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Show i Conference Recessed Until Denver Meeting; to Reconvene Nov. 7 Situation So Precarioffs to California That Delegates Ask Permission to Return Home, and Consult Electrical Experts. (Cestiased frest Yea Oaa.) regardlnf federal aid aa the compact. "California has beea asked to subscribe to the proposition that congrese ha no authority tor tha generation or disposal of power produoed from water impounded by a government dam built in m or more atatea without tha eonaant of aald atatea, and to ask eongreaa for tha appropriation needed for each project on that basis, "California cannot eonaant to thlt plan or ear similar pUn that doaa not and contemplate previoa dlacusaions with reaponaible offlclala conference In Waehlngtoa with tha view of that auch a plan la likely, to have the aupport neceaaary to such appropriation. "The reasonableness of thla position on tha part of California ..become remembered that manifest whan it tha plan or principle to which California la aaked to ubzerib la contrary to tha view urged by the law department of tha federal rovernment and approved by tha federal court. CASK CITED. ; "In tha recant case of Alabama . the Gulf Power Power company 0S, company. !8 Federal Reporter, It was held on the strength of many there cited. Including decidecision sion of tha supreme court of tha United Statea, that the development and disposal of uch power waa within tha control of congreaa and not tha atatea. subject to th authority of- re and by "1 Subject to tha a bo In a aa comment of requested wy memorandum aubmltted by Arfaona 2, UTJ, on October and Nevada would suggest: "Th title to th dam and power work (bould be vested la th government In perpetuity! that the power b disposed of by th aeeratary of the interior at a price fixed by him. with preference to atatea, municipalise, The and Other political ubdlvlslona. secretary of tha Interior ehouM die. as auch at of the price pose pswar will provid anyhow for th amortizainvestment tion of the government "If th secretary of the Interior ! to be authorised. In addition to providing revenue from power ealea for such amortisation, to make provisions in th price for a return to Arlsona and Nevada, ta He of taxes then owing to recant and continuing decrease of the cost of eomnetitive power, four- tenths of on mlU per kilowatt hour on all power developed ana nispose of I th limit of eat and Justifiable allowance on thla point KQUAl DIVISION. "Further, If after amortisation the statea are to be given participation In power revenue remaining after deducting operation and maintenance expenses. Including depreciation, then these revenue (bould be divided equally between the date of Arlsona, Nevada and California. Also, under such plan, provision should be mad for periodic readjustments ol prices to meet changing economic conditions, and the amortisation period should be ztended to not exceeding fifty years." Certain representations in the statesome ment warrant clarification. 1 Call-forn- ia 4 th Probably unintentionally, there implication In tha opening paragraph that th state of th southwest ar seeking to have tha federal - govern uoumer canyon ment nnane in project. That I not entirely correct. California is urging such action and probably Nevada would look with favor upon tha proposal In soma respect M aha can be satisfied regarding revenue. However, the Impression given by th Nevada delegate to the conference was that, while they would lilt very snuch the revenue from such a project, and desire th benefit folenormous construction pay lowingrolls within their border, they had no objection to development of the en terprise by private capital. PRIVATE DfVCLOPMSNT. Nevada has no need for any great amount of. power from the project and certainly Arlsona has not. Arlsona not only does not need tha power from Boulder, but does sot want It in competition with her project already established or under way. and apparently looks with more favor upon privet development than upon federal undertaking at the time and place. Southern California is making th principal appeal, and practically the -- THE SALT, ILKE It waa asserted that the Southern California Edison had accomplished certain improvements which would permit tha generation ol power by steam at Long Beach, under current fuel costs, for frv mills per kilowatt hour or less. On account of this, It was insisted, the cost of Boulder canyon power at Lo Angeles should be under flv mills