The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-05
COTTON ASSOCIATION |
 SEWERS RELATIONS WITH DIR. HUTCHINSON

COLUMBIA, S. C., March 4.-The American Cotton association has severed relations with pr. Miller Reese Hutchison and his appoint ment as director of scientific re- search for boil weevil control for the association has been revoked. ac- cordng to a dispatch from St. Mat thews, S. C., printed here today by The Columbia State.
 The dispatch carries statement { by Harvie Jordan, secretary of the association, stating that all funds placed in the hands of pr. Hutchison have been turned over to the associ- ation.
 The Jordan statement reviews the matters that led up. to plan for raising fund to aid in finding means of controlling the boil weevil, part of it to be expended on experi- ment stations and farm demonstra- tion work and part of 1t for scien- tific research.
 It states that Dr. Hutchison was appointed by President Wannamaker on December 13 to be managing di- rector of the scientific research work and that the association entered into a contract With the Milner Bureau, Inc, of Atlanta, for campaign for raising s2,500,0o0.
 It then continues: "Dr. Hutchison became quite active in the position to which he had been appointed and proposed the calling of a nation wide boil weevil control convention to be held in Atlanta. February 20 and 21, under the auspices of the American Cotton association, to begin nation wide movement for raising the $2,50e,000 fund.
 "Dr. Hutchison, without authority assumed entire charge of the At lanta conference, organized. the ma tional campaign for boil weevl con trol under a Tennessee charter and without representation of the Amer ican Cotton association thereon Checks assregating S35,321. raised by the New York Cotton exchange expressly for the farm demonstration work as outlined and made payable boil weevil control campaign, were, by misa pprehension, placed in the hands of pr. Hutchison as chairman of the Atlanta convention"
 MT. Jordan said that pr. Hutchison announced that the funds would be used in part for expenses and in part for farm demonstration work. As he had made personal pledges regarding the use to be made of the fund. MT. Jordan says, he went to New York and at meeting of representatives of the donors of this fund pr. Hutch ison was instructed to turn the money over to the American Cotton association and did so.
 The statement says the American Cotton association now has no work ing agreement with the commission for boil weevil control of which pr Hutchison is president and managing director. and the plans which they have formulated will be carried out as originally intended.
 CAMPAIGN NOT AFFECTED
 MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 4.-"Ths fact that the American Cotton asso- citation has revoked its appointment of Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison as di- rector of scientific research in the associations campaign for bol weevil control will not affect. in any way, the national campaign for bol weevil control, incorporated under the laws of Tennessee. and of which Dr. Hutchinson is president and man aging director" John D. Martin, gen eral counsel for the national cam. paign for boil weevil control, de clared tonight in a statement to the Associated Press relative to state ment issued by the secretary of the cotton association at St. Matthews