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e Sunday Afternoon 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. TOLL ME XL V III NLMBEft 30 Williamslon, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, April 13, 1945. ESTABLISHED 1899 ( « % c $ w 4. 4 * 4?K}?^_Calvin Smith Handles Thirty-five Cases In His Court —®— Tribunal In Extra Session Handling Largest Doeket In Several Months Judge J. C. Smith and Solicitor Paul D. Roberson set a new record for the current year last Monday when they handled thirty-five cases in the county recorder’s court. Throwing the court machinery into high gear promptly at 9:30 o’clock that morning, the court meted out swift justice until almost 1 o’clock. After a recess of about an hour for lunch, work was resumed and the last case was cleared about an hour later. Quite a few cases were continued until April 30, but revenue, approxi mating $800, was collected from the defendants whose cases were hand led. A large crowd heard the proceed ings. No session of the court will be held next week or the week fol lowing, Judge Smith withdrawing in favor of Judge R. D. Dixon who is scheduled to preside over a two weeks’ special term of the superior court for the trial of civil cases only. Proceedings: In the cases charging Jafus James and Hubert Whitaker with non support, the court learned that the defendants were living amicably with their wives, and judgment was suspended. The case charging W. Jackson Hol liday with drunken driving was transferred to the superior court when the defendant asked for a trial by jury. The case charging William L. Ev erett with disorderly conduct was nol prossed with leave. Sidney Harris, charged with dam aging property and assaulting Nel lie Smith, was sentenced to the roads for nine months. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, Oscar Bynum was sentenced to the roads for six months. All but the first two days of the sentence was suspended upon the payment of a $25 fine and costs. The defendant was ordered to re main sober and be regularly em ployed during the suspension period of one year. Robert Louis Stevenson was fin ed $15 and taxed with the costs for speeding. Operating a motor vehicle with out a driver’s license, Norman S. Wynne was fined $15 and required to pay the costs. The case charging Henry Paul with reckless driving was continued until May 14. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with drunken driving, Lewis Taylor was fined $50 and re quired to pay the costs. The case charging Mayo Matthews with drunken driving was continued for the defendant until April 30. Dave Purvis, charged with as saulting a female, was fined $10 and required to pay the costs . A continuance until April 30 was granted in the case charging La fayette with operating a motor ve hicle without a driver’s license. Annie Bell Woolard was sentenc ed to jail for a day and required to pay the costs in the case charg ing her with larceny. Dallas Whitley, charged with lar ceny, was found not guilty. Leslie Robinson, the man who al legedly beat his wife almost to death, was carried into court for operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for thirty days. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with drunken driving, Robt. Lee Manning was sentenced to the roads for ninety days. The road term was suspended upon the pay ment of a $50 fine and costs. The defendant is to be regularly employ ed for one year. Charged with violating the motor vehicle laws, Walter Atkins had his case continued until April 30. Oscai W’hitley, charged with oper ating a motor vehicle without a li cense, was fined $10 and taxed with the cost. The court recommended that no license be issued the de fendant for one year. Kelly Purvis, charged with speed ing, was fined $15, required to pay the cost and had his driver’s li cense revoked for ninety days. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with reckless driving, Book er T. Bryant was fined $15 and tax (Continued on page six) -« Prisoner’s Finger Badly Chewed In Local Jail -« A prisoner in the county jail had one at- his-fc.geia painfully chewed by a tellow inmate this week. Advis ed to stick some object in the mouth of a person having a fit, the prison er could find no spoon or object, so he stuck his finger in the man’s mouth. It saved the fit victim's tongue, but 'he prisoner thought he [would lose his finger before he could choke the man off. Pfc. DeTffPtis Clark Seriously Wounded On Western Front Pfc. Delmus W. Clark was serious ly wounded in Germany on March 27, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clark, RFD 3, Williamston, were notified