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COTTON
el
MIDDLING .. .. .. .. 10 1-2¢
PREVIOUS CLOSE ... .. 10 1-8¢
Vol. 101, No. 152.
Tax Proposed For Growers Refusing To Aid Cotton Reduction Plan
ROOSEVELT SIGNS TEXTILE CODE AIDING 400,000 MILL WORKERS
Witness Says Commuission Cut Power Company Revenues $9,950,304
JICE PRESIDEAT OF
POWER COMPARY fa
CALLED AS WITNESS
Collier Is Cross-Examined
on Stand By Arkwright
in Monday Session of
Ouster Hearing.
REVENUE CUT WAS
OVER 6 YEAR SPAN
Perry Asks Talmadge Call
As Own Witnesses Gas
Company Officials.
ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) — The
Georgia Pubile Service commis
sion has reduced the Georgia
Power company's revenues $9,950,-
304 by rate. revisions during a six
and ope-half year period, Charles
Collier, vice-president of the com
pany, testified Monday at Gover
nor Talmadge's ouster hearing
against the commission.
Collier, cross-examined by Pres
ton Arkwright, president of the
Power company, presented a re
port of a Federal Trade commis
sion examiner which covered the
vears 1926 to 1930, inclusive. The
examiner gave larger figures of
reductions for the year 1930 than
were supplied by Collier himself.
Arkwright questioned the wit
ness as to whether Jack Svaage,
counsel for the Georgia Federa
tion -of Labor, .who.filed.lhe_quster
petition, had made appearances at
rate hearings in other cities of the
state and Collier said he had not.
Collier did say, however, that ‘the
Columbus Central Labor Union
had filed a . petition demanding
lower transgportation rates from
the company operated in Columbus
by the Georgia Power company.
Arkwright brought out that he
had offered to give a representa
tive of the Labor Federation in
Columbus, debt free, the com
pany’s transportation system there
if the Labor Federation would
cuarantee the operation of the
system. Collier brought out that
the offer was refused.
At the opening of the hearing
Chairman James A, Perry of the
commission asked that the gover
nor call as his own witnesses two
officials of the gas company. Per
vy said he was “assuming entire
responsibility for the so-called
detriment or, damage that has re
sulted to our people,” by bringing
natural gas to Georgia. Perry also
asked that representatives of the
railroads be called to discuss the
work of the commission in super
vising railroad rates in Georgia.
. Savage Objects
Savage jumped to his feet to
ohject, saying if Perry wanted the
witnesses_he had the right to sub
poena them. He said also that he
had not charged any damage was
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Three Men Die in
Triple Execution
For Fla. Slaying
RAIFORD, Fla.—(#)—ln Florida’s
first triple execution, Louis Lea
vine, Victor Palmer and Norman
Heidt died in the electric chair at
the state farm here Monday for
the murder of Joe B. Johnson, of
Tampa.
Palmer was the first to be exe
cuted. He was pronounced dead ar
10:08 a. m.
Next came leavine who was
dead at 10:19 a. m. '
Heidt was last. He died at 10:34
a. m.
All went calmly to the chair.
They were convicted of the fatal
shooting” of Johnson, prominent
Tampa ‘automobile dealer during an
attempt to rob him in the yard of
his home two years ago.
Last minute effor's hy Leavine
to halt his electrocution failed Sat
urday when the Supreme court de
nied his petition for a stay and
Permission to apply to the Hills
borough circuit court for a new
frial. Heidt and Palmer did not
join him. in the request.
In his petition, Leavine claimed
that at least one membéer of the
trial jury was prejudiced and
should have bheen disqualified. '
The condemned trio spent Sun
day reading magazines and receiv
ng final spiritual ministrations
from the prison chaplain.
No special request was made by
the slayers in the final hours. They
smoked cigarets al!most constantly
and ate the regular prison menu
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Admitting he would stop at London on his way to Stockliolm, Lau
rence A. Steinhardt, new United States Minister to Sweden, denied
however that he was carrying a message from the President to dele
gates at the world parley. Steinhardt, President Roosevelt's youngest
diplomatic appointee, is pictured with his wife and daughter Dulcie
Ann before sailing from New York,
UNDERWOOD RULES
AGAINST BARNETT
Petition Against Gover
nor By Barnett, Vereen
. Is Dismissed Monday.
