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CIRCULATE IN iBEST
SECTION OF NORTH
GEORGIA.
VOL. 53; NO. 21
NEWS AT A GLANCE
ABOUT PEOPLE AND
THINGS IN GEORGIA
ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (GPS).—Now that
another Baptist World Alliance congress
has been written into history, Atlanta
has returned to her every-day routine of
living. But that was not true during the
seven-day convention, which was the
largest single gathering Atlanta ever at
tempted to entertain. Atlanta had her
hands full in taking on this tremendous
undertaking. Had it not been for Ponce
de Leon park, the home of the Atlanta
Crackers, it could not have been achieved
in the same successful manner, according
to those in charge.
In giving credit where credit is due,
Morgan Blake, sports editor of the At
lanta Journal, and an ardent Baptist
leader, nominated Poncey park as Atlan
ta’s “Public Blessing No. 1.” Writing on
the subject, the popular sports writer
said:
“It can safely be said that Ponce de
Leon park is the ‘Mecca’ for the state
of Georgia. More Georgians go to this
park during a year’s time than any other
spot on earth. During the all and early
winter the prep school football games
are played there, sometimes four a week.
The negro college teams hold many of
their big games there. And in spring and
summer the Crackers pack ’em in. And
when the Crackers are away the Black
Crackers have their home games there.
Then just ended was the Baptist World
Alliance, where at one time or other dur
ing the week were at least 100,000 people
from all over the world. Most of these
were, of course, Georgians. No baseball
park in the world is so close to the
hearts and affections of all the people
is Poncey park. And we are under eter
nal obligations to Earl Mann, president
of the Crackers, and to the directors of
the Atlanta club for their glorious co-op
eration and generosity. Use of the ball
park meant rearrangement of the South
ern league schedule.”
NO PROFIT HERE
During the first five months of 1939.
Class I railroads had a net deficit of
$90,080,000 after fixed charged, compar
ed with a net deficit of $164,282,000 in
the same period last year, according to
the Association of American Railroads.
In May, 1929, the same railroads had a
net deficit of $18,594,090, compared with
a net deficit of $25,277T»'i0 in May, 1938.
During May, 1939, these railroads had a
net railway operating income before fix
ed charges of $25,101,000, compared with
a net railway operating income of $16,-
666,000 in May, 1938.
GIST OF THE NEWS
After going for two consecutive months
without a single traffic fatality reported
within the city limits, Atlanta was still
going strong as August got under way.
The recently-enacted 25-mile speed limit
law is attributed as one of the biggest
factors in setting this remarkable record
. . . Georgia joined the nation last week
in saluting the army air corps on the
thirtieth anniversary of the beginning of
military aviation in the United States
.. . National Guard officers whose
girths are inclined to heroic proportions
must whittle their waistlines if they wish
to serve Uncle Sam. Several Georgia of
ficers, now overweight, are busy reduc
ing . . . Mrs. J. J Hughes, of Atlanta,
is a mother at 14. She recently gave
birth to a nine-pound baby girl. The hus
band is 23.
HOME-COMING AT NEW HOPE, N.
Sunday, Aug. 27, will be home-coming
day at New Hope, N., Baptist church.
All friends and former members of the
church are urged to attend.
The pastor, James P. Craft, will preach
at 11 o’clock. The Rev. E. B. Shivers
will preach at 1:45 p.m.
There will be dinner on the ground.
This service will start our revival, which
will continue for one week. Everybody
come and bring well-vlled baskets and
help us start our services right.
GARRETT CEMETERY.
Everyone interested in Garrett ceme
tery please come Saturday, Aug. 12.
Bring tools and lunch so that we can
stay until cleaned off. —Mrs. Joe Eleam.
CEMETERY NOTICE.
All parties interested in any way in
Perennial Springs cemetery are request
ed to meet there next Monday, Aug. 14,
with proper tools for cleaning off same.
J. H. ECHOLS.
WHO KNOWS?
1. What is the extent of our commerce
with Japan?
2. What is the nine-power treaty?
3. What new governor and his wife
recently announced that no drinks would
be served in the executive mansion?
4. Is the Irish Republican army sup
ported by the Irish government?
5. Who is Harry E. Yarnell?
6. Who was the. “most valuable” col
lege football player in 1938?
7. How long was it between the assas
sination of Archduke Ferdinand in Ser
bia and the beginning of the World war?
