Evening Star Newspaper, February 29, 1924, Page 14

14 HIGHER POLICE PAY IN DISTRICT URGED Representative Gasque Says House Committee Members Want Wash- ington Model City. SICK FUND RULING DISCUSSED - Officers Should \Be Considered Al- ways on Duty Is View. “Members of the House District committee are willing to vote any amount to make Washington a model city,” said Representative Allard H. Gasque of South Carolina, a member of the House District committee, in an address before the Policemen's Association of the District of Colum- bia, in the Pythian Temple last night. “All members of the committee | have the interests of the District at heart,” he continued, and pointed cut that the main di appropriation bills put through was in getting them before the House. “Washington.” he said, “serves as a mode! for the cities of the United States to follow. It should have the |* best schools, the best streets and the | d best police force. Wants Well Pald Ofcials, Referring ¢ policies of econ ®ociation that public offict methods of We will ne: Salaries o should be sufficient e highest t. men to join the fore e promi to da all tha e a to obtain es and other bene- fits for policeme At a brief bu compensation out of the p n's and firemen’s pension fund *when he is taken sick or hurt while actually on his beat. 1t was the conscnsus of opinfon that a policeman should be considered always on duty except when on_official leave or vacation and out of the District of Columbia. Always Subject to Call. It was pointed out 1s subject to call at he may be “on his and still is dut wherever he o the law. If } 1s liuble to a stated. The following a policeman me and that to church” THREE D. C. STREET BILLS PASSED BY THE SENATE The Senate late vesterday paseed three street bills for the District of Columbla. The first provides for the widening of Georgla avenue between Fairmont | street and Gresham place northwest The second authorizes the Commis- sloners to close a portion of Massa- | chusetts avenue northwest to put the avenue in line by abandoning a strip of land in Fairview Heights subdi- wision. The third bill provides for the widening of 4th street south of | ar street northwest. All these | bills now go to the House for con- slderation and action. DAM SITE EXPLAINED TO D. C. KIWANIANS Project in Colorado Will Benefit, Great Area, Says Col. B.F. Fly. l Benefits to be derived by the south- | western sectlon of the United States from the erection of Boulder dam in the Grand Canyon, Col., were outlined by Col. Ben Franklin Fly of Yuma, Ariz., before members of the Kiwanis Club’at_thelr weekly meeting in the Hotel Washington yesterday. Col. Fly stressed the conservation of flood waters of the Colorato river for irrigation and development of hydroelectric power that will be possible once the mammoth project is a reality, and sald that at the pres- ent time instead of the river being a benefit to the valleys through which it flows It Is a menace. “During each flood season_the lowlands are Inun- dated and millions of dollars are lost crops and homes,” sald the ve Philip D. Swing of lared that when com- ted the water stored behind the oot wall of Boulder dam will be ufficient to cover 1,000,000 acres at a lepth of thirty ~feet. Motion plc- tures of the course of the Colorado thering. Haasy G. K it of the club, introduced lemons, oranges, sh vegetables were on The ORIGINAL Malted Milk 4 Ly For Infants, invalide, \ Ghitdren Digestible=No Cooking. 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