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Evening star., 1934-02-14
Vngiiniians Push Effort to Get
Representation for District
House Committee Viii Begin COnsiderd
ton Friday of Measure Asking Con-
gress to Amend Constitution.

sure favorable action by the COM
mittee.
They will show that the amendment
has been Endorsed by both the Demo-
cratic and Republican committeeman
from the District of Columbia and by
various other political organizations
including the District branch Of the
Young Democratic Club Of America.
In addition to showing the extent
to which the amendment has been
indorSed by various organizations and
civic leaders, they hope to have q
representative from the Citizens Joint
Committee on National Representa-
ton for the District Of Columbia
present to address the committee.
1t is necessary, they believe. to show
the committee that the move for ma
tional representation is one involving
the rights Of a disfranchiSed people.
The resolution at first was referred
to the Committee on Federal Relations.
but was later transferred to the
Privileges and Elections Committee
because it involves the right of the
citizens Of the District of Columbia
to elect representatives to Congress.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
HOUSE TO REPORT
ON S|GNBOARD BILL
Medley Helps Draft Com
promise Measure in
Virginia.
BY a stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY Staf Correspondent OF The Star.
RICHMOND. Va, February IA
substitute billboard bill, prepared by
a subcommittee of which Delegate
William D. Medley of Arlington
County was q member, was agreed
to yesterday by the House General
Laws Committee and will be reported
to the House as soon as it has been
formally drafted.
The bill, containing features Of
both the liberal and strict measures
introduced at the beginning Of the
session. provides for a $25 license fee
for all persons erecting billboards,
regardless of the number, 1t also
levieS an annual tax Of so cents for
each sign erected, regardless Of size.
Under Highway Department.
Licenses for all signs would have
way Department, which also Is given
the right under the bill to ente"
either public or private property for
the purpose of removing any signs
illegally erected.
While the provision for b setback
from highway rights OF way was re-
moved at the request of farmers VINO
said they would lose the use OF the
land between the signs and the right
of way, the bill prohibits the erec-
ton of any sign within 800 feet of
highway or railroad intersection, ex-
cept by special permission Of the
State highway commissioner in the
case of signs painted on existing
buildings where they would not prove
an added traffic hazard.
4OO-Foot Clearance Proposed.
The bill requires that signs be 50
erected as to give o clear vision CT
400 feet at curves. They also would
be required to carry permit numbers
which could be read at a distance OF
10 feet and any found without this
number would be promptly destroyed.
Only those signs erected for the
purpose of advertising products pro-
duced on or for sale on the property
upon which the signs are erected
would be exempted from payment
of the tax.
While this bill is not as strong as
some advocates have wished, they be-
lieve it will make an excellent open
ing for more drastic regulation at a
later time.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Marriage Licenses.

Percy M. Robinson, %. and Isadors Y.
Utterback. 10. both OF Warrenton, Va;
Rev. John E. Briggs.
Glover Collins. "A, 1243 d street south
D street southeast; Rev: j. M. King;
Folmer Bovbjetg, 20, Soldiers Home Dairy,
and Anna e. Horton, 23. 1929 Sixteenth
,Stn street RsU Carl G. Be- RaSmnSssn ,tr.st
and Grace w. Sherman. %, 1882 Taylor
Joseph Ksyson. 26. 1914 crren street
northeast, and Lillian s.. Levin. 19. 3O4
Epur-and,a-hsh %d,9i3s street southwest Rev
Mike F Faicons, Ors'' Il. 1928 Twelfth street,
and Nora DiGennaro. 90. 23 Il street
northeast; Rev. N, N. pecarlo: ne ..S
Of aaS Third Street: Rev. II. W. Toison:
Walter E. Reed, 81 10l7 virgins avenue
southwest and Mary HOFFMAN. 20, SlS
Eleventh street southwest: Rev. J. u.
Harry Bonnett. %. 517 Irving street, and
Tiily oisboid. 81. 800 Shepherd street;
Joseph Lily. 20. 1851 Eighth street, and
billie Fowler: %: 1901 Eighth street;
zeddie Lewis. "o1s IS. 1928 W street. and
Elizabeth Brown. 2s, 1928 w street; Rev.
Roob Andsrson; on;-,,,.A. ". .na
jamie NJ Corbin. 20, cOrbin. va: Rev,
Joseph Parker. 81. rs g street, and Nettie
Thomas. SO. 76 street; Rev. 4. y.
Rochelle q. Agse, rs. -21no Massachusetts,
avenue and Lola J. Charlesworth; 81,
Hyattsville. Nd; Rev. Raphiel II. Miller.
Hubert Winston I ta,e sSs TTeiftn eHta street Set
i9ss9ssiSTrt i4ss riOrtds n avenue: Rev l. 5: wr.sht
Thomas Hyden. 2S. 1917 Twenty-second
street, and Parthenia PAYNE. %. 5000
Ninth street; Rev. @. L. Davies.
Evening star., 1934-02-14

