DROUGHT WORSE IN AMERICA
| HUGE CROP LOSSES i i | HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS ' j ON RELIEF ROLLS - j NO SIGN OK RAIN ij j ;t*HEH *•**.«» *SSOCJ*T:OX —sl CI'.IHO .• ; 'fBLiaHAPH—COPTKIOUT.' f (Received August 6, 8.15 p.m.) J NEW YORK, August 5. '<■ A message from Kansas City states that approximately 800,000 l j persons are on relief rolls in the s drought-blistered western half of . the United States, according to an s official tabulation. D The Government has designated - for relief purposes more than 1300 f counties in 25 states as emergency or secondary drought counties. r Unofficial estimates placed crop r losses at hundreds of millions of s j dollars. Weather forecasts gave no - I sign of a break. . j Barren pastures and the shortage f | of water have caused the forced sale f of thousands of head of cattle to the -i Government to be tinned for distribution to the needy.
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21236, 7 August 1934, Page 11
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