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HYDE TO GATHER
DATA ON DROUGHT
s Hoover Reaches Decision
i
i After Secretary’s Report
on Stricken Area.
i
(Continued From First Page.)
! lined by President Hoover and Becre
• tary Hyde during their conference:
| (1) Per cent of damage to date?
> (2) Per cent of normal amount of
• feed which will be produced?
1 (3) Number of families who will have
• to have aid in order to carry live stock
• through the Winter?
» '4) Whether there is feed available
' Cither in the county itself or in some
, nearby county to carry the live stock?
• The questionnaire also contained a
| request for the field agents to report
■ end give their personal opinions as to
• the measures necessary to save the
aituation or to bring relief in their
respective districts.
; The questionnaires also emphasized
• the desire on the part of the President
; to get as near as possible a correct re
' port on the actual distress.
Relief Is Not Seen.
> Weather Bureau forecasts offered no
hope of encouragement to harassed
governmental agencies and a suffering
rural population today in the face of
Nation-wide crop losses and increased
needs for relief over a steadily widening
drought area.
While the Department of Agriculture
estimates the crop loss at nearly a bil
lion dollars already, with the possibility
of a food shortage striking at the cities, i
the Weather Bureau reluctantly admit
ted today that there was no indication
of a break in the drought aituation.
Local showers in various sections of the
country, hardly enough to bring any
tuccor to stricken communities, appear
cs the only measure of physical relief.
For the Washington district, the
forecast included “an outside chance"
for thundershowers tonight or tomor
row. Aside from that, the tempera
ture already was 2 degrees higher
at 10 o’clock than at that time yester
day. and the maximum of 88 degrees
that brought relief at about 1 o'clock
yesterdayTnad yielded to 94 at 2 o’clock
this afternoon. Tonight, also, will be
wanner. For the first time this week,
no heat prostrations were reported yes
terday.
i Granting of maximum credit facilities
to farmers whose crops have been wiped
out by the drought Is among
the measures under consideration by the
Federal Farm Board. Maryland and
"Virginia farmers, it is repented, are suf
fering as acutely as those in the Mis
sissippi and Ohio River Valleys. Only
soaking rains, which the Weather Bu
reau admits are unlikely at this time,
•an save many of the crops.
Despite scattered rains. Weather Bu
reau officials said today there had been
Bo real relief from the drought and that
the forecast for tonight and tomorrow
Was not encouraging.
Washingtonians derived only tempo
rary relief from the knowledge that yes
• to-day was the coolest day of this
’month. The temperature reached a
minimum of *9 degrees at 5:45 o’clock
this morning, but predicted rains dur
ing the afternoon or evening failed to
'materialise.
" Indications that the day would be
hot showed early. At 8 o’clock the mer
cury was registering 74 degrees: 81 de
crees at 9 o'clock. From 87 degrees at
‘lO o’clock, with a bright sun shining,
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the mercury climbed three points and
in another hall hour had mounted to
92 degrees.
There was only one hopeful sign:
The humidity, which has so much to do
with one’s personal comfort, had drop
ped from 76 per cent at 8 o’clock to 36
per cent at 11:30 o’clock.
The anticipated showers tonight, it
was said, should prevail over parts of
Maryland and Virginia but it is doubtful
if the rains would be measurable. With
the increased dryness, the danger of
forest fires continues. In various parts
of Western Maryland large areas nave
been burned during the past week.
Monday and Tuesday in Amherst
County. Va., approximately 30 acres of
timber land were burned near Buffalo
River. A patrol force was watching the
burned over area today to guard against
a new outbreak. Nearly 500 acres of
scrub timber along the ridge of Cellar
Mountain in Augusta County was
burned yesterday by a fire which
originated near Cold Spring last Satur
day. Eighty fire fighters kept it under
control.
Fire conditions in the Shenandoah
Valley were never worse, according to
H. M. Sears, supervisor of the Natural
Bridge National Forest. Every lookout
town in the national forests has been
manned and emergency crews are ready
for instant call. The fire on Celler
Mountain was confined to Government
owned land.
While streams are drying up even in
the District of Columbia, it was reported
that the Alexandria, Va.. water supply
has enough on hand for 90 days. There
is no need for curtailing the use of
water as yet, officials stated.
With nothing but local showers in
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1930,
-1 dicated for the suffering sections in the
) immediate future, the Federal Farm
Board w r as studying a possibility of ex
: tending substantial credit to livestock
> and cotton farmers through emergency
■ interpretation of the Federal marketing
I act.
