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Town- Wide Clothing Collection For Needy Next Sunday Afternoon NEARLY COPIES OE THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COCNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN THE ENTERPRISE NEARLY COPIE' OP THE ENTERPRISE r,(KNO INTO 'Tfict; HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 8 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday, January 25, 1916 ESTABLISHED 1899 Jas. S. Whitehurst Reviews Record Of Carrier Shangri-La Martin County Young Man Was On Famous Ship Dur ing Pacific Campaign (The final blow on the battleship Nagato having been delivered the bombers now go after other units of the Jap fleet and Seaman Whitehurst continues his account of the exploits of the Shangri-La by telling of these raids and the unlucky gun turret aboard the ship—it was hit three times by damaged bombers.—Ed.) All the other bombers were land ed while he circled the carrier and finally came in for a landing. The first try brought a wave-off, but on the second, while everyone on deck held his breath the pilot brought his plane down onto the dock. It veered dangerously over on one wheel for a split second and then settled down to run full speed into the barriers. Sur prinsingly he came to a moderately smooth halt for a crash landing and more surprisingly the plane didn’t nose over. Both the pilot and the gunner climbed out unhurt. Later that night after we had se cured, the crew went to the hangar deck to see the damaged planes and sailors waded through bloody water that washed about the deck after the cockpits had been hosed out by the repair crew. The supper was good | that night, but it didn’t taste just right knowing one of our shipmates was lying dead below decks and the other was in pain at sick bay. The knowledge that we had heavily dam aged the Nagato so that she would never fight again and had given the Jap air flet another blow failed to bring us to the mood of cheer. The next morning, after pulling out into the safety of the sea once j again, we witnessed our first burial at sea us Chaplain Paul H. Martineau assisted by Chaplain P. II. Mitchell. said the lust rites for Alfred Bonos coni ARM3c. Later the same after- j noon we had a flurry of excitement | when our patrol shot down a Jap free : balloon simlar to the ones that had been drifting with the winds from Japan to the United States. Five days • later, after we had steamed under a complete radio blackout to keep the enemy guessing, we opened up on the Japs with full fury once again. This time we were after more of their fleet units bot tled up at the Kure Naval Base on Southern Honshu. The weather was not entirely ideal on that day of July 24, but still our planes ranged out from the flight deck all day long pounding anything they could find thruogh the overcast. Freighters, locomotives, a roundhouse, airplanes on the ground, air installations and Jap war ships were all feeling the brunt of our attack. We felt particu larly happy when we learned the names of some of the Jap Fleet units we were damaging; names such as Ise, Haruna, Fuji, Tone, Hosho, and Oyodo. At the same time, all the action was not our own for "Bogies” kept popping up in our area. One Jap who had sneaked in w'ithin 20 miles of us was “splashed" by our air pa trol. Another broke through to our sister task group and dived, only to be shot out of the air by ship gun ners. A third came in close to our group but again the air patrol was on the job . . . “Splashed, another Jap.” The activity over the target by our ; last bomber strike caused a late re- ; turn of our planes and it was dusk before the first planes began to ar rive. One pilot radioed that he would have to make an emergency landing since he had a shell hole in his fusilage just behind the cockpit and he didn t know the extent of the damage. He came in for a landing, being expertly guided by the land ing signal officer and his wheels set tled onto the deck in what appeared a normal landing. Then there was a ripping crunch . . . the tail hook and after part of the plane remained at the end of the flight deck where it belonged, but the cockpit, engine, wheels and wings tore loose from the strain of the arresting gear cable on the weakened fuselage and raced down the flight deck headed straight for a gun turret . . . out of control. The wing struck the turret and the derelict spun crazily around ending in a tangle in the barriers. A short silence covered the deck as everyone waited to see the whole mass burst into flames and the pilot possibly seriously burned . . . but there were no flames and in less time than it (Continued on page six) Sgt. Freddie Kaufmann Gets Honorable Discharge j Sgt. Freddie Kaufmann, stationed ! at the local prisoner of war camp for I several months, was honorablv dis charged from the Army at Butner |A . it l^BI. 1 . A * *V ■ nTf«ol> !