Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1930 — Page 5

DEC. 17, 1930

HUGE RESERVE PUNNED FOR PANAMA CANAL 1930 Drought Showed Need for $15,000,000 Project. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS, Scriptn-Howard Foreign Editor J WASHINGTON. Dec. 17. The rreat, drought of 1930 came so near closing Panama canal to deep draft vessels, forcing them either to turn 1 ack or proceed 8,000 miles out of the way around Cape Horn. That work on a vast, new $15,000,000 lake to hold reserve water will be pushed to completion with all possible speed So low did the level of Gatun lake ; become toward the end of the dry ! season that for a time it looked ' ?s if the great international trade ’ routes, which for years have lain j through the canal might be dis- j rupted Only the masterful handling of I shipping and the strictest econo- j mies in the use of the water pre- i vented interruption of transit for ! the larger craft. Rains Relieve Situation Even that might not have suf- ! ficed, had it not been that transits I decreased this year, instead of J showing the usual increase, which j would have called for still more water. Then, very late, but in the. nick of time, came heavy rains during j December to put an end to what was j becoming a serious situation. Hardly any single event could j handicap world shipping so seriously as a protracted sinking of the level j of Gatun lake. For it is this manmade body of fresh water over which the vessels of all nations must pl.v between ocean and ocean. Ships Would Stop While the two ends of Panama canal are fed with sea water, thirtytwo miles of it are eighty-five feet above the sea. That is to say across the lake. Fed principally by the Chagres river, it is obvious that if there is a long drought and the river fails .to keep the canal at navigable level, ships simply would have to stop. In 1929 the available rainfall running into the lake aggregated | 207,390,000,000 cubic feet. But this ! year rainfall dropped to 158,540,- ] 000.000 cubic feet, the most sensa- j tional shortage which has occurred ! in the history of the canal.

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come more intense as time goes on.’ “In the present situation the local administration of vocational education should try to see if through retraining workers they can fit some of the unemployed into new jobs.” Childbirth Death Rate High 3y Vnitcd Prett NEW YORK. Dec. 17.—The percapita death rate from the effects of childbirth among women of the United States is higher than in the most uncivilized parts of the world, says Dr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. Concessions to Standard Oil By Vnitcd Prett LONDON, Dec. 17.—The Daily Express, in a dispatch from its Bombay correspondent, said the king of Afghanistan was reported to have granted important concessions to the Standard Oil Company of New York. Only 39 per cent of the world tonnage of ships depends exclusively on coal.

TEARS END HEARING De Palma Ordered to Pay Wife S2OO a Month. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 17.—The alimony hearing of Mrs. Clara De Palma, estranged wife of Ralph De Palma, veteran automobile racing driver, ended abruptly Tuesday when she collapsed in tears. Later, Commissioner Elmer D. Doyle, alimony referee, awarded

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previous earning ability of $25,000 or more a year. Mrs. De Palma’s breakdown came after she had testified she had only S7O in cash and had bills for clothing, which the driver had urged her to purchase, for about S4OO. Mrs. De Palma claimed her husband deserted her alter twentythree years of marriage.