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THE ENTERPRISE IS READ BT OVER 3,009 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK THE ENTERPRISE THE ENTERPRISE IS READ B1 OVER 3.000 MARTIN COUNT! FAMILIES TWICE EACH WEEK VOLUME LI—NUMBER 31 IF illiamston, Martin County, North Carolina, Thursday, April /.», /9 III ESTABLISHED 1899 Five Political Races Scheduled In Coun tv •/ Young Man Files | For Place on The j Education Board Time for Filing For Lorali Offices Ends Al 6 P. M. This Saturday Another political contest de- j veloped in the county yesterday j when Cecil B. Powell, young man i \ of near Gold Point, Robersonville | Township, announced his candi-j dacy for a place on the Martin County Board of Education. Pow ell was reported to have filed with Elections Board Chairman Sylvester Peel during the day. Powell’s announcement de velops a three-way race for the two open positions on the educa tion board, Messrs. Henry C. Nor man of Robersonville and J. D. Woolard of Williamston having filed with the board of election chairman the latter part of last week. Although the office is an ap pointive one it has been custom ary for a long number of years for candidates to enter the prim ary, the legislature recognizing the wishes of the voters as ex pressed in the primary. The con test is not limited to any definite district, meaning that two could be appointed from the same town or district. The latest candidate to enter the race is thirty years of age, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Powell of near Gold Point. He is a graduate of the Robersonville High School and attended a busi ness school in Charlotte He was born and reared on the farm, and is now engaged in farming and the mercantile business at Gold Point after managing a store in Washington D. C., for about five years. He returned home six years ago. The time for filing for district, county and local offices ends promptly at 6:00 o'clock p. m. on Saturday of this week. That means that the filing fee and ap plication must be in the hands of the elections board chairman by that time. Outside of state politics, Martin County voters as the line-up now stands, will be asked on Saturday, May 29, to decide contests for re presentative in the general assem bly, county judge, board of educa tion and county commissioner in the districts of Griffins-Bear Grass and Hamilton-Goose Nest. As far as it could be learned no contest has developed in the sec ond senatorial district, but two candidates, John Rodman of Washington and Sam M. Campen of Alliance, Pamlico County, have announced for the district’s two seats. Mr. Campen, leading Pam lico citizen-farmer accompanied by Mr, Hugh Harris was here yes terday looking over the field. He stated that Pamlico was celebrat ing its golden anniversary with out a state senator by furnishing one of the district’s two senators this year. Although several contests have developed, very little interest is being shown in politics in the county just now. Recorder’s Court Has Large Fund, Boosted by fines imposed on drunken drivers and speedsters, the Martin County Recorder’s Court jevenue for last month was about as large as any reported by the tribunal in any recent month. Although it held only three ses sions during the month, the court leported fines of $1,475.00 and costs in the sumof *885.05. Fines and costs in the superior court amounted to $146 65, and miscel laneous items, amounting to $261.44, boosted the revenue in the office of the court clerk to $2,768 14 foi the month. COPW'T*-e lifted as follows: clerk’s fees, $188 05; solicitor’s fees, $406.00; judge’s fees. $279.00; and jury costs, $12. Since the court officers are on L i1'" turned into the county treasury. DELAYED v-,-/ i The circulation of a peti tion, gaining a place on the North Carolina general elec tion ballot of Henry A. Wal lace, third party candidate for President, has been de layed in this county, it was announced a few days ago by ! Mrs. V. A. Ward, representing j the Wallace Forces as a mem ber of the national third party committee. The arbitrary ruling by the State Board of Election which would disqualify peti tion signers from voting in the May 29 primary prompt ed the delay, Mrs. Ward ex plaining that the Waliace movement was not designed to deny anyone the ballot, but rather to make it possible for any one to vote for whom he pleased The petition will be circulated after the pri mary. Marriage Permits V ) For Twenty-Three Couples In March —•. Issuance Ik (!on*i«lerul)ly Above Averapc for Month Sincr Karly Thirties Twenty-three marriage licenses were issued bv Register of Deeds J. Sam Getsinger in this county last month, the issuance run ning considerably above the aver age reported since the early thir ties. Only once since 1938 has the issuance of marriage licenses in this county been greater for March than it was last month. In March, 194(1, twenty-nine licenses were issued. Licenses were issued last month, nine to white and fourteen to colored couples, as follows: * White LeRoy Godard and Ruby Har rison, both of Williamston. Howell E. Wadsworth of New Bern and Mrs. Ella Hawk of Washington. Louis F. Barber, RED 1, Wil liamston, and Sarah Edwards, RED 2, Williamston. Ellis S. White and Elsie Mae Gardner, both of Williamston. John A. McCollum and Sally1 Brown Gurganus, both of Norfolk. Benjamin Langley Dixon and Isabell Perkins, both of Wash ington. Hilton Parker Carson, RED 1. Stokes, and Mary Warren of Wil liamston. Richard A. Eisele of Sea Girt, N. Y., and Janet H. Hoffman of Ocean Grove, N. J. Thomas W. Mayton, Jr., of Pet ersburg, Va., and Thelma J. Per kinson of Ettrick, Va. Colored Samuel Scott and Marjorie Ben nett, both of Williamston. Johnny Corey and Georgia Merrick Corey, both of RFD 1, Washington. James Walston and Amanda Bess, both of Williamston. Edgar Lee Savage and Mary Scott, both of Williamston. Lonnie Bond and Inez Freeman, both of Windsor. Billy White, Jr., and Alice Marie Dickens, both of Oak Cijy. Jim Coffield of Hobgood and Velma Lee Parker of Oak City. (Continued on Page Seven) To Extend Postal Services Monday Plans are just about complete for extending the postal carrier! service to nearly every part of the town and to quite a few pa-' trons just outside* the city limits,! it was learned today. Carrier j Jack Mobley, assigned to the new j and third route, is to start with; h ’ JW'lLwiJfi* t-Jflondajn It is estimated that the service will be made available to an ad ditional postal patrons. The en-! larged service will necessitate routes, it is understood. Murderer Given ('Inis. H. Daniel Placed Un der 82.000 Bond for Killing Sim Qninley Charged with murdering Sim1 ; Quinley, 70-year-old colored man in Jamesville last Saturday after- ■ noon, Chas. H. Daniel, 32-year-old Negro, was given a preliminary hearing before Justice R. T. John son in the county courthouse last Tuesday evening. While no def inite motive was advanced, the State could not support a first degree charge and Justice John son fixed bond in the sum of $2,000. Martha Gray, a material witness, was held in $100 bond. Daniel was unable to arrange bond immediately, and it was con sidered likely that he would re main in jail until his case is call ed during the June 'term of the Martin County Superior Court, The first witness, Martha Gray, colored woman, said that "Uncle” Sim went up town last Saturday afternoon and returned sooner than she expected, finding her in bed with another man, George Frank Green. She said that the elderly man abused her for such conduct and struck her two or three times, that Daniel came in from the field about that time. Daniel, said to have been plan ning to marry the woman, went to his room in the house where he and Quinley lived together. "I went there and talked with him a while and told him that he was so high that Mr. Gardner had to take him off the tractor,” the wit ness said. According to her testi- j many, Daniel then got up and went to Sim’s room. She said she heard a gun “break” and that she, left for her aunt's home, telling them that .she believed Charlie | had killed “Uncle” Sim. On cross examination, the wit ness said that while Charlie was driving a tractor in a field not far I away, Green came along and they j talked on the porch a few min utes, that they moved into a bed room and had been there about fifteen minutes when Quinley re turned unexpectedly. She said! she was in Quinley's room when he rebuked her. She said she did not know what happened between Daniel and Quinley in Quinley's room, that she had never known, the two to have had any trouble j before. Paul Holliday, Jamesville of ficer, said that Ernie Gardner brought Daniel to him at Leslie Hardison’s store about 5:00 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Charlie said he had killed Quinley and we got into a car and went to the home, finding Sim lying dead on the] floor. "Daniel told me that he had shot Quinley in self defense with ! a single barrel gun, but he later said that he twisted a double