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Events the World Over
Recovery Act Blue Eagle Becomes the National Bird
Code Making Continues—President Plans War
on Kidnaping and Racketeering.
EDWARD W. PICKARD
DLUE eagles of NR A by the hundred
•D thousand are flying all over the
United States; Innumerable men and
for long, are going
H. 8. Johnson , ,
Following out the President’s pro¬
gram, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national
recovery administrator, has "drafted”
citizens in all-the states to lead the
great drive. Nine members were ap¬
pointed on each of 48 state “recovery
boards,” and seven members were
named for service on 26 district "re¬
covery boards” for the recently made
codes. The telegraphic notice sent
each of the former by Genera) John¬
son was;
“President Itoosevelt has drafted
you as one of ttie nine members of the
state recovery board for the state of
us explained in bulletin No. 3
. . .
of July 20. He has requested you to
volunteer your services without com¬
pensation In this great drive for na¬
tional rehabilitation. As n member of
this board your duties will he to get
every patriotic American citizen, em¬
ployer, and consumer to co-operate in
this program. Please wire acceptance
Immediately and you will receive fur¬
ther instructions.”
The advisory board for public works
is doing its part in the re-employment
campaign by dealing out further large
suniB from the public works fund. Its
head. Secretary of Interior Ickes, an¬
nounced allotments totaling $ 118 , 282 ,
000 for one stnte and five federal proj¬
ects. Added to allotments already
made, brought the total thus far ear¬
marked out of the three billion three
hundred million dollar fund to $1,058,-
300,201.
The state project to be financed by,
the government was beneficiary of the
largest allotment. Sixty-three million
dollars. Secretary Ickes announced. Is
allotted for construction af the Grand
Coulee dam in the Columbia river
basin.
The stnte of Washington is to un¬
dertake the dam project, it is under¬
stood. Thirty per cent of the $03,000,
000 total cost, or $18,000,000 represents
a direct outright gift by the federal
government. The remainder Is to be
loaned to the state, at low interest
rates over a long-time period.
The upper Mississippi 0-foot channel
project, already approved by President
Roosevelt, was allotted $11,500,000.
Tills is a federal project to lie under¬
taken under the government’s rivers
and harbors program.
Another $22,700,000 of the public
works fund was earmarked for the
Caspar-Alcovn reclamation project in
Wyoming, for many years (lie pet
scheme of Senator John It. Kendrick
of Wyoming.
Ttie federal forest service was allot¬
ted $15,282,745; the coast and geodetic
survey $2,000,000, and the geologic sur¬
vey $2,000,000.
T) EPRESENTATIVES of the oil,
IN coni, steel and many other indus¬
tries were busily trying to agree on
their codes in Washington. In ench
there were factions with conflicting
ideas, and it was not easy to reconcile
them. This was especially true of the
oil men. Among them were many ad¬
vocates of federal regulation of pe¬
troleum prices, but they were told by
Administrator Johnson that he would
not recommend to the President any
price fixing until the effect of produc¬
tion control has been determined.
Formation of the coal code was com¬
plicated by the riotous strike in the
mining zone of southwestern Pennsyl¬
vania. Thirty thousand miners were
out and Governor I’inchot called out
state troops to control the situation
after a quarrel with a sheriff. The
National Coa! association, controlled
by nonunionized operators, asked Ad¬
ministrator Johnson to look into the
trouble in the strike region, and he
designated Edward F. McGrady. labor
adviser to N. R. A., to investigate the
situation.
r\ T ROTH the coal and steel code dis-
1 cushions there was controversy over
the open shop versus unions. The
men took the clause
put of their proposed
code to facilitate set¬
tlement hut they de¬
clared plainly that
they would stand for
the present systems
of employees' councils
in the industry to
carry on collective
bargaining.
Mr. Johnson said he
would not approve
any code that does
for ad-
rlsory councils. On the old issue of
bow collective bargainings should be
back to work; short¬
er hours and higher
pay are being in¬
stalled in factories,
shops and offices.
American commerce
and industry is fast,
being regimented.
President Itoosevelt
and his whole ad¬
ministration are push
lng forward in the re
covery campaign de
terminedly. . ,
R. P. Lamont
carried out, the administrator reiter¬
ated that N. I. It. A. provides f or col¬
lective bargaining through employees
chosen by the workers.
