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WASHINGTON, Aug. 13— (AP) —The sizzling controversy over
price ceilings shifted to steaks today.
In fact the subject of all meats livestock and livestock products
came before the price decontrol board for argument whether ceilings
should be restored one week from tomorrow. !
A. A. Smith of Sterling, Colo.,
a vice president of the American
National ~Livestock Association,
was tae lead-off witness for the
cecond day of hearings before
‘he new agency gives final say
over what OPA may and may
not keep under price control.
Waiting to follow Smith was
a long list of farmers, livestock
producers, packers = and others
who oppose any return to ceil-
ngs. NosAR i
Later in the day, the three=
man board will wear the other
sige of the case fyom organized
labor and consumer groups
spckesmen, most Of whom told
earlier congressional hearings
they wanted OPA kept intact.
Already, however, both sides
apeared agreed on one ;main
point:
That whatever the Board de
cides about one of tae categories
row up for hearing—Grains,
rieats, dairy products, cottonseed
aud soybeans—it may have to
reach the same decision for the
cthers.
Thig idea emerged from testi
mony yesterday by 22 different
+\nesses regarding, ceilings for
orains. Seven witnesses for con
cumer, labor, . veterans and one
industrial group urged a return
oi controls. Fifteen men appear
ing for farm and business asso
ciations vigorously protested
apainst allowing ceilings to be
restored August 21.
But nearly all &greed that if
the lid is to stay cff grains and
lhvestock and poultry feeds taen
meats, milk, butter and. other
preducts dependent upon grains
.rd feed also should be freed.
NEW SOCIAL SECURITY LAW TO
AWARD MORE FUNDS TO STATES
WASHINGTON, Aug, 13 —
(AP) — The government estima
wd today that states , will get
$152,208,000 more & year from
the treasury for puktlic help pro
grams under tae pewly broad=
ened Social Security Act:
This will swell the annual
fcderal contribution to about
560,281,000, the Feleral Securi
ty Agency announced.
Simultaneously Senator Pep
per (D-Fla) told reporter that
the “minimum American QSocial
Security program” of the future
cwould include payments of $l5O
2 month to every unmarried per
con over 60 and S2OO for married
couples above that age. ;
“There are a group of us wao
are going to start f'ghting toward
that program when the new Con
press convenes in January,” Pep~
rer said.
He has just returned from a
western trip during which he
spoke at a “home-coming” cele
bration at Fairbu y, 01, for Dr.
F. E. Townseޣ tae old age
pension advecate. * : £
Long a supporter of more com=
irehensive security -« coverage,
Pepper said the “minimum pro
gram” also should . assure.
I. A payment of $155 a month
to a widow with, ane minor child
and an additional payment for
f-’flfih additional ehild.
2 Hospital, med‘cal, dental and
;’r:”‘-“}{m care for everyone need
-2 i
3. An oglportunity for évery
SCOTTSBORO EX-6I'S SCHEDULE
IMPEACHMENT MEETING TONIGHT
SCOTTSBORO, Ala., Aug. 13—
(AP)—An insurgent group sprink
led with heavily armed ex-Gl's
bressed today for the impeachment
of two county officials after seiz-
INg road machinery and operating,
It.
While a force of 35 “highway
batrolmen stood guard here to pre
vent violence, the weterans and
farmers graded 15 miles of sand
Mmountain highway. ,
An ex-GI leader said any move
by the county to get the machines
hack would be resisted. Chairman
Roy Gist of the Board of Revenue 1
said, however, that he did not exX-
Pect the county to seek to regain
the machines by force. |
The Sand Mountain group called
4 meeting for tonight to start what
leaders said would be a movement
0 impeach tweo revenue board
members they accuse of delaying
the road improvement.
The board meets today to.ap-
Point a road supervisor to direct
'he highwork. Members said the
delay had been cavsed by their in
ability to get a road supervisor un
der a 1945 legislative act.
A leader of the veterans group,
Freeman R. Samples, said “wa2
vant to do thines without trouble”
but that some diffident citizens had
BUns in their home admittedly
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Most or the fram and trade wit
nesses forecast plack market,
poor distribution, and even
houzding if ceilings are restored.
