Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1935 — Page 8

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DUST DAMAGE EXAGGERATED, EXPERT FINDS Drought Area Will Stage Comeback, Predicts Aid of Wallace. B'l United Press WASHINGTON, April 26.—The land of dust storms will rally from the injury of three drought years and stage a strong comeback, M L. Wilson, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, predicted today. Back from a 1500-mile tour of the “black blizzard’’ zone in five plains states, Mr. Wilson said the land was basically all right and would not have to be abandoned in any large degree. He will report his findings to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A Wallace. “Reports of the hopelessness of the situation are very much overdrawn,” Mr. Wilson said. “There is no stock in stories that thousands of families will have to be moved away." Mr. Wilson toured in an automobile. He talked with scores of farmers whose fields had been blown into rippled sand dunes, whose livestock were weak with hunger and thirst and whose homes were grimy with dust. "The spirit of the pioneer prevails out there,” he said. “I didn’t talk with a single farmer planning on leaving the region. Even if they left, they would return.” Only about 150 families have move dout, Mr. Wilson estima- ed. He said the migration was “nothing” when compared with the total population of the affected areas. The acute drought territory contains some land, Mr. Wilson continued, which must be classed as submarginal and depopulated, but these sandy acres “never should have been farmed in the first place." Mr. Wilson suggested a widespread chance in farming practises to anchor the soil against windblasting. Instead of plowing and planting all their ncres, farmers should leave wheat, corn end sorghums stubble remaining after harvest standing as windbreaks in wide, alternate strips, with cash and feed crops planted in between. "Strip cropping.” listing and returning of wheat acres to native grasses will stop dust storms if practised extensively, Mr. Wilson said. He reported successful progress in listing operations under way in Kansas, where the Federal government Is supplying money for fuel and grease for tractors which heap up the long mounds that halt soil drifting. AAA wheat benefit payments and the ten-cents-an-acre relief allowance for listing have "saved" the people of the Midwestern “desert,” Mr. Wilson said. He also reported enthusiasm for the tree shelter belt project which has begun on a limited scale in western Kansas and the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. Veterans Auxiliary to Dine The Indiana department auxiliary’. United Spanish War Veterans, will honor Mrs. Anna Nagle, Boston, auxiliary national president, at a dinner Wednesday night at the Claypool.

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LEWIS DOUGLAS MAY SEEK GOVERNORSHIP Former Budget Director May Enter Arizona Election. B)i United Press PHOENIX, Ariz., April 26—Reports were current here today that Louis W. Douglas, former director of the budget, w’ould become a candidate for Governor of Arizona next year. The former congressman from Arizona was said to have hinted his “accessibility’’ at a political meeting in New York.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

.APRIL 26, 1935