Gift Trailer

Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, Soprano Grace Moore, Vanderbilt University's All-America football captain, Carl Hinkle Jr., and Manager Bill Terry of the New York Giants are all alike colonels on the staff of Tennessee's New Dealish Governor Gordon Browning. Last week Governor Browning, setting out from Knoxville to stump for next August's Democratic primary exhibited a gift presented to him by his Colonel Frank Cox, Chattanooga banker, on behalf of the 62 fellow colonels.* It was a shiny, 20-ft. maroon trailer, with three compartments, rich leather upholstery, running water, an observation tower, an equally shiny maroon Buick coupe to pull it. In it Governor Browning was sure to cut a bigger backwoods figure than his opponent Prentice Cooper, the candidate of Browning-hating Boss Ed Crump of Memphis.

Newshawks soon found that the trailer had been bought second-hand for $3,000. that both Colonels Moore and Macfadden had contributed. Prying Crump-sters soon claimed something even more interesting: That the Governor's trailer, built at a cost of $25,000 for a Louisiana oilman, the late C. O. Scholder, had been used frequently by the late Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. Promptly the gift was dubbed the "Kingfish Trailer." Colonel Cox announced that stout Governor Browning would probably use it anyway, probably not to sleep in.

*Kentucky's young Governor Happy Chandler has ten colonels on his staff.

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