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COTTON MARKET MDD s e a 1 Tl SREVIOUS CLOSE .. n.. 12 1-8¢ vol. 101, No. 139. M E Washington Lowdown il i Rodney Dutcher 3 The Brain Trust I Causes Alarm I Four-Letter Word Banner-Herald Washington Correspondenit WASHINGTON-—The inside his sorv of the Brain , Trust would pe one of the most fascinating varns ever written. " But no one is likely to tell it. mhose who could do the job ara involved in too many confidences, iralousies, double-crosses. intriz. yes, and personal vanities. Most brain trusters have proved more valuable than most politici ans. Many are here at personal sacrifice because of a yen for pub lic service. But any idea that they all operate harmoniously and hold ~ommon beliefls without friction 13 2¢ absurd ag if applied to any con slomerate group of men in posi tions of influence, They have been putting on as pretty a performance of backstage strategy, backdoor propaganda, and gquabbling among themselves as anv group of politicians ever gath ered here. 3 Justice Brandeis or Prof: Felix Frankfurter could tell you a lot about it, since most® brain trust ers pay them obeisance and many take their troubles to them. But they won't. The hand of Prof. Raymond A. Moley can sometimes be seen if vou watch sharply enough. Moley still has a close stand-in with Roosevelt, pals with some members of the “trust” he once headed, and edits a magazine in which he can say what he likes. ; Although he primarily blames Secretary Hull, his old titular boss, for his departure from the Wash ington scene, he thinks certain other brain trusters helped it along., Don’t be gurprised at any thing wyou read about Charles W. Taussig, administration sugar (‘uba adviser—or even Rex Tug well himself—which hight indicate Moley animosity. A month or so ago, Moley edi torially panned another top-rank hrain truster — who went un named—for eertain public utter ances which were quoted. Subse quent backstage uprear, based on report that Moley was out to “get” that gent, gtill reverberates. Al though Moley remained in New Vork, his friends and enemies here had #ome heavy skirmishes. General Johnson's attribution of “Communistic purpose” to the Darrow board has caused some alarm, asg ‘it indictes the general raay be running out of unhack neved adjeetive. . . . The second Darrow report was “ledked” when it went to the White House, lest it he held up until NRA prepared withering ecounterblasts. When Secretary , Maclntyre of the White House staff telephoned to locate the “leak,” Darrow pro fessed ignorance, but added: “T mean I'm glad some of you people couldn’t suppress this and mess it up like youm did the first report.” NRA has just started its own newspaper, a “house organ” call ed “The Blue Bagle.” It will tell all the news of what's going on in the recovery program—all the of ficial news, that is « + Menu at Johnson's NRA birth. Aay party for the firat 85 employ es Beer, hot dogs, sauerkraut, roMs. (Ahout 150 of the first 85 turned up.) . . . Bulk of NRA employes chartered a steamboat for an outing down the river. Headed home, the boat rammed a lifehuoy ‘and was held up a couple of hours, arriving back about 1:30 a. m Of = thousand huge busts of fieorge Washington given to of ficials by Congressman Sol Bloom when he was running the Bicen fennial, the only one that can be found now is in the new office of Postmaster General Jim Farley. Rig moment in Congress came when the super-elegant Senator T. Ham Lewis made a certain four letter word acceptable in the best circles—only J. Ham woud have such power — as follows: “Mr. Pregident, T think this is-a mo ment such as comes in the life of rvery government when America must—to use a sidewalk expres “ion. most easily understood in its meaning hy ecitizens who are not rarticularly interested in refine ment of expression—when Ameri ‘7 must gshow ‘guts.’ This phrase s now understood where action is called for.” Then there’s the story about the college student who answered the examination question, “Who is Rexford Tugwell?” He wrote: ‘Tugboat Annie’s husband.” Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc. INTERNAL FIGHT HAVANA — (®) —An internal fight in the powerful ABC political ‘ociety, whose ranks were shat fered by machine gun bullets last Sunday, split Cuba’'s cabinet to day The issue was continued sup port of the government headed by President Carlos Mendieta. o 2 N SN PREPARDNESS AUGUSTA, Ga—(#)—With the mercury hitting the middle nineties afire was discovered burning in the grate at Solicitor General George Haing' office. Office work “rs theoriged the fire was started by accident, G ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Net Is Tightened About Poderjay ATHENIANG RALLY BEHIND LEGIONS POOL. PARK PROJECT Businessmen Discuss Way To Raise Money to Complete Pool - GUESTS AT SUPPER Dr. Moss Heads Commit tee to Consider Plans « To Raise Funds Hope that the first unit of the American Legion recreational cen ter on Lumpkin street may be com pleted by August 1, so that Athen ians may enjoy ths facilities of the swimming pool and bath house be bore the hot weatker is over, was strengthened last night when ovar 100. members of the Legon and local businessmen met on the site of the .project to talk things over at a steak and chicken supper. There was little fanfare and trumpeting- for the gathering was for business purpmse and it got down to business almost at once. The meeting unanimosuly en dorsed the appointment of a com mittee to devise a way to borrow $20,000 or $25,000 quickly to com plete the pool and bath houses by August 1, and on motion of Abit Nix the committee was named, to be composed of Dr. W. L. Moss, Mayor A. G. Dudley, James White, Harry N. Heins, of the ILegion Post, Tate Wright, clerk of the county commissioners and county attorney and Lamar C, Rucker, city attorney and attorney 'for the Legion here, Mitchell Presided Frank Mitchell, past commander of the [Legion post, presided over the meeting and outlined the pro gress made so far. He said that the pool is about half finished and that some $23,000 has been spent for labor, materials and purchase of the property, with the labor be ing furnished by the government, Mr. Mitchell pointed out that when the pool is completed, it probably. can accommodate 1,000 persons at one time. Weaver Bridges, also a past commander of the Legion, cited the pool at Gainesville as evidence that the pool could be made to pay, saying that the municipal pool there last year netted about §4,- 000. The first speaker, Abit Nix, sug gested that city be asked to pro vide the money needed to complete the pool. Mayor Dudley followed Mr. Nix, and, after voicing sup port of the project, outlined the fi nancial condition of the city and ‘said that the matter of the city fi nancing the pool rested with city council. He also said bankers he tad talked too said they would be glad to provide the money if any legal plan could be worked out, Three main plans drew the most discussion, Under one plan the monay would e borrowed from banks along the same lines as were used by the University and Dr Sanford to build the stadium. That plan called for friends and supporters of the pro- (Continued on page six.) ST. CLAIR ADMITS DOCTOR’S SLAYING Refuses to Tell Motive For Crime, However; Waives Extradition NEW ORLEANS.—(£)—If the statement of Harold St. Clair stands, the motive for the slaying last week-end of Dr. Homer L. Meyer, 55-year-old wealthy den tist of Eldorado, 111, will never be known. ; “] will go to the electric chair, but the reason why I killed Meyer will go with me,” said St. Clair, 30-year-old bespectacled ex-con vict of Ohio, to Chief of Detectives John Grosch, after St. Clair's ar rest as he stepped from a taxicab Thursday night in uptown New Orleans. St. Clair, studious and talkative after a fashion, told New Orleans officers he killed the Illinois den tist, but after an intenese grilling he would go only so far in details of the slaying. Illinois authorities had said that they were unable to assign a mo tive for the murder of Meyer and expressed the opinion that he had peen tortured and killed. Theories of abduction, robbery and swindle entered into the northern investigation, but au thorities were cergtain of nothing except that Meyer disappeared and Ihis body was found Sunday in a clump of woods near his farm with two bullet holes in the back. 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Ivan Poderjay (left) and his wife, Margaret Suzanne Ferrand (right) as police of two continents investigated the mysterious disappearance of Agnes Tufverson 10 days after marrying Poderjay in New York last December. Poderjay and his new wife are being heid by Viennese police, who say they must relcase the couple unless tangible evitlence is discovered against them soon. (Photos transmitted by radio.) DRESDEN OFFICERS PREFER NO CHARGES Say Pilot of Sunken Ger man Ship Could ‘Not Avoid Accident KOPEVIK, Karmoy Island, Nor way—{(P)—Officers of ths German liner Dresden testified at a mari time inquiry into the liner's loss today that they had no charge to prefer against the pilot who ap parently by