North Carolina Newspapers

NEARLY 4.099 COPIES OP THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN VOLUME XUX—\i 4J5ER 1 People Of Nation PlWSIlMiaiO . UI*‘ ''jm Food With Hungry -«v—. Dark Bread Due To Reach Store Shelves Within Next Few Weeks The announcement by Preside Harry Truman that food shiomen would be increased to hungry peop in other lands even if it meant me rationing has been well received 1 the American people, with some fe exceptions. There was apparently feeling Washington that an announcemei of this kind would be a bombshc to the American people and wou be bitterly resented and resiste The pros and cons and ifs and am and buts seem to have been weigl ed with the utmost political cat tion before the shocking news wi capsuled for public consumptio Which can only suggest that tl present administration might ge a lot of sound help from a corj of itinerant pulse-feelers if it coul enlist the services of citizens ab] to inspire honest confidence an give warm understanding to th millions of Americans who don retain paid spokesmen in Washing ton. It was this kind of service th£ Mrs. Roosevelt did the country dut ing the administration of the lat President and to which can be at tributed much of President Roose velt’s intimate understanding of th wishes and aspirations and ideals c most Americans. Americans everywhere reacte spontaneously to President Tru man’s food export proposals: “If about time!” And if they talke with their neighbors about it the found their feelings echoed. Ther was a feeling of relief, a feelin of conscience being cased. Because despite all the wartime gags abou rationing, all the talk, all the word of complaint, there was no rea resistance by Americans to any ra tioning that was demonstrabl; necessary. There wras only resist ance to red tape, to the occasions blunders by local boards, occasions rulings that seemed unreasonabl to the man on the receiving end. Rationing always made a gooi conversation piece because, like tax ation, there was a universal qualit; about it. Everyone had his own lit tie grievances and little triumph he could tell. There was a certaii smartness in speaking scornfully o it, because Americans are scornful b; tradition of any government activity that touches them intimately. Bu underneath the smartness there wa good American pride that those o us who couldn’t fight the war coult at least get a feeling of participa tion by doing without the little lux uries that were proscribed. So, when almost coincidentalb with the end of the war rationinj was lifted, most Americans weri more shocked than pleased. The; began to buy more meat and mon butter and more shoes, but thej couldn’t quite see how come. I didn’t take a career diplomat to se< that hunger was rampant in the res of the world. It didn't take an eldei statesman to know that hungry peo pie are not apt to be reasonable peo pie or peaceful people. And it didn’ take a Congressional committee o globe girdling junket to find out tha an America gorging itself on relative surpluses could not expect the ' (Continued on page six) _et_ Long Court Session Is Held In Oak City Following a “little” crime wave i few days before, Justice of th( Peace J. B. Whitfield held his cour in session several hours last Mondaj night before clearing the docket. Herbert Goode, war veteran frorr Alabama, was fined $5 and taxec with the costs, tor alleged a'isorderlj conduct. Kis wife was fined $5 anc required to pay the costs for assault ing Mrs. Sam Bunting. Charged with an affray, Jesse Sta ton was fined $5 and required to paj the costs. Hillard Knight, drunk and disord erly and booked for an affray, wa: sentenced to the roads for thirty days, the court suspending the sen tence upon the payment of a $15 fine and costs. Roy Lanier, publicly drunk, wa: fined $5 and taxed with the cost. Ir a second case, Lanier was chargee with attempted assault on a female Bound over to the county court un der bond in the sum of $150, Laniei had his case continued in the countj court this week until March 11. Judgment was suspended upon the payment of the cost in the case charging Gordon Williams with pub lie drunkenness. Charged with drunken driving, J F. Council was bound over to the county court under $150 bond. Farm Bureau Meeting In Courthouse Friday Nighi ft ? Oft UiwlZot CV(' !»