Will Be Converted to Production.

FBIDA Y, OCTOBER 16, 1942

WESTERN RECLAMATION MUST

HELP AVERT FOOD SHORTAGES

National Conference in Denver Hears Leaders Declare 5 Million More Acres From Deserts

Will Be Converted to Production.

Federal reclamation projects in the west must be extended, despite other urgent material needs of the war, to help counteract the increasing drain on the nation's food supply, two national leaders from Washington declared Thursday.

In an address prepared for delivery before the current na-

tional reclamation war conference in address the convention later Thurs- Denver, Abe Fortas, undersecretary Clay at the Shirley-Savoy hotel, ses-

of

the inter ior, said that "about 10 ~~~ C~~~i~~~a~~~Z:'FIJ::y ~~:~~~~~ce

million acres of additional farming , land must be provided."

"A substantial part of this acreage must be provided in the arid westerp states," he added, "and we must pro- vide, of course, not

mer~ly

the' land, but the water without which the land is useless. And this, in turn, means that we must push to completion reclamation projects now under way, and we must, so far as possible, start new projects which can be rapidly completed."

IRRIGATED AREA TO BE INCREASED.

John C. Page, commissioner of the bureau of reclamlttion, said:

"Thru constructed irrigation sys- tems in operation, the bureau in 1942 was prepared to serve more than

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and one-half billion ,acres. About ' half of this area had been inadequate- ly irrigated by other systems, or re- quired substituted water supplies. , Projects under construcUon, or au- thorized, will increase to more than 12 million acres irrigated land in the west which will be dependent on

· reclamation systems. More than 5

million acres will embrace farms ' carved from the desert and trans-

· formed into productive areas. . The

· ren?aining

7

million acres will 'be in

' established agricultural areas that

wili owe their maintenance to the works we are building.

A

large part of these areas will be served by mul-

I

tiple-purpose projects in which power ' and irrigation are major features."

· , Emphasizing the importance of ' m'eeting problems at home as well as

on the battle front, Fortas said:

"Those of us who are behind the lines are faced with a challenge as great as that confronting ' our sol- diers on the field of battle. Our'

foe

(on the home front) is the death deal- ing problem of

shortag~s-shortages

of steel, of rtlbber, of copper and nickel, and of'many other thIngs; im,-' pending shortages of maripower; po- tential shortages' af

VQFious-

foodlS, and

fibers." '

Fortas went 'on 'to ' stress that "we do not have what we should have and what we could have had, if we had properly developed the land we in- habit."

Then, he praised the development ( of reclamation projects under Pres- ident Roosevelt, and said, "It is not pleasant to think where we would be today, if these developments had not been undertaken."

FUNDS SOUGHT c

FOR MORE PROJECTS.

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Repeatedly calling attention to the

S'

need for more food, Foi'tas stated:

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"I can say to you, upon the au- thority of the secretary of the inte- rior, that the department proposes to urge upon the bureau of budget and upon congress the necessity for the appropriation of funds to accel- erate the completion of pending rec- lamation projects, and to begin new projects which can be completed within the next three years,"

Western self-sufficiency in food- stuffs production is a vital war need, Commissioner Page said.

He pointed out that transcontinen- tal transportation facilities should not be congested by food shipments from the east for the increased pop- Ulation of the west resulting from new industrial and military activities.

"Priorities for multiple-purpose projects involving power have enabled us to press the construction of large dams and power plants and the in- stallation of additional ' g'enerating equipment at plants at Boulder dam t and Grand Coulee already in opera- }- tion," he stated. ]) PROJECTS SERVE

70,000

FAMILIES.

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"Recent studies show our projects d

al'e serving 70,000 farm families. On f

farms and in the cities and towns t

immediately dependent on them are ]

more than a million persons. . . . g

Completion of our current construc-

i

tion program will see reclamation a

service extended to 135,000 farm fam- t

ilies. With the expansion of power f

and supplemental water facilities, We a

will be serving more than 10 million

1

ptrsons on farms and in the cities t

and towns of sixteen western states." c

Various other prominent federal e

and state officials were scheduled to ])

THURSDAY, OCTOBER l5' ,1942

c

WESTERN RECLAMATION MUST

HELP AVERT FOOD SHORTAGES

National Conference in Denver Hears Leaders Declare 5 Million More Acres From Deserts

Will Be Converted to Production.

