The Rocky Mo
VOLUME 2, NO. 37
Mrs. W.E.Bass
Is Buried Here
Mrs. W. E. Bass, 45-year-old Nash
county native, who died in a hospi
tal here Frriday was buried here
t -1 Sunday.
Rev. Norman Johnson, local Pres
i byterian minister, conducted the
Tites with the assistance of Rev. J.
A. Satterfleld, another Presbyterian
\ minister from the residence at 4
\ o'clock.
1 4 Most of Mrs. Bass' life was spent
V I here. She was the daughter of the
1 i' late W. E. and Sarah Swanson, and
I married W. A. Hannah, Greensboro,
\ in 1907. Mrs. C. R. Griffin was the
\ only child of this union. For the
i past 17 years she has been the wife
of W. E. Bass, who resided here
25 years although a Fremont na
tive.
Her husband, Mr. Bass, children:
, Billy, Jr., Eileen and Mrs. Griffin;
1 sisters: Mrs. I. E. Albritton and
& Mrs. C. E. Leggett, of this city;
L brothers: G. M. Swanson, Ports
mouth, Zebulon; C. F. Swanson, of
Bocky Mount, survive.
She was active in church and so
- cial work here.
4 FUNDS WILL BE 1
APPROPRIATED FOR
W. P. A. PROGRAM
Raleigh, N. C., September 9, 1935
—All State and District Works Pro
gress Administration Administrative
employees have been sent a letter by
Administrator, George W. Coan, Jr.,
expressing his appreciation of their
fine, loyal and unseltish work thru
i-.' Hre iast week-end and Labor l)ay.
* * This letter reviews the fine record
i established in the few *vnpV« since
i the first District appointmnts veu
$ made. Projects tota .US v M'*KU.-
ffr 00 have been forwarded to Washing
> ton to date.
District organization was begun
f the third, week in J'llv. At that
? ' time, eight District Directors and
\ eight Assistant lJirectors were up-
V pointed w «h instructions to begin
\ plans for organizing by August Ist.
These District Directors with their
| Assistants confronted with the
task of organizing and at the same
time, acquainting a hundred coun
ties and several hundred cities and
| towns with the Program of the
Works Pxogreßs Administration. B«H
Ir* '**3 ginning with an average of I'OUP. to
"■ five people in each District office,
•r a total of thirty-two to thirty-five
throughout the State, and a State I
Headquarters Staff of about forty
people, an average of one hundred
| and twenty projects per week has
V been maintained. Seven of eight,
Districts are well over their esti-1
Jk' mated quotas now, and are expeet-
V ed to go over at least fifty percent
i* before September 10th. A final goal
 . is anticipated of one thousand pro-1
jects for Federal funds in excess of
L $50,000,000.00.
fir To safeguard the interest of all
cities, towns and counties, and to
f insure jobs for those formerly on
relief rolls, Mr. Coan has prepared ■
and forwarded to Washington State-'
1. wide blanket projects as follows:
Highway—Farm to Market Roads,
t Streets, etc. $9,500,000.00.
Repairs to Public Buildings, Co
p * unty, City and State $0,650,000.00.
J r Recreational Swimming Pools,
% Parks, Golf Courses and Recreation-
Si: al * Centers $4,850,000.00.
*■ Repairs to Sewage—Water and
Other Publicly Owned and Similar
Works $5,500,000.00.
Drainage—Other than Public
fjr 'Health $5,500,000.00.
§£,. Improvement to Public Grounds —
Landscaping, etc., $4,000,000.00.
Transportation—Airports, etc., $4,-
| 500/100.00.
These Statewide blanket projects
necessarily include many projects
already approved, but it insures lee
•ii? way for additional desirable projects
> which are found to be necessary to
put the jobless to work. In no case,
will these Statewide projects cancel
projects already approved.
.•> The Director or Women's Work
has initiated a Statewide project in
volving $12,500,000.00 which it dfc
pected to employ 6,000 n\en on
white collar jobs, and 18,000 women
on jobs of all types. Types of pro
jects initiated are: Sewing Rooms,
to the making of useful garments;
Homemaking; Canning; Beside Nur
sing; and Diatetics, and will continue
for a period of twelve months. If
no Projects other than these are
initiated, they alone will insure em
i ployment for 24,000 men and women
w for one year.