GAINESVILLE, Ga.— (AP) —
Federal Judge E. Marvin Under
wood Monday dismissed the peti
tion for injunction against Gover
nor Talmadge, Adjutant General
Lindley Camp and Jud P. Wil
hoit, Highway commissioner, by
ousted members of the State High
way board.
Governor Talmadge took over
operations of the Highway board
when Chairman J. W. Barnett
and Commissioner W. C. Vevecn,
‘the majority members, refused to
dismiss five engineers as demand -
ed by the governor and sought
court action to prevent his expend
ing highway funds which the gov
ernor had imopunded in the state
treasury.
Judge Underwood's decision up
held the motion to dismiss made
by Attorney General M. J. Yeo
mans, who contended that under
the 1931 act reorganizing the state
government, no subordinate de
partment of the state government
could bring suit without his con
sent. He claimed the Highway
board, which Captain Barnett and
Commissioner Vereen claipicd
they represented_ had no right un
der that provision to hire attor
neys and therefore no right to be
in court betflore the case was sub
mitted to him.
Judge Undéfwood in making his
decision said::
“It appearing to the court that
the Attorney General, in making
said motion to dismiss, is acting
withing the scope of the duties and
responsibilities imposed upon and
of the powers granted to him by
the constitution and laws of the
state of Georgia, espicially the re
organization act; it is ordered and
adjudged that motion to dismiss
said case be and uereby is granted
and the case be and hereby is
dismissed at plaintiffs’ cost.”
. The judge’s action cleared the
docket of all highway cases except
one brought by the Beckham-Law
yer coristruction company of Perry
Ga., which alleges the Highway
board is indebted to the company
in the sum of approxmately $i9,000
for 'work already done. This case is
scheduled for a hearng in Atlanta
next Monday.
LOCAL WEATHER
Showers and probably thun
dershowers Monday night and
Tuesday.
TEMPERATURE
Highest .... ... ... ....100.0
EaaE . . i s
BRI (. isaes sane sreved 87.0
NP ..o 07 ioo wsuvianss 79.0
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .... 00
Total sinee July 1 .. .. .. .26
Deficiency since July 1 .... 1.24
Average July rainfall .. .. 4.98
Total since January 1 .. ..20.04
Deficiency since January 1. 7gg
THE BANNER-HERALD
GLUB WOMEN OFEN
MEETING TUESDAY
Georgia Women GCather
Here For Tenth Annual
Institute.
With women from all over Geor
gia in attendance, the Georgia Fea
eration of Women's elubs will open
its tenth annual institute at Me
morial hall Tuesday.
Registration for the two-day in
stitute will begin at 9:30 a. m.
an address of welcome will be de
livered at 10 a. m. by Dr. 8. V,
Sanford, president of the Univer
sity; Dr. J. S. Stewart, director ol
the Summer Quarter, and Mrs. R
¥. Turner, president of the Athens
Woman’s club.
Mrs. J. W. Gholston, Comer
president of the Georgia Federa
tion of Women’s clubs, will make
the response. Miss Grace Morrison
Poole, president of the General
Federation of Women’s clubs, and
director of the institute, will give
a public address at 5 p. m. Tues
dav.
A garden party will be given the
visitors at the home of Mrs. Lamar
Cobb Rucker, 126 Dearing street
Tuesday at 7 p. m. The delegates
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Extension Course
Opened Here For
Doctors Monday
An extenston course for North
east Georgia doctors opened at the
Clarke county courthcuse Monday
afternoon at 3:00 o'clock under the
auspices of the Clarke County
Medical society, Emory university,
State Medical association, and the
State Be.old of Health.
The coHurse opened with the
Ladies Auxiliary meeting at 2:30
o'clock. At 3:00 o'clock, Dr. M.
Hines Roberts gave a lecture on
“Preventive Pediatrics” before the
doctors.
Dr. Daniel C. Elkin will make
a talk on surgery, Tuesday after
noon. The title of his address be
ing “Surgical Diseases of the
Thorax.”
