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Relief. A total of 703 counties in 19 States have been certified by the Department of Agriculture as beneficiaries of freight rate reductions on livestock feed. The American Railway Association reported that 3,733 carloads of hay and mill feed had been shipped into the stricken counties at the emergency rate. In a few States highway construction was accelerated but in others no money was available for such extra work In Iowa and Nebraska crop conditions were comparatively good and no farm credits were required...
Died. Maj.-General Henry Tureman Allen, 71, longtime soldier, Wartime com-mander of the goth Division which participated in the St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne offensives, post-VVar commander of the U. S. Army of Occupation in Germany, holder of decorations from five nations; suddenly, when he was stricken with apoplexy and fell 15 ft. from the porch of a residence at Buena Vista Springs...
...York, Herbert Hoover saw a Negro knock another Negro down. Going to help the stricken party, Herbert Hoover was arrested with the two belligerents, taken to gaol. Negro Hoover was exonerated, freed...
Washington last week took recognizance of the drought, then nearly two months old. President Hoover recalled Secretary of Agriculture Hyde from a western trip, announced that the Federal Government would "leave no stone unturned" to give assistance to stricken husbandmen. With experienced directness the President took charge personally. Rapidly assembled at his order were Department of Agriculture reports by field agents on the exact location and degree of drought damage. Hardest hit apparently were Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia. Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska. President Hoover summoned the governors of these twelve states to a White House conference...
...passenger to New York from the devastated area in Italy told how William Guard, longtime press agent for the Metropolitan Opera, immediately after the temblors mounted a balcony of his hotel half-dressed, played on a flute to calm the terror-stricken populace milling below...