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samples and a large experimental
flume serve as the laboratory for
r. L. Parshall, senior engineer un-
der the bureau of agricultural en-
gineering, u. S department of agri-
culture, and his assistants. The
experimental flume, 100 feet long,
10 feet wide. and eight feet deep
is the testing ground.
Here a tnree-month battle will
be staged as a renewal of efforts
begun two years ago and halted by
drought which prohibited the use
of water. Already equipment is be-
ing set up through which the Sci
ence of man will make another at
tempt to curb the force of nature.
Visitors are welcomed in order
that the public may become better
informed as to the work, ParShall
said yesterday.
The first experiment, on which
Parshall plans to spend about
months work, will be that of de-
termining the rate of precipitation
of Various-sized particles of silt.
This knowledge will be applicable
as a basis for the economical de-
sign of sedimentation basins where
water carrying a heavy load of sus-
pended material may be clarified.
Water To Be Drawn Off
In the length of the flume six
cone-shaped tubes, with the small
end upstream, will be placed at
equal intervals. Water travelling
through the sluice at known speed
and at a given depth will pass in
to these tubes and be drawn off in
to sample containers. A method is
now being worked out whereby the
water and sediment will be OBJ
tanned Through the amount of
precipitation in the samples the
engineers can determine the rate
of silt settlement in any given
number of feet.
Two systems of desilting, one
previously tried at Rositas dam,
and one at Fort Collins, Colo. where
Parshall's other experiment station
is located, will be tested and per-
fected during the remaining two
months. In this the engineer will
work Jointly with Samuel Shulits,
research engineer with the U. S.
| bureau of reclamation, who is eX-
| pected to arrive in the valley soon.
The method formerly tried here
consists of a series of frames ap-
proximately three feet square and
six inches deep. Each of these
frames consists of a series of metal
gratings, or Vanes, running cross
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09

wise at one-inch intervals. The
vanes are so curved that each of
them represents an arc equal to a
fourth of a circle. The floor of
the flume will be covered with
these frames in such manner that
the concaVe faces of the vanes are
downstream. The negative pres
sure in these hollow faces, synon-
omous to a vacuum in air, causes
an eddy in the water flowing over
the gratings. Sand and finally di-
vided material moving on the floor
is drawn into the grating vanes
and deposited in large hoppers con-
structed under the frame.
Series of Tubes
The system successfully tried at
Fort Collins, which will again be
the subject of experimentation
here, consists of a series of vortex
tubes running diagonally across the
floor of the experimental flume.
These tubes or pipes are six inches
in diameter and their top side,
which is open, is level with the
floor of the flume. The downstream
edge of this open tube face is
slightly lower than the upstream
edge. The principle involves a
rapidly rotating vortex in the tube
which carries the trapped material
to an opening in the side of the
flume. Silt carried into the TUBE
by back pressure on the upstream
concave surface travels in a spiral
path to the outlet end of the tube.
Water action insures the silt spin
ming over and over in a continu-
Gus circle. The fact that the tube
is placed diagonally to the flow of
water causes the spinning silt to
move in the direction of the out
let.
Parshall and his assistants are
now working on vortex tube
which will be oval in shape, the
bottom and the top or open side
forming the long faces bf the oval
1t is believed that this type will be
more efficient where the flow OF
water is slower.
This experimentation fits direct
ly in with that at Fort Collins. AT
the latter station, laboratory con-
ditions prevail. The water is clear
and definite action of sand parti-
cles placed in the water may be
observed as they pass through the
vortex tube or the grating vaneS
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line.
Borah, attacking the philosophy
of the New Deal and calling for the
nation to return to the American
way" laid down the four issues
on which he proposed that the
Republican party base its fight for
a return to power. Borah'S four
points:
l. Revival of the old Theodore
Roosevelt program of trust bust
ing.
2. The end of bureaucratic con-
troll.
3. Adherence TO the constitution.
4. Return to a system of free
enterprise and free economic SyS-
tenn"
THE times will not permit of a
sham fight" said Borah, predict
ing that the question of 'conStitu-
tional government and the pres
entation of liberty would be at
stake next November.
He dated recovery from the Su-
preme court decision on the NRA,
rather than to New Deal acts. He
said the decision revived general
confidence land give back some
thing of that freedom of purpose
and action without which recovery
is impossible"
1t proved, ne said, that "thc
American way, both in business and
politics, is after all the safest and
most effective way"
Borah hit at the AAA, in attack
ing as "a libelous deception" the
theory of overproduction. He as
serted that in every depression since
Roman times "overproduction has
been made the 5capegoat to carry
the sins of economic policies into
the wilderness of debts and taxes"
The Idaho senator criticized the
Coolidge Hoover false prosperity
period as due to lack Of purchaS-
ing power.
I'VE were living in an economic
she'll" he said, proposing that for
long range prosperity monopolieS
be ended.
Nothing could more quickly give
employment to the ability and the
genius of our young men in the
business world" he said.
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TOWNSEND UNITS
MEET IN FLORIDA

