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/ol 101. No. 162.
Jthens Food Dealers Meet To Consider Roosevelt Recovery Plan
ÜBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION FIRED
i otton Again Breaks $5 With Gran Market Closed; Stocks Follow
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overnment Is Reported
Ready to Act to End
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Mass Manipulation of
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Stocks and Commodities
RADING IN GRAIN
SUSPENDED ONE DAY
New York Market Col
lapses After Moderate|
improvement in A. M. !
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"'_-.y;';‘ YORK.— (AP) — Stocksi
wroke sharply Friday afternoon as |
' tumbled more than $5 al
Active elling sent loading!
shares down $2 to more than $7. |
The market had improved moder~'
during the morning.
By 2 oclock U. S. Steel was
down $5 to $52.50; American Tele
phone $5.37 to $119; New - York |
Central $7.50 to S3B; Allied Chem- |
ical $7 to $114; General Electric |
8250 to $22.50; American Can l
$250 to $70.50; General Motors s3{
to $26: Santa Fe $4 to $65. |
Forced selling appeared to play
a large part in the afternoon
slun The market's firm tone]
during the earlier trading doubt
less prompted many brokers t(){
give ilstoimers more time in
which to fortify balances depleted’
by Thursday's violent shake-out;
but when prices began to crumble
afresh, weakly margined holdings
were dumped.
Repeal’ shares, which had
been leading the market down
) tended to hold more suc
cessfully than other groups. Their
sses ranged roughly from $1 to
§4; they had been $1 to $7 higher
In the morning.
Bull pool liquidated hastily,
putting large offerings of thoiri
¢ favorites into a feeh]el
The collapse on the New York|
( lixchange was severe, Less
than half an hour hefore the us
sing time Electric Bond
| Share and Gulf Oil were down |
39 or more, Distillers Corp.-Sea
gral recent favorite, was off
$7, and Aluminum of America SB.
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SIGH OF RELIEF l
CHICAGO. (AP) *—The grain |
trade drew a long breath and re
axed Iriday as trading was sus
pended at all the American ex- |
es to allow rest from the'
nt sessions which culminated |
T in the worst price col
lapse in many years. '
F 'wing the action of the Chi-l
tago Board of Trade' in suspend- |
lealings for the day, Kansasl
“ Minneapolis, St. Louis and
Juluth were Quick to fall in line
take holiday. When trading
ed Saturday there will hel
: n daily fluctuations.
m taken by directors
: ¢ Board of Trade late Thurs
ht caused but little sur- |
¢ The reason given tor the|
: n of trading was that;
loves needed some rest, |
eran observers saw it as a|
f checking the frcnz:»'i
iracterized transactions
4 diy. Then wheat drop- |
vards of 17 cents, rye 26
: and other grains in propm'-;’
. ugh it was a holiday in!
I windreds of traders cir- |
e neasily around the \'ast;
& floor of the exchange with |
vds in the gallery ‘.vutch-é
READY TO ACT |
. HINGTON. (AP - Th":'!
3 't administration is ready |
A‘M»\'e-r action it ('an}
» [' that becomes neces- |
¢ .0 Stop mass manipulation |
¢k and commodity markets |
for srorators seeking = profit only|
' themselves, |
5! '8 was evident Friday as!
o Y’ 1Y \\';«lla('v moved to de- |
e definite program to hait, |
o OSSIble, widespread shfits in!'
; _ brices. ‘Wallace also gave!
.., “vbroval to the suspension of}
. "5 trading for one day at |
.50 and other points. i
; Pbroving the order of direc- ‘
i the Chicago Board ofi
=9 S pending trade Fridu}', i\‘
e said: i
i iCtion is a fundamemall\'é
conner V€ in the right direction |
i it affords a cooling off |
{ N Which to take stock of !
ation.,”
Ice said he had net sug-!
