Evening Star Newspaper, December 7, 1930, Page 11

-~ INCANDWATERWAYS MEETING TUESDAY Rivers and Harbors Congress Delegates to Hear Promi- nent U. S. Officials. Prominent Government officials will | take part in the twenty-sixth conven-| tion of the National Rivers and Har- Congress, which ‘will convene y morning at 10 o'clock at the Willard Hotel for sessions continuing through the following day. Speakers on the opening day of the convention include Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, who will speak on “Waterways and the War Department;” BSenator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio; Jobn F. Galvin, chairman of the Port of | New York Authority; Chairman T. V.| O'Connor of the United States Ship- ing Board; Representative S. Wallace | mpsey, chairman of the House Riv- ers and Harbors Committee. Unification Is Topio. Representative Riley J. Wilson of Louisiana, president of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, will make his annual address at this meeting, also, during the morning session. S. A. ‘Thompson of Washington will render the secretary's report. In his address, Senator Fess will dis- cuss “Our Inland Seas.” Mr. O'Connor will take as his subject, “American Support of American Ships,” and Mr. Dempsey will tell about unification of the waterways of the United States. ‘Tuesday afternoon Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of engineers of the Army, and Mayor James M: Curley of Bos: ton will be among the principal speak- | ers. Gen. Brown will discuss the na- tional aspects of river and harbor im- provements, while Mayor Curley will tell about Boston Harbor and the Cape | Cod Canal. Speaker List Notable. Other afternoon speakers include Prof. Ing. Antonin Smrcek of Czecho- these shotguns from a s of their territory to tral THE _SUNDAY SEIZE TWO WITH STO UNS LEN SHOTG “ | Executive Committee Pvt. W. E. Riley (left) and Sergt. W. F. Shelton of the park police, who will receive special commendation for the arrest of two men on a charge of stealing | rting goods store. The two park policemen went out the alleged burglars Friday night and arrested them early Saturday morning in the National Museum grounds. —Star Staff Photo. slovakia; Capt. R. R. Blythe of New York; Walter W. Williams, vice presi- dent of the Illinols Chamber of Com- merce; Representative John G. Cooper of Ohio and James Francis Burke, gen- PULITZER PRIZE WINNER eral counsel of the Pittsburgh Cham- ber of Commerce. ‘The annual banquet will be held Tuesday night at 7 o'clock. Senator mh E. Ransdell of Louisiana, who led the congress for many years, will be toastmaster. He will speak on “Retrospect and Prospect.” Theodore M. Knappen, editorial director of the National Lumber Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, will speak on “Rivers and Trees: A Romance of Industry.” There will be music by the United States Marine Band and songs by ‘O’Connor. Following the Wednesday morning session, spokesmen for the various State delegations will address the con- gress in the afternoon. Adjournment of the congress follows the election of TO GIVE ADDRESS HERE Oliver La Farge, Author of “Laugh- ing Boy,” to Speak at Com- munity Institute. Oliver La Farge, author of “Laughing Boy,” winner of the 1929 Pulitzer prize, will speak tomorrow night at 8:15 at Central Community Center, under the auspices of the Community Institute, on “Indians Are People.” He is recog- nized as one of the foremost authori- | ties on Indian lore. Mr. La Farge will set aside a period after the lecture dur- | ing which he will answer questions from the audience. Mrs, Willlam Hard, wife of the maga- zine writer and a writer of note under her own name of Anne Hard. He will be accompanied to Washington by Mrs. La Farge, and they will be entertained during thelr stay here by Charles J. Rhoads, Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. e Following the. failure of the recent Paris automoblle show to stimulate France favor discontinuance of the an- nual exhibition. STAR, sales, some auto manufacturers of W22 WASHINGTON, KEECH T0 OPPOSE NEW POWER RATES People’s Counsel to Make Last-Minute Effort to Force Greater Reduction. A last-minute effort to overthrow the rate schedule proposed Friday by the Potomac Electric Power Co. for the District's 1931 electric rates will be made by People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech at the meeting of the Public Utllities Commission tomorrow, Mr. Keech announced yesterday. Mr. Keech was given a copy of the proposed rate schedule Friday and he maintains that it is impossible to make a sufficient study of it before tomorrow, when the commission has informally announced that the new rates will be promulgated. Mr. Keech already has pending a mo- tion for the commission to make