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Newspaper Page Text~ COTTON MARKET MIDDLING sl P R R 9¢ PREVIOUS CLOSE .. .. .. .. % Vol. 101. No. 186. GOVERNOR, MANGHAM BALK AT U.S. CONTROL OF GEORGIA ROAD FUNDS IALLACE DUTLINES PROGRAM T 0 RAISE PRICES FOR SWINE Covernment Will Buy 5,- 000,000 Swine and Dis tribute Meat to Needy To Raise Prices sHoULD HIKE PRICE 25 TO 30 PER CENT Program Cost of $55,- 000,000 Will Be Met by Processing Tax CHICAGO.— (AP) — Secretary Wallace Friday outlined the gov ernment’s emergency hog program for buying 5,000,000 swine, em ploying meat packers to process them, and distributing the meat to the needy. In an address at the Century of Progress Exposition, he said the program Wwill be ready to 80 into effect in a few days and that he expects to boost purchasing power in the .corn belt substan tially . ‘ The plan should. increase prices of swine, possibly 26 to 30 per cent, he asserted, and at the same time provide relief to farmers heavily stocked with swine but with short feed supplies due to drouth. The program calls for purchase of 4,000.000 pigs weighing 25 to 100 pounds at from 6 to 0% cents a pound, and 1,000,000 sows soon to farrow, weighing a minimum of 275 pounds, at market prices on the day marketed plus a bonus of $4. The purchases are to be com pleted by about Oectober 1, e They will be made *“by specified processors” for the Department of Agriculture., The meat will be turned over to the féderal emer gency relief administration for distribution. Cost Provided Wallace estimated the cost of the program at up to $65,000,000 to be met by a processing tax on hogs which will go into effect after September 30. The tax rate and effective date will be fixed later, he said, estimating that the levy, paid by those who turn the swine into marketable pork, will be “considerably less than a cent a pound.” Wallace said the plan originated with hog farmers and their' repre sentatives to meet ,the emergency facing producers as a result of this year's short feed crop, addingf “There are some things about it that we do not like hut we are putting it into effect because we have not been able to think of anything as good.” He estimated that the purchases will reduce the total tonnage of swine marketed for the 1933-34 marketing season starting October 1 by up to 1,800,000,000 pounds, or about 16 percent of the hog ton nage annually marketed. The federal emergency relief administration, Wallace continued, has indicated its desire to dis pose of all the meat to needy per sons. It will be purchased by the relief group at a price sufficient to defray the cost of processing, storage and freight. Not in Competition He said the meat will not be sold in competition with that sold in regular trade channels, and that inedible portions which will be converted intoe by-products “should be distributed in such a In:mnen as not to upset the mar ket . The program will be followed up quickly by drafting a corn and hog program, Wallace said, assert ing that 20,000,000 acres of corn should be taken out of production in order to adjust supplies of Swine and corn, grown chiefly as feed for hogs, to future demand. Unless a long-range program was a certainty, Wallace said he would be unable to approve of the €mergency program because of its botentila effect on hog prices in coming years. LOCAL WEATHER — —————— Probable showers Friday night and Saturday. TEMPERATURE Highest ,[:: 4.0 150 anisd Lowest: i. v iuis hiibiie il Mesti ..o 0 iin- o 0 08 Nermal s wiad 5. iu 0910 RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .... 1.45 Total since August 1 .. .. 2.60 Deficiency since August 1 .. .10 Average August rainfall ... 48 Total since January 1 .. ..24.23 Deficiency since January 1. 9.93 FULL Associated Press Service. ADMITS POISONING ’ e et -‘/; ::O R e SR B A eR S e R 0 S G B R ot s SRR ': R S >eR R s 3 o s ek e R R R 1 s B i R s g i i PR R B :A‘??S-::??Eiffif s e R o o i R e e 7 e s . R SRR, R e 72255' s R R R BR3 R s BRg R B e R R . S o P ol ':15151.‘:7:1'3:‘-113“,‘58"<.1' R TR s Eedmer R e} R Be X B . % S eR% - B St v . B e A 00 tf-.-:-; SRR Bt R i o B R P e IR R B s 2S A R, P R g Be S s, SRt P B Ry ;'%:z%z%z"??isizfﬁz%;?efzfsiti".