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County Bond Quota Is $745,000—Save Today and Buy a Bond in May NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY 100« MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. VOLUME XLYIII—NUMBER 34 fNfliamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, April 27, 1945. ESTABLF4«2?> • iKW * Recent War Casualties One Killed, Four Are Wounded, One Dies And One Is Missing Reports Received This eck From Several Theaters Of Operations Seven Martin County young men were included in recent war casual ties, according to messages coming from the War Department during the past few days. One was killed in action over in Italy on April 5. One died in a hospital somewhere in France. Four other men were wound ed, two seriously, and one was re portt'd missing in Germany since Sunciay, April 8. No detailed information has been received following the delivery of the messages notifying relatives of the casualties. The first in the group of war cas ualties just recently reported was pfc. Floyd Conglelon, 28-year-old colored man, who died in a hospital somewhere in France on April 7th, presumably of wounds received sev eral months ago. His parents, James and Cynthia Conglelon, of Parmele, were notified last Sunday. Pfc. Joshua Mariner, also a young colored man, was killed in action ov er in Italy on April 5th, his parents, Gus and Mittie Mariner, of near Jamesville, wen advised by the W;r Department last Tuesday. Pvt Mar iner is believed to be the first Mar tin County colored man to have been killed in action. Pvt. Mariner, 22 years old last March 8. entered the service in Oc tober, 1943, trained at Camp Lee, and later in Mississippi, Florida and Kentucky, leaving for overseas in November, 1944, after a short stay at Fort Meade. In his last letter writ ten March 29, he stated he was get ting along very well but wished to get back home. Besides his parents he is survived by three brothers, James and Chester, of the home, and Andrew who is now in an Army hospital over in France, and a sis ter, Pearl Mariner. Pvt. Dennis Mayo Harrison, RFD 2, Williamston. was seriously wound ed on Luzon Island in the battle for the Philippines on March 30, his brother, Ernest Harrison, was ad vised last Tuesday. The young man is the son of the late Redmond and Mattie Roberson Harrison. He en tered the service in August 1942, and went overseas the following Febru (Continued on page six) Wounded Youth In Seriously wounded in Germany on March 27, Pfc. Delrnus W Clark is now undergoing treatment in an Army hospital somewhere in Eng land, according to information re ceived by his parents, Mr and Mrs Roy Clark, RED 3, Williamston, this week. Pfc. Clark, still unable to write, stated in a letter dictated to a friend that he was flown from Germany to England or. April 12, was doing fine and getting the best of care, includ ing good food. It was intimated that the young man would be returning home “soon”. During the meantime he will have to spend long hours in the hos pital, and it is quite certain that the young man will appreciate and en joy letters from his friends and ac quaintances back home. His present address is. "Pfc. Delrnas W Clark, 34854426, 4148 U. S. Army Hospital Plant, APO 63, Care Postmaster, New York, N. Y.” -—$ Bear Grass Seniors Will Present Play The Senior class of Bear Grass High School will present its play. Mama’s Baby Boy. by Charles George, on Friday, May 4th, at 8:00 o’clock. This play is a riot of laughs and provides an evening of rare en tertainment. The cast follows: Mrs. McLean, a young widow, Martha Harrison; Shephard McLean, her son, Dillon Cherry; Luther Long, a widower. Cecil Whitehurst; Juliet Long, his daughter, Leona Rawls; Mrs. Black burn, Mrs. McLean’s mother, Kath leen Bennett; Wilbur Warren, E. D Harrison; Sylvia, Wilbur's girl friend, Peggy Jones; Mrs. Charlotte Anglin, Martha Harrison; Cynthia Anglin, her daughter, Doroth* Wynn; Max Moore, real estate agent, Russell Roberson; Minnie, £ rr Anne Lou Leggett rnr' ger, Ben Harrison. -- MISSING v---/ Sift. James Edward Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Taylor, RED 1, Williamston, has been missing in Germany since April 8, his wife, the former Miss Lil lian Pollard of near Roberson ville, was advised this week. Increasing Need For Nurses’ Aids The little things mean a lot to a wounded or sick soldier in an Army hospital. In order to give our men the attention that they deserve, over worked Army doctors and nurses need help Working under the direct supervision of doctors and nurses, members of the Women’s Army Corps, according to WAC recruit er, Sgt. Bob Burkhardt, are helping care for our fighting men. “These Wacs serve with hospital companies in general Army hospi tals in this country,” said Sgt. Burk hardt. As medical technicians they do much to relieve the Army nurse for more professional care. They can take temperatures; make beds, give baths, keep records of the patient’s progress, and do many of the other small but important details that will help speed the recovery of a sick or injured man. “The surgical technicians with a Wac hospital company prepare op erating