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About The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1933)
P ~ GOTTON I % e e WiDDLING @5 . op o)LL 100 pREVIOUS GLOSE .. .. .. 9 1-4 c Vol. 101, No. 140. FULL Asscciated Press Servic:. housands Of Dollars In Cash Possible For Athens Terntory armers® URDEN OF PROOF ON COMMISSION ACCUSERS - GOV. TALMADGE: allroad Operating Results Show Marked Upturn In Busmness A(_:_l}_V_}EXg HTING AEVENUE i HAILWAYS SHOW 0 PERCENT RIS aricrs Report Net Op rating Income of $16,- 549,000 Compared With 9.938,000 in May, 1932. ARM PRICE HIKE TO UT PROCESSING TAX overnment Moves to Mold Public Opinion to: - | Demand Higher Wages. | NEW YORK.—(AP)—May opor-! ting results =of railroads thati ave so far reported for thatl onth rcfleet the substantial up an in industrial activity. ! The first 18 carriers to fllei tatements had aggregated net perating income for months ot‘l 16,540,000 against $9,938,000 in, fay, 1932, na increase of 66.5 ercent. In April their total net | perating income was off about 17! ercent from the same month last | | Gro revenues totaled about 93,914,000 against $95,755,000 inl= he like 1932 month, a decrease of | g percent as against a decline | {165 percent in April gross froml he same month last year. Roads reporting Monday showed | {ay net poerating income as fol-] AN Great Northern, 1933, $l.000.833:! 932 (x), $775,270. ; I Texas & Pacific, 1988, ‘349.519;‘ 932, $181,340. i : Chicago -Great Western, 1933, 175,889; 1932, $47,384, Southern Railway, 1933, $1,310,- 853. 1932 (x), $207,444. | (x)—Deficit . i cCUTS DOWN TAXES | WASHINGTON. —(#)— The in crease in farm prices is steadllyl whittling down the size of thel processing taxes that administra tors of the farm act ean levy on| wheat and cotton. ‘ Mingled with their satisfaction with the rise is a fear that it mayl reduce the potency of their plans| for a cut im American farm pro duction by trimming sharply the| revenue from these taxes which wil be available for them to fi-| nance acreage reduction. l If prices advanced until the farmer's wheat—or cotton—dollati were capable of the same purchas- | ing power it had in 1909-1914,1 there would be no room for levy-| ing a tax. 'Then tHe “emergency” | described by the farm act would| be at an end. This, however, ad ministrators do not regard as an’ immediate possibility. ' They can levy a processing taxl o the basic commodities, wheat‘i oiton, corn, hogs, tobaecco, rice| and dairy products. They have’ decided to order them into effect ;:"."” on wheat, cotton and c-igal'-| ®lt tobaccos. : “Fair Exchange” i At their maximum these taxps‘ fn represent not more than the‘ Margin better the ecurrent farm rice and the “fair exchange" valuel f the commodity based on its pre- Yar average. .The “fair exchange” fiue is the price at which it fould sell to make it bear she. fime purchasing power as it did r pre-war days. ‘,p"" priceg of materlals farmers IV so far' haven't risen at the i\:m” rate as farm commodities, ‘y"”’”\“ inflation, even as a threat'l "gularly manifests itself in a rise! ntinued on page three.) l Ge Vf-‘-tmgentßégin: Drive This Week “To Reduce Tobacco Acreage in South WASHINGTON . —(#)—The gov ‘Mment program to reduce tobac " 4creage for the benefit of prices "Il begin . with the cigar types “d will be financed with a pro “ Sing tax of 6 cents a pound. The 24 other varieties of tobaceo ;""” ' covered in other plans to © worked out and applied later. Ulficials of the Department of Agriculture said acreage reduction uld be sought this week in the (orgia - Florida, New England, "Wo-Indiama, Wisconsin and Penn- Wlvinia-New York districts where 7 cigar types are grown. .“"“'“tinns in base acreage up "0 per cent will he asked,,with (0 benefits to be paid out of the 'icceds of the processing tax. _Ths farmer may take as his base ‘'*ige 80 per cent of his aver Condition of Senator Borah Is “Fine” Following Operation At Johns Hopkins BALTIMORE.