Evening Star Newspaper, January 20, 1924, Page 14

13 CANAL VULNERABLE, SAYS BUNAU-VARILLA Locks, Dams and Electric Stations Could Be Destroyed by Guns or Quake, He Says. OUTLINES SEA-LEVEL PLAN Declares It Could Be Built From Funds Provided in Advance by Present Traffic. Rx the Associated Press, CINCINNATI, Ohio, Declaring that the Panama lock canal “is now potentially obsolete” because of its limited capacity and the pos- wility of the destruction of its locks, dams and electric stations by iakthquake or artillery fire, Lieut. 1. Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, the Fvench cditor-soldier-engineer, to- slight proposed the immediate build- ififf of @ new sea-level canal parallel- ing the present one. {'His plan was detailed in an address before the Cincinnati Commercial dlub, before which, twenty-three ygars ago, at the height of the con- ifpversy over whether a lock or sea- level coal should be dug through the isthmus, he appeared us a strong ad- vbeate of the less costly lock system. W“The traffic in the Panama canal is bound to within twenty years from now, of such huge dimensions.” 1§ told the Commeretal Club members, “gs to exclude uny, Impediment to the ctinstant assage of ship and any imit 1o number of these daily passages ™ geous pr January 10.— th, magnificent display of gor- sperity shown by the canal is 'a_personal reward and vindica- tlon.” he said, in outlining his plan of & straight 1,000-foot wide, Afty- foot deep channel between Panama and Colon. He deciared that such wheanal could be t without asic- ing a cent of the $1,000,000,000 need- ed from the American Treasury. “All will be paid in advance by the canal itgelt,” he decl His proposal in- cluded the using %f the present canal in the building of a new canal. The speaker pointed out that the pfesent canal depends to a large ex- tent upon a_goodly amount of rain- 1@l for the “feeding” of its locks and dams. He insisted that “the canal myst be fed the, unlimited quantity ofisea water” that could be obtained sea-level cut If it is to be made t for forthcoming Increased > stated that there is no differ- ence between the sea levels of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and that a sea-level canal would not cause “the two oceans to generate terrible currents which will prevent all nav- igation,” despite some authorities to the contrary. ! Such a new sea-level canal is a necessity if communication is to be nwaintained between the Atlantic and Picific oceans, Col. Bynau-Varilla in- siated. HUGE SUBMARINE COULD BLOCK CANAL Flamm, Inventor, Tells of Power "' to Put Motors ard Guns Out of Action. BERLIX, January 19.—Reports cir- clfated for many months congern- ing a new German invention likely to. revolutionize modern selentific | warfare, which hitherto have been | afsiduously denied by German| #pokesmen, are now confirmed by no lo8s an authority than Prof. Oswald Flamm. Prof. Flamm is one of Germany's foremost scientlsts und naval con- sructors and inventor of the much advertised stabilization devicé mak- inlg possible the construction of sub- marines of 7,000 tons displacement, With a cruising radius* of 23,000 miles—submarines that can travel afound the world without touching a | maint for resorve supplies. | Flamm iy also the inventor of 1 10,000-ton e w York Tribune, ) mine laver, canable of | ying 1,000 mines of a ton each, | he say could blockade the canal, "wx mouth of the| or any other point in a| Blnlg;lo night. Ll by ‘Disc ing his 7.000-ton na Prof. ¥Flamm made the ar:::"r‘x;ru‘:: ' sertion that by virtue of its power 18 g0 under water, it could make ityelt {mmune to attacks by “a cer- tain new force” Asked what new force he meant. he explained that Qdrman physicists had discovered a mAarvelous new power—certain mys- terfous rays which had the remark- adle property of being able to put 13Hid artillery, battleships, airplanes all moving motors out of action considerable range, and perform T uncanny feats on various kinds gnechanism employed in modern the same discovery which s0_much publicity last year, hich no confirmation from tworthy sources was obtainable. was gathered from Flamm's re- ks that experiments in the use he new rays are now under way any big power plants in Ger- SICIAN’S DAUGHTER |SEEKS RECONCILIATION $ Been Estranged From Bohumir Kryl Since Her Marriage Sixteen Months Ago. ffhe Associated Press, ICAGO, January 19.—Mrs. Paul flor White of Rochester, Y., hter of Bohumir Kryl, who has Yiseen her father since her elope- it in September, 1922, was at the ly home here today to seek a | The veteran band- fter was expected to see her later e day. Her baby daughter died P days ago. (Hlor some time after his daughter's anrival, Mr. Kryl was occupled at a sipBurban bank getting acquainted W)h his new duties as its president. {Shortly before her marriage to & cginposer, and the resultant estrange- nigt from her father, arrangements ha been pending for the daughter's aipearance in concert in Europe. | daughter had also promised her father to remain unwed until she was thitty, and had been promised $100,- 009 in return. Then ove day she epped out” to see the dentisi The men and told of her marriag: g WANT HOOVER OR BABSON. {here | Laird as the Blorida Citrus Growers Seek Solu- tion to Problems. {LAKE WALES, Fla., January 19.