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Show ICKES STALLS ON UTAH GRANT The public works boai.1 met in star chamber session at Washington Washing-ton Tuesday but no mentio--v-as made of the Utah reclamation program pro-gram in spite of the promises for an initial allocation of $5,000,000 made by Administrator Ickes to Senator King and Governor Blood some time ago. Secretary of War George H. Dern, a member of the board, reminded Ickes and his inner circle that Utah had been the thirty-sixth state to vote to repeal the eighteenth amendment, heeding the pleas of the Roosevelt administration and suggested that the board might well grant Utah's foremost wish and authorize the reclamation program pro-gram for which Governor Blood 1 and the state's congressional delegation dele-gation spent six weeks in the capital. capi-tal. Senator King was incensed Tuesday Tues-day when he learned that there is a disposition on the part of Ickes to reduce the initial allocation to Utah to $3,000,000 instead of the $5,000,000 as promised. - |