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HAVE MUCH IN COMMON—Two self-made widows
meet in the County Jail in Chicago and discover they
have much in common. Both are stiil “true” to the men
they killed. Says 18-year-old Jacqueline Wiser (left),
found guilty of manslaughter for the stabbing of her
husband, Cyril, 24, “I still love that man and I'll never
marry again.” Mrs. Veronica Elliott, 48-year-old Gold
Star mother, echoes younger woman’s lament. Sen
tenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for the murder of her
husband, Cecil, 56, Mrs. Elliott says, “I'm still very
much in love with him.”
Lack Of Facts
Ends Spy Probe
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—(AP)—Senators investigat
ing Communist spy ring charges today suspended public
hearings because they said the Truman administration
refuses to give them necessary facts. ;
Chairman Ferguson (R-Mich)
of the Senate investigating sub
committee announced the de
cision, He made public also a re
fusal by Attorney General Tom
Clark to supply . official FBI
records on William W. Reming
ton.
Meantime, the House un-
Americah~ activities committee
went underground for a secret
meeting with a mystery witness
in its own similar investigation.
A subcommittee was sent out
of town to inferview this witness
at an undisclosed place.
Rep. Mundt (R-SD), acting
chairman of the full committee,
said this man’s testimony, to
gether with other testimony al
ready gathered, “will prove the
existence of ‘a Communist spy
ing which reached high into the
government during the war.
Clark’s refusal to turn over
the FBI records on Remington
was in line with an order from
President Truman who denounc=
ed the Congressional hearings
yesterday as a “red herring” in
tended to divert public attention
from what he calls the refusal of
the Republican-controlled Con
gress to enact adequate anti- in
flation legislation. ;
Remington, 30-year-old sus
pended Commerce Department of
ficial was identified by Elizabeth
T. Bentley as one of several gov
ernment workers she says pass
ed wartime information to her
for a Communist spy ring.
Secret Probe
Miss Bentley testified she was
a_gourier, traveling between New
York and Washington, for the
ring.
2 Although public hearings are
being suspended, Ferguson said
the Senate group will continue
to dig for facts on Remington
and the entire loyalty program at
closed hearings and “by any le
gal means.”
S .
econd Session
Classes Start
Classes in the second term of
the summer session opened today
at the University of Georgia with
an unofficial statement that en
rollment had not fallen off from
the past term, and might very well
be larger.
The present term will embrace
4 comprehensive three week’s
period in whieh students may take
a maximum of six hours.
For each three hour course that
a student takes during the special
three week’s period, he will attend
I hour and 20 minutes of classes
each day, so that if he is taking
the full six hours, he will attend
2 hours and 40 minutes of classes
per day.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Georgia Tech
Divided Into
Two Colleges
ATLANTA, Aug. 6 —(AP) —
Georgia Tech will ke divided into
two ccileges beginning Sept. 1
and degree-granting schools will
be created within each, President
Blake R. Van Leer announced to
day.
Under 'a reorganization plan
approved by the Board of Regents,
an engineering and general col
lege wik be set up which , Ven
Leer said will provide expanded
services to students and increase
the efficiency of the school’s op
eration.
The change was made necessa
ry, the President added, because
of the school’'s continued wide
growth. :
In the past five years the en
rollment at Tech increased from
2,600 to 6,424, while the schoa'’s
overall enrollment, including the
engineer extension and other sub
sidiaries, had leaped from about
3,000 to 11,130.
The Board of Regents also ap
proved creation of a post of vice
president in charge of research,
the first occupant of which wiil
be Cherry L Emerson, for the
past three years dean of Engineer
ing at Tech.
FCC Announces Crack Down
On Get-Rich Radio Programs
WASHINGTON, Aug., 6.—
(AP)—The Federal Communica
tions Commission shook a warn
ing finger today at the get-rich
quick radio programs popping
out all over the dial.
The station-licensing agency
said “an almost infinite number”
of these border on “illegal lotter
ies or gift enterprises.”
The Commission announced a
set of proposed new regulations
aimed at curbing, if not eliminat
ing, many of the programs cur
rently offering fabulous gifts.