the company charged an entrance or
initiation fee of q few dollars for
turning on the current. Right or
wrong, the people regarded this as
their ancestors regarded the stamp
tax. 1t became a casus belli.
Across the continent, North Caro-
lima was honey-combed recently with
huge popular petitions asking various
reductions of power rates. Inquiry
discloseS that the uprising was caused
largely by company requirement
that a customer had to buy an cleo
trio cook stove TO get a favorable
rate.
The requirement in both cases may
have been justified from a financial
point Of view, but in a democracy
there are other points Of view beside
the financial. One conclusion is driven
home that the monopolies are less
diplomatic in the effort to please
their customers than good merchan-
disers have long since learned to be.
copyright 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. lnc9
Evening star., 1934-02-14

the job are being worked out. AS DR.
Arthur E. Morgan, chairman of the
directors. expresses 1t, the plans are
being kept about a week ahead of the
construction.
This dam is about Is miles above
the Wilson Dam. 1t will be known as
dam No. 3. 1t will be SO feet high
and approximately 5000 feet long
1000 feet longer than the dam at
Muscle Shoals. 1t will produce great
artificial lake covering about loo
square miles, extending about 80 miles
up the river. This will open up nav
igation on the Tennessee about as far
as the city of Guntersville, Ala. The
Army engineers, who have jurisdic-
ton in navigation matters, already
have started work on locks.
The War Department estimate OF
the cost is approximately $4,000, 900,
not including the power house. When
a power house is built its generating
capacity will be about 225,000 horse
power, according to tentative plans
There will be no immediate need for
this, however. The great lake OF i'm
pounded water will make possible a
better control of the flow Of the river
at Muscle Shoals, and thus an equali-
zation of potential power throughout
the year. Primarily until there is an
increased demand for electricity, the
dam will serve chiefly for the sake OF
navigation.
Calls for No Model Town.
Unlike the situation at Norris. the
Wheeler Dam plans call for no model
town. A construction camp is being
erected for approximately 1000 work
ers. Most of the men are residents
of the adjacent area and live in their
own homes. Here also, however, the
fiye-and- Lone half hour working day
Evening star., 1934-02-14
u. S. FARM DISPLAY
IS SEEN AT SHOW
Non Commercial Exhibits
Create Interest at Food
Exposition.

Instructive and educational exhibits
sponsored by non commercial organ
izations in the third annual Food
Show of United Food Stores, Inc,
have been commanding wide atten-
ton at the Washington Auditorium
this week.
The display Of the Department Of
Agriculture, occupying space with a
frontage Of so feet. gives a compre-
hensive picture of the relationship
between food and health, and the
essentials for the "well-balahced
meal"
Also Of interest Is the display spon-
sored by the Columbia Polytechnic In
stitute for the Blind, in which sight
less workers engage in tasks they
practice in their workshops, includ-
ing chair Gaming, manufacture Of
rush. bottom chairs and other prod
ucts.
The baby contest at the show yes
terday, in which babies between s
months and l year old were entered,
was won by 11-month-old Wayne Lei
zear Of 5807 Fourth street, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Dudley Leizear
Winners of capital prizes at the
show to date include Mrs. Florence
A. Hoover of 702 Sligo avenue. Silver
Spring. Md; Mrs. J. A. Lankford Of
1850 F street and H. w. Clarke Of
1719 West Virginia avenue northeast.
A prize will be given away each
night, with q 1884 automobile to be
awarded Saturday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T. Murphy of 500
Massachusetts avenue northeast re-
ceived a prize for being the longest
married couple visiting the show yes
terday. They have been married 81
years. An entertainment program
was provided last night by the Dinkel-
dorfers, WJSV radio team.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
ARTICLE ~.
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