Dispatches from Washington indi
cate that projects involving $10,000,-
000.00 from North Carolina have
partially approved, however
funds have actually been received
jf for only two projects. These are
in Belmont and Concord, and it is
w> ■ expected that several hundred men
fig' ■ 'will begin actual work there next
i week. Delay has been inevitable due
to the rush of projects and the con
gestion In Washington. After for
warding to Washington, eighteen to
twenty days is required for projects
to pass all obstacles and receive al-
I > location of funds.
Desireable projects of useful per
f. * manent benefit, of types desired by
B' the public totaling $53,000,000.00
should and will assure security wag
es for the jobless in North Caro
lina for the coming year.
'v*'i Works Progress Administration
reviewing its work up to now faces
its future task with assurance and
confidence.
kfl / V 0 ,
mi A number of Gaston County far-
I"• * ' raers are installing home water
Bricks School
Opens Sept. 30
Bricks, N. C., Sept. 4, 1935.—This
is to say tliat the .brick School will
open ror the third year under
state and county auspices Septem
ber 30th. An excellent corpse of
teachers have been appointed for
the incoming year. We shall have
four additional teachers doing in
dustrial work. They include a farm
agent for Edgecombe county, a vo
cational agent for the school, a Home
Economics teacher, and one addi
tional man for the high school. This
matron fon the girls is a college
graduate and also a home economics
teacher and an expert in canning
operations.
Students who can not attend
school for want of transportation
facilities may come and bring their
food by the week or month and pay
an over head of one dollar and fif
■ty cents a week for heat, light and
the services of a matron. In short
the overhead is only six dollars for
a school month of four weeks. The
school is accredited by the Southern
Association of college and high
schools and by the state of North
Carolina.
For further details write the Prin
cipal, T. 8. Inborden, Bricks, North
Carolina.
Quarter Nillion
Goal For Fair
Will Be Strictly A "Farmer's Fair"
With $ll,OOO Premium Lists
Raleigh, N. C., Sept. 10.—A goal
of a quarter of a million visitors to
the 1933 State Fair in Raleigh from
October 14 to 19 has been set by
Norman Y. Chambliss, Manager.
"Last year we broke all records
with paid admissions running oyer
200,000," Chambliss said, "and with
tobacco selling for the good pries
that it is and with the increased
prosperity among our farm people,
I see no reason why we shoyjd not
reach our goal of a quarter of a
million."
And W will be a "Farmer's Fair"
this year with more than $ll,OOO
| listed in the premium book for dis
tribution to farmers for prize-win
ning products from North Carolina
, pens and fields, orchards, pantries
! and sewing rooms, This is an in-
I crease in premiums of over $l,OOO
' from last year, Chambliss pointed
out, adding that all exhibits will be
limited to North Carolina farmers.
Farm and Home Exhibits
' The Farm and Home exhibits, un
der the general direction of F. E.
Miller, Superintendent of the
Farm Division of the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, are expected
' to be larger and more varied than
i,they have b'een in years.
J. W. Hendricks, superintendent
of the field crops and farm crops
division of the competition, reports
that early entries and inquires
point to a record array of exhibi
tions in his departmen.t
Not only will the farm exhibits
reach a new height, but, according
to Chambliss, the 1935 State Fair
will "bring the greatest array of
grandstand attractions ever brought
to Raleigh.' This is the third time
that Chambliss, a Rocky Mount
banker, has operated' the fair.
The World of Mirth Shows will re
turn to the mid-way for the third
time at the request of the fair
management. The grandstand will
feature the Diamond Revue which
has a cast of 76.
Other features of the fair will be
"Ward Beam's "Congress of Dare
Devils," featuring stunts on the race
track that include a head-on colli
sion between two cars traveling at
the rate of 50 miles an hour; har
ness racing on Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday with some of the
fastest steppers on the circuit in
cluding entries from the famous
Reynolds stables at Winston-Salem;
Ralph Hankinson's professional au
to racers and other features.
Chambliss has also leased and will
operate the following other fairs in
this state: Greensboro Fair, Septem
ber 23-28; Rocky Mount Fair, Octo
ber 21-26; Clinton Fair, October
28-November 2; Williamston Fair,
November 4-9.
TARBORO LEGION POST
INSTALLS ITS OFFICERS
Tarboro, Bept. 7.—The Eason Tin
en Post oS the American Legion in
stalled the newly elected officers
in the Community House Friday
night with' Vice State Commander
J. G. Mndry, of Rick Square, in
charge of the ceremonies. The new
commander is J. Watson Smoot,
prominent business man. Other of
ficers are: 8. S. Nash, first vice-com
mander; Fred Phillips, second vice
commander; Dan Anderson, third
vice-commander; Harry Hicks, ad
jutant and finance officer; A. C.
