4 THE enterprise is read bt OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT1 FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES VULl MliM* ii~1 in n—ss, '‘kmstoiti'M WTh!/'" / lirstlai^ IE90 Stimson Explains Why Atomic Bomb Was Used In War Former Secretary of War Was Man To Make the Recommendation (Quoting further from a mem- i orandum to the President, Mr. Stimson explains what the warn ing he has recommended should contaiif.—Ed.) “This warning should contain tl'.e following elements: 4 “The varied and overwhelming character the force we are about to bring to bear on the is lands. "The inevitability and com pleteness of the destruction which the full application of this force will entail. "The determination of the Al lies to destroy permanently all authority and influence of those . who have deceived and misled the * country into embarking Sn world conquest. “The determination of the Al lies to limit Japanese sovereign ty to her main islands and to ren der them powerless to mount and support another war. “The disavowal of any attempt to extirpate the Japanese as a race or to destroy them as a na tion. “A statement of our readiness, once her economy is purged of its militaristic influence, to permit the Japanese to maintain such in dustries, particularly of a light consumer character, as offer no threat of aggression against their neighbors, but which can produce a sustaining economy, and pro vide a reasonable standard of liv ing. The statement should indi j cate our willingness, for this pur pose, to give Japan trade access to external raw materials, but no longer any control over the sources of supply outside her mam islands. It should also indicate our willingness, in accordance with our now established foreign trade policy in due course to en ♦ tir into mutually advantageous trade relations with her. tiSha liHMdjwfe'.ay,' country as soon as the above ob jectives of the Allies are accom plished, and as soon as there has been established a peacefully in clined government, of a character representative of the masses of the Japanese people. I personal ly think that if in saying this we should add that we do not ex clude a constitutional monarchy under her present dynasty, it Jvould substantially add tu the chances of acceptance. "(6) Success of course will de pend on the potency of the warn ing which we give her. She has an extremely sensitive national pride and, as we are now seeing every day, when actually locked | with the enemy will fight to the ! very death. For that reason the warning must be tendered before the actual invasion has occurred and whlie the impending destruc tion. though clear beyond perad venture, has not yet reduced her to financial despair. If Russia is a part of the threat, the Russian attack, if actual, must not have progressed too far. Our own bombing should be confined to military objectives as far as pos sible.’’ * It is important to emphasize the i: 1... *>'.!, warning. It was designed to pro mise destruction if Japan resisted, and hope, if she surrendered. (Continued on page five) Mayor Proclaims Band Day Here 4 * Friday of this week has been proclaimed band day by Mayor Robert Cowen who is urging all citizens to give the band a helping hand. Mayor Cowen in his proclama tion said, in part: "Recognizing the great worth of a high school band to the com munity and to the-- ~iirasa.vans themselves, 1 hereby designate Friday. September 12, as band day ui Williamstoii, and appeal lo _11 local people to join in the task of raising SI.500 to finance the purchase of uniforms' and equip ment." In conclusion the mayor said, ••In this worthy undertaking let Us go forward to success.’’ I Tobacco Sales Over Two And One-Hall* Million Pound Mark | ROUND-UP | Six persons were arrested and jailed in the county last week-end. the group includ ing a 16-year-old boy. Two of the six persons jailed were white. Two were charged with as saults, two with public drunkenness and two with larceny and receiving. Hunting Seasons In Martin County Listed by Warden -— l.aw fill to Take Kirsl Game, Deer VihI <,)uail. On Oetober 6th Pointing out that there had been comparatively few game law violations in the county. District Game Warden Bill Abbitt this week expressed the hope that i hunters would continue to cooper late in the observance of the regu lations. The hunting season gets j under way in this county on Mon j day, October 6 when it will be lawful to take squirrel and deer. Revu wing the calendar of open !.season date for taking principal j game in this