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Smith’s Transfer & Storage Co., 113 You 8t North 3343, .MAY 23,24, 26 MAY 23 34; 26 RANSFER CO., THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, IENGINEERS BACK | POTOMACK CANAL' Move to Revive Dream of Washington for His Capital. ..This is the tenth of a series of arti- Cles on the plans mow being formulated wunder the auspices of the Federal Gov- ernment for the vear-long, Nation-wide George Washington bicentennial celebra- tion, which its sponsors declare will be the greatest celebration thus far known in history.” " It is not to be held in one place. but it will center in the National ‘al, where the vrincipal events of series of programs twill occur t article will appear tomorrow. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Of peculiar interest to Washing- tonians, Virginians and Marylanders, and to members of the engineering pro- fession everywhere, is the project adopt- ed by the American Enginegring Council. as_its contribution to the world-wide 1932 celebration of the 200th anniver- sary of the birth of George Washington, | to preserve and restore the remains of { the old “Potomack Canal” whose con- struction George Washington supervised, around Great Falls on the Virginia side (of the river. It was intended to help make the upper Potomac River navigable for the residents of Maryland and Virginia, and of the new Federal City that he hoped some day would rise on the banks of the Potomac, a few miles below it. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3rd, who, with Representative Sol Bloom of New York, is an associate director of the George Washington Bicentennial, is taking a deep personal concern in this plan. He is one of the most prominent members of the engineering profession in the United States and has for many years viewed with interest the remains of the old “Potomack Canal.” Suggested by D. C. Group. “One of the proposals made by the George Washington Bicentennial ‘Com- mission of the District of Columbia was to honor the memory of the first Presi- dent by restoring this canal. The matter was laid before the American Engineering Council with the approval of the United States Bicentennial Com- mission. “Because of their connection with George Washington, the preservation of the remains of the old Potomac Canal and locks near Great Falls,” said Col. Grant, “appears to be an undertaking appropriate to the George Washington Bicentennial. “Since these relics are rare remaining evidence of very early American engi- neering work, it seems peculiarly fitting that their acquisition and restoration has been adopted by the engineering profession as its contribution to perpet- uating the memory of the first President of our country, who began life as an engineer.” Many persons regard this project as “peculiarly fitting” for another reason Not only is one of the associate direc- tors of the bicentennial an eminent Army engineer, but the President of the United States today, who also is chair- man of the George Washington Bicen- tennial Commission, is Herbert Hoover, who was a world-famous engineer long before he was ever thought of for Presi- dent. A Washington Project. Picknickers and sightseers for many vears have tramped over the remains of the old “Potomack Canal,” most of them without knowing—and, no doubt, some of them without caring—that this was one of the engineering works that | George Washington helped to bring to fruition. It is of special importance to know what Col. Grant, a director of the bi- centennial and an Army engineer, has to say about it. Col. Grant recently spoke on “Wash- ington and the Navigation of the Po- tomac River,” a project very close ta the first President’s mind and heart from the days of his early manhood, when he traveled through the wooded ( hills and mountains in the valley of the upper Potomac River as a surveyor for Lord Fairfax or as a messenger to the Prench from the Colonial government of Virginia at Williamsburg, ‘The route of the Potomac Canal was selected by Washington, Col. Grant points out, “after a personal reconnais- sance survey of 680 miles, including the search for a highway portage between the Potomac Watershed and the Ohio | Watershed.” Embraces Five Locks, ‘The “Potomack Canal” at Great P‘IUK‘ is about 1 mile Jong and embraces five Jocks. It was constructed in 1786, un- der the personal supervision of George Washington, to pass boats around the Great Falls of the Potomac River. “This structure.” says Col. Grant, “is the only engineering project. now in existence known to have been con- structed by the first President. “Little remains,” continues Col. Grant, “of this original engineering work, but the route is well defined. Old excava- tions are intact, except that there has been a great filling in of stone and soll, and trees and other vegetation have moved some of the stone work out of alignment. “But enough remains and enough re- liable data is available to enable the engineering profession to restore this n;re-z historical project for preserva- tion, “In the report of the War Depart- ment to the American Engineering Council, it is stated that ‘As a whole, these structures are rather impressive, being in a wilderness and representing practically the first engineering work of any magnitude in this country. It is believed that this feature represents the first Jock canal built in the United States.” Somervell Report. “In order to ascertain just what will have to be done to restore this work to a status of preservation, the American Engineering Council asked Maj. Brehon Somervell, Corps of Engineers, District engineer, for a report of present condi- tions and the work that will be re- quired. In this report it is stated that the canal extends from above Great Falls about 6,000 feet on the Virginia shore, around