Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1930, Page 4

'HYDE 70 GATHER - DATAON DROUGHT Hoover Reaches Decision After Secretary’s Report on Stricken Area. (Continued From First Page.) lned by President Hoover and Secre- fary Hyde during their conference: (1) Per cent of damage to date? (2) Per cent of normal amount of feed which will be produced? (3) Numbér of families who will have to have aid in order to carry live stock through the Winter? (4) Whether there is feed avallable | either in the county itself or in some | Bearby county to carry the live stock? The questionnaire also contained a ) Yequest for the field agents to report iand give their personal opinions as to ‘the measures necessary to save the H mtn bring “relief in their Yespective ricts. i The questionnaires also emphasized + the desire on the part of the ident : to get as near as possible a correct re- port on the actual distress. H 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- g’an ?g‘l,ld-rs already, with the mslct;uuy a shortage striking at ties, | the Weather Bureau reluctantly admit-' ted today that there was no indication of a break in the drought situation. Local showers in various sections of the 121st ENGINEER REGIM T ‘country, hardly enough to bring any succor to stricken communities, appear as the only measure of physical relief. For the Washington district, the forecast included “an outside chance” for thundershowers tonight or tomor- row. Aside from u;n. the tem| ture already was degrees at 10 o'clock than at thet time yester- day, and the maximum of 88 degrees ht relief at about 1 o'clock ylelded to 94 at 2 o'clock . 'Tonight, also, will be For the the mercury climbed three points and in another half 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 the | timber land were burned near Buffalo o River. A patrol force was watching the as acutely as those in the Mis burned ove{, ll‘:kl wgny tl,o g;:)%rd ugulns} . s A a new outbreak. Nearly acres of soaking rains, which the Weather Bu- scrub "tltmbe;— slong the ridge of Cellar Mountain in s unty = was ST e o o M RN 3 originated near Cold Spring last Satur- Despite scattered rains, Weather Bu- | day. Eighty fire fighters kept it under feau officials said today there had been | control. Do real relief from the drought and that| Fire conditions in the Shenandoah the m‘ for tonight and tomorrow | valley were never worse.'lccordm!l wl e tempo- | M Secw supervisor of the Natural reur, from the knowledge that yes- Bridge National Forest. Every lookout town in the national forests has been terday was the coolest day of this| manned and emergency crews are ready “month. The temperature reached a|for instant call. _The fire on Celler minimum of 69 degrees at 5:45 o'clock | Mountain was confined to Government- morning, but rains dur- predicted owned land. the afternoon or evening failed to ‘While streams are drying up even in terialize. the District of Columblia, it was reported Indications that the day would be | that the Alexandria, Va. water supply showed early. At 8 o’clock the mer- 74 degrees; 88 de- has enough on hand for 50 d‘i'x‘ ‘There was is no meed for curtailing the use of at 9 o'clock. From 87 degrees at o'clock, with & bright sun shinin, rmer. e first time this week, heat prostrations were reported yes- of maximum credit facilities water as yet, officials stated. ‘With nothing but local showers in- ¥ ' . ol F St. shop «CARLTONS” and short lines “Arch Preservers” =% J{fewflfl .50 to $14.50. chance 10 buy ton's: fimest 8D ear — for 8 Regularly Whll} a Wathing sm‘:rtu! ootw! “Lady Luxury” Silk Hose Special selling of our regular $1.19 all- silk chiffon or service-weight Silk Stock- ings of known quality, beauty, elegance, perfection of price—instead of 95 “Sale Hosiery”—But at a real BDREGRIN DLICE . ooy oo omsiiisin dicated for the suffering sections in the immediate future, the Federal Farm Board was studying a possibility of ex- tending substantial credit to Iivestock and cotton farmers through emergency mterpreuflm of the Federal marketing act. Assurance reached the President from the railroads of the drought areas that they would co-operate in any measures determined upon by the administration to mfixaed and cattle together, Re- duc of freight rates on hay and feed into the cattle growing areas and possibly free transportation of livestock to unaffected grazing lands are under contemplation, but & decision will await the detailed report on conditions which | the Agriculture Department has prom- ised to give Mr. Hoover on Monday. The Farm Loan Board placed on rec- ord as willing to do all possible to ex- (tend credit through the intermediate | credit banks, the farm land banks and 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 a refund by Congress to the Farm 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 means available for getting production credit into the hands of farmers. A conference of the board to