The Roanoke Beacon + * * * * * * and Washington County News ******* A home newspaper dedicated to the service of Washington County and Its 12,000 people. VOLUME XLIX—NUMBER 10 Plymouth, Washington County, North Carolina, F riday, March 11, 1938 ESTABLISHED 1889 Town opics C. H. Burnette, of Raleigh, a rep resentative of the World War Veter ans Loan Fund, was in Plymouth this week checking up on property that is either owned by them or under their supervision. They have two farms and three residences in charge in this section. W. Kerr Scott, commissioner of ag riculture, who was here last week, has been termed “the man who has probably made the most notable rec ord for service to agriculture in North Carolina during 1937," says a nation al farm magazine. Imagine the amazement and consternation of Mrs. Sam Fur laugh, of the Roper section, sev eral days ago, when, in response to a noise, she opened the living room door and found a big black bull staring her in the face. The animal had been led into the house by a neighborhood prank ster. E. H .Liverman, in his speech about the Turnpike Road last week men tioned the “Macedonian call” in the Scriptures and referred to the efforts for road improvement as a "We nonaian call.” Joe Arps returned last week from a salesman's school conducted by the Chevrolet Motor Company in Char lotte. He was in attendance for sev eral days, with men from the fac tory serving as instructors. He was just a small boy, but he elbowed his way to the foun tain through a local drug stora crowd and ordered a “Bromo,” slapping his dime on the counter. He must have thought it was something good, as the men were drinking it freely. One swallow of the foaming liquid, and he disgustedly left the crowd. Mrs. Laura S. Johnston has re signed as organist for the Methodist Episcopal Church and is now devot ing much of her time to the promo tion of a junior choir at the Grace Episcopal church. Her first meeting was last Sunday at 2 o’clock. James W. Norman, owner of the Norman Furniture Store, has re turned to his work after an illness ol about two weeks. How many realize that a 10 cent loaf of bread contains less than 2 cents worth of wheat and a dollar shirt is made from less than 20 cents worth of raw cot ton? Stylists about town believe the nev navy blue dresses will lead the Eastei parade of new frocks. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Liverman ari in New York this week purchasing their summer merchandise. They ex pect to be at home during the week end. County Tax Listers Appointed by Board Supervisor Has Not Been Named; Listers To Meet March 21st Preparations Being Made for Listing During April by Commissioners -® Tax listers for Washington Coun ty were appointed by the commisson ers in session here Monday night, but no supervisor was named. The officials have not decided yet whether the supervisors’ job will be handled by the auditor or by a spec ial appointee. Last year H. C. Spruill handled the work, due to the revalu ation program, but prior to that time the auditor had supervised listings. List takers appointed this week are as follows: Plymouth Township, W. L. Hassell; Lees Mills, J. E. Phelps; Skinnersville, W. W. White; Scup pemong, Paul Belanga. It is expected the supervisor will be named by Monday, March 21, when the listing schedules will be discussed by the listers in a meeting here. The law requires that taxes be listed in April, and it is believed the commissioners will have everything in readiness by that time. , The commissioners also decided to sponsor a project to eradicate mos quitoes by draining ditches and creeks in cooperation with the PWA. It was also agreed that some of the vegetables grown on the county farm under the supervision of L. L. Basnight, keeper of the county home, should be turned over to the school lunch rooms. W. H. Gurkin asked for abandon ment of highway No. 97 by his home from a point south of his gate to Blount’s Swamp so that he could use the present road. He will be required to build a road from the old route of 97 to the new road if the commis sioners and state highway commis sion grant his request. His farm was divided by the new road. Revival Services To Begin Next Sunday At Baptist Church To Continue for 10 Days, With Pastor, Rev. P. B. Nickens, as Speaker Sunday will mark the beginnng of a series of special services at the Plymouth Baptist church, continuing for about 10 days, with the pastor, Rev. P. B. Nickens, as the speaker. In the morning his subject will be “The Prerequisites of a Revival,” while in the evening he will speak on “The Lamb of God.” Some of the sermon subjects for the week follow: “On the Scales of God’; “The Fall and Rise of Simon Peter”; “The Carpenter of Naza reth”; "What Will You Do With Jesus—Crown Him or Crucify Him?” "A Salary That's Never Cut”; and “Inadequate Righteousness." “We urge everyone to attend these services in order that all may be drawn a little closer to Him. I will greatly appreciate your presence and prayers,” said the minister. The church calendar: Sunday school at 10, preaching at 11 and 7:30; services each night during the week; mission study class Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 in the pastor’s home with Mrs. Nickens as teacher; B. Y. P. U., 6:30 Sunday. -_ Town Attorney Instructed To Present Schedule at Meet Next Monday Night -$> City Attorney Zeb Vance Norman is this week preparing an ordinance that will impose a heavy tax on ped dlers and itinerant merchants who sell wares at temporary locations in Plymouth. There will be an adjourned meet ing of the council next Monday night, at which time it is regarded as cer tain that the attorney’s recommen