— (AP) —United States Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, underwent an operation on the prostrate gland in the Johns Hopkins Hospital here Mon- | day. ‘ The operation was pu'fonne(fl by Dr. Hugh H. Young, noted urologist. s - Dr. Young could no: be reached immediately for a report on the scnator's condtilon, but the opera tion is not considered a strious one. Senator Borah entered the I{op kins hospital last week for what was reported to be his annual health check. At Dr. Young's office, the sen ator was said to be in “perfect condition” after the operation. “He has gone to his room in fine - shape,” one of Dr. Young's aides gaid. > The operation will require that Senator Borah re;nain in the hos HEPUBLICANG (PN “COMEBAGK™ DRIVE ““‘Spending Spree, Tricky - Bookkeeping’” Charged in Speech By Snell. WASHINGTON, — (&) — The Republican effort to win back con trol of the federal government is officially under way. It was initiated Sunday by Re precentative Snell of :New: York; ‘a Republican leader, and indicat ed a decision to start now, during what usually are the pblitical dog days, instead of waiting to see ‘the effect of the Roosevelt program, Primarily, it will be based on charges that the Democrats just went on a “spending spree’ that thep use ‘tricky bookeeping” to justify their acts, that ‘“instead of reducing the fecderal expenditures 25 per cent the Democratic ad minittration in 100 days more than doubled them.” That was Snell’s summation of the 'special session. It followed by ltwo days his prediction that in the ' November, 1934, congressional elections the Republicans “will re gain between 50 and 70 normal ’Republican oats . . . .amd "hnwe an equal fighting chance of win ’nmg enough to seize control.” . His contention was that huge }appropriations put the budget more out of balance than it ever has ?been, except during the war, He objected to two budgets—one representing ordinary expenses and the other the emergency projects; he predicted that new taxes would have to be levied; said -that re peal of the gold ciause congtituted “outright repudiation,” that there was too much haste in the special session, and that Democrats were building up a new cystem of bu reacracy and tending toward gov ernment “ownerthip and operation of transportation. PRISON DOORS SWING WIDE FOR KIDNAPER BARNSTABLE, MASS,, SAP Prison doors at Boston opened Monday for Kenneth Buck’ under sentence of 24 years for the kid naping of Margaret (Peggy) Mc- Math. Kenneth was convicted Saturday night. The same jury ‘that found him guilty returred an acquital for his brether, Cyril who had been tried on a similar charge. The state had charged Cyril was the contact man in the negotations between the parents of the kidnaped girl and her abductors, age plantings for 1931-32, the 1932 | acreage if it did not exceed that tof 1931, or if the 1932 acreage was greater, he may take the average of- the two years. l- Various schedules of payment have been provided to take cave of the difference in returns from the several districts. A first payment ‘will be made immediately on the 'lbasis of acreage, and a later pay 'ment will amount to 40 per cent ;ot the average return per acre in 11931. ;s l The first payment will "be S2B ‘per acre for Wisconsin growers sls in Ohio and Indiana, $24 in sPennsylvanin and New York, $47 !ln New Mngland, and S3O in Geor gia and Florida. . While the first payment will be (Continued on Page Two) THE BANNER-HERALD e TR R O e . R R R Sy e y il g j . . 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Attorney General Cummings said Monday prosecution would follow the publication of the names and the only thing that was caus ing delay was that the department ldesired to have all is evidence com pleted before presenting a case to ’cou,rt. i } “Most emphatically there will Ihe prosecution of gold hoarders,” i Cummings told newspapermen, I “the data against what you might [call deliberate offenders is being | assembled and they will be prosce- Icmml. Fefore we reach the prose icu’tion stage, however, I intend to ,publish the names of those per |sons known to be holding gold in defiance of the President’s orders.” i Get Last Chance The . Attorney General said the lcampaign by the department to get hoarders to turn in gold had re lsulted in $23,000,000 being restored tobanks.' He added that he wished the present persuacive campaign to be carried out to give every body the fullest chance to “do his duty to the government and if they do not then pressure will be put on them,” Cummings said on June 24 185 persons holding $1,141.819 of gold had defied the government by re fuving to return it. It is this list he plans to publish, The Attorney General said he might decide to publish first the names of the largest hoarders of gold and follow that with those holding. lescer amounts. Strike Settlement Pact Breaks Down; 2,000 Remain Idle | ROCK HILL, 8. C.,—(#)—Near {ly 2,000 workers in ‘'three textile plants in Rock Hill were idle Mon day, following a last-minute break 'down in the supposed