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DETECTIVE FLAYED
AT SPYJjEARING
Posed as Agent of U. S. Gov
ernment, Workers’ Offi
cial Charges.
BY JOHN C. HENRY.
Charles Rigby, Toledo United Auto
mobile Workers’ official, made a dra
matic Identification of Ray 1*. Burn
side, Pinkerton detective. In a crowded
hearing room before the Senate Civil
Liberties Committee today.
“There he is," exclaimed Rigby, “the
fellow-; I've waited a long time
for this!”
Rigby's identification followed his
testimony that Burnside, alias Bron
aon, alias Brunswick and numerous
other names by his own admission,
had come to his home in search of
Information in labor conditions in the
Toledo plant of the Electric Auto-Lite
Co.
Burnside, then using the name of
Bronson, represented himself as a rep
resentative of the N. R. A. and offered
Rigby $20 weekly for the desired in
formation, Rigby said. Thinking
Burnside was a Government official,
Rigby submitted weekly reports for a
month, but then realized he had been
“framed,” he testified.
Fondly Thinks of Tar, Feathers.
“The next time he came to my
home I told him I'd get him,” Rigby
testified passionately. “Now I’m doing
it.”
“You don't mean physical violence,
do you?” asked Senator Thomas of
Utah.
“No,” Rigby answered, then said as
an afterthought: “But some tar and
feathers would go good.”
At this point, the committee called
Burnside, a witness last September in
earlier hearings, to the stand.
“Is that the man you knew as Bron
■on?” Thomas asked Rigby.
“Yes,” Rigby answered, as he glared
at the husky agent, “and I tell you
John Dillinger had greater respect for
decent people than this man.”
* Burnside then denied the charge of
misrepresentation, but admitted try
ing to “make a detective” of Rigby.
Asked About Code Violations.
“I told him I represented ‘certain
people,’ but was not free to say who,”
Burnside testified. He said, however,
that he had asked Rigby for instances
of code violations.
Burnside identified himself as
assistant superintendent of Pinker
ton's Detroit office, a position which
he described as “one of the lowest
officials—not speaking in a funny
way.” His office has accounts with
General Motors and Libby Owens
Ford Plate Glass Co., Burnside said.
' Does Pinkerton have any arrange
ment to report to General Motors on
their findings in Libby Owens-Ford?”
Thomas asked.
"I don’t believe so, unless in a gen
eral way,” Burnside answered.
Questioning then revealed that he
had sought to employ one Charles
Forwick, a union official In the Libby
Owens-Ford plant.
Furey’a Spy Effort* Told.
Previously, the committee heard tes
timony and affidavits concerning the
espionage and union sabotaging ef
forts of one Bart Furey, identified as
an operative of Corporations Ai#U
laries in the Auto-Lite plant. Furey
entered the plant in 1934,, joined
U. A. W. local, became an official and
then attempted to break the organiza
tion, the evidence showed.
One of the affidavits was from a
Mrs. Edith Roberts, union member,
who said Furey asked her to become
traitoress to the union and, when she
refused, said: "You keep your mouth
ahut about this.”
Another affidavit submitted by
Homer Martin, U. A. W. president.
j. M. Smith, Corporation Auxil
iaries president, and Dan G. Roes,
general manager, were on the stand
as this testimony was unfolded.
Reluctant to Tell Identities.
As counsel for Ross objected to
disclosing to the committee the identi
ties Of certain undercover agents,
Senator Thomas asked the witnesses
If they were willing to admit that
espionage work was damaging to per
sons involved.
“It makes them virtual outcasts,”
Ross admitted. "I’ll admit It is dam
aging to Individuals—when they are
found out. They Incur possibilities
of violence and injury.”
Establishing the fact that the agents
Involved were men of sufficient re
sponsibility to know In what buainess
they were engaged, Senator Thomas
demanded the names be turned over.
After some further slight delay a tele
gram with the identities was sub
mitted. Three men were listed.
Meanwhile, the Senate Investigating
Committee is preparing to rally its
Capitol Hill supporters during the
next few days in a desperate battle
to prevent hamstringing through lack
of funds.
Two battle fronts already are drawn,
one of them being over Senate action
on a resolution calling for $50,000 to
continue the Inquiry, and the second
being over a rider attached in the
House to the deficiency bill by which
the borrowing of employes would be
prevented.
Resolution by Thomas.
Passage of the $50,000 resolution
Would remove any Immediate threat
to the Investigation through the rider.
