Evening Star Newspaper, October 15, 1929, Page 4

NEVADA DEMANDS BOULDER POWER Six Other Bidders Compete | for Energy to Be Generated by Giant Project. BY FREDERICK WILLIAM WILE. Boulder Dam, long the bitter bone of eontention on Capitol Hill, has bounded into the Washingten picture again this week with the seven-cornered fight for | of the vast hydroelectric which the giant project even- tually will generate. Broadly speaking. | it is a contest between the State of Nevada against a field consisting of the | Metropolitan Water Area of Southern | California, the City of Los Angeles, and four private power _corporations in | Southern California. Each of the seven bidders has filed an application for varying slices of the power and is rep- | resented before the Department of the | Interior by its own array of spokesmen and advocates. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, | the Secretary of the Interior, functions | more or less as the supreme court of the situation. The different applicants for Boulder Dam's liquid energy are having their days in court, one by one. It is not likely that Sccretary Wilbur's | decision on allocation will be immedi- | ately forthcoming, as the issues involved | are innumerable. Nevada Has Supporters. Nevada's Boulder Dam delegation. is headed by George W. Malone, Reno, | State engineer and one of the outstand- | ing leaders of the American Legion in the Western country. He has valiant supporters_in the entire Nevada dele- gation in Congress, consisting of Sema- tors Key Pittman, Democrat, and| Tasker L. Oddie, Republican, and | Representative Samuel S. Arentz, Re-| publican. The Boulder Dam project | act provides that firm contracts shall be made by the Secretary of the In-| terior with responsible bidders for the | sale of the 550,000 firm horsepower to be developed, which will return the Government investment of $121,800.000, including interest, over a period of 50 years, before construction work may begin. Nevada has submitted a bid for one- third of the amount of power to be de- veloped by this project, which would amount to approximately 185,000 firm Thorsepower, and it is expected that the availability of this amount of reason- able-priced power will start an unprece- dented era of development within_that State. Bigs have been received for about two and one-half times the amount of power to be developed, so that no difficulty is anticipated in se- curing proper contracts in plenty of time for the regular session of Congress. to make an appropriation under the terms of the act for the beginning of construction in 1930. Cheapest Power in U. S. As soon as contracts have been made by the Interior Department with the bidders for power, the last great ob- stacle will have been removed from the construction of the Boulder Dam project—an enterprise with which the name of Senator Hiram W. Johnson, Republican; of California, will always be honorably associated. For the past five years Johnson has waged one of the most tenacious battles ever offered in Congress on behalf of a major piece of legisiation. It is expected that Boulder Dam’s power will sell at the switchboard ‘at approximately $15 per MISS MARY ARMSTRONG Of Lexington, Ky. has been named sponsor of the R. O. T. C. Regiment at the University of Kenmtucky. Miss Armstrong is a senior in the College of Arts-and Sciences. —A. P. Photo. that it will attract electro-chemical and metallurgical plants, which, without the extremely low rate, the Southwest oth- erwise could not hope to interest. In | many cases such plants would have no | inducement to locate within the United | States. In Nevada's case, her spokes- men at Washington point out, the| State’s needs include manufacturing works, pumping water for frrigation and municipal use, and use at the point of discovery of mineral substance. ‘Would Aid Industry. At the outset of the Interior Depart- ment hearings, as the result of which Secretary Wilbur will make final deter- mination of the price to be paid for Boulder Dam power and its allocation, Nevada presented a telegram from Colin Garfield Fink, professor of _electro- chemistry at Columbia University and secretary of the Electro-Chemical Engi- neers of Arierica. -Prof. Fink declared in his message that the projected Black Canyon power plant (a portion of the Boulder Dam development) will furnish electric power to future electro-chemi- cal industries at a price “considerably below that obtainable at Niagara Falls today, which means a great boom for the electro-chemical indus- try.” The Columbia engineer also em- phasizes that within recent years in- ability to obtain additional large blocks of cheap electric power at points near markets impelled a number of large eleetro-chemical compantes, such as the Aluminum Co. of America, the Ameri- can Cyanide Co. and others, to go to Canada, Norway, Sweden and elsewhere -and establish plants. The Boulder Dam project became ef- fective June 21, 1929, and it is assumed that Congress will now make the money for construction available. It is esti- mated that power will be ready for de- livery at the switchboard within five or six years after the contracts are let. (Copyright, 1929.) Kills Self While Asleep. That Isase Hyman, aged 34, who was_found with his throat cut, “acted in his sleep—in other words, uncon sclously,” was the verdict of a cor- oner's jury at Douglas, Isle of Man, recently. Hyman was found dying in his_parents’ home with a breadknif> in his hand. His brother said Isaac’s health was good and he had no wor- ries.. The brother heard him mum- bling in_his sleep before he went down horsepower year. This would be the cheapest .power of any magnitude in the United States. The expectation is sprinkiing of FyrewellFamous Reading Anthracite. Order a fow tons today. T S AR 0SS Fxuous READI + BUFFALO * DETROIT * TOLEDO * CHICAGO * M ORK * BSALTIMORE * WASHINGTON * READING * MONTREAL, CANADA w’fl NEW Y POLIS ¢ ST. PAUL * ROCHESTER * to the dining room, where he commit- ted the act. |Labor Approves Plan for | eral Employes. | of L. predicted in a resolution that it |HIGH PORCH .COLLAPSES THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929 AGGEPTS PROGRAM | OF .. EMPLOYES Year-Round