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.ZEPPELIN HOPES
TO LAND TONIGHT
Squall Forces Hindenburg
to Swing South—Some
Dishes Broken.
* BACKGROUND
The Hindenburg left Frankfort
Saturday night at 11:35 o’clock on
her second westerly crossing of the
Horth Atlantic. Dr. Hugo Eckener,
; head of the firm seeking to estab
! lish lig iter-than-alr transportation
■ on a commercial basis, stayed, at
home became, he said, the weather
, was unlikely to produce anything
sufficiently unusual to interest him.
This flight, however, has been
storm-harassed from the time it
cleared the English Channel.
' By the Associated Press.
ABOARD THE ZEPPELIN HIN
DENBURG en route to America, May
19.—Swinging south of a storm area
ever the Atlantic, the big Zeppelin
! * Hindenburg picked up speed today
with a possibility of reaching New
York late tonight on its second flight
from Germany.
Except for one sudden squall yes
terday which tilted the airship’s nose.
# broke dishes and frightened some
passengers, the voyage proceeded with
smooth monotony.
Capt. Ernst Lehmann, in command
of the craft, told the passengers at
dinner the unusual weather conditions
being encountered on the flight in
volved no danger.
The Hindenburg passed south of
the depresed area last night wmle
still 1.380 nautical miles from New
• York, and raised its pace against head
Winds to 58 knots. The average speed
for the flight thus far has been 59.8
knots despite slower time during
storms.
MqvoI pnmmiinipofirinc rpnnrfprf in
New York the Hindenburg's position
S at 7 a.m., E. S. T., was 38.23 degrees
north latitude and 54.33 w-est longi
' tude, about 945 miles out of New
York.
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Guffey
(Continued From First Page.)
leaves the price provisions open for
consldaration in the future.’ ”
Members of the National Coal Com
mission and Senator Gulley, Democrat,
of Pennsylvania, author of the act,
were silent. Henry P. Warrum, coun
sel for the United Mine Workers, said
the union probably would support re
enactment of the act’s price-fixing
provisions.
Five of the Supreme Court justices
joined in holding the labor provisions
of the act void and in finding that the
price-fixing provisions were insepa
rable from the rest, and, therefore,
equally bad.
The broadness of the majority
opinion with regard to labor provi
sions immediately stirred speculation
as to the probable fate of the Wagner
labor disputes act.
At one point in its opinion the
majority said:
"The power conferred upon the
majority, is in effect, the power to
regulate the affairs of an unwilling
minority. This is legislative delega
tion in its most obnoxious form • *
Under the Wagner labor disputes act
the National Labor Relations Board is
empowered to hold elections to deter
mine which union or group shall
represent the majority of workers in
collective bargaining. The minority is
bound by the vote.
At another point in the Guffey de
cision the majority said that the
“evils which come from the struggle
between employers and employes over
the matter of wages, working condi
tions, the right of collective bargain
ing, etc., and the resultant strikes,
curtailment and irregularity of pro
duction and effect on prices" were
“all local evils over which the Federal
Government has no legislative con
trol.”
After a preliminary study of the
decision, Chairman J. Warren Mad
den of the National Labor Relations
Board said:
"It is clear that the decision does
not affect the application of the na
tional labor relations (Wagner) act
as to certain types of industry. The
extent to which the decision does
apply to that act involves issues too
important for early determination.”
President William Green of the
American Federation of Labor, after
calling the decision "very disappoint
ing,” told reporters he still believed
the Wagner labor disputes act would
be found constitutional.
Chief Justice Hughes. In a separate
opinion, agreed that the labor pro
visions were invalid, but added he did
not believe this "requires us to con
demn the act in its entirety.”
Submits Minority Opinion.
Justices Cardozo, Brandels and
Stone, the liberal members of the
bench, submitted a minority opinion
holding that the price-fixing provi
sions were valid and separable from
the labor provisions. They held the
suits to be premature so far as a test
of the labor provisions was concerned.
In delivering the majority opinion,
Justice Sutherland, with the concur
rence of Justices Roberts, Butler, Van
Devanter and McReynolds, held the
labor provisions of the law were an
invasion of State powers and legis
lative delegation “in its most obnox
ious form.”