8. Where does the food stamp plan
operate?
9. When did unemployment reach its
peak?
10. What percentage of new automo
biles are in the low-price field?
(See “The Anewere” on Another Page,'
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1939
Subligna High to Open
Monday, August 14th
Subligna High school will open Mon
day, Aug. 14, at 9:30 o’clock. All pat
rons and interested individuals are cor
dially invited to attend.
There is yet some uncertainty as to the
number of months schools will get this
year, hut we are opening with faith that
the legislature will meet again soon ami
provide sufficient revenue to carry all
schools through their full term.
The following constitutes the faculty
; oi Subligna school:
Grammar School —Miss Aleta Baker,
Miss Frances Cochran, Miss Etta Cash,
Mrs. J. H. Hyatt, Miss Katie Ruth
| Cheek. There is yet another teacher to
be elected for the grammar grades.
High School —W. H. McNair, Mrs.
Georgia Ward Hunt, J. H. Hyatt, prin
cipal.
ASSEMBLY SESSION
LOOMS NEXT MONTH
ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (CNS).-An emer
gency session of the general assembly to
be held about mid-September loomed as
a probability this week. Spokesmen close
to the state administration expressed a
belief that the assembly would be called
to meet either on Sept. 12 or Sept. 19,
with the latter date generally accepted
as the more probable at this time.
Gov. Rivers admitted that the call was
under consideration, but did not commit
himself to any definite date for the emer
gency meeting of the solons.
Other developments of the week in
cluded :
1. The statement by Gov. E. D. Rivers
that he had written to all members of the
general assembly, asking their opinion as
to whether a Session of the assembly
should be held, what date would be best,
what revenue measures were most fa
vorably considered and what attitude th<
member would take on the payment oi
the expired appropriation balance for
the common schools, amounting to four
million dollars. In informed circles this
was regarded as primarily a feeler to de
termine what date would be most auspi
cious for the extra session, which is in
evitable.
2. Issuance of another ‘executive or
der’ stopping all activity of the state
highway department, except the mainten
ance of roads on the state system. Be
hind this order was the announced de
cision of the governor to permit a surplus
to accumulate to the credit of the d
partment, with a view of seizing and di
verting it to other state purposes in the
event new revenues were not provided
Since it is the custom of the depart
ment, following good business practice,
anticipate revenues in the letting of co
tracts, it is unlikely that any apprecia
ble accumulation of reserves will lie po*
sible until November.
3. Announcement that the state de
partment of labor would receive no mon
ey from the federal government for the
payment of salaries until Georgia amend
ed its laws to conform to federal require
ments. The bill to amend labor depart
ment laws was lost when opponents of
Commissioner Ben Huiett attached a ri
der that would have stripped him of au
thority and then failed to pass the
amended measure.
4. Announcement that federal grants,
from the social security board, would be
denied Georgia for old-age pensions, aid
to dependent children and aids to the
blind and crippled, unless Georgia made
more adequate financial provision for its
public welfare program.
5. Announcement that many school
systems in Georgia would be unable to
open this September unless assurance of
payment in full of the state's appropria
tion for schools was given before that
time.
6. Several counties, preparing to re
turn their convicts to the state, held up
their plans awaiting decision on the
emergency session, anticipating the pass
age of some legislation along the lines of
the “All-Georgia Plan” presented by Dr.
R. P. Kennedy, president of the Citizens’
Road League of Georgia providing for
reimbursement of counties for lost reve
nues and containing adequate anti-diver
sion legislation to protect the counties
and the highway system.
Nation’s Best Farm
News Service Gives
Local Readers Facts
The Georgia Farm News Service, se
lected by the American Association of
Agricultural College Editors as the
best in the nation, furnishes news and
features from the state's farm front
for regular publication in The Sum
merville News.
The Farm News Service is issued by
the Georgia Agricultural Extension
service. It covers every phase of the
federal and federal-state farm pro
grams now operating in Georgia, in
cluding the agricultural adjustment ad
ministration, farm security administra
tion and soil conservation service.
Readers of The News will continue
to receive accurate, up-to-the-minute
information on these agricultural
agencies in the future through the same
Farm News Service that has been se
lected for this high award,
1939 COTTON CROP
IS HALF A MILLION
BALES UNDER 1938
GINNINGS TO AUGUST 1 AMOUNT
El TO 137,076 RUNNING BALES,
COUNTING ROUND AS HALF.