late last Tuesday aftei noon by the War Department. The message did not disclose the nature of the young man’s wounds, but Mr. and Mrs. Clark were assured that word could be expected within a few days directly from him or the hospital where he was received for treatment. The young man entered the serv ice some over two years ago and had been overseas since last September, moving into Germany following a short stay in Belgium. The Cross Roads Township farmer is the sev entieth Martin County man known »■ to have been wounded in all thea ters of war to date. In a letter written just before he was wounded, Clark stated he was getting along all right, and expressed the belief that the war would be ov er soon. He enclosed German propa ganda leaflets picked up by him on the battle fields. The propaganda mentioned w'ives and babies back home and were designed to weaken morale. The soldier said they merely laughed at such tripe and fought all the harder to end the struggle and get back home to loved ones. In a letter received by his father last Saturday, the soldier son said that he had taken several German flags and that he was mailing them to him. Number Divorce Suits Will Be Tried Monday CANNING SUGAR v The registration for canning sugar will be held in the white and colored schools in this coun ty next Tuesday and Wednes day, April 17 and 18, between the hours of 2:00 and 7:00 o'c'ock P. M. Last year a general sugar bon us was allowed for canning, but this year the rations will be based on the individual’s canning record for last year, to a large extent. Applicants for sugar rations have been asked to check their records and be prepared to tell how much fruit they canned and how much sugar they were al lowed last year. The applications will be turned over to the ration ing board for inspection before rations will be issued direct to the applicant. County Men Called For Jury Service —«— Thirty-six Martin County citizens have been called for jury service during the two weeks' term of su perior court conventing here next Monday. First Week Jamesville Township: Ralph Da venport. Griffins: Kader Lilley. Bear Grass: J. Alton Harris and Thurston Wynne Williamston: C. U. Rogers, Ira Peed, W. L. Talylor, Henry Oakley. Cross Roads: Hubert Clark, M. R. Gurganus and Simon Rogerson. Robersonville: R. R. Everett. Poplar Point: R. H. Harrison, Lu ther Edmondson, W. E. Roberson. Goose Nest. Milton Bennett, Jack Smith, Woodrow Tyson. Second Week Williams Township- C T, Daniel Griffins: Arthie T. Coltrain, John E. Manning. Bear Grass: Ralph Clayton Mob ley. Williamston: J. V. Champion, Geo. W. Whitehurst, Woodrow Jones, Minga E. Rogers, S. T. Harris, L. S. Bullock, Noah Hardison, O. L. Wil lard. Robersonville: A. Pitt Roberson, S. L. Roberson, A. E. James. Hamilton: Geo. A. Oglesby, Geo. W. Coltrain. Goose Nest: J. B. Davis. It is possible and some believe quite likely that the court will han dle most of the work scheduled for the term during the first week and cancel the second. -* Local Merchant Settles Claim With OPA For $50 -- Raleigh, April 12—B. E. Davis, of the Outlet Store, Williamston, has settled an OPA overcharge damage claim with the payment of $50, Theo dore S. Johnson, Raleigh district OPA director, said today. OPA charged that Davis over charged on work clothes. The payment has been received and forwarded to the Treasurer of the United States following the OPA action by the enforcement di vision. -S Suicide Attempt Victim Recovering In Hospital -<*> Miss Mantis Lee AHen-,* • virttur '<rl a self-inflicted bullet wound, is re sponding to treatment in the local hospital. While her condition is still regarded as serious, her recovery is expected, according to a report re ceived from the hospital today. About 30 years of age, Miss Allen shot herself in the right chest, the [bullet puncturing her right lung. I$25,000 Damage Suit Placed On Calendar For the Second Time —®— Ju<lg<* K. D. Dixon Will Ilcur Civil Cases Only Dur ing Sperial Term -® Called for the trial of civil cases only, a special term of the Martin County Superior Court will, for the most part, center its attention dur ing the early part of the scheduled sessions to divorce pleadings. Eigh teen divorce cases are on the calen dar and Clerk of Court L. B. Wynne says that approximately fifteen oth ers are pending. The big case on the docket is the $25,000 damage suit brought by Mrs. Ruth Vivian Whitaker through her next friend, Chas. H. Whitaker, against the Carolina Coach Company and the Carolina Delivery Service Co. Mrs. Whitaker, a passenger on the defendant’s bus, was critically hurt last April 16 when the bus and a truck owned by the delivery