Federal reclamation projects in ' the west must be extended, despite other urgent material needs of the war, to help counteract the increasing drain on the nation's food supply, two national leaders from Washington declared Thursday.

In an address prepared for delivery before the current na-

tional reclam· ation war cpnference in Denver, Abe Fortas, undersecretary of the interior, said that "about 10 million acres of additional farming land must be provided."

"A substantial part of this acreage must be provided in the arid western states," he added, "and we must pro- vide, of course, not merely the land, but the water without which the land is useless. And t.his, in turn, means that we must push to completion reclamation projects now under way, and we must, so far as possible, start new projects which can be rapidly completed."

IRRIGATED AREA TO BE INCREASED.

John C. Page, commissioner of the bureau of reclamation, said:

"Thru constructed irrigation sys- tems in operation, tJ;1e bureau in 1942 was prepared to serve more than 4 and one-half billion acres. About half of this area had been inadequate- ly irrigated by other systems, or re- quired substituted water supplies.

Projects under construction, or au- thorized, will increase to more than 12 million acres irrigated land in the west which will be dependent on reclamation systems. More than 5 million acres will embrace farms carved from the desert and trans- formed into productive areas. The remaining 7 million acres will be in established agricultural areas that will owe their maintenance to the works we are building. A large part of these areas will be served by mul- tiple-purpose projects in which power and irrigation are major features."

Emphasizing the importance of meeting problems at home as well as on the battle front, Fortas said:

"Those of us who are behind the

lines are faced with a challenge as great as that confronting our sol- diers on the field of battle. Our foe (on the home front) is the death deal- ing problem of shortages-shortages of steel, of rubber, of copper and nickel, and of many other things; im- pending shortages of manpower; po- tential shortages of various foods and fibers." .

Fortas went on to stress that "we do not have what we should have and what we could have had, if we had properly developed the land we in- habit."

Then, he praised the development of reclamation projects under Pres- ident Roosevelt, and said,

"It

is not pleasant to think where we would be today, if" these developments had not been undertaken."

FUNDS SOUGHT

FOR MORE PROJECTS • .

Repeatedly calling attention to the need for more. food, Fortas stated:

"I can say to you, upon the au- t.hority of the secretary of the inte- rior, that the department proposes to urge upon the bureau of budget and upon congress the necessity for the appropriation of funds to accel- erate the completion of pending rec- lamation projects, and to begin

~ew

projects which can be completed within the next three years."

Western self-sufficiency in: food- stuffs production is a vital war need, Commissioner Page said.

He pointed out that transcontinen- tal transportation facilities should not be congested by food shipments from the east for the increased pop- ulation of the west resulting from new industrial and military activities.

"Priorities for multiple-purpose projects involving power have enabled us to press the construction of ^large

dams and power plants and the in- stallation of additional generating equipment at plants at Boulder dam and Grand Coulee already in opera- tion," he stated.

PROJECTS SERVE 70,000 FAMILIES.

"Recent studies show our projects are serving 70,000 farm families. On farms and in the cities and towns immediately dependent on them are more than a million persons. . . .

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Completion of our current construc-

t

. tion program will see reclamation

I

service extended to 135,000 farm fam- ilies'. With the expansion of power and supplemental water facilities, We ' will be serving more than 10 million pE:rsons on farms and in the cities and towns of sixteen western states." I '

Various other prominent federal and state officials were scheduled to J address the convention later Thurs- . day at the Shirley-Savoy hotel, ses- sion headquarters. The conference will continue thru I<'riday evening.