ORLANDO, Fla, Dec. 8. up
The first Florida convention of the
Townsend Old Age Pension clubs
today approved, after heated de-
bate, the proposal to have DR.. F.
E. Townsend, founder of the Pen
sion Plan, approve or disapprove
candidates from congressional dis
trictS.
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STRIKE OF DOCK
WORKERS ENDED

HOUSTON, Tex, Dec, 9 CUP)-Ed-
ward F. McGrady, assistant secre-
tary of labor and New Deal trouble
shooter" in labor disputes, announc-
ed tonight that officials of the In
ternational Longshoremen's associa-
ton had signed an agreement with
inter-coastal shippers, ending a
strike of dock workers.
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EXPERIMENTS BEGUN on FIGHTING Silt PERIL
License Revoked
After Dope Charge

PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. .. UR -
The Arizona board of medical ex-
aminers today had revoked the IL
cense of DR.. C. E. Duvall. promi-
nent Tucson physician. for alleged
"promiscuous dispensing of mar
cotics."
DR.. Duval was convicted in fed
eral court at Tucson several weeks
ago on charges of violating the Har-
rison narcotic act and was sentence
ed to serve ID months in federal
prison. His appeal to the circuit
court of appeals at San Francisco
is pending.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09
CONSOLIDATION
PLAN PUSHED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. U.P)-The
securities and exchange commits
sion today announced receipt of
an application for permission for
consolidation of the Nevada-Cali-
fornia Power Co, the Southern
Sierras Power Co., and the Yuma
Utilities Co.
The application requested per-
mission for merging of all electrical
properties and facilities now owned
and operated by the companies and
placing Of all these properties and
facilities in the direct ownership
and under the direct control of the
Nevada California Electric Corp.
through the complete liquidation Of
the three companies.
The SpreckelS sugar Dlapt to be
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09
Tests Carried on
Near MeIoland

Silt, the arch-enemy of irrigation engineers, which
costs Imperial Valley million dollars annually by clog
gng and filling irrigation dtches is the subject of renewed
experimentation at Rositas dam, Meloand
A small frame building used to analyze silt and sand
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09
Borah Maps Plans for
COP Attack i'm 1895

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. (UP-Sen. William E. Borah,
possible Republican presidential candidate, tonight
launched a significant eastern speaking drive with
sentaton of a fOur-pont nt-Roosevelt campaign out
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09

The valley station, on the other
hand, tests actual conditions or
practical application by working di-
rectly with water from an irriga-
ton system.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09

There only remains the formal ap-
proval of the war department to
place 1900 men at work filling in
the shoals site of the 1888 San Fran
cisco exposition.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09

capable of giving the remarkable econ
omyof2 3milesa gallon onthe highway.
want you to see this new car and
tVrite me y0nr frank opinioH. 1t is on
display at all De Soto dealers. | feel
sure you will agree with me that it is
destined TO be an outstanding success.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09

The Spreckels sugar plant to be
erected at Woodland will have a ca
pacity of 1900 tons of beetS daily.
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09