them and discharges into the gorge below. “The entrance to the canal was formed by a short wing dam which acted both to divert the water and as & mooring for the boats descending the river, Below the entrance the canal| was built either as a ditch or else se- cured by retaining walls to a point about 1,000 feet above its lower end. “The upper part of the canal rontains no striking features which were directly connected with the canal itself. masonry rubble wall separates the canal from the upper part of the falls and served to keep the water in the canal during times of low flow and keep it out during times of high flow. There is a waste weir or spillway to a few below this waste weir are found the sites of a mill and an iron foundry. The ruins of both of these structures are EDISON and STEWART WARNER RADIO SETS Sold on Easy Terms Your Old Set in Trade ‘There are none Better and Few as Good. A oW | ha hundred yards below the entrance and | Robert Joseph Janney (center), who was arrested yesterday and subjected to guestioning in the Baker murder inquiry when Mrs. Irene McCarthy reported he pursued her in a car. PRISONER QUIZZED IN BAKER CASE AFTER CHASING WOMAN (Continued From First Page) overtook him, He jumped out of his machine and started to run as Riley drew his pistol and shouted that he would shoot unless he stopped. Sur- rendering, he was taken to the first pre- cinct. Denie¢ He Knew Victim. Subjected to questioning by members of the homicide squad, Federal agents and Commonwealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth of Arlington County, who has been conducting the Baker investigation, Janney insisted that he did not know Mary Baker. % While the questioning was under way police searched Janney's room, at his home in the 900 block of New York avenue, and seized a .32-caliber pistol. Later Capt. Ray C. Montgomery of the park police announced that the pistol was an automatic and could not have fired the lead bullets which killed Mary Baker. Oapt. Montgomery said that Janney had served two terms in the District Reformatory on charges of auto- mobile stealing. ‘The police quizzed him particularly as to his movements on April 11, when Miss Baker was killed. He insisted that he spent the night at home, and cor- roboration of the statement was being sought of his mother and friends. A pawn ticket for a watch, dated April 11, was being Investigated, Mr. Gloth announced. Park Policeman Hammond, who is sald to have observed a man who met Mary Baker frequently near the Navy Building, has been summoned to see Janney. Mrs. McCarthy, the wife of an Al- exandria pharmacist, said that Janney first attempted to stop her with his automobile at Twentieth and Pennsyl- vania avenue. She said she drove on without paying any attention to him, but that he continued to follow her out Twentieth street to Virginia ave-! nue. From there the chase led to Twenty-first and F streets, where Mrs. McCarthy says Janney crowded her machine to the curb. She backed out and got away and the chase con- tinued to Twenty-second street and to Twenty-third and Virginia avenue. Here she managed to elude her pursuer and speeded to Seventeenth and B streets, where she knew a policeman would be on duty. posing monument. Opposite the mill is a marker commemorating the building of the canal erected by the D. A. R. of Fairfax County, Va. “From the entrance to the mill there is still some water in the canal. Below the mill the definition or the trace of the canal is very faint, at times there being practically nothing to indicate its existence. Structure Disfigured. “The really interesting part of the canal lies below this set of gates. From this point to the place where the canal enters the river, the canal is easily disinguishable. There were five masonry locks, the upper lock being 100 feet by 14 feet, with a lift of 10 feet. This lock is ‘covered with trees and underbrush whose Toots have pushed out some of the masonry and disfigured the struc- tures. Below this lock is another lock 100 feet by 11 feet, with a lift of 16 feet, similar in character to the one just described. Being of a greater lift it is somewhat more impressive and, if any- thing, the masonry is in a better state of preservation. “Adjacent to this lock and on the river side of it is a flat area inclosed by a rubble and earth wall in which are the remains of gates probably used as & waste weir. This wall inclosed a basin for the supply of water to the lower set of locks. Below the basin and second lock is a third lock which is in a very bad state of repair. This was evidently a wider lock and capable of holding two of the boats in use at that time. “Below this structure is a deep rock cut in which there was a double lock 100 feet by 12 feet, with 12-foot and 21-foot lifts, leading down to the river. The cut is largely filled with debris which will ve to be removed. This was evidently a wider lock and capable of holding two of the boats in use at that time AMUSEMENTS. __—Star Stafl_Photo. ACCEPTING BIG SUM CHARGED 10 JUDGE ;U. S. Attorney Alleges Im- | proper Acts in Hudson River Pier Transactions. I By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May accepting between $132,000 and $250,000 in legal fees while on the bench, and of using artifices to con- ceal the purposes for which they were paid, were laid today against County Judge W. Bernard Vause of Brooklyn by United States Attorney Tutle. The money was paid to Judge Vause's law firm in 1926 and 1927, Mr. Tuttle said, by the United American Lines, “for professional service” ren- dered in_securing for the shipping company leases on three Hudson River plers owned by the ci . Evidence of the payments was found by the Federal grand jury, which re- cently indicted Judge Vause and other officers of the Columbia Finance Co. on charges of mail fraud. In a letter to District Attorney Crain reciting the facts as the grand jury had found them, Mr. Tuttle said Judge Vause gave insufficient and unclear answers to questions put to him before the grand jury concerning the pay- ments, their purpose and the disposi- tion of the money. Mr. Tuttle said Joseph F. Boyle, one of Judge Vause's partners, told the grand jury that most of the money went to the judge. The latter, Mr. Tuttle wrote, said he paid the money to a “Frank Baxter,” whom he described in turn as an engineer, a real estate op- erator and & stock broker, whose ad- dress he did not know. Judge Vause is free in $2,500 bail on his plea of not guilty to the mail fraud indictment in the Columbia Finance case. WARBURG GETS MAEDAL NEW YORK, May 10 () —Felix M. 10.