at this time and that the scale ahould be subject to further adjustment it the need indicated. IOMI MERIT. There probably Is soma merit In this argument, but it la hardly conceivable that If tha atatea of Arizona and Nevada were to assume the obligation to the federal government they' would not make power pricea which would permit them to dispose of th product and protect their Investment There was no discussion at the conference concerning the power market beyond the assertion tnat tne cities of tha coastal plain would require 2o,6O0 horsepower or more to pump domestic water over the mountains. of a It is proposed to Install a plant Boulmillion horsepower capacity at der canyon, capable of delivering about 00,W0 firm horsepower. The pumping requirements, if properly represented, would consume about or a Jittl more, of the firm production. It I estimated by engineers of the city of lo Angelea that th fall of th water west of the mountain will permit a recovery of power to the extent of about two- thirds 'Of what is consumed In getting the water over th range, and this power will belong to Ixa Angeles snd allied cltlea on the coastal plain. Th "drop development will not be financed by the federal government, but it will be made possible by, and will be one of the benefits from, gov eminent financing at Boulder canyon, one In which no other atatea can claim a revenu Interest poarar by steam. -- one-thir- d, SITUATION PRECARIOUS. only appeal, lor the project and for federal government nnancing. It ta But th situation, after proposals true that all the other atatea of the were submitted, was so precarious for basin would like to have tha eeven California that the delegates suggeststates compact fully ratified, if prop ed they be permitted to go home and erly safeguarded, and that California's consult electrical experts with a view. ratification at this time la dependent to determining what could be done. upon authorisation or a high dam in It also was by tbem that tha vicinity of Boulder canyon throngh before the endsuggested of the recess the subfederal government financing. But committees of the three lower states that fact, so far, has not Influenced hold such conferences as might be the other atatea to ask the federal necessary and attempt to reach an government to build the project, as agreement to offer for general considbill. outlined In th Swing-Johnso- n eration at tha next general, meeting. All proposals of California regardThere waa unanimous concurrence in ing revenue for Arlsona and Nevada the suggestion, except that Arizona from power development are predicatand Nevada Insisted action should be ed upon their acceptability to federal taken on the Plttman resolution bebureaaa In Washington. And then the fore another recess. California suggested plan Is a' combination of no objection, although asking to proposals one and two of Arlsona be excused from voting and requestand Nevada, with more than half re- ing that the name of California be duction In amount of revenu during eliminated from the resolving parathe period of amortization. The first request was readily graph. BOTH LIBERAL, granted, but the second was rejected. Arlsona and Nevada delegate en Inasmuch aaof the resolution expressed a conference in which the sense th Joint subcommittee war suffiwas participating, even ciently liberal In regard ta the amount California excused occasionally from votof tax levy aa to suggest that If fig- though ures could be substantiated showing ing. The resolution was adopted by of six states and vote unanimous that the amount asked was more than tha until Novemtha traffic would bear they would be the conferenceIt recessed is scheduled to con7, when agreeable to proper modification dur- ber more vene once Denver. at But, ing tha period of amortisation. in view of that concession, they felt that when tha government had been repaid tha atatea should enjoy the maximum revenue that conditions would Justify, and were not inclined to share It with California. There were encouraging Indications that Arlsona and Nevada would agree to a contract with California, or the power purchasers, which would permit readjustment of prices aa conditions might warrant. One of th principal arguments oN fered by California against a fixed sale price or fixed revenue to Arlsona and Nevada was the steady reduction fas the generating costs of TRtB'TJNE," MONDAY MORNINGr OCTOBER 31, 1027 Price Murder Suspect Cdes to Trial Monday PRICE. Oct. 30. After many delays, Mike