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F. Weier of Seattle, Wash., new
grand exalted ruler of the Be
nevolent and Protective Order of
Elks at the organization’s recent
convention in Milwaukee. Weier
is shown here as he succeeded
Judge Floyd E. Thompson of
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ot OUT PERMITS
TOPLOW P GOTTON
Permits Received by the
County Agents in Cotton
States Friday, Saturday
County Agent L. S. Watson
announced Friday that permits
to plow up cotton had not been
received by his office from
Washington but he expected
them in sometime during the
day or Saturday. The county
agent said that approximately
297 permits will be received by
his office and that these per
mits will reduce the cotton
acreage in Clarke county by
approximately 2,700 acres.
. WASHINGTON .—(®)—Farm ad
ministrators, extension forces anda
volunteer workers who have car
ried on the cotton acreage reduc
tion campaign in the south have
the congratulations of President
Roosevelt.
“The whole hearted response of
the cotton growers to the first tes
of the administration’s program
for agriculure is not only deeply
gratifying but is also evidence of
an intelligent determination on
the part of farmers to take the
necessary steps to improve the
price and buying power of their
product,” the President said in a
message made public by Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace.
“I wish to offer the forces who
are putiing the cotton program
into effect my heartiest congratu
lations upon the initial success
achieved and at the same time to
urge the farmers that nothing be
jest undone to make the program
tompletely successful.”
Wallace has pronounced the re-
Iducuon plan a success, and saia
{ county agents in cotton states will
!begin issuing permits Friday and
Saturday making it possible for
_farmers to plow up their acreage.
Administrators have accepted all
}contracts which have been ap
proved by county agents and
county committees but have not
completed tabulation of them.
{ A hearing within the next few
days to consider the levying ol
compensatory processing taxes on
commodities sold in competition
with cotton was announced by
Charles J. Brand, co-administrator
LOCAL WEATHER |
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Mostly cloudy Friday night I
and Saturday. Occasional
showers Saturday and in
south portion Friday night.
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TEMPERATURE |
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LOWEBL ... viss seis civs 000
DR o s el veen +.79.0
Noomal ... oo deon svan R 0
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. ...s 01
Total since July 1 .. .. .. 1'.62i
Deficiency since July 1 .... 1.64
Average July rainfall .. .. 4.96‘
Tot4l since January 1 .. 1.
Deficiency since January x. 8.2‘.'1
THE BANNER-HERALD
TENNESSEE VOTES
R PRON AEPEAL
Y SHALL ARG
l WASHINGTON. — (AP) —
Commenting Friday on the
Tennessee repeal vote, Post
master General Farley said:
“It's close, but it's O. K.”
(By the Associated Press.)
Tennessee came Friday the 19th
state to approve repeal of the -18th
amendment as Oregon proceeded
to ballot on the problem.
The margin of victory for anti
prohibitionists in Tennesses was
smaller than in any of the other
states which have held popular
\o!ectlons on the proposed constitu
| tional change.
| As returns from the Tennessee
election neared completion Friday,
the repeal lead was approximately
9,500. Tennessee, the third south
ern state to vote on and approve
repeal, had been dry for years,
the legislature having passed a
dry law in 1909. This « year 3.2
beer was legalized: !
In Oregon Friday, leaders of the
repeal movement predicted 2 to 1
victory. Dry leaders seemed
agreed that they had no more
than a “fighting chance.”
| NASHVILLE, Tenn. —(#)— Ten
lness»(e. nineteenth state on vote on
prohibition, Friday became the
nineteenth to approve repeal on the
face of nearly complete returns
ifrom Thursday's referendum—but
iby the narrowest marg:n yet rec
lorded. &
Early Friday, tabulations of the
urofficial vote in 2,007 of the
state’'s 2,232 precincts showed:
For repeal, 123,650,
| Against 114,401,
The returns showed a majority
in 9,249 for the repealis.s "'.‘he 297
unreported precinets were scatter
lcd over the state and were mostly
‘small ones. It was estimated they
,did not contain enough votes to
ioverride the repeal majority and it
| was considered unlikely t h e y
iwould materially alter the ratio.
i Commenting on results, W. E
| Norvell, jr., secretary of the repeal
tassociation. said: ‘“We're very well
lsatisfied, especially in view of the
lfact that so many of the Republi
cans lined up against us‘ in the
lfirs*t and second districts.” Com
ment was withheld by John F.
