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CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE MONDAY; FEBRUARY 6. 1939. .8 rr? Chas. A. Stevens members of congress.

The report urges that a single executive be named to exercise administrative functions. Dam Floods Road Stale near Washington (Story starts on page 1.) NATION'S ELM TREES AT MERCY OF BLIGHT; U. S. CALLS FOR HELP Chicago's Largest Sfor for Women Open 9:45 to 5:45 Follow Lead of Other Cities. Consolidation of 150 district agen URGE WHOLE NEW SETUP IN RULE OF WASHINGTON, D.C.

FARMERS STORM AGAINST LAND SEIZURE BY U. S. cies into seventeen departments is proposed which would provide the come or sales taxes to provide city revenue, residents of the district are complaining that congress should provide a larger share of the cost the district. Congressmen in turn are complaining that the 5 million dollars appropriated annually is too much and that residents should pay more. Reports that President Roosevelt favors any particular plan of organization have been denied.

He is said to be awaiting the report before telling his preference. Some suggestions that the city manager plan be adopted have been heard. usual departments of finance, safety, health, public works, parks and rec reation, such as other leading cities throughout the country maintain. The reorganization proposal is linked closely with a controversy over district finances. Facing possible in Present System Illogical, Say Griffenhagens.

800 Families Ordered to Give Up Homes in Washington, D. Feb. 5. Special. Thousands of elm trees have been killed in the middle and lower Ohio valley in recent years by a virus disease, the first to appear in shade trees of this country, the department of agriculture reported today.

The epidemic disease first takes form in a slight shriveling and brit-tleness of the leaf, and later rots the roots and inner bark of the trunk. Within a few months the tree may be dead. Citizens are requested to report the presence of the malady, which agricultural experts are seeking to study. The disease first was called to the IFIirst State IPawiiei's Society UNDER STATE SUPERVISION 42 South Clark Street will hold their Continued from first pajre. 1 zens.

They do not want to see the bones of their parents moved from fifteen graveyards that will be covered by water. They do not want to move to new scenes. They do not want Truck splashing through water on highway between Marion and Carbondale, 111. The dam being completed in the Crab Orchard project backed up the water. Chicago Tribune Press Service.

Washington, D. Feb. 5. Special. Complete reorganization of the government of the District of Columbia is recommended in a report made public today by Senator William H.

King Utah and Representative Jennings Randolph W. chairmen of the senate and house committees for the district. The report calls the existing organization complex, confused, illogical and attention of the federal government at Ironton and Dayton, O. Three years ago it appeared in Chillicothe, where it has killed more than to be unemployed. 1,000 elms.

More recently it has be come severe in Columbus. JACKSOH )WILL I A M50V C6 II co. vc UyU "What will southern Illinois get in return for driving them out with cr evil a fraction of the wealth they once mends that the district be organized OF UNREDEEMED PLEDGES Consisting of high-grade, modern diamond jewelry, watches, silverware and antiques Tuesday, Fell. 10 A.M. had? A duck pond, a little more than The problem of governmental or CtfyLaj) MARIONll 20 feet at its deepest; a body of stag as one municipal corporation.

Under this proposal it is suggested that congress delegate ordinance making powers and all functions of local government to a single administrative nant water that will become the greatest breeding ground for mosqui at i I I body. The two congressional committees Main iJ WILLIAMS, BARKER SEVERN 220 South Wabash Avenue Public Exhibition Monday, February 6lh fill iBra 1 fill il ill Plaids and Stripes for JjS a Slimmer, Prettier You! Three of Our Newest, Smartest House CoaHmlmm 'o-95- fill are urged in the Griffenhagen report to reorganize the present District of 'v r- ii DAMS 1 95 tV, Columbia commission of three mem COMPLETED bers and separate the legislative and 5 MILES ganization in the district is unique, according to Griffenhagen and Associates, of Chicago, consultants in public administration and finance, who just have completed a nine months survey. This is because the district is a state, a county, and a city, which under the constitution must be governed by congress. The way in which congress governs the district is shown in the Griffenhagen report, which says sixty-five local agencies, thirty-five federal agencies and more than fifty committees and boards have a voice in district administration. One Corporate Entity Urged.

The report submitted to a senatorial committee of fifteen and a house committee of twenty-one recom- PER MONTH executive functions. The commission was created under an act of 1878 and 1 Jewelry loans $1.00 to $5,000 from time to time has received a few other charges legislative powers from congress. Shaded area is land which federal government proposes to buy for Crab Orchard lake project. Main dam and proposed dams are indicated by arrows. It is suggested that a legislative commission of five to seven members be appointed by the President, as Member of Chicago Association of Commerce DIRECTORS now, or perhaps by a vote of the peo pie.

District of Columbia residents 1 EFFINGHAM JOHN McKINLAY JOHN STUART JOHN P. WILSON T. E. DONNELLY JOHN V. FARWELL HOWARD W.

FENTON A. A. CARPENTER KENT CHANDLER ALBERT B. DICK, JR. now have no voice in administration of the city, nor in the election of toes in southern Illinois.

"I never have been able to find out what use this so-called lake will be. It has no value in reforestation, soil erosion prevention, or flood control. No fish except mud cats will be able to live in any but the deepest parts. The government is building a swamp." Traces Title to Great Grandfather. The story of Fred Crain is typical of the experiences of these farmers.

"My great-grandfather, Maj. Hampton, settled here many years ago," Crain said. "He settled some of the land that I bought myself some years ago. I paid $35 an acre. I cleared the land and built Improvements.

I have been offered $75 an acre. "Now the government has appraised my holdings at $51 an acre. Since I was notified I would have to go, I have driven 2,500 miles over Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois. I have found nothing as good as my 103 acres for as little as $75." All the farmers maintain they never were consulted as to what they considered a fair price. Many claim they never have seen an appraiser on their lands.

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Frank Burns is different. "They want to take fifty or more of my hundred acres," he said. "They'll leave me the rest, with the buildings on it, but it's too small a place to make a living on. And I have no idea what I'm to get. I want my name used.

I don't like this business and I don't care who knows it." R. A. Coleman, who has no land to be condemned, but will be inconvenienced by the relocation of a highway to accommodate the lake, said the Shawnee Indians never were treated as badly as our farmers," because the Indians could find more hunting grounds. Protest to Keller. Coleman has written a letter to Congressman Keller protesting the project.

He said the outskirts of Marion and a large part of Carter-ville will be flooded in times of high water and that a water supply lake for the town of Herrin will be rendered useless. He added that coercive measures are being used to make the farmers sign up for their lands. The proposal to move graveyards is meeting with discontented mutters. Strange tales are whispered of the difficulty of getting men to do the work. This part of the project is too close to human emotions to be met nonchalantly.

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Ted Hill, a member of the Carter-ville High school board, declared he never had been interviewed about the value of his farm and had no idea what he was going to get in the condemnation proceedings. But I do know that our school will have to close unless the state takes over the task of supporting it," he said. Even as things are, we are having a hard time. The three-fifths of the township under water won't pay any taxes." Some farmers have received curtly worded notes informing them possession of their places is demanded by the United States. If you want to stay longer, make arrangements with the lake project supervisor," was the gist of one paragraph.

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