Spier, service officer; Lyn Bond,
guardianship offifficer; Ned Ellis,
sergeant-at-arms; N. E. Gresham,
chaplain; R. B. Peters, Jr., historian;
Dr. W. W. Green, child welfare of
ficer; Miss Hattie Shackelford, Amer
icanism officer; Roy Madra, employ
ment officer; Harrv Hicks, public
ity officer.
The legionnaires enjoyed a bar
becue supper before the installa
tion of officers.
ROCKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1935
Selling Literature Like Groceries
William Targ. a Chicago book dealer, started something recently
when he began selling booka by the pound, like groceries. Everything
went, fiction, travels, history, essays and religious discourses, at 12 cents
a pound, The customer caught by the cameraman was buying 10 pounds
ft choice literature.
City Buys Masonic Building
According to press reports, the city has recently purch
ased the old Masonic Opera House at the price of $25,000
from Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Robbins. We believe the city
made a good purchase in buying this piece of property. It
is well and centrally located convenient for the city and
very accessible to the public.
We further notice that applications had been made by
the Board of Aldermen for a loan of $65,000 to rework this
building and that this amount had been declined. We are
not in favor of wasteing money and we do not believe that
such an amount of $65,000 is needed to make repairs to this
building. It is true that the floors of the,opera house will
have to be torn out and leveled and a new floor and parti
tions put in, but any talk of spending $65,000 on this build
ing looks like extravagance. $lO,OOO or $15,000 would be a
very liberal amount.
The Masons once owned this building as a from the
late R. H. Ricks and was sold by the Masons for s£o,ooo
which was invested on Church Street, in buying a lot and
laying the foundation for the new Masonic Tjemple. This
old Masonic Temple when constructed was tye pride of
Rocky Mount and the only building which the city had for
public assemblies for many years. The building has splen
did walls and w£ would be delighted to se ethis building
remodeled so that the city could move its city departments
in it, but we cannot concur with the Board of Aldermen
that $65,000 should be spent on this building or that it is
needed.
BAR EXAMINATIONS
The recent examination given to applicants who desire to
receive law license, was based very largely on recent de
cisions of th Supreme Court and in many of these questions,
the Supreme Court itself had disagreed and were not unan
imous in their opinion.
The Herald in a recent article stated just after the exami
nation was published that the questions propounded appear
ed to be intended to disqualify applicants. And as was ex
pected the number of faiiers was the greatest that had fail
ed in any former examination.
The Supreme Court usually base their fair questions on
the history of the law and its development and from the
law text books* and encyclopedia; questions generally deal
ing with the technical and historical background and de
velopment of the law.
The real purpose of an examination is to test the legal
learning of the applicant and ability to practice law. The
question of supply and demand should not be considered
and if this Bar Committee had this in mind they failed to
conceive their legal duty.
It has been suggested by some writers that the exami
nation should be framed so that the profession should not
become too crowded.
FARMERS TO VOTE ON CONTINUANCE OF AAA
The tobacco growers of Nash and Edgecombe Counties
will soon be given an opportunity to vote on the question
as to whether the farmers desire to continue to raise to
bacco under the provisions outlined under the Agricultur
al Adjustment Act, recently passed by Congress.
Several counties have already voted or are voting a this
time. The general opinion is that the farmers are practical
ly unanimous in desiring the continuance of the plan for
the next four years. The benefits which have come to the
farmers and to all other classes of business from the ben
eficient provisions of this act, are so apparent that the mat
ter of voting will be just mere formality as the farmers are
generally believed to be unwilling to return to the old sys
tem. J
GOVERNMENT MEN
TO GRADE TOBACCO
Oxford Only Market In Middle Belt
To Have Federal Grading Service
Grading of tobacco by agents of
the government will be available to
farmers who market their crop here
this fall.
J. P. Floyd, who has been super
visor of government grading here
for the post few years, has been no
tified and will have a staff of five
others, including J. T. Penn, to aid
in the work. Gradi*£ will be avail
able to farmers at 5, cents per hun
dred pounds.
So far as has been unnounced,
Oxford is the only market in the
middle belt to have grading serv
ice. The Flannagan bill, which pro
vides for free grading service, does
not become effective this year.
