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June 17, 1934

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STARVATION NEAR FOR MANY IN SOUTH; Quarter of One County in Georgia on Relief at 15 Cents a Day.

By Julian Harris

ATLANTA, Ga., June 14. -- In many ways the South has been leading in New Deal recovery. Cities like Atlanta and Dallas have made remarkable records in business recovery and the farmers of this section have found in the administration's plow-under plan a panacea for much that has been ailing them. But there are sad spots throughout the South, some of them in Georgia.

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