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VOLUME XXVI
STATE WILL WVt
I HALF MLLH
, BALANCE JUNE 30
Fiscal Year Expires at That
Time.—This Is Indicated
by Figures of the Bud
get Bureau.
BALANCE DUE TO '
DIRECT SAVINGS
In Various Departments,
as the Result of Fore
sight and Business Meth
ods of Gov. McLean.
Tribune Raleigh Bureau,
Sir Walter Hotel.
1 Raleigh, June 2.—Tile State of
■North Carolina will etui the present
■fiscal year which expires June .‘hi
■with a balance of approximately $500,-
■OOO in the treasury above expendi
itures despite-the fact that the budget
I estimate of expenditures was some
l $371,000 short of the appropriations
I for the year, figures available in the
! Budget Bureau indicated today. It
was pointed out that this balance will
be the result of direct savings In the
various de]iartments due to the fore
sight and business methods employed
by Governor A. W. McLean ns di
rector of the Budget, rather than to
any excess in collections by the Reve
nue Department, although indications
n-e that the collections will exceed
the original budget estimates of col
lections, which amounted to $12,-
425,688, but will probably not equal
♦he budget estimate of expenses, which
amounted to $12,083,000.
The expectation of Governor Mc-
Lean. however, that the State would
end the fiscal year with a substantial
balance, and the prediction mode by
R. A. Boughton, Commissioner of
Revenue, that the collections of his
department would equal the budget
cst imate, if not exceed it, as carried
in an exclusive dispatch from The
Tribune Bureau here more than a
week ago. are being borne out by the
figures showing the receipts of the
Department of Revenue, made public
today by that department.
Cp to Monday, May 31, the Rev
enue Department had collected, slQ k
574,204.38, which is $2,010.33 more
than thp estimated collections as given
in the 1 budget. Department officials
estimated this figure would be swell
ed by at least $400,000 from collec
tions from licenses taxes under Belied
ule B. alone, not counting additional
revenue that will come in from other
sources for another 30 days yet. The
collecthms from the income tax had
So exceeded the budget estimate of
854,000. yesterday showing re
pi si to date of $8,010,200.71. being
$ 1 tis.2othT 1 iu excess of the budget es
timate. However, collections of taxes
under Schedule B, made up of the
so-called licenses tnxes on profession
al ami business men, are still approx
imately $400,000 tinder the budget
estimate. But thin discrepancy will be
more than covered by collections this
month, it is expected.
Collections for the month ending
May 31 total $301,598.28 and have
been credited to tile various divisions
of tlie Revenue Department as fol
lows
Income tax $207,546.88
Inheritance tax 48,291.45
License tax, (Sch. B) - 23,263.45
Telephone tax 32,423.20
Franchise tax : 3.150.65
Bus tax 11.670.00
Insurance tax 5.250.05
i Insurance tax 5,250.65
Collection for May—Total $391,506.28
One of the largest savings to the
State for the year, however, will re
mit from the savings accruing in the
ontiugent fund, of $200,000 which
las virtually been untouched, and
rom the emergency loan fund of
124KM)00, from which only about $5.-
100 bus been used. The additional
imount needed to make up the $500,-
100 balance that will be in the State
reasury at the end of the fiscal year,
June 31, will result from savings in
Rig, administration of other depart
ments.
’ This record made in the financial af
fairs of the State is largely due to
the splendid business administration
that has been given the state in all of
its departments by Governor McLean
and the close watch he has maintain
ed over its financial affairs as Director
of the Budget.
Killed in Gambling Game.
Greensboro, June I.—Ed Wharton,
charged with the fatal shooting here
early this morning of Clarence Lane
; during n gambling game, and Whar
ton’s brother, Clarence Wharton, who
is alleged to have handed Ed the pU
. tol, are being sought by the police.
( All t'.ie parties are negroes. It is
alleged that during a "skin game”
Lane reached for the pot of $6 before
his hand had been played, when Clar
ence Wharton is alleged to have hand
ed Ed the pistol and Ed, according
toavtlie police, shot Lane through the
lieart. Both negroes escaped in an
automobile.
Delay Visit to Hotel For Several
Days.