‘i.. SRR SRR R RS . R 3323 R R PR B B B e Y B R PR R R 1 o 5 B s R : R SRR 5 TR U B R B R e e s b 3 T s B R eSR * X :-.»4«'-.'»5::? DA I R s NEA BRBRR ) 2 5 g R A 2 SRR R R Police at Malvin, Ark., say Mark H. Shank, above Akron, O, attor ney, confessed to poisoning four persons found dead in an automo bile near Malvern. The dead, Shank said, were ‘Alvin Colley, his wife Ethel, and, their sons, Clarence, 7, and Clement, 10, of Akron. Cline, 4, another son, was unharmed, Shank said he put poison in his vietims’ food because he was afraid Colley would talk about a lawsuit Shank was defending, PUBLIG WORKS T 0 GIVE 20.000 JOBS Approval of $65,000,000 For Projects to Furnish Jobs at Once WASHINGTON, —(&)—Upwards of 20,000 new jobs were geen Fri day by the public works adminis tration because of its approval of $65,000,000 more for expenditure on construction. It figured for instance, that the spending of $44,200000 on a tri borough bridge projeit in New York —37,000,000 a loan The rest direct grant—would give 18,000 men jobs for a full year. As the administration approved the allocation of funds to this pro ect which is the erection of a huge bridge copruecting the bor oughs of Manhattan, Queéensboro and Bronx, it also set aside §ll, 57,499 for 29 public buildings in 22 states and nearly $10,000,000 for slum-erasing housing proects. Many more jobs, the administra tion said, would be provided in drectly. For the 291 public buildings, it lsaid simply:: “Construction will begin as soon as contracts can be awarded. Large numbers of men now unemployed will be given work,” Georgia Benefits Allotments for federal public buildings included $130,000 for a postoffice at Waycross, Ga., and $301,500 for a postoffice at Gaines ville, Ga. - As it approved these, the ad ministration also set minimum wages for the things to be built under its jurisdiction. These would guarantee: Southern zone— Skilled labor, sl.lO, unskiljed 45 cents; Northern one—skilled $1.20 unskilled 50 cents. These schedules, said Secretary Icks, were drawn to ‘“carry out thé mandate of congress that wage rates shall be sufficient to provide a standard of living in decency and comfort” Lightning Sets Fire To Simms Home Here W. M, Simms’ residence on the Mitchell’'s Bridge road was slightly damaged Thurqday afternoon when lightening struck an electric wire leading into the building and sent fire all through the building. Over sixty telephones in the Athens section were put out of or der as a result of the electrical storm Thursday., No long distance telephone lines were affected by the storm although it was reported *hat one small cable was damaged. CAROL +HAS MEASLES BUCHAREST—{(#)—King Carol, already suffering from an attack of fli;, has contracted the measles, apparently from close contact with bis son, The Crown Prince Mich ael, who hos been a measles pa tient several days. = THE BANNER-HERALD ;BAIVIPAIGN AGAINGT CRIME TAKES LINES OF FIVE CRIMINALS Four Murderers Executed And Fifth Criminal Kill ed in Gun Battle With Officers of Law LINDBERGH MYSTERY NEARING SOLUTION? Activity of U. S. Agents Assigned to Famous Case Renews Speculation By The Associated Press | The law is sometimes stupid, and rogues sneer; but the law is inexorable, and rogues snivel, cringe—and die. i | Four of them walked “the last mile” between Thursday’'s sunset dnd Friday's dawn, sitting down to dedth in the electric chair to pay for the murders they had done. One was a Negro, R. T. Bennett. The state of Texaselec trocuted him for murdering a Dal las woman—strangling her with a silk stocking. | Sing Sing saw the others die. The three men were executed at \six minute intervals. Two died for murder committed during a New York city holdup. The third, Stephen Witherell, had killed his father, robbed him and then gone on a honeymoon. It was Witherell who just be fore starting the march to the death chair —the last agonizing mile—whined: “I don’t rate the deal I'm get ’ting." Criminal Slain The law, like the jaws of a steel trap, was snapping shut, too, en other hunted men elsewhere. AN Arkansas posse snared '‘Gene Johnson, and shot him dead when he offered-fight. He was wanted for murdering a Kansas police of ficer. They say he was one of Underhille’s men—Wilbur Under hill, dreaded gunman of the gouth west. Johnson’s wife, wanted in con nection with a Kansas bank rob bery, was wounded and captured; but Leroy Wright, another of the bad men whose guns have blazed death and terror in Kansas, es caped. From Denver came significant evidence of the law’s persistence. It hinted that solution of the Lind bergh baby murder mystery might be near. Tor more than a year the hunt for the abductor-killer of the child has gone on. Herbert Hoover, then President, promised that the tederal government would never cease its search until the crime was solved. The New Jersey state police, too, dedicated them selves to running down the Kkiller or Kkillers, however long the trail. Friday at Denver two federal agents, described as having been assigned to the murder hunt “for life,” probed the pasts of Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, both now in cells, and this gave rise to the suggestion that these men and the gang to which they belonged may be suspected 'of the Lindbergh murder. Bailey is held in Texas for the Urschel kidnaping at Okla homa City, and Bates is held at Denver in connection with a thwarted kidnap plot. ¢ Shank Transferred Arkansas is having its full quota (Continued on Page Seven) ALBANY WOMAN KILLS HUSBAND Transfer Man Slain by Wife After Beating Her, She Says o 'ALBANY, GA.