Introduced yesterday by Senator
Thomas, the resolution was re
ferred to the Committee on Edu
cation and Labor. After action by
that full group it will go to the Com
mittee on Audit and Control before
being reported back to the Senate.
At the same time, Senator Thomas
$aid last night, efforts will be made to
eliminate the House rider to the ap
propriation bill. With only $15,000
as its original appropriation, the com
mittee has accomplished mo6t of its
investigation thus far through “bor
rowed” agents from the National Labor
Relations Board.
Bonds
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for bank investments "only in greatly
reduced quantities/* the St. Louis
banker asserted:
"Under the social security act, ap
proximately 3 per cent of the Na
, tlon’s business pay roll will this year
be diverted into the reserve fund,
which must be invested in Govern
ment bonds.
“In other words, this act will oper
ate to remove increasing amounts of
Government securities from the in
vestment portfolios of the banks.”
Smith reminded the bankers and
financial experts, attending the con
ference from 18 States and the Dis
trict of Columbia, that banks today
hold over 60 per cent of the Gov
ernment debt.
a
Washington
W ay side
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SOFA.
ARTIN SMITH is going *o
trust no one to help him
furnish his new apartment,
from now on. There is very
sound reason why he should consider
it a one-man Job.
One of the things Mr. Smith wanted
(still does, indeed) was a sofa of a
certain type. He visited an auction
house recently, found Just what he
wanted, went home and deputised his
maid to represent him the day of the
sale.
“Take this $20,” he told her, "sit on
the sofa until they start bidding, then
go the limit of the bill if necessary.”
The maid carried out the first part
of the instruction perfectly. She sat
on the sofa and that was all. Long
before they got to the sale of the piece
she was asleep. And she continued to
sleep until the eventual purchaser
came to wake her so the item could
be moved.
It went for $11, just to make the
story sadder.
NEITHER.
A lot of comment has gone the
rounds since that rainy inaugutal
day, but at least one woman man
aged to sum up her opinion in a
few words. You may not have
heard of it.
She came hurrying info Ward
man Park Hotel late on the after
noon of the inaugural. A friend
called to her, "Have you been to
the paradef" She replied:
“My dear, I’m neither a duck
nor a Democrat!"
* * * *
TRA-LA.
’T'HE pansy beds of the Department
A of Agriculture on the Pburteenth
street side of the greenhouses at the
Intersection of Constitution avenue
are brilliant with color. Not a few
straggling blossoms greet the passers
by but dozens of blooms larger than a
silver dollar are out In the pristine
color and verdant freshness of Spring.
Speaking of pansy beds recalls the
time the scientists of the Department
of Agriculture were confounded and
enlightened by an old-lime colored
messenger. Some years ago two large
pansy beds were part ef the landscap
ing in front of the old Administration
Building and*every Spring one-half of
one of these beds produced pansy
blossoms weeks before the other half.
Numtrous scientific explanations were
advanced by the learned men of the
Department and the phenomenon was
debated heatedly year after year. .
One day the messenger passed as
two plant authoMtlea were fingering
the soil and gauging the'rays of the
sun. "’Deed Mr. Professor, I can tell
yqp what makes them plants grow.
The sjoam pipes that warms the
typings gosa right underneath part
of that flower bed and when those
flowers have their feet warm day and
night they Just got to grow.”
FATE.
A FAST talker among Washington
motorista had to be fast yesterday
morning to get his sentence finished
before fate smote him an awful
wallop.
From a very considerable speed, the
story comes to the column, he made a
sensational stop just an Inch from
the bumper of the car ahead.
"Whew.” he sighed, "that probably
was the fastest stop made in the
history of the automoBILE!’*
The stress on the last syllable was
due to the fact that the car behind
plunged into his machine just as he
finished the boast. His car was driven
into the one ahead with more force
than if he had hit it in the first place.
* m * *
DESCRIBED.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT agents
" were asked recently to check evi
dence In a criminal case at Pittsburgh,
Pm. To assist them in Identifying one
of the persons connected with the
case, G-men were provided with a
memorandum containing the following
description:
"Age; 42.
"Hair; Questionable.
"Teeth: One gold tooth*
Justice Department records don't
show if the suspect was found.
* * * *
HASTE.
Two days ago, a Washington
man whose family was unreported
in the Kentucky flood tone hopped
an airplane and headed for the
area. Yesterday a wire came from
the family that all was well. Now,
Washington friends of the man are
hoping that they will be able to
find him some time soon to pass
the message along. He is unre
ported, but they feel he is safe.
