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Vol 114, No. 107
lamadge Speaks Here
is Major Candidates
l‘»’isr't Athens Tonight
Fx-Governor Speaks Atß P. M: Amall
Rops Cheap lLabor Bids For AFLAId
¢-POINT PLAN
LLONDON, May 16—(AP)—A
six point plan for a federal union
of Ifdia was announced®’ in the
Howte of Commons today by
prime Minster Attlee.
published as a government
White Paper, the plan was draws
up by a three-man cabinet mis
¢on to India following its un
accessful negotiations for Indian
leaders nemselves to formulate
aplan for Indian independence
and an interim government to
rule while the new constitution
«as being drafted and adopted.
The plan set forth these six
points
"] Establishment of a federal
union of India embracing both
what is known as British India
and the 600 princely states ol
[ndia. The union government to
have control of foreign affairs,
defense and communications and
the power to raise money for
those purposes.
9 A central executive branch
and un all-India legislature. Any
major question before the legisia
ture would have to have a ma
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What Do Scotsmen
. r
Wear Under Kilts?
7 -’
Puzzles "Heart' Cast
By BILL BOWICK
“What does a Scotchman wear
under his kilts?”’
Members of the cast of *“The
Husty Heart” which opens on the
stage of the Fine Arts Auditor
jum have puzzled over this ques
tion since rehearsals on the three
act comedy began,
Tradition has it that a Scotch
man wears absolutely snothing
urder his bright plaid skirt, but
the characvers of “The Hasty
Heart” won't take tradition for an
auswer. They're determined to
uncover the secret.
The American GI has glways
been known for his straightfor
ward actions, but whken a Geor
gla Cracker tries to discover just
what a Scotchimuan wears under
his kilts, then the trouble starts,
especially when the Scotchman is
4 hot-headed bagpipe player as
the “Lachie” of this rip-rcaring
farce. However, when the Geor
ga Cracker tries to interest his
bretty English nurse into tinding
out just what tyme apparel is
worn under Scotchman's dress
then bedlam oreuks loose.
However, worries have set in!
Edward Crouse is %taring his
flalr over the soft coal strike has
t“ms that ihe coal strike has
disrupted transportation com-
Pietely, and the costumes for the
piay are stranded somewhere be
tween New York and the Fine
-)*‘M.\ Auditorium. A frantie search
@5 been going on_ and three
o 5 380 the bag-pipes used by
;')“i‘ifi"(!l('lln!an arrived by Special
SUVEry Air Mail, Carrier Pig
ku"k and Mule Pack.
»s‘,f“"‘ cast is eagerky awaiting
ke ival of the bright plaid
Qecii hopes of solving the
;fm,]l(‘.‘]“ of a Scotchman’s under
*1 dudience will have an op
next i) of solving the problem
b hursday and Friday even
open \:"i]“‘“ “The Hasty teart”
At A the stage of the Fine
o Auditorium at 8:30 o’elock.
e Production is the 50¢h pro
t!.u\l*!l (‘lf the University Theater
tor - Edward Crouse’s first ef
w\i“;rtj his return from the
enaer 1 CeS. An all-GI cast will
% the roles. |
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YEATHER
(THENS AND VICINITY
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Excess since May. 1. 11 48
~'erage May rainfall 280
é"tal since January 1 ..,.27 131
Xcess sinee January 1 7_331
Former Governor Eugene Tal
madge, seeking anotaer terr
planned an addiess tonight :
the University of Georgia, » &
Arts Auditorium at 8 o'clock.
Talmadge is a University al-
nri’nus. -
Candidate E. D. Rivers and
James V. Carmichael were to at
tend a banquet o 1 the Gridiron
Club, an Lonorary - society.
Carmichael was to be iniated into
the organization. Rive-s is al
ready a member.
Meanwhile, the state still rev
erberated from a fast series of
pclitical developments late yes
terday ang lasy night.
In 3 (WSB) radio address in
Atlanta last night, former Gov
ernor Rivers cha-geq thay Geor
gia’s resources have not been
nroperly developed because of
“demagoguery on one hand and
selfish, greedy exploitation on
the other.”
“Thig is way Georgia does not
have as good schools, as well
yraid teachers, as many paved
voads, as good wages, ag large
cid-age pension, as good health
programs as other states,” Rivers
declared.