com pany crashed on the suburbs of Bethel. The young woman was a pa tient in a hospital for months, en during severe pain much of the time Her condition, while much im proved, is still far from normal. Other than this and one or two other cases, the calendar carries very few of very much interest to the general public. Judge R D. Dixori of Edenton is to preside over the term which is scheduled to run for two weeks but it isn’t likely that the court will work more than one week, if that long. Based on two years’ separation, the following divorce cases are scheduled for trial next Monday: Burt Gorham against Matha Gor ham, Maggie Davis against Harry Davis, Adell James against David L. James, Barthonia Bennett against Porry I ee Bennett, Alrmzn T Spruill against Margaret Spruill, Albert J. Doucette f gainst Ethel Doucette, ;Mary Williams against James Ed j ward Williams, Annie E. Wiiliams 'against John Williams, Kader Brown against Catherine L. Brown, Gus j Williford against Rose Williford, Mordema Rogers against James Rogers, Willie J Davis against Mary Eliza Davis, Maude Ward against Turner Ward, Nora Manning Harris against Charles Thaddeus Harris, Mary Eliza Pippen against Cecil Pippen, Ruby Roebuck against Jim Roebuck, Carrie Coffield against Edward Coffield Some of the parties to the di vorce actions have been married almost thirty years, and in one case the litigants were married hardly five months before they separated. One case ,that of James Washing ton against Mary Washington, is based on alleged adultery, the plain I (Continued on page six) FAT STOCK SHOW _ Martin County’s fat stock show to be held here on April 27 is certain to equal anything in the State this year, according to As sistant County Agent Charles Goodman who just recently vis ited the sixteen 4-H club mem bers who are planning to submit entries. “A dozen of the entries and possibly others’-will grand champion exhibited at Rocky Mount a few days ago,” Mr. Goodman was quoted as saying. The youngsters, including sev eral girls, have worked hard and it is believed they will be amply rewarded for their efforts at i the sale following the show. Price Regulations At Meeting Monday Increase in Quantity of Low Priced Apparel Expect ed by Next Fall Meeting with representatives of the state office of the OPA here last Monday night .approximately fifty Martin County merchants discussed a new program for regulating retail clothing prices. The new regulations, applying to virtually all wearing apparel, re quire the merchants to prepare a "base date pricing chart.” The mer chants are to submit the chart, show ing the cost and sale price of arti cles by groups existing during the day“ol next week to the OPA office. After April 20, 1945, ceiling prices are to be determined from the chart under the pricing rules of the regu lation .Ceiling prices must be shown so that customers can find out the ceiling prices for all merchandise covered by the regulation. Merchants may not sell any merchandise after May 4 unless they have submitted a chart and the chart has been ac knowledged. The new program, it is admitted, is not very simple, but it was point ed out that unless strict rules are adopted, clothing prices will con tinue upward and the time would come when retailers might find their shelves heavily stocked with high-priced goods on a falling mar ket. The new plan, while proving to be a big headache for the merchants, will work for their benefit as well as for the benefit of the consumer. It has been pointed out that if the prices of other consumer goods had risen as rapidly as those for clothing in the past year, the average family’s living cost would have been increas ed by $270, that living costs would have been about nine billion dollars higher. The new regulations are designed to boost production of lower-cost items and will possibly curtail high er-priced items. While it will be next fall possibly before the new program is in operation on a store-wide scale, its effect should be noted within a short time. More of the low-priced cotton clothing will be tagged with the dollar-and-cents selling price by the manufacturer. All other gar ments must be tagged with OPA ceil ing prices by the retailer .In quite a few cases, the new program calls for a roll-back in prices, ranging up to seven per cent. A broad program to halt the rise in clothing and reduce currently in flated clothing prices, to halt qual ity deterioration and to insure that a substantial proportion of the sup ply of apparel will be low and med ium-priced essential garments, has been declared absolutely necessary. The rise in the price of clothing during the past nineteen