Business: Reckoning Day

Public feeling in Buncombe County, N. C., was high against Wallace B. Davis, president of the collapsed (Nov. 20) Central Bank & Trust Co. of Asheville. So a jury from neighboring Haywood County was called in to try him. Co-defendants in the case were famed Col. Luke Lea of Nashville, his son Luke Lea Jr., 23, and Col. Lea's associate E. P. Charlet.

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