AS WE PRESENT the new De Soto for
n 1886, believe you would be in
terested in the engineering thinking
that went into this Car and how we
viSualized its market.
AS you know, times are getting bet
ter. Today people are again thinking Of
0utomobiles in terms Of style and beauty
andexceAeneeof ofabbOinfments-notonly
transportation. We could plainly see
market of thousands of buyers who
were eager TO own STYLE CAR.
So we created for them brand new
De Soto-tbat is Actually a cnst0m-bHiit
car-to sell a fetV dollars ADORE tOaay's
pe,y IOWest- priced automobiles.
In the last five years, we have learned
how to build cars better. and to
Imperial Valley press., 1935-12-09

bring the luxury and appointments of
two and three-thousand-dollar auto
mobiles into this price bracket.
l can say to you sincerely that this
new De Soto has as many CUSTOM
FEATURES as any Car built in the finest
custom-body shop. People tell me they
believe this new De Soto is one of the
best-lo0kfng mostaistinctive earsg1936.
/ can tell you, from hundreds of miles
of personal experience, that it is
a real pleasure to drive. 1t steers and
handles easily, stops quickly, and the
engine is one of the most powerful in
its price class.
Furthermore, tests have shown that
the new GaS-Saver Transmission is
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Labor Secretary
Saves Her Post
By Williams

WASHINGTON, April a. (UP).
Secretary Of Labor Frances Per-
kins fought for her job yesterday
before a congressional committee
and won. She foughts against a
proposal which might rob her
post of real effectiyctessf and
converted a hard-boiled commit
tee chairman TO her point Of
view.
Facing the house labor group
on the Wagner onnery disputes
bill for more than two hours, the
woman cabinet officer sought
bravely to stem a growing move
ment to clip the functions of her
department to a point where it
might become an innocuous unit.
Emphatically she insisted that
the supreme court Of labor"
which the disputes bill proposes
to create must be made a part of
the labor department. She d.
verted at one point to insist also
that the social insurance board
proposed in the administrations
security legislation be placed un-
der the jurisdiction Of her de-
partment and not set up indie
pendently as demanded by the
house ways and means commit
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promise for the purpose of Sc
curing some temporary advan-
tage.'
"Such as?" Happ asked.
"Need you ask?'
Eyes" he said, because |
think this was an advantage that
had something to do with me per-
sonally."
81 gathered" she said slowly,
chat there was something in the
books he was afraid Of. After all,
Mr.. Happ, Pm working for you
and l should be loyal to you. |
didn't want to make the accusa-
ton directly, but since you've
asked me I've told you"
He got to his feet, nodded, and
said, Come on, we're going down
and take a look at those books
right now. They're in your
room?"
! Fortunately she did not have
, to answer the question. HapD
acted on the assumption that they
were. He led the way down the
/ corridor.
She opeend the door of her
room.
/ 'Tn the closet?" he asked here.
She nodded dumbly.
Happ opened the door of the
closet, stood there looking about
him in frowning concentration.
81 don't see any suitcase here"
he said.
She peered over his shoulder.
The dummy suitcase had disap-
peared.
(To be continued)
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ok DARK
BLOND
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e1o55 NEA SERVICE INC

{ Suddenly she realized that she
had. She was suspicious of Vera
Duchene, had been from the mo-
ment she had seen her. There
was about Vera Duchene a sug-
gestion of that power that some
women WELD over men, applied
Iselfishly and consciously to ad-
vance their own ends.
Vera Duchene had been out
the night before. She had re-
turned early in the morning. She,
then, must have been the one
who had driven the sedan MILL
cent had encountered when leav-
ing Felding's room. Had she also
been the one who led Harry Field
ing on the chase which ended in
his death?
Was Vera Duchene the woman
lin the black ermine coat?
Millicent could not, Of course,
be certain, but she did know that
the form and figure of Vera Du-
chene were similar to the form
and figure of the woman who had
worn the black ermine, and the
single swift glimpse Millicent had
had of the woman in the tea
room had shown her a cold, gray
eye - scheming, hard, wary and
watchful.
Vera Duchene's eye could well
have taken on such an expression.
Millicent, herself, had seen those
eyes change. They had been filled
with alluring invitation when they
rested upon the officer. Then,
later, when Millicent had entered
her room and had glimpsed what
apparently was a black ermine
coat Vera Duchene was flingingj
in the closet, the eyes had be-
come cold, hard, glittering and
vengeful.
And where would Vera Du-
chene, a lady's maid, have Sc
cured the wherewithal to get an
ermine coat? Or, rather, having
interested someone sufficiently to
secure an ermine coat, why
would she continue to work as a
maid?
Millicent determined that she
would keep Vera Duchene in
mind, and would pay closer at
tention to her comings and GO
ings.
There was a discreet knock at
the door.
"Who is itm Millicent asked.
"Winton, the butler" said
mournful voice.
She opened the door.
The butler stood in wooden
faced dignity upon the threshold.
"The master would like to have
you report to him in his study"
he said. "nd did you hear
about the mUder?"
She smiled up into his profess
sionally lubrius countenance and
said, 81 understand that the
chauffeur wa killed by bandits"
"He might have been killed by
bandits" the butler said, "and
then again he might not. You
see, he must ave borrowed Mas
ter Roberts car, run out of gaso-
, line and walked home, but the
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.Asheville Hears
2 ME. Bishops