Huge Black Markef,
Smuggling Ring
BERLIN, Aug., 13 — (AP) —
Tac Army detained two broth
ers in Berlin and Paris today
aiter smashing what criminal in
vestigators called a potential
smuggling black market ring
which might have profited the
operators $2,000,000 a year.
Lewig L. Warner. 23, an air
line employe and former Air
Cerps Lieutenant, was held here.
Uscar Selig Warren, 29, former
Naval Lieutenant, was detained
in Paris. &
- The Criminal Investigation Di
vision of the U. S. Army said
the Provost Marsha! in Washing
‘tun had been asked to start ac
tion against three other members
of the Warner family:
David L. Warneir, the father;
his son, Alfred Warner of Nev:
York: and son Robert, Warner,
an UNRRA employe in
Shanghai.
The Army said tueir operations
were in Europe, Asia and North
America and that by late July,
one of the brothers was “send
ing home SIQOOO weekly in trav
clers checks and currency.” No
charges have be=n filed yet
against any of the five.
rwother to bear ner caild in a
hospital and to have pre-natal
care.
4, Care for orplians at public
expense in a proper institution.
Asked how much such a pro
gram might cost, Pepper said he
did not know. : :
“But wiatever it would cost
it would be an economy to the
rountry,” he declared. “It would
Jdrive fear — fear ¢ f old age and
of iliness — from the individual
heart.”
He suggested that it be financ
ed by a “levy on the whols pop
vlation according io ability to
pay'n
YW TODEMOLISH MACIENE POl S AN
VETERANS TAKE UP POLITICAL CUDGELS IN DIXIE
ATLANTA, Aug.: 13—(AP)—
The GI influence in Dixie politics
—which surged so spectacularly in
the Athens, Tenn., battle of ballots
and bullets—is spreading.
The Tennessee flare-up was a
violent manifestation of a move
ment which had already gained a
foof hold in the South of the one
party political system and deep
seated tradition.
A mass meeting of veterans s
now scheduled for Alamo, Tenn.,,
Monday night, avowedly for the
purpose of forming a National
lVeterans Political Organization to
“loaded to the gills.”
~Samples said his - group would
not be satisfied with appointment
of a road supervisor and that im
peachment proceedings against
board members Dewey Bryant aand
John Wallace would be “taken up”
tonight.
’ The dispute in this north Ala
bama town, scene of the famous
«Seottsboro case” of a decade ago,
began Saturday when the insur
gents seized eleven pieces of heavy
road macHinery.
Ex-Gl's lost no time getting ‘o
work on the road, saying they
would work for nothing if they
had to. Said Samples:
{ “When people died down here
last year they had to be hauled out
in wagons because cars could not
travel on the road.”
The road, he said, is used daily
by two school buses, four passen
ger buses, and for rural mail de-~
livery.
| ~ Samples is commander of a new
V. F. W. post at nearby Pisgah
community, served overseas with
the armored division and was
wounded twice.
Another of the leaders insisting
upon the ouster of the two officials
is Virgil E. Smith, also of Pisgah.
He is a discharged army officer
with five years service.
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“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage,” the poet Richard Lovelace told us 300
vears ago, and here’s the Burnette family, of Appleton, Wis., to prove it. Stone walls and iron
bars of the Outagamie County jail make a home for Mr. and Mrs, Thecdore Burnette and their
nine children. Evicted when their rented house was sold, they weré homeless and in desperation
asked the sheriff for shelter in the calabobse.
Delay - Enroutes
Stbtracted From
Terminal Pay Plar
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13— (AP)
—As the War Department inter
prets the GI terminal leave law,
delays enroute—such as stopovers
at home when transferted from
one camp to another—count as
furlough time.
The terminal leave payment is
based on the pay the soldier was
getting @t the time of his dis
charge. Those' who were dischar
ged prior to the new base pay
raise do not benefit by it.