Robert P. Lamont, former secretary
of commerce and now president of
the American Iron and Steel Institute,
which represents 98 per cent of the
country’s producers of pig iron and
steel ingots, was the chief spokesman
for the iron and steel ludustry at the
hearings. William Green, president of
the A. F. L., challenged various sec¬
tions of the offered code, especially
the minimum wage and maximum hours
provisions. Secretary of Labor Perkins,
who had been making a tour of the
Pennsylvania steel mills, wanted the
wage rates altered, especially criti¬
cizing the 25 and 27 cents minimum
hourly rate set up for the southern
and Birmingham districts.
Shortly afterwards Mr. Lamont an¬
nounced the industry had agreed to
raise the minimum pay in those two
districts to 30 cents an hour.
Both Green and Miss Perkins urged
that the 40 hour week would not bring
about sufficient re-employment In the
industry.
Defending the proposed code, Mr.
Lamont said:
"It is estimated that on the basis
of a 60 per cent rate of operations
and a 40 hour week, substantially all
the 49,738 employees who were not re¬
ceiving work July 1, 1933, would be
given employment On less than a 40
hour week the industry positively
could not operate the mills and meet
any demands on them in excess of
present production.
"The code establishes a minimum
rate of 40 cents an hour for common
labor in the Pittsburgh. Youngstown,
north Ohio, Canton, Massillon, Cleve¬
land, Detroit-Toledo, Chicago and Col¬
orado districts. Tills rate is only 9
per cent less than the highest base
rate paid during the last 11 years,
where living costs were above the
present level."
* PRESIDENT uing his vacation ROOSEVELT, at his home contin- in
Hyde I’ark. N. Y„ called into confer¬
ence there Assistant of
Raymond
Moley
where and how the federal power ran
best be used as a weapon against the
criminal. He is well fitted for this
work, for he Is an expert criminologist,
was an adviser to the New York crime
commissioner and is the author of nu¬
merous surveys of crime, notably In
Ohio and Missouri.
As for racketeering, both the Pres¬
ident and Moley see in the new re¬
covery act the authority, which the
federal government lias heretofore
lacked, to intervene in criminal cases
involving business conduct. Until now,
unless a criminal act infringed upon
some specific federal statute, such as
one of the postal laws or the internal
revenue act or a law based on inter¬
state commerce, the federal govern¬
ment had no means of Jurisdiction.
In the past the anti-trust laws have
prevented the smaller industries and
business units from banding together.
Such a condition provided a fertile
field for the racketeers, for illegal
combinations, and for violence.
The national recovery act, however,
provides directly for the abrogation ef
tlie anti trust laws in cases where they
interfere with the working of the re¬
covery program. Industry and busi¬
ness are forced into trade agreements.
The federal government sanctions and
imposes those agreements and any act
in violation of such agreements or
tending to destroy the effect of the
recovery act is made a crime.
Against kidnaping, tlie President is
counting on a super police force mod¬
eled in a general way on England’s
Scotland Yard, the postal regulations,
the income tax law, and the recently
enacted kidnaping statute.
Recent instances of kidnaping are
familiar to all newspaper readers.
The “snatchers" have received large
sums for the release of their victims
In several cases. The relatives of
John .1. O’Connell, Jr., of Albany, N.
Y.. paid $-10,000 for his freedom, and
the ransom of Charles F. Ursehel, mil¬
lionaire oil operator of Oklahoma City,
is said to have been $200,000.
/“'HESTER S. LORD, who as man
aging editor of the New York Sun
for nearly a quarter of a century was
admired and loved by two generations
of newspaper men. died at'ttie age of
eighty-three years, in his» home In
Gardeu City, N. Y. The “Boss." as
one of his reporters once wrote, “was
never known in all the years of his
managing editorship to utter an un¬
kind word to any man on the paper,
no matter how humble his station.”
State Raymond Moley
and discussed with
him a plan to put all
the force of the fed¬
eral government Into
a campaign to wipe
out tlie two great
evils of kidnaping and
racketeering. Profes¬
sor Moley was then
relieved temporarily
from his departmental
duties and placed at
the head of a special
survey to determine
CLEVELAND COURIER
n ESULTS shown by the civilian
IN conservation corps are deemed
bo satisfactory by the administration
that plans are being made to continue
the experiment for another six months.
Orders are to be sent out for the re
enllstment of all those who desire to
go on with the work.
Enlistment is on a six months basis.
