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Knights Templar
To Be Hostson
Barrett’s Visit
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HARRY F. PATAT
Godfrey deßouillon Commandery,
Knights Templar, of which Harry
F. Patat is Eminent Commander,
will be host to memberg of the ore
derin this section tomorrow night
when Guy Barrett, Gainesville,
pays the local commadnery an in
spection visit.
Accompanying Mr. Barreit will
be a delegation of some twelve or
more members of Pilgrim Com
mandery, Gainesville, and Ed Ken
von of QGainesville. Paul Stevens,
another Grand officer of the state,
is heading a delegation of Sir
Knights from Augusta from Geor
gia Commandery No, 1, and a
delegation is also expected from
Milledgeville,
Mr. Barrett is paying the of
ficial ahnual wvisit of inspection
and the meeting will be held in
the Masonic Temple on Clayton
gtreet, starting at 8 o'clock. Emi
nent Commander Patat said this
morning that all Sir Knights are
invied to attend and will appear
in. uniform. ;
Prior to the meeting, Mr. Patat
will be host at a luncheon for the
aistinguished guests at the Georgi
an hotel.
The local Commandery ranks
high in the order in Georgia, Pr.
J.7C . Wikinsgon serving-as Grand
Prelate and Bolling S. Dußose be
ing Grand Warder. It is sqldom
that one Commandery has twe
Grand officers at the same time,
and it is a distinct compliment to
this commandery - that so many
Grand Officers will be present at
ihe meeting tomorrow night.
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Banner-Herald Queried
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About Picture of Car in
Which Man Was Killed
The Banner-Herald received a
guary this morning as to how the
picture carried in vesterday's pa
per showing the #wrecked auto
mobile in which TFugene Barnes
was killed, was obtained. The
cuery was made in view of the
fact the car was almost immedi
ately removed after the wreck
Sunday night,
The photo, wasg taken by ra
White, of Watkinsville, and the
cut furnished the Banner-Herald
threugh the courtesy of the At
lanta Georgian and TLee C. Bow-
Gen, local representative of the
Georgian.
Most Madison County
Officers Re-elected
In Primary Yesterday
‘DANIELSVILLE, Ga. — In one
of the most spirited elections in
years, Madison county voters yes
terday selected county officers.
Greatest interest probably cen
tered in the race for gheriff, in
which the incumbent, T. L. Hen
ley, defeated Pat Coil by 2 major
ity of 111 votes.
W. H. Compton, commissioner
of roads and revenues, defeated
R. ¥. Bird by a majority of 601.
Mr. Compton was the incumbent.
W. D. Meadow, incumbent, de
feated C. M. McWhorter, in the
race for clerk of court, by a ma
jority of 526 votes.
H. B. Burroughs, incumbent,
aefeated Rufus Rowe for tax com
misigoner by a majority of 1,014.
In the race for school superin
tendent, Foster Brown defeated
the incumbent, C. B. Ayers, and
Berry Floyd, ir-
In a three cornered-race for
coroner, J. T. McElroy was vic
tor over W. M. Rogers and Luth
er Seymore. G. L. Williams, who
held the office, did not offer for
re-election. '
N. . Bullock, ordinary. was re
elected. His opponent in the race,
Ben Rogers, died several days ago,
after he had qualified as a candi
date and the entries had been
closed.
MUCH NEW MONEY
' WASHINGTON——(IP)—Secre
tary Morgenthau announced
today the treasury's March 15
finaneing will aggregate sl.-
809,000,000 of which $800,000,-
. 000 will be new money.
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FALL CRITICALLY ILL
.~ BL PASO Texas.—{P)—Al
* hert B. Fall, former secretary
* of the interior, remained eriti
“cally ill of pneumonia here
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
TALMADGE BLAMES NEW DEAL
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Party Leaders Prepare for Tax Parley at White House Tonight
F.O.R. AEITERATES
NECESGITY OF NEW
TAXFOR NEW BILLS
Vetoed Seed Loan Bill as
It Carried No Provision
For Raising Money
BELIEVED KILLED
Farm Bill to Be Taken Up
In House Today; Little
Opposition Seen
WASHINGTON — (A.P.) —
A resolution proposing a con
stitutional amendment to give
congress full power to regulate
the sale and marketing of
agricultural commodities was
introduced in the senate fo
day by Senator Nye, Democrat,
North Dakota. i
"WASHINGTON.— () —While
leaders of congress prepared for a
tax parley at the White House to
night, the nature of suggestions
possibly to come from President
Rocsevelt remained a secret.
