The following appeared in The Rock County Star on October 4, 1929.
Frank Clague Is Luverne Visitor
Luverne was favored on Monday of this week with a visit from Congressman Frank Clague, the Representative of the Second District. The Congressman spent most of the day in the city, visiting friends and renewing political contacts. At luncheon, he was the guest of the Luncheon Club and spoke for a few moments on his recent trip in the submarine and his experiences in air traveling.
The Congressman told luncheon club guests that he had visited every county in the district and talked with over five hundred farmers in the past few weeks. “There is a spirit of contentment in the district,” Mr. Clague declared, “indicating that conditions are much better than they have been for the past several years. There is quite a movement in land, as a whole. In our county there has been a big land movement and one firm in Redwood Falls has sold twenty farms in the past six weeks. I think I can say that there is a general improvement among the farmers and business men in the district.”
Club members especially enjoyed the legislator’s account of a trip in a submarine which Mr. Clague and other House members recently under-took as a part of their investigation, as a House committee of submarine conditions. The Congress-man told how he and four other members of his committee went out from Norfolk in the S 5 and went down with it in 135 feet of water, remaining there for two and one-half hours and enjoying an undersea luncheon during their submergence. Luncheoners enjoyed the description of the submerging and raising apparatus and a general account of sub operations and limitations.
Equally entertaining was the versatile law-maker’s account of an air voyage from Lakehurst to New York, in the army’s dirigible, Los Angeles.
The Congressman made no comment on the pending tariff legislation, but in private conversation he seemed worried about the fate of farm schedules and inclined to feel that the President should intervene in behalf of farm rates and against industrial rates just as he intervened for the flexible provision.
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