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Sugar and Rubber Rationing'

~rt:9./r/\¥4Says Reclamationist ^I

Sugar and rubber rationing programs were called "twin mistakes" of the Roosevelt administration, "a better friend of American capital invested in foreign plantations than to the American farmer," yesterday by O. S. Warden, president of the National Reclama- tion Association.

The Great Falls, Mont., pub- lisher, Democratic national com- miteeman for his state, said the ration programs were "inexcus- able" and would not be necessary

- jf

farmers had not to face "an op- posing attitude of the Department of Agriculture, the Department of state and a non-sympathettic Con··

gress."

Mr. Warden made his ·remarks·

at the opening session of the 11th I

annual convention of the Nationd Reclamation Association be for e more than 500 representatives of 17 Western states attending the convention in the Shirley-Savoy . Hotel.

Sees

Selfish Opposition

"At the last three annual con- ventions, the National Reclamation Association has asked that the Sugar Act be amended to allow progressive expansion of an. essen- _ tial home industry:' he said.

"We may as well fully realize that a combination of influential businessmen, having a selfish in- terest, and a considerable number of persons in high public office, apparently would like to destroy, root and branch, the sugar indus- try that we have.

"I hate to criticize the great de-I , partments of mY government, but

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in all truth they have been a bet-

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ter friend of American capital in- ; vested in foreign plantations than . they have of the American farmer, who would like to build an indus-

I

try at home.

Farmer Has Done Best

"To his everlasting credit, the

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American farmer has shown a fine civic patriotism, . as he harvestR this year a 16 percent increase in sugar beet acreage - an all-time record," he said.

"A few months ago his govern- ment would not let him plant a single additional acre. The ration- ing of sugar and rubber are twin mistakes-inexcusable if we had looked a little ahead."

Aid to War Program Urged Floyd O. Hagie, secretary-man- ager of the assOCiation, pointed out to members "our chief aim and purpose shOUld be to gear our ac- tivities so as to make the great- est net contribution to winning

the war." .

He said the associa tion had pressed for increased government appropriations to bring about ad- ditional construction and projects to supply more irrigation and power for the nation's farms and industries.

He said the assocation had fos- tered more irrigation for guayule rubber plantations, rehabilitation!

of "dust-bowl" areas and an ade- quate system of defense for the entire reclamation system.

He sidestepped the growing con- troversy surrounding the disposal fo surplus hydro-electric power and said the association recognized:

the problem but was not able to

I

say whether the surplus should be ' handled by private companies or the federal government.

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The convention will continue to- day and tomorrow.

Among speakers today will be . Abe Fortas, under-secretary of the I Department of Interior; John C.

Page, commissioner of the U. S.

Bureau of Reclamation, and Dr.

Ira N. Gabrielson, director of the

U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

all of Washington, D. C.

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Farm Exodus

Said to Peril

E A tide of farm -auction sales is sweeping the country, ^{Cll:?fl Supply} adding to the c.ritical nature of the food supply problem, John W. Haw, director of the agricultural development department of the Northern Pacific Railway, told delegates to the, National Reclamation Association convention here

yesterday. I

"The import of these au~tionl ~ ~ ~ sales can no longer be ignored," · R I

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he said. "They mean that farm ec amatlon

renters by the tholisands are quit-

ting to go into industrial employ-

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ment, and older owner-farmers V t I WAd

are ~elling out and retiring or I a a r . ^{I '}

plantmg farm crops that need no . f

seasonal labor. Sell While Selling's Good "With the draft hanging over FOR W rites

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their heads, young farmers are

selling out while farm equipment Congratulatory messages from

is in good demand and livestock . .

prices are high." PresIdent Roosevelt, Secr 7 ^{tary of} Mr. Haw added that recent tab- Agriculture Claude E. Wickard and ulation of Minnesota fall auctions Secretary of J

_J'~--!')r •

Harold L.

r.uns ir: excess of 10~000, with 200 Ickes were read at the National lIsted

In

some countIes.

"That is not an isolated, but a Reclamation Association c

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l1ven- very general condition in the great tion yesterday.

agricultural. sections of the coun- Urging delegates to "keep up the try," he saId.

