Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World

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Notes Chapter 1. Conspiracy Trial in the Moonshine Capital of the World 1. “Investigator Bailey,” editorial, Roanoke World News, July 3, 1935. 2. Sunday, “Famous ‘Booze’ Sermon.” 3. Hohner, “Prohibition and Virginia Politics,” 8–11, 42–49, 55–64, 120–26. 4. Report by Col. Thomas Bailey to the Alcohol Tax Unit, quoted in Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy of 1935, 24. 5. Ibid. 6. Ibid., 29. 7. Ibid., 47. 8. Salmon and Salmon, Franklin County, 396. 9. J. L. G., Roanoke Evening News, January 29, 1904, p. 2, col. 4, quoted in Salmon and Salmon, Franklin County, 397. 10. Report on the Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws of the United States, 71 Cong. 3 Sess. H.D. 722, Summary, 33, quoted in Salmon and Salmon, Franklin County, 515, fn. 57. 11. Wickersham Commission, Report on the Enforcement of the Prohibition Laws. 12. Ibid. 13. Dezendorf, Wickersham Commission Report,1075. 14. Sinclair, Prohibition,182–84, cited in Salmon and Salmon, Franklin County, 515, fn. 58. 15. Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 836. 16. “Franklin County Deputy and Prisoner Found Murdered,” Roanoke Times and World News, May 18, 1935, p. 1. 17. Ibid. 18. Anderson, “City Gangs Enslave Moonshine Mountaineers,” 12. Chapter 2. Wettest Section in the U.S.A. 1. Hoover, “Memorandum for Assistant Attorney General Keenan,” in Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 59. 2. Wingfield, “The Liquor Conspiracy Case,” 194–204. 3. Arnold et al., Preliminary Report. 4. Interview with Diamond and Lane Boyd, June 25, 2003. 5. Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 51. 6. Ibid., 65. 7. Ibid., 66. Notes to Pages 7–36 239 8. Ibid., 69. 9. Ibid., 114–15. 10. Ibid., 316. 11. “Defense Again Attacks Veracity of Witnesses,” Roanoke Times and Evening News, May 31, 1935, pp. 1, 11. 12. “Witness States He Divided Fees with S. O. White: Jury Also Told of Federal Officer’s Transfer to Charleston, W. Va.: Negro Admits He Drank Evidence,” Roanoke Times and World News, June 22, 1935, p. 1. 13. “Trio of Lawyers Assail U.S. Witnesses: Claim Case Built upon a Foundation of Hate and Malice,” Roanoke Times and World News, June 28, 1935, p. 1. 14. Anderson, “I Build a House,” in Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 39; see also Anderson, Memoirs. 15. Anderson, “I Build a House,” in Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 39. 16. Ibid., 41. 17. Ibid. 18. Anderson, “Virginia,” in Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 81. 19. Greear, “Sherwood Anderson as a Mountain Family Knew Him,” 8. 20. Ibid. 21. Anderson, “I Build a House,” in Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 54. 22. Ibid., 51. 23. Rideout, Sherwood Anderson, 288. 24. Ibid. 25. “Treasury Headed by Morgenthau Jr.,” New York Times, November 16, 1933, p. 1; Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 217–18. 26. Anderson, “Letter to Karl Anderson,” June 20, 1935, in Modlin, Sherwood Anderson , 184. 27. Rideout, Sherwood Anderson, 236. 28. Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 221. 29. “Woman Pilot of Whiskey Cars Is Placed on Stand,” Roanoke Times and Evening News, May 24, 1935, p. 1. 30. Rideout, Sherwood Anderson, 287. 31. Anderson, “Give Rex Tugwell a Chance,” 5, 21. 32. Anderson, Kit Brandon, 118–19. 33. Anderson, “Why I Live Where I Live,” in Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 401. 34. Howard Mumford Jones, “Kit Brandon: Review,” The Saturday Review of Literature , 1936, quoted in Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 852. 35. Anderson, “A Sentimental Journey,” in Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 74. 36. Anderson, Kit Brandon, 29. 37. Taylor and Modlin, Southern Odyssey, 40. 38. Anderson, Kit Brandon, 28. 39. Ibid., 115, emphasis added. 40. Ibid. 41. Ibid. 240 Notes to Pages 37–51 Notes to Pages 51–65 241 42. “Arguments Open in Franklin Co. Conspiracy Case: Ring Operating in Defiance of Government Tavenner Declares,” Roanoke Times and World News, June 27, 1935, p. 1; Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 564. 43. “Arguments Open in Franklin Co. Conspiracy Case: Ring Operating in Defiance of Government Tavenner Declares,” Roanoke Times and World News, June 27, 1935, p. 1; Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 566–72. 44. “Trio of Defense Lawyers Assail U.S. Witnesses: Claim Case Built upon a Foundation of Hatred and Malice,” Roanoke Times and World News, June 26, 1935, p. 1; see also Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 581. 45. “Hutcheson Will Make Final Plea,” Roanoke Times and World News, June 28, 1935, p. 1; Greer, The Great Moonshine Conspiracy, 582...