Kragiadakis will fsce a Jury Monday on the charge of first degree murder, growing out of the slaying of Stylian Kapokls in an argument between th two men In May, 1926. B. W. Dalton and Henry Rugger! will represent the defendant and Fred W. Keller, district attorney, will ap- pear for the state. The Portrait Invisible p) r$ . country. Would I take a quarter's rent in cash inataad of references? W eU, chief, I I looked her over. And she struck me as being all right, so I algned her up for a year." "What did ah look like?" Fleurot SYNOPSIS. Corcoran, owner of a New Tork gambling house, and two crooks. Slim and Butch, threaten a frequent visitor, known a The Qoldflsn. xney accuse him of being a stool pigeon because he Is often in the courtroom o Judge Robert Cralgln, who is severe with criminals. The Goldfish denfe the charges, and turns the ta- bles by revealing he "has tne goons on his enemies. He dismisses them with an ultimatum they ar to be always at his command. On the following Monday Judge Cralgln doea not appear for th opening of a famous trial. Hi younger brother, Bruce, known as the prodigy judge, bitterly resent a detectives suggestion that there may be a woman in the caae, even when It is hinted she may ba revenging a husband or brother for a harsh sentence, since the elder Cralgln has sever tempered Juetlc with mercy. Francis ('.alt, whom. Bruce knew In college as The Goldfish, a student of psychoanalysis, with uncanny, tricks of mind reading! begins work on the case. Police inform Bruce they have found his brother, murdered. In a Bruce and The suburban cottage. Goldfish rush to th scn. Installment 10. KERR DESCRIBES HIS TENANT. With an effort Bruce turned to look at his brother, as If out of kinship he might be told something the experts In crime had missed. Now that the first brutal shock waa partly dissipated, Bruce could ace him more clearly. He was dressed In the formal calling garb he wore when off the bench. That afforded no clue. Then The Goldfish, who was again studying Bruce rather than the crime, saw Bruce's eyes fasten on the lapel of the dead man's coat. There was a gardenia there, its petals just beginning to turn sere. A frown of perplexity gathered on Bruce' face. It was easy to read it Th gardenia was an unfamiliar touch with his brother; a bit of efflorescence in a character not given to such touches. The Goldfish could read the question Bruce was asking. Was the flower placed there by someone other than hi brother? If not, what unwonted mood of Robert' could have moved him to put It there himself? "Too spoke over "h telephone of a woman. How do you know?" Brut aaked the detective. "Th landlord will tell you. If nothing else does," Hooker replied. A ruin Bruc caught th sneer of Innuendo. Again it sent repugnanc through him against tha maa and his thought, but thla time Th Goldfish saw Bruc' eye steal furtively to th gardenia: and, again, la th prying eyes of th other th thought la Brae wa dear. Did th flower realty mean that Robert had left th club with th intention of calling on soms woman T Was there reaHy something there, as Hooker hinted, something at which th world would aoon l leering? "Hooker. I ow you. an apology," he aald. "I hope will forgive me for dismissing your theory so easily. You nay It Is a woman who did this. Ton may b right in thinking , . , that eoms sever sentence my brother may have passed on her or someone she loved by some plausible lie he was perhaps decoyed here." u ... 5 askd. "I gues you'll think me pretty unintelligent chief, not to be able to de scribe a woman on the basis of whose looks I signed up without references, out, nonestiy, i eel aa If I could nt aa apology. recognize 'Too don't owe m one tlm to anher Judge," coldly. "At least, not for my other. Haven't from ever seen a woman theory. Because I vi sort of dropped took so differentyouIn one hatand dress it myself." from her usual self that you don't "In view of what your fingerprint her at first? Well, sh wa man says, that someone experienced recognize that kind. Not that sh was color In removing trace of crime waa at less. Sh was pretty, and. had clase. work here, may 1 ask w hat your nw And I do remember that she had th theory is?" most shining black hair and brows I "I don't have to account to you. ever saw. But she would do her hair ahouted. he theories up one way when she was about the "for my Judge," or anything else. I'm not under your house; and another way when h oraera. iou, would nt help me In th went