■ ' )PXE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TQbCOUNTY SERVICEMEN *'■■■.I ssai ■ a - ——— - NEARLY 4,COPIES’ Vft ENTERPRISE GOING IN TO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SEE VIVIEN VOLUME \LVHI—NUMBER 56 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, July 17, 1945. ESTABLISHED 1899 Thirty-One County ™ 'Entered 'Mcrnferre For Pre - Induction -$—i— Twenty-Four of the Group To 4 Get Gall Are Just 18 Years of Age -® Thirty-one Martin County colored men were called this week to re port for their pre-induction exam inations. Twenty-seven answered the call Monday and four were trans ferred to other draft boards. The call was the largest received by the draft board in this county in re cent months. Twentv-four of those called this week are only 18 years of age, the ages of the others ranging up to 30 years. Twenty-two were called from farms. John D. Manning, Parrnele and Baltimore. Robert Ermond Brown, William ston Route 2 and Philadelphia. Pa. Hubert Walton Howard, Balti 4 more. » Leste>- Highsmith, Robersonville Route 2 and Baltimore. Sam Moore. Robersonville Route No. 2. Paul Daniels, Williamston, Route No. 3. James Edward Williams, William ston. Jesse Lawrence Brown, William- j ston Route 2. James Lester Stokes. Williamston. '"William Thurston Lawrence, Wil 4 liamston Route 3. Alex Junior Powell, Oak City Route 1. Octavius Brown, Williamston Route 2. Mose Junior Sheppard, Oak City Route 1. James Dennis Williams, Oak City j Route 1. Arthur Hudgins, Williamston j Route 3. j James Sheppard, Oak City Route 4 No. 1. Bermon Briley, Robersonville' Route 1. John Daniel Shaw, Robersonville Route 2. Lester Jones, Oak City. Roosevelt Andrews, Robersonville Route 2. Earl Rogers, Williamston Route 3. John Thomas Cloman, Roberson ville Route 2. Ernest Jenkins, jr., Robersonville Route 2. 4 James Henry Wiggins, Hamilton. Jason Flowers, Palmyra Route 1. Daniel Exum, Palmyra Route 1. James Reuben Lee Jones, Everetts. Bennie Frank Wallace, Everetts. Joseph Hunter, Williamston Bennie Ruffin, Robersonville. Jesse Lee Andrews. Four men were transferred, as fol lows: John D. Manning to Baltimore, Robert Ermond Brown to Philadel 4 phia, Hubert Walton Howard to Baltimore, and Lester Highsmith to Baltimore. Place Truck Driver Under $500.00 Bond -6 Charged with running down and ^ seriously injuring Miss Elizabeth Holliday, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Holliday at their home near Dardens several weeks ago, Kader Brown, colored truck driver, was bound over to the su perior court under bond in the sum of $500 by Justice J. L. Hassell at a preliminary hearing held here last evening. The victim was not able to appear and testify, but Mrs. Holliday, John ^ Allen Mizelle, James R. Mizelle, Walter Barnes and Patrolman W. E. Saunders were heard. The witnesses stated that the girl got off a pas senger bus and was walking toward the house when the truck, allegedly traveling about 60 miles an hour, ran off the highway and struck her quite a little distance from the con crete highway. After undergoing treatment for several weeks in various hospitals, ▼ the victim is gradually improving at her home and is able to be up part of time, and is walking some with the aid of others. -« I Vernon E. Casper Killed In utrTtorrNem dkfnmmrMity’9' Fireman l/c Vernon Everett Cas per, Mai Un County youth, was killed i in action in the Pacific theater of war, presumably in the Okinawa area, or on about May 9, 1945, ac cording to a telegraphic message re ceived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Waylon Weaver Casper, in Oak City last Sunday. Few details were of fered in the message. The young man was on the U. S. destroyer “Luce,” which was attacked and sunk near Okinawa on or about May 9. He was the fifty-second Martin County man reported to have been killed in all theaters of war to date, and the third from the coun ♦ y mcikc the supreme sacrifice during the month of May, 1945. An only child, the youth, just 20 years old last February 2, entered the service two years ago, last June 2nd. After receiving his basic train ing at Bainbridge, Md.. for six weeks he returned home for his first and last leave with relatives and friends He then reported to a post of duty in the State of Washington and went overseas fot service in the Pacific theater of war about 15 month* ago His father was a veteran of World War I, receiving his discharge 25 VERNON E. CASPER yeais ago the second of last month. Me was the 166th Martin County i man to he included in the list of war casualties in all theaters of war to date. Building and Loan Associations’ Assets Increase 32 Per Cent Will Be Prepared To Finance Buildup Program in Post-War Years During the three war years 1942 1944. savings and loan associations which are members of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Winston-Salem increased their assets by 32 per cent, O. K. LaRoque, president of the Winston-Salpm Bank of the system, announced recently. The combined resources of those 403 home financing institutions in the district totalled $746,840,000 on December 31. 