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DR. T. F. CALLAWAY j
Approximately 150 Baptist pas
tors and associational leaders
from all Baptist churches in
northeast Georgia will be held at
First Baptist church here 0111
March 27. ,
The meeting is one of ten re
glenal conferences to he held in‘
widely distributed centers of thel
state and pastor hosts for the Ath
ens Conference will be Dr. J. C.
Wilkinson, ‘pastor of the First
church here, and Dr. Pope A.
Dunecan, pastor of Prince Avenue
Baptist . chuvreh .
Anmiong those whe will appear on
the program here are Dr. T. F.
Callaway, president of the Georgia
Baptist Convention; Dr. W. H.
Wright, pastor of the Tabernacle
Baptist church, Atlanta; Dr. Ro
land Q. Leavell, pastor of First
Baptist church, Gainesville; Dr.
James W. MNerritt, executive sec
retary- treasurer of the Georgia
Bantist Convention, will direct the
prograr:.
The daily schedule of the meet
ings will be:
Mom 10:30 a. m.. to.l p. m.,
‘conference in Evangelism and from !
2 tos p. m., conferenceés on Stew-‘
ardship and related subjects. In
each case the time used, eastern!
or central, will conform to -the
the time prevailing in- the meet-i
ing place. |
The ‘progravit’ “for the. Copfer
ences this vear have been arrang-i
ed to include a discussion of deti-“
nite plans for promotion of the
various phases of the work
throughout the association, as well
as the church, and will be of par
ticular interest to the association
al officers.
First of the series of moetingsl
will be held at First Baptist church
in Dalton, on March 23 and thel
conferences will be one-day nwotv‘
ings with morning and afternoon
session. |
To the Athens meeting will come |
pastors and associational leaders
from all of the churches in north- |
east Georgla, from Augusta andi
Milledgeville ,in the south, to the
Tennessee line and eastward to the;
South Carolina border. |
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Social Meeting of 1
Legion P ed
egion Fostponed
Announcement wag made today
that the regular social mesting of
the American Legion, scheduled
for Thursday night of this Week,!
has been postponed until Thurs-!
day, March 26. w
The social meeting was postpon- |
ed because of the birthday party
being given tonight in the Legion
Log Cahin by the Legion Auxiliary.
ses~fe birthday party celebrates
: (W'm'snry of the com
on of the Log Cabin and
© Dhers of the Auxiliary and their
nds .09 members of the Le-
B their wives have been
F The party will begin at S‘
tonight and an interesting
E will be presented, followed
f:ious refreshments,
fnnaires are asked to note
a 8 icc in the Post meeting
‘hursday of this week until
® . of next week, at which
. delicious supper will ba
E by the committee in charge
1 by Wade Parr, it was an
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Talmadge Says Humphries' Decision s Controlling
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TO SPEAK TONIGHT
lLargest Gathering of Ses
sions |s Expected at
First Church Tonight
A two-hour session tonight, from
‘8 until 10 o’clock, will colse to
| day's meeting of Methodist pas
}tors. laymen and members from
five districts of the North Georgia
| Methodist conference, held at the
| First Methodist church here. |
! The meeting, called and presid
ed over by Bishop W. N. Ains
worth, was one of several that will
be held in the state by the Macon
jßishop, and attracted more than
| 500 people.
| Despite inclement weather,
which brought snow this morning,
itho downstairs of First Methodist
i church was packed at 11 o'clock,i
iand the balcony was beginning to
gt‘ill up. It was predicted by church
officials that around 700 would at
tend one of the three sessions held
today.
This morning from 10 until
12:45, one session was held, and
from 2 o'clock this afternoon until
lfi::z(}, another was held.
Missions, evengelism, Christian
Education, stewardship, lay en
listment and the ligquor situation
| in Georgia were some of the topics
discussed during the sessions this
morning .
Bishop Ainswerth was the prin~
j-cipal speaker this morning and will |
{speak again tonight. Tonight's
session isyexpected to attract the
| largest gathering of the day, with“
the church over-flowing with locs.l‘
and out-of-town people who want
to hear the well-known Bishop‘
speak. ; !
