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NEARLY 4,000 COPIES OF THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNT' SERVICEMEN THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY 4,000 COPIES OF THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN VOLUME XLVIII—NUMBER 46 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, June 8, 1945. ESTABLISHED 1899 Twenty-one Martin _County Men Report For Physical Exam 111 J'ouf?1 K**uli included Because of Incomplete or ^ Neglected Reports -«. Twenty-one Martin County white men, including several over thirty years of age. were called Tuesday of this week to report for pre-induction examinations at Fort Bragg. Three of them were transferred and one or tw’o did not report. The list included eight farmers, some with as many as five or six ^ children. Several of them were over thirty years of age, one report ex plaining that they were called be cause incomplete reports had been filed on their farming activities or the facts were not submitted in time to have their cases considered for deferment. It is possible that their cases will be reviewed and that de ferments will be granted even if they passed the pre-induction tests. Some lost their deferment status # when they quit the farm or essen tial jobs in industry. At least two of those answering the call this week had visited the in duction center previously and were rejected. Two others had been in ducted into the service but were honorably discharged after spending one day in the Army back in July of 1941. The group included only four boys in their teen ages, the ages ^ of the others ranging from 22 to al-! most 38 years. Fourteen of the 21 men answering the pre-induction call are married and they leave be hind twenty-three children. Samuel Clinton James was trans ferred to Wilmington. Charlie Ne braska Russell and Eugene Roches ter, former agriculture teacher in the Robersonville Schools, asked to be transferred. Luther Hugh Hardi son and Jos. Alexander Martin did ~ not report. * Names of those called to report for the pre-induction examinations and their registration and last-given addresses follow: Hugh Burras Ward, RFD 2, Wil liamston. Lance Johnson, RFD 1, Robcrson ville and Williamston. Eugene Wallace Rochester, Rob ersonville and Waco, N. C. Leo McGlenn Warren, RFD 2, Robersonville. 4 Dalton Archibald Brown, RFD 1, Robersonville. Mack Burras Stalls, RFD 2, Wil liamston. and RFD 3, Washington. Joseph Peaks, RFD 2, Williams ton. Luther Hugh Hardison, James viile. Joseph Alexander Martin, James ville and Carolina Beach. Ollie Alonza Bland, RFD 1, Wil 0 liamston and Norfolk. Samuel Clinton James, Roberson ville and Castle Hayne, N. C. Roland Harrison, RFD 2, William ston. Walter Edmond Barr, Williamston and Whaleyville, Va. Charlie Nebraska Russell, RFD 1, Jamesville and Newport, N. C. John Henry Jones, RFD 3, Wil liamston. 41 John Allie Mizelle, RFD 3, Wil liamston. Richard Randolph Thompson, RFD 1, Palmyra. Carl Woodley Copeland, RFD 1, Robersonville. Virgil Allen Bryant, RFD 1, Bethel. Elmer Ray Lilley, RFD 3, Wil liamston. Clarence Blount Ayers, RFD 2, Williamston. Officers Tear Down Four Liquor Plants Working to check an increase in the illicit liquor business, ABC Offi cer J. H. Roebuck and his assistants this week wrecked four stills and ^ poured out a few gallons of beer. A 30-gallon capacity oil drum used as a still was wrecked Monday along the Martin-Beaufort boundary. The officers poured out 75 gallons of mo lasses beer. Returning to the same area the following day, the officers wrecked two plants, one equipped with an oil drum and the other with a 50-gallon capacity tin still. They poured out fifty gallons of molasses 4 beer and wrecked seven fermenters. In the lower section of Free Utoion Wednesday, the officers tore down a plant equipped with an oil drum and poured out fifty gallons of su gar beer. --a. Cars Damaged In Wreck \ear Hassell Tucsday . A property damage estimated at W $350 by Patrolman W. E. Saunders, resulted when two cars, one driven by James Lewis Etheridge and own ed by Jeff Etheridge, and the other by Jasper Council, crashed in front of Council’s home near Hassell last Tuesday night at 8:30 o’clock. Council was making a left turn when the Etheridge car, a 1941 Chev rolet. struck ana knocked i* in the ditch Repairs to the Etheridge car will cost approximately $200, it was estimated. No one was hurt. Council