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Evening star., 1933-11-26
Vermont Road Work
Expected to Put on
5000 Jobless Men
Dependents Ciren Prefer
ence as State Pushes
Expenditure.
BY w. B. GATES.
pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BURLINGTON. VT. November Is
In pursuance of the N. R. A slogan,
Vermont is ready to do her part in ex-
pending by February IS the 81 900 600
allotted to the State under the new
Civil Works Administration, and many
communities started work Monday
morning on road projects. Gov. Stanley
c. Wilson and Civil Works AdminiStra-
tor Proctor H. Page of Hyde Park re-
turned from Washington on Friday and
Immediately had conference in the
executive chamber at Montpelier with
officials of the highway and forestry de-
partments.
This conference was the spark which
ignited the activity throughout the
State District highway commissioners
hurriedly assembled poormasterS. Sc
lect men and road commissioners Of the
several towns in their districts for meet
ingS on Saturday when details of road
work and who should be employed to do
it were settled. Dependents will have
the preference in allotting the work.
and it is estimated that about 5000
men will be given jobs.
The city of Burlington will receive
S135,689 from the Federal Relief Ad-
ministration on public works. In ad-
dition, the city will spend $l60,000 Of
its own money, raised by bond issue,
making a total of nearly $500 600 to be
expended here on nake-work projects.
Franklin County, however, has taken
the lead in getting men at work, with
1000 men employed on % projects in
20 towns.
Ernest w. Gibson. who recently re-
signed as Representative in Congress in
order to make the run for the United
States senatorship to succeed the late
Porter H. Dale. has filed his nomina-
ton papers with the secretary of State
Harry W. Writers of st. Johnsbury has
filed for the nomination as the Demo-
cratic candidate. Five Republicans and
one Democrat have filed for the nomi-
nation to succeed Representative Gibson.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
South Dakota
Angostura Water Project
Receives Attention of
Governor.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SIOUX FALLS, s. Oak, November
large relief project which
has been approved by the Advisory
Public Works Board of South Dakota
involves what is known as the An
gostura water project, situated in the
extreme southwestern part of the State,
southeast OF the southern end of the
famous Black Hills 1t is announced
that when the project GENES up for ap-
proval in Washington, Gov. Tom Berry,
United States Senator Bulow and other
Leading men OF South Dakota will go
to the National Capital to explain the
necessity Of pushing the project to
completion
The proposed lake to be created by
the project will be 100 feet deep, will
have a 94-mile shoreline and will store
sufficient water to irrigate about 81 900
acres of land. The dam will be 1873
feet high and will have o natural spill
way 1t is estimated that the project
will provide work for 1000 men for at
least two years,
1t is announced from Federal-State
relief headquarters that a total of at
least 1880 men in South Dakota will
receive benefit from the new civil works
set-up recently formulated at Wash
ington, fixing new hour scale of 80
hours week and pay OF so cents an
hour, instead Of the 80 cents On hour
heretofore paid in commodity orders.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
$4,000 WILL GET
MONTANA JOBS
ON NEW WORKS
c. ". 4. Program,
to Haze Big Effect
in Ending IHeness.
BY L. M. THAYER.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HELENA, Mont, November 25-Ac-
cording to T. C. Spaulding, State
director of relief, about $4,000 men are
to be put to work in Montana by De-
cember l6, under the new Federal civil
works program. This program, if sue
ceSsful, should make a tremendous diff
ference in conditions in the State and
appreciably take up the slack of unem-
ployment
Mr.. Spaulding made this estimate
after conference in Washington, D. c.,
with Harry L. Hopkins, director of Civil
Works Administration.
All men put TO work under this pro-
gram are to be given the pay scale pre-
vailing in the section. Montana wages
are higher than in most States Prof.
ects on the program include repairs to
the State capitol here, numerous road
construction plans and municipal i'm
provements.
Regional Parieys Called.
Mr.. Spaulding Immediately began to
arrange for regional conferences to be
held through the State, to set the gen.
eral program in motion. County COM
missioners, mayors and other public
officials were called in conference.
the Montana State Land Board an
nounces that it has authorized sale to the
Federal Government Of any State lands
that may be impounded by the Fort
Peck dam, in northeastern Montana
Permission also is granted to United
States Army engineers to work on State
lands where construction of the dam is
involved
According to official reports of the
State Department of Agriculture. there
is less storage space for grain in Mon
tana this year than last. The decrease
was from 17,3l9000 bushels to 1852
900 bushels. There are "a fewer ele-
vators in operation.
