- , By WILLIAM C. UTLEY -', gin operations . within about 'J 'a montn't time. The gigantic project, one of the -'1 '., .... . I - I tnK. HVMi . . mignuest eugiuwiw j un dertaken by nan, once tne suoject 4 tltAHanMifll Af AlnmflB ftf fl AW- j Ul LUUUOU"UU - ' paper comment throughout the land. ; ha been all out rorgoueu wua tbe new Interests that have attract- '. ed public attention the depression the New Deal ana einers, out ior flv vears since the undertaking was begun in 1930, 6,000 workers have tolled night and .day Until now the Tbe project Is costing America $165,000,000 and other projects di rectly associated with it account for another $230,000,000. With the job so little removed from completion, engineers of the bureau of reclama tion pronounce- it ready to eliminate fee In diameter. - Two of them hare IxH-n filled with plugs of concrete 850 to 400 feet long. .When the river has risen, to a height of 200 feet, the third channel, which con tains gates to regulate the flow, will follow the permanent, structures, huge pipelines 80 feet In diameter. L "': It will be June or July; before there Is sufficient water for the opt oration of the power house, which will be finished about July 1, with five of the seventeen generating unite Installed, the rest to be put In over a period of a few ,. years. The greatest of these units, to be the largest of Its kind In' nse any where, win generate-115,000. horse power. ' Built in the shape of horse Shoe,' with wings 025 feet long and the side, against the dam 800 feet wide, the 15-story power house will be the seat of one more of the fed eral government's numerous,, ven tures into the electric light- and power business of late. ; Unlike the TV A and other projects, : business outlook Is particularly good here, for all of the power has been con tracted tor ' In advance. Income from jtbejjMde of electrical energy Is expected to exceed $7,000,000 a year. '-, ..',"," The water In' the reservoir will be ready long before, tne macninery. t .i.t j fciilIIIH,ljJ'Jf River Harnessed at -Boulder Dam. the two great dangers confronting the territory which it serves. They are the mad, deadly floods of the giant Colorado river and the parch ing drouths caused by lack of trri " gatlon. ' , When entirely completed, ,'ithe danj will also furnish power tq generate more electrical energy ; than any other . water power de veloped in this country, . 1,735,000 noraa nower. . It will become the source of water supply for several large cities, notably Los Angeles.., Even more interested than Lot Aneelea In the Bearing of the end Is the third largest city of Nevada, Boulder City. Built In the desert, six miles from the dam Itself, for the homes of the employees and their families, Its population of ap- ' proximately 6,000 souls will begin to dwindle until probably only the ghost of this comparative metrop olis will remain when all the con struction work is over. : i Rising like a gargantuan mono, meat from the bed of the Colorado on the steep mountain sides; Boul- der dam Is already tbe highest dam In the world, by far, although work men will still be busy completing the top of it when it begins opera tion.' Taller than any skyscraper west of Manhattan, with the possl hie exception1 of one or two In Chi cago, It towers 684 feet above" the bottom of Black canyon. When the . reservoir is jailed a 50-story build ing would merely poke the tip of Its tower above the surface of the wa- ' ter. Seen in the .perspective of the lofty peaks that cleave the clouds above the dam, it would seem as the tip of a reed that grazes the bottom of your boat in a fishing pond. ; - Huge Artificial Lake. : So huge is the reservoir that wtll form one of the world's largest arti ; ncial lakes, It will take three years : to filL " It wUl be 125 miles long, with a shore line of more than 500 ' miles, and will cover 227 square miles. At present' the canyon above the dam is being cleaned out In f preparation for the creation of the ' lake. Leaving the canyon forever '.are a railroad, an old concrete mix ' '' lng plant and a large camp. ",' v . :. .' Tha rVilnrnriA la firm nf the most ' temperamental and Inconsistent rlv- .,v vra m i.iih -ijiiiLvu muLVB. : Ah uibiuo ' ; approximately one-thirteenth of the .' t country, yet its flow varies, from legs wh.h, vnm iihiM toot u ftAnnnn ie the lowest period to an all-time high "-of 210.000 cubic feet a second. The " 'fits now Is about 4,500. It will not ' be until the spring floods that tbe ;;:,wiinii In hiit nf i dam hmrlna , to fill up. , ' ' ' '.''