He blamed "high-placed officials good fight," President Roosevelt without farm background" for not said: "Never before have the realizing "the .ma!?n!ture of !he West's land and water resources

problem of mamtammg farm m- .

dustry in i t

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full pre-war meant so rnuch to the natJon. Never strength." before has there been greater Deed Farmer Needs Priorities for their conservation and protec-

He urged that agriculture be tion, and, as the requirements of given priorities in machinery and war dictate, for their efficient manpower co-ordinate with the, utilization."

' arms and shipbuilding program. Will Help in P, eace

Abe Fortas, undersecretary of .

the Department of Interior, told He declared that reclamatlOn al- delegates. that "no group in the ready has made "great contribu- country has done a better produc':' tions to the war production pro- tion job during the past year than gram," and "in peace it likewise has agriculture." will serve the nation. It wHI sta-

"But splendid as is this record, bilize the West, provide employ- there are

~igns

there

~ill

soon

b~

ment, and make possible farm shortages

In

food and fIber crops, homes for returning service men he warned. . and war industrial workers."

The problems, Mr. Fortas SaId,

are, first, labor supply, fertilizer Secretary

Icke,~

urged the

~€st

and farm equipm-ent, and second, to be prepared to meet possJble the problem of providing addition- food shortages which may threaten al acreage to take care of the na- the nationat welfare in

~his

emer-

tion's needs. . I genG¥." :

Finish Pending Projects "After the war," he said, Uthe

"To solve theiSe problems, we Bureaau of Reclamation.;wHl have must have money, materials and a shelf of

f~sible

project's ready manpower," he explained. "In view for launching to cushion the im- of the known fac. ts, I can say upon pact of our transition to peacetime authority of the secretary of the economy." ,

. interior that the department pro- Raise Essential Foods poses to urge upon the 'Bureau of

the Budget and Congress the ne- cessity for the appropriation of funds to accelerate the completion of pending reclaH!ation projects."

Federal Reclamation Commis-

Secretary Wickard said tha1 to win the war "we must concentrate all our future efforts on produc- tion, processing and distribution of absolutely essential foods.

sioner John C. Page said that fed- "We must make some shift in era 1 reclamation projects will give production from \rops of which ' irrigation benefits to 135,000 farm we now have reserves, such as families, and 10 million residents wheat and cotton, to other essen ..

of farms and cities in 16 western tial crops for which war needs states will be served by power have created an increased demand.

and supplemental water facilities Of special importance are soy planned by the bureau. bpans, peanuts, and flaxseed for Supply Power and Water oil. We shall have to make other Western power plants' capacity shifts in production from crops of will be increased to 2,500,00Q kilo- low nutritive valu. e to those of high watts by July, 1943-a boost of nutritive value. We need more 160 percent in two years. And this, meat, dairy and pOllltry products."' Mr. Page added, can be increased

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to 4,500,000 kilowatts by adding installations in the plants.

In addition to supplying power for war industries, the projects are furnishing water for cities and military camps in the West, Mr.

Page pointed out.

Mentioning various projects, Mr.

Page said that Parker Dam in Ari- zona would be producing power for war work next month, that the capacity of Boulder dam would be greatly increased in December and that numerous projects would be completed next year, including Green Mountain Dam in Colorado and Shasta and Keswick Dams in California.

The convention, attended by 450

delegates, will close at the Shir-

ley-Savoy Hotel today. '

I Deserts Converted to Farm Land in War Effort, Page

Tells Reclamation Convention

<Associated Press)

explained, could put 150,000 bomb- Denver, Oct. 15.-As part of the ers and fighting planes aloft an- United states' tremendous war ef- nually, if devoted entirely to air- fort the government is converting plane production.

des~rts into food-producing land to Members of the association, feed the united nations and har- representing western states, were nessing rivers to power the factories urged to see that the west becomes turning out w_ar machines. self sufficient in food production.