Auditorium
(Continued From First Page.)
part of the structure. He recom
mended 16,000 as the maximum seat
ing capacity that should be sought.
Senator Robinson told the commit
tee that "it doesn’t seem necessary
to discuss the need” for such an
auditorium in the Capital. He was
the first witness.
"In what I say," he continued, "it
is assumed there is a general recog
nition of the fact. Qnphasis was
given to the need in connection with
the recent inaugural ceremonies. That
was only one incident. Some of us
have recognised the situation for a
great many years.”
Egg Weight 7 Ounce*.
C. R. Rhodes of Danville. Hi., ex
hibited a 7-ounce egg ha said one of
his hens laid nctaUp, __
f
Moscow Prosecutor Shouts
Blame at Two of 17
Defendants.
Br the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, January 28.—Andrey
Vlshlnsky, prosecutor of 17 confessed
Trotskyists on triad for treason, shout
ed in court today two of the defend
ants—Karl Radek and Gregory Piati
kofT—“have fallen so low they have
become the advance guard of inter
national fascism."
The prosecutor’! declaration came
as he began to sum up evidence
against the 17, who have confessed
they tried to overthrow the govern
ment of Joseph Stalin.
Radek, once Russia's foremoat news
paper commentator, and PiatikofT, for
mer assistant commissar for heavy
industry, are “old Trotskyists,’* Vlsh
insky declared.
•'Here we see the terrible picture of
a monstrous crime,” the prosecutor
asserted before a court room filled
to capacity.
Defendants Attentive.
His remarks drew the careful at
tention of the defendants, sitting to
gether in a special section of the
military collegium of the supreme
court.
Radek entered the room Just as
Vishinsky launched into a review of
the government's allegation*. He
shook hands with several of those
sitting in the prisoners’ section.
Russian masses clamored today for
another trial to bring to justice others
they suspect are involved in the al
leged ‘'Trotzkyist'* plot to overthrow
the Communist government.
Workers meeting throughout the
nation adopted resolutions demanding
formal charges against the so-called
“Rightist Center.”
Conspicuous Figures Named.
They named especially such con
spicuous figures in the Soviet as Nico
lai Bukharin, recently removed as edi
tor of the newspaper Izvestia, and
Alexis Rykoff, who was premier of the
Soviet Union six years.
Both Bukharin and Rykoff have
been involved in the testimony of 17
confessed conspirators, whose trial for
treason, being heard today behind
closed doors, is expected to end soon.
Demands that the alleged plotters be
sentenced to death—a plea Prosecutor
Andrey Vishinsky is expected to de
liver to the Justices of the Military
Collegium of the Supreme Court to
night—have been adopted throughout
the Soviet Union.
Realty
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Dirksen that real estate taxes should
not be Increased.
Meanwhile, Chairman King of the
Senate District Committee, during a
visit to the White House today, told
President Roosevelt that he believes
Jacobs report on United States—Dis
trict fiscal relations contains some
•‘valuable suggestions and recom
mendations.’*
The Utah Senator indicated he had
in mind sections of the report deal
ing with revision of local taxes. The
Senator reiterated the view he has
expressed many times in the past
that taxes on homes should be kept
as light as possible and new laws en
acted to provide for local income and
inheritance taxes.
Open Mind on Formula.
As to the three-point formula laid
down in the Jacobs report as a basis
of settling the fiscal relations contro
versy, Senator King said he had not
finished studying It and therefore still
has an open mind toward It.
Senator King did not divulge any
viewa the President may have ex
pressed during their conference.
MaJ. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor
and budget officer, has estimated the
District would face a deficit of nearly
*10,000,000 In the coming fiscal year
If Congress approves the proposed
1938 budget and adopts the Jacobs
flsael relations plan.
In fixing February 16 as the date
for beginning public hearings, the
subcommittee deliberately delayed a
headlong rush into its part of the
study of the Jacobs report to give
the Appiopriation Subcommittee time
to determine the amount of the Dis
trict budget in the coming fiscal
year and to decide whether the lump
sum Federal payment should be
scrapped, as recommended in the
Jacobs report. Chairman Kennedy
explained it would be futile for his
subcommittee to consider new tax
legislation before knowing how much
additional revenue would have to be
raised to meet budget requirements.
Serious Study Urged.
