ASSOCIATE^ PRESS DISPATCHES VOLUME XXVI FIRST TIME 111 SIX TEARS THE STATE PRISONHAS PROFIT Operations Resulted in a Profit During 1925 Ac cording to Report by Scott, Chamley & Co. THE PRISON IS NOW SELF-SUPPORTING Hie Prison Facilities Now in Excellent Condition. —A New Era of Inde pendence Is Begun. Raleigh Bureau of The Concord Daily Tribune Raleigh, March 20.—Kor the first time in six years, operations of the North Carolina State's prison result ed in a profit during the calendar year 102.1. according to the report of the audit, made by Scott, Charuley & Co., public accountants of Charlotte, made public today by Governor Angus IV. McLean. The total net operating profits for. the State's prison as a whole for the calendar year amount to $42,543.31, but when the amount paid to prison ers upon their discharge for them selves and their families in commuta tion, $24,449.88. is gubstracted, the profit is reduced to $18,093.43. Strict ly speaking, that entire amount should not be deducted, since a large part of that commutation accrued during previous years, but, with the system of bookkeeping now in use, there is no other way to calculate. But the feature of the entire report is thnt the prison is now on a self supporting basis for the first time since December, 1926. the last time n report showing a surplus of income over expenses was made. Not only that, but the balance sheet of assets and liabilities shows $2,748,353.55 worth of assets in excess of liabili ties; a gain of more than $600,000 over the figure of 1924, which was $2,117,657.20. That means that n large amount was spent during the year on permanent improvements to the prison system and gives added significance to the net profit shown. The prison facilities, viewed as an industrial plant, now are in excel lent condition, the report show, and there is every reason to believe that * a new era of independence is begun for tb*- State s prison. For many years the prison was op erated not only on a self-supporting basis but in such a manner that it was able to turn over to the State each year nice sums in profits from operations over all expenses. Little difficulty was experienced in finding profitable labor for all able-bodied convicts; expenses for sustenance were low and, consequently, sizeable profits accrued. As far back as 1915, however, a change in attitude toward the penal institutions became noticeable. Or ganised free laber began strenuous objections to the hiring out of con victs in a number of the occupations which had resulted in large profits and it began to be hard to find work for nil the men who were able to do gainful labor. Pressure began to be brought for higher standards of liv ing for convicts and the demands had to be met. As a result of these factors, and others, it became increasingly hard to show profits each year and, since that had become almost a part of the State's rttual. various kinds of econ omies were put into practice to meet the decreases in revenue By December, 1920. the surplus had been reduced to $19,000. which was the last figure shown in thnt column of the annual reports. But, not only had the profits been all but wiped out in those last few years of financial Independence, but buildings and thor facilities had begun to show ill effects from the system of rigid economy and a good share of the revenue in the post six years has had to be devoted * to repairs to existing facilities and t additional improvements, which, ex cept for the seemingly necessity for scrimping and saving in the earlier years, would have been spread over ten years instead of being packed in to six. That, and the steady increase in the number of prisoners, accounts in \ a large measure for the profit’ess re ports of the past several years. As late as June 30, 1925. a deficit of some $160,000 was shown in op erations for the fiscal year, but that was due, in part, to the fact that the crops then were in the ground and, strictly speaking, could not be count ed at their full probable value as assets. Incidentally, the cost of put ting those crops in the ground was es timated at $198,000 and their total value in the present report, both from actual sales and inventories of stocks on hand, is shown as in excess of $240,000. Nine of the prison units showed profits for the year, the two farms at Caledonia and Cary and seven of the eight eonjiet camps. Low Prices on Tires and Tubes. Whatever kind of car you may drive, you will find tires to fit It at Yorke & Wadsworth Co.'s from the lowest priced to the very finest. Y’ou will find here a wide range to choose from, lowest prices and b : ggest values, and every one a Goodyear. The prices are down now, and there is no better time to buy. Take advantage of these values. You are always * sure of fresh stock, and that means | much to you. The Concord Daily Tribune North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily $1,000,000 HB.. H hl a Seven years ago Frank R. Patterson went to Detroit with a college degree and just enough money to rent a small office and go to work as a civil engineer Now he has just paid a 120.000 premium on a milUon-dollar life insurance policy. He la head ot sne of the largeet construction firms in Detroit. ILLITERACY CRUSADE IS PLANNED BEFORE CENSUS New York Has Enough Illiterates to Make a City the Size of Denver. Washington. March 29.