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/ NEARLY 1000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEFRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY 3000 MARTIN COUNTY SERVICE MEN NOW READING THE ENTEPRISE IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD EACH WEEK. VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 38 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, May 11, 1945. ESTABLISHED 1899 Judge Calvin Smith! "Gills SBdWIPttsesj In Recorder's Court Court In Session Until Late Monday Afternoon Clear ing Big Doeket Calling sixteen cases, Judge J. C. Smith held the Martin County Re corder’s Court in session until late afternoon last Monday clearing an unusually large docket. The pro ceedings attracted a large number of spectators during the day. The fea ture case was that of a defendant charged with drunken mule driving. Proceedings: The case charging Eva Knight with violating the health laws was nol prossed. Lawrence Wiggins and Albert Wil son, charged with assaulting a fe male, pleaded not guilty. Wilson was adjudged not guilty, and Wiggins, adjudged guilty, was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. The road term was suspended upon the pay ment of a $20 fine, costs and on the further condition that he be regular ly employed for one year. His case having been continued under prayer for judgment, Howard Cherry, charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s li cense, was fined $25 and taxed with the costs. The court ordered that no driver’s license be issued the de fendant for six months. Walter Adkins, charged with al lowing an unlicensed driver to oper ate a motor vehicle, was found not guilty. Charged with drunken driving, George Alford Hardison was fined $50 and taxed with the cost and had his driver’s license revoked for one year. Pleading not guilty in the case charging him with an aflray and dis orderly conduct, Warren Griffin was found guilty of disturbing a public gathering and was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. The sentence was suspended upon the payment of a $20 fine and costs. James R. Taylor, charged with an assault with a deadly weapon, was adjudged not guilty. Charged with drunken and reck less driving, John Thomas Bunting was adjudged not guilty, but he was found guilty of using a truck without tire consent of the owner and was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. The sentence was suspended upon the payment of a $10 fine and costs. The court also stipulated that the defendant is not to be intoxicat ed or violate any motor vehicle law within the next twelve months. Ted Scott was sentenced to the roads for thirty days for an assault with a deadly weapon. Walter “Bud” Freeman, charged with interfering w'ith an officer, fail ed to answer when called and papers were issued calling for his arrest. Charged with disorderdly conduct and assault with a deadly weapon, : Noah Andrews was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. All but the first two days of the sentence was | suspended upon the paymert of a i $25 fine and costs. The defendant j is to remain of good behavior for, one year. Mary Elizabeth Saunders, charged with an assault, was sentenced to jail for four hours and ordered to pay $10 and costs. The case in which Jos. M. Hatha way was charged with drunken driv ing and operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, was con-1 tinned until next Monday Lawrence Andrews, alleged to have been in a drunken condition while driving a mule on the high way, pleaded not guilty. He was ad judged guilty of being drunk and disorderly and was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. The sentence was suspended upon the payment of a $25 fine and the Court costs. The | defendant was directed to surrender his ABC ration book and not be found drunk during the next year. ' Pleading guilty in the case charg-! ing him with an assault with a dead-1 ly weapon, Herbert Reeves was sen- j tenced to the roads for six months. All but the first two days of the sen tences was suspended upon the pay ment of a $20 fine and costs and $25 to John Griffin for money expended by Griffin for medical attention. He was also directed not to interfere in any way with Griffin. Robert Brown, charged with dis turbing the peace at a public place, was sentenced to the roads for sixty days. All but the first two days was suspended upon the payment of a $20 fine and costs. The court or dered the defendant to be regularly employed for one year. Lieut. Jas. L Harris Injured In Germany First Lieutenant James L. Harris, commander of a tank company, was slightly injured in German on April 26, bis wife, the former Miss Eva Harrison, was notified by the War Department last Tuesday evening at her home on Haughton Street here. The officer had previously been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroic performance of duty from February 5 to February 22 in Ger many. He also holds the Purple Heart award. AMERICA'S BIG TOWN SQUARE CHgfiRS WAR NEWS i ! COUNT 'EM IE YOU LUCE, but anyway here are teeming thousands who filled New York City's “crossroads of the world” and overflowed throughout the big town as the first unofficial news came in that Germany’s last armies iad surrendered and war was ended In Europe. Nobody bothered about the war still to be won against Japan, ior whistles were blowing and confetti filled the air and the celebration was on—not only In New York but also in all the world’s towns—although official announcement was postponed. (International) Top Winners At Fat Stock Show Top winners at the county’s second annual Fat Stock Show held in WiJliamston recently are pictured above, left to right, Furney James, Randolph Roger son and John Gurkin, Jr. Gur kin won first prize money and sold his calf for 80 cents a pound or $68800. James won second and Eogerson third prize money and sold their entries for good ly sums. The three were num bered among fifteen Martin County 4-H club members who participated in the fat stock show successfully held for the second time in this county. Fifteen Marriages In Martin County During Past Month -<$> Issuance of Licenses Holds to About Average Figure In Past Month Fifteen marriage licenses were is sued in this county last mouth by Register of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger, the issuance holding to about the average number reported for the month of April in recent years. The number of marriages in the county last month was the smallest for any month so far this year. Licenses were issued to five white and tell colored couples last month, as follows: White Henry Herbert Pope, of Roberson ville and Fort Bragg, and Mae Kri der Hargrove, of Robersonville. Willie Eugene Whitehurst, of Portsmouth, Va., and Melba An drews, of Robersonville. Sgt. Mitchell H. Alexander, of Rob ersonville, and Marguerite Weaver, of Hassell. Pvt. Cecil W. Pierce and Mary Lee Gurganus, both of Williamston. (Continued on page six) -- County Native Dies j In Raleigh Hospital Miss Mary Williams, a native of this county, died in a Raleigh hospi tal last Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock following years of declining health. She had been a patient in the hospital for about six years. The daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Jones Williams Perry, of this coun ty, and the late William Williams, she was born in this county on Jan uary 29, 1906. Besides her mother she is survived by two brothers, John T. and Jesse Williams; two sisters, Ethel and Emma Belle; a half-brother, Louis Perry; a half sister, Annie Bet Perry, and her stepfather, Will Perry, all of this county. Funeral services were conducted in the Bethany Holiness Church yesterday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, the body having laid in state at the Biggs Funeral Horne litre following its removal from Raleigh and until a short time before the service. Rev. M. H. Alexander, assisted by Rev. S. A. Fann, conducted the last rites. Interment was in the Mobley Cem etery in Bear Grass Township. f v J WOUNDED Cpl. Dallas G. Waters, young Jamesville man, was wounded in action in Germany on April 11, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed gar Waters, RFD 1, Jamesville, were advised a short time ago. Shot in the foot, Cpl. Waters is getting along very well. USO Will Observe Mother’s Day Here —— The Williamston USO, recently closed for nearly a week due to ex tensive remodeling and installation of a large ventilating fan, along with placing some new furniture, is planning for the observance of Moth er’s Day in a big way. At 9:30 on Sunday morning a song and praise service will be conducted by Dr. W. R. Burrell. The music will be under the direction of Miss Katheryn Mewborn. Following the service the boys will be served coffee and cakes. Open house will be observed be tween 3:00 and 5:00 and the public is invited to visit with the boys and see the building. The women from Griffins Town I ship, under the leadership of Mrs. ‘Hoyt Manning, will provide supper | for all the service boys during the | early evening. With the addition of a combina | tion radio and record player the boys are finding new ways tc entertain themselves. The repoit shown by Mrs. Joe David Thrower, supervisor, 1 shows that the door count was over 2100 in attendance during the month of April, that the attendance is gradually increasing from month to month. * VICTORY EDITION The Enterprise Publishing Co. has a few copies of the “Vic tory -in-Europe” edition left for sale. Issued as an extra last Tuesday, the paper carries vital facts about Martin County men in three wars, including the rosters as far as it was possible to get the names, the list of men taken