Due to the character of work that
■is being done at the new Hotel Con
■cord at present, persons are asked
■by a representative of t'.ie architect
■to.dclay their visit to the structure.
■ Within the next several days, it
Bras explained, visitors will be wel
comed but their presence at this time
Hieeessarily delays some of the work-
Hnen, a condition that la not desired.
The Concord Daily Tribune
' North Carolina’s Leading Small City Daily
In News ’Round the World
E ICING HAAKON
s
MABM/ WDT> " B. I^EED^
P r ; W O. Thompson was elected moderator of the Presby
terian General Assembly. King Haakon, of Norway, was
bitten by a dog while defending his Queen’s dog-from attack.
Present penalties are not adequate, said Mabel Walker Wilie
brandt, Assistant Attorney-General, in charge of prohibition.
William B. Leeds, America’s richest youth, annoyed
Hawaiian society by consorting with beach boys at Waikiki.
REPORTS OF FARMERS ON
THEIR CROP ACREAGES
Amounts to Nothing More Than an
Inventory of the Area of Crops in
the State.
Tribune Raleigh Bureau,
«... . Sir Walter Hotel.
-Raleigh, Jorte 2.—Tlie raiwSfts 'which
farmer* all over the State are making
on their crop acreages iu connection
with listing their taxes amounts to
nothing more than an inventory of the
area of the crops in the state, it is
pointed out by the Department of Ag
riculture here.
inventories are essential to all bus
iness concerns, in order that they
may know from time to time what
profit is being earned on the amount
of capital invested. So why should
not an inventory be of equal value to
farmers? Farming is the most haz
ardous. unsystematic, all inclusive
and unremunerative industry in tlie
country today, it is pointed out. and
there ure no stabilization methods be
cause there is no organization. Each
of the 285,000 farmers in the State is
competing with each other without a
knowledge of what the others are in
tending to do. This is not true with
other businesses.
It is to correct this situation that
the Farm Census plan was conceived
and put into operation. And now
tlie census is rapidly providing a re
liable basis for giving the farmers
helpful information that can help in
correcting tills situalion.
Already the Vocational Agricultur
al Schools of the State are preparing
to use the farm census as a basis for
studying their local farm prob|ems,
with a view to finding wherein the
competition may be lessened and where
profitable crops may be encouraged.
The farm, demonstration agents in
many counties are using the Farm
Census records In studying and
analyzing their county’s farm econom
ic situation. The information is es
pecially valuable to county agents
just coining into a county.
Because the statistics that come
from the Department of Agriculture
appear dry and. uninteresting and te
’dious, the idea should not prevail that
they are valueless, It is pointed out.
Instead, they offer the most under
standable form of information and
represent results of what has been
done in actual performance. That is
why banks and industries can figure
so closely as to where to economize
and where to expand. The Furm Cen
sus is the farmer’s friend, otherwise
the Department of Agriculture would
not indorse it.
Mrs. Lttta C. Johnston Dies at Her
Ho<n< hi Charlotte.
Charlotte, June I.—Mrs. Latta C.
Johnston, one of the most prominent
women of Charlotte, died at her home
here tonight following an illness of
several weeks. For many years Mm.
Johnston had been prominent in the
social, religious and educational life
of Charlotte. She was a member of
the United Daughters of Hie Confed
eracy, former chairman of the Co
lonial Dames, former regent of the
Mecklenburg chapter Daugbtem of
the American Revolution, member of
the hoard of directors of the Assoc
iated Charities and of the board of
directors of the auxiliary of the
I American legion.
Burnett Lewis haa returned home
: from the Episcopal High School at,
■ Alexandra, Va., where he has been in
1 school the past year, to spend the
• summer vacation with his parents, '
Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Lewis. |
TIIE TROUBLE WITH THE
CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS
They Tried to Establish Price Fixing
and to Become Absolute Monopo
lies.
Tribune Ualeigh Bureau,
. Sir Walter Hotel. l
Raleigh. June 2.—The great trim-’
ble with tobacco co-operative associa
tions lias been not because they were
not sound from a business point of
view, but because they have tried to
establish price-fixing and to become ab
solute monopolies, according to Dr.
