THUBSDAY. MAY 11th, IMS. «1.K0 PBR YlAB 01 A&TAINB. ram MILLION TO BR PAID MEMBERS MM t ^ War FImums CUma »«»« » U Pr>«wt «t WrtrlMb* LuiafWn. Ky. May l.-Owwn of MbMN m Kentucky, Indiana sad Ofcto, who a« —*•« 0? tta B«rtoy ' Owwii' C« >nw»lw aMoriartnit. trill NMln M*f » —thsr P*J»,nt of ippmtmn-'r on their crops which they «• «•«*• *, pUau of the association, the lemnrl pijmMiit to be of tin WMDI u the flr»t, according to the daeiaion of Um board of director* of tM MMCUttOB this WMk. Th« manner of delivery of the checks to Um growers Is left to Um directors l|« each district. to whom >11 tfce chocks for growers In hl» district win b« Mat It i« expected to make Saturday, May 20, a day of jolUfication in Um dletrict, with speeches at public meet ings In moat caaaa, followed by tha delivery of tha checka to the r™»«™ These details, howsrer, are left to Um discretion of tha director In each district and no uniform Method of delivery has yet been agreed upon. Bach director will announce to the <*>unty papers the time and method of diatribution to be followed la hie dis trict. After thorough discussion of the oatiook, with a review of sales already made and tome others In immediate proa pact, the directors were told that they eoald assure their constituents that Umm who had joined the asaocia tion would receive more net money per pound for their tobaeo^ than those paying expenses and the payments on the warehouses which are to be deed ed to the association by June 16. It is e tpected that the drive for new numbers will be started on the day of the second distribution and • kept up for the following week, with the idea of silking »P the organised put of the hurley diatrict 100 per oaat strong, OMfton Mm r+orUd 'avorablvJMBltjL in VM^YMWS. and Tennessee also is to be visited. The directors adopted unanitn< ualy a resolution inciting Eugene Mayer, Jr. chairman of the war finance cor poration. to come to l^xington and address a big meeUng of the citizens of this section of the Bute at a date toward the last of May suiting his convenience. Mr. Meyer will be In Atlanta about May 23. and it is planned to have him come to Lexington May 25 or 26, if he can come. Judge Robert W. Bingham, of Louisville, was appointed' a committee of one to tender the in vitation on behalf of the board. Director of Warehouses, Ralph M. Barker reported to the board on his work so far in agreeing upon valua tions for final taking over the ware houses, saying that in all hot two -um no arbitration had been neces sary. and In those two caaea he haa not been able to see the owners aa yet Some of the directors inquired what was being done In regard to the pro secution of violators of the marketing contract who had eold their crops outside the aaaociation. They were informed by President James C. Stone that case> would soon be filed against the contract breakers. It developed •that opponenta of the association In southern Indiana have been circulat ing a report to tha effect that the as sociation had filed suits and had lost them In the courts here. The direct ors were informed that no suits have yet been filed. Fruit Crop Safe in Sudbilli Country j Southern Pines, If ay 8.—Never in! the history of the Sandhills country [ was the fruit outlook as promising as it is this evening. The crop has passed all danger of damage from weather conditions unless perhaps a; local hailstorm might catch some of H, which woud be of consequence only\ in the section visited. The trees are set full of fruit, and the growth a)-: ready is up to the record. The new trees that are coming Into bearing; this spring will increase the total shipment of peaches probably twenty five per cent. Selling arrangements art completed, with the prospects of the heat market ever known In the The dewberries are in the same sx reliant condition, with the fruit a full nop, and about half grown now. Plans for new orchard* are many, i and money from outside the State as well as within the State la eoming freely for orchard investment In all the territory around Aberdeen, South CAMPAIGN IK FIFTH DISTRICT Mr*. Patters** C—nlMn it aa Hmmt to Rw Aiihwt Mtjw Stedman—Will ks mm Mai UrMiuboro, April 2t.