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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
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Probable showers Friday
night and Saturday.
TEMPERATURE
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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
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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
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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-
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SENATOR GEORGE
URGES INFLATION
“‘Controlled Inflation” to
i Aid Farmers at Once, Is
@ Advocated by Georgian
WASHINGTON,— (4P) —lmme
diate help for the farmer through
“controlled inflation” is the rec
ommendation of Senator Walter
F. George of Georgia.
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.)
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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|
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