Old Fight Between Rivers j
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And Rails Seems On Again
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By CHARLES P. STEWART
Centra! Press Columnist
Washington. March 27. — The
Rivers and Harbors Congress, held in
Washington recently, wanted con
siderably m o r e
/ Senator
Shipstetd
i n
money, lor devel
opment of Amer
ica's inland water
ways. than Presi
dent Roosevelt re-j
gards as a judici-l
ous federal expert-i
diture at present.;
It's the usual sit
uation. Theoreti
cally everybody's
strongly pro-eco
nomv. But no spe-,
ciai group i^ in fa
vor of it in con- j
nection with the
particular o b j e c- j
tive that that group
Fro: • remarks I overheard at the!
last K .->nd H. congress I wouldn't'
draw ine conclusion that those in at- i
tendance were violently clamorous'
for coastal harbor improveir.ents. but
there was no doubt that all hands'
wanted plenty of cash to make our
rivers more and more conveniently
navigable.
There also was vehement objec
tion to making inland water trans
portation subject to regulation by the
Interstate Commerce Commission or
any other government bureau.
The foremost proponent of I. C. C.
regulation is Senator Burton K
Wheeler of Montana, who has just
completed an investigation of the
railroads' financial straits during the
last decade or two. There's no doubt
that the rail lines are hard up. The
Wheeler inquiry explained their dis
tress on the ground that auto trucks
and river steati boatmen have had
their highway: and waterways im
proved for them at public expense,
enabling the::: to underbid the rail
companies, which have to pay for
their own permanent equipment.
Kiva! Views.
The Wheeler theory is mat me i.
C. C. should be empowered to re
quire the truck::.en and rivermen to
hike their rates, to permit the rail
roads the better to compete with
them.
This may be all right from the
• standpoint of Senator Wheeler, who
hails from an area which is very
dependent on railroads, but isn't
much tapped by waterways. It isn't
• much satisfactory reasoning to Sena
tor Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota,
who's up at the head of mid-con
tinental water. Senator Shipstead re
calls times when the railroads, un
competed with, were middling op
pressive to his section of the country.
It's largely their own fault, he says,
that they're pinched today, they
wouldn't have been, if they hadn't
been so greedy when they had a
monopoly.
The Minnesota senator calls atten
tion to the huge saving his state
makes by getting its coal by river,
down the Ohio river and up the Mis
sissippi: to its economy in its own
products' shipment down the Father
of Waters, up the Ohio and the Big
Muddy, and thereabouts. He's for
navigation and lots of it. as cheaply
as possible.
"What's more." observes Senator!
Shipstead. "water's an asset. We
don't want to trickle it off as soon
as possible, by nature's own means.
Argument for Water.
"We want to conserve it. upriver.
by means of dams, turning it loose
only as it's needed, to float river
boats. It prevents erosion. It pre-'
serves our soil. It's anything but a J
liability." J
This isn't much of a defense of the J
auto-truck, of which the railroads al-l
so complain.
Trucks, after all. can't do a large
bulk business.
They can carry quite a few sec
ond-class passengers. I say second
class advisedly. I've traveled both by
bus and by train, and I'll guarantee
that a train is the more comfortable
of trie two. I don't think that avia
tion makes much of a dent.
Anyway, buses can't carry coal and
grain in appreciable quantities. River
ooats can.
Essentiallv tv,e row is between the
railroads . v!eea> and current
conditions.
Senator Shipstead is right, though,
in saying that inland water is an
asset.
It's involved in the rivers and har
bors controversy—rivers particularly:
not so much harbors.
Candidates' Claims For
Buncombe Are Illustrative
Of Muddled' Campaign
(Continued From Page One?
vears". he said.
So much for the Broughton pic
ture of the Buncombe situation.
The contrasting point ol' view is so
diametrically different as to raise
some doubt whether the same county
is being considered
Naturally nobody in either Max
well or Horton headquarters cared
to make any quotable statements
;ibout the Broughton claims, nor
would anyone openly disclose the
political "hand" his candidate holds
in Buncombe and the West.
Your reporter gained the very de
finite impression, however, that the
Buncombe picture, as seen by the
Horton and Maxwell camps, is about
like this:
The " Kings" and the "Anti-Rings"
tre almost equal in voting strength.