— UP) —The federal census takers of 1930 would be unable to discover any illiterates In rtie Cnited States, if the national illiteracy crusade, just otgnnized here, had its way. Captained by William Allen White, the Kansas editor the erusade plans to co-ordinate the ac tivities of several organizations that have been seeking to stamp out illit eracy. Mrs. Corn Wilson Stewart, nation al director of the group, who is in charge of the newly-opened headquar ters here, and who has been active iu educational work in the south, dis closed these findings: There are 10,000 who cannot read or write in the city of Washington. Philadelphia has nearly 60,000 il literates. New York City has enough to make a city tlie size of Denver. Pennsylvania has enough to popu late two states the size of Wyoming. Ohio has more native born white illiterates than ha* the state of Mis sissippi. There are many counties in the United States where twenty-five to thirty per cent of the peop'e arc un able to read and write and some counties where forty to fifty percent, are illiterate. Five million men and women in this country have completely missed school. The lead pencil business would be increased $3,000,000 annually, by the wiping out of illiteracy. “More can be done during the next five years in f/liminatiqg illiteracy than has been done in any fifty years before,” said Mrs Stewart. “Many states and communities are now wag ing a war against illiteracy, and 1 they are determined that the federal census takers of 1930 shall not find one in their neighborhood who can ! not read or write. They feel that illiteracy is a disgrace. "The slow processes of the public and private schools cannot cope un aided with illiteracy. These Reboots have done their best but 5,000,00 men and women in the United States have missed them, and must now be cam paigned into school. Our program is to put the fight into every section of the United States. We will help where existing organizations or the school authorities are attacking adult illiteracy and where the campaign has not penetrated, we shall aid the local and organize work in the prisons and in addition make a vigorous cam paign among the Indians." Thinks Settlement Still Possible. Washington, March 29.— UP) — Complications that have arisen over; suspension of the plebiscite in Tacna- Arina are not regarded by Secretary Kellogg as constituting a barrier to the mediation offer of the United States for settlement of the Taena- Arica dispute between Chile and Peru. A THRIFT TALK jflfc BUSINESS MEN YOU owe yourself a AM - safe “building and loan” investment ac count as a form of New Series Is Now Open insurance against the Your Building and Loan hazards of ordinary Business Is Appreciated business. Whether Large or Small With every dollar BEGIN NOW adequately secured CABARRUS COUNTY B. mortgages ours is generally considered L. & S. ASSOCIATION the safest type of in vestment in the OFFICE IN CONCORD ' world. NATIONAL BANK' TRIAL OF CRANFORD WILL BE STARTED TUESDAY MORNING State Was Not Ready to Proceed With Trial of N. C. Cranford in Albe marle Court Today. MURDER CHARGE AGAINST CRANFORD Former “Convict Boss” of Stanly County Is Charg ed With Deaths of Two Convicts. Albemarle, March 29. —OP)—The | State was not ready today to proceed 1 with the trial of N. ('. Cranford, for- ’ mer "convict boss" of Stanly county, j charged with first degree murder in! connection with the deaths of two I convicts, and the case will not begin j before tomorrow. This was announced by Solicitor 1 Don Phillips shortly before the no on ! rcess. A large crowd had surrounded the court house here, and at 9 o’clock, an hour before court was scheduled to convene, many persons had already taken seats. An imposing array of counsel faced each other for the trial, led by Solici tor Don Phillips for the prosecution, while J. R. Price, R. 1,. Smith, O. D. B. Reynolds, H. C. Turner and the titm of Brown & Sikes represented , the defendant. Albemarle, N. C\. March 29.