Evening Star Newspaper, December 23, 1934, Page 47

~ Stage - Screen Music - Radio Part 4—10 Pages WORK FOR RELIEF PROGRAM SPEEDED FOR TEXAS NEEDY State Launches Policy of Aiding Only Those Who Will Labor, COUNTIES CO-OPERATE IN PUBLIC JOBS PLAN Vast System of Projects Well Under Way—Prosecution Faces ‘“Deadbeats.” Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. DALLAS, Tex., December 22 (N.A. N.A.).—Getting on relief rolls is an- other way of obtaining employment in Texas, because a State policy of extending assistance only to heads of destitute families who can and will work is being put into effect as fast @s_possible. This ruling has bsen made by the State Board of Control, the agency administering State and Federal re- lief money to the destitute, and through its operation a vast program of public improvements is being car- ried out in co-operation with local subdivisions of Government, In line with this policy, eounty units of the Federal Emergency Re- lief Administration are planning to transfer disabled recipients of aid to other welfare organizations by Feb- ruary, By that time the head of every family on the rolls is expected to be working in exchange for gove ernmental assistance. Dallas Speeds Program. In Dallas County, one of the largest Iocal units of the relief organization, the “work for relief” program is being put into full effect rapidly. On December 14 there were 7,900 men and women working on projects of various kinds, while the rolls had a total of 11,192 families. Weeding out of those who are unable to work and of those who refuse to accept employment is expected to be completed within a few weeks. ‘Wages of 40 cents an hour for un- skilled and $1 an hour for skilled labor are being peid in Dallas County, but the scale varies according to the locality. In smaller communities wages are as low-as 20 cents an hour, In Dallas County the workers are paid in cash, but these unable to work because of infirmities or lack of projects are given food tickets. In|tem surplus _agri textile products at frequent ini Jobs Well Under Way, In this section many miles of streets are being graveled, new water and sewer lines are being laid, canneries are operating at full blast to preserve food for the destitute, rat-killing cam- paigns are being waged, traffic flow counts are being made, mattresses and articles of clothing are being fabricated and gardens are being at- tended to. Under this program for creating employment, a family must be desti- tute and have some member able and willing to work; refusal to work will mean removal from the rolls and possible prosecution in the courts for failure to provide for a family, Another project in this section is the rural rehabilitation work, through which families are being given farm homes. Three-year leases on 10 and 20 acre tracts are being taken by the Relief Administration and improve- ments put on houses that will equal the lease price. The homesteaders do practically all the repair work and then move in with a stock of live stock and poultry, giving a note for this and all neces- sary farm equipment, and being al- Jowed to pay for the stock without terest over a long period of time. oo 1036, M0 B, fmcecn DRIVE IS PUSHED INTO YELLOWSTONE Nation’s Highest Highway Ex- pected to Be Open Next Summer. By the Associated Press. RED LODGE, Mont., December 22. —The Nation’s highest and one of its most spectacular highways—the Red lodge-Cooke City route into Yellow- stone National Park—is being pushed % completion for an expected rush of fraffic next Summer, ‘Winding through the magnificent Beartooth Mountains, upgrade and down, for 68 miles from Red Lodge, the new route will open up & fifth entrance to the great national play- ground. It will open & fifth entrance to the mflw national playground. It will . | an und Fight, to Regulate Utilities E CONCLAVE OF STATES he Sunday Shx WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 23, 1934, NATION’S BUSINESS CHEERED BY YULE TRADE INCREASE Friends Will Carry On Holt’s Plans for Stricter Legislation Laid by West Virginia Lawmakers as Next Session Approaches. By the Associated Press. themselves to the support of such a CHARLESTON, W. Va, December | bill. 22—Youthful Rush D. Holt has graduated to the United States Senate —but the fight for stricter regulation of utilities in West Virginia will be picked up in the State’s Legislative halls where he left off. ‘The same cry Holt raised, “Too high rates and unfair tax basis,” will echo through the Legislature when it con- venes January 9. Holt’s long list of regulatory bills, passed in