The plan in effect will be the same
as has been used in th past.
DEAD MAN IN CHURCH
Chattanooga, Tenn.—The body of
Orville Eldridge, 20, was found un
der an overturned piano and and
amid wrecked pews and shattered
glass in the Grasshopper Holiness
church.
DROPS IN AND SHOOTS
Los Angeles.—Joseph Walsh, 39,
was critically wounded while giv
ing a dinner party by a young wom
an who suddenly opened a door,
drew a revolver and fired six times.
WEDS; DIES IN 2 HOURS
Swedesboro, N. J.—Two hours af
ter being married, Mrs. Helen Mif
flin, 17, was killed in an automo
bile crash.
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Great Britain, Italy and Latvia
also protest to Russia.
Huey P. Long
Is Assassinated
Dr. A. Weiss, Jr., Sends Bul
let Into Body Of Louisiana Dic
tator That Brought Death Early
Tuesday Morning
Dr. Carl A. Weiss, -Jr., son of a
judge who had been under fire
from the Long forces, fired a bul
let from a luger automatic pistol
into the body of Senator Huey P.
Long, Monday. The shooting oc
curred in the corridor of the palatial
state house at Baton Bouge. Long's
bodyguards fired on the young eye,
ear, nose and threat specialist a
split second after the first shot,
killing him instantly with a hail of
machine gun fire.
Senator Long was rushed to the
hospital, where in spite of five blood
transfusions he died early Tuesday
morning, thus ending one of the
most colorful careers in American
history. Long's body lay in state all
Wednesday in the Louisiana capitol,
and will be buried Thursday.
Tobacco Plan Is
Given Approval
Tobacconist Council Advises To
Avoid Sale of Weed At Less
Than Six Cents
Greenville, Sept. 10.—The govern
ing council of the East Carolina
Warehouse Voluntary Agreement
Saturday night at a called meeting
endorsed the movement to eliminate
the sale of all tobacco at a price
less than six cents, it was announc
ed Tuesday morning by W. 8. Moye,
chairman of the council. The coun
cil voted to request all member
warehouses to pass baskets of to
bcaco selling below six cents and
further requested that warehouse
men advise growers not to offer for
sale low grade tobacco which if
sold means loss to the growers. Tlie
council offered and unanimously
adopted, the following resolutions:
"Whereas, the sale of low grade
tobacco at a price of less than six
cents in most cases means an ac
tual loss to the growers; and
"Whereas, the placing of this low
grade tobacco in the channels of
trade tends to depress prices for
better grades of tobacco; and
"Whereas, this council is- of the
opinion that the elimination of this
class reduce this year's surplus and
thereby tend to increase the prices
for other grades of tobacco.
"Now therefore, be it resolved
that the governing council does
hereby request nil member ware
housemen not to sell on their ware
house floors any tobacco at a price
less than six cents per pound.
"Be it further resolved that the
president of the East Carolina Ware
house Association be requested to
call a meeting of the association
for the purpose of adopting such
rules and regulations as may be nec
essary to carry out the purpose of
this resolution."
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BOOK RENTAL PLAN IS REJECT
ED BY BOARD EDUCATION
Superintendent B. D. Bunn Outlines
Position of County on Proposal
The Board of Education for Gran
ville county hns declined to accept
the school book rental plan offer
ed by the state until a better plan
than that now proposed is offered,
it was learned Monday from the
office of the County Superintendent,
B. D. Bunn.
Mr. Bunn gave the following
statement to a representative of The
Public Ledger:
"We know that many of the peo
ple are expecting to rent books.
However, und6r the plan offered, no
high school pupil could rent but
two books, science and history. All
others would be bought as last year.
In the elementary schools, only the
basal books could be rented and all
supplementary books would have to
be bought. All books for rent would
have to be secured from class room
teacher, and these bought would
have to be secured from the super
intendent.
"For a city that has the facilities
and storage place for books, the
plan will work a little better, but
its by no means a good system for
either. We pledge our support to
work out a real rental system for
the people of Granville county,
for next year, whereby all students
will be able to rent all books. If
the state does not rent all, the co
unty will.
"We believe this plan to be so
confusing that it would be better
to purchase all books like we did
last year. Next year we will be able
to offer a real rental system, where
by the student may pay a $2.00 or
$2.50 fee and receive all books at
the same place.
