Washington, Aug. 20.
A meeting of banking representa tives and State relief committees has been called for Tuesday to map out definite financial programme for relief work in connection sith the drought.
Mr. Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, has been appointed head of President Hoover's National Drought Relief Committee.
It is stated that $800,000 of the original $6,000,000 fund is available for loans to buy seed for Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Montana.
The Drought Relief Committee includes Mr. Alexander Legge, of the Federal Farm Board: Mr. Roy A. Young, of the Federal Reserve Board: Mr. J. B. Payne, Chairman of the American Red Cross: and Mr.
Ogden Mills, Under-Secretary of the Treasury—Reuter.
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