the House and permitted to die in the Senate, will be revived. Holt's report to the House on an in- quiry into utility rates and regulations will be made by the committee he headed while a Delegate. Shahan Gives Support, “I favor more strict regulation of utilities according to the Holt plan of last session,” says Delegate J. Buhl Shahan, Democrat, re-elected in Ran- dolph County, who says he will rein- troduce the Holt bills. The plan embraces a measure to provide that the Board of Public Works in fixing assessments of utli- ties for taxation purposes should not fix them at less than the valuation used by the Public Service Commis- sion for rate-making purposes. Some legislators, including Shahan, already have definitely committed “A fair, equitable deal for the pub- lic in rates and taxes,” is the utility ragulation program of Senator J. T. Garrett, Democrat holdover member. Regulation in such manner as will put utilities “on an equal taxation ba- sis with other groups and in such a manner as will not work an injustice to the utility,” is advocated by an- other holdover Democratic Senator, Dan B. Fleming. “Liberals” Active. Still another phase of utility regu- lation likely to come before the Legis- lature calls for designation of pipe- line companies as common carriers. The Legislature apparently will lean toward “liberalism” and consider a general program of so-called “liberal legislation.” Besides utility regulation, old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, free text books in the schools—all fought over time and again—are on the agenda. The self-classification of & score of lawmakers, many of them newcomers, indicates the trend toward liberalism. Of the score, only one classifies himself as a ‘“conservative,” and he adds a sympathy for lib- eralism. A self-classed “liberal” is one of the candidates for speaker of the House of Delegates—Willlam 8. Wysong, Democrat, and former legisiator from Webster County, DANLIN VIRGINIA GETS WIDE STUDY “Submerged” Water Block Seen as Way to Beat Droughts in Future. By the Assoclated Press. Repeated droughts need hot neces- sarily turn vast areas of the Amer- ican West into barren reaches or deserts of dust if elaims made for feed wells or springs is bottled up in erground reservoir and brought to the surface at intervals for distribu- tion. Allen B. McDaniel, a Washington, devised and provides the water supply for Harri- sonburg, Va. says there is ground water everywhere which could be dammed back into the soil when rains fall or surface water is insufficient. Big Supply Impownded. ‘The Harrisonburg system is counted upon to supply mills and homes for 60 to 90 days of drought as serious as that of 1930. Inquiries about condi- tions favorable to underground water collection are said to be eoming to the Virginia city from Western points which have suffered years of con- tinued dryness. Harrisonburg wndertook the ex- treme]y rare type of water works at a cost of $37,500 when it was found & surface reservoir would call for an expenditure of $500,000. Engineers discovered that water was seeping uselessly along the floor of Dry River Valley. They excavated straight across it, deep enough to build a dam about 1,000 feet in length and within 3 feet of the surface, Has Collecting Gallery, The dam, a reinforced concrete wa~ ter-tight wall, was embedded in the sandstone of the valley floor, At the base of #, on the upstream side, & perforated pipe line was placed to catch the water, which flows down the valley in about a dozen underground streams and carry it into a large chamber or collecting gallery. From that point thie water flows by gravity to the city intake, one-quarter mile down the valley, and thence through cast iron mains into the city, 15 miles east. A test indicated the outflow at the intake was about 1,500,000 gallons a day, or twice Harrisonburg’s present daily consumption. —_———— 40 Years Without Quarrel. VERSAILLES, Ky, (4).—The Bow- FLANIES PUT 0UT BY ELECTRIC BLAST Bureau of Mines Expert to Explain Device at Science Meeting. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, December 22.—The us fires that sometimes rage in coal mines are always shocking but now science has found a way to shock the fires. Dr, Bernard Lewis, explosives ex- pert of the United States Bureau of today how he hurls explained 2| 7,000 volts of electricity into s tube ;‘r flaming gas and phutt!