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Show PLAN SUGGESTED TO SOLVE NAVAJO PROBLEM William E. Warne, assistant secretary of interior; James Stewart, Stew-art, superintendent of the Navajo reservation, and A. W. O'Connell, Oregon packer, are conferring this week at Phoenix, Arizona, on a plan to provide employment for the Navajo Indians. The project calls for moving the Indians to the Oregon berry fields where they can be used in the berry harvest. The Navajos have been facing starvation star-vation 'because of increased population popu-lation and decreases in tlreir flocks. The plan calls for th establishment establish-ment first of an Indian village in the berry fields near Gresham, Oregon, where some 30 Indian families comprizing approximately 300 Indians, will be given an opportunity op-portunity of proving their value as berry field laborers. If the project is successful, thousands of Navajo and Hopi Indians will be given employment in the Oregon fields. |