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Evening star., 1939-01-11
South Caroline Society

Final arrangements Tor congress
sional reception have been completed
by the South Carolina Society. The
receiving line Friday night in the
Shoreham Hotel will be headed by
Senator and Mrs. Smith. Edgar
Morris is president of the State
group. Members Of the congressional
delegation will be guests of honor.
More than 1000 South Carolinians
living in Washington have been in
vited.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Eve Clinic for Needy
Pupi|s to ODen

An eye clinic for INDECENT Wash
ington school children will be in
augurated tomorrow at the regular
monthly meeting of the Reciprocity
Club at the Mayflower Hotel.
Plans for the clinic were adopted
by a special committee headed by
Theodore S. Grape, vice president
of the club. Eyeglasses will be
furnished public and parochial
school children whose parents are
unable to buy them.
/ The District of Columbia Health
Department and various social
workers are cooperating in carry
ing out the plan.
Evening star., 1939-01-11

tivittes; Kelvin shivers. extension
work; Schley Zirkin. finance; L.
Stoddard Taylor, greeters; Joe High,
grievance: Thomas B. Crowell inter-
club; John Hardell, initiation; Els
worth E. Condron, music; Fred M.
Nettleship, program, Joseph H.
Launders, publicity; William j.
Vaught, scholastics, and Willard M.
Kochenderfer, constitution and by
laws.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Bus Change Approved
An Interstate Comm,

An Interstate Commerce Commits
sion Examiner today recommended
that the commission sanction the
purchase by Blue and Gray Sight
Seeing Tours, Inc, of the business
of the A. A. B. National Capital
Bus Co., which operates bus service
between Washington and the race
tracks in Maryland. The National
Capital Bus Co. is owned by Samuel
Lovenbein. The transaction would
involve $12,500 and unless there is
objection, it will automatically be
effected in 20 days.
Evening star., 1939-01-11
Tucky Porty Tomorrow

Holy Comforter Auxiliary, No. 181,
of the Knights of st. John, will hold
their meeting tomorrow at 8 pm. at
the Knights of Columbus Hall. A
tacky party will be held after the
meeting,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16

fish trap will be constructed At
the lower toe and the fish will be
caught. They will then BE- carried
by tramway over the top Of ths
dam. All this IL necessary be-
cause fish win not swim In the
darkness OF the tunnels.
The entire ssea Acquired ~
the government for the dam
site and storage basin VIII be
made Into . beautiful WOOD
land park after the proJect 10
completed.
Everything AZ Mud Mountain
has been planned for. An obrr-
walton house similar 10 the one II
Grand coules dam will be built.
In II will be one OF the modeis
and q guide will BE- ON hand dur.
ing the construction period 10 ak
plain the salient features Of the
biggest project the White river
area has had since thu Disringer
power plant job or the Northern
Pacific's Auburn-Pslmer Junction
cutoff.
Big A. Mud Mountain dam will
be. II viii not be- any larger than
the sigh OF relief that puysiiup
valley farmers viii give when their
fertile acres are protected.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16

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fcr cash primes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16

sConsiausd rvnsn Fsas u~e,
Al Pyramid iHks. 80 msiss fron
the scene 1t ths hoor II feet
train pinnsrd through : hTunse
ran Al the Humhotdt river kfsiss.
nins weal ~ cAsiln.
rederni hnrran - snssssl9ntio2
mrn here said They ned nothing
Ia 10 an" 10 suprost rspofts ~
ssbosss< ard closed theiF efflce
early last night.
one II The clsws CITED ~ FniI.
ru.a officials - evidences ths train
deliberately vas wtsehed wss
presence u . spike paiiss a NJ
scsns. Thsy said one rail had heen
moved inward On = curve. - the
sp<>dsnr sffsamilnsr would ~ d.
rallied. A eru~h@r II tn scsns. =
developed to-day. had b<en NfuFFeu
fran 4 relief train.
A. q. Mcdonald. president Il
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16
Dam LCM Control The
U1dters Of ) Streams
Mud Mountain Project to Handle Over
flow of White, Carbon, Puyallup Rivers
CONTINUED From Page one)

