were spending the week-end at the beach and were getting ready to return home that evennig They stopped the car and went only a short distance to a cafe. When they returned after supper, the car was gone. MARTIN COUNTY In WORLD WAR I (Reviewed from old-Enterprise fifes twenty-seven years ago) November 30, 1917. The Martin County Board of Ex emption met here Monday and issued orders to six white men to report here yesterday at 4 o’clock p m. They left today on the train for Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. The men who left were: Howard Horton Weeks, William Thomas Crisp, John Arnold Ward, Jesse C. Hyman, Hir am A. Ange, Joseph E. Harper. December 7,1917. Monday, Col. W. G. laimb appear ed before the Board of County Com missioners to ask for an appropria tion to equip the members of the Home Guards which was recently or ganized. The amount to be appropri ated will be about $600.00, which will furnish uniforms for fifty men. December 21, 1917 Wednesday W. C. Manning, Kader B. Crawford and Henry A. Gray were commissioned Captain, First Lieutenant and Second Lieutenant, respectively in the Martin County Guards. January 11, 1918. A Recruiting Officer arrived here yesterday and will remain several days. Almost the full complement of the Martin County Home Guards was here Tuesday ,and assembled at the Brick Warehouse for a drill. The band was here also and enlivened the occasion with inspiring music. Captain Manning will go to Raleigh in the near future to secure full equipment for the company. Hunter Price, of Norfolk, is spend ing his furlough with his wife here at the Atlantic Hotel. January 18, 1918. Captain W. C. Manning, Chair man of the Martin County Council of National Defense, left Monday for Raleigh where he will attend a patriotic mass meeting. January 25, 1918. That Williamston perfectly obeyed the order of Find Administrator Garfield goes without question, for Monday was a “tight” day here. Fri day, the business men met in the rooms of the Lotus Club and agreed to close everything in the town. The grocers were permitted to stay open until noon, but those in town patriotically closed so that there would be no contention with the other firms which keep a stock of heavy groceries in connection with dry goods, etc. Tuesday morning everybody went to work as usual. February 8, 1918 Samuel Gardner, Ihe young son of Mr .and Mrs. Fred Gardner, is at home on leave. Young Gardner en listed in the Navy and was placed (Continued on page six) -(»>—- - ■ ■ County Young Man Writes from France -<$> A member of an artillery unit and Rationed somewhere in France, Hay wood Crisp, Oak City young man wrote to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Crisp, under recent date, in part, as follows: “. . . I will be some glad when I can get back home to see all of you. I do hope you are not worrying over me for I am getting along all right. “This is a beautiful country with all the old houses They are built of oure clay, and, like the English, they build the cow sheds and stables ad joining their homes. The farmers are very saving, too. For wood they trim

n them made of wheat straw. I have my first fence to see over here.” The young man asked if every thing was rationed over here and ex iressed the hope that it wmid soon, be lifted. He asked h; > pk,-, Ros toY ubseribe to a farm nv.-.cazinc fur irn, explaining that he hud always t>'ked farm work. He added, “I am getting The Enterprise now, and en joy reading it, too.” He inquired about the health of all members of the family, and it was quite evident that he missed being on the farm to help out with all the tobacco har vesting work. ! WARNING I k,/ While no record poundage will be offered for sale, the to bacco markets are expected to attract sizable throngs next Mon day, causing officers to warn against flim-flammers and oth ers seeking easy money. Several hundred dollars have been lost by the unsuspecting here in years gone by, and the supply of “suckers” has been about exhausted, but it is quite possible that attempts will be made at one time or another to “pull” the old pocketbook swin dle. First Tobacco from New Crop Placed On Market Yesterday Need Is Urgent For O More Volunteers in The first..tobacco from the new 'crop started moving to the William >tor. market yesterday for the open ing sale next Monday morning. Sev eral loads were received during the afternoon and today the golden leaf started moving in fairly large quan tities, indicating th't at least a fair-sized break will be on hand for the buyers next Monday morning. It is hard to guess the size of the break, but it is fairly certain now that the belt will have one of its smallest openings in recent years. Farmers are still harvesting the crop and the sale next Monday will be supported by farmers over a scat tered territory who have taken time fo prepare a little for market. Some few farmers are finishing the har vest this week, but many will be curing well after the first of Septem ber, the season, as a whole, being the latest in many years if not the latest on record. | While a fairly large sale is in pros ! poet for next Monday, it is certain that sales will be comparatively light during the remainder of August and for a few days in September. 