. While the dam baa been built, en- ': glneers have diverted the flow of the Colorado around the project by ! v means of artificial river beds cleft 'through"' the mountains One' of these tunnels carries the whole flow . . - now, but at times four are need' ! ; ed. They cannot all be shut down at . i. once to begin building up the rteser- voir, because much of the water Is .. needed for the irrigation of the ; Yuma and Imperial valleys. When the needs of irrigation have 1,. i ) mot, gates bi ins? built in the J: i,?a illverwinn tnniit'l will re '.-f, ' t fie v The four Intake towers tnrouga which the "water enters the power plant, checkered In design,: are the principal contrast, to tne oroau white expanse of the dam Itself, which rises In a great triangle rrom the bottom of the canyon. 'JLO as sure obtaining of clear water, they begin 250 feet above the Colorado's bed, and will extend 880 feet aoove, . ' World of Caverns. With no water running over the ton. the face of the dam on tne downstream aide slopes In a steep and graceful curve, bracing itaeu against the weight of the tremen inna wall of water, on , the other Ma. Internally, the dam IS: a magic subterranean world of caverns, bor- in their way into ' the ruggea mountainsides of volcanic rock cast 210,000 cubic feet a second 30 years ago, lu ying waste vast areas la the wild antics of Its most wanton spree, it was more destructive In Its rage than even a Niagara turned loose to batter the countryside at random. Now California's rlcb Im perial valley: lying below the level of the river, and further protected by levees, may rest In relief, from Its age-old fear. ' - Floods are caused by the melting snows on the many, mountains of tbe region. - After the record break of 1006. It took 18 months of labor on a vast scale and the expenditure of $2,000,000 to return the river to its rightful bed. ..-- There will still be floods on the Colorado, hut now they can De neia In check to a size that will not get beyond control.' Probably no flow now will ever be more than 48,000 cubic feet a second below the' dam and 35,000 cubic feet a second farther down the river, In the Irrigated sec tions, , ' ,' f ' A ' ': Irrigation Most Important Of all the operations of the dam, Irrigation was. perhaps held , tne most important by the lawmakers who appropriated the money for Its construction. ' Although the average flow of the Colorado is 22,000 cubic feet a second, this dropped off to a mere trickle of 1,700 cubic feet .this year. Such a "failure of water sup ply was the cause of almost Irre parable losses uv the fertile fields of the Imperial valley, ' The pity of It Is that when the water or tne river fails, that Is Just the time It la most needed for irrigation. Now the ' flood-time .waters will be arrested and held until the parched months of July and August During the summer months the dam will permit the passage of about 10,000 cubic feet of water per sec ond Into the valleys below, holding the wintertime flow to about 4,000 cubic feet " ,'. Another constant threat to agri culture has been the large amounts of mud and silt carried down from the , mountains by ' the coioraao, Much of this silt was deposited In Irrigation ditches where water to revive thirsty vegetation was sore ly needed. i. Twenty-four nours a any, seven days a week, the crews are at work to bring all these benefits W the area served by the dam. 1 M the finish of their day's labors, ths" workers return to spotless, cheery homes In a city' that sprang like a mirage Jn the desert It Is Boulder' City, six miles from the dam, ' The federal government be cause It owns all the land, makes all the rules for the Inhabitants. These rules are Interpreted largely by the government's efficient city manager, Sims Ely. .':. .., . Efficiently Managed, . .The city manager Issues all the business permits in the city, and no one can enter business without a permit There are neither to few business houses for prosper ity nor too many. Mr. Ely has al IlW f:--l . aie i tloj v part Proi f flyf" , till: i tlous ' that t iteail. they a 'HL round the- .nal Gcr CARTER FIEir n.-Two trein ' hanges la the l e Far Eastern e',n y worrypg every hds any Interest In j world. These are: t Japanese can muti ? will happen i If renioval oi i leal policies, w, tivei on business, r tuent in business i ed, the Davis polk: w triumphant long a iter tronu. If there should y i n luun .it U) od w.