Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1940, Page 39

Southerners at Odds Among Selves on Freight Rates Complaints Are Made By States Against Neighbors’ Actions (This is the third of a series of city and State trade barriers.) By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, April 20.—Southern States, united in a campaign against “gross discrimination” in class freight rate differentials with the East, are at odds among themselves over hurdles they have placed in the path of their own interstate com- mercial activities. ‘The Mississippi Legislature, irked at laws sharply restricting Missis- sippi fishermen in Louisiana waters, has slapped back with a measure that woéuld ban non-resident shrimp fishing in Mississippi waters and charge non-resident freight boats a $2000 annual license. Its avowed object is to force a -compromise. A large-scale Georgia farmer and marketing specialist, Hamilton Ralls, voiced a spring complaint that Georgia was bordered by States with restrictions which made it un- profitable for Georgia farmers to sell produce in them, while Georgia had Insufficient restrictions against farm- ers of other States “dumping” pro- duce culls on Georgia markets. C. E. Brehm, University of Ten- nessee extension director, called State trade barriers “an indictment of maladjustments in the marketing relationships in local areas.” Hobo Express Used. Miami has a “hobo express” to gend indigent Florida sun-seekers northward. Patrol wagons loaded with vagrants set out at dawn for the Dade County line, where their | cargo is put afoot and they are told to keep moving. In operation for 10 years, it is practically the only organized barrier to human move- ment remaining in the South. A Florida patrol that for several | geasons turned back at the Georgia line would-be visitors if they had no | visible means of support has been discontinued. Southeastern cottonseed producers inveigh against Wisconsin’s 15- cents-a-pound tax on oleomargarine, # cottonseed oil spread. Some cot- tonseed men urge a Southern boy- eott of Wisconsin butter, others want retaliatory taxes. Yet, Arkansas and Tennessee tax oleomargarine sales at 10 cents a pound. North Carolina has a $75 tax on margarine dealers. Virginia requires that stores and restaurants | selling or using butter substitutes conspicuously display signs so ting in black letters at least one ch square. Variety of Taxes. | | | | | | Sales taxes and companlon “use” | levies on goods brought from out- of-State Iocations, wine levies that | her own apartment saying, “Why don’'t you go to bed, Sweetheart? Tell your mother in' the morning.” But Gail shook her head: “No, I'll have to tell her to- night. I left our number at the hospital. If anything should ‘hap- | pen it would be too much of & shock.” But 15 wak not necessary o waken THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Anna: Worried as usual when her daughter was out Anna had not been asleep. Her light was still on and when she heard the door here ha R oy o where have what time m?" o She could see the moment Gall stepped inside the room that some- thing was wrong. “What is it now?” Anna cried. “The Avenue"=Tth, 8th and D Sts. DIST. 7200 “What's hapened? that tring in your kand?” . Gail threw the wig upon the floor. “It belongs to Aunt Belle. Oh, Mother, she is the blend woman. It was Aunt Belle all the time.” “You're mistaken,” Anna gasped. “Belle wouldn't do such a thing.” She added. “Anyway why should she? She was left all our father's estate and she didn’t spend very much.” What's D. C, APRIL 21, 1940—PART TWO. “She's been gambling for years® Gall sald soberly. “No wonder she’s made you so nervous. She must have been on the verge of insanity for a long time.” “Five years?” Anna repeated. “You don’t mean that it was Belle who took the emerald? Oh no, Gadll “It must have been,” Gall said sadly. Anna groaned, “But how did you find out about it?” “At s gambling club. She went completely crazy tonight when she saw that Chris and I had discovered her. She threatened to shoot him again.’ “It wasn’ Belle who shot Chris?” Anna murmured as if utterly unable to register it. “My sister—Belle Meadows— who threw the blame on my husband and let him die in pri- son. Where fs she now?” “At the hospital, Mother, where she belongs. She isn't responsible you know. You mustn’t blame her too much.” Anna’ began to cry. “All these years that I've worried about that biond woman wondering if Robert might possibly have been having an affair with some one. . . . And Belle let me. She even encouraged me?wthlnkw. Bhe sald well, why not?” “But you always said you didn’t believe it,” Gail reminded her. “I wouldn’t admit it but in my heart I was always afraid. After all I know such things do happen in the happiest marriages and wives who love their husbands are so blind. Oh, Robert, how could I have' doubted you?” (To be continued.) NEWLY MODERNIZED STREET FLOOR DEMONSTRATION! Making and Decorating of LAMP A\ Several Styles Priced at SHADE 1 —Watch the fascinating processes by which lamp shades are made! See the artist hand paint the de- signs . . . then order sev- eral for your home! Made of parchmentized and printed paper to fit floor, bridge and table lamps. Plain, border and cat-tail designs! “Kann's—Street Floor, 69c-4-0z. Hanks Gloria Knitting Wool ~NOTION DEPARTMENT OFFERS THESE °“GET- ACQUAINTE. ~A grand new department in the modern manner ... * VALUES! with everything right at your finger-tipsi Spool thread concentrated in one convenient little booth! 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Eastern industrialists, contending rate leveling would propel manufac- turing into the South, and railroad officials, contending that ton-mile revenue from total freight shipment ‘4s nearly equal the country over, oppose the Southern plea. | Eight States have joined in a cam- | paign to remove differentials on live- #tock shipping rates which they “consider discriminatory. Farm and utilities boards of Georgia, Florida, North -Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee have banded for a drive on rates in Western and Eastern territories. 3 Cattle Raising Aid. ‘The campaign is directed mainly ‘at helping Southern cattle raising. Virginia imposes a license tax of 8250 on each carload, or equivalent ‘number, of horses and mules brought into that State by any person hav- ing no established place’ of business in the State. | Mississippi, North and South Car- olina and Alabama employe the “use” tax to guard their sales taxes. 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