—there is no e. Preparing to elucidate his device before the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Pittsburgh next week, Dr. Lewis has built a test apparatus which duplicates conditions in a gaseous mine, ¥ Molecules Rent Apart. When the electricity is sent into the tube, the blazing gas is extin- guished because the high voltage tends to rend apart the molecules which have been electrically charged by heat of the fire, Dr. Lewis ex- “In & flame many electrically ¢harged molecules are formed as a re- sult of the high temperature. When you remove the charged molecules the flame goes out. “When the high voltage is turned into the tube the flame moves toward the negative electrode, the positive charged molecules are being removed.” If the doctor wants to make gas ignite more quickly he can just re- verse the process. Electrically charged molecules are shot into the gas in another tube by passing a powerful spark through the :v:lllx-cnmbustue elements, then the gas explode at agnuch lower tempera- ture than ordinarily. “In fact, the combustible mixture ig- nites at & temperature about 450 de- MERRYMAKERS WARNED OF YULE FIRE HAZARD By the Assoclated Press. ware of accidents, says Miss Gladys J. Ward of the University of Illinois griculture College. She backs up her warning with a statement from the National Safety Council that three times as many fatalities result from fires in De mar brothers, Dan M. and A. A, |many publishers of the ‘Woodford Sun, proudly relate that they have been working together for 40 years with all their money pooled in a joint bank saccount—and never a quarrel. Beavers Natural Engineers the i 58 1qk Fgey § § i i i L 5 Es B it § it of ! % g i) 8 £ gE i é i § E 1 i g8 g 1 i . ] By il il Eii fid % i ik 1§ i % : £ : i ks i i | | CHRISTMAS GIFTS OF FREEDOM WAIT MANY PRISONERS Illinois Convict at 73, How- ever, Refuses Yule Parole. ARIZONA’S CLEMENCY LIST INCLDUES WOMAN Boards in Score of Other States Holding Timely Meetings Before Holidays. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 22.—Freedom will be the priceless Christmas present to scores of American eonvicts this year. Christmas pardons, paroles or com- mutations’ of sentence will send them from to & new start in the changing world. In some States the gift of freedom merely because it’s Christmas is not accepted policy, but parole boards, none the less, have planned timely meetings before the holiday. Here in Illinois a 73-year-old con- vict at Joliet Penitentiary, Fred C. Woods, surprised the State Board of Pardons by turning down its invita- tion to be paroled. He was too old, he said. .No friends, no home but in prison. He begged to stay with his prison flowers, and finally convinced the warden he couldn't legally be ousted until his full term is completed five years hence, ‘Wife Slayer May Go Free, A Christmas pardon may bring free- dom to Jacob C. Nesbitt, & principal in one of Ohio’s most sensational killings—the “bathtub murder” of his wife. ‘There was & previous rumor that Nesbitt, who pleaded guilty to the charge eight years ago, asserting he would not testify for fear of “hurting those I love,” would be granted a pardan from his life sentence before expiration of Gov. George White's term of office. It was disclosed that the files in week ago granted two full pardons, four commutations for immediate re- lease and four reductions in sentence. They were not directly connected with Christmas, however. No Chnistmas paroles will be given in North Dakota, Louisiana, Rhode Island, Maine, Connecticut, Vermont, Nevada, Missouri Corn-Hog Civic Activities Autos—Aviation —_— Workers Confer REPRESENTATIVES OF NINE SOUTHERN STATES MEET IN ATLANTA. Corn-hog control workers from nine Southern States met in Atlanta last week for instructions. At the conference above, left to right, are: R. H. Rogers and J. J. Reed, A. A. A. workers from Washington; Harry L. Brown, director of the Georgia Extension Service; c.z.mn::rsnganme,u,m Knoxville, Tenn. Fred A. Colby of —~A. P, Photo. Ship of Farragut Fame Lies LOUISIANA SEEKS Forgotten Near Fort Sumter U. S. S. Hartford, Which Went Ahead Despite the Torpedoes, Rests Ob- SOURCE OF INCOME Alleged Tax Loss Probed by U. S., but State Inquires Into Origin. Special Dispateh to The Star. NEW ORLEANS, La, December 22.