rooms and surgical equip ment and do varied non-professional duties for post-operative and pre operative cases. “Members of the Women’s Army Corps who are assigned to hospital companies have the satisfaction of knowing that they are working for the most appreciative men in the world . . . wounded or sick G. I.’s,” added Sgt. Burkhart. The way a sol dier says, “Thanks,” means a great deal to these women who are help ing them when they really need help. “Opportunities for service with Wac hospital companies are now open to over 8,000 women. To qualify, you do not have to be piufcssionally trained. The Army will train you." (Continued on page six) Call Off War Hoard Meeting Here Today The regular weekly meeting of the Martin County War Board scheduled for today was called off, the secretary, Mrs. Josephine Hold ing, explaining that the members wanted to attend the Fat Stock Show and sale and the Farm Bureau meet ing. The next session of the board will be held Friday, May 4th. I Weakening in Many ! Important Sectors —«— Reports from Neutral Sources Intimate Berlin’s Fall Will End War -« Recent Allied advances in the Eu ropean theater of operations indi cate that German resistance is rap idly weakening in many important sectors, and unconfirmed reports from neutral countries now indicate that there is a possibility that the war will come to an end in Germany with tiie fall of Berlin. Over two thirds of the German capital is in Russian hands, and the fall of the city is expected shortly. Revenge for the Russians is great in Berlin, late reports stating that nothing but wreck and ruin are to be found, that the light is being carried to subways and sewers and 1 that no quarter is being asked and none is being given. Americans and Russians are lined up along the Elbe, waiting in holiday fashion for the long-predicted meet ing of the two Allies. To the south the Americans have driven into Austria and are hardly 85 miles from a junction with the Russians. Other forces, driving 18 miles last night, arc within 25 miles i of Munich, and Patton’s spearheads are less than 65 miles from Bcrch tesgaden. The Russians in the east j have taken Stettin and entered Bres lau to clean up those pockets far be hind the lines. In the northwest, the British have taken Bremen and are now going after Hamburg. While Allied Armies are applying the finishing touches, German high officials are scattering as rats before a flood. Reichmarshal Hermann Goering, relieved of his air command was reported today to have fled Ber lin with a 20 million dollar nest egg. The whereabouts of Hitler are not known, but wherever he is, the Al lies are making it hot for him. German resistance in Italy is crumbling. Fifth Army troops have taken Verona and are reported to have cut the Nazis off from the Brenner Pass while Italian patriots are fighting the enemy in Milan and other large Italian cities. Mussolini is reported to have been captured by the patriots. The nine-day battle for Naha on Okinawa continues to rage, but the Americans have gained some ground to feature the developments in the Pacific area these past few days. An other landing has been reported on the island. Just as weapons of destruction are ending one era, delegates are work ing to begin another era at the World Security Conference in San Fran- i cisco. Several obstacles have present- ! ed themselves at the start, but the world is convinced that the meeting cannot, must not fail. --» Bigger Fat Stock Show Opens Today Martin County’s second annual fat stock show opened this morning in the Planters Warehouse here. At an early hour this morning, club boys and girls were getting their en tries brushed down for the judging contest at 10:30, and quite a few spectators were admiring the entries. The show has about three times as many entries this year as were seen here a year ago, and a difficult task lay ahead for the judges. Despite a busy schedule on the farm, quite a number of farmers were here early: today to see the baby calves and watch the youthful exhibitors as they made their exhibits ready and waited for the judges. The entries will be offered at pub lic auction this afternoon. Following the sale, farmers will go to the high school for the annual Farm Bureau meeting and barbecue ] Will Hold Pre-School Clinics In County Starting April 30 Beginning next Monday, the Mar- | tin Health Department will hold a series of pre-school clinics for white children in the county, and a gen eral appeal is being addressed to all parents who have children entering school for the first time next fall to get the youngsters to the nearest clinic. The first of the clinics will be hey next Monday at Jamesville. The re mainder of the clinic schedule fol lows: Farm Life, Tuesday, May 1; Williamston, Thursday and Friday, May 3 and 4; Bear Grass, Monday, May 7; Everetts, Tuesday, May 8; Robersonville, Thursday, May 10; Hamilton. Friday. May 11; Oak City, Monday, May 16. All of the above scheduled clinics will open at 9:30 o’clock a. m. On Tuesday, May 15, a clinic will be held at Gold Point from 8 30 to 10:30 a. m., and one at Hassell from 11:00 a. m. to 1:00 p m. ,the same day. The law regulating