The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 19, 1930, Page 1

North Dakota’s Oldest Newspaper ESTABLISHED 1873 T BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1930 HE BISMARCK TRIBUNE The Weather Probably showers tonight and Wednes- day. Not much change in temperature. PRICE FIVE CENTS _N. D. Loses Million In Road Aid /Zuta’ s Recards I POLIGE GH, EDITOR |[__— Wisin cross Conte igte AND POLITICIAN ARE IN PAY CHECK LIST Chicago State’s Attorney Con- tinues Probe Into Dealings of Slain Gangster OFFERS TO REPAY, SPURNED Evanston Chief Wrote Letter to Zuta Asking for Loan of $400 Chicago, Aug. 19.—()—Two checks signed by the slain gangster, Jack Zuta, each for $200 and each made payable to State Senator Harry W. Starr of the thirteenth Illinois dis- trict, were taken from the Zuta strongbox today and made public by the state's attorney. One check was dated October 5, 1926, and the other October 16 of the same year. Starr was elected to the state senate in November of that year. He is a candidate for reelection on the Re- publican ticket at the approaching November election. ‘Was on Probe Committee . well wishes before taking off to shatter the junior transcontinen! Senator Starr was chairman of the legislative committee which last year investigated the “whoopee” records of the Chicago sanitary pemgtet The endorsements on have not been identified as its Starrs Fieri a eg the aren 's sa arahen a but Starr has been ask and explain the use of bie name ae of the Zuta papers, The-chief of police of Evanston and the city editor of the Chicago. Daily News were added“today to the list of who had financial dealings Investigators, delving through the yoptous records found in Zuta’s secret fe oe apeste box, found the names Sh Sf ome and “John Craig.” wolve Police Chief iv They called in William O. Freeman, jeep sy ae? saree ea ee head of the police digas e exclusive ee shore suburb. for $400, Freeman admitted borrowing. that amount from the vice overlord. He said he had offered to repay the money, but never did. Investigators called in John Craig, city editor of the News, and he iden- tified his signature on an uncancelled check for $50. Craig told of being accommodated by Zuta when he wanted a check cashed at an inn. “After a month or y Associated Press Photo Eddie Schneider, 18-year-old Jersey Ciy, N. J., pilot, receiving his father’s from Westfield, = SUFFRAGIST PIONEER IS GLOOMY OVER WOMAN’S PART IN POLITICS Emily Newell Blair Says Women Leaders Took Too Much for Granted After Victory Washirigton, Aug. 19.—()—Emily Newell Blair, who campaigned for suffrage ih Missouri back in 1914, is “frankly quite discouraged about womien in politics.” She’ made this: known today in her contribution—the first pessimistic one —to a fat compendium of opinions on women and the ballot gathered by the League of Women Voters to ‘mark the tenth birthday of feminine suf- frage in America. All these views, ‘gathered from notables of both sexes, are to be pub- ished for the anniversary on August 26, of the signing by former Secretary of State Colby of the proclamation that actually culminated the move- 80 I noticed the check did not come :ment. . through the bank, so I inquired about it from Zuta,” Craig related. said the matter was all right. “I am afraid,” Mrs, Blair said, “the “He | suffragists have made the same mis- I re-|take as the temperant te group. Both plied that I did not do business in!of them thought that with their vic- that way, and I gave him the cash. tory they had only to defend their “T asked him for my chi said he had torn it up.” Investigators said they had beei whic check had an account there. He ) the account was in his wife's name but that the bank had honored ‘checks he check and he | position; and so, just as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union stopped Nn jits educational work for temperance and devoted itself to claiming the eighteenth amendment worked, so the suffragists stopped their educational work of convincing people that wom- en had a right to equality and devot- ed themselevs go other interests.” E. Woolley, president of Mary placed before Free-| mount Holyoke college, in responding man was 8 letter written on stationery |to the league's query, said: of the Evanston police department.| «The granting of the suffrage to| It follows: “Dear Jack: “I am temporarily in need of four ‘C’s’ for a couple of months. Can you let me ave it? The bearer does not know what it is, so put it in envelope and seal it and address it to me. “Your oe pal, “Pp, 8.