VAST MIGRATION.
FROM DROUGHT-STRICKEN AREAS. MORE HEAT IN MAIZE BELT. (United Press Association—Copyright.) NEW YORK, July 17. A message from Bismarck (North Dakota) states that with the nation’s death-roll from the drought estimated at 422 and the damage exceeding the 1934 total, Professor R. G. Tugwell (Under-Secretary for Agriculture) today announced, a plan whereby the Government will conduct a vast migration from the stricken areas. For example, 30 per cent, of the farm population in the parched l area of North Dakota will he shipped to the comparatively fertile Red River Valley. Searing heat continues in the midwest maize belt.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 236, 18 July 1936, Page 5
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