Declaring the labor provisions void
and inseparable from the rest of the
act, he said the price-fixing section
must fall with them, although the
opinion expressly refrained from pass
ing on their constitutionality.
He added, however, that "neither
this disposition of the matter nor
anything we have said is to be taken
as indicating that the court is of the
apinlon that these provisions. If sep
arately enacted, could be sustained."
The majority of the court said much
stress was laid upon “the evils" in
working conditions and their effect
apon interstate commerce.
“But,” it said, "the conclusive an
swer is that the evils are all local
;vils over which the Federal Govern
ment has no legislative control. The
relation of employer and employe is
a local relation. At common law it Is
me of the domestic relations. The
sages are paid for the doing of local
»ork. Working conditions are ob
viously local conditions.”
Even harder, the majority struck
|jiuviaiuiu> mr uxmg oi wages ana
lours by a majority of operators and
niners.
“The power conferred upon the ma
jority is, in effect,” it said, “the power
a regulate the affairs of an unwilling
ninority. This is legislative delega
;ion in its most obnoxious form, for
t is not even delegation to an official
>r an official body, presumptively dis
nterested, but to private persons
vhose interests may be and often are
idverse to the interests of others in
he same business.”
The court held that such power
vas “an intolerable and unconstitu
ional intereference with personal
iberty and private property” and
'clearly a denial of rights safeguarded
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by the due process clause of the fifth
amendment.”
Turning to the price-fixing pro
visions, the majority held that they
fell with the labor provisions, because
they could not be separated despite
the congressional injunction in the
act that if part of the law was held
unconstitutional the balance should
stay in effect.
"The conclusion is unavoidable,’* it
said, "that the price fixing provisions
of the code are so related to and
dependent upon the labor provisions
as conditions, considerations and
compensations, as to make it clearly
probable that the former being held
bad, the latter would not have passed.
The fall of the former, therefore, car
ries down with it the latter."
Hold Price Fixing Valid.
Cardozo. Brandeis and Stone held
the price fixing was valid "in the
transactions of Interstate commerce
and in those of intrastate commerce
where interstate commerce is directly
or intimately affected.”
“Prices in interstate transactions
may not be regulated by the States,"
Cardozo said. “They must therefore
be subject to the power of the Na
tion unless they are to be withdrawn
altogether from Government super
vision. If such a vacuum were per
mitted, many a public evil incidental
to interstate transactions would be
left without remedy.”
Reviewing conditions in the soft
coal industry, Cardozo said “overpro
duction was at a point where free
competition had been degraded into
anarchy.”
congress, ne aaaea. was not con
demned to inaction in the face of
price wars and wage wars pregnant
with disaster. Commerce had been
choked and burdened; its normal flow
had been diverted from one State to
another; there had been bankruptcy
and waste and ruin alike for capital
and for labor. The liberty protected
by the fifth amendment does not in
clude the right to persist in this
anarchic riot."
Contending that the majority was
wrong in condemning all the law be
cause part of it was unconstitutional,
Cardozo called attention to the con
gressional provision that if part of it
was invalid the remainder should not
be affected.
He said the labor section of the
law was "physically separate from
everything that goes before it,” and
might never take effect.
Noting that the wage and hour limi
tations had to be fixed by agreement,
he said “it is possible that none of
these agreements as to hours and
wages will ever be made.”
The act imposed a 15 per cent tax.
providing for a 90 per cent refund to
producers complying with the code.
Agrees Tax Was Penalty.
Hughes, in his separate opinion,
agreed with the majority that the tax
was a penalty, that the validity of
this penalty rested upon the commerce
clause, that production was not com
merce and "that the power to regulate
commerce among the several States
is not power to regulate industry
within the State.”
"Congress thus had adequate au
thority to maintain the orderly con
duct of interstate commerce ana to
provide for the peaceful settlement of
disputes which threaten it,” the chief
justice said. "But Congress may not
use this protective authority as a
pretext for the exertion of power to
regulate activities and relations within
the States which affect interstate
mmmorra /mlv 4nriii»o/*tlv
"It the people desire to give Con
gress the power to regulate industries
within the State, and the relations of
employers and employes in those in
dustries, they are at liberty to declare
their will in the appropriate manner,
but it is not for the court to amend
the Constitution by judicial decision.”