'Baggett. chairman of the dry
‘foroes, until returns were complete.
Tennessee voted to elect 63 dele-
Igates from the state at large to a
convention to be held August 11.
| The ballot contained two lists of
‘names. one for repeal and one
!against. Tennessee has been dry
|since 1909. A bone dry law en
acted eight years after that date
ionly recently was modified to per-
Imit sale of 3.2 per cent beer.
TO CALL SESSION
WASHINGTON —(#)— Governor
Johnson of Colorado announcéd
Friday he would call a special ses
sion of the state legislature for
August 1 to provide for a vote on
prohibition repeal September 4.
First Bale of Georgia
Cotton Brings 20c Cents
Per Pound at Savannah
SAVANNAH, Ga—(AP)—Geor
gia's first bale of cotton of the
1933-34 season went on the block
shortly before noon Friday in
front of the Savannah Cotton Ex
change and was bid in at 20 cents
on the pound, about 10 cents per
pound above the market and five
cents better than the first bale
price last year.
The cotton was sold to Carl
Espy for the account of the Sav
annah Warehouse and Compress
company -
LINDBERGHS OFF
CARTWRIGHT, Labrador .—-
(AP)—Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh and Mrs. Lindbergh took
off from here Friday ‘ffom Green
land to continue their aerial map
making expedition.
Athens, Ga., Friday, July 21, 1933,
Recently Divorced Son of President
To Marry Fort Worth Girl Saturday;
Formal Statement to Follow Wedding
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Elliot Roosevelt, scon of the
President, and Miss Ruth Cog
gins of Fort Worth, Texas,
will be ‘married Saturday under
present arrangements, the
The Associated Press learned
from unimpeachable source
Friday.
Young Roosevelt will arrive
by plane Friday, accompanied
by his sisters, Mrs, Anna Cur
COTTON SPINNING
REACHES NEW. HIGH
Textile Industry in U. S.
- Shows Pharp Increase
Over Preceding Months
WASHINGTON — (#) — Unitea
States cotton spinning operations
reached a new high reord of ac
tivity during June.
They operated at 129.1 per cent
of their capacity on a single shift
basis. This was a sharp advance
over activity in May which was at
112.3 per cent of capacity.
June's activity was more than
twice that of the same thirty day
period in' 1932 according to the
monthly report of the Census bu
reau Friday.
Based on an activity of 8.96
hours per day the average number
of spindles operated during June
was 39,917,475. Many of the mills
ran at capacity around the clock
with 25,540,504 spindes active dur
ing the month. These set up a new
record by operating an aggregate
of 9,299,175,026 spindle hours dur-
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Clay Withdraws His Name Following
Public Works Program Disagreement
. ATLANTA—(#)—Ryburn G. Clay,
president of the Fulton National
ihank and manager of the Demo
cratic party’'s campaign in Georgia
last year, has withdrawn his name
for consideration as a member of
the proposed committee of three 1o
supervise the federal public works
program in the state.
Clay, in a statement, said tha?
when Harllee Branch, sxecutive
assistant to Postmaster General
Farley and L. W. Robert, assistant
Secretary of the Treasury, were in
Atlanta Branch notified him that
“he and others who advised the
administration about Georgia ap
pointments could not consent t¢
my appointment notwithstanding
my selection by the governor and
Senator Russell.” |
-~ “It is not necessary for me t 0
discuss the reasons assigned by
Mr. Branch,” the statement con
tinued, “I told him that these ad
visors about Georgia appointments
would, I hope, not consider my
name for anything. I did not di
rect him to announee a withdrawal
on my part, €xcept in the manner
just stated. I do not care to ‘naw-§
my name the occasion for a con
troversy, as to whethey Mess's.
