Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-02-17 | Page 2 | Democratic Leader Asks $50,000 in Slander Suit

Ills Challenge Was Answered With Lawyers 1 I ' ' f 7 s'jjr ) " '" '; " I - y ' A till v - GEORGIA LEGISLATOR WHO WAIVED IMMUNITY IN HURLING CHARGES Representative Decaley Allen lay his ssy about L. W. Robert Democratic Leader Asks $50,000 in Slander Suit ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. IT (UP) L. W. (Chip) Robert, secretary of the national Democratic committee, returned to Washington today to-day whil his attorney prepared to press a $50,000 slander suit agsinst a Georgia legislator who had accused Robert' firm of executing exe-cuting "damnable" contract with the state welfare department ina isxisiauir, riepraevniauv Decaley Allen of Albany, had challenged chal-lenged Robert to "sus until hell Is fro sen over" In connection with Allan's Al-lan's denunciation of a contract whereby Robert Is to receive per cent architectural and engineering fses for a $9,000,000 federal aid construction con-struction project at ths stats la-sane la-sane hospital In Mllledf svllle. Allan waived his legislative Immunity Im-munity and burled new charges against ths former assistant secretory secre-tory ef the treasury. In waiving Immunity Alien challenged chal-lenged Robert to a fist fight "with or without gloves" at Grant field, the Georgia Tech football stsdlum. Such a fight, the legislator declared, "at $4 or $5 a seat should pay off th debts of th stats of Georgia."