Senators, Congressmen, Government
officials, diplomats and just plain cit
izens listened with rapt attention as
the court delivered its opinion.
The court was well through half
of the 17 decisions handed down
when Justice Sutherland leaned for
ward and began reading the majority
opinion.
The audience at once became tense,
straining to catch the words of the
low-speaking justice. As it became
evident the decision was to be adverse,
the faces of Senator Gulley and
Representative Snyder, Democrat, of
Pennsylvania, co-authors of the legis
lation, grew serious.
John Dickinson, Assistant Attorney
General, who conducted the Govern
ment's defense of the law, and Solici
tor General Stanley Reed sat in the
front row, both in formal morning
attire.
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Hoover
(Continued From First Page.)
gates already chosen had important
places in the Hoover administration
and are ardent admirers of the former
President. It has been expected that
these delegates, coming from many of
the States, would vote for Mr. Hoo
ver on the first ballot in the conven
tion.
Furthermore, Mr. Hoover’s friends
in the California delegation have con
sidered giving him the vote of the
whole delegation on the first ballot. It
is known, however, that Mr. Hoover
put his foot down on this proposal.
The California delegates are "unin
structed.” They defeated a slate of
Landon-instructed delegates, backed
by William Randolph Hearst and Gov.
Merriam. Hoover and his friends
stood strongly for the "uninstructed”
slate. Now, Mr. Hoover, maintains
the California delegation should act,
not for him, but as uninstructed dele
Effect of Announcement.
The announcement of Mr. Hoover
that he is not a candidate releases
these friends of his who are delegates
to the National Convention from any
obligation they may feel to vote for
| him there. Doubtless some of them
| will vote for him anyway. Others may
feel that they are at liberty to support
one of the candidates.
In his statement to the press Mr.
Hoover, referring to the agricultural
program of the G. O. P. said, "For
mer Gov. Lowden of Illinois should
be asked to write the agricultural
plank for the convention.”
Change Is Noted.
Eight years ago Lowden was the
chief contender with Mr. Hoover for
the Republican presidential nomina
tion. Lowden believed in the old
McNary-Haugen "equalization fee"
plan for farm relief. Lowdon in a
rage finally abandoned his candidacy
and left the convention city and the
field to Mr. Hoover. In those days
Mr. Hoover and Mr. Lowden did not
see eye to eye at all in regard to the
farm problem. Apparently that con
dition has changed.
Lowden is highly regarded in the
East as well as in the West. He
served as chairman of the Republican
"grass roots” conference in Spring
field. HI., last Summer. He is about 73
years old, however, and this has mili
tated against his possible candidacy
for the Republican presidential nom
ination this year. Also, Illinois has a
favorite son candidate in Col. Frank
Knox, Chicago publisher.
Mentioned for Second Place.
Despite his age, Mr. Lowden Is
being seriously mentioned as a pos
sible Vic* nrcsiripnt.ini ranHiHato rvn a
ticket with Gov. Landon as the can
didate for President. Whether Mr. i
Lowden would accept such a nomina- I
tion is not definitely known.
If Mr. Lowden is to write the farm
plank for the Republicans, as sug
gested by Mr. Hoover and a day or
two ago by Harrison Spangler, Re
publican national committeeman for
Iowa in charge of the Western head
quarters, it may be a soil-conserva
tion measure. If so, it will give the
States greater control than under the
present Roosevelt act.
Lowden, in an interview with the
Associated Press last January, out
lined such a plan. In brief it called
for grants by the Federal Govern
ment to the States to pay bounties to
the farmers for removing from culti
vation from 25 to do per cent of their
land from production. The acres re
tired from cultivation of the usual
crops would be planted in soil-con
serving legumes. The purpose would
be to combat soil erosion and surplus
crops.
Control of Expenditures.
Lowden proposed that the control
of the money expenditure should be
under the State colleges of agricul
ture. In this way, he said, the objec
tion of the Supreme Court to the A.
A. A. would be met and agricultural
production would be dealt with as
purely a local matter.
Lowden has been in Europe for
several months, but is expected to re
turn by the end of this month.