is charged with making a left turn without giving a proper signal. If V. MISSING )| Fireman 1/c Vernon Casper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Whalen W. Casper of Oak City, and a mem ber of the U. S. Destroyer Luce crew, has been reported missing in the Pacific off Okinawa. No date was given, but the ship is believed to have been lost about May 9th with heavy casualties. Pvt. Jas. E. Moore Recalls Fatal Tank Fire On Leyte Isle Loral Man Thinks Much Hard Fitditint; Is To Be Done Before Japs Are Beat After barely escaping with his life from a tank fire on Leyte Island in the Philippines, Pvt. James E. Moore, son of Mrs. Lula Moore Gardner of Williamston and the late Claude Moore, returned home a short time ago with an honorable discharge from the Army. Back in July, 1942, the young man entered the service and a few months later moved on to Hawaii. In October of last year he continued to the Philippines where he engaged in the fight for Leyte as a member of a tank company. “We had been in the fight for eight days when we were ordered to the rescue of a dis abled tank crew operating ahead of our main forces. We plunged through the first obstacle without trouble and were nearing our objective when one of our tracks was blown away. We were trapped and before we could decide what to do the Japs fired our tank from the rear. Three of our crew were burned to death before they could even move,” Pvt. Moore said, adding that he and one other man managed to get out of the roaring inferno alive. Pvt. Moore was seriously burned on the back, face and hands, and the War Department advised his moth er that her son’s condition was crit ical. Pvt. Moore, recalling the hor rible experience, said that his hands were like raw steak, that he felt no pain «at the time and was able to crawl on bis hands and knees for al most 200 yards to reach the Ameri can lines and medical aid. Hie com panion suffered third degree burns from his head to his waist, but he, too, was able to make it back to the lines. Although he was almost burned to death, the young man bears no signs on his face and hands, but his companion continues in the hospital for skin grafting. Pvt. Moore praised without quali fication the work of the medics “As far as I am concerned they are win ning the war. Those guys went into the thick of the fight to get those who couldn’t help themselves,” he declared. The soldier went on to praise all the Army medics and the hospital services, “From the time I reached the first aid medics, I re ceived splendid attention,” Moore said. The six-day trip on a landing ship tank from Leyte to a base hos pital was an ordeal for him, but no better attention could have been received by any one than that he received during his several weeks’ stay in the hospital, he declared. Pvt. Moore said he never would (Continued on page six) | NEW ICE PLANT v__ A new ice plant, estimated to have cost between $18,000 and $20,000, will be placed in oper ation here by the Lindslcy Ice Company within the next day or two. Now just about complete the new plant will produce right at twenty tons of ice every twenty-four hours, K. P. Linrts ley, one ot the manager-owners, explaining that the old unit would still be maintained and operated when necessary, that the two combined will manu facture about thirty tons of raw ice every twenty-four hours. The new plant is electrically equipped in its entirety, mean ing that the lopd engine exhaust that lias caused sleepless nights for some, will not be heard ex cept during oertai’ periods. Sit is fairly certain that with the two units there’ll be no ice shortage such as existed in this immediate section last year. Youth Experiences Many War Horrors ^hile A Prisoner Sergeant Relates How He Lost Bach Feet While Held By The Germans -<$—— The hardships and horrors of war are quite real to Sgt. Raymond Lang, young man who married Miss Catherine Mobley of Everetts, and who is back in this country minus both feet. He is visiting his native home in Grifton and spending some time with relatives in Everetts while waiting for infections in his feet to clear up and he can return to a hos Dital for further treatment. While he is able to drive a car, the young man can't walk and his act.vities are necessarily limited. In a recent interview with Paul Bailey at Everetts, Sgt, Lang recall ed a few of the horrors he exper ienced. During the early part of von