-.f,::;:' . View Looking Down Stream from the Creat of Boulder Dam. . up from craters In prehistoric days, i Entrance to the tunnels is effected through a cave-opening of heroic proportions. Here Is the first of the 80-foot piping that will feed water to the turbines. From this the wa ter, rushing with all the force of US lonrfall, enters the power house -through secondary pipes IS feet in diameter. ' t . Never has a construction Job been speeded so swiftly.- More ' than 8,000,000 cubic yard of concrete have been poured from the huge 18 ton buckets In strips 6 feet high. It la nearly a year and a half ahead of schedule, the contractor says. Gone now is the terror of the flood periods of the Colorado. Each of the two .spillways of Boulder dam could accommodate a rush of wntor of a volume renter tl'an the f- i'ry flow oi'," 'in f'" '1 Is lowed two of a kind to come lute the city at a time. In order to keej down prices through competition, at wave a sound plan in the era oi ex President Hoover, for whom the dan is sometimes called. The numbei of business concerns are held dowi to what la necessary to supply tbt needs of the community. . ' Visitors cannot merely come an go to Boulder 'City like In other towns. United States marshals keep out all but those who have passes This reduces crime, for undesirable persons never get a chance to com mlt crimes they don't get . There has been only one crime all Boulder City's history, a hold up. Its perpetrators were undei sentence Inside of two weeks Transient visitors who appear t !o i;uv-i'l '0!ps fifi-i'i are r've , ! - ? v ' ' 'i i " v ! r 1 j i-ovea m um ww'ui hut t wo- widely separa!, J r'r a China. (2) Ti.a t.itt Japanese are sldwty but , tending northward, until within striking distance of the line of communications across Siberia. , " - , Until recently, when the Japanese began their latest drive in north China, the Russians had a very powerful argument against Japan's provoking war. , This waa that the Russians had a Strong bombing fleet of a'reraft at Vladivostok and other points pot too far from the big Jai ..neee cities, i - 1 , -They still have. But conviction among military experts now is Ja pan would have to endure only one or at most two bad bombings, After that there-would.be no more bombs. For, in the meantime, the Jap army and Jan flyers starting from north China would effectually block the line: of supply from European Bus- sla to the Pacific porta. , A glance at the map in connec tion with the next news story about Japan's aggrandizing movement' In north China Will be very illumlnat- lnz on this. Still another disturbing fact : IS that the Japanese commanders In the field seem to have more leeway than any generals since the Inven tion of telegraph. They do not bother to annoy Tokyo with ques tions as to whether they ' should seise this or that territory.; There is nothing new about this.: It has been going on ever since Japan be gan to expand her Influence in nortn China, In her long drive to take con- trol of first one Chinese province d then another. V- ' Misleading; '4:, Which has made it possible for the Japanese ambassador In. Wash ington, or for that matter at Gene- , to deny many things ror weess after - they, had really happened. Then It would develop that Tokyo had misled the ambassador because had received no report from the arm In the field. So much so that aides unaer tor- Secretary of ? State , Stlmson used, to bomplaln, with a trace of sarcasm, that there should be better understanding and exchange of communication between 'the war and foreign offices in Tokyo. The immediate Importance of this situation, which seems to sUll exist that at any moment there is apt to be some clash in the Far : East between Russians , and Japanese, due to some Jap movement utterly unanticipated by the Japanese for eign office. And when sometning of this sort starts, sometimes It is Impossible to control It Optimists say that Japan has dis covered that Russia does not want to fight now, and therefore t there will be do- war for some time to come. Their theory Is that Japan la very busy digesting the big pieces of north China she has bitten on, and acaulring additional pieces a nrocess Which may take several vears. h 1 "V ' Pessimists point ont that tne Rus sians know perfectly well what the reason for Japan extending ner troonsso far northward has been to threaten the line of communications of Russia's