Evening star., 1934-06-24
Combs Back as Controller
Following Term With
R. &C.
PEERY DELAYS NAMING
SEWAGE COMMISSION
Salary Compensation System Now
in Force-Also Driving
Statute.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, June 23.-The week
has seen some political activity in
Virginia and has brought the effec-
tiveness Of more than 100 new laws,
passed by the 1884 General Assembly,
including the drunken drivers laws,
paralleling the new alcoholic beverage
control law; the Inauguration Of the
new salary compensation system for
commemorative attorney, local treas
urers and commissioners of the reve-
nue., superceding the old fee system.
and the law legalizing professional
boxing in Virginia.
Gov. Peery appointed DR.. I. C. Rig
gin of the State Health Department
to succeed DR.. Warren F. Draper as
State health commissioner.
e. r. Combs returned to his old
post Of controller, after six months
with the r. F. c., having been ap-
pointed chairman of the new COM
pensation board, at the same time.
He displaced A. B. Gathright, who
moved back into his old Job as as
sistant controller. while Henry G. Gil
liam, formerly of the Highway Com
mission, got the r. F. C. job and was
succeeded on the Highway Commis-
sion by Frank Wysor Of Pulaski.
Cautious on Sewage Group.
The Governor moved cautiously
about the appointment of the fish,
cries commissioner and the Hampton
Roads Sewage Disposal Commission.
Indication that the State would
have to match, dollar for dollar, Fed
eral aid road money In 1885 brought
unofi1cial talk Of a special session of
ridden Highway Commission a lift,
but State Highway Commissioner
Henry @. Shirley and Gov. Peery
both secuted the idea, the Governor
saying the reasons will have to be
very strong and very compelling for
me to call a special session"
In Charlottesville, George K. Bro
beck, national legislative representa-
tive of the Veterans Of Foreign Wars,
speaking before the Virginia Depart
ment Convention, said I'VE are 60
ing into politics"
The State Supreme Court, in award
ing writ of mandamuS in an Arling-
ton County case, held that the Cir
cult Court has power and authority
to appoint members of county boards
of supervisors to fill vacancies for un-
expired terms, as opposed to a rul-
ing by Attorney General A. P. Staples,
who held that the vacancies should
be filled by the board.
Minors Vote Company Union.
Leaders high in Government coun-
cils and broadly representative of all
industry, meeting at Hot Springs
this week, decided that the funda-
mentals of the National Recovery Ad-
miniStration must be permanently
preserved in Government as the or
ganization keystone of American busi-
ness.
At Dante employees Of the Clinch-
field Coal Corporation voted nearly
2 to l in favor Of company union,
as against the United Mine Workers
of America as a medium of union
representation.
The valley wheat harvester was
started in Rockingham County late
this week and prospects on the whole
were that the grain yield will be
around average" with a shrinkage
In straw.
The week brought the end of the
Slot-machine business in Richmond,
as operators, in the face of an ad-
verse ruling by Hastings Court Judge
John L. Ingram, took out every slot
machine in operation In the State
capital. In other places the SLOT
machine business was having shedding
almost as rough.
More stores were opened during the
week by the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board, which now is opening the
State hard liquor dispensaries at the
rate Of about three week. One in
teresting liquor ruling came out of
Norfolk, where judges of corporation
courts held that there was no law
against possessing up to a gallon Of
liquor which, before it was brought
over the line from dry North Caro-
lima, was illicit.
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The freighter San Diego, at Nor
folk, loaded several thousand cases of
munitions consigned to Bolivia. The
incident drew the investigation of De-
partment of Justice agents, in view of
Federal Government action, but the
agents decided the sale and delivery
was not violation Of the embargo
the embargo was signed.
Figures compiled at the capitol in
dicated that Virginia receipts from
gasoline taxes, all Of which 60 to
roads, will reach 500, ,000,000 by the
end Of 1870 years after the pay
road building program be-
came a fixed policy.
With figures for another hot
weather month yet to be compiled
for the final total of the fiscal year,
Virginia on June ! had topped the
estimate by the special beer session
of the General Assembly by SAC, 6,006.18
in receipts from the sale Of beer.
The General Assembly had allowed
$4,000 as probable revenue from
beer excise taxes and licenses.
Bishop James Cannon, jr., in an
address at Suffolk, drew a drab pic
ture of conditions under repeal. and
the Virginia Christian Missionary
Society in convention at Lynchburg
adopted resolutions for the abolition
Of liquor as beverage, and against
war.
Carter's Sir Coma took an early
lead in the Upperville Horse Show,
as the Virginia horse show circuit
neared the middle ef the season.