THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BY OVER 3,000 MARTIN COUNTS FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEER THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT* FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK ESTABLISHED 1899 VOLUME LI—NUMBER 30 Williamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 13, 19 Hi Chas, Daniel h Held For Murder Of Sim Quinley Illicit Relations With An* other Party and Liquor Basis For Altaek I Sim Quinley, about 70 years old, was fatally shot at his home in Jamesville last Saturday after noon at 4:00 o’clock by Chas. Dan iel, 40-year-old colored man and a stepson of the victim. Quinley died almost instantly from the gunshot wound. Daniel, said to have been well saturated with il licit liquor, staggered down the street and surrendered to Con stable Paul Holliday who turned him over to the sheriff. Few details could be learned immediately and no preliminary hearing has been scheduled. While there is no doubt about the identity of Quinley’s attacker, other evidence is a bit confusing and involves two persons, includ ing a woman, and a half gallon of illicit liquor. Daniel claims Quinley was try ing to shoot his (Daniel’s) girl friend and future wife, that he struggled with Quinley and either shot him accidentally or in self defense, the killer declaring he did not know the exact circum stances. k According to Sheriff C. B. Roe buck who started an investigation immediately, the shooting climax ed an illicit love affair between Martha Gray, 38-year-old colored woman, and a man whose name was given as Arthur F. Green. The Gray woman who had been spending much time at the home occupied by Quinley and Daniel, and who was to marry Daniel within a few days, entertained Green in the home while Quinley was attending to some business up town in Jamesville and while Daniel was plowing with a tractor in a nearby field. Quinley, who had been sick for two or three days, returned home unexpected ly and discovered the illicit, love I affair. Green depatted immedi ately and while Quinley rebuked the woman. Daniel, coming in supposedly for another drink of liquor, heard the remonstration and he went into a rage. Just where Daniel got the’gun, it was not learned immediately, and just how long he and Quinley argued was not revealed. The woman left without offering to clear up the situation, and when questioned in jail she said "I cannot tell Charlie what happened. He’ll get mad with me if I do.” The woman is being held as a material witness and for investi gation, but Green had not been questioned late yesterday. Quinley, a native of Pitt Coun ty, came to Martin about thirty years ago, locating in Jamesville where he worked at the fishery and on the farm for Mr. C. C. Fleming for years. "As far as I know he was all right,” Mr. Flem ing said, adding that the man had never given him any trouble. There is a possibility that an other motive underlies the mur der, but officers would comment but little on it. Daniel’s mother, Bell Daniel before her marriage to Quinley, died a few months ago ® and her property was left to (Continued on page eight) Not Willin<; To O Pav For Peace ml ... ♦ — 1 Speaking to a unit of the North Carolina World Peace Forum in Chapel Hill a few days ago, Di. i Harold A, Bosley, dean of the Duke University Divinity School, said, "we have a chance for peace, but we’re trying desperately to miss that chance because we aren’t willing to pay the price,” Dr. Bosley said that the world has no hope for peace unless "we have the capacity of being fair with those with whom we dis agree, unless we can view the other side without putting the lowest conceivable interpretation tin every move, and unless we can know how wbe* we do looks to the other side.” The organization proposes to discuss the world issues in com t hrou ^ ho lit sncl bring pressure on Congress in the name of peace. Appoint Officials To Hold Primary in May r INVITED Its first official invitation to show its colors out of town since it was reorganized just one year ago, the Williams i ton High School Rand is i scheduled to appear in the big Hospitality Day celebration in Tarboro Friday. April 23, Professor Jack Butler has an nounced. Quite a few details had to be worked out to make the trip possible, one of which was the moving a baseball game at Plymouth from Fri day afternoon to Thursday afternoon. Director Butler said the group would travel in private cars and leave here