The Archive · 1930

President Hoover to Aid

Washington, Aug. 12, Owing to the drought crisis "President Hoover has cancelled his proposed holiday Rocky the Mountains.

He will confer at Washington on Thorsday with tie Governors of the "States affected by the drought, and en Friday he will meet the representatives of the farmers.

officially reported that there portage of food in a number! of States as the result of the lowest production of corn for the past 25 years and the extensive damage done the crops, Itia estimated that 100,000,000 "bushels of cereals have been lost since August 1 alone, and there are atill no signs of any considerable

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