—Will let you know the night of the party, so be sure and come.” Charles F. Rathbun, special assist- ant state's attorney, appointed to in- vestgate the slaying of Jake Tribune reporter, said C! admitted the signature was Beak al- though he could not remember writ- ing the letter. Zuta Was “Kind” Freeman remembered getting the requested loan, however, not long after he became head of the Evan- ston posice| Fixes. Rathbun quoted him as saying he needed money badly three years ago On account of judg- ment returned against him in a sult man ag fal a oes \ tune Iater, He rtiae niet sits bes the care: ster said “Never mind.” saying “Chief, seem to be poor, ne See Bee gE women has not brought about the) millennium, but it has meantadectded step toward better government .. . There are indifferent citizens among women as among men, but the addi- | tion of women certainly has meant a large increase in the number of citi- zens who are both conscientious’ and intelligent.” Said Newton D. Baker, former war | secretary: “The years of experience | under the nineteenth amendment are not enough to enable me to ex- Chief ps press any positive judgments as to the use which women in generai have made of their suffrage privilege.” HAVELOCK SCHOOL REMODELED Havelock, N. D., Aug. 19.—Have- lock’s consolidated was 100. =-|Too Bad Oyster Isn’ Half Million being| the bridge when the driver was PROHIBITION AGENT ISUNDER SUSPENSIO Charged With Misconduct; Others Disciplined Albany, New York, was under indef- inite suspension today on charges in- | volving personal misconduct, which, if sustained will result in his dismissal from the service. Prohibition Director Woodcock, who announced yesterday he would pun- ish illegal personal behavior of agents, said Golding was charged with mis- conduct with several stenographers in his office. The charges, brought by the girls themselves, are on file with the civil service ission which has power to oust the admin- istrator from the government service. ‘Woodcock said the charges were first made last July 15, and that a thorough investigation had been made which led him to believe the girls were in “no way to blame.” Two other agents, Robert F. Myrtle. of Milwaukee, and Basil N. Quinn, of Washington, D. C., were given five- day suspensions yesterday for their behavior in quarrels with motorists Over traffic rules. Myrtle, the di- | rector said, attempted to arrest a | motorist and drew a gun when asked | to show his authority. Quinn was | said to have struck a driver and taken him to police station, exceeding his | authority. Acknowledging the penalties to be mild, Woodcock said, he sought | Saspoat these punishments to check and promised more stern Fennell, if necessary. | The dry chief refused to go into de> tails of the Golding case. He said the administrator's record on the whole appears to be good. CAR HITS BRIDGE | Grand Forks, Aug. 19—Arthur | Olind, Oslo, Minn., is in serious condi- tion in a hospital here, the result of an automobile accident near East Grand Forks. The car, driven by Theodore Hoff, Oslo, hit the side of blinded by. dust. Olind suffered in- ternal and other injurtes. t Hen; She Lays Administrator at Albany, N. Y., assistance. LAWYERS HEAR SELVES RAPPED; KIND WORDS FOR PRISONERS French Bantam Car . To Invade America Detroit, Aug. 19.— (4) — Another “bantam” automobile of foreign origin soon is to make its appearance in the American market. William C. Durant, noted automo- tive financier, announced today that Durant Motors, Inc., has contracted to manufacture 100,000 of the Mathis cars now built in the E.'E. C. Mathis factory in Strasbourg, France. Durant announced a reorganization of personnel of Durant Motors, Inc., that brings him again into the active presidency of the company. TARITPS PASSENGERS ‘COME WITH VENTURA TO AMERICAN PORT Majority Will Proceed While Crew and Few Others Will Remain at Pago Pago Pago Pago, Aug. 19.—(4)—The liner Ventura. was due at this American naval base at 1 p. m., today (5:30 p. m,, P. 8. T.) with the 317 persons res- N. J. airport in an attempt | cued from the British steamer Tahiti, speed record. which went down in the south Pa- cific yesterday after being in distress for three days. Of the “ar persons rescued, 149 members of the Tahiti's crew and sixteen passengers will disembark here. The other passengers will con- titue to San Francisco aboard the Ventura. Meanwhile the Ventura reported “all's well.” Bound from Wellington to San Francisco, the Tahiti lost its starboard propeller about 460 uaa east of Rarotonga, Cook Islands. A leak de- Rejete oe holds and engine room jooded. Ships in the vicinity ofthe the. disabled vessel rushed to its SCHOOLMA’AMS WILL NOW HAVE TO STAY YEAR Seattle, Aug. 19.—(?)—Two Seattle school teachers may be forced t main for a year on th@ island of Washington, Aug. 19.