— UP) — N. C. Cranford, "convict boss,” went on trial here today in Stanly County superior court, charged with first de gree murder in connection with the death of two negro convicts. Cranford's trial grew out of the deaths of James Terry and James Howell, who died while serving on his chaingang crew in 1918. It is charged that the men were beaten unmercifully by Cranford, who at the time was superintendent of the Stanly county convict system. Court was convened by Judge A. M. Stack at 10 o'clock. Calling a venire was the first matter before the court, and indications were that the defense would press for a jury from another county. HAMBSCH APPOINTED TO FLORIDA POST Named Prohibition Administrator For Florida by Secretary Andrews. Washington, March 29 UP)— F. P Hambseh was appointed prohibi tion administrator for Florida today by Assistant Secretary Andrews in i charge of prohibition enforcement. Hambseh has been assistant ad ministrator and he succeeds D. T. Simmons, who resigned recently. He will make headquarters at Tampa. James H. Lv hns been named dep-' uty administrator with offices at Jack sonville. The changes will become effective April Ist. John Cameron, Sage of Sliarron, Answers Call. Kinston, Mar. 28.—John E. Cam eron, grand master of the grand lodge of Masons of North Carolina, died at his “Rose of Sharon" home at 1 o’clock this morning. He was 59 years of age and the head of a large family. Probably no man in America had held so many Masonic honors, according to grand lodge of ficers, in so many years. He was prominent in polities, having held the offices of deputy United States marshal and deputy collector of reve nue for long terms. He was a leader of his party in the second congres sional district, and though, a repub lican, he was appointed to the stnte highway commission as one of its original members. Governor Reiterates Confidence in Sink. Raleigh, March 27. —Governor Mc- Lean today, discussing the prison | controversy in which Chaplain W. S. Shaeklette and Pardon Commission er Hoyle Sink hold the state, reiter ated his statement that Mr. Sink has been most cautious in the hand ling of pnrdou and pnrole matters, and left nobody in doubt as to his confidence in the commissioner. CONCORD, N. C., MONDAY, MAR CH 29, 1926 Christ Visited in This Home On Holy Week Wednesday ** -‘ ;r V ', v , IgHjyLa ' ' * Up# Jerusalem™* w hi, |>f ManwutdWmh.'fiii ' Bethany, near before He returned to Jerusalem for The Lart Su°ppe” ol> " wk ~ t,H ‘ take in I next Thursday's continued hearing of the prison board. Then, with his attorney present, he will have no good excuse for reti cence concerning his allegations and the sources of his information. In yesterday's hearing he denied having connected Superintendent Pou with the alleged “sale’’ of a pardon to W. W. Green and refused to discuss his charge against Commissioner Sink, in the same eonnectinn. In view of the fact that undisputabie proof has been advanced to show that Governor McLean granted the pardon to the prisoner Green against the wishes of Commissioner Sink, who had assisted in the prosecution of that case through all the courts, the charge against Mr. Sink, which Mr. Shaeklette refused to discuss, was branded on all sides as utterly ab surd. What proof the chaplain eou'd pos sibly advance in support of such an a"egation no one could conjecture and it was freely predicted that this charge, too, will be withdrawn when the board again convenes. That is no more than guesswork, however and is based on nothing that Mr. Shack lette has said. In fact, the chap lain has said nothing since the board began its investigation about these charges. He returned to Caledonia yesterday evening and declined to dis cuss the matter before he left. Persons who have watched Com missioner Sink's conduct of his office were astounded that any such charge should even be breathed against him, much less preferred in such a man ner as to get before the public Those familiar with the trials of such a po sition declare that he has resisted in every instance all pressure, polit ical and otherwise, that has been brought to benr on him to secure the release of certain prisoners, a faet which has won him the highest re spect of everyone cognizant of the straightforward course he has pur j sued. There will also be those persons who believe that personal or political friends should be given preferential treatment in matters of governmental administration. It is no particu'ar secret that Mr. Sink has beeu called j upon to recommend leniency for pris oners by men who, in their own opin ion, at least, were influential in the state. So firm has the commissioner been in his refusals to be swayed by any such demands, that the custom has languished in North Carolina and such calls now are few and far be tween. For those reasons; charges such as have been made by the chaplain, strike Mr. Sink’s intimate friends as ridiculous in the extreme ; n r r would they arouse more than indignation were seemingly indisputable proof of their impossibility not availab’e As for the additional charges said to have been made by the chaplain against Superintendent Pou when he exonerated him from any complicity in the Green matter, but little thought is being given them. No hint has been given as to their nature, but the prevalent belief is that they ac cuse him of mistreatment of prison ers. Friends of Mr. Pou arc not worried on that score and even those not on particularly friendly terms with him do not incline to the be lief that any such accusations can be substantiated. Not to Honor Osdildeston Requisi tion. Asbury Park, N. J., March 25).