dations as to the law will be passed. Last Monday night the officials heard a committee composed of J. R. Manning, D. R. Satterthwaite, and John G. Taylor, of the House Chev rolet Company, request a tax of $300 on outside dealers and salesmen working for out-of-town auto firms. The city fathers also discussed the new refinancing system for the town to take care of bonds and interest. A. Corey, of Jamesville, appearing before the board for advertising for a publication sponsored by the East ern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, was refused an advertisement from the town. -$ Employment Service Representative Will Be Here Thursdays —$— Time Is Changed from Tues days, Effective Next Week; Obtain Better Quarters - - Wilford Whitley To Give Piano Recital March 16tli Wilford Whitley will give a piano recital in the high school auditorium on Wednesday, March 16, at 2:30 p.m. His program will include the following numbers: “Overture to Wililam Tell,” by Ro sini, accompanied on second piano by Mrs. R. W. Johnston; 'Serenade,” by Schubert; Excerpts from “Poet and Peasant,” by von Suppe; “The Swan,” by Massenet, accompanied by Mere dith Johnston on second piano. The public is cordially invited tc attend. W. Joe Jackson Shot To Death Near Virginia Line in Attempt To Arrest Two Rum-Runners Special Program of Sacred Music At Theatre Sunday There will be a special program of sacred music, rendered in the na ture of a vesper service, at the Ply mouth Theatre Sunday afternoon at 5:15, with members of all the choirs of Plymouth churches taking part. The service will be under the general direction of Cicero Norman, and the public is cordially invited to attend. There will be no collection taken or any charge whatever. The entire program will be com posed of sacred music and includes familiar hyms to be sung by the en tire congregation as well as a num ber of anthems by the choir and vocal solos, duets and ensembles. Instrumental accompaniment will be furnished by the new Hammond organ recently installed in the the atre and played by Shep Brinkley, Mrs. Laura S. Johnston, and Lloyd Gilbert. The entire program will last about 45 minutes. Farmers Will Ballot on Crop Control Saturday Meetings To Explain Program Have Been Held During Week -- Polls Open From 7 A. M. To 7 P. M. Saturday; About 1,200 Votes Expected -® Information on the crop control referendum for flue-cured tobacco and cotton market quotas was im- : parted in various ways this week to the 1,200 growers in Washington County who are expected to vote on the measure Saturday. In addition to meeting held in var ious communities earlier in the week, there was a meeting of the county committeemen Thursday morning at 9 o’clock, followed in the afternoon by a county-wide mass meeting. The control program was explained by Murphy L Barnes, assistant state ad ministrator, at the mass meeting, and an address was made by Haywood Dail. of Pitt County, urging support of the proposals. The County Farm Bureau was to hold its meeting on Thursday night. For the voting Saturday, the polls will open at 7 a. m. and close at 7 p. m. Farmers who are eligible must vote in their own precinct as in a general election, with the exception of Wenona. Farmers in that section will vote with others in Plymouth Township at the agricultural build ing. Other polling places are: Bate man’s store at Creswell for Scup pernong; Joe Pritchards store, for Skinners ville; and city office in Roper for Lees Mill. There is opposition in some sec tions of the county to the proposed crop control program, but observers generally believe the act will be rati fied by more than two-thirds of the growers in the county. There are no age limits for voters, but everyone who casts a ballot must show that he grew cotton or tobacco in 1937. -$ Mr. Edmund Harrison Is Critically III In Hospital —-3 Word was received here Thursday from a Rocky Mount hospital that Mr. Edmund Harrison, who was ta ken there from here several days, was in a critical condition. He is the fa ther of H. E. Harrison and Alton Harrisqn. -® Continue Efforts To Raise $300 for Boy Scouting in County Hope To Have Money Before March 23, When Officials Expected Here -® Efforts to raise $300 for including the troops of Washington County in a Boy Scout district organization have about come to a standstill with only a little more than half of the money secured, according to Dr. A. Papineau, assistant scoutmaster here. Canvassers here will redouble their efforts to get the money between now and March 23, when Scout Executive J. J. Sigwald and Assistant George Thomason, of Wilson, will spend the day in the county. Only four of the six district chair men needed have been appointed, and their names will not be made known until final arrangements are made. There is a troop in Plymouth, and J. K. Biddle is making an effort to complete a troop organization in Roper. Last week Dr. Papineau met with a group in Creswell, and it appeal's that Rev. L. B. Bennett will be scout master and Rev. Forest Wagoner as sistant scoutmaster of the troop there. Funeral Monday for Mrs. Jesse Bateman Funeral services were held here Monday afternoon for Mrs. Jesse R. Bateman, 37. who died at her home here Sunday as the result of high blood pressure, after suffering in tensely for more than a week. The services were conducted by the Rev. N. A. Taylor, pastor of the Christian church, and interment took place in a cemetery on the suburbs of the town. Besides her husband. Mrs. Bateman is survived by a 12-day-old infant and four other children, Frances, Doris, Edgar, Louise; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Bateman; five sis ters, Mrs. Paul Sawyer, Mrs. Alton