Continued From Page one)
efforts to stop the repeated raw
ages Of the swiriing. slt-csrrying
waters of the Puyailup. White and
Carbon rivers.
The tale Of flood control Is
story Of purported "dynamiting.
of landslides. of gun play. of bitter
feeling between the farmers of
Pierce county and King county, of
lawsuits, of misnamed rivers. and.
finally. Of legislative action that
created the Inter-County River
Improvement in 1918.
For IS years the Inter-County
River Improvement has with the
limited funds at its disposal gradu-
ally perfected form of flood con-
troll for the lower valley under
normal conditions.
New Problem Developed
But with logging operations
cutting timber highef ana hishef
I'D the slopes of the Cascades, a
new problem was created. The
shortening of the runoff time
which it took for shower TO
reach the rivers made floods come
quicker than in former years.
Flood control had become a prob
lem of keeping the water IN the
foothills until the lower valley
could handle il.
Such a plan was formulated by
3. p. Thomas, veteran Inter
County Improvement engineer.
Thomas proposed to halt the
lower valley floods by putting a
check valve in the White river just
before it emerged from the foot
hills. 1t was Thomas who tramp
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16

acre feet of water backed up In
the storage basin, which In nearly
five times the greatest rainfall Of
$4,000 acre-feet recorded for the
White river watershed.
After the dam IL completed. IL
viii be idle most Of the time. No
water will be kept in the storage
basin. Under normal conditions sll
will flow through the nine-foot
tunnel.
But when flood conditions arise
on the Puysllup and White river
watersheds. the dam will 20 into
operation. II, for example, the
lower PuyalIup can handle $4,000
second-feet per minute and the
upper PuyalIup 10 supplying TO-
900 second-feet. then the White
river flow will be limited TO 5000
second-feet.
This control Is contained In the
23-foot tunnel where penstocks and
valves win permit the operators
to let out any amount OF water.
Surplus water will be stored and
when the flood subsidies In the
lower valley. this water will be
released as rapidly as possible. Al
no time will any surplus water be
kept in the storage basin un-
necessarily.
To Transplant Fish
OF interest 10 sportsmen In the
manner in which fish will be
handled both during construction
and after. During the construc.
ton. the state game department
will pick the fish up near Buckley
and carry them In trucks 10 be
released above the dam.
After the dam IL completed. a
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16

the model Is simple. II consists
of three parts: CD diversion tun-
nels: Cd the dam itself. t3l q
concrete spillway. Construction
will be in that order.
Two diversion tunnels are to be
built. One Is TO be nine-foot
tunnel. The other viii be 20 feet
in diameter. The nine-foot tun-
mel will handle the normal flow
of the river and will be. in fact,
the course of the river e5 per cent
of the time. Only at flood times
Ia II expected that II will be
necessary to send water through
the 23-foot tunnel. And IL Is hoped
that IL will never be necessary to
allow water TO go over the spill
way.
8 Million Yard Fin
After the tunnels are completed
and the river Is diverted. the bot
tom Of the 1000 foot channel OF
the river between the tunnel In
takes and outlets will be excavated
down to bed rock. Then the earth
fill will start. II will require
5000, 900 cubic yards of material.
The center core Of the dam.
which will be 430 feet high at the
centerline, will be OF blue clay.
This will be imperydous to water.
The upper and lower footings OF
the dam will be of heavy rock.
Between the core and rock foot
ings win be the main fill Of sand
and gravel. All Of these materials
are adjacent TO the site. The
method OF making the filthy
overhead highline or truck road
will be determined by the con-
tractor.
The FIJI will he made In
six-inch layers and will b.
compressed by @sheeps' foot
rollers which, strangely
enough. do not compress the
top layer but the one directly
beneath. This IL because the
bottom Of the "sheeps' foot"
docs the pushing and the
pushing and the "sheeps' leg
In six inches long.
A spillway Ia necessary In all
earth-fill dams because the water
Is never allowed TO flow over the
top Of the dam.
Thus the bottom Of the spillwsy
becomes actually the effective
level OF a storage dam. which is
what the Mud Mountain dam Ia
intended for. Mud Mountain IL
not designed for either power or
irrigation.
Spillway Of Concrete
The spillway will be OF con
crete and will have a discharge
capacity Of 100000 second-feet.
Whenever water begins to go over
the spillwsy there will be 10000
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16
HERE'S MORE ABOUT
THREE RADIO MEN