Branch and Robert on one hand or|
Governor Talmadge and Senator
Russell on the other nand are rec
ognized advisors of the adminis
tration about Georgia appoint
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tic Dall. Mrs. Dall will be Miss
Googins” only attendant
Only immediate members of
the two families will be pre
sent at the wedding in the
home of George C. Swiler
uncle of the bride-to-be.
The hour for the wedding
has not yet been set,
No formal statement will be
istued until after the wedding
and the couple has departed
for a honeymocn “in the West,”
it was asserted.
Miss Googins and her mother
rested Friday morning at the
home of J, W. Swiler, father of
George - Swiler. o 3
POST TURANG NI
THE HOMESTRETCH
World Flyer Resumes
Trip With Only 4,000
Miles to Reach N. Y.
FLAT ALASKA, —()— Wiley
‘Post, Oklahcma, flier, resumed his
aerial jaunt around the world Fri
day at 7:28 a. m., Fairbanks time,
(12:28 P, M., eastern standard
time.)
! Post expressed the opinion he
| would still ‘break that record” of
ieight days, 15 hours and 51 min
utes which he and Harcld Gatty
|set in their 1931 Globe-circling
| flight, if his ship was repaired suf
§ficlefitly for him to get away Fri
‘day morning. He hopped offgfrom
!New Yerk at 4:10 a, m. (eastern
istandard time) "last Saturday, July
| 16.
. 'The Oklahoman was anly 4,000
miles from his goal, New York
when he landed after a 22-hour
battle with the elements on his
flight from Siberia. He was un
da.un;ed by his plane nosing over
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l “This statement is made throughi
‘no resentment, hecause porsonally’
EI feel nothing but relief. It :«)ems]
‘to be required in justice to those,
‘who pressed my name and s, of|
;lcourse, made without their knowl-}
edge.” [
' Braneh at Washington said he
had not opposed _ Clay, docs not|
now and furthermore has nothing!
to do with the selec’ion. He saidj
the same thing applies to Robert,
The Constitution says it is un.
derstood that Arthur Lucas, prom
inent tlanta theater man and a|
member of the state board of oon—}
trol for eleemosynary institution.|
is being sponscrei by Branch andl
Robert for the place on the com-‘
mittée for which Clay had been
recommended. ’
Governor Talmadge. who recom-!
mended Clay for the committee, !
telephoned Secretary of the interi- |
or Ickes at Washington. about the|
situation. Tckes is also adminis-|
trator o° the public works pro-i
gram. !
* “Ts a thing like thig is to he put|
over therg will be thousands of'
Georgians who will want to know|
the reason why,” the governor told|
Secretary Ickes. “and I won't’
mind telling them.” !
. The governor said the secretary
told him the entire matter wouldl
be giv:n full consideration.
Senator Russell had also rpcm‘n-l
mended Clay.
MATIONWIDE MOVE
15 BEGUN TO AID
NATIONAL RECOVERY
L. O. Price Declares Food
Dealers Recognize Need
To Join in President's
Plan
COMMERCE BODIES
URGED TO ASSIST
Intensive, Strongly Or
gsanized Campaign s
Planned to Back Move
Athens retail food deaiers will
be the first to hold a meeting to
rconsider President Roosevelt's pro
'posal for all business interests to
voluntarily support the plan for
leconomlc recovery.
i The food dealers meet at: the
city hall at 8 o'clock tonight.
Lt O. Price of Price Provision
company and Piedmont Market an
nounced the meeting today with
two purposes, first to re-organize
the Athens Refafl TFood Deaiers
’assoclatlon. a group which has
‘been dormant for ten years and to
{discuss the code for that group
adopted in Macon Wednesday by
‘the Georgia Retail ¥Food Dealers
association. ;
} Mr. Price attended the Macon
meeting in addition to Guy Smitn,
I'T. H. Jackson and Mia Wingfiela.
|A code for retail food dealers was
adopted at the meeting which pro
vides for a minimum of 60 store
hours. However, the suzgested vol
untary code announced by the Na
!flonal Industrial Recovery Admin
jistration today provides for a min
'imum of 52 store hours. Mr. Prics
says qt present from 7) to 85
store hours is the average.
