Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1933, Page 27

MHELLAR TELS OF MUSCLE SHOALS Forum Speaker Says Long- Standing Norris Plan Wil Be Given Approval. Legislation, long sponsored by Sen- ator Norris, Republican, of Nebraska, for Government operation of Muscle ! Shoals unquestionably “will be passed | by the next Congress” Senator Mc- Kellar, Democrat, of Tennessee, de- clared last night in an address in the| National Radio Forum, arranged by' ‘The Star, and broadcast over a coast- ! to-coast network of the National: Broadcasting Co. Senator McKellar sketched the his-! tory of the celebrated project, which | was launched as a war undertaking, | and told of the plans of its backers for further development, now seen assured through the support of President-elect Roosevelt. Explaining that it would cut in half the cost of electricity in the area it will | supply, Senator McKellar said that it' 1 be one of the greatest aids to the ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Explains Muscle Shoals be generated and at the same time in- the t Muscle Shoals, but q8 Ei ] approved by the and will constitute the greatesi step toward pr:pemy that the le of the valley of the Tennessee, whether in ‘Tennessee or in other States, have ever tween, where large units of power can |indeed Senator Norris has t| “The and | discuss them, I do feel like saying that 1’3’12 o f !h‘. ‘g:uw wer interest Of &N fon of Mr. Roosevelt, very similar views to those of Benator Norris and those of us who stand with him, makes Senator Norris’ victory complete. As s Southerner and as & representative of the Tennessee Valley, I want to express my dt;‘nt deht of gratitude for the lplend fight that made. on the of President-clect Roosevert ave wen known. I became very enthusiastic about them as I listened to him. They mean a ‘new deal’ for the Tennessee River ter- ritory. They mean & new deal for the users of electric current in that ter- ritory. They spell development and progress. They insure the work out of a splendid plan of public utilities development, which, in my judgment, will eventually bring about” & great g:ospemy to the people who now in- bit the territory of the wonderful Tennessee Valley, from its rise to its MINISTER INDICTED ON CHARGES OF GIRL AGAIN ON FRIDAY NIGHT Pastor of Church in Muncie, Ind., be Also Accused of Btriking . Choirmaster. % By the Assoclated Press. MUNCIE, Ind, January 31.—Rev. @. Lemuel Conway, pastor of the Madi- son Street Methodist Episcopal Church here, was indicted by the Delaware County grand jury yesterday on charges of attempting to attack an 18-year-old high school girl and also of striking his choirmaster. 3 ‘The minister, who is 85 years old, married and has five grown surrendered. Bond was fixed at $3,000 on the charge of assault and .battes with intent to commit a statutory of- fense and $500 on & charge of ssssult and battery. 3 Rev. Mr. Conway will face a church trial soon for alleged imprudent con- duct unbecoming a minister. Mr. and Mrs. Burl Huffman and their daughter, Helen, 18, were recent wit- testified that Rev. Mr. Canway invited her into his automobile last December and at- ‘The minister and streets, Allison 3 of the Community Cen- | ® haro Tervos, tonight at ent. Matrriage: Licenses. gt Ko, 3 1518 North Ouro- Mildred Simms, . 1531 1, l;rnu'num."' L Rehearsals are being held the Roosevelt auditorium, and on Wed- | yye % and Thursdsy at the studio of ‘Weptworth, director. Tickets are available at the Com- munity Center Department, in Pranklin School Building, Thirteenth and K streets; the American 3 Automobile As- sociation, the Willard Hotel, the Wash- ington Hotel and at the box office. 80 much interest has been shown in Penzance. Miss Wentworth's direction shortly after m? second presentation of “The Mikado,’ mBilrth‘s Reported. Enger E. Ward, twin boys. | o isl. boy. . and Mary ind Louise Palsg) W. and Elizabeth and Irene Simon N Charles and Mary Pugiisi. Joseph H. and "Lucitle: Fowel ifam 7, Prank_R. John a 419 10th ot lls,"21, 108 13th st. 00 _16th st 7th st} 21, 1812 Gainsville st. e ¥, 19, Anacostia; Rey, James’ Jones. %15, 1338 U st. and Viola Johnson. 27, ;. ‘Wil oy "n'm:.-t 1006 Girard st.; Rev. m Deaths Reported. - g&]fl O'Connell, 71, 220 r R, Fanagas, 71, 16 “New York lospital: Henry Bo: 4 'y EII’;{:’ 8l mergency Hospital, William N. Franke, 48, en routs Hogpital. oyd €. Huff, 40, United Hospital ‘Ann um&f:fl to attack her. mouth.” den! the charges. CAVE-IN KILLS CONVICTS Three Inmates of Folsom Prison people of the Tennessee Valley and to Fertiliser Important.. ;?'