Lilley, Miss Alexina Bateman, and Mrs. H. J. Glass, of Columbia; and Miss Lena Bateman, of Sanitorium; two brothers. Carl Bateman, Rocky Mount; and Herbert Bateman, of Plymouth. Large Crowds at Christian Church - Record crowds attended the Chris tian church Sunday night, when Rev. John Goff, of Williamston, spoke in connection with the “World Day of Prayer,” sponsored by the woman’s missionary society; and when Dr. C. H. Plopper, a returned missionary from China, spoke Tuesday night. A large crowd is also expected to attend the meeting on March 24. All Christian churches will participate in the observance of the unity of the denomination when telegrams will be sent from one congregation to an other. A pre-Easter revival will begin on April 3. This is held annually and usually draws large crowds. Jail Two for Slaying Of Federal Officer, Native of Plymouth -<§> Funeral Held Here Thursday; Running Gun Battle Fol lows Slaying -®—— Funeral services were held here Thursday for W. J. Jackson, jr., an investigator for the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit, who was slain by rum run ners near South Mills about 10:30 Tuesday night as he and a compan ion, Officer John F. Estes, started to search a suspected car. Bernard Ervin Royals, 20, of the Deep Creek section of Norfolk Coun ty, and Joe Thomas West, of Eliza beth City, are in jail at Norfolk on charges of first-degree murder in connection with the slaying. A pre liminary hearing is scheduled to be held next Monday. The officers were expecting a large carload of illegal whiskey to leave the South Mills section and move into Norfolk on the night of the tragedy. They watched a car load up at a house near South Mills. Passing along by the car, which was stopped on the side of the road Officer Estes asked them if they had a breakdown. They replied they were waiting for some one. Estes, driving the officers’ car, no ticed that cne of the men was ner vous and suggested to Mr. Jackson that they search the car then rather than wait for it to get over the line into Virginia. Jackson stepped out of the car and one of the men, iden tified by Estes as Royals and West, fired at Jackson, killing him in stantly. Estes immediately pulled Mr. Jack son back into the car and gave chase to the fleeing rum-runners. He used up the bullets in his pistol and all but three of Jackson’s pistol, which he took from the holster of the dead officer before the fleeing slayers so peppered the radiator of his car with shot that his engine became over heated and forced him to stop. He chased them about 8 miles. The windshield on the officers’ car was riddled by shot from the ban dits’ car. Estes notified Norfolk of ficers of what had happened when he reached Deep Creek, and the al leged slayers were arrested at Roy al's home. The rum car was found near the home with 100 gallons of illegal whiskey in it. Ownership of the car was being traced by Federal officers, which pointed to a Newport News man. When arraigned before a United States commissioner for a hearing, Royals, a big overgrown young fel low. wept as he saw his mother in the courtroom, while West remained (.Continued on page six) Trying To Organize Workers at Pulp Mill Preachers of Two Counties Organize At Meeting Here -® Rev. C. T. Thrift Is Elected President and Rev. P. B. Nickens Secretary The Rev. C. T. Thrift, pastor of the Plymouth Methodist church, was elected president of the Washington and Tyrrell Comities Ministerial As sociation, which was organized at a meeting in the Christian church here last Monday. Rev. L. B. Bennett, a Creswell pas tor. was named vice president, and Rev. P. B. Nickens, Plymouth Baptist minister, secretary and treasurer. Rev. N. A. Taylor, of the local Chris tian church, was added to the list of officers to form a program committee Monday after the first Sunday in each month was designated as the regular time for meeting, with the hour being set for 11 o'clock. After the meetings the officers with the following ministers, lunched to gether: Dr. G. A. Martin and Rev. T. P. Davenport, of Creswell; and the Rev. J. T. Stanford, Methodist min ister, of Roper, public is invited to attend. --» Orphans On Program at Ml. Tabor Cluirrh Sunday Rev. M. E. (Jack) Tyson, super intendent of the Free Will Baptist Orphan Home at Midlesex. and some of the orphan children will be at the Mount Tabor Church Sunday. Two Local Unions Formed at Meeting Here Tuesday Night —♦— Both Locals Are Affiliated With A. F. L. Unions; About 75 Join -$ A local of the International Broth erhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and a local of the In ternational Union of Operating En gineers were formed at a meeting in the courthouse here Tuesday. About 75 members were enrolled in the two organizations. There were about 150 people present at the meet ing. Officers of the local unions were not made known to the press, but were elected in a closed meeting. Both of the organizations are af filiated with the American Federa tion of Labor, of which William Green is president, and have no con nection with the John L. Lewis Com mittee on Industrial Organization. Two AFL organizers, C. M. Pox, of Washington, D. C„ for the paper mill workers, and Charles E. Haury, of Charlotte, for the engineers, were in charge of the meeting. This marks the second effort that has been made here to organize work ers since the coming of the pulp mill. It is understood that electricians at tempted or did form some kind of or ganization here last fall. One of the speakers urged that there be no hard feelings between industry and labor here, and cited the right of labor to organize under the terms of the Federal Wagner Act,