about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. It is expected that they will be back home again by dark. A stringent rehearsal pro gram has been worked out to make certain the group will make a good showing. Former Resident Of Martin County Dies In Hospital -<$, I ‘Funeral In Jainesville This Afternoon at .1 O’clock For Boswell Filwards Boswell S. Edwards, former resident of this county, died in Maryland General Hospital, Bal timore, last Saturday afternoon at 3:45 o’clock following an opera tion. He had been critically ill for about two weeks. The son of the late Boswell S. Edwards and wife, he was born in Smithfield, Virginia, 68 years ago and spent his < arly life in Vir ginia. He came to this county in 1908, locating in Jamcsville where he was superintendent of the Den ms Simmons Lumber Company plant for four or five years. While in Jamesville he was'married to Mrs. Mae Mizelle Mavo and even though he moved away from there about 1912 he still considered Jamesville his home, making re gular visits there with friends and relatives down through the years. Locating in Baltimore after leav ing 'Jamesville, he was employed by a construction company for a number of years, later managing several large rental properties in the Maryland city. Surviving besides Mi s. Edwards are two brothers, Will and Herb ert Edwards, and a sister, Mrs. W. S. Rountree, all of Berkeley, Vir ginia. No children were born to the union. Funeral services are being con j ducted in the home of Mr. and [ Mrs. C. C. Fleming in Jamesville I this afternoon at 3:00 o’clock by > (Continued on page eight) ( --V- - | Firemen Cailed To Crawford Homo Sunday j -■ —— ! Starting from a spark from a J kitchen flue, fire burned a small 1 hole in the roof of the home of | Mrs. J. C. Crawford on North | Haughton Street at 10:45 o’clock j Sunday morning. I Called to the home, firemen had j the fire out in a few minutes. I Damage was negligible. i ___ \ FAKING GOAL While only preliminary reports have been received, it is fairly certain that the ' cancer fund drive in this , county is pushing on toward the SI,500 goal. The local dis j trict, it was estimated today by Mrs. Chas. I. Harris, county commander, is right at its goal of $600, and other communities declare that the public is rallying to the sup port of the movement. During the meantime, ar rangements are being made to extend aid to destitute and worthy eases in this county, but to render effective relief it will he necessary to over subscribe 'he quota by ■* larje j margin, it was explained. Sylvester Peel Is Named Chairman Elections Board —*— Few Changes Made In Per sonnel for Several of the County Precincts Machinery for holding registra tions and primary and general elections, and possibly special ref erendums during the next two years was set up last Saturday when the newly appointed mem bers of the Martin County Board of Elections met In the court house, perfect their organization, appointed personnel for the thir teen voting precincts. Sylvester Peel, beginning his eleventh term with the board of elections, was again made chair man, and Hassell Worsley, young Oak City man who went on the board for the first time, was nam ed secretary. Wilde Vick, Rober sonville man representing the Re publican Party on the board, has ably served and in a most cooper ative way for years and is back at his post. While just about all their duties are outlined by the State Board of Elections, the members of the board voted to empower the chairman to fill positions made vacant by resignation in the pre sincts. In those cases where the precinct officials representing the Republican Party resign, appoint ments are to be made subject to approval. Very few changes were made either in the county board or pre | einct personnel. Mr. Worsley suc i feeds A. M. Hasty who resigned hardly before he served because his duties carried him out of the state at election time. In the ! precinct appointments, the county ! board “fired" no one, but filled positions made vacant for one reason or another in a compara | lively few cases. Precinct officials are listed be low, the name of the registrar be ing first, and those of the judges of election being second and third, the last representing the Republi ' can Party. However, it does not i necessarily mean in this county that the owner of the third listed ! name in each precinct is a Repub lican, The third rnembdr, it should be remembered, is acceptable to ; the Republican Party, The list of 1 officials follows: ; Jamesville: F. Clarence Stall ! ings, J. L. Knowles and Chas. ! Davenport. ! Williams: Lee D, Hardison and Chas. L. Daniel. Griffins: S. Oscar Peel. Stephen E. Manning, and J C, Gurkin. Bear Grass: LeRoy Harrison, | Delmus Rogers and W. A. Bowen. ! Williamston No. 1: Mrs. Gray M. Griffin, and Joe G. Corey. Williamston No. 2: S. H. Grimes, | Chas. R. Mobley and Jesse T. j Price. Cross Roads: Horace M. Ayers, jj B, Barnhill and Oscar Ayers. 