Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1934 — Page 8

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U. S. TO MOVE 100,000 FROM DROUGHT AREA Relef Program Will Launch Huge Migration Trek Soon, Is Belief. (Copyright. 1934. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, June 7.—President Roosevelt has flung open a new frontier and within a month Americans will be on the march to new settlements. In flivvers and covered wagons, on trains, horses and by foot, 50,000 to 100,000 of them will leave the soil from which they have long strived vainly to grub an existence and set out for brighter horizons. It will be a voluntary migration. The government will help them with some $50,000,000 provided in the $525,000,000 emergency drought relief program approved by the President. U. S. To Buy Land Release of this fund will touch off the first major attempt by this government to move portions of the population. The entire drought relief program is shaping up rapidly. Congress expected to receive the formal request for f\xnds tomorrow. In areas where chronic drought where the persistence of man has been defeated by the stubbornness of na'ture and charity has beer the rule, the government will buy land and convert it to forests, game preserves and meadows. No farmers need sell, officials emphasized. Refusal by a substantial majority in any region will be respected. If the offer is accepted government agencies will help farmers move away and will recommend desirable settlements. To many will be given jobs. Drought vArea Aided First Officials refused to reveal specific areas in which the program will be instituted but it probaby will be confined at first to the most acute drought zone—the Dakotas. Minnesota and possibly Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska. Specific areas to which the migrating farmers will go are largely undetermined as yet. Some will move only a short distance. Some will remain in the vicinity of the land bought from them by the government to serve as wardens and conservation workmen. Others will go to the subsistence homesteads being established by the interior department. In most cases, they will move to richer regions near rivers and new irrigation projects. Officials said the government would not buy any land before it has found new settlements to suggest to the inhabitants. Fair Values to Be Paid No formal estimates have been made of the number of families which will be asked to move. One official placed it "very roughly’’ at between 10,000 and 25,000. Prices paid for the land will vary. None thought that the afflicted would be reluctant to part with their poor acres. "We don’t want to scare them off by offering low prices, but at the same time we don’t want to put this operation on a Santa Claus basis when some of that land wouldn’t bring any price,” one official said. In addition to the purchase price, farmers who have signed AAA acreage reduction contracts will continue to receive benefit payments. The government may require farmers on new land to comply with crop control contracts covering the new acreage. Illustration Is Given A farmer, his wife and three children live on a farm in western North Dakota. For years they have been waging a futile fight against nature. They can count on their fingers the heavy rain falls of the past three seasons. Grain that survived drought, heat and frost was devoured by locusts. Livestock starved and water dried up. Each spring the farmer needed new loans for seed. His property is steeped in debt. He has been forced to rely on the Red Cross for relief. Possibly within a month, an agent of the federal surplus relief corporation will visit this farmer. He will offer to buy his land and those of unfortunate neighbors. How Plan Will Work If the farmer will consider selling, the agent makes an offer. The farmer can take it or leave it. If he refuses and all his neighbors accept. condemnation proceeding might be started. When a substantial area has been acquired the moving starts. Perhaps the farmer will be offered employment as a forest ranger or a game warden. Or he may leave for richer land many miles away. The government will not undertake to dictate where he must settle. It will recommend attractive havens. If the money the farmer derives from sale of his land is insufficient, it will supply him with funds. No matter where the farmer goes, means of livelihood will be provided him if he wishes.

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GERMANY ASKED TO RETURN TO ARMS_PARLEY Conference Leaders Also Seek to Spread Blame for Falure of Talks. By United Press GENEVA, June 7.—Disarmament conference leaders sought today to effect Germany’s return to their counsels in an appareptly final effort to make progress. The effort was made by chief delegates who, faced with imminent collapse of more than two years of work, were unwilling to leave Europe to engage in an armament race already under way. Additionally, the effort had the distinct diplomatic merit of adding additional shoulders to bear the blames for failure of statesmen to

make any progress toward disarmament. If Germany declined to return, or to return on terms acceptable to other nations, it might be possible to apportion to Germany a share of the responsibility for failure. At a meeting of the conference steering committee, late yesterday Louis Barthou, French foreign minister, invited Germany “to cross the threshold with complete equality and share responsibilities of the conference.” COST ACCOUNTANTS TO HOLD GOLF TOURNEY City Chapter of National Group to Meet at Pendleton. Annual golf tournament of the Indianapolis chapter, National Association of Cost Accountants, will be held Saturday afternoon at Idlewold course, Pendleton. The program will include a blind par tourney and a dinner. Dale R. Hodges, chapter president, is general chairman for the outing, and Jesse C. Crim is in charge of arrangements.

SHUT-INS TO GET FLOWERS JUNE 10 Florists Hope to Reach 250,000 Persons. Boy and Girl Scouts again will assist florists in distributing flowers to shut-ins, on National Flower Shut-In day, June 10. Last year, first celebration of thi/i day, florists presented flowers to more than 150,000 persons. This year, florists participating in the service hope to reach at least 250.000 Seventeen members of the Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association in Indianapolis are co-operating with the movement. In addition to the services of Boy and Girl Scouts, messengers from the Postal Telegraph Company and the Western Union Telegraph Company will donate their services in delivering the flowers.

Eastern Star to Hold Memorial Golden Rule chapter, No. 413, Order of the Eastern Star, will hold memorial services in the Masonic temple, North and Illinois streets, at 8 Friday night for all membe;.-, who have died during the last year.

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