The first "hitch” expires In Novem¬
ber. There are at present 310,575 men
in the corps, Including 25,000 former
service men. The forestry army is
located in 1,438 camps in all parts of
the country. The cost to the govern¬
ment is approximately $20,000,000 a
month.
O ENA TOR HUEY P. LONG'S arbl
<3 trary rule in Louisiana was seri¬
ously threatened when District Judge
A. C. O’Donnell began an open court
investigation into the election of last
fall in which Long's gang is alleged
to have resorted to fraud In order to
win. The judge ordered fifteen elec¬
tion commissioners, arrested on charges
of certifying to false returns, brought
before him; and he granted permis¬
sion to District Attorney Stanley to
examine ballot boxes in open court.
Governor O. K. Allen, a Long hench¬
man, in trying to halt the investiga¬
tion, had declared New Orleans under
martial law, but revoked the order
after eight soldiers had been detailed
to guard the grand jury. The latter
body appeared to be dominated by the
Long crowd.
The United States senate committee
announced it planned to resume its
investigation of Louisiana elections
within two months. The Times-Piea
yune called upon President Itoosevelt
to take note of “political racketeering"
in Louisiana and not to overlook it in
his “war on gangsters.”
POLITICS and sugar are making the
U Cuban situation very difficult for
the administration In Washington,
for Ambassador Sumner Welles.
Sumner Welle*
not paid, and the veterans of the
war of independence undertook to
hold a parade to call attention to their
Inability to collect their pensions. Tlie
old soldiers were attacked by police
and severely beaten, right under the
eyes of Mr. Welles, and it was report¬
ed tlie ambassador would demand that
Machado revamp his cabinet and dis¬
miss Gen. Alberto Herrera, the cause
of much of the recent disturbance.
The Cuban ambassador in Washing¬
ton is persistently demanding a larger
import quota for Cuban sugar. This
and tliis alone would make tlie island
fairly prosperous and would lead to
the subsidence of the political disor¬
ders.
At present the sugar conference has
tentatively set Cuba’s sugar exports to
the United States at 1,700.000 short
tons of raw and only 110,000 tons o?
refined. Ordinarily United States im¬
portation of Cuban refined sugar is
about half a million tons.
*T* 1 1E apprehension of war between
-I- the United States and Japan, en¬
tertained by not a few Americans, Is
apparently felt In Japan also, despite
official denials. The army and navy
beads of the island empire have just
submitted to the finance ministry es¬
timates for the 1034-35 defense ex¬
penditures larger Ilian any in previ¬
ous history and 45 per cent greater
than tlie appropriation for tlie current
year. These estimates included 180,
000.000 yen ($50,400,000 at current ex¬
change rates) for new naval construc¬
tion and 75.000.000 yen ($21,000,000)
for modernization of capital ships.
The navy ministry asked for the
fiscal year beginning next April 1 the
sum of 080,000,000 yen ($190,400,000).
which is 30 per cent more than the es¬
timates of 1921-22, the largest previ¬
ous estimates for the sea forces.
The combined Japanese fleet began
preparations for maneuvers several
hundred miles southeast of Tokio. in
which the major problem will be a
battle with a hypothetical enemy. This
will be preceded by a four-day defense
of the Tokio district against a sham
aerial attack from the sea.
A NDORRA, the little old republic in
** the Pyrenees, underwent a blood¬
less revolution and the young people
won the right of franchise, hitherto
confined to the heads of families. The
revolters were supported by the state
council, and the authority of Andorra's
j two co-princes the was bishop defied. of These Urgel co- in
; princes are
| Spain and the head of the French
! state as represented by the prefect
| I of Perpignan. existed since Their 1278. joint They suzerainty told
has were
| the Andorrans insisted on being a free
I people and that their Jobs henceforth
would be merely decorative.
President Lebrun of France evident¬
j ly did not refish this flouting of his
authority. The French customs au¬
thorities imposed an embargo on nil
Andorran exports to France, thus ruin
| ing at one fell swoop the little na¬
tion's most thriving industry, which
is smuggling.
r-'OR the first time since 1912 Eng
r land's tennis team has possession
of the historic Davis cup. The island
ers won the trophy by defeating the
French players at Auteuil in the chal
lenge round. France had held the cup
for six years.
133 $, Western Newspaper Union.
The
SILVER
FLUTE
.. By ..
Lida Larrimore
<£), Macrae-Smith Company
WNU Service.