prisoners, the missing, the wounded and the names of those men who laid down their lives for their country. The edition started coming off the press within half an hour after President Truman at 9:00 o'clock that morning spoke pro claiming victory in Europe. Additions To First World War Reports In a special edition issued short ly after President Harry S. Truman proclaimed victory in Europe, The Enterprise pointed out that the rec ords were not complete, that In the rush some errors were to he expect ed. The paper had hardly started cir culating before readers volunteered their cooperation, offering additions to the records for World War I. It is certain that the records are not yet complete, and The Enterprise will appreciate anyone’s cooperation in making them complete. Nine Martin County men were re ported to have been killed in World War I, but lute reports boost the number to ten. Lindsey Dave Hodges, son of John and Allie Burt Hodges, of Griffins Township, was killed in action on the Western Front in 1918 He was a member of a machine gun company, and could take apart and reassemble one of the guns with his eyes closed. His body was returned to the county and buried near the home. Solomon Dickens, Martin County colored man, died of pneumonia fol lowing influenza at Camp Green in Oclubei, 1910. He was in the Service only a few months and had a brother, Elisha Dickens, in overseas service. He was a son of Collins and Maggie Sherrod Dickens of this county. In listing the names of Martin County men in the current war, Hor ace Thurston Rackley of Hamilton should have been listed as white in that township. James L Pritchard, of Hamilton, was wounded In World War I. The publishers have a few copies of the extra edition for sale, but the supply is limited. -« County Delinquent Tax List Is Smaller —— Advertised today for sale the first Monday in June, the Martin County delinquent tax list is the smallest in many years. Out of the approxi mately 7,500 tax payers, all but 185 have squared their real property tax accounts, leaving $1,709.48 unpaid. Last year there were 221 unpaid ac counts and a balance due of $2,270. justice Hassell Calls Two Cases In His Court -# Justice John L. Hassell called two cases in his court here during the past tew days, and one or two oth ers are scheduled for trial tomor row. Charged with disorderly conduct, James Lloyd was required to pay $6.50 costs. Publicly drunk, William Midgette was taxed with $8.50 costs. -» CONDITION IMPROVING Taken suddenly ill last Saturday, Mr. Frank Hitch was reported much improved at his home on Hassell Street here last evening. LFish irtg SeasonJust Faded III Tcuunty Poorest'in Fifty Years Commercial fishem^ this week ended <ne of the poorest scar ^.r in many years, reports from Jamesville where a big seine is operated stat ing that the catches were the small est in half a century. No accurate estimates on the total catch for the season could be had. but it is believ ed that less than 100,000 herrings were taken at the plant in Jnmes villo. Quito a few rock fish were caught during a brief period and only a few dozen shad were taken during the entire season. Mr. Stewart J. D. Ange, for fortv nine years connected with the fish ery at Jamesville, was quoted this week as saying that the season just ended was the poorest he had seen. The plant at Jamesville suspended operations on Monday of last week when the catches were so small that actual costs could not be met. Opera tions were resumed last Monday but by late afternoon they were sus Pvt. Bruce Whitley Takes Leave of War For Visit In Paris —®— Long-Time Employe of The Enterprise Last Report ed in Belgium Writing from Belgium the early part of last month, Pvt. Bruce Whit ley, for nearly twenty years an em ployee of The Enterprise, said he was given a short leave and visited gay Paris. The leave was just long enough, the soldier frankly admit ting he could not have stood another day of it. A member of an air field engineering construction outfit, Pvt. Whitley opened the following letter with a few comments about Holland where he spent a few months: “We were in Holland about two months, and while there my bat talion built an air strip under the most adverse conditions. It is in operation now, but it surely did look hopeless at first with all the snow, cold and mud. As for the customs of the Dutch, they are not so very different from those of the Belgiums. The Dutch are very clean ipeople, and really believe in keep ing everything that way. I only saw one woman that dressed in the old traditional way, or the way we gen erally associate them with; that is, with the wide cap, the long dress and white apron. The others dress ed like the others I have seen in Europe, most of them with what they could get, but generally fairly neat. In Paris, however, it was different, especially with the women. They all