£ach is reputed to control about forty
per cent of the Democratic primary
•ote. leaving only about ten per cent
vho hold the balance of power in any
show down. The "Ring" won in 1936,
out the "Antis" generally prevailed
in 1938.
Now. it is said, the "Antis" are
solidly lined up for Maxwell, wnne
the "Ring"' group is said to he lean
ing strongly to Horton. despite fact
some of its leaders personally prefer
Broughton. They cannot, so the story
goes, deliver to the Raleigh man,
largely because he will not "play
ball" only with them, but insists on
bidding tor support of both "Ring"
and "Anti'\
So we have, on the one side, the
Broughton contention that he's a
standout in Buncombc and the west;
with his opponents assigning him
not more than ten per cent of the
vote to divide with three others.
Perhaps a story about Buncombe
county only isn't worth all this piece,
but the situation there is similar to
that in many other Tar Heel counties,
and therefore a story about Bun
combe may convey some of the dif
ficulty which confronts the fellow
who seeks, impartially, to report the
situation.
Dili Would Limit
Spendng'In Campaigns
'Continued From Page One)
Hatch "anti-politics" bill adopted by
the Senate.
The bill would curb political ac
tivities of most state employees paid
in whole or in part with federal
funds. The sub-committee made some
changes.
These changes were praised highly
by Representative Dempsey, Demo
crat, New Mexico, who has been
lighting with Senator Hatch, Demo
crat, New Mexico, for the curb on
political activity by federally paid
state employees.
The sub-committee struck out a
Senate amendment exempting from
the bill's provisions employees ol
educational, religious, philanthropic
and cultural institutions.
Maxwell Leads in
Naming of Managers
J (Continued From Page One.)
just one: while neither Paul .Grady.
! Tom Cooper nor Arthur Simmons has
furnished this Bureau with the name
of even one county manager.
The Broughton managers named
today were:
Cabarrus: H. W. Calloway, Jr., a
Concord lawyer.
Swain: Frank Hyatt, clerk of court
at Bryson City.
Alexander: Hayden Millsap, .Stonj
Point merchant, and J. Hayden
; Burke. Taylorsville lawyer, to acl
as co-managers.
Last night Maxwell added a sher
iff. a lumberman and a lawyer tc
i his managerial staff. In Wayne he
. named Paul Edmundson, Goldsborc
[ attorney who has been judge of the
i county court for several years. Ir
Anson he picked Baxter F. McRae
I prominent lumberman and farmer ol
Peachland. In Gates he selected
George D. Williams. In Clay county
• P. C. Scroggs will handle Maxwell's
i affairs.
Judge Daniel Bell, for Hortor
[ headquarters, announced the first co
managership for the Lieutenant Gov
ernor. Harley R. Cabe. clerk of Su
perior court, and Lester L. Arnold
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READ THIS FIRST:
1. Bill Strickland, am susp^ct^d in
the murder of my friend. Alfred Mark
ham. rich yor»mj j< w>1>t. at a party
at the Rio Vista club. Captain of De
tectives Clyde Ml-~Donal'l Is convinced
of my innocence^, but young Coroner
Silver still doubts me. The voroner is
surprised when he barns that tracks
of hobnaih-d boots wvre found in the
sard-n n«-ar whTe Markhatu was kilb-d.
He reports he has found similar tracks
n>-*r the body of a supposed suicide.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
THE CORONER'S announce
ment. that linked my friend's death
with this new tragedy, was prob
abl> more startling to me than to
Caotain McDonald. I was speech
itSi*
The captain jumped up, leaving
his coffee cup half full. He slapped
a half dollar on the counter.
"We've gat to look into this!
Where Silver?"
on the West Side. Pathetic
case! He was hardly more than a
hoy, and the only breadwinner in
the family. Shot himself. It was
plain as day. I don't understand."
We all hopped into the captain's
car, and again were accompanied
by a fingerprint expert as we rolled
away from the police station, turn
ing westward on San Miguel
street.
it was almost 1 a. m. by now.
The theater patrons had gone home
and the streets were deserted. Cap
tain McDonald made no attempt to
slow down fur intersections. Cor
oner Silver's right hand gripped a
door handle, and I could toll from
the expression on his face that he
wished he'd driven his own car.
"Next turn to the risht," he said.
"Better slow down. It's a narrow
street."
We drew up behind another car
in front of a narrow, two-story
house. The street lamp showed
gray paint from the rickety porch
pillars. The top step was broken.