Far Eastern air fleets. So they believe It unthinkable that Russia has not made 'Some moves to circumvent this danger, All of jwhlcht the arguments of both pessimists and optimists Is probably . true. And tbe situation, as thus summed up: might readily mean only: that there - is a . fair chance of continued 'postponement of real hostilities.. The fly in tne ointment Is that unanticipated clash which may touch off the- fireworks. Then the w Question will De- can the United States, and the rest of the big; .nations, stay out? Important Question What la going to happen about Julv 1. when Chester O. Davis re tires from running the Agricultural. Adjustment administration ; Is per haps the most Interesting question mark in 'the 'government at tbe mo ment . . r . Davis now has a free hand, with the backing of both President and Secretary or Agriculture , Henry a, Wallace. j He was 'permitted to throw out the radicals and others he-" thought were obstructing tne carrying out of his policies. But what will happen when ne leaves! V The point of course, is that the brain trust so far as AAA is con cerned, Is temporarily In complete eclipse, but that no one knows defi nitely whether It will Stay in ecupse or not - i DavIS intends to build up an or ganization,, planned to be perma nent during the five months he In tends to serve yet He thinks that by July 1 this organization will be capable of going ahead without an administrator. But, of course. It would be very simple for some fol lower of T r. I tr-rd . 'lu-.vo'l to rever? I ! t i r ''"r Tru''? H out. and then, i theoret 1 restrlc i i luiiirove ! s niTect i t iUnue I , ,d has be no Im provement It Is. "keiy unit tne brain .trusters win db k".u k chance by the President to try out another scheme.-, ' . For the most important problem, now and for some time to come, on President Roosevelt's mind is now to get more meny and women era ployed by private industry. It Is no Bocrot that he U somewhat disap pointed at the faUure of all nis ei forta to reduce substantially- the number of unemployed, So that any Scheme; which,' without doing too much violence to his reform ideas, promises stimulation of private em ployment Is very appealing indeed. Whereas an proposed handicaps on business which , might result In viAnwHim of employment have to be mighty Important to his reform ' . , UHM, BMOfll At thA program xo unu Mjr . w moment .. ' -,' TRUiu . 7. STORIES' By Famous People CopyriM by PoMtH t4r. IB WNU Mrvlo. , , Jars President '1 ' T: , ' This attitude on the part of the President has reached new peak, in way. In the last few days.,That vote , to the senate appropriations committee, which almost upset tne apple cart so far as bis Dig wore roiiof nrmrmm w concerned, was a bigger Jar to the President than the rote on the World court Far worse. And the vote was so close because some of the senators voting against th whit a. nnnae were anxious to hold down the total debt of the gov ernment They were wornea aoout the government's credit - ; The President has not oeen bwu worried about that He is convinced it Is all right So is Secretary Jlor gentbau. But be Is very much woiv rled over Such an attitude develop, lng on Capitol Hill. It may rise to bother him In any number of ways before this congress Is over. SO that the problem has oeen moria mom difficult It was: could the government spend Its way back to prosperity before , the danger polht of spending was reacnea, now It Is: Can the government spend Its way back to- prosperity before con gress thinks the danger point has been reached. ' , . , So- much, has been inumsieo tumt covernment opposition to this and that in business, proposed new taxes, harsh treatment ror nomiug companies, etc; that it was, thought a very good idea to indicate that in at least onemporpiOT govern mental unit 1 dealing with some pretty Important lines of business. the government snouiu um v conservative tinge,' v . j Work Relief Cash , ; S- Nw Deal officials, questioned by senate and house committees as to what would be done witn tne 9- 800,000,000 lump sum being asked by President Roosevelt for work re lief, have been compared py criu to Hauptmann witnesses to their vagueness ' and contradictions, of testimony. .' ' i But the answer is very simpie. Putting S man under oath and grill ing him with great solemnity does not .add anything to his Informa tion. 1 If he really does not know, It Is pretty hard for the , shrewdest cross-examiner wMino