dressed nice, and it looked i las if all specialized in beauty from four to sixty-four. They looked good. “I came in from work one after noon and the first sergeant told me that I was going to Paris. It was such a surprise I didn’t say any thing for a minute Then 1 asked him when. He told me and the trip was only two days off. That night, however, he came up and told me that I didn't have to go out to work next morning as 1 would go to Brussels by truck the next afternoon and take a train there the following morning. “Our plans did not turn out that way. I left camp as planned, but when I got to headquarters, I was told we would leave Brussels that night. That was O. K., too, for it would give me an extra day in Paris. I arrived as Brussels about tt o' clock that evening, and got a train twenty minutes later. Had a hard time getting on the train as it was crowded, but made it finally. That was a pretty rough night. I arrived in Paris Sunday morning, and I was so hungry I could have eaten any thing. I did not take anything to eat with me for I though I was go jng to stay in Brussels over nigh I and as I had been there before I knew I could get something to eat there. I ate dinner in camp and! (Continued on page six) r A REMINDER This is just a solemn reminder that the Seventh War Loan Drive opens next Monday, that Martin County citizens are be ing asked to invest $745,000 in bonds before Julv 1. The hanks will handle most of the sales and they will release their first report one week after the drive gets underway. Reports from Europe state that Martin Coun ty men are already on the way home but they are coining via Tokyo. Those men will read the reports on the success of the bond drive in Marlin County. How would you feel if you had helped bring victory in Europe j and then transferred to another land for more fighting and hard ships and read where the folks back home had failed you? It is just that personal, so think it ov er and buy more bonds than ev er before. This is truly a criti cal period in the war, and to slacken the pace now will i)e dangerous. pended for the season. Very few herrings were parked at the plant this season, and the supply was exhausted some time ago or long before a single herring reach ed any number of smokehouses. Cus tomers, unable to find fish at James villo, went as far away as Creswell where they paid as much as $16.00 per thousand. In some cases herring just recently sold for five cents each. Independent fishermen declare their catches were so limited that they did not make enough money to pay for their nets arid machines. However, they took rook fish from the Roanoke in goodly numbers to recuperate their losses and make some money. Prices for rock fish never fell below 30 and 35 cents a •pound. Late reports state that herring were running in larger numbers on Wednesday and yesterday at James vilie, but the season is now spent. I SERIOUSLY WOUNDED j Private George James, son erf Mr. and Mrs. George James, Sr., of near Itobersonvirlle, was seriously wounded in Germany on April 10. In a recent letter to his parents, he stated that his condition was satisfactory and that he expected to fully re cover. |Over Million Men to [Come Home Under Demobilization Plan Fi^lilin^ CoiiliniHMl by I'anali ra I Nazis in (izrclioslova kia; Japs Honihri! American soldiers on the war fronts and relatives back home are studying closely the Army’s demo bilization pi.in announced yesterday. Approximately 1,300,000 soldiers will he released under the system which requires a minimum of 85 points, hut which, it is pointed out, may not apply in all cases where officers can not he replaced or critical positions filled. The system allows one point for each month the soldier has been in service with an extra point for each month spent overseas. Five points are allowed for each battle participation star or campaign, and a wound is good fut five points. Sin gle decorations count for another five points, and 12 points are allow ed for each dep< ndcnt child, tint any numhei over thnc does not count Quite a few Martin County men are eligible for honorable discharge un dor tin plan. Wluli deinobilizati m plans go for ward in Europe, fanatical Nazis are still fighting in parts of Czechoslo vakia, but the Res ians an squeez ing hundreds of thousands of them into a giant trap and firing can’t last much longer. German U boats are surrendering in various parts of the Atlantic, but not until they (Continued on page six) Deny Wine Licenses To Retailers Here In addition to routine- business matters, the local town commission ers last Monday evening issued sev eral beer and wine licenses to local retailers but delayed action on at least one request for a beer license. The meeting, the last in the regu lar schedule tor the old board of commissioners, lasted only a short time. Beer licenses were issued to Mod lin’s and