~ ~ ON ho - ~ -
woods previous objection TO being
required 10 employ three radio OPP
orators At one time who were UNI
familiar with police detail"
Heading the civil service Hist and
presumably first TO be recsrtifisd
will be- Daniel N. MeDonoggh. then
Garry 3. Lewis and. finally. Harlan
@. Holt. They viii take the places
now held by Clare w. shsrrod.
who holds NTH place In the civil
service ratings: Leonard G. Gates.
rated No. Q. and Thomas J. Psncis,
VINO failed 10 qualify.
Told Of Mistakes
At the boards investigation
hearing Aug. .. the thrss top men
testified Eastwood had called them
10 work, used them through one
shift each. or two shifts IN the
case Of one man. and then handed
them notices Of discharge. Fast
wood testified 10 mistakes made
by the operators or minor oblsc-
tlons which he Offered a. valid
grounds for the dismisssis
II vss ths contention Of ths
BUSTED operators tina, tbs COM
plants ssrs not justified ~ ths
facts and that Eastwood had re-
ftised 10 give any ~ them any
specific reason for disehsrelng
them.
FOR Pay Also
However. the three dismissed
operators had filed claims not only
for positions but for the pay Of
those positions dating back 10 the
latter part Of June when they had
been called: even hack 70 the dates
when they were first certified for
the positions and when their rights
10 employment began. Ths city
faced possibls heavy expense II
Eastwood continued his refusal 10
employ them, since court litigation
was certain and might well result
In victory for the operators with
heavy court costs and back pay.
These angles were discussed in
the conferences and the eompro-
mise arrangement made an dis
closed Tsesdsy.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16
SEA SHELL DISPLAY
AT PARK AQUARIUM

A display II ses shells. bought
by the Metropolitan Park hoard
Monday night. will be on rermsn-
snt display al the aquarium IN ".
Defiance park, starting sunday.
The shells. purchased from Paul
n. Palmer Of Sumner. who spent
~ years In gathering them. mum.
Der over 500 and include some 10
different varieties ranging from
the extremely rare "papisf matt.
l.,s' to the key.hnle star fish
The sheiis viii be displayed IN .
glass case and viii be- labeled.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16
YOUNG VOTERS
TO Be GUESTS
Patriotic Societies to
Plan Reception
on Thursday

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16

ed the WOODS 70 discover the Mlo
Mountain dam site.
A dam OF the magnitude neces-
sary TO control the White river
required more funds than the
counties of Pierce and King could
raise. The project Jagged for a
time but when the federal govern
ment. after the disastrous Ohio
river floods decided to help with
flood control. II was Mud Noun
tsin's big chance.
For the fiscal year Of 1882
20. congress has appropriated
Sl.500,o0o for construction
work Mt Mud Mountain dam.
Preliminary survey money was
voted three years ago.
The dam site is reached by go
ing through Buckley to Enumclaw.
then out the Nachez highway TO
Yakima. A right turn after a few
miles and you are soon at Mud
Mountain, just 81 miles from Ia
coma.
Camp Already Built
The entrance road. which runs
straight north and south, comes to
an end at the governments pre-
construction camp. The narrow
box-like canyon of the White river
is 500 feet ahead.
A 147-foot core was drilled be-
meath the surface to determine
what kind of base was provided
by nature. Biologists were low
cred down the three-foot shaft to
inspect the various strata of
earth. clay and rock.
Originally II was planned
TO build concrete dam but
with solid rock extending up
the walls of the canyon only
part way. II was necessary to
abandon concrete. An earth
fill dam Is now the ticket. II
will be the highest earth-fiii
dam In the world.
Besides the pre- construction
camp of neat green-painted build
ings there are six newly-con-
structed white homes which will
house the army engineers during
the construction period. After the
dam is completed they will be the
homes of the dams operating per-
sonnet.
Gorge Is Crossed
To get a comprehensive picture
of the entire dam site. II was
necessary for The Times photog-
rapher and reporter to cross the
White river gorge to reach a van
tage point some IT'S feet higher
than the camp. This point was
the Photographic station for the
engineers in taking progress Pic
lures Of the timber-clearing opera
tons.
To cross the river, II was neces-
sary to use the "highline," riding
in a ax-foot square cage open at
one end. OF course, one could
walk to the bottom of the 400
foot canyon, cross the river and
walk back up the other side.
After the picture-taking was
completed, an interview with Lieut..
James D. Lang was secured. Lieut..
Lang is ranking army engineer
stationed at the project.
First question asked Lieut..
Lang was, Where is Mud Noun
tain ?"
You're standing on IT," an
swered the engineer. 1T really
isn't a mountain at all, just a part
of the ridge that IL the last OF
the Cascade foothills. Because
the White river in breaking
through that ridge made a big
bend at this point, the resulting
thumb has probably been errone-
ously called a mountain"
Two Models Built
A model OF the dam was shown
by Lang. The army engineers
have built two models OF the dam
One model is at the Seattle office
and the other is at the dam site
One Of the models may be shown
at the Western Washington Fair al
Puyallup.
Plan Of the dam as shown II
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-16