— The Execu IIrt Committee of tlM Flftrt District for the Republican party met to Graensboto on Friday with Mra Lindsay Pitttrm, of VImImi-Mw the recently chosen candidate for Coo greaa in this district, and laid prelim I nary plana for a thorough campalgt by tha flrat woman candidate for th< job North Carolina ha* avar had. Mra. Pattaraon la going into Oh fight with all her energy and enthu siasm. She will make a large numhei of * peer he*, and will endeavor to rover the entire district. Sha la ap preaching the campaign with delight ■he aaid. and *ha welcome* the op portunity to work actively and in per non for matter* that *he deem* ol vital importance. The committee confined ita meetlnf to a discussion of the coming cam paign, and a call for another maetini in Greensboro. At that meeting mon definite plana for the campaign wil be made. Br«idea Mr*. Patterson thoee attend ing the meeting were: Mra. Alia Joyce Nutt, of Greansboro, C. M Jonen, of Stoke* county; 0. B. Webb of Surry county; 'J. E. Joyce, ol Reidaville; 1. T. Salmon, of Durham A. F. Young, of Forayth county. "I do want to *ay that I comidei It an honor to run againat so fine anc honorable a gentleman aa Majoi Stedman," Mra. Patterson aaid aft*] the meeting. "1 have known him foi * long time and there is not a mon tplendid man anywhere. The verj fact that he i* in the campaign will insure the high plane on wheh It will be conducted and I welcome such e right Mrs. Patterson said there was nc poaaibility of a Joint debate between bar and Major 8tedm»» "I don'I TKraef. f bellnv* if might easily de harm to both sides. But of courae 1 plan to *peak all over the dlatrtct. 1 want to go ev«qr*her« and meet at many of the people as possible. Thai will come later. It is too soon foi that now." Looiu Like Landslide tor Tobacco Marketing Raleigh, May 8.—A landslide in favor of cooperative marketing of to bacco has started in Eastern North Carolina, according to Dr. J. Y. Joy ler, director of the Tobacco Graven Cooperative Association who it ac ■ompanymg President G. A. Norwood and T. S. Ragsdale on a campaign among the farmers and business men if Eastern Carolina. A telegram from James C. Stone President of the Kentucky Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Asao ciation, reaching Raleigh headqnar ters of the Carolina-Virginia Asao riation this week, stated that during the month of February sales of tJw organized grower* through the Bur ley Association averaged twenty-nin< dollars per hundred pounds, as com pared with the sverage of twenty dol< lars and two cents unorganiset growers on the auction floors of Ken tucky. Reports to headquarters here frotr Dr. Joyner toll of Enthusiastic con ferences of business men at Cha4' bourne, Kairbluff, and Proctorville The business men of Luraberton pledging active support of the co operative marketing movement pledg ed their aid in the canvass for ne« members. Two hundred business men of Row land and Fairmont, the leading to bacco market of Robeson county un animously endorsed the movement pledged an active canvass for mem bers and will furnish all neceasar] facilities. With three-hundred farm era and the leading business men ol Spring Hope present • special com mittee wss appointed to carry on th< campaign for a large majority sign-u] in that community. All places of business at Nashville were closed for ysatsrday's meeting which overflowed the court hous< resulting in th« decision of Nashvill< business men to build warehousini facilities to lease to ths Tobacc< Growers Co-operative Association. The Beauty of the House is Order; The Blessing of the Housf is Content •neat; The Glory of the House is Hospital 'tjri The Crown of the House Is Godliness ROAD PROGRAM It 100 MILES AHEAD Of PLAN . BMa to bm Opmmd May M Par 171 MUm to W of tha Roftd PUtricta Raleigh, May (.—The iUU highway commiaaion eonfwMet Friday and to . day with Southern railway ami other i roada relative to aitataatJag pto 1 crossings, got far enough to a franc* a conference Wadneaday of naxt week ' at Cary whan tha crossing In that piaea will to diecuaaed. Tha Southern presented • dlitrtaa ful atory of hard tUaes without brag ging about It It haa 7,000 milea of : track in the IS atataa which It tra i! verses. If H had sixteen millioM of ready money and the public an aqua) ' amount, grade rrowing* would to ahollafod by it In a yaar and all other roada almilarly bleaaed would do tha , »ame, the Southern official! declared. But money la tight. Tha highway commission la following the Supreme 1 court