Such well known men as Dr.‘
Lavens M. Thomas, of Emory Uni
| versity; J. B. Peters, Atlanta; .
il’lcrco Harris, Columbus; Sullinsl
Dosser, Bristol, Virginia; C. K.
!Wingo, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Ed-]
{ mund ¥. Cook, Macon, and many]
| others, were speakers on the pro
| gram.
l Rev. George Acree, pastor of the
! "irst Methodist church, was the
Infficial host for the entire group]
| of visitors. Practically every pas- |
; tor in the five districts represent- |
ed were here today, -attended the
merting. Rev. Acree was assisted
| in extending a warm welcome to
fthe visitors by Presiding-Elder C.
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| Allay Fears of Killing
. Private Pensions
I WASHINGTON — (#) — After
monthg of study, experts will soon
submit to a congressional com
mittee a plan designed to allay
fears that private pensions sys
tems would disappear under the
social security law,
The experts have been working
under the direction of a special
{joint congressional committee since
| the last session of congress.
Purpose of the study is to pro
tect hundreds of existing company
pension systems, some of which
lhave been in operation for years
land have built up large reserves.
! Senator Clark, Democrat, , Miss
‘{ouri, sought to add an amendment
im the social security law to ex
clude them from its operation, but
ladminislration leaders rejected the
:pmposal on the ground it might
|wreeck the proposed nation-wide
;pensi(m system.
| The social security law provides
{that beginning next year employ.
!ers and employves must each contri
{bute sums equal to one per cent
|of the workers salaries up to 353,-
IO()O a year.
i The money will go into the na
|tional reserve system, from which
! pensions will be paid. The contri
|butions will be increased every
'lthree yvears until they reached three
lper cent for employers and three
per ent for employes by 1949,
l Clark contended that with these
,contrlbutions required by the gov
jernment, it would be jmpracticable
)Itor companies to continue the pri
[ivate pension systems now in ef
|fect, and that the workers would
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‘Jafsie’ Returns From Panama But
Is Silent on Hauptmann Situation
NEW! YORK — (#).— The enig
matic *“Jafsie” came back from a
vacation in 'Panama today, faced
with the poasibility of being drawn
fnto an eleventh hour effort by
defense counsel seeking to save
from the electric chair the man he
helped doom for the kidnap-slay
ing of Col. Cahrles A, Lindbergh’s
infant son. 3
Jafsie—Dr. John F., Condon-—re
turned to the United States from
Panama only 24 hours after C.
Lloyd Fisher announced she would
demand that the former [Bronx
school teacher wundergo rigorous
examination with the expressed
hope it would give him a sound
basis for action: in his efforts to
save Bruno Richard Hauptmann
from execution the week of March
30. !
Dr. Condon refused 'to discuss
in any fashion the last-minute ef
forts being made by Hauptmann
to escape death.
“I have no comment whatever
to make about the case,” he said.
Pay Truck Hoid-Up Two Years
Ago May Be Solved by Capture
| NEW YORK'— (P) —:An early,
;morning ' raid ‘on an upper Wiest
iSide apartment in which police ar
rested seven men- and three women
today and ‘confiscated a miniature
arsenal may result in a solution
police believe, of the "$427,000: hold
up two years.ago of an’ armored
I pay truck. i
| Police said that William O'Brien,
;23, one of" the prison'ers,.was want
ed in connection with the: baffling
Brooklyn. robbery. = His fingerprints
officers =said, checked with those]
on a wanted card at police head
guarters.
l In- addition to the hold-up in
front of the Rubel Ice company,
{police said the arrests may solve
a number of out of town bank
robberies, Fifth Avenue jewel rob
béries and numerous high-jacking
of trucks loaded with silks and
other merchandise.
