Evening star., 1934-02-05
FIGHT EXPECTED
AT MILK MEETING
Inquiry Demand of Seal Like
Bomb to Producers
Session.

With the balance of power held by
four directors from Montgomery
County. Md, the Maryland & Vir-
gathered today at Silver Spring for
its annual meeting, at which sharp
fight is expected to develop over fu-
ture policies and new officers.
Revelation yesterday that reopen
ing of the District milk investigation
would be requested by Elwood H
Seal. special counsel to the Senate
District Subcommittee, threw q bomb
shell into the meeting. The revived
inquiry will be directed principally
into the producers angle Of the local
milk situation, according to Seal. and,
therefore. has an important bearing
ton. which was criticized severely
during a recent hearing of the Milk
Investigation Committee.
The fate of Frank S. Walker and
John McG!ll. jr.. president and sec
retary-manager. respective, of the CO.
operative. hung in the balance as
the producers from Maryland. Vir-
ginia and West Virginia crowded the
Silver Spring National Guard Armory.
More interest was manifest in this
years meeting than ever before in
the history of the producers organi-
Zation.
Depends on Attitude.
If the Montgomery County dele
cation favors a change in manage
ment. Walker and McGill can be re-
placed; if they do not, the status
quo will be maintained and the asso-
citation will go along for at least
another year with these two officers
at the helm. All four directors from
the nearby Maryland county pledged
themselves when renominated to vote
for change in management as soon
as market conditions had improved
or upon the demand of the pro-
ducers whom they represent on the
directorate.
Joseph L. Bristow. former United
States Senator from Kansas. and
now a director from Fairfax County
has been mentioned as a successor
to Walker. He is understood to
have strong support from other Vir-
ginia directors and from some in
Maryland. If the Montgomery di-
rectors back him, his election as
president would be insured. However,
through the influence of some pro-
ducers who favor Walker and McGiIl
and the support of the county agent,
it Is believed the four Montgomery
directors-L. A. Sabine, James King.
John Vinson Peter and Maxwell White
-hQVa haev1 -
ters as they stand and do nothing
that would overthrow the manage
ment.
Six Lines Of Inquiry.
Further investigation into the milk
situation will be directed along six
lines:
l. Propaganda that the Inyesti-
eating Committee was prejudiced.
2. That the associations manage
ment made use of county agents to
perpetuate itself in office and exer-
clsed undue influence over producers
to obtain the election of favorable
directors.
3. That the two-price plan of milk
purchase from the farms was insti-
tuted at loss Of $4,000 to the farm
ers, despite contentious of the man
agement that the three-price plan was
the only effective method of curtailing
production.
4. Propaganda that Seal himself
was prejudiced; that it was not known
whom he represented, the committee
or the National Dairy Products Cor
poration, and that he has been trying
to break down the cooperative.
5. Reports spread by the manage
ment that the association had not
been given a fair opportunity to
present its case before the Investi-
eating Committee.
6. The Walker Hill Dairy -associa.
ton milk price fight, which led to
adoption of the two-price plan.