C. C. Taylor, Dean of the Graduate
School, North Carolina State College
here, who has made an interesting
study of the co-qperative marketing
of tobacco and who lias worker out
what is believed to be a workable plan
to prevent the collapse of co-opera
tive tobacco marketing In this and
other states, where it lias been under
going stormy times of late. The Tri-
State Co-operative Association was
virtually dissolved in Raleigh yestere
tiay and on June 4 the Old Belt grow
ers meet in Danville, Va., where ac
tion looking toward dissolution is
probable. That all are agreed that
co-operative marketing is more effi
cient method of marketing than any
other, has already been demonstrated,
Mr. Taylor says, who urges the vari
ous co-operative association to forget
everything else and get busy perfect
ing a marketing organization that will
demonstrate its superior efficiency.”
But to succeed in this, the co-oper
ative association must not try to fix
prices or become a monopoly, but
must be content to Ik- just one of
the "leaf dealers" in the tobacco mar
ket. Its one job is to sell the tobacco
of its grower-members, and in doing
this it ought to be the best, most
trustworthy and *lllOßl efficient dealer
in the market, Dr. Taylor asserts.
From the manufacturers’ standpoint
it can be the most efficient, first, by
furnishing accurately graded tobac
co; second, by furnishing it in large
quantities and third, by doing it at
greatly reduced expense to the buyer.
It is not so much the tobacco manu
facturer, as the "pin hooker” and big
leaf speculator who object to stand
ardizmg the grades of tobacco.
Attention was called to the fact by
Dr. Taylor that eo-operativo cotton
associations do not in any way- at
tempt to control the cotton supply,
and that their success has chiefly been
due to the fact that they have simply
, cut out tlie gains of ,the street buy
ers, country damage and other fac
tors and that they have sold cotton
on sure grades and returned the sav
ings to their members.
“If tobacco groivers can be made to
see tlie futility of trying to organize
a price-fixing or commodity-holding
association, and if they will be will
ing to sign a contract which need not
provide for the delivery of any given
per cent, of tobacco, but only to re
quire that a certain quantity of to
bacco. Kuffle’ent to guarantee efficient
over-head operation, be delivered. I
believe 75.000,000 i>ounde would give
this guarantee and that is more tobac
co than the biggest leaf market iu
the world handle annually,” Dr. Tay
lor stated.
But to succeed, the present con
tract must be changed from the 50 per
cent, basis to the 75.009.000 pounds
guarantee plan, and the associations
must only as efficient leaf agencies,
with no Idea of commodity control,
. Dr. Taylor maintains.
| Northwestern University plans so
have it* new stadium ready for
(football games by next Fall. '
CONCORD, N. C.,
EVERYTHING READY
FOR DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARY JUNE STH
A Number of Incumbents
Will Have No Opposi
tion—Two Congressmen
Have Opponents.
ELEVEN JUDGES
TO BE NOMINATED
Seven Have No Opposi
tion.—Contests on for
> Legislature in Large Ma
jority of Counties.
Raleigh, June 2.— (4*) —When jilie
voters go to the polls on SaturdQjf to
ex pi ess their choice for candidate# to
enter the general election in Npvji’in
her, there will be a number of
bents who will be able to ‘*#it b#‘k"
and "take things easy.” For fev
aral of t'.ie "ins" have no opposition
in the primary and among these hiv
several rather important offices.
Senator Overman will have an op
ponent in Robert It. Reynolds for ti e
Democratic nomination but only two
of the ten congressmen have opposi
tion in the Democratic ranks and, in
this state, nomination by the Demo
crats t:> Congress is generally regard
ed ns equivalent to election. There
fore, eight of North Carolina’s con
gressmen may safely- look forward to
two more years in tlie lower house of
the national legislative body. They
are Lindsay C. Warren, John H.
Kerr, C. L. Abernethy. Edward W.
I’ou. Charles M. Stedman, Homerv
L. Lyon, William G. Hammer and R.
L. Doughfon. In the ninth district
A. 1,. Bulwinkle will have opposition
from J. A. Dimette. In the tenth
district Zobulon Weaver will be bp
posed to Felix Alley.
The chief justice and three asso
ciate justices of the State supreme
court may look forward to eight yours
of continuous service if they so de
sire. Chief Justice Walter I*. Stacv!
has no Democratic • opposition for re-j
nomination—equivalent to election—|
and Associate Justices Clarkson.
