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< ASHINGTON — Secretary of
‘y‘vn‘,!\w»' Henry Wallace plays
']‘ carcices religiously. Anyone
h‘“ L ecompanies him has to Dlay.i
0
VH(\ tnok four of his aides to ani
i place in Virginia for a week-|
d of work on the department'a!
aual report Everybody had to§
row 2 haseball for five minutes
wer breakfast and five minutes
ter lunch and finally knock ort
rk for an hour of play before
er,
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ach is a good thing seems de
table, But Wallace didn’t have
full stomach. He never has one.
is appetite is so bird-like that it
ymers had to depend on 120,000,-
0 Henry Wallaces to eat therr
ops the whole agricultural sys
m would have smashed up long
0,
Juice of an orange, a slice ot
ast and a glass of milk is a big
eakfast for him. A sandwich
d a glass of milk is his usuatl
nch, He seems to be in perfect]
ysical condition.
The boss of the farm program, in
creational moments, likes to in
ng new games. Playing one
d-cat on these working week
ds and using an old pick handle
r a bat, he likes to make every
pdy else bat and field left
nded. Being left-handed him-
If. he then uses his right.
In a poker game, he‘é the sort
person who demands seven
rd stud, three cards down. ana
euces and trays wild, 3y
Tennis is Wallace’s favoritel
ame and if he doesn't play in thel
te afternoon he walks four miles|
jom the Wardman Park hotel to|
is office next day to make up for‘
His court coverage is cat-!ike"
nd his play distingu:shed by per
et co-ordination. 1
And there’s nothing he likes bet«‘
r than to gather sround a piano |
ith a bunch of fellows and sing
ld songs. Mostly hymns. |
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First Lady Criticized
From several directlons come re
orts that President Roosevelt's
ersistent popularity over the
ountry is far greater than Mrs,
oosevelt’'s. In fact, the gallop
g First Lady's most ardent ad
lirers here—there are many of us
Idmit that her ceaseless, varied,
nd widely publicized activities
ontinue to inspire a surprisingly
rge amount of sour comment.
Most people, reports from out
ide Washington indicate, don’t
ealize that Mrs. Roogevelt goesn’t
eek the publicity she gets op that
he money she earns by writings
nd radio speeches goes to chari
ies and social causes.
The independent. energetic Elea
or likes the newspaper girls. Fi
uring she can’t help the publicity,
he just takes it in her stride.
Politicians disagree as to whether
he attracts many votes to the ag-
Mnistration. But they are sure
I€y can’t depend on what they
all the “cas “”"’“““‘hi(‘h “'ent &0
m‘;;ymr.nw':\ against Katia Smith
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dte that 4‘;(” . npOp‘narlty indi
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Two Farmers Sign First Erosion Contracts
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New Leader of Country
Prays for Freedom and
Peace of Germany.
IS HIGH IN PRAISE
Voice Chokes As Little
~ Leader Continues His
Stirring Address.
By LOUIS B. LOCHNER
Associated Press Foreign Staff
BERLIN —(#)— From the ros
trum where on July 13 he defended
his killing 77 “revolutionaries” and
declared he was Germany’s law,
Adolf Hitler today paid solemn
tribute to the late President Paul
Von Hindenburg and prayed for
the peace, freedom and honor of
Germany.
“I implore you all now to look
beyond this transitory moment into
the future. Let the gtrong realiza
tion enter our hearts: the Herr
Reichs president field marshal,
General von Hindenburg is not
dead.
“He is living. For in dying he
now wanders above us gmidst the
immortals of our people surround
ed by the great spirits of the past
as an eternal patron and protector
of the German Reich and the Ger
man nation,”
Innocent of War
Hitler declared the late presi
dent was “as innocent of the be
ginning of the war as anybody in
the world could be,” pointing out
that when the conflict began in
1914, Von Hindenburg was living
in retirement, having taken his
discharge from the army at the
age .of 64 on March 18, 1911.
. The new leader of Germany
praised Von Hindenburg as a mili
tary commander and deelared:
*“Had the political leadership of
our people during this period been
congenial with the military, Ger
’many would have been gpared the
)greatest humiliation ever .to go
down in history.”
I He said that the World War
broke upen g German people “sa
credly convinced of having been
attacked without their guilt.”