1 Robersonville: Allen Osborne, T. L. Roebuck, I„N. Vick. I Gold Point: Harry Roberson, J. I W. Taylor and G. P. Bullock. ' Poplar Point: W. Slade White, Luther G. Leggett and Herman C. j Harrison, Hamilton: J. B. Everett, G. A. Oglesby and George Haislip. Hassell: D. R. Edmondson, George Leggett and George W. Ayers. Goose Nest: N. Lawrence Hy man, Joseph C. Ross and Ernest Bunting. I *< , Record Traffic On the Roanoke -* | Although no regular schedules are maintained and there are no | regular freight boats, river traffic | is believed to have set a new re I cord last month. During the period the bridge was opened 101 times for boats plying up and down the stream. Most of the boats were owned and operated j by logging firms, some with head quarters as far away as Delaware. High water has interrupted log ging opeiations along the nvei | and traffic has been materially 1 reduced during recent days. Few Cases Heard In Superior Court Monday Mornin —*♦ Case Charging Local Doctor With Malpractice Being Tried Today CfQ Convened shortly after 10:00 o'clock Monday morning, the Martin County Superior Court, | opening a two-week term for the trial of civil cases only with Judge W. H. S. Burgwyn on the bench, studied the calendar for the term, | heard three divorce cases and handled a few other matters be fore recessing about thirty min utes later until this morning. Today, the court called the $15, 000 damage suit brought by R. B. Speller, administrator, charging Dr. Edward Early with mal prac tice. Just before court was open i ed this morning it was learned that the trial of the case is likely to require a greater part of the day. Attorneys Horton and Le Roy are representing the plaintiff and Attorneys Peel, Manning and i Ward are representing the de I fondant. An array of witnesses, including doctors in several east I ern North Carolina towns, have been summoned as witnesses in the case which is being hard fought by both sides. The plain j tiff states that his wife died at t childbirth, allegedly as a result of i the defendant's negligence. 1 The $10,000 and $18,000 damage suits brought against Robert Har dison by E. G. Modlin and James E. Godard have been continued a'ong with the $10,000 and $5,000 suits brought by Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Sullivan against Amos Cox and Vance Harrington. The court was advised that the defense at torney, representing the insurance companies in all the cases, had a i conflict and could not be present i for the trials. The cases were set for trial next June. No judgment was immediately entered, but it was unofficially learned that the guardian had been discharged in the P. P. Peel case. A damage suit brought by Branch Marslender, Jr., by his ^ father as next friend, was filed ' and settled in the court by agree ment Monday when the defend 1 ant, Eli D. Harrison, offered to pay $450 damages resulting when the plaintiff, riding a bicycle, was hurt in a crash with the defend ant’s car at the intersection of Williamston’s Main and Haughton Streets last November 22. Three divorces were granted, one to white and two to colored j couples, at the Monday morning , session, all of them being based on two-year separation grounds. William Oscar Clemmons was , divorced from Hannah Pried | Clemmons, the couple having sep arated in 1945 after a married life I of nearly twenty years. The three younger children are with the mother, but the father claimed he was helping support them, j In his case against Maggie Tay lor, Floyd Taylor said they were married in 1935, separated in 1940, that the three children now with their mother are being supported by him. In the divorce case of Frank Ed ward Thomas against Selma Ma { rie Thomas, it was stated by the (Continued on page eight) V PLEA A plea came from the office of Mayor Robt. Coweri yester day, urging trespassers and prowlers not to desecrate I Woodlawn Cemetery. Acting thoughtlessly per i haps, persons have made footpaths across the cemetery, not even troubling to walk around well marked graves, the