{0 vicinity of that valley that could “One of the grestest bemefits to be “It ought to make the Tennessee | ritory of E n’r:hn..neuee m‘:‘ul?mh;; X,Auey one of the greatest manufactur- the manufacture of fertilizer at the g centers in the country. It will SEVATOR MeRELLAR. shoals. Recent discoveries have shown hegeflt all the people.” he said. I that nitrates from the air can be ob- fertilinge TR0 ihe manufacture of | yhich has fought like a dog in the | are tributarles of the Tennessee snd |tained by the use of comparatively Sertlier b{e,} incal Cfun e benefit a manger, trying to keep everybody else | which will not only generate power'!mlll amounts of power. In the old ek e e e | there, but will perhaps double the 'days it required much power, but under 1:,“ f Addr Confident in Roosevelt. [nmount of primary power generated at|the synthetic methods it is believed o ess. 2 the shoals, that these nitrates can be obtained The text of Senator McKellar's ad- | o 0ur, O%, November 8 last the ques-| “To explain what I mean, there can | much more cheaply and with very much dress follows: tlon was virtually settled by the clec- | pen generated at Muscle Shoals now |less ~power than formerly. In “Ladies and gentlemen: T have been | 1o Of Gov. Franklin velt 85 | ahout 100,000 horsepower of prims Southern rt of Middle Tennessee, |under huge boulders. ssked by The Star to tell you some- | Lrcsident. He was in hearty accord|power, nngo pro%-bly 300,000 orse. | bordettng 35 Muscle Shoals, there aré | The crash of rock down a 100-foot|Orders from Cuban post offices. War- thing about Muscle Shoals. ~The falls | Vit the desire of Senator Norrls and | power of secondary power—and I mean | vast quantities of phosphates, and as |cliff came without warning to the 800 |rants weré obtained here sgainst the known as Muscle Shoals are on the | 10%¢ Who belleved with Senator Norris | by ‘gecondary power' the power that ghosphates and nitrates”constitute the | men at Work in the pit. Warden Court | men, Mocesto Bermudez, a Cuban, and Tennessee River. They are situated in | ot o, 5, Government should operste is generated, say, for nine months in argest ingredients of fertilizer, the | Smith blamed the slide on recent heavy | Samiel P. Sparks, alias’ John A, Gar- | o ¥ P , and unquestionably 3 ', W] AL but | 8! constitute an ideal pl-lct or | rains, whicl ad loosens the soil. lon, . . Preston an ael | i ot cornar ol e et oL e e O e e the manufacture of fertilizer for the| The dead are Willam Hughley, 36, | Merondez. benefit of the farmers. The fact that | colored burglar from San Diego; "Jm Government agents accuse the two Muscle Shoals is already reached by two large railroad systems and splendid hard roads, running in every direc- e. se. ewart. 0. Gallinger Hospital. 's_Hospital. n g"’ gt 'mond P. 0. PLOT IS CHARGED |3t sid" a0 e Two Accused of Passing Forged or : OL.D '-E-“N ‘;B 'E -R G'S Sale! ‘“Artecraft” FOLSOM PRISON, Calif,, January 31 | ot GAcey January 31 (P)—Post ) —A ' office inspectors last night said two quarry kifl.e‘nlie lk‘i‘ree"prllx::nerr’:h;;m:me, | men were being detained at St. Lous, | Complete With u e n Tru-View” Lenses two losing their lives in an’effort to ' Mo., for investigation in connection with save others they thought were buried | . plot to pass forged or stolen money | . | Norris plan of operating the plant will Smbena. Alver fepms which form the ' be passed by the next Congress, and | 105,000, horespower . Now. when the ginia ang in North Cormina Spmn Vir- | the result will be a tremendous victory | Cove Creek Dam is bullt, that will so Principal streams are the Holst g for the users of current all over that‘mguuge the flow of the water as to the Prench Broad, the Holston rising | PorL,Of OUF country. | bring about 200,000 horsepower of pri- in Virginia and the French Broad fa In connection with the Muscle|mary power at the shoals. In other |ticn, makes it a peculiarly central and North Carolina. When these and other Shoals plant, it is the purpose of Sen- | words, the Cove Creek Dam will about | splendid place in our part of the coun rivers meet, just morth of Knoxvile ator Norris to have Congress authorize | double the capacity for primary power |try for the manufacture of fertilizers. Tenn,, they form Shat & caded the the building of what is known as the at Muscle Shoals, and of course the two | The farmers of the country will be ‘Tennéssee River. The Tennessee River | G0 ¢pCreck Dam at the junction of |should be operated together. tremendously benefited. flows In a southerly direction to Chat- the Powell and Clinch Rivers, which “There are various other dams in be-| “The entire Tennessee Valley, and tanooga, and then the river bends to | . | the westward, dips down into the State | [l = &3 il i of Alabama and runs through the 3 ‘ northern portion of that State, and just beyond Muscle Shoals takes a | northwesterly course, running all the way through West Tennessee and through Kentucky and empties into the ©Ohio River. ““The river is nearly a thousand miles long. and runs through a rich valley. It was never navigable for any great | distance because of the many shoals or rapids therein. Between Knoxville and Chattanooga there are some nine cis- tinct rapids, making nine power sites. In Alabama there are three distinct rapids, the principal one being at Mus- cle Shoals. “The river is navigable after it leaves Muscle Shoals for a distance of some 150 miles through the State of Ten- nessee, but just as it reaches the Ken- tucky line