Runstedt’s fierce drive into the Ar dennes last December, Sgt. Lang and other members of his medical com pany became lost and were soon surrounded by the enemy. The night was dark and friend and foe mingl ed, not knowing who was who. A lieutenant issued orders to move in the direction of the American lines. The lost men were to take hold of the coat-tail of the man in front and march. In the confusion, Sgt. Lang caught hold of a coat-tail belonging to that of a German. Realizing they were moving away from their lines, they talked with the man in front and learned he was a German. Tired and almost ex hausted, Sgt. Lang suggested that they stop and rest a while. The Ger man was said to have given Sgt. Lang and the lieutenant each a blan ket, and when the heard the enemy man snoring, they stole away and started moving back toward their own lines. They wandered around for about ten days, hiking through woods and around fields. On the tenth day they came to an open field and were al most half way across it when they walked into a highway. About that time a German staff car bore down on them and they were taken pris oner. Removed to Luxembourg, they were separated and questioned, reaching a prisoner of war camp at Salzburg ten days later. While traveling to the prisoner of war camp, Sgt. Lang said he slept in cellars on the cement floor with out cover. It was while on that trip that he saw American bodies muti lated and suspended from buildings by ropes. His feet were frozen during the march and soon after he reached the camp an American doctor, using worn-out medical tools discarded by the Germans, removed the young man's feet. There was no bandage and the operation was dressed with paper. Part of the heel on one foot was left by the operating doctor. It is believed that the young rnan will be able to walk, following fur ther treatment and operations, hut at the best, he is almost certain to limp through the remainder of his life. Fight for Okinawa j Drawing To An End The end of the bitter 68-day cam paign for Okinawa is expected with in the next few days. During the meantime, the main islands of the fast-fading Jap empire are being subjected to increased air attacks with the bright possibility that the air program will be expanded short ly. Osaka, great Japanese indus trial city, is in flames again follow ing a second fire raid. While the Okinawa campaign is drawing to a close and the air raids are being stepped up, the Chinese are expanding their hold on the China coast across from Okinawa, late reports stating that they are now holding 120 miles of the shore line. Whether the Allies will go in that direction or hold to their aif raids for a while, or both, remains to be seen. American Marines cleared the Japs from Oroku Peninsula yester day and fought on southward on Okinawa to tighten their ring of encirclement around the decimated Japanese garrison which already has suffered 66,324 dead. Less than 20, 000 Japs remain on the island. Jap balloons have been found as far east as Michigan. In Europe, the Americans have reported a plan for the trial of Ger man criminals. At home the Bretton Woods pro gram has been passed by the House, and an agreement has been reached on the World Security Conference veto^question, renewing hopes for a lasting peace program. -* Young Man Wounded On 'Luzon Middle Of May Pfc. Mayhew B. Taylor was slight ly wounded on Luzon Island on May 15th. according to information re ceiv'd yesterday. His father. John Griffin Taylor, was employed here by the Wi’liamston Lumber Com pany up until a few days ago when he moved to Washington. WOUNDED Pvt. Bruce Lambert Peel was wounded in the right arm in ac tion on Okinawa on or about the middle of May, bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noah Peel, RFD 1, Williamston, were advised this week. Printing a message with his left hand, the young man stated that he had been remov ed to a hospital in the Marianas and hoped to be all right soon. Pvt. Peel entered the service last September 28 and went over seas following a short furlough at home last February. His wife, the former Miss Ida Mae Corey, is at home here with Mrs. W. E. Warren and is employed in the Modern Beauty Shop. OKINAWA VICTIM j Pvt. Simon A. Perry, Jr., Mar tin County young man, was wounded, presumably not ser iously, on Okinawa some time during the early part of last month, according to information received this week