lead In requiring the roada to pay half the coat of theae grade nro-a 1 inga. For that reaaon the highwjya croaa track* aa aeldom aa poaaible. There will be a aurvey Wednesday of ' next week at Cary. While dlacuaaing other thinga today the cummiaaion dropped the gladaome now* that it la 200 miiaa ahead of ita half-way mark on the 1,000-mile pro gram for thia year. Bida for roada in the first, third, fifth, aixth, seventh, eighth and ninth diatricta May 26 will call for 171 milea of which 101 ia for hard aurface. Thia will represent at the end of the fifth month 600 miles for the tear, more than three-fifth* of the project ed work. This will be the biggest award, IS projects in all, coating in round num ber* $3,000,000. It will bring the total to $9,900,000. HIGH POINT BANK CLOSED Shortage of Approximately. $102,000 Revealed by Audits wm ii • of 186,000 in the account* of the Home Banking Company, the doom of the institution were cloaed today by Clarence I-a them, chief Stata bank examiner. The investigation being made at the inetaace of the bank examiner haa now revealed visaing funda to the amount of approximately $102,000 and the audit ia far from be-1 ing completed, it is announced. Mr. Latham ordered the arrest ehind the bank gave a 1100,000 bond, which it was believed at thf time, would cover all the loaaea. Hedgecock, who is said to have made a written confeaaion at the time he «(M relieved of hu> duties, turned over to the bank property and guaranty bonda worth about $46,000. This ia atill sufficient to protect the depositors, Mr. Latham lays, if no other large amount ia found miaaing. When it became rumored yesterday that the known snortage had increaaed considerably, th«;r» waa a mild run on 'he bank, which resulted in the doors being cloaed today. Hedgecock who haa bean trying to make the $45,000 since his arrest Tuesday night was placed behind the ban for the first ttaN this afternoon. He spent the last three nights in local j hotels in company with a police offi ' eer, but thia morning Prosecuting At ' toraey T. W. Albertson iaaued in structions that he be put in Jail to in aure his aafe keeping. He waa carried to Greensboro, where he might confer with hia attorneys, and locked up in the county Jail there. He will he brought to High Point in the mora ;| ing for his preliminary trial. The audit of the books waa not begun at the request of the bank's officials, sa was at first reported bat was the result of diacoveriea made by the bank examiner'a force. Herbert ! Newbold, asaiatant bank examineT >' was aent here by his chief on April ' 19 and unearthed a shortage in the , accounts, according to Chief Examiner , Latham. Mr. Latham stated today that he i had tried every way In the world to keep from closing the bank, but that > at last it became necessary to do so. The Home Banking Company was capttaltsed at $30,000 with deposits of approximately $200,000, according to Its last report. A fellow takaa a girl a bunch of flowers now and ska's get to keep a bee to find out whether thsqr'rs real or Mt. WOMEN AM KD RECOGNITION Hot Springs, Ark., Mar first hiliUtion iiucM at ■ion of tha general confi Methodiat Episcopal el waa that adopted today whan Um eonfarenca U dollars uaspent, the amount will be increased from the Centenary collections. The war work commission has made no report but is in favor of spending the money to erect churches or dormi tories in connection with the state universities. This program seems likely to he chsll?nged by the Commit tee on education which will insist that a part of the money be usad for churches or dormitories In connection v/ith certain colleges of the church. h«u»d» and tl Undertaker it Holding Corpse Laurinburg, May f.