"We can build up a tax structure
after we know the amount that will
have to be raised,” he said.
In the meantime, Kennedy urged
the subcommittee to make a serious
study of the Jacobs report, as well as
the voluminous brief on fiscal rela
tions filed with the Jacobs Committee
several months ago by the Citizens’
Joint Committee on Fiscal Relations.
J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency en
gineer, who directed the latest fiscal
relations survey, is to be the first wit
ness called before the subcommittee.
Chairman Collins and his Appropria
tion Subcommittee are to be Invited
to sit with the Kennedy Subcommittee
during the hearings.
Kennedy also will ask Jacobs to
bring with him members of his tech
nical staff. The Advisory Committee,
which aided Jacobs, also is to be sum
moned, as well as Maj. Donovan. The
Advisory Committee is composed of
George McAnemy, president of the
Title Guaranty Trust Co., New York
City; Clarence A. Dykstra, city man
ager of flood-stricken Cincinnati, and
James Martin, chairman of the Ken
tucky State Tax Commission.
Another subcommittee, of which
Representative Nichols, Democrat, of
Oklahoma is chairman, will consider
19 proposed statutory changes in the
Jacobs report. Nichols, however, has
not made definite plans for his sub
committee, and indications are It will
be next week before It meets.
Obtains Double Sentence.
OMAHA, Nebr. OP).—Clinton Bader,
59, was annoyed when the judge im
posed a one-year sentence on him.
It wasn’t long enough, he complained,
to cure him of liquor and burglary
habits. The judge reconsidered, made
It two years.
Zionist Group to Meet.
The Washington Zionist District will
hold its midyear meeting at S:30
o’clock tonight in the drill room of
the Jewish Community Center, Six
teenth and Q streets. After reports of
the activities during the past term,
John Safer will review the hearings
before the Royal Commission In Pal
estine, _ .
MRS. BUNKER WED
TO AUGUSTO ROSSO
Paris Ceremony Dissolves
Pre-Depression “Bachelor
Diplomats- Club” Here.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, January 28.—Augusto
Rosso, Italian Ambassador to Moscow,
was married today to Mrs. F. Wilkin
son Bunker, Washington society
matron, bringing to Anal dissolution a
pre-depression "bachelor diplomats'
club" in the United States Capital.
They were married at the Italian
consulate. William C. Bullitt, United
States Ambassador to Paris, was a
witness for Mrs. Bunker. Vittorio
Cerruti, Italian Ambassador to Paris,
acted in that capacity for Rosso.
Rosso was the last of the three
"bachelor club” members to marry.
Others of the trio, who met first in
Washington as councilors for their
governments, are Felipe Espil, still
the Argentine Ambassador to Wash
ington, and Juan Francisco de Car
denas, former Spanish Minister.
Rosso was transferred to Moscow
in October, 1936. after serving three
years as Italian Ambassador to Wash
ington. He and his bride expected
to leave immediately for Moscow,
postponing a honeymoon trip until
quieter days come to Europe.
INTRODUCED IN CHICAGO.
Russo and Mrs. Bunker Frequently
Met in Washington.
Augusto Rosso, Italian Ambassador
to Moscow, and his bride, Mrs. F. Wil
kinson Bunker, were In and out of
the Washington social whirl for many
years before they met. They finally
were introduced in Chicago.
Mrs. Bunker, a Washington-born,
Chicago-reared society girl, was out
West when Rosso came here first as
Embassy secretary In 1910. He was
in a similar post In Athens, Greece,
when she made her debut in 1919.
She returned to Washington from
Denver after her divorce and was in
vited to a formal Embassy dinner four
years ago by the then Ambassador
Rosso, but she was unable to go.
Then, In July, 1933, she was visit
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Lawrence Wilkinson, in Chicago when
Ambassador Rosso flew there with
Gen. Italo Balbo for a World Fair
tour.
They met, and after their return to
Washington, saw each other frequent
ly. Both like horseback riding, music
and dogs.
Washington society recalled today
that Rosso's old friend. Felipe Espil,
present Argentine Ambassador to
Washington and a close friend of Mrs.
Wallis Simpson, also married a
wealthy American woman. He was
wed to Mrs. Courtney Letts Borden
in 1933.
Senor Don Juan Francisco de Car
denas, third member of a famed
‘‘bachelor diplomats club" here, chose
a Rumanian girl, Luclen Mano. Car
denas, who was Ambassador here until
three years ago, has since resigned
from his country's foreign office.