-g of thi,< week at 7.30 o'-cloak irtorrh-rs of +h<? Martin Co .nty Farr Baiea^. will hear reports on thi State Convention held in Winston Salem early this month and maki plans for the organization’s annua barbecue. THE ENTERPRISE Williamsirjx. Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, February 26, 1946 - WgT’Bwtflia y h it ts le it >y w n it 11 d i. Is i i IS 1. e !t is d e The recent infantile paralysis func drive in this county exceeded th< quota by nearly $1,000, Drive Chair man L. Bruce Wynne pointed ou last week-end when he filed his fin al report on the campaign. Assign ed a quota of $2,120, the county rais ed a total of $3,021.93, Mr. Wynn« said. Reviewing the progress of the drive, the chairman said that the schools raised $1,416.70 and $949.22 was contributed by direct mail or tc personal solicitors. The theaters in the county raised $657.00 through free will offerings. The final report listed a few late contributors, in cluding $35.21 from the white schools in Jamesville, $24.78 from the color ed school at Parmele and $10 from ho Oak City colored school. The Williamston Junior CF of the Chris tian church contributed $1, and $9 was received through the mail since the last report was released. Most of the counties in the State met or exceeded their quotas, but the record established in Martin ranks right along with the best. d e t I FIFrH TO RETURN v_ Marshall G. Moore, the fifth t son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Moore of Jamesville to get his e discharge from the armed forces, returned home recently. The four brothers beat him home by e just a few months. Marshall f served three years in the service, two of which were spent in Italy, i The young man and his brother, George Wilson, served in the s Army, two others, Charlie Mayo i and L. C. Moore, were in the f Navy and a fifth one, Simon i Daniel Moore, served in the l Army Air Force. , Some of the brothers were in t service four years and most of ^ them saw action, but all return 1 ed home safely. ■ Ask Ap|)ropriation For Checking Land Washington.—Rep. John H. Folger r \ and R. Flake Shaw, executive secre - J tary of the N. C. Farm Bureau Fed ’ oration, has joined agriculture offic ‘ ials and members of the Virginia , house delegation in urging the house - subcommittee on agriculture appro t priations to include $1,147,000 in its > 1947 budget to permit measuring J acreage of all types of tobacco to 1 prevent the over-planting of the ■ weed this year. During the war years, the AAA faced a shortage of manpower which ’ prevented them from sending as [ many men as usual to measure to ‘ bacco acreage, but during that time ' the heavy demand absorbed excess tobacco which resulted from planting beyond the specified allotments, so ■ the tobacco market as a whole did ' not suffer from over production, the subcommittee was told by North Carolina and Virginia witnesses. It was explained by them that with the end of the war, the foreign mar ket was expected to fall off, and more rigid enforcement of acreage restrictions would be necessary to keep the price of tobacco at normal 1 levels. For this reason, it was as serted, measuring of acreage would be necessary this year. Rep. Burch, Democrat of Virginia, stated that penalty payments for overplanting more than repaid the government for the expense of send ing men into the tobacco areas to survey and measure the acreage. He said that $1,706,000 were paid in pen alties during the 1943 and 1944 seas ons and about two and a half million iri the 1945-46 season, while the amount requested for measuring ex penses for this year is only $1, 167,000. --. Report Two Wrecks In Oak City Section -e As far as it could be learned here, no one was hurt but considerable property damage resulted in two recent automobile wrecks in the Oak City section. Neither of the wrecks was reported and complete details could not be had. Russell Cotton was said to have turned a car over on Highway 44 about one mile from Oak City Sat urday night. James Jones, Halifax County man, turned a 1939 Plymouth car over a few days earlier between Oak City ind Hobgood. The car was said to have been wrecked beyond repair, one report stating that it turned over possibly five itmes before it came to a stop. -® Continues