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MEDFORD MAIL TU1BTJ2TE, JEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934. PAGE NINE FAST PROGRESS World's Largest Water Line Which i Will Supply 13 California Cities Now Re ported Third Finished. By LEICESTER WAGNER (United Press Staff Correspondent.) LOS ANGELES. (UP) The great est aqueduct built in the history of man la entering the second year of construction In southern California. If the builders of the days of the Caesars could return to earth, they would see 4,000 men working along a 250-mlle desert front, bringing water from the Colorado river to the Mt ropolttan Water district of southern California. They would learn that 5,870,000 barrels of cement will go Into the completed project sufficient to build a 14-foot highway from Los Angeles to New York They would be told that 3,600.000 gallons of gasoline will be burned before the Job Is finished sufficient to drive 2.200 automobiles once around the earth at the equator. They would see 00,000,000 board feet of lumber, 41,000.000 pounds of explosives, 2,500 miles of copper cable go Into the project. To Start New Work. Thia second year of activity finds 13 miles of the project's 91 miles of tunnel already driven through hard rock desert mountains. Working under the direction of F. X. Weymouth, general manager and chief engineer, 4,000 men are ful filling orders of taxpayers to build the aqueduct at a. cost of $220,000,000 or less. Within two months the aqueduct forces will be increased by the launch ing of several new units of work. The Public Works administration has allocated $2,000,000 for the financing of the first year of construction on Parker dam, the aqueduct's diversion structure on the Colorado river. The dam, 330 feet high from Its bedrock foundation, and 740 feet across Its crest, will be built at a cost of (13,500,000, In Parker canyon, 15 miles north of Parker, Allz., and 15 miles below Boulder dam. Preliminary work already has been started by the Metropolitan Water dis trict on nine aadltlonal miles of 16 foot tunnel, bringing the total of the aqueduct bore under construction to 91 miles, constituting all the tunnels on the main line. Thirty -one construction camps in the Colorado and Coachella deserts now teem with activity as work rolls along on the 241-mile stretch from intake to the terminal reservoir near Riverside. West of the reservoir will stretch 141 miles of huge mains, to carry water to the 13 cities within the -district. fob Thlrd-'Flnlshed. With work under way and contracts already let, approximately a third of the program Is accounted for, involv ing a total Investment and obllga- Jailed In Balm Suit H p 1 1 Ifti ! !C ! lb Unable to pay $7,500 judgment In an alienation of affection suit, Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge was Jailed In Chicago. Mrs. Susannc Nottingham, who won the verdict on evidence Mrs. Blacklidge had stolen the love of Norman Nottingham, patrol wagon chauffeur, had her rival In love jailed. (Associated Press Photo tlon of approximately 960,000.000. On the basis of this figure, a saving of nearly $0,000,000 over original esti mates has been made. Before bullamg the aqueduct projv er, engineers were faced with the ne cessity of completing a large amount of preliminary construction roads, power lines, camps, water lines and the communication system. In 300 days, 446 miles of high volt age power transmission line was erect ed. In the -first six months of 1033, 150 miles of modern surfaced high ways, and 10 miles of feeder roads, were constructed through the rug ged desert and mountain country. Three hundred and thirty miles of telephone and telegraph lines and 180 miles of water mains also were. laid. With this preliminary work done, the hard rock miners started on the tunnels, which have been forging ahead at the rate of almost three miles a month an unprecedented program of construction. The 13 cities comprising the Met ropolitan Water district are Anaheim, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Compton, Pul lerton, Glendale, Long Beach, Los An geles, Pasadena, San Marino, Santa Ana, Santa Monica and Torrance. Choked on Steak. MONTREAL (UP) Leopold Bon enfant, 33, choked to death on a mouthful of steak before doctors could be summoned to relieve him. Vjnets I Always the best ! White star tuna is tue brand that, made tuna famous! For 21 years it has been the pre ferred brand because only the deli cious, tender, delicate light meat is packed! Always the quality hss been the best! If you bought a MILLION cans, each one would be the same high quality! Naturally, there have been many imitators. But . . . "one is always the best" . . . and, in tuna, that "best" is always White Star Tuna. Ask for it by