Flood
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Army engineers dynamited the Bird’s
Point-New Madrid “fuse plug," to re
lieve pressure of the beleaguered city,
rose steadily in the 131,000-acre spill
way basin today. Hundreds who were
driven from their lowland homes hud
dled in concentration camps behind
the basin's setback levee—and won
dered if it would hold. The onswer
was expected tonight.
While Federal life-saving forces
speeded mobilisation for action in the
deep South, in the event the mighty
Mississippi again conquers its banks,
high Army officials at Washington,
D. C., expressed belief that the re
moval of families below Cairo could
be confined to small low-lying areas.
Craig Warns Area Chief.
Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, United
States Army chief of stall, said the
possibility of general evacuation was
remote. He warned corps area com
manders. however:
“It appears that a very difficult
fight must be made to hold the main
line levees along the Mississippi below
Cairo, particularly in the Memphis
district."
At New Orleans engineers hoped
to divert a portion of the waters Into
Lake Pontchartrain.
While the Ohio showed signs of
loosening its grip upon a wide area
between Pittsburgh and Cairo, 111., it
became apparent the full story of the
havoc will not be known for days.
Louisville, once gay Derby town, now
desolate, buried it; dead in trenches
as the flood waters began to subside.
The number of lives lost was a matter
of conjecture. Mayor Neville Miller
said there were 200 dead after the
city's health officer admitted the
bodies of 130 victims had been re
covered.
Tension eased as the river started
to recede, although sickness was in
creasing, electricity was shut off, water
rationed and sanitation problems In
creased hourly.
The threat of disease lingered in
Cincinnati, but there was hope and
good cheer as rehabilitation efforts
were begun. Water flowed into the
mains from artesian wells after a
famine, but the supply was still short
of the city’s needs.
The War Department was advised
its forces were ready on a moment’s
notice to evacuate by land and water
residents of any areas threatened with
inundation when the flood crest pours
down the Mississippi next week.
"It appears likely that flood waters
will pass down the valley without
causing inundation,” was the message
Maj. Gen. E. M. Markham, chief of
United States engineers, issued through
Lieut. Col. Eugene Reyboid, district
chief at Memphis.
The immediate battleground in the
struggle to control the rain-swollen
torrent In its surge to the Gulf of
Mexico centered around Cairo, nes
tling on a point at the confluence of
the Ohio and Mississippi Riven.
The 1,300 residents of Tiptonvllle
disregarded a warning to flee as the
Mississippi threatened to cut a new
channel across Snaky Bend and In
undate the Tennessee city, not far
from Cairo.
Safe so far from being engulfed,
Cairo, bulwarked behind a 80-foot sea
wall, expressed confidence it would
win its battle.
“Just tell the world we’re here and
will be for a long, long time,” Mayor
August Bode declared.
As the flood waters poured into the
vast $31,000,000 spillway just below
Cairo, engineers said they probably
would reach the top of the basin to
night. Then they will await the erect
of the flood, with expectations It will
hit Cairo about February 3 and Mem
phis four days Utaa,
The Cruise of the Bouncing Betsy
• -
Little Known Highways Lead to Beautiful Gulf Scenery En
Route to Florida.
■
Continuing the narrative of country" now, according to report, landscape accented with clumps and
“The Cruise of the Bouncing Florida was said to be well equipped stretches of tropical vegetation. Much
Betty" taken from the log of a with trailer camps where one could of the way the road was deserted.
trailer trip from Det Moines, Iowa, drive In, connect up with sewer, elec- There were few habitations and the
to Florida in the middie of the trie lights and water and really get paving was perfect. We did not meet
Winter. 1936-7. the full benefit of all the facilities a dozen cars in four hours of driving.
- provided In our migratory mansion. Why more tourists have not driven
BY 3. N. DARLING. We looked forward to our first full along this extarordinary highway Is
TUT vmrDTU TliV realization of trailer life when we something of a myttery. We haw
■lint ruurvirt mi, reached Pensacola at nightfall. Alas, encountered no one who has seen it
6:45 a.m.—Up to a bright, warm there were tourist apartments galore and only one who had even heard of
day, excellent breakfast in the trailer and well patronized, but the new it. Perhaps the explanation lies in
—cooking and housekeeping in the trailer camp which was reported to be the fact that It is a toll road and by
trailer becoming simplified and great- in process of construction about 4 the time the average tourist has come
ly speeded up with practice. First miles out of town was not yet ready through the maze of toll bridges in
two days we spent a great deal of for occupancy, and we had to rent a Southern Louisiana and Mississippi he
"They are a good-natured lot, the trailer folk."
