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Newspaper Page Text~ COTTON LING .4 skiikise wn 8 -84 g&gelous CLOSE .... .. 9 1-4 c . 101. No. 120. Whitney Tells How Morgan Supported Market In Crash Of 19258 BARNETT SCORES TALMADGE Shenff’s Posse Fngages Escaping Prisoners In Running Gun Bat _ |5 FUBITNES e Ll FAEE BUT 2 | - furder, Car Thefts, Kid napiﬂg anfi $2,100 R?b bery Credited to Flecing - Kansas Convicts nAIL 1S LEADING TO ARKANSAS BAD-LANDS kmed Posses Forced to . Abandon Cars in Rugged Hill Country MIAMI, Okla.—(#)—A posse led gy Sheriff Carl Curtis of Delaware outy engaged a group of men, thought to be fleeing Kansas con wets, in a running gun fight in the jills 20 miles south of Jay Friday, cut's reported to Sheriff Dee [Watters here. l gheriff Curtis said the posse uted the fugitives from their au. tomobile and they fled on foot. No Tonv was hurt, he said. . He asked for reenforcements and Sheriff Watters arranged to leave mmediately+ with all available Ot fawa county officers. Jt could not he learned how many men were in the fleeing group. Watters said the men apparently were those who escaped from a §ilbam Springs, Ark., posse late Wednesday night after a gun fight. The point where Curtis said Fri day's encounter occurred is a few miles west of Siloam Springs in i extremely rugged and reémote gection, All officers had left Jay, the Delaware: county seat, to join in the manhunt. TWO CAPTURED CHELSEA, Okla. —(#)— Scarred by more bullets and a bank rob bery, the trails of 11 Kansas prison fugitives twisted anew FrldaY‘ through the Oklahoma-Arkansas bill and mountain country, but two] #caped Oklahoma ‘convicts were hack again behind bars. | The reckless killers and lrohbersi Wio broke from the Kansas State Penitentiary at Lansing during a Memorial day baseball game are blamed for killing a Chetopa, Kas., tfficer; have stolen and comimand fred numerous motor cafs; held a blf dozen men and women as lmporary hostages; engaged in inning gunfights with manhunt -8 and climaxed their contempt for the law late Thursday with the 100 robhery of a Chelsea bank. Not 50 elusive were the two con- Vieted killers, Jim Stribling and H. D Bradbury, who flew from the Oklahoma prison at McAlester late Wednesday with the arms and am fmobile of a guard, ; They were caught Thursday MEht at Stuart, 20 miles west of (Continued on Page Three) A L 0 ANGELES —{#)—Captain Fank Hawks flying a robot-con tolled, 14.4 vlinder airplane took U from the municipal airport at Bl 2. m, (pacific, standard time) Hiday on o non-stop flight to Byl Benpeit field, Brooklyn, N. Y. he Planned to test the auto- Matic ijot and was not necessaril b secking g speed record, The iy left the ground easily " Shite of jts load of 620 gallons :}{. sasoline which attendants at € dirport saig would approxi méll'l\ two tons i 3 weight. Fielq dltendants gaid the flier B?h"m" would turn the machine hp';""“ the autcwatie pilot when : 'ad gaineq his required altitude, e 'l‘]imn‘-/l to fly about 18,000 feet. kl““ robot pilot was expected to Wir:;,”h‘ machine on its course m’w." i variation of two degrees— . D more exactness than a kmdlz. Pllot. The plane itself had ho‘;n, Vlved” up to 248 miles an \\‘a: " speed tests, but Hawks e Pected to fly for the most a?” Within the eruising range of Kf‘“'i" 200. His ~heavy load of d::\”]”"f necersarily would cut lhh»n Mi< initial - speed consider vy’ Ve made up during the When his load w llﬂlt- 3 I»H““’I“-\ said Thyupgday he would [:i,qn: . }:; \‘:?ﬂmﬁf‘“’”:ﬁ -the 1 Son m m Sose o 1 ““"ixntorw?; SEeRE S THE BANNER-HERALD FULL Asscciated Press Service. Leads Convicts; In Kansas Break| Gun RS TEb R " e EEesea &7, RS g :\ 3 { PRI o 5 G 3 SRR | e R G R sl s s .T e | %:.E"-. = | e 0200 L i e o @?