settlement of !one of the strikes. | The shift which was to have re | ported at midnight to the indus ‘trial cotton miil, empioying 800 | workers, refused to go to work. | Spokesmen said the management Ih:nd failed to live up to an agree | ment ending the walkout which | was made lacst week, I A general meeting of the 800 lemployees of the Rock Hill Print |ing and finishing company was to {be held Monday. Workers want a |minimum wage for women and |equul pay for day and night work, | The third strike is at the Wy ' mojo Yarn Mill, which employs 1100. Employees of the Highland | park Mill, who struck last week, |were: to return to work Monday, | following -an agreement with ithe ' management. TREASURY FIGURES | WASHINGTON —(#)— Treasury receipts for June 23 were $5,988,- 1103.34: expenditures $16,621,122.76; halance $984,636,983.33. Customs ;\dulips for 23 days of June were '1317,272,918.44. it Athens, Ca., Monday, June 26, 1933. | fi - . nCo 1 F‘ ) i ; I : | iy ‘ 8T g | Governor Provides Him . self With Plenty of Trou | ble If He Takes Over ' Commission Himself, 'WILL BE EXPECTED ! TO CUT ALL RATES Farmers Cannot Under . stand Attack on Federal . Plan to Help Them. 4 3 By DAN MAGILL It was reported here today that Governor Talmadge 'plans to fire all of the Public Service comnmis | sioners except Jule Felton of Mon itezuma and Walter B. McDonald. !(»t‘ Augusta, at the conclusion es the hearing on ouster proceedings; llu-ginning today. . The govenor, it is said, has’, provided h'mself with plenty of ‘trouble in the future as a resultd of his plan to take over the pub lic service commission. If he does fire a majority of the commission, he will replace them with his own ' men—men subject to his absolute Iwill. And as dictator of the pub \ lic sercvie commission he will be expected to reduce not only electric rates, but telephone rates and railroad rates and every other rate over which the commis sion has supervision. The public service commission, | controlling as it does, the utilities of the state, is alwgys subject to criticism and condemnation. The office of public ' service commis sioner is not thes best place in the state to lay a foundation for®fu ture political advancement. What ' ever the commission does is al- ways subject to criticism and con demnation. o F : | The public which Talmadge | will try to fevor by firing a ma jority of the commission will look to him to reduce utility rates, and continue to reduce them when lever any ‘local politician decides to make the utilities an issue in !a local campaign. Between now and the 1934 campaign for gover nor, Talmadge, as dictator of the public service commission, will |provicle trouble a-plenty for him | self and the 'maehine he is at ltempting to Hwild. : Trouble A-plenty If Talmadge refuses to fire the commissioners, and thus disclaims any authority over the commis sion, he will - relieve himself of any criticism which is bound to follow if a Talmadge-controlled commission does not continue to reduce rates for electricity and telephone service. But if hs per mits the commission to stand “as is,” he will deal a terrific blow to the “power issue” in the next campaign. Because, whatever ex cuse he may give for not firing the commissioners, it will be gen erally understood that such an act was friendly ‘to the utility inter ests. Heretofore, in Georgia, it has been possible for candidates for governor to disclaim any respon sibility for wutility rates because the commissioners are elected, not appointed. And it has also been «Continued on Page Three) Barnett Says He Will Not Oppose U. S. Road Fund Coming to Georgia, But He Will Fight Military Board Taking It ATLANTA—(#)—Captain Barnett, ousted chairman of the state high way commission, said today he would make a fight against $lO,- 000,000 of federal funds, which the government has alloted to Georgia under a new congressional act, be ing placed in the hands of “per sons operating under military rule and in violation of all state laws”. Captain Barnett said he had been misquoted as saying that he would not oppose the effort of Jud P. Wilhoit, the present lone high way commissioner, who is in Washington today seeking to get the government to release the state’s highway allotment. “I do not intend to oppose fed eral funds coming to Georgia,” he said, but added that they must come only to “the legally consti tuted highway board.” He savs he is still chairman of the hoard. SEEKS U. S. FUNDS ATLANTA. —/)— Jud Wilhoit Georgia’s one-man Highway com —ESTABLISHED 1832— IS RE-ELECTED " : A : | B RR R s ! I b | i 2 | %Be e 5 i o RNt L i SRR SR é&g‘s:’?