Which cigarette gives the most
actual smoking for your money!
Here are the facts recently con-
6rmed through impartial labo-
ratory tests of l6 of the largest
selling brands:
4 CAMELS were found to con-
L tain MORE TOBACCO BY
WEIGHT than the average for
the IS other of the lsrgest-sell-
ing brands.
= CAMELS BURNED SLOW
4 Err THAN ANY OTHER
BRAND TESTED - 1850
SLOWER THAN THE AVER
AGE TINE OF THE Is OTHER
OF THE LARGEST SELLING
BRANDS! By burning $3.50
slower, on the average, Camels
give smokers the equivalent of 5
EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK
= In the same tests, CAMELS
= HELD THEIR ASH FAR
LONGER than the average time
for all the other brands.
Buy shre~dly. Get extra smoking and
also enjoy the cooler. miidef, tzstief
smoking OF Cancels Ions burning
eostiier tobzccos. Camel Is the quality
cigarette etsr, smoker can Afford.
Evening star., 1939-01-03

has a right to expect; for, on the
democracy versus dictatorship issue
something that lends itself to po-
litical dramatization, the President
would probably relish nothing so
much as an opportunity to denounce
what he would surely term the "Fas-
cist sympathizers" in the United
States.
Business Resists Nazi Tieup.
Already the so-called liberals on
the left wing are trying to tie up
big business in America with SYM
pathy for the Nazi type of govern
ment and it happens to be a fact
that the Republican party contains
more big businessmen than does the
Democratic. The best refutation OF
this sort of thing was attempted by
the National Association of Manu-
facturers recently in inviting An
thony Eden, arch foe of the Nazis,
to come to America to make speech
in defense of democracy. Almost
without exception big business in
America is unlike big business in
Germany or England, where F'as-
cism's doctrines receive a behind
the-scenes encouragement.
The best way to avoid any politics
Evening star., 1939-01-03

in national defense or foreign
policy Is for President Roosevelt to
ask at once or for the Republican
leadership to demand that the
chairmen of the House and Senate
Foreign Relations Committees and
the chairmen of the House and
Senate Committees on National De-
tense form two small subcommittee,
composed of both Republicans and
Democrats, to consult and CO.
operate with the White House 80
that whatever is decided upon will
be truly non-partisan.
Such course would tend to re-
move the opportunity for Repubh-
cans here and there, acting without
sanction from the party leadership,
to attack in the name of the Re-
publican minority those programs
Of the national administration
which have nothing to do with do
mestic politics. Likewise the rank
and file of Republicans throughout
the country would have more con-
fidence In the wisdom of the policies
decided upon if the coalition prin-
ciple were applied to the handling
of these special questions.
(Copyrisht, 1891
Evening star., 1939-01-03

ton of bill. The longest legisla-
tive day in the Senate's history ran
from January last year to April 20.
DR.. Phillips then had q chance to
offer a prayer-and another legis-
lative day ran until June Z.
Today DR.. Phillips will pray as the
Senate convenes for the first session
of the Seventy-sixth Congress. A
fine figure of a man as well as a
fine preacher, he has served as
chaplain for the Upper House under
three presidents of the Senate-Vice
Presidents Dawes, Curtis and Garner
all his friends. He has prayed
and hunted and fished and ex-
changed anecdotes with the Sena-
tors-and he has performed the last
rites for some of them. He was
greatly attached to the late Senator
Joe" Robinson of Arkansas, finding
his chivalry toward women and his
alteration of children deeply tap-
pealing.
Whether all his senatorial flock
goes to church, DR.. Phillips does not
know. He is convinced. however.
that the Senators are "fundamen-
tally religious" Vice President Gar
ner, he says, is most companionable
and a man of deep convictions.
Once the late Senator Huey Long
told DR.. Phillips the Bible was the
only book his mother ever read and
he had learned it from cover to
cover at her knee. Senator Long
said he did not care what people
think of me-" but he was worried
over things that are between me
and the Lord" You had better get
right with the Lord" DR.. Phillips
said, and the Senator replied. You
are right That was the last time
DR.. Phillips saw him alive.
Born in Ohio DR.. Phillips has sup
ported himself since he was 16 years
old. He has deep feeling for music
and served as organist and choir
master in Methodist, Baptist and
Episcopal churches Music, he thinks
is religion and religion is music He
worked his way through Wittenberg
College, youngest in his class and
its valedictorian. He studied for the
ministry at General Theological
Seminary, New York, but received
his ID. and LID. from his old
alma mater. Two years he spent at
oxford and he has specialized for
years in the Semitic languages.
reading the Old Testament in He
brew.
Evening star., 1939-01-03