The chancellor’'s address, deliv
ered before a hushed audience in
the Kroll opera house—which still
services as the temporary Reich
stag building following last year's
[fire——was non-political in charac
ter, although he made frequent
Iret‘erences to the principles of his
own regime intracing Von Hinden
|burg's career,
Voice Chokes
With his voice choked in emo
tion, Hitler declared: “we want to
lpreserve the miracle of thig new
pesurrectlon of our people as a
precious inheritance of a Qfeat
lage and we want to pass it on to
the generationg that come after us,
'He who thus obseryes fidelity to
his people shall himself ever re
main unforgotten in fidelity.”
As Hitler delivered his solemn
oration, a cold rain fell outside.
The crowd paid no attention to it.
Opening his address, Hitler said:
“For monthg we have been filled
,\\'lth grave apprehension. The
' knowledge of the approaching end
of the venerable old gentleman fill
ed millions of German hearts with
| an inner anxiety about the life of
I (Continued on page eight.)
Compulsory Cotton
Control May Be Kept
Through Crop Year
WASHINGTON, — #®) — The
farm administration, harking to
the reaction stirred up by its in
timation that compulsory control
of cotton production might be
abandoned, has almost decided to
continue it in operation quring the
remainder of the crop year.
Protest which arose when some
officials declared they believed the
Bankhead compulsory control act
should be abandoned led them to
declare today that perhaps 1t
should be continued through
1934, as an experiment in compul
sion if for no other reason.
They had reasoned that if this
year’s cotton production fell below
the 10,446,251 bales allowed in the
Bankhead act, as indicated in th®
July c¢rop report, there would be
little need for making individual
cotton allotments and taxing the
excess. Few farmers would have
cotton to sell in excess of their
allotments and no market would
exist for tax-exemption certifi
cates, they point out.
However, there is the argument
that abandonment of the act would
give large cotton producers, who
3have the advantage of scientific
control of the boll weevil and im
proved fertilizers, the opportunity
‘to market their stimulated pro
duction on fewer acres without
Iplylnz the tax now required.
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Advocates of the “air train” for the development of commercial aviation have proved their idea feas
ible, although bad weather halted the initial flight at Philadelphia. The three “cars’’, motorless gliders,
loaded with 100 pounds of mail for Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, are shown as ihey took off
from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, attached by thin steel cables te the airplane ‘““locomotive”. One
glider was scheduled to land at each city on the route, the ““locomotive plane” making a non-stop flight
to Wash ington.
Richard Marvin Mcßee,
Prominent Merchant,
Dies Early Sunday.
Richard Marvin Mcßee, 64, for
thirty-five years a prominent mer
chant of Watkinsville, died at
his residence Sunday morning
at 1:15 o’clock after a sudden ill
ness. - 1
Funeral services swere held at
the Watkinsville Methodist church
Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock,
conducted by Rev. Carl Stanley,
pastor of the church. Rev. Stanley
was assisted by Rev. W. ¥, Lunce
ford, pastor of the Methodist
church in Norwood, Ga.
Pall-bearers were Tom Murry
Veale, Jimmy Hume, Addison
Hume, Linton Mcßee, Harold El
der, Lamar Elder and Arthur Ber
ry. An honorary escort consisted
of Dave Elder, Albert Jones, Will
Downs, Austin Saxon, Clarence
Hardigree and Fred Fambro. Mec-
Dorman-Bridges was in charge.
Surviving Mr. Mcßee ‘are his
widow, Mrs. Jennie Veale Mcßee;
a daughter, Miss Jennie V, Mcßee,
Watkinsville; son, Bruce V. Mec-
Ree, Watkinsgville; = two #isters,
and Mrs. Shannon Elder, Watkins
ville;; four brothers, Emory Mecr
Ree, Rowan Mcßee and Hinton
Mcßee, all of Watkinsville, and
Dr. A. M. Mcßee of Trenton, Tenn.
Mr. Mcßee was born in Wat
kinsville and lived all his Jife in
that city and Ocon¢e county, He
had been in the general merchan
dise business in Watkinsville for
35 years prior to his death, He was
a past steward of the Watkinsville
Methodist church and was always
active in the affairs of his church.
«Continwe: on Page Three)
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Situation Still Minus
Open Hostilities, But,
- Men Stick to Posts.
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NEW ORLEANS — (#) — Still
}minus open hostilities after a
‘week of martial law, the armed
camps 6f the Senator Huesy P.