In addition to repeating rifies,
sawed-off shotguns, and pistols,
police found thousands of rounds
of ammunition, a supply of gun
cotton, a set of new Georgia lic
lense plates and a short wave radio
transmitter,
‘ Police said Mrs. Madeline Tully,
{ landlady, of the apartment house
which is just off Riverside Drive
lon 90th street, would be charged
with harboring criminals. - -f
1 "Mrs. Tully, they said, was a mat
lerial witness ig the. Vivian Gordon
Athens, Ca., Tuesday, March 17, 1936.
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Among prominent Methodists
taking part in the scssiong at
First Methodist church today
and tonight are, top right, Bish
op W. N. Ainsworth, who spoke
thig morning and delivers an
other address tonight; Dr. W.
M. Acree, top lef;, pastor of
First . Methodist church, the
host church, and Dr. Lester
Rumble, now presiding elder
of the Atlanta district, and for
mer pastor of the First church
here.
Condon’s return presaged swift
developments in the case.
Governor Harold G. Hoffman,
who has said Condon should clear
up statements made since the trial,
day or tomorrow, inviting him to
day or tomorrow, inviing him to
come to the state house for exam
inaion, ‘
What course Fisher might follow
should Condon refuse to comply
voluntarily, wag not kpewn.
On March 12 the governor’s 90-
day legal reprieve powers expired.
Should there be anything to war
rant a new stay of execution, the
governor said, he will suggest that
Attorney General David T. Wilentz
and Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck
and Fisher go before Justice Tren
chard and ask for a new trial and
a judicial- reprieve.
~ As the 78-year-old educator
landed, Liberty Magazine in an
article by Fulton Oursler, its edi
tor-in-chief, =said that Abrahan
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murder case several years ago,
having lived in the same house
with Harry Stein, who was tried
for the murder,
The gang was caught completely
by sqg_rise and were arrested with
out. a shot being fired.
“Acting on information” the po
lice raiding party went- to the
apartment house at midnight and
after ordering Mrs. Tully to open
up, made a systematic search. .
Four' of the men arrested were
seated, around a table, eating ham
and eggg and, police said, appar
ently holding an important confer
ence. They surrrendered without
making a motion for the shotguns
on the floor at their feet.
The $427,000 armored car rob
bery was one of the most carefully
planned in New York police his
tory. In broad daylight, before
scores of witnesses—employes of
the ice company and tennis play
ers on courts ‘across the street—
the bandits unloaded the money
and made their get away in less
than three minutes.
| INCOME TAX GAIN .
. WASHINGTON —(AP)— Income
lm collections of $281,768,032 for
the first 16 days of March, repre
senting a gani of 46.4 percent over
the corresponding period last year,
were. reported. Tuesday. by. the
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Important Views Hmted‘
As Exchanged by Pair
In “Courtesy Visit”
SESSION RESUMED '
Discussions of Security
Proposals of Hitler ]
. Are Continued (
. ACCEPTS INVITATION . 1
, LONDON — (A.P, — Reichs
fuehrer Hitler today accepted |
2n invitation by the League of |
Nations ‘council to discuss the
] international ~crisis brought
abogt. by his placing an army
bagk in the Rhineland., |
. The League secristariat recei- |
- ved a telegram from tha Ger- |
man government announcing
that General Jachim Von. Rib- ‘
bentrop, Hitler's righthand di- |
plomat, would represent Ger- 1
many at the council table. |
{ BY CHARLES P. NUTTER
Copyright, 1936, By The Associated
Prese
LONDON—French sources an
nounced that Foreign Minister
Pierre<Etienne Flandin, at an audi
ence with King Edward VIII today,
would make a “last appeal” to Bri
tain to honor its Leocarno obliga
tions.
Although the audience was de
geribed officlally as “a courtesy
visit,” a French spokesman said,
{‘that doeg not prevent an impor
{tant exchange of opinion from tak
ling place.”
¢ Meadin, jt was snderstood might
press for application of economia
and financial sanctions against Ger
many for the Reich’s occupation of
the Rhineland March 7 in violation
of the Locarno Pact and Versailles
Treaty. Informed sources, however,
said there wag little hope of unlted‘
action.
After his audience with Flandin
at 2:30 pm., (9:30 a.m., E.8.T.)