-:1:-':3:f:izi:-:f:I;Ifi::;E:-:?:i:?;;:l:Z:? e i SRR ~<;{::-'E!;;;'4:::;:;:g;;:;:;::_-:;.;.:u:;.;:;:;:;::.‘-:‘ o o SR e e [ BN o SRR - R s 2R g e TR P X g Vg R &% Ral o B T B B R L oRG R R L G S ::5::’3@2 iy K R N TEEeE SRR R ..\‘:;: # 3 v'«( R ; Boapnß" ! SRR | TR | z B e RN e | e B RS s g B £ T G o R e fl ; ‘o - I Dr. M. P, Jarnagin, well known Georgia agricultural educator, who has been re-elected head of the department of animal hus bandry of the Georgia College of) Agnicufture, ' Which becomes an integrated part of the University of Gerogia July 1. ‘ According to report here Dr.| Jarnagin was ‘“re-instated,” but' the Associated Press states that the sccretary to the board of re gents caid he has been ‘‘re-elect ed,” indicating he was never dis- | micsed, as has been thought here due to the fact that his name| was not on the list of re-elected facilty members last month. ‘ bA. LEGIONNAIRES MEET AT VALDOSTA Busy Program Is Planned For Three Day Annual State Convention. VALDOSTA, Ga.—(AP)—Geor gia's fighting men of World war days marched on Valdosta Mon day for the annual state conven tion of the American Legion. The meeting will continue through Wednesday with a round of business sessiong,. speeches, memorial service, dances and fish fries. . Registration of delegates and alternates begam at 160 a. m. Mon day morming and the executive committee plans the first meeting of the convention at 4:30 o'clock Monday afternoon. A dinner for the executive com mittees of the Legion and the Legion Auxillary and a dance by the Forty and Eight club Monday night complete the first day's pro gram. . An address by Ray Murphy of Ida Grove, Towa, chairman of the national rehabilitation committee of the Legion, is the feature of Tuesday's program. He will dis cuss recent tegislation passed by congress as it applies to veterans' compensation. The Legion and the Auxiliary (Continued on' Page Three; imlsslon under Governor Talmadge's ]mil‘;tary rule of that department, {was in Washington Monday seek ling release of about $10,000,000 in | federal road funds allotted to the ;state but held up pending settle lment’ of the troubles between the igovernor and the Highway board. | The money is provided under the 'pubuc works section of the indus i try recovery act. Federal officials ihave said Georgia's share would {not be paid over until the highway jrow is settled. ! Wilhoit went to Washington un lexpectedly Saturday night follow ;ing a conference with the governor iand some of his advisors. | J. W. Barnett, ousted chairman fot’ the Highway board, sald Sun {day no effort would be made to ;block the present Highway depart iment set-up from getting the | state’s shard of federal road funds | “Neither I nor Mr. Vereen, who !alse. was removed under Governor i (Continued on Page Three) ' CLARKE FARMERS GIVEN PLANS AT MEETINGS TODAY Plan Is Entircly Up to Far mers, Nothing Compul sory in Ut Except Carry ing Out Agreement. PRICE ADVANCES AS DRIVE BEGINS Campaign Gets Underway Throughout South Un der Federal Supervision. More than SIOO,OOO in immadiate cash will flow into the pockets of farmers in the Athens territory be tween now and early fall, by vir tue of the federal govern!nent's plans for agricultural restoration. The expected increase in price un der the plan will, of course add thousands of dollars more to trada channels before winter. The amount of cash which will be paid farmers for plowing up cotton acreage, will depénd upon the farmers themselves, The gov ernment’s plan gilve the farmers the privilege of elther taking all cash for the amount of acreage reduced, or cash and an option on cotton which the government holds or will huy, giving the garm er the benefit of a rise in price on account of the reduction in world supply brought about by the plan the government: ig premoting, - Six community meetings: arve being in Clarke county today, for the purpose of explaining tHe plan to the farmers and enabling thém to begin signing the contracts which will covér their agreement with the goverhment. Nearly a million acres has been allotted Georgia, and eich county will bé given reduction allotments accord ing to the normal acreage 'under cultivation. g | Immediate Cash 5 The immediate cash bencfits, ol course, will be smali in comparison ‘with the benefits the farmers will ‘enjoy as a result of options on [cotton to be sold at a higher' prict in the future, and on