THUBSDAY. MAY 11th, IMS. «1.K0 PBR YlAB 01 A&TAINB.
ram MILLION TO
BR PAID MEMBERS
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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 <jf I
Basil H. Hedgecock, cashier of the
bank, Tueaday at which time the
auidtora had shown a shortage of over
(47,000. At thi.t tini" three of the
atrongeat men t>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 <wl»N Um pr—idant of
the Woman'* Missionary aociatj la
tha local churches becomes • member
of tha qoarterly confaranea of tha
church.
Tha church alao went on record as
strong against educational fsataraa
as qualifications for mialstar*
a bill providing that every i^plicant
for admission on trial must have
spent at least two years in a collage
waa rejected. This memorial waa
reported adversely by the committee
on revisals and tha conference was al
most unanimous in ita verdict.
Tha request of certain members
from Texas to remove the prohibition
against tobacco by young preachers
was not permitted by tha general con
ference. The committee reported
sversely on the proposal, and it was
defeated by a wholeaome majority
Other Item* which were rejected aa
proposed were:
To prohibit district conference from
fixing the salaries of presiding elders
on a percentage basis sad force thenx]
to spacify s fixed sum.
To require churches to pay the mov
ing expenses of the pastors:
To abloiah the ad Interim committee
of the district conference which may
license persons to preach:
To name a commission to study the
matter of pastor's salary with a view
of fixing the minimum for married
«.nd unmarried preachers.
One of the conflicts of the coming
week will be the matter of the dis
burse) of the funds remaining from
the activities of tha war work com
misaon. This commission has seversl
sd thuyaanda >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