Without mentioning names,
Eivers described ore of his op
ponents ag “the candidate of big
otry, arrogance and egotism” and
“the stooge of millionaire self
ish interests, mostly from other
Students Voting In
Straw Ballot
Endorse Carmichael
Observers were wondering
today how 3,100 out of 5,000
enrolled students on the Uni
versity of Georgia campus
“stand on the gubernatorial
race as the Student Voters
League, supworting James V.
Carmichael, announced 1,601
students in a straw ballot yes~
terday endorsed Carmichael.
A total of 1,873 students
voled in the election of stu
dent officers and cast ballots
on .the gubernatorial race.
About 3,100 students did not
vote. The vote cast for Eu
gene Talmadge was 195 stu
dents, although the Talmadge
Student Club asked its sup
porters not to take part in the
balloting. E. D. Rivers got 49
votes in the straw ballot;
Hoke O’Kelley polled 15 votes
and “Doc” Everitt received 13.
The straw ballot was con
ducted by the Carmichael
club. The total enroliment of
students is 5,000, Demonsthe
pian Literary Society last
night endorsed Carmichael
for Governor, it was announ
ced.
states, bent on exploiting us.”
‘lgnore The People’
Rivers said neither of the
foces represented by his “two
raajor opponents” had real care
for the people of Georgia. “One
of these forces wants their
votes,” he said. *The other wants
their money. Both forces are
withering and deadly to the fu
ture progress of the state.”
Rivers defended his two past
{erms as governor and said if
elected again he would impirove
rural roads and rural telephone
service, and strive for a floor
urder farm prices.
"He pledged “modernization”
of the State Department of Labor
“to meet caanged condiions,”
and promised a program condu
tive to business and industry.
Development of the state’s
congressional races included an
~nnouncement by John Sammons
Fell, 32-year-old director of the
Atlanta Veterans Service Cen
ier, that he would be a candidate
in the Fifth District, now rep
-lesented by Mrs. Helen Douglas
Mankin.
Bell, a former army major who
was wounded in the South Pa
cific, said e was willing to run
on a majority, plurality or unit
vote basis, depending on the
ruling of the State Democratic
Txecutive Committee in he Fifth
Disrict dispute.
Rep. Stephens Pace of the
Third District qualified so- re
pomination as friends paid his
SSOO entrance fee to the district
ewecutive committee meeting in
Americus. Pace has represented
the district so- ten years.
Hits Lahor Committee
Presideny H. L. Wingate de
ciared the Georgia Farm Bureau
would “fight to the finish” to re
elect Pace. He made the com
ment after veports circulated
thay tae ClO's political action
committee would enter a candi
date in opposition to the incum
bent. ;
Meanwhile. observers ques
tioned at the State Capitol agreed
that Pace would be a pegligible
factor in Oeorgla’e subernato
rial race this year, but might be
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Full Associated Press Seryice
TWENTY-SIX DIE
IN AIR GRASH
NEAR RICHMOND
RICHMOND, Va, May 16—
(AP) — Twenty-six persons
were killeg today in the crash
of a sov’ 0 und caartered air
liner » e a®an into trouble a
lew D s after its takeoff
mv(\ o rd Airport near Rich
r & sund plunged into 2 rain
& -heq stand of pine woods in
m_,’lwain attempt to return to the
YWrield,
Tae twin-engine Viking Airlin
¢r came to grief in the heavy
overcast about 1:10 a.m., plow
ed througa the trees and burned
oh the soggy banks of Doran
C.eek only a few thousand yards
from the airport.
The airliner lert Newark, N.
J., early last night for Atlanta.
It put into Richmongq and took
off again about 12:30 a. m, in
heavy weather. The ceiling at
tae aitport was fluctuating be
tween zero and 200 feet and
visibility was one mile when she
took off.
The CAA said the plane car
ried 24 passengers and a crew of
two. A farmer, William Walton
whc lives near the scene in Hene
rico county, said he counted 26
bodies—2o men, three women,
and three children. :
Tae first call to county police
beadquarters on the crash came
at 1:24 a. m.# from a radio tower
or: the Chaileg City road report
ing a plane down near Doran
Creek about a half mile off Doran
road.
County police Sergeant H. W.