entrance re quirements for beginners remains unchanged. The child must be six years old on or before next October 1 to enter school next fall. Children reporting to the pre school clinics will be vaccinated against smallpox, and against diph theria if they have not already been protected from that disease by im munization. Recent legislative act requires all children to be vaccinat ed against whooping cough, but since the immunization program calls for several doses no attempt is to be made to administer the serum at the clinics. Arrangements will be made later to offer it to the children. The clinics w ill alrso ex amine the little tots for physical de fects such as bad tonsils, poor eye sight and other remedial defects. It is believed that the clinics will attract a larger number of children than they did last year in the county. The collection of used cloth ing for the poorly-clad victims o' war in stricken lands across the sea will be brought to a close in this county next Monday. A last call for serviceable garments and bedclothing is being issued today by K. D. Worrell, chair man of the drive. The second town-wide can vass made locally last Sunday was not very successful, as a whole, but Scoutmaster Leo Slade and his colored Scouts helped boost the drive with a collection of their own. Incomplete reports state that the appeal in the county, as a whole, has not received the ex pected response. However, some communities have made much progress, and it is still hoped that the combined collections will fill a freight car. Any one who has old clothes they can spare and have not yet offered them, are humbly ask ed to deliver them to the offices of the Virginia Electric and Pow er Company where the Lions Club members will pack them for shipment. Special Two Weeks’ Term of Court Ends Here Late Thursday —&—. $16,000 Suit apiiiiHt Jos. B. Cherry Is Settled by Agreement -- A special two weeks’ term of the Martin County Superior Court, call ed for the trial of civil cases only, was brought to a close here late yes terday after most of the cases on the calendar had been cleared. One or two cases were continued and or ders were issued in several others. After working almost two days on the $16,000 suit brought by O. S. An derson against J. 13. Cherry, the court announced that a settlement had been effected. The plaintiff was awarded $4,129.41. Surveys were ordered made in the boundary line dispute cases brought by R H. Weaver against H C. Norman, and H. H. Cowen against C. E. Jenkins. In a third boundary line case, W W Griffin against Rome Lee, the court allow ed the defendant to cultivate certain land by posting a $50 bond. In the case of Henry Wallace against Richard Slade, the plaintiff was declared the owner of certain lands. A divorce, based on two years’ sep aration, was granted Sallie Clem mons against Elmo Clemmons. The case of Josephine James against Abner James was continued. Very few people attended the court sessions during the term just ended, and the proceedings attract ed very little attention. Judge R. D. Dixon, of Edenton, presided. In the $2,000 damage suit brought by W. W. Hinson against L. B. Flem (Continued on page six) -® Slight Improvement In Fishing In The Roanoke - After weeks of small catches, fish ermen are reporting fair progress in the Roanoke this week. Rock fish are being taken in unusually large numbers, but the herring catches continue very small. The water in the Roanoke has been rising in recent days, and it is quite likely that the fish will run in larger numbers. However, record catches from now until the early part of May will hardly make the current season into anything like a successful one. ELECTION r More than passing interest in the municipal election here next Tuesday is expected, but no startling results are believed in the making at this time. Regis trar John E. Pope points out that the recent registration was the largest in years, but even then the total of new names added to the books is not impressive. The registrar reports that thir teen new names were added to the books during the recent reg istration period, that most of them belonged to citizens who had lived here for years and who had never registered. An independent ticket is out ol the question at this late date, and if there is any opposition it will have to be expressed on the regular ballot; that is, the voter may write in the names of his favorite candidates and rut a cross mark in a drawn square beside their names. Voting will be in order from 8 a. m. until sunset in the firee men’s room in the town ball building. ■P,-, Tells Of Trip And Activities Overseas —•— Tells of the Capture of Many Prisoners; Believes War Can’t Cast Very Long -& Writing home a few weeks ago, Cpl. Garland Tice, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Tice, of Griffins Town ship, told about his trip to Fort Meade and to the fighting fronts, relating a few interesting and dan gerous experiences. Since the young man went overseas, his wife, the former Miss Erla Ruth Corey, suf fered a costly eye injury while work ing on the farm. She is much im proved now, however. The corporal, entering the service