Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1923, Page 26

WATER POLLUTO REMEDY I FoD Means to_Eliminate Oil Contamination. Pollution of ¥iver and coastal waters by leaking and Tefusefoils, with con- sequent injury 'to -shipping and riparian property, ‘can be ptactically, if not entirely, prevented, in the opinion of the .bureau’ of ‘mines. This® deciston” was ‘announced to- ay, based on the preliminary report of a special committeq which has been working on . the ‘problem for more thap a year in response to leg- islation énacted by .Congress. Iavi- tations for an international confer- ence on control of oil pollution will be _c_en( out by the State Department undér authority of -the same con- gressional resolution, as :soon as the committee has renderedits final re- port. Remedias Snggested. y Remedies suggested by the com- mittee Include control of wast stréam-side industrial plants, in lation of @evices on, ships to preven egress of oll waste and provision of barges or other receptacles In har- bors for receipt of necessary refuse. Study of the origin of oil in the coastal waters, the reportsaid, showed the orincipal sources to be: (a) Oil swept in from outside the three-mile limit, (b) Ofl-contaminated waters &nd oily materlal from ofl-burning “and oil-cargo ships, (c) Ofl refuse yards, 3 (d) 0il waste .and oil-water mix- tures from refineries” amd:ofl-fields. (e) Tarry matter or heavy oil. fromi #as plan 4 A (t) Ol trial plan (%) Oll wastes from sewers, (h) Oil pollution’trom streams. ads Jacent to and conmeeting with -coast and harhor waters. In addition to the direct economic loss from ofl ‘pollution,.the report emphasized the increaged. fire haz- ard resulting to 'localities -in ‘which the condition exikted, ap8 .the .un: estimable loss to hird and marine iife, especially to oyaters, fish ‘@nd crabs. Pollution was fount st €ach of the localities = selected for the commitfod diclared; -bit the worst condition ¢ was from the SchuyHilF river. ‘néag Philas delphia; at Pensacola. ‘#la.;' in . the Houston ship channél’ at Houston, t Port Arthur, Te. The report was'signed by F. W. Lane of the bureau of mines, Chair- man_ A. D. Bauer;'oil expert of the burcau: H. F. Fisher, representing the American Petroléum Institute, and P. N. Harding of the American Steam- ship Owners’ Assoclation. trom ship- repair material from other indus- Tex., and repofted | REPORTERS, IN RIOT BY RADIO OGT_OBER i4 Program of Deadline Club Is to Have Burlesque of Cabinet The Deadline Club of Washington newspaper reporters will make its debut to the radio world on October 14 with a “radlo riot” to be broadcast by ‘WRC, the Radio Corporation of America station at 14th street and Park road northwest. presented by memibers of the club who have talénts along lines other than writing, 'l’h'e salient feature of the ‘“radio riot” will be a burlesque on a cabinet meeting in the White-House. Every tople. of national and international importande will be touched upon in facetious vein by the reporters. An Interview with the “cabinet mem- 'bmn" by a .cotps of newspaper men after the meeting will give the in- visible radio audience & conception of the rapldity with which the reporters fire questions at the government de- partment heads after a meeting with the President. ‘There will be a numiber of musical €elections on the program. John Haverty and his Deadline Club Or- chestra will play several jazz selec- tions; Howard P. Balley, The Even- ing Star's bass goloist, will sing three old-time favorites, and John Muskiller will play several selections on the plano.’ Other features will in- clude =a umorous story on_“The Great Cocaine Mystery at the Wash- | ington Monument In- 1889,” by James ! Ring, and a bedtime story by Lester Inskeep. The Deadline Club com- munity chorus also will take an im- portant part in the “radie riot.” THIRTY-SIX CONVENTIONS HERE IN THREE MONTHS Visitors Estimated at 21,000 and The _entire .program will be |- i ton, RERE'S MY CHANCE TO BReak || [T AN WNT® THE FiLmse 1T SAYS) - WANTED €NGUISH GERTLEMAN TO TAKE | MPORTANTT PART: IN FEATURE PICTURE Now BEING _FILMED. APPLY AT SAP STUDS: ™ 'HOLD 2 MEN ON CHARGE ° - OF HIGHWAY ROBBERY Jesse Fprd and Richard Washing- colored,, charged with highway robbery, were held for the action of the grand jury in the United States branch of Police Court yesterday- by Judge Schuldt, and their bonds fixed at $1,000 in each case. Elmer Small- wood, colored, was the victim of the two men, he charged. Smallwood told. the court that on | Expenditures Not Less Than $630,000 in Period. . €Conventions to be held In Washing- 46n during the monthg.of September. October. and - Novem will total Fhirty-six, ' with estimated at- tendance “of 21,000 pecple, according to the bulietin’ of the Washington Bpard of Trade, y The board's statisti¢ians -bave fig- ured that each guest will spend about 310 here and that each will remain about three 'days, in adds that this means’ that at leas $630,000 will"be spent in. Washington:| &y a renuitof t tings. 3 the statement ‘aside) fro says: furthi cty “is gready, benefited by the visit of our distin- guished guests.” They - bring- to us new thoughts and new ideas. They study Washington—their city—and return home with a better concep- tion and understanding of the Capital city and what the people who live here are endeavoring to do to make it the greatest capital' of the great- est nation in the world.” ENGLIIH AND Some EOLKY MAY SAY T AT A GENTLEMAN BUT T'VE ASSOCIATED WK SIR SIDNEY EAOUGH TS knew Fow To'ACT THe PART.. L. 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