—The Federal Government is in- terested in why seven of Huey P. Long’s close personal political friends did not pay income tax on more than $1,000,000, it alleges they received correct. Indictment of Seymour Weiss, the “unofficial” treasurer of many a Long eph Fisher, his ,_during the last few weeks threw no light on the source of receipts on which taxes are alleged to have been evaded, but in- dictment of these three staunch Long- ites increased the suspicion of Louis- ianans that the State’s taxpayers might have had some interest in at least part of the reputed income of the persons indicted. Silent on Indictment. -~ ‘Weiss, & colonel on Gov. O. K. Al- len’s staff, has refused to comment on his indictment. A. Shushan, an- other Governor's colonel and presi- dent of the Orleans Levee Board, as- serted after his indictment that part of the money which he handled was political contributions which he did not keep. Weiss, in addition to running the Roosevelt Hotel, Senator Long’s head- quarters in New Orleans, is president of the New Orleans Dock Board. The May term grand jury, which gave his grand jury suthority to continue to hold office “to camplete investigations started but not com- ‘Trial of the cases, Louisianans hope, ‘will answer their questions concerning the source and disposition of the al- leged income. Weiss is alleged to have attempted to defeat and evade payment of in- come tax amounting to $26,389 on an scurely in Cooper CHARLESTON, ., _December 22—“Damn the torpedoes. Go ahead!” Every school child knows that order. With Admiral George Dewey's ROCKETS TO BE FIRED IN STRATOSPHERE TEST Scientist Believes Earth Air Shell Can Be Penetrated Better ‘With Projeectiles. By the Associated Press. ROSWELL, N, Mex, December 22—Dr. R. H. Goddard, head of the department of physics af Clark Uni- versity, Worcester, Mass., is making preparations at an. isolated spot 325 River Backwater. earlier fame, the Hartford was to have been preserved at the Naval Academy mounts as ornaments along graveled roads. The bowsprit that stabbed vic- ly back into the mud as the tide ebbs out past Sumter. RENSSELAER POLYTECH TO OBSERVE FOUNDING Special Convocation to Be Held in Spring to Commemorate 100¢h Birthday. By the Associated Press, TROY, N. Y,, December 32.—Rens- selser Polytechnic Institute, the oldest ipstitution in America to “devote it~ self continuously to instruction and research in science and engineering, plans a special convocstion in the Spring to eommemorate the 100th an- niversary of the granting of the first degrees .in these subjects in the Eng- lish-speaking world. It was in 1835 that 10 young stu- dents of R. P, 1. received degrees of bachelor of natural science and of civil engineer, Back of granting of the degrees was the story of the fight of Amos Eaton, first head of the school, fér the technical education haven,” and Ernest Booth had won literary fame, the board clamped on 7 ] E nH i a 4] o MERCHANTS NOTE SALES SPURT WITH DAY LEFT T0 SHOP Prosperity Trend Seems More Definite With Stores’ Figures. NO GRUMBLING NOTES HEARD IN U. S. SURVEY All Sections of Nation See Tre- mendous Gains Over Former Seasons. (Copyright, 1934, by the Assoclated Press.) A Nation of shopkeepers cheerily banged shutters tight last night on the largest Yuletide trade since pros- perity was spoken of in the present tense, And one more day of rush-shop- ping remained before Christmas to give merchants a last chance at clicking cash registers and looking at something besides naughts on the left side of the adding machine. In a Nation-wide business survey conducted by the Associated Press not & single grumble of bad business was voiced. Many merchants enthusiastically proclaimed their trade in terms of “best since 1931-—since 1930—since 1920—" Big Gains Recorded. Percentages of gain over last year ranged from 8 to 100, mostly meas- ured in dollar volume, and cautious department store executives described the increase with adjectives ranging from “slight” to “highly substan- tial” In the selection of gifts the home snd members of and some reported 10 per cent better sales, Midwest Spurt Noted. In the Midwest a practical op- timism on the part of customers sent sales reported in department stores and other gift shops bounding ahead. Incianapolis trade was estimated up 15 to 20 per cent, the best in three years, with moderate-priced and useful gifts leading sales. Detroit watched trade go up per cent in November and 22 cent in December over last year, merchants said, to match 1931's stride. The public bought better merchandise, too. Louisville swung ahead with the rest of the State when tobacco mar- kets opened. Sales were up 15 to 20 per cent, officials agreed, and it looked like & “popular-priced Christ- mas.” Men’s furnishings and home items led in some stores. Twenty-one Ohio cities said sales tncreased from “slightly” to 50 per cent. Practical gifts were bought with an eye to quality. Cleveland announced sales 15 per cent over 1933 and 20 per cent over 1932. Columbus said “people are §. i a5 E;EH e § i ] : q i I i i i i | 5 H E | K