county, Mr. Abbitt I said: The deer season opens October | (i and closes January 1, the dates I being inclusive. Deer may be 1 taken Monday through Saturday I in this county. Pointing out that jit is lawful only to take male | deer (with antlers), the warden i said the bag limit is one per day and two per season. Squir:: is nra-y -k ■ -i-M-fKi::; flScfbwer' tf to Januai^PW^fns I county, the bag limit being eight per day and no limit foi the seas on. Quail and rabbits may be taken beginning November 27 on j through January 31, but only on j Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur : days in this county. It will be law j ful to take eight squirrels, and/or j rabbits on those days, but there is la season limit of 150 on quail and : no season limit on rabbits. The season for bear opens Oc ! tober 15 and runs through Jan uary 1 with a limit of two per day |or 'wo in the season. It is lawful to take opossum j raccoon with dogs and guns from | October 15 to February 15. Hunting for turkeys is permit I ted in this county from November 124 through January 15. The bag ! limit will be one per day and two for the season. Open trapping season for mink, muskrat, opossum and raccoon I runs from December 1 thiough (February 15. but there is no open season on beavers. It will be un lawful to trap within 500 yards of high water during a flood period, and it is unlawful to tend traps between the hours of sunset and Kl'.vr.se . .* The open seasons at a glance: Bear—October 15 thiough Jan uary 1. Deer—October 0 through Jan uary 1. i Opossum and raccoons, with jdogs and guns—October 15 j through February ’5. (Continued on page eight) Big Rain Falls In This Section i _ I Measuring almost ten inches, | heavy rains almost drowned out j Greenville and one or two other ! sections in eastern Carolina last •. Saturday night, doing damage j i running into the thousands of dol j lars. While Greenville reported anj ' all-time record fall, less than two inches of rain fell locally, accord-; | ing to Hugh Spruill gauge keep-1 jer on Roanoke River, i Traffic wra slowed aown, but j not highways in this immediate! section were blocked by rain. Slight Decrease In Price Average Noted Last Week -o Sales Exceeding 300,000 Pounds Daily; Small Block li) Effect Jumping from around 225.000 pounds to well over 300,000 pounds daily, tobacco sales on the local market pushed right on by the two and one-half million pound mark today. Up to and in cluding sales of yesterday, the market had sold 2.200,000 pounds for an average price right at $44 per hundred. A slight decrease in ihe price average was noted the latter part of last week with in creased marketing of tips and much inferior quality leaf. The market here is in a small block at the present time, but sales are going forward after an orderly fashion due to the booking plan, i Reporting on the second week ! of marketing activities, the Unit ed States and North Carolina De partments of Agriculture said yes terday that sale's for the period were irregular in the belt. Practically the same number of ! grades showed gains as losses with I variations ranging up to $4.00 per hundred. The stronger demand was centered on lugs, primings, and cutters which constituted the i larger part of the sales. The ma jority of these grades were $1.00 to $3.00 higher. On the other hand, leaf and smoking leaf grades were lower. The declines 1 were from 50c to $4.00, but most were between $1.00 and $3.00. The largest changes occurred for prim ings and lower quality offerings. A few orange lugs and better leaf Gross sales for the four days making up the week amounted to j 34.222,942 pounds and averaged $42.71. This average was 63c be | low last week and the volume around 13 million pounds greater. | The large difference m volume is I partially due to the increase of I sales time from four hours a day .to five hours beginning'Thursday, September 4. However, farmers I are generally through harvesting : their crops and now arc preparing i it for market with the result that I blocker, sale,-; prevailed at the end | of the week. Season sales through j September 5 totaled 55.876,673 I pounds at an average of $42.97 per I hundred. Last year for the same j number of sales days around 30 million pounds more had been sold for an average of $51.87. The quality of this week's sales was comparatively the same as last week. More primings, better cutters, and leaf was sold and less lower lug grades and nondescript. Bulk of sales consisted of low to fine lugs, low and fair cutters, and j common to good leaf, j Deliveries to the Flue-cured [Stabilization Corporation for the week were estimated at 14.4 per j cent of sales. This was approxi ■ inaiely 4 percent less thunrc^W!