bar rel gun from Quinley’s hands and shot him with it,” the officer said. Cross examined by Defense Counsel Peel and Manning, the officer said that the load of shot went into Quinley’s right side just below the shoulder. Daniel, j the witness continued went to his own room, got his single barrel gun and removed a shell. The double barrel gun, belonging to Quinley, was found on the bed, its barrel still warm and holding an empty shell. There was no sign of a scuffle and nothing was upset in the room, the officer said. The load of shot made a hole no larger than his finger and the of- ] ficer said he could detect no pow-1 dcr burns, but it was apparent the gun was fired at close range, j Continuing, the officer said he found a pint of bootleg liquor and two glasses on dresser apd one-' half gallon of liquor in a locker or closet. The witness said he | had known the defendant 251 years, that he had never known I him to be in trouble before, add- j ing that he was well under the influence of liquor. Reporting his investigation, Sheriff C. B. Rosbiidc said lie! went to the home”* and found ( •vOsAtAej on the tkxu and Daniel in his room. Daniel was said to have admitted the! killing. According to the story I related to the sheriff at the initial Before Johnson (Continued on page six) Bids For A 300,000-Gallon Water Tank Received Here 1 __ Bids for the construction of a. ! 300,000-gallon elevated water i storage tank were received and! opened at a special meeting of the * j local town commissioners yester- j | day morning at 10:00 o'clock. Noj final action was taken at that ] time, since the low bid was sub mitted subject to certain condi tions and the town can only act i subject to the fate of a bond issue | to be determined in a special elec- j ; tion during the month of June. j | Two bids were received, the | Chicago Bridge and Iron Com- j pany bidding $48,900, and the R. D. Cole Manufacturing Company of Newnan, Georgia, bidding $47,-' 000. Both contractors specified that the project would be com pleted in 445 consecutive days,; the Georgia firm qualifying its> bid on the condition that certain! | plates and other material can be j made available by a certain date Justice Declares Arms Alone Can't Stop Communism —«—— Even a U. S. Victory Would Leave 'Phis World Of Ourw In Ruin* | In a recent address at the Uni versity of Florida, Supreme Court , Justice William O. Douglas de clared that Communism cannot be defeated by military might alone. Asserting that, “the pros-j j pects for peace appear gloomy,” Douglas called for "dynamic anti vital” democratic leadership. The jurist, mentioned as a pos sible Democratic candidate for 1 vice-president, said we must fos 1 ter “human rights” at home and i “liberal, humanitarian programs for the masses of the people of the world.” He said a political program like Communism “is not destroyed by military might unless the victor, i like the Communists, is willing to install a police state.” “If we want hundreds of mil-! lions of the peoples of the world in the Democratic ranks,” Douglas said, “we must show them the way with practical programs of social reconstruction.” The real victory over Commu-1 nism, he said, "will be won in the rice fields rather than on the bat tlefields.” “At home,” Douglas said, “we must put an end to the shameful practice of branding everyone a Communist who espouses a liber al reform or promotes a program (Continued on page six) School Band Gets j Bid to Gallopade An invitation to participate in the big Gallopade at Rocky Mount on Friday, May 14, was received by the Williamston High School Band this week, the second bid to appear out of town to come its way in the last ten days. Both the invitation to Rocky Mount and tire earlier one to Tarboro to morrow week have been accepted. The invitation to Rocky Mount is regarded as an honor because of the prestige it carries. The local band was a part of the giant parade in Rocky Mount back be fore the war took Director Jack Butler away from his post here In inviting the band back this year mention was made of the fine cooperation shown in the last visit of the unit to Rocky Mount. Director Butler’s new uniform is. according to wire from the makers, due to arrive here by Monday. In the meantime he and the band are busy perfecting new drill numbers and adding to their growing list of musical tunes, especially in the march category. The band has been or ganized into units for more com plete control and more rapid dis simination of orders through the