ASBEVILLE, April Am adj
dross nv Bishop Arthur J. Moore,
81 Sam Antonio, Tex, and Shang-
bo; China. last night brought to a
close on aIl-day evangelistic rally,
snorsorad bv Southern Methodists
of this section at the Central
Methodist church.
Other speakers on the program
,,o GI%S, were: DR.. R. P. Shuler,
nastor of Trinity church, Los An
peIeS' the denominations largest
Church. Bishop W. n. Ainsworth'
of Macon, Ga; DR.. J: Q. schisIers:
Of Of Nashville, Tenn, in charge of
{be local church department, board
Of Christian education; DR.. G. c:
Emmons. Nashville, secsetary OF
home missions and evangelism.
Bishop Moore spoke at morning
ard oftarnoon sessions in addition
to the address last night. DR.. En-
mons presided over the meeting
and Bishop AinswOrth spoke dur
ing the morning. 90
Approximately 300 young peo-
nile and workers attended a ban
ouet last night which was featored
by an address by DR.. Shuler. The
Rev, E. o. Hardin, of Nashville, a
specialist in young peoples work.
presided at the banquet;
Bishop Moore and other mem
bers of the party left last night
for Winston-Salem, where SINH
lar gathering will be held.
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ded and said, est down, Mill
cent. l want to ask you some
,ueSt!ons."
She dropped into the chair, sud-
denly feeling that peculiar psychic
commotion which Jarvis Happ's
magnetic personality and keen,
peering eyes always caused.
''Dick Gentry was in your room
last night" he said.
She flushed and started to
make an indignant denial.
"No, no." he said, "don't mis-
understand me. I mean he ac-
companied you to your door with
the suitcase"
ooh, yes"
"What did he say at that
time?"
Glow do you mean?"
"YOu know what | mean," he
told her, with gentle but firm in
sistence. "He told you some
thing he didn't want me to hear"
"What makes YOU think that?''
Because of the look on his
face when he left this room. Be-
cause Of the look on his face
when ne emerged from your
room"
"Perhaps," she said, at was
confidential"
you shouldn't keep secrets
from your employer"
perhaps it was one of those
propositions man sometimes
makes to woman, a proposition
he doesn't mean exactly, but
which he holds out as a glittering
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police can't find the keys to the
car.
Mister Robert is careless
about his keys at times. He left
all of his keys in the car-not
only the keys to the car, but the
keys lie carries to the house anC
the garage"
"Wdl?" asked Millicent.
If Harry Fielding had left the
car ard locked it, where the pc.
lice found it, he'd naturally have
left tie keys IN his pocket"
Perhaps he put them some place
when ne got to his room," MILE
cent aid.
Il ,eg your pardon, but that's
impossible" the butler said witt
mourlful cadence. "He was kill
ed Just as he entered the room
Someone either had been lying il
wait or him or had been robbina
the pace and was surprised
''Why should anyone try to
rob chauffeur" Millicent asked
"Tlat's the question = why
shoulc they? That's what the po-
lice want to know"
"Weli," Millicent said, you'll
have to excuse me. It's nothing |
can SPECULATE about. If Mr.. Happ
wants me, must go at once"
Reluctantly the butler turned
away After he had gone a few
steps, he paused and said, did
the rolice question you?"
"Tiey wanted to know where
was last night" she said.
He nodded.
Moved by some sudden inspira-
ton, Millicent went on rapidly,
"Wele there visitors in the house
last night, Winton?"
"Visitors?"
eyes, you know--anyone other
then the family and the SER
He hesitated moment, then
stepped nearer, lowered his voice,
and almost whispered, "Mrs. Happ
had a woman visitor last night"
"Pid you see how she was
dressed?"
"I'm sure | couldn't tell you
that. She wore a black fur coat.
That was all I saw"
Gan ermine coat?"
81 don't know just what you'd
call it. l happened to be passing
Mrs. Happ's suite and | heard
voices. ] thought she'd called to
me, so l knocked on the door and
opened it crack. A woman Was
standing there, wearing a black
coat. The collar was turned up
about her ears. / didn't see any
more. Mrs. Happ called to me in
a sharp voice to close the door
and get away from there"
Goes Mrs. Happ have a black
fur toat?"
"No, ma'am. Her fur coat is a
brown, mink | believe. And then
she has a white fur coat-it's
Russian ermine l think"
Miliccnt made a mental note
that he butler knew more about
this woman in the black ermine
coat than he had told her. I'm
doubleday he knew that the wo-
man had called upon Mrs. Happ
before, but Millicent had no time
to follow up the subject.
She walked rapidly down the
hall to Mr.. Happ's study, Knocked
at the door and, in response to
his "Come in" opened the door
and entered the room.
Jarvis Happ, looking very grave,
was seated at his desk. He nod
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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