Into all speculation, however
there entered the chief executive’'s
warning that new taxes would be
required for appropriations which
are not covered in the budget es
timates.
This raised the question of
whether a forthcoming tax meas
ure would include provision for
levies to cover at least a portion
of the more than $2,000,000,000
which must be paid out for the
soldiers’ bonus, ordered by con
egress over the President's veto.
~w.u . Reiterates Views =~
The President reiterated some
tax views in his veto yesterday of
the bill to provide $50,000,000 for
seed loans. He objected that the
measure had been approved in
congress “without making provis
ior for any revenue to cover such
loans.”
While preparations went ahead
for the conference, suggested last
week by the President, Represen
tative Taber (R.-N. Y.) declared
there was an “absolute necessity”
for raising taxes, and that “never
in all history has there been @&
situation where the President has
so failed to meet his responsibili=
ties.” o
Many of the leaders, however.
continued to express the vigw that
a suggested tax program w%:ld be
limited to financing the new $500,-
000,000 soil conservation program,
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Strike Leaves El Paso
~ Without Electricity
EL. PASO, Tex—(#)—A walk
out of power company employves
at 4:07 a. m, today left this city
and a surrounding teritory with
out electricity. :
N. T. Clay, president’ of the
local body of ' the International
Brotherhood of Eleetrical Work
ers, called the strike and estab
lished picket lines "at the local
plant and the main" distributing
plant at Rio Grandg; N. M.
The strike came%thin one day
of the first anniversary of the
1935 walkout which paralyzed the
section for almost a day.
Clay said the El Paso Electric
company “has failed to live up to
their agreement reached at the
termination of the other strike.”
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
AMERICUS—Sumter county vot- !
ers appeared teo. have chosen three
new county ¢emmissioners today
as returns in the Democratic pri
mary were counted.
L. G. Council, G. L. Mathews
and J. M‘g ie Dupree were the new
com son “upon .the basis of
uno@& figures. i
Sheriff W. P. McArthur and So
licitor George Ellis of city eourt
were re-elected, [the retumfoine\
dicated, with the vote between Tax
Commissioner I. B. Small and Ery
Horne close, )
All other county officers were
unopposed.
QUITMAN — Colin E. Clanton|
continued as sheriff of Brooks
county today for another term, un
official returns: from the Demo
cratic primary showed, .
Clanton and four other county
officers, W. A. May, ordinary; W.
J. Cooey, school superintendent;
T. A. Edmondson, solicitor of city
gourt and Roy Lawson, county
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Hale and hearty, Sam Maverick
will celebrate his 100th anni
versary thiz year as his home
state of Texas observes its free
dom centenary. . But Sam,
whose name has been perpetu
ated in the term given unbrand
ed or stray cattle, isn't worry
ing so much about the state
fete, his mind being on his gar
den plans when this picture was
taken in San Antonio. He's
grandfather of fiery Congress
man Maury Maverick. @
KIONAP LADDER IN
OPOTLIGHT AGAIN
Rumors Spread of Assert
_ed “'Proof” That Part of
Evidence ‘‘Framed”
TRENTON, N, J, — (#) — The
ladder allegedly used by Bruno
Richard Hauptmann in the Lind
bergh kidnap-slaying held the
center of the stage today in efforts
of private investigators to prove
the crime has not been completely
solved.
From an authoritative source it
wag learned two investigators have
asserted “proof” that part of the
evidence linking the condemned
Hauptmann to the ladder was
“framed,” and that e report of this
will be made shortly to Governor
Harold G. Hoffman.