WASHINGTON, Aug. B.—Based on a
i condition of 74 per cent, of normal on
Aug. 1, the United States will have a
cotton crop this year of approximately
11,412,000 bales of 500-pound gross
weight, the crop reporting board estimat
ed today. The indicated yield of lint cot
ton is 223.7 pounds per acre for harvest.
Simultaneously, the census bureau re
ported that ginnings to Aug. 1 amounted
to 137.076 runningbales, counting round
as half bales, compared with 157,865
bales for 1938.
The board said that if the indicated
production of 11,412,000 bales is realiz
ed, the crop will be 531,000 bales less
i than the 1938 crop and 2,388,000 bales
less than the ten-year average (1928-37).
In the Carolinas and Georgia, the
prospective yields per acre this year are
higher than in 1938 and also above the
ten year averages, in Alabama and the
states adjoining the Mississippi river,
this year's expected yields are less than
the high yields of the last year, but are
still above the ten-year average. Yields
in Oklahoma and Texas are indicated to
be less than in 1938, also less than av
eraged.
Farmers Advised Not
To Burn. Straw Stacks
Farmers who burn straw stacks not
only destroy valuable live stock feed but
they also destroy large amounts of fer
tilizer elements along with mulching ma
terial which might be widely used in ero
sion control and moisture retention on
farms, according to Arthur S. Booth,
technician of the soil conservation serv
ice in the Chattooga county work unit
of the Coosa River Soil Conservation
district.
Mature horses, cows and sheep which
are merely being maintained, can live |
chiefly on straw roughage, for in every i
1,000 pounds of oat straw there are ten ;
pounds of crude protein, 426 pounds of i
carbohydrates and 9 pounds of fat.
Straw spread over pastures and used
as mulch on gullied and galled land is
an excellent moisture conserve! - , accord
ing to Booth, for every 1,000 pounds of
oat straw contains 885 pounds of dry
matter.
Straw spread upon the ground and
then plowed under, furnishes valuable
fertilizer elements, as in every 1,000 lbs
of oat straw there are 5.8 pounds of ni
trogen ; 2.1 pounds of phosphoric acid
and 15 pounds of potash.
In view of the value of straw for the
farm, it can readily be seen that burning
or destroying straw is a waste of useful
material, Booth points out.
PROFIT.
The stabilization fund, recently ex
tended by congress, has operated at a
profit of $17,524,096 since its creation in
1934, according to a treasury report, cov
ering operations through March 31.
SETS OWN ARM.
LANSFORD. Pa. —Noticing that his
arm looked crooked after a fall. Johnny
Knipper, 13, gave it a jerk. Later a phy
sician examined the arm, found it to
have been broken, but perfectly set by
the jerk.
HERE AND THERE
MANY TOED CHILDREN
BUDAPEST. —For several generations
almost every child belonging to a Hun
garian peasant family in Kecskemet has
been brought with too many fingers or
too many toes. The two youngest off
spring are reported to have had twenty
six toes between them.
FIRE CHIEF GIVEN TAG FOR
PARKING NEAR A FIRE PU G
NEW HAVEN Conn. —Patrolman Jos
eph Dolinski saw his duty and he did it.
The officer tagged the official automo
bile used by Fire Chief Lawrence E.
Reif for—of all things—‘being parked in
front of a fire' hydrant.
KITTEN SITS IN TREE
CLEVELAND, Ohio. —Residents tried
for three days to find Alice, a kitten,
whose cries they could hear but whom
they could not find. Finally Alice was
found in the top of a 70-foot poplar tree
in what apparently was a combined hun
ger strike and tree-sitting performance.
Firemen rescued the animal.
SHERIFF. INKEEPER
SLAIN; GIRL JAILED
RUSK. Texas. —A running gunfight
reminiscent of frontier days ended in
death on the highway recently for Tex
as’ youngest sheriff, Bill Brunt. 29. of
Cherokee county, and Isaiah (Red) Creel,
43, tavern owner. Myrtle Stanley, wait
ress in Creel’s tavern who was shot in j
the leg. was held on a murder charge, j
Sheriff Brunt had been pressing a cam I
paign against bootleggers.