months and the almost complete disappearance of lower-priced apparel from stores have become critical threats to the whole economic stabilization pro gram—so serious, in fact, that this firm and far-reaching program, with tightened controls extending all the way from textile mills to retail stores and embracing cotton, rayon and woolen fabrics and apparel, has be come a wartime necessity, -4 Message Confirmed By War Department The message received here last Saturday, announcing that Lt. Col. Wheeler Martin, Jr., had been miss ing over Japan was confirmed in a letter received by the young man’s father, Mr Wheeler Martin, Sr., from the War Department this week. Very little additional information was revealed in the confirmation let ter, but it was stated that Col. Mar tin was missing over Tokyo on March 10. According to newspaper reports, 300 American B-29’s were over To kyo that day in one of the most pow erful and destructive raids of the war. The young man’s mother, visiting relatives in Yanceyville, is expected to return home Sunday. His wife and little daughter, Caroline, are •xpected to return here in early May from a visit with relatives in Daytona Beach. --- Painfully Hurt When Kicked By Farm Mule -—— Mrs. Allie T. Bailey v/as painful ly but not seriously hurt early last Monday morning when she was feed rm’g-m^tock-cnrttm Uimi} 'ftnrrr in Bear Grass Township. Struck in the back, Mrs. Bailey did not suffer as much from the blow as she did in the fall to the ground. Her shoulder was bruised and she was removed to the local hospital fo* treatment. Her condition, much im proved, Mrs. Bailey has returned to her home. ■President Franklin l). Roosevelt**- - Dies Suddenly At Warm Springs In Georgia Yesterday Afternoon President Dies Suddenly In Georgia Carrying lli«- liimlcnn of a war Presidency, 1'n‘siilnil Franklin I). Roosevelt laid down his tiring tasks in death al W arm Springs, Ueorgiu, yesterday afternoon, Iml not until lie had fought the good fi^lit and renewed man’s hopes. County-wide Clothing Drive Makes Progress -«- < Scouts Will Canvass Residential Section Here Sunday at 2:3(1 Local People Asked To (Jive Every Article Possible For War Vi«-li*iiH As part of a nation wide movement to collect used clothing for the mil lions who have been almost render ed naked by war, the drive in this county is making splendid progress according to reports reaching here from several of the community cen ters. The movement is receiving a loyal support from all groups, and the appeals already are being an swered. In Robersonville, the schools are handling the collection under the di rection of the Rotary Club, the spon soring organization there. Prelimi nary reports received from there yesterday were very encouraging. Buck Ayers is heading the drive in Everetts and he will accept deliver ies at J S. Ayers’ store there. Davenport and Hamilton are re ceiving used clothing at their store in Jamesville for the drive. In the Farm Life section, Manning and Gurkin are collecting clothing, and a receiving depot is being main tained in Bear Grass by Terry Broth ers’ store. (Continued on page six) CLEAN-UP --> The clean-up movement has been extended into quite a few spots here this week, but appar ently it has not measured up to expectations. The week is not spent, and considerable progress is to be expected before tomor TOvt1 fi)s»r —1 - ■■ Town officials have already warned that where intolerable conditions were allowed to ex ist, action could be expected in due time. According to that warning, what failed of accom plishment after a voluntary plan may be effected by legal pressure. < \\<:l l< DIMM A drive sponsored by the Held Army of the Williamston IVIartin County Chapter of the American Cancer Society will open here on Sunday, April 15, and continue until the end of the month. Clarence W. Griffin, county commander of the local chapter, said yesterday tiiat the goal for Martin County is $(>43.95. Mrs. John I,. Goff, city commander, will assist Mr. Griffin in the drive here. Can t Han Issuance Of Wine Licenses —<§,—— Unofficially advised that this coun ty hud been empowered by legisla tive act to deny retailers licenses for the sale of wine, the commissioners recently passed a resolution ban ning the issuance of licenses for the sale of wine during the fiscal year beginning May 1 Since that time it was officially learned that Marlin was not included in the list of coun ties empowered to deny applicants licenses for the sale of wines. Under the terms of the law regu lating the issuance of licenses, the authorities have little discretion in controlling the sale of wines, espec ially those of synthetic