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£ the enterprise is read be W OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3,000 MARTIN COCNTl FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEES 'OGSKW > • flfjWT \' -•W Mti'Ji •> • ••'" ■it «>**»* * ■ •■•■■*> '..•v. EST\Rfc35HLl> 1899 Stimson Explains Why Atomic Bomhj *Was Used In War -—— Former Secretary of War Was Man To Make the Recommendation .■» (Having discussed the surrend er of Japan which he believes was ' brought about by the use of the 1 ! two atomic bombs, Mr. Stimson now reveals that the supply of bombs had been exhausted and at tacks on Japan would have had| i to revert to fire raids for a time. | Aether factors are also discussed in ; the next article.—Ed.) The atomic bombs which we \ had dropped were the only ones we had ready, and our rate of production at the time was very small. Had the war <A>ntinued un til the projected invat ion on Nov ember 1. additional fire raids of B-29s would have been more de structive of life and property than ^l)ie very limited number of atomic | raids which we could have exe- i cuted in the same period. But the ' atomic bomb was more than a ■ weapon of terrible destruction; it j was a psychological weapon. In March 1945. our Air Force iiad launched its first great incendiary raid on the Tokyo area. In this ra. J more damage was done and more casualties were inflicted than was the case at Hiroshima. Hundreds of bombers took part and hundreds of tons of incen diaries were dropped. Similar successive raids burned out a great part of the urban area of Japan, but the Japanese fought on. On August (j, one B-29 drop ped a single atomic bomb on Hiro shima. Three days later a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and the war was over. So far as the Japanese could know, our ability to execute atomic attacks, if necessary by many planes at a time, was unlimited. As Dr. Karl Compton has said. "It was not one atomic bomb, nr two, which brought surrender: it was the ex perience of what an atomic bomb m will actually do to a community, plus the dread of many more, that was, effective.” The bomb thus served exactly the purpose we intended. 'Die peace party was able to take the path of surrender, and the whole weight of the Emperor’s prastige was exerted in favor of peace. When the Emperor ordered sur render, and the small but danger ou.- group of fanatics who opposed ' him were brought under control, ] the Japanese became so subdued that the great undertaking of oc cupation and disarmament was ■ completed with unprecedented ease. In the foregoing pages. 1 have (Continued on page six) --» Mrs. J. Gray Peel Passes In County Mrs. John dray Peel died at her home in Griffins Township near the Beaufort County boundary last Sunday afternoon at 5:15 o'clock. She had been in declin ing health for several years and her condition had been critical for some time. The daughter of Mrs. Ida Jor dan Waters of Pinetown and the • late Robert A. Waters, she was born in the Pinetown section of Beaufort County .'59 years ago. but had spent most of her life in Mar tin. She was a faithful member of the church at Macedonia for a number of years and was held in high esteem bv all who knew her. Surviving are her husband; five sons, John M. and Ed Peele of Washington. Robert and W. B. Peele of Washington, Route 3, Herbert Peele of Newport News, ^ Va.; 11 grandchildren; her moth W er, Ida Jordan Waters of Pine town; three brothers, Harvey Waters of Pinetown, Route 1. R. P. Waters of Norfolk and Hcber Waters of Newport News; two sis -.-ters. Mrs-.- De-s-w-i-N. Wools; d <-A vVaslungiuin Route Mis. Herman Cutler cf Washington, Route 2 Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3 I o'clock from the Macedonia Chris ’ i tion Church, conducted by the Rev. Edgar H. Harding, a former pastor of Norfolk, and the Rev. Dar.nis Warren Davis. Burial will be in the Tice family cemetery. Sons and a. nephew will serve as paiibeai eus. I I Hog Thieves On Rampage In The County Last Week Idle for about two weeks, hog thieves went on a rampage in this county again last week, the shei iff's office reporting two crude visits to the Claude Keel and Woolard farms in the Roberson ville area. After working on the latest theft from early morning until late last Thursday, officers stated they had been unable to establish the first lead in the flash thefts plaguing farmers’ swine herds in the county for about three months. A complete record is not immediately available but eight or ten thefts costing farmers at least eighteen or twenty fine pigs have been reported. And there is a possibility that other pastures were visited without the knowl edge of the owners. Most of the thefts were centered between Ev eretts and Williamston at first, but more recently the thieves have operated in the Roberson ville area, always bolriing to the hardsurface routes. Employing sneaking and crude tactics, the thieves corner hogs with corn, possibly stolen corn, at that, and then knock them in the head with an axe, stick them on the spot and load them on a cruis ing automobile, leaving bloou spots but no automobile tracks. The thieves apparently used bush axes at first,' leaving several ani mals badly cut on their heads and backs. On Monday night of last week, the thieves stole three hogs from Farmer Claude Keel between Everetts and Robersonville, the take including a 100-pound regis tered Poland-China bought just a short time •before by Mr. Keel's son. Last Wednesday night they raided the Woolard farm near Gold Point and carried away two pigs weighing about 100 pounds 1 each. Tobacco Sales Over Three And One-Half Million-Pound Mark ! POSTPONED || >,j The opening of Martin County Superior Court for a two-week term was postpon ed this week until next Mon day on account of the illness of Judge Clawson Williams, the jurist scheduled to pre side. It is not certain that Judge Williams will be able to hold the court next week, but in the event he isn’t able to report, the governor is ex pected to assign a special judge to the court. The county bar association plans to start at the first of the docket and continue right on through with the possibil ity that work first scheduled for two weeks can be handled in one. Two Badly Injured In Auto Accident. Sunday Afternoon ■—*— Dr. \\ . F. Foppape Fhoapoil 11 nil ii rt lu Arridenl Fast Tltmxinv Three persons were injured, two seriously in an automobile accident between Oak City and Hobgo-d last Sunday afternoon '3!$f•£ : W. F. A’^jpage escaped unhurt when his car was in a wreck with a highway dump truck near Everetts last Thursday aft ernoon. Russell Williams, young colored man home on leave from the Navy, was reported to have suf fered a skull fracture and other injuries, when the 1939 Pontiac he was driving went out of control on a curve between Oak City and Hobgood at 2:45 o’clock last Sun day afternoon and turned over several times. Calvin C. Davis, a passenger in the car, was report ed to have suffered a broken arm and a leg fracture. Herbert Cot ten. another passenger, suffered a head injury, cut on his arm and a sprained ankle. The victims were removed to a Tarboro hospital for treatment. Cotten was able to leave the hospital that afternoon but no late reports on the condi tion of the other two victims could be had here immediately. Driving in the direction of Hob good, Williams apparently was running too fast and "hugging” the inside of a curve when he met another eai Tuti tnc ■j,*. he H;rt control of His machine which plowed down the shoulder, coming to a stop 150 feet away in the middle of Warren Jones' hog pen after turning over several times. Damage to the car was estimated at $300 bv Office Edmond Early and Patrolman W. E. Saunders who made the investigation. Dr. W. F. Coppage escaped un (Con tinned on page eight) Inferior Tobacco Being Offered In Large Quantities —•— Market Working Out Of A Small Block Here This Afternoon -9 Handling its largest sale 323.728 pounds of tla' season last Friday, the local tobacco market set the .stugi to go over the three and one half-million mark yesterday and push on in the definite direction of four million pounds today. While-prices, grade for g't'V'ie. continue to hold to about the same level reached earlier in the season, the delivery of inferior tobacco in large quantities is af fecting the daily price average. Averages have been ranging downward to the low forties, but the price figure on the local mar ket for the season through last Friday held to a strong $43 per hundred pounds. The market this afternoon is working out of a small block. A report on the activities in the belt, as a whole, follows: The third week of sales on the Eastern North Carolina flue-cur ed tobacco markets was highlight ed by heavy volume but lower quality and fairly