—()—George | Rarotonga ‘as a result of the sinking Golding, prohibition administrator at | Of the liner Tahiti. The teachers, Miss Jean Lane and Mrs. Irene Lansing, planned to return to the United States on the Tahiti. This liner stopped at Rarotonga once @ year and was the only transpacific ship calling there. She sank while approaching the island. Miss Lane and Mrs. Lansing cabled relatives of their predicament. The government may be asked to provide special transportation for the teachers. RESCUE BY VENTURA IS THRILLING ONE Wellington, N. Z. Aug. 19.0) — First stories from passengers of the ill-fated Pacific passenger liner Tahiti reaching here today from Pago Pago indicated masterly, sea- manship on the part of the captains of both the Tahiti and the rescue \ship Ventura prevented an appalling disaster. - Twice before the Ventura arrived, when there seemed no hope of rescue at hand, the Tahiti's captain gave orders for passengers to take to the lifeboats. All aboard the Tahiti were grate- ful for what appeared to be their de- liverance when the freighter Peny-|? bryn hove above the horizon and made her way to a point near the distressed Tahiti. But although she stood by and was willing to do all possible to succor the disabled and sinking craft, the Penybryn lacked equipment to transfer the Tahiti’s! company, Fear ruled the Tahiti for three days but throughout their harrowing experience. the passengers Were order- ly and obedient to the dictates of wiser minds. When the great good fortune of rescue came to them the woman passengers first were trans- ferred, then the men and finally the crew. When all hands were aboard the Ventura an attempt was made to save the mail in her holds. With some of the bags aiready taken off, ship's boats were returning for more when the Tahit! lurched and took another roll. ‘The waves swept over he bows.) which failed to rise again. Then the Eggs in Single Year| New York, Aug. 19.—()—Heroic ef- , YOU torts of the Atlantic coast oyster to Preserve her race were described to- day. She produces from 15,000,000 to one’ spawning but he said “Zuta never got any fa-| utes ‘spawn, ‘vors from me in his life, nor fivé or six times during a single sea- Oe ST au Senders of tr pine hag ote lig Beater arpa erie Moran-Alello gang faction, was shot | tingle oyster may approximate half and killed in a Delafield, Wis., dance |” The feat was reported to a gather- hall August 1. 8 ing of blologsts of international re- ute, civic, state and federal. health and shellfish commission- .Would Save Sweetie, {ers trom several at the con- Guide and Himself | zien. f "he Maciel Cambridge, Harvey Firestone would save guide, sweetheart and himself Mass., Aug. 19.—()}— | ation of North Association of and the; Oyster ¢ Growers and age associ- in ‘It was cited by Dr. P. 8. Galtsott of from the|the U. 8. bureau of fisheries as a desert. In @ speech he revealed that | mere commonplace in the life of an he had given 100 per cent to the boy oyster. Even the poorest layer, he who answered Edison's quiz _in that| said, cet down an average of 15.090.- 000 eggs in about an hour, or 90,000,- year. One purpose of thé meet- ine ae Glen ae ee myriad oysters reach dining tables. One reason is that other epicures besides humans like their oysters, the starfish, for instance. But remedy for starfish desruction has been found, Miss Louise Palmer of the U. 8. bu- oyster beds at the beginning of flood tide. She said as little as 15 ounces in 2,000 gallons of water kills adult starfish in a few minutes. Although oysters are now taboo for human consumption during the four months without the traditional “R,” | selence has found @ way and summer | oysters were predicted by J. M. Lem- | on, of the U. 8. bureau of fisheries. “It has been demonstrated,’ he said, “that oysters can be rapidly frozen and placed in storage for several months witout any detrimental ef- fects upen the taste, color, digest:bil- ity and food value.” doomed liner straightened on an even re- |men, in which more than 800 live. jacross the line in Wilson county and |15 miles from here. Then they strung 1 him to a tree and fired scores of Denver Attorney Says New Type of Criminal Is Responsible for Prison Riots Chicago, Aug. 19.—()—Kind words for prison inmates and harsh ones for lawyers were spoken yesterday at the preliminary conference of the Ameri- can Bar association which formally Opens its 1930 convention tomorrow. At @ group meeting of attorneys, Justiee Royal A. Stone of the Min- hesota supreme court told of attend- ing a play where the audience showed. audible approval of a character state- tent: “If I had a son ing to fe a lawyer. I'd kill him.” \ “It wasn't the actor's saying this ‘at disturbed me particularly,” Jus- ce Stone said, “it was the marked @pproval of the audience that bother- €d. No profession is put on a lower Plane than ours. “The answer is intensive, efficient local bar associations. Let us put our profession so high in ethics and ef- ficiency that no other can equal it.” New Criminals Unruly Willlam W. Grant, Denver attor- ney, told the criminal law section of the association that idleness and over- crowding of convicts and the evolu- tion of a new type of criminal were! responsible for prison riots. | Grant, chairman of a