mayor said. Prowlers have been going into the cem etery in the late hours of night for questionable pur poses, discarding their liquor bottles and trash. Police were reported to have chased out prowlers just ahead of the Easter sunrise service there. While nw fence tan t>e piac ed around the cemetery just now, officers pointed out that trespassers and prowlers are to he rounded up without j further notice and carried j into the courts. $100,000.00 School Building Program Approved By Board Body Of Drowned Man Found Early | Monday Morning | Funeral For John S. (Bmt) W illianiH To Be Held Oil ^ riliuxlay The body of John Staton (Bud) . Williams, 60-year-old white man ! who was drowned while fishing in the Roanoke near the old Pop ' lar Point landing on Sunday, | April 4, was recovered early yes I terday morning at Cedar Landing, about Jti miles from the scene of the accidental drowning. Decom position was fairly well advanced, j but the body was easily identified ' by his sons Fifty-one dollars in cash was found intact on his per son along with an old B tuition gasoline book. Funeral services had not been definitely completed early this i morning, but it was tentatively planned to hold the last rites at the graveside in the old Williams I family cemetery not far from | Gold Point Wednesday afternoon at 11:00 o'clock. Rev. J. M. Perry, pastor of the Kobersonville Chris tian church, w ill officiate. The body was found about 9:00 o'clock Monday morning by George Hardison, fisherman, who was looking for a boat that had broken from its mooring. He found the body floating near the Martin County bank just across from Cedar Landing between i Williamston and Jamesville. After j tying the body, he traveled the | approximately eight miles back 1 up the river to Williamston and reported it to Sheriff C. B, Roe buck who summoned the under taker and members of the family. The body was prepared for burial and placed m an air-tight vault. It is believed that the body was (■arriv'd down the river from the scene of the drowning about the middle of last week, that it got caught in some bushes near Ced ar Landing last Friday. Workers on a barge across the river said thm saw buzzards hovering near by over the week-end, but made no investigation. A short time be fore Hardison found the body a large oil tanker passed by and it is believed that the swells from the boat started the body drifting again. Reviewing the work handled in try ing to locate the body, Sheriff C B. Roebuck stated that he had had a tug boat dispatched there by the Mongol Corporation to move barges out of the way of Searchers who spent day after day dragging and dynamiting for the body, that he had contacted the Coast Guard and explained further that volunteers hud work ed to tiie satisfaction of most of the family. A sister, arriving over the week end from Philadelphia, appealed Sunday by telephone directly to Governor R. G. Cher ry for additional assistance, but tlu> governor was quoted as say ing that littie could be done other than what could be handled by those already searching for the body. A similar answer was made by the Coast Guard, the sheriff said. Reports reaching here late Sat urday stated that a person had lost ins life bv drowning near Muekeys earlier that day. The drowning near Poplar Point was the second reported along the Roanoke banks in this county this >ear, Earl Morris, young white man, having lost his life near Janesville on the night of April J. His body was found the fol lowing Monday. »■ I wo Minor Auto \\ recks Reported Two minor automobile acci dents were reported on U. S. Highway 17 in this county last week-end, Patrolman J. T. Rowe, making the investigations, re porting no one hurt Traveling south, Mrs. Dorothy evine. 149 Harris Ave., Hewlett. | Long Island. N. Y., I out to pass a line .SC t uU'li(\l till- It'lHlf j Pontiac driven north Lmdcmuth. banker. | Ave , Attleboro, Mass ! or accident ' ev's Cross Levine. .aki.J Planning Limited a Programs For Bear Grass-Williamston —.o-— Bids Will Be; Asked For Jusl Vs Soon Vs Speeifi* eutions are Complete A $100,000 building program for tho Boar Grass and Williamston schools was approved by the Mar tin County Board of Commission ers in ppeeial session last Friday afternoon. The program, admit tedly far short of what had been originally planned, will greatly relieve the crowded conditions in the two schools for the next year or two, at least, it was pointed out. The original program as ad vanced by the