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!D and liding F, will |ek, it Lid- ?) was |>r the le con- list be Eng to pi was who I'ience Till be [ever- and the |iSS. and fctated Iclude ?round bs and Kandi- KK for Last lest at Ino by lbs in larran iharn, (first ?scent Railroad tl- p I Offici Problem Here als Sift All available water engineers on the Los Angeles & Salt Lake sys­tem, were being mobilized in Las Vegas today to form the board of strategy in the battle against a serious' water . shortage which is due to .strike this city within the next week or ten days unless dras­tic measures are inaugurated to curtail usage, it was reveal.ed this morning by Walter R. Bracken, vice president and general manager of the Las Vegas Land & Water company. First to arrive was A. L. Coey, general superintendent of the Los Angeles & Salt Lake railroad, who is acting as directing head in the battle, and who has summoned George Wilson, B. & B. superin­tendent, Mel Anderson, general water engineer for the system; Ed Wynn, head of the water service department; and B. H. Prater, chief" engineer of the system.' Plans already decided upon to meet the emergency -include: 1. —Restriction of hours for wa­tering lawns to evening and night. 2. —Curtailment of use of water for cooling and refrigeration systems thru installation of sumps whereby water can be used over and over again, instead of jj being pumped thru the system and on into the sewer. 3. —^-Application of a supple­mentary rate for heavy wa­ter users, expected to cur­tail usage. 4. —Passage of a drastic city or­dinance providing heavy pen­alties for those who waste water. Bracken stated an application had already been made to the pub­lic service commission for a sup­plementary rate for heavier users of water, and had been approved (Continued on Page Four) 20,01 covel chinl 2 Women Die in Try LVP