committee appointed by Gov. William H. Adams | to investigate the Colorado prison outbreak a year ago, described the old time, criminal as “one who took his medftine, who served his sentence often in idleness, occasionally on the rock pile, and who submitted to ill treatment in poor quarters. He re- garded it as part of the game.” The new type of criminal, Grant said, is not only different in himself but “infects the rest of the prison Population with discontent, resent- ment against any kind of discipline and an unscrupulous disregard for the rights, feelings and obligations of the rest of the world, that, so far as I know, has never been duplicated in prison history.” Idleness Breeds Mischief ‘The things of immediate interest to @ convict, Grant said, are where he is to live, what he is to wear aft eat, “what ‘work he is to do and what op- a for reereation is afforded im. In the Colorado state prison, the attorney said, there are cells for 580! Nowhere, Grant said, is the maxim “the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do” so true as in the peni- tentiary. “In practically all of the institutions at which riots have taken place, there has not been sufficient work to keep inmates busy.” NEGRO LYNCHED BY NORTH CAROLINA MOB! Is Hanged and Riddled With Bul- lets After Jail Is En- tered by Ruse Tarboro, N. C., Aug. 19.—()—Oll- ver Moore, 29, negro, charged with criminally assaulting two smali white girls, was taken from the Edgecombe county jail by 200 masked men, jhanged to a tree and his body riddled by bullets. After gaining adnilttance to the jail on @ ruse, the mob carried the negro to his home, approximately 100 yards bullets into his body. Deputy R. O. Watson, who lives with his family at the jail, had re- tired when he heard a voice calling him early today. Believing it to be an officer with a prisoner, he went to the door and called, “Have you got aman for me?” Someone in the mob answered affirmatively and Watson unbolted the door. As he did he saw) the crowd of masked men and made an effort to throw tMe bolt. The men rushed through, forced him into his office and took all the keys from a peg on the wall. The men unlocked cell after cell until they found Moore. The negro apparently realizing his fate, went to his death without a word. Sheriff W. E. Barden. notified as soon as the men drove off, went in search of the lynchers. He reached the negro’s home after the mob had dispersed and found the body. Wat- keel, her stern rose and she disap- peared in a boiling white whirlpool. | Charge Three Boys With Office Theft Wahpeton, N. D., Aug. 19.—(7)— jCharged with grand larceny, three Hankinson youths were held in the Richland county jail today. Police said they had obtained confessions to theft/of a cash register from a motor company here early yesterday. The three are Arthur Mendenwalt. 24. John Cox and Duane MacQueen. both 23. The trio was arrested at Graceville, Minn. Of’ the $156 in the cash reg- ister when it was taken from the ga- rage here, but $56 was recovered. The register was found in a ditch along the roadside near Campbell, Minn. NO TRAFFIC WHISTLES New York, Aug. 19—Traffic police- . men’s whistles are to be abolished. | The idea is to help make the town less | prospective debutante in the fashion- noisy. son said none of the men in the mob had been recognized. This was the first lynching North Carolina since 1921. Wealthy Girl Dies In Her Own New Car Newport, R. I., Aug. 19.—()—Miss Mary Pope, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Russell Pupe of New York and Newport, is dead here, the victim of her own automobile, a recent gift of her grandmother. -A in able summer colony, she was fatally injured last night when her machine |col collided with another car. She suf- fered a fractured skull and died be- fore reaching a hospital. HAVE NEW LUNCH ROOM Havelock, N. D., Aug. 19.—With the hotel at Havelock having gone out of business, Rudy Johns has established & lunch room to accommodate local Involve } Many Public Men She’s Feminine Enoch Arden | Associated Prese Photo Mrs. Catherine R. Packard, who disappeared a year ago, has reappeared, after her husband, George, identified a body as hers and remarried. She is shown on the courthouse steps at Springfield, Vt., with authorities who are trying to straighten out the strange tangle. BOY OF 18 SETS NEW FLYING RECORD ACROS LOCAL WOMAN IS INJURED IN FIRE Mrs. W. P. Knott Suffers Cuts. on Arm Following Explo- sion in Home Mrs. W. P. Knott, 1404 Thayer St., today was recovering from the effects of shock and cuts on her arm which resulted from an explosion in her home Monday night. Mrs. Knott was washing clothes in| her basement when the laundry stove pain ieatia mig ie said the cause he explosic id not been de- oritnbd ‘The stove was between Mrs. Knott | and the cellar steps and she was trapped by the flames which followed the blast. She escaped, however, by Al leaping upon a nearby table, pushing out the glass in a cellar window and crawling through the window to the outside. Her arm was cut in the effort and three stitches were necessary to close the wound. Mr. Knott said this morn- | ing that the injury was not serious) and that Mrs. Knott, was recovering from the shock of her narrow escape. The flames were extinguished by the fire department after the house had been damaged by smoke. WATCHED COMMUNITY GROW New England, N. D., Aug. 19.