Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1935, Page 7

ICKES DEMIES U.S. SEEKS RATE CLUB Testifies In ‘Power Case That P. W. A, Wants Only to Protect Loan. By the Assciate 1 Press. SPARTANSBURG, 8. O., December 13 —Secretary Ickes, testifying for Greenwood County’s proposed $2,800,= 000 P. W. A, hydro-electric project at Buzzards Roost, denied yesterday the Government planned to use the development as a “yardstick” for measuring rates and in dealing with private companies. ‘The Interior Secretary appeared at @ rehearing in Federal District Court on the Duke Power va'fl applica- tion for an injunctioh against the project “as interfering with private enterprise, The case, in which Judge H. H. Watkins previously granted an in- junction, was remanded by the Circuit Court of Appeals recently on repre- sentations by the Government that{-. a newly-drawn contract had elim- inated the causes of action alleged by the power company. Explans P. W. A, Aims. Ickes testified the Government had no intention ‘of seeking to control rates chdrged by the proposed pub- licly owned plant when, and fif, it is completed, and declared the position of the Public Works Administration ‘was merely that of a bondholder seek- ing to. protect its investment. The P. W. A. has approved a loan| and grant for the project, but has| not made payment, pending disposi- | tion of the Duke case. Ickes asserted the Buzzards Roost project came within the purposes oll the P. W. A, in that a P. W. A. loan would create employment through | eonstruction of a self-liquidating proj- ect sponsored by a local community. Emmett Davis Testifies. The Secretary, who spent two and 2 half hours on the stand, left last night on his return trip to Washing- ton. The other principal witness was Emmett Davis, secretary of the Green- wood County Finance Board, who tes- tified that fates proposed to be charged by the.Buzzards Roost plant were adopted independently of the P, W. A. He was corrobggated by Dan Duncan, chief engineer of the pro:ect | The Duke Co. stood on its orlgmll\ contentions, and taking of testimony | was completed yesterday. Judge Wat~ | kins did not indicate how much time | would be required for his considera- | tion before announcement of a deci- sion. . Sociologist Gives Up. An eminent sociologist gave up try- ing to define the social relations be- tween wives, where polygamy is still practiced, after he secured an audi- ence with a Manchu spouse and asked her if she was never jealous of the second wife her husband added. Her answer was certamly discouraging to the student of human nature. “Jeal- ous?” she said, “but if we weren't two, -who would I have to play cards | with?” and former general mi . T T————————— o Senator J. Hamilton Lewis of Nlinois, for whom little hope was held by doctors when he was stricken with a severe attack of bronchial pneu- monia while visiting in Moscow, is shown here as he arrived in New York aboard the steamship Washington, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, —Wide World Photo. ENGINEER DIES Arnold Von Schrenk Had Been Invalid Since War. ST. LOUIS, December 13 (#).—Rela- tives here were notified last night of the death at Fletcher, N. C., of Arnold von Schrenk, 55, electrical engineer ager of the!in locating oil deposits, Troy and Albany, N. Y., street raflway systems. He had been an invalid since the war-time period, when he was struck on the head by an airplane propeller while a lieutenant in the Army Air Corps, assigned to technical engineer- ing duties at Dayton, Ohio. He was at one time general manager of a company which introduced in this country the use of the seismograph D. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1935. 22.95 do the seemlnglv xmposmbie-—lt gives you _more mntml quality, better styling, smarter than you’d ever. dare_ St. Albans Suits, every one of them—one and two s of trousers - ty of blue serges and oxford twills—in regular, long, short and stout many sports types. your opportumty, men! @fge gmng you the “buy you expeete(l after the Ixolulays—RlGHT Now