NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. VOLUME XLVII—N UMBER 72 William stun, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 12, 194-1. ESTABLISHED 1899 Nearly Million And ji On Market To Date! Little Or No Change Noticed In General Price Trend Since the Opening Sales on the local tobacco market are nearing the one and one-half million-pound mark today, an offi cial report stating that the sales were in excess of 1,400,000 pounds. Prices are holding fairly firm despite a slight reduction for a few of the nondescript types, but close obser vers declare they can see little or no change in the general price trend since the opening of the market two weeks ago. While some of the in ferior types are a bit weaker, the better grades are showing added strength and the general price aver age continues well above 42 cents a pound. Block sales are general and there is no immediate relief in sight. It is still rumored that further sales re strictions will be invoked, but for the present, at least, markets are holding to the three and one-half p.our day, or a maximum of 1,260 piles and a maximum of 250 pounds per basket. About everything pos sible has been done to limit the sales without declaring a holiday on one or two days each week. It does seem the limitations now in effect would remedy the situation and help relieve the labor shortage. Despite the heavy influx of tobac co to market, local warehousemen have worked out a system that is proving popular among the growers. For a first sale, the house accepts no more tobacco than can be sold dur ing the day. In other words, the far mer can put his tobacco on the floors today and know it will be sold tomorrow. In some cases, it is pos sible for the farmer to deliver his tobacco and sell it the same day. However, warehousemen do not guarantee a sale the same day the tobacco is delivered. It is believed the crop will be harvested in its entirety this week, but farmers are expected to start harvesting peanuts within the next few days. Ordinarily the peanut harvest delays the delivery of to bacco, but it will not be generally felt this season, many believe. An official market report for the belt follows: Eastern North Carolina flue-cured tobacco prices during the second week of sales remained steady at opening week levels for the majority of grades. However, averages for a few grades showed declines wich were mainly from $1 to $4. Accord ing to the War Food Administration and North Carolina Department of Agriculture .most of the losses were in primings, green leaf and lugs, and nondescript. The sharpest decline was $6 per hundred for best thin nondescript. Prices for medium to best qualities were mostly between $40 and $46 while a few baskets sold up to $48, but averages for many of (Continued on page six) ! Seventy-Six Tires Allotted Bv Board Seventy-six tires — 53 passenger, seven for small trucks and six for large trucks—were allotted by the Martin County War Price and Ra tioning Board last Friday. The large truck tire allotment was the first reported in the county in recent weeks. Grade I- tires- feicieii "ter~Uie following: David B. Searight, I. L. Alexan der, Louis J. Whiles, Sr., J T. Allen, Mrs. Daisy A Lewis, E. C. Harri son, Louise H. Parker, Heber Peele, Marcellus Coltrain, Mrs. Lizzie Grif fin Taylor, Mrs. S. W. Mendenhall, H. U. Peele, J. L. Whitfield, Tim Black, A. R. Johnson, Ben C. Peele, Dallas Mizelle, John B. Roberson, Robert A. Barnhill, Edward Griffin, J. C. Eubanks, F. P. Raynor, Claude Simmons, Clyde Ward, Perlie M. Ange, Bill McNeal, Mrs. Nora D. Grimes, John A. Hardison, Cecil Brown, R. R. Thompson, A E. Pur vis, John Gray Core”, Simon Rog H nj^nett, P T' Rogers^^^, worth Ch«ts. Cox, B. W. Williams, James G. Bul lock, Kenneth H. Roberson, Man nings’ Laundry, I. R and G. H. Dav enpoTt, Johnnie Griffin, Jim Scott, J L. Whitfield, Elisha Dickens, Hu bert Clark, Standard Fertilizer Co. Small truck tires were issued to the following: Wiiliamston Package Co., John A. Manning, Roberson Slaughter House. Jesse Keel, Joe Ball and V. G. Taylor. Six large truck tires were ^Wot ted to the Martin County Transfer Co., Robersonville. --<§> Presidential Citation For Ninth Air Force In a letter to his wife, Sergeant W W. (Breezy) Beaird stated that his outfit, the Ninth Army Air Force T had received a Presidential citatior 4U- itc — the invasion on D-Day. Some ol the individuals in the Ninth wiii hav< basketfuls of ribbons to take hom< with them, the sarge said. Farmers To Start Harvesting, ;ottntrim *Oi i if XV A tew Martin County farmers are planning to start digging the new pt nut crop tomorrow, but the work is hardly expected to approach a cli max before the latter part of the month or early October. The farmers are beginning