— Jacob Bender, farm machinery dealet, has been a resident of New England 27 years. There were only two build- ings in the town when he arrived— one owned by Asa Gardner, the other | by W. C. McKenzie. Dickinson was the closest rail point at that time. and transient patrons. S UNITED STATES | Eddie Schneider Cuts Off More | Than Four Hours From Old Junior Mark | Los Angeles, Aug. 19.—()—A slight, eighteen-year-old Jersey city youth, | Eddie Schneider, today hela the junior record for the fastest westward crossing of the United States. Landing at the Municipal airport at dusk yesterday, the young flier com- pleted his transcontinental ciossing in a total flying time of 29 hours, 41 | minutes, just 4 hours 22 mintues tess | than required by the former record holder, the late Frank Goldsborough, of New York. Schneider left Westfield, N. J., Au- gust 14, flying only during the day |time, He said he experienced much {stormy weather along the route and damaged his plane slightly once when he struck @ tree in landing at Schneider first landed at Long Beach Municipal airport. Uncertain where he was, the young flier asked an airport attendant and was told he was at “The Municipal Airport.” The answer led Schnei- der to believe he had reached his | destination. Several minutes later ‘he discovered his error. Upon reaching Los Angeles Mu- nicipal airport. Schneider took no |chances of making a similar mistake. |To fifty enthusiasts who ran out to imeet him he shouted: “Hey, I want to know for sure be- fore I cut off my motor, is this the Los Angeles Municipal airport?” He said later he was undecided when he would start back in an effort to beat the eastward record of 28 hours, 18 minutes, also set by Golds- borough. Scientist Prophesied 58 Years Ago Where Population Center Would Be ‘Washington, Aug. 19—()—A proph- ecy made 58 years ago concerning the spot at which the 1930 center of population of the United States would be found was pointed to today by Clarence E. Batschelet, census geog- rapher, as the most accurate estimate available at this stage of the compu- tations. Undertaking, on the basis of lannounged returns for the entire country, to trace the movement of that mythical balance point from its 1920 resting place, Batschelet said at this point of the calculations he cotild not improve on the old figure. In 1872, he said, a brilliant but lit- tle known mathematician, Julius Erasmus Hilgard, estimated the cen- ter of population would cling close to the thirty-ninth parallel of latitude, and would move 126 miles westward between 1875 and 1900 and an added 88 miles between 1900 and 1930. Hilgard further prophesized this hypothetical point will be about 30 miles east of St. Louis in the year 2000. This, he forecast, would be just akogt its ultimate and the country ld thereafter be depended on to maintain an-approximation of equilib- rium, with St. Louis as pivotal point. In the 1872 population prophecy, published in Scribner’s Monthly, Hil- gard made the first reliable computa- tion of the center of population of the United States. The census bu- reau followed two years later with official computations for all census \ ‘years up to that time and each suc- {ceeding census has been tabulated as to population center with scientifc ac- curacy. From 1870 to 1900, the period in which Hilgard said the population center would advance 126 miles, he missed it by but 7.5 miles—it moved 199.5. He based his prophecy not on the statistics at hand, but on a mathe-~ matical system he evolved. Hilgard then argued in this fash- ion: The geographical center of the United States map ts just below the middle of the northern boundary of Kansas. Owing to the comparative infertility of the territory lying west of that meridian, “it is certain the center of population, when a per- manent ratio of distribution shall have been reached, cannot he far west of the Mississippi river.” And, since there is no great disparity of northern and southern zones it will be near the middle latitude of 39 de- grees, placing it not far from the city of St. He then took a tentative point near St. Louis as ultimate and moved the center of gravity toward it at a rate based on the movement in a decade he considered normal. The actual distance moved from 1900 to 1920 was 49 miles, leaving 31 to go in the present census bureau calculations. made, the bureau experts are