"I left one of my deputies, Hen
derson, to complete the investiga
tion," the coroner explained. "He's
probably upstairs.'
We pushed the front door open
without ceremony. Somewhere in
the back of the house, through the
open living room door, I heard a
woman weeping. It made my heart
sick.
The coroner led the way up the
worn, red-carpeted stairs to the
second floor. Henderson heard us
and came into the narrow hall
from the back bedroom. "* < seemed
surprised. "I've already sent the
body to the morgue," he said. "I
was just cleaning up a few de
tails."
The coroner nodded and followed
him through the door. "This is the
room. Gentlemen. The body was
lying on that bed. shot through the
j
right temple. The gun was lying
on the floor where it apparently
had dropped from the boy's hand.
His right arm was hanging over
the side of the bed."
"I checked the gun for finger
prints, just as a precaution," Hen
derson interrupted. "The only
prints on it corresponded to the
prints of the boy's fingers. He fired
it, all right."
"How about the door?" asked
Captain McDonald.
"Locked on the inside," Silver
told him. "We had to break the
lock to get in. The window was
locked on the inside, too."
"Rather strange for a bedroom
window to be locked, wasn't it?"
"That's what I thought. I decid
ed the boy had locked it before
he shot himself, perhaps to deaden
the sound of thr shot."
"Or perhaps lie was afraid of
something outside?" the captain
suggested.
"I thought of that, too, so I went
down and examined the vacant lot
next to this. That's where I found
the boot prints."
"Let's look at them," the cap
tain suggested.
Henderson put a hand on my
arm as I followed the others out
the door. "I don't get it," he said.
"What's the mystery? Looked like
a plain suicide to me."
"Better stay here and see that
nothing is touched," Coroner Sil
ver told him.
Again came the sound of weep
ing. "Who is she?" I whispered to
Silver.
"Mother," he informed me. "They
lived here all alone. Father's dead.
She's sick."
"They have an idea it may be
murder," I told him.
wiusueu soiuy.
I was glad we went out the front
door instead of the back, although
I felt somehow as though I were
shirking a duty. Someone ought to
be with that heart-broken woman.
"There's a light next door," I ob
served. "I'm going to see if a
neighbor won't come over."
"Good idea."
The woman next door thought
at first I was her husband return
ing home. She came to the front
door in her kimona, a beligerent
gleam in her eye. She was a formid
able person; but sympathy trans
formed her. "Oh, the poor dear!"
she exclaimed when I told her what
was the matter. "To be shure, I'll
be right over. I'd no Idea, at all,
what was all the goln's on. The
poor, poor dear—and him such a
nice boy!"
I returned to the officers exam
ining the soil of the vacant lot.
"There's no doubt about It," Mc
Donald was saying. 'These are the
same size boots as left the tracks
in the garden at the Rio Vista
club last night. The fellow walked
in here from the sidewalk and
stood below the window, then
walked back. He made no attempt
to cover up."
"That might indicate," I sug
gested, "that he had no idea he
was going to be involved in an
other death."
Captain McDonald chewed his
cigar. "He seems to be on hand
when things happen. I'd like to
meet that man! Sullivan, take
some photographs of those tracks
and make casts of them, if you
can. We'll compare them with the
tracks in the garden, and be sure."
We left Sullivan setting up his
equipment, and went back into the
house and upstairs to the death
room. I heard the back door down
stairs slam, and recognized the
voice of the neighbor as it drifted
faintly to the upstairs hall.
"Find anything unusual in the
room?" Coroner Silver asked his
assistant.
"Nothing at all. Waste basket
empty. Nothing in his clothes
worth mentioning." He hesitated.
"Of course, you already know
about the hypodermic needle."
"What's that?" asked Captain
McDonald, figuratively pricking up
his ears.
"The poor boy was a dope ad
dict," Coroner Silver told him. "His
mother apparently doesn't know
She .told us he'd been ill for
months. Aside from that, I couldn't
get much out of her."
I was looking at the floor under
the dresser. A small crumpled
piece of paper lay next to the base
board. It had been out of sight
until a breeze through the newly
opened window had moved it into
view. I picked it up and Idly
smoothed it out, then my heart
jumped. It was a sheet from a
notebook, similar to that tosBed
through the library window at the
Markham place. I
"What's that?" the captain
asked quickly.