by his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Simon Perry, of near Williamston. Pastor Addresses Message To Friends The following message was ad dressed by Dr. W. R. Burrell to “be loved friends’’ here as he ended his second pastorate of the Williamston Memorial Baptist Church: “When David Livingston died in Africa his devoted followers em balmed his body and carried it across the continent for shipment to England. But first they removed his heart and buried it on the spot where he ended his earthly labors. His body rests in Westminster but his heart is where his deepest love always was, in the Africa for which he glad ly gave his life. In like manner though, of course, in a much different sense, I too, might say that although henceforth my body will be elsewhere, yet in all that is deepest in my soul my heart will remain in Williamston. The ties of many years of labor to gether; the deep and inexpressable fellowships in the times of joy and sorrow that we have experienced to gether make our relationship one to be felt rather than spoken or writ ten about.. So in the quiet deeps that none but ourselves know we say we love you and—God be with you till we meet again.’’ Dr. Burrell is spending the sum mer in Weaverville. | OUT ON POINTS N___ After four years in the Army Air Corps, including a busy year in the European Theater, Captain Chas. Daniel, Martin County young man, has been re leased under the point system. Believed to be the first to get out under the system, the cap tain had 140 points to his cred it, or 55 above the minimum re quirement. More than half, or 75, of the points were supported by decorations. The young man, accompany 1 by Mrs. Daniel and their eleven week“’ o?d -on is ypeadfsij a few days '! -t iie.e with nls parent. Mr. and iters. C. L. Darnel, before reporting to New York to report for duty with American Air Lines. Defendants Plead Guilty in County’s Court Last Monday Judge .!. Calvin Smith Calls Sixteen Cases During Two-Hour Session While there may have been some differences of opinion as to the na ture of their crimes, the several de fendants did not argue over their guilt in the regular weekly session of the Martin County Recorder’s Court last Monday, II was, more or less, a Roman holiday for Solicitor Paul Roberson when all the defend ants pleaded guilty. Judge J, C. Smith called sixteen cases and cleared the docket in two hours and ten minutes. A fairly large crowd was present. Proceedings: His case coming up for further judgment, Kenneth Harrell, charg ed with bastardy, was ordered to continue the payment of $10 a month for the support of his illegiti mate child and appear on the first Monday in December, 1945, for fur ther judgment. Charged with non-support and an assault, Thomas Purvis pleaded guilty of assault. He was directed to pay the cost and $10 a month for the support of his child, Shirley T. Purvis. He is to reappear in court on the first Monday in October, 1945, for further judgment. The case charging Homer Clem mons with non-support, was contin ued until the first Monday in July. Dave James, charged with violat ing the liquor laws, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the roads for six month. The court suspended all but thirty days of the road term up on the payment of a $100 fine and $50.30 costs. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with possessing illegal liquor, Furney Moore was sentenc ed to the roads for four months. The road term was suspended upon the payment of a $00 fine and costs. The court also directed that the defend ant have no illicit liquors in his possession during thd next twelve months. In n second case charging Dave James witji violating the liqour law, the court suspended judgment upon the payment of costs. Linsoy Moseley was fined $20 and required to pay the costs in the case charging him will) speeding. Charged with speeding, Seymour Portnoff failed to answer and for feited his $25 bond. Charged with operating a motor vehicle without a driver’s license, John A. Mizelle, colored, was fined $5 and taxed with the cost. Joheph H. Mizelle, his father, was fined $5 and taxed with the cost for allowing an unlicensed driver to operate ;> motor vehicle. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the costs in the case charging Jos. Donofrio with operat (Continued on page six) Draft Registration F or Month of May —__<$> Twenty-four Martin County young men registered in accordance with the regulations under the Selective Service Act last month. Ten of them are white. Their names and addresses follow: William Samuel Taylor, w, Wil liamston. Rou. i veil Anditws, e, RFD 2, Roh ersonville. John Levy Flanagan, w, RFD 1, Hobgood. Wiley Stewart VanNortwick, w, Roberson vi lie. Floyd Scott, Jr., w, Hamilton. Oscar Tice, w, RFD 1, Wliliamston. Karl Rogers, c, RFD 3, Williams ton. William Earl Brown, w, RFD 3, Williamston. John Thomas Clomon, c, RFD 2, Robersonville. Ernest Jenkins, Jr., c. RFD 2, Robersonville. George Green, c, Hamilton. John Luke Mizelle, w, RFD 3, Williamston. James Henry Wiggins, c, Hamil ton. Jason Flowers, c, RFD 1, Palmyra. Milton Robert Green, c, Hamilton. Daniel Exum, c, Palmyra. James Reuben Lee Jones, c, Ev eretts. Bennie Frank Wallace, c, Everetts. Louis Elmo Bland, w, RFD 1, Rob ersonville. Charlie Hoell, Jr., w, Williamston. Joseph Hunter, c, Williamston. Albert S. Boston, Jr., c, RFD 1, Jamesville. Bennie Earl Ruffin, c, Roberson ville. Bernice Saunders Silverthorne, w, RFD 3, Williamston. Recpitie Diplomas From Fust Carolina Collado -- Three Martin County young wo men, Misses Vera Pearl Williams, ] RFD 1, Williamston; Flerine Clark, | of EVeretts, and Har let E "finsJow, iKrD i, Palmyra, received their di jpkiroaa tr-.in the Ea-t Csteilina Teachers’ College, Greenville, last M.mday. Tlie young ladies received A.B. degrees. S. Leo Andrews Killed In Battle cm April 16th | KILLKl) IN ACTION 1 v/ S/Sgt. Samuel Leo Andrews was killed in action in Italy on April 1(>, 19-15, ltis parents, Mr. and IMrs. Samuel Luther An drews of near Williamston, were notified yesterday. Mrs. B. R. Manning Died al Homo Last Tuesday Afternoon Fiinrrnl S<*rvirr for Ksleemed Cili/.rn Held in I In* Piney (Irovt' Itaplisl Omreli Mis. Effie Ophelia Manning died at. her home in Griffins Township last Tuesday afternoon at 1:20 o’clock following years of declining health. She had not enjoyed very good health for ten or more years, but her condition remained about tile same up until several weeks ago. She was taken worse over the week end and her condition was con sidered grave when she did not re spond to treatment and continued in a coma until death. The daughter of the late Alfred and Sarah Frances Coll rain Rober son, she was born in Griffins Town ship 51 years ago and was married to Benjamin R Manning in November, 1912. Besides her husband she leaves five children, Mis. Arthur Revels, Mrs. Delmus Rogers and Mrs. Samp son Hodges, Miss Bessie Manning and Jim Manning, all of this county; four brothers, Arthur, Frank, Perlie and Mack Roberson, and one sister, Mrs. I ouis Roberson, all of Griffins Town ship. She was a member of the Piney Grove Baptist Church for more than ten years. A devoted wife and moth er, she was a good neighbor and a good woman and was held in the highest regard bv all who knew her. Despite declining health she was un usually active in church and com rnunity affairs, giving freely of her time and means m the support of worthy causes and Christian ideals. Funeral services were conducted in the Piney Grove Church Wednes day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock by her pastor, Rev. W. B. Harrington, assist ed by Elder P. E. Getsinger. One of the largest crowds ever to attend a funeral in that community gathered at the church, but there wasn’t suf ficient room inside the building to accommodate all who went to pay tribute to her memory. Interment was in the Tice cemetery in Griffins Township. 'Toliaiio Market 'I'o Open Season on August 20tli Monday, August 20, has been ten tatively fixed as the date for open ing the tobacco markets in this belt The opening this year is about a week earlier than the one in 1044. HOME FROM PACIFIC Grady Davenport, after spending the greater part of three years in the Pacific War Theater, returned a few days ago for a visit with rel atives and friends in the county. COMPLIANCE | _——* Martin County farmers are being asked to measure their to bacco acreage and report to their respective community commit teemen on Friday and Saturday of next week at places to be des ignated. The growers are asked to make measurements as accur ately as possible since spot checks will be made in accord ance wnfJ^Tiiple A instructions. Measurements for each field of tobacco are to be kept separate ly, and ihe farmer wilt be asked to certify every measurement, explaining