The old and new base pay
scales for the various grades fol
‘low: Private. SSO and $75; private
first class, $54 and $80; corporal,
$66 and S9O; sergeant, S7B and
$100; staff sergeant, $96 and $115;
technical sergeant, sll4 and $135;
master sergeant, $l3B and $165.
When an enlisted man goes on
furlough he is given a “subsist
-ence ._allowance . -approximating
what it costs the Army to feed
him when’ on duty.. :
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BANK HEAD
ATLANTA, Aug.,, 13 —(AP)—
John A. Sibley, chscirman of the
board, was elected president of
the Trust Company of Georgia
today to succeed Robert Strick
land, who died last week.
He will serve both as presi
dent and chairman of the Board.
Sibley is a lawyer and until his
election recently 'as chairman
was a member of the law. firm
which has represenied the bank
for many yvears.
“wipe out machine politics.”
It is spearheaded by John Paul
Bufler, 26-year-old defeated Leg
islative candidate, who said “our
first interests will be in Tennessee
and Arkansas, then over the
south.”
Oddly, the only states which
have lowered the voting age to 18
are in the south—Georgia and
South Carlonia. Georgia did it a
few years ago, South Carolina only
recently..
- In Georgia every fifth member
of the elected legislature is a vet
eran of World War 11. In Georgia,
too, a committee of ex-Gl's is col
lecting funds to fight the county
unit system in the courts.
The county unit system,.under
which Gene Talmadge was elect
ed governor without a plurality
of the popular vote, is being at
tacked in the Federal Courts on
grounds it abridges equal rights.
In North Carolina a group of
World War II veterans has organi
zed the “North Careolina GI Demo-
Nails A Peanuf
WASHINGTOCN, Aug. 13—(AP)
—For want of some nails a $125.~
000,000 peanut crop may spoil, Ed
Stevens, president of Dawson
Cotton Oil Co., Dawson, Ga., told
President Truman today.
Stevens urged the President to
cut red tape to permit immediate
delivery of 11,500 kegs of nails
to the peanut areas in Georgiza,
Alabama and Florida.
He made public here a tele
gram to the White House in
which he said he wurged in the
“name of humanity” efforts to
save “millions of dollars worth of
peanuts for a starving world.”
Stevens explained that the
nails are needed to build “stack
poles” upon which peanuts are
racked to dry. Harvest time now
is here, he said, and without nails
to build stackpoles peanuts “are
spoiling all over the South.”
‘Be It Ever So Humble ;& .
Athens, Alabama
Back To Normal
After Recent Riot. .
ATHENS, Ala.. Aug. 13.—
(AP)—Life in the city was
proceeding on a mormal basis
today, and city officials said
that 20 of 50 State Highway
Patrolmen who were brought
here to restore order had de
parted. The city’s regular po
lice and several special offi
cers were patrolling the
streets.
Russian Opposifion
Sidetracks Ireland
Membership To UNO
NEW YORK, Aug., 13 —(AP)
-—Tae applications of Ireland and
Trans-Jordan for membership in
the United Nations were sgde
tracked today by firm Russian
cpposition. . e
As a result of yesterday's
rieeting of the Security Council’s
11-nation membership commit-
Ltce only Afghanistan wag tenta
tively given » clean bill cut of
the first five of nine applications
urde- consideration. The com
mittee’ has morning and after
noon meetings scheduled for
tc day. .
Some quibbling may remain
over Afghanistan’ bid, since
Australian delegate Paul Has
luck tempered 'his approval with
a mild reservation. A non-gove
ernment agency. the- World Jew
ish Congress, also volunteered a
memorandum charging the Kabul
sovernment was ~exercising a
“yirtual reign of terror” over
5.000 Jews said to be living in
Afghanistan.
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crats” and announced plans for
active participation in future elec
tions.
- While nominally Democratic
both Tennessee and North Carolina
are two party states. Negro voting
is not an issue in these states as it
is in the rest of the South. Negroes
have voted in these states for
years.
Arkansas, which held its primary
recently, is another state where
the Gl's are raising a clamor. A
veterans group at Batesville is
charging election irregularities and
asking removal of certain officials.
The latest “incident” in the South
involved a group of armed ex-Gl’s
and farm hands came into
Scottsboro, Ala., seized county
road machinery and started road
work themselves.