Quite III In The McPherson Hospital ——« ! Mrs. Erah Cobb continues quite ill in McPherson’s hospital, Durham, V - —i - - - »- Y f a©5. i fir,r rye to ’11 ndci-ft ,ing ar.1 operation on one eye, Mrs. Cobb re- j i gained the sight in that eye and is ! now having trouble with the other. I Mr, and Mrs. Marion Cobb and [! daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. Dilion Cobb visited her Sunday. v-ummenung on me iund now nejsi in trust, Drive Chairman Wynn stated that it is considered ample to most any polio emergency. Afte forwarding about half of the las drive collection to State and Na tional headquarters, the chairmai now holds $1,200 in trust. In addi tion to that amount, approximate^ $2,200 is held in government bonds making a total of $3,400 in the fun< at the present time. Possibly part o the money will be made available .< orthopedic cases in the county. After serving as chairman of th< fund in the county for several years Dr. E. T. Walker is resigning and h< is being succeeded by Dr. J. T. Llew ellyn. Mrs. Glenn Norman of Robcr sonville was named vice chairman Mrs. Juanita Coltrain is succeedinf Mrs. E. T. Walker as secretary, anc Mr. Clyde Griffin was named treas urer. The officers will meet withir the next few weeks and name s group of directors from various parts of the county to administer the fund Serviceman Hurt In Road Accident Near Oak City Thursday —®— Ohio Man's Car Crashes Into Truck Driven By Minton Beach, Jr. -* Two persons were hurt, one badly, in an automobile-truclt wreck be tween Oak City and Hamilton late last Thursday night. Considerable damage resulted, Patrolman W. E Saunders, the investigating officer, reported. Honorably discharged from the Marine Corps at Cherry Point earlier that day, John Robert Salen and Nor man Duan Potter had started north to their homes in a 1937 Pontiac coupe. Salen to Ohio and Potter to Vermillion, Illinois. Just before reaching Oak City, Salen, driver of the car, decided to turn around and trace back to Williamston to get something to eat. A short distance from Oak City, they met and crash ed into the 1939 Chevrolet pick-up truck driven by Minton Beach, Jr. One report stated that Salen was driving on the wrong side of the road, that Beach ran off the hard surface on his right in an effort to avoid the crash. Potter’s right arm, going through the door glass, was severely cut be tween the elbow and hand and Sal en was slightly bruised and shocked. Beach and a companion were not hurt. The Salen car went about fifty feet after striking the truck and the road was completely blocked by the two vehicles. Jack Wright, of Wash ington and Baltimore, was traveling south and he picked up the victims and carried them to Oak City for medical attention. Unable to locate a doctor there, Wright carried Salen and Potter to Bethel and still they were unable to find a doctor. They were finally carried to Robersonville where Potter’s arm was sewed up in the Ward clinic. The front wheel of the Pontiac was torn off and the front was smashed, the patrolman stating that damage to the car would possibly amount to $300 or more. Damage to the truck was estimated at $200. No criminal action was brought immediately against the serviceman driver, but one report stated that the wrecked Pontiac had been attached for damages. Fishing Season Gets Underway In River —.—*— Very little progress has been re po.ted &o far, but the big 3M8 tith ing season in the Roanoke is gradu ally getting underway, and extensive preparations are still being made for the commercial catches. A report from Jamesville states that the own ers have tarred the big seine there, preparatory to starting operations within the next two or three weeks. During the meantime individual fishermen are taking a few perch from the river here. Slipping away again from his heavy work schedule, Fisheiman Charlie James dipped two nice river perch from the stream last Saturday. -«, To Address (Hub In The Courthouse Here Tonight —1 ..