Adams and Brogden likewise are
without Democratic opposition.
Corporation Commissioner 4. J.
Maxwell will tiave no Democratic op
position for re-nomination so he will
■+*■ in h position Saturday night* to )
receive the returns without any per
sonal anxiety over the outcome.
In the races for the superior court
bench and the solicitorships the same
situation obtains in a number of
cases. Eleven of the twenty judges
must be nominated at Saturday's pri
mary and of these seven incumbents
will be without opposition. In the
races for solicitor there is n little
more fighting for of the twenty which
must be named by both parties to
enter the general elections, there will
be lights for twelve while the other j
eight will be certified to the general
election.
North Carolina- election laws pro
vide that where there is no opposi
tion within a party—Democratic or
Republican—that candidate is certi- -
fled to the general election as Hie
nominee of his party and his name
does not appear on the primary bal
lot. The result of this will be that,
with the exception of the district
where there are contests and the con
tests for the general assembly, a large
number of the voters on Saturday
will have to make only one decision,
that between Overman and Reynolds
for file United States Senate.
The general assembly will lie a
free-for-all with contests on in a large
majority of the counties and the sen
atorial districts.
OVERMAN VS. REYNOLDS
Many Think That the State Should
Be Served as Senator by a Younger ’
Man.
Tribune Btirean,
Sir Walter Hotel.
Raleigh, June 2.—Are the cohorts
of Senator Lee V. Overman peace- j
fully slumbering by the wayside, :
smiling smugly in their slumber as'
dreams of an easy, walk-away vic
tory at the polls Saturday! ttloat j
floweringly through their somnolent
mentality, while the backers of
Robert R. Reynolds, eager, en-1
thusiatstic and aggressive, but with I
no blare or noise of extravagant j
claims, are steadily registering gains ■
for their candidate? This is a ques
tion that is being considerably dis
cussed the last few days here, though
chiefly by those coming into Raleigh
from other sections of the • stale,
where the contest between Overman
and Reynolds for the nomination to
the United Stateas Senate is more
clearly d<sjned that in jKaleigh wnere
the. “Old Machine” undoubtedly
holds sivay and where it is almost
regarded as sacrilege to even hint
that Overman is even in any dan
get.
But that, of course, is among rhe
older politicians, the “wise boys”
who have watched and pronosticuiod
every primary and every election
sinice 1896 and before, and who most
of the time have been wrong hut
never have admitted it. But there is
a different lfote sounded by die
younger voters, ranging from 21 up
to 45 years, say. TJieir minds are not
interwined by the ivy of political
tradition, by the “I remember when ’
stories told of campaigns of years
gone by. The past means little to
them and they are looking toward
the future. They have no objenruns
to Overman personally —they rive
him full credit for all he has dme
far the State during his long stay in
the Senate- But they feel that be
NESDAY, JUNE 2, 1926
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\ 4* ed in each precinct judges are fa
. asked to send or ’phone the re-
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Employes of the office will be fa\
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and evening to take the results.
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fa formation as we may be able to
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j THE COTTON MARKET
> * Opened Today at Decline of 3 to 5
, j Points, With the First Offerings
, I Light.
j New York, June 2. — (A 3 )—The cot
. tpn market opened today at a decline
’, of 3 to 5 points owing to a more fav
. orable view of weather conditions in
i the south, and relatively easy Liv C
r. pool cables. Offerings were light,
however, and prices held steady after
the eall oil covering which seemed to
, be combined with a little trade or
i investment buying of new crop monts.
. October contracts sold off to 17.53
at the start, but were ruling around
17.55 at the end of the first hour, or
within 4 points of yesterday’s clos
ing quotations.
j Hie early selling was due partly to
expectations of a fairly favorable
weekly review of crop progress by the
weatiier bureau, but there may have
been n little buying on reports of a
better tone in the local cotton mar
ket.
Private cables reported some hedge
selling and liquidation in Liverpool.
Cotton futures opened steady. July
18.32; Oct. 17.53; Dec. 17.50; Jan
17.44; March 17.55.