the task in the face of a serious labor shortage, but the situation is certain to be relieved to some extent by the return of war prisoner labor to the peanut fields. More than 225 farm ers in the county have applied for that type of labor, and ii is appar ent that the demand can hardly be met by the camp here. The peanut harvest, it is understood, has prior ity over the labor demands made by general industry, and it is likely that war prisoners now engaged by vnr- 1 ious industrial plants will be divert- j ed to the peanut fields. However, it j is rlso understood that efforts are being made to Pet additional ptison ers to help utliew the mand it was ieain«^TJm>fflcial)v shis week that a uniform price of 11 1-2 cents a stack had been f.xeti for handling the current harvest. Farmers R. A. Haislip and E V. Smith of Goose Nest and Farmer J. N. Hopkins of near Williamston have spoken for prisoners to start work tomorrow. Farmer Smith said yes terday that it was unusually early to start the harvest, and went on to explain that he was taking the war prisoners when he could gel them and that it had been so dry that the peanuts “were doing nothing.” Lt. Vincent Vehar, commanding officer, and his camp personnel are cooperating i*i every v.ny possible to help relieve the acute labor short age and save the peanut crop in this section American First Army J Drives Into Germany f SCHOOLS A series of meetings will be held this week by officials and teachers preparatory to the opening of the schools in the county next Monday. Th'~ several principals will meet with representatives from Raleigh in the high school here tomorrow morning .at 11 o’clock. Holding a county-wide meet ing in the high school Thursday morning at 9:30 o'clock, the teachers will hear health and welfare officials and discuss various problems. On Friday, the principals will call their teachers for meetings in the several schools. Lt. Marvin Corey Flies 53 Missions At a 12th AAF B-26 Marauder Base—2nd Lt. Marvin W. Corey, 28. Jamesville, N. C., has flown 53 com bat missions over targets in both Italy and southern France as pilot of a B-26 Marauder. Flying with the oldest medium bomb group in the Mediterranean theater, he has earned the Air Med al with three Oak Leaf Clusters for his missions, which include attacks on Florence, Rome, Cassino, Anzio and the Abbey di Montecassino. Though he has twice come home from missions on one engine, Lieu tenant Corey ranks the attacks on German troop concentrations and gun positions along the perimeter of the Anzio beachhead as the roughest he’s seen. “Flak was always almost unbeliev able over Anzio,” he says. “I was ov er there nine times and sometimes came back with as many as 30 holes in my plane. Luckily, they were never serious ones.” Lieutenant Corey brought his Ma rauder back from an attack on Rome with only one engine functioning in a flight that lasted an hour apd 45 minutes—a feat once believed impos sible for the stubby-winged B-26. His Marauder group was recently cited twice by President Roosevelt TOT* Their 'piripbiri f bombirig' "o"i" Both" the Florence and Rome rail yards— bombing which devastated the yards but left nearby religious and cultur al monuments untouched. Lieut. Corey attended Campbell College, Buies Creek, N C , and was North Carolina and South Carolina representative for the Standard Cof fee Co., New Orleans, before enter ing the AAF in February, 1942. Com missioned at advanced flying school, Waco, Texas, he has been overseas eight months. A brother, Electrician’s Mate 1/c David A. Corey, 26, is in the Coast Guard, stationed at Norfolk. Four jfow 'Esthers In Local Schools Twenty-two of the 24 teacher po sitions in the local white schools have been filled, and efforts are being made to complete the list in time for tire opening next Monday. Five new teachers, including Principal E. G. Bourne, have been elected to date. The faculty roster follows'. High school, Mrs. A. R. White, Miss Ann Golden, ‘Miss Verna B. Lowery, Miss Evelyn Baker and Miss Mildred Watson. Elementary school: Mrs. Evelyn H. Manning, Mrs. C. B. Hassell, Miss Mary Whitley, ‘Mrs. Ruby Malone Rejuney, Mrs. Elizabeth Eagles, ‘Miss Lucille Belle, Mrs. Velma H. Coburn, Miss Katherine Bradley, Miss Mar garet Eiliott, Miss Ruth Manning, |Cnavcton^^lrs. Mary Benson Car i starphen. Miss Lamina Baker, Miss I Grace Ta'.ton, Miss Frances Turnage and Miss Kathryn Mewborn. American Ships And Planes Score Great Gain In Philippines -- Great Air Rattles Renewed Over Germany in tlie Fast Few Days Decisive biows that arc bound to have their effect in hastening the peace were delivered yesterday when General Hodges’ First American Army drove five miles into German territory and carrier-borne aircraft and warships of Admiral