The same source said the investi
gators, claimed they were able to
show through violet ray tests, that
four nail holes in joists in Haupt
mann’'s Bronx attic—hdles which
the state contended matched four
holes in “rail 16” of the ladder—
were made about the time _of
Hauptmann’s arrest.
The goverror himself continued
hig attack on the teatimony of
Millward Whited, Sourland Ilum
berjack, one of the chief identifi
cation witnesses against Haupt
mann. ’
In New York last night the gov
ernor made public excerpts from
Whited’'s examination, which he
submitted as “proof that Whited
was promised part of the reward
($25,000 offered by the state) if he
identified Hauptmann, and that he
was shown a number of photographs
upon different occasions before he
went to New York.”
Whited was the sole identifica
tion witness at the Bronx extradi
tion proceedings, and testified at
the trial he gaw Hauptmann prowl
ing in the woods near the Lind
bergh estate shortly before Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh’'s son was
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| commissioner, were the only ones
'opmsed in the election,
CARROLLTON-—AIII but one in
cumbent lost out in the Carroll
county run-over with T. J, H. Rob
ertson, court clerk, today the sole
‘survivor.
' D. L. Kilgore was new sheriff;
: Raymond Robinson the new judge
of city court; Hamp Chappel, new
eounty commissioner and J. H.
MeGibhoney the new school sup
erintendent.
" ALBANY — Temporary respite
from his duties as American am
bassador to the court of St. James
was being obtained today by Judge
Robert W, Bingham of Louisville,
Ky., on his game preserve and
plantations near here.
“A friend and neighbor” is the
way he wantg south Georgians to
think of him, he said. Bingham,
who is also publisher of the Louis
——
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==ESTABLISHED 1832
Athens, Ga., Thursday, February 27, 1936,
Rebellious Young Japanese
Army Officers Give Ground
But Keep Major Objective
Emperor Hirohito Seeks
Peace; Armed Showdown
Is Expected, However
LONG CONFERENCES
Tokyo Grows Quiet Undef;
Steady Patrolling of
Loyal Troops l
—— |
BY DEVON FRANCIS
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
Rebellious young army officers
who killed at least four Japanesel
“liberal” statesmen in an attempted
coup d’etat gave ground in Tokyo
today while surviving ministers
strove to form a new goevrnment.
Capitulation of the insurgent
soldiers was communteated hy an
official source to the Domei news
jagency late Thursday night, Tokye
‘time. !
- The recalcitrants, who had held
ipolice headquarters and barracks
against a tightening ring of loyal
troops for 24 hours, were reported
to have begun evacuation of the
lbuildlngs they occupied.
} Nearing Achievement
But the original object of the
uprising—removal of those govern
ment figures they considered inimi
cal to Japan’s best interests and
the establishment of an ultra
patriotic naticnalist government -
appeared nearing achievement. |
| An anxious Europe anticipated
Iflrm army rule in Japan on the
heels of the mass assassinations.
lDiplomatic circleg echoed the ques
tion: will war eventuate from the
[conflict between Japanese militar
}ista and the mare conservative Sib,
erals?
The answer to the question lay
in day-long conferences at the im
perial palace of Emperior Hirohito.
Tokyo is Quiet
While Tokyo grew quiet under
the patrolling of loyal troops, back
ed by martial law, government of
ficials and supreme war councillors
tried to select a new premier to
succeed the slain Keisuke Okada.
. Advices direct from Tokyo des
cribed an almost complete paraly
sis of activity in the city,
Additional soldiers thronged into
Tokyo. Whrships of the imperial
navy steamed into positions to help
enforce public order, |
Officers Involved ‘
The officers involved in the as
sassinations’ were of the same
fanatically patriotic sort who car
ried out the coup of May 15, 1932,1
when Premier Inukai was slain.
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Newly Organized Squad
ron 20 to Receive Char
ter at Meeting Sunday
The newly organized Squadron
20, Sons of the American Legion,
will receive its charter, and offi
cers will be installed, at a meet
ing at the Legion Log Cabin here
Sunday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
One of the biggest celebrations
in many years is planned for
charter day next Sunday, with
more than 1,000 people expected
to attend. Around 40 boys were
present for a meeting last Sunday
when officers 'were elected, and
there will be more members of the
Sons of the Legion present next
Sunday.