'MARTIN CALLS OFF ALL
OTHER SCHEDULED DEBATES
Gives No Reason for Cancelling Athe
, Ist Anti-Evolution Debates in the
State.
| Charlotte. N. June 2.—UP)—De
bates scheduled ill North Oarolinn
between the Anti-Evolution League
. and the Society for the Advancement
of Atheism in America have been can
celled, Dr. T. T. Martin, field secre
tory of tile former organization, an
nouneed here today.
1 Dr. Martin and Howell S. Eng
flsaud. Detroit biologist and lawyer,
met here last night in the second of
their debates. A very small, assem
blage listened to them.
No reason for the cancelling of the
scheduled debates in the state was giv
en.
“Bull in a China Shop."
I Pueblo. Col.. June I.—rA "bull in
| n> china closet” burlesque was broken
HP by a police riot squad, after a
large bull appeared at a local case,
surveyed the customers, and charged
across the rooms, scattering tables,
dishes and patrons. Tile officers
roped the .animal and dragged him
! from the restaurant with an autoino
; bile.
1
has served his State here as long as
he should and that a younger mnn,
a man more representative the
awakening south, more in harmony
with its aspirations and desires,
should share in its representative in
the Senate, and many of Them feel
that Bob Reynolds would not only
ably guard the interests of the state
now, but would look ahead and help
provide for even greater things for
it in the future.
The enthusiasm of the Reynolds is
backers is another thing that is
causing many to pause and consider.
Where there is such enthusiasm and
Interest and such open and sincere
work in another man’s behalf, there
| must be ome inspiring force back of
it—something more genuine than n
I well-chosen word of greeting, a hand
shake and a slap on the back,
j “It is surprising the way these
1 fellows who are for Reynolds are for
j him” II young man remarked in the
Hotel here today—and from all indi
cations lie is for Overman, or nny
j way has been until now. “Just now,
coming down the street not less than
three or four different fellows stop
| ped me and asked me to vote for
i Reynolds. And they put up sound,
1 arguments, too. There must be some
thing to Reynolds to get the follow
ing he has, especially here in Ral
eigh,” he commented. This chap was I
not a politician, just n young busi
ness man, probnbly a clerk in a store
or office. But the majority of the
voters are “just business men,” just
clerks or employes, not professional
politicians. That is what makes it
all signiticant.
But everything is not all in Rey
nolds' favor, by any means. There is
no use scouting the fact that Over
man has a tremendous advantage be
cause of the mere fact that he has
been in the Senate for 20 years,
knows all the ins and outs of the
political situation in Washington
and has served his State faithfully
and well. Many will vote for him out
of nothing else than courtesy, despite
the fact that they feel in their
hearts that it would be a good thing
to have n younger man in the Senate.
They feel that he is getting old, and
thnt it wou’d not be ;» cnivalrous
thing to do to displace him now, and
sentiment will triumph over sense.
In fart, it is upon this very
psychology that many of his backers
are counting upon him to win the
nomination Saturday. And they may
be figuring it properly, too, for sen
timent is a powerful force at any
time and especially in politics.
WOMEIDENYCLI I
OF AUTOCRACY FOR
CHANGES 111 PLANS
Officers of Federation of
I Womenss Clubs Say a
| Central Office in Wash-!
i ington Is Necessity.
CLEARINGHOUSE
IS THE OBJECT
Deny the Headquarters
Will Be Throne Room as
Was Charged by Foes to
the Plan.
Atlantic City, June 2.— UP) —A
clearing house, not a throne room, is
tiie ideal which the governing body of
the General Federation of Woman’s
t'iubs holds for its general headquar
ters at Washington.
Mrs. John I). Sherman, president,
and Mrs. Robert Burdette, senior
member of the board, in this fashion
answered for Vie Associated Press the
defeated minority cries of the 18th
biennial convention against ’autoc
racy’’ and "centralization for pow
er."
The federation prolbem which we
are solving by centering certain of
our activities and routine in general
headquarters in Washington are
those of unwieldiness nnd of large
areas." said Mrs. Sherman. “How
can 15,000 clubs operate in unity in
any other way than through central
representation and central conduct of
routine affairs?
"We are the last large national or
ganization to abolish the office of cor
responding secretary in favor of a
paid secretary at headquarters.
