U.S.S. HOUSTON 
State Bulletin 
7 August 1938 
Administrator Hopkins 
Speaking yesterday at Memphis to a group of UP-h. Administrators from 
Southern States Administrator Hopkins announced the inauguration by 
his agency of a permanent program of between season employment in 
rural areas in the South. Mr. Hopkins was quoted as declaring: 
”1 believe as a matter of permanent policy the head of every farm 
family whose income is inadequate should be given employment a few 
months each year to supplement his agricultural income. — If the 
per capita net income of farm families in the South could be brought 
up to the level of farmers’ income in the rest of the country the 
pool of new purchasing power thus created would absorb twice as 
many goods as we exported to all foreign countries in 1935.” He 
declared that the economic development of the South had been handi- 
capped by a number of factors including the tariff, the railroads, 
the one crop system and "the concentration of financial power in 
the hands of too few people” many of -whom did not live in the South. 
As remedies for the South’s problems, ho suggested lower freight 
rates, more industrial wage earners, higher wages, and cheaper 
power . 
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The P T ' r A. yesterday announced approval of sixty eight additional 
non-federal projects with an estimated cost of seven million eight 
hundred sixty two thousand five hundred thirty two dollars bringing 
the total cost of all projects under the 1938 program to one billion 
one hundred ten million forty thousand two hundred fifty nine dol- 
lars. The largest item in jrosterdays list was two millions one 
hundred six thousand eight hundred twenty six dollars for construc- 
tion and repairs at the Arkansas State Sanatorium near Boonoville. 
A F of L. 
Speaking yesterday at Worcester, Massachusetts President Green of 
the AFofL took issue with the NLR3 and assorted: ”It will bo my 
duty to mobilize the five million workers in the APofL to drive 
that board from power A He declared that the board was "using tho 
CIO movement to foster secession In the labor movement.” 
Inter-Coastal Steamshin 
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The Panama Pacific Steamer City of Los Angela 
New York for San Francisco thus renewing the 
ping service suspended on March 19. 
is sailed today from 
coast to coast ship- 
New Automobile Tire 
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company announced yesterday in Cleveland 
that it had developed a n w type of tire constructed with a rayon 
base instead of cotton. It was stated that the rayon used in the 
tire was a new silk type cord called raj^ontwist spun from rayon 
filaments and that tho tire would provide easier riding and more 
trength and mileage. 
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Heat Wave 
The nation wide heat wave continued yesterday with high temperatures 
again being registered in the East after temporary relief came on 
Thursday. Maximum temperatures yosterdajr were: New York 93; Boston 
90; Savanna 94; Kansas City 100; Omaha 104; San Antonia 96; 
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