manufacture And unlike beer licenses, the privi lege to sell wine is hard to revoke Officers declare that a considerable number of law violations is trace able to the consumption of high powered or synthetic wines. Suits Filed For Divorces In This County Recently -.? Suits for six divorces were starlet in the superior court of this count) 'iTTT’flW?. f!... . iWo* years’ St-'p ara'ion, the divorce applications fol low: Clara W. Bell against Grover T Bell, Mary B. Selleck against Jacl W. Selleck, Sarah G. Mills agains James Mills, Sally Ann Wooder against Herbert Wooden, Dessie M Hart against Eugene B\ Hart, anc Hazel Harden against Basil Harden President Rated the Greatest Leader In History Of Country -- Harry S. Truman Succeeds “People’s President” Last Evening Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the people's President”, died at the Lit tle "White House” down at Warm Springs, Georgia, yesterday after noon at 4:35 o'clock (EWT), news of his death coining as a ringing shock to millions in all parts of the world. Many were stunned, and it was some few minutes before the news could be accepted or verified. Apparently in his usual health yesterday morning, the President at 2:30 o’clock, complained of a se vere headache. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and lapsed in to unconsciousness within a few minutes and died two hours later without regaining consciousness. Carrying the heavy burden of war and a target for endowed poli ticians, the President was as much a casualty of the struggle as those who have died and those who are yet to die in actual battle. Amusement places were closed anil dances were called off through out the nation with some very few exceptions out of respect to a man who had chosen to champion ttie cause of the masses. Hardened newsmen turned white in the face, and newspaper women in Washing ton and Paris and other world cen ters wept openly. The full mean ing of the man’s death even today had hardly been grasped. Recognized as the greatest frienu the common man ever had, Mr. Roosevelt blazed new trails for the rights of humanity, and their loss was felt by millions in this cuun try and throughout the world. While his stand for the advancement of the common man has made history for more than twelve years, his rec ord against inhumanity to man is equally as strong, and one of his last oflieial acts was directed against the atrocities practiced by the enemy on American and other Allied pris oners of war. Mi Roosevelt may have made mistakes, but those mistakes are hidden deep in the shadows and will be lost m time against the torch he so ably and untiringly held until the very end, lighting the way and giv ing a renewed hope to millions here and in distant parts of the world. Just 63 years old last January, President Roosevelt carried too great a burden to insure long life. But the record will show, despite bis critics, that he willing sacrifice! his all for thi' good of his country and his fellowman here and everywhere. The body will arrive in Washing ion tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock. Following simple funeral services there tomorrow afternoon, the last journey home to his beloved Hyde Park will begin and interment will follow there Sunday. The news of his death overshadow ed that from the war fronts, but official Washington soon realized die momentous change and moved to carry on where the Commander in Chief left off. At 7:08 o’clock last evening, Vice President Harry S. Truman, the Missourian, was sworn m as President of the United States. He is the thirty-second man to hold the high position, and his first act was to declare his every effort for the relentless prosecution of the war. While President Roosevelt did not live to see the end of the war, he learned that American Armies had crossed the Elbe River and were marching on Berlin. And, at least, he saw victory in sight in the European Theater. President Truman has asked the cabinet to continue, and plans for world peace and a postwar program will be advanced after the hopeful pattern cut out by Mr. Roosevelt. The San Francisco Conference will convene according to schedule on April 25. Plan Relifiions Services In Roberson''s Cufe Here -«> Beginning next Monday night at 8 o’clock, Rev. G. W. Bullard, former nrrssttrrr.'iry; tt III series of" religious services in Roberson’s Cafe at Roberson’s Slaughterhouse. The public is invited to attend the meet ing which is being sponsored by the local Baptist Church. Religious leaders are hopeful & regular Sunday school for that com munity will be organized and main tained
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