determine whether his suggestions could be em- ployed was not in prospect, however, until after the return of "Chairman ENT PRESENTED NEW COLORS 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. Schulzm, commandant of Fort Humphreys, and Col_Oehmann, —Star_Staft. Photos. Legge, now on a tour of the Northwest scheduled to end August 20. Under the Williams plan, Jt is un- derstood, farmers would be enabled to put up live stock as collgteral 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 reglonal credit organizations, operating in Federal Intermediate Credit Bank districts. The process would involve & yramiding of $5,000,000 of Farm gond 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, Willlam J. Humphreys, meteorological physicist. Dr. Humphreys sald 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 water on them with old fire engines. Rural residents in West Virginia, he said, are seeking to have three months cut off 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 corn 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- At our 7th St. store only Unprecedented Sale PNy - S ENNA JETTICK Health Shoe LOSING OUT all our Summer whites and blondes—also short lines and discontinued styles in blacks and browns. An opportunity that never may come again—don’t miss it! Women’s Shops 1207 F 7th & K 3212 14th Further Reduced, Reductions on Children’s Vacation Shoes T 7th St. and “Arcade” misses’ and ju patent or oolnurf former pricings—at.. dress and sale oxfords, pat pumps. Broken si: her ties and strap much under-priced. . stores—closing out many nior women’s sports oxfords—and kid strap-effects. Also, hoys sports oxfords. Much bhelow $9.65 51.95 ildren's , crepe TmS Saturday all our downtown stores again open for these important sales ’til 2 p.m. “Arcade Shop,” all day and evening. D. C., THURSDAY, IRAIN BRINGS RELIEF INWESTERN STATES Southern lllinois Still Swel- ters, However, in 100-De- gree Temperature. By the Assobiated Press. CHICAGO, August 7.—Rains and cooling winas 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 in 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 CLincoln, a half inch of rain brought a heat drop of 22 degrees. Over the State, the temperatures ranged below 90. Sonthwest Iowa was doused with a good downpour last night, leaving the southeastern counties the only part of the State still in need of good rain. ‘Throughout the SoutHWest, 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 with, 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. AUGUST 7, 1930. The prospect of a water famine must be faced at Am , the State ?fl. in a few days, the present 42-day record drought continues, and there was no sign of a break today, as the mercury started its daily 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 reserve. | Rain in Ohio Below Normal. | COLUMBUS, Onhio, August 7 (#).— Rainfall throughout Ohio during the four months ending July 31 was 6.7 inches below normal figures prepared by W. H. Alexander, chief of the| Weather Bureau here, revealed todsy. | 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 ‘:onml of 14.86 and’| in the Southern third the shortage was 9.01 inches below the normal of 15.49. Pennsylvania Suffers. HARRISBURG, Pa., August 7 (P).— | The winds were expected. o 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 aiready 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 rellef 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. fees il In Zululand the air is so clear that at a distance of 7 or 8 miles by star- BALTIMORE, Md., August 7 (#).— light. WHEN THE CON OCO objects of fair size can be distinguished | aj HULL SEEKS 6-YEAR TERM N 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 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 L. 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 & 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- irict 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 ngrenunn. He was opposed bx 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. Representati Hubert Fisher, Democrat, of the tenth district (Memphis) is retiring, but Ed- ward H. Crump, Shelby County political leader, was unop) 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 ppealing for a “return to cratie prineiples of Jefferson,” Hull, & former chairman of the tio and Tenneasee’s convention National Commitise favorite son at the H bran as vocated by his two years * nnu«'“‘nn-n Proposes fo Abolish Taxes. Todd proposed ‘abolition of State and municipal taxes for schools, roads and public health work. Funds for those purposes, he said, should be prorated to the States by the Government from income and excess p: taxes. A third long-f torial candidate, vis W. Dodson. Nashville educator, said he entered the jrace with no expectation of winning. Senator Willlam E. Brock, Chatta- nooga. appointed upon the death of Sena wrence D. 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