SYNOPSIS
On her eighteenth birthday, Bar¬
bara, motherless daughter of Christ¬
opher Thorne, lovable but impractical
artist, awakes with lively anticipation
of the joys of the day.
CHAPTER I—Continued
.— 2 —
“Sing befoie breakfast, you’ll cry
before night,” she said in a warning
voice.
That set them all to laughing. Mar¬
tha’s face was so droll!
... ....
Barbara sat with Father in the sun
on the wide front steps. The children
had gone to school. Mr. Tubbs, the
postman, had left the mall and gone
whistling on his way.
Lovely day! October in Province
town, Barbara thought, was the nicest
month of the year.
"What time Is it, Babbie?” Father
asked.
She knew he was teasing. He asked
every five minutes so she could con¬
sult the watch “Uncle Stephen” had
sent. She had to admire it often, the
delicate carving, the ribbon strap, the
sapphire In the stem.
“Half-past ten,” she answered and
then, pleased and excited, her voice
like a shaken chime of bells, “Isn't it
beautiful, Father? How do you sup¬
pose Uncle Stephen knew I wanted a
watch ?”
“The rnan Is a magician."
Father was smiling at her. She
thought how handsome he was, his
hnzei eyes, his thick dark hair, his
lean straight body that made him look
so young. Kit looked like Father but
Kit was more grave. He would never
have Father’s ringing laugh, his hap¬
py-go-lucky charm.
“What does Aunt Josephine say?”
Father indicated the letter that lay
In Barbara’s lap.
“She told me to take care of my
complexion, as that was my one claim
to beauty.”
“What else?”
Barbara hesitated. There were, in
the letter, many references to Father
and none of them were flattering.
Father relieved her emhnrrassment.
“She said she hoped you weren't
growing up like heathen"—his eyes
twinkled wickedly—“though that, per¬
haps, was too much to expect since
Christopher Thorne has no more idea
how to bring up children than a crow
in a corn field knows about running
for congress."
“How did" you know?" Barbara
asked, surprised.
“I am familiar with all of her
similes.” Father lit a cigarette. "Di¬
rectly or indirectly. I’ve heard them
many times.”
Barbara looked down at the letter.
The writing on the envelope recalled
the brick house in Providence, the
elms and tlie urns on the lawn. Aunt
Josephine herself, majestic and awe¬
inspiring. She seemed to hear Cousin
Evie’s twittery voice agreeing with
Aunt Josephine no matter what she
said, the solemn important ticking of
the grandfather’s clock in the hall.
Aunt Josephine was Mother’s aunt.
Barbara had lived with her two years
after Mother died when the children
had been parceled out among the rela¬
tives and Father had gone away. It
wasn’t a happy two years. Aunt
Josephine didn’t approve of artists.
She didn't approve of Father. Bar¬
bara, remembering, sighed. She had
missed the children so much.
Three years of being together again
hadn't made her forget Sometimes,
even now. she thought, for a dreadful
moment, that they were separated. . . .
“What are you thinking?” Father’s
voice, blessedly near, routed the dis¬
mal thoughts of those past times.
But she didn’t tell him about them.
It didn’t seem quite polite. Father
might think she didn't trust him. He
had promised that they should never
be “parceled out" again.
“1 was thinking," she answered In
stead, "that the harbor won't look the
same when the Ariel isn't there.”
They saw her swaying at anchor, her
sails gleaming white in the sun, Mr.
Loring’s sloop, the Ariel, beautiful as
a dream.
“Jim is leaving tomorrow." Father
spoke regretfully. “He asked me to
go for a farewell sail this afternoon.”
“That will be nice.”
Barbara was glad for Father. He
loved sailing and boats. The ships he
painted were the pictures people
bought “Tripe.” Father called them.
They weren't as nice as the things he
did before Mother died. They were up
in the attic collecting dust People
preferred the ships.
Father's attention strayed from the
Ariel.
“Babble,” he asked, taking a letter
from his pocket, “do you remember
Mr. Schwartz?"
“That dreadful old man with the
whiskers?”
“Be more respectful, young lady."
Though it was an¬
nounced that the po¬
litical situation on the
Island was clearing
up, and though Presi¬
dent Machado issued
an amnesty proclama¬
tion, the troubles there
are continuing. The
Cuban people are in
distress, the school
teachers in Havana
have been demonstrat¬
ing because they are
Father pretended to be stem. "He
was an angel in disguise."