(Copyright, 1894, by The Evening StarJ
ROCEEDING up-river from
Mus Muscle I shoa1T She E.nnessee the next vaeg Sg
L electrification project is the
Joe Wheeler Dam.
The rapid progress of engineers and
workmen in preparing for this great
wall of concrete across the Tennessee
River-when completed it will be
more than q mile longs pointed to
with pride by the Tennessee Valley
Authority as an example OF what can
be done by dispensing with red tape.
The Wheeler Dam was an essential
part of the plan for developing the
power producing and navigation po-
tentialities of the Tennessee River, as
drawn up by the Army engineers, but
its construction was not called for
Immediately. When the Tennessee
Valley Authority took over the project
last Summer there was no intention OF
proceeding with the work for some
time to come. In october President
Roosevelt requested the directors to
start operations as soon as possible.
IL was lOD IlaI IldO W NC uo1AC sumo
time. Why not Immediately, 50
that it would provide employment for
the jobless of the surrounding coun-
try? There would be jobs for at least
1000 men. The Tennessee valley
project, it is stressed, cannot be con-
sidered as an emergency plan, to
make work, but the directors wish to
do all they can to relieve local dis
treSS.
Would Need Six Months.
Ordinarily, If contracts had been
let, it would have required six months
before specifications for such a gi-
gantic project could be gotten in such
shape that any contractors would
submit bids. Probably another six
months would have gone by before
work actually started. So the Au-
thority undertook to build the dam
itself and to start work Immediately,
framing their specifications as they
went. First was the building of the
Golfer dam halfway across the river.
It was started in November Already
it is completed and the water pumped
out Meantime plans for the rest of
Evening star., 1934-02-14

has been adopted In order to provide
better distribution Of employment.
The engineering problems are some
what simpler than is the case at Norris
Dam. and hence the work can pro-
ceed with fewer delays.
The great dam will serve as a per-
manent memorial to one of the most
colorful characters in American mill
tary hiStory-Gen. Joseph Wheeler.
whose home was a few miles away.
The fine old plantation house, sur
rounded by thousands of acres of cot
ton land, still is the home of Gen.
Wheeler's sister. AS a young man
Gen. Wheeler was a dashing Confed-
ercte cavalry leader. He afterward
served in Congress and was a COM
mander Of United States forces in
the Spanish-American War.
Besides its service to navigation
the Joe Wheeler Dam is expected to
prove an important factor in flood
control. This is another major prob
lem of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority. When the river goes on a
rampage 1t sometimes causes great
damage, especially in this rather low
lying section. There have been dis
astrous floods in the past. The waters
which once inundated the fields can
be impounded in the great artificial
lake and stored to equalize the flow
at Muscle Shoals.
Cliffs so Feet High.
The dam will be built between
cliffs about 80 feet high on each bank
of the river The great length OF the
concrete wall which is to be thrown
across the stream affords some engi-
neering problems quite different from
those of the much shorter and higher
Norris Dam. For one thing, it will
not be possible to swing cableways
across the river for carrying cement
and it may be necessary to do much
OF the filling from boats
Approximately 100000 cubic yards
Of rock-the hard Alabama blue
flint"-must be excavated in order to
secure a firm foundation for the dam
below the bed of the river. Empty
ing the Golfer dam required the
pumping of more than 100000 gall
Ions Of water.
The entire job is expected to last
about two years.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
BY a staH Correspondent of The Star.

RICHMOND, Va, February 1.-THE
resolution memorialiZing Congress to
pass and submit to the States an
amendment to the Constitution which
would permit national representation
for the District of Columbia will be
considered by the House Privileges and
Elections Committee Friday afternoon
at $3.50 o'clock.
The resolution was to have been
taken up yesterday, but consideration
was delayed at the request of Delegate
Ralph H. Daughton of Norfolk. chief
patron of the measure, so he might
be given an opportunity to secure all
of the information possible. Since the
measure was not offered until yester-
day and the committee met shortly
after adjournment of the House he
did not feel that he could do justice
70 the resolution before the committee
at that time.
Daughton and Delegates Medley,
Mackau and Herring, co-patrons OF
the resolution, expected to spend the
next two days in the preparation OF
arguments which they believe will In
Evening star., 1934-02-14
SAILORS ARE ACCUSED
OF TRANSPORTING GIRL
q. S. Navy Men Charged With
Violating Mann Act After
Captains Niece Returns.

BY the Associated Press
TACOMA, February 14.-Charges OF
violating the Mann act were filed here
yesterday against two United States
Navy sailors alleged to have been COM
panions Of Eleanor Durnell, I5-year-
old Fort Lewis girl. during her mys-
terious four-day disappearance last
week.
The accused men, Robert F. Hazen,
y, and Leon Smith. 25. of the U. S.
I s. Colorado pleaded not guilty when
-arraigned before United States Com
missioner H. G. Fitch and were Or
dered held under S2.500 bail each.
The complaint charges the two
young men transported the girl from
Vancouver, Wash, to Portland, Greg,
dor immoral purposes.
Miss Burneu, who lives with her
aunt and uncle, Capt. and Mrs
Charles Perfect at Fort Lewis, left her
nome February 3. An intensive search
was launched by Army and Federal
authorities. Thursday night the girl
returned home saying she went to
Seattle in hope of finding some way
70 return to Indiana, where her father
Is Ill.
The two Navy men were arrested in
Portland by Government agents.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
READING LISTS OUT
Books for Lenten Season Issued
by Public Library.

