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...with no hint of revival. Second largest was an entire railroad-the 56-mi. San Joaquin & Eastern running from El Prado to Cascade, Calif. Built to supply a utility construction project, it had outlived its usefulness and the area was well served by big buses and good roads. The Norfolk & Western sloughed off 54 mi. of trackage between Lenore, W. Va. and Wayne. Operating in a mountainous region and serving only a few farmers who sold their produce in local markets, the line was threatened by a new highway...
...railroads also continued to build. Their new line construction in 1933 totaled 24.24 mi., smallest since the first steam road was built 102 years ago. Of this total 11 mi. were built by the Virginian as the last section of a connection with Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk 6 Western at Gilbert, W. Va. Another 7 mi. was built between Olmos and Quwmado Valley, Texas by Southern Pacific. Not included in last year's total was the 12½-mi. spur which Andrew William Mellon's little Montour finally completed in the face of injunctions plastered on almost every...
...following article is the last of the Crimson's series on the Norfolk situation...
...claim that Mr. Hurley is deliberately seeking to discredit Superintendent Gill is only too obvious when one compares with the actual facts the following statement in the Boston Post: "According to State Auditor Hurley the shortage (at Norfolk) was discovered when Hurley and State Comptroller George E. Murphy went to Norfolk early in November." Actually this shortage ($468.70) was reported two weeks earlier to Hurley by Gill...
...January 27, 1934, Auditor Hurley announced that Mr. Gill had "doctored" four inmates' records at Norfolk. On January 29, in spite of Mr. Gill's report (published with permission of the Commissioner of Correction) that the records corrected were not official, Mr. Gill was "withdrawn" as Superintendent. Twelve hours before Mr. Gill returned to Boston from Connesticut, it was announced in every metropolitan paper that he had been "ousted." These reports were rumored to have been spread by Mr. Gill's enemies...