ILLINOIS CAPITAL
DAMAGED BY FIRE
SPRINGIELD, L., — () —
Damaged by fire and water and
with part of its roof caved in,
the Illionois state Capitol, scene
of Monday’'s prohibition repeal
convention presented a sorry ap
pearance following a $75,000 blaze.
The fire broke out Suday after
noon and burned for four hours.
numerous state records were de
stroyed and probably more would
have been had not Governor Hen
ry Horner and other state officials
entered the burning structure and
directed salvage éfforts,
The fire attacked the south
wing, which houses the chamber
of the house of representatives,
where the convention is scheduled
to be held. Governor Horner said
he thought workmen could
put it in condition for the session,
It was damaged by water only,
JOKES TAKES REING
A 5 AUMIISTRATOR
FOR PUBLIC WORKS
Only Worthy Projects to
Get Any of $3,300,000,-
000 Fund to Be Expend
ed, Administrator Says.
BUSINESS REPORTS
SHOW IMPROVEMENT
Cotton, Bank Deposits,
Freight Traffic Go Up;
Road Network Planned.
WASHINGTON—(®)— Secretary
Ickes took over his new assign
ment- as public works adminstra
tor Monday with an announcement
there will be no curtailment of the
$3,300,000,000 public works program;
but that federal funds will be ex
tended only to those local govern
mental bodies which bring their
expenditures in line with revenues
Referring to, recent suggestions
that the program might be curtail
ed in view of industrial gains, the
secretary said:
“Swift translation of the admin
{stration plan into action giving
millons jobs is our first objective.
“Recent gratifying gains in in
dustry and employment do not jus
tify curtailment or slowing up of
the employment program until
those gains are secured amd con
solidated. ; :
“When conditions justify, ex
penditures for public works will be
ended promptly.”
ickes served ‘notice that only
worthy projects will be advanced
funds.
COTTON UP $1.75
NEW ORLEANS. —(#)— Cotton
prices spurted $1.60 to $1.75 a bale
in initial transactions Monday in
response to a further advance in
sterling exchange and a wave of
heavy buying orders developed over
the week-end which brought im
portant acreage announcements.
Although Saturday’'s government
bureau estimate showed an In
crease in acreage this year of 11t
per cent, it was followed by apti
mistic announcements from farm
relief administrators relative ta
the acreage reduction campaign
now in progress.
FREIGHT INCREASES
MACON, Ga. —(#)— Marked in
creases in freight and passenger
traffic on railroads through middl”
Georgia are reported by railway
officials,
“So far during July we have
handled one third more business
through the Macon terminals than
we did during the same period last
yvear, sai@ W. E. Stewart, assist
ant general freight agent of the
Central of Georgia railway.
“A slight improvement was
shown in February and this, de
spite the bank moratorium, contin
ued in March. Further progreéss
was made in April and a really
substantial gain was registered in
May and June and is continuing
through July.”
He said Central of Georgia car
loadings increased 21 per cent in
May and 33 per cént in June over
the same months last year.
Working Full Time
Locomotive and car shops bhegan
working full time in June and will
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Warning Is Issued By Tennessee Valley
Authority Against Speculators in Land
WASHINGTON —(#)—The Ten
nessee Valley Authority announced
Monday it- plans to acquire aHJ
lands within about three miles ut‘
the proposed Cove Creek dam near
Knoxville, but served notice spe(‘-‘
ulative prices would not be recog
nized. 1
The Valley Authority, in a tor-}
mal statement, warned the people
of that section against real estate
exploitation and predicted that |
three fourths of the buyers ol
property “may be stung”,
The anouncement of plans for
purchasing land was made by the
board after its three members hal
inspécted the site on the Clinch
projeet is planned in conneection
project is planned in ecennectoin
with the d:velopment of the Ten
nessee Valley. |
The announcement said:
S“ln announcing that it plans to
acquire for publiec purposes all lafid]
within approximately three muesl‘
i“' the site of the proposed Cove
~ESTABLISHED 1832~
Athens, Ga., Monday, July 10, 1933.
PROPOGAL FOR TAX
UN RECALCITRANTS
FORWARDED T 0 GBR
Richmond County Cotton
Control Committees Pro
pose Tax, Payable At
Gin, For Those Lagging.