Two lists Of books for Lenten read
ing have been issued by the Public
Library, DIR. George F. Bowerman an
nounced yesterday.
A list Of Books for Lenten Read
ing" has been recommended by the
Rev. John K. Cartwright, D. D.. OF
the Immaculate Conception Church,
while Suggestions for Lenten Read
ing" have been recommended by DR..
Niver. librarian, and Bishop Rhine
lander warden. Of the College Of
Preachers.
Copies of the lists may be obtained
without cost at the central building of
the Public Library, or at any neigh
borhood branch.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
ARLINGTON SEWER
PROJECT APPROVED
Ickes Ends Long Delay in Sign
ing Contract to Provide
100000 Man-Hours.

A loan and grant totaling $2,500, 900
to Arlington County, Va, for sewer
construction was approved today by
Public Works Administrator Ickes.
The allotment embraces a loan of
S1.930,00 and an outright grant Of
S57O,0OO Arlington County engineers
estimate that the new construction
will provide 1920 900 man-hours Of
employment. Work is expected to get
under way at once.
Application for the loan and grant
was made several months ago and
after receiving approval of engineers
and the legal department Of it was
delayed for some time on the desk OF
Secretary Ickes. His action today,
however, removes whatever difficulties
existed.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
NURSE MEETING
PLANS DISCUSSED
Gathering in April Expected
to Bring About 5000
to Washington.

Plans for a convention here in April
expected to bring 5000 nurses tc
Washington from all parts of the
country, were discussed yesterday al
the monthly meeting of the In
structive Visiting Nurse Society al
the headquarters Office in the Albee
Building.
The convention will assemble repre-
sentatives of the American Nurses
Association, the National League OF
Nursing Education and the National
Organization for Public Health Nurs-
ing in biennial session.
1917 Visits in January.
Open house will be held at the
local headquarters Office two after
moons during the meeting to enable
visiting board members to meet with
members of the board of directors for
the Washington unit.
The report on the work of the asso-
citation for January showed 15,l37
visits had been made to 5,567 patients
The report also showed marked in
crease in measles throughout the city,
and an increase in respiratory dis
eases, including grippe and pneumo-
MIA.
Mrs. G. HoWland Chase, Sd, presi-
dent, presided at the meeting and
announced the following chairmen OF
standing committees for the present
year: Finance Committee, Marx
Lansburgh; Nursing Committee, Mrs
Harlan F. Stone; Membership Com
mittee, Mrs. Charles C. Glover, jr.;
Supply Committee. Mrs. Charles B
Crawford; Legislative Committee, Mrs
John Jay O'Connor, and Publicity
Committee, Mrs. Charles F. Wilson.
Meeting Is Reported.
The meeting was addressed by Miss
Evelyn K Davis of the National Or
ganization for Public Health Nursing
New York City Miss Janet B. Hout7
reported on the recent meeting of the
Board Members Council, Council OF
Social Agencies.
Those present were Mrs. Chase
Mrs. Leonard A. Block, Miss Eliza
beth Bryan, Mrs. Dwight Clark Mrs
Charles B. Crawford, Mrs. Whitman
Gross. Mrs. John w. Davidge, Mrs
Charles c. Glover, jr; Miss Janet B
Houtz, Mr.. Walter Bruce Howe, Miss
Virginia Hunt, Mr. Mark Lansburgh
Mrs. William B. Marbury, Mrs. Keith
Merrill, Mrs. CreSson Newbold. Mrs
John Jay O'Connor. Miss Elsa Peter
son, Mr.. Charles w. Pimper. Mrs. John
M. Sternhagen, Mrs. Harlan F. Stone
~
rentine, Mrs. Charles F. Wilson, Mrs
John NJ. Wright and Miss Gertrude H
Bowling, executive director
Evening star., 1934-02-14
WATER IS PRIME
NEED OF FARMER
Power Interests Affected by
Steps Taken for Its
Appropriation.

This Is the tenth in a series OF
daily articles By Ralph w. Page,
economist and priter, tDho has
toured the country to discoueT i0hGt
its people think OF the national re-
couery program and is noiO putting
his findings into tUriting.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Wireless Tests Made.

Tests are being made on a farm
between Elgin and Lossiemouth. Scot
land, as a site for a powerful wireless
broadcasting station.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Wheeler Dam to Equalize Rivers Flow
Structure Feet Longer Than Muscle Shoals Will Create
Artificial of 100 Square Miles.

