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OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNTY
FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK
VOLUME L—NUMBER 21
11 illiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Friday. March I I. 1917
ESTABLISHED 1899
Judge J. C. Smith
Imposes Fines In
' The Sum of $51(1
Kinston Man Fined 812.1
For Drunken Driving
Last Monday
Handling twenty-three cases ir
a session lasting from 9:30 a. m.
until almost 1:00 o'clock p. m.
last Monday. Judge J. C. Smith
imposed fines in the amount of
$510. and meted out one or twe
road sentences for good measure.
The regular meeting of the court
attracted a fairly large congrega
tion, and was highlighted by i
warning from the jurist against
the brazen custom followed b>
some in interfering with or giving
lip service to officers in the per
formance of their duties. Solici
tor Paul D. Roberson prosecuted
the docket and scored convictions
in nearly every one of his cases.
Giving over to the "big'1 court
Judge Smith and Solicitor Rober
son will not convene their tribun
al again until the last day of this
month.
Pleading guilty in the case
charging him with bastardy, Ed
ward Nicholson had his case con
tinue under prayer for judgmenl
until the first Monday in Septem
ber, 1947. the defendant to pa>
$12.50 a month for the support ol
his child and $94.50 medical bill.
Charged with assaulting a fe
male, Jesse Warren pleaded guil
ty and was sentenced to the road;
for nine months, the court sus
pending the sentence upon the
payment of a $25 fine and the
costs. The court also stipulatec
in its judgment that the defend
ant is not to be publicly drunk
for two years.
Leonard Boston pleade'd noi
guilty when he was arraigned or
a trespass charge. The court
however, adjudged him guilty oi
assaulting another with a deadly
weapon, and he was sentenced te
the roads for ninety days. He ap
pealed and bond was fixed in thi
sum of $200.
James "Bone” Scott, charged
with simple assault, pleaded guil
ty and was fined $20 and taxec
with the cost.
Charged wdth being drunk anc
disorderly and an affray. Warier
Griffin pleaded guilty of an af
fray and was fined $15 and re
quired to pay the costs.
Tom Rhine was sentenced t<
jail for ten days and fined $2E
and taxed with the costs in the
case charging him with interfer
ring with officers while in the
performance of their duties
Rhine, denying he was ever
around when the officers arrestee
a man and he was alleged to have
paid the officers lip service, had
served several days in jail prioi
to his trial.
Harold Sparrow, Kinston mar
with a long record of trips before
the courts in Lenoir County
pleaded not guilty when he wa;
charged with drunken driving
and operating a «motor vehicle
without a driver’s license. Ad
judged guilty, he was fined $I2C
and taxed with the cost. The coun
r'cc^o'.ttit'iv&rts •that ‘KifhMssHji
issued the defendant for twe
(Continued on page nix)
Foreign Policy
Causing Concern
America’s foreign policy a;
voiced by President H. S. Truman
in a public address last Wednes
day, is causing much concern
throughout the world.
After the Allies had dumped
700 million dollars in Greece dur
ing the past two years. President
Truman proposes sending more
millions there along with military
forces. Turkey is to share in the
hand-out also.
Directed full force toward Rus
sia, the speech was made just as
Secretary Marshall and others
started negotiations for a peace
for Germany.
Opinion on the Preside nt's mes
sage is divided, but most of the
lawmakers are withholding com
ment until they can study the
text and hear from public reac
tion. Some of the lawmakers see
in the President's message steps
pointing toward war with Russia
The Senate Foreign Relations
Committee started studying the
message behind closed doors yes
terday morning. Secretary ol
State George Marshall is plan
t<> explain the message te
StuUn in per-uu.
RED CROSS MILK FiGiSTS HUNGER
BANDAGES HIDE SKIN IRRITATIONS, Ihc result of years of inadequate
and unbalanced feeding, on a young boy from Pisck, Czechoslovakia, as
lie drinks bis ration of buttermilk provided by the American Red Cross.