■"Two years ago file board voted to
have the executive committee com
posed of officers, rather than the board
of 05 changing members, appoint the
chairman of departments acting on
the recommendations of state presi
dents. No one raised objections
then.
CAROLINA POWER CO
STARTS THE NEW DAM
Hands Clearing Away For Site and
Building Shanties For Workmen.
Albemarle, June I.—Work is get
ting under way on the new dam of
the Carolina Power and Light Com
pany on the Pee Dee River, there
being forces of hands clearing out
for the site, building shanties, etc.
so that before very long it is ex
pected that work will be in full
swing.
Hardaway Contracting Company
which has the contract for construc
tion of the mammoth dam, will
build its camp on the west side of
the river. Mr. Scott, who was with
the Hardaway Contracting Company
in connection with the construction
of the big Badiu dam, is now in Al
bemarle, and it is understood that
he will be the superintendent in
charge of the construction of the
Carolina Power and Light Com
pany’s new dam. The Carolina Power
and Light Company has a few more
tracts of land which they have been
unable to purchase from the owners
and this land is being condemned as
rapidly as jiossible. Hearings were
heard in condemnation proceedings
in two eases on last Friday and Sat
urday, those being the lands of ex
j Sheriff G. R. McCain nnd of J. M.
Parker and other. Condemnation of
the land of J. M. Turner was start
ed before the clerk of court on Mon
day. There are two or three other
tracts, it is understood, which it may
be necessary for the company to
demn before they complete their lake
flowage land.
MORE CONFUSION AT
PRESBYTERIAN MEETING
Aroused Over Motion to Investigate
the Princeton Theological Semi
nary.
Baltimore. June 2.— UP) —The Pres
byterian general assembly today ap
proved the appointment of a commit
tee to investigate Princeton Theologi
cal Seminary and especially to the
fitness of Prof. J. G. Machen to take
the C.iair of apologetics and Christian
ethics.
The adoption of the motion fol
lowed an hour and a half of debate
which excelled the confusion surround
ing discussion of the report of tht
committee of fifteen.
SANDLARS’ GOVERNMENT
HAS DECIDED TO RESIGN
Did Not Like Action Which Gav<
Approval to Budget Committee’)
Recommenedations.
Stockholm, Sweden, June 2.— UP) —
Premier Saiullars' socialist govern
ment decided to res'gn today becausi
both chambers of parliament voted ii
favor of the budget committee's ree
ommendations concerning the reliel
cf the unemployed, to which recom
mendations the socialists object.
London, June 2.— UP) —An Ex
change Telegraph dispatch received
through Copenhagen says the Swedish
government has resigned.
With Our Advertisers.
The Corl Motor Co. has accepted
the Concord ngeney for the Overland
and Willys-Knight ears, and carry a
full line of parts for them. Phone 030.
Tfie i/conard deanable refrigera
tors preserve the freshness of foods.
See the line at Bell & Harris Furni
ture Co.
The Sanitary Grocery Co. always
has a complete line of fresh vegeta
bles and fruits.
IBM BBT !
KILLED BUTMED,-
OF NOTORIOUS GBHG[
Officers Think V. E. Grant |
Was Killed For Revenge I
During Auto Chase and
Revolver Battle.
I
W. D. BENNISON
IS MAN WANTED
Watch Is Also Being Kept
For Wilton Jackaby,
Who Is Thought to Have
Aided Dennison.
Asheville, June 2.—(A 3)—Prohibi
tion Agent V. E. Grant shot and kill
ed last n ; ght after ii wild automobile
chase and revolver battle near Heu- 1
dersonville by one of two whiskey run
ners, who escaped, was killed for re
venge by the ex-convict and gunman,
ring leader of a well organized gang
of b’.oikadeis which the government
has teen trying to break up for the
last two years. This is the theory of
Federal officers here today.
Grant headed a squad in charge of
dry enforcement in seven counties in
western North Carolina and was a
son of former Congressman Grant,
republican, who represented the tenth
district several years ago.
At Hendersonville ail roads leading
into the town and surrounding coun
tryside were combed by a searching!
party composed of every available F |
S. officer in the district. The entire I
personnel of the sheriff's office of Hen
derson County and a dozen or more j
volunteers, all heavily armed, and de
termined to capture W. 1). Bennison.
the man believed to have shot Grant,
nnd Wilton Lackaby, driver of the
whiskey runner's car.