name! It's always inexpensive. A Pure Food, Honestly Advertised Thf $il ol Acceptance of the Commute on KixhIi nf ihe American Medical Ai ociitioa is your hnt tuar mice of the qulliry n! my product ind the truthful tiett of the idrerlMina cl.irm mide for it. Lot for inn leil on every food nu huy. Vi hue St-r Tunl Ul thu acceptance. Fl Last Bar To Free Exercise of Vote Is Thrown Down Many Will Enjoy Privilege In the July Primary By JOSEPH MVLER United Press Staff Correspondent DALLAS, Tex. (UP) The last bar to free exercise of the franchise by negro voters has been thrown down In Texas at least in theory. NegToes Interested in public af fairs claimed victory in a fight which had its inception in Abraham Lin coln's proclamation freeing slaves. A recent ruling by an El Paso judge, following tJ. S. supreme court decisions on the same subject, gave negroes the entree to Democratic pri mary elections. Concensus among political observers was that next July 28 will see unprecedented numbers of negro voters claiming their new ly declared right. Not since adoption of the 15th amendment to the federal constitu tion has the negro legally been kept from the polls, but the white ma jority, since "reconstruction" days after the Civil war when "carpet baggers" were a menace to home rule, has found means to anrldgo the ne gro's franchise to a considerable ex tent. At first, sheeted members of the Ku Klux Klan used guns and clubs to keep the former slaves in the cot ton patch on election day. Gradu ally, as the years went by, less direct action was taken and the bar to balloting by blacks was given the sanction of legislative acta. The last of these Texas laws a year ago was declared unconstitu tional, but nof until February 7 this year was the decision invoked In Texas. Dr. h, A. Nixon, a negro crusader for negro rights, brought suit In fed eral court w,hen he was barred from voting ln the last Democratic pri mary. Judge Charles A. Boynton ruled that negroes legally could vote In the primary and awarded Nixon a $5 Judgment against the election of ficials who had refused, him a ballot. It was Nixon who carried to the U. S. supreme court fights against validity of Texas election laws en acted In 1925 and 1927. The first bluntly declared any ballot cast by a negro was void. The latter sought to accomplish the same purpose by authorising the Democratic state committee to prescribe qualifications for voters In primaries. Both were declared unconstitu tional by the highest tribunal. As yet no movement has been started to devise a new legislative means to keep negroes out of Texas government. But such a develop ment was considered almost certain, in view of a significant statement by Judge Thomas Bell Love, co-author of the original Terrell election law. "Sentiment In Texas still is strong ly against negro participation in the Democratic primaries," Love declar ed. The federal court rulings rep resent no liberalization of attitude within the state." School Named for Janitor. ROCHESTER, Mich. (UP) By unanimous vote the school board changed the name of the old Central Grade school here to "Harrison School," in honor of William P. Har rison, 72, who had been Janitor of the school for 3'i jears, and beloved by several generations of children as "Bill." Be correctly corseted In an Artist Model by Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann. VILLARD VISITS SCHOOL HIS FATHER SAVED! I - Vi SL'.V ' rim 0 t i X t a f lh iv Oswald Garrison Vlllard, noted liberal Journalist and son of Henry Vlllard, university benefactor, on the steps of Vlllard hall with the group that assisted In arranging his visit to Eugene. Left to right: Prof. Harold J. Noble of the department of history; Rlohard L. Neuberger, law student and a recent contributor to Mr. Vlllard', Nation; Mr. Vlllard himself; Richard S. Near, executive council member and head of the student reception committee, and Wallace Campbell, graduate manager who presided as toastmaster at the banquet In Mr. Vlllard's honor. E SPOKANE. Wash., April 0. OF) A recommendation for a physical ex amination for every grade school stu dent before he participates In ath letics was before the American phys ical education association today, meeting here In connection with the Inland Empire Education association convention. Dr. E. R. Coffey, director of health in the state department at Seattle told the section last night that often Ir reparable Injury was caused by In dulgence In ahletlcs by students not physically fitted. "To much exercise," Dr. Coffey said, "Is as harmful as too little. The boy must be taught that, unlike the auto mobile, there are no spare parts for the body." He advocated health clin ics in every grade school. 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