William F. Halsey’s Third United States Fleet struck the Japs a blow in the Phil ippines Supporting the drive into Germany are four other Allied arm ies which are moving into position along a line facing Germany. The British are driving across Holland. General Patton and General Patch have joined forces and are now mov ing up for the final drive. General Hodges, moving in force across the German border at Trier, was reported today to be strength ening his position, and it is reason able to believe that the Germans will never regain the five miles of the Siegfried line lost by the Am erican lightning move. It was a black day for German arms, for the Third United States Army seized a great part of the old French Maginot Line intact, and was breaking the last German line of defense on French soil—the Moselle river positions. The British Second Army broke across the frontier of Holland and was bound for the weakest link in the 400 miles of the West Wall—the thin line of pillboxes, tank traps and forts stretching south from the Ger man city of Kleve across the short est route to Berlin. Other elements of the First Army already were fighting through the minefields of the Siegfried Line south of the key city of Aachen, lit tle more than eight miles from Ger many’s frontier, and were blasting fortifications inside the R'-ich with heavy artillery. Not since the days of Napoleon has .Germany heeu-e-Rtorcd•• -kv-sti eiTfeth and the Doughboys who accomplish ed this modern feat had fought clear across the little Duchy of Luxem bourg in one day, freeing its capital of the same name en route. (Continued on page six) Spending Feiv Duys In Con valetcen t llos pi tui -- Daytona Beach, Fla., Sept. 10. — pfc. George W. Revels, who former ly lived in Williamston, has recent ly arrived at Welch Cofivalescen Hospital, the Army’s new recondi tiuning center in Daytona Beach. The carefully-planned program of physi will nolT^rdy^efp^nm very busy but will also return him to gooc physical condition. Pvt. Revels was engaged in farm ing before his entry into the Arm.’! in December, 1942, at Fort Bragg He has served more than nine month; in England and France. ROUND-UP A, --—-— The week-end round-up of al leged law violators struck heav ily at non-licensed motor vehi cle drivers. Several, including a 14-year-old lad, were cited to the courts and two were jailed for operating cars without drivers’ licenses. Six persons were jail ed during the week-end period, three white and three colored. booked for public * drunkenness. Jhe ages of the group arrested and jailed ranged from 22 to 41 i years. TOWN FARM (A weekly utws digest from the rural press section of the OWI news bureau) Blue Tokens, Farewell If you’ve got some blue tokens in your purse, better use them now because after September 30, they will be good only for the kids to play with. Until next Sunday the Office of Price Administration says, you can use them just as you always have used them. Beginning Sunday, September 17ih, retailers will cease giving blue tokens to consumers as ration change, and shoppers will be able to spend them only in groups of 10. If necessary, shoppers may pool tokens to make up groups of 10. Removal of practically all can ned and bottled vegetables and fruit spreads and specialties from ration ing September 17 makes use of blue tokens unnecessary. Beginning Sep tember 17 point values on canned fruits, canned juices, canned toma toes. catsup and chili sauce will be designated in multiples of 10. Those Tire Inspection Records new Mileage Ra tioning Record form along with your new “A- book, OPA says. Since dis continuance of periodic tire inspec tion last April, tire inspection rec ords have' been kept primarily as a' record of gasoline rations issued each automobile, and will no longer be necessary when the new form is is sued. Tlie new “A” book will go in to use in the 17 East Coast States, on February 9th. I.ooscn Lid on Stove Rationing The rationing of coal and wood stoves to consumers will end Octo ber 15th, the War Production Board and OPA have announced, although rationing of oil and gas stoves will continue. Supplies of coal and wood stoves have grown sufficiently since nation-wide rationing started in August, 1943, to make continued ra tioning unnecessary. Shoe Rationing Still With Us Civilians cannot hope for an early end of shoe rationing, WPB says, un less imports of hides increase or un less there is a large cutback in mil itary orders. Hide shortages con tinue' in spite of a large domestic kill of cows and calves. Heavy civil ian and military consumption and decreased imports account for the shortages. Please Don’t Buy Our Shoes The Australian Commonwealth (Continued on page six) Earns Commission Kirtland Field, Albuquerque, N. M.