"All students in the vicinity of
Oxford may purchase from Hall
Drug store. Those at Creedmoor, we
think, will be able to get their books
from the depository there."
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105 SPIDERS; 210 PASSES
McAllen, Texas.—When a local
theatre offered two passes for ev
ery black widow spider brought to
the box office, Buddy McElroy cap
tured, a female spider and kept her
until 104 baby spiders were born.
He got 210 tipkets.
PARAGRAPHS
PROBLEMS AT
Huge Sum Paid
Cotton Growers
More Than Four Millions Distribut
ed In FirsT" Payments For
This Year
A total of $4,087,109.10 in rental
payments has been distributed this
year to North Carolina farmers co
operating in the cotton adjustment
program.
This figure represents practically
all of the first rental payment on
the 1935 crop, said J. F. Criswell,
of N. C. State College, director of
the cotton program in North Caro
lina.
In a few of the contracts, techni
cal irregularities which must be
ironed out before the contracts can
be approved by the Washington of
fice of the AAA have delayed a few
of the rental checks, Criswell added.
The second installment of the 19-
35 rental payment, approximately
equal to the first installment, will
be disbursed in the near future,
Criswell stated. Announcement will
be made when the second payment
checks are mailed from Washington.
The checks distributed thus far
in the first payment went to the
signers of 91,935 contracts covering
1,400,621.8 acres to plant this year.
The six counties receiving the
most payments to date are as fol
lows: Cleveland $252,841.20, Robe
son $222,328.16, Johnston $218,347.-
04, Union $178,410.95, Halifax $163,-
051.43, and Harnett $146,545.28.
Five Men Are
On Committee
Strandberg, Thurman, Harris, Wim
berley, Wilkinsin on Group
Five local men stood today as the
committee named to work with the
fire department here in arranging
a local celebration of fire prevention
week early in October following a
meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce directors at the Chamber of
Comerce building Tuesday.
H. H. Stranberg heads this group
and with him are J. W. Thurman,
C. C. Harris, R. D. Wimberley, and
F. S. Wilkinson.
This committee was appointed at
the meeting at which President I.
D. Thorp presided, and the directors
heard the report of the tourist traf
fic
CHANDLER NOMINATED
IN KENTUCKY VOTING
Lieutenant-Governor Defeats Laf
foon Candidate in Democratic
Primary
Louisville, Ky., Sept. 10.—Happy
Chandler rode to victory tonight
in his race for the Democratic nom
ination as governor of Kentucky on
a crest of votes apparently swelled
by his denunciation of "dictator
ship," "bayonet rule" and the
states 3 per cent sales tax.
Scored by his political foes as a
"crooner" and "roadhouse song boy,"
the smiling, hard hitting 37-year
old lieutenant governor overcame
one of the most formidable political
organizations in the state's history
to defeat Thomas S. Rhea, 64-year
old veteran politican. Chandler will
be opposed at the November 5 elec
tion by Kink Swope, 42-year-old
Lexington jurist, the Republican
nominee.
Chandler, who demanded repeol
of the sales tax and charged that
his opponent threatened Kentucky
with a "military dictatorship," de
feated Rhea, regarded °ne of Ken
tucky's most astute political organ
izers, by a majority approaching
25,000. Returns from 3,994 of the
state's 4,219 precincts gave Chandler
a margin of 24,299. Chandler had
246,399 and Rhea 222,100. The re
turns included reports from all 120
counties, 110 of them complete.
In the wake oi! the defeat of Rhea
whom he had backed, Governor Ru
a special session of the legislature
by Laffoon intimated he might call
to repeal the sales tax. The tax,
yielding revenue of $10,000,000 a
year, was enacted by the 1934 spe
cial session by Laffoon forces after
Chandler, as presiding officer of the
senate, blocked it at two previous
sessions.
A long shot in the gubernatorial
race at the start, Chandler got the
spotlights last February when he
called a special session of the leg
islature to enact a compulsory pri
mary law while Laffoon was in
Washington. Previously the Demo
cratic state central executive com
mittee had called a state nominat
ing convention. Rhea was consider
ed a certain winner in a convention.
At the special session Laffoon-Rhea
forces defeated Chandler's single
primary proposal and passed the
run-off primary law. Rhea had 13,-
435 plurality in the first primary.
KILLS SELF IN STRANGE HOUSE
Denver.—The body of a woman
identified as Mrs. Helen Waller, 28
was found lying on a bed in a fash
ionable home where she waj a total
stranger. Police believe that she end
ed her life.