This double-narreled program was "Even should there be an abund- explained today to the National ance to the eastward, a further con- Reclamation Association by federal gestion of cross-country transporta- reclamation commissioner John C. tion facilities would have an ad- I Page. verse effect on the war," he warned.

I I To guard against possible food Shortly after the reclamation as-

r shortage in America and in the sociation opened its 11th annual countries fighting at her side, the convention yesterday, Omaha dele- Federal Reclamation Bureau has gates invited the group to hold its undertaken to irrigate 12,000,000 1943 conclave in Omaha.

acres of land in the west and to Addressing the 480 members of bu\ld huge hydroelectric plants to the association, President O. S.

supply power for war industries, Warden of Great Falls, Mont., as- Page said. serted that s'llgar rationing is the

At present about 4,500,000 acres result of the federal government's of land are irrigated under

~'eclama-

opposition to expansion of sugar tion projects. The huge

mcr~ase,

beet acreage in recent years.

which will result from proJects I Blaming government officials for under construction or authorized, rationing, Warden also charged will include 5,000,000 acres of that "a combination of influential desert in Arizona and California, business men having a selfish inter- Page told the reclamation associa- est," conspired to destroy the sugar tion at one of its annual conven- industry in the United States. He tion's opening sessions. said:

More than 70,000 farms irrigated "I hate to criticize the great de-

I by the bureau produced food valued I partments of my government, but

I

at $200,000,000 this year and much in all {ruth they have been a better of the produce, Page said, went to friend of American capital invested

the army. in foreign plantations than they

The reclamation program, Page have of the United States farmer, declared, will give' irrigation bene- who would like to build an industry fits to 135,000 farm. families, and at home."

10,000,000 residents of farms, and Warden urged beet and sugar cities i~ 16 westeI:n states

WIll

be cane growers and operators of pro- served by power and supplemental cessing plants to demand a reason.

water facilities planned by the able progressive national sugar

bureau. policy.

All of the power proj~cts. serve "Until this happens," he said, irrigation, directly or mdlrectly, "the bankers and others who have altho they were designed primarily money in Cuban plantations may

^I

to develop power for war work, have their way about it. Housewives Page said. . may continue to stand in line an Western power plants capaCIty, hour or so to get enough sugar to according to plans, will be in· sweeten a jar of United States creased to 2,500,OQO kilowatts by peaches."

July, 1943-a boost of 160 per cent in electric volume in two years.

And this, Page added, can be in- creased to 4,500,000 kilowatts by adding installations in the plants.

These 4,500,000 kilowatts, Page

The last men to leave the burial

vaults of ,Egyptians thousands of

years ago left footprints still vis-

ible in the sands of time.

,MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 194'Q

Reclamation Head Says Full Utilization of Farm Lands of

West Req'uired for War Needs

Denver, Oct. 12.-A double-bar- reled threat to the nation's war ef- fort-shortages in food and farm labor-must· be countered by the full utilization 0.1: three million more acres of

v-."

stern farm land in 1943, says O.

~/III'

Nard en, president of the National

.L{e,~lamalion

Association.

"The only way to get the extra food vitally needed all over the world is to plant more land," the Great Falls, 1\1ont., publIsher

tU111

irrigation leader, declared, adding!

"It is cleal"'.y our duty in the west to add to the 20 million aci'es now being irrigated in the 17 states of

thi~

region."

Here for the Recl9,mation ASSO-, elation's annual meetmg, which he described as

<t

"war conference," I

'Varden stressed Lhe need of a cen-,

t'o~alized

agency in Washington to ''''(Irk with s;ate agencies in direct- ing' the mobhtzatjon and distribu-l tWll of farm labor dudng the war I

emergency.

"There must be a coordination I

of effort" to solve the problem, he said. Warden asserted that the job of I

making full use of availa, ble waters for irrigation is now "only about one-half done."

"The drain on our food supplies by the nation at home, the armies abroad and our Allies will increase next year," Warden said.