Jernigan’s filling stations and to the Williamston Cafe, but no wine licenses were issued them, Mayor J. L. Hassell explained. Pen der’s store was issued licenses for the sale of wine and beer for con sumption off premises. An applica tion for beer license filed by Lanzy White tor the Cotton Club was ta bled for the present. About fifteen licenses for the sale of beer have been issued in the county for the new fiscal year be ginning May 1, it was learned this week from the office of the sheriff. jTlirong Psesent For ! V fciory""0hsr?rv3flce Here La>! Tuesday Service of Thanksgiving anil Prayer in Loral Church Very Impressive Bofore an audience that com pletely filled the spacious auditor ium and Sunday school class rooms in the Williamston Memorial Bap iist Church, the local ministerial as sociation presented an impressive program of devotion, thanksgiving, prayer, dedication and consecration in connection with the observance of “Victory in Europe” day last Tuesday morning. Promptly on receipt of President Truman’s proclamation declaring hostilities at an end on the European front, the town fire siren sounded three short blasts and immediately the church bells tolled the joyful tidings. Almost before the bells had ceased, prayerful citizens began to assemble at the church and soon u was a question of “standing room only,” so eager were the people to .join in the service of thanksgiving and prayer. At 0:37 o’clock, after the crowd had assembled despite overcast skies and a rain mist, the service was opened with an organ rendition of “The Star Spangled Banner,” play ed by Mrs. Frances Parker, after which the somewhat elaborate serv ice and ritual, prepared by the Fed eral Council of the Churches of Christ in America for the special oc casion, was followed through. Rev. John L. Goff, pastor of the Christian Church and president of the ministerial group, led the con gregation in the invocation and in the reading of the Litanies, poems and verse, and the augmented choir led in the i inging of familiar and special hymns and songs. Hr. W. li. Burrell gave the dedi cation address, calling attention “to the far-reaching and tremendous is sues involved in the war and result ant peace.” He stressed the fact that we are passing through one of those cataclysmic periods that determine the direction civilization will take for ages to come, and called upon all Christians to follow the footsteps of the Prince of Peace “by divesting our minds and hearts of all vindic tiveness, malice or hatred. Only as we think calmly, constructively, kindly and in Christ-like spirit can we hope to build a new order of so ciety both al home and abroad that will give any assurance that the hor rible nightmare of unbridled lust, hate anil unparalleled destruction, both of human and social values, that we are now passing through will not occur again in the next or future generations. “We are called upon to dedicate ourselves to the unfinished task of war with Japan and then to the even greater task of building a new world in which men shall learn of war no more forever." Dr. Burrell, do ing his message in which he also pointed out the c( lebrations of mockery following World War 1 in Paris and other cop ilals of the world more than a quar ter of a century ago, quoted the fol lowing lines: “Wo are living, we are dwelling In a grand and awful time; In an age on ages telling To be living is sublime. Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait!” After a pause for silent prayer and in devoted memory of*the heron dead as well as for the wounded, the orisoners, the distressed and their loved ones, the benediction was pro nounced by Rev B. T. Hurley, pas tor of the local Methodist Church, the congregation, described as the largest seen in a local church in many years, dispersing quietly and seemingly under such a deep sense of the profound solemnities involv ed that there was little or no dispo sition to resort to noisy or nerve r.vking methods of jubilation. Stores and other places of busi ness closed for the service and did not reopen that day, adding to the neace and quiet of the hour and en hancing the spirit of deep reverences and sincere observance of V-E day. Oak City Boy Gets Combat Citation With the Fifth Anny, Italy—Pri vate First Class William T, Brown, whose mother, Mrs. Ella B. Brown, lives in Oak City, North Carolina, has been cited by the 86th Mountain Regiment of the 10th "Mountain eer Division anti awarded the Com bat Infantryman Badge for actual oarticipallon in combat against the enemy on the Fifth Army front in Italy. Standards for the badge are high. The decoration is awarded to the infantry soldier who has proved his fighting ability in combat. The handsome badge consists of silver rifle set against a background of infantry blue .enclosed in a silver wreath. 1
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