CONGRESS RISKS JOBS
OF 20,000,000 ON BET
BUSINESS WILL BOOM
COALITION ALSO GAMBLING WITH
WELFARE OF 1,500,000,000 IN
BET ON NO WAR.
HYDE PARK, N. Y„ Aug. B.—Presi
dent Roosevelt asserted today that a co
alition of congressional republicans and
democrats had gambled with the welfare
of 1.500,000,000 people in rejecting his
neutrality program and with the liveli
hood of 20,000,000 Americans in scut
tling the lending and housing measures.
At his first press conference since the
congressional session ended, the president
said a solid republican minority and 20
to 25 per cent, of the democrats in con
gress had :
(1.) Made a large wager with the na
tion, on neutrality, that there would be
no war until sufficiently long after they
returned to Washington in January' for
them to take care of things : and
Bet On 3.000.000 Jobs.
(2.) Wagered that private industry
and business would take up the slack
occasioned by dropping a million WPA
workers this year and by closing out next
spring a PWA program which had been
providing 2,000,000 jobs.
It was a combination of republicans
and robelious democrats which forced ad
ministration leaders to postpone until
the next session efforts to obtain senate
action on neutrality and, in the house,
prevented consideration of the lending
and housing measures.
If It Loses War Wager.
If this coalition loses its neutrality
wager, Mr. Roosevelt declared, it may
affect a billion and a half human beings.
That, he added, is pretty important.
If these legislators were wrong, he
continued, they have tied his hands an
he has practically no power to make ar
American effort to prevent any outbreak
of war. He said that was a pretty seriou
responsibility.
As for the lending and the housing
programs, he said, WPA rolls would be
cut from 3.000.000 to 2,000,000 by next
spring and the PWA program, giving em
ployment to another 2.000,000 individ
| uals, will have ended. With dependents.
'he said, the individuals involved total
I 20.000,000.
I If business does not take up the slack,
he said, the country must place the re
sponsibility for their condition on the
congressional coalition.
Tn shirt sleeves at the desk in the li
brary of his Dutchess county home, the
president remarked repeatedly that he
hoped the two bets were good ones. And
he emphasized time after time that if
the bets were lost, the responsibility
rested 100 per cent, on a solid republican
minority pluS about 22 per cent, of
house and 25 per cent, of senate demo
crats.
The chief executive indicated, howev
er, that he was not planning to carry the
neutrality and lending issues to the na
tion.
AIDS JAPAN.
The policy of subsidizing cotton ex
ports may save Japan from four to ten
million dollars, depending upon the
amount of cotton imported. Under the ex
port-subsidy policy, cotton buyers abroad
will be able to purchase the ray fiber at
prices about $7.60 a bale under domestic
quotations.
FHA cuts the interest rate on small
home loans to 4% per cent, from 5.
p LONG-TERMERS ESCAPE PRISON
LAVONIA, Ga. —Franklin County Or
dinary Bob Harrison reported two long
term convicts escaped from a prison camp
mar Carnesville after one had “played
hookey” from work, feigning sickness.
Those who escaped are Bob Roberts,
40, and Eiiimitt Sanders, 39, both con
victed on felony charges.
Roberts, slipping away from the in
firmary, met Sanders at a new pick-up
truck, property of a guard, near the camp
entrance.
They fled in the vehicle, motor of
which they had wired so as to enable
them to crank it without a key.
TRUCKER TAKES TIME OUT
TO MARRY—ONLY A MINUTE
BLOOMISGTON, Ind. Matrimony
was all in the day’s work for William
Richard Baugh, 28, a truck helper.
He and 18-year-old Mary Bohall stood
on the back end of a truck while Otis
Crismore. freight rate clerk and part
time justice of the peace, performed the
ceremony-—in one minute.
Baugh kissed his bide and went back'
to work. She went home.
IT ISN’T THE VALUE.
JUST THE PRICIPLE
SAVANNAH, Ga.—Police had two
good reasons for investigating a stolen
car report here last week.
They wanted to determine “why” as
well as “who.”
The report: One sedan. 1926, model T,
i state license number none, city license
j number none, value $lO.
To date no reward had beep offered
'for recovery.
State Market Measure
To Be Offered at Meet
ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (ONS). —A meas
ure to create a state market authority,
which would be empowered to erect an
adequate state farmers market in Atlanta
will be offered at the emergency session
of the assembly. The measure passed the
regular session of the senate, but failed
to get to a vote in the crowded final ses
sion of the house.