-(&)—J. C. Cur tis, 35, operator of a local trans fer business, was fatally shot at his home on the outskirts of Al bany early Frday mornng, He died from bullet wounds in nis lefi chesg and abdomen. Mrs. Curtis in a statement De puty Sheriff Aaron Densbn said she made Friday declared that she was forced to shoot her husband after he had beaten her urmerci fully. The shooting occured in the yresence of their two small sons Officer Denson added. No warrant has been taken out for her arrest. Besides his Wwife and two chil dren, Carlt jr., and Jame Al len, Curtis is survived by his fa ther, W. A. Curtis, of Perry, Ga., a brother, Neal Curtis, Macon; three sisters, Mrs. Mary Curtis Daniels, and Misses Mildred and Emma Curtis all of Perry, The unearl wil be held Saturday afternooz at Mansfield, Ga, Athens, Ca., Friday, August 18, 1933 Alex Breaks Eight ] Windows in Venting His Wrath on World LOS ANGELES —(#)— Alex P. Clark gave way to his in hibitions. The tall glistening: windows of a hotel shone before him. He lifted his heavy cane and smashed the glass‘ N Then he strode on, cracking windows right and left. By the time the police reached ‘him, he had smashed eight. ! “Turn me loose and Tl smash every window in this town,” Clary told police. *“l'm mad at the world.” : ! He was booked on a charge of malicious mischief. 1 INCREASED CHARGES FOR GINNING ASKED One Hundred and Fifty Ginners Attend Price Standardization Parley Cotton ginning prices in this section will be increased, if pro posals discussed at a meeting of northeast Georgia ginners here to day are made effective. The prevailing price per 500- pound bale ranges from $3.00 to $5.00 per bale, but the recom mendations made here today, if adopted by ginners, will fix a $5.60 flat price for ginning each 500- pound Dbale. Where the grower furn.shes the wrapping the price will be $4.60. y The meeting 'at the Georgian hotel was held to discuss stand ardization of ginning prices until ‘the code proposed by the National Cotton Ginners association .ig ‘adopted, Price standardization in the ginning industry has become vitally necessary, it was claimed. One hundred and fifty ginners attended the session. Acceptance of the price recommended here today is not manadtory, on gin ners, but is suggested as a means, of bringing about standardiza tion. E. N. Watkins, Dublin, secre tary of the state ginners associa tion, who presi(}ed over the meet ing of northea#: Georgia ginners, said that definite action is expect ed on the proposed code early next week. Representatives from the national association have been called to Washington for a con ference with the N. R. ‘A. next Tuesday . The tentative code, submitted to Washington last month was read and explained at the Athens meeting by Mr. Watkins. It pro vides for a minimum of 12 hours daily for cotton gin employes, and a minimum wage scale of 15 cents per hour for unskilled labor and 35 cents per hour for skilled labor, ' Because of the varying costs of ginning throughout the United States one code of prices is fixed for cotton producing states east of the Mississippi and another for those west of the river. The pro posed prices for ginning in Geor gia, North and South Carolina and Virginia is $5.00 pgr * 500-pound bale if wrapping is furnished by the ginner, $4.50 per bale if wrap ping is furnished by the farmer. There will be a charge of one cent per pound for all bales’ over 500 pounds, and two cents per pound for all over 600 puonds. The provisions of the code, if accepted as it now stands, will prohibit. many practices now charged to ginners, which it is alleged work to the detriment of the small ginner, It will also pre vent the building of any addition al gins anywhere in the coutnry, sor moving of old ones without permission from the department of agriculture. : Enthusiastic support of the Na tional Recovery Administration was voiced by the Athens assem lbly and adherence to the code when accepted was promised. 