steady prices. The United States and North Car ol i n a ^Jicga^Unents^W^msUtu 1 e report gross sales amounted to 50,708.610 pounds and averaged $40.47 per hundred. This average was $2.23 below that of the pre vious week because of the lower quality of the offerings. Gross sales for the season totaled 106, 782.601 pounds at an average of $41.78. The general average is running around $9.75 under the comparable period last year. Prices for the majority of bet ter grades were steady to strong er than the previous week. How ever, most lower grades of leaf and nonedescript showed declines. Except for the higher trend in green leaf and primings, all changes could be considered as normal market fluctuations. Vari ations stood .in most cases around $1.00 and $2.00 per hundred. The volume on the grades in which gains occurred outweighed by a large majority those which suffer ed losses. Thus, as a whole the market was higher bused on aver age prices by grades. A few bas kets of better leaf and cutters were observed selling at $60.00 but the practical top remained at .1|1 i.-< tYuf: U U/.;. . Z: :. The general quality was Below that of week -efore last. A much larger percentage of leaf was mar keted wdth the increases chiefly in common and low qualities. Also, more nondescript was sold. Less better grades appeared With the letup principally in lugs. Most sales consisted of common to good leaf, fair to fine lugs, low and fair (Continued on page eight) Town Vuthorities Find Themselves Up A Blind Alley And No Convenient Way to Get Out Is To Be Had Easily While heavy traffic has congest ed the main streets, egress and in gress to the town’s backlots on the north side of Main Street offer an even great problem, the com missioners all but confessing at a special meeting of the board last evening that they were just abj/ut lost up a ten-foot blind alley. And there is no immediate or con venient .way to solve the problem, the commissioners adjourning un til a later date when they'll strug gle with means of egress and in gress. Fearful of losing title to twelve feet of land on the main street be tween his store and the Guaranty Bank, Samuel Zemon poled it off a few days ago. His right was not questioned and Zemon’s attorney agreed that the owner would al low the property to be used by the public moving into and out of the backlots if the town board would place in its minutes recog nition of his ownership and point out that it was being used at his pleasure to relieve temporarily a congested situation. The town ac cepted the offer and ordered the police department to clear the al ley and keep it opened in its en i tirety. It was admitted, however, that the removal of the posts would of fer only temporary relief, the board pointing out that some plan needs to be worked out whereby all property owners can be served either by mutual agreement, or, if need be. by condemnation. Sam Woolford, district manager of the VHP Co., explained that his company's heavy mobile equip ment could be easily blocked, that they were imposing on the pro perty ol others. "The property owners have been very consider ate in permitting us to travel over their holdings, but we don’t know how long that will be convenient, and we would like to know if some other arrangements could be made,” Mr. Woolford explained, adding that unless they had a pro per outlet they would have to look for another location here or else where. Several property owners attend ed the meeting, but no definite solution was advanced. Engineers and lawyers are to be consulted between now and the next meet ing and it is hoped that an amica ble solution to the problem can be found. Most of the evening was spent on the alley problem, but the board did find time to grant a li cense to M. K. Bennett to sell beer in a small building across tne street from the Carver theater on Washington Street. Engineer Henry Rivers is being .Ki.'i I'ffV.'WBs a ••>... T«r Plan,” looking toward the expan sion of water and sewer lines principally. A special meeting will likely be held the early part of nexl week to discuss the plan. Applications for water and sew er connections were received and will be placed as soon as material is available. A street light was ordered installed on the corner of Park Street and the Lane. Azor Lee Moye Dies In County ——*— Azor Lee Moye, 55, died at his home in Oak City, Friday night at 7 o'clock, after having suffered a stroke the day before. Funeral services were conducted at the home in Oak City at 3:30 o’clock Sunday by the Rev. E. D. Thomas. : pastor of the Oak City Christian | Church, and burial followed in the Oak City cemetery. Mr. Moye went to Oak City in 1921 and he had a garage business there until 1934. He moved to j Lewiston where he was in-the gar- j agv business until 1944, at which I time he returned and opened his business in Oak City. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hattie Everett Moye, two daugh ters, Mrs. L. L. Harrell and Mrs, W. W. Tyson both of Oak City, three sisters, Mrs. R. M. Goolsby jof Madison, N. C., Mrs. Paul Rawls of Newport News, Vu.. and Mrs. Thermon. Moore of Palmyra, and two grandchildren. TrouMe Flares Up Again On Local Labor-Front This Wi ck; Skinner Plant Will Negotiate Work Is Stopped I At Williamston | Lumber Company ! Kmplovt's Defy Picket Line ' And (»ot To Work at the 1 Fertilizer Plant 1 -->•>- 1 Mai king time since the closing j of the Williamston Package Man ufacturing Company by a work stoppage live weeks ago today, ] trouble on the local labor front | flared up again yesterday when a , majority of workers refused to cross picket lines at the W. I. Skin- , ner Tobacco Company plant and j the Williamston Lumber Company mill. Workers, forming a season- , al force of about forty men, walked peacefully through picket • lines to report for duty at the | plant of the Standard Fertilizer , Company where there is some doubt as to which union holds a preponderance of membership. Indirect reports declare that the CIO has a majority of workers while representatives of John L. Lewis's District 50 maintain they \ have a majority ot the employes i signed. Although only about one-third of its workers reported yesterday, the Williamston Lumber Company maintained operations yesterday in its planing mil! and in the grading room. Today, the com pany’s truck were sent out for logs, indicating that resumption of normal activities is planned. Union strategy, mapped for the next few days, could not be learn ed. hut the notion paralyzing most of the town's industry yesterday morning followed a “church” meeting held last Friday evening.,1 Several labor recruits were | brought in for the "big deal'1 ves-!1 terday, but picketing was limited | to a lone person at one plant and ] to just a( few at the others.' E rything was quiet and peace- ! ful, police declaring that there j were no overt acts, and that, as | far as they could learn, no threats ! were made. It was reported that one of the 1 pickets explained to a man report ing for work that the plant was 1 not running that day and that if | he (the picket) were the worker j: he would not report for work. I After discussing the possibility I* of recognizing District 50 at a con ference some time ago, officials 11 of the W. 1. Skinner Company yes- | terday morning agreed to recog nize the union, United Mine . Workers of America, A. K. of L., 1 as the collective bargaining | ■ . . TOumwvaal. ees at the plant here and to ne gotiate to; a contract covering wages, hours and working condi tions. Negotiations for a contract necessarily will be delayed sev eral days or until the return of one of the firm partners from a business trip to New York. Mr. J. E. King, president of the company who has been recogniz ed as a square shooter in dealing fairly with workers and others, stated yesterday, "We were ab solutely convinced that the ma jority of our employees were members of the union (District 50, United Mine Workers of Ameri ca), and for this reason we have agreed to begin to bargain with the union. We feel that we will be able to negotiate a contract which is fair to all, and for that (Continued on page six) ROUND-UP Vs Twelve persons, two while and ten colored, were round ed up and placed in the coun ty jail here last various infractions of the law. Five were charged with public drunkenness, three with assaults of varying de grees, one each with issuing a worthless check and carry ing a concealed weapon. The twelfth persons detained was wanted on a previous charge. Ages of the group ranged from ltr to 51 years. Permit Issued For $75,000 Theater to Dr. V.E. Brown -- A permit was issued by Build ng Inspector G. P. Hall here yes erday to Dr. V. E. Brown for the onstruction of a modern theater. Estimated to cost $75,000, aocord ng to figures listed in the per- i nit, the