Tightening uu on work by in dividual members of the band, a report is now being made by each student on the amount of time devoted to practice and this iM '■ - |J"-’ parents by the steel manufacturers. The time feature counts from the day the contract is signed. Both bids were accompanied by certified checks, guaranteeing good faith. The price mentioned in the bid does not include the cost of the foundation which, if the proposal is approved, will be constructed by the town at an estimated cost of $3,000. The terms specified in the bids call for a 300,000- gallon capacity tank to be constructed with a heighth of 100 feet. The need for adequate water storage has become acute here and since it will require almost two years to correct the existing conditions, the town authorities consider it imperative to act without further delay. The bond issue will be discussed in every detail before the matter is placed before thje people in a special election for final decision. I I After holding to a figure above normal for almost a year, rainfall started slacken ing off here last month, hut the IVlareh precipitation did not drop much below normal. According Hugh Spruill, the keeper of the rain gauge, ex actly four inches of rain fell in this section last monlfi, or about one-half inch below the rainfall recorded in the cor responding month, a year ago. So far this year, 13.8ti inches of rain have fallen at this point as compared with (1.13 inches recorded in the first three months of 1(147. Officers Destroy Number of Stills -*v— Raiding in various parts of the county during the past few days, ABC Officer Joe 11 Roebuck and Deputy Roy Peel wrecked several illicit liquor inanufaetur ing plants and arrested one alleg ed owner-operator at one plant. Last Wednesday the officers picked up a 50 gallon capacity copper kettle and poured out 200 gallons of sugar beer at a plant in Bear Grass. Striking in Griffins the next day, the officers destroyed a 100 gallon capacity tiq kettle, a 50 gallon doubler and two coolers and five 200-gallon fermenters, and poured out MOO gallons of sugar beer anil twelve gallons of taw liquor. Dick Cherry, Beau fort County white man, was ar rested at the plant. He claimed the plant belonged to him Placed under bond in the sum of $200, Cherry is to face Judge J. C. Smith in the county court on April 20 Going back into Bear Grass at 5:30 o’clock Saturday morning, the two officers found a 20-gallon copper kettle cooling off from operations carried on a short time before. No one was at the plant when the officers found it and only 25 gallons ol beer remained when the. operator decided to quit. On Monday afternoon the raid ers wrecked a crude outfit neai the Bull Gray farm in Jamesville Township. The plant was equip ped with a filthy oil drum and the officers poured out about 100 gallons of nasty beer. THE RECORD SPEAKS . . . Except for two minoi ac cidents, the highways of tins county were fail ly safe dui ing the past week. So far this year the number of auto wrecks is just ahead of those of a year ago The following tabulations offer a comparison of the ac cident trend: fiist, by corres ponding weeks in this year I and last and for each year to | ' "ihe present tune.. ,. 15th Week Accidents Inj’d Killed Oam’ge ! 1948 2 0 0 $ 40 j 1947 0 0 I) 00. j Comparison* To Date 1947 38 Throws Aside Verdict Finding Doctor Guilty G! jNegligenee I Expert Witnesses Testify All Dav In $15,000.00 Suit Jury (>«'!* Thorough lesson In (Jiihlhirth Ami Afterbirth The $15,000 damage suit brought by R. It. Speller, administrator | of Mary Speller, and charging I Dr. Edward L. Early with mal practice attracted several of the ! leading doctors of this section to 1 the Martin County courthouse | Tuesday. For almost a full day, i the expert witnesses offered 1 testimony, much of it in technical ' terms that prompted counsel to | call for translation into everyday 1 language. Before the evidence was all in, the jury got a thorough lesson m childbirth and after birth. Dr. V E. Brown, taking the stand for the plaintiff at 10:00 o’clock Tuesday morning told of the condition of the plaintiff's wife, Mary Speller, when she was removed by ambulance to his hos pital on the afternoon of Novem ber 9, 1946. “She had a tempera lure of 104.4 and was somewhat delirious,” the doctor said, add ing that an X-ray showed she had pneumonia in the right lung, that she had to rest in a semi-sitting position, and that there was a foul ! odor. The witness explained that | he immediately gave