Letters: Jul. 14, 1930

Dakota Rumor

Sirs: Rumors I have heard several times in North Dakota that President Hoover has a ranch in Stockton, Calif. On the gate is a sign—no white men employed. I would like to know very much if this is true, or just propaganda. HENRY SCHIPPER

Casselton, N. Dak.

President Hoover is one of several stockholders in Poso Land & Development Co., which operates a truck ranch—cotton, grapes, alfalfa, melons—at Wasco, in the San Joaquin Valley south of Stockton. There are no labor signs of any kind on or near this ranch.—ED.

Antiair Gunnery (Cont.)...

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