1944, as compared with $564,156,000 at the end of 1941, Mr. LaRoque said. Ove r the same period, he report ed. government bonds and cash held by those associations rose from $28, 267,000 to $202,825,000, with the re sult that their liquid assets now are i quivalent to about 27 per cent of their total resources—an all-time record ratio. •'During the war years, excess funds of IIk- pul lie have flowed into saving and loan associations in high volume,” said Mr. LaRoque. ‘Re payments on home loans have risen, and the proportion of withdrawals to new investments in the associa tions has dropped. At the same time the outlet for investments by the institutions in construction loans has narrowed sharply, because of neces sary war-time restrictions on home building. Increasingly, associations have placed their surplues monies in government bonds, a relatively new form of investment for them. “In consequence—as one by product of our present economy— these associations will go into the post-war period prepared to finance a large share of the great number of homes that will be built in the years following the final defeat of Japan.” In addition to their purchases of government securities, these 403 member institutions of the bank sys tem have sold War Bonds and stamps in the amount of $130,000,000, making a total contribution of ap proximately $330,000,000 to the U. S. Treasury’s war financing pro gram, he said. Other three-year changes in the combined balance sheet for the as sociations included: A rise in mortgages held from $513,175,000 to $527,024,COO; An increase in reserves and un divided profits to $53,748,000, or by 47 per cent; A decline in “real estate owned’ —often a troublesome item for fi nancial institutions in the early ’thirties—from $3,643,000 to a nomi nal $1,544,000. Lemuel Harrison Passes Suddenly Lemuel Harrison, industrious j young farmer of Bear Grass Town ship, died at his home there yes-! terday morning at 1 o’clock, fol-, lowing an illness of only a few hours. Apparently in his usual health, he j was sitting up at a tobacco barn on the Gid Harrison farm Sunday j nignt and died a short time later, j The son of the late William R. j and Sallie Gurganus Harrison, he j was born in Bear Grass Township thirty-four years ago and farmed all his life. He was a hard worker and was well known. He never married and is sui vived by four brothers, Messrs. Roy, Oliv er,' Elms? • s?«i -Simon Harrisesir&iwl a sister, Mrs. Archie Wynne, all of the Bear Grass community. Funeral services will be conduct ed at the late home this afternoon at 4:30 o’clock toy Elder* B S. Covin and A. B. Ayers. Ini :i mem will follow in the family cemetery near the home. • Okinawa Wildlife Taken In Its Stride —$— Okinawa.—In the early days o the Okinawa campaign a Coas Guardsman fro man LST anchorec off the island was caught ashor overnight. He shared a fox hoi with a former buddy, a soldier wh had gone ashore from his Coas Guard vessel on D-Day. The sailor, not an old fox-hole wat rior, heard a rustle In the low l» i Such nocturnal slithering could onl be a Jap. He roused fhe soldier wh list;.red intently foi a moment an iti-weh—‘-Now,"' he aid, “take easy. Wait. They waited while the noise cam doscr, j ignt up to ihe edge of fl; ■fox h'Oie. a iien, oii tup oh them uro ped a short, thick-bodied snak Scrambling quickly out of the wa, the soldier reached out with a sue and gave the snake the bum’s rus heading it clear of the hole. Nonchalantly the sold r said, “It just Lana. Comes around evei night about this tune.” TOWN - FARM IN WARTIME —»— (A weekly news digest from the rural press section of the OWI news bureau) Civilians at War The Government needs and asks its citizens in this 189th week of the war against Japan to: 1. Return to duty if you are one of the 30,000 inactive graduate reg istered nurses or a trained Nurse’s Aide. Your local hospital needs you to help care for a record num ber of patients. 2. Buy only what you need and at ceiling prices. Supporting price, wage and rationing con trols will save your money and help prevent the ruinous inflation which, in World War I, came aft er fighting had ceased. 