Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1930, Page 6

A-o. > — URLEY PREDICTS UNIFIED WATERWAY Secretary of War Completes | First Lap of Mississippi River Inspection. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, September 6.—Complet- ing the first lap of his inspection trip of the Mississippi River from the Twin Cities to the Gulf of Mexico in arriving here today. Secretary of War Hurley went by airplane tonight to his native State of Oklahoma for a few days rest.. Diloted by his personal Army pilot, Lieut. C. W. Cousland, the Secretary took off for Tulsa, Okla., from East St. Louis late today after a luncheon giveny him by the St. Louis Chamber of Com- merce and an inspection of the gifnt barge terminals on the river front on the Missouri and Illinois sides. National, Not Local, Project. Speaking at the luncheon, the Secree tary appealed to St. Louis to regard the Mississippl River development 85 a na- tional rather than a local project and one which would constitute a unified national system rather than a “pork barrel” situation along the vast rivers system. “Our purpose in this development,” the Secretary said, “is to make every Great Lakes port a river port and every Mississippl River port a seaport by linking in & unified system the lakes and the river and its tributaries. “The War Department, coming in contact with more people of this coun- try than any other Government depart- ment, is set upon a mission of peace. It is not engaged in setting up a machine to menace the peace of the world, Wit | — one to link the widespread sections of this nation in a system of waterways | which will be of value to every type of producer, whether agriculturalist, in- dustrialist or business man.” To Retain Engineers. In response to an appeal by Walter B. Weisenburger, president of the local Chamber of Commerce for the con- tinued services of Col. George R. Spauld- ing, division engineer of the uj Mis- sissippi, Missouri and Ohio Rivers, the Secretary asserted the engineers would be retained in their positions “until their jobs are done.” The Secretary's announcement indicated the long stand- ing rule for the change of engineering officers after they have served the regu- lation four years on a project will be changed to permit officers acquainted with extensive projects to serve until they have completed the work. Col. Spaulding was designated earlier in the day by the Secretary to investi- te allegations which had reached the gnr Department that contractors to ‘whom Government had let con- tracts were reducing wages along the river projects. At the same time the the Engineering Corps in Washington to maintain for the re- mainder of the present fiscal year or until June 31, 1931, the scale of wages now in effect on Government-operated projects. ‘The attitude of the Secretary is that the scale of wages under old contracts let to contractors by the Government before the present deflation period We take this oce: fon to acknowledge ebtedness to | nearly at a standstill in the Iowa section a barge stuck on a sandbar in the river. THE sUNDAY STAR, WASHINVGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 7, 1930—PART ONE. LOW WATER STRANDS BOATS : The Mississippi River is the lowest it has beent in 27 years, and shipping is and above.| Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley:is making a trip on the river, studying the problems facing navigation. This air photo, taken 5 miles south of Keokuk, Iowd, shows three steamers and —P. & A. Photo. | P | should not be reduced before the expira- tion of the contracts. One unconfirmed report which reached the Secretary and which he has asked Col. Spaulding to investigate is that one contractor re- duced wages of laborers from 45 cents an hours to 25 cents. Maj. “Gen Lytle Brown, chief of Army engineers, who is accompanying the Secretary, told the Chamber of Commerce luncheon that the purpose of the inland waterway system was “to rate and co-ordinate with the | railway systems of the country to af- ford the best possible transportation to shi i Secreary Hurley will address an American Legion convention at Okmul- gee before returning to St. Louis by air- plane Monday. The trip down the river will be resumed Tuesday. £ RITES FOR GEN. BENNET TO BE HELD WEDNESDAY Retired Army Officer Was Native of New Jersey and a Graduate of West Point. | Puneral services will be held at Ar- | lington National Cemetery Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock for Brig. Gen. John B. Bennet, U. S. A., retired, Who | died at Walter Reed General Hospital | last Tuesday after a short iliness. Gen. | Bennet was a native of New Brunswick, | N. J., and was graduated from the West Point Military Academy in June, 1891. Most of his service was in the Infantry up to the time of the World War, in which he served as a brigadier general in the National Army. In September, 1925, he was traunsferred to the retired list at his own regwest and took up his residence at 406 Fafrfax road, Bethesda, Md. R O s North Carolina spent $16,525,000 on its bighwgv wwrovom last year. The in- come was $19,954,000, _ PLATES Teeth Extractions by Experts Crown and Removable Bridg: Piaced Without Grinding Your Teeth Plates Repaired While You Wait, $1 Dr. LEHMAN 400 7th St. N, W. Over Woolworth's 5 and 10 PAEONIAN FARMERS AID THEIR NEIGHBORS Furnish Water for Less Fortunate in Their Section to Keep Cattle Alive. Special Dispatch to The Star. PAEONIAN SPRINGS, Va. Septem- ber 6.—The farmers of this section who have wells and springs that have not dried up are helping some less fortu- nate neighbors. The sight of a stone- baat hitched behind a flivver and being dragged along loaded with a barrel of water is not uncommon. Some of the small colored farmers especially are getting water for stock in this way, or in horse-drawn wagons, and filling the barrels at rivulets or springs on neigh=~ bors’ property. Another method is to organize a bucket brigade. Although light showers have sprin- kled the Catoctin Mountain section in the last two weeks the rainfall in this way has been so slight as scarcely to lay the dust, much less make any pud- dles, and crops have continued to burn up. Pasturage on areas where not a single green hlade : be found, lndl:vm the we:&:n::: c::hvnd by the affords lttl are :x against it already. Many have started cutting corn to, use for fodder, as there will be few 8 ears anyway. 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