It is known that Gov. Landon of
Kansas has some very definite ideas
regarding the farm problem and the
farm plank for the Republican na
C .-ASiSMASliL ataJm.___
Minority Opinion on Guffey
Act Is Lauded by
Cummings.
By the Associated Press.
The decision of the 8upreme Court,
Invalidating the Guffey act, and that
of the District of Columbia Court of
Appeals In declaring at least a part
of the Resettlement Administration
activity unconstitutional, today brought
varying reaction.
Comment on the Guffey decision:
Attorney General Cummings describ
ed the minority opinion as “the first
clear expression by members of the
Supreme Court upholding the con
stitutionality of price fixing for com
modities moving* in interstate com
merce."
Representative Snell of New York,
minority leader, said the majority
opinion would “meet with the approval
of the majority of thinking people."
James W. Carter, West Virginia coal
producer, doubted whether the decision
would have an Immediate effect on the
U1UUOUJ UUC V* UI MK uutci.
Charles P. O’Neill, Pennsylvania
operator said a coal price war would
result.
Knox Offers Suggestion.
Col. Prank Knox. Chicago publisher—
‘‘If he i President Roosevelt) really be
lieves in the Guffey plan as an
economic measure, not merely as a
vote-getting device, he ought to ad
vocate a constitutional amendment to
give the Federal Government addi
tional power.” • • •
Henry P. Warrum, counsel lor the
United Mine Workers, said the union
probably would support re-enactment
ol the price-fixing section.
President William Green. A. P. ol
L.—"Very disappointing.”
Gov. Earle ol Pennsylvania—"A
catastrophe lor Pennsylvania's bitu
minous regions."
J. D. A. Morrow, president of the'
Pittsburgh Coal Co—"It clears the
way lor operators and mine employes
to undertake the job ol rehabilitating
j the industry themselves.”
J. C. Terhart, secretary of the
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Corp—“I
was hoping the bill would be held con
stitutional.”
Sees Regional Agencies Restored.
Jesse Sullivan, secretary. West Vir
ginia Coal Operators' Association—
“May mean restoration of regional
coal sales agencies.”
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers—"A sad com
mentary upon our form of govern
ment.”
I Senator Guffey. Democrat, of
; Pennsylvania—"I have nothing to say.
! I have never yet been put out of a ball
game for disputing the decision of an
umpire."
Representative Wadsworth. Remih- !
lican. of New York—“I am not at all
surprised."
Hugh S. Johnson, former N. R. A.
chief—"The most vital decision ever
made.”
Resettlement decision comment:
Attorney General Cummings—Ex
pressed belief the opinion was narrow
I and applied only to such works as the
housing project at Bound Brook. N. J.
I Spencer Gordon, attorney, who aid- |
ed in opposing the Government's case
—“The decision puts the entire Reset
tlement Administration in the ash
can.”
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Chevy Chase Man Given Divorce.
j ROCKVILLE, Md.. May 19 (Spe
cial).—Judge Charles W. Woodward
j has signed a decree in the Circuit
Court here granting to John W.
Bisselle of Chevy Chase. Md., an abso
lute divorce from Mrs. Helen S. Bis
selle of Washington. The petition
stated that the couple were married in
Washington October 30, 1929, and
I have no children. It was charged
' that the plaintiff was deserted June
15. 1932.
: tional platform. It is not unlikely
| that he or his representatives may
I discuss the matter with Lowden on ;
! the later's return to this country.
The Hoover statement, given to the '
! press in Chicago last night, follows:
“In reply to specific questions from
a representative of the press, Mr.
Hoover said this morning:
“ ‘My discussions with Senators,
Congressmen and others who visited
me from Washington over the week
end related wholly to the Republican
platform.’
'• Asked about the agricultural pro
gram, Mr. Hoover said:
“ Tormer Gov. Lowden of Illinois
should be asked to write the agricul
tural plank for the convention.'
"Asked as to his personal position,
Mr. Hoover said:
“ ‘It should be evident by this time
that I am not a candidate.