“Why?” Barbara asked, thinking
that old Mr. Schwartz looked less like
an angel than anyone she had ever
seen In her life.
“He’s building a swanky home, a
castle on the Rhine. No, not the
Rhine”—Father consulted the letter—
“the Hudson, to be exact, and he wants
ship panels in his library and—”
“Father! He wants you to paint
them!”
“That’s the reward for being polite
to gentlemen with whiskers.”
“Father!” Barbara was bouncing
with excitement. “We can buy the
rest of the house and put in a heater
and mend the roof and—” A gulp
stemmed the torrent of words. The
prospect of sudden riches had taken
away her breath. “Father,” she urged
when she had found it again, “go send
him a telegram right away."
“I’m going.”
Father swung down the walk and
hurdled the picket fence. Barbara,
watching, saw him turn down Pearl
street, bare-headed, the wind tossing
his hair. How young he looked and
healthy and brown.
Lovely day! Oh, everything was so
nice! They could finish buying the
house. Dear Mr. Schwartz! She loved
even his whiskers. Aunt Josephine's
letter couldn’t bother her now. But
it was a blot on the day. She would
bury it out of sight.
She found a stick and scooped out
a hole under the willow tree. That
was the end of Aunt Josephine. She
heaped up the earth and stuck in a
twig for a headstone. . . . She tried
to compose her features and think of
a dismal hymn!
“Hello, there—Happy Birthday!”
Barbara looked up from Aunt Jose¬
phine’s premature grave. She felt her
heart beat faster. Bruce was unlatch¬
ing the gate.
• » » • • • •
The picnic basket was packed with
lunch. The presents had been dis¬
played : Father’s coral necklace, Kit's
water color of the willows. Gay’s slip¬
per buckles, the window box Jamie
had made, filled with vines and blos¬
soming plants. Bruce had admired
them all. He had heard about old Mr.
Schwartz who had turned out to be
an angel in disguise.
Now he was in the kitchen talking
secrets with Martha. Barbara had
tactfully remained in the living room.
Waiting was difficult. Why didn’t
Bruce hurry? It was after eleven
o’clock!
She looked at herself In the mirror
above the book shelves set In its frame
of tarnished gilt. The freckles were
growing fainter, she thought.
The kitchen door opened and there
was Bruce. Bruce tanned a lovely
color, she thought, sort of golden
brown, too, like beech leaves In the
falL His eyes were blue. That was
always surprising. You expected them
to be brown. They were smiling,
crinkling at the corners. . . .
"Do you like her?" Bruce asked.
“Do you?” She whirled around, bold
as brass because It was her birthday.
“She's pretty nice.” His eyes said
more than that. Or maybe she just
Imagined it. You couldn't tell about
Bruce. . . .
“Are you ready?” He came into the
room with the basket of lunch.
“I’ve been waiting hours!’’ She
didn't feel bold any longer. She felt
sort of happy and shy.
They went out through the dining
room door, under the arbor that led
from the house to the studio, under
the swaying willows.
“Babbie—” Bruce stopped sudden¬
ly and set the basket on the grass.
Barbara stopped, too. She looked
up at him wonderlngly. His eyes
weren’t smiling now. They looked at
her so strangely. . . .
“Did you think I hadn't brought
you a present?” he asked.
“I didn't know.”
“Would you have minded if I
hadn't?” he said gravely.
“I couldn’t have borne it,” she an¬
swered.
“Shut your eyes and give me your
hand."
Barbara screwed her eyes together
and held out her small right hand. She
knew the present was a ring before he
said she might look. Such a lovely
ring! It was made of twisted gold
and from a tiny clasp in the center
hung a small gold heart which made a
tinkling sound whenever she moved
her hand.
“Bruce!" She lifted her face, flushed
and starry-eyed, framed in blowing
tendrils of soft brown hair. A smile
that was close to tears trembled across
her lips. “Bruce!” she marveled. "It
just exactly fits!"
“It should,” he said. “It was made
for you. The heart is to match your
face."
They were silent for an interval.
The wind in the willows was a song
that was happy and sad. Barbara
moved her hand and heard the tinkling
of the heart. She wanted to thank
him. She couldn’t find words. She
looked down at the grass, afraid she
was going to cry.
Bruce saw the droop of the curly
head. the ring What was she thinking? Did j
mean more to her than a !
birthday gift?