# Quite a few hunters, fishermen and interested citizens are expected to hear Soss O. Stevens, executive secretary of the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, in an address at the courthouse here this evening at 8:00 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to hear him. - 4, Croud Scatters Before v Young Man With Pistol JohMT5"?ffaw v;as .arrested sheriff and patrolmen late last Sat urday night after he had dispersed a crowd at Griffin's filling station just west of Everetts earlier that night. The man was fined $60 in the county court 'Critically Injured -{-~ — ---v --*1 .. . '| In Street Accident^ , Here Last SaiuTutTj ; -* . Suffering Multiple Fracture r Of Skull, Dork Kennedy t Still Semi-Conscious i Struck by a motorcycle driven b; - Sammy Taylor, local young man, 01 West Main Street at the plant of th« j Williamston Parts and Metal Com , pany last Saturday morning, Docl Kennedy, about sixty years of age ’ suffered multiple fractures of th( skull and continues in a critical con dition in Brown's Community Hos [ pital here. Late reports stated tha' he remains in a semi-conscious state that while he is restless he doesn’1 seem to be suffering a great deal. I’ was learned at the hospital that one fracture was several inches long that four others, not quite so long formed an almost perfect diamond There was very little depression as a result of the blow, giving the vic tim a possible chance for recovery. Few details of the accident could be learned from local police who made an investigation. According to unofficial information heard on the streets, Young Taylor, who lives in Martin Heights just outside the town limits, was traveling into Wil liamston about 8 o’clock last Satur day morning when Kennedy, leaving his home just back of the junk yard, stepped from behind on old car park ed beside the street. The speed of the motorcycle was not definitely determined. Kennedy was thrown to the concrete, his head striking first. Other injuries and bruises were only of a minor nature, it was stated. Young Taylor, recently passing his pre-induction examination at Fort Bragg and just recently out of the Merchant Marine, was not injured, and his motorcycle was not damag ed. The accident was one of two re ported locally during the week-end. A young man named Leggett ran his Ford car into the rear of an automo bile wrecker driven by Herman Tay lor near the Williamston Lumber Company plant on Washington Street about 8 o’clock last Sunday evening. It was raining at the time and the car driver could not see very well, it was reported by Officer C. R. Moore who investigated the acci dent. No one was hurt and damage was limited to about $200 on the car, according to the officer’s estimates. -e Former Pastor Here Passes In Hospital —<*,— Rev. Rufus R. Grant, retired Meth odist minister and former local pas tor, died in a Columbia, N. C., hos pital last Saturday. A resident of Hyde County, he was 75 years old. Serving in the ministry about for ty years before retiring to make his home in Fairfield, Mr. Grant was pastor of the Methodist church here for three years, 1934-36. Funeral services were conducted in the Fairfield Methodist Church yesterday morning and burial was in the Fairfield cemetery. Mr. Grant was a native of North ampton County and spent his early life there. Surviving are his wife, the former Mrs. F. F. Spencer; three daughters, Etta Grant of Greensboro, Mrs. J. S. Lawrence of Elizabeth City and Mrs. E. B. Grant of Jackson; one stepson, F. S. Svencer, Jr., of Fairfield; four brothers, W. R. Grant of Troy, Claude and Kelly Grant, both of Rich Square, and L. S. Grant of Chester, Va., and four grandchildren. His first wife, the former Eliza beth Carter of Fairfield, died sev eral years ago. -$ Firemen Answer Culls Here During the Past Week-End — 4>j-. laical volunteer firemen were call ed out twice last week-end, first to >» g: t'-SS fire just off West Main Streep late Thursday afternoon and then to an automobile fire on North Haugh ton Street Saturday noon. No dam age was done by ihe grass fire, and no great loss resulted in the car fire. Driving an old model Ford belong ing to Mary S. Gray, Abram Fonville said the car fire started around the carburetor and soon burned through the floor boards. ..