out And when she Put on dif first place. You made me lose time.' ferent clothing, why, she was com You laced It into me for nothing, and pletely changed! She made me think of one of those little what do you I'm not going to stand for it!" "What a the matter. Joe?" broke In call them, chameleon? one of those creature that change color according Commissioner who Deputy Fleurot, to whatever color it' next to. Sh bad come In unnoticed. Chief," Hooker hotly protested. "I waa about middle height I ahould don't know why, but the Judge has say, mor than pretty." He groped picked on me from the moment I got about with masculine vagueness of on the case. He wouldn't help me, memory for details, feature and dreas. and bawled me out for my first the"Kate Randall was the name she ory yesterday. And now he's bawling gave, chief, and here's her signature." me out because I gav It up. It's From his pocket Kerr took a lease. more than flesh and blood can stand, tWSkoth Fleurot and Bruc leaned for f chief!" see. to ward "Perhspa Hooker la right," Bruce of an educatedIt was the handwriting person, sensitive, and aald stiffly. "In any avent, I apologize for any injustice I may have maraea witn nervous vigor. done him." Then he turned to Com"She asked me to recommend some missioner Fleurot "Hty I know what on to help her put the furniture in ' facts there are?" place and do odd Jobs about the Fleurot caught Hooker's ey. "Joe, house," Kerr went on. "I put her In will you ro out there and send in touch with old Smiley, who has th landlord V worked for me for years. He's out Hooker left gladly. The commis- there now, waiting to tell you what sioner turned to the fingerprint man, h knows. Well, by last Wednesday she was all moved In. I waited till "What luck, Sam?" Th man was dejectedly putting my wife should get back from Euaway in his satchel his little bottles rope, which she did only yesterday. of black, white and gray powders, But my cousin, Ella she's the Mrs. his magnifying glass, and his camel's Slater I told you about decided to hair brush. "I've certainly drawn a call on her. She didn't find her In. blank this time, chfef! Either she's so Ella left her card. Later Smiley dons all her work In gloves or she's brought Ella's card bark, and said. cleaned up pretty thoroughly!" 'She .said thanks aver so much for "Well, Bam, if you can't get finger- calling!' there "That wasn't so very sociable, Ella prints, why. almply aren't any. You can go baok to bed If you want decided, so my cousin determined to. Tell my Baa to drive you down they'd leave It to her to do all th to the trolley." making up hereafter. That was why Fleurot waited tllT he had left th we saw nothina of her. When mi room. Then he turned to Bruce. "You wife got home, naturally I told her, know, judge,' Joe Hooker Is a good among other things, about my new tenant Womanlike, shs was curious boy. A little snort on temper somea bit to see her, so lata yesterday aftertimes; and occasionally be d when It cornea to tact, noon she strolled over to this cottage. but he's a good workman on criminal She came back, and said. She's foni cases." away without taking In a lot of He stopped as Hooker knocked and food the grocer delivered last opened the door to admit a short maa night I don't understsnd a woman of middle age. who looked dapper in doing that without something to exspite of the fact that obviously, un- cite her enough to make her forget der his overcoat he was still in his tnat mux turns sour ana bread spoils If you leave them outside. Harry. If pajamas. "Chief, this is Mr. Kerr, who owns she doesn't get home by night I mean this house and himself lives in the to take a look inside You've cot first cottage as you turn into this duplicates to her keys.' I thought road," Hooker aald, and left th room this waa a bit unwarranted, but you know what women are; they act on again. "I alto own three other cottages nuncnes. r inany i atrowea over her on this road, chief," he said. "I fin- with her. This was about ftln o'clock ished building them in tlm for tall last night I opened th door with a renting; but the season got so late duplicate, and the first thing we saw before I could rind ray rirst tenant aa we snapped on the light was" that I moved Into the corner cottage he turned to tha body "and that's myself, and rented the next one to about all I know. I phoned down to my cousins, the, Slaters, an elderly the police station. They sent np two detectives. On of them recognized couple. "Well. I was