1 ACCUSES GINNERS WASHINGTON. —(AP)—Claim ing cotton ginners in the South were charging by agreement two prices and that they were refusing to store farmers’ cottonseed, Rep resentative Patman of Texas said Friday the Department ‘of Justice {was sending agents to one com plaining territory to investigate. Patman said there were “a few Al Capones and Pretty Boy Floyds in the cotton oil business who are 'intimldatlng the ginners and own ers of other cotton oil mills’ by making them believe the govern ment was behind the practices they imposed. On the contrary, he sald, proposed codes. for the in dustry not only had not been ap proved but would not be as they included regulations already con demned by the Federal Trade commission. —ESTABLISHED 1832 JRA DRIVE TOWARDS ol tEL, GOM. GODES BAINS FORCE FRIDNY Johnson Tells Automobiie Manufacturers There Will Be ‘““No Exceptions” From Code ROOSEVELT WANTS CODES BY SATURDAY Penalty Provisions of Law Will Be Used Fully, Johnson Says WASHINGTON—(#)— Presiden! Roosevelt's personal adminisgra tion’s drive to ‘place the Blue Eagle on steel and coal by Sat urday night, NRA headquarters were crowd ed with representatives off these grea; industries who hovered about the office of Hugh S. Johnson while in the Commerce department auditorium below automobiie men were called to a public hearing on their recovery recommendations. Oil's spokesmen were busy mean while analyzing the production control, price - supervision code handed to them by Johnson with the simultaneous announcement it was going to Presideny Roosevelt ¥riday afternoon. Johnson looked for a steel agree ment Friday and was hopeful over the coal outleok. Both industries ‘understood that Mr. Roosevelt ‘wanted their codes on his desk be fore leaving for Hyde Park Sat urday. Steel negotiations dealt chiefly 'wlth regional wage minimums and ﬁtho basing point system of naming ‘prices. Underlying Feeling But still underlving the situation was the feeling caused by steel's recent refusal to confer with William Green, presideny of the American Federation of Labor and Green’s interpretation that this was representative of steel's inher en¢ opposition to organization of its workers. Labor questions also provided the sore-thumb in coal. Bitumin ous operators had from Mr. Roose welt himself a request for a single trade code that should contain no open-shop clause. Despite the Presidential admonition, some of the operators reiterated their in sistence upon the open shop. The production section of the oil code would grant the federal gov ernment the power to forge states to hold their oil output to market demand. The price section fixes a ratio betewen crude petroleum and gasoline with a base price set by the President in accordance with past indices. Filling station employes would work a maximum of 48 hours weekly with minimum wages of sl4 to sls. : FORD ABSENT WASHINGTON—(P)—SteeI, coa) and oil absorbed the concentrated efforts of President Roosevelt’s recovery administration today aft er a big automobile gathering from which Henry Ford was ab sent heard Hugh S. Johnson’s blun¢ warning there would be “no exceptions, whether large or small.” F e “This code, when approved, will be administered without fear or favor,” Johnson said to the auto mobile men. “It is a matter of re gret that the recommended code does not include 100 per cent of (Continued on page six.) HOLD RITES FOR FRED M. HOUSER Secretary of ‘Atlanta Con vention and Tourist Bu reau Buried Friday . ATLANTA, —(P)—Freder ' ‘Houser, secretary of the Atlanta lConventton and tourist bureau for 20 years and known the length and %breaﬂth of Georgia as ‘Cousin ‘Fred,” was buried here Friday. Funeral services were conducted in St. Mark’'s Methedist church and the body was interned in West View cemetery, | An honorary escort was .or posed of representatives of the lbureau he lLeaded, the Phi Delta fraternity, the Atlanta Rotary club ‘the Secretaries club, the Atlanta Hotel Men’s association, the Coun ‘}ty Commissioners’ associatioa of ‘Georga, the Board of Stewarls cf ‘[St. Marks church and the House of Houser, an organization of the %ﬂouur family. i | Mr. Houser died of a heary at tack Wednesday after a long per {od of ill heith. Low Cotton, Tobacco Prices Eindangering Success Of New Farm Plan, Westbrook Says Georgia Extension Service .Expert Protests Low Prices to C. A. Cobb FARMER DISCOURAGED OVER FARM PROCRAM Urges Immediate Steps to Boost Prices Paid for Cotton and Tobacco MOULTRIE, GA., —{(#)— Diffi culty will arise in putting into ef fect a farm adjustment program next year unless immediate action ic taken to boost prices, E. C. West