time and effort trying to remember
into which of the 54 compartments
we had placed everything, from the
saucepans and condensed millc to the
salt and pepper shakers. (Glad the
Lord didn’t call me to be a clerk in a
hardware store.) All local consultants
advised best route to Florida was
straight east on No. 80 to Montgom
ery, Ala., then south on No. 131 to
Tallahassee. Advisers on that point
were unanimous, the very imposing
cabin in order to be permitted to pull
our caravan in oft the road.
THE FIFTH DAY.
7:45 am.—Breakfast finished and
dishes stored away ready to start.
Except for cooking dishes, knives,
forks and spoons we used paper uten
sils, paper tablecloths and paper nap
kins. After meals they all went into
the little stove and these throwaways
"The best route to Florida is straight east.”
porter in the hotel, at least 6 feet 4
Inches tall, black, and all dressed up in
uniform with gold buttons, who held
forth in the “information” booth, was
certain there was no read south from
Jackson to the Gulf, and proved it by
pulling out a road map of Minnesota.
Pointing with his finger to St. Paul,
he said “Hyah youall is at Jackson.
Nobody evah go souf. Dey all take
dis here road straight eass' to Mont
gomery.” With that he moved his
finger along the red line which, from
Jong experience, we easily recognized
as the main highway from St. Paul to
Milwaukee.
Wanted to Get Down to Gulf.
Garage manager and oil station at
tendants confirmed the porter's wis
dom, albeit without the aid of a Min
nesota road map. We were, however,
obsessed with the desire to get down
to the Gulf of Mexico as soon as pos
sible, and on one of our road maps
there was a faint line, frequently in
tercepted with dots and marked "49,"
which indicated that there was at
least some kind of a road almost
straight south from Jackson, Miss., to
Gulfport.
In the face of the unanimity or
opinion it seemed foolhardy to think
of going any other way but via Mont
gomery, but Just outside of town, pro
ceeding along the approved highway,
we came upon a fork of the road. The
south fork was marked No. 49. What
whimsy suddenly determined us to
discard both road maps and general
advice Is hard to explain, but turn
off we did and it proved the best
stretch of road and the most inter
esting day of driving we had struck
since leaving home.
Thirty miles out we were surprised
to note that we were approaching
Piney Woods School, that remarkable
monument which Laurence Jones,
State University of Iowa Negro grad
uate, had built, to the everlasting
credit of himself and the great bene
fit of the poverty-stricken blacks who
dwell in the Piney Woods of Missis
sippi. Laurence Jones and his cara
van of Negro singers from the school
had serenaded us often at home, and
checks from many Iowa citizens had
gone to make the school a success.
We turned in at the gate, trailer and
all, and within a quarter of a mile
were enveloped In an idea so great
and a work so fundamentally worth
while that when we left our trailer
had shrunk to the proportions of a
pint cup and the people inside it to
pygmies.
Highway Follows Shore.
We reached Gulfport and caught a
first glimpse of the Gulf of Mexico
Itself through the foliage of giant live
oaks, palm trees and magnolias that
give charm to this quiet and lovely
Winter resort. Out of Gulfport on
one of the handsomest highways In
the United States, which some fore
sighted individual had had the wis
dom to lay out for 150 miles, almost
all of the way right along the water’s
edge, through Biloxi, Pascagoula, Mo
bile, Ala., to Pensacola, Fla. It was a
wonderful afternoon and at lunch
(which we ate with the trailer pulled
off to the side of the road on the
sandy beach of the Gulf) we de
clared that - the trailer had almost
paid for itself In that one event.
Purtbanaora, we were ta “traUeg
«
furnished all the heat necessary to
make the trailer comfortable through
out the day from Jackson, Miss., on.
We began to meet trailer* it every
turn of the road. There were big
trailers, little trailers, occasionally a
very elaborate one and frequently the
homemade variety.
Owning a trailer is just like joining
a fraternity. Our new brothers and
sisters hailed us as we passed, came
over to call the minute we passed at
the side of the road or pulled up for
gas. Experiences were freely ex
changed, even down to the most in
timate details of personal behavior.