the patient blood plasma, glucose and penicil- i lin, that while he was reasonably certain there was an infection ! from afterbirth, he found it nee- | essays i j treat her for pneumonia • first. j “On November 25,” the witness ! continued, "the patient had im j proved as much as could be ex- , ported, but continued to run some I fever. An operation was deemed necessary and a large handful of the afterbirth was removed,” the doctor explaining that the womb was cleaned as thoroughly as pos- 1 sible, that it was packed and the j packing was removed the follow ing day. “I felt that the operation would pick her up, but she continued to get worse,” he said. Asked what the patient's condi tion was when she entered the hospital, the witness said there was inflammation around the womb, that she had pneumonia and blood poisoning. “It. was out of the question to operate at the time for the patient could not have stood an operation,” he said. 1 lie witness went on to say that the blood poisoning was caused by tin- afterbirth. “After the lung | condition was cleared up, the pa tient was still distended and had a foul dischaige,” the witness ex plained, adding that the discharge was almost ‘pure’ pus which cleared up to some extent follow ing the operation. Asked what, in his opinion, caused Mary Speller’s death, the doctor said it was due to original blood poisoning resulting from detained afterbirth, that failure to | remove the afterbirth caused the condition that resulted in the pa tient’s death. On cross examination, Dr. Brown said that he was not asso ciated with Dr. Early in treating the patient, that he first saw the patient when she was carried to his hospital. It was brought out in his testi mony that the child was born at home on November 4, that the mother entered the hospital live days later and died on December V. The witness said that he did not know the midwife, Rowena Riddick, and that he did not see the midwife after the mother en tered the hospital. The witness said that he was advised that the delivery was difficult, and the ex amination led into a technical dis cussion ot medical procedure. The doctor, asked if the bill had been paid, explained that it had nm been settiecC that il ,,„d T. ,i been nan/lr-d hot fh;,j b)R.M>v 1 1 amount of which lie could not re-1 member, had been rendered to the 1 ^ plaintif f's landlord, Urbin Rogers, i1 who was quoted aS haying naked ' • ■ r r—-~irrr*"‘‘-n-"ir rw i (Continued or. page seven) / I c\m:kk drink | >v __„ The annual cancer fund drive received a real boost this week when Bear Grass reported it had exceeded its $75 quota by $13.85. Head ed by Elder A. B. Ayers, the drive was extended to all parts of the district in a hurry by Mesdames I.eKov Harris on, Pete Mendenhall, Henry White, Jr. and Ciaudie Kawls. Reports from four other districts are encouraging, the County Commander Mrs. Chas. I. Harris stating that well over half of the quota had been raised and report ed, that no reports had yet been received from Griffins, Williams, Cross Roads, Rob crsonville and Poplar Point. The leaders there can be de pended on to carry the drive over the top, the chairman said late yesterday. Early Treatment About Only Hope In Cancer Battle “Danger Signals'* Of Dis etise Listed; Precaution Needed Karlv Cancer can bo cured if it is di ugnosed and treated in tune. This is the most important fact to re member about tins di reuse. Too many people delay seeking modi cal advice when they suspect can cer and by refusing to face the is sue give cancer a chance to spread to the point where cure may be difficult. If each person would seek medical advice when he has [ any symptom which might indi cate cancer, many lives would be saved. is cancer? is the of living sues have What Cancer growth body tis normally. single cell. What causes if uncontrollable cells after the1 ceased to grow All life begins as a This cell doubles and the two cells multiply again to produce four. This cell multipli cation goes on until the whole body is built. Then cell increase slows down to the point of mere ly taking care of repairs and ne eessary replacement of old worn out cells. For instance, if you cut vour hand, the cells of the injured muscle and skin begin to multiply rapidly and this accelerated growth continues until the injur ed tissues are filled in. Howcvci. if an injury is repeated time and time again, and at the same pot, by certain types of irritating >uh stances, the orderly cell multipli cation may change to a lawless growth