Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1931, Page 5

G _STAR, WASHINGTON, HIGHWAY PROGRAM TOTALS §442,300,000 Sum Is 582 500,000 Higher Than Contract Value August 1, 1930. By the Associated Press. The active Federal aid highway pro- gram, enriched by appropriations from | Congress to aid the Nation's jobless, Involved contracts along with States amounting to $442.500,000 on August 1 | Approximately $30,000,000 more s | available from the $125000,000 ap- propriated for this vear 1o carry on he construction work on & ffty-fity basis with the Stat; ‘The $442,500,000 toial accountad for | only the active projects under way on | min Augu; It does not include high- | ways smma and completed earlier in | the year. 100,000 Get Work. On August 1, 1930, the active pro- gram involved contracts costing $360,- | 000,000. Through the $50,000,000 an nual increase in regular Federal al appropriation and allotment of an $80, 000,000 emergency fund to States, thi year's work 15 about four months ahead of last year. It has been estimated this | o0 has given work to about 100,000 men. |3 iy iniey All' unexpended emergency funds from this appropriation applied on projects not completed by September 1, lapses on that C. D Cum<s cmer of the Division of | Control of the Bureau of Public Roads, explained most smlm used their share of the emergency money early in_the | year 5o It wil be expended before Sep- tember 1. The uncompleted portion of the projects will be finished b) regular | Pederal aid and State money. JTowa Gets Full Share. { Jowa was the first State to be pal its entire share of emergency money. e September 1 date for lapsing of the money was inserted by Congress to get_the program under way early. ‘The $442,500,000 total was made up of $197.200.000 of Federal aid funds and $245,300,000 of State and emergency money. During July commcu costing $20.¢ oon 000 were appro active projecls cn)led for con- struction of 18873 miles. of highways, | compared with 13,756 & year ago. Matched with State funds, the $30,- | 000,000 of regular Federal aid still avail- able will be swelled tn about $65,000,000 m for allocation this y ROCKEFELLER 'GRANDSON FINED IN ILLEGAL SW|M‘zr foreign parentage, which is an John R. Plen!ice Yale Law Stu- dent, and Cémpanion As- sessed $5 Each. By the Associated Press. NEW HAVEN, Cona, August 14.— | John Rockefeller Prentice, grandson of | John D. Rockefeller, yesterday was fined | $5 and costs in the West Haven Town | . Gourt by Judge William L, Larash for g in the Maltby Lake Reservolr of the Svew Haven Water On. Edvin Hendrie, who was with Pren- {ice, was fined $5 on the same charge, They were ariested Saturday hy Speciai State Policeman C. Prentice, who wo Yale College by st phone operator at the New Haven Hos- pital, is a student st the Yale Law | chool. DE FACTO MAYOR RULES SAN JUAN “INDEFINITELY” | Tedd to Carry Fight to Supreme Court if Island Ruling Is in Favor of Commission. By the Associated Press. BAN JUAN, Porto Rico, August 14.— Roberto H. Todd, six times mayor of | San Juan, stayed in City Hall yester- un s de facto mayor pending a Su- Court decision to determine hether Gov. Theodore Hooserelt may Appoint commissioners to take over the y (overnm nt, said he would remain indefi- nliely’ oy necessary, would carry his eue to the United States Supreme police were on duty in uw x-u R g A { RAINS F FLOOD MANILA | | MANILA, Augusl 14 (#)—Provincial | oday said extensive damage ad been caused in Luzon by almost constant rains since last Saturday. and bridges were washed out and ‘there was some damage 10 crops. [ Travel by rail and highway was vir- tually para towns were 1so- Iated and wlegrlph lines were down. | Much of Manila was under water to- | day as a resun Ot @ combination of nm nnd high ti UTLER-FLYN P-A -I-N-T-S 7-609 C St. 31 50 Will completely pnm! the ehil- dren’s room with Acme Gy Quality 85 Kalsomine. Will not || rub o Telephone Etro. 0151 = [ROOFING | | One-ply Roofing, H perroll. .. Also Complete Stock of Shingles, etc. 3—Branches—3 MAIN OFFIC| -, Down’rowfi-'csu: & s“ N l' IGHTWOW-GI&G., s RS Census Shows Increase of cent over 1920. is 4.4 per cent above the lnd 29,932 who were themselves mrelsn- D\er '1920. put at 108 8 tive and 13 tele- | in the division. | Apartment ’pc SlOEA Science Sonlight Poduces Dhenes in Color of Sea. The @olor of the sea, due to the ab- sorption of varlous wave-lengths of sunlight in water, 15 not constant, Drs, | E. O. Hulburt and Charles Bittinger of the Naval Research Laboratory have re- ported to the American Geophysical Union. They made extensive color matching of sea and tky during a voyage from | Norfolk around: the eastern end of Cube “to Panama. Observations on {sunny deys looking directly down at the water, they report, showed that t | e B wea i beamtul, SUL gent blue, quite different from the blue- | black of the Atlantic Ocean north nf] latitude 30.” Some of this change in color, they conclude, was due to | the lngh»r temperature, but some was due to paticles of animal, vegetable or al origin, which are diffused through water Thfl found that the sky near the( horizo: n nny days is about five times as bright ss the sca near the harlmn but 50 degrees from the ho- it, s only about twice as bright. actical aim of the work 15 to asure of visibility at cea. The a value which will be . !uncnonv ACfierhfl\! 1931) WHIES ARENATIE 9.6 Per Cent in Popu- lation Figure. Nearly three-fourths of the white population of Washington are of native American parentage, according to fig- ures from the 1930 census made public wdsy through the Commerce Depart- total white population is given ss :23 992 of which 262,427 were of native | stock. is is an increase of 9.6 per | There were on the cansus date 36,809 | rease of 4.8 per cent over 1920; 24, 745 having one parent forelgn-born, which which is a 4.8 per cent increase Nationally the white Population n vith 1or=1m-bom the native 0, 4 were shown of native paremage i 991 221 of foreign parentage and 8,361,965 having one parent_foreign-born. An Increase of 157 per cent tin the| white population was noted in the past | decade, the figure in 1920 being 94,- 120,374, The South led with the largest per- centage of native white, followed closely | by the West, while the North was lowest FIVE DIE IN COLLAPSE Tragedy in France “receded by Explosion. 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