-»«.• hoTTtb 1 r* t-**-*^ f) - sylvania. During his stay here, Sgt Kauf mann cooperated splendidly with the farmers using POW labor and made many friends throughout the coun ty | PARALYSIS FUND | j F oHoVtiii^ a lull in Jic receipt of letters in response to appeals for contributions to the 1946 in fantile paralysis fund, Chair man L. B. Wynne said yesterday that answers were coming in again, that more than $500 had been contributed by mail to date. During the meantime, reports even more encouraging than the preliminary ones are coming in from several of the schools. It was learned this week that some grades in the grammar school here had gone to $40, $50 and right un to $60. However, an incomplete tabu lation of the donations to date indicates that more liberal giv ing is necessary if the county is to reach its $2,120 goal by Thurs day night of next week. Making the first complete re port for a school in the county, W. V. Ormond stated that the Biggs Colored School raised $18.75 as compared with $12.50 last year. Native Of Parmele Killed In Virginia Tuesday Morning Funeral Services Held Tlmrs* day Afternoon For Mrs. INellie James Drew Mis. Nellie James Barnhill Drew, native of near Parmele, was shot and instantly killed by her husband, Claude Donal Drew, 42, in Ports mouth shortly after 8 o’clock Tues day morning. The husband, a short time later, shot himself in a suicide attempt, one report stating that he was in a critical condition. Investigating the murder, Officer J. S. Leonard said the fatal attack was made at the home of a neighbor. Ac cording to reports reaching here, Mrs. Di ew, barefoot and in her night gown, ran from her home in Broad moor to the home of a neighbor about 8 a. m. Drew followed her into the house and picked up a .22 calibc r rifle, which was standing in a corner. He demanded that his wife write him a check for $2,000. Mrs. Drew agreed, but her husband, de claring that he was going to shoot her anyw'ay, opened fire. Leonard quoted w itnesses as saying. Several bullets struck Mrs. Drew in the body, and one entered her head. Drew then went home, but re- i turned to the neighbor’s house short- j ly afterward, Leonard stated. He picked up the same rifle, placed it! under his chin, and fired one shot, i At King’s Daughters Hospital in Potr.-mouth, where Drew was car-; tied, his condition was described as critical. I Drew, who was reported to be a j native of Snow Hill, N. C., and who | ■formerly worked at the Norfolk Navy Yard, was released from Norfolk County jail Monday following a hearing in justice court on a charge of wife beating. His case was con tinued and he was released under $500 bail. Mrs. Drew’s body was removed to a South Norfolk funeral home, and lat< r removed to the Ayers Funeral Parlor in Bethel from which it was taken to the home of her father, near Parmele, Wednesday. Funeral ser vices were held yesterday at 3 p. m. :it the father’s home with Rev. D W. Alexander, Free Will Baptist minis ter, conducting the rites. Burial was in the Robersonville cemetery. The daughter of Mr. E. L. (Bud) James, she was born near Parmele 35 years ago. She was first married to Jesse Barnhill who was murdered near Flat Swamp Church ten or twelve years ago. Following her (Continued on page sixt Several Cases In Justice’s Court Several cases were handled in Justice J. L. Hassell’s court here dur ing the past few days, and several comparatively heavy fines were im posed in addition to a 30-day road sentence given or.e defendant. B. L. Carson, Bethel man, was fin ed $20 and taxed with $5.50 costs for hunting quail in this county on a lay day. Drunk and disorderly, Walter An drews was fined $5 and required to I pay $10.50 costs. Clyde Silverthorne, charged with being drunk and