Under the direction of Commissioner of
Agriculture Columbus Roberts, the At
lanta Farmers’ Market now is earning a
substantial profit and supporting the mar
kets in various other Georgia towns. The
profit could be increased if facilities were
adequate, and would enable the erection
of two additional markets in other places
every year.
The department of agriculture already
owns a site for the market, it was point
ed out, so that ependitures, most of which
would be furnished from federal funds,
would be confined to the erection of
buildings. Cost of the planned plant
would be close to the $1,000,000 mark,
and the market would be one of the most
important outlets for the products of
Georgia farmers.
abermbie issues
TYPHOID WARNING
Warning that this season of the year
is typhoid fever time in Georgia, Dr. T.
Abercrombie, director of the state de
partment of public health, urges immun
ization against the disease which ean be
prevented by proper vaccination.
The health director pointed out that
outbreaks of typhoid fever have occurred
in several sections of the state, and al
though none of them are serious out
breaks, there should be no typhoid fever
at all since it is preventable.
“Unless immunization against typhoid
fever is obtained by those who have not
already been vaccinated, we are faced
with a probable increase in typhoid fever
this year,” Dr. Abercrombie said.
In addition to vaccination, adequate
sanitary conditions and provisions for
proper disposal of human excreta are
essential in the fight against typhoid
fever, the health director stated.
“Where typhoid fever develops, special
attention should be given the proper care
of the patient for weeks after the fever
is over, in order to prevent the disease
from being carried to others,” Dr. Aber
crombie advised.
DEATHS
Mrs. Lula Gaines.
Mrs. Lula Lee Gaines, 64, a well
known and beloved resident of Chattooga
county, died in Trion hospital Wednes
day morning, Aug. 2, at 1 o’clock, after
a lingering illness.
She is survived by three daughters,
Mrs. Ida May Garner, Mrs. Myrtle Ra
mey, of Trion; Mrs. Maude Canada, of
Menlo; four sons, Raymond, of Trion;
Jessie and Gordon, of Summerville, and
Lloyd, of Rome; five sisters and two
brothers and several other relatives.
Funeral services were conducted from
the South Summerville Baptist church
Friday afternoon at 2 o’clock by the
Rev. Gus Reed and the Rev. E. L. Wil
liams, of Chattanooga. Interment in the
Alpine cemetery, with Trion Department
store in charge.
Susie Bagwell Scoggins.
Susie Bagwell Scoggins, 83, a life-long
citizen of Chattooga county, died at her
home in Summerville Monday at 2:30
p.m.. after a long illness. Mrs. Scoggins
was well-known throughout the county
and leaves a host of friends to mourn
her loss. She is survived by her husband,
W. W. Scoggins; three sons, Austin, of
Summerville; Arthur, of Rockmart, and
Berry, of Atlanta; six daughters, Mrs.
W. A. Shropshire, Mrs. W. E. Dunawav,
Mrs. W. C. Godwin and Mrs. A. G.
Berry, all of Summerville; Mrs. W. M.
Campbell, of Atlanta, and Mrs. J. D.
Selman, of Armuchee; one brother, J. W.
Bagwell, of Stevensville, Tex.
Funeral services were conducted from
Pennville church Tuesday at 3 p.m. by-
Elder J. W. Cooper, of Rome, and Rev.
L. H. Reavis, of Summerville. Interment
in Pennville cemetery. Paul Weems Fu
neral home in charge.
SMITH DELANEY SCOGGINS.
Smith Delaney Scoggins, 93, one of
Chattooga county’s oldest citizens, died
at his home near Subligna Friday 7 at 3
p.m. He is survived by two sons, W. A.,
of Subligna, and J. W., of Texas; two
daughters, Mrs. John Wilson, of Sublig
na, and Mrs. T. H. Wilson, of Texas.
He is also survived by forty-three grand
children and seventy-one great-grandchil
dren.
Funeral services were conducted from
Bethlehem Baptist church by Rev. B.
H. Howard. Interment in adjoining cem
etery. Paul Weems Funeral home in
charge.
FALLING SCAFFOLD KILLS MAN.
NEWARK. N. J. —Climbing a scaffold
to inspect the work which a painter was
doing on his home, Morris Abelowitz was
instantly killed when the scaffold fell to
the ground three stories below - . A pea
nut vender who was passing through the
alley underneath was seriously injured
by the falling scaffold,
STATE, COUNTY AND
LOCAL
HAPPENINGS.