Long-Governor O. K. Allen, state
!adminis‘tration and Mayor T. Sem-
Pmes Walmsley today stuek to their
guns with narrow Lafayette street,
the ‘“no-man’s land” of New Or
' leans, separating them.
! Mayor Walmsley, who is politi
cally “out” with Long, the “King
fish” of Louisiana officialdom, said
he would keep the city hall strong
]]y guarded by policemen with ma
chine guns just as long as Long
and Allen retain possession of the
voters registration office building
across the street with the state
militia
“When the guardsmen are
moved,” said the mayor, “we'll re
move our men — but not until
| then.”
Meanwhile Adjutant General
Raymond H. Fleming, commander
of the national guard, was report
ed to have gone to Alexandria
where the national guard is hold
ing an encampment and left the
ltroops on martial law duty under
|immeditao control of Major W. D.
lshaffer, agsistant adjutant gener
al.
Parish deputies have been seek
ing Adjutant General Fleming fo#
gseveral davs to senve injunction
papers on him ordering the demob-
I ilization of the troops in New Or
leans, but he has not bheen served.
Senator Long accepted service of
the injunction order and was in
structed to avnpear Tuesday morn
ing in ecivil district court to show
cause whv the troops should not be
disbanded. B
In addition Lieutenant Numa P.
Avendano., immediately in charge
of the guardsmen at the registra
tion office, has been cited by the
ecourt of Civil Judge Nat W. Bond
io appear Thursday morning.
Athens, Ga., Monday,' August 6, 1934.
Man-Eating Shark
Bites Boy’s Leg Bu?
Is Frightened Away
A A e TRA et e
SAVANNAH, Ga, —(&)— The
first man-eating shark to be
reported at Thunderbolt, on
the Wilmington river near
here, severely lacerated the
right leg of William M. Aimar,
jr., 11, of Beaufort, S. C., but
was frightened away by the
boy's struggles to escaped.
The boy was swimming about
10 set from the dock of a
shrimp canning plant yesterday
when he felt the ghark bite his
sleg. He thrashed the water
and cried for aid. Before per
sons on the dock could get to
him, ‘the shark swam away.
The boy was brought here for
treatment.
700 WORKERS WILL
GATHER NEXT WEEK
Conference of County
Agents and Specialists
to Be Held Here.
More than 700 rural workers will
meet in Athens next week for joint
‘conferences between county agents,
experiment station specialists, vo
cational teachers and 4-H club
representatives.
The conferences will deal with
the relationship of the extension
work of the University of Georgia
to the various federal programs for
rural re-habilitation and develop
ment, which includes the agricul
tural adjustment adminigtration
and the agricult-iral credit admin
istratoin.
This will'be the first conference
of its kind ever held in Athens. Ex
tension specialists have met here
before, but this is the first time the
various groups listed above have
met here for joint conferences.
In addition to the joint confer
ences, the various groups will hold
individual meetings, discussing
questions of importance to their
work and the development of Geor
gia agriculture.
The extension workers and other
vocational and agricultural special
ists will bring about 500 persons
to Athens and the two girls and
two boys, members of the 4-H
clubs who will ccme from each
county will bring another 200 or
more persons here, making one of
the largest crowds of agricultural
workers ever assembled in Athens,
or anywhere else in Georgia, for
that length of time,. :
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Fire Saturday Night i
Does Little Damage to
Property of Al Mays
‘Approximately $75 damage was
done to the home of Mr. and Mrs,
Al Mays on Madison avenue late
Saturday night, when fire caugnt
on the back porch, and burned
some of the woodwork off.
The call that the firemen an
swered was telephonedq in by Paul
Glenn, a next-door neighbor of the
May’s, according to Chief Lester
The firemen had very little trouble
putting the fire out, and it ala
not reach the main part of the
house.
The roof of the house was
burned slightly in one or two
places, and a few planks from the
porch roof tc the main roof were
burned off. All of the furniture
was salvaged from the fire. Chief
Lester said that he believed that
the fire was caused by lighting
that struck an electrical wire lead
ing into the m i L
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Final Exercises for Von‘
Hindenburg Tuesday to
Attract Huge Throng.
NEUDECK, Germany.— (&) ——l
Through a lane of flaming torches,
sixty mlies long the- body of Paul
Von Hindenburg will be taken to
night to his grave.