A coroner's inquest was to be held
at Hendersonville today but it was
considered likely it would be contin
ued. No funeral arrangements for
Grant were announced.
Tiie identity of the man who escap
ed was learned from Floyd Boyd, a
blind man, and Pless D. Fisher, who
were occupants of the rear car of the
whiskey runners car, and were arrest
ed immediately following the shooting
by Prohibition Agent Will - Owens,
partner of Grant, who drove the gov
ernment car in the wild chase of six
miles before the shooting 6egan.
Bennison had been arrested by dry
agents here three times. On one
charge he was sent to the Atlanta
penitentiary for 1 year, after serving
this term lie was arrested again in
1!!25 and Nent so jail for five months.
Another time he was sentenced to
serve four months in jail, but the
sentence was suspended. Bennison
was said to be a pal and partner in the
whiskey running business with Adam
Ballinger who was killed in li>2f» in
a revolver battle with Agent Grant.
Subsequently friends of Ballinger
succeeded in having Grant indicted
for manslaughter, and the case was
scheduled to be called in federal court
here in the near future.
Men Are Arrested.
Asheville, June 2. — UP) —W, D.
Bennison, alleged slayer of Prohibi
tion Agent V. E. Grant in a sensa
tional pistol duel near Flat Rock last
night, and Willie Lackaby, driver of
the automobile in which was a cargo
of whiskey, were captured early this
morning in the Catshead section of
Henderson county.
Two bloodhounds led a posse of
100 heavily armed men to Lackaby's
home. Lackaby was captured by
Deputy Sheriff G. A. Garien as he
was leaving his home. Bennison was
s.~rn to flee from the Lackaby home
nnd was overpowered by the posse a
short distance from the house.
ABSENT VOTERS ARE
PUT ON THEIR HONOR
Certificate of Physical Disability and
Physician’s Certificate May Be Ig
nored.
Raleigh, .Tunc I.—Voters who on
June 3th, the date of the state-wide
primary election, will not be in Che
county where registered may disre
gard tiie certificate of physical dis
ability and the physician's certificate
which is sent out with ballots. They
are only required to certify on their
honor that they will be absent.
This is the official ruling handed
down today by Assistant Attorney
General Frank N'ash. The ruling
vas furnished Raymond C. Maxwell,
secretary of the state board of elec
tions, in an effort to remove con fu
sion in the minds of voters, it was
explained.
Mr. Nash also sets at rest the
minds of members of the county
boards of election on a point which
has created confusion. The state
hoard has furnished the county boards
with both certificate "A,” which is
used when the ballots are filled outl
and marked, and certificate “B”
whicli is used without ballots when
the “straight" ticket is voted.
Mr. Nash explains that only cer
tificate "A” is applicable to the pri
mary election.
Abner L. Green Offered Place In Law
School.
Chapel Hill, June J. —Abner Leon
Green, professor of law in the Uni
versity of Texas, was today offered
the deanship of the school of law in
the University of North Carolina to
succeed Merton lieroy Feraon. recent
ly resigned to accept, the deanship
of the University of Cincinnati law
school.
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THE TRIBUNE 1
PRINTS i
TODAY’S NEWS TODA|§
NO. 128;
| ii onio mil
Makes Plea For JeffersQlt- I£|
I ian Principles and
sails Two-Thirds Rul£llftf9|
i His Address. 8
PARTY LEADERS ,Jm 8
AT GATHERING §|
Two-Thirds Rule Teritilli iiß
“Body of Death” to rag M
Democrats by ForihCT ®
Secretary of the Navp|| 8
Columbus, 0., June 2. i/P>—Jef- I.'
fe-.-sonian principles of
were advocated and the t
rule for nominating 1 lemocratio. I’KuL- 5P'Bl
identin 1 candidates and the unit
hniding states to one candidate.,
assailed by former Secretary of
Navy Josephus Daniels at a stufite TcBS
wide meeting of Hie Democratic
ers here today.
