The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-03-25


They charged that Davis was attempt
ing to induce War department engi-
neers who are now studying the prof.
ect, into recommending the all-Ameris
can canal, rather than the st. Law
renee route. From the White House
they went to the War department,
where Secretary Davis assured them
he would give the st. Lawrence route
a fair deal.
n LORNE CAMPBELL, a Canadian
NJ engineer, laid before a gathering
of leading Chicagoans his plan for a
sixth Great Lake" which he asserts
would restore the levels of the Great
Lakes, provide for Chicago's water di-
version and develop immense hydro
electric power. He would fill up a
large natural basin in Ontario by
damming the Albany and Ogoki rivers,
which now run into Hudson bay. This
new lake would be twice the size of
Lake Ontario. A surplus of $4,000
cubic feet a minute-twice 'Chicago's
diversion from Lake Michigan-would
be delivered into Lake Superior
through a short canal to Lake Nipigon,
that lake and the Nipigon river. Mr..
Campbell says the cost is not excessive
and the project would benefit both
America and Canada, as well as the
entire Great Lakes region. Chicago's
water diversiGa problem would be
solved. Herbor and river dredging by
both governments and by lake ports
would be saved through restored water
levels Ontario would get immense
water power at the Nipigon river and
a market for the pulp-wood forest in
the basin of the new lake The cargo
capacity of lake carriers would be re-
stored. Increased water flow would
aid both waterway projects, Great
Lakes st. Lawrence and Great Lakes
Gulf. Altogether, Mr.. Campbell thinks,
the benefits would be so large that the
interests benefited could well afford
to pay the cost of construction on some
sort of pro rata basis.
ID RIG. GEN. SMEDLEY d. BUTLER,
~ United States marine corps, filed
charges of drunkenness and conduct
unbecoming an officer against Col
Alexander Williams of the San Diego
marine base. General Butler took
command of the San Diego base upon
being released from the job of "mop-
ping up Philadelphia, relieving Colonel
Williams.
General Buffers action followed a
dinner given at Colonel Williams
home in Coronado in General Buffers
honor. Cocktails, 1t is said, were
served at the dinner, which was at
tended by a number of officers of the
marine corps and their wives. The
charges against Colonel Williams, how
ever, were based on party which was
held later at hotel in Coronado, all
of those at the dinner having been
Invited.
Several affidavits accompanied the
charges. General Butler and some
other officers declared in the affidavits
that Colonel Williams was intoxicated.
Other affidavits declared he was not.
Colonel Williams was placed under
technical arrest at the hotel and was
summarily removed from command Of
the Fourth regiment of marines, to
which command he reverted when Gen
eral Butler relieved him as commander
of the marine base recently. Presum-
ably the Navy department in Wash
ington will order a court martial.
THE first telephone was patented by
i Alexander Graham Bell at Wash
ington, March Z. 1876 Sunday, the
fiftieth anniversary of the scientific
toy" New York and London chatted
for four hours by radio telephone
across the Atlantic about current
news, weather, prohibition and short
skirts.
The demonstration was staged for
engineers and newspaper men by the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, the Radio Corporation of
America and the British general post
Office The American talk was broad