ROOSEVELT ISSUES
REDUCTION APPEAL
Is First Major Attack on
Agricultural Depression,
President Asserts.
Georgia has offered 66,060
contracts to the government to
date, involving a total cotton
acreage of 1,439,916 and eli
minating 502,990 cotton acreage,
it was anonunced here Monday
by the Agricultural KExtension
service.
The cash benefits without
options are $2 391,471, and cash
benefits with options are $3,-
477,960. There are 152,515 gov
ernment bales under option,
More than half of Georgia's
quota has been subscrbed in
the cotton reduction program
of the United States Govern
ment,
AUGUSTA, GA.—(#)—The Rich
mond county and community cot
ten control committee have pro
posed a tax, payable at the gin,
on large growers who have not
agreed to join the cotton acreage
reduction program.
Spokesmen for the committees
said the proposal would be for
warded to C. A. Cobb, federal cot
ton administrator in Washington,
with the suggestion that he peti
tion all farmes in the cotton belt
to promote a similar plan,
Richmond county’'s campaign to
reduce acreage under Secretary
Wallace's plan was only 1056 acres
short of its quota—3,2o3 acres—
at the last compilation of pledges.
ROOSEVELT APPEALS
WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The
appeal of President Roosevelt—
that cotton producers join the
acreage reduction program
promptly in the interest of im
proving long-range prices for the
staple—resounded throughout the
cotton country Monday.
With the time limit for signing
off acreage extended from last
Saturday through Wednesday, 22,-
000 campaigners, meeéeting the far
mers in their cotton rows, renew
ed efforts to spread the benefits of
what the President described as
“our first major attack on the
agricultural depression.”
Farm administrators Saturday
officially described the program to
retire acres under cultivation and
adjust cotton production down
ward an ‘“unqualified success,” in
announcing that growers had sign
ed contracts offering to plow un
der 5,566,165 acres of their grow
ing staple crop.
The goal is to cut the potential
crop by at least 3,000,000 bales, by
_tha government buying 25 to 50
percent of crop and having it
plowed under. This means that
approximately 10,000,000 acres
must be retired. Saturday’'s first
cotton estimate of the year, re
porting the acreage was 40,798,000,
an increase of 11.6 percent over
last year, emphasized the neces-
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|Creek dam, near Knoxville, the
| Tennessee Valley Authority cau
|tions land owners of this region
|against granting options on thei
iland to be wused for speculative
purposes.
“The autherity, when it comes to
fixing prices at which it will be
willing to purchase such land, will
not recognize speculative values
»,added * during this preliminary
lpFriod. I; has accordingly asked
the Knowflle Real Estate board
land the Knoxville Chamber ol
|Commerce to cooperate with it ir
i preventing such specula‘tion.
| “As for the mushroom growth ol
Ir¢al estate exploitation firms as @
result of the genreal developmen!
iChairman Arthur E. Morgan point:
| oute
| “‘One of the menaces of this rea)
jestate promotion is that lots are
| being sold where they never will
|be needed. If the people buy thls
ireal estate three fourths of them
imay be stung.”’
Pay. Day at a Forest Army Camp
% . 4% CESEES
Lieut, F. L. Beadle, U, S, army, is shown
24 above acting as paymaster for the Civilian San
i’fi Conservation Corps camp in Rainier Na- oo
2/ tional Park, Washington. Each worker "‘"6: A
& gets §6 monthly out of the dollar-a-day p-og - &
pay, and is housed, clothed and fed at gov- s o S
4 ernment expense. The remainder of the { ’,v@%‘i
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VARTHA" WILL OPEN
OPERA SEASON HERE
Ticket Sale Began Mon
day Morning in Old Law
Building.
The .curtain . rises = Wednesday
night at Woodruff hall on Athins
annual ‘epera season, when “Mar?
tha” will be presented, with a cass
of princéipals who have sung In
leading opera companies and with
teading orchestras throughout the
country,
In selecting the operas for this
season, the first under his direc
tion, Hugh Hodgson, head of the
University music department, has
chosen two of the most tuneful and
well-known operas in <xistence.