The rules say there must be nd
more such give-away based in
any way “upon lot or chance.”
Nor can the winners be required
to (a) furnish any money or
other things of value, (b) pos
sess the sponsored product, or
Associated Press Service
Senate Set To Pass Housing
Bill In Adjournment Drive
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.— (AP) —The Senate meshed the gears today to drive a
housing bill to passage, but Democrats threatened to delay the House-approved Re
publican anti-inflation measure. , !
The Senate set aside two hours to argue the issue of government-financed housing
before a vote promised at noon (EST). 3
10-Year-Old Struck Down By
Automobile; Brother Escapes
A ten-year-old boy, pushing his baby brother down the
middle of a highway in a wagon yesterday, was the vietim
of an automobile disaster which took another life near,
here.
The boy, Earnest West Scog
gins, Bogart, was rushed to Gen
eral Hospital where he died
within a few minutes after he
was hit by a car driven by Mal
com E. Noel, 39 Howard street,
Atlanta.
Oconee County Sheriff J. M.
Bond stated that an investigation
of the accident revealed that
the Scoggins youth was pushing
a small wagon in which his bro
ther was riding down the Atlanta
Highway near Dilmus Rowden’s
store when he was Kkilled.
Mrs. Charlie 'Trinpi, Athens,
and Mr. Noel, traveling in the
same direction as the wagon,
were approaching from the rear
Sheriff Bond said that Mrs.
Trippi signalled with her horn to
pass the boys. He quoted Mrs.
Trippi as saying - that the boys
pulled directly in front of her so
that she was forced to swing onto
the road shoulder.
When the older Scoggins boy
became aware of impending dan
ger, he released the wagon and
‘stood frozen in the middle of the
road. Mr. Noel, who was driving
a car behind Mrs. Trippi's, was
unable to avoid hitting the
vouth, Sheriff Bond said.
The younger boy, riding in the
wagon, was not injured.
Funeral Services X
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon at 5:30 o’clock
from Johnson’s Church in Oconee
county, Rev. Dan Joiner, pastor
of the Christian Church, officiat
ing. |
Interment follows in Johnson
cemetery, Bernstein Funeral
Home in charge of arrangements.
Surviving Earnest are his par-‘
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Huldie Scog-‘
gins; a sister, Linda Scoggins; a
brother, Lindsay Scoggins; grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rich Robv{
erts: and several aunts. and un
cles. hi
Charred Plane
Wreckage Found
NEW YORK, Aug. 6—(AP)—
Flame-charred, splintered wreck
age, found off the African
coast in the South Atlantic, was
believed today to have come
from a giant French flying boat
missing since Sunday with 52
persons aboard.
The wreckage, including air
plane seats, was found by the U.
S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell,
whose commander told head
quarters here there was “little
doubt” it was the remains of the
73-ton, .six-engine Air France
Lateorere 631.
The mammoth craft was 1,200
miles off Dakar when its last
radio signal was heard shortly
after midnight Saturday. None
of thecse aboard was an Ameri
can.
(c) be or have been listening—or
viewing—the - program in ques
tion. .
The Commission didn’t say
when the new clampdown will
become effective. But it said it
will listen to interested parties
up to September 10,
The springboard for the FCC
plunge into the SIOO,OOO-a-week
nationwide prize pool was a
modest venture just across the
Potomac river.
What the Commission did was
give its blessing to an examiner’s
report on a program broadcast by
Station WARL in nearby Arling
ton, Va., during most of last
year. i : : 3
Entitled “Dollars for Answers,”
the program consisted of the per
iodical reading of a guestion and
SERVING ATHENS AND NORTHEAST GEORGIA OVER A CENTURY
West Envoys
In Fresh
Soviet Talks
MOSCOW, Aug. 6—(AP)—En
voys of the United States, Britain
and France called today on For
eign Minister Molotov.
U. S. Ambassador Walter Be
dell Smith entered the Kremlin
first. Frank Roberts, special Bri
tish envoy, and French Ambas
sador Yves Chataigneau followed
"him immediately. The same th}‘ee
conferred Monday night with
Prime Minister Stalin, seeking a
lbasis for ending the Berlin bloek
ade and resolving other East-
West differences.
