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Show WOUNDED VETERANS MAY RECEIVE LANDS WASHINGTON April 13, Secretary Fall today raid he approved the bill pending in congress which provides . 'orco-operation between the interior department and the veterans' bureau in establishing a settlement of rehabilitated rehab-ilitated former crviec men on a re-! re-! claimed unit of the Yuma mesa in Arizona. : Enactment of the measure the secretary sec-retary said, would Initiate the first j practical effort In the placement Of --serv ice men on a reclamation project pro-ject The plan of the hill contemplates turning ov er to the v eterans' bureau a I number of five and 10-acre farm units un-its for which the reclamation service will furnish . complete irrigation tern. Veterans capable of farming would le schooled in agriculture dur- ng the period of land preparation and building Construction and as soon as the lands were productive would take ever their plois. |