‘ o R el N e B e % o 1 b N ‘ R R A ‘xﬁ' oo o] | S 0 ¢&8 ] R L AR I e R | e g =N ] | e _:’jff‘:fzziiiiifi_i';iﬁéé-;?‘;aif e Y | g e ] | QRS e 0 e el | Lo SRR R S R B e -::--.5.z::‘::éaf?iﬁi?-ﬁ‘:?*”-f:’z?zi”t?‘:i':iffziz':ziz’zii?zizi.u--;ﬁriif':;.':z':z?:‘.? s e ] | sl | i e SR St g e ey | A A SRR Ao L e sl RRS ] | Murderer of three men, Wilbur | Underhill, above, is one of .11 | convicts hunted in Oklahoma | after their break from the Kan- | sas penitentiary., Underhill, one | e of the ring “-leaders, abducted i the warden and two guards as ! hostages. The picture was taken i when Underhill was wounded l and captured after breaking Oklahoma’s penitentiary. ATLANTA SELLERS OF BEER WIN OUT Jury Acquits Two Men Accused of Violating State Bone Dry Law ATLANTA .—(®—Two men who admitted selling 3.2 per cent beer in “bone dry” Georgia's capital were acquitted Thursday of violat ing the state law which prohibits sale even of near beer and political subdivisions from licensing it. » The two, first of a group arrest ed in cases to test the “home rule” plan under which Atlanta and sev eral other cities in Georgia have autherized beer on the contention it is legal by congressional action, were J. H. Falks and C. M. Owens. They pleaded that 3.2 per cent bheer kad heen legalized by the city of Atlanta. A five man jury rgrturned the ac quittal after about two hours of deliberation. The state argued Georgia’s “bone dry” law should be enforced and the defense appealed | for acquittal because of “the over-‘ whelming public gentiment in fa vor of beer.” | Police Chief Sturdivant, an ad vocate of 3.2 per cent beer legali zation, was a character witness. Mayor James L. Key, a leader in the fight to license beer locally, was not permitted to testify. Falks, in a statement to the jury, said his place of business had sold as many as fourteen bottles of*the 3.2 per cent brew to one man and that he had seen no signs of it producing intoxication. s _ Judge Jesse M. Wood had warn »d the jury. “not to be influenced by public sentiment, whatever that may be.?. -The prohibition law, he added, “is on- our: statute - books and if .we find it has, been vio. lated we should act aceordingiy.” Defense Attorney. . Andrew. A Baumstark said: “You can find my client guilty if you want to but you will encourage bootlegging and racketeering for beer is going to be sold here right on, just as it is theing sold ! [witheut hindrance" in iprac,ticglly every. ity and town in Georgia” = s Qualifying Date To Vote in Election on July sth Has Passed Attorney General M. J. Yeo mans has notified Arthur S. Oldham, chairman of the board of registrars for (larke county that the time for qualifying to vote in the special election July 5 expired last Saturday. The attorney general stated that the iaw governing special elections requires that ‘the reg+ jstration lists bé closed five darvs after the election is cali ed: The election -was . called SB - migrieeeosd T gt ol CKo ONGE MORE aTORM UPWARD ON FRIDAY PURCHASING Many Gains of From $1 To $3 Result From Fresh Buying Orders in Active Trading GENERAL MOTORS RAISES EMPLOYES 100,000 Get Pay Raises; 6,000 Augusta Workers Given Increases | NEW YORK.