The Kremlin conference start
ed at 5 p. m. (9 a. m. EST),
+ Stalin was not believed present
at this meeting, which the West<
‘ern diplmats had sought with the
foreign mimister.
Diplomats in London said they
expect a big four communique
to be issued this weekend, an
nouncing plans for a new meet
ing of the foreign ministers’
council. The council is the four-’
power agency whose last two
meetings broke up in disagree
ment. :
(The Russian-licensed Berlin
newspaper - National Zeitung said
the three Western envoys intend
ed to see’ Molotov today to “fix
the time '‘and place for a new
four-power conference.”
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Three Injured
In 3-Way Wreck
Three jnjured and damage that
totalled more than S7OO were lis
ted this morning as the results of
a traffic accident that occured
yesterday afternoon on Lumpkin
Street at Sanford Drive.
Miss Eliabeth Garrett of 178
West Dougherty, cuffered an in
jured chest and knee; Miss Mar
tha Smith, also of 178 Dougherty,
was cut about the legs and fore
head; and Miss Mary Ann Jacobs,
of Buckhead, Ga., was cut on the
forehead, in the smash-up that
involved a trio of cars about 2:25
yesterday afternoon. All are in
good condition.
Police reports show that the ac
cident occurred vhen A. L.
Mayes, salesman, of 197 Morton
avenue, driving a ’'4B Chevrolet
coupe, turned left off Lumpkin,
end J. M. Jacobs, Buckhead, dri
ver of a '36 Oldsmobile behind
Mayes, swerved to the left when
his brakes failed to had. Jacobs,
car crashed head-on into the ’'4B
MeSota driven by Al Woodard,
student, of 178 West Dougherty,
]\:rho were headed scuth on Lump
in. .
the correct answer, followed im
mediately by a telephone call to
a person selected at random from
the telephone book.
The question was repeated. Ii
the person called came up with
the answer, he got a cash prize.
The hearing examiner, J. D.
Bond, said this program violated
that section of the communicag
tions act forbidding any broad
cast advertisement or information
“concerning any lottery, gift en
terprise or similar scheme.”
The FCC can enforce its regu
lations by revoking licenses.
However, no station ever has
been taken off the air because of
an alleged iottery broadecast, and
the anti-lTotterv section of the
communications act has never
bene interpreted by a court.
ATHENS, CA., FRIDAY, AUCUST 6, 1948.
Up for decision then will be a
revised version of the Taft-Ellen
der-Wagner bill. That measure
passed the Senate ir. the regular
session but ren into a House log
jflm. .
" As a substitute, Senator McCar
thy (R-Wis) offered a biX¥ delet
iing the T-E-W provision for fed-
BULLETIN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—
(AP)—The Senate passed and
sent to the House today a
compromise housing bill aim
ed at the ' speeding small
home building. The measure
contains no low-rent or slum
clearance subsidies.
eral financing of low-rent hous
ing and slum clearance projects.
Senator Taft (R-Ohio), one of
the authors of the T-E-W meas
ure, swung his weight behind the
McCarthy proposal.
Taft told reporters that while
he wants federal-financed hous
ing, it can wait unt¥ the January
session. He said he is certain that
the House won’t pass any housing
bill at all if it wravs up that pro
| vision,
. Chairman Tobey (R-NH) of the
| Senzte Banking Committee was
on the other side. Tobey, calling
on his colleagues to repudiate the
MecCarthy proposal, det fly at a
house GOP “triumvirate that's
been blocking the will of the peo~
ple on housing.” ;
He named Speaker Martin
(Mass), Republican leader Hal
-leck (Ind) and Banking Commit
tee Chairman Wolcott (Mich).
' While the Republicans were
falling out over this issue, Sen
ator Barkley of Kentucky, the
Democratic vice presidential nom
inee quietly planted a bomb near
ithe anti-infiztion bill.
That measure — which whoop
ed through the House yesterday
by a 264 to 97 vote — went be-
Ifore Tobey's Banking Committee
for a quick preview before reach
ing the Senate floor later in the
day.
