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Death Penalty
Suit Dismissed
ATLANTA (UPI) — The state
Supreme Court has dismissed
the case of a Pulton County
man who argued that the Geor
gia Constitution prevented the
state from executing persons.
George Charles Jones, con
victed of murder in 1964 and
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sentenced to death, had asked
to be released from Reidsville
State Prison.
Jones contended he was be
ing held at the prison in viola
tion of the state Constitution.
His suit was directed at Reids
ville Warden R. P. Balkcom Jr.
In dismissing the case, the
court said it found "no merit”
in the case.
A court source said the court
had historically held that exe
cution for capital crimes was
not cruel or unusual punish
ment, which is prohibited by
Constitution.
Jones, convicted of the mur
der of Glen M. Howell of At
lanta, will now be resentenced.
Law provides that he must re
ceive the death sentence.
Jones and two other men, all
Negro, were convicted of killing
Howell daring a holdup.
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Bentley Squashes
Reports Talmadge
Will Back
By DON PHILLIPS
United Press International
ATLANTA (UPI) — Reports
that Ben. Herman Talmadge,
D-Ga., would endorse Albany
newspaper publisher James
Gray for governor hasb een
squashed by Compt. Gen. James
L. Bentley, a close friend of
Talmadge.
Talmadge has said he felt a
conservative candidate would
be a stronger. Democratic can
didate against the probable Re
publican challenger, Congress
man Howard (Bo) Callaway.
Gray is an outspoken segrega
tionist.
Sources close to Talmadge
admitted Thursday that the
senator and Gray have talked
several times by phone but
Bentley said Talmadge had said
he would support all Democrats
in the general election and
"stay out of the primary."
“The entries haven’t even
closed yet. It’s absurd to
choose now,” Bentley said. "It
seems to me that folks should
take him at his word.”
However, at least one Demo
cratic gubernatorial candidate
wasn’t satisfied.
Former Lt. Gov. Garland
Byrd said he thought Talmadge
should speak up and let it be
known which candidate, if any,
he favors.
"I call on Senator Talmadge
to once and for all clarify his
position, and if he intends to
participate in the gubernatorial
campaign in Georgia that is his
prerogative,” Byrd said. “But
let him speak up publicly rath
er than having messages leak
out through self-appointed
spokesmen.”
Byrd said that State Party
Secretary George Stewart and
State Highway Director James
Gillis should resign or else re
main neutral in the campaign.
Both Gillis and Stewart have
been quoted as saying they fa
vored Gray and he has been
chosen by the so-called Tal
madge “machine.”
Byrd charged that Gillis and
Stewart “have placed Sen. Tal
madge in the position of inter
fering with the gubernatorial
campaign in Georgia.”
Segregationist candidate Les
ter Maddox said that Byrd be
longed “heart and soul to
Georgia’s Hubert Humphrey
(Ellis Arnall)” and predicted a
victory for himself in the pri
mary and general election.
Maddox said he did not be
lieve Callaway would leave Con-
6
gress to run for governor.
Meanwhile Lt. Gov.
Zack Geer said he would
port no one, including Gray,
governor either m the primary
or general election.
"I have no intention of
ning myself with any
date,” Geer said. Geer,
Gray, is an arch-conservative.
DESERTER SURRENDERS
VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI)
Communist soldier from
Viet Nam who said he had
deserted from a
headquarters in South
Nam surrendered to
ment troops in Pakse
day, it was reported today.
The refugee, identified as Le
Due Fu alias David Levin, told
officers in Pakse that he
deserted because of scanty food
and constant, e x h a u s t ing
marches.
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U.S. military supply ship
scraped sides in fog off Miura
Peninsula, south of Tokyo,
early today. Both ships, the 988
ton Seiwa Maru and the 15,000
ton Mars, were updamaged and
proceeded on their courses.
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Weltner Won't
Support Probe
Of King, SCLC
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Rep.
Charles Weltner, D-Ga., has in
dicated he will not support a
petition which seeks investiga
tions of possible infiltration by
Communists into national civil
rights groups and of Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
The Rev. Bill Beeny, a Bap
tist preacher from St. Louis,
said “several right wing
groups” such as the John Birch
Society and local white citizens
councils helped collect the sig
natures for the petition. The
petition was presented Thurs
day to the House Un-American
Activities Committee.
Weltner, a member of the
committee who took part in
hearings on the Ku Klux Klan,
said he knew of no substantial
reason for conducting investiga
tions into the civil rights
groups. He also noted that right
wing groups wer e behind the
latest action.
“I am not inclined to support
any petition prepared and sub
mitted by the John Birch So
ciety and the White Citizens
Council,” Weltner said.
Organizations named in the
petition were the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer
ence (SCLC) and its leader
King, the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) and the Congress of
Racial Equality (CORE). Also
named was the Black Muslims,
which is not generally regarded
as a civil rights organisation.
House Approves,
Wage Bill; May
Be Amended
WASHINGTON (UPI) —A
minimum wage bill close to
what the Johnson administra
tion and organized labor want
has emerged from the House,
but slightly cut up. First aid
may be forthcoming from the
Senate.
The House, after three days
of hob-nailed debate, voted late
Thursday 303 to 93 for a
measure which would:
—Raise the present $1.25
hourly federal minimum wage
to $1.40 next Feb. 1 and to $1.00
Feb. 1, 1969 for 29.6 million
workers now under the wage
hour law and for 665,000 newly
covered federal “blue collar”
workers. Labor and the Pres
ident had hoped for a 1968 date
for the $1.60 step.
—Extend minimum wage
coverage, starting at $1 and
rising to $1.60 by Feb. 1, 1971,
for 6.8 million to 7.5 million
service and retail workers now
exempt from the law.
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