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...weeks the Army was to condition them, teach them the rudiments of camp life. As civilians they were not to be put through military drills. When sufficiently toughened, units of 20 to 100 were to be shipped to National Forests where they will plant trees, clear brush, work roads, build fire controls and fight insect pests. The U. S. Forest Service has 1,000,000 man-months of work waiting to be done by the C. C. C. when recruited to full strength (250,000). Explained Director Fechner...
...would be paid not more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter, clothing and medical attention. Those with dependents would have a part of their pay deducted and sent home. With working hours to be fixed by the President, the C. C. C. would clear brush, plant saplings, develop fire controls, fix roads, mend washouts, cook their own food and pick their own subordinate leaders under supervision of Army officers. "Uncivilized" workers would be dropped for infractions of law & order. A worker would be free to seek his discharge from C. C. C. whenever he had another job awaiting...
...second. In the U. S., Jock Whitney began to build his string after his marriage to utterly horsy Mary Elizabeth ("Liz") Altemus of Philadelphia two years ago. At "Langollen" (near Upperville, Va.), capital of the Jock Whitneys' horse activities in the U. S., are two of the hardest brush and timber courses in the country. There every year is run the Langollen National Steeplechase for which the Whitneys put up the cup. Trainer for Mrs. Whitney-who "rents" her husband's horses from Langollen Stables. Inc., races them under her name-is James W. ("Big Jim") Healy...
...Bush has for the past few years been chiefly noted as the place where his third wife. Marion Spore, painted her weird, mystically-inspired "automatic paintings" (TIME, Feb. 20). Onetime practicing dentist, later a charitarian "Angel of the Bowery," Marion Spore Bush explains that she picks up a brush, starts in one corner of a large canvas "without the slightest idea what is going to happen." In her studio for the last few weeks have gathered regularly her husband's henchmen to talk strategy for his campaign to regain control of Bush Terminal Co., the vast freight-handling...
DEATH ON MY LEFT-Philip MacDonald-Crime Club ($2). Colonel Gethryn reads a boxer's history from a shoe brush...