—No difficulty will be laid in the way of relative* or friends of Conceppo Formita, 22 year old Italian, clubbed to death with a tent spike just across the South Carolina line 13 years ago yesterday, when they come here to claim his body. All that ia needed will be $185 to pay for embalming him, and for storage that has piled up against him. D. A. McDougald, owner of the undertaking establishment where the body h*n been in storage all these years, will be more than glad to part, with hua Conceppo wore out his, welcome the day after he was broughtj here, and his relatives refused to pay for his funeral. His father did come down and enter into negotiations with Mr. McDougsld, but he was unwilling or to pay. It took Mr. McDougald three days to locate the young man's parents after the carnival management had brought him here. Two weeks later the father came to Laurinburg, and wanted Mr. McDougald to bury the body in the potter's field here, and re fused to pay anything. Whereupon Mr. McDougald refused to bury the body, but did agree in writing with the father to hold it until it was called for. He made a payment «f (20. The father, went away and haa not been heard from since. Some daya ago letters were received from the, Italian consulate in Philadelphia ask ing after the body, and Mr. McDou gald has adviaed the Italian authori ties that it is here, in perfect condi tion, and ready for immediate delivery upon the payment of the embalming charges, plus the accrued storage charges. Laurinburg has never been greatly shocked over the proceeding, and it haa gotten entirely accustomed to looking at Conceppo as he keepe his lonely vigil fas the storage room of the undertaking Ha Is visible through the window, sad can be seen, if one knows vteae te leek, from passing tratofc He Mb ttwreegMy natural, except for the feet that the skin haa tamed appreciably fisihar. FLOOD CR1ATIS HA 100 ftUUS LONG hwwl FwUm* hi Lmmmmm Cmm* by New Orleans, May i—bfNti from the flood mm of LmUm* to day iuu that swollen atraaau la the northern port of tha state, angiaailad by water pouring through tha Feari day crevasse fna tha Missiaaippt, afo gradually Inundating Caldwell, Quaeh Ita, Franklin, Nichland and U SaBo Pariahaa, and that tho groat Inland aoa, now mora than one hundrad miles long haa reached tho aoathorn corpor ate limits of Monroe, laaa than forty milaa aottth of Um Arkansas lina. In addition, water ooottnuaa to spread in thoao pariahaa alraady par tially auhmargad, raporta from Cata houla, Trnaaa, Avayallan and Rapidaa indicating that tho water I* rising at the rate of two and thro* inchea a day and continually ip reading over more territory, driving more and more reaidenta into the Red Croaa refugee cam pa or into the hills where an open jair existence is made almoat Intolerable by tha incessant rains so general over the flooded area. All lowlands adjacent to the Quach ita, Tensas, Sad, Little and Black rivers, which center n tha Quachita valley, in the vicinity of Harriaonburg, have been flooded for several days. Water pouring through the Ferriday crevaaae acroaa Concordia pariah which is entirely flooded with tha ex ception of the town of Vidalia, around which a protection levee waa built, is preventing these rivers from empty ing, and as a result backwater ia spreading rapidly in many sections believed previously to be immune from floods. The rise is particularly rapid along the Quachita river. Although the water Is now lapping at the outakirta of Monroe, it ia stated I the flood will not enter the city pro-i per unless there is a break in the j Miaaisaippi levee between r Arkansas city and Lake village, Arkansas. The Quachita river has inundated > the levoes at Logtown, in tha south em part of Quaehka Parish, flooding a wide stretch of territory. The re sidential district of Columbia, Cald- j well Pariah, ia flooded, but the busi- j ness district haa not been reached. Schools have closed down in various parts of Caldwell, Franklin and other! parishes Preparations to meet still j greater floods are proc<«ding through- tha entire section. Thou sands of herds of cattle sre being moved to the hills. Henry E- Tart-! ner, a well-known lumberman of' Urena, haa tendered the use of his game preserve of seven thousand acres in tha western hills of Caldwell Pariah for a livestock range as long aa the flood prevails. No loss of life has been reported since the two negroes were swept into tha ^saa river and drowned in Concordia Parish last weak. Slow rise of backwater has given all ample warnings an opportunity to escape. $490,000 Puraa U Offered to DtmpMjr and Carpentier Pari*, May A puree of $490,000 seventy-five per cent, to go to the winner and 25 per cent, to the k>aer, vas offered Jack Derapaey, world champion boxer, this afternoon for a return match with Georgea Carpen tier, the European champion, to be held in Parahing stadium sometime next autumn. Correspondents were present in a hotel room hare when Lewis Ver ande, representing a