"A warning," I said, passing It
over. "No wonder the boy locked
the window, after this came
through from the man below!"
He read it aloud: '"If you tell
the police where I was last night,
I won't keep your secret. Meet me
at midnight. You'll do the job this
time.' "
•'Something criminal here," said
the coroner. "Henderson, did you
find out anything more about this
boy—where he worked?" .
"Yes, sir. He was cook's helper
at the Rio Vista club."
(To Be Continued)
regisier 01 cieecis, wt'u'
M;icon county.
Judge Bell also released appoint
ment of I. T. Speaks of Statesville
as Horton's Iredell county manager.
Mr. Speaks is a past state president
ol' the Patriotic Order of Sons ol
America.
County managers announced to
date by the candidntes are:
Maxwell: Anson, Baxter F. McRae;
Avery, George M. Bowman; Burke,
State Senator H. J. Hatcher; Clay,
P. C. Scroggs; Cleveland, Clyde
Nolan: Craven, Sheriff Richard B.
Lane; Cumberland, Dr. O. C. Me
Fayden; Durham, J. F. Barfield;
Edgecombe, George M. Fountain;
Forsyth, Calvin Graves, Jr.; Gaston,
P. C. Froneberger; Gates. Sheriff
George D. Williams; Graham, L. W.
Wilson; Harnett, James Best; Hay
wood, Walter Crawford; Hyde. T. C.
Hyde; Iredell, Fred Denton; Jones,
S. Pollock; Lenior, Meriwether
Lewis; Lincoln, S. Cashion; Meck
lenburg, C. Burwell: Mitchell. Mrs.
Myrtle Ellis; Onslow, D. Russell: Per
quimans, J. E. Winslow: Pitt, Harvey
Ward; Transylvania, Bert Freeman;
Wayne, Paul Edmundson.
Broughton: Alexander, Hayden
Burke and Hayden Millsap; Cabar
rus, H. W. Calloway, Jr.; Caldwell, j
Committee of Twelve; Cleveland,
Roscoe Lutz; Davie. P. S. Young:
Henderson, Otis Powers; Hyde, M. A.
Matthews: Iredell, J. T. Gillespie;
Sampson, J. Lofton Kerr; Swain,
Frank Hyatt; Yancey, Dover Fouts.l
Horton: Caswell, John O. Gunn;l
Columbus, J. W. Hall: Davie, Mrs.
R. H. Hayes; Gaston, Fred Ar
wood; Iredell, I. T. Speaks; Lenior,
Paul LeRoque; Macon, H. Ii. Cabe
and L. L. Arnold; Onslow, G. W.
Phillips: Stokes, Gid Mitchell; Yad-1
kin, G. S. Williams; Yancey, F. W.
Howell.
Gravely: Harnett, State Senator!
Fred Thomas.
Farley Lauds Record
Of Democrats
(Continued *rom Pase One)
administration and all its works for
seven long years the (Republican)
party has now discovered that it
may be compelled to indorse the
major administration policies xxx".
Farley spoke at a convention in
which flowed a strong current of
sentiment for President Roosevelt if
he wants a third term and for Far
ley if "the chief decidcd to retire.
I
Woodring Defends
Sale Of Warplanes
(Continuer From Page One)
Woodring said," will be liberalized
to accomplish the foregoing, to fur
ther stimulate productive capacity
and to insure improved types of
planes for our ' forces. Each such
case must be decided on its merits.
Prior to the release of any of our de
signs for sale abroad the manufact
urer must negotiate with the war de
partment for such changes in those
models as are under contract for the
United States army in order to in
sure that improved types of planes
are delivered to the war department.
"No military secrets wi.ll be di
vulged or released." *
Cotton Gains
Few Points
New York, March 27.—(AP)—
Cotton futures opened 2 higher to 1
lower.
A good demand for July cotton,
plus trade support and foreign buy
i ing, lifted futures 6 to 9 points dur- J
ing the first hour.
Around mid-day prices were ahead
4 to 10 points. 1
u. 2>. Oteei
Leads Rally
New York, March 27.—(AP)—The
stock market rallied smartly today
under the leadership of steels, and
gains or 1 to 4 points appealed
throughout the list.
The AP average of 60 selected
stocks was up half a point at noon
and although profit taking appeared
toward the fourth hour the level held
fairly well.