More than $3,000,000 worth of supplies are being distributed in that
country to halt disease threatening 3,200,000 youngsters. (International)
Politics 1 Mscussed bv
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Non-Partisan Group
Offer Support To j
Young Candidates
In Town iViiuan
Courthouse Meeting Siiju
Open Action In
Tow n's Politics
Moving to create more interest •
in the approaching municipal pri
mary election and to develop
more concern for the town's poli
tical affairs, a group of about for
ty youi g men met jn the court
house here Wi dm sday evening
for a general pew wow. With
holding any voiced opposition
against any group or policies now
in effect, the group expre .•id the
opinion Uiut a reorganization of (
the town's policial and local af
fairs should be effected, and went
on to offer it support to the can
didate, any candidate, who would
take the lead.
The group, with Robert Cowen :
as chairman-spokesman, consider- 1
ed drafting a ticket then and (
there, but it was decided to look 1
to the open field first, waiting for 1
any citizen to enter the primary. 1
In the event no candidacies are
filed within a reasonable time, a
committee named by the chair
man, will contact prospects and
literally draft them for a com
missioner's post O! mayor. Her
bert Taylor. Leman Barnhill, J. 1
D. Page. .J C Cooke and Jack
»*• *. J* i« i £ ».'•>
members of the committc. to 1
contact prospects and urge them
to file for the position with llie 1
assurance of support from the en
tire group.
Several potential candidal, s ‘
adherring to a policy of modesty,
considered it more democratic to 1
look to the open field to t. Aft r
a reasonable wait with no candi
dates entering the race, they as
sured the group that they would
file for the position. *
The nanus of quill a few po
tential cundiOeUs w.-ie im mi Hi
ed, but they vs etc withdrawn
i when it was decided to wait foi •
action in other quarter.-.
No official announcement has
come from any of the pi., eni *
board members relative to their 1
future plans. Mayor John L.
Hassell is quoted as saying that *
he will not be a candidate to suc
ceed himself, explaining that ill |
'(Continued on page three)
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Mrs. II illioni (.onion
To Spink Urn? Monthly
Mrs. William Gordon vuli sj < ak t
in the local Episcopal Church <
Monday night, March 17, at 8 ^
o’clock. Mrs. Gordon is a former a
resident of Willianrston, the wife
of Rev. William Gordon who v. as a
rector of the Church of the Ad- t
vent for several years. Mrs. Gor- |
don v.-ill be accompanied here by
| Mr. Gordon. \
J
Martin County tax values,
ifl ready inrreased in live
townships by more than one
and one-half million dollars,
continue to increase. Hear
(.lass reported a sain of $58,
C00, thirty of which is repre
sented in personal properties
and twenty-eight in real val
ues. .
II is now estimated that the
gain for the year will ap
proximate one and three
quarter million dollars, pro
vided corporation listings,
handled by the state commis
sion, hold to about the 194ti
[urynien Selected
Thirty six Martin County citi
■ms won* drawn by Hu; county
•ommis.sioners at their first Mon
lay meeting for jury duty during
1; ■ two-week term of Mar An
.’minty Supei ior Court convening
n April.
The names of those drawn are
isted by townships:
First Week
Juim sville: H. E. Daniel.
Griffins: Kenneth Harrington.
Bear Grass: Cusliing Bailey, J.
'■ Rawls. Sr., Geo. R. Taylor.
William.- tor: R E. Kimball, Til
IT -■ " i*. Motile':
)illon Cobb.
Robersom. die: A R. 'Johnson, 1
V. Henry Coburn, V. A. Page.
Poplar Point: W. S. White.
Hamilton: Robert A. Edmond
on, Jr., H. L. Purvis.
Goi '. t: Roland Sills and H.
i. Smith.
Second Week
JumcMvilie: Ernest C. Hayes,
fernon Davis, Vance Price.
Williams: W. J. Gardner and G.