board of education more than two years ago, would have called for an appropriation of possibly $300,000.00 or more. Meeting in joint session with the board of education, the commis sioners studied the conditions from every possible angle. In the face of existing needs, the offic ials were convinced that some thing had to be done without de lay toward relieving crowded con ditions. Temporary structures were discu&ed, but such a plan was abandoned when it was reas on that it would be just that much money wasted in the long run. Temporary structures would cost anywhere from $10,000 to $12,000, and it was pointed out that such projects might not pass inspec tion. Anticipating state aid in linanc ing building construction for schools m the future, the commis sioners thought it advisable to limit the program lo absolute minimum needs for the present. The original program planned for Bear Grass would have cost approximately $90,000. The pro gram approved by the conunis sinners last Friday calls for three class rooms, home economies room and a cafeteria, costing an estimated $50,000. The original program planned for the Wil liamston school would have cost possibly $100,000, but the approv ed program, calling for three class rooms and a home economics room, will cost an estimated $50, 000. The Bear Grass addition will be | connected with the present build ing. it was explained. The Williamston building is to be located on the lot between the high school building and Fust Grace Street. It will be limited to one story, but the construction plans cull for a foundation and walls sufficient to support a sec ond story to be added later. Discussing the financial side of the program, the authorities were of the opinion that it could be fi | rianeed from capital outlay funds and surpluses, making it unneces sary to float bonds. It may be necessary, however, to borrow a few thousand dollars, but it is fairly certain that difference can | be financed by floating short term notes. The architects have already been notified to prepare detailed building specifications, and bids will be asked for just as soon as | possible. It is thought that bids copld be submitted about the middle of next month. If the con tract bids exceed the cost esti mates to anv great extent another problem will have been created, meaning that the board of educa tion and the commissioners will , have lo go into another huddle. -n Sending Books To French Children Me m be is of the Association for Childhood Kfluee ioii ;11 Hast Car (oliria Teachers College, Green j ville, are sending a goodly nuin | her of books to children in France. Miiiiteiv™! 5r*. ■ U,t. • noil! be ring about sixty, contributed to the fund. Miss Ellen Joyce Clark, junior ilOiil bvi'icn is : ... organisation ■••which handled a si milar project last year. Bids Received For Major Political Offices In County Bids for all major political of fices in this county have been fil ed with the board of elections, ac cording to information released j over the week-end by Chairman Sylvester Peel. Only one or two offices are begging for candidates, the election official explaining that no one has filed for county surveyor or for constable in any of the townships. Unofficial re ports indicate that no one is plan ning to enter the primary for sur veyor or constable, leaving the county without an official sur veyor to succeed A. Corey who is in the race for the State House of Representatives, and leaving the candidates for constable to get in by appointment. Business on the filing front picked up lust Saturday when bids received for the remaining major offices, several candidates having announced and filed with the board previously. J. D. Woolard and H. C. Norman paid their $5 filing fee last Satur day to succeed themselves as members of the Martin County Board of Education, their action, while not mandatory by law but customary in this county for board of education candidates to enter the primary, leaves no posi tions vacant on the board. Other candidates placing their names in the pot and their filing' fees, based on one percent of the salary received with a minimum fee of $5, follow: For treasurer, R. H. Smith, $9; for ludge of county court, (.'has. 11. Manning and ,1. Calvin Smith, $10.80; for county solicitor, Paul D. Roberson, $18.20; for register of deeds, J. Sam Getsinger, $33; for State House of Representa tives, A. Corev and Edgar Gur ganus, $ii; for county commission ers: Hamilton-Goosc Nest district, N. W. Johnson and Henry John son; for Jamesville-Williams dis trict, C. C. (Frosty) Martin; for Griffins Bear Grass district, W. Tom Roberson and Wm. M. Har rison; Williamston Poplar Point, John H. Edwards; and Cross Roads-Robersonville district, C. Abram Roberson. Filing time closes at 6:00 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, April 17. Candidates must have their fees in the hands of the chairman by that time to enter the primary the 29th of next month. No Developments In Attack Case Of Last Friday j ( —«.