3. Help care for the wounded or fill another important Navy job by joining the WAVES. Twenty thousand new recruits are needed, and food and housing allowances have been substantially increased. See your nearest Navy Recruiting Office. Fill Fuel-Oil Tanks Announcing that powering the Pa cific war will lake 8,400,000 more gallons of petroleum products daily at its peak than is being used today, Chester Bowles, administrator of OPA, and Ralph K. Davies, deputy petroleum administiator, cautioned fuel-oil consumers that home-heat ing oil supplies will be tight next winter and joined in an appeal to householders to fill their fuel-oil storage tanks immediately. “Military needs for fuel oil are continuing to increase and will reach a peak this winter at the lime when civilian fuel oil needs too are heavi lest,” Mr. Davies said. “Obviously, demands on the nation’s heavily bur dened transportation system will follow a similar pattern, making it imperative for householders to stock up early this summer so that deal ers can refill their own storage tanks while transportation is still avail able.” Maximum Sugar for Canning Fifteen pounds of sugar is the maximum to be allowed to any one person foi home canning, OPA em phasized, correcting a misunder standing by housewives concerning home canning sugar allotments. On ly housewives planning to can enough foods to require this amount of sugar are eligible to receive this much, and they will receive it only where local sugar quotas permit such (Continued on page six) -« Ship Makes Round Trip In Short Time -6 Boston (Special).—Only seventeen days aftei she shoved off from Bos ton, the Coast Guard-manned troop transport ‘‘Wakefield” returned crammed with 5,000 battle-weary 1 veterans of the European theater of operation. Among the number were ; men who had been repatriated, I wounded, and soldiers due for hon * orable discharge. The Coast Guard ship set a new > round-trip record for itself for * crossing the Atlantic. ! During the European war days ■jthe “Wakefield” traveled without convoy from the States to Europe. i; It covered the course through the 0 : sub-infesled waters—on a zig-zag 1 ging pattern—in a 21-day period. t 1r, peacetime the former luxury liner had as its record round-trip e ; time 28 days. • «j T> the men at Commonwealth t"':i Pr helbecs dock the Atlantic jt seemed t though the << jcl. - f the ship’s last arrival were k still ranging in their ears. One sailor i, | stammered, “When I turn my back I she's gone and before I have a ’» j chance to digest my lunch, the y "Wakefield” is back waiting to be j docked again.” The Story Of The Airborne Division j I Brief Review of Daring Paris Handled by Daring Men In European Theater -»—— The story below offers a review of the daring work handled by dar ing men in the U. S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division. It will be read with interest by all Americans and especially m m '—on——f Drown in Edenton Bay I KILLED ON OKINAWA V* Pvt. Reginald Fleming Rawls, son of Mrs. Dora Rawls, of near Robersonville, was killed on Okinawa last May 27, his wife, the former Miss Ruby Itailey, was recently advised. United States And British Join Forees In Drives on Japan — Staggering Blows Delivered By Carrier Fleets in the Tokyo Area Joining forces, the American and British fleets, one of the largest na val combinations ever to assemble in the Pacific, loosed an estimated 1,500 carrier planes in a mighty at tack against the Japs in the Tokyo area today. While the carrier planes were in action, between 450 and 500 B-29’s dropped 2,500 tons of bombs on the Honshu cities of Namazu, Hiratsuka and Kuwana and Oita on the northeastern tip of Kyushu. The Superfort attack came just after Tokyo reported 150 Iwo-based Mus tang fighters had attacked six air fields on eastern Honshu in a day light raid yesterday. No report on the damage has been released, but the combined fleet attack was decribed as far more powerful than the one made just a few days before. In the earlier raid on Honshu and Hokkaido, eight cities were attacked and 28 ships were sunk while war ships poured heavy shells on shore positions from a distance estimated at not more than ten miles. No answer was received from the enemy when the fleet pounded his shores and no Jap planes were seen. The powerful Allied naval battle fleet -including six of the greatest American battleships confronted Japan with the migrtiest armada ever to steam into Japanese waters. The carrier plane strike was being combined with the B-2!) assault to pulverize specific Japanese targets in raids which the enemy could not or would not expose. To date, 43 Jap cities have been scourged by B-29's in their knoek out drive started last March. Over 136 square miles have been burned out in 39 cities, sixteen of which were more than 50 percent destroy ed. President Truman is in Berlin for the Big Three conference, called to help iron out some of the troubles in the European area. In this country, Congress is de bating the Bre ion Woods issut , and will take up next Monday the World Security Charter which is expected to pass without