The third degree, very intimate and
guaranteeing a permanent bond of
friendship, was to discover a mutual
acquaintance who had lived in the
same town or married a classmate
whose room-mate in college had often
spoken of an uncle who lived near
you. They are a good-natured lot, the
trailer folk, mostly middle-aged, who
are having a fling at freedom from
drudgery for the first time. If it
were not for the advent of the trailer
they could never have afforded such
an adventure, and they love It.
Road Largely Deserted.
8:15 am.—Just outside the east
ern border of the residence section
of Pensacola Is a little narrow gravel
lane with no road sign to mark the
turn unless you are farsighted. About
100 yards down this lane is a little
yellow road sign with the number ■•98"
on it. Don’t miss it if you come this
way. for it leads to the entrance of the
"Gulf Coast Highway,” an ail-day
drive along the most picturesque
stretches of Gulf shoreline in all
Florida. Most of the way you travel
in full view of the turquoise waters
of the Gulf—mile after mile along a
narrow spit of sand so white that if
your windows were not all open to the
soft Spring breeeee you would swear
It was drifted enow, and the whole
has exhausted his resources. But the
toll was only $1.30 for car, three pas
sengers and trailer, and It covered
the driving time from 9 in the morn
ing until early afternoon.
6:45 p.m.—Through Tallahassee at
dusk, and because there was no trailer
camp there we hastened on to Ocala,
where we were assured a new trailer
camp with all the modern conven
iences had Just been completed. Ocala
offered every prospect of -a pleasant
night, except that the new trailer
camp was not completed and was 4
miles away on a side road. The town
looked hospitable, so we picked a
place where it seemed we would not
be in the way and pulled up to the
curb, only to find printed in large
black letters at frequent intervals:
"Cars not permitted to stand over
night." The town had evidently had its
Infestation of trailers at an earlier date
and taken an antidote. Throughout
the town the curbs bore the warning
to overnight parkers. We were to learn
next day just what trailers, multiplied
to their nth power could mean to a
town which played host to this mod
ern type of travelers. 8o few of the
Winter resorts have yet provided ac
commodations where trailers may be
switched off onto a siding, there to
be left, like so many freight cars,
where they will not interfere with
traffic or obstruct the view of the
surrounding landscape, that any Flor
ida town which hangs out a welcome
sign to trailers immediately becomes a
mecca and soon looks like one of
Paul Rainey's pictures of an elephant
herd in Africa. The trailer is a great
boon to the traveler, but it is a prob
lem to know where to park it.
(Coprrlfht. 1937, New York Tribune, Inc.)
_
(The fourth of this series will
appear tomorrow.)
Cannon
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among other things, "I desire to re
state over my signature that he (Can
non) Is a shameless violator of the
corrupt practices act” and that he “il
legally concealed all this money”—
referring to *83,500 donated by Jame
son.
Robert H. McNeill, attorney for
Cannon, explained to the court that
a combination of circumstances, in
cluding the bishop’s pot*- health and
the serious Illness of his wife, prevent
ed his client from appearing in court
today.
McNeill told the jury Bishop Can
non is “a minister of the gospel, a
former teacher %nd a bishop of the
Methodist church—a position of great \
responsibility,” and that the charges
made by Representative Tinkham were
“a malicious and deliberate attempt
to injure Bishop Cannon's reputa
tion.”
“We charge,” McNeill said, “that
Mr. Tinkham meant to charge that
Bishop Cannon was guilty of a crimi
nal offense and that he profited per
sonally from this money.”
McNeUl said he would show that
“as a matter of fact, all of Jame
son's money was reported legally and
that there was no willful intent to
violate any law.”
"Ws sought our first glimpse of. the Quit of Mexico."
Provision at Water Front Is
Asked at Hearing of Army
Engineers.
Amid general approval of plans for
improvement of the Washington Chan
nel water front and predictions that
the yacht and small boat business
here in the next five years will grow
tremendously, Army engineers, holding
a public hearing yesterday afternoon
i at the Navy Department, were asked
to make provision for house boats, as
one method of beating the National
Capital's hteh rents. Water excursions
to Washington from New England and
Baltimore were seen as a possibility by
the Board of Trade.
First Lieut. William J. Matteson.
district engineer for the War De
partment, Washington area, and
his assistant^, listened to a plea
that adequate automobile parking fa
cilities be included in the improve
ment program. House boats and
parking struck the only discordant
notes in an otherwise harmonious
gathering, attended by some 40 rep
resentatives of water front interests—
yachtsmen, commercial steamers,
business men and District and Fed
eral Government officials.