Henshaw went inte the crash
area ang counted. 24 bodies, 20
in the wreckage and fouwr more
cn the ground bvear the charred
airliner. Most of the bodies were
badly burned. he said, and there
was a possibility ohly one could
be readily identified
Mrs. T. Flammia whose home
is about a mile ang a half from
the scene said she did not hear
the plane.and ‘aer first knowl
edge of the acciden| came when
~ man from a Richmond mortu
a=v came, to her door after day
light and asked to use her tele
pione to call for more hearses.
Second Air Crash
Kills Two Soldiers
FAIRFAX, Calif, May 16 —
(AP) — Iwo men. were kilied
and six were injured critically
when a four-engine Army Bomb
ing plane ran out of fuel and
crasaed near here early today.
Three of the injured were
taken to the army hospital at
nearby Hamilton Field, but the
others were so badly hurt they
could not be moved from the
scene,
Blood plasma was rushed
from Hamilton Field and admin
istered in efforts to save their
lives.
The B-17, enroute from Los
Angeles, crashed into a hillside
three miles west of Fairfax.
ATTEND INSTITUTE
Dean J. Alton Hosch and Pro
fessor Henry A. Shinn, of Lump
kin Law School, are attending
the American Law Institute meet
ing in Philadelphia from May 15
through the 17. Mrs. Shinn is
acocmpanying Dr. Shinn .on the
trijs.
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HITCHHIKING VET FACES MURDER CHARCE
John D. Taylor, 26, (center) a disabled Army veteran of the
Luzon fighting, is shown as he was brought intg the Knoxville,
Tenn., police stition by Patrolmen Clyde Keaton (left) and Bill
Hartman after being charged with the murder of Arthur W. Holl
stein, a Baltimore, Md., shoe salesman. Taylor was arrested when
police noticed him driving a blood-spattered sedan belonging to
/ the victim. Taylor told police he hit Hollstein on the head with
a bottle several times after the salesman had picked up the vet
as he hitchhiked fromi his Jiome at Riplee Toun s Tellico.
Tenn.. and then dumped the body down an embankment,
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SECSE T R e P S
MAJESTIES OF COTTON CARNIVAL ARRIVE
King Vance Norfield (left), Memphis cotton man, and Queen
Phoebe Cook, Smiih Celiege student, disembark from the royal
barge opening the 1946 Cotton Carnival in Memphis, Tenn., amid
a mammoth. fireworks display and crowds of spectators. The
celebration will continue through Saturday.
DESPITE FOOD SHORTAGES ABROAD, U. S.
IS SETTING RECORD FOR CONSUIMPTION
By OVID A. MARTIN
WASHINGTON, May 16 —(AP)
—The United States today is eat
ing itself into a new record forv
per capita food consumption, de
spite shortages in grains and fats
at home, nad a hungry world
aboard.
‘ That is the gist of a report from
'the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
nomics, which bases its forecast
on record-breaking domestic food
consumption in 1946 on the year’s
statistics to date aad the pros
peets for the coming months.
'~ The bureau, a branch of the
Agriculture Department, saic
bumper quantites of most foods
Typist-Stenos Not
Filling Needs
Of Civil Service
MOBILE, ALA., May 16—(AP)
A new Civi] Service examination
for typist-stenographers may be
necessary to fill the Jobs in the
Fifth (Atanta) Region, |
“Loftin S. Meritt, area supervi
sor, said only about 21,000 war
service appointees applied for the
test eompared to an anticipated
65,000. He said where may not be
encugh eligible applicants to fill
the bbs. .
The Fifth Region includes Ala
bama Geogia, South Carolina
Florida and Tennesssee.
"Along the major employing ag
encies are Turner Field &t Al
bany, Ga; Tyndall Field, Pana
ma- City, Nava] Air Station, Pen
sacola, and .Eglir Field, Fla,;
Camp Rucker, Dothan, Ala,,
Brooklyn Field and U. 5. Army
Engineers, Mobile.
are expected to be available to
meet the nation’s unprecedented
appetite. But it predicted never
theless that consumer demands
will outrun supplies.
It estimated the per capita vol
ume of food consumed will be 14
percent greater than the average
for the pre-war period of 1935-
1939,
Supplies during the next sev
eral months are expected, how
ever, to drop below the yearly
average level because of season
ally small quantities of some ce
real products, potatoes, sweet po
tatoes, meats, fats, sugar, canned
fruits and canned fish.