All
Millicent Graves, secretary to
George Drimgold, finds her en-.
ployer in his office dead. Mill.
cent has a notebook in which
Drimgold had begun to dictate =.
confession.
In panic she rushes awav vac.
listers at hotel under an assum.
ed name.
Jarvis HaPp, a stranger, offers
to help her. He sends her 70 =
beauty parlor where she is trans.
formed into brunei, then takes
her home and introduces her a.
his secretary. She meets Ham,
son, Norman: his stepson, Robert
Caise, and Mrs. Happ.
Millicent falls asleep and wakes
to find a note under her door
reading, The woman in black
ermine is here" Millicent dresses,
sees the woman in black drive
away and follows in Robert
Caise's car but runs out of gas.
She goes to the chauffeur's quar-.
ters and finds him dead.
Next morning Millicent meets
Vera Duchene, Mrs. Happ's maid.
Millicent goes to Vera's room and
sees her with something that
looks like a black ermine coat.
NOW co ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XIX
Vera Duchene whirled, regard
ing Millicent with eyes that were
suddenly cold, hard and viciously
vengeful.
"What are you doing, snoop-
ing around here?" she asked.
Millicent said, II wasn't snoop-
ing. came to warn you of some
thing"
"Well, what was it,"
"This isn't going to be an ordi-
nary investigation" Millicent
said. "There are elements involv-
ed which are going to cause trou-
BILE. If you didn't get in until
a late hour this morning, as you
started to say, you'd better tell
the police so now, because other
wise they'll check up on you"
"And what makes you think |
didn't get in until this morning."
Because you started to say so
down there at the table"
"And you came all the way up
here just to tell me that?"
Eyes"
"BaloneyI"
"All right. Why did | come up
here?" Millicent demanded an
grily.
"You came up here to snoop
because Jarvis Happ has been sus-
picious of me ever since l started
to work for his wife. Go back
and tell him that his spyping did
not work"
Don't be too certain it didn't
work." Millicent said. 81 saw
what you threw in the closet"
And with that, she turned
around and hanged the door an
grilv behind her.
She ran down the corridor and
sought her own room, trying to
analyze her conflicting emotions,
Had she really gone to the room
to spy on Vera Duchene?
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SAILOR is DROWNED

PORT EADS, La, April A.
(UP). An unidentified sailor
aboard the Norwegian treighter
Lynghaug was tossed overheard
yesterday by a flying piece OF
cable used in an attempt to re-
float the ship, which is aground
near the entrance Of South Pass
of the Mississippi river. 1t was
reported here Wednesday.
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