suggested
thatno
intimate provdenialy
for re- election hurriedly put forward.
understood that the Dealers
Murphy has the attorney generalshp
place uncertainty prevailed until
presidential hints reassued the New Dealers their
Frankfurter apparently Frankfuer
technician and regarding the orthodox Democrats cand
dates
hastily suggested Judge Joseph Hucheson
leans Federal Circuit Ruledge University
Of
the the New Dealers unquesonab
suffered defeat OF naming like
the President is not turning conservative
Evening star., 1939-01-03

Ohio. for example, remains to be
seen. In all three of those popu-
lous States the memory Of sit-down
strikes had its effect on the electo-
rate in the last election. And in all
of them the dislike of the voters
for the sit-down strike and the G.
I. O.. which indulged in that form
Of activity, was registered at the
polls last November.
There is talk now that the Presi-
dent will name former Senator Fred
H. Brown of New Hampshire to be
Controller General of the United
States. Mr.. Brown went down to
defeat in the elections before the at
tack of the anti-NeW Dealers and
the Republicans of his State. The
Office Of the Controller General has
been vacant for a long time. Pre-
sumably the President was waiting
for favorable action on the reor-
ganization bill-which abolished the
office of the Controller General Of
the United States and substituted
an auditor general. The bill failed
to pass after bitter struggle. If
the President now appoints Mr..
Brown to that Office, it would appear
that he is tired of waiting for the
abolishment of this Office, or may
have even reached the conclusion
that it will not be abolished, even
if the reorganization bill goes
through in amended form.
The appointment of Harry L.
Hopkins to be Secretary of Com
merce takes Mr.. Hopkins out of the
w. p. A. picture just at time when
that organization is under fire-and
its administration by Mr. Hopkins.
1t is an appointment which many
members Of the business world re-
sent-although they have not been
publicly vocal about their feelings in
the matter.
Other Important Posts Open.
The President still has many i'm
portant positions to fill by appoint
ment, including a vacancy in the
Supreme Court Of the United States.
And by the same token there re-
mains sizable crop of lame ducks"
growing out Of the recent elections.
Former Senators Pope of Idaho,
Bulkley of Ohio, Duny of Wiscon-
sin. Dieterich of Illinois, all were
devoted supporters of the New Deal
administration. Former Senator
McAdoo of California has already
been taken care of. Gov. Quinn
Of Rhode Island and Gov. Earle of
Pennsylvania. both New Deal Demo-
Gratis, are now going out of Office.
Former Representative David J.
Lewis. who was sacrificed in the
attempted purge" of Senator Tyd-
ings of Maryland, is on the list of
lame ducks" too.
The President has filled, for the
time being at any rate. his cabinet.
He has placed two rather youthful
and 100 per cent New Dealers in
his official family in place of two
old-time Democrats, former Secre-
tary Daniel c. Roper of the De-
partment of Commerce and former
Attorney General Homer S. Cum
mings. If there are other vacan-
cies in the cabinet in the next few
Evening star., 1939-01-03
Young Wife Is Held
On Murder Churoe
By the Associated Press,

oy tue hSSUCldlcu TISbS.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3-Blond
Betty McLaren, %, was booked for
the murder of her husband. William
McLaren, 36, last night after Police
Inspector Harry Hustled said she
confessed she stabbed him to death
with a carving knife he gave her
for Christmas.
McLaren, service station op-
orator, was found dying on the run
ming board of an automobile. He
had been stabbed in the abdomen.
Hustled said Mrs. McLaren con-
fessed they had had a bitter quarrel,
he had slapped her and knocked her
down and that she had seized the
knife to protect herself.