misunderstanding took the wvesgel into waters for which he had no pilot's certifi cate. The Norwegian pilot, named Jacobsen, however, was well ac quainted with the fiord where the liner rammed into. a rock Wednes day night with 1,000 vacationing Nazis aboard. \ “This is my first mishap,” said Captain Wilhelm Petermoeller of the Dresden. “I cannot . under stand how it happened. “I reproach myself for:not being on the bridge before the accident but T had been on continuous duty for 49 hours because of mist and bad weather and intended to take a few hours of very necessary rest when we reached clear, guiet wat ers."” While the court heard evidence, the disconsolate passengers of the Dresden made tbe best of their enforced presence here. They were geantily clad as they waited a boat to take them back to Germany. Many of the women still wore life belts and some continued to weep hysterically. : : A recheck of the death list re vealed only two women lost their lives in the wreck Wednesday night, Earlier reports said four were victims. A report of the findings of the court will be sent to Germany. Youth Is Killed in Auto Collision Near Valdosta Thursday VALDOSTA, Ga—#)—A head on collision of two automobiles at Five Points, near Valdosta, result ed in the death of Emory Dampier, 12 years old of Valdosta, and the injury of ten perscns. Some of the occupants of the two cars are unconscious and those who were conscious late yesterday were unable to explain the acei dent. The injured encluded: Mrs. Charles Dampier, mother of the dead boy; Mrs. Love Sims, who received serious internal in juries; Bert Dampier; two small Dampier children; C. P. Rouse and his son of Ashburn, Ga.; J. p. Ezell of Atlanta; Mrs. C. Lanier and Mrs. Cifford McDonald, both of Valdosta. The Dampiers, Mrs. Sims, Mrs. Lanier and Mrs, McDonald were in one automobile and the Rouses and Ezell were in the other., CHILD ABANDONED ~ ATLANTA— (#) —Sonny was at play in his new home today; his father was in jail and his mother ‘Lfree on her own r=cognizance. The 11-months-old baby, police Icharge, was left with a Negro wo |man by his parents Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hatfield, in abandonment: ~ESTABLISHED 1832~ Athens, Ga., Friday, June 22, 1934 Harvard Frosh Lose Shell Race Despite F.D.R., Jr.’s Efforts NEW LONDON, Conn.—(#)— With President Roosevelt look ing on, the Yal freshmen to day defeated Harvard's yearl ings in the annual regatta here today. Franklin Roosevelt, jr., is a member of the Harvard frosh crew, As the shells crossed the fin ish line, the stern four of the Harvard boat, of which young Roosevelt was one, bent wear ily over their oars. From the refleree’s boat the president took a hasty glance at his son, thea the launch turned and headed wupstream for the start of the Jjunior var sity race. PRINCE OF WALES HAS BIRTHDAY Heir to British Throne Will Be Forty Years Old Tomorrow LONDON—(A)—He doesn't look it, but the Prince of Wales is 40 yvears old tomorrow. Busier than ever and graver of ‘mien, the heir to the throne of ‘the British empire does not get ‘much relaxation these days. Con tent with his modest bachelor ap artments at St. James' palace and hs country place at Sunningdale, he has devoted himself in recent ‘months to the campaign for re moving slums throughout the Bri tish Isles, Society gets little chance nowa days to couple the name of the world’s most eligible bachelor with some stately princess or lovely lady of the realm. His royal high ness works hard at his job. He took time off this week to attend the Royal Ascot race meet ing with the king and queen, and the other night he slipped away to the military tattoo which as been drawing tens of thousands a night. On that occasion he characteris tically declined to enter the royal box and few knew of his presence. His emgfi missions which earn ed him the title of the “world’s best traveling salesman,” ~ have been taken over by his younger brothers —the Duke of York, Prince Henry and Prince George. The prince appears to be in deadly earnest about the necessity for clearing up the slums, a gigan- (Continued on Page Six) Plans Being Made to Establish Community Cannery in County Plans to starA a community cannery at Winterville are being pushed here by J. H. Wilson, county vocational teacher, and the ERA offices. The cannery will be the first one established in Clarke county in recent years. The cannery will be open th® year round, and will can fruits, vegetables and meats. During the school term the cannsry will be used as a laboratory for the stu dents. Mr. Wilson will be in charge of the factory, if 1t is started up. * The board of education is sup plying the mat<rigls, and the ERA will supply the workers, both for setting up the cannery dnd for running it after it has been start ed, : ! LEGISLATOR ARE (RDERED BY LONG “Kingfish”” Returns From Washington and Louisi anians Listen LBATON ROUGE, La.