Washington, Oct. 11.
Mr. Henry A. Wallace, the Secret-ery of Agriculture, took personal command today of the drive for expanded markets to save the New Deal farm programme from collapse under the unprecedented surpluses and the lowest prices since 1933, Reports of farm dissatisfaction have increased and critics have assailed the entire programme, Yesterday's October crop report showed an aggregate crop production which was the highest since 1929 with the exception of 1937.
Meanwhile the over-flow from every normal granary sweept the prices in principal crops down by 25 to 50 per cent. in the past six months.
The Secretary of Agriculture re organized the entire administrative staff in his drive to direct a revised programme intended to expand the domestic markets. He also made plans to increase direct Federal aid to "give the farmers a fair share of national income." Farm programme zdministrationers said that they had abandoned hope for solution through expanded foreign markets.
Mr. Wallace appointed a Commission to study the means of getting more clothing and foods into hands, "one-third of which are underfed and underclothed."
He raised the Surplus Commodities Corporation to the rank of a full bureau and proposed the re-enactment of processing taxes to finance a permanent subsidy to provide a long range programme to? increase the farmers share of the national income—United Press.
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