King Edward also was to receive
|Paul Van Zeeland, premier and for
eign minister of Belgium. %
, Reassemble
! British, French, Belgian and Ital
fan representatives reassembled at
the foreign office to continue their
discussions of the mnew security
proposals Adolf Hitler extended,
simultaneously with the breaking]
of the old pacts, and to study what
should be done about his denuncia-‘
tion of the Locarno pact. ‘
The representatives of the Locar
no signatories, facing an open
breach on Hitler's proposal, re
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|Kansas Governor Assured
1 Of Oklahoma’s 21 Votes
| At Convention
l —— eet
| WASHINGTON —(AF)— Sup
lporters of Alf M. Landon pressed
on with their presidential drive to
}day, elated by the knowledge that
{the Kansas governor is assured of
i the 21 votes of Oklahoma at the
lßepublican national convention.
| Bven as the state’s convention
| adopted the unit rule throwing its
| full party strength to the Kansan,
| his name figured in a hot intra
'party dispute.
! Louis Levand, publisher of the
| Wichita, (Kans.) Beacon, charged
| Senator Borah of Idaho, avowed
candidate for the Republiacn nomi
nation, with making “haseless in
| sinuations” against Landon.
s Borah quickly denied it and told
jlmvand “you owe Governor Lan
i don an apology for your blunder
ing defense of him when no de
fense was called for.”
The publisher’'s communication
to Borah was based on the latter’s
Icharge that “The Standard Oil
lcompany” was mixing in Oklaho
lma’s republican politics .
‘ Levand said Borah had injected
| “baseless insinuations into a situ
'tlon which so far hag been notable
for the absence of vilification and
mudslinging.”
The Idahoan replied that he had
made no reference *directly or in
directly to Gov. Landon.”
“1 denounced the Standard Oil
company for its activities in try
ing to secure an instructed delega
tion and for its activitieg in seeking
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Clarke County Democratic
Executive Committee Will
Meet Thursday on Primary
Arrangements Made Yes
terday By Chairman
Rowe to Call'Meeting
~ ASKED BY CITIZENS |
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Apparent Intent of Tal-l
madge Forces to Evade
Test Brings Meeting
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A meeting of the Clarke County
Democratic Executive committee
will be held Thursday morning at
11 o'clock in the office of John L.
Green, secretary, for the purpose of
adopting resolutions urging the
;Sta;e Democratic Executive com
mittee to call a presidential pre
ferential primary. :
The meeting of the Clarke coun
ty committee was arranged yester
day afterngon at a conference be
tween Chairman H. J. Rowe and
members of the committee, follow
ing a meeting of citizens in the of
fice of Frank <. Shackelford, at
which time the question was dis
cussed as to whether the State
Democratic HExecutive committees
will, when it meets April 15, issue
a call for a presidential preferen
tial primary or attempt to name
delegateg to the Nation Demoeratic
convention in Philadetphia without
giving the Democrats of this state
an’ opportunity to express their
chofee of a presidential candidate
in a regularly ordered state pri
mary.
It ig understood that when the
Clarke county committee meeta
Thursday morning resolutions will
be introduced by a member of the
county executive committee . urg
ing . the State Executive committee
to order a preferential primary. In’
these resolutions, it is 'paid, the
Clarke county - méwmbers on the
requested to vote in favor of hold
ing a statewide preferential pri
mary. Tate Wright, a member of
the State Executive committee, has
already announced that he favors
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31st Wedding Anniversary of
Roosevelts Is Celebrated Today
WASHINGTON — () — Thirty
one years ago today Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt—niece of the colorful
Teddy who then sat in the presi
dent’'s chair—married Franklin D.
Roosevelt, law student.
‘r Today, in the executive mansion
where ghe was often a favored visi
tor back in 1905, Mrs. Roosevelt is
‘celebmting the anniversary with
the law gtudent who also became
chief executive of the United
States. o
Back in those days, Mrs. Roose
'velt remembers, she and her hus
band couldn't go on much of a
‘honeymoon because he still had a
couple of years to go at Columbia
law school.
