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Another difference was the distribution of water. The Colorado drains seven States -Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California. The first four, the Upper Tier, have long been agreed on their shares of the water. The Lower Tier-Nevada, Arizona, California -have long quarreled about how to divide the 7,500,000 acre-feet that they will get between them. Nevada was satisfied with 300,000 acre feet; California wanted 4,600,000, Arizona 3,000.000. After sharp remarks between California's whitecrested Johnson and Arizona's long-embattled Ashurst and Hayden, the Senate voted Nevada...
Dickerson N. Hoover,* supervising inspector general of the U. S. Steamboat Inspection Service, gravely put his name last week at the end of a long document. It was a review of all the evidence given at the inquiry which he conducted into the sinking of the Lamport & Holt liner Vestris off the Virginia Capes on Nov. 12, with a loss of in. It blamed the man whose death, clinging to the bridge of the doomed ship, has been called another saga of the sea: Captain Carey...
Then, when obviously the ship was in grave peril, Captain Carey should have sent out his SOS. He delayed this too long. The lifeboats were in good condition, but were lowered with difficulty on account of the extreme list of the vessel. "No systematic effort was made to get the passengers into these boats...
...salvage that may be claimed by masters of ships which answer another's SOS. Inspector Hoover pictured the reluctance of a captain in time of peril to incur the expense of salvage. "If the amount was reduced, the master of a ship in distress would not hesitate too long before asking for help...
Police Commissioner Joseph A. Warren was a slender, mild-mannered, long-nosed man whom Mayor Walker had called to the most difficult post in any city administration f after he had made a good record as Commissioner of Accounts. There was no intimation that he was not doing his honest best, but the Rothstein case contained dark dangers for Tammany Hall. The city's Republicans began talking about putting up a strong candidate to run against Mayor Walker next year. It became obvious that "for the good of the service," i.e. Mayor Walker's political welfare, Commissioner Warren...