— ! Mrs. (iarry llryaul Victim Of Attack In Her Home Near I’armele I Nn trace of the intruder who 'entered 1 tie home and attacked Mrs. Carey Biyant near Farmele last Friday morning has been found, Sheriff C. B. Roebuck said this morning following extensive investigations conducted by him and other officers. Dogs carried to the scene of the alleged attack were unable to pick j up a track, and the attacker, un known to the victim, was not seen by anyone prior to or after the re ported attack. “We just don’t know which way to turn in fur thering the investigation,” Sheriff Roebuck said. Mrs. Bryant, 19, was grabbed by a Negro in the kitchen of her j home one and a half miles from 1 Parmele, about 19 miles west of here, the sheriff said. The Negro was in the house when she re turned from carrying water to her husband in the field. Mrs. Bryant, a bride of eight months, fought her attacker, over turning furniture and tearing down articles from the walls, the sheriff said. Her dress was torn in the scuffle, the sheriff related. She fainted but the Negro fled. A doctor said she had not been raped, the sheriff reported. Roebuck said Mrs. Bryant and Mrs. Guy Rawls, a neighbor | across the road, walked into the l field with water. When they rc turned Mrs. Rawls drove down the road to a grocery store and Mis Bryant entered the house. She went through the house in to the kitchen where she was seiz ed. When Mrs. Rawls returned from the store she heard Mrs. Bryant’s screams. She rushed to the house to find the young bride ■ revived from her faint and the Negro gone. Sheriff Roebuck said Mrs. Bry ant was able to give only ,a meagre description of her attack I er. She said he was 21 or 22 years I old, wearing a cap and blue over alls and had light brown “ginger i cake” skin. | Of fiver Sprains Ankle .. In hall From Fort h While in the line of duty, (jffie or Arthur Perry stepped off the •■due of a dark porch at a colored | home just off Sycamore Street late Sunday night and badly '.sprained his ankle. He has the injured ankle packed nr me and j plans to get out shortly. KOI NIM I* v___i Seven persons were arrest ed, three of them by local po lice, and detained in the county jail over the week end. The whites outnumber the colored lour to three, it being one of the few times in recent months that the color ed population held no ma jority . Three were charged with public drunkenness, one each with drunken driving, mur der, assault. The seventh one, a woman, was held for investigation. The ages of the group ranged from :!'! to (1:2 years. Mrs. Ed Cassell Died At Her Home4 Monday Afternoon Fiiiirral Scnicfs In Loral Holiness (iliurrli This Mlrrnoon Mi's. Lena Cullipher Cassell, (il years of age, died at her home here on East Pine Street ye. tor day afternoon at 4:10 o’eloek. She had been in declining health the greater part of a year, hut she continued witli hoi work in the home until about six weeks ago when she was forced to her bed. Her condition had been critical since that time, and the end was not unexpected. The daughter of the late Hard^ anil Lucinda Martin Cullipher, she was born between Williams ton and Everetts on July 19, llifili, and spent her early life there. In early womanhood she was mar ried to William Edward Cassell and lived in and around Williams ton since that time. She was a de voted wife and mother and a good neighbor. Mis. Cassell joined the Presby terian church at Poplar Point Mission about fifteen years ago, and the local Presbyterian minis ter, llev. James I. Lowry, and Rev. N. J. Ward, Holiness minis ter, are conducting the funeral (Continued on page eight) Loculr Sltulio Here In (Hit Lulus ( lull - .. The Royal Photographic Cen t*'i, formerly located on Noi'tri I la ugh tun Street, lias new quar ters in the old Lotus Club rooms over the Firestone Stoic here. Mr. and Mis. Mcrvin Tettert.ni, operators, have had years of e\ ni'i: in j>h■ ••or r.."'phv.. and ..V".11 handle all tjpes of photon rapine work.