| Summary: | 20th Century Pioneers Are Nearing Home. 20TH CENTURY PIONEERS ARE NEARING HOME By JAMES A. SULLIVAN United Press Staff Correspondent SEWARD, Alaska, May 10. (U.E)—America's 20th century pioneers, 67 farm families routed by drought from once-fertile homes in mid western United States, today began the last phase of their rail and water voyage to new homes and prospective economic security in the "land of the midnight sun." They left here by rail for Anchorage, 145 miles northward, from where they will journey to a government-sponsored farm colony at Palmer and seek to wrest a comfortable living from the lush soil of the Matanuska river valley in a momentous five-year social experiment. Success or failure of the project will be determined within that time. CHILDREN Children, clogs and household belongings, meager reminders of their unsuccessful fight against the odds of economic depression and elemental fury in their Minnesota homes, were transferred to railroad trains last night from the United States army transport St. Mihiel. which brought the hopeful group Here from San Francisc. The pilgrims, advance, unit of a colony of 200 drought defeated families from middle western states, were scheduled to arrive in Anchorage in time to be feted at an "all Alaska" dinner. "BEAR" BEEF There, they will dine on "bear" beef, huge steaks from Alaska salmon and the flesh of the hybird animal produced by crossing the Siberian yak with the domesticated beef stock. A principal item of the menu was to be early fresh vegetables grown in Matanuska valley—vegetables which the newcomers will seek to make more plentiful on Alaskan dinner tables.
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