State gas tax receipts usually are
considered a criterion of conditions.
Receipts for the first Is days of Novem-
ber are about S238,000, and for the
1912 months of the calendar year about
$4,000 900. according to report of Phil
Greenan. chief clerk of the State board
of equalization. The total for the year
is about the same as that for the same
period in the preceding year. but the
total for the half month is the lowest
on record for the period.
Among Helena emergency work will
be new city park. for which survey
has been made. The old city dump
and Jungle" is to be made beauty
spot with Federal emergency funds.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
TEXAS RAT|F|ES
REPEAL MOVEMENT
More Than $4,000 Persons
in State Shifted From Re.
lief to Public Works.
BY S. RAYMOND BROOKS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
AUSTIN, Tex, November 25.-A
Texas convention this week cast the
States vote for ratification of repeating
the eighteenth amendment The con-
vention, elected by the repeal advocates
in a Statewide ballot unanimously
certified the ratification to Federal au-
thorities, expecting the Texas returns
to reach Washington well ahead OF the
final thirty-sixth State December 5.
More than $4,000 unemployed men
and women were shifted from relief
rolls to the new civil works pay roll for
a weekly pay roll of close to 81 900 600,
the Texas Relief Commission, in seS-
sion during the week, was officially
notified
viii Employ 100000.
Other civil works projects were tc
carry the Winters total of employment
to above 100, COO heads of families and
TO remove four -flfths the employable
persons from relief rolls.
Texas this week and during the course
of the past four or five weeks felt a
continued upswing in retail merchan-
dising.
Labor conditions were disturbed, due
to the threatening strike movement of
Southern Pacific lines railroad en-
ployes.
New Railroad Commission orders had
reduced the States allowable oil produc-
ton to about IT'S 600 barrels, or slightly
under the Federal limit set for the State,
and a further Statewide preration
hearing was called by the Railroad Com
mission for November %.
legislative committee during the
past week continued investigation of
reports of State job-selling activities by
groups of unofficial persons who claimed
connection with the campaign and cleo
tion of Gov Miriam A. Ferguson. Sew
eral indictments have been returned
over the State on charges growing out ot
this testimony
Another joint legislative group was
investigating evasions Of the State
nepotism law
Evening star., 1933-11-26
MICHIGAN WEEK
BRINGS POLITICS
IN FOREGROUND
G.. ". A. Program,
Launched-15O,OOO
Men Get Work.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
DETROIT, Mich, November 25-This
State was filled with politics and the
business of politics during the week.
Events transpiring follow in brief:
L. A special session Of the Legislature
which opened Wednesday to consider
liquor control bill and financial meas
ures which is expected to develop bitter
controversy.
2. Launching of the gigantic c. w. A.
program which will put more than 15O,-
600 men at work.
3. Reports that Shake-up In the
State P. w. A. board Is imminent grow
ing out of lack of cooperation In the
handling of P w. A. projects.
4. ALLEGATION of $3,000,O00 to Detroit
by the Federal Housing Corporation for
preliminary use in the first slum clear
ance project undertaken.
Liquor Control Scheme.
The liquor bill written by a special
committee appointed by Gov. William A.
ComStock provides for establishment OF
State-owned liquor dispensaries with a
local option provision permitting COM
munitieS to decide by referendum
whether liquor shall be sold by the glass
in designated places. The chief oppo-
sition comes from druggists and inn
keepers, who want their establishments
designated as diSpensaries.
The reports Of a shake-up in the
P. w. A. personnel originated in Wash
ington and were confirmed by Gov.
Comstock, who said he had been notified
by Murray D. Van Waggoner State
highway commissioner. that his resig-
natios has been requested. The situa-
ton was aggravated when Mortimer E.
Cooley, State engineer for the P. w. A.
board. suffered a cerebral conclusion in
an automobile accident He is past 70
years of age.
c. w. A. Program Starts.
The C. w. A. program is being carried
out with little trouble and the work
afforded for thousands under this plan
will do much to take care of serious
unemployment situation existing in the
State.