last August 22, writes, as follows: “On January 1, 1945, I arrived at Fort George Meade, Maryland. It was snowing and raining and ice covered the ground. The first day we were really on the go from one place to another. That night we were divided and put into platoons and assigned to huts. The second day I was issued corporal stripes by our platoon sergeant, and I caught all tlitj nasty work, taking the boys out on detail work which I didn’t like a bit. Finally, our orders came down for us to shove off. We were given a good send-off by a band made up of men returned from overseas. You can imagine how I felt. 1 am telling you I was plenty blue. I am the type that never thought of the future, but on the special morning I began to see how wrong I had been. Music does things to lonely Gl’s and makes them realize what a swell family they have had to leave behind. On Saturday morn ing, January 6, we got on the boat which was to take us across. We were greeted by another band and after the program, the Red Cross took over and served nice refresh ments 1 would like to congratu late all Red Cross members for the fine job they are doing on the home front and also on the war front. "After we were on the boat and got settled as best we could, all the talk was about the long voyage we were to take. We knew lots of things could happen and that makes a fellow think of the life he has left behind. Whether he was good or bad, all the important things he left undone come back to hurt and nag his conscience. Then he wishes he could be home with his loved ones to start an entirely different life from the one he had lived be fore he had to shove off to face the enemy. (Continued on page six) Wounded Officer Visits In County Lt. and Mrs. John Goodman (Jack) Getsinger visited his uncle, Mr. J. Sam Getsinger, here this week. Lt. Getsinger was wounded twice in action .first in the Sicilian cam paign and some months later in France. He was first wounded in the knee, and almost killed in France. While on a reconnaisance mission he was giving instructions to his men when an ene my shell burst near him, tearing off his right arm just above the elbow and ser iously injuring both legs below the knees. Shrapnel also tore into other parts of his body in numerous places. | Although he has no right arm, he is rapidly mastering the use of an artifical limb with a hook in it. He has to walk with a brace, but de spite the impediment, he gets around wonderfully well and seems to be in the best of spirits. He and Mrs. Getsinger are return ing today to Atlantic City where he will undergo further hospital treat ment. Years Old This Month f FOURTH TIME v_/ S/Sgt. John I). Kland, son of Mrs. J. T. Bland, of WilliamstMi, was wounded recently In Italy for the fourth time in a little over twelve months. His right hand wounded, the young man dictated a letter to his mother, stating that he was back in the hospital. Janiesville Youth Writes To Parents Wounded in action on the Western Front, Pfc. Leonard Holliday wrote to his parents, Mr and Mrs. F W Holliday, of Janiesville, under date of April 1 ,as follows: “Today is Eastern Sunday. IIow quickly the years seem to go hy, and yet, some of the minutes I have spent in the past have seemed like months, and a day in the hell of battle, amidst the Hying bullets and bursting shells, seems like a year within itself. Today marks the end of winter -the end of a nightmare I will never forget. How could I for get the two months of plowing through snow sometimes four and five feet deep, but never less than two. Yes, it was truly hell on earth. For hours we’d lie in the snow with frozen feet and hands so cold we could hardly squeeze the trigger, but somehow did. Nights and days we spent in fox-holes. Bodies of the dead would freeze a short time after life was snufTed out. It was days like those that we fought all the way through the Siegfried Line, at tacking pill box after pill box. Hun dreds of times I was shot at, but they always missed. I was one of the for tunale—I made it, but many didn’t. “I hope today when the people at home go to church, they will not go to show their new Easter bonnets. Somehow I hope they will all re member the boys over here and in the Pacific. I hope they will re member the thousands upon thous ands of American boys who lie dead now, and who such a short time ago worn iilive* and happy (Continued on page six) County Native Returns From Eunt/tean Theater T/4 Clyde H Heath, a native of this county, recently returned to the States after a stay in the Eu ropean theater He is now in Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, for treatment of asthma. He hopes to get a furlough and visit bis parents, Mi and Mrs, T. L. Heath, who moved to Tarboro a few years ago. Members of Local Lions Club Offer Little Girl Their Blood With the supply offered hy mem- I bers of the local fire department I virtually exhausted, members of the 1 local Lions Club this week stepped < forward to offer their blood for lit- 1 tie Miss Peggy Harrison who yes- 1 terday received her 114th transfu- i sion in the local hospital. Nine mem- . bers of the club have had their \ blood typed, and Roy