In her last description of her
wedding day, Mrs. Roosevelt re
called that while “everybody was
polite to Franklin and me,” they
then congregated around “Uncle
Ted,” who gave the bride away, and
Snow Storm, With High Winds,
Blows Suddenly Into Georgia
(By the Associated Press)
A snow storm, accompanied'bfl
high winds, heavy rains and a aha.rp{
drop in temperature, blew into
rorth Georgia last night to end a
prolonged spell of balmy, spring
like weather. .
Atlanta and pointz north reportfl
ed snow flurries during the night
and early this morning. At 9:30
a. m, today, the snow fell thickly
in Atlanta, bui melted as soon as
it fell under a 36-degree tempera
ture. The low there overnight was
33. |
About two-thirds of the state
state received overnight rainfall of
an inch or more.
A flurry of snow mixed with rain
started falling here at 10:30 this
morning. The snow fell until about
1 o'cjock spasmotically and was
blown by a strong wind. A report
from E. 8. Sell shows that .91
inches of rain fell here last night.
The lowest reading of the tem
perature was 38 degrees while 78
was the highest.
Fair weather tonight and Wed
neaday, and somewhat higher tem
peratures, were predicted for most
of the state, but somewhat colder
}wes,ther tonight was expected in
the eastern and central areas of
t(}eorgh, with warmer weather due
im those sections tomorrow after-
A windstorm wrecked several
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Wallace Names
Five Regions
In AAA Set-Up
WASHINGTON —(AP) — Sec
retary Wallace today announced
recrganization of the AAA and the
establishment of five regions for
administration of the new soil
conservation farm program.
His statement coincided with an
agreement by senate and house
conferees on the $2,889,751,905 in
dependent offices supply bill to
the senate additlons of $440,000,000
for the first year’s operation of the
farm subsidy law and $1,730,000,000
for prepayment of the soldiers
bonus .
* There had been some concern at
AAA lest operation of the conser
vation act be delayed by lack of
funds.
Senator Byrnes (D-SC) one of
the senate conferees, said an ef
fort would be made to get the bill
| to the White. House before Presi
}dent Roosevelt starts his southern
cruise Thursday, the day when
AAA officials planned to begin
‘fleld operations, The senate will
act first on the conference report
probably today. The directors of
the old AAA commodity sectiona
were named as regional directors
for the respectice divisions. The
commeodity sections, which opera
ted the cotton, wheat, cern-hog
and tobacco adjustment programs.
are discontinued under the new
set-up.
The southern division and direc
tor:
Southern - South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Miss
issippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tex
es, and Oklahoma: Cully A. Cobb,
\tormer director of the cotton di
vision.
left the couple alone with nobody
to talk to. |
Tonight, amid preparations at
+he White House for the president's
annual fishing trip off Florida,
President and Mrs. Roosevelt wflll
celebrate with a few close friends.
A dinner party will include Mr‘
and Mrs. Doiph Miller and Under
|seeretary of State William Phillips.
The president’s mother may also
come down from Hyde Park.
Thursday they leave for the Flor
ida vacation, and the president will
take his first fishing trip on the
new presidential yacht Potomac.
Mrs. Roosevelt will accompany
the president to Warm Springs,
Ga., where they will spend Friday,
and to Winter Park, Fla., where
he will receive a degree at Rollins
college the next day.
. He will then board the yacht and
‘she hasn’t told what she’ll do for
the next week or ten days.
houses in an outlying section of
'Auguata. late last night injuring
11 Negioes. The wind followed a
severe - electrical storm. Reports
to Macon told of damage to trees
from high winds at Oglethorpe. J
Rainfall reported from over the
state Included:
Newnan 1.1; Atlanta 1.29; Col
umbus 1.04; Savannah .60; Thom-{
asville .68; Augusta 1.06 and Ma
con 1, |
. Valdosta reported the sun shin
ing there this morning, and a tem-l
‘perature of 47. A wind and rain
'storm hit Valdosta last night, des-l
troying some awnings in the down
}town area, and blowing out a few]
windows.