The spark for the >»lion was set
off by United States Steel Corp.,
which late yesterday announced a $1
a common share dividend.
American Radiator 8 3-4
American Telephone 172 1-2
American Tob B 89 1-4
Anaconda 28 7-8
Atlantic Coast Line 17 3-4
Atlantic Refining 22 7-8
Bendix Aviation 34 3-4
Bethlehem Steel 76 1-2
Chrysler 86 1-8
Columbia Gas & Elec Co .. 5 5-8
Commercial Solvents 15 3-8
Consolidated Oil 7 3-8
Curtiss Wright 10 1-4
DuPont 186 3-8
Electric Pow & Light .... 5
General Electric 38 1-2
General Motors 54 3-8
Liggett & Myers B 108 7-8
Montgomery Ward & Co .. 53 3-4
Reynolds Tob B 41 3-4
Southern Railway 16
Standard Oil N J 43 3-4
U S Steel 57 3-8
Closing Grain
Sl'IT AGAINST RAILWAY
OPENS AT FAYETTEVILLE
Fayetteville, Marcli 27.—A jury
obtained a Superior court here for
trial a 830,000 damage suit brought
by T. A. Jackson, administrator of
H. D. Fowler, against the Atlantic
Coast Line railroad and the Petro
leum Carrier corporation for Fow
ler's death in a collision, between an
A. C. L. freight train and a gasoline
truck on the morning of May 6.
Fowler was a brakeman of the
freight which collided with the load
ed gasoline truck at the Russell
street crossing. He was fatally burn
ed along with two other trainmen
and the truck driver. Of several
similar suits, this is the first to come
to trial. Nineteen lawyers are ap
pearing in the case.
WHEAT.
May .
July .
Sept. .
OATS.
May .
July .
Sept. .
CORN.
May .
July .
Sept.
105 1-4
103 7-8
103 3-8
56 5-8
57 5-8
58 1-8
41 5-8
36 1-2
33 1-4
Capital Gossip
By HENRY AVERILL.
Raleigh, March 27.—Bill Fenner
of Rocky Mount is going to support
Lee Gravely for governor, according
to recent news stories; but Gravely
wasn't Bill Fenner's first choice for
the Executive Mansion—that was
Bill Fenner. **
The House will next January be
without one of its really popular
veterans. W. W. (Cap) Eagles of
Edgecombe is noi going to make the
race this year, on his physicians ad
vice.
"Maine Will Have White Easter,"
read headlines in a North Carolina
paner on Sunday morning.
In that respect some of the Demo
jany.
Granberry Dickson. Horton press r
?h hef, is a serious sort or chap from /
whom little in the way of humor is v
?xpected; but he has a dry wit, just ■
the same.
Tuesday he gave your Raleigh re
porter announcement that a superior •
court clerk and a register of deeds
had been named Horton co-managers.
"Mr. Broug'nton just announced '
he'd named_a court clerk as a county
manager," remarked your reporter.
"Well, that still leaves us a register
bf deeds up on him," came back
Granberry without the laintest trace
of a smile.
Judge Walter A. Siler, loyal sup
porter of his fellow citizen from
Chatham, Lieutenant Governor W.
P. Horton, visited all the guberna
torial headquarters except Brough
ton's on Tuesday.
"Mr. Broughton had already claim
ed ten districts and I see where he
says this morning that he'll get the
Eleventh, so maybe we'd all just as
well shut up and hold a good old
"If you do decide to oloc'o
le know in time to got <■!••■ ,
iBC store and lay in a , w "
/ake", he added as a part it
NOTICE.
We have this day qualified
he Clerk of the Sup< ioi
i/ance County. North (
Sxecutors under the La.-,
restament of our Aunt. ii •,
Mollie P. Hargrove, ar.r] i;
lotify all persons holding
igainst her estate to pros • .
to us or to our Attorney .
/ear from this date or ti.
De pleaded in bar to any ..
Persons indebted to said t ■ .
requested to make jjr«•::
ment.
This the 20th day of Febi -
1940.
ROBERT B. TAYLOR
WILLIAM M BELLAMY
EMMETT H. BELLAMY.
Executors under the Last
and Testament of the L.
Mollie P. Hargrove
J. P. & J. H. Zollico'.ler,
Attorneys.
21-28-6-13-20-27
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