how eaeh was made. Farmers desiring lime for their lands may place orders for it I when they report their tobacco acreage measurements »o the ! committeemen. Forty-ninth County Youth To Make the Supreme Sacrifice Young Man Wib First Report ed Mis*iti<r on That Date Bv War Department S/Sgt. Samuel Leo Andrews, Mar tin County young man, was killed in action in Italy on Anril 16, 1945, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Luther Andrews, of near Williams lon, were advised yesterday by his commanding officer, Col. R. W. Broedlow of the 361st Infantry Reg iment, 91st Division. The War Department on last May 4th advised his wife that he had been missing since April 16. Nothing more was heard until yesterday when his parents received a program of a special memorial service held for the young man. Typed on the program were the words, “S/Sgt. Samuel Leo Andrews, killed in ac tion in Italy on April 16, 194/i. In this service wo honor our heroic com rades who gave their lives in the service of our country.” Men of the 361st Infantry Regiment, 91st Divi sion, participated in the service, but where and when the tribute was paid to those who had made the su preme sacrifice was not revealed. Sgt. Andrews was slightly wound ed on September ltl of last year, and gave his life just about the time the enemy defense lines were crumbling i apidly in Italy. He was born in Williams Town ship, not far from Williamston, on October 25. 1919. He attended the Williamston schools and spent most o! his life on the farm except for a short time spent in Norfolk, where he worked in the shipyards before entering the service. He was a mem ber of the Methodist Church at Hol ly Springs and was regarded as a promising young man and held in high esteem by till who knew him. Entering the service on Septem ber 4, 1943, Hu' young man worked his way up from the bottom to the rank of staff sergeant. After train ing in this country at Camp Bl.and mg, Ha., he was transferred to Fort Meade, Mil., and left for overseas on February 22, 1944 Four years ago, the 2(lth of this month, lie was married to Miss Ir ma Simons of Bethel, and she with a seventeen-montiis-old son, Samuel Leo, Jr„ survives. He also leaves be sides his wife and son and parents, three sisters, Mrs. Harvey Williams of Hamilton, Mrs. Alla rt Rawls of the home, and Miss Edith Andrews of Washington, D. C., and five broth ers, Elton Andrews of Williamston, Donald Andrews of Norfolk, Eugene of the home, Victor, who is in the Army Air Forces and stationed in Sumter, and Seaman 1/e Hewett An drews who is now serving some where in the Pacific War Theater. Sgt. Andrews was the 49th Martin County man to, have laid down his life for his country in all theaters of action in the current war, and next to the last to make the supreme : aerifice in the European Theater. His wife and little son, making their home with Mr. and Mrs. Elton Andrews here on North Smithwick Street, left a few days ago to visit her sister, Mrs. Oscar Simpson, in Norfolk. Open Bible School Here Next Monday -<$w ■ — Registrations preliminary to the opening of the union daily vacation Bible school will be held this after noon at 3 o’clock in the Baptist Churo^ and all boys and girls be tween the ages of four and sixteen will enroll at that time. It was point ed out that much time can be saved by handling live registration early. The school opens with a full pro gram next Monday morning at nine o’clock. The entire school will as semble in the Baptist church where class assignments will be announced and brief exercises held, after which the beginners will go to the Metho dist church, primary group to the Baptist church basement, juniors to the Presbyterian church, and the intermediate group to the Baptist church. Present indications point to a successful school and the children and parents are asked to cooperate | in maintaining a large and regular 1 attendance during the two weeks of the school. [Accident Victim Continues Critically III In Hospital Run down by a log truck at her | home near Dardens last Thursday jafternoon, Miss Elizabeth Holliday, 14-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Winston Holliday, continues critically ill in a Washington hospi tal. Paralyzed in her right side, the young girl, according 10 last reports reaching here, had not regained con : sciousness. ! No hearing has been scheduled for Kader Brown, driver of tne truck.