7j H Bell. Williams Township far mer, was the first to deliver a load from the new crop to the market here yesterday. He was followed by Farmer Jesse Harrell of Goose Nest, and other loads were seen moving in from Bertie. The color of the first offerings with the exception of small green ish grades, had the golden appear ance, but the weight was a bit dis appointing. The tobacco was recog nized as being of the smoking type, and it is expected that the price will range around the ceiling figure. Re ports from the border state that prices are slightly above ceiling, that there is no marked variation in the price range which is from the thir 1 ties to the middle or high forties. I he Bandage Hoorn —$—_ Inly 32 Persons Have Found Time to V isit the Room Since Last Monday "" .■<$“ Out of a population of several housand people in this immediate ■ommunity, only thirty-two found ‘ime between Monday and last night to visit the Red Cross Bandage Room ere and help fold a few surgical dressings. It has been a busy per id for many, no doubt, but there las been no marked decrease noted in attendance upon amusement pro Tams and as far as it could be 'arned no bridge clubs have been ’isbanded or games called off. The egular schedule of events is being aaintained and it is strikingly ap arent that so many of those who >uld conveniently find time to lend \ helping hand are simply not doing \ Local Youth Killed In Action on August 18 th 1 ! -A- *... . . Oinley S. Cowan. Jr. Is Thirtieth County Man To Die In War i —<$>— Message Received Here By Parents Wednesday from Navv Department '-| Oinley Shepard Cowan, Jr., Wil liamston youth, was killed in action last Friday, August 18. his parents were notified here last Wednesday morning by the Navy Department. No details were given in (he mes sage. A member of a destroyer crew, the young seaman, a metalsmith sec ond class, was believed to have been in the Mediterranean Area and pos sibly was participating in the sec ond French invasion then just a few days old. He was the thirtieth Martin Coun ty man to make the supreme sacri fice in the current war. The son of Mr. Oinley S. and Mary Weaver Cowan, he was born on the Kelvin Grove farm near Williams ton on June 7, 1924. He attended the local schools and was graduated at the age of sixteen. Following his graduation he accepted a job in the Norfolk Navy Yard and was soon rated as expert welder. In January of last year he gave up his work and volunteered for service in the Navy, receiving his basic training at Rain bridge, Maryland, Philadelphia and Atlantic City. Assigned to a destroy er the latter part of last year, he made several trips across the Atlan tic and came home last March for a few hours’ visit with his parents. In a last letter to relatives, he dated that he liked the Navy but hat he would be extremely glad when it was all over and he could visit home once more. An industrious lad, he worked at various jobs, in cluding farm tasks when he was in school. He never shirked a duty and his life had much promise. He was i thoughtful of his parents and had many friends, both old and young. The young man, during his short stay in combat areas, had several narrow calls, but he explained to his parents that he faced the experiences without evading duty to his country. Fesides his parents, he is survived by three sisters, Pfc. Lucille Cowan who is home from duty at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, spending an eight-day furlough with her parents, and ! Misses Shirley and Joyce Anne Cow an of the home. He is the grandson of Mr. and M.-. Ben Weaver who have a son l:., several other grand f ’ ildren ir. the service, most of whom are in foreign service at the present time. -« .Youth Is Recovering From Raide Woam] -—^— Seriously wounded in France on last June 11, Pfc. Lewis T. Taylor continues to improve, according to a message just recently received from the Adjutant General’s office of the War Department by his moth er, Mrs. Maniza Taylor Whitaker. A brother, Sgt. William L. Taylor, iust recently returned home from two years of service overseas. At the end of his 21-day furlough he will report to an Army station in Florida for reassignment. Another brother, Pharmacist’s Mate 1-c Charlie V. Taylor is in the Pacific war theater. A brother-in-law, Pfc. Wilbur