“Martha,” with Its popular songs
neluding “The Last Rose of Sum
mer” and “Like a Dream,” and
“Faust” have been called the most
popular of operas, and with the
stage scttings being prepared for
them here, under the direction of
John Gallaway, Athenians will fina
them doubly pleasing. ‘
Mr, Gallaway is well-known tc
Athens audiences for his work in
Thalian-Blackfriar plays and those
who have seen this year's opera
sets say that they are the finest
ever used in performances here.
Nothing has been spared to make
them beautiful and realistic, ana
the job of making se*s has been
doubly hard this year since the
operas will be presented complete
with no scenes cut.
Tickets for the operas went on
sale Monday morning at the publie
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Two Railroad Shops
Of Seaboard Closed
For Indefinite Time
NORFOLK, Va.—(#)—As a re
sult of the inability of the Sea
board Air Line management and
the general shoperaft committee
to agree on a basis for a three
day week for shop employes, the
Portsmouth, Va., and Jacksonville,
Fla., shops of the railroad will be
‘closed after July 15 for an indefi
nite period, probably until fall, it
was announced Monday. b
| Approximately six hundred men
iare affected in €ach of the two
| points, it was estimated Monday.
| Hope is expressed in Portsmouth
ithat some means will be found to
adjust the matter so as to pro
vide at least part time work for
shopmen, g
E. C. Bagwell, general manager
of the Seaboard, issued the follow
ing statement Monday, which he
said was agreed upon by himself,
representing the ‘railroad, and J. S.
IWiles, of Jacksonville, general
chairman of the shopcrafts.
‘ “The Seaboard on account of
| veasonal decrease in business dur
!lng the summer months found it
| necessary to make reductions in all
|lines of expenses. includinz shor
!fnrces: and after considering*the
| situation with the general commit
itoe of the sheferafts. it undertook
‘to work out a basis for a threée
}days per week for. the summér
| months. But we could not eet to.
| gether on a three-day week ana
lthemtore it was mecigsary ‘o make
reduction in forces over the entire
| system.” “,
Running repair shops at other
lpoints on the systém may also be
affected. _ B bty
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday,
JAPANESE SEIZE
GOVIET TRAWLER
Quarrel Started By Killing
of Japanese Fishermen
Looks Serious.
| By A. D. STEFFERUD
" Associated Press Cable Editor -
[' The killing of three Japanese
fishermen in Soviet waters. June
14 touched off a chain of events,
‘protests, and countercharges that
‘Moscow and Tokyo admit is very
serious.
The latest flare-up in the quar
rel, as reported by Rengo (Japan
ese) News Agency, was the seiz
ure by a Russian trawler of a
Japanese fishing boat, Kotohira
‘Maru, with a crew of 20, on Sat
urday.
The trouble started when the
Japanese fishing vessel, Fumi Ma
ru, approached the West Kam
chatka coast, in need of water.
Three men were sent in a small
boat towards shore. One account
is that Soviet guards on land
fired on the ship, and the larger
boat hastily retired, leaving the
fishermen.
Officers of the Fumi Maru sum
moned the Japanese destroyer
Tachikaze, which was cruising
northward according to the Jap
anese custom of keeping war ves
sels in the waters during the fish
ing season.
G. I. Sokolnikoff, Russian vice
commissar for foreign affairs,
protesting against the /destroyer’s
entering of Soviet waters and its
investigation of the deaths.
The vice-commissar said sailors
had been landed from the de
stroyer debspite the government's
refusal to allow them to investi
gate.
“The Japanese report of the in
cident causes the Soviet governu
ment utter perplexity,” Sokoini
koff said in a protest.
Thereupon Japanese police were
said to have seized a 4,000-ton
Russlan steamer and a 100-to£\
Russian fishing boat off one of
the northern Kuriles.
A Rengo dispatch Monday said
the two Soviet vessels seized in
the Kuriles July 4 were towed to
Nemuro by a Japanese patrol
boat. Officers were taken ashore
and questioned about their alleged
unauthorized presence in Japanése
territorial waters, and the rest of
the crew were detained. The So
viet consul went to Nemuro, but
was not allowed to see the men.
Crisp-Wilcox County
Merger Is Advocated
ABBEVILLE, ‘Ga—(AP)—Con
solidation of Wilcox and Crisp
counties is recommended by the
Wilcox grand jury. .