$l.OO PER YEAB
ON NATIONAL
WASHINGTON
COURTING THE YOUNG
CANCEL CONCESSION
EMPLOYES INCREASE
GOVERNMENT FINANCING
MANY POWER PROJECTS
SIX BILLS GOT LEFT
THIRD PARTY TALK
REPUBLICANS ACTIVE
MINERS BACK PRESIDENT
By Hugo Sims, Srpecml Washington
Correspondent
Political leaders are putting some
emphasis on the "young'' voter and
hence we have the "Young Demo
crats" and the "Young Republi
cans" being received with open arms
by the hard-boiled veterans and ev
ery effort being made by both par
ties to line up the youth of the
land. The average citizen who won
ders what it is all about might re
flect that, according to the statis
ics, there will be 9,000,000 new vot
ers next fall and that capture of
this bloc is quite understandable to
those who want to win.
The furore over the oil conces
sion that the Ethiopian emperor
gave out as a last effort to check
mate Mussolini, has died down
with announcement of its cancella
tion by the American holders of the
grant. Earlier it had been appar
ent that the United States govern
ment was not going to do anything
paricular o protect the rights of its
citizens under the document. Secre
tary Hull, after a few days think
ing, made it perfectly plain that the
signed document would not
affect the policy of the nation.
The employes of the Federal gov
ernment have increased from 560,-
000 when President Roosevelt assum
ed office to 729,769, of which 450,-
000 are under civil service. This
number does not include,of course,
the Army or the Navy, the CCC
workers, the men on employment re
lief or the farmers who receive ben
efit payments. Breaking up the num
ber of employes we find that the
Postoffiee (Apartment has 259,454,
the War Department 66,722 and oth
er agencies string along to bring
up the total. The AAA has 6,379 and
th? Department of Agriculture 37,-
621. The Resettlement administra
tion lists 9,949 and the TVA some
17,162. The total number of civil
executive employes is only 12,500
below the peak figure reached dur
ing the World War.
A billion and a quarter dollars
of Liberty bonds, the last outstand
ing of the enormous war issues,
have been called for October 15th
and at the same time the Treasury
seeks $500,000,000 to add to its work
ing balance. This will bring the
national debt to $29,500,000,000, an
all-time high. However, due- to re
funding operations of the Treasury,
which obtained lower interest rates,
the government will save about $lOO,-
000,000 a year in interest on the
eight billion dollars of Liberty
bonds that have been converted;'
Incidentally the government's work
ing balance is only about $1,200,-
000,000 with about one-third sel.
aside to retire bank notes.
Critics of the administration
point to the recent failure of the
government to sell all of the $lOO,-
000,000 of Farm Mortgage bonds at
1 1-2 per cent as a warning that
there is a limit to the credit of the
country. Others see nothing to it,
pointing out that the low interest
rate had to compete in an improv
ing market and that failure of the
public to subscribe to the full
amount offered merely indicated
that funds were finding other sat
isfactory investment areas. Also,
one hears that Secretary Morgenthau
is now ranked among those who
seek an early balance of the nation
al budget and George Creel, well
known writer says Treasury expects
see this goal attained by 1939. How
ever, President Roosevelt declared,
when questioned, thnt he hadn't
read the forecast and besides he
didn't know who'd be President in
1939!
A survey of power projects un
derway in the United States, made
for the purpose of checking activ
ity along this line, reveals twenty
State and Federal developments
that will cost $630,350,000 when com
pleted. Included in the list is the
Boulder dam, a $165,000,000 project
now virtually completed. It was
started long before the Roosevelt
administration. However, the TVA
is rapidly completing its three dams
to cost $94,000,000. The Missouri
river development centering around
Fort Peck, in 'Montana, to be com
pleted in 1937, will cost $84,000,000;
the Grand Coulee project, on the
Columbia river, also to be finsihed
in 1937, will take $63,000,000 and
the Booneville dam, also on the Col
umbia river is to be completed in
1936 at a cost of $55,000,000. Besides
the twenty under construction there
are numerous projects, either pro
posed or pending in Congress or
elsewhere for consideration.
Six major administration bills
failed to get through Congress, in
cluding the Walsh bill to force cor
tain provisions on government con
tractors; the Ship Subsidy bill to
replace indirect bounties through
"mail contracts;" the regulation of
comodity exchanges, a companion to
the SEC; the protocols for adherence
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