The group had long been dis
gruntled at the county’s delay in
doing roadwork in their communi
ty. An ex-GI spokesman for the
150 “volunteer” workmen laid
plans’'to “impeach” two road com
missioners. .
| The Athens, Tenn., upheaval un
seated a long-entrenched political
lorganization. Other elections in
the south recently have ended the
grip of two other vowerful ma
chines—in New Orleans and in
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i ATHENS AND VICINITY
Partly cloudy with moder
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Wednesday cloudy and war
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GEORGIA: Partly cloudy
today, tonight and Wednes
’ day; not much change in
| temperature.
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Total since August 1.. .. .25
Deficit since August 1 ... 1.70
Average August rainfall . 4.67
Total since January 1 ....35.51
Excess since January 1 .. 2.76
ESTABLISHED 1832,
Political Race
Draw Attenti
raw Attention
‘BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A three-way gubernatorial con
fest and Senator Robert M. La
' Follette’s bid . for Republican
nomination after 12 years as a
}Progressive lent sparkle today to
‘ Wisconsin’s primary.
| With the LaFollette senatorial
scrap spilling over into the arena
of._national politics, the Wiscon~
sin balloting outshone the selec
'tion of GOP candidates for gov
ernor and senator in Vermont
‘and a free-for-all for the Demo
cratic nomination for governor in
South Carolina. G S
Both LaFollette and the 83~
year-old Republican governor,
Walter S. Goodland, were snub
bed when they sought®the en
dorsement of the Wisconsin GOP
convention for additional terms.
But they went after nomination
in the primary, anyway, against
these men backed by the party
organization:
For the Senate, Circuit Judge
Joseph R. McCarthy, former Ma
rine captain; for the governor
ship, investment banker Delbert
J. Kenny.
Also in the senatorial race is
Perry J. Stearns, Milwaukee at
torney. Third man in the guber
natorial field, with LaFollette’s
blessing, is Ralph H. Immell,,
veteran of two wars and former
state adiutant general.
LaFollette carried into his bat
tle nearly 21 years’ experience in
the Senate and a name lustrous
in Wisconsin politics for two gen
erations.
But his attempt to force his
way back into the Republican
fold. which he deserted to organ
ize the Progressive party, got no
welcome from the state machine.
Thus a LaFollette victory
would weaken Chairman Tom
Coleman’s clutch on the state Re
publican organization. And it
would shunt the senator into a
position where he could help pick
Wisconsin’s 24 delegates to the
Republican National Convention
in 1948.
" That could be important to two
potential presidential nominees.
There have been demonstrations
of friendship between LaFollette
and Senator Robert A. Taft of
Ohio. And there has been evi
dence of coolness between some
of LaFollette’s following and
Harold E. Stassen of neighboring
Minnesota.
- Competing in Vermont for the
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XB-36 FLIES FOR THE FiRST TIME
The Consolidated-Vultee XB-36, largest bomber ever built, rises slowly from the Fort Worth,
Texas, Army Air Field runway as it takes to the air for the first time. The huge six-engine plane
successfully completed its maide_n trip, 2
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AS ARMED PATROLS RIGIDLY ENFORCE Luns
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HAIFA, Palestine, Aug. 13.—~(AP)—The British deported 1,000 illegal Jewish immi
today aboard two troopships while mobs of young Jews, aroused by the outlawed Hagg:lzn:zsat;fi)cx?i’gfx
in the troop-filled streefs. A
But another 650 illegal Jewish immigrants arrived off the harbor of this half-Jewish, half-Arab port
aboard the sloop Fenice. e s : : : “po'
The Hagana radio called on re
sidents of Haifa to “‘storm the
streets” and break. the curfew,
which the British imposed while
the Jews were being loaded for
deportation. E
Everi the Arab quarters in Haifa
joined in defiance of the curfew.
The Arabs, however, caused little
disturbance and wentured only
outside their own homes.
Jewish residents of the half-
Jewish, half-Arab city streamed
down hillside streets toward the
docks a few minutes after the last
refugees were loaded.