— (AP) — Stocks stormed upward in extraordinarily active trading Friday, piling up many gains of $1 to more than $3 under the force of fresh buying orders. Turnover to noon approximated 3,000,000 shares, or at the rate of 7,500,000 shares for the full five hour session. The largest wvolume g 0 far this year was 7,198,964 shares on April 20. Utilities, which had been lagging behind other grouns, were taken briskly, though industrials. rallied smartly. Most commodity markets, after a rather sluggish start, join ed the rise in stocks. U. 8. Steel common made a new high for the year above $54, for a net gain of nearly $2. American telephone crossed sll9 and was up $1.50. Allied Chemical jumped alniost s3° to* $125, while Public Service of New Jersey advanced more than $3 to above $52. Gen eral Motors, New York Central, International Telephonie, North American, ‘U. 8. BBmelting, and Consolidated Gas rose $1 to. more than $2. Radio was very active reaching a new high. i I Sugar was one of the strongest Ist‘apfes. A sale of Cuban raw su gar at 1% cents a pound, the ~highest price since 1931, was re ported and futures made new Ihigh’s. Wheat improved after early Isluggishness, while cotton convert 'ed moderate losses into net gains of around 50 cents a bale. News of the day included word that the Federal Reserve's credit expansion program through pur chases of U. S. government secu rities had continued in the past ‘'week when the twelve regional banks increased their holdings by almost $28,000,000, or slightly more Ithan the previous week. The sys ‘tem's gold reserved reached a rec ‘ord high at $3,519,898,000. A rige of $72,000,000 in brokers' lpans at tested to the speculative interest iin stocks. HIKES FOR 100,000 | DETROlT.—(AP)—Lawrence P Fisher, vice-president of General ' Motors Corporation and presi-lent and general manager of the Cadil lac Motor Car company, has an- Inoun('ed that a 5 percent pay in crease authorized by Alfred P. 1810;111. jr., president of General Motors, will affect 100,000 wage |oarners employed in the wvarious ' divisions of the company. : In the majority of plants con itz‘ullud by the corporation, the { (Continued on Page Seven) Tennessee Power " Rates Are Ordered Rates Are Urdere % C C . . ~ Cut by Commussion NASHVILLE, TENN, — (#) — Reductions in residential electric rates in about 250 municipalities and communities served by ‘the Tennessee Electric power com ﬁany, including Chattanooga and Nashville, were ordered Friday by the state railroad and public utili ties commission. It also directed cuts in commercial rates through out the territory except in the !two cities, About 90,000 consumers will be Laffected for a total annual savingl of between $330,000 and 340,000, or Fabout 12 per cent of the company’s lannual revenue from these classes of business, commissioner Porterl Dunlap estimated, | He said approximately 3150,000‘ a year would be cut off Dbills otl residential consumers in Nashville and Chattanooga | Under the order, residential schedules will be yniform through out the system regardless of whether in cities, towns or rural districts, Duniap said. The new schedules will go into effect im mediately and he reflected in hills Julr'.l_ et U»‘Qy' 3 By P R W L - et A e ,h‘a:,: Athens, Ga., Friday, June 2, 1933, MORGAN WITHE3S oIYS FIAM MADE PROFIT I CRASH Partner Says Mowgan and Group of Bank-rs Poolzd $250,000,000 to Sup port Toboganning Stocks ROYALTY HOLDINGS - IS ASKED ABOUT Whitney Knew Nothing Of British Royalty. on Preferred List 2 WASHINGTON, — () —. The senate banking committee _was taken Friday =behing scenes of the financial drama of the ct:;?;ﬁ,?c days of late '29, by al J. P. Mor gan and company partner who ol in matter-of-fact fashion howta few bankers—with $25,000,000/at their fingers—supported | the crash ing market. 