At dusk a squadron of seven
airplanes, piloted by East Prus
sian aviators, will scatter red
roses over the Neudeck estate the
late president and field marshal
loved so well.
Brief memorial exercises will be
kelgd in the manor house. Then
the coffin bearing the body of Ger
many's hero will be placed on a
gun carriage for the trip to Tan
lhenburg. scene of one of his
jgreatest military triumphs,
Uniformed men will line the
roadside, torches in hand, in honor
of the old soldier. Nazi storm
troops, Schutz “Staffel members
and Hitler youth will join the
regular army in the tribyfe as the
caisson rumbles along.
Flowers and branches of oak
and fir will be strewn along the
road.
At Tannenberg, site of Ger
many’s victory over Russia in 1914
the body will be placed in the Mar
shal’s Tower of the national me
morial, a tower now known as
“Von Hindenburg Tower."”
Adolf Hitler, who eulogized the
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Power of Governor Holds
Truck Movement to
Minimum in Minn. City.
MINNEAPOLIS, — () __ The
pinch of gubernatorial power hela
commereial truck movemen; to a
minimum today as Governor Floyd
B. Olson again acted to compel
settlement of the three-weks old
truck drivers strike.
Only a few trucks were per
mitted to move and their owrers,
under the governor’s edict effec
tive one minute past last midnight,
had to have permits from the
national guard, All military per
mits, under which some 7,000
trucks operated the last few days,
were revoked.
The governor said there were
hints of, a revolt in the ranks of
the employers some 20 of whom
he said want to meet strikers’
demands. He added he did not
know whether the 20 were 'among
a similar number of truck owners
who “indicated” they would apply
for permits to operate by sub
scribing to the Haas-Dunningan
peace plan: and thus avoid re
strictions to be imposed. The
Haas-Dunningn plan provides a
higher wage scale than offered by
an employers compromise.
The Rev. Francis Haas and E. 1.
Dunnigan, Federal mediators re
commended, among others, rein
statement of employes with with
-out discrimination.
LOCAL WEATHER
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Partly cloudy, probably show
ers in south portion tonight and
Tuesday.
TEMPERATURE
BERENEHL o virs saws 000910
TR .. e e 180
B i o e 000
MNOEMRL o, o vin- vvss wove 180
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .... .00
Total since August 1 .. .. 43
Deficiency since August 1.. .22
Average August rainfall.... 4.68
Total since January 1 .. ..$5.84
Excess since January 1 .... 359
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Shooting Occurs Earlyl
This Morning in
Front of Hotel. ‘
BOTH WELL KNOWN
Coroner’s Jury Orders
Man Held on Charge
of Murder. ‘
FORT VALLEY, Ga— (&) —
Jimmy Dixon, middle-aged man,|
formerly of Marshallville, but who
has been. residing here at the
Peach hotel during the fruit sea
'son, ‘was shot and killed at 2:45
o'clock - this - morning as he step
ped from an -automobile in front
of the Winona hotel.
Police announced -that they were
holding ‘Dewey- L. ' Varmette, 40
federal employe - ‘in the Phony
Peach' Disease -laboratory here, on
a charge of murder.
Witnesses - to -the tragedy said
that - Varmette had been drinking
and was boisterous- and in a fight
ing mood on the street after mid
night this ‘morning. The police}
threatened -to -loek him up if he
didn’t get off- the. street. Dixon
undertook to take him to his
room and both climbed into an au
tomobile and. drove.away.
Drive Up. in Car “
A short time-later the car stop
ped in front of the Winona hotel,
the police said.. Then Dixon got
out. ‘A shot was. fired. Dixon fell
dead with- a bullet through his
head. . y
Police said that Varmette ran
into the hotel and up.to his room
where they alleged he had a .45-
calibre pistol - whieh they said
was used-in-.the .shooting.
i Varmette returned to the street
l (Continued gn Page Six)
Decision to Be Made in
Next Few Days; Sanford
Preparing Statement.
WASHINQTON ,— () — The
Chancellorville Farm Homestead
project in Jasper and Putnam
counties, Georgia, again is before
the project selection committee of
the Subsistence Homestead di
vision of the Department of in
terior, but has not yet been aban
doned, it was said at that office
today. : b
It was added’ that revision of
original plang will be necessary
but the nature of the proposed |
changes was mnot revealed. Word
from Georgia, however, said the
Georgia university system, which
originally sponsored the application
had abandoned its ilnterest about
60 days ago because conditions had
been set up it could not meet.