. J antes.
Bear Gia. a S. 11. Mobley.
W 1 ' i • T. Hatdeii, A
’• Berry, J. S. Gurganus, V. T.
iloore.
Cross Roads- Alton H. Stalls.
Robcrsonville: B. C. Chesson,
1 L. House. J. E. Keel, Cecil B.
‘owell.
Hamilton: W. R. Davenport, R,
i. Rat kley and S. M. Ewell.
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). L Whiehard
Dies In Farmele
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O. L. Whiehard, prominent Par- <
tele citizen died at his home .
here last Thursday night, March 1
th. Seventy-two years old, Mr. i
ifhiehard was in ill health for i
everal months. I
The last rites were conducted i
t the grave in the tamily eerne- J
ry neat Parmele Saturday at 3 1
. m. by Rev. W. U. Howard. j!
Burviving i.; a brother J, H. I
viucaaid of ij, i-Uiuuui, Vu.
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Prisoner Of War
^ rites To Former
Local Employers
Prefers America To Run
iiint; Around Own Coun
try Without Food
Writing to his former employ
ers. Messrs. D. M. Roberson and
employes here last December, An
dreas Wittmann. former prisoner
of war s tationed in the camp here
for a while, declared that he pre
ferred being here than running
around in his own country with a
hungry stomach.
The former prisoners recalls in
the following letter his travels
after leaving here more than a
year ago:
Few months ago I arrived home
and meet mv parents included
other relatives. As I remember T
left Camp Williamston for Camp
Butiii r *in January instant year.
For short time I lived there
and in February I traveled fur
ther to the North. Then I was
stationed in Fort Eustis. Virginia.
That Camp was a "special project
center" for extra selected Ger
man PW. There 1 attended de
mocratic courses, especially in
history. After I had finished that
democratic school 1 traveled by
train to Camp Shank, which is
placed in the State of New York.
There we were told to leave the
continent of America soon. A
week later we traveled from that
spot to New Jersey City. With a
steamboat we crossed the Hudson
Bay and entered Upper Bay.
Beautiful a sight we had to Upper
Manhattan and its skyscrapers.
Tire first in niy life 1 had seen
Empire State Building, one of
New York’s superb beauties. At
midnight we left on a ship of the
Coaldale Victory’Class the har
bour of New York for the journey
to Europe.
The first days on sea were very
stormy (the weather changed and
the sky was cloudy) and I got
made, that is seasick. Never I
was seasick in my life before
those days. This sickness had
befallen me so worse, that I
changed to he a madman. Really
1 didn’t eat anything for whole
three days. Afterward 1 recov
ered slowly of that sickness and
my appetite was again very heart
iy. 1 ate everything 1 could get
(Continue d on page eight)
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No Action Yet On
Griffins Project
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Although .several contracts
have been let since District High
way Commissioner Merrill Evans
went over the road program pro
posed. for this county in 11)47, no
action lias been taken to complete
the Griffins Township project,
running from John A. Griffin's
store to the intersection of High
way 171 near Farm Life.
When Commissioner Evans was
in the county about six weeks ago
he explained before a meeting of
the countv < otnmis loners that the
money had aheady been appro-"
priated for the project, thait while
he felt certain the contract would
oe let "soon” he could not say
just when it would be let. A spec
ial delegation planned to confer
with Mr. Evans, but the conl'er
. nee was postponed on account of j
iliners in the commissioner’s fam
ily at the time.
Just About $400 Reported
In Tobacco Drive rl'o Dale
Approximately jhiju nas been
•aised and reported in the drive
o raise about $1,100 among Mar
in County farmers to support the
Pobaceo Associates, Incorporated,
in agency recently created for
he promotion of tobacco exports,
drily parts of three townships ar e
rovered in the report, it was
jointed out Thursday, hut a com
jlc.tion of the canvass is expected
>ver the week-end.