Barkiey told a revorter ad
ministration supporters werel
ready to offer President Truman’sl
price-wage and rationing controls
as amendments in the committee. 4
There seemed every likelihood
that the Republicans in commandi
'of the committee would: step on
'the fuse of that bomb quick'y.
~ But Barkley szid that isn't all.
The Senate, he predicted. will get
‘a chance to vote directly — as
‘the House didn’t — on Mr. Tru
‘man’s proposals. The House had
'bLrnned any amendments frqm the
‘House floor, but Senate rules
‘provided for no such “take it or
feave it” maneuver.
Seek Cause
Of Fla. Crash
MIAMI, Fla., Aug 6—(AP)—A
navy board of inquiry today stud
ied the charred wreckage of a
navy transport @m'ane in which 10
men were killed. Reports that
there was a WAVE aboard, mak
ing the toll 11, later were found
to be false, the Navy said.
The plane crashed and burned
after colliding with & Stearman
training wane 23 miles north of
here late yesterday. The two oc
copants of the trainer parachuted
to -safety.
Wreckage was strewn over a
wide ares and the bodies were
badly mangled and burned. Iden
tification was difficult and the
Navy said names of the victims
would not be iavailable until
later,
ATHENS AND VICINITY
Fair weather and mild this
afternoon, cool again tonight
and slightly warmer Satur
day.
GEORGIA—Fair weather,
mild today and ecool again
tonight; Saturday, fair and a
little warmer.
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Pxcess since August 1 ... 231
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Tofal since January 1 ... 1.4
Excess since January/l .. 9.86
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J. W, MATTHEWS
Matthews
Community
Chest Head
J. W_ Matthews, one 'of the
city’s most prominent young busi
ness men, will lead this A year’s
Community Chest campaign, it
was announced today by Durward
Watson,. chairman of the Chest’s
Campaign Committee.
The Campaign Committee, can
sisting of Mrs. M. S. Cooley, Mrs.
W. A. Mathis, W. R _ Bedgood, J.
Smiley Wolfe, C. M. Ridlehuber,
Earl B. Braswell and Mr. Watson,
will direct and assist the newly
appeinted Campaign Chairman in
the handling of this fall's finan
cial campaign, and even though
the campaign itself is still about
two months off, the members of
the committee are already colla
boratin% with Mr. Matthews on
the preliminary plans and ar
rangements that are so essential
to the success of any such impor
tant Undertaking ~vo ¢
[ During last year's Community
Chest campaign, of which B, R.
Bioodworth served as chairman,
between $30,000 and $40,000 was
raised for the benefit of the
Chest’s six participating agencies
—the YMCA, YWCA, Boy Scouts,
Girl Scouts, Salvation Army, and
Cancer Clinic — and this year,
by making it possible for even
more of the citizens of 'Athens
and Clarke County to contribute
towards the activities of these six
fine agencies, Mr. Matthews ex
pects to exceed by a substantial
sum the amount raised last year.
Five Appoinments
Commenting on Mr, Matthews'|
eppointment, Laurence M. Shad-'
gett, President of the Community
Chest, stated that “Mr. Watson’s
Campaign Committee is a very
fine one, and their selection of
Mr. Matthews as Campeign Chair
man is an exec¥Went choice: |
As manager of cur Union Busl
Terminal, Mr, Matthews has ad
ready displayed his ability as a
business; men, The fact that.'he
is Presi(fint of our Junior Chem=
ber of Commerce is evidence ‘of¢
his progressiveness and sincere 'in
terest in ecivic affairs,
And- the novel and effective:
methods he has introduced in |
other financial drives which he
has headed so successfully in re
cent: yeers demonstrates Mr.
Matthews’ ability to ervist the en
thusiastic cooperation pf our citi
zens. '
I am now confident that this
year’s Community Chest Cam
paign is going to be the best plan
ned, the best organized, the best
supported, and the most success-l
ful drive for funds that has ever
been held in Athens and Clarke
county.” ]
7. s 4
Miss Georgia
Of 1948 Named
COLUMBUS, Ga., Aug. 6.—
(AP)—The title of “Miss Geor
gia” went to Gwynn West of
Statesboro, in the wind-up of the
1948 state beauty contest here
last ngiht.