— Rijger Babson, statistician, or Her- bert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, 10% director general of citrus market- ig§ in Florida, is the plan advanced 1adt night by the Lake Wales board off'trade as a solution of the troubles ofiicitrus interests in this state. {growers are urged to select Bab- or Hoover, regardless of salary. would be covered, a resolution , by an immediate’ increase of at £ 25 cents a box in the price of it-and would be paid by & tax -each box marketed. THE SUNDAY Rivera Defends His Dictatorship As Blocking Road Toward Anarchy| INCREASE THEIR PROFITS Wants to End Despotic Control of Spain as Soon as Possible. Outlines Ambitious Pro- gram to Be F ollowqd for Next Few Months. Following is the first statement made to_the American public by Gen. Primo de Rivera, the Mussolini of Bpain, in an interview with G. Ward Price. apecial correspondent of (he North American Newspaper Alliance and The Star. “What the Spanish people want is a government that will enable them to work in tranquillity.” These were the onening words of an exclusive interview given me yes- terday by Primo de Rivera, in which he briefly outlined his policy. He clearly Indicated his realization of the need to end despotic control and get back as soon as vossible the parliamentary institutions. I asked him if he would tell something about the reasons that led him to the supreme and daving step of es- tablishing & new form of government by the aid of the army. - Necensity for Action. “It was necemsarvy to establish an exceptional form of vernment in Spain.” said Primo. “in_order to put a stop to intrigue and propaganda of a kind that would brinz about so- cial disgolution in an¥ uation that allowed them to continue. The re sults of these tendenc arch; contempt of publ authorit administrative c and squande ing of the public ey. “We are going to t these abus § mentary methods and conditions, be- fore again taking the opinion of the country through its elected repre- sentatives. But I believe that in the course of the present vear we will have a parliament again. “Great though the above program the action of the government PRESIDENT OF ALBION me is. tain, However, Until Trustees Meet. By the Associated Press ALBION, Mich.. January 13.-—Until Dr. John W. Laird. thirty-nine-yea old president of Albion College, ap- pears before the board of trustees in Detroit Mohday, the result of stu- dent rebellion against his regime remains uncertain. Friends of Dr. Laird, who formerly held pastor- ates in New York, New Haven, Conn., and Baltimore, explained his con- tinued absence from his home and office by Statements that he is filling a speaking engagement, but they could not say where Trustees Are En Route. Bishop Theodore . Heuderson of the Michigan area, Methodist Epis- copal Church, and W. W. Teft, presi- dent of the board of trustees of the college, are reported en route from New York to Detroit, Both are ex- pected to attend Monday's meeting, at which student charges of competence made against Dr. Laird are to be heard. At the same time a report of a committee of two board members who for several days have ;been investigating the college situa- tion will be read. Some members of the board of trustees and of the faculty expressed the opinfon that Dr. Laird would pre- sent his resignation Monday. Spoke: men for the students who precipi- tated the row by creating an uproar in Friday morning's chapel and h ing the president from the room, said that if the board retains Dr. school's head the st dent body will carry out its threat- ened strike. Dr. Samuel Dickle, president tus, said today that Dr. Laird’s a leged “Main street” attitude toward Aibion, which he is said to_ha ferred to as a “hick town,” aroused the townspeople against him. practice of members of his famil sending out of town for merchandise was another thing, Dr. Dickle said, that dyd not set well with the ther- chants. Dr. Laird came here in June, 1921, More Time When you own a Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet you get through your kitchen work in half the usual time. Your trated in one spot. Everything you handy reach and you always en- joy your leisure more because you’re not near so tired. The | must, however. go beyond it. We propose to ratify the commercial treaties with other nations, solve the problem of Morocco in such a way that Spain shall be neither demoral- ized nor ruined by it, simplify tax- ation, develop industry and agricul- ture, expand the country's system of communications and establish cordial relations between capital and labor. As you see, our program is by no means @ modest one. The time for its realization i3 none too great, but the methods which we will employ to that end will gradually appear. 1 take this opportunity of asking you to convey my very cordial salutations to_the great American publie.” To the question.whether the Spanish dircctorate had vet decided to ratify the convention of Tanglers the general replied cautiously that the matter was @a very difficult one and the time limit had not yet expired. Of Spain's re- cently started entente with Italy he aid it renresents a gradual growth of cordial re is which would find ex- pression, he hoped. in the_expansion of commercial intercourse, but gave no indication that its scope might be ex- pected to extend further. (Copsright, 1924, in United Staf North = American Newspaper Alliane Great Britain by London Mail; Anierica by the 3 'RUSSIA PURCHASES EXPECTED TO RESIGN Result of Student Rebellion Uncer- | AMERICAN COTTON | Small Order Placed With Brokers. Plans Made to Buy $40,- 000,000 Worth. V ORLEANS, January 19.