disorderly, was sen tenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the sentence upon the payment of $10.50 costs. Charged with hunting quail on a lay day in this county, James Carson was fined $20 and required to pay $5.50 costs. John Henry Williams was fined j $10 and taxed with $9.50 costs in the - .iiTii ir ^ i di-T>rWerjy Mack Gilbert Peel, charged with : simple assault, was given his choice ' of a tnirty-day road sentence or the j payment of a $50 fine and costs. The | defendant was allowed until tomor i row to make his choice. Countv Youth Tells j Of Interesting; Trip ToTJuislings Home Wiiliam Lilley Continues In Information Service At Oslo, Norway A momb'T of the United States In formation Service Corps, William Lilley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kader Lilley of this county, visited the home of Norway’s Quisling in Oslo a shor! time before the Norwegian traitor was condemned to death. Overseas about eighteen mdnths, the young man spent nine months in England and France before being transferred to Oslo where he is now' stationed. A short time after his letter was received describing a visit to Quis ling's mansion, the young man ad dressed a Christmas card to the En terprise force, stating, “To all mem bers of the Enterprise force who sup plied our Martin County servicemen —who fought in nearly every corner of the world—with news from home, as well as every Martin County citi zen wrho contributed his or her bit towards victory in the great strug gle which recently ended, I say, “Merry Christmas and a Peaceful New Year.” The young man's letter telling of his visit with friends to Vidkun Quis ling’s mansion la6t October follows, in part: “ . . . Following a birthday dinner we, Captain Cox and Major Collis ion and several girls from the office, decided to go for a long drive. Sev eral went in one car and the others traveled in a second car. We drove nearly all over the city of Oslo and then to the German cemetery. It is a beautiful place. After leaving there we decided to go to Quisling’s home which is now occupied by Gen eral Thorne, the British commander in Norway, his staff and several high ranking American officers. When we reached the gate to the estate we made known our identity to the guard and explained that we want ed to pay a social call. The general was not at home, but while the guard was telephoning the house to find out what time he would return, the general and his party drove to the gate in his huge automobile. As soon as he learned that we were Ameri cans he immediately invited us to follow his car up the beautiful drive way to the mansion. When we reach ed the house, the general got out of his car and came over to our cars ' for formal introductions. He invit ; ed us into the house. I “Upon entering the dream house, General Thorne announced that he would personally conduct us on a tour of the entire place. I am afraid that we looked more like school chil dren listening to a fairy tale than anything else as we gazed about the lavishly-furnished home. | “The bed in Quisling’s room, now i occupied by General Thorne, was the most inviting bed I have ever seen. It was almost more than I could do I to prevent one William Lilley from falling into that bed and taking a J nice long nap. The bathroom was perfect. It is as large as two ordi I nary rooms. Mrs. Quisling’s bed room was also very, very attractive, (Continued on page six) Seventeen County Men Enter Service -(8) - Seventeen Martin County men— ten white nad seven colored—enter ed the armed services during recent weeks Several others were rejected when they reported for final induc tion and did not pass the physical examinations. Names and addresses of the men entering the service in December fol low: White—Alonza Manning, Rober ■ionville; Dallas Hopkins,. RFD 3, Wiliiamston; Giles Ervin Stallings, RFD 1, Jamesville; Benjamin Frank lin Gurganus, Wiliiamston; Harcum Mclver Roebuck, RFD 1, Roberson ville; Clifton Loelen Whitaker, Rob "l'sonville; William Bruce White iurst, RFD 2, Wiliiamston; James Robert Bullock, RFD 3, Wiliiams ton. Ellis Gray Keel, RFD 3, Wil iiamston, entered the service Novem ber 17, and Lanier Earl Matthews, Parmele, was inducted on the 4th of this month. Colored—Langston Smith, James . ille; Clarence Edward Hooper, RFD 1, Jamesville; Robert