Againgt relatively short -spring
and summer supplies in. these
items, the bureau said, will be
record or near record per capita
quantities of vegetables, poultry,
eggs, fresh and frozen fish, can
ned fruit juices, cheese, fluid
milk and cream, ice cream, and
skim milk products.
The bureau said 1946 produc
tion of food crops and livestock is
now estimated to be about one
third above the average for 1935-
1939. If this estimate proves cor
rect, 1946 food production would
about equal that of 1943 and be
exceeded only slightly by the
record production in 1944 and
1945.
The bureau said the nutritive
value of the per capita food sup
{Continued on page six.) |
Farmwork Delayed
By Heavy Rains;
Growth Not Impeded
ATLANTA, May 16—(AP)—
Though rain delayed farmwork
throughout the State last week, the
U. S. Department of Commerce in
its sweekly weather-crop summary
said today crop growth during the
period ranged from “fairly good”
to “very good.”
The report noted that “night
coolness and over-abundant soil
moisture, especially in northern
and western counties, tended to
retard growth of plants, but this
was largely overcome by sunny
conditions in the daytime.”
Temperatures during the week
ranged from 91 at Waycross to 40
at Rome, while rainfall measured
one to 2 inches in southwestern
and central districts and slightly
more than one inch elsewhere.
A related .report by the Georgia
crop reporting service of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture said
that a 6,580,000 bushel peach crop
—ls per cent less than last year’s—
could be expected.
The agriculture department
also reported that conditions on
Mav 1 indicated a wheat crop of
2,210,000 bushels compared with
2.612.000 in 1945 and 1,977,000 for
the 10 year average.
(Continue® on Page Three.)
Woods Will Speak
Tonight At I
Legion Cabin At 8
E. H. Woods, in charge of the
velerans service section of the
War Assets Administration, will
bs the speaker tonight at a
meeting in the Legion Cabin on
Lumpkin street at 8 o’clock.
Mr. Woods wil talk on “Surplus
Commodities for Veterans” and
will explain the new program. Al
len R. Fleming Post invites all
interested veterans to hear Mr.
Wands.
Coal Row Arbitration
Requested By Truman;
Rail Negotiations Fail
LABOR MEASURE
REQUIRING HEALTH
BENEFITS STUDIED
WASHINGTON, May 16 —
(Acr) — bdeuare Oppounents of
luwor conuor legisiauon lalked
luudy ul poupusing Lat every
IMuustly cagaged 11 Interstale
comuneice be cequired to inau
gurele wookers aealth plans.
“We are considering such an
amendment as well as several
otners which will be disclosed
in due course,” Senatcr Pepper
(D-Fla) told reporters.
Pepper is leading tae floor
fight against proposals which he
contends would ‘“‘undermine and
destroy” labo. He puts in that
category virtually all the score
of proposed amendments to the
labor committee’s bill providing
caiefly for a strengthened fed
e-al mediation service
The Senate’s-week-lonk preoc-.
ciupation wita labor matters de
veloped a new facet, meanwhile,
\iith a bi-partisan move to deny
government workers the right
t» belong to a union that permits
strike action.
Such a provision was attached
by the Senate app-opriation com
mittee to a bill carrying funds
for the agriculture department.
Senator Russell (D-Ga.) and
Wiaerry: (Neb), the Republican
whip, tolg reporters a similar
clause will be inserted in all fu
ture supply bills.
They said the action grew out
ct the newly-formed CIO United
Public Workers of Amsrica which
Russell said *“claimed the right
to strike and at the same time
condemned the Americans and
Britisa for imperialistic poli
e
Pepplr technically has beld the
floor since Monday although he
has given up, time for passage of
‘the stop-gap drafy bill and for
other senators to speak on va
rious subjects. He told reporters
tuiat before he surrenders. it he
expects to show how much more
time workerg lose by illness than
Ly strikes. He will use that as
an argument so- health plans.
Critical of Pepper’s long hold
on the chamber, Senator. East
lang (D-Miss) said yesterday
“ilt definitely is g filibuster.”
Eastland” declared toaat he and
others would insist on holding
the Senate to labo~ matters until
a bill ig passeq “even if it means
getting rid of OPA and every
thing else.”
Majority leader Rarkley (Ky)
has said he wants to get the
labor matter out of thé way, en
oot a replacement for the stop-gap
d-afi legislation. and clear the
way for action or. OPA in tae
week beginning May 27.
Clarke Democratic
Committee Meets
Saturday At 10 A. M.