The British first infantry divi
sion, called into action, quickly
threw a cordon around the dock
area, but only after nearly 2,000
persons had streamed down King’s
way which parellels the quays.
The curfew breakers, mostly
young men, hurled stones at police
and milled areund the entrances
ito the docks.
~ The demonstration began, how
\ever, only after the troopships had
[been loaded ‘and got under way.
. The deporters, first to be shipped
to Cyprus under stringent new Bri
’tish regulations designed to halt
illegal immigration to Palestine,
|were loaded aboard the transports
Empire Rival and Empire Hey
wood-—formerly used to take Bri
tish soldiers home on leave to
England. British officers said a
search of the refugees had revealed
a few sticks of gelignite (an ex
plosive) on their persons but that
\no other arms had been found.
| The disorders in the dock area
continued well into the morning,
but British troops apparently had
the situation in the city well in
hand.
British military authorities de-
MOLOTOV PAYS TRIBUTE TO HISTORIC ITALY:
PEAGE DELEGATES BEGIN TALKS ON ITALIAN WOES
PARIS, Aug. 13.—(AP)—Sov
iet Foreign Minister V. M. Molo
tov told the Paris Peace Confer
ence today ‘Fascist Italy bears a
tremendous responsibility” but
that “does not mean that Italy
should lose her importance as a
power in the Mediterranean.”
' Speaking in response to pleas
for leniency expressed Saturday
by Premier Alcide De Gasperi of
Italy, Molotov paid tribute to the
“historic services rendered by
Italy.” He said the Soviet people
were “confident for the future of
Italy as a great country.”
He added, however, that De
Gasperi’s address was an “at
tempt to evade the fundamental
problems of Italy’s democratic
resurgence.” Sy 5
“The head of the Italian dele
gation failed to condemn Fascism.
He failed to make a single remark
against the work of Mussolini,”
Molotov declared. :
The Russian Foreign Minister
said De Gasperi's suggestion for
a year’s delay in completing the
peace terms, especially with re
lation to the future of Trieste,
“can meet with no support from
this conference.” o
He said Italy’s demand for
postponement was an attempt “to
exploit divergencies in the views
between the Allies,” and was
based on the hope that “it will be
possible to upset certain compro
mises of the Foreign Ministers’
Council.”
In passing, he also bespoke op
position to the suggestion that
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copy, 3c—sc Sunday
clared, however, that the curfew
order would not be lifted “until
the city is quiet.”
Preparations went forward for
the disembarking of approximately
1,400 illegal immigrants still
aboard the refugee ships Hagana
and Jewish Warrior, which have
been anchored at Haifa since last
week. They will not be deported,
it was explained, since the Bri
tish have decided that only illegal
immigrants arriving after Aug. 11
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Wife's "Honor’ Tale
Acquitts Husband As
Slayer Of ‘Friend’
CHICAGO, Aug. 13.—(AP)—
Freed from a charge of murder
ing his “best friend,” Donald
Murray, 41, today prepared to
make a new start, while his wife,
Doris, 39, after a short fling at
extra-marital romance, insisted
she still loved her husband and
awaited his call.
A jury of eight women and
four men deliberated only 43
minutes last night before ac
quitting Murray so murder in the
slaying of Major John Fletcher,
46, a Canadian Army officer
from Vancouver, B. C., who was
with the nude Mrs. Murray when
the woman’s husband burst into a
Loop hotel room last May 27.
Murray's {estimony, {ihat he
shot and killed the officer in self
defense was supported by Mrs.
Murray who testified her hus
band fired after Fletcher attack
ed him with a chair.
final settlement for Italy await
the German peace terms, declar
ing: “Peace with Germany can
have no bearing whatever on
Trieste.”
Molotov recalled that it was
only after the Russian victory at
Stalingrad and the Allied victor
ies in North Africa and soufhern
Italy that Italy got out of the
war and “began to reorganize on
a democratic basis.”
“It was not easy for the new
Italy to stand firm after the‘
downfall of Fascism . . . Italy can
not become a democratic country
unless she roots out the last ves
tiges of Fascism,” he said.