—Aviation Cadet Arthur Ander son, .soli of Mr. Oscar S. Anderson, of Williamston, N. C., a recent grad uate of the Army Air Forces bombar dier school here has been commis sioned a second lieutenant and awarded the silver “wings” of the aerial bombardier, supplementing previously won aerial gunner’s in signia. Lieut. Anderson is a graduate of Williamston High School, class of 11)40, where as an undergraduate he played football, basketball, softball and golf He later attended Mars Hill Junior Colege, where he receiv ed his A. B. degree upon graduation in 1942. In civiian life he was em ployed as a welder. Prior to his successful completion .of JAjveuks--.(-.f flight and combat training in high level precision bombing and navigation at Kirtland Field, Lieut. Anderson was station ed at Las Vegas, Nevada, where he graduated from the Army Air Forces flexible gunnery school as an aerial gunner. Now ready for active duty, his des tination is not disclosed. Guest Missionary To Address Meeting -'i/ Dr. V. C. Carpenter, for thirty eight years a missionary of Disciples : ofChns^n Puerto Ric^^^l^ad-' i at Oak drove Church, four miles south of Robers1 report just released by Collcctoi M. L. Peel. The new levy —$193,280.14—has already been re duced by more than $30,000, the col lector explaining that the notices had been in the mail hard.y a week. Possibly without exception, the out look for tax collections is the bright est in tax history, and it is believed that tlie unpaid amount will be quite small by the end of the marketing season. The new levy is $6,735,60 smaller than the one last year. The reduc tion, traceable in the main to a 10 cent decrease in the general county rate, was also influenced by - the separate collection of dog taxes and the elimination of a 4-cent special road tax in Williamston Township. It will be remembered that the dog | tax ordinarily amounts to about $3, i 000. the collector having accounted 1 for about that amount when the dogs 1’■■»ero vaccinated last spring and the owners paid the tax right along with the vaccination fee. The special road | tax in Williamstutt last year was roughly estimated at $1,000. After considering the two items, the new 1944-45 tax picture shows a net decrease of about $3,000. How ever, when the valuation increase of about one mlilion dollars i:. taken into consideration, there is, in real ity, no marked reduction in the ov er-all tax bill. The lax rate of $1.10 is based on a total valuation of ap proximately $15,000,000, a figure that is about the highest on record. Property owners are now receiv ing a discount on their tax payments, and they are rushing in in a fairly steady line to square their accounts. County Schools Open Term September 18th Authorities Making Renewed Efforts To Fill Faculty Places -o No Formal Openings Plan ned; Teaeliers Hold Meet ings This Week -® Despite unfilled positions in sev eral of the faculties, all county schools, white and colored, will start the 1944-45 term next Monday morn ing at 9 o’clock, it was announced by the office of the superintendent late yesterday. No formal openings are being planned, but parents and pa trons will be invited to attend a formal chapel exercise later in the week, it was announced. The first day of the term will be devoted mostly to room assignments, the distribution of books and lesson assignments preparatory to a full day schedule on Tuesday. The first day activities should be completed before noon. Daily schedules will be discussed by the principals at a special meet ing here tomorrow and they will be announced next Monday. It is like ly that some of the schools will ob serve a “short” schedule beginning next Tuesday, but it is fairly certain that Williamston will open each morning at 8:30 o’clock after the first day. Bus drivers’ positions have been filled, authorities explaining that a dozen or more girls will drive this year and that they have materially helped to solve the driver shortage. With the exception of a few minor changes, the bus routes remain un changed this year. Parents can materially aid the teachers by sending book rental fees by their children the first day. The schedule of fees follows: grades 1 and 2, $1; grades 3, 4 and 5, $1.10; grades 6 and 7, $1.20; grades 8, 9, 10, and 11, $3. To this amount all pu pils taking home economics are ask ed to add 50 cents. Announcing plans for opening the local schools, Principal E. G. Bourne explained that two teacher positions were yet,t.Q he filled, one in the ele mentary and the other in the high (Continued on page six) Suffers Serious Wound In Slutt Hun Accident -- Fred Rogers, home on a short fur lough from Fort Jackson for a visit with his wife and three children, was badly wounded in a shot gun ac eident at the home