Working in Williamston, M.
outlier Peel reported approxi
nately $130 in hand with the pro
nise of considerably more. In
tobersonville, Reuben S. Everett
aised and reported $100.27 and J.
i. Darnel, working in the same
ownship, raised ard reported
,52.10. Bear Grass, up until that
imr had rai ed .$<>1105. II P peel
i - »j» i:i Mil.. rl, ,. 1>.....
’’r''* l“'o ^*www; ., —-* **. *
. on, suu.uo, ana li Uomcr Harri
son, $19.50. In addition *o tlx.'
above amounts, the office of the
county agent received $22.00 from
.severa! farmers.
If parts of three- townships can ;
raise a fourth of the amount, it is
farily ci rtain that the county can .
easily raise the $1,100 quota and
more.
While file farmeis, with the
help of special friends ami profes
sional men, are raising $50,000 ill
five states, as their part in linanc- !
mg (he exportation program,
business firms, including fertiliz
er manufacturers, warehousemen, J
tobacco dealers and others have '
just about raised their $50,000 I
quota. *
The canvassers among the
fanners declare that they have
not hi i n refused contributions
, , I , , ,,, y J, .. . L--;.
MINISTERS MEETING AT MOSCOW CONFERENCE
HERE'S THE FIRST PHOTO of the opening session of the "Big Four” Foreign Ministers Conference In Moscow
where an attempt will be made to write peace treaties with Germany and Austria. At the extreme left is
Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov; U. S. Secretary of State Geo. Marshall is at right. Aides
and other diplomats between them are not identified. The picture was radioed from Moscow. (International)
Funeral Service
Held Wednesday
For Mrs. Li 1 ley
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l)i<‘<] \l Home of Ht*r Son,
J. Iloyt Lilley. I'.arlv
Ttit'stluy Morniiif?
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Funeral services were conduct
ed at her late home Wednesday
afternoon at 11:00 o'clock for Mrs.
Emma Louisa Lilley who died at
the home of her son, J. Hoyt Tal
ley, in the Farm Life Community
of Griffins Township at 2:40
o’clock Tuesday morning. Her
pastor. Rev, M. L. Ambrose, con
ducted the last rites and inter
ment followed in the Roberson
Cemetery near the home.
Mrs. Lilley had been in declin
ing health for some time, and her
condition had been serious for
quite a while.
The daughter of the late James
Asa Simpson and Sallie Simpson
Hardison, she was born in Grif
fins Township 7!) years ago. She
livi-d there all her life, and wuis
one of thi' section’s oldest citizens.
In early womanhood she was
married to Jesse Lawrence Lilley
who died some years ago.
Mrs. Lilley was a member of
the church at Maple Grove for a
number of years, and was highly
respected by her neighbors and
other friends.
Besides her son with whom she
triede her home, she is survived
by two daughters, Mrs. Louis
Roberson of Willuimston and Mrs,
Clyde Lassiter of RED I, James
ville, and a half-brother, Ed
Hardison, of Williamston.
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Some Influenza
Cases In Schools
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Influenza, reaching epidemic
proportions in some sections of
the Stat(‘, has been reported only
on a very limited scale in the lo
cal schools, and it is hoped that
the school will escape the full
force ol tile dint ,»■ > •
■ -|-TT. . „
Principal is. G. Stewart saiu
yesterday that there were 80 pup
ils absent that day, that possibly
no more than fifteen or twenty
of that number were victims of
influenza. Some of he others had
colds and remained at home,
while .-till others remained out of
school to plow and help plant
Irish potatoes.
Three Manslaughter
Cases Before Courts
PIVOT PIER
Starting shortly after 5:00
o'clock last Tuesday morning,
forces of the Bowers Con
struction Company poured
the last of 300 tons of con
crete into the Roanoke River
Bridge Pier here at 8:30
o’clock that evening.
The operation, one of the
largest engineering feats un
dertaken in this section in
quite some time, was handled
without a hitch. Working
right on through meal hours,
the men and machines did a
masterful job. The large
force pump delivered the
concrete from the shore to
the pier without faltering.
