Evening star., 1928-11-26
FAVOR v. R. DAWES
AS WATERWAY HEAD
Brother of Vice President
/. May Head Mississippi
Valley Association.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, November 26.-William
r. Dawes. Chicago financier and
brother of Charles G.. Dawes, Vice Pres
ident Of the United States, was spon-
Sored by many delegates as candidate
Tor presidency of the Mississippi VAL
ley Association opening its tenth an
nual convention here today.
It appeared be would be slated by
the nominating committee for the elec-
ton tomorrow afternoon. Kansas City
delegates, who previously had supported
respectively j. C. Nichols, vice preSi-
dent of the Missouri River Navigation
Association, and former Representative
Cleveland A. Newton of st. Louis, now
general counsel of the association, be-
gan to align themselves with the Dawes
faction when it was learned that the
two men favored the Chicago banker.
President to Retire.
A president will be elected to sue
ceed James E. Smith, the retiring
president, who has been leading figure
IN waterways development for 20 years.
Speakers programmed for the OPEN
ing sessions today mentioned the name
OF PreSident-elect Herbert Hoover in
connection with their plans for the fu-
Cure. Mr.. Hoover, they said, had fire.
quently urged the completion of water
way projects. and they said he would
oe one of the moving forces in the
plans OF the association for the future.
Nichols, one of the speakers on the
program, declared President-elect Hoo
VerS trip to South America has an i'm
potant relation to the waterways of the
MlSSlssippi Valley, which, he said, "af-
1ord direct route from some 26 States
70 the Gulf and South America"
our trade is increasing so rapidly
with the Gulf and South America" he
SAID, that Mr.. Hoover. with his keen
and constructive mind, will be quick to
grasp the great Importance of this
trade and of the necessity of the ear
nest possible completion of the greatest
nation IN the world. It is by nature
providentially placed in the direct line
OF this trade movement"
Declared "White Hope"
The President-elect was character
lied as the white hope of the inland
waterways of the Nation" by Repre-
sentative w. E. Hull of Peoria, another
speaker on the program. The task of
the association, he said, is to work
with the next Congress.
a, D" VIC AAuoG IlOt lIlSlSI, lie con-
tlnued, "on authorizations that may
embarraSS our friend-tne next Presi-
dent Of the United States.
We, the advocates of the inland
waterways, must work with the present
ana net Congress to obtain appropria-
lions large enough to complete the prof.
ects contemplated by the Government
engineers"
M. j. Saunders, New Orleans. ore of
the speakers Programmed for this
afternoon, urged that great railroad
corporations adopt policy of "co-
operation instead of opposition" to de-
Velopment OF river traffic. Saunders.
q member Of the advisory board of The
Inland Waterways Corporation. said
many railroad representatives recog
nlze "a certain economy in water trans
portatlon, though few, if any realize
1IS possibilities. They believe It an
economy with advantage to the country
served and therefore to their private
corporations"
Points to Waterway DEVELOPMENT.
Secretary of War Dwight r. Davis
salo more progress has been made in
the development of our inland water
days during the last four years thar
IN any similar period in our entire his
tory as nation, and 1928 particularly
Will long stand out as red-letter year
IN this progress. The Secretary of War
q speaker on the morning program
said this development has not been
confined to the physical work Of i'm
provement Of our channels, but has
expanded along several lines, including
the passage Of the DeniSon act and
the instigation Of a survey now under
way Tor the adoption of co-ordinated
6aVOlnf1rNHnv1f fNVs anryirr T.
rigatlon, reclamation, power and food
control.
Secretary Davis stated that the flood
control plan, which was adopted at the
last session of Congress, is being prose-
cuted with the utmost vigor, and it is
expected that the entire appropriation
of $24 200, 900, made available last May.
will have been expended by the end
of the present fiscal year. It is the
intention of the administration, he said,
to urge upon Congress the provision of
adequate appropriations for the prose-
cution OF this work and its early COM
pletion. When it is completed, he
added, the residents Of the valley will
have a. greater security against floods
than they have ever before enjoyed.
Large Appropriation Needed.
Appropriation by Congress of at least
$35, ,000,0 900 for flood control improve
ment during the next fiscal year was
declared necessary by former Repre-
sentative, Newton. Newton urged that
members of the association exert them
selves to insure standardized channels
throughout the Mississippi Valley sys-
TEN. He declared it essential that Con-
gress revise the project on the upper
Mississippi from St. Louis to Mime
apolis providing for a nine foot chan
mel, and the revision of the project of
Missouri from st. Louis to Kansas City,
then to Sioux City, in order to pro-
vide a nine-foot channel.