—Charges of tonight received the Gottheil Medal for his accomplishments on behalf of Judaism. 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By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May 10.—Following pre- vious dispatches reporting the mas- sacre of 15,000 inhabitants of Yung- yang, in Honan province, April 23, other Chinese press dispatches today stated that bandit armies had destroyed 500 villages in central Honan, the in- habitants being “murdered, kidnaped and outraged to unknown numbers, while the countryside was reduced to desolation.” Flames of the burning villages, it was sald, lasted for four days and could be seen for many miles. Many of those kidnaped were murdered and their mutilated bodies flung into creeks or left in roadways. The notorfous “Widow Chang” was believed to be the leader of a party of 200 brigands. The “*Widow Chang.” believed to be operating north of Wuhu with a band of 200 brigands. is dne of two women bandits notorious in China. Both are about 30 years old and both have been unsuccessfully pursued by military forces especially sent out to end their activities. The “Widow Chang” is the better known of the pair. She is said to be the widow of a wealthy merchant who was robbed and killed by bandits. The Chinese press says she became par- tially insane and then turned bandit with the idea of revenging herself. The second woman bandit is chief of a pirate gang operating along the South China coast. s . REBELS DRIVE TOWARD YANGTSE Nationalist Forces Battle on Widely Separated Fronts, By the Associated Press. SHANGHAI, May 10.—Nationalist government armies battled today on two widely separated fronts in an effort to turn back the Northern Alliance rebels in their drives toward the Yangtse River. With heavy casualties on both sides after two days of fighting, the result was in doubt. Foreigners in Chengchow were re- ported in grave danger as Nationalist airplanes bombed the éity, destroying the railway station and Northern head- quarters. sald Japanese dispatches. Contending for supremacy in China, the opposing forces battled on both the Eastern and Western frontiers of Ho- nan Province. The major engagement was along the Lunghai railway between Chengchow and Suchow. In this sec- tor, Chiang Kai-Shek, president of the Nationalist government and generalis- simo of its armies, was in personal command against the Northern thrust against his eapital, Nanking. Plant MAY 11, 1930—PART ONE. JOWA HAS UNUSUAL SENKTORAL FIEAT Representative Dickinson and Gov. Hammil Seek G. 0. P. Nomination. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. One of the strangest of the senatorial contests is that in Iowa this year. Hav- ing had a Democrat in the Senate for the first time in generations, through a combination of circumstances which, by a close count eliminated Senator | Brookhart. only to have him come back two years later, Towa is now faced with another contest inside the Republican party which will be settled at the primaries June 2. Representative L. J. Dickinson, one of the venerable leaders of the agricultural bloc in Congress, is seeking the Repub- lican nomination for the Senate, and is opposed by Gov. Hammil, iwho was one of the group of governors which par- ticipated in the corn belt conferences which former Gov. Lowden helped to initiate when the McNary-Haugen bill | was under_consideration. Mr. Dickinson is understood to have the support of Senator Brookhart. Pro- gressives and_conservatives have lined up behind both candidates, however, as the lines of cleavage are not defined as they were in the famous fight against Mr. Brookhart. Farm Board Defender. Recently Representative Dickinson jumped into the fray when the United States Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution advocating a curtailment of the activities of the Federal Farm Board. He made an outspoken defense of the Farm Board as at present constituted. Gov. Hammil has been criticizing Mr. Dickinson for voting in favor of the Hawley tariff bill. 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COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 10 (#).—An airplane which roared over Ohio peni- tentiary tonight, caused National Guardsmen some apprehension, for it has been threatened from several sources that gangland cronies of the in- carcerated men might try to “destroy the prison from the sk; Hoots and cat calls, jeers and banter, followed by comparative quiet, filled the air, The steel bird zoomed low, circled the penitentiary and then disappeared The shouting was replaced by excited chattering—and then quiet. Over Penitentiary tomorrow! buy Three ave been promoted | helps them in getting legislation through | IC are drys, so that issue is not likely to | A3 DR. CHARLES MACK DEAD Pastor of Swedenborgian Church Widely Known in Indiana LAPORTE, Ind, May 10 (#).—Dr. Charles S. Mack, 73, pastor of the Church of the New -Jerusalem. and widely known in medical and religious circles, died here today, after a year's illness. 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