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Across the hilly shoulders of Charleston, W. Va. was draped a grey shawl of early morning mist. From his Chesapeake & Ohio special President Hoover crossed to a stadium near the station. There a sleepy-eyed crowd, many school children, heard him tell how Charleston's chemical industry had waxed fat and strong behind the protecting bulwark of the Republican tariff. A lusty cheer rolled out when the President recalled that he, too, had once worked with pick & shovel in a mine...
PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward-Farrar &Rinehart ($2.50). The Civil War, a rich mine of historical romance with plenty of still untapped veins, is beginning to be reworked again. Taking as his subject the four tense months in Charleston that culminated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Author Heyward has brought to light a whole shining age. Peter Ashley-a carefully unimpassioned but compelling tale that even Abolitionist-grandsired readers will be loath to leave-makes vivid and convincing a crucial scene in U. S. history...
Peter Ashley, scion of one of Charleston's first families, had no wish to be a planter. His skeptically intelligent uncle adopted him, developed his doubts, protected his sensitiveness, sent him to Oxford to finish his education. He was to come back to a literary career. But the first sight Peter saw as his ship entered Charleston Harbor was the shelling of a U. S. Navy ship by Charleston batteries. Peter, like his uncle, was Southern to the core, but he thought he was a Unionist too. While he watched the young hotheads race each other into uniform...
...York Central will have 23.7% of the trackage. To it is assigned Lackawanna (Jersey City-Buffalo) as a subsidiary outlet to the Lakes. It also gets Virginian (Norfolk-Charleston, W. Va.) with its tidewater terminal, its access to Southern coal fields. Rutland affords an auxiliary connection to Canada...
Converse College (Spartanburg, S. C.) Mary Vardrine McBee, principal of Charleston's socialite Ashley Hall Litt.D...