^ 1 ed last week. The letup can .be ac counted for by higher prices for lugs and cutters, and the increas ed percentage of leaf offered. Grades to average below the Com j modity Credit Corporation ad | vance levels continued to be top | cutters and lugs and lower green ! lugs' and primings. Other mark I etings continued to sell fairly well (Continued on page eight) -Q Teachers Elect County Officers In their county-wide meeting last week, school teacher': elected officers oi the Martin County unit of the North Carolina Education Association. Principal C. B. Martin of Hubei - sonville is the new president, and Mrs. Evelyn H. Manning of Wil liamston was elected vice presi dent. Other officers are, Mrs. Ef fie B. Holliday of Jamesville, sec retary, and Mrs. Sara E. Cherry of Hamilton, treasurer. Jaycees Seeking Removal Of Ban On Dances in Gym Committor Named To Dis cuss Matter With School Board Members Here The Williamston Junior Cham-1 ber of Commerce will seek to get j the ban on dances at the local gymn removed. The bi-monthly dinner meeting ! of t he organization was held last | Friday night in the local Woman's (Club with Charles Manning lead ing the group in singing America. Invocation was by Edgar Gurgan- j us. Everything went along very smoothly until after the meal, then the business session opened with a "bang." After swearing in two new members. "Cap” York and Jack Butler, Jaycee Paul Simpson took the floor to oppose .the action recently taken by the School Board in closing the High School Gymnasium to dances and other civic gatherings. Simpson pointed out that the Jaycees and other civic clubs had been very instrumental, finan cially and otherwise, in the pro motion of the high school athletic association and tile high school band; that the funds raised by the civic groups were the result of dances and other programs car ried on in the gymnasium from which these groups have been barred. Jaycee Ernest Mears quickly followed Mr. Simpson to show that it was tlie desire of the civic clubs to assist the school board in every way possible to maintain an adequate gymnasium for school athletic;*, pointing out that through dances money could be raised to pay for the upkeep and improvement of the gym. Neil Ripley then arose and ex pressed the opinion that the school board had been a little hasty in its decision and had not given due consideration to all sides of the question. He further stated that the board had acted m c: aak sented to them, but that the main facts were not presented as they I should have been. It was then suggested that Jack Butler, newly sworn member of the club, and his guest High School Athletic Director Stuart Maynard, be asked to express their opinion, both being mem bers’of the high school faculty. Butler said he did not wish to I "condone or condemn either the action taken by the school board or the Junior Chamber of Com merce, but merely to express my personal opinion in the matter.” He went on to say that in the past the gymnasium has not been a fit place for athletics, and that some action must be taken to assure Coach Maynard that proper fa cilities will be at his disposal for his training program. He then asked Mr. Maynard to say a few words. "I am new to this town and this town is new to me,” Maynard re marked, “but I have been employ ed to direct a training course in athletics and that I intend to do.” He added that being a new mem ber of the faculty here he had to be careful where he placed his right foot, just as any teacher in (Continued on page eight) -o Ask Dissolution ! Of Tobacco Finn i Court action, seeking the disso lution of the Roanoke Tobacco Warehouse Corporation, was started by minority stockholders here last week-end. The com plaint. wis filed in the name of Calvin Ayers, A. P. Barnhill and H. T. Roberson and asks that a re ceiver be appointed by the court “for the purpose of winding up the affairs of the corporation.” j Eldrr It. S. Coil-in (jit iit‘ HI At Homr -n Ill declining health following a stroke suffered several weeks ago, , Elder B. S. Cowin was reported 'yesterday to be quite ill at his | home in Bear Grass. His blood pressure count went up consider ably last week-end and pneu monia was ieporltd to have de veloped yesterday. Nineteen Divorce Cases Are Placed On Trial Calendar —*— Two Plaintiffs, Alleging Bigamy, Asking Bonds Be