Mothers and fathers of the mem
bers of the county commissioners,
expected to be present. Special in
vitations have been issued mem
bers of the county commissionrs,
mayor and council, heads and
members of the Chamber of Com
merce, and other civie osganiza
tions. The general public is also
cordially invited.
A ‘local orchestra will likely be
on hand to furnish music for the
occasion. Professor R. T. Dot
tery, of the TUniversity of Geor
gia, will blow “Retreat” and
“Taps” during the ceremony. g
Uly 8. Gunn, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert R, Gunn, is captain
of the Sons of the Legion, being
elected last Sunday afternoon.
QOther officers are Almon Cook,
first lieutenant; James Cook, sec
ond lieutenant; Dan Magill, jr.,
adjutant; Calvin Wheeler, finance
officer; Edgar Eberhart, chaplain;
John Driftmier, historian; and
James Kelley, sergeant-at-arms.
Each officer of the Sons of the
Legion will be installed by the cor
responding officer of the Legion.
(Continued on Page Five)
FLASHES
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SPRING OMEN
BUFFALO, N. Y. —-Harry H.
Wright, of suburban Kenmore,
says the vernal season isn't far
off — or else bees have changed
their habits.
Wright wag stung yesterday,
BOLOGNA? BALONEY!
TULSA, Okla—Women prison
ers of the county jail have gone
on strike against bologna.
According to Marie Kelley,
spokeswoman for the prisoners,
they won’t eat again until the
source of the controversy has
been scratched from the jail menu.
“Baloney!” snapped Marie. “I've
eaten £o much of that stuff I can
bark better than I can talk.”
CANNY COURT CLERK
LINCOLN, Neb.—George Turner,
Nebraska supreme court clerk,
couldn’t read the writer's scrawled
signature and for a while he was
puzzled over how to address the
expected reply. But he solved it.
He cut the signature off the let
ter and pasted it on the return
envelope,
He hasn’t heard from the post
office yet.
BLIND LOGIC
- .SAN FRANCISCO .—Four hun
‘dred movie passe were passed out
here to the blind. A
“1 felt we were getting gypped,”
said blind George McDonald who
negotiated for the free tickets. “We
paid for a lot of scenery we could
n't see.”
He said the perfection of sound
effects had made movie fans of
the. sightless,
PROMINENT WINDER
NAN DIES THURSDAY
Charles M. Ferguson Dies
Early This Morning; Has
Brother Here
Charles M, Ferguson, 69, former
president of the Georgia Funeral
Directors Association, and ‘Winder
fire chief for 35 years, died at his
home in Winder this morning at
3:15 o'clock, after an illness of 7
weeks.
Mr, Ferguson was one of the
videst funeral directors in the
state: and was holder of the old
est state embalming license and
wag in elass of 1905. He was &
charter ~member of the Winder
Kiwanis club, co-organizer of the
People’s Bank and was director of
the bank at the time of his death.
He was the only fire ch’ef ‘Winder
ever had and was recently re
elected to this position.
He was a member of the board
of directors of Winder Building
and Loan Association, and was one
of the most widely known men of
the funeral profession in the south.
He was a Mason, Knights Templer,
Shriner and K. of P. He was an
active funeral director in Winder
for 39 years, and a member of
Winder First Methodist church.
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colder tonight. CLOUDY
TEMPERATURE
Highest .. «. «+ ¢o s+ o= ..76.0
BPE i i ki A e 400 N
MOER .. h TN b e e 880
NOCIBRE . lih e iia ivs wie e 480
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .. 22
Total since February 1 ... 6.58
Excess since February 1 .. 1.66
Average February ‘rainfall. 5.18
Total since January 1 .. ..19.59
Excess since January 1 ...10.12
Where Snow Smothered Three
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To the heavy toll taken by sub-zero cold and blizzards across
the nation was added death by snowslide in Washington state, this
picture showing the cab of a truck in which three men were
smothered to death beneath mountainous drifts in Snoqualmie
Pass.: In the cab is N, R, Mohns, highway worker, shown after
he and another workman had toiled for six hours to bring the
bodies out of the death trap.