Columbus reported a hard wind
all night continuing today, and the
'temperature falling. Savannah had
la. 34-mile wind this morning.
l Brunswick reportead a low tem
perature of 46, and a 30-mile wind
blowing after an all-night rain.
In Thomaaville, the temperature
fell overnight from a high of 79 to
a low of 42 early today. It was
cool and cloudy there today.
The Jacksonville, Wla., weather
bureau ordered storm warnings
hoisted from south of Cape Hat
teras to Savannah, and =aid a
“storm of great intensity” is mov
ing hortheastward over the western
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lGovemor Appeals Case to
State Supreme Court
On Two Points
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BRINGS NEW ANGLE
iA!so Declares Opinion of
- Judges Pomeroy, Moore
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Is “Erroneous’” -
. ATLANTA — (#) — Renewing
his attack on a court decision ad
verse to his financial “dictatorship’
Governor Eugene Talmadge said
‘today he knew of “no provizions by
law-for a majority rule in a three
judge court.”
Three Atlanta = superior ecourt
judges held that they had jurisdic
‘tion to look into the governor's one
’man rule on expenditure of state
funds and had a right to decide
whether de facto Treasurer J. B.
‘Daniel or ousted Treasurer George
‘B, Hamilton is the legal fiscal of~
[flcer of the state. ¢ s PR
. Two judges, E. E, Jomeroy and
Virlyn Moore, decided against the
“dictatorship” while Judge Johnh D.
'Humphries held the court had no
jurisdiction and that the question
‘wag one for the general assembly.
| Minority Opinion :
~ “The cases were originally filed
with Judge Humphries"” Talmadge
said, “and I am of the opinion that
Judge Humphries' opinion is con
trolling, but the case i 3 being ap
pealed to the state .supreme court
of Georgia on two points. e
- “1. That Judge Humphries’ opin
ion is controlling;. and 2 'if the three
judge court is binding, the opinion
‘ot Judge Moore and Judge Pome
roy is erroneous, i
| “I am satisfled that the supreme
court will decide this case immed
iately as it affects the state of
Georgia.” ?
~ B. D. Murphy, an assistant attor
ney general, said the state would
answer the suit filed at LaGrange
by organized labor during the day,
Georgia labor leaders in this case
are seeking to enjoin Daniel from
paying out any"state funds Wéfih‘
out an appropriation, s %
The 1935 legislature failed to.
pass an appropriation bill and the
governor has been operating the
state govenrment under his one
man rule since January 1.. .The
governor contends that due to the
failure of the legislature to enact
an appropriation bill, the pright is
given him as governor to operate
the state. .
Rienews Request
Granting of the appeal to the su
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“GIGANTIC PROBE™ -
s ot £ £
President of A T. & T.
~ Co. Summoned at_ First
Of Public Hearings ;™ %
‘I WASHINGTON.— () —One of
the most gigantic investizations
ever underiaken entered .a, new
' Phase today when the Federal
Communications Commission sum
moned witnesses to the stand .in
first public hearings on the Am
erican Telephope and Telegraph
company.
Granted $750,000 in 1935 to
conduet an exhaustive ‘inquiry in
to the workings of the huge util
ity, the commission has keépt 200
attorneys, accountants and. inves
tigators busy for several montHs
laying the groundwork. o
High on the list of witnesses
called to testify was Walter 8.
Gifford, president of the A.''T. anhd
T., as well as other high officials.
In calling for the study of the
telephone company and its affili
ates, congress directed the com
munications commission to inguire
inte:
The companies’ history.
Their finances and capital struc
ture to -determine whether. the
structure has - enabled evasion of
taxes, or concealment of profits,
Intercompany service and ocoh-~
tracts and their effects upon rates.
Reasons for what a genatorial
resolution called “failure generally
to reduce telephone rates - and
charges during the years: of de=
clining prices.” .
. Effect of “monopolistic” contrel
upon rates, charges and saervice,
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| SENATE VOTE TODAY
. WASHINGTON.—(®)—A senate
vote on the $603,000,000 War de
i e . e.»./‘}
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