** *1 havp st.at.pri manv timog that T !
have no interest but to get 'hese
critical issues before the country. I
have rigidly prevented my friends from
setting up any organization, and from
presenting my name in any primary
or to any State convention, and not a
single delegate from California cr any '
State is pledged to me.
" ‘That should end such discussion.
“ ‘And get one thing straight. I
am not opposing any of the candi
dates. My concern is with principles.
The convention will be composed of a
most unusual and able personnel.
The seriousness of the convention is
evidenced by the fact that th» large
majority of the delegates are being
sent by the people of the States with
out other instructions than to find
the right thing to do for the country
in the greatest crisis we have met in
two generations.’”
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CHARGE ON STAND
Burned Letters Mentioning
“the Baby,” She Says.
Alienation Suit Near End.
Ky the Associated Press.
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio, May 19.
Margie Heaton Dill testified today in
her $25,000 alienation of affection suit
that she burned letters from her’hus
band at the request of her mother
in-law, Mrs. Grace DiU, because they
mentioned “the baby.”
Mrs. Margie DU1 charged her ur.cle
by marriage, former United 8tates
Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washing
ton, and Mrs. Grace DIU of Frederick
town with arranging an Ulegal opera
tion to break any family ties with her
husband, Wendell Dill.
A United States Senate Building
employe. Wendell DU1 is the son of
Mrs. Grace Dill, who is a sister-in-law
of the former Senator.
"Bum all your letters," the 20-year
old stenographer quoted her mother
in-law as telling her. because “the let
ters talk of the baby."
Action Called “Blackmail."
Former Senator Dill, Washington. D.
C., and Spokane. Wash., attorney, and
Mrs. Grace DiU have described the
suit as a "blackmail” attempt. They
denied arranging an illegal operation
in Washington two years ago, as
oVioprva/4 Kir f K a
After two and one-half hours of
direct examination, Mrs. Margie Dill
admitted under cross-examination
that Mrs. Grace Dill was "very af
fectionate and considerate” for two
months after her son's elopement.
Mrs. Margie Dill said her mother
in-law arranged to send her to a busi
ness school in Mount Vernon.
Objection Successful.
An attempt of the plaintiff’s coun
sel to link former Senator Dill with
favoring the plan for sending the
young girl to business school was
countered by a successful objection of
defense counsel.
The defense has concentrated its
fight on excusing the name of the
former Senator from the recorded
testimony.
During the cross-examination At
torney L. C. Stillwell questioned Mrs.
Margie Dill without result concerning
a quarrel she had with her husband
concerning relationships with an un
identified young man prior to their
marriage.
Testimony was expected to be com
pleted late today, and- the case given
a jury of eight women and four men.
Stillwell objected vigorously and
successfully yesterday on two major is
sues of barring testimony through
which the plaintiff’s lawyers sought to
link former Senator Dill with the ac
cusation that an illegal operation was
arranged.
tVlfl fVlireJ Vs nn'onne Clilltfftll
was overruled and Margie Dill testi
fied she was told by her mother-in
law that the former Senator supplied
the “piece of paper” on which were
written "four or five names” from
which was selected a Washington,
D. C., woman, who allegedly performed
the operation at her home.
Common Pleas Judge Phillip L.
Wilkins allowed her testimony to enter
the record with the reservation that
he would rule later on expunging it
if the plaintiff failed “properly to con
nect” it.
DOME MOSAICS SEEN
The mosaic decoration for the
apsidal dome of the Shrine of the
Sacred Heart, which won the gold
craftsmanship medal of the American
Institute of Architects for John J.
Earley recently, was seen last night
by the Washington Chapter of the
institute at Earley's Rosslyn studio.
The work of disassembling the col
ored concrete mosaic and installing it
in the dome begun today and is ex
pected to require about three weeks.
Earley said.
Sues Ex-Senator
NEPHEW’S WIFE BRINGS
CHARGES AGAINST DILL.
MRS. MARGIE HEATON
DILL.
—Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Strong
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Covenant. *5,000 to the Protestant
Episcopal Cathedral Foundation, *5.000
to All Hallows' Guild, *10,000 for the
Home for Incurables. $10,000 to Berry
Schools, Inc., Mount Berry, Ga.; $5,
000 to the Washington Chapter, Colo
nial Dames of America, $10,000 to
Pennsylvania Gift Fountain Associa
tion. $2,000 to the District Red Cross
$2,000 to the Instructive Visiting Nurse
Society and $1000 and Miss Strong’s
books to George Washington Uni
versity.
