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Charges Against Forum State Officials Are Embezzlement and Conspiracy. Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 4—Former Governor E. D. Rivers, his son, EB. D. Rivers Jr. and 18 other persons! several of them state officials dur ing the Rivers administration were indicted Saturday by the Fulton county grand jury at the conclu sion of two months’ investigation of state affairs. Charges against Rivers were em bezzlement and conspiracy to de fraud the state of Georgia. The 20 men Indicted by the grand jury in 12 bills and the na ture and numbers of the charges against them follow: Former Governor Rivers was in dicted for (1) embezzlement of $12 101.65 for flowers, engraved invi tations, pictures of himself for po litical purposes, expense money to unauthorized persons; (2) conspir acy to defraud the state thru pay ment of $80,000 over the list price for highway machinery; and (3) conspiracy to defraud the state by payment of $15,000 in excessive prices for highway oil and grease. E. D. Rivers Jr, son of the for mer governor; (1) conspiracy to defraud the state of $11,500 through illegal awarding of printing con tracts without bids in July, 1937, to the Williams Printing Co., in At lanta. Gee, C. Blount, former mainten ance engineer of the State Highway Department; (1) conspiracy to de fraud the state of $15,000 in excess oil and grease prices; (2) conspira cy to defraud the state of $80,000 in excess prices for highway machin ery; (3) conspiracy to defraud the state of $24,000 and “other large sums,” thru allowing private con cerns to handle center line mar ketings on highways rather than by the Highway Department. John Greer Jr, former purchas ing agent of the state highway de partment and former clerk of the House of Representatives, (1) con spiracy to defraud the state of $15, 000 thru payment of excessive oil and grease prices, O. G. Glover, former supervisor of state purchase, (1) conspiracy to defraud, the state of $15,000 for ex cessive oil and grease prices; (2) conspiracy to defraud the state of $80,000 in excessive highway ma chinery payments; (3) conspiracy to defraud the state of $15,459 for non-competitive bidding purchases of prison Supply from the Wein kle Co., of Atlanta; (4) conspiracy to defraud the state of $20,000 worth of excessive payments for 55,000 pairs’ of 1941 automobile li cense plates. J. G. Glover, former supervisor of state convict forces; (1) embezzle ment of $228.75 in funds paid him by the treasurer of Bibb county for paying clothing and transporation tests of 25 convicts; (2) conspiracy to defraud the state of “large sums of money” thru arrangement to give highway construction con tracts to W. B. Brantley. W. B. Brantley, former state high way engineer; (1) conspiracy to de fraud the state thru fraudulently obtaining highway contracts after he had retired from his state post and gone into private contracting business. Dr. Hiram W. Evans, former im perial wizard of the KKK; (1) con spiracy to defraud the state of $24,000 “and other large sums,” in money paid by the state “for which he rendered the state no service in labor and materials” in connection with highway center line markings, (2) conspiracy to defraud the state of $11,500 thru legal awarding of printing con tracts, D. B. Blalock, head of the Bla lock Machinery Equipment Co., (1) conspiracy to defraud the state of $80,000 thru sale of highway ma chinery for excessive prices, W. F. Scott, Thomasville road contractor; (1) Conspiracy to de fraud the state of $22,080 in con struction of about 10 miles of pav ing on the Dublin-McRae road; (2) bribery In which Mr. Scott, “while chairman of the State Licensing Board for Contractors, accepted money from W. H. Lovett, a con tractor, Geo. C. Fisher, former superin tendent of prison industries at Tat nall prison: (1) Conspiracy to de fraud the state of $20,000 in con nection with purchase of 1941 auto mobile license plates, J. K. Hall, salesman of the Geor gia-Carolina Oil Co. Attempted bribery of H. C. Smith, former su pervisor of purchases, thru offering j to pay to the administration's cam paign fund $8 per diem for each drum of grease and oil bought from his concern, Rudolph Jones, employe of the Georgia-Carolina Oil Co., (1) con spiracy to defraud the state of $15, 000 in sale of oil and grease for excessive prices, J. R. Maddox, satesman for the Georgia-Carolina Oil Co., (1) con spiracy to defraud the state of $15 00 in the same oil deal, J. R. Williams, head of the Wil liams Printing Co. of Atlanta, con spiracy to defraud the state of $11,500 thruw improper printing con tracts with the state, Wiley Tucker, salesman with the Williams Printing Co. charged with a similar offense, Hubert Smith and W. Webb, for mer state convict wardens, each charged with conspiracy to defraud the state of $15,459 thru illegal pur chases of convict supplies from the Weinkle Co., of Atlanta. I, Weinkle, proprietor, and John Tuggle, salesman of the Weinkle Co., each named in the $15,459 case in which fraud was charged or purchase of convict supplies.
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Butler Herald
Butler, Georgia, US
Thu, Jan 08, 1942
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