Annnled Nineteen divorce cases have been placed on the calendar for trial in the Martin County Sup erior Court during the two-week term opening September 15 The first two days of the term have been set aside for criminal action, and all of the third day is to be devoted to the blasting of matri monial bonds, according to a cal endar schedule recently prepared by the Martin County Bar Asso ciation. While most of the divorce cases are based on grounds of two-year i separations, two plaintiffs allege adultery and two others main tain that their marriages were bi gamous and are asking that they be nnnuled. Bonnie E .Bland m his case against Alease Moore Bland bases his divorce claim on two different grounds. They were married on | December 8. 1942 and separated the following day, according to the complaint. Declaring that they had lived separate and apart since that time, the plaintiff fur ther alleges that the defendant during the summer of 1944 com mitted adultery. The defendant, living in Fayetteville, denies the allegations and is expected to con test the action. Married on March (i, i944, and separated on June 1, 1944, Luther C. Modlin is suing Mary Modlin for a divorce on two year separa tion grounds. In the case of Emmitt Thomas against Ethel Thomas of Alabama, the plaintiff says they were mar ried in October, 1938, that they separated in June, 1944, and that two children, born to the union, live with the defendant hut are supported by the plaintiff. Con testing the action, the defendant says she was abandoned by the plaintiff while she was with child, and that he^g^iot offered.^yiv^ suppoi l bn Her or tin 'flut e chil dren. Basing his action on two-year sep aration, Beautie Andrews is suing Mattie Lee Andrews for a di vorce, pointing out that they were married January 1, 1940, and that they separated in June, 1944. The complaint also alleges that the de fendant left for Philadelphia, de claring she was never going to live with the plaintiff again. The diverts, action of Mary Brown Gray against Felton Gray is based on two-year separation grounds, the complaint saying tney were married in December, 1938, and that they separated in September, 1942. Claiming separation of two years or more, J. E. Strawbridge is suing Benita Strawbridge for a divorce. The complaint alleges that they were married in Bertie County October 22 1938. and that they were separated in July, 1944, (Continued on page six) -— o Three In jured In Early Car Wreck J Thrtjr*,wf>v; in J jui t'd, one badly, when their car went out of control on the Roan oke River detour bridge and plunged about fifteen feet into the swamp this morning at 2:45 o’clock. Daniel A. Massagli suffered shock and a bad cut on his left arm. B. C. Shipman, owner of the 1940 Ford sedan, was pinned between the top of o>\e of the folding seats and the smashed-in top and is believed to have suffer i ed serious chest injuries. He was treated along with Massagli in the local hospital. Kenneth G. Johnson, driver, was bruised and suffered shock but did not require hospital treat ment. Shipman , us held in the car for quite awhile 01 uni 11 no ip eouirt be summoned to turn the car over on its side and free him. Placed on a stretcher he was lifted out of the swamp by an automobile wrecker and carried to the hos pital in a Biggs ambulance. The three young men were traveling south and were lo have iieported to their station at Camp I Lejeune early this morning. Band Uniform Drive! Is Gathering Speed Town Respondin To Plea For More Complete Outfits ■ ■ ♦ . ■ ■ Voting Musicians To Make Personal Bid For Help On Streets Friday rrq Although plans for a high school I band for Williamston have been in existence here for a dozen years the chances of success are the greatest today they have ever been. Two of the major obstacles to a first class high school band are | rapidly being overcome. A drive to raise $1500 for additional uni forms for a 48-piece band is due to end with observance of Band Day next Friday, September 12. With this obstacle out of the way, j Professor Jack Butler, already | busy with shaping up his person nel and holding rehearsals, can be depended upon to overcome the obstacle of training and directing the young musicians. Almost before word had gone out that $1500 was needed as a band uniform fund, the Williams ton firemen donated $100 to the campaign and in the next regular meetings of the Lions and Kiwanis clubs the two civic organizations voted $100 a piece for the fund, a total of $300 before the canvass ing for the drive