—{(P)—Sen: ator Huey P. Long, the Kingfish, today was telling the legislature what to do and at last reports they were doing it. J From palatial memotfal lobby of the great and magnificent $5,000,- 600 capitol to the governor’s pan elled and ornamental office and then to committee room where he took complete charge, he sauntered and dictated. The house of representatives passed the biennial appropriations bill amounting to $111,5662,503.41 and included in it an item of $15,- 750,000 as a relief fund to be raised if the legislature passes tax pro posalsg advanced by the Louisiana tax reform commission and the administration of Governor O. K. Allen. The taxes were under consider ation at the week-end today as the legislatorg planned to Yecess and go home for a brief rest. There was a bill before the house to authorize Charity Hos pital at New Orleans to borrow $8,000,000 fromx the Public Works administration for a new hogpital building: This has met months of opposi tion from¥ physiclans and others who raised objection to the com petitive pay beds in the hospital. Long took command and said the bill was no more. He announ ced that in its stead there would be an amendment to another bill which would carry the charity hos pital plan and that his plan would provide for an increase of 25 cents in the $1 present corporation fran (Continued on page six.) First Summer Day Ushers in Real Heat Over Most of U. S. (By The Associated Press) So this is summer! . The first day of the new season was ushered in last night with “real summer .weather” over the nation. .. There were several heat pros trations in New York state and city, where the mercury mounted to 89.3. A boy was killed by lightning at Elmra, N. Y., and a bather was drowned off Rockaway Point, N. Y. Six forest fires burned in Color do, two of them attributed to lightning. Dr. Ernest Hanfstaengl, adviser to Chancellor Hitler, went toa Mes sachusetts Beach for a swim yes terday, escaping the heat—and an anti-Nazi demonstration at Harv ard, his Alma Mater, There were scattered thunder storms in the Great Lake region, Ohio Valley, Northern plain states and northern New England, SERVICES FOR WOMAN ROCKMART, Ga—(#)—Funeral services were held here this morn ing for Mrs, C. E. Baker of At lanta who died Wednesday. The services will be held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Nettles and interment will be at Austell, Ga. MORE THAN NINETY ATTEND LIONS GLUB CELEBRATION NIGHT R. L. Whitelock and W. T. Ray Honored by Local Club PILOTS ARE GUESTS Past Presidents Night and . Ladies Night Observed By Club Dinner —————— e Over 90 persons attended the gala celebration of Athens. Lions last night at a dinner in the Hol man hotel. The meeting was a combination affair, honoring Mr. Ray, inaugu rating past president’s night and receiving the members of the Pilot Club international, some fourteen of whom were guests of the club and R. L. Whitelock, formerly of Athens, but now of Anderson, S. C. The evening was greatly enlivened with entertainment, stunts and fun-making for it was also “Ladies Night.” : Dr. H. W. Birdsong, a past president of the club, presided over the meeting which marked the end of the year for the administration of Dr. Stanley R, Grubb, president and the beginning of the term of Dr. 8. C. Moon, who will succeed him. Two other past presidents, Arthur Oldham and Mr. Ray, also came in for their share of the ‘honors as former executives. I The invocation was given by ‘Ra.bbi Abraham Shusterman to start the program. Rabbi Shus terman is a member of the Rotary club. Immediately after the invocation, Dr. Birdsong presented Henry 'Rosenthal and designated him as Tail Twistgr for the meeting, an office he will assume officially 'when the new officers take up their duties later in the summer. | Since the meeting gave prom ise of being a tumultuous one and the Tail Twister, among his many ‘other duties, is supposed to pre ‘gerve order, Mr. Rosenthal was presented with a police badge of authority and a double-barrelled shotgun stréamlined like one of John Dillinger’'s weapons, to en force his authority. He carried out his job at inter vals throughout the meeting much to the merriment of the great ma jroity present and the sorrow