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the Bureau of Animal Industry in 1917, as a personnel clerk. He served in the 
Bureau of Markets and the Division of Publications of the Department of Agri- 
culture from 1919 to 1921. He then became secretary to the Director of the War 
Finance Corporation from 1921-22. In 1922 he became administrative assistant 
and secretary to the Secretary of Agriculture, which position he held until 1931 
when he became business manager of the Bureau of Entomology, transferring in 
the same capacity when the present Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine 
was formed in 1934. 
CUSHING NAMED HEAD OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE DIVISION 
[Press notice] 
November 27, 1941. 
P. X. Annand, chief of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, 
United States Department of Agriculture, announced today appointment of 
Emory C. Cushing to succeed F. C. Bishopp as chief of the Division of Insects 
Affecting Man and Animals. 
Mr. Cushing was born in Grafton, Nebr., December 4, 1897, attended public 
schools in San Antonio, Tex., and graduated in 1918 from Texas Agricultural and 
Mechanical College. He pursued advanced work at that institution, the Liverpool 
School of Tropical Medicine, and Cornell University. 
Mr. Cushing was on the staff of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station 
before joining the Bureau of Entomology in 1928. His work with the Bureau 
has been largely devoted to investigations of insects affecting man and animals 
and for several years he was assistant division leader. It was due to his efforts that 
the true screwworm was identified, revolutionizing control of this very important 
pest. 
ROHWER IN CHARGE OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT? QUARANTINE REGULATORY 
WORK, POPHAM NEW ASSISTANT CHIEF 
[Press notice] 
December 4, 1941. 
The United States Department of Agriculture announced today new assign- 
ments for two officers of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine. 
Sievert A. Rohwer, an assistant chief of the Bureau, has been placed in charge of 
regulatory work, and William Lee Popham has been appointed an assistant chief 
in charge of control operations. P. N. Annand is Chief of the Bureau. 
Mr. Rohwer was born in Telluride, Colo., on December 22, 1888. He was 
educated in Colorado and came to the Department in 1909 as a taxonomist. In 
1923 he was placed in charge of the new division of Insect Identification of the 
Bureau of Entomology, and in 1927 was assigned to general administrative duties. 
When the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration was created in 1928 he 
was appointed assistant chief of that Bureau. In 1933, Mr. Rohwer was trans- 
ferred to the Bureau of Entomology as assistant chief and continued as such 
when the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine was created in 1934. 
Mr. Popham was born in Corvallis, Mont., on February 26, 1901. He received 
a B. S. degree in agriculture from Montana State College in 1923, and did 2 years' 
postgraduate work in botany and plant pathology at the same school. His first 
position was with the Montana State Horticultural Board, and he entered the 
Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Plant Industry in September 1924 as a 
State leader in black stem rust control. In 1928 he became regional leader for 
Montana and Wyoming and in 1930 a field supervisor for 13 North Central States. 
He came to Washington as assistant chief of the Division of Barberry Eradication 
in 1931, and when this work was taken over by consolidation with the Bureau of 
Entomology and Plant Quarantine in 1934 he was placed in charge of barberry 
eradication work. 
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DISCONTINUES EUROPEAN CORN 
BORER CERTIFICATION 
[Press notice] 
December 30, 1941. 
The United States Department of Agriculture said today that on January 1 
it will discontinue certification of products the movement of which is regulated 
by State quarantines on account of the European corn borer. 
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