out. The thing la 'complicated oy a factor, as old as tribal government but which has led -to newspapers getting things wrong in their stories nre tne eany Bira w eled bulletins on stone. This Is the human desire on the part ot om rials not to admit that tbey really do not know what-they are going to be told to do that they are not realty on the Inside. - In this particular case mere no Inside bo far. Mr.1 Roosevelt him self does not know.wnat ne is go ing to do with the money. ; He ad mits It frankly, put me ooys Capitol Hill do not believe It They think he" ktows, but is not willing to tell-them lest, they hamstring him by earmarking too much of i , f 'ZH SIXWYN -ti.dl Producer. ' ' A rr.i.n EOTHSTEIN always fascinated me, although he nu b menace to oreanled society. I had known him as a boy. i; He came from Upright people, who felt dlseraced when he ran away from home, to follow the career of a pni bier. I always rouowea new. vi his career," related Arch Selwyn,. the theatrical : producer. "" Stein had a weird and deflmte pre monition 6f fate that was going to nmrtRkn his later career, and he didn't run away from it" In the fading twilight of a day, wharoin Mr. Kelwvn had watched th& nhAiini of his new play, "The tifni color scheme, and this tul Devil Passes," and wheretas later ,aig; brilliant to prints and t, he would watch its premiere, ne Br cra. Co. ' The tulip adapts Itself so v I to DDlIoue and quilting dm -t I' at It is made, use or quite i This combination, showing tne tire potted plant gained p immediately after It was i . Tulips in bloom always form a I "y. d. em the money. ' . - - But there IS that curioua numnn or t tAndencv on the part of many his lieutenants not to admit they do not know perfectly well what is going to be done. ' , Remember Wilson Era a Old Washington f correspondents remember the era of Woodrow Wil son and Joseph p. Tumulty in the White House In the days after Joe's contacU with his chief had begun- to wane.' '. ' Old friends in the newspaper bus iness would ask Tumulty what the President would dd pn scjme Im portant matter. Tumulty would re ply that he could not aiscuss uiau j Which was literally and actually : true. Then the correspondents, by j bhrewd leading of the conversation around a circle and .bringing it back, would find out ; what Joe thought ought to be done, ; Next morning would appear long positive stories about what the President would do. They would be based on what Joe had said. Some times, In fart, qn'ta frequently, they were right , For- Tumulty bad studied Wilson so closely, and ad mired htm so tremendously, that he at lent achieved- what mlRht be called a'WIlsonlan approach to a given sii!' ' t. But often they were wronj?. and tlien fie.e v H no recourse. It was t'.e f "'t f t" i; r- a1; 'ii'r n n, n.it j 1 t t j hf tnrhnd from talk of the thea ter to "talk of colorful personalities lh the arena of dally life who live dangerously, i and of'tle. dangers, seen and unseen, which pursue them.'- "I once told Bothsteln, he con tifrnnd. "that I would like to see a certain gambling house where, It was reputed the leaders of gang dom gambled with one another, and where fabulous sums were ex- nhanirpd In cash." . Mr, Selwvn is a good theatrical producer and the sight of $50,000 in nh li t eood , show, even to a veteran theater man, he" admitted. i- "Bothsteln promised to take me in m nHvate house in New York city to watch the gambling. . One nlzht-he called me for dinner. A Mr. B. Joined us and Rothstein ex acted from us a promise that nei ther of us would gamble, -xms mnr he said, "has a code and a language all its own, and you fel- lows cam piay wnu iu . "Bothsteln started to throw the dice. The first bet was 128,000. : "Mr. &. an Indefatigable gam bler, who made large sums, but who was In the habit of letting them slip by, was Soon gambling, despite Rothsteln's warning. - Bothsteln scolded him, but he started to play tn, and won 11.500. He wanted to get away from the place. They were too many bruisers,' too many desperate-looking characters pter in at hla winnings to, let him feel !. Rothstein commanded him to. wait for him, but he refused. Rothstein told nlm to wait at DInty Moore's. , "In the meantime Bothsteln waa losing.' In the end he lost tauu.uuu to three men. Usually these men In gangdom pay their gambling debts at once, in cash, xnis time, Stein could not pay in cash. ; How ever, he promised to pay soon. ? j"Bi flfteen minutes, after B.'s de parture, Bothsteln called me from the scene which had fascinated me like a bizarre fpulgn spectacle. He mahed me to Dlntv lloore'a "There In a -panic, ' In 'the cold iwnmlration of fear, was B.': He collapsed before us. ' , Tou can't Imagine' ;what hap pened to "me,' he whispered. When I came down the steps, three fel lows stuck their guns in me and or dered. "Hand over the flOtt" I sever was so frightened." "'Didn't I tell you to wait. for mer said Rothstein. 