content to let this estimate stand as probably within a few miles, possibly five or jee, of correctness. Until complete check is} STATE LACKS FURDS FOR NEW HIGHWAYS NATION CANNOT HE. North Dakota Unable to Match U. S. Allotment of $2,001,- | 841; Loses Money 50,000 SHEEP ARE COMING Secretary Hyde Named by Pres- ident as Chairman of Nation- al Drought Relief Work Indications are that North Dakota will lose a large portion of its federal road aid because of lack of funds for new highway construction, according to officials of the state highway com- mission. The state has been allotted §2,001,- 841 for new construction, but must match this amount if the federal funds are to become favaflable for road work. Previously North Dakota received approximately $1,200,000. Officials believed it would be diffi- cult to match the old allotment, and that it would be practically impos- sible to take advantage of the $800,- 000 increase granted by the federal government this year unless some ac- tion is taken by the legislature to. ob- tain additional revenue for building new highways. May Try It Again There has been a heavy drain on state highway funds for maintenance purposes, officials said. Defeat of the proposal to increase gasoline tax from three to four cents at the June primary was a setback to the commission which had hoped to derive additional revenue in this manner. Although no definite plans have been made, it is believed probable that an effort will be made before the legislature to obtain legislation of either increasing the gasoline tax or the motor vehicle registration fee as @ means for obtaining new revenue, Unless some action is taken to ob- tain more money for highway con- struction, however, the state stands to lose as high as one million dolle~: federal aid. Rain Helps State Rains in practically every section o, the state today brought much needea moisture to parched farm lands. It was the most general rainfali since the beginning of the record breaking heat wave nearly two months ago. The showers were heaviest in south- eastern North Dakota, and extended into eastern South Dakota. Ellendale received the heaviest fall in the state, with 2.99 inches for the 24-hour pe- riod ending at 8 a. m. today. Napoleon recorded 2.05 inches, Oakes 1.01, Bismarck 1.02, Drake .15, Jamestown .28, Lisbon .34, M>x .23, Minot .07 and Portal .01. Begch which received 3.08 inches rain during the week-end, reported .14 inch ad- ditional today. The moisture will greatly alleviate damage done to forage lands and will aid in putting tilled soil in shape for fall plowing. MONTANA SENDING 50,000 SHEEP HERE Helena, Mont., Aug. 19.—()—Nego- tlations are under way to send 50,006 Montana feeder lambs into North Da- kota and 30,000 into southern Indiana for feeding in those states as a re- sult of drought in this state. This was made known by M. E. Stebbins, secretary of the Montana Wool Growers association. Railroads have granted a half-rate to shippers if the lambs are returned to Mon- tana. If the animals are sent direct to market from the North Dakota and Indiana feeding grounds, the reduced freight charge will not be available, Stebbins explained. NAME SECRETARY HYDE RELIEF BOARD HEAD Washington, Aug. 19.—(4)—Secre- tary Hyde was appointed by President Hoover today as chairman of the na- tional drought relief committee. The head of the agriculture depart- ment. has already moved to assure that farmers will get the benefit of reductions made on freight shipments of grain in various sections, having instructed county agents in affected regions to watch the report on the situation. The national relief com- mittee is to coordinate federal activi- ties for cooperation with the groups being set up in stricken states. The movement of feed for livestock into drought-stricken areas will re- ceive immediate attention. The ag- riculture department agents have been charged by Mr. Hyde to look to the interests of the farmer in watch- ing application of the reduced ship- Ping rates. Other members of tne national committee will be Chairman Legge ot the Federal Farnt Board; Paul Bestor, federal farm loan commissioner; Roy A. Young, Governor of the federal re- serve board; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross; R. H. Aishton, president of the Am- erican Railway association; Ogden Mills, under Secretary of the Treas- ury, and Henry M. Robinson, pres- ident of the First National Bank of Los Angeles. President Hoover announced the Hyde appointment, .saying approxi- mately 300 counties were now em- braced within the drought region where conditions are regarded by re- lief officials as serious. The real burden confronting the stricken farm- ers, he said, was not expected to be reached before next winter. His statement said latest reports continue to show the drought was severe and that rains had improved conditions only in non-acute areas, _