' “We recognize that we must
(raise salar‘es in order to maintain
ithe price level”, Mr. Price said.
l"'rhis ig not only a patriotic move
iment. It is good business. Unles:‘
| salaries are sufficient to buy goods!
‘at a higher price we may expect
a collapse. The food dealers rea
lize that wholehearted support oi
ithe president's program for econ
:omio recovery is necessary if we
iare to expeience a return of good
!times."
CAMPAIGN BEGINS
. WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Hugh
;»S. Johnson, recovery administra
ixor, set swiftly in motion Friday
‘the nation-wide campaign to
swing every employer into the
jwage-raising movement.
~ He telegraphed *to chamber of
commerce presidents in all cities
pf over ten thousand, asking them
to create local committees which
will run the community end of the
re-employment drive.
While Johnson acted, President
Roosevelt kept close watch on
the movement, alert for public re
action to the program to which
he had given his official approval
only Thursday night.
, Meantime, deputies pushed
ahead hearings on four separate
‘industries which have stepped
forward with fair competition
codes for self-regulation and labor
betterment.
These were the shipbuilding,
lumber, electrical manufacturing
and the women's cloak and suit
industries. i
Labor’s demands for Dbetter
wage and hour terms than offered
by the employers dominating the
proceedings.
Print Agreements
Simultaneously the presses at
the government printing office
were roaring away on production
of millions of copies of the emer
gency President’s re-employment
agreements, which employers, be
ginning the middle of next week,
will be asked to sign.
Mail carriers were instructed
to deliver the blanks to every
business establishment employing
more than two persons.
Johnson asked the presidents of
the ~chambers to get on the local
committee their mayor and official
heads of the clearing house, Ro
tary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs,
retail merchants’ associations,
Federation of Labor, advertising
clubs, Federations of Women’'s
clubs, welfare societies, ministe
rial asssociations, real estate asso
ciations and other importjant
units.
Further instructions as to con
duet of the campaign were prom
ised later.
The campaign in general will
be under supervision of Charles
F. YHorner, Kansas City, wartime
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Calif., above, is only 12 years
old, but she made. a successful
solo airplane flight at Salem,
Ore., the other day. She can't
get a license, though, until she
is 16. Her father, Les Bow
man, is a transport pilot and
plane salesman, and her mother
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PERRY WILL FIGHT
- JUSTING IN COURT
Suspended Public Service
Commission Chairman
" Serves Notice on Wilhoit
ATLANTA—(#)—James A. Perry,
ousted chairman of the Georgia
Public Service eommission, an
nounced shortly after he was sus
pended from office Friday by
Governor Talmadge, that he would
bring court action in an effort to
regain his post.
Perry said the action would be
in the form of quo warranto pro
ceedings. He did not say when he
would take the case into court.
In a letter to Jud P. Wilhoit
elected to succeed Perry to the
chairmanship by the board after
his appointment by the governor
Perry said he denjed Wilhoiy had
any right to succeed him. 1
Perry was preparing a statement
outlining his position. : ‘
Perry and the other members of
the c¢ommission began packingl
their personal belongings as soon
as they heard of the order and va-%
cated their offices within an hour
after they were suspended by the
governor. |
} Perry's letter to Wilhoit:
] have just been advised by
‘Governor Eugene Talmadge that he
“hasg suspended me as a member of
the Georgia Public Service com
mission and directs you to ps-rform;
the duties of the office to which
I was elected by the neople. |
Without Authority ;
“Only for the purpose of bring- |
ing notice to you of my conten
tions, and wholly frce from any
personal feeling, T contend that thr‘
action of the governor in conduct
ing the hearing jfust finished nsl
well as his action in suspending me
i# without a warrant or oonstitu-l
tional authority.
