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...about a mile below the President's. They were under the impression that all that country was soon to become a national preserve, so they did not bother .themselves much about legal details. As a result they found themselves last week involved in unfavorable publicity when the Madison Timber Corp., owner of the land on which they camp, accused them of being nothing better than squatters...
When President Hoover picked the Rapidan for his camp, he had no idea that his presence there would hurt, rather than help Virginia gather up private land to contribute as the Shenandoah National Park. The President's camp boomed mountainside values. The Madison Timber Corp., putting a $1,000,000 price on land sought by the State, argued that their property was worth it, not entirely as timber perhaps, but as a potential summer resort. The President, they claimed, had given the region priceless advertising and had put in an 8 mi. road worth $200,000. and power and telephone...
...Even Russia does not get her timber for nothing, and the deeper they cut the further they must go for their timber, and even if Russia cared nothing for making profit the fall in the price of timber comes at a very inconvenient time for her. Its effect on the success or nonsuccess of the Five-Year Plan can be great...
Governor Roosevelt was followed in the afternoon by Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot. The program committee had assigned him a safe and sane topic: "Timber Needs of the Future." This he swept aside to launch into a tirade against public utilities, his favorite political theme. He warned the Governors of the political domination of the Power Trust. He named four groups: Mellon-Morgan, Insull, North American, Harris-Forbes. These, he said, generated about 95% of U. S. electricity. He predicted their merger into one colossal combination. Excerpts from a speech which got the biggest applause...
...Harvard contingent will be Record, winner in the intercollegiate 120-yard timber topping event for the second successive time, who will pair with DeVoe, Eli captain. Watkins will handle the short dashes, and Dodge wil compete in the quarter. A dual race at New Haven some time within the next ten days between Kollmyer and Warner of the Yale squad will determine Dodge's partner in the double furlong...