3 7ik It wsaz a profitable operation, George Whitney, the i Morgan partner, : testified that although loss had been expectel, thie 1.146;- 609 share& purcha=zed were wold for $1,067,355 more than the cost, ex clusive of.lnterest. : - “The massive purchases; lasted some three weeks, " J 5 “1t ended; as I recall, on! Novem ber - 11, 'said Whitney quietly while ears were strained through out the large, erowded room to hear, e i In\}estigatlon was recessed short ly after 12:30:p. m.,: E. 8. T. Fri day wvntil Monday. : X Leading up to his® story in an swers to Ferdinand Pecora, ‘com mittee counsel, the witness relited how his brother ; Bichard, then vice president and ' now Ipl‘@sident of the New York Stock Exchange, had “come to see s first” about doing something to halt ' price ¢lides on the exchange. “How much did you buy,” Sena tor Conzens (R-Mich) asked, “we hought 1,146,600 shares,” Whitney replied, at a cost of $137,752,705. Sold At Profit I “We soid out in 1930 for uss,-I $20,060,” | “How was the profit divided?” Couzens wanted to know, | “Among us according to parti cipation,” Whitney caid. We en tered this operation without thought of profit. We expected:to take a loss and at one time our book loss was $40,0000,0:).” “Why did you take such a large loss on Anaconda Mining corpora tion?” Couzens asked, A X said,” Whitney replied, “We sold without reference to profit.” . The witness objected to Pecora's luse of the word “pool” to describe Ithe transaction. “We are rather gunshy of the ’word, as used colloqually,” he smilled. “But the newspapers called it the bankers pool” Pecora commented, “Yes,” Whitney agreed, “We tried to set them right but they paid no attention.” . Senate investigators Friday ob tained a list of officers and di rectors of corporations to whom personal loans were entended from 1927 to 1931 inclusive by the pow erful bank. | With Whitney again testifying as a partner of the firm, the com mittee counsel—Ferdinand Pecora’ —produced the list, i It named E. W. Marland, now representative, from Oklahoma, Robert E. Olds, former State de partment official and Frank W. Stearns, friend of the late former President Coolidge, among others. A suggestion that some of the (Continued on Page Three) _—_'M' sl LOCAL WEATHER i iol smsssimrrind W Fair and slightly warmer in north portion Friday night. Saturday fair and slightly warmer. TEMPERATURE lOt - s e i eBB TIOWBEE (5.0 Soei deis dislDßo MERR i s e . 103 NOEE i e i cvvsos4:lß.o RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .... .00 Tota! since January 1 .. ..17.64 Deficiency since January 1. 493 Average June rainfall .. .. 410 Total since June 1 .. .. .. 00 Deficiency since June 1 ~. -4 ~ESTABLISHED 1832-= University of Georgia Closes 132nd Annual Session With Varied Program ~' oo e geis. S i : i, i P : @R s e, e :5'22‘%:55151:'5' G, T G G : ) 8 W TR B | 3 Ry m";%& e 7 LR s '-'{:"E:{:}'?E::A:,, s B R ‘»:':l,'l!'s sy e BB 2 e RS R 3 R 1 P ; _5;;:;:3.. S BRI, v o o g R 2 1 Ry A xé/:*:".l i R S .R B 3 sRs e g 2 RS ST e i N 3 R e o 3 Gy : 3 e S R R 2% u BIR - - B 3 D s 5 RO . | PR R 3 A . $ .Re s e 2 S b s 4 B R 3 SRR R g 3 ; e -'1".?"-%:165;:’:25/'»:2-' R ‘&’ B3R o " o R R AR R Be A A B oo e e ee L e . Rll g % i SRR B Rt e AR 3 $ gz Ko ;,,.;: 5 3 St % B 2 ‘:v:;. s 3 e >N% % R in o O e i B B s SRR P B B 23 R ) A R 4SA e b G R SO RS . . Bt gt R ; e : S R R AR B a B S G T < R ’ R e Bt i e BB g G a g 0 T ,-; : A %8 B 3 S i 5 ; B« i S 5 CERR B sSR 7 7 G S i 1 “ & A R h ?;-55:53’/{:§< G T ~ i o R R . SRR Lanos ;;":;;:;--_,;,_Q:‘.; 5 e g 3 SRR e R ; 3 } D R A e S S S S *-::::';-:C:_:,’ i e ¥ P 3 Rs, b RS AR B R oA SRR e B o e s\ s SRRGRG T R B e e s Bl B S e o B v e e oRSS e s S S ; - ST S R Y e i b g R L SRR AR R S R g Ve B e 5 PR B ’ S W B % % S R R R R 2 Ry : B 2 T N DR 2 .5;:4:-,.,.;:‘;-:.;.