account of obtaining a higher price than could be expected with a large cotton crop and increase in the ‘world surplus. However, the cash sent to the farmers of the Athens territory, will aid them in carry ing on while the plan to restore the cotton price level is being promoted by the government. and will stimulate early fall trade. While the minimum amount of cotton .acreage to be plowed up is 10,000,000, whether or not the plan will bé oatried out by the governmeéent does not depend on any one state, the minimum being set for the cotton belt as a whole. The plan ig not compulsory. The farmers can take It or leave it so to speak. ; | BEGIN DRIVE ATLANTA ~ () — The federal igovprnment Mopday launched a , south-wide campaign to give 2,000,- 000 farmers an opportunity to bet ‘ter their lot throygh curtailing thh‘ |year's cotton crop in e¢xchange for }henefits expeeted to aggregate ~more than $150,000,000. . Under the direction of Cully A, Cobb of Atlanta.an army of exten 'sion workers hegan a, six-day drive ito explain the government's cot- Itrm curtailment plan to the farm ;crs. Cobb is cotton production chief of President Roosevelt's farm ‘relief forces. : - In hundreds of rural communi ‘ties farmers gathered-to hear their own leaders explain how the gov ‘ernment proposed to pay them cash for plowing up at least 26 per cent or as much as 50 per cent of this year‘'s cotton crop. The campaign 'is intended to reach into more than 800 couhties which produdé dotton. The govérn ment inténds to retire about 10,- 000.000 acreg’ from cotton produc tion. This agreage, already plant. ed was exnected to produce about 3.000.000 bales, 2 County agen's head the various county committees which are charged with explaininz the dg tails. Farm and business leaders also are taking ;wrt and these county commiftees have- set up 100- cal committees of vélunteer work ers in the communities. 4 Local committees will report re sults of theéir meeétines to the county. committees which will pass them on to the state organizations (Continued on Page Three) A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday. Director Sued for $3,158.855 2 2 st SR .Bs R R e RBS PR A . Dot . g R e S R B 5 BI S T QR PR o.e AN 5 SR . ¢ N ORI AR S R A AR N f/’fk/: 53 e e B A R AR AN R O R,y v S R e S | RO B CRS T R - B R AR Gz TR+ LR B e i 4 A g R R | Pk e S TR vyl R S G A B 2 ' RTR e S o RS es o R ReR R e 3 B e R T Y g R '.:r-»~~*‘»-4:~‘$'@:!:.:q':' R : SR R R i.;f;'g;:f:‘?;: e R PR R 5'3%%?*‘ . aiaae g Bo L ) ol e AR i.'lfj:- LB es el N :fi"‘-‘»Tf?"":!i1,).vw.4.355.-"‘:'s"' 3 e ol 5. B R T o R ! S Giee R 5 Y e TR 2 CREREL TR T o SRR R SRR 5 R ‘:2:1:1:-:i:f:1:~:~. R ”:’-'§:>f'-:l 8 R . R 3 R NRR S % o 2R o 4 99. S ity ; B 2> i R e i 3 A%? ¥ K i B 3 E % BB A §rity P~ 3 5 II" Kenyon V' Painter, above, Cleveland capitalist, has ac cepted judgment against him for $3,158,855 in a suit brought by the conservator of the de funct Union Trust Co. of Cleveland. A director of the bank, Mr Painter, was re vealed as a borrower of this amount from it. He said he had borrowedto buy more bank stock ro- uphold its price. FOUR INJUREDBY GATHEDRAL BLAST Spaniard Arrested For - Planting Bomb in Cathe drz2l in Rome. VATICAN CITY —(#)— A bomb which police said was manufac tured "in Spain and brought here by Demetrio Solamon, who car ried a Spanish passport, was ex picded in the portico of St. Pet jer's here Sunday. . Solamon was under ar r e st {charged with gplanting the bomb. The authorities asserted the ex plosion was the result of the pre gented strained relations between the Vatican and Spajn following Jthe Pope/s encyclical of June 3 and the latas sententiae excom munications of members of the Spanish government. The bomb caused a panic in a crowd of Holy Year pjlgrims. Four persons were injured but there was little property damage. Solamon left Spain. the polier (sajd, on Thursday night and came directly to Rome, arriving: Sunday morning. He went straight to St Peter's where he depogited the bomb, the authorities asserted, in a heavy cardboard package. His arrest came about in a curi ous fashion. Police related that Solamon stood in the middle of St. Peter's square near the an cient Egyptian obelisk until the bomb exploded, whereupon he be gan to run away. ‘ A Fascist militia officer in civ ilian clothes started after him. He‘ had passed the huge foundations to the left of the piazza when hel put his hand inside his coat and threw something into one of the fountains, the police said and then dashéd on, eluding the pursuer by darting through the Bernini Colon- | nade to narrow side streets. | - The officer, bethinking himself Icif the objeet tossed inio the toun—, tain, returned to the square and fished out a water-soaked Span~l (ContinnerAd on Page Three) ! E . T ’ LOCAL WEATHER { D e e oitescsopopris® | Generally fair Monday night and Tuesday, except local ! thundershowers Tuesday aft ernoon In northk portion, i TEMPERATURE ] FHGHRE - >) L iioiiiVand aanill MEREE ... v e vl RN BRI - oo e i AR NOPIREE - o T iR RAINFALL Inches last 24 -hours .. .... .30 Total since June 1 .. .... 