new theater is to be lo ated on the site where the old farmers and Merchants Bank milding is now being turned iway. A contract for the construction vork was let to V. P. Loftis, Char otte contractor, a few days ago, md Mr. Fletcher Sanders was as igned to the project. Work on demolishing the old ■'aimers and Merchants Bank milding was started yesterday norning by a small wrecking crew. The building will be clear ed away to the ground and re placed by a modern structure 120 feet lung and 28 5 feet wide Few details about the project could be learned immediately, but acording to a hurried study of the blue prints the front will be of block glass and there'll be a large balcony. Tentative plans call for the completion of the structure in about five months. Construction Engineer Sanders stated that the structure will be modern in every detail and that it i will be an unusually fine one. Three theater, two for' while I and colored patrons, and one for colored only, are now operating here. Prominent Business Man Dies In County Funeral Held In Everetts Sunday For J. S. Ayers ..♦ NiiiiiIm'iviI Aiiioii" County's l.ciiilinj' ( iti/.rns And Auriciiltnrisls ' — —♦ James S. Ayers. Sr., a leading ■ounty citizen and a prominent nerchant and farmer, died sud- j ieiiiv at ids home in Evcrells las! ! Miday evening at 8:40 o'clock. Mthough he had not experienced he best of health for several I /ears, Mr. Ayers appeared as well is usual most of last Friday, visil ng his several farms and greeting iis friends after his cheerful and riendly manner. Following the evening meal he visited a neigh bor and returned home, explain ng to his wile that he could hard y get his breath. Medical aid was iumrnoned but it reached him too ate, death coming a.; a result of i i heart attack. The son of the late John and Jourtney Rogers Ayers, he was join 04 years ago on May 28, 888, in Cross Roads Township. \fter spending his early life on he farm he located in Williams on where he was in the employ <f C n 1 ■'-T n' 'll1 Com jany, gaining the fundamentals if the mercantile business during i period of several years. Return tig to his old home community, ie was employed by the late J. S. -’eel and Hit' firm of Bailey and Barnhill in Everetts until about 917 when he formed a partner hip with the late Chas. Peel, a nercantile business he operated jntil his death. In addition to Ins nercantile 'firm, he operated a lumber of farms, and was reeog lized as a progressive agricuHur st, introducing new farming nethods and keeping abreast of he times. Mr. Ayers served his adopted own as mayor for several terms md was a member of its board or years. He was a member of he Everetts Baptist Church for a ong time, serving it faithfully as i deacon for twenty years. Mis Avers was highly regarded is a citizen and business man, liv ng an ideal life in friendliness md at peace with his feilowman. fe was liberal in his views and icted willingly in behalf of the ess fortuhau'. ‘giving of "his ttfne n the support of -cliools and ai; j liber worthy undertakings in his | ionic town and county. While he lever aspired to public office, he vas a leader and supporter of the lemocratic party, and ho was a nllar in his church. In his home he was a devoted lusband and a thoughtful and un- | iei standing father. His walk j (Continued on page seven) j CU B MKETING V _ J The local Woman’s Club will hold its first meeting of the fall season this evening at 8:00 o'clock in the cluh hall, it has been announced by Mrs. i Wheeler Martin, Jr., the or ganization's t ew president. Plans will be discussed for entertaining the fifteenth dis trict meeting of Women's Clubs here on October 1. Fol lowing the business session a social hour "will be enjbyeii with members of the local school faculty as special guests. Base Prices For Peanuts $26 Ton Higher This Year —•— N«*w No!hm!u!<‘ I* im's Prim At 9.8(!<*iil« for 05 IVr mnl Sound kernt'ls Support prices lor the 11147 pea nut crop have been increased $2(5 a ton, according to unofficial but reliable reports received here a ] few days ago. price jfo^^hlL 1947 Virginia type peanuts is $196.00 per ton for peanuts grad ing 65 percent sound mature ker- 1 nels. Additions of $3.00 per ton will be made for each one percent I of sound mature kernels in ex- J cess of 65 percent, and deductions of $3.00 per ton will be made for eacn one percent or fractional part thereof below 65 percent sound matu.e kernels. The base grade price for the ! 