The Tennessee valley Authority
has launched upon an experiment
to create the "power area" as
aew economic and social unit, util-
izing the potentiGlities contained
in the mountains OF Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee. The Star
presents herewith the fourth of a
series OF articles explaining the
aims being pursued in this great
step torDard in civilization. The
Nth iUiH appear tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
SIBLEY GUILD TO MEET
Life Adjustment Representative
to Speak Tomorrow.

The Woman's Guild Of Sibley Hos
pital will hold its monthly meeting
at 10:45 am. tomorrow in Rust Hall
Chapel. The guest speaker will be
representative from the Life Adjust
ment Center. The devotional period
will be in charge Of Miss Martha
Stauffer. a Rust Hall graduate, now
assistant to the pastor of Petworth
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Plans will be completed at the meet
ing for a linen shower. to be held
early in April. Immediately after the
meeting luncheon will be served, with
the ladies Of Dumbarton acting as
hosteSses.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
FORD PLANS EXHIBIT
Exposition Will Be in Century
of Progress.

DETROIT, February IA (P.-Henry
Ford announced yesterday that there
will be a Ford Motor Co. display this
year at the Century of Progress ex-
position in Chicago.
Construction will begin March l
on the building that will house the
Ford exposition, Ford told Rufus c.
Dawes, president of A Century of
Progress. The building will be $50
feet long and will be located on an
1lacre plot.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Power Rate Cut Asked.

I rambled about trying to discover
the cause Of the fury. In the rural
districts the reason assigned was that
Evening star., 1934-02-14
Get Enormous Subsidy,

When the reclamation service builds
dam. the dam belongs to the farm
ers who use the water. 1t is abso-
lutely essential to grasp this. To be
sure, the farmers have to pay for the
dam II they can. But in the very
beginning they get an enormous SUBJ
sidy, from the point Of view Of COM
petitive finance
Take the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona
The farmers repay 21s per cent a year
on the cost of the project, and no
interest. In addition. they have in
stalled power plant. This power
they sell to themselves at any rate
they please. The rest they sell to
be distributed in Phoenix and there
| about. at a very good profit. The
answer is obvious. They are rapidly
getting to the position where their
water will be free, and they will at
the same time now the power with nc
debt against that.
The difficulties facing the private
power and light companies are in
creased by their almost universal un-
popularity. In large sections of the
country this almost reaches a mania.
For instance, the people in the Sacra-
mento Valley In California voted
$l70, ,000, 900 Ito be one-fourth given,
and three-fourths financed by Uncle
SAM to haraSs the Pacific Gas &
Electric Co.
Evening star., 1934-02-14

bonds. In California the bonds in
half the districts were in default q
year ago. In Arizona practically all
privately financed irrigation bonds
are hopeless, selling at an average of
about is cents on the dollar. 1t is
the general story.
Now q population can no more get
along without water than it can with
out air or sunshine. Debts or no debts,
it Is clear enough, the farmers say,
that by the very laws of existence they
are going to have water. If they can't
pay for it by the method approved by
Elodren fipance-that is, by sellin 6
per cent bonds at rs and paying
lawyers, contractors, promoters and
operators as well as financial COM
missions-they intend to get it any
way. They say intend. But what they
mean to convey is that by the very
nature Of the physical world they will
get it, whatever principles of govern
ment or finance any one else may
have. Bear in mind that this is not
an individuals economic problem 1t
is the entire existence and way of life
Of millions Of people, with nowhere
else to 60.
Mountains Source Of Water.
From one side Of this region to the
other nobody is ever out OF sight of
the mountains. That Is where the
water comes from. And 1t is gathered
in the Spring into q few great chan
nels capable Of public control and dis
tribution. The Snake River and the
upper Columbia together gather enough
to supply all Idaho and Washington
and Oregon, and If it were needed,
Utah to boot. The Platte supplies
Wyoming and the East as far as re-
quired. The Colorado could literally
cause 1t to rain all over Arizona and
Southern California, and the Yellow
stone, combining with the Missouri,
guarantees Montana a flood, If needed
And with all this life force at their
doors, the Western farmers face blank
ruin on water bonds.
Under these circumstances there Is
no use whatever III discussing Boulder
Dam or any other dam in terms of
It's effect on Eastern finance. Even the
Republican leader of the Senate is in
the front ranks Of the dam builders
Senator McNary took great pains to
get the credit for the building of a
s32 100000 dam at Bonneville on the
Columbia.
What has this to do with water
power?
1t has this to do with it.
Evening star., 1934-02-14
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