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Show PRICELESS DOCUMENTS TO BE EXHIBITED DURING TEXAS CENTENNIAL EXPO. DALLAS, TEXAS, April ft-Guar. ded night and day by detachments of United States soldiers and Marines Mar-ines some of the most precious documents docu-ments In the archives of the United States will be on exhibition In the Federal exhibit building at the Texas Tex-as Centennial Exposition during the coming summer. On display In specially construct-ed construct-ed glass cases will be the Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803, the Florida Flori-da Purchase Treaty of 1819 and the Joint resolution of Congress of 1845 annexing the Republic of Texas to the Union. Diplomatic correspondence correspond-ence between the United States and the Republic of Texas and the historic his-toric report on the "Condition of Texas" made to President Andrew Jackson by Henry Morfit in 1836 will also be on exhibition. "The United States government exhibit at the Texas Centennial Exposition Ex-position will be valued at more than $25,000,000, says E. R. Burdick, Federal exhibits director. "The historical documents, of 'course, are priceless but there will also be shown the United States Post Office Of-fice Department's collection of stamps, which will leave Washington Washing-ton for the first time. It contains specimens of every United States stamp ever issued, stamps of the Confederacy and as nearly as possible pos-sible all stamps issued by foreign governments. It is worth some $10,. 000,000. "The United States Navy will display dis-play $100,000 worth of models or war vessels each about 17 feet long. Scientists from the Smithsonian Institution In-stitution will reconstruct prehistoric animals during the entire progress of the Exposition which commences June 6. The National Advisory Committee Com-mittee on Aeronautics will install a 10 foot wind tunnel to demonstrate demon-strate flight conditions with model planes. A census machine will register re-gister estimated births and deaths throughout the United States from hour to hour." Six hundred United States Infantrymen, Infan-trymen, sailors and marines will be encamped on the Exposition ground from June 6 ft November 29. AAA Will Pay to "Save" Land Just Reclaimed Administrator Chester C. Davis, administrator of the old and the new AAA, admits there Is one "paradox," "para-dox," as he termed it. In the latest $470,000,000 program. It was brought out at a recent committee hearing In the House that the Government Gov-ernment In the last 2 or 3 years has allocated probably three quarters of a billion dollars to reclaim arid land. Under the new AAA set-up, Mr. Davis admitted, benefits will be paid to farmers occupying these lands as the great tracts come Into cultivation. The Government will then be in the strange position of spending large amounts to reduce production on land It has paid millions mil-lions to reclaim. |