A study of the proposed revision
of plans is now underway, it was
said, and action may be taken at
an early date to determine wheth
er the proleet will be continued or
abandoned.
As originally concelved, the
project, for which $1,000,000 was
‘allotted, calleq for the construction
of 500 farm homesteads on 15,000
lacres in Jasper and Putnam
counties. The project was original
ly approved last winter.
Work already. has been started,
and the Snbsistence Homestead
ldivision reported . about a dozen
houses have been constructed,
l i s
PREPARING .STATEMENT
President .S. V. .Sanford this
morning said that as quickly as
(Continued on Page Six)
Commissioner Adams
Plans Fresh Chapter in
Talmadge Controversy
ATLANTA P —Commissioner
G, C. Adams today planned a
fresh chapter in his controversy
with Governor Talmadge over ag
riculture ' department employes.
He said@ he would send the de
partment’s budget back to the
governor during the day with the
demand that it be approved im
mediately so that employes can be
paid and work proceed. |
The budget was sent to the gov~
ernor in June but Talmadge turned
it down Dbecause the names of
State Chemist C. Reynolds Clark
and three of the latter’s aides had
been left or« The governor in
sisted Adams restore these men to
the payrol.
Dr. Clark and the other men re
signed last week paving the way
for the commissioner’s new de
mand on the governor,
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday
Second Party Sets
Out to Rescue Admiral
Byrd in lce Wastes
e s
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica.
—(®P)—A second tractor party has
gset out from Little America on an
other attempt to bring Rear Ad
miral Richard E. Byrd back from
his Jonely, ice-encased observation
post 123 miles to the south.
~ The expedition left Saturday,
shortly after word by wireless was
received from Byrd.
I Dr. Thomas Poulter, in charge
of the party which was forced by
howling Antarctic storms recently
Ito turn back after reaching only
lthe half-way mark, was in com
'mand of the group of four.
~ “We may put through in a 5 couple
of days,” he said, "“and again we
might be out the’e a long time.
If we meet with an accident or afe
stopped by blizzards, there ig no
telling.”
Dr. Poulter will set hig course
by navigation. His little party car
ried a two-months supply of food.
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President Declares War
on Selfishness in Radio
Speech Sunday.
By FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON
ENROUTE WITH PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT TO WASHINGTON,
—(P)—President Reosevelt travel
led on to new western dewvelop
ments today with a declaration
that his administration is just be
ginning a war on individual self
ishness ‘‘to save our resources of
agriculture and industry.”
This statement of battle in a
congressional election year was
laid down last night from a tour
ist cottage on Two Medicine Lake,
high up in Glacier Nationa] park.
Today, Mr. Roosevelt rode his
special train to Glasgow, Mont.,
‘where he motors to inspeet another
dam — Fort Peck — on the upper
Missouri. The project will harness
this stream against floods and
provide eventually Fower and nav
igation for the region.
\ President Roosevelt ig closely
reviewing the efforts of the gov
‘ernment to make the (Columbiy and
Missouri rivers of the northwest
provide places for families of the
congested areas elsewhere.
“I believe,” said the president,
in a radio address, “we are build
ing a better comprehension of our
national needs.”
“People understand, as never be
fore, the splendid public purpose
that underlies the development of
great power sites, the improving
of navigation, the prevention of
flood and of the erosion of our ag
ricultural fields, the prevention of
forest fires, the diversification of
farming and the distribution of in
dustry.”
“We know more and more, that
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Five Thousand Workers
“Cooled Off" After
Flare-Up Sunday. -
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. —(#&)— Five
thousand textile workers in five
mill villages here were quiet today
following a flare-up of violence
over the abduction of John Dean,
organizer of the Alabamg textile
strike. |
The streets of this north Alabama
city of 30,000 people were filled
with yelling and shouting strikers
late yesterday after Dean was re
turned from Fayetteville, Tenn,,
‘where he was left by two men
‘who abducted him at pistol point. ‘
Suddenly, with city and county of-‘
ficergs swearing in extra police and
strike leaders pleading for no vio
lence, the workers quit demon
strating and returned to their
| homes.