Andrew Wil liams, RFD 1, Oak City; Cortez Has ell, RFD 2, Wiliiamston; Willie Dav is Hassell, RFD 2, Wiliiamston; Mil ton Theodore Outterbridge, RFD 3, Wiliiamston; Morris Brown, RFD 2, Wiliiamston. -a Tax Supervisor Issues Gentle Reminder to Property Owners Countv Tax Supervisor M. to piopcrty owners who have not yet listed their holdings for taxation. He points out that no extension for handling the task has been granted by the authorities, that listing is scheduled to be complete on or be fore January 31. Judge Calvin Smith Calls Twelve Cases I i ,.t.. In Recorders Court Fines Amounting To $200.00 Levied By Jurist In Recent Session Although there were only a dozen cases scheduled for trial. Judge J. Calvin Smith held the Martin County Recorder’s Court in session until well after the lunch hour last Monday before clearing the docket. After a hectic session the week before, the court last Monday gained prestige and commanded the attention of liti gants and spectators. All defend ants were present, but one or two witnesses possibly on account of the condition of the rural roads did not report. Several road sentences were meted out and Judge Smith imposed fines totalling $200, an amount consider ably larger than the total collected in the preceding session. Solicitor Paul D. Roberson prosecuted the docket. Proceedings: Pleading not guilty in the case charging him with drunken driving, i Edgar L. Keel was adjudged guilty when the court was advised that of feers had warned the young man not to drive his motor vehicle in the con dition he was in at the time. The young man was fined $50 and taxed with the cost. The court recom mended that his license lo operate a motor vehicle and his chauffeur’s li cense, if any, be revoked for one year. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon and carrying a con cealed weapon, Fenner Respass pleaded not guilty. He was adjudg ed guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and the court imposed a $50 fine and added the costs. The de fendant gave notice of appeal and bond was required in the sum of $150. Charged with hit-and-run driving, resulting in property damage, Will Roberson pleaded not guilty and was adjudged not guilty. Pleading guilty in the case charg ing him with non-support, Luke Bos ton was sentenced to the roads for twelve months. The court suspend ed the sentence for a period of two years on condition that the defend ant pay the cost and $12 50 a week for the support of his wife and chil dren during the period of suspension The defendant was also ordered to be regularly employed during the next two years. Dennis Hassell, charged with drunken driving, pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and taxed with the cost. His license to operate a motor vehicle was revoked for one year. Charged with an assault with a deudly weapon, Leon Sykes pleaded guilty of simple assault. The solici tor accepted the plea and the de fendant was fined $25 and required to pay the court costs. Charged on two counts with as saulting a female, John Dixon, col ored, pleaded not guilty and was ad judged not guilty in both cases. Pleading not guilty of forcible trespass and being drunk and dis orderly, Lloyd Ayers’ case was con tinued under prayer for judgment until next Monday. Charged with an assault with a deadly weapon and simple assault, Delbert and John Leggett pleaded not guilty. Two state witnesses, Winnie and Caddie Wynn, failed to appear and the case was continued until January 28. Charged with hit-and-run driving, resulting in property damage, G. L. Willoughby pleaded not guilty. The court adjudged him not guilty. The case charging S. L. Corey with hit-and-run driving, resulting in property damage, was continued un til Monday, February 4. The de fendant pleaded not guilty in the case. Adjudged guilty over his plea of innocence, Spencer Hymar, charged with an assault with a deadly weap on, was fined $25 and required to pay the court costs. The session was attended by an unusually large crowd. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . After chalking up a perfect record during the second week of the New Year, motorists on Martin County highways during the third period straightened out curves and ran down livestock to boost the accident record figures. No one was seriously hurt, but the record shows that safety is not receiving as much attention as it should if human life and property are to receive their just rights in 1946. The following tabulations of fer a comparison of the accident trend: first, by corresponding weeks .in th'S year and last and Accidents Inj’d Killed Dan 'ge 1946 2 1 9$ 4',5 1945 0 0 0 ft 0 Comparisons To Date 1C46 5 3 1 1945 2 1 0 375 150 Ask Local People To Support Clothing Drive Here Sunday An earnest appeal is being direct ed to all local residents this week, urging them to support wholeheart edly the town-v/ide clothing collec tion that will be made Sunday after noon in behalf of the destitute mil lions overseas. The appeal was made by Chairman Bob Tarkenton who is heading the Victory Clothing Collec tion in cooperation with the Lions Club and in the name of suffering humanity. Members of the Lions Club will start the collection at 2 o'clock, and local residents are earn estly asked to have their bundles ready and waiting on their porches. During the meantime used cloth ing is being received at several sta tions in the county, as follows: Dav enport and Hamilton, Jamesville; Manning and Gurkin, Farm Life sec tion, Terry Brothers' in Bear Grass; Virginia Electric and Power Com pany m Williamston; J. S. Ayers' store in Everetts; Slade-Rhodcs and Company in Hamilton; Ayers’ store in Oak City. In Roberscnville, Mr. Marvin M. Everett is heading the col lection drive and clothes are hring collected through the schools there. Only fair collections have been re ported at the receiving stations in the county so far. The drive is scheduled to end on Thursday of next week, and it is believed that the deliveries will increase considerably during the next few days. Millions of helpless people are barefoot and with nothing but a few rags on their backs in the war stricken countries overseas, and a us ed garment could be put to no better use than the one for which old cloth ing is being collected. More than one hundred million garments are being asked in the nation, but the desti tute overseas could use two, three and even four times that many and still remain til clad, direct reports declare. TOBACCO Employees in the office of the county agent are busy comput ing tobacco allotments for Mar tin farmers, and the acreage figures will be released to the growers within the next few days. The allotments will be ap proximately ten percent larger than those announced last year, the increase coming as a result of a general ruling railing for a larger crop this year than the one produced last year. Very few farmers in this coun ty are exported to plant their full allotments, reports indicat ing that the labor shortage will hold them to about the same acreages planted to the crop in 1945. Tobacco Increase Threatens Prices An increase in the 194<> tobacco 'top acreage is almost certain to threaten price schedules next fall, according to observers who have made a study of production and stocks now on hand. The foreign market is not promising, the observ ers pointing out that low income in other countries will run head on in to iiign prices for the crop in this country. The 1945 tobacco crop in the Unit ed States will probably otal 2,037 million pounds or four per cent above last year’s record of 1,950 million pounds, and the industry is faced with a serious problem of regaining its exports lost during the war, ac cording to the Department of Com merce. Statistics on production and the outlook for the tobacco industry are discussed in an issue of Industrial Id lerence published by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce —“This year the foreign market sit uation is engrossing the entire to bacco trade, for upon the reclama tion of temporarily lost markets, de pends the future of the South’s im portant leaf tobacco industry," it was said. Although inquiries have begun to come in from manufacturers in lib erated countries, “prices now prevail ing for United States tobacco and the low purchasing power of these countries constitutes a problem of the greatest magnitude,” according to the Commerce Department re port. The importance of foreign trade to the tobacco industry is reflected by the 1988 export statistics, which show that \r• \from the United States of unmanufactured tobacco of all types amounted to 489.993,000 pounds valued at $155,"" 871,000. In the following two years exports declined sharply because of the war and in 1944 the total was only 235,742,000 pounds valued at $44,045,000, according to Commerce reports. Officers Wreck Still In County Tuesday -.