Evening Star Newspaper, April 16, 1930, Page 24

AL SHOALS LEASE BLS ABANDONED Subcommittee of House Ap- pointed to Draft New Measure. By the Associated Press. | The Norris and all other Muscle | Shoals measures were abandoned today by the House military committee and a subcommittee was appointed to draft a new measure to provide for the leasing of the project to private concerns. At an executive session the military committee decided that none of the bills { before it could meet the approval of | Congress at this session. The only method by which action for disposal of the project could be assured was held to be one to provide for leas- ing the project, with provision for Gov- ernment operation to be undertaken in | event satisfactory leasing arrangements | could not be made. The subcommittee appointed to draft the bill consists of Representative Reece, Republican, Tennessee, chairman; Cochran, _Republican, Pennsylvania; Stafford, Republican, Wisconsin: Me- Swain, Democrat, South Carolina, and Douglas, Democrat, Arizona. The subcommittee is to report by next_Tuesday. Acting Chairman Ransley of the mili- tary committee announced that the committee would continue to meet until it had finally agreed on a bill to be submitted to the House for action at this session. Ransley sald the committee “is de- termined to get action on a ‘fuscle Shoals bill at this session.” ‘The subcommittee was instructed to provide that either the President or some one to be appointed by him would have the authority to lease the project to some concern. — . Capt. Stemersen Assigned. Capt. Carl Stenersen of the Norwe- gian Army, has been authorized by the Secretary of War to attend the course at the United States Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga., and to serve with the machine gun company of the 29th Infantry at that post for a period of two months, beginning April 15. 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GRUNDY PLEDGED AID BY LABOR LEADERS Representatives of Philadelphia | Building Trades Council Promise Support in Campaign. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, April 16 —After listening to a recital of his record on 1abor legislation in the last 20 years, 53 of Associated Building Trades of Phila- delphia, pledged their active support to Senator Joseph R. Grundy in his cam- paign for the Republican nomination to | succeed himself in the United States| te. The labor leaders, headed by Frank labor leaders, representing the Council | visos Feeney, international president of the Elevator Constructors' Union, called at Senator Grundy's private office, where the Senator read to them a detailed statement of the part he has played in the enactment of workmen'’s compensa- :lon‘ child labor and women in industry aws. —_— CENSUS LISTS MAN, 118 WILLOW SPRING, Mo., April 18 (). —Carrying his burden of years lightly, a Missouri Ozark resident was counted in the Butler County, Mo, census yes- terday, who gave his age as 118 years, according to H. B. Koch, census super- r. According to the enumerator's re- port to Koch, the man was making railroad ties on his farm near Hen- drickson, and declared he was zeltlng ready for the same Dtngflm he carries out last year, harvesting crops from 15 acres of land. NEWSPAPER REPORTS REVOLT IN NICARAGUA Rumor Is Denied by Envoy, Who Says Trouble Exists Only in One Province. By the Associated Press. TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, April 16. —The newspaper El Sol yesterday re- ported it had reliable information that a revolutionary movement was in prog- ress in Nicaragua. According to_the paper, Gen. Pedro Altamirano, at the head of well equipped soldiers, has taken control of the depart- ments of Jinotega and Segovias, and threatens Matagalpa. Another rebel de- tachment is reported to have crossed the Costa Ricen frontier, attacking villages in Southern Nicaragua. The Nicaraguan Minister to Honduras, guans had entered the country from Costa Rica, but said they were peace- fully returning home owing to a bad economic situation in Costa Rica. DUCHESS RENEWS FLIGHT KHARTOUM, Upper Egypt, April 18 (#)—The Duchess of Bedford, who is fiying from England to Cape Town and return, left Jubs at dawn today for Dodoma. Her machine made a forced landing in the bog near Juba and had to be taken out by natives. 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