Row Cver Removal of Hagood Is
Likely to Become ‘Free-for-All”’
Police Squad Car Is
Wrecked in Memphis;
Four Men Are Killed
MEMPHIS, Tenn.— (#) —A
police squad car, in pursuit of
a speeding motorist, and ano
ther automobile smashed to
gether at a &treet intersection
here early today, killing four
men and injuring another critl
cally,
The dead: . '
Patrolman G. W, Ham, 25,
who less than two weeks ago
donned a policeman’s uniform;
Eugene P, McNamara, 20, who
last year captained the Sacred
Heart High school football team,
and Lawrence 8. Cleary, 23, of
Memphis,
Don Coburn, 21, ridmg in the
automobile with Cleary and
McNamara, suffered internal
injuries from which he died a
few hours later,
GANNETT 1S ‘SECOND
CHOICE FOR BORAH
Idaho Senator Well Pleas
ed With Lineup as Ohio
Primary Nears
WASHINGTON—(A)—The forcea
of Senator Borah of Idaho rolled
on toward the primary skirmish
groundg of Ohio today, equipped
with the required “second choice”
for the Republican presidential no
mination,
' Frank FE. Gannett, of Rocheter,
! Y., publisher of a chain of news
! pers, will fight alongside the
| senate veteran for the 52 delegates
the Buckeye state will send to the
Cleveland convention.
Informed that his Ohio forces
{had selected Gannett, Borah said:
|"I have a very high opinion of Mr.
iGannett. I think it is a most ad
mirable choice.”
Prior to ‘the announcément at
Columbus last night, there had not
been a hint of the identity of the
man who, as required by Ohio law,
would Dbe selected to receive the
jvotes of “any Ohio delegates pledg
ied to Borah should the latter be
blocked in' convention. The “sec
ond choice,” rule does not ranean
the selected person would be vice
presidential candidate.
| Gannett has been a strong sup
| porter of the Idahoan. last Satur
!day he issued a statement point
!ing to Borah as ‘“the only man
iwho can wage a successful cam
| paign against a master politican
land arouse the nation to action
lby vigorous, convincing appeal.”
, Representatives of John Knight,
a Borah leader in Ohio, in announ
lclng Gannett's acceptance, releas
ed a statement from him in which
ihe said it would mean “a great
‘saermoe." /
“However,” said Gannett, “such
.a grave crisis confronts the nation
lthat all who believe in our pre
cioug constitutions, who wish to
preserve the constitution and the
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A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Letter Made Public From
Craig Flays Hagood for
v "Wisecratking”
ASK MODIFICATION
WASHINGTON — (A.P.) =—
Senator Byrns, Democrat, of
South Carolina, accompanied
by two representatives, asked
Secretary Defn tdday to set
aside or modify the disciplin
ary action taken by the army
against Major General John
son Hagood.
WASHINGTON —{(#) — The row
over Major General Johnson Ha
good developed oday into a fierce
free-for-all, with the army’'s high
command assailing him for “wise
cracking” remarks and Republicans
idemandlng a sweeping senasational
inquiry in behalf of “free speech.”
At the same time, powerful De
mocrats moved for a quick settle
ment of the explogive controversy,
\whlch started when Hagood was
;suspended from active command
lfor telling a house sub-committee
it was “almost impossible” to get
WPA’'s “stage money” for “any
thing worthwhile.”
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, and
Chairman MeSwain, Democratic
chairman of the house military af
fairs committee, both of whom hail
from Hagood’s home state of South
Carolina, arranged a conference with
Secretary of War Dern. Repres
entative Blanton, Democrat, Texas,
wehement critic of the war de
partment’s punishment of the gen
eral, was expected to be present,
s No Prediction
No one would predict the upshot
of the row. Hagood’s champions
were striving to vindicate him com
sentiment in the war department
pletely, but there were hints of
for furher discipline, perhaps forc
(Continued on Page Five)
Tobacco Negotiations Collapse
After Georgia Stand Is Known
WASHINGTON — (® — J. B,
Hutson, agriculture department to
bacco chief, predicted today that
unregulated tobacco production this
yvear would cause farmerg to de
mand action for 1937.