The jurors based their action on
the opinion the merger would
lower the tax rate in Wilcox and
give that county the advantage of
cheap rates for hydro-electric
power from the Crisp county plant.
The presentment urged that
steps be taken to effect the con
solidation without delay.
ASST. CHIEF COBB
IS CRITICALLY ILL
I. Q. Cobb, assistant chief
of the Athens Fire department,
is In serious condition at the
St. Mary’s hospital.
Mr. Cobb was taken to thé
hospital Saturday night, suf
fering with tonsilitis,
HS“E|
AO-HOUR WEEK AND
MINIVUM WAGE R
PROVIDED N CODE:
#resident Signs Cotton
_ Textile Code Sunday
.~ Night, With Reserva
. tions and Interpretations
I L Yo 2
MINIMUM IN SOUTH
sl2; IN NORTH sl3
Only 23 Percent of Indus
try Has Failed to Sign
Recovery Agreement,
st i
WASHINGTON, —(f)— The
cotton textile industry’s code !
of fair competition, as approved
by President Roosevelt— -
Bacomes effectve July 17 .-next
Monday,
Remaing n force four months,
subject then to exlension or
modifsation.
CGuarantees minimum wages of
sl2 a week In the south and sl3
in the north; except cleaners,
outside employes and learners.
Limits any employe to 40
hours work a week, except
repair shop crews electricians,
. engineers and watchin crews,
who shall get time and fl’.;{;j
for overtime. ’ e
Forbids employment of chil«
dren under 10. \
Requires periodical submission
Requires periodical submission -
production, consumyption, ete.
Restricts “Stre&cr-out"
stem througl: whirh workers *
increase their outiput by op
erating more macg ines.
Directs submission by Jan
uary 1, 1934, of 'a mimimum
pay, maximum ‘hours ‘
ment for cleanegs and outside
workers, / Lol
Instructs industry’s planning
committee to. ‘submit by Jan
uary 1 a plan for employe
Home-ownership, -
Allows the: adminstration te
name three mnon-voting mem
bers of this committee, *
WASHINGTON —(#)— Upwards
of 400,000 eraployes in cotton tex
tile mills next Monday will begin
working only 40 hours a week in:
stead of 48 to 50 for no le&
sl2 or sl3 against $8 to $% - =
That was assured when Presls
dent Roosevelt, with reservati %
and ‘ntetpretations, Sunday nigl
approved and promulgated th,
work-spreading, wage-raislgfgf}’
of fair competition comple';:x’;g‘fi
der the national recovery e
Approval of this agreement, ©
ficinl= said, would bring more frox
other big industries in the attem
to recovey prosperity by what ¢
Prisieny calls a “parnership Bes
(Continued on Page Three)
Wardlaw Movesto '
Atlanta to Be Head
Of Adult Education
ATLANTA —(#)—The University
‘Evening School, formerly the Geor=
}gia Tech Evening School of ?
'merée, has announced it will give
’oourses leading to bachelor of art:
'and bachelor of science degrees
beginning this fall. P
| A course leading to the
master of science in commerce will
be started later in the year.
The announcement was made by
Dr. George M. Sparks, director
under authorization of Dr. Charle
M. Snelling, director of general
lextenslon of the Usiversity System
of Georgla. ot 0
| The Board of Regents, in authors
|lzim§; enlargement of the schools
program, is following recommeénda=_
[tlons of a recent survey board for
‘higher education in advoca \fifi
Unlversity System Evening Scheol
as a center of adult education.
~ In addition to directing the
‘school, Dr. Sparks will be direc=
tor in extension with a program
of periodically scheduling short
courses or institutes at different
places in the 'state for such
groups as bankers, credit men and °
accoyntants. o g
Dr. J. C. Wardlaw, ‘former
head of all extension in the state,
is to be director of adult deuca<
tion in Gerogia. At present |
headgquarters is in Athens but he
will .move to the Evening Schoe
at 223 Walton street, Atlanta.
Officials sald tuition for the
Evening School would be reductd
20 percent and the institution will
continue to operate at no cost t&
the eity, county OF Stßteß .o
e e SRR e T