—0P) —Governor Moore in a statement tele phoned from Trenton, announced that he would not honor any requisition papers which might be presented to him for the return to Binghnmt n N V. of Dr. Fdkin Odi’dc too. 03 year ! physician and Crimean War ve eran. Dr Osdildeston was arrested Fri day on 40 year old charges that he a horse thief and an escaped prisone. The arrest was made by deputy sher iff S. Foster Black, of Binghampttn N. Y„ who himself is 01 years old THE TRIBUNE 1 PRINTS I TODAY’S NEWS TODAfjl NO. 72 ,j 598 KILLED DURING | " WHS IN Ml ! IN TRAFFIC WRECKS | Figures Compiled From? Records of. Associated { Press.—North CaroUltit Second on the List, J floridaTeader IN THE SOUTH 115 Deaths Occurred !h This State and 285 Were Injured During the Sun# ■ Period. (A 3 ) —Eleven Southern States yield* i ed a total of 508 dead and 3,316 in* jured in traffic accidents during thg'i first three months of 1026, a consolf- * dation of weekly surveys by the Asso- jj cit!ted Press revealed today. Thin con solidation left out the remaining three days of March, winding up the period ’ with last night. Accidents by trains, automobiles, 1 trolley cars and motorcycles were tab- I en into account in the combination at the survey. Florida and North Carolina led in chalking up the larger number of I deaths. Florida's toll being 120 for j three months, while North CarolllUk registered 115. Arkansas trailed the 3 list with only 29 deaths for the period. if Florida also led in the injuries col umn. with 666. Again North Caro- j ; linn with her 115 deaths came fifth In the list of injuries, with 285. Mie ; | was led by Georgia. Virginia and Log. isiana in addition to Florida. South Carolina brought up the rear io this 3 column with 68. There were no particular outstand 'ng accidents which yielded a large number of deaths recorded during the 1 period of the survey. A tabulation by states for the quar* j ter includes: North Carolina 115 deaths. 285 injured, South Carolina, 5 39 deaths 68 injured. m TOBACCO CO-OPS HAVE / I ANSWERED SUIT CHARGES 11 Plea in Abatement Alleges “Fraud, ; Conspiracy aral Misrepresentation of 1 Facts.” Raleigh N. C„ March 29. —CP)—A 1 plea in abatement alleging “fraud, con spiracy and misrepresentation of facts” j in scourng plaintiffs to file ings against 'the Tri-Slate Tobacco , Growers Co-operative Marketing As sociation was filed in U. S. District Court here today. The plea was made, 1 as a portion of the answer of the As- : socintion on the injunction proceed- ’ ings seeking its dissolution. Five Virginia tobacco growers, members of the association, are named as plain- 5 tiffs in the proceedings. Court recessed shortly after 11 .o’clock until 2:30 this afternoun lit.; order to give plaintiff attorneys time | to prepare an answer to the chargea :'i conta in'd in the plea of abatement? The hearing opened with a motion 3 by tlie pla’ntifFs attorneys to add 72 Virginia member* of tlie Association J to the bill of complaint as plaintiffs, - The motion was registered by Aarod a Sapiro. counsel for the Association, on the ground that the Association would enter a plea in abatement charging fraud and misrepresentat’on in secur ing the five plaintiffs who signed the original complaint. Judge I. M. Meek ins presiding, took the motion under advisement. The answer of the de fendant Association then was read through the plea in abatement when 1 ; court was recessed. The plea in abatement charged that in two particulars the plaintiffs attorneys bed practiced “fraud, con spiracy and misrepresentation of facts” in obtaining plaintiffs for Uya ; action. It was alleged that the complaint 1 was drawn without knowledge of who the plaintiffs would be, and then sent to Virginia, where one of counsel se cured five s’gnatures. It was farther alleged that the five plaintiffs did not i read the bill of complaint or know the ‘ nature of its contents. The second ground was that the five plaintiffs had already broken their contracts with the association and therefore had no rights in court as plaintiffs. In support cf this conten tion figures were given show’ng tliat > In 1922 the five growers had marketed total of 56,000 pounds of tobacco hh ugh the association, while tin 1920 they had marketed an amount slightly greater than 1,000 pounds, ti 24 Lawyers Disbarred. ’ Washington. March 21).—OP)— Twenty-four lawyers have been dm- •; barred from practice before tlm Treas ury department, as a result of an In vestigation of charges of collusion he- J tween them and employes of the In ternal Revenue Bureau. RAT’S BEAR SATSt /'| Cloudy tonight and Tuesday, fol-*1 owed by rain Tuesday. Moderate s utheast shifting to northeast, winds. • :