much delay. Off icers Installed by Lions Club Recently The local l.ions Club recently in stalled its new officers for the 1945 46 fiscal year, which began on July 1st. John Henry F.dwards, local auto dealer and a member of the county board of commissioners, suc ceeded Roy L. Ward as president. Frank E. Weston and R. E. Tarking ton moved up to the post of first and second vice presidents, respect ively, while K. D. Worrell is the new third vice president. Lion Gene Rice, the perennial tail twister, succeeded himself, as did Ernest Mears as Lion tamer. D. V Clayton entered his sixth year as treasurer and Wheeler Manning began his third year as secretary. Two new directors were installed for a twotu j being Lions W M. Baker and W Clyde Griffin. Lion A. P. Hassell con tinues.as. song .loader. The.....two other directors, with another year to serve, are H. P. Mobley and E. T. Walker. The chairmen and membeis of the various committees appointed by the president were announced al the last meeting of the club, at which time they were urged to do theii best during the new year. Father Surrendered His Life in Effort To Save \ oung Son Three Others Barely Escape When Boat Capsized Near Shore Floyd E. Bufflap, faithful and highly esteemed employee of the j Enterprise Publishing Company, and his nine-year-old son, Floyd (Ed die) Bufflap, drowned and three others, W. C. Manning and his young son and ,T Edwin Bufflap, father and grandfather of the two victims, bare ly escaped with their lives last Sat urday afternoon shortly after 3 0 clock, when a small boat m which they were riding capsized in Eden ton Bav near the oil docks and hard ly more than 75 feet from shore. The lather and son and the Man nings went to Edeoton early that afternoon to atten dlo business, and while there they joined the elder Bufflap and planned to go to a near-by creek to fisli a short time. The party got in the boat and planned to move along the shore until they reached the creek. Just as they made ready lo turn a wave washed into tlu' boat and drowned out the motor. A second wave caused the boat to capsize. The water was very rough, and the party was sep mated, the father catching the two boys while the others were washed in almost opposite directions. The young Mr. Bufflap and the boys were swimming along very well un lil they became excited apparently and started swimming away from shore. The senior Mi. Bufflap called for help, and Mr. Conger, Texaco ml representative, and a young man, 1 lionel Cabmess, took a boat and went to the rescue. In the mean time, a sailor whose name could not he learned, pulled W. C Manning sr., out of the water .and 11 it' senloi Mr. BulTlap, clinging to the over turned boat, drifted helplessly down the bay but toward shore. The rescue boat reached the Manning youth just as he was about to go down either for the third or fourth time. They threw him a life belt, hut lie was too weak to grab it and Cubiness jumped overboard and lift ed him unconscious into the boat. The father and son, undetected up until that time by the rescue partv, were seen to go down a short dis tance away. Manning and his young son were treated immediately after they were taken from the water and later ear ried to a doctor’s office, returning home that evening. The lather , body was recovered just before 7 o'clock, and the son’s body was taken from the water a short time later. Volunteer search ers, headed by Chief of Police Tan ner, recovered the bodies, just he fore a special detail was moving in from the 1J. S Coast Guard Station near Elizabeth City to join in th ■ search. The father, it was said, unselfishly gave Ins life in an attempt to saw his son’s life. Over Hundred Tires Allotted !>v !>ourd More than oiu hundred passenger lai tires arid about 13 for truck' were allotted m this county las' Friday by thi War Price and Hat a ing Board. Grade I tires w< re issued to tin following: J. It. Overton, Rufus J Corey, V. G. Taylor, Jeremiah Ful fold, Everett and Williams Grocery, I.indsley Ice Co., J. Bynum Rober son, M. T. Gardner, R A. Haislip, Joe Everett, Ov i ton and Oscar Jame: . Luther M. Craft, F. B. Bir mingham, I. F. Keel, Hyman Clark, Urnee Bunting, Eli Rodgers, A. D. Griffin, jr., James E. Griffin, A B. Ayers, John A Ward, J D. Holli day, John L Hassell, Julian Fagan, F. S. Barrett, A. B. Ayers, jr., H. G. Harrison, Mrs. Lydia Gurkin, Daniel DeMary, W Robert Taylor, G. W Coltrain, M II. Leggett, W A. Rog ers, A B Ores, William Bowen, Annie L. Roberson, J. G. Everett, C. L. Tyson, D. G. Modlin, It. L. Bryant, Charles It. Gray, Jasper Ev erett, Jim Davis, P. C Edmondson, jr., John H. Everett, S. J. Williams, J. M. Andrews, J. H. Gray, jr., W. F. Thomas, J. E. Copeland, sr., W. L. Whitaker, W. II. Cannon, M C. House, John Mobley, jr., J. H. Bell, J. C Johnson, V,'. A. Bailey, Mark Chesson, H L. Swain, David Mizelle M. D. Davis, S. L. Andrews, O. S. Green, Emma W. Powell, W. J. Ward, Mrs. Dora C. Rawls, W. C. House, Eva P. J s, J. B. Whitfield. Luthei Lee Winn.eld, Mrs. Elizabeth Eure, William Roberson, W. I. Wat kins. William J. Cordon. Tom Letch - wort.h.. Mrs. .K- A., White..Esssie Cowin Shelton, Joseph D. Hodges, Levi McGowan, jr., Charlie Hoell, Bettie L. Bullock, W. J. Miller, W. H. Williams, J. D .Thrower. Truck tires were issued to the following: Town of Wi’liamston, II L. Roberson, J, S, Ayers, sr,, Tayloi Mill & Gin Company, G. W. Barrett Williamston Lumber Co. Funeral Y esterday u mu irap \nd His Y ounff Son , Jtiirs II,-M ;!