"The farmer has responded splen- didly, and

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believe we have enough water to eventually supply the sec- ond 20 million acres which com- prise our ultimate aim."

Each state, he said, should de- termine where additional acreage might be brought into productivity.

The U. S. Bureau of Reclamation 1s studying plans for approximately 140 reclamation projects, and one

<>f the purposes of the convention

opening here Wednesday will be to

determine what cun most profItably

be

a:~comp~i~~e

near future.

More Than 600 ITo Attend NRA

Convention Here

lYe,.,.. Ot: f. '/t ''1'''::L-

More than 600 engineers, bus i-

I

nessmen and public officials will convene here' today for opening . sessions of the 11th annual two-

day convention of the National Reclamation Association in the Shirley-Savoy Hotel.

Registration of delegates will get under way at 9 a. m. today, , after which delegate's will meet with state caucuses to elect direc- . tors, representatives for the legis- lative and resolutions committees, and to draft reclamation policies.

The' convention will officially begin at 1:30 p. tn., when Dr. O. S.

Warden of Great Falls, Mont., NRA president, calls the conven- tion to order.

Among today's speakers will be

: Dr. Warden, James A. Ford ' of

b Spokane, Wash., manager of the

Spokane Chamber of Commerce',

and Floyd O. Hagie, NRA secre-

, tary-manager.

Congress Told U. S. Beet Crop In Big Danger

(Associated Pre~s)

Denver, Oct. 13.-The National Reclamation association warned senators and representatives today that the shortage of farm labor is I

so critical it imperils harvesting of the sugar beet crop.

Unless conditions are alleviated,

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a "substantial percentage" of the 1942 beet crop will be frozen in the ground before it can be harvest- I

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ed, said a telegram sent to western

congressmen, signed by O. S. War·

den of Great Falls, Mont., president of the association. State directors o fthe association also signed the

I

message.

"Before members return home for

I

election campaigns, urge efforts remedial measures, such as defer- ment of labor engaged in beet, dairy, livestock production; stabil- izing farm workers present jobs; I

more intensive efforts recruiting evacuee aliens, prison camp labor; I and procurement Mexican work·

ers," the telegram suggested.

The reclamation association offi- cials estimated that these addition- al workers are needed at once in the sugar beet producing states to I

carryon the harvest:

Montana, 1,800; Utah, 2,000; I

Idaho, 2,500; South Dakota, 300;

Wyoming, 500; Nebraska, 500;

I North Dakota and Minnesota, 300;

and Oregon, 500.

The estimate of needed addi- tional workers for Colorado will be given tomorrow.

E. W. Rising of Nampa, Idaho,' president of the Western Beet Growers association, present here for a meeting of that organization,

I

asserted that the labor shortage in Idaho is so acute that unless ad- ditional workers can be procured

I "it will be impossible to finish the harvest before February."

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If beet processing facilities· can be increased, -efforts will be made to expand sugar beet producing areas, particularly in Montana, in the Red river valley sections of North Dakota and Minnesota in Nebraska, and in the San Luis val- ley in Colorado, Rising said.

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The meeting of the Beet Growers

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,

association and the Association of Western State Engineers are being held in advance of the 11th annual convention of the reclamation as-

I

sociation.

I

J. H. Waldron of the 'farm securi- ty administration off San Francisco said stabilizing farm communities

I during the war emergency could

!

best be done by working thru 'and aiding individual families. He urged

I greater cooperative effort on the part of farm families.

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Engineer Sergeant In Alaska Routed

I ^Bear Denver, Oct. 16.-Take the ^{:~~ ~~~ts} word of Maj. Gen. Eugene Rey- bold-the U. S. army engineers are tough.

General Reybold chief of the engineers, related today the story of a sergeant working on the Alaska highway who was bathing in a wilderness creek and was at- tacked by a Canadian black bear.

"He was a two-fisted sergeant,"

said General Reybold, "and with those two fists he went to work on the bear.

"After being cuffed around at length, the sergeant and his fists finally triumphed, and the bear retreated.