P. Smith, is also in the war zone, and his wife and two sons are making their home in Gold Point. -® H assail All-Stars Will Play Marlin Hera This Sunday ■ ■ - The Hassell All -Stars will play the Williamston Martins on the high school diamond here Sunday after-i 'noon at 3:3Q o’clock. I Foxhole Pillow A STEEL HELMET may not be the ioft> est pillow in the world, but to thle U S Marine It'e practically made of down feather* He had ]u*t fought his way through the cam* paign on Tinian and he found good old Mother Earth pretty appealing. U. S. M. C. photo, (international) Coniilv Farmer Died j After Operation In Hospital Yesterday Funeral Services Are Being Cmulitelefl Today for Jesse Bailey Jesse Bailey, well-known Martin County farmer, died in a Washington hospital at (i o’clock yesterday morn ing of complications following an op eration fur appendicitis on August 13th. He had suffered with asthma for many years, but he was getting along very well until he had the ap pendicitis attack the eai ly part of last week. The son of Mrs. I.yndia Mizelle Bailey and the late A. W. Bailey of this county, he was born in Bear Grass Township an October 30, 1897 He spent his early life on the farm quitting as a young man to form a business partnership in Bear Grass with his brother, Dennis Bailey. In the late twenties he quit the business firm and returned to the farm, lo cating in Beaufort County where he spent several years. Returning to this county, he lived in the Rober sonville community until the early part of this year when he located on the Mizelle farm at Brown’s Springs, near Williamston. Mr. Bailey was a member of the Free Will Baptist Church for near ly a quarter of a century. He was a good neighbor and friend, and was thoughtful in his home and in his daily walk through life. He was married to Miss Lula Whitehurst of Beaufort County in 1923 and she survives with four children, J. B,, James Harrell and Buck Saunders Bailey and Miss Ru by Gray Bailey, all of the home. He is also survived by his mother, five brothers, Messrs. Dennis Bailey of Greenville, Seth, Opheus, Lester and (Continued on page six) t. While all this is going on a letter as received a short time ago from Martin County lad from the Nor andy battlefield stating that only greasy shirt was available to cov r a wound. The lad did net say vhether there was a shortage of ressings or whether it was impos i1'It* to get them to him at the time. It is up to the home front to see that here is no shortage. Up until last night 7,400 bandages ad been prepared out of a combin 'd total of 50,400. The Martin Coun ty Chapter of the Red Cross had been asked to run the work and try *o return the dressings by the first >f September. No report has been re ceived from the room at Jamesville, hut Bear Grass explains that its vol tnteers, while willing and anxious ‘o help, have been rushed day in md day out with farm work, but ‘hat they hoped to open the room here at least two afternoons, Tues lay and Thursday .each week begin ning next week. Three volunteers, Mrs. G. A. Peel, Mrs. Irving Terry nnd Mrs. E P Harris, worked this week. Four packages or enough material to make about 4,500 dressings were farmed out to the Hamilton com munity late yesterday, and it is be lieved that the people there will find time to handle the job and in a very short time. Everetts is said to be planning to open a room in the school building. During the meantime it is hoped •hat more volunteers will report to the room over the Firestone store next to the Guaranty Bank and help rush the work to completion. The names of those volunteers finding time to help with the work ince last Monday follow: Tuesday afternoon: Mesdames W. F. Warren, Dean Speight, D. R. avis, W C. Manning, Frank Weav r, G. P. Hall and G. W. Lewis. Tuesday night: Misses Bolton 'owen, Mamie Clyde Taylor, Doro hy Simpson, Addie Lee Meador and Mesdames H. H. Cowen, Anna Har ison, Bill Howell and Mrs. Carroll. Wednesday afternoon: Mesdames ■I. R Froneberger, Samuel Zemon, 'en Courtney, Luther Peel, R. E. Kimball and Herbert Taylor. Wednesday night: Misses Dorothy Manning, Julia Everett, Alma God win, Mary Charles Godwin and Mary Elizabeth Keel and Mrs. A. R. r about July 11 of last year In the icilian campaign. He was hurt in he foot and is believed to have (pent several weeks in the hospital at that time. Lt. Getsinger is a nephew of Mr. T Sam Getsinger of Williamston and f Elder P. E. Getsinger, of Vann Life. -» Justice Hassell Has One Case In Court This Week -9—— Carried before Justice J. L. Has sell this week, Alexander Rogers, charged with reckless and hit-and run driving, was bound over to the county court for trial next Monday. A case charging Linwood Speight, deaf mute, with larceny is pending in the justice’s court.