} iiomr Oil Mnralitill Vvnnm*; In terment in Roek\ Mount Funeral services were conducted at the home on Marshall Avenue here yesterday morning at 10 o'clock for Floyd E. BufTlap and his young son, Floyd Edwin Bufflap, jr., who lost their lives by drowning tn the Edenton Bay shortly after 3 o’clock last Saturday afternoon. The Rev B. T. Hurley, local Methodist min ister and family pastor, conducted the service, and he was assisted by the Rev. H. F. Surratt, of Eden ton, and the Rev. R. E. L. Moser, of Rocky Mount. Interment followed in the Rocky Mount cemetery. The double funeral, climaxing the tragedy, was one of the few ever held in this county and the first since the young Misses Mendenhall were buried near here about one year ago. The last rites were large ly attended, and the floral offering was extensive. Master Eddie Bufflap was born in Rocky Mount nine years ago, tin' son of Floyd E and Eunice Fel ton Bufflap. He moved with his parents to Williamston in August, 1937, and as he grew to young boy hood he became known as one of the best and most polite little fellows in the community. Often he would drop by The Enterprise office to say hello to his dad. A question, asked just foi an always polite an swer would bring a “yes, sir,” or “no, sir,” packed with a pleasing and friendly smile. The little fel low always spoke with reverence, and hi' was a favorite among his school chums and friends in the neighborhood. The son of Editor and Mrs. J. Ed win Bufflap, of Edenton, Floyd Buff lap was born in York, Pa., 31 years ago last April. When he was six years old he moved with his par ents to Elizabeth City, locating three years later in Edenton, where he attended school and was graduat ed lb- attended t.ouisburg College and then accepted a position in Rocky Mount, where he met and man ied the former Miss Eunice Fel ton. After a residence there of a year or two he accepted a position with the Independent in Elizabeth City, coming to Williamston eight years ago to accept a position with the Enterprise Publishing Company Jolly and friendly, the young man had a cordial greeting for every one, and a large friendship circle was cherished and enjo ’od by him. During the eight years he was with The Enterprise, tie P .>!< a keen in terest in its operation He was a willing worker and i capable and efficient journeyman, giving freely of his time as mechanical super intendent in handling extra duties and responsibilities re ulting when three of the company's employees inswered the call of their country. II accent, dll'e clia'h gc and work ed long hour vail: in and week out (nb 1. I wi k he worked ev ery night iruil !!..■) or 12 o'clock i ;;i 11.s. I■ ' |,. i catch up with the work. The youii;', to >n u as a member of the Mi tlmiii I chi ch. If he ever I eld a hale for an one, it was never i xprt . i d, and lew persons ever livid a 111e1 ■ unselfish life than the one li d by him. Hesidi In wife and parents, he is sutvived by a daughter, Sondra; ail r, Mi Dorothy Bufflap, of Edenton n I a brnther, Dance Buff I ip U, S. Naval Reserve, now sta tion, d '.newhere m the European an a, Mrs. !No;ili Beacham Dirs Near Jamesville Mrs. Fannie Beacham, widow of Noah Beacham, died at her home in Jamesville Township Sunday night at 10 o’clock. She had been in declining health for some years, but was able to be up until just a few hours before her death. She was born in Jamesville Town ship 82 years ago, the 10th of last I month, the daughter of the late Jack | I.illey and wife, Christine Rogers Tilley. She was a member of the church at Old Ford for a long num ber of years. She is survived by a daughter, Mis. J H. Jackson with home she made her home near Jamesville, and two sons, Tommie Beacham of Beaufort County and Claytan Beach am of RFD 1, Jamesville, and a number of grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the graveside near Old Ford Church in Beaufort County yesterday after noon at 3 o’clock by Rev. F. A. Tilley of Washington. Interment followed in the family cemetery not far from the church. Undergoes Successful —i Operation in Hochester -