Assurance reached the President from
; the railroads of the drought areas that
they would co-operate in any measures
1 determined upon by the administration
i to get feed and cattle together. Re
-1 duction of freight rates on hay and
i feed into the cattle growing areas and
; possibly free transportation of livestock
to unaffected grazing lands are under
contemplation, but a decision will await
the detailed report on conditions which
i the Agriculture Department has prom
ised to give Mr. Hoover on Monday,
i The Farm Loan Board placed on rec
ord as willing to do all possible to ex
• | tend credit through the intermediate
i credit banks, the farm land banks and
i joint stock land banks. From con
gressional quarters came many requests
for help, and to these has been added the
offer of Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
the Democratic leader, to undertake
i a refund by Congress to the Farm
l Board if the latter would divert all Its
available funds to drought relief.
| Await Legge’s Return.
Carl Williams, member representing
cotton, had ready for study of other
Farm Board members an analysis of
I means available for getting production
< credit into the hands of farmers. A
i conference of the board to determine
’ whether his suggestions could be em
ployed was not in prospect, however,
until after the return of Chairman
•
Upper: Lieut. Col. H. A. Finch pre
senting the District National Guard
Regiment new colors in exercises held
yesterday at the Guard encampment at
Fort Humphreys, Va. Left. Col. John
W. Oehmann, in command of the regi
ment, receiving the colors from Lieut.
Col. Finch.
Lower: MaJ. Gen. Anton Stephan,
commanding officer of the District Na
tional Guard; Col. Edward H. Schulsm.
commandant of Fort Humphreys, and
Col Oehmann. —Star Staff* Photos.
Legge, now on a tour of the Northwest
scheduled to end August 20.
Under the Williams plan, it is un
derstood, farmers would be enabled to
put up live stock as collateral for
money to buy feed. They would be ob
ligated to market their stock through
the National Live Stock Marketing As
sociation. The latter would borrow
from the Farm Board, in turn loaning
the money to its subsidiary'feeder and
finance corporation for distribution to
regional credit organizations, operating
in Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
districts. The process would Involve a
pyramiding of $5,000,000 of Farm
Board funds Into $50,000,000 of credit.
Viewing the live stock crisis from a
long-time angle, experts fear continu
ance of present conditions would cause
breaking present low prices to new
levels through forced sales of herds, re
sulting in a depletion which in the
next few years might cause an acute
shortage of meat and extreme high
prices
A story of drought in the Ohio Val
ley resulting in the sale of drinking wa
ter came to the Weather Bureau today
in a letter from Dr. L. W. Humphreys
to his brother. William J. Humphreys,
meteorological physicist.
Dr. Humphreys said drinking water
was selling at 3 cents a gallon In Logan.
W. Va. He added that across the river
in Ohio farmers were attempting to save
fruit trees by pumping w'ater on them
with old fire engines.
Rural residents in West Virginia, he
said, are seeking to have three months
cut ofT the school period in order that
funds saved may be used "to buy food
for poor families.”
“I am feeding my bees to keep them
alive,” the doctor said. “There is no
com fit to eat. and It is scarce, with
beans a close second. There Is no green
grass to be seen, and in every way
things look as you would expect them
to look In September after a dry Sum
mer.”
RAIN BIGS RELIEF
IN WESTffI STATES
Southern Illinois Still Swel
ters, However, In 100-De
gree Temperature.
By the Assisted PrMi.
CHICAGO. August 7.—Rains and
cooling winds brought seasonal tem
peratures today to most of the heat
seared areas.
Southern Illinois still sweltered, how
ever. in a withering wave that ranged
upward from 100 degrees. Wells,
streams and reservoirs have been
burned dry. Farmers are carting water
from oases for their families and beasts.
Showers splotched the Midwest and
Northwest, bringing a cool respite. Up
in Aberdeen. S. Dak. 2 inches of rain
late yesterday clogged sewers and stood
m streets. The rain was general over
Northeastern South Dakota and South
ern North Dakota. St. Paul was cooled
off with a 10-degree drop.
The precipitation pushed south into
Central and Southern Nebraska. Oma
ha was swept by a rainstorm and the
thermometer dropped 26 degrees in
two hours—from 96 to 70. In Lincoln,
a half inch of rain brought a heat drop
of 22 degrees. Over the State, the
temperatures ranged below 90.
Southwest lowa was doused with a
good downpour last night, leaving the
southeastern counties the only part of
the State still in need ofj| good rain.
Throughout the SoutnPest, the hot
test part of the National two days ago,
seasonable temperatures generally pre
vailed.
Light local showers cooled off Ohio,
with temperatures generally in the 80s.
One heat death was reported.
Lake Michigan's winds were again
good to Milwaukee and Chicago. The
uplake city had a low of 65 to start, the
day off w'ith. while Chicago, with a
shower greeting the day, still lolled in
the 70s.
Scattered sections of Northern Illi
nois and Indiana were also cooled off
with rains.
Annapolis Faces Famine.
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The prospect of a water famine must
be faced at Annapolis, the State capital.
In a few days. If the present 43-day
reoord drought continues, end there was
no sign of a break today, as the mercury
started Its dally climb.