1946 crop of peanuts wa.-, $170 per j ton for peanuts grading 65 percent sound mature kernels. Additions j of $2.60 per ton were made for ; each one percent of sound mature j kernels in excess of 65 percent, and deductions of $2.60 per ton were made for each one percent or j fractional part thereof below 65 , percent sound mature kernels. j The premiums for extra large Virginia shelled kernels of the 1947 crop arc the same as those paid for the 1946 crop that is: 30c per ton for each full one per cent of Extra Large kernels. The (Continued on page seven) .... -» I,oral Priori pal Made t on frrrnrr Sr.rrr.Uiry -* IS. (J. Stewart, principal of the local schools, was elected execu tive secretary and treasurer of the Albemarle High School Athletic Conference in a meeting in Wind sor last Thursday night. Eight schools ma. e up ^iio con ference and Williamston and Kob ersonville schools in this county are ailiiiuted with the association. Drive ForFimrt* To Buy Uniforms Vi (‘II Over Quota —'f— Campaign Our of Most Sue I't'ssful of Kind Ever Attempted Here One of the most successful cam aaigns of its kind ever attempted lore, the Band Uniform Fund Drive had topped the $2100.00 mark Monday night and was still climbing. The goal had been set at $.1500.00 although the actual need was somewhat greater. The date for closing the drive had been set as September 12 at a meeting held August 22, giving the campaign three weeks to get or ganized and carried through. The enthusiastic support it received from the beginning made its suc cess a certainty but when the op timistic person who prepared the thermometer upon which the pro gress of the drive was to be re corded put the $2,000 mark on the board, he did not go far enough. The thermometer exploded at the top. One of the biggest factors in the drive was the voluntary contribu tions of persons not even listed as prospective donors and the fine way in which practically all the business places in town came through with the suggested fig ures given them. A few, a very few, were unwilling to give any thing at all, but the difference was made up by others who increased the suggested amount of their do nations and by persons who said they wanted to help. The sale of tugs, one of the feat ures of the campaign which caus ed considerable discussion when plans were being made, turned out very well. The Beta Club of the high school sold $170.17 worth of the squares, the drum major ettes and two band parents added $21.4(1 to this for a total of $260.55 from the tags. Chaairman vJohn 1.. (loll admit ted to hoping that $2,000 would be raised In the drive hut added his pleasant surprise at finding tiie toliii po-^^y. .. Me expressed great apprecia tion of the fine work done by the various canvassers in making the calls on their list and in turning in such a high percentage of suc cessful contacts. Credit for their work will be given them as soon as a complete audit of the return cards and slips can be made. Mr. Goff called attention to two (Continued on page six) (i<*l rnj)(‘i> ror Return Of Man prepared today by Sheriff C. B. Roebuck and Solicitor George Fountain for the return of Roland C. Cherry, young while man, fr.cn ed with non support and reports state that he is fighting extradi tion. Arrested in the Florida city last week, Cherry was reported to have arranged bond in the sum of $500. it could not be learned how long it will take to clear the extradi tion papers, but officers plan to return him to his county for trial just as soon as the extradition details arc handled. W. J. Spencer, father of Mrs. J. If. Mason of Williumston, passed away Monday morning at 10 o’clock in a Washington hospital. He had been in declining health since January, and his condition became critical Friday. Mr. Spen cer was born in 1870. He was the son of the late C. C. and Mary B. Spencer. For many years he was engaged in the seafood business and was a member of the Meth u.iisl • hmcb. He i- survived bv the following children: Mrs. Mas on of this place. Mr.-. H. V. Gibbs of Bath, Mrs. Hubert a d Mrs. Sam C. Spencer of EngUv.ard, N. C., and one son, B. C. Spencer of Engiehard. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 o'clock from the homo in Engiehard. and interment was in the Fu'iford Cemetery. -* Requisition papers are being
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