With all bars down, he foresaw
a drop in prices to a 10 to 15 cent 3
a pound level and said if that hap-.
pened the growers would be heard
from.
Despite collapse of negotiations
yesterday for interstate tobacco
compact for 1936, Hutson express
ed hope that something resembling
the compact proposal could be
negotiated.
(Under the compact plan, parti
cipating states would enact uniform
regulatory legislation.) .
Confronted with assertions that
Georgia would not call a special
Jegislative session to consider the
tobacco bill, Hutson suggested that
state could arrange for coopera
tion, without law, for this season
to the satisfaction of other parti
cipating states.
Statements that Governor Eu
Funds Drawn From Fulton
National Bank to Help
In “‘Dictatorship’’
TALMADGE VICTORY
Governor Says U. S. s
Trying to Stop Fight
Agdinst Roosevelt
[ ATLANTA — (A.P.) — Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge over
| came a major threat wo his fi
| nancial dictatorship of the state
today when his gtate highway
board withdrew =pproximately
$1,850,000 from the Fulton Na
tional Bank and placed the
cash in the vault of the state
treasury.
This money had beeén on de
posit to the credit of the high
way board in the Fulton bank,
which yesterday refused to
honor a warrant for SIOO,OOO
drawn on other state funds by
l the de facto State Treasurer
. J. B. Daniel. The money was
paid in $5,000 and SIO,OOO bilis.
The bank said then that it
would not pay out the funds un
til a court ruled on the legality
of the governor's action in oust
ing George B. Hamilton as state
treasurer and naming Daniel to
‘\the office.
| The highway funds had been
lzd(-nu.slted by the department prior
‘to the present conflict of state af
fairs.
Members of the Highway board,
acecmyanied Ly Adjutant General
Aindley W. Camp, went to thJ
|\bank today for the money. From
]Lhere they went to the Atlanta
i Federal Reserve Bank in company
,nf a Fulton Bank vice-president
to tet the ecash in bills of large
| denomination,
’ In addition, the National City
’Bunk of Rome, Ga., announced it
i\‘. ovld honor the checks of the de
Hucto state treasurer.
ATLANTA —(#)— Governor Eu
gene Talmadge, Georgia's financi
al “dictator,”. in a written state
ment today said the present situ
ation in Georgia “wag deliberately
brought about by tne New Deal to
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Avalanche of Snew
Covers Train Coach
WALACE, Ilaho — m ——,E‘our
missing persons were believed
dead today, buried under tons of
snow that roared down Coeur
d’Alene mountain and swept a
railroad passenger coach to the
bottom of a debris-littered can
yon, e
The avalanche slid down the
steep mountajnside at dusk yes
terday and ripped the coach from
the rear of a two-car branch line
train.
The tragedy occurred about 200
miles east of Snoqualmie Pass in
the Cascades where three persons
were killed in a snowslide Sunday.
A rescue crew of 75 found two
injured pasengers in the wreck
age of the splintered car, but the
Lookout Summit station reported
four persons were missing.
gene Talmadge would not call the
| Georgia legislature into session for
|any purpose caused representa
|tives of North and South Carclina
|to assert they would not partiel
ipate without Georgia.
| NEW NEWS LEAKS
| WASHINGTON — (®) — News
[leaks in the bureau of Navigation
|and Steamboat Inspection continu
led today despite Secretary Roper's
! dismissal of two men involved in
;!a previous “unauthorized” report
'on sea accidents, '
i After a press conference yester
}day during which the commerce
lasecreta.x'y defended the ousting of
| Commander H. McCoy Jones and
| Frederick L. Adams from the bur~
ieau. another sea report which ap«
parently had not passed . through
orthodox channels was sent to
press associations. 7 i
This report outllned mar %
casualties for January, including
43 deaths. It was in a navigation
PR o
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