Miss West, “Miss Bulloch
County,” succeeds Bobby Sauls of
Cuthbert, -last year’s winners.
Second and third place hohors
went to Laura Averett of Ash
burn and Carol Cobb of Colum
bus. Lynn Durham of Albany,
and June Barett of Griffin, fin
ished fourth and fifth in a field
of 16 contestants.
ARTIE SHAW TO
DIVORCE WINSOR
NEW YORK, Aug. 6—(AP) —
Bandleader Artie Shaw will file
suit” today for annulmenf of his
marriage to Kathleen Winsor,
author of “Forever Amber,” says
lhiss attorney, Stanley ~J. Dor
man. ,
Anticipating the action, Miss
Winsor yesterday filed a petition
in state supreme court asking
issoo weekly temporary alimony
‘and SIO,OOO counsel fees to de
‘fend herself against the annul
| ment suit.
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Condition In Hill Country
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 6.— (AP) — National
Guardsmen were mobilized today and ordered to move
immediately into Polk county, in the rugged hill country .
of southeast Tennessee, where the sheriff reported elec
tion disorders out of control. ¥
Adjutant General Hilton Butler
said in Nashville “we are moving
now.”
His statement came after Gov
ernor Jim MecCord had alerted
troopers at Cleveland, Tenn., 20
miles from Benton. Benton is the
i seat of Polk county.
! Butler said the National Guard
machine gun company at Athens,
which was the scene of an election
gun battle two years ago, was
moving into Polk. He added that
another unit was being held in
readiness at Cleveland.
In addition, he said the governor
had ordered Lynn Bomar, state
safety director and 30 state high
way patrolmen to, Benton. 5
Shortly before Butler’s an
nouncement, a newsman tele
phoning Nashville from Benton re
ported rumors were going the
rounds that guns were being
issued outside.
The newsman was in the Benton
courthouse talking to his Nashville
office when his conversation was
interrupted by someone who came
in and told him about the reported
disgtribution of guns. |
One man was slain last night.
and another was reported found
dead early today, shot through the
back, in Polk county. ..‘l
Five persons were known to
have been wounded during elec
tion day violence. It was not es
tablished, however, whether these
shootings were a result of the elec~.
tion strife.
Polk is adjacent to McMinn
county, where an ex-GI coalition
over-threw an entranched poli
tical machine in an August, 1946,
election day gun batile at Athens,
MeMinn county seat.
' The _curx;en;; trouble in Polk
likewise arose from differences be
tween political factions.
‘ Pot Boils
| It boiled up yesterday as Ten
nessean voters in statewide ballot
ing administered a smashing de
feat to the political organization of
E. H. Crump in Shelby county, on
the other side of the state.
Squabbles between representa
tives of the Burch E. Biggs Demo
cratic political organization in
Polk county and the non-partisan
Good Government League started
long before the election. Tension
mounted as the day of balloting
neared.
The GGL entered a full slate of
candidates in an effort to unseat
the long-entrenched Biggs organ
ization in the county general elec-‘
tion held in conjunction with twin;
statewide Democratic and Re-‘
publican primaries. .
GGL spokesmen several weeks
ago charged that voters had been
refused poll tax receipts. That
trouble was ironed out and the
receipts were issued in time for
voting. Later arguments ensued
over names on an absentee voting
list which GGL spokesmen charged
had been concealed. The list was
produced after the GGL obtained
a, court order.
Then violence broke out yester
day.
Political Roundup
Randall Evans Manager
Joins Talmadge Ranks
By The Associated Press
Herman Talmadge today had an
other supporter in his race for the
governor’s chair. J. Matt Hayes,
manager of the short gubernatorial
campaign of Randall Evans, jr.,
announced from Thomson late
yesterday that he is throwing his
support to Talmadge.
\ But Evans said he could not
come out for either Talmadge or
' Gov. M. E. Thompson. Evans said
it was rumored that he entered
the race as a “vote-splitter,”
‘which he said was not true, but if
‘he supported either Talmadge or
Thompson, the other would make
political capital of it, |
" Hayes said that since Evans had
withdrawn “I want all of my |
friends to know that I am sup
porting Herman Talmadge, just as
1 always supported his father, the
late ‘Eugene Talmadge.