Molotov charged that ‘“certain
powers are trying to gain power
in the Mediterranean at the ex
WAC, ACCUSED THIEF OF GERMAN
JEWELS, CONFIDENT OF FREEDOM
~ FRANKFURT GERMANY,
Aug. .13 —(AP)— Greying War
Capt. Kathleen B. Nash Durant,
wearing her uniform and service
medals, asserted in an interview
today that army charges against
her in the $1,500,000 Hesse Crown
Jewels thef: were ‘“baseless.”
Asked if she expected acquit
tal, Mrs. Durant said softly and
with a smile: “Naturally.”
The 43-year-old officer, recent
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are subject to deportation. e
The British press soberly ex
pressed unqualified approval of the
move, and appealed again for
American aid in solving the ex
plosive problems of the Holy Land.
Arab leaders hailed the announce
ment as “good news.”
| The curfew in Haifa, effective
from 1 a. m. today until further
notice, was announced shortly be
fore a British transport left., for
Cyprus carrying 500 of approxi
tmately 3,000 Jewish refugees
crowded aboard illegal immigra
[{)ion vessels in the guarded har
‘bor.
British warships lay outside the
port and RAF patrols droned over- ;
head. The secret radio of Hagana,
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British Spokesman
Blames 17, §, For
Palestine Trouble
LONDON, Aug. 13.—(AP)—A
spokesman for the British Colo~
nial Office specifically named
“American financial sources” to+
day as responsible for “encourag
ing and directing” illegal immi=
gration of Jews into Palestine.
The spokesman made the state
ment when asked by a reporter
to describe the. “very large finan
cial contributions” which, a Brit
ish government statement said
last night, were financing a mass
exodus of Eurcpean Jews to the
Holy Land. The government's
statement announced Britain’s
decision to end illegal immigra
tion and to convey to “Cyprus or
elsewhere” any immigrants arriv~
ing illegally.
pense of Italy and France,” and
said both countries should “feel
responsibility ; -48 Mediterranean
states.”
fl‘o stand on its feet, Molotov
said, “Italy must carry out radi
cal.changes. The new Italy must
have the support of all nations.”
He said the assertions of De
Gasperi were “the claims of the
old imperialist Italy and not of
the genuine new democratic
Italy.”
Molotov recalled that Italy had
used Istria as a base for invasion
of Yugoslavia, He added, how
ever, that “the time has passed
when the Slav people are the
object of attacks by neighboring
states.”
bride of another defendant in the
theft. Col. Jack W. Durant of Chi~
cago, will go on trial Friday be
fore a court martial on charges of
larceny, embezzlement, conspiracy
and absence without leave.
Her husband and Maj. David F.
Watson of Burlingame, Calif,,
have been named by the Army
as her fellow conspirators. Both
are awaiting charges. Most of the
crown jewels have been recov
ered. ’ A
“If the court says I committed
any of the criminal acts alleged.
Then hundreds of people in this
theater and thousands of people
in the United States have unclean
hands,” Mrs. Durant said. .. .
Her Army-appointed Attorney,
Lt. Col. John S. Dwinell of
Bdrooklyn restrained her from
elaborating the assertion which
implied looting by others in the
Army. Capt, Glenn W. Brum
baugh of Los Angeles, another
of her lawyers, said a dozen wit
nesses had been requested.
Dr. Durant, who lived in Phoe~
nix Ariz., saidinaformalstate
ment that “although I hope for a
speedy trial so that I might go
home soon, nevertheless the gov
ernment is not giving me time to
prepare a defense.” One of Mrs.
Durant’s European assignments
was at the KXronberg Castle,
where the glittering collection of
germs disapepared last Novem
ber. g
TO PROBE sSLAYING
VALDOSTA, Ga., Aug., 13 —
(AP) — Sheriff Bill Smith ot
Eckols county was calleq to
Haylow, Ga. today to investigate
the reported slaying of a man
ang his wife in that small tur
pentine community last night. °
Reports reaching liere said the
slain man was named Chauncey.
Haylow is northwest of Staten
ville, county seat. “H