—... /Vo Daylight Saving Time For Slate In Expected A proposal calling for a daylight saving schedule for North Carolina this spring and summer is not likely to get much consideration. While possibly a majority of the people fav or the “fast "time, the opposition is quite determined and reports state that official quarters will choose to leave the clocks alone. | ENTERS HOSPITAL I v_/ Suffering with high blood pressure, Mayor John L. Hassell entered a Washington hospital yesterday afternoon for treat Biggs jmuuia/itc. Earlier in the day he attend ed to busfnes»15Bfters in his of fice, but returned to his apart ment when he told friends that he wasn’t feeling very well. \ “Ironing Out” Kinks In Vast Completing the major changes in tests made last Friday, operators of * the huge plant of the Dixie Peanut Company just recently completed here, are “ironing out’’ the kinks gradually in the factory’s huge me chanical system. Steady operation i is expected within a very short time, , and shelled peanuts are scheduled to start moving to the candy manufac turers within the next day or two. The plant is gradually working to | ward full production, and a second ' shift will be employed to rush mill ing activities in answer to a strong demand for cleaned peanuts. Designing the plant to handle twice the normal capacity of a fac tory of its size, the operators found that the flow of peanuts was so large and so rapid that some of the chutes although of considerably increased size, could not handle the load smoothly. Changes were made and the mechanics started adjusting the fans and suction lines and tuning up the automatic machines. For the most part, the big machines and most of the other many gadgets worked perfectly. When the big mill was placed in operation last Friday peanuts were flying in nearly every direction. Guides were enlarged and by yester day afternoon the peanuts could be heard battering the sides of the chutes and grading drums but could not be seen. The big engine exhaust has a slow beat, and other than the hull crusher there is little noise inside the plant except the steady hum of machines and motors. The boiler room whistlf is not up to par, but a new one is to be shipped as soon as it is available to replace the old one lent the com pany. When the new one is install ed, the plant will add its notes to the town's industrial progress. Plans Completed For Red Cross Fund Drive District Chairmen Named by Spivey In Chapter Yesterday —*>— Five Township* Asked Tc Raise $3,600; Canvassers Ready To Start Drive Plans were announced virtuallj ! complete last night for launching the annual Rod Cross fund drive in this, the Martin County Chapter, by Chairman V. J. Spivey who named the last of his district chairmen yes terday and announced final quotas. | Organized at a meeting held week | before last, the colored citizens arc understood to be already doing pre liminary work in preparation of go ing over their $075 quota during the first few days of the drive opening on Friday of this week. The drive in the districts will b( headed by Mrs. Camille Fleminf Turner and Mrs. Walter Brown ol Jamesville; Mrs. Pete Mendenhall in Bear Grass, Mrs. J. Eason Lilley in Griffins, Mrs. R. J. Hardison in Wil liams, and in Williamston by the drive chairman Who will be aided by Mis. John Gurkin, Mr. and Mrs, Hewitt Edwards, M. A. Price, John Bland, Dennis Hardy, C. D. Bullock, John Coltrain and Mrs. C. E. Jenkins. Wheeler Martin, N. C. Green, G. H. Harrison, Garland Woolard and Dr. John Biggs will solicit special gifts locally, the chairman announced. Canvassers for the business and resi dential areas will be announced to morrow or Thursday. Last year, this chapter raised over $8,000 foi the Red Cross. This year, it is being asked to raise $8,600. The county quota has been broken down and assigned as follows: Jamesville, $325; Williams, $60; Griffins, $300; Bear Grass, $300, Wil liamston, $1,940, and colored citizens in six townships, including Poplar Point, $675. The quotas are quite small and they were acceptable in every case, some of the district leaders assuring the chapter chairmen that their peo ple would meet the test and more. It is planned to publish the names of the donors and the amount of con tributions, by districts. Appeals are being made to the gen eral public to support the drive and cooperate in every way possible with the solicitors who are working with out remuneration and at their own expense. It is hoped that some of the distr icts will complete their can vass and report a successful drive Ministers in the several churches addressed an