The cost of the Federal housing pro-
gram will total $4,000 000 The first
step toward carrying out the plan was
appointment of Federal Housing Com
mission by Acting Mayor John w.
Smith.
This was followed by a request on the
c. w. A. board for SO architects and
engineers. Four tentative sites have
been mapped for the project and de-
ciSion on the one to be used Is expected
shortly Gov. Comstock included in his
message to the Legislature request for
bill legalizing the acts Of the COM
mission.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
NEVADA AROUSED
BY WATER PROJECT
Concern Voiced Over Threat
Seen to Supply Under
Storage Scheme.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RENO. New. November 25.-Indicat-
ing they felt the situation des-
perate in so far as it affects the future
water supply of Western Nevada, as
well as labor. parties interested in up
stream storage on the Truckee River
met here this week to discuss the pro-
posal to get quick action so upstream
storage plans may be carried through.
It means an expenditure of more than
100000. it will give hundreds work.
and it may mean the future OF this
section as an agricultural center.
Principal parties interested. except the
Sierra Pacific Power Co, which has
power and water rights on the river,
have agreed to a settlement Of long
pending exception, the power company
the matter of liability for damage to
Lake Tahoe land owners in case the
lake should rise and damage property.
VulnerabiIity Is Cited.
The power company officials say the
company is too vulnerable to damage
suits The county commissioners here
are willing to assume a part OF any
such liability If it can be legally done.
and the result of the meeting was that
a coterie Of lawyers was named to en-
deavor to frame such legislation.
somewhat similar situation exists
as to the Carson River. but this is not
considered serious. The expenditure OF
81, SOC, 900 on the Humboldt River stor-
age plan seems to have no opposition.
Every effort is to be made to get all of
these projects started quickly.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
MORE THAN TEN THOUSAND TO RE
GIVEN C.. ". Il. JOBS IN IDAHO

Sunday from Washington. D. c.. where
he conferred with administration offi-
cialS, reports that 10000 to 10000 men
will be put to work In Idaho under the
civil works program.
Commissioners of the A Idaho
counties were summoned to Boise i'm
mediately and conferred with the Gov
ernor and State and Federal officials
regarding projects which could be i'm
mediately undertaken under the C.
w. A.
The State Civil Works Committee
surveyed submitted proposals and are
giving their approval as rapidly as pos
Sible.
No weed eradication campaigns will
be started this Fall, but tentative plans
for inaugurating this type Of work early
in the Spring are being contemplated
Louis j. Taber. Columbus, Ohio, re-
elected to his sixth term as master Of
the National Grange, which adjourned
a To-day national convention in Boise
Friday, has issued q ringing call to
American farmers to unite under the
Grange banner.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
Hog Reduction
North Dakota Is Cheered Bv
Corn-Hog Reduction Pro.
gram Providing Funds.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BISMARCK, N. Oak. November 25.
News that North Dakota farmers will
be eligible to participate in the Gov
ernment's corn-hog reduction program
cheered North Dakota this week with
the prospect of obtaining additional
money from the Federal Government
This despite the fact that agricultural
agents and other forces have been try
Ing In recent years to popularize corn
growing with North Dakota farmers.
Although not listed as a corn grow
ing State, North Dakota produced some
26,676.000 bushels of this grain in 1882
and only slightly less this year. despite
the drought. The 1882 figures also ShoW
1,00l 900 head of hogs raised. On this
the payment of approximately $5.o0o,-
600 in bountieS to North Dakota farm
ars. In some counties, particularly those
along the southern border of the State.
the corn program is even more i'm
portant than the wheat allotment, al
though Thu is regarded as a wheat
State
The allotment program, meanwhile,
mss encountered trouble in many coun-
ties The Government plan was based
on an average production of 100000
900 bushels and this was apportioned
to the various counties. All went well
until some counties totaled the figures
submitted by applicants for contracts
and compared them with thA Govern
ment figures.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
5000 Colorado Residents
Will Get Ciuil Works Jobs
Relief Program Ttlro,cn Into High Gear
as Officials From 63 Counties Pre-.
pare Schedule of Activities.

