Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1926, Page 11

NONEY DEGLARED READYFORSHOAS Private Capital Willing to Back Project, Rivers-Har- dors Congress Is Told. iva pital is ready to go ahead d opment in the Tennessee Valley in and near Muscle Shoals on will be felt not only local- sut the entire nation, nd convention of the nd Harbors Con- A. pending before Commission from pend more than oping power have the unprecedented al appropriation -onomic possibili- project, ac- cut. Col, ke. Possibilities Cited. v has already made it ted, that the possibili the Federal 1 Interests willing $100,000,000 in ¢ of 9-foot 1 tion of the river, com- hined with development of upward of one and three-quarter million horse- power, will g about a development in indust jorably reacting upon the entire nation. In an address on *“The Business Man and Water ransportation,” John H. §mall of this city, former president of the congress, visualized a development of interior waterways istwise ship channels which, 50, will allow inbound lake ports arry on commerce direct with for- elgn nations; give a continuous water route by rivers and canals from the region of the Great lakes entirely Both cheered Chatrman Madden of the ap- propriations committee Madden Is Cheered for His Opposition To Coolidge 2-Year Appropriation Plan Democrats and Republicans to that recommendation. T am opposed to it because I believe yesterday |be for the best interests of the when, in the midst of discussion of |country.” the Treasury-Post Office supply bill, he expressed his opposition to the sug- He explained that under the two- gestion of . President Coolidge. that | Lonee s e orould Do Recsssary to Government Congress do its appropriating for the | vears in advance, and various departments biennially instead | reas lot annually. o “The President made a very star- tling recommendation in his message that was read yesterday,” he sald. “He suggested the wisdom of making the appropriations only once in two years. Well, T just want to go on record as saying that I am opposed MRS. ROGERS HONORED. Elected President of Massachu- setts State Society. Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, Repre- sentative from Massachusetts, was unanimously elected president of the Massachusetts State Soclety of Wash- ington last night at the Washington Club. The following other officers were selected: John Hays Hammond, vice president; George Hernan, secreta Miss Harriet M. Chaney, treasure executive committee, Maj. Frederick W. Keough, Frank Hickey and Albert Michaud; board of trustees, Repre- sentatives Frederick W. Dallinger and Charles L. Gifford and Charles A. Bowman, Miss Eleanor Jones, John Andrew, Miss Martha H. Gould and Ross Beattle. ' The soclety decided to affiliate with the Pan-State Society. There was a large attendance. ' Morocco Likes Auto Busses. Auto busses have become so popu- lar in Morocco that one may travel by motor to almost any part of the country. A dally passenger service around the Eastern coast to the Gulf of Mexlcao, eventually to the Rio Grande and place ports on the Missis- sippl, St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes in direct commercial competi- tlon with New York. Others on Program. Other speakers before the_ session this morning were Thomas H. Ball, Houston, Tex., counsel of the Houston Port District; J. Gordon Bohannan, Pctersburg, Va.. chairman of the State Port Authority of Virginia; A. H. Ferguson, New Bedford, Mass., manager of the Bureau of Transpor- tation of the Board of Commerce, and Joseph N. T >ortland, Oreg. The final session of the convention is being held tbis afternoor, with re- ports of fleld secretaries to be received, resolutions repo~ed on and adopted and officers for the coming year elected. Wants Channels Deepened. The net result of the changes made in transportation by the war, throw- ing much of the transportation bur- den on the waterwa must be to deepen_water transportation channels —whether harbors, rivers or canals— Becretary of Commerce Hoover de- clared in an address last night at the annual banquet of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress at the New Willard Hotel. Deeper ships, larger barges and changes In waterway transportation have kept pace with the enhanced need of transportation facilities, Mr. Hoover said. Our early recovery from tho effects of the war make us able to pay for the needed river and har- | 2 bor improvements Mr. Hoover read quotations from George Washington, referring to the need of development of the vast country west of the Alle- ghany Mountains and urging develop- ment of the waterways to bring the iuture commerce of that territory to the seuboard. Vice President Dawes presided at the banguet, smoking his character- istic campaign pipe between biting refer to “tremendous deposits of natural on Capitol Hill” and a refcrence to former Representative James IFrancis Burke of Pittsburgh as un sble speaker. “but lacking in|H terminal facilities * Mr. Burke declsred that there no end of the transportatjon 1 the farm in the most and the sea, with' its transportation. He 3 ed States must have a privately owned merchant marine and must butd protective canals linking up the rivers with the great inland waterways Mrs. Izetta Jewel Brown saw a t spiritual future for the United in an address devoted to the of the figure “13” in Ameri- ymas_J. Heflin of AMW- hat relief from Con- the South to keep tton off the market when the price < low. Senator Heflin declared the jouthern farmer is in dire straits and ust learn diversified farming if he is to tide over a low cotton market. He pledged himself for completion of and _ Misslssippi for develop- in Alabama potenc can h rss is needed as you will help me get. Geese Win Race With Turkeys. ‘The goose proved to be the modern was held in England as the r a wager, A flock of gees natched with an equal number of American Thanksgiving day birds to wover the distance between Norwich and London. 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