CLASSIFICATION OF
RAILROAD FREIGHT
TO BE SIMPLIFIED
ATLANTA, Aug. 8 (GPS).—They’re
; planning to make it simpler—and in some
I instances cheaper—for shippers to trans-
I port their commodities by rail. This is
expected to be done by simplifying the
I classification of all products of industry
j and the rules which determine the appli
i cation of the various classifications.
The work of “recataloging” the com
| modifies already is under way. Out of
I this work is expected to come a condens
!ed consolidated freight classification ap
! plicable to all sections of the United
! States that will be more easily inter
! preted and applied by shippers and bet
ter meet the requirements of the public
and railroads alike, it was pointed out by
Atlanta railway executives.
Under the general direction of the traf
fic advisory committee of the Association
of American Railroads, the huge task of
I simplifying the classification of the whole
j varied and complex list of articles of
America’s commerce is being carried
■ through by a special subcommittee of
i three. The subcommittee is holding ses
sions in New York and Chicago. Changes
which affect the shippers’ charges are to
be docketed for public hearings to be held
in New York, Chicago and Atlanta at
dates to be announced later.
The present Consolidated Freight Clas
sification, a 500-page book w’hich lists
and describes the 15,000 different classes
into which commodities are grouped for
rail shipment in the United States, is
the result o the ever-increasing diversity
in American commerce. While in one
book there are still three general classi
fications. namely (1) Official —from Illi
nois to Maine; (2) Southern —east of the
Mississippi river and south of the Ohio
and Potomac rivers, and (3) Western,
evervthting west of those territories. It
is hoped to m ke the classifications the
■ same throughout, the United States, which
may result in lower freight cost.
GARRETT CEMETERY.
All those interested in cleaning off the
i Garrett cemetery are requested to come
early Saturday. Aug. 12, with tools.
|
Poultry Raisers Are
Warned c r Cholera
ATHENS. Ga.—“ One of the most
common ailments in poultry flocks in
Georgia during August is a condition
labeled as cholera,” Frank Mitchell, head
of the University of Georgia poultry de
partment, s'aid this week.
“But often,” he continued, “conditions
lead poultrymen to believe the flock in
fected with cholera when there is no such
occurrence.”
Frequently conditions of this kind are
due to eating molded feed or dead car
casses. or possibly being exposed to un
sanitary conditions, Mitchell said.
When cholera, a bacterial disease of
poultry, appears in the flock, it is highly
fatal. Indications now are that we do
not have as much cholera as is reported.
It is proved, he concluded, to be a good
| practice w-here such an outbreak occurs
to fasten the birds in a house that is
! clean and give them green feed and wa
| ter. A teaspoonful of castor oil to each
adult bird will be helpul. If a clean
I house is not available the house used by
I birds should be cleaned, disinfected, and
moved to a clean range.
NOTICE.
All farmers interested in soil conser
vation are invited to go on tour of coun
ty and Rome area Saturday, Aug. 12.
I Please meet at county agent’s office and
; be ready to leave at 8 :30. We expect to
I get back to Summerville by 1:30 or 2
| o’clock.
VICTIM HIS SON
OMAHA. Neb. —As a rescue squad
i raced to a beach near here recently, John
|J. Ostronic remarked to a friend. “I
I wonder who the victim is this time.” It
■ was his son. Robert. 17-year-old univer-
I sity student, who had drowned while
| swimming with a friend.
La Guardia declares that it means sui-
■ cide for the South to lure industries with
I cheap labor.
WPA Will Send
Dismissals To Half
A Million Workers
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Dismissal
notices soon will be going out to half
a million relief workers.
Their discharge is mandatory, under
the relief act which orders furloughs for
all who have been on the WPA for eight
een consecutive months or more. WPA
Administrator Harrington had held up
dismissals, hoping congress might relax
the regulation before adjournment. But
congress failed to act and he has no oth
er alternative but to resume dismissals.
The first batch of dismissal orders
probably will go out today. Officials pre
dict that reductions will continue at a
rapid pace until a low of 1,700.000 is
reached in October. This saving will help
officials spread their funds through the
I winter months, when relief rolls will rise
'again,
$1.50 A YEAS