Woodrum Urges Sane Flood Control System Fiscal Policy, With Cut On Mississippi Ends In Non-War Costs Danger of Rampage Virginia House Member Overton Asks Wants 'New Ventures' $20,000,000 To Complete Engineers' ; Abandoned for Duration Conquest of River *»the Anocitted Presi. Appeal for wartime abandonment B7 the Associated Press. of “all further social and economic NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 19.—The experiments and ,; new ventures” mighty Mississippi, now carrying the came today from a leader of the greatest freight burden In Its his- Southern Democratic bloc in Con- tory, has been tamed and flood con- gress. trol officials ssy it no longer will go Expressing hope that efforts “for on its annual spring rampages, tak- Nsane national fiscal policy may be ing lives and causing millions of about to bear fruit,” Representa- dollars damage. tive Woodrum, Democrat, of Vir- Senator Overton, Democrat, of ginia declared that the Nation's first Louisiana, president of the Missis- objective must be financing and sippi Flood Control Association, said winning the war. in an interview that man’s in- “The American people,” he said genuity and engineering genius had In an interview, “are willing to be evolved a system of banks, spillways taxed for whatever it takes to train, and cutoffs which will take the equip and maintain our fighting greatest blows that Old Man River forces, but they have a right to de- can give. mand that all non-war activities be Here for the annual meeting of curtailed and expenditures for the the association, Senator Overton same cut to the bone.” said the total cost of the project would exceed a billion dollars but * Congress to Check Costs. that the benefits through the years Mr. Woodrum’s remarks followed would be times that amount. announcement by Chairman Can- many non that a special House Appropri- Work Continues. ations With work on the under- Subcommittee is working on project a- plan to give Congress an inde- way for several years to plug the be pendent system for checking up on danger spots, only *20.000.000 will Government expenditures. needed to bring it to completion, Meanwhile, Capitol Hill farm Members of & B-24 crew, togged out for the Aleutian weather, await their turn to take off. Senator Overton said, and the ex- HAMMERING JAPS AT leaders said the drive for redefini- KISKA—Commanding the hard-hitting airmen close to the Japs at Kiska pressed hope Congress would ap- in the —Army Signal Corps Photos. tion of agricultural parity, to in- Aleutians is Lt. Col. John Chennault, fighting son of Brig. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, famous >__ propriate that sum at Its coming clude as session. farm labor costs in farm the commander of the “Flying Tigers.” This force is relentlessly bombing enemy positions. I prices, would be resumed watching, the boy drank some more With parts of the work already immedi- Col. Chennault is a flying commander, who leads his men on bombing and attack missions. He ately on the of the new Fulmer Blames War salt water. finished, strengthening of levees convening is shown at right to Lt. Kenneth before Lags Congress. talking Ambrose, he takes off in a P-38. Capt. Rickenbacker said he took Special British Unit wherever need remains is going for- the ill into his life raft and ward. He said that further Chairman Fulmer of the House On youth appro- *- , 'Monopolistic Groups' tried to give him the warmth of priations and a favorable priorities Agriculture Committee told news- P* lhe Associated Press. my body for two nights. Then on should enable in papermen the resignation of Price Cuts Path lor Tanks rating completion "Selfish, are Administrator Defense monopolistic groups” the morning of the 13th <day the near future. Henderson would af- Herlihy Rests blamed Route by Chairman Fulmer of the afloat), at about 3 a m., I heard his "Main line levees need fect in no way his plans to reintro- Proposed Changes strength- House Agriculture Committee for final In of the fact I’ve from the Arkansas to the Red duce the parity revision bill. gasp. spite Rommel ening "bottlenecks in connection with our race cars Chasing taken them out of burning j River,” he and when are On the other side of the Alterations PUC for Use After of Carr said, they Capitol. Approved by Grilling war program” and for "confusion, and I’ve never had that Senator airplanes, j completed the height will be 4 feet Thomas. Democrat,’of Ok- * * • fumbling and changing from month before. The next above in a farm When Strain Jams experience j Brave Nazis' the highest stage reached lahoma, leader, said he felt Transportation System to month of various Engineers programs." day I examined him carefully and I the disastrous 1927 flood, one of the certain the parity battle would be Widow Prosecutor These groups, Mr. Fulmer said in asked others to decision. Shells to resumed there. Here are the tentative changes in nated between Fifth and Dahlia and by verify my | Dig Up worst in history. a radio address last night, were in a Then we him and lifted i Capital Transit Co. routes approved Fifth and Sheridan. stripped Buried Commerce Load Grows. Parity Rise Seen. the great many instances "tied in with him over and he i Explosives by Public Utilities Commission Takoma-Petworth Expreaa. gently disap- "The river now to Government Accused of to this war.” is carrying more ■'According econ- to be in on week Route route south- Slayer Army foreign groups prior pcared." 