-:-;:v;a,l- A R R % R TRO 2 Y SRR R S SRR RS S 5 R B Pl % e SR SRERRAR, 2 o ol R b B il e L e B B e s s < e e b w"O - B - g Commencement exercises at the University of Georgia will be held in Woodruff Hall, June 5. Prominent on the program are (top row) McCarthy Crenshaw. voted Georgia's most outstanding student for the past four years; President E. C. Elliott of Purdue University, who is the Commencement Day speaker; (bottom row) Mrs. S. V. Sanford, who with President Sanford, enter tained the senior class and visitors at an elaborate reception; and Frederic Solomon, Fort Valley, valedictorian for his class. r MINE QUALIFY FOR [ OMGRESS RACE Saturday Last Day to Qua lify; Emerson George Is Latest Entry ATLANTA — () — William B. Congdon of Augusta flled with the Secretary of State his entry as a candidate for congress from the Tenth district, bringing to nine the list of candidates who have quali tied for the race He is the fifth Augusta resiaent to enter. Nap.er Burson, chief clerk in the otfice of Secretary of State John B. Wilson, announced Friday he would remain at the office until 4 p. m. Saturday to receive entries,! although Saturday is a holiaay at the Capitol. Saturday 1s Je!‘ter-‘ son Davis’ Dbirthday anniversary and other offices at the capitol will be closed. | Mr. Burson announced the list of qualified candidates as follows: | Emerson H. George of Madison. .~ Paul Brown of Elberton. A. Dwight Deas of Augusta. Roy V. Harris of Augusta. James Cartledge of Augusta. Pat H. Kennedy of Augusta. William B. Congdon of Augusta : D. Talmage Bowers of Canon. Mrs. A. . Shivers of Norwood A rumber have been mertioned as Jlikely candidates for the post in¢luding President Hamiiton Mec ‘¥'horter of the state senale, whae l'ves in Lexington, Representative Miles Collier of Madison county ¥, J. Shackelford of Athens, and others The post was made vacant by the death of Congressman Chailss Brand of Athens, The election will be on July 5. There are no entry fees, and the ballot ing will -be in the form of a gen eral election, with the high man ‘the victor. I Brown Announcement - Paul Brown of Elberton makes his official announcement as a candidate for Congress from the .Tcnth district in The Banner-Her ald today. Mr. Brown’'s candidacy in Clarke county, according to his friends here, is progressing very favorably and the feeling is being ‘expressed by many that he will be given a large vote in this county. ATHENS BANKS TO CLOSE SATURDAY ~ Athens Clearing House Banks, sthe Citizens and Southern bank and the National Bank of Athens, will be closed Saturday in honor ‘Lof Jefferson Davisg’ birthday. PROBE ROOGEVELT ORDER FOR KITS Says President Forced “Over Market’’ Order for Camp Toilet-Kits WASHINGTON. —(AP)—Major Genera! John L. DeWitt, Quarter master General of the Army, Fri day told the senate military com mittee that Robert Fechner, direc tor of the reforestation work, ad vised him that President Roose velt had instructed Fechner to purchase 200,000 toilet-kits from Bevier and Company of New York for reforestation camp employes. Howe, secretary to the Presi dent, appearing before the com mittee at his own request Thurs day, before it formally opened an investigation into the purchase of the kits at prices army officials sald were necessive, told members he had advised Fechner that he (Fechner) had authority to buy them if considered desirable. 1 advised Mr. Fechner strongly (Continued on Page Three) - o Britain Scored as . Following Lead of . President of U. S. LONDON-~— — (#) — The Labat party atiacked Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and the government in the house of commons Friday for allowing thz world econnmic eonference ‘in itiative’ to *“go to. the United States,” ! | Sir Stafford Smith, Labor svok ‘esman, demanded: I “Are we only to follow the sug -Igestions made by Mr. Roosevelt, | whé undoubtedly is a very remark | able man? Is it necessary for him {to have a monopoly on linitiative |for the world economic conference? | “Hasn't the British government (any ideas of their own or are they !just prepared to follow along with !the suggestions Mr. Roosevelt gave | prime Minister MacDonald?’ ; | The Labor attack was launched in' the course of a foreign affairs 'dgbate’ In. which Mr. Chamberlain nad asﬁrt.ed’ that unless the na /tions temper their prejudices and |adopt a give-and-take attitude at |the economic conference, the world ima_v despair “of emerging in our {time from depression, ha'dships land suffering.” { The chaneellor once again re liused to disclose the British pol icy on way debts to the United |States intimating the government awaited a new move: from Wash ington, N R A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday. @ - R Highway Chairman i ‘;3 Chiarges Governor ants epa meric “~ - [P < o For Exploitation » m;\%‘ Talmadge Waited Until Legislature Adjourned .Q,g; forc Becoming So Bold, Barnett Charges and Sug gests Impeachment as Onc Remedy in Situation Governor Has Created e ot SAYS GCOVERNOR, CONTRACTOR WHITLEY AND COWBOY SMITH SEEKING CONTROL Chairman Asserts Talmadge Charge of Inefficiency Was an Afterthought. Governor’s Reply to Barnett Is Brief e g A ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Chairman J. W. Barnett of the Stlﬁ.ﬁ,ﬂ Highway board Friday chargsd Governor Taimadge 1s seeking to"’”fff;i build up a huge political machine by placing the Highway depart- ~ ments tnder his control and that ‘the board “could not and will not = agree to discharge five enginecrs nor will it turn the personnel of , the Highway department over to Governor Talmadge and his asso- ’ ciates. o uvninh e Governor Talmadge Thursday received a comimunication from the = Stzte Highway board including a requisition for more than $1,000,- 000 to pay salaries and contractors. The governor answered that * he would hold up the requisition until the five gngineers, whose ' e resigrations ho had demanded, were removed. Chairman Barnett’s statement answered in detaif the criticiem of“ e the department during the long controversy betweed n the governor 3 ard the chairman and W. C. Vercen of the( board. Jud P. Wilhoit, >«r the third member, has agreed with the demands of /the chief exccu tive. The statement denied specifically the charges of extravagance = . and inefficiency against the engineers made by the| governor. ' % The Humorous, the Tragic and the Odd in the News By The Associated Press PITTSBURGH — There she sat, in the marriage license bureau, im patiently tapping her foot. Then she yalked over to Clerk Edgar Howe and told him the man she was to marry went out to get an otheér dollar. A license costs $2. “I won't marry a man who hasn't cnough money to pay for a lieense,” she told Howe decisively. “When he comes back tell him I've changed my mind,” ‘ FARES FOR MAILMEN SAN FRANClSCO.—Officials of San Francisco's three street car companies agreed the years-old policy of free rides for mail car riers should be stopped. -The gov ernment will be asked to pay the fares. SUIT FOR $4.50 COSTS §lO OKLAHOMA ClTY—lt's not the taxes, it's the principle with Mr, and Mrs. A. G. Wikoff, who pa.d an initial deposit of $lO for cour! costs in filing suit for recovery of $4.50 income tax, which they aliege the government collected unjustly in 1931, ’ FARMING PAYS BUDDHA, Ind.