2.20 Deficiency since June 1 .. 1.30 Average June rainfall .. ~ 4.10 Total since January 1 .. ..19.74 Deficiency since January 1, 6,12 BRI i HeME EDITION : L COMMISSIONERS DAY CHRGES MIDE "BY LAGOR ATTORNEY Chairman Perry of Public - . - Service Commission Files Genertl Answer; Members File Separate. HEARING IS HELD IN " HOUSE QUARTERS Nationai Guardsmen Give Military Atmosphere As Hearing Is Opened. ATLANTA .—(P)—Govetnor Tal< madge Monday informed. the exe~ . cutive committee of the Georgia Federation of Labor, in opening a . hearing on lahor's petition: to oust. members of the State Public Ser vice commissioners, that the “bur« den of proof” was on the commit tee. . The governor said the first test&é'g;j mony would be represented by las bor to be followed by the mems« bers of the commiasion. SR The Federation charged the com« ‘missioners with neglect of duty im ‘the regulation of wtility rates im Gieorgia and should be removed from office. © The rzovernor set a Ehearing and ordered! the commiss [sloners to appear Monday to show why they should not be ‘ousted. - The hearing is heing held in the house ofrepresentatives | chamber at the Capitol and more than an hour before the hearing was te open the seats began to fill Mems« - hers of the commission spent the time prior to the opening of tha hearing at 11 a. m. dictating of iconterring. ‘ e Clerks of the commission round« ed up a ma#ig of documentary evi<. dence demandéd by the governor. The members of the commissiom are: James A. Perry, of Atlanta, = chairman; Perry T. Knight of Vaiw dosta, vice chairman; Walter /R‘«.g McDonald of Augusta, Albert Woodruff of Decatur and Jule W, Felton of Montezuma, commup!om% ~1 ers. o Governor's Order .15 The governor's order to thzfilfi%fi mission told them to produce ans praisals and valgations of all pube lic utilities where such informa«s . tion was used in rate fixing. The § Lii are 126 telephone companies in state, 30 gas, elecfiic light, street . railway and power companies, two express companies, two telegraph companies, 12 cotton compress companies, a number of terminal companies, more than 500 me ”' carriers and 44 steam railroads. = State Senator Gordon Knox. of Hazlehurst dame to Atlanta ,@ of the attorneys for Cornmissiones Knight. #s¢ sald J. E. Deghe, : ot By kit of Bainbridge. and S. J. 'sL Commerce, - algo would ?“ k. Mr. Knight, Members of the WVals dosta bar telegraphed Mr. Khight Monday volunfgering their 5,,1;-;;:3 in the case. Mr. Knight said whils he appreciated “the genreou i‘fié fer” of his féllow townsmé A did not feel like calling on» especially gince court is in session in Valdosta this week. 7 i Chairman Perry filed the Jopgess ‘answer, in which he said W was. speaking both for the comm&;& and himself. Other members of 1 ;f,., (commission filed individulk;fv,%?‘- 'swers, all denying the charges - made by labor. ST . The house chamber was given lmimary atmosphere by the.- ence of a captain of the natiopal izuard sitting divectly in f" , ‘the governor and national gu 'men posted at the doors under ;regulatlons which have placed,the Capitol under military comtrol. = ' Chairman Perry read his answep in person. State Senator Gordon Knox of Hazlehurst replied sos Vice Chairman Knight; Staté Sen ator Joe Ben Jackson of Gray for Commissionér McDonald and.Juls Felton of Montezuma for his som, Jack C. Savage is counsel for' the Federation of Labor, Repres sentative James Cariledge of Ri fl mond county announced ap- Heared officially for the % Augusta and also as a state reps resentative. Emerson Mm%; appeared for the federation. =~ R. R. Blackburn of Atlanta was announced as counsel for Mr Perry; Senator Jackson for 1} 'ifigfi Donald, J. E. Drake of Bainbridge ' Senator Knox and S. J. Smith of Commerce for Knight and Jule Felton for his son. At the request of the attorney for labor, ;}: commissoiner filed his answer pars . ¥ — iy A | (Continued on page three) ¥