had gotten und erway. The progress of the drive which is moving ahead of the original schedule is being indicated on a “thermomett r'’ in front of The Enterprise office where donations are being reported by the canvass ers and the red "temperature” in dicator is moved up as the money comes in. There is an ample sup ply of the red paint and the ca pacity of the “thermometer" is unlimited, a memh^^h The ,Kn_. teiprise staff who is handling the thermometer said yesterday. While original plans called for canvassing Thursday and Friday, some of the canvassers completed their work within hours of receiv ing their assignments and it was felt that an indication of the pro gress being made might as well be shown at once instead of waiting for Friday to come around. Full details of Friday’s program will appear in the issue ot the En terprise which will go on the streets Thursday afternoon. Struggling along with part-time instruction and various degrees of interest by students, the band was off to a good start when it got its first full-time director Professor Butler, in October, 1940. By the fall of 1941 he had a band ready to march in Duke Stadium at a football game and other appear ances were made in 1942, at Ral eigh and in Washington. During that time the band appeared in support of various local civic ef forts. The advent of World War 11 cast a shadow over band activities and it was dealt a stunning blow in June of 1942 when Director Butler answered the cull to the colors and cnteied the Navy. - Although hopes were held that the close of hostilities would re sult in his early return to Wil liamston and his band work, Pro lessor Butler was unable to get i back to Martin County until late March of this year. He immediate (Continued on page six) -o Large Enrollment In Local Schools Williamston's white schools en rolled 898 pupils last Thursday or 45 more than the number starting the 1948-47 term. Elementary school enrollment jumped from 897 to 5 while* the high school 1 registration was increased from 158 to 163. Opening-day enrollment figures for other schools are listed below with the elementary total first and the high school second: Oak City, 213 and 117, Jamesville, 336 and 96; Farm Life, 135 and 58; Bear Glass, 339 and 64. No reports could be had from j the other tehoola. TO SPEAK HERE N-' Senator YV. B. Rodman, re presenting the North Carolina Medical Care Commission, will adrcss a meeting of civic leaders and other interested citizens in the Woman’s Club building here on Thursday evening. September 25, it was announced today by Mr. W. B. Gaylord of the Lions Club. Mr. Rodman, coming here on the invitation of the Lions Club, will discuss the commis sion's hospital plans, Mr. Gay lord said. I ! I I Former County •/ Resident Dies W. E. Ambrose, former resident of this county, died in Eastern North Carolina Sanatorium in Wilson last Thursday morning at 8:30 o’clock after several years of declining health. Mr. Ambrose was born in Wash ington County 39 years ago, but spent most of his early life in i Beaufort. He lived in this coun ty eight or ten years before mov ing to Falkland and later to Eden- ! ton. Funeral services were conduct ed last Saturday afternoon near Yeatesville by Elder A. B. Ayers, and burial followed there. Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Sudie Lewis of Edge 1 combe County; and four sons, Wil liam, Robert, Gene, and Earl Am brose, all of the home. Seven daughters, Emma, Margaret, Jan ice, Shelbio, Peggy and Ruth Am- ! brose of the home, and Mrs. Eula Mae Gray of Edenton; his mother. Mrs. Larcic Wynn of the home; four brothers, Cpl. Henry Wynn, U. S, Army, stationed at Fort Oix, N, J„ and Ellis W.vnn. of Colurn -isr.v; C., at -' ric Brabble of Edenton, Mrs, Mar- | shall Savage and Mis, Howard Williams of Williamston. Mrs. Stevenson Dies In Hospital Mis. J T. Stevenson, 4(5. died in a Washington hospital Saturday morning at 6 o’clock following an operation. She had been ill for j about four weeks and entered the j hospital ten days ago. Making her home near Wil liamston, just off the Hamilton highway, for the past several years, Mrs. Stevenson was a na tive of Jamesville. The daughter of the Simon and Hattie Moore Haislip, she was born February 22, 1901. After her marriage she lived in Hamilton for a number of years before moving to Williamston and was a member of the Hamilton Baptist Church. Funeral services were conduct ed from the home at 4:39 Sunday afternoon by Rev. Ira D. Knight, pastor of th.e Memorial Baptist church here and interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery. •^5-;.. i.s.i.g.sev en children, Mildred, Francis, David, Lenda, Stephen and Simon T Stevenson and Mrs. Johnny Wynn, all of Williamston and a half-sister, Mis. Nancy Pritchard. New Cancer Test Tried By Experts St. Louis.