—The Russian soviet government has pur- chased, through brokers in St. Louis and Montgomery, Ala., a small quan- tity f American cotton, which it fis understood, is for shipment directly to Russian ports, according to cotton fac- tors here. The purchases to date, so far as is known here, amount to around 20,000 bales, of which 5,000 were bought iast December. How much American cotton the Russians ve received through Germany there is no way of ascertaln- ing, but it is believed a part of the 67000 bales which have gone to Ger- many during the season eventually reached the soviet republic. Records at the New Orleans Cotton Exchange show that 5,500 bales were forwarded directly to Russia from New Orleans recently, but to just what port it was destined 'was not known. A soviet cotton commission now is in this country, touring the cotton_belt, and 4t last reports was in Texas. Mem Ders of the commission said it was plas ned to purchase approximately $40,000 000 worth of cotton in America’ an- nually. FRAUD IS CHARGED. New York Broker Is Held for Postal Authorities. NEW YORK; January 19.—Robert Parker, who has been conducting a brokerage business as Parker & Co., was arrested today charged with using the mails to defraud investors in the United States and Canada and held in_ $5,000 bail to await action f a federal grand jury. Assistant United States Attorn: Joyee declared that postal authorities had a large number of complaints against Parker. | from Baltimore. Though a compara- tively young man, he had been preaching about twenty years. for Pleasure work is concen- need - is . within Every style of Hoosier is on display here at Mayer's. There’s a genuine Hoosier with porcelain top as low as $39.75. Mayer Seventh S¢. . : & Co. Bet. DGE STAR, WASHINGTON, DETROIT STREET LINES City-Owned Railways of Michigan Metropolis Report December, 1928, Gain Over Year Ago. By the Associated Pre - DETROIT, Mich., January 19.—The net income of the municipally-owned Detroit street railways during De- cember was $65.253.88, according to A statement submitted to the com- mon councll today. This is an in- crease of $17,982.71 over the net in- come in December, 1922. The. gross revenue from pawsenger transportation and other operations in December was $1,876,514; leaving a mnet revenue after operating ex- penses had been deductéd of 3501,- 373, From this sum was deducted $50.483 for taxes and $377,907 4or fixed charge: o LA D. O, JANUARY 20, 1924—PART 1. Co-Operation Given Shenandoah nswers Demand for Radio Curb Oficialo in Charge of Licenses for Operators State Hour of Trial Proved No Pressing Need of Greater Control. The record of that night is one of which radio fans can be proud, and on which transmitting station of- ficials always can inwist that they §ye demonstrated . their right (o ist without hampering regulations. Two Means of Control. It is perhaps not known to all radio enthusiasts that the govern- ment already has two means of con- trolling the ether. One is the law which glves the Department of Com- merce authority over licenses of op- erators and agencies. The other is a en's agreement,” reached at in Washington of all the The runaway cruise of the Navy dirigible Shenandoah has resuited in renewed agitation for strengthening of the present radio control laws, 8o that the air may be quickly cleared for emergency eervice. But Depart- ment of Commerce &Mclals, under whose jurisdiction radio service comes, while admitting that greater control may be advisable, declare the Shenandoah’s hour of trlal proved that there is no pressing need for haste. LIFE T agencios developing radlo communi- cation within and without the United States. Under this authority the depart- ment requires operators at all B clags stations—which are the high- powered stations along the coast—to Isten in for two minutes out of every fifteen, on. a 600-meter Wwave length, for posrible distress signals. The 600-meter wave length Is the one universally used to transmit “SOS" sig- nals. Wednesday night, when the Shenan- doah was torn from her mooring at Lakehurst, N. J., and swept on a sev- enty-mile gale out toward the sea- doomed, as many landsmen thought, to foin the ill-fated company of lighter- than-air wrecks, the big broadcasting stations along the coast were busily grinding out their literary and musical programe. ~But the Shenandoah had scarcely disappeared in the heavy gale when_instructions went out for all op- erators to “stand by” 1o locate and transmit any signals or information about her. Programs Thrown Away. Programs, which had been ‘“tem- porarily discontinued” ten minutes earller, while the stations handled an essed steamer, NOW | that the air especially were thrown away compietely. From then on, for nine Lours, the varlous big stations devoted all their energies 1o firding the runaway ship of the air. Newark and other points picked her up and notified the authorities, even before the regular naval wireless op- erator had located the operator on board There was then—and always has been—the most complete spirit of co- operation Letween the varfous sta- tions and the government Suggestions that wave lengths be ssigned that would permit planned programs 1o be continued without regard to distress signals were sold at the departmert vesterday to b impossible of execution. When dan ger rules it is imperatively cssentia maintained free fo stations. s This when the air “ry and wave lengths mean abso nothing. (Coprright.} mi he government wild" Tutely In eastern Prussia Sunday baptisms are believed 1o offset the unlucky aus pices of children who are born on Friday 0 e The Fourth of Human Necessities N Lifetime EXT in importance to food, clothing and a roof over the head, comes Good Furniture. It is one of the necessities of life. 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