Half Holidays on Saturday. Approving the plan for Saturday half | holiday the year round for Government workers, the American Federation of Labor in Toronto, Canada, yesterday adopted in full the program presented to it by the National Federation of Fed- In approving the half holiday on Saturday for the whole year, the A. F. would be a “forerunmer for the in- troduction of the five-day week in Gov- ernment_employment. The program presented to the fed- eration by officials of the government employes’ federation was adopted last month by the biennial convention of the federation at Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich. It was formally put before the Torcnto meeting by Luther C. Steward, president of the federation, and in- cluded the whole program for better pay and working conditions in the Government service. Attending the Toronto convention also were Secre- tary-treasurer Gertrude M. McNally of the federation, Vice President John Fitzgerald of New York, and Vice President Lee R. Whitney of Milwaukee. The federation’s program calls for better pay, uniform leave, more liberal retirement, a civil service court of ap- peals and the Saturday half holiday 52 weeks in the year. Salary legislation, according to a resolution adopted by the A. F. of L. yesterday. “has always lagged and has been beset by many obstacles, notably the desire to reduce Government costs to a minimum regardless of inadequacy of remuneration to faithful workers.” The resolution directed the executive council to co-operate with Government workers “to the end that their pre-war wage status may not only be restored, but in addition these faithful public employes may secure a genuine ad- vance in pay.” WITH COLLEGE GIRLS By the Associated Press. BLUE MOUNTAIN, Miss., October 15. —Forty-nine young women students of Blue Mountain College were injured, 12 severely, when a porch on the second floor of a dormitory collapsed last night during an initiation of freshmen stu- dents. The girls were hurled to the ground, a distance of about 20 feet. Several of the girls suffered broken arms and legs and internal injuries. Most of those severely injured were taken to a hospital at New Albany. 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Y., October 15.— Arthur Plante, a Canadian, who had resided in the United States for nearly 30 years, is preparing 'h be purchased recently, is in Canada. The dwelling, attached to.the woodshed, is iIn United States ter- ritory, and Plante is prevented by United States immigration au- thorities from again entering this country. Plante is now busy making the woodshed weatherproof for the ‘Winter. Harry E. Hull, commissioner general of immigration, today ordered an investigation of the case of the Canadian, Arthur Plante. Unable to find Plante's name on his records Commissioner Hull was inclined to discount Plante's story. He said that if any order barring Plante from the United States had been issued it would be on record here. LINDY ON FIVE-HOUR FLIGHT TO NEW YORK By the Associated Press. ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., October 15.—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind- bergh landed here at 5:30 p.m. yester- day after a flight from Washington. They stopped first at Curtiss Field, at Valley Stream, where the colorel left his own plane. They made the short hop from Curtiss Field in a smaller plane. Although Lindbergh took off from Washington approximately five hours before he landed here, he gave no explanation of the unusual length of the flight. Asked whether he had stopped in Philadelphia. to see the world series game, he had nothing w say. o ‘The world's alrgest lock will soon be opened between Ymuidan and Amster- dam, Holland, being 1,312 feet long and 164 feet wide. UPHOLSTERING of the Better Class SEGAL BROS. 1232 14th St. N.W. North 1742 No Branches. G R O s DUNBAR STUDENT COMMANDS CADETS Barnet Anderson Is Named Colonel and Commanding Officer of 9th Brigade. Dunbar High School again has fur- yg, nished the colonel for the 9th Brigade, Colored High School Cadets. Barnet Anderson, a senlor in that school, has been named cadet commanding officer of the brigade for the current year. Cadet Col. Anderson’s staff includes: Maj. Melvin Ma of Dunbar, adju- tant; Moore, Armstrong High School, supply office Capt. Ed- ward Gerald, Armstroi intelligence officer, and Warrant Officers Randall Spencer, Armstrong, and Milton Hines, have been named: Capts. mate, Richter, Leon Down{lu ‘William y Ellsworth Dyson of the 24th Regiment and William H. Starks, Alonso B. ‘Turner, Wendell H. Cooper, Bernard L. Coleman, Alfred Jackson and Jerome L. Vass. First Lieuts. George Donals, George Pettross, Thornton McKinney, Reuben Postell, 'Oliver Franklin and Leonard Robinson of the 24th Regiment, and William H. Balley, Asby Blakey, Horace Lloyd, Wilbur C. Wallace, Robert Swales and Chauncey W. Grimes of the 25th Regiment. Second Lieuts. John J. Hawkins, Bernard Washington, Perry Davidson, Richard Cook, Thomas E. Gardner and Harry Anderson of the 24th Regiment, and ‘James Johnson, Wiliam Carson, ywood Furr, Robert Marshall, Ru- dolph Whitney and Elmore C. Moten of the 25th Regiment. The 1929-30 band officers of the 9th Brigade are Capt. Luther Crichlow, Dunbar; First Lieut. Sterling Lloyd, Dunbar, and Second Lieut. James Green, An'nltrong. ‘The unattached officers include Capts. Homer Adams and Benjamin Spriggs of Armstrong, First Lieut. Theodore Reed of Dunbar and Second Lieuts. Harry C. Burrell and Tomlinsan Todd Dunbar. Other Cadet Corps officers in the Dunbar, Armstrong and Cardozo High Schools follow: ‘Twenty-fourth Regiment—Lieut. Col. Ernest R. Amos, Capts. Theodore Mayo, adjutant; Alvin Douglas, supply officer, and Charles Overball, intelligence officer; Majs. Earl Pree, 1st Battalion, and Norman Gaskins, 3d Battalion, and First Lieuts. James Wise, 1st Battalion, and Harold Simms, 3d Battalion; Sec- ond Lieuts. James Carter, 1st Battalion, and Edward Lucas, 3d Battalion. Twenty-fifth Regiment—Lieut. Col. Clarence McDonald, Capts. Eugene Queen, adjutant; Nathanlel Wright, supply officer, and Willlam Fulford, in- telligence officer; Majs. 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