hundreds Of miners to continue work at
time when ore properties in the higher
attitudes are usually blockaded by SHOWS
and work hampered by low tempera-
lures. A number of new substantial
gold strikes have been made although
officials have issued warning that min
ing stock promotions should be care
fully scanned. The increase in the
price of gold does not warrant the as
sertedly high value of a number Of new
gold mining stock promotions, it was
declared.
In connection with the upturn in
made early this week of discovery Of
an accurate method of controlling the
crushing and grinding of ore. which
mining experts declare is probably the
greatest advance in the industry since
the coming Of flotation.
Great confusion continued to reign
in the State over the legal liquor trade,
in prospect when repeal is formally de-
clared on December S. New State regu-
lations. effective with Federal repeal
prohibit consumption of liquor on prem
ises where 1t is purchased. Beer and
wines may be drunk on premises. Hotel
ants are already clamoring for change
in the regulations. to permit sale and
consumption of hard liquor in their
establishments A concerted attempt
will be made at the special session of
the Legislature, called for December 4,
to secure changes in the regulations.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BOISE. Idaho. November 25-Bids
will be opened December 5 by the State
Bureau of Highways on a 100000
street improvement Federal aid project
for Boise.
The work is to be 100 per cent Fed
eral aid and will convert the present
Front street into an arterial highway
connecting with the old Oregon Trail
at the southwest entrance to Boise.
All labor, skilled and unSkilled, will
be employed locally. A basic pay scale
of SIS and IS cents per hour 30-hour
week, will be in effect on the project.
Laborers will be chosen from county
unemployed registers.
This is the only public works project
30 be undertaken In this vicinity In the
near future. Other projects may be
started under the civil works program
as soon as preliminary surveys are COM
pleted.
Gov. d Ben Ross. who returnedNlast
Evening star., 1933-11-26
BY WALLACE c. BLAKEY.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, November 25.-Forty
thousand persons now on the relief
rolls of Los Angeles County will be
given employment during the first four
days Of next week and a total of
$4,000 throughout California will be
given a working income through activi-
ties of the newly organized Civil Works
AS rapidly as new projects are ap-
proved to create new work $4,000 more
will be employed, removing $4,000 per-
sons from Los Angeles Countys 10000
employable persons on county relief
rolls. Persons not on relief rosters will
not be given consideration for c. w. A.
employment until after December l.
These workers will be placed in two
shifts of five hours a day, six days
week and the average weekly wage
is estimated at SIS Unskilled workers
will receive minimum of As cents an
Evening star., 1933-11-26
10000 WASHINGTON JOBLESS
TO BE TAKEN OFF RELIEF ROLLS

From Walla Walla. in the Southeast
ern section of the State, has come word
that the conditions there are better
than they have been for many months
The pay rolls from public road work
has stimulated retail buying and this,
taken in connection with the fact that
the wheat growers are now receiving
cnecks for their crops, has brought
about feeling Of returning prosperity.
healthier condition is to be found
in the Spokane district. where the &C
tivities on the Coulee Dam project are
under way, while in the North Central
section of the State the apple district,
crops are moving and money is return
ing to the growers,
The westside Of the State is buckling
up once more with the prospects OF a
return of activity on the water fronts
of the ports. In this respect the recog-
milton of Soviet Russia plays an impor-
tant role. Seattle expects to reap
tremendous benefit because OF its close
ness to the Pacific port Of Russia, and
it is expected that a large amount of
materials and supplies the Soviets eS-
pect to purchase in America will be
shipped through this port.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
Projects Approred
In Io,C0 to Make
Jobs for $4,000
Nearly 100000 Viii
Be Spent in State on
Public Works
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
DES MONIES. Iowa, November 25.-
Twenty-Five thousand 1owans will again
become self supporting and nearly s4,-
100000 will be spent in Iowa as a re-
suit of projects approved in the last
week here
The last Of 600 projects were ap-
proved here Thursday by Prof George
Keller, Iowa's Civil Works Admins
tration engineer. Four DAYS of con-
ferences between Prof. Keller with
other C. w A. officials and Iowa
County officers suficed to complete
approval of the projects.
The conferences were begun MondnV
efter tho return from Washington, D.
c.. Of T. H. Mulock, Iowa c. W. A.
administrator
A number of the projects are al
ready under way and in Polk County,
Of which DeS Moines is the county
seat, more than $500 men we're work
ing last week on city and county
projects.