'Yen. but began B, " "'You'll learn not to grfmblewltb guyS like those,' Rothstein admon ished. Then, seeing that B. was trembling, he said.. "Give back, the money,'.-to the fellows, in the cor ner whom be had . planted -on the stairway to give B. a .scare, "The frightening experience was not 'the end of the sequence of af fairs revolving about that nljht's losses, as I was soon to learn. I bad intended to go sight-seeing, but whenone slghtsees In gangdom It la not the "history of the event but the future ramifications that have significance for anyone who .goes near. - "Two months later I Was In tbe Warwick hotel, where It happened Bothsteln had an apartment He saw, me in. the lobby and sad he wanted to talk to me. 'It's about those fellows I lost that money to. They' sure have been giving me a ride. I cant pay now. I will later, but I must stall them off.'; "We went upstairs. ' Tbe phone rang; Bothsteln's 'premonition now haunted him; After answering It Rothstein said, It's those very guys calling me. They want ms to come over to the hotel' "'Why do you gol t asked. , Because If I don't they will think I au a coward trying to run away. I know what It means, I must go,' ' "That night ' Rothstein was fa tally, shot He had several chances to i tell who shot him. ; He re fused. - "There is nothing more ghostly, or macabre than thus coming face to face with a consummated premo nition of violent death." applique. These atampea oioc, s are 18 Inches, and twelve are r? fed , for a quilt about 76 by 97 inci i. If you nse a nine Inch border 'iif tir, . . k,n,AAn hlnnlrn. R' --lfo . lnCu BLripo tminw ' '- , and border widths can be chaned to make a quilt any size. i Send 15c to our quilt department for one of these stamped blocks, No.' 96-F. and the stamped apr iue pieces ready to be cut out v . this up, and see what a ''bean quilt calf be made of this design. set or six diocks wh v , postpaid "k--... Mimn , DEPT. D, Nineteenth ana t wjuis ? Avenue, St Louis. ' - ' Inclose a stamped aaaressea eu- velope for reply when writing for any information, ' ' Swim RacUlmw) i'A'few Vears ago a region In Italy , known as Llttoria was an unlubablt-. ed swampland. . The government baa since reclaimed It by draining tne marshes and today It is all being -farmed with 60,000 f amllles living on it in modern farm homes, wt toria was received .Into the Italian empire recently as its rdnety-tmra province. , - " ' , , , ' , ' Delayed Setoolinf Among pupils at Topeka (r ,1 night school classes for adult c v persons is a large group, mote sixty years of age, learning to and write, A woman past eight? eently wrote her name 4tor tin) , . time. ' ' ' 1 j .'"5 i f Imam " - WATCH YOUR RIDHEYS! Be Sure Thev Pronerlv ' Cleanse the Blood YOUR kidneys are constantly fit- tering impurities from the blood ; stream; - But kidneys get funci? s ally disturbed lag In their wo- , fail to remove the poisonous ir wastes. Then yea may suffer 1 nagging TmflrnihA- attAcks of . dizziness. ,.. burning, scanty or too irequent urination, getting up at night , swollen feet and ankles, rheumatic pains; feel "all worn out." i ' Don'$ delay! For tne quiciter you :,' get rid ot these poisons, the better your chances of good health. ' ' Use Doon's Pins. Doan'i are for . v the kldneya only. They tend to pro mote normal functioning ot the kidneys; should help thera pnns off the irritating poisons. Vaan'i are , recommended by users the eoimuy-t over. Get them from any dtt: DOntJ'G .t J Amazont Shoot Long Bows Natives on the upper Amnzon oi-t v ' i peven-ioot bo -i, t , 'r ! v ' t' t ieff I .'t Daby Crc: x r " .i V - RcIizYzJLyC. .". Our baby bad & '"fa o forehead and on the b(n " head. It started from a I kept spreading over li r f ." skin was irritated an 1 r I, : kept It irritated fro i i much. She was cro ! i 1 great deal, and c' "Is t t at night . "She was e" i ' months before It It and Olntmc t, . ; them abort l -not tvll t" a tton." (- it r. 13. l, ; Fo-j: . Biill : (' ! " 'l 1 l'r 1 nr , 1 r o f a 1 i