"Tiie hour inis struck.” said
Daniels, "for the Democratic MgiifAßfH
to rid itself of the body of AitS '-Sfl
popularly known as the two-H»}aß SB
It is n misnomer. It
be called the one-third rule. It,lM||||Hn
crates for no good purpose. It
big stick that can In' used to MHHkI B
a handful of delegates to thwart
will of the majority." S
"Just so long as it Is possible
| 2(i7 delegates to a convention
it]) of I.OOH delegates to defeat
j will of over til HI, just so long to »
| possible menace. IjH
"Tiie day of tiie
goes to the scrap head to which It |ii
now headed, that day also should
unit rule also go into inmiciiouj)
suet ude. They were born itt
same atmosphere, and It is fitting. tbd.f jHS
they should he sepulchred as twin
emies of I lie easy acceptance of
rule of the majority.” iJjjß
The former naval secretary
ed tiie economy program of the
idge administration, lie quoted.
tires which he said proved Ids
lion that the "cost of government is JQn
steadily rising." J9H
TOBACCO ASSOCIATION 8
IS IN COURT AQAHtlji
Another Move to Have *1
pointed for Tri-State Vssociatioa. ',3 lip
Raleigh. June 2.— (A*) —With ro*» im
sideruble evidence already lireseiitdaF
nnd with the trend of tiie court’s
indicated, the Tri-State Tobaccfit
Growers’ Co-operative Association mjm
went back into the federal
today to continue its defense a—
receivership. Tiie hearing before Judll&ajß
I. M. Meekins was scheduled .
resumed at today's session with jLMKHHI
cations it would not come up
this afternoon. jH
Witness after witness
I idled last night by J. Lloyd HfttMjnß
of plaintiffs’ counsel, in nil endefWM'S'
to siiow that the organization virtaati .-
!y was in the hands of its
without any official sanction.
defense denied this contention and-MfSI
treduced testimony tending to pMJIFfMSH
thnt the actions of the pagt.,, .two
months were indicative of a desiro.to djßis
cut overhead in obedience to the fejwllß* I
. era! court's order some time ago, mA'hH
not of liquidation. H
Plaintiff counsel brought out thg|'
! the association had named W,JHBfL-!
Fitzgerald and Irving P. Whitehead,
, both of the Federal Intennediato j '
Credit Bank of Baltimore, to the egfe'-.J* 7 .
ecutive committee of the
in an advisory capacity, and
, ployed Martin 1,. Corey, of New
! as financial adviser. The plainißMiH
contended that because the first tw° 9
had been naniud officers, though .witSiSSMii
out any official connection .eretvfow ■
legal process, the Federal
, ate Credit Bank being the lj|tiii3|BH
* creditors of the association. The,
sense maintained that the repr*9s|j|te£|^H|
* tives of the credit bank were
to the association to help it wor&'4H§fa^9 : i
its financial affairs. 9
1 Judge Meekins indicated his
whether a receivership for the
ciation would bring about any better
management than the rrrgnnirntwjßßH
* now has. 9
Mr. Sink Investigates Rowan County Jg
Murder.
Raleigh, June I.—H. Hoyt* SU&'flß
1 commissioner of pardons, ha« just
■ returned from a trip to the PicduuMt
! section of the state where he
investigations regarding Fred
■ negro, under sentence of death llh|Hs
- murder, whose case lias been fOrmalvcSH}
i presented for executive clemencyß
Jones was convicted of the murder m
)of a laundry man in Winstun-BaHfikj|l ;
■ and lias been denied a new trial by >*p
i tiie supreme court. His
r plea is that the negro is inaanc 8
> Mr. Sink secured considerable,
< formation in Rowan county,
t Jones at one time served on the
gang, the pardon commissioner said- "jljl
i No decision lias yet been reached. 8
Coronach Wins English DehbrMfj 8
Epsom, England, June 2.
Uord Woolavingtons Coronach, mm *8
of Hurry On. out of Wet Kiss,
v the 14,'ird renewal of the derby
ribbon classic of British racing flji
today. W. Singer’s Lancegaye
second, and Lord Derby's Colorado, W&
j the favorite, third. 9
0 the weather J
p Fair tonight, Thursday
v cloudy, local thundershowers iniill
portion. Moderate southwest wUHB9[