—Jokn W. Staggs farmer, was plowing for corn, bui what he plowed up was $7,061 in old silver dimes, quarters, dollars and half dollars some dating back as far as 1818, He's the father of 16 children for which reason the cash will come in handy. THEY LIKE UNIFORMS TOO DALLAS, Texas. — John J. Vay was sentenced to 90 days by Fed eral Judge W. H. Atwell for im personating an army officer and obtaining money .falsely by that means. Vay told the court his wife’s vanity in presenting him as “captain” proved too much for him and he never denied the rank be cause, he said, that would have been unchivalrous. * FAMED COMEDIAN OF FORMER DAYS HURT . NEW YORK.—(AP)—Joe Weber, 65-year-old comedian of the fam ous team of “Weber and Fields” and his wife, Lillian, were serious ly irfjured Friday when the taxi cab in which they were riding ran into a steel pillar. i ~ Weber and his wife were taken to Mount Sinai hospital where doctors said the comedian suffer ed internal ‘injuries and a fracture of the right ankle. He was immediately operated upon after which hospital authori ties described his condition as “satisfactory."” P aaty el Mrs. Weber, who is 56, suffered a fracture of the right thigh, bruises and lacerations, = 'HeME Chairman Bavuett's statement ¢aid the highway* department had existed under (Governors Dorsey, Hardwick, Walkei:, “Hardman s Russell and “no governor 4n i this time has ever ' seen fit to terfere with the opjerations of the highway board beca tue of his »:wr;é routine power to drilw warrants on the treasury for funds depos -% - the treasury to the 'credit of thig department.” } S el : Impeachmeng »k}“ “In the first quartei of the pres< ent year,” the statemwent continued, “Governor Talmadge | did not | h take the illegal stepst he Is now taking because the legislation couid have instantly remedied the whole situation by dealing with the governor through impeachment proceedings or changing the law as to the drawing of wa ‘_“;, y “It is after the adjournment of the legislature wiien the thinks no one can restrain him that he becomes emboldened to. take this ‘gtep. It is a ‘;, the legislature doest not me?eg;"f'ﬂ e 1935 and- it is doubtless due to thiss fuct and his belief that the courts® through the writs of ‘ P and injunction can no¢ adequately handle the situation, tnat Govers nor Talmadge is taking 'the posis: tion he is. The law :% changed o as to allow the-legiss: lature to call itself into emergencies ilke the out having to wait to be=calle into session by an offending ‘govers “In the governor's communicas tion of today he says that whem a new list of engineers is q he will either approve or disaps prove it, Thig shows he thinks he can control the entire .I; W the- department from the highes§ official -down to ‘the most humble. It is this principle and precedent which the board cannot submit te. If such a policy were purshed, thi§ department will be disorganized and chaos will result. The depart= ment can function efficiently onlg with skilled and efficient engineers, The training for these positions can only be acquired by practieal experience. We do not know ﬁ ; if anybody, the governor has 1 mind to fill these positions aﬁé;; do know that these five % competent and our selectic that the law puts the ss‘@;_m_ selecting” them upon us and w propose to retain them” =TB An Afterthought . & Chairman Barnett summed up his statement in the following language: i ',is‘;’v & “The governor's charge »f inefs ficiency against the five engines is an afterthought invented afte he discovered he was wil z; thority to change the personnel of this department by striking names from the budget. His pubdshe uterance of May 7 gives as his : witness Cowboy Smith, an enginee: employed by the governor's friend and staff appointee, Whitley, whose anlmoﬂtﬁ‘i{r highway department js well know The governor's instances of allege incompetence are shown ‘ ne foundation in fact and :’& figments -of the imagination. J as the governor sought unsue (Continued on Page Three)