Ragland To Die
Friday Morning
Otis Ragland, sentenced by
Judge Henry Stevens in superior
court here last December to die
for criminally attacking Mrs.
Floyd Moore in her home near
Williamston last November, is
scheduled to enter the gas cham
ber at State's Prison in Raleigh
Friday morning at 10:00 o’clock.
Called to answer for the hein
ous crime, the young colored man
was denied a new trial when the
State Supreme Court reviewed
his ease last month. Governor R.
Gregg Cherry has not acted to
stay the execution, and the con
demned man, one of eight to
break out of the Martin County
prison camp in early November,
will die by asphyxiation accord
ing to schedule.
Six tickets to the execution
have been issued to the sheriff’s
office here and that many are
planning on witnessing the exe
cution, including Mr. Moore, hus
.b.md joj^Um attack victim. The
witnesses plan to reave here about
7:0© o’clock Friday morning for
the execution at 10.
Red Cross Drive
Making Progress
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The annual Red Cross Fund
Drive is making splendid progress
in this chapter, according to a re
port released Thursday morning
by Chairman Claude H. Clark,
Jr. A* that time Wdlinmston
eanva.-.-ers hud raised and report
ed $1,056.10 of its $1,335 quota.
The Bigg.-. School $21) contribu
tion io the only one so far to go
over the top, but encouraging re
ports are expected this week-end
from other districts.
Bear Grass reported yesterday
that it was nearing its goal, that
the drive was virtually certain to
go over the top during the week
end.
No other districts have report
ed so far, but they can be expect
ed to submit encouraging drive
accounts shortly.
Returns Home Tuesday
From Tong Hospital Stay
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After a stay of nearly three
months in a Rocky Mount hos
pital for treatment, Attorney
Wheeler Martin returned to his |
home here Tuesday lie is getting I
iluiig vciy well.
Sixteen Criminal
Cases Slater For
Trial Next Week
Jud^t* J. Paul Frizzrlli' Is
To Preside Over The
Two-Week Term
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An accounting for staugthcr on
Martin County highways will be
made next Monday when the sup
erior court opens a two-week ses
sion here for the trial of criminal
and ciivl cases. Three defendants
face manslaughter charges in
thirteen remaining criminal cases.
Judge J. Paul Frizelle of Snow
Hill is to preside over the term,
the first day of which has been
designated for the trial of crimin
al cases. Nine members, retiring
after serving on the grand jury
for a year, will be replaced along
with a new foreman. It is' likely
that most of the morning after the
court is convened at 10 o’clock
will be devoted to the handling of
formal problems, including the
selection of recruits for the grand
jury and the judge’s address to
the jurymen, leaving the tribunal
little time to clear its criminal
docket before Tuesday when civ
il cases are scheduled for trial.
A comparatively light criminal
docket faces the court this term.
Five of the actions were continu
ed from previous terms, some of
which are nearly two years old.
The three manslaughter cases
and the near-fatal attack made on
(wo young poultry dealers m
Kobcrsonville are expected to at
tract more public attention than
possibly all the others combined.
Private prosecution bus been em
ployed in Ihe assault case, it was
le aimed.
Docketed cases include the fol
lowing:
John David Wooten. Pitt Conn
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manslaughter. Wooten last De
cember 15 ran his car into an
other operated by Webb Ward, re
sulting m the death of Henry
Ward. The highway accident, also
resulting in the death of two
other persons, took place on the
Robersonville-Stokes road. Woot
(Continued on page five)
Commissioner In
Ruritan Address?
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Addressing the regular month
ly meeting of the Jumesville Hu
l'itan Club in the high school li
brary there last Monday evening,
District Highway Commissioner
Merrill Evans of Ahoskie, pointed
out that it wasn’t likely that
Highway 171 a mile from James
ville to the Beaufort County line
would be surfaced in 1947. Pos
sibly the route will be surfaced
next year, the commissioner w'as
quoted as saying.
