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-
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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.
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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!
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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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