—A blood test for early detection of cancer, which has shown strikingly quick and accurate results in animals, was reported by Dr. Louis Herly of the Dept, of Cancer Research, Columbia University, who demon strated the test in exhibits at the Fourth jn ter national Canrfu;.J?.s* sourch Congress. lie examines blood under ultra violet light. Normal blood shines brightly, or fluoresces, and ap pears turbid or murky under the black light. Hut blood of animals with cancer does not show any fluorescene or murkiness. Some substance in the blood which fluoresces apparently is taken out of the blood when can cer begins to grow, Dr. Herly said. Dedicate Room To Memory of Sidney j J Porter — 0. Henry ' ' <9t> . Gm-nsliot’o Observing An niversary of Great Writ er-Author’s Birth The Greensboro Historical So ciety on Thursday of this week is celebrating the 85th anniversary of O. Henry's (William Sidney Porter) birth with the opening and dedication of a Memorial Room in the Gate City's civic cen ter. This memorial has been the special project for several years of the Greensboro Historical Mu seum Society. The Society has assembled and arranged for per manent display a rare collection of O. Henryana, including original manuscripts, letters, documents, and first editions of his works. It has also re-created as part of the memorial, in the atmosphere of the 188U's, a section of one of the city's historic institutions, the old “Dr. Porter’s Drug Store.’’ Porter was the son of a small town physician. His mother died when he was very young and his only conventional literary educa tion was gained in the private school of his aunt. Miss Lina Por ter. He stopped school at the age of fourteen to enter his Uncle Clark Porter’s drug store for training as a pharmacist. Al though he was licensed later, he had to abandon the druggist's ca reer at an early age because of ill health. lie went to Texas then and for two years lived on the ranch of an old ex-Greensboro friend, “Red’ Hall, a famed Texas ranger. Re covering his health, he moved to Austin and in 1887 became a draftsman in the Texas Land Of fice. That same year he married | 17 year-old Athol Estes, of Aus j tin. A daughter and only child, (Margaret Worth Porter, was horn in ! 88ft. About t!u-, time he be came teller in the First National Bank of Austin, a po t which he held feu four years. He then be tonio Daily Express for a short time, transferring his talents to the Houston Daily Post in 1895. Shortly afterwards he was sum moned to Austin to answer em bezzlement charges that grew out of his bank connection there. The charges were never substantiated, but circumstances played against him and he was later convicted. He had set out for Austin to an swer the summons in July.1896, but the sense of impending hu miliation caused him to flee for sanctuary, first to New Orleans and later by tramp steamer to Central and South America. Corresponding with his young wife through a friend, he learned in February, 1897, that she was ill. He returned promptly to her bedside and remained with her until her death in July. The fol lowing February be was tried and found guilty of the charges against him and served a prison term of three years and three months, long sinco publicly admitted to have been a gross mist (carriage of justice against an in nocent man. In prison, his early training as a • I druggist served him well. He was given a post in the prison pharm acy and there, with time on fils' (Continued on page five) Two Minor Vulo Wrecks Reported No one was hurt and very little property damage resulted in two minor auto accidents on local streets last week. Driving a 1940 Chevrolet sedan into town last Wednesday after noon, Steve Stephenson struck the rear of Chas Felton Keel's Plym outh just as KeeJ started to make a left turn on West Main Street, doing about $65 damage to his car MS A or bou t $3 5-{•' >• «e1 ’* s s; g to VrV C;S“K:“ Moore. Last Friday noon, Simon Lee Short of O :k City started to pull out from a main street parking place and drove his ear into one driven by Harriett Ann Benoit of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Damage, I# amounting to less than $20 on both cat's, wtis accepted by Short.. Officer Moore said follow ing an iuve-ligatioii. A JT