Asked about the possibility of
widening some of the ’later ridges
used by school busses in Jumes
ville Township, the road man said
th.it the woik was in the 1947
program, that some action is to be
expected just as soon as proper
equipment can be made avail
able.
Approximately thirty members
attended tlic meeting.
Pass Bucket Bill
G
In Lower House
() f Legislature
PaNMtge of \nti-Luhor Bill
Kxpfdcd Following Ac
tion of Committee
North Carolina's biennial bud
get. calling for an expenditure of
5311,593,086 during the 1947-49
period, was passed in the lower
house of the legislature this week.
Expenditures authorized by the
record measure total $191,692,795
from the general fund, $117,761,
968 from the highway fund and
$2,138,323 frcm the agriculture
fund.
The House also passed the ad
ministration-sponsored bill set
ting up a reserve fund of $30,
000.,COO to underwrite salary in
creases contained in the appropri
ations budget. This bill transfers
$9,300,000 from the general fund
surplus to $20,700,000 now in the
postwar reserve.
As passed and sent to the Sen
ate, the appropriations bill gives
the 25.000 public school teachers
a pay increase of approximately
30 percent, and other State em
ployes an over-all raise of 20 per
cent.
A new highway safety program
has been given support by a sen
ate committee. The bill would
increase the speed limit from 50
to 55 miles an hour, schedule car
inspections st mi annually, up the
fine on drunken driving from $50
to $100 with a provision revoking
a driver's license for life upon a
third convicion on a drunken
driving charge. The fine would
jump from $100 on the first of
fense to $200 on the second and
$500 on the third. Speeding and
reckless driving would be subject
to a $25 minimum fine. $50 on a
second conviction.
A proposal to let the people
have a part in Democracy was
thrown out the window Wednes
day when a senate commitee vot
ed down Senator Chaffin’s mo
tion calling for a state-wide whis
key referendum.
While the money measure went
sailing through the third reading
in the House, the senators follow
ed up the lower body in striking
what is recognized as a blow
against the common working
man. The Senate Committee on
Manufacturing. Labor and Com
merce, voted 12 to 6 to report the
anti-labor bill favorably to the
full body. Senator Hugh G. Hor
ton was listed along with those
favoring the bill against labor.
When the committee took the ac
tion it did take, passage of the
law was predicted, but Democ
racy, its voice all but lost in the
din of high-handed political man
euvers, appealed for a record of
the vote for future consideration.
While a spike was being driv
en into the hands of libor, a
movement to establish m enabl
ing act for the support of Tobac
co Associates, Inc., was started in
both the House and Senate. The
proposed bill would submit the
question to tobacco farmers. If a
majority of them in an election
(Continued on page eight)
Raid More Stills
In Martin County
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After a fairly busy schedule
followed in February, ABC en
forcement officers are continuing
to tear down illicit liquor stills in j
this county.
Fourteen plants were wrecked I
last month, the officers pouring
out 1.350 gallons ot cheap beer
and ovci twelve gallons of illicit j
liquor.,
Last week m the Poplar Point I
section of Hamilton Township, I
Officer J H. Roebuck and his as-1
sistant, Deputy Roy Peel, captur-]
ed a 50-gallon capacity copper]
kittle and poured out 100 gallons|
of beer.
Going into Jamesville Town-|
ship last Thursday, the same two]
officers wrecked a 50-gallon]
capacity copper still and pourecl|
out 50 gallons of beer.
Accompanied by Special Agents]
Muse llurshaw and Mack Gaskill]
stationed with the Alcoholic Tax|
Unit of the United States Treas
ury Department in Elizabeth CityJ
and by Beaufort County ABC of!
ficers, the two officers raide
along the Martin-Beuufort
dary last Tuesday and wre
two plants and poured out
iJJiieL of L»eti.