appeal to their congre gations last Sunday in behalf of the drive, some of them offering a few (Continued on page six) Ask Cooperation In Red Cross Drive Perfecting their organization last week-end, - colored leaders for the new Red Cross fund drive today ad dressed an appeal to all citizens urg ing cooperation and support for the drive which gets underway on Fri day of this week. They plan to com olete the canvass between the 1st and 8th of March. The following have been named to carry the drive to the colored citi zens of the town: Emma Harvey, Mary Dell Bennett, Sarah Huff, Mrs. Armistead, N. R. Cherry, M. S. Gray, Sylvia Wallace, Mittie Mason, Len ora Rodgers, Ruth Slade, Bessie Mc Intyre, Minnie C. Ambers, Ella Mae Ormond, Richmond Faulk, W. C. Bunch, Joe Spruill, Tom Move, L. S 7f!fJaamK; Ivljiy D< 11 Si,,. 1 h, Z- u. ’layer., J7.hr. M Slade, and J. D. Everett. Colored citizens in the chapter art being asked to raise $675. out of a $3,600 quota. Locally, the quota is $300. f ROUND-UP | v-1 For the third time in a row, seven persons were arrested and jailed here by local, county and state officers last week-end. Two of the seven were booked for as saults, three for public drunk enness and one each for drunk en driving and carrying a con cealed weapon. The drunken driver, detained by patrolmen Saturday afternoon, was operat ing a large army truck and his drive was so wild that his broth er hopped out along the high way before reaching here. The ages of the group ranged from 19 to 34 years, and three of the seven were young white men. Rev. John W. Hardy Is Returning Here The Rev. Joseph S. Huske, Jr., de livered his last sermon here Sunday morning at the Church of the Ad vent. Mr. Huske’s sermon held a three-fold message. First, that God is not dead, hut. that with many peo ple He has been domesticated, made into a harmless household pet, with his teeth drawn. Mr. Huske said, “God is alive, an all powerful and just God, as well as a loving father. He is not a grandfather!" Secondly, one does not “join the church” ns one would a club, hut is made a member of Christ at baptism and becomes a part of His body, the church, just as the hands and feet are a part of the human body. Thirdly, church ac tivity, constantly doing things, does not make a person a Christian. It is not what a man does that makes him a Christian—but what he is. A man does good works because he is a Christian. Mr. Huske will leave this week for Fayetteville where he will visit his parents for a month before continu ing his work. He has made many ' friends since coming to Wilhamston. The Rev. John W. Hardy who was j granted a leave of absence from the Church of the Advent during his ( chaplaincy in the army will arrive this week to resume his work here. -«.-— I I Veteran Suffers Attack On Street j —«— | A member ol the crew of the U. S , • 'hiiivpid’’ i/nd rm-nlly- discharg j <i from the Navy, u South Carotin- ( ian whose name could not be learn- c '■d immediately, suffered un attack in • Ins automobile on the corner of Main ’ and Smithwick Streets here yester- ; day morning. Following treatment , in Dr. E T. Walker’s office, the vet eran recovered rapidly and continu- I ed his journey to his home in Spar- \ tanburg, South Carolina. j Accompanied by his wife, the vet- t eran was driving south on Highway c 17 when he suffered the attack and t ran his coupe off the road. The car i was not wrecked and his wife took c the wheel and continued here, the £ man's condition becoming much g worse about the time they reached the Sinclair filling station. > It was learned that the veteran ; had been badly wounded in the Coral Sea battle, that often his blood leaves his head and rushes to the stomach, causing the attacks. Before medi- * cal aid could reach him he was giv- * en a stimulant and that partly re- 1 vived him. a 1 Oak City Young Man la Discharged From the Navy ' Navy at the Bain bridge, Maryland, i Separation Center. The Oak City, .i young man, in service six years, was t last stationed on the USS Rienamer- I i cedes. NEARLY 4.0M COPIES OP THE ENTERPRISE GOING INTO THE HOMES OF MARTIN COUNTY AND TO COUNTY SERVICEMEN fsTABLISH?:^"Tl!9T® Enforcement Chief Seizes Many Stills Week < —.