A total of 204,000 families need immediate cash relief, President Roosevelt said, and accordingly 50,000 men will be employed immediately by the Works Progress Administration, with an additional 50,000 granted subsist ence loans under the direction of the Resettlement Administration:
Many of the farmers affected, how-fever, are already on subsistence, and hen thin a few days, 170,000 families in the drought area wil! be on relief while the remaining 24,000 will be given ald as soon as possible,
year's wheat crop would yield 600,- Mr,"Hoosevelt estimated that. this 000,000 bushels, with a carry-over of 125,000,000 bushels, as compared with normal annual United States consumption of 625,000,000 bushels, Meanwhile, trans-Atlantic liners ar-iving in New York to-day reported torrential rains in mid-ocean—United
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.