of a few whom he cracked down on. Mrs. John Taylor and Mrs. Cleve Poss delighted the guests with a musical selection, Mrs, Poss accompanying on the piano. Miss Hazel -Poss- then gave a reading and followed with a solo. Mr. Elmer Kirk pleased with a solo which was followed with a duet by Miss Poss and Mr. Kirk. In a short talk Dr. Grubb told of hig apreciation for the coopera tion of the club during the past year probably the most active in the history of the local club, and paid tribute to Mr. Ray, He point (Continued on Page Six) ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF HITLER DENIED Government Press De partment Issues Denial To Persistent Rumors BERLIN. — (#) -—— Nazi agents swept swiftly through = Germany today tracking down and spiking rumors that an attempt had begn made to assassinate Adolf Hitler. So insistent: were <the reports that the government press depart ment took dognizance of them by issuing a denial.. - - A sifting of the rumors discloged one fact. Somebody took a pot shot at an.automobile en route to funeral services Wednegday for Frau Karin Goering, wife of the premier of Prussia and. government minister. ; The bullet was not fired on the road Hitler traveled-to the fun eral and apparently was not in tended” for him or any other high official. ; Hitler had been to Neudeck for an important conference with Fresident Von Hindenbursg. LOCAL WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday. The following weather report covers the 24-houp period end ing at 8:00 a. m. today: TEMPERATURE Higheat: ..x sots Bues svee 950 LIOWBBE, .oi sl . daiv s iBS M08R.... o' vaves sscsvnsrilsh NOPAL. .- ..-vc ivis yias PR W RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours.... .. 0.00 Total singe June 1........ 5.26 Excess since June 1....... 2.24 Average June. rainfall..... 4.10 Total since January-1......30.34 Excess since January 1,.., 2.60 A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Hailed as Next J Premi W . e e E e R T 4‘& e &% S R STR N Y ‘{ b ? o T O AR R SRR t\f 0 .t BGR S e s S R KMI U G .;_:»:;:v-:%-'- SR With indications of a govern ment upheaval in Japan, the next premier is likely to be Gen. Issei Ugakl, shown above in a new picture. He now is gover nor general of Korea and ‘is strongly supported by the liberal factions, who would consider "his elevation a great victory over the militarist cliques. ICKES THREATENG STATE ALLOTMENTS Will Rescind Action Un less Men Are Put to Work Immediately WASHINGTON.— () —Secre tary Ickes has threatened to re scind the allotment of $1,500,000 for the construction of prison buildings at the new Georgia State prison at Reidsville, in Tattnall county, Georgia, unless immediate steps are taken to get the project lun’(’ler construction “With men on the payrolls at job sites.” ; I The secretary Thursday rescind ed 97 allotments for. non-federal public works projects and warned ‘that 563 more in every state ex cept Idaho would be withdrawn ‘unless immediate = action toward putting men to work is taken. The Reidsville prison building project was among - those threatened by the secretary. Other projects in Georgia which Ickes threatened to withdraw were for an alms house at Gainesville, $32,000; high school at Marlow, $21,400; and water works at Un ion Point, $38,000. The 97 projects withdrawn to taled $8,217,042 and the 563 threat ened added up to $158558,517. In a statemetn Ickes said, “So far as PWA is concerned these 563 projects are all set and ready to go and have been for weeks. The money is available. All that ve mains is the most important thing —putting meén to work, “The 663 projects are neither under contract nor are they being advertised for contract, two es sential steps in getting them under way. These projects are estimated to produce 93,000,000 man hours of direct employment, or 20 percent of the total estimated direct am ployent that will be produced by the non-federal phase of the Pub lic Works program.” . Most of the recessions were re quested hy recipients because elec tions to authorize issuance cf bonds to secure the loan had not (Continued on Page Six) Work Will Begin on Sandy Creek Erosion Project Next Week Actual work on the Sandy Creek soil erosion project will begin next week, according to Loy E. Rast, soil erosion director here. ‘Mr. Rast also announced this morning that bids on a warehouse for storage of the equipment to be used in the work were put out this morning, and that the imple ments would be moved right away. A warehouse is expected to be decided on today or tomorvow, More equipment for the