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Show CHIEF FORESTER DENIES REVERSAL OF POLICIES By Associated Press. PORTLAND. Or.. May 7.-Hcwv S. Graven, chief forester of the United Slates, who arrived hero vesterdav, says he does not understand what Sccretarv oalllnger meant when lie testified thb other day at the Balllnger-Pinohot hearing hear-ing that there had been a "complote reversal re-versal In tho. forestry service pollcv of the government," since the retirement of Plnchot. "If Mr. Balllngor mad that statement." state-ment." said Mr. Graves, "I cannot Imagine Im-agine what ho referred to. Thcro has been no radical change in Ihe policies and I know of none planned for the future. fu-ture. We are. of course, developing the administration of tho forests aud filling tho policies more closely together as wo go along. Mr. IJalllngor Is also quoted as saying that $7.H.!)8S lias been wantonly wastcd on the Menominee forest reserve In Wisconsin. I am not personallv familiar fa-miliar with the administration or affairs up thcrf. but T have always understood the work was excellent." Mr. Graves declined to enter Into a discussion dis-cussion of the Balltngor-PInchot controversy. |