The drought in the valleys of the Ohio, Potomac and lower Mississippi ceased to be front page news as soon as President Hoover had held his White House conferences and told the States affected how to set up relief machinery without U. S. Treasury aid (TIME, Aug. 18). The mild public hysteria that had marked official action and pronouncements subsided. But still little or no rain fell over the blighted areas of Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. Last week as the drought passed into...
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