-.--— ABC Enforcement Officer J. H. Roebuck assisted by Deputy Julian Roebuck wrecked a 50-gullon capac ity liquor still and poured out 200 gallons of beer in the Free Union section of Jamesville Township lust Tuesday. The operators were using an oil drum for a still. Wednesday the two officers assist ed by Deputy Roy Peel raided in Cross Roads Township and confis-1 caled ten gallons of fancy molasses in a barn on the Joe Mizelle farm. Mizelle declared that the molasses did not belong to him, but two of his j• e.vcctening and about thirty pounds of corn meal. The officer took the molasses and meal in his possession and advised the claimants that they could press ownership before Judge J Calvin Smith in the county court I next Monday if they so desired. Tobacco Penalty To Be Increased In 1947; No Change this Year ——a Increase Deferred Because of Lateness In Attempting to Make The Change The national House passed by un animous consent this week a bill de ferring until 1947 an increase in penalties for violation of flue-cured tobacco acreage allotments. The bill provides that the 1947 penalty will be 40 percent of the sale price. The bill passed by the House is an amended version of a measure offer ed by Hep. John W Flannagan, Jr. (D-Va) which would have imposed a 50 percent penalty for both flue cured and hurley violations for the i oming year. The new hill provides a 40 percent penalty for hurley violations in 1946. but retains the present 10 cents a pound penalty on the bright leaf for t he coming season. The bill was amended following a meeting of Congressmen from flue cured tobacco areas to protest the immediate imposition of the stiffer penalty, in view of the fact that some bright leaf growers have already I planned their 1946 crops. Rep. Graham A. Harden of New Bern, who halted consideration of Flannagan’s hill on the consent cal endar of the House until the changes were made, stated that North Caro lina farmers w ill have an opportun ity to vote on the higher penalty in the 1947 referendum. North Carolina Congressmen, he said, agreed on the version of the bill as it was finally passed. The bill now goes to the Senate. Meantime, members of the dele gation received telegrams from Flake Shaw, executive secretary of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Feder ation, urging them to vote for the Flannagan bill as originally written. Present at the meeting to discuss the penalty provisions were James Thigpen of the Department of Agri culture tobacco section, and Repre sentatives Harden, Herbert C. Bon ner of Washington, R. L. Doughton of Laurel Springs, J. Bayard Clark of Fayetteville, W. O. Burgin of Lexing ton, John II Folger of Mount Airy, and Flannagan, Patrick II. Drewry, and Thomas G. Burch, all of Virginia. New Theater To Be Built In Hamilton The community of Hamilton is to have a..theater of its own.i* soon as construction of a modern and up-to date building can be erected there, according to reports from there this week. Civic minded business men and in fluential citizens have completed plans for the construction of a brick building on the corner lot on which the store of II. S. Johnson was locat ed before it was burned. The struc ture will be 24 feet wide and 100 feet long. The project is to be locally financ ed and controlled and will fill a need for recreation which has long existed there. Until the new building is com pleted the citizens will have to trav el, as they have for many years now, several miles for motion picture en tertainment. -- > S Forty‘Hour Week For Local Employment Service Office -« Beginning next Monday, the Unit ed States Employment office here ill observe a 40-hour week, Mrs. Ivis Jordan, manager, announced (morning at 8 HO o’clock and close at j 5:30 p. rn. from Monday through Fri ! day. i Persona who have been filing un j employment compensation claims on Saturdays will file them on Mondays j instead. 