worrying about my the Judge." other houses on this road when, about "Did anyone com to tee th wotwo weeks ago. a young woman came man?" to my offlpe. She said she'd seen this "Ella tells m that Saturday morncottage and wanted to take It for a ing sh saw a man she thinks now I told her th rent, and she it waa Judge Robert Cralgln come to year. seemed satisfied. th cottage, not by way of th road "When I asked for references sh but from th wood side. You know said she'd only lately come from New there's a short cut through this wood Zealand and knew nobody In this to th Pelham station. But she didn't BY JOSEPH GOLLOMB . rtrx Br heavy-hande- bl I rwht. 1937. by U J aUClur TMARY MARSHALL Nwipapr fyadletto newer ones tsv low tam-doeoU lars of their own. I saw two schoolgirl tha other day, dressed exactly alike not becaua they were twins or vca slacaus tbsy arsr school ters, hut chum on decidedly blond and th dark-other nd a certain satis, faction In setting got off their contrasting good look by wearing tha same port sairte not too short gray tnd blue pulloa sweaters, aavy blue hcrets, heads. gray stockings and substantial little thlr But Just because some colleg gtrls xford ties at well polished ealf. Moat ar rather fed up on the sweater. inexpenalv. to b aura, hut unques.'. g ensenibl doesn't tionably smart skirt, There ar eoller ctrla who cannot endure the thought of looking 'collegiate," and there ar girl not la oolleg Who illce noining neiter. tieien Atchison, the Barnard colleg student who story Is told in Carol Penny Hlll'a surprising new novel, "Wild," I on of th colleg girls who abhors colleg clothes. "And when I do play with girls, thev're loins' to be the ones who and don't adore wearing bloomers sneakers, and class ribbons around w sports-stockin- YOU - HOME AND VOU. - Pf Setsy Callister. "A llttl. at a time and that tfoa van, JJJjr, good thing, as aaaar sa Thai wa favorite grandmother' prsetpt, and aha eonscUatleosly It ta all sh did, whether ta tha mending of a sock, th af a "batch" of cruller or thmaking of a recipe la her aotebook.ooeylng Apparently Urn waa no abject, aha had never heard ef a poaatbl for hem bodies, and tha Idea of a tlm budget for housework would have bee beyoad her comprehension. It I only recently that thla !mat of tlm haa been seriously considered with relation to housework. Of counts, a duties Increased, housewives had to work faster. Com of thent acquired remarkable speed. But they still seemed to feel that th cak that took aa hour ta mis must be better than th on that could he whipped together la tea mlnuua. Quito recently much haa said and written about th clement ef tlm In connection with housework. It la not enough for th young heuaswtfa to know how to waah dishes spotlessly clean. Sh most also b able to do it ia a definitely preaerlbed time. "A Busy Woman's Cook Book ar Cooking by th Clock," a faaolnatinf Httl book by Mabel Claire, that haa juat been brought to my attention, ia ia thl reard. thoroughly Course dinner that may be prepared, In fifteen minute ar fully explained, ethers that tak twenty minute, and torn really iaborat one that tak a half hour. On of th flfteen-mlnodtnar la thla hook consist of: Ham and gga Tomato, pepper and onion sjuttat ... Bread and butter Baked bananas and ereaaf ap-pll- sd ay fir. A streak ef lightning was apparent. ly the inspiration for th design of this attractive pullover wool sweater ehoeen tor campus wear by a wall. dressed college girl. It ef nvy blue and gray warn with a gray aklrt and gray felt hat bandsd in blue. I ha hr any th less really mean that It or up to data. And appropriate whether you are a college girl or not you will find that there Isn't a more convenient generally becoming outfit than the new type of wool sweater worn over a pleated skirt of light cloth. From all that I can see, the pullover sweater haa taken all the prize. The cardi gan. Jacket type of sweater, is seen murn less frequently uuui it waa a 4 Coif ; year ago. sweater ar mad Usually ths And a thlrty-mln- at tEaaar If aa Ms with a. collar line just low enough lOWS! to reveal the collar and tie of th OrapefnrH blouse Bom of shirt beneath. th Broiled fclrka M!ne4 potatcae FsrpUat aauU 1 pull-ove- r, see htm leave. thst." I meant to light-weig- ht tU you T aon t ta J1fr rot! Ice Creaai With hot butterscotch aauo Coffe . Qulnee Jelly Inspector Fleurot nodded. think we need keep yon any longer, ' WHAT'S TH OSIf Mr. Kerr," he aald. 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