Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 6

6 -— TOCONTRD.AVER [ississippi Flood Prevention| Work Going Ahead Rapidly, | House Is Told. B the Associated Press Should the present rate of progress bo maintained, the Mississippl Flood «Control project will be completed in 10 year. Bank revetment work also is being plans are being prepared for the Bon- net Carre spillway. Actual construc- tion work on the latter must be de- ferred, he explained, until questions regarding levee rights of way and flowage rights are settled. Seek Flowage Waivers. As for the Atchafalaya floodway, Robins said the Government was get- ting prices on rights of way for levees there are well as prices for which land- owners would walve their claims for The law does not provide for payment for flowage rights and many landown- ers, Robins said, were complaining and threatening to come before Congress | White Rivers in Arkansas and Misfouri. | TEN YE A RS N E[DED | dertake still more levee work this fiscal } control projects for the St. Francis and | ol 4 | L & | pushed vigorously, Robins said, and | Col. Robins described these surveys | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929. Biggest of Its Kind. to the appropriations committec as “the largest project of its kind ever undertaken In the Government serv- vigorously to completion. It is hoped. he added, that a project for the St. Francis will be completed and submitted to Congress early next sesston, to be followed soon by a report on the White River. Both of these | streams have been studied before and | flowage rights in the floor of the basin. | their characteristics are well known, he aid. “For the Arkansas and Red Rivers, however,” he continued, “the situation is somewhat different. The drainage basins of these streams are widespread, including parts of the States of Colo- rado. New Mexico, Kansa Texas, Missourl, Arkan 100 ARRESTS MADE BY POLICE IN PARKS Report for December Shows $834 ice,” and said they were being pushed“ Collected in Fines and | Forfeitures. | | Widespread activity by the park December, made yesterday by Capt. P. \J. Carroll to Supt. M. H. Parsons, show- |ing that the number of arrests totaled 1100 Fines and forfeitures reached $834. | Arrests included 11 cases of speeding. |33 cases of drunkenness, 8 of reckless driving, 27 violations of park regula- tions, 3 of disorderly conduct, 1 assault, a threat case, 1 non-support case and 3 weapons. Thirty-two paid & | turned to this city from Detroit in con- | police is reflected in the report for|nection with the theft of $900 worth of automobile accidents were ‘reported in | the parks and four stolen automobiles | were recovered. One lost child was re- turned to its parents. CHARGE IS DISMISSED. { Insufficient evidence yesterday caused United States Commissioner Needham | C. Turnage to dismiss charges of house- | breaking and robbery against William van Skala, 26 years old, who was re- | THORPE DISCUSSES BUSINESS CHANGES | Advertising Called Balance Wheel Between Supply and Demand. Addressing the Twentieth Century jewelry. The_articles were stolen December Club at a luncheon given at the Nation- | al Press Club yesterday, Merle Thorpe, | 7| editor of the Nation's Busiress, dis- | ———————————— = vertising, installment selling, mass pro- duction and trade cc-operation. Mr. Thorpe said that the most revo- lutionary thing accomplished in this business decade is the rapid change in ideas about business. These changes have been crowded together in the short years since the war and are re- | flected in mass selling, mass production, ! chain stores, the new competition among whole industries, selling and advertising, he said. “The importance of advertising as an instrument: for maintaining the balance betWeen production and con- sumption cannot be overestimated,” Mr. Thorpe declared. “It is the process from Joseph L. Reyonlds, 200 block of | cussed the revolutionary changes in | by which new markets, new sources of Randolph place northeast. | American business in recent years, ad- | consumption, are discovered and their installment | capacity of absorption determired. It helps to stabilize business, maintaining the balance between consumption and | production and if wisely used, flies the | danger signal which marks the . ap- | proach either of over production ' or under consumption, now regarded as equally disastrous.” Col. Rethorst Sent to Texas. Lieut. Col. Otto W. Rethorst, 10th Cavalry, has been ordered to San Antonio, Tex., for | duty with the Organized Reserves of | the 8th Corps Area. . Cincinnatl Hebrew College is to have a new $250,000 library. for relief. In view of this situation, he ex- plained, the Government was seeking | the figures for which the owners would wa've their claims, so that the data | would be available if Congress desired such information this Winter or later. In addition. surveys of the Mississippi River's tributaries, authorized at the | last session of Congress, have pro- | to the point where Army en- | believe it will be possible to | ploy woman drivers. Philadelphia has ommend to the next session flood 'dropped them after two years' t iana. Existing information great area is incomplete and the tensive investigations and survey: which must be carried out will nec; sarily require considerable time. Th same condition exists to an even greater extent in the area drained by the Mis- sourd.” ars, in the opinion of Lieut Col. T. 3. Robins of the War Department. »* Testifying before a House appropria- ttions subcommittee, Col. Robins de- ared that work was progressing rapid- contracts having been let to date work involving the movement 15,194,500 cubic yards of material In addition, he said. work involving ! placement of 6,769.000 cubic ybeing done by hired labor and G -ment plant, and it is proposed o un- T ‘jfi \ gD ey 1S “.’/ O > — ot b f $515 and 42 forfeited sums to- $319. Nine personal bonds were , four placed on probation, two | nolle prossed, three dismissed, one | aent to jail for 30 days, three sent to jail for 60 days, one turned over to naval authorities and one to ‘“proper au- | thorities,” and two cases were pending at_the end of the month. In addition to this regulatory work, Two Detrolt taxicab companies em-|the park police in its round of duty sent nine sick or injured persons to their homes or to hospitals. Thirty Let Your Old Watch Help Pay for a Reliable Timekeeper E know—after our forty-one years of jewelry service—that we can place absolute confidence in the honesty and integrity of Washingtonians and the peoples of surrounding districts. \We are going to allow these good people to come in and select the watch of their choice and pay us one dollar per week. 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