Ward, presi dent of the club, was quoted as say- 1 ing that he was fairly certain the i entire membership would respond to the call and be ready to donate their blood not only to little Miss j Harrison but for emergency trans fusions also. In addition to the nine who had their blood typed this week, several club members who i belong to the volunteer fire depart ment had had theirs typed previous ly and had donated biood. Those who had their blood typed this week include, Ernest Mears, Bill Howell, H. O. Peele, J cries Bai ey Popl, Eugene Hire, Bill wooiara, 1. P Mobley, Clyde Manning and Earvin Baker. Mr. Mears made a lunation Wednesday, and Cpl. Bill lunt was called in yesterday to urnish the remainder to complete he 114th transfusion after Fireman lulian Harrell had donated about a lint earlier in the week. The blood of only five of the six een firemen was of the type requir 'd and some of them had given as nany as three transfusions when the ions Club members heard the call. Peggy, daughter of Mr and Mrs. 2. C. Harrison of near Bear Grass, las to have transfusions about every *ight weeks. Her condition is grad lallv improving and it is hoped that ,he will overcome her disability in ime. During the meantime it is most ’ommendable of the firemen and L,ions Club members to offer their jlood gratis and help strengthen the ittle girl’s hold on life. Over 75,000 Books Circulated during Seven-year Period Over One Hundred and Fitly Rooks Added To Library lu Recent Months lly JOHN L. GOFF The Williamston Public Library completed seven years of commun ity service on the 10th of this month and began its eighth year on the 11th. The book collection has now grown until it numbers more than 2300 volumes. During the seven years of opera tion there have been 75.745 books circulated, 10,745 were put into the hands of its readers last year. Six ty-one per cent were adult readers and 39 per cent were juvenile. New books added during the year total ed 150. Fifteen magazines and one newspaper, along with numerous pamphlets are also available to readers. The local library serves as one of Martin County’s Bookmobile depos itories. Through this cooperative set up patrons have access to hundreds of books that the local library does not have, nor could afford to pur chase at this time. During the seven years of opera tion, and even before, Mrs. J C. Cooke has given her time gratuitous ly in its organization and in the pur chasing, classifying and accession ing of its books Mi s. Cooke continues to render this service until the sup port of the library is sufficient to employ a full time librarian. The support of the library has grown from year to year, and it is believed that in a few years more ample quarters may be had, and with the growing collection better library .service will be available. It is hoped that Martin County and the citizens of Williamston in looking around for a suitable memorial to the brave men who gave their lives that free institutions might live, will consider the erection of a commun ity building in which the library could be housed, as a living memor ial to these, our honored dead. The library board consisting of Mayor John I Hassell, Mrs F. M. Manning, Senior Woman’s Club; Mrs. J. F. Thigpen, of P. T A Mrs. J. C. Cooke, of Junioi Woman’s Club and librarian; 1). V Clayton, I.ions Club; It II Taylor, Kiwariis Club; J. C Manning, M isons; J. S. Getsinger, American Legion, and Rev John L. (Continued on page six) Robbers Break Into Esso Station I loro Forcing an entrance through a side window, robbers stole between two and three hundred pennies, a ration hook and carried away charge slips valued in excess of $100 from the Carroll CnHrnm 1'■ ‘1 Station cornei of Main and Haughton Streets here during the early hours of last Wednesday night. The robbers wrecked a $275 cash register in their crude way of forcing the money box open. No items were missed fmm the stock, and the robbers left the sta tion through a side window. It was the fourth time the station had been robbed in the past two yeai s. David Rookcy, Jr , of Oswego, N. Y., and Fred Robert Stuart of Wilm ington, Del., arrested in connection with a Virginia car theft, admitted the station robbery. They were turn ed over to the Federal Bureau of In vestigation, luit no hearing had been announced early this morning. Patrolman Recovers Stolen Automobile Stolen in Williamsburg, Va., early Wednesday, a 1941 Plymouth auto mobile was recovered by Patrolman W. E Saunders between Sweet Wa ter Creek and Holly Springs Meth odist Church on Highway No. 64 % about midnight Wednesday. David Rookcy, Jr., 16-year-old boy from RFD 1, Oswego, N. Y , and Fled Rob ert Stuart, 2223 Pine St.. Wilmington, Del., were arrested by the patrolman who was patrolling the route when he found the car parked beside the road and the boys sleeping in it. Thinking something was wrong, the officer investigated and found it difficult to wake the two up. Turn ed over to FBI agents, the boys were said to have admitted the theft of the car. Officeis later connected the two lads with the robbery of Col tram’s Esso Station here. I
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