The estimate that the present water
supply would be near exhaustion In a
week was made by T. Roland Brown,
president of the Annapolis Water Co.
He said springs that supply the reser
voir are drying up.
The fight on forest fires in Western
Maryland continued with more than
1.000 men at the front, and others,
volunteer and conscripted by State
police, in reaerVe.
Rain In Ohio Below Normal.
COLUMBUS. Onio, August 7 (A*). —
Rainfall throughout Ohio during the
four months ending July 31 was $.7
inches below normal figures prepared
by W. H. Alexander, chief of the
Weather Bureau here, revealed today
A deficiency of 4.61 from a normal
fall of 13.22 was found in the Northern
| third of the State, in the Central third
was 7.57 from a normal of 14.56 and'
In the Southern third the shortage was
9.01 Inches below the normal of 13.49.
Pennsylvania Suffers.
HARRISBURG, Pa., August 7 UP}.—
The winds were expected to be kind to
Pennsylvania today in keeping down
the temperature, but relief from the
drought still was in the distance.
Partly cloudy conditions were fore
cast for some parts of the State but
were likely to do little more than aid
in checking the mercury, for only a few
local stops were on the schedule of the
rain clouds. Farm observers are agreed
that only a heavy downpour can repair
In part the damage already done by
the drought.
The State Department of Health re
ported that water shortage conditions
throughout the State had been relieved
temporarily by the tapping of emer
gency supplies.
At Hanover one of the areas most
seriously affected, two million gallons
of water were taken from a private
lake to tide over the emergency. At
Gettysburg relief was obtained from
two wells which had remained unused
for years.
The forest fire menace again revived
at Mount Gretna, 1,000 National
Guardsmen battled to check a fire that
threatened the divisional headquarters
of the encampment. Ten acres In the
center of the reservation were burned.
In ZululAnd the air is so clear that
objects of fair size can be distinguished
at a distance of 7 or 8 miles by star
light.
HULL SEEKS 6-YEAR
TERM IN SENATE
Tennessee Democrat Op
posed by Former Speaker
of State Legislature.
By the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE. Tenn., August 7.—After
22 years' service as Representative from j
the fourth district, Cordell Hull en
tered today’s Democratic primary in
quest of the nomination as United
States Senator for a six-year term.
Opposing him was Andrew h. Todd,
Murfreesboro capitalist and at differ
ent times Speaker of both houses of
the State Legislature.
Other Democratic State-wide con
tests were for Governor and a short
term senatorial nomination. Repub
licans, holding their primary simul
taneously, had only a State-wide con
test for the governorship nomination.
Both Republican Congressmen had
contests. B. Carroll Reece, fourth dis
trict incumbent, had the support of a
letter from President Hoover approv
ing his stand on Muscle Shoals leasing
legislation in preference to a Senaie
plan for Government operation. He
was opposed by Sam R. Price, Johnson
City. Judd Acuff, Knoxville, sought
the Republican nomination for the
second district seat held by Representa
tive J. Will Taylor.
Six Democrats Unopposed.
Six Democratic Congressmen were
without opposition. Representative
Hubert Fisher. Democrat, of the tenth
district (Memphis) is retiring, but Ed
ward H. Crump, Shelby County political
leader, was unopposed for the nomina
tion for his seat. The only Democratic
congressional contest was in the fourth,
where three sought the seat to be
vacated by Hull.
Sanding on his legislative record and
appealing for a “return to the Demo
cratic principles of Jefferson," Hull, a
former chairman of the Democratic
National Committee and Tennessee*
favorite son at the Houston convention
two years ago. branded as "fbntutie”
a taxation system advocated by bis
opponent.
Propaaso to Abolish Taxes.
Todd proposed abolition of State and
municipal taxes for schools, roads and
public health work. Funds for those
purposes, ha said, should be prorated
to the State* by the Government from
income and excess profits taxes.
A third long-term Democratic sena
torial candidate, Davis W. Dodson.
Nashville educator. Mid be entered the
race with no expectation of winning.
Senator William E. Brock, Chatta
nooga. appointed upon the death of
Senator Lawrence D. Tyson, sought to
return to the Senate for the period from
the November election to March 4.
when the new term begins. Opposing
i him for the Democratic nomination was
Dr. John R. Neal. Knoxville.
On the Republican side, Paul E
Divine. Johnson City attorney, and
F. Todd Meacham, Chattanooga, were
unopposed for long and short term
senatorial nominations, respectively.
Henry Horton, Democratic incumbent,
sought renomlnatlon for another two*,
year term as Governor in a race witiy
L. E. Gwinn, Memphis attorney. Th*
Republican nomination lay between
C. Arthur Bruce, Memphis lumberman,
and Harry T. Burn, Sweetwater attorney.
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