and a tumor is started A tumor is a lump of cells that has no useful function. There are many kinds of tumors. They grow inside the body, where they are difficult to detect, as well as near the surface of the skin. Some remain small, some grow to a great size, but if they are self contained and tin not spread to other parts of the body, they are called benign ("good") tumors. On the other hand, some tumors (Continued on page six) Court In Reuvss i Until !N<*xt \\<vk -—*— Completing the trial of the $4(10 damage suit brought by W. R.' Bullock against J. S. Whitman, tire Martin County Superior Court ordered recess at noon today un-1 til next Monday The Bullock-Whitman case, growing out of an auto truck ac cident on November 28, 11445, on U. S Highway (14 a few miles west ol Ronersonville. was called Wed nesday afternoon and its trial continued until noon today. The j i ,<! Ir.tiff rsUcvivl that the driver. I a colored man, of the defendant .. : tines made a tut n an',.out -■ i proper signal. The defense main- . tained that a proper warning was t given. Delibt rating the issues a i ■MOW MN gd the plaintiff $250 damages. Plaintiffs Counsel Says Case Will Be Tried Sec ond Time Jury Drlilicraleil Issues For Two Hours, (rivitiu A Jiiilgiiitnl Trial by jury received a telling blow in the Martin County Super ini' Court late yesterday afternoon when a verdict declaring Dr. Ed ward L. Early negligent was set aside by Judge Win. H. S. Bur gwyn. Tlie action of the court climaxed a two-day trial in which the plaintiff. R. B. Speller, color ed, alleged the defendant, Dr. Early had been negligent in treat ing Ins wife back in Moveinber, 194(1 While they took no issue with the court, some of the jurors asked "Why have a jury,” and at least one offered to return the meager pay tendered him. Evidence in the ease was com pleted at 4.00 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, and counsel argued the ease until almost noon the follow ing day, Judge Burgwyn com pleting his charge and turning the ease over to the jury at 12:45 Tuesday afternoon. It was re ported that the first poll was ten to two against the defendant in answering the first issue, "Was the death of plaintiff’s intestate, Man Speller, caused by the ne gligence or neglect of defendant, as alleged in the complaint?” A unanimous agreement soon fol lowed on that issue, the jury find ing it difficult to agree on the amount of damages. The plaintiff asked $15,000 damages and the ' jm'V*after d liberating the second i ue. “What amount, If anything, is plaintiff entitled to recover of defendant?”, for more than two hours awarded the plaintiff $2, ,?.i() damages When the jury reported its ver dict, Defense Counsel 11, S. Ward asked that each member be poll ed, the action leaving the verdict unchanged. Attorney Ward then addressed the court, declaring that the verdict should be set aside as being contrary to the weight of till' evidence, that the evidence supported an over whelming victory for the defend ant who the attorney, warming up to the subject, said that the ver dict has stricken down the de fendant m his usefulness. The attorney was interrupted by the presiding judge who said, ”1 have been on thr bench twelve years and during that time I have never set aside a jury verdict, but I can’t let this one stand; it is con trary to the weight of the evi dence.” The judge dismissed the jurymen, instructing them to prove their attendance. Plaintiffs counsel said that there was nothing else to do ex cept try the ease over again. It isn’t likely that it will be calen dared before next September or (Continued on page six) ‘Brini! a Bundle'’ c Mrelin« Planned Postponing the regular mooting from April 20th to April 27, the local Woman's Club will hear an address by Mrs. J. M. Hobgood of Farmville and bring a bundle for distribution by the welfare agency of the county. Mis. Hobgood is a past presi dent ol the North Carolina Fed eration of Women's Clubs and is regarded as an interesting speak 01 The meeting will be in the Woman's Club building and start at 2:00 p. m. The program is to be presented by the Civic and Public Welfare division ot the Williamston club. Mi s. Charles H. Manning, commit* tee chairman, asks that each member bring a bundle of good used clothes, linens and shoes to the meeting. This collection vaill be In? in c . . ■ ■ .• r;:v.ntv, ... • " • . 4 ‘ - - - — M Ma >.* among needy people in Martin bounty. Mis Manning says there s an urgent need and that club *1 unity for this service. gH