“Babbie—”
A low little laugh broke the spell of
sunlight and shadow and the willows’ 1
sad sweet song. Barbara raised her
head. Her face sparkled with mis- j
chief.
“Gracious!” she cried. “We’re stand- j
ing on top of Great-aunt Josephine's
grave!”
(TO EE CONTINUED.)
Heavier Than Lead
The old phrase “heavy as lead"
could be changed to “heavy as osmi¬
um,” for the latter metal weighs twice
as much as lead.
A check for $1,000 has been forward¬
ed to Cason J. Callaway, of LaGrange„
as Bibb county’s cash contribution so
far to the Georgia Hall fund.
Establishment of a branch of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation in
Albany was approved recently by the
home loan board at W ashington.
Savannah business houses are sign¬
ing up rapidly behind the president’s
recovery act plans and leading retail
groups have already pledged support
and co-operation.
The Moultrie city council has voted
to launch a municipal improvement
program involving $100,000 for street
paving and $30,000 for expanding the
waterworks system.
Plans are practically complete for
staging an unusual fair at Moultrie
the latter part of October, tentative
dates agreed upon being the 26, 27
and 28 of that month.
Business of the Central of Georgia
railroad has improved each month
since April and prospects point to fur¬
ther gains, Receiver H. D. Pollard told
newspaper men at Macon recently.
Georgia farmers expect to market
between 60 and 75 million pounds of
tobacco during the next five week*
with a hope that it will result in turn¬
ing nearly $10,000,000 into trade chan*
nels.
Lieut. Col. H. W. Stone, officer la
charge of the United States marine
corps district recruiting headquarters
at Macon, states that recruiting has
been resumed after a stop of nearly
three months.
Representative Emmett Owen, of
the Fourth Georgia congressional dis¬
trict, has added his voice to the re¬
quest that the government release $10,
000,000 in federal highway funds
Georgia forthwith.
The value of DeKalb county’s prop¬
erty on which 1933 taxes will be col¬
lected Is $29,588,631, more than two
million dollars under the 1932 valua¬
tion, H. H. Howard, county tax com¬
missioner, announces.
Retail and wholesale milk dealers
of the Augusta shed, comprising two
South Carolina and seven Georgia
counties, have adopted a new minimum
price scale to be applied under the
blanket code of fair competition.
Plans for a $225,000 municipal con¬
struction program at Albany have been
set in motion by city commissioner
there who seek $180,000 from the fed¬
eral public works appropriation and
the remainder from the federal high¬
way fund.
Wage increases and working hour
reductions for tobacco warehouse
workers in line with the national re¬
covery program were adopted recently
by t he Georgia Tobacco Warehouse As¬
sociation In Its annual meeting at
Douglas.
With Georgia’s general state funds
nearly $2,000,000 under 1932 for the
first seven months of the year, and
tax digests from various counties
showing decreases in valuations, pos¬
sibilities of a further cut in state ap¬
propriations were being discussed
Tuesday at the capitol.
County attorneys and appraisers of
the Home Owners Loan Corporation
in every county in Georgia but three
have received the various forms nec¬
essary in applications of owners of
distressed homes for government loans,
according to Frank A. Holden, state
manager of the corporation.
The Augusta chapter, United Daugh¬
ters of the Confederacy, have passed
a resolution to he sent Postmaster
General Farley, asking that a picture
of General Robert E. Lee, the South’s
famous leader in the War Between
the States, be placed on at least one
denomination of the new general is¬
sue of postage stamps now being
made up.
The Griffin Daily News, which a
week ago announced it would “put
the back page on the front if the
president said to” did just that on
August 1. All regular editions appear¬
ed with the pages reversed. Of course
the president had not ordered it print¬
ed that way but the News went on
the blanket code of the president with
August 1 issue and carried out its
statement of a week ago. just to prove
strongly it was backing the pres¬
Quimby Melton is editor and
of the News and has been
supporting the president and his re¬
covery plan since it was first men¬
tioned.
Townspeople of Baxley joined with
of others who came from
surrounding communities to celebrate
opening of the Baxley tobacco mar¬
and the first traffic over Lane’s
in more than a year.
Cotton picking and cotton destruc¬
are going forward in Colquitt
The staple is opening rapidly
pickers are busy in fields along¬
of acres that have been staked off
are being plowed up as part of
government’s program to reduce
year’s yield.
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