la; reductions than it pi by taki into account prospective increase in business in 1931. This has not been done, the commission contending that it would not be permissible under the terms of the decree in Equity Court by which the rates are annually adjusted. Mr. Keech contends that the increased business may be taken into account, or, if-the terms of the decree are found to prohibit it, then that “decree is totally unconscionable and- that the decree is to be abrogated.” Mr. Keech said that he will not only press his motion at the meeting of the meeting on Mon- day, but that he will press the whole matter before the rates are adjusted and that he would oppose any order on the rates before such public hearing is granted. ‘The rates as proposed by the com- pany after conference with the com- mission call for a reduction in elec- tric bills during 1931 amounting to $830,000, accomplished by reducing all schedules from a primary rate o¥ 4.7 down to 4.2 cents per. kilowatt hour, | with accompanying reductions in the secondary rates. 3 D USED CAR SALE THE TREW MOTOR CO. 1509-11 14th ST. N.W. NEW BOOK BY WASHINGTON AUTHOR Sober or Drunk, Say This Quickly And You’ll Be Sunk By the Associated Press. CLAY ICROSS, England, cember 6.—Just bécause & man can't repedt a “ton| “tm" it against Hubert Watson, a truck driver, who couldn't say “the Leith police dismisseth us” when the police asked him to.* ‘WELL HAS HEAVY FLOW 6,000 Gallons an Hour Added to Lonaconing Water Supply. Special Dispatch to The St LONACONING, Md., December 6.— Lonaconing is assured an increased wa- ter supply by a 6,000-gallon flow hourly | from a well struck at Gilmore, two | miles east of here, by the Lonaconing and Midland Elk Lick Water Cos. The flow came at 206 feet. ‘The same companies supply Midland, which has recently gone ugh a wa- ter famine. ‘The well drillers have gone to Barton, at the instance of Mayor Arthur Hoffa, to drill a well =iy ‘The mail carrier who rode from New York to Boston in the early days had strange duties. He was supposed to mark trees “that .should direct pas- aen?ern the best way.” He had police duties and was to arrest all fugitive soldiers and servants from New York. & Heating Co. A CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR THE FAMILY Why wait! 2 or 3 years to pay. No interest. Call us. Free esti- mate. No mortgage on your ¥ Our MONTHLY PAYMENTS D. C, DECEMBER 7; 1930—PART ONE. TESTIMONY OPENS INTRIAL OF MAJOR Government and Defense Outline Case of Army Man Accused of Murder. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Kans, December 6. —A picture of Maj. Charles A. Shepard as plotting the death of his wife that he might marry blonde 22-year-old Grace randon of San Antonio was spread be- fore a Federal Court jury today as S. M. Brewster, United States district torney, outlined the Government's case in the murder trial of the Army medical officer. In contrast, Harry 8. Class of de- fense counsel depicted the 59-year-old tuberculosis specialist as a kind and af- fectionate husband, worried over his wife’s addiction to liquor and disap- pointed in his home life. The officer rapher during his short period on duty ‘where he was taking ‘Testimony began after a noon recess, but only four witnesses were heard, in- cluding Maj. Gen. M. N. Ireland, surgeon general of the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Adjournment was taken until Monday because the Gov- ernment asked time to assemble an array of medical testimony it next wished to present. ‘The chief prosecution counsel, whose statements several times brought ob- jections from the defense because of what they termed argumentative and impassioned expressions, told the jury the Government would introduce ardent love letters from the major to Miss Brandon as part of its case. One of these letters, Brewster stated, was writ- ten three hours after the death of Mrs. Zenana Shepard at Fort Riley, June : “My darling sweet- Summing up_his statement of'more than an hour, Mr. Class contended the Government could prove nothing but the most natural things about Maj. Shepard. Throughout his outline, Mr. Class placed great stress upon what he termed the major's ‘“natural” actions before and after his wife's death, and in his relations with Miss Brandon. You Can Give ININE CASTAWAYS ARE ACCIDENTALLY FOUND All Hands on Yacht Eola Resoued as Naval Vessels Search for Fishing Boat, By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, December 6.— Nine men and women cast away last Sunday by the wrecking of their yacht Eola, on the barren Guadalupe Islands, 220 miles south of here, were resoued today by the naval aircraft carrier Langley while it was seeking traces of the 12 missing crew men of the fishing boat PFidelity. 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