185 Boys Return To Martin County With Discharges Recently m Most Of The Group Were Out In Time To Spend The Holiday At Home One hundred and eighty-five Mar tin County men were discharged from the various branches of the country's armed services in recent weeks, most of them severing their connection with the Army, Navy and Marine Corps in time to spend Christmas at home. One hundred and eleven of the 185 discharged during November, December and early Jan uary were white men, some of who had been in service since before'the war started. The discharge list, delayed because a few veterans were late in report ing, was recently released by the County Draft Board. Names of white men the month in which they were discharged and their address are listed below with the date of induction shown in the figures immediately following the name: November, 1945—Hubert LeRoy Haislip, 1-43, RFD 2, Robersonville; Paul Daniel Davis, 9-41, RFD 1, Tamesville; John Haywood Bland, 11-41, RFD 3, Williamston; Richard Frank Everett, 9-39, Hamilton; Char in' Lee Stanley, 5-42, Dardens; Thel bert C. Whitley, 10-42, RFD 2, Rob ersonville; Jesse Ward Curtis, 8-42, Robersonville; Tom Washington Skinner, 1-42, Williamston; Jasper Ellis, 1-43, Oak City; Grover Cleve land Godwin, Jr., 6-42, Aurora; Rob ■ft Ward Harden, 7 42, RFD 1. Jamesville; James Thomas Edmond ■ion, 6 44, Williamston; Clarence Ed ward Britton, 2 42, Williamston; Al bert Cooke, 3-42, Williamston; Lester Bryan Edmondson, 7-41, Roberson ville; Cyrd Harvey Gardner, 1-45, Robersonville; Leighton Rav Stall lings, 12-43, RFD 1, Jamesville. December, 1945 — Willie Simon Roebuck, 7-43, RFD l, Oak City; lam's Nichols Hardison, 3-43, RFD 1, Williamston; Harry Keith Everett, 1-43, RFD 2, Robersonville; Edward Ashley Roberson, 2-43, Roberson ville; Gene Melburn Hardison, 1 43, RFD 1, Williamston; William Henry Gray, Jr., 9-42, Robersonville; Clyde Tilmon Modlin, 6-42, Jamesville; James Julian Jackson, 2-43, Wil liamston; Milton Nicholson, 9-42, RFD 2, Williamston; Ernie Lee Mod Iin, 10-42, RFD 1, Jamesville; Grady Price Andrews, 10-42, Robersonville; William Edgar Price, 12-44, Hamil ton; Joseph Alexander Peele, 9-42, Williamston; LeRoy Mobley, 9-42, RFD 3, Williamston; John Brinkley Knox, 9-42, RFD 2. Williamston; El mer Taylor Mizelle, 9 42, RFD 3, Wil liamston; Leo McGlenn Warren, 7-45, Robersonville; Horace Leslie Rodg ers, 9 42, RFD 3, Williamston; Simon Coltrain, 8 42, RFD I, Williamston; John Reginald Simpson, 4-43, Wil liamston; Julius Thomas Barnhill, 4-43, Williamston; William Clayton Whitley, 8 42, RFD 1, Robersonville; Nathan Worsley Johnson, 6-43, Oak City; Jim Brown Holliday, 8-42, Jamesville; Robert Urbin Gurganus, 8 42, RFD 3, Williamston; Durwood Carl Brown, 4 44, RFD 1, Jamesville; James William Long, 4-43, James ville; Bennie Burrel Griffin, 10-43, Robersonville; Louis McClellan Speller, 7-45, Williamston; Roger An on Critcher, 4-43, Williamston; Ju lian Pierce Raynor, 10-42, RFD 3, Williamston; Georgia Robert Grif fin, 9-42, RFD 1, Williamston; Wil liam Romulus Wynne, 3 42, RFD 3, Williamston; John Bill Leggett, 6-44, RFD 2, Williamston; Edgar Daniel Brown, 4 44, Jamesville; Jesse Rob ert Griffin, 11 42, RFD 1, Williams ton; Robert Leavern Stallings, 4-44, RFD I, Williamston; Gentry Wood row Mills, 11 42, RFD 3, Williamston; Thomas Welon Council, 6-42, Oak City; ^ Cecil Miller, 1-42, Wil liams ton; James Albert Roebuck, 6 42 Robersonville; Fenner Thomas Wallace,-4-14, Will;a;ii.viori, Marion Cobb, 4-44, Williamston; Alfred Thomas Tice, 5-44, RFD 1, Williams ton; Joseph Saunders Edwards, 4-44, Williamston; Earl Woodley Griffin, 10-41, Jamesville; Weldon Jackson, 4 44, Williamston; Charlie Irving Terry, 4-44, RFD 2, Williamston; Augusta Edison Moore, 9-42, RFD 1, (Continued on page six) Firemen Called To Rectory On Huughlon Street Here Volunteer firemen were called to the Episcopal rectory occupied by the Everetts on Haughton Street yesterday afternoon at 4:45 o’clock when the lathing around a flue caught fire. Very little damage was done, Mr. Everett lipping off a mall patch of plaster and laths to get to the fire and put it out. -1 County Young Men Are Discharged From Navy Several Martin County boys were included in a group of 210 honorably 1 Separation Center in Charleston, S. j C., this week. They are, Grover L. I Everett, Radioman 3-c, of RFD 1, , Hubei sonvillo; William li. White, | aviation ordnanceman 2-c, RFD 2, ! Williamston. and Levi C. Moore, sea 1 man 2-c, of Williamston.