“Eugene Talmadge was the
greatest public figure in Georgia
since Tom Watson. I fully believe
that Herman will take up the work
of his father where it was left off.
Thompson spoke last night at
Ellaville, where he charged that
the Talmadge group is dodging
behind fake issues and smoke
screens. He reiterated that his rec
ord in office is the real issue of
the campaign.
He renewed his promise to put
the $83,000,808 minimum found
ation educational program into efs
sect on July 1, 1949, |
Home
Ecdition
The reported issuance of guns
in Benton was said to have started
when ballot boxes, holding votes
from the nearby communities of
Copperhill and Ducktown, .were
due here to be counted, -+ . -
It was understood these boxes
held the absentee ballots in dig
pute. R e
Besides the two reported slain
and a third wounded last night; H.
E. Brewer, Ducktown undertaker;
said this morning four other per
sons were wounded in election
night gunplay. EUD 0.
Brewer listed the wo a 8
Wayne Kimsey, 33; Chester: '
28; Hardy (Cobby) Loudermill
and Loudermilk’s wife, s
The man found shot in the bagk
today was identified by a Duck
town hospital ‘attendant as Earne
est Loudermilk. It was not known
whether he was related with the
wounded couple, s L SR
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Killer Nabbed . :
BOTON, Mass., Aug. 6—(AP)—
A brazen young gunman who, po
lice said, admitted firing two wild
shots at Suffrangan ;' Episcopal
Bishop ' Raymond. A. Heron:and’
the. fatal shooting and axing “eof
a 17-year-old youth in -the
clergyman’s home was held on
open charges today, ~ 7 o 8
- Frederick S Pike, 19, of Boston,
-was captured in Provincetown, R.
1., yesterday in the Bishop’s_car
three hours after the shooting.
| Police Chief Charles A, Higgins
land Capt. John J. Long of Provi
dence said Pike admitted in a sign~
ed statément he shot at the bjgm
and ki'led Paul Zayka, a yoi
who lived with the prelate. * -
Pike, a Concord reformatory
parolee, was taken into custody
following a bullet-spattered 75-
mile an hour chase through heavy
traffic.
State Old-Age
Rolls Increase
ATLANTA, Aug. 6 — (AP) —
Old-age assistance rolls in Geor
gia now %oYal 84,378, a gain of
13,568 in the past five years, di
rector W. E. Ireland of the-State
Welfare Department announced
today.
Ireland said the average
monthly checks during the«five
year period increased from $9.84
to $19.13, a gain of almost 100
percent, r 2
At the same time the direcior
said, payments to the blind had
jumped from $12.78 in . June,
1943, to $22.67 in June, 1948:
Georgia’s 159 County Welfare
Departments now administed aid
to 117628 more dependent chil
dren than were on the rolls in
443. These payments go to 4,400
additional family groups and the
average monthly. payment is
about $36, Ireland said.
At Sylvania, meanwhile, - Tal
madge charged that Thompson
wanted to reduce the number of
counties in Georgia. He also at
tacked Thompson's outlay of state
funds for Jekyll Island, charging
that while “any number . were
dying of tuberculosis in Georgia,
Thompson was sunning himself on
Jekyll Island. A Y
In another development, former
Rep. William C. Lankford . .of
Douglas withdrew yesterday from
the race against Sen. Richard B.
Russell. :
THOMPSON MEETING .. .
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TOMORROW ¢P. M, ,
Chairman Beb Stephens of.
the Clarke County Thomp
son organization announced
today that Governor Thomp
son’s speech from Baxley in
Appling county Saturday
afternoon at 4 o'clock will be
broadcast over 2z statewide
radio hook-up including
WGAU in Athens,
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Lankford said he entered. the
race only because Agricultural
Commissioner Tom Linder did not.
And did so “without sufficient
study.” s
“I have now decided it is en
tirely too late for me to proceed,
and I have withdrawn,” Lankford
said,