brook, cotton ard tobacco Bpecia list of the Georgia Extension Ser vice, has warned cotton Adminis trators C. A, Cobb. Mr. Westbrook wrote a letter, pointing out “cotton sis selling on the Moultrie market this morning tor eight cents a pound. The recent decline in the priee of cotton has greatly discouraged the farmers with the farm relief program.” Westbrook told Cobb that *“if something is not done immediately to increase the price of cotton and give the farmers some additional assurance of the Isuccess of the program it will be rather difficult to put into effect a program for next year and other Yyears, “I know you are doing every thing possible to work out some method to brng about an improve ment in the present situation,” the letter continued, “I want to urge that no time be lost in bring ing plans to this end to an early conclusion.” DRAFTING PLAN | WASHINGTON, D. C, —(P)— The farm administration hopes to have a cotton acreage reduection program for 1934 and 1835 ready for announcement by September 15 and that the plan will have a sti mulating effect on pricés this year. Secretary Wallace, telling of the efforts toward a long time program to adjust the supply of the staple to the demand, said it was hoped the details would be worked out by the middle of next month. ‘WASHINGTON,—{(/P)—=The farm adjustment administration is speeding up to keep pace with its industrial companion piece the na tional recovery @dministration, In both organizations lately there has been concern about the fact that the rvecovery administration apparently was moving so fast that it promised to Jeave behind the agency set up to restore farm pur chasing power. lA' quick answer to the demand by dairymen organizations for help showed that secretary Wal lace is keenly aware of the situa tion: ~ The dairymen lambasted the farm ‘administration for what they de scribed as undue delay and said something had to be done. In their formal resolution they did not mention the recovery ad ministration, but in conferences with farm officials they bluntly ’said that NRA’'S program was in creasing their costs and that mean ,while the price for butter had de scended as if it had greased its own chute, Secretary Wallgce told diary ‘men’s spokesmen tnat they might ‘have $30,000,000 if they would pro }mise to work out a program to Ilimit the output of dairy products. ‘They promised. ~ Meanwhile, poultry raisers, sugar growers, producers of many var )ieues of fruit and vegetables, rice and tobacco farmers and many organizations marketing farm pro ducts have cried for aid in the face of mounting casts and laggard prices, The result may be several short cuts by the” farm administration, Ex-Game Commissioner Charles Arnow Is Dead BRUNSWICK, GA, —(P)— Ad vices received here Friday said Charles 8. Arnow, former state commissipner of game and fish and former state Senator, died in a sanitarium a Milledgeville Thurs day night. He is survived by his widow and three children, George Arow of Jacksonville, Fla Mrs, Marie Shef field of Wett Palm Beach, Fla, and Mrs. Grace Butler of Kings land. CONSIDERS COURSE BERLIN, —{#)— The American consulate considered . possibleée courses Friday in the case of Dr. Daniel Mulvihill, Brooklyn doctor who was struck in. the face for failing to salute parading Nasis Tuesday night. Dr. Mulvihill, of the Long Island College of Medi cine, has been studying in a Ber- A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>sc¢ Sunday. 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He said after a conference with President Roosevelt Thursday that he had made that suggestion, with the proviso that if any inflation were undertaken it should be done directly by the government through the Federal Reserve sys tem. “I told the President,” he said, “that whatever we do should be done through the issuance of Treasury notes to retire outstand ing obligations.” Monday, the senator said, he plans to take up with Secretary Wallace a proposal that ‘some expert cotton man be charged with getting a million bales into some other country, such as Rus sia, under reasonable credit and with provision for its use exclu sively in that country.” He said he made that suggestion also to the President. Graduated Tax Processing taxes on materials competing with cotton, and the (Continued on Page Six) SIMON G. SHARP DIES IN MACON Former Star of London, New York Comic Opera Is Dead MACON, Ga. —(#)— Simon G. Sharp, once a favorite of the Lon don and New York comic opera stages who turned to shoemaking just because he wanted to “settle down,” was buried here Friday fat from his beloved