of J. P. Holliday on the Hamilton Road near here last Sunday evening. The young man fir ed the greater part of a load of gun shot into his left wrist. Reports fiom the local hospital where he was re moved for treatment, stated that possibly l.is hand could be saved, but The young man, just a few weeks in the service, started out to kill a chicken. He was climbing a fence when his foot got caught and he lunged forward, his left wrist com ing to a stop on the ground at the end of the gun barret just as the weapon accidentally fired. ROUND-UP v_:—* While organized forces of the law are rounding up alleged violators to preserve order and decency on the home front, L. V. Ange, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Levin Ange of Jamesville Township, is rounding ’em up over in France, presumably to hurry up and get the war over and return home. An indirect report from the young man stated that"he' wiffl— the help of another soldier had I rounded up nine Jerries at one time. ■> PLENTY v J The Enterprise management extends hearty thanks to those subscribers who so obligingly supplied copies to huild up the paper's files for August 18th. The supply was exhausted be fore checking copies were filed, but now the supply has been abundantly replenished .giving the publishers ample copies and nearly a bale left over for waste paper. Copies were brought in, sent in and mailed in, one finding its way back from out in Oklahoma. Pfc. Hubert Hardison, stationed at Tinker Field, Oklahoma City, sent one and expressed the hope it will be of some help. MARTIN COUNTY In WORLD WAR I (Reviewed from old Enterprise files twenty-seven years ago) AUGUST, 30, 1918. A cablegram was received from Lieutenant Elbert S. Peel on Wed nesday announcing his safe arrival in England. He sailed from New York on the 16th of August with the 317th Regiment, Field Artillery, which has been trained at Camp Jackson. SEPTEMBER (i, 1918. Sergeant James A. Leggett is at home on leave for seven days. The local board has been called on to send men in the limited serv ice class, and on August 30th, Mil lard Harrell Warren and Grady Ed gar Smith were sent to Camp Greene, Charlotte, N C., Today, Sep tember 6th, Perlie J. Modlin and Alonzo T. Roberson left. SEPTEMBER 13, 1918. Charles Biggs writes that he has finished his training at Paris Island and is stationed at the Torpedo Base, Newport, R. I., preparatory to sail with a Marine corps. Jack Ws Biggs left Saturday for Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C., to report for military duty. The following is the first letter to be printed in The Enterprise from one of Martin County’s boys over seas: France, July 10, 1918. Mr Dear Papa: It is due course in time to write again but 1 am so blue just now that I know I should wait a while until I am in better spirits, but I don’t al ways have the time when I want tc write. Why am 1 blue? Lots of mail came today and I didn’t get a line. Some (Continued on page six) Child Badly Hurt In Auto Accident Elm on James, five-year-old girl of the Dardens Community, was crit ically hurt in front of her home there at 5:45 last Sunday afternoon when she dashed into the highway and was run down by a car driven by Char lie C. Styon of RED 1, Plymouth. Ac cording to reports reaching here, the child suffered a skull fracture and a crushed hip. She was remov ed to a Washington hospital. Investigating the accident, Patrol man W. E. Saunders stated that the child was standing beside the high way, that she waited for one car to pass and apparently failing to look in the other direction darted into the road in front of the Styon car. Styop, driving about thirty miles an hour, stopped ids car in less than 100 feet and picked the child up and Tai'i ieQ it lb tne ftuflPoi ! Rhode James, where he isirr-ted. The i cniicrs lather, Hosea James, is in overseas service. Trying To Complete ism: Dre^stirgr***^ By Thursday Night Approximately 2,00'f his ■worts ^!s does the Cairo Messena He was born in Martin County, N. C on November 8, 1870, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Lilley. He mar ried Miss Mamie Connell Dec. 14, 1898. She survives with one son, J. W. Lilley, Jr., of Los Angeles, Calif. Other survivors include a brother, W. J. Lilley, of Jamesville, N. C.; three sisters, Mrs. Donie Sexton, of Jamesville, and Mesdamcs R. B. Brown and Gussie Ward, of Wen dell. The final rites were held at the First Methodist Church of Cairo, with the pastor, Rev. M. P. Webb, in charge, assisted by other ministers, and burial was in that city. -$ Suit For Divorce Filed in The Superior Court A suit for divorce was filed in the Martm County Superior Court this ’"Week. u v J lef 1 nim l a' tiTeWj' KoOtr sawwir 'F action is based on two years of sep aration.