Members of Clarke County
Democratic Executive Committee
vill meét Saturday morning,
May 18, at ten o’clock in the Su
perior Court room in ‘the court
house.
The meeting is called for tae
puipose of fixing entry fee for
candidates for State Representa
tive and date for closing of en
tries, and such other matlers as
ay come before the committee.
two Representatives are to be
rominated in the State Primary
to be held on July 17.
VETERAN OF TWO WARS IS DETERMINED
TO SPEND LIFE WITH HIS LEPER WIFE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16—
(AP)—A tall ruddy officer, deter
mined to “spend the remaining
years of his life by the side of his
wife in a Carville, La., Lepros
arium, was undaunted today by
unofficial word from Carville that
his request probably would be
denied.
This possible set-back came as
friends of 65-year-old Maj. Hans
iGeorge Hornbostel, a veteran of
ltwo wars, pushed his petition in
Washington. Surgeon General
Thomas Parran was among those
with whom the probably unpre
cedented request was taken up.
Mrs. Hornbostel, who is 52, de
veloped skin trouble while she and
!her husband; an Army Engineer,
| were prigsoners of the Japanese at
Santo Tomas in Manila. However,
physicians at San Francisco Hos+
‘pital where she is in isolation be
lieve she contracted the disease
long before probably while doing
research with her husband among
Polynesian Peoples. They point
out that lesprosy usually does not
manifest itself until from five to 20
vears after exposure. Although
i‘ she suspected leprosy while at
A. B. C. Paper —Single Copy, 3c—sc Sunday
!Foreign Ministers
'Quit Today
Until June 15
« PARIS, May 16 --AP)— The
foreign ministers of tae Big Four,
rcady to take a 30-day recess
:or further study of the unsettled
probiems of peace, tackled the
German question today in a last
minute effort to reach agree
ment on at least one issue.
U. S. Secretary of State James
F. Byrnes, desc-ibed by his asso
ciates as deeply discouraged by
the failure of the conferees to
reach any basic agfeement dur
ing three weeks of negotiations.
was said to be convinceg there
was no otaer course except con
t'nued effort to compromise the
differences which have split the
western powers and Russia.
The ministerg approved last
rnight Byrnes’ suggestion thay the
Council adjourn until Jrne 15
and the conferees were ready to
recess as soon as discussion of
the German question js finished,
probably today.
Red Delegate Ends
Boycott Of Council;
Secrecy Rule Made
NEW YORK, May 16—(AP)
— Andrei, A. Gromyko, Soviet
Russian delegate, returned to
the United Nations Security
Council today as it took up pro
lpnsals for 34 new rules.
Gromyko walked into the
Couiicil caamber alone and was
seated when the session began
at 1106 a.m., E:. D. 1.
The new French delegate, Al
exand-e Paroi, was seated in
place of Henry Bonnett, French
ambassador to the United Statés.
Mexico still wag represented by
Rafeal De La Colina, sitting in
'stead of the newly-appointed
‘rermanent delegate, Luis Uadil
la Nervo.
The Council immediately took
up the proposed rules and there
was no opportunity for Austra
lian delegate Paul Hasluck to
ask Gromyko ‘wow he thought
his absence from the Council
scssions affecteq his Big Five
veto power and what legal ef
fect he believed it had on meet
ings of a short-handed 10-nation
Council. ;
The Hussian delegate boycotted
the session last week in protest
against reneweq discussion of
tiae now quiescent Russian-
Icanian issue. 5
At that time Hasluck said he
regretted Gromyko was not
rresent because he felt the
Council must “obtain from the
absent member a cleare: idea of
what he claimg is the effect of
his absence.”
In offering a new section of
34 rules for adoption today,
however, tae Council’s commit
tee of experts on procedure side
stepped the veto question raised
Iy Hasluck and left it for later
determination.
The experts likewise deferred
action om what number might
constitute a quorum. The rules
at present provide a procedural
rotion shall be adopteq with at
least seven affirmative votes and
a substantive motion by seven
voles, including all the Big Five
powers. :
The Council agenda for today
listed two ‘aighlights: (1) a gw
ruies section providing for strict
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Santo Tomas, the confirmation was
obtained here only a week ago.
Major Hornbostel has no doubts
about his decision to join his wife
at the Leper Colony.