soil erosion work is coming into the local offices every' day, and by the time the work begins, it is ex pected that a full supply will be on hand. The surveying and field work will be the first done on the pro ject next week. After that is fin ished, the more -difficult work will be done on the $300,000 project. Mr. Rast said that rain gauges were being set up nmow in the wari ous communities in the section. H. E. Dasher is in charge of this work. G. A. Crabb, who is connected with the project here, visited the Monticello project today. It is ex pected that he will bring back some interesting and helpful re ports that will ‘aid the workers here. | L HSYE| LN BRE : § 881 “!Z-’Z ,f o I . [ Bkt & -t LJ-'?&TQ Show That Miss Agnes Tufverson Had Happy ** Married Life = = DEFENSE REFUTED . & . o Poderjay Claims Marriage o To Lawyer Was Only. + For “Convenience™ = : i By HENRY CASSIDY NEW YORK—(#)—Three iétters. written by the missing Miss Agnes * Tufverson were brought forward = toward, llke words from a tomb, to refute Captain Ivan Poderjay’s defense that their's was a : age of convenience. A ,gg The letters showed thaf Miss Tufverson planned to abandon W@f brilliant legal ecareer in Am&r!%fi:j’ and to spend the rest of her life abroad with the Jugoslavian solds+ ier of fortune. . i S From Vienna came pretq#fg against the prolonged imprisons ment of Poderjay and the w of Viennese authorities that they must release the man soon ulfi'fi}fé a specific charge is lodged. Contents of Letters .. == In one letter dated December 8 —four days after her marriage and 12 days before she vanished—Miss Tufverson wrote to Miss Helenm Havener of the Saturday’s Chii= dren club, declining an invitation to be a director of the club, and sayving: E “I am leaving the latter part of next or the week thereafter for . London, England, as I expect to live the rest of my life there”’—y this is contrast to Poderjay’'s story that they married only that she - might not be a gpinster and plan< ned to part soon. oy . On the same day, Miss Tufvers ‘son wrote to the hoard of direes tors of the New York County Lawyers' association, resigning g Ia member. Urged to retain the membership which he had held seven years, Miss Tufverson wrote again De< cember 12; ~ “The only reagon for my resig nation {g that T am leaving very shortly for London, where I expect to .reside indefinitely.” e Completes Chart Captain John H. Ayres of the missing persons bureau, seeking te weave the net tighter about Poder= jay, completed a chart of the acti vities of the self-styled officer and his bride from December 20 to 22—the vital days in the in= vestigation, B On December 20, Captain Ayres gaid, Poderjay bought sedative powders and 200 razor blades. = = That evening, Poderjay and Miss Tufverson went to a Hudson :llv!:g - pler and then returned to their apartment, where Flora Miller— Misg Tufverson's maid and '&’ last to see her alive — found the couple sorting papers. 2y e “Clome back tomorrow,” ‘‘Miss Tufverson told her. “No, come day after tomorrow,” interjecte 5 Poderjay. The mald left—and Miss (Continued on Page Six) &,*fi }y " s PLANS FOR ROUTE | AT swwsg I Barbecue to Be Held E g June 29 at Country Club l Grounds 2V | Forty directors of the Route 18 Highway association have ‘been 'mailed invitations to attend a bar ' becue here June 29 by the m 'ber of Commerce. e | The invitations were mailedqé;i vesterday, and every dimmflfif received one is expected to attend. At the barbgcue plains for ng. the route will be dlscussed.w route is paved it will complete an all-paved road to Florida, through Georgia and the Middle West. Those expected to attend are: - Judge A. L. Hatcher, C. D. Roun< tree, W, C. Brinson, and 'We il Flanders, of Wrightsville; Jamea L. Glenn, jr. and J. M. Cannon,fi}; Dublin; Gordon ;Knox, W. F, Hine son and Robert, Harrison, of Hs - zelhurst; Guy O, Stone, Glenwosa; Will Smith, Clayton; J. C. Turner, Jefferson; J, A. Mcßae and-J. } , Douglas of Alamo; W D. B orton, Mcßae; R. M. Dunn, Baxley Cox and J. C. Littlefield, of Folks= ton; J. H. Griffeth, Athens; F. M, Reeves, Corneliay Judge Frank Gabrels, Clarkesville; M. O. % gins, Baldwin; W. S. Elder, R»&: Nicholson and Dave Weatherford of Watkinsville. e L, L. Davis and Dr. J. C. Ver« ner of Commerce; E. T. Boswell, Siloam. e F. E. Boswell, J. C. Williams and H. D. Goodwin, of Greensbores M H. Tappan, White Plains; Gol.l’i‘% D. Watson, Watson Springs; &‘R% Miller and W. B. Harrison of Spar ta; G. W. Doolittle and W. & Wommack, of Sandersville; A 8, Cumming, Warthen; I M. Peas cock, Harrison. & “f o >