"That, I am sure," the general

commented In a speech to the

National Reclamation Associa-

tion, "is a happy and accurate

augury of the fortunes that wait

our natonal arms."

RECL.AMATION · GROUP· ..

HAS HE-E.LECTED ALL 17 STATE DIRECTORS

P. $1

^{()I, ..}

f. "~I I.,,)..

All seventeen state directors of the National Reclamation association, with exception of Texas, were re- elected Thursday afternoon on the second day of the organization's three-day convention in the Shirley- Savoy hotel.

William B. Arnold of San Antonio was named Texas state director to succeed R. E. Baskin of Seymour, who died recently.

Re-elected were:

California: J. R. Fauver of Exeter;

Kansas, E. Porter Ahrens of Scandia;

Nevada, A. M. Smith of Carson City;

~~

ew

~xico,

E. W. Bowen of

Tuc~lm­

ual'i; North Dakota, Harry E. Polk of Williston; Wyoming, Perry W.

Jenkins of Cora.

The other ten were announced

earliel' . Thursday:.

NRA Will Urge Westerner for Supreme Court

,Vew.t Oc.i I~~ If"~

The National ReC'lamation Asso- ciation was preparing a resolution at its convention here yesterday ,urging President Roosevelt to ap-

I

point a Western man to the va- cancy on the U. S. Supreme Court

I

bench.

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The proposed resolution, dis-!

cussed at a meeting of the board of

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directors, me with the approval

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of the entire convention as wordl was circulated it had been consid-

ered. '

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Floyd O. Hagie, secretary man- ager of the association ,said he had' wired President Rposevelt to ap- point a Western man to the va- cancy as soon as he heard of the resignation of James Byrnes, des- ignated to head the nation's drive on inflation.

New Texas Man

State caucuses met yesterday and re-elected all state directors with the exception of Texas. The latter

I

elected William B. Arnold of San Antonio to succeed R. E. Baskin of Seymour, who died last week.

Directors re-elected included:

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Clifford H. Stone of Denver, Hugo B. Farmer of Yuma, Ariz.; J. R.I

Fauver of Exeter, Calif.: N. V.

Sharp of Filer, I?aho; E. Porter

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Ahrens of ScandIa,

Kan.~

O. S'I Warden of Great Falls, Mont. I

H. D. Strunk of McCook, Neb.;

A. M. Smith of Carson

Ci~y,

Nev.;!

E. W. Bowen of Tucumcan, N. M.;

Harry E. Polk of Williston, N. D.;

Frank Raab of Canton, Okla.; Rob- ert W. Sawyer of Bend, Ore.; W.

D. Buchholz of Newe.ll, S. D.: Ora

I Bundy of Ogden, Utah; J. A. Ford

I

of Spokane, Wash., and Perry W.

Jenkins of Cora, Wyo.

Will Head Committee

, Mr. Sawyer was named to head the important resolutions commit- tee, which will report tomorrow.

Harry E. Polk of Williston, S. D.,

said he hoped the convention dates

for 1943 would be delayed several

weeks so that it would not inter-

fere with the harvest, which has I

kept many men from attending

the convention.

Carr Speaks Against Extending Power Over Natural Resources

By MORRIS CLEAVENGER

(Associated Press)

Denver, Oct. 12.-A new warning

I

against extension of federal control over natural resources of western states was sounded today by Alfred Merritt Smith, state engineer from

Nevada. .

Smith spoke at the 15th annual convention of the Association of Western State Engineers, being held in advance of the annual con- vention of the National Reclama- tion Association, Wednesday thru Friday.

Smith asserted that some federal departments are using the war emergency as a means of obtaining greater control over natural re- sources from congress.

I A similar belief was expressed by Gov. Ralph L. Carr of Colorado, who spoke briefly. Carr, a republican, is running for United States senator.

The governor declared that ex-

perts must plan beyond the war for

more beneficial use of water, and

must counter attempts of tIle fed-

eral government to set up lasting

river authorities or other organiza-

tions to control whole river basins.