— Modern Equipment Taken I^ast Friday; Man Charged With Possession Going into all parts of the county last week, ABC Enforcement Offic er J. H. Roebuck and his assistants, Deputies Julian Roebuck and Roy Peel, wrecked a large number of il licit liquor plants, poured out a quantity of molasses beer, captured modern manufacturing equipment md brought charges against one nan. The record was made follow ing several weeks of increased ac ivity on the liquor law enforcement front in this county. After searching along the Edge combe County boundary line for icveral hours on Monday, the offic es found five gallons of molasses in the woods, but no trace of the manufacturing plant could be found. On the following day, the officers moved into the Free Union section of Jamesvillc Township and wrecked a 30-gallon capacity wood still and ooured out 100 gallons of molasses beer. In Bear Grass on Wednesday a partial plan was found and wreck ed along w th four fermenters. No beer was at the plant. Moving near er the Beaufort County line, the of ficers wrecked a 50-gallon capacity oil drum used for a still and tore up three fermenters. Last Thursday, a search in Cross Roads produced no results, but the officers moved into Robersonville Township and found a still worm and still cap in Fred Gardner’s barn. A case, charging him with possession of materials for use in illicit liquor manufacturing, was brought against Gardner, a colored man. Going into Hamilton Township last Friday, the officers destroyed a 50 gnllon capacity still, a doubler and cooler and poured out 100 gallons of molasses beer. A fox squirrel was found dead in one of the beer bar rels, the officers explaining that they were not certain whether the squir rel died of poisoning or drowned. Before returning to their base that day, the officers found and confis cated modern equipment at a plant near Council’s store. No still was found, but the officers captured a new oil burner, a copper radiator which was intended for use as a worm, and wrecked a 100-gallon fer menter with about 100 pounds of corn meal in it. Accompanied by ABC officers from Pitt County, Deputies Roebuck ind Roebuck returned to Hamilton rownship last Saturday morning and wrecked a plant partially equipped. An oil drum was wrecked along with i doubler and cooler, ten 50-gallon capacity fermenters and poured out 100 gallons of beer. Five gallons of molasses were taken at the plant. Crossing the road, the officers con luded their raids after wrecking a )0 gallon capacity oil drum still and muring out 150 gallons of molasses jeer. Suspect Big Ship Scandal In Nation -v Something wrong with tiie United Rates Maritime Commission is sus )ected in some Washington quarters, iccording to reports coming from the lation’s capita] in recent days. A shocking report has been re eased by the Comptroller General’s iffice, and Senator George D. Aiken if Vermont appealed for a senatorial nvestigation. The country has thousands of surplus” ships. A plan for dispos ng of them was proposed by the Maritime Commission, then controll d by Admiral Emory S. Land. The National House of Representatives ield hearings and put some safe guards in a “ship disposal” bill. It. vas sent to the Senate where Sena ot Josiah W Bailey. i-iu.-r--. Commerce Committee, offerea re ommendations blasting away the safeguards” proposed by the House, ’he bill, as wanted by the admirals nd as recommended by Bailey, pass d without a roll call vote. According to Senator Aiken, the Jaritime Commission in the war ears up to June, 11343, had juggled Is books to the tune of $5,822,873,498 o make its records look as if they ame out light. Back of the jug ling, the Comptroller disclosed a ang list of peculiar deals by the ommission, such as paying insur nce “up to 64 times the value of hips,” after they were sunk. -- Pico Men Under Bond For Alleged Assault Joe Henry and Ollie Gaynor, uothers, were placed under bond in he sum of $300 each for allegedly idding up and assaulting two Wil iams brothers in Poplar Point last v'*>ek. They were given a hearing >efore Justice J. L. Hassell last Fii !ay. According to one report, the Gay lor brothers blocked the road and :'drfiw‘:rioh v‘T*hhy' hr?h&tw»*V nd drew pistols and only our plead '"3 saved our lives,” one of the vic ims was quoted as saying. The al eged assault grew out of some fam ly trouble, it was declared.