group of French financiers, made the offer to Derapaey. He also offered the champion $10,000 a week to sign a aix weeks' contract to appear in the largest music hall in Paris. Georges Carpentier ia an over whelming favorite in the betting as his match with Tad Lewis approaches, odds of four or five to one being of fered on the straight reault, with no takers. Lewis' backers are desirous of betting even money that their man stays longer than the Australian, Cook, wtom George* kno Ved oat in the fourth round, hat Carpentier's followers are unwilling to take thia chance. $436,000 Inheritance Tax Ex pected From Watts Estate Raleigh, May • —At tax headquar ters today It was estimated that the inheritance tax ftoai the George W. Watts estate, Durham, would total MM .000 Row much larger, if say, thia will So than the J. W. estate tarns in, know. The state lost two of Its rich est asea lest yew, Nr. Watt* 4ytag FAMOUS ONE-GUN MAN IS TOO SLOW ON OftAW Ml^b«SU(«d KUMIn Tom bf PmU- Chili, m WWhrta falla, Tom. May 1 9mm ar Dip aty gktrtff M Ballaw, parti- ' hit miwt aa I law offleor, and vetuuM m om or two nrraalWM. waa •hat and UiUad Friday whan polka vialtad TlialiG Parlor, whara • dio tmbanea waa raportad to bo la pro 3. W. McComack, format otata rancor and now chlof of poUao, wW wrwiulowj a/tar tho ahoottag, aaid ha flrod aa Ballow waa rooAtaic for hla gun. Ono of tho ftro ahota flrod entered Ballow'a hand. Two platcta wara foand on BallaWa body, ono of 46 calibre, ailver noun tad and mfrind with what appoarad to b« tlx notchao eat andor tho banal. The other waa an unadornad 44 eaH bra. Attorneys for MrComaek walrad an examination trial and hia bond waa aat at 910,000. Ftftaan namea wara affixed to tho bond and MeCormadi waa released. Famous u • Gun-Fighter in Southwest'* Bad Days Ardmore, Okla., May 6 —Bod Bal lew, known tor years as on* of the fa*teat and on* of the nut (miImi one run man of the southwest, was borne home last night in an airplane, the victim of a man who beat him to the draw. BaJlew, former deputy sheriff here, thr notches on whose gun bora testi mony that he had killed at Wast eight men, and had been the victim of countless other gun fights, was re puted for his quickness on the draw in the early days of outlawry in the •oilthweet. Friday, J. W. McCormack, former Texas ranger, and now Chief of Po lice at Wichita Falls, Texss, drew and fired frit. "Bud took hi too much territory and for once was too slow, on the draw," was the opinion expressed by many here last night. Ballew's prowess with a six-ihooter was reputed in this section as second only to that of his chief, former Sheriff Buck Garrett, under whom Ballew served as a deputy 10 years until Garrett was ousted from office several months ago. He was fearad among the outlaws of the oil fields and cattle country in the early day* when this section of the state was headquarters for notorious outlaws. Ballew was afraid of only one man and that wai his chief. Buck Garrett. When Bud went on a rampage her* and in surrounding towns it was usu ally Buck Garrett that took awny his guns. About two weeks ago. while Ballew was still limping about he shot np two towns near here in daylight. During the trial of Clara Smith Hamon for the killing of Jake L Hamon, Republican national commit teeman from Oklahoma, Bud was ap pointed by Garrett as the personal body guard of the defendant. The night Clara Smith Hamon was acquitted a dinner was given by the defense and to celebrate the victory Bud shot holes in the ceiling of the restaurant, according to some of thoee present Ballew had a permit from the gov ernor to carry a gun. 161,000 Acre* are Plan tad to WslsnasltM This Year Washington, May 'The acreage planted to watermelons in early pro ducing states this year totals 161,000 acres in nine states as compared with 109.800 harvested acres in 1M1, ac cording to estimates made public by the United 9taUi: department of agri culture. This hi an tn^rtase o' 47 per cent. Georgia has 67,300 acres this year, a gain of R2 per -ent over the harvest ed server last year. Te:.as has 37,400 a res, or 29 per cant, mora thaa in 10X1. Florida has 86,400 acraa, a gain of 88 per cant Acreages have also increased la South Carolina, Ala bama, New Mexico, Arisona and sou thern California. A small dec£rase was shows ta North Csmlhts The mora editors write of short