Sheriff Ben Giles of Madison
county and Chief of Police H. F.
Blakemore of the Huntsville force,
kept a close watch on develop
ments today but they said every
thing apparently was quiet. The
officers have laid in an extra store
of arms, ammunition, smoke bombs
and tear gas.
For several weeks more than
12,500 textile workers in this state
have been on strike. Dean wasg the
leader of the general strike call
and workerg here were the first te
walk out.
Upon his return from Fayette
ville early Sunday, Dean went inte
seclusion, but the story of what
happened when he was abducted
reached officers. They said two
men came to Dean’s hotel and ask
ed for his room number. Receiving
it, they went upstairs and told
Dean they wished to see him pri
vately. As they walked toward an
other room, officers were told,
Dean was suddenly put into an
elevator, taken to the basement
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J. R. Westbrook and G. P.
Whitworth Are First
to Cooperate.
FIVE COPIES MADE
Work Has Already Been
Started on Farm of
One of Signers. :
Work for the cooperative con=
trol of soil erosion by the govern
ment and farmer was begun Sat
urday, when ' two contracts were
signed, it was announced today by
D. Forrest Hungerford, soil ml
ion specialist of the Sandy Creek
project. R
These were the first contracts
issued and were signed by G. P.
Whitworth andg J. R. Wesfbrook
of Hull and Ila, respectively. Thére
are five copies of each contraet,
one of which_goes to the farmer,
one to the soil erosion office, and
three to Washington.
Contained in tnese contracts are
the agreements of the government
and those of the farmer. Atfached
are maps of the farm with the
location of the work indicated. De«
tails for the five-year cropping
plan made by the soil erosion
workers here also accompanies the
contracts. 3
Call For Cooperation
These contracts call for the
complete cooperation of the far
mer on whose land the work is to
be done with the government in
its attempt to control the erosion
which has or will render ‘fields
‘useless to cultivation. The* gov
ernment will only direct and- help
do the work that can not be done
by the owner of the land. “Thosa
who are interested enough inm gav
ing their land to cooperate are
preferred in contracting, stated
Mr. Hungerford. ;
The agreements that are made
in the contracts by 'the ‘govern
‘ment are that the farmaegs will
follow definite cropping plans out
w’lined by the soil erosion service
nyur a period of five years. Owners
‘ot the land must also " agree to
,take the steepest portion of their
‘lland entirely out of cultivation
‘and the government will plant ‘such
land with forest trees, vines, and
such vegetation as will prevent
erosion. ;
Government Agreement
' The government agrees to run
terrace lines on fields that need
terracing and to assist the farmer
in terracing. Since this is cooper
ative work, Mr. Hungerford em
phasized the word “assist.”
Between cultivated areas whers
the land is sloping and there are
spaces not under cultivation, the
farmer agrees to plant strips of
close growing crops (grain .or
forage), to help prevent erosion.
The government also agrees to
stabilize gullies by building baffle
dams and by planting trees, vines
scrubs, or sod so that nature will
keep the gullies stabilized after
the dams have decayed. Stabflit
ation of these gullles does not
mean that they will be filled but
that they will be planted in such
a way that they will not continue
to grow. ;
Mr. Hungerford announced that
there had already been a baffle
dam built on the Whitworth farm
to stop a gully that was threaten
ing to destroy a field.
o SRR oY
. -
Cannery Building
' ed; Work to
Selected; Work to
Begin This Week
Dean Paul W. Chapman of the
college of agriculture said today
that it has been decided to enlarge
and re-construct a brick building
on the road to the cavalry barn
which will be used by the cannery
to be operated under supervision
of the college.
~ The cannery, as announced yes
terday, will employ at least 208
workers, with an estimated pay
;roll which will] mean more than’
$2,000 weekly to Athens trade
schannels.
Work on enlarging the building
!and equipping the cannery will be
' gin some time this week, Del.n
{Chapman said.
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Luke Lea Allowed to
| Attend Son’s Funeral
] NASHVILLE, Tenn—(#— Luke
| Lea stood for the last time today
| beside the bier of his 24-year-old
| son. :
The former United States sen=’
ator and Nashville publisher came
home from North’ Carolina prison
| yesterday to be with his grief-’
stricken family and attend fun
’eral services for his son, Percy,
who was killed in an automobile
taccident near Danville, 111,, Friday,
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