Poland. Death came in a Macon hospital Thursday after several months of ill health. He was born of Jewish parent age in Lodz, Poland, 55 years ago. JAn his early youth he went to London and his fine tenor voice ‘soon placed him on the stage. ~ It wasn'y long before he was sending the folks back home copies off the London mnewspapers, tell ingt much about the uproarious ac claim given his singing and fun making in this and that light op era. : ey The young singer met Gussie Rosen of Rajbrod, Poland, in Liv erpool and they were married 24 years ago. ¥Four years later they came to New York and Sharp was starred in comedy roles of many light op eras of the day. Wanted Home After awhile, with age coming on, he began wanting a home and prosaic life far from the footlights For somse reason, shoe pegging had always fascinated him. : He studied the business of mak ing footwear in several factories and then launched upon the trade e (Qontinued on page six.) HSME] WOONALD BEHAD PUN INSTEAD OF CEOREE. 1S CLAIM. Plan Senator George Says Roosevelt Accepted Is Disapproved of By Road Chairman and Governor WOULD PROVIDE U.S. SUPERVISION OF FUND MacDonald Denies He OF fered ‘“Compromise” So lution to Senator George ATLANTA—(@—Georgia's Highi= way board will “never agree” to the seiting up of a federal “dies tatorghip” over expendltﬁr%f“f:ir $10,000,000 in emergency rO % funds allotted to this ‘ withheld by Washington officials a because of a controversy Governor Talmadge and former Highway board members, Ch , J. J. Mangham, of the present board, said Fri\day. "#, i’; Senator George, after a con { ence with Pregident Roosevely im Washington Thursday, said’ the President was favorably ineclined toward George's proposal thati. a special federal engineer be named to supervise the spending of the sum in Georgia. e . No Compromise = = In a dispatch from Washington, MacDonald said that so far as he knows, “No compromise plan® which might result in Georgia’s getting the federal fund had been advanced. He said he conferred with Senator George and others yesterday, and that the question was not one of compromise but of finding a way by which the federal money could be legally gtvq& Georgia, since there is a question about the legality of the present highway board. MacDonald = said he advanced no plan by which the federal road money mishﬁﬂg eXs. pended in Georgia under direct supervision of a federal officer. Altnough hopeful, MacDonald “a;?;;;:,?;‘ cated there is little in »w*’ prospect of a solution to the mat ter being found. ?‘ﬁ Governor Talmadge was in sou Georgia Friday but his office is sued the following statement over his name: “When I received the a? from Senator George last night outlining the MecDonald nhn*- turning the highhway money -over. to Georgia I was very much sur= prised. ‘ %w “I amy satisfied that this was not the proposition’ of *h‘ or of 'the Géorgia delegation. lam also satlsfied that it was mot: by any intimation the plan of the President. B “If it takes time for Georgia to be treated right we are not in hurry. This statement expresses the sentiments of the %&} the Highway board and myself as governor.” :f “If the proposal is for the fed eral government to set upa die tatorship over the Georgia Highs way board we will never agre: the plan,” Chairman Mangham said Friday. S “Are Unwilling” =~ *"° “We are unwilling,” he comtins ued, “to have any federal 7’:[ wvision different from that exérted over the expenditure .of regular federal aid funds or treame_nt‘g_, ferent from that accordog{mgjﬂt board. SR e “If the federal government does not trust the engineers it already has on \the job' in Georgia It ought to fire them and get. ers.” b “We have made plans to use the federal aid funds for the construe tion of roads that will benefit the people of the state most, and ? expect to stand by those plans® Mangham said. % Mangham said it was hig u_,“: standing that Senator George went to Washington to make an 'f Lointment for the entire Georgia delegation and not to suggest any compromise agreement. “If we can not secure the money allocated to Georgia by the federal congress in the regular way® Mangham said, “we can ma ‘j} to get along withcut it.” George Confers ' Withholding of the funds by the Bureau of Public Roads, a division of the federal Department of Ag riculture, came after Govel %f Talmadge had removed former iChairman J. W. Barnett smd W. C. Vereen of Moultrie under ,“g" tall law. The governor acted -when Barnett and Vereen consistantly refused to discharge five hizhways engineers demanded by the gowers| Ry s 5 (Continued on Pags Siz)