“] don’t consider myself any
martyr by asking to be with her
as long as we both shall live,” he
said. “I'd be unhappy without ner
and she’d be unhappy without me,
and that’s all there is t> it.”
He envisioned his own future at
Carville:
“I’ve done a lot of things in my
life. I’ve written stories; I've been
a mine superintendent; I've been
an explorer and a department
head; and I've served in the
Army and the Marine Corps; I've
been a forester and a Chief of
police—and I see no reason why I
shouldn’t be damned good at
kitchen police or even a mission=
ary.”
The blue-eved wife he married
33 years ago feels the same way.
“Hans is ready now to be retired
from the service,” she said in her
hospital room, filled with roses
brought by her husband. “He says
he’s had his fling in life and that
he wants to be with me. I want
him to come with me.”
RAILROAD STRIKE
SET FOR SATURDAY;
SEIZURE RUMORED
WASHINGTON, May 16—(AP)
—President Truman announced
today he had asked John L. Lewis
and the coal operators to submit
their deadlock contract negotiation
to arbitration.
Lewis and Charles O’Neil, offi
cia] spokesman for the operators,
will give their decision to Mr,
Truman at 5:30 p. m. EST.
Mr. Truman announced his
proposal to a hurriedly summoned
news conference. |He said that
Lewis and O’Neili both had agreed
that their own efforts to settle
the coal controversy had col
lapsed.
The anncancement was made
iess than two hours after Mr,
Truman conferred for 10 minutes
with Lewis and O’Neill at the
Wihite Hnuse.
Mr. Truman said that the two
chief figures in the coal dispute
had told him they felt overnight
conferences ' with their associates
thiat the coal negotiations held up
to now had completely broken
down and that either discussion
wis useless.
It was then, Mr. Truman said,
that he asked them to submit
their differences to arbitration.
He said the country is in des
perate straits as a result of the
42 days’ shutdown of the mines |
prior to teh two week truce which
began last Monday.
The chief executive said coal
must be gotten out of the ground
and that the suffering which had
foliowed the strike would increase
if there was no settement
} Meanwhile union representative
tives announced that the railroad
’operators had rejected a modified
urion wage increase proposal.
They said both sides would report
to President Truman today they
are unable to agres,
A. F. Whitney, president of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men, said the nationwide rail
road strik'e of engineers and train
mel stil] is set for 4:00 p. m. EST,
Saturday. iz
(Continued on Page Three.)
Burritt's Trial Is
Continued Today
In Columbus Courf
- COLUMEBUS, ‘GA., May 16—
(AP)—The state renewed its ef
forts today to prove that Chaun
cey C. Burritt, “made more than
150 changes in the records” and
embezzled more than 86,000 as
Cit); _Hospital administrator last
fa 119 q
Solicitor General Ed Wohlwen
der told the Muscogee County Su
perior Court jury yesterday that
the state would prove Burritt not
only made the changes, but “made
a separate book of his own, show
ing, how much he had changed
the hospital records.”
The defense indicated it would
take the position that any trans
f<- of funds in various accounts
was to tide the hospital over a
critical financial period. .
John €. Martin Secretary of
the Hfinal Board of Managers,
described Burritt’s employment af
ter an intensive search, outlined
his duties and introduced minute
bocks on board sessions.
Defense Attorney Robert M.
Arvold asked Martin if there had
noi been criticis of hospital
services, and if &erating funds
were not exhausted but there
were idle funds in other accounts.
Claims “Borrow”
Arnold explained to the court
that if Burritt “made any trans
fer from the donation fund to the
general operating fund, it was on-
Iv a ‘borrow’ in order to relieve
those conditions.”
| Another slote witness, Mrs.
!Curolina Wolf, former purchas
ing agent for the hospital, said
| hospital payroll accounts had been
|changed and added that an S3OO
figure on a receipt total had been
lovwered to S7OO.
l The triaj on 37 counts against
{ Purritt began yesterday after the
{former hospital admginistrator
|krown as a humanitarian ond able
lexecuti've during his employment,
nad spent the past few days in
Muscoger County jail. -
He failed to appear in a pre=
vicus indictment on 29 eounts,
iarnd was arrested again ia Reno,
Nev., under the name of &m :
H. Pulsifer. The former admin
istrator also is under indicimen#-
~of a grand jury in : ;
ty, N. Y, on a charge 4
larm grand larceny. % = £
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