“If more need be said. and 1
consideration is to be given any
part of the hearing conducfed by
the governor on which he bases his
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Text of Governor Talmadge’s Dismissal Order
Governor Talmadge’s order dis-;
missing the five members of the
Georgia Public Service Commiss
ion today follows: |
A petition was filed with me on.
the sixth day of June, praying foz‘!
a suspension of the members ot’
the memrbers of the Public Service
commission on wvarious grounds,
consisting of domination by the
public utility interest, neglect of
duty, publishing false propaganda‘l
about rate hearings and increas
ing rates at a time when everything |
else was declining. ’
“I issued a rule nisi and called |,
on the members of the Public Ser- |
vice commission to show cause|’
why the prayers of this petition |;
should not be granted, l
“The hearing began on the 26th |;
day of June and terminated on |
Monday, July 10th,
Used Passes Ll
“This hearing developed that |
sometime in the fall of 1931, an
order was passed by three mem
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| ATLANTA,—(P'—Georgia's’ new =
Public Service commission meet,.._%
ing Friday immediately after taks
ing office rescinded an order per-"
' mitting commisgioners or em- .
ployes riding on bus or railread
passe:,
~ The new commission also order
ed all positions with their juris- .
diction vacated but later named
three employes of the old body to
retain their peosts temporarly,
Reuben Crimm remains as a
clerk; Mrs. Evilyn Brougdon as
assistant secretary and Miss Mat
tie O'Shields as cashier. i &
Chairman Jud P, Wilhoit, named
to succeed James A. Perry, by the
commission at a meeting held in
the .governor's office, said the
commissioners would return to
their homes to wind wup business
affairs and all would be on the
- next prepared to consider all’
problems before them,.
| The next meeting of the coms«
mission was set for next Tuesday.
| ATLANTA.—(#®)—AII five mem}
|bers of the Georgia Public Serv=,
|ice commission were suspend:d
;Friday by Governor Eugene Tal
madge after an extended heafing
on charges against them of incom
petence and sanction of high util=
ity rates in Georgia. .. '3( b
The governor acted under the
section of the code giving him the
authority to suspend any commis
gioner and the governor mlgik' I‘s
port his action to the next meet="
ing of the general assembly. This:
will be in January 1935 unless the
body Is called earliér into extra seS=
sion by the chief executive. . i
The five commissioners suspend- ¢
ed were James A. Perry of "fi'gi:j;_”
renceville; Walter McDonald of
Augusta; Perry Knight of Valdoss =
ta; Albert J. Woodruff of Deca
tur and Jule W. Felton of ‘Mq -
zuma. To succeed them *‘*
ernor named Jud P. W'l]%fl o
Warrenton, in the place of Perrys.
J. B. Danfel of LaGrange to sues
ceed McDonald;” Tom Dayis of
Meigs in place of Knight; George
L. Goode of Carnesville to succesd
Woodruff; and Ben Hulett of "Ats
lanta in place of Felton. ge
The law says that if a majority
of each branch of the iflj
sembly declare that the commiss"
sioners shall be removed from ofz
fice, their term of office shall; exs
pire. Public Service commissioners
are elected for a term of six years.
Cites Authority T
The governor's suspension ordes
was based on Section 2618 of the
code, which says: “Any commiss
sioner may be suspended from. of=
fice by order, of the governor, wha
shall report the fact of
pension, and the reason therefors,
to the next general assembly; - and
i L 1 i
(Continued on Page Three) ..
‘bers of the Public Serviee eoms
'mission providing that mem?egg‘_"'
‘the Public Service commission
land employes of the Public . f
vice commission ride on fai Iroax
passes. An order was also. Pass
providing that members of 't
Public Service commission fss
identification cards to themselve
and employees of the Public Ser
vice commission allowing thém' ¢
ride on busses. !
~ “The evidence developed that a
of the members of the public ses
'vice commission were guilty of #i¢
ing on bus and railread passes
‘with the exception of James A
Perry. Mr. Perry stated that He
‘made one trip to Columbus 6n a
bus and did not pay themn V
Tnot produce his pass or identifica
tion card, e
- “The evidence as to newSp&pe
statements issued by the chairman
of the board and concurred in by
(Continaed on Pagme Three)
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