1 placed operation J-6—Regular By the Associated Pres*. commerce than ever in its history omists, the redefinition would mean “It is pitiful to me. as’ well On the 17th he said, days when existing transportation bound. no stop for boarding passen- on Details day afloat, and when the flood control is a rise of 10 to 12 cent Captain Hazy as to all LONDON, Dec. 19—A work per in facilities can no stand the well-thinking Americans,’ they saw their first of life— newly longer gers between Grant Circle and Thir- sign it will be as safe as hu- parity levels, used in he declared, "to note the selfishness formed “minefields task completed computing strain created by the ban on gas teenth street and Massachusetts Of Mexican one small single-engined plane force,” and Marriage and man Ingenuity and engineering ceilings floors for agricultural sales to all unco-operative spirit on the about five miles away. He added: which braves German but T-card holders: avenue N.W. Northbound, no stops shelling can make it.” commodities. of millions of our based genius Mr. Henderson has for (Earlier on part citizens, "We waved frantically, yelled, to clear and maintain lanes for Anacostia-Congress Heights. alighting passengers between Story Page A-5.) Other speakers who will address steadfastly opposed the revision, By the Associated PreM. purely on what they read, at the which meant He went Route route be- Thirteenth and Massachusetts and nothing. by advancing British tanks, is the association ahd a from A-l—Regular hands of many columnists, editorials include Lt. Gen. message President Grant Circle. BISBEE, Ariz.. Dec. 19—Cross- and didn't come back, which was the British 8th j Roosevelt tween Potomac Park and Fifth and items carried in the speeding Army’s Eugene Reybold, chief of Army En- expressing “unalterable Chillum Local. examination brought from 21-year- newspa- The next day two | street and Nichols avenue S.E.. with * * * heartbreaking. of Marshal Erwin Rom- and Lt. Gen. as well as statements • * * pursuit ! gineers, Brehon Som- opposition” defeated a farm block old the ad- pers, us. The shuttle service between Fifth street Route K-2—Eliminated. A special Margaret Herlihy today planes again missed made commentators over mel’s battered Africa in j ervell, chief of Service of Supply. bffort to write the formula mission that she to become by many next four more us Corps change and Nichols avenue and service operating after 6:30 p.m. expects day passed up. into the Congress the radio.” Libya. The association is made up of anti-inflation bill last Chillum Express. a mother soon, although ahe said Were Southwest. Heights. Mr. Fulmer said he did not believe Drifting levee boards of Missouri, Kentucky. September. she could not remember The special unit, drawn from the' Routh A-2—Regular route be- Route K-2—Regular route. South- having “I want to emphasize that prob- Tennessee. However, the matter was the great majority of the American Electrical Arkansas, Mississippi brought no for marital relations with Capt. David one of the most Royal and Mechanical tween Ninth street and Pennsyl- bound, stops boarding pas- "hold the President alto- ably difficult things and Louisiana. Into the House again a few D. whom she married in se- people Engineers, with the days vania avenue N.W. and Fifth sengers between Grant Circle and Carr, in the world is to and see that together regular before the street gether responsible for what is going try Seventy-seventh Con- Eleventh street and Massachusetts cret and is charged with killing two an (the life Royal Engineers, pulls the teeth and Nichols avenue S.E., with shut- on in small object raft) when ended, and it was connection with the operations of Marshal gress approved avenue N.W. no months later. breakers are Rommel's main weapon tle service between Fifth street and Northbound, stops of our war and operating.” without a dissenting vote. It was Miss is on trial for the agencies," predicted in retreat by a Nichols avenue for alighting passengers between Herlihy He said had no idea of where sapping path through Grain and Congress the new Congress would make every they Closing Chicago caught In the legislative log-jam Twelft hand Massachusetts and murder of the tHrice-married anti- thousands of buried explosives and Heights Eliminating service be- effort to assist the administration they were.