Although it was considered probable
earlier N the week that no pay checks
would be available for workers Sat-
urday night, Mulock has assured them
that checks would be issued as soon as
the State disbursing Office can begin
to function, probably within a few
davs.
H rold D. McInto-h. disbureing off,
Ger for the United States Veterans
Administration in Iowa. is to b. dis
bursting officer for the c. w A
A Ees Moines retail code council to
administer the national retail code will
be organized end ready for acton
early next week, according to N H
Nielsen, secretary of the Retail Mer-
chants Bureau.
Representatives named to date for
the council are Tom Ramsey, Claude
Carver, Norman Cassidy. E. r. Sha-
piro, H. Y. Davidson, Sol Ginsberg,
William Broquist. Clarence Kurtz. sr.;;
T. Frank Jaques and Walter Arang.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
.11,O(O GIVEN WORK
UNDER WISCONSIN
CIVIL WORKS PLAN
Virtually 0ne-Sixth of States
Total Jobs Awarded on
First Day of Move.
BY WILLIAM T. EVJUEX.

Special Dispatch to The Star
MADISON, Wis, November 25.-May-
orS, councilmen, board members and
other city and county officials fiocked
here this week. each seeking to obtain
600 in Federal funds allotted to Wiscon-
sin as part Of the 400,000,000 civil
works program.
In many localities work was speedily
put under way and, the first day the
program was officially launched, Gov.
Schmedeman announced that IL 900 of
the So 900 jobs had been allotted to
workers on county relief rolls Milwau-
kee County led the State with $500
given jobs, many Of whom had been
working for SuStenance wages on county
relief projects. Dane County, with a
quota Of 2700 jobs under the program
and funds of s350,000, had more than
a thousand employed at midweek.
Action by December Is.
Gov. Schmedeman told assembled city
and county officials that all Of the State
jobs would be awarded and workers re-
ceiving cash wages by December Is II
the local authorities would cooperate.
In some localities difficulty was reported
in finding work projects for the unem-
p!oyed of lasting nature, and hundreds
were put to work cleaning streets and
parks. City councils and mayors were
working feverishly to plan projects upon
which the relief labor may be profltably
employed.
Robert c. johnson of Fon du Lee,
State civil works administrator. reported
that negotiations with the local Cficialc,
assisted by the State Industrial Com
mission, were going ahead rapidly. and
Johnson's Office was b-sy explaining the
civil works plans and passing upon pro-
posed projects
Farm Strike Called OF.
Coincident with the announcement Of
the civil works program was the definite
calling off Of the Statewide farm strike
by the Wisconsin Milk Pool and the
Wisconsin Farm Holiday Association.
The strike had been inactive for period
OF more than a week when leaders sud-
denly decided to abandon it and allow
the free flow of farm products from
farms to city markets. The announce
ment came after extensive preparations
had been made to resume the strike on
an active basis last Monday, following
the declaration of Milo Reno. National
Farm Holiday head. that all farmers
would be called upon to strike Novem-
Der 81
Some local increases in the price OF
milk as a result of the strike were re-
ported. but in the main the price re-
mained the same and the State en-
deavored to enforce general marketing
regulations which had been set up weeks
ago
The quietude Of the State administra-
tion Of the N R. A. was upset this week
by the action of the State Recovery
Board in passing a resolution to shear
Julius P. He'll, member of the board and
chairman Of the Milwaukee County
Compliance Board. Of his authority 10
hold conferences on trade practices ana
generally dominate the work of the
State board.
Evening star., 1933-11-26
ECE MERCER MAY SET PACE FOR COMBINES ELSEWHERE
Civil Works Assure
$1,000 ArizOnans of
Early Employment
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHOENIX, Ariz., November IS.
Fifteen thousand Arizonans will
be on Uncle Sans pay roll before
Thursday night under direction
Of the Civil Works AdminiStra-
tion.
Two persons out of five now on
relief rolls in Arizona will be
given employment, it was esti-
mated by Miss Florence Warner,
secretary of the State Civil
Works Administration, today.
This vast army of workers will
be paid each week through the
Veterans Administration In ph0e.
nix with a paymaster in each
Of Arizona's Il counties.