Evening star., 1938-11-21
President 10 Inspect
7. Y. A. Unit Today
On Southern Trip
Roosevelt Will Stuy
For Two Weeks
At Warm Springs
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Nov. 81.
President Roosevelt arrived here
at 9 am. &C. S. To, today for a
motor tour of Chickamauga T. v. A.
Dam and Civil War battlefelds.
Before starting on their four hour
sightseeing drive the President and
Mrs Roosevelt were welcomed to
Chattanooga by gorup Of State
Democratic leaders, including Gov.
Gordon Browning. Gov -elect Prem
tice Cooper, Senator Kenneth D.
McKellar and Senator sTom
Stewart.
Gov. E. D. Rivers of Georgia also
was in the depot party.
Bound for a two weeks stay at
his "other home" on Pine Mountain
at Warm Springs, Ga, he detoured
for a first-hand peek at Chicka-
mauga Dam 1t is one of seven
power navigation projects built or
under construction in the Tennessee
Valley for development OF cheap
electric power.
The PresidAnt also arranged to
visit the scenes of the Civil War
battles of Lookout Mountain and
Missionary Ridge, where IS years
ago blue and gray forces from %
States struggled for possession OF
Chattanooga
He planned to leave the city early
in the afternoon, have lunch and
dinner on his special train and ar
rive in Warm Springs about 9 pm
(E. S. TD.
Congress Program Conferences.
During his sojourn at the health
resort which he helped to found the
President is expected to begin con-
versations with Senate and House
leaders on the legislative program
for the new Congress.
He also may confer there with
Hugh R. Wilson. Ambassador to
Germany. en- route home to report
on anti-Jewish violence.
Besides announcing several judi
cial appointments at Warm Springs,
Mr.. Roosevelt will take the oppor-
tunity to discuss further plans for
combating infantile paralysis. for
which the Warm Springs resort was
created. Keith Morgan, a leader in
this field. boarded the President S
train at Washington last night and
will spend several days at Warm
Springs.
Mrs. Roosevelt and a large staff
accompanied the Chief Executive to
Chattanooga. The First Lady will
20 as far as Atlanta, where she will
detrain to fill a speaking engage
ment in Birmingham. Ala. tomor-
row. She will rejoin the President
Wednesday at Warm Springs for
Thanksgiving dinner with the Grip
pied children there.
Third Visit to Area.
The Presidents visit to the T. v. A.
area was his third in recent years.
The Chickamauga Dam was started
in January, 1896, and will be finished
in 1910 at cost of about $36 500 900.
1t will be 5000 feet long. made up
of earth embankments with con-
crete lock, spillway and power house
sections.
1t will have a reservoir for 1926 900
acre-feet of flood storage, an initial
output of 112 000-horsepower of elec-
trical energy and will make possible
9-foot channel upstream for SO
miles.
T. v. A. officials reported the lock
and 18 bays of the 129-foot high
spillway section have been COM
pleted, as have 80 per cent of the
north earth embankment and IT
per cent of the south embankment.
In the power house cofferdam 80
per cent of excavation for the power
house and the intake has been
finished, and IS per cent of the
concrete for the power house has
been poured.