there is another fall and rapids, and consequently a power site. “In 1916 war was raging in Europe and the United States was threatened. | At that time 1 was a _member of the | $3,200 worth of money orders | ey sald they were awaiting | replies from Cuban officials to deter- | mine if the money orders were stolen or forged. Mitchell, 28, Los Angeles robbe: i | Austin Jackson, 39, colored burglar from Oakland. Clark Vansickle, a prisoner, was in the hospital with a broken right leg. Silk and rayon weaving plants in | e Private deposits in the Bank of Japan Switzerland now employ 10,000 persons. | now total over $70,000,000. House of Recpresentatives from the | Momphis district. After talking with Representative Oscar Underwood of Alabama I intrcduced an amendment in the Committee on Military Affairs appropriating sufficient money to be spent at Muscle Shoals in building a dam. with the purpose of establishing & ?rsm power plant there for the manu- acture of nitrates from the air, to be used in time of war and for fertilizers in t'me of peace. | e reason why we desired to attain | nitrates from the air was becauss our country at the time was practically en- tirely dependent upon Chile for nitrates, and in case of war, of course, that source of nitrat>s might be closed to us, and it was essential for us to be able | to make all of the explosives necessary. Oregon Site Proposed. “This was the purpose of the bill. 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Spring filled cushions, with cut corgers. ourth Fioor, The Hacht Ged Experienced AdvertisersPrefer The Star 5 Delivers This Suite Balance pay- able monthly on The Hecht Co’s Budget Plan. The bill went to the House, where the provision was stricken out, and in leu thereof the Senate provided that the President was autharized to select a site. As I remembor, this followed a bill 3 offered by Senator Smith of South | (i 4 . Carolina. As I recall, Senator Cham- % 3 ok berlain of Oregon was at the time chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, and he had a wonder- ful site in Oregon that he thought T 5 5 ought to be used. President Wilson was i, ) given the authority to make the selec- ks W tion, as I have stated, and afterward selecte Muscle Shoals, and the dam was built there by the Federal Govern- ment. “This dam cost about the sum of $500,000,000, and the nitrate plant that | was established there and all of the improvements in connection therewith cost the Government during the war about $93,000,000 more—in all about $150,000,000. The plant was not com- plete when the war closed, and many members of Congress wanted to aban- don it at that time, some Senators argu- ing that it was throwing money after bad to complete the plant. Rented Plant to Power Firm. “About that time Henry Ford made an offer for the plant, which many of us desired to accept, thinking that he would establish a great manufacturing industry in and around the plant. The acceptance of this offer was delayed by the Congress and later on Mr. Ford ‘withdrew it. However, one effect of Mr. Ford's offer was that the Congress com- Pleted the plant. “About that time there was a change ©of administration, and when the new administration came in, notwithstand- 4ng the fact that the original law under | which the plant was established pro- hibited the Government from using it in connection with any power company, | the then administration rented the plant | fo the Alabama Power Co. for com- paratively nothing, and it' has been | Wsed by the Alabama Power Co. ever | since for its own purposes, the Govern- ment getting little out of it. ! “While the Govérriment gets little out fof it, the Alabama Power Co. and other ver companies interested with it sought by every means within their er to prevent the Government from ggerating the plant itself. One of the esults of this policy is seen in the rices charged for current. “For instance, the Alabama Power . pays to the Government about one- ! fth of a cent per kilowatt for what | wer it actually uses. If it does mot | ff eed the power, the water goes over the am and is lost for all time. While the #Alabama Power Co. pays only one-fifth ®f a cent for the current, it sells it, gome of it within a hundred yards of #he place itself, for 12 cents a kilowatt. | i “Many bills were offered for the dis- | | ition of the plant. The late Senator Ji nderwood actively fought for what was own as the private owneuhz prin- | | iple, and the bill that he fathered icame very near passing. On the other | H hand, Senator Norris and m; and & number of others introduced and ought very vigorously for what is wn as the Govemmen‘:m tfi principle. Senator Norris us who introduced bills along this ltne thought that the Government already owned the er, that it was™ easy -«enough to of it, and that the power ought to be used for the benefit of all the people, who owned it. That fight has gone along through the years. “Senator Norris' bill, as [ remember, has the Senate some seven vibration. 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