The Army engineers will study tha
information gleaned yesterday and in
corporate practical suggestions in it
into detailed plans for the project,
already authorized by Congress, which
will cost $1,650,000 and be spread ovsr
from six to eight years. Actually,
only $15,000 is now available for the
drawing of plans and a force is already
at work under the direction of Charles
A. Chaney, senior structural engineer,
in the United States Engineer Office.
Lieut. Matteson and E. A. Schmitt,
senior engineer, are supervising this
work.
Piers to Point Downstream. (
Not a single opponent appeared to
the pjan to extend the pierhead lines
ehannelward from 10 to 70 feet and
steamboat interests saw no objection
to this, Inasmuch as plans for the
new piers call for the slips to be con
structed at an angle to the shore line,
pointing downstream. This is calcu
lated to afford more clearance for
maneuvering for the large craft in
Washington Harbor.
Dr. F. S. Bernard of the Flood Gate
Boat Yard called the attention of
the Army engineers to the point that
they were making no provision in the
plan for house boats and asserted
that modern craft of this type am
selling for $1,200. He declared that
w-hen the public awakened to the com
parative cheapness of this character
of housing it would tend to combat
the alleged high rents in Washington.
He foresaw a great increase in thia
type of accommodation.
Schmitt asked. amid laughter'
“You want a marine trailer camp?”
The senior engineer added that there
would be provision elsewhere on Wash
ington’s water front for house boats.
Schmitt pointed out that there was a
problem of policing and sanitation
concerning house boats that does not
exist in yachts and small pleasuro
craft.
John A. Remon. chairman of the
River and Harbor Committee of the
Washington Board of Trade, chair
man of the President's Cup Regatta
and senior vice president of the Ameri
can Power Boat Associati-n, declared
! that his organizations “thoroughly
and heartUy indorse these plans’’ and
said that suggestlqps that had been
made were now incorporated in them.
"The only thing we age interested
in is how soon we qin see them ac
complished,” said he.
*00 Yachts Owned Here.
Remon told the engineers that
Washington now has more than 700
yachts and other pleasure boats in
these waters and that they are grow
ing "by leaps and bounds." In th«
next five years, said he, Washington
"is going to see a tremendous increase
in boats." The total boat investment
here now is $4,000,000, he said.
"You can't ride in autos safely, but
you can go on the water safely,” Re
mon observed.
A letter from Dr. Charles Moore,
chairman of the Fine ArtsaCommis
' sion, indorsing the improvement pro
i gram and expressing the wish that It
be carried out as soon as practicable,
was read by Lieut. Matteson.
Comdr. F. A. Hunnewell, chief con
structor of the Coast Guard revealed
that the Coast Guard for some time has
had under consideration the erection of
a building and wharf here. He said the
new cutters could be accommodated
In the projected harbor facilities here,
G. W. Pearson, representing Col.
Daniel I. Sultan, Engineer Commis
sioner of the District, and appearing
as chairman of the Wharf Commit
tee of the District government, dis
closed that the city fathers have under
consideration the moving of part of
their workhouse facilities at the Wash
ington Channel's Occoquan Pier to the
Anacostia River. He indicated that
they will agree to separating the pres
ent large pier into two piers in the
new plan, realizing that commercial
Interests are anxious to secure the
channel property. The District gov
ernment w!ll operate the water front
after the Army engineers have com
pleted construction. Pearson assert
ed that the Commissioners do not
favor the operation of the piers as
warehouses, countenancing only tem
porary storage. Bulk commerce—coal,,
sand, gravel, etc.—would be shifted
to the Anacostia River, he said.
Congress in Brief
Today.
Senate
In recess.
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, testifies
at hearing on O'Mahoney corporations
licensing bill.
Civil liberties and railroad financing
hearings continue.
Appropriations Committee begins
hearings on $895,000,000 deficiency
relief bill.
House:
Considers extending civil service to
all postmasters.
Ways and Means Committee con
siders extending President’s powers to
negotiate reciprocal trade agreements.
Hearings on farm tenancy bill and
bill to take profits out of war continue.
TOMORROW.
House:
Considers special requests.
Judiciary Committee meets at 10:30
am.
Rivers and Harbors Committee
meets at 10:30 a.m.
Subcommittee on Appropriations In
charge of Navy and State Department
supply bills continues bearings at
10:30 asn.