Individuals mentioned in the will
and the amounts they will receive are:
Isabella Potts Loomis, Pottstown,
Pa., $10,000; Mrs. Slade, jewelry, pic
tures, furniture and *10.000; Louise
Rachel Bull, Philadelphia, $5,000;
i Mrs. Josephine D. Strong of Wash
i ington, *10.000; Mrs. Mabel Arbuthnot,
London, England, *10.000; Mrs. Ar
buihnot's daughters, Helen Marian
and Elizabeth C. M., $5,000 each;
Francis Louis Slade. New York, hus
band of the executrix, $10,000; Ella E.
Bassett. Mount Carmel, Conn.. *10,000;
John Winthrop Loveland. Washington,
*2,000; Mrs. Mary Merrill Scott
Princeton, N. J.; Mrs. Lillie McCalla
I Knox, Mrs. Rosalie T. Hardin, Emily
, Rittenhouse, Laura Hardin, Ruth Har
din, Mrs. Evelyn Wainwright and
j Helen R. Hammer, $1,000 each; Eliza
beth Welch, a former employe, $7,000;
j Clara Berry, also a former employe,
*4.000. and Mary O'Connor, employed
by Miss Strong when she died, $1,000
Build Dynamite Plant.
Nearly 1.600,000 cases of dynamite
will be produced yearly in a plant be
1 ing expanded in Modderfontein. South
! Africa, to be the world's largest.
TRIAL IS OPENED
Creation of $2,000 “Fixing”
Pool Described After
18 Plead Guilty.
By the Associated Press.
ROANOKE, Va„ May 19—Testi
mony that defendant* In the Franklin
County liquor con*piracy trial here
last Summer created a pool of ap
proximately $2,000 for the purpose of
obtaining acquittal* or effecting a
deadlocked jury was introduced in
United States District Court yesterday
a* the trial of 23 persons was begun
on an indictment charging conspiracy
to Influence the jurors in the cele
brated case.
Eighteen of the defendant* entered
guilty pleas, two entered pleas of
nolo contendere and three pleaded not
guilty as the jury was quickly chosen.
Eleven Witnesses Heard.
Eleven witnesses were disposed of
during the day, including eight of the
defendants, who pleaded guilty. Ap
proximately 40 witnesses were expected
to be heard for the prosecution. De
fense attorneys have not yet decided
on the number of witnesses they will
~o11
The testimony today centered chiefly
around the conferences of the defend
ants during the first two or three
weeks of the liquor conspiracy trial
relative to the alleged collection of
sums ranging from $50 to $400 after
certain of the defendants had allegedly
been Informed that "contacts” could
be arranged to “fix” "two or three’’
of the jurors. The money, the testi
mony developed, was to be paid if the
| jury failed to agree or acquitted the de
' fendants. In event of conviction, it
was testified, the sum, less "expenses”
of $300, was to be returned and divided
proportionately among those who had
subscribed to the pool.
Eighteen Plead Guilty.
Those pleading guilty were A. Her
man Shively. Ferrum; Edgar A. Beck
ett, Callaway; Henry T. Abshire,
Boone Mill: C. Will Wray. Henry;
James Walter Hatcher, Ferrum: T.
Roosevelt Smith, Ferrum; Willard D.
Hodges. Glade Hill; John Turner,
Henry; Walter Turner. Henry; Claude
E. Shively, Ferrum; Jack Bess. Roa
noke; Leonard Davis, Martinsville; Earl
Easter. Roanoke; C. Wilson Nicholson,
Ferrum: Charles J. Guilliams, Roa
, noke; M. Clifford Martin. Burnt Chim
ney; Samuel O. White, Roanoke, and
Hugh Rakes. Floyd.
Amos Rakes of Endicott, Edgar T.
Marshall, Bel Air, Md.. and David A
Nicholson of Ferrum pleaded not
guilty.
Nolo contendere pleas were entered
by Thomas L. Foster, New Castle, and
Edd Rakes of Floyd.
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