Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-06
SHOWERS TO BRING
TEMPORARY RELIEF
TO DISTRICT AREAS
Government Agencies Bend
Effort to Task of Aiding
Stricken Nation.
AGRICULTURE REPORT
CONFIRMS DISASTER
One Death and Five Prostrations
Comprise Toll in Capital
Yesterday.

while light showers were expected
to bring temporary relief from excessive
heat to Washington and nearby Mary
land and Virginia this afternoon or
tonight requests for aid from many
parts. of the country continued to pour
into the Capital as the concentrated
effort of Government agencies was bent
today to the task of ascertaining &C
curately the needs of the drought
stricken Nation.
Discouraging as the situation appears,
the Weather Bureau today could offer
no ray of hope for such soaking rains
as are needed in the stricken areas 10
save crops or depleted water supplies
that are threatening cattle raisers and
dairy men with ruin in far scattered
sections. Local showers yesterday In
the Ohio and Upper Mississippi River
Valleys only served to whet the appe-
tite of dry, cracking farm lands without
bringing relief, except in slightly lower
temperatures.
The Department of Agriculture and
the Federal Farm Board, at the dlrec-
ton of President Hoover, were engaged
in determining both the existing conol-
ment could employ to assist the suffer-
ing agricultural States. The President
expects a report to be placed before
him Monday.
More Gloom Added.
The Department of Agriculture in its
weekly weather and crop report today
added more gloom to the drought STU
alton.
In the North Central portion of the
country during the past few days local
areas have been benefited by showers
and these have fallen also in some
Central Gulf districts. Beneficial rains
have fallen in the Rocky Mountain
area and in some of the South Atlantic
States.
That was the only relief. and the
seventh consecutive hot week aggra-
waited conditions that were already
serious The report said sections that
have been doing well until now are
becoming "alarmingly dry"
In general, the report confirmed sto-
ries Of disaster and near disaster from
widely scattered regions. 1t said the
drought was now general practically
everywhere east of the Rockies. except
a few fortunate localities and parts of
the Southeast, and added. AN grow
ing vegetation is seriously affected"
and particularly in Virginia, are suf-
fering as badly as other parched Sec
lions of the country. Meanwhile, Gov.
Sampson of Kentucky, in a telegram
to the President last night, described
a desolation equaling the destruction OF
foods tornadoeS or earthquakes. A
plea for proclamation for Nation
wide prayer meetings to ask divine aid
for rain came to the Chief Executive
n S.s4 CT f@n Do
tomac. Food for humans as well as
cattle was asked in an appeal from the
Virgin Islands.
One Death, Five PrOstrations.
One death and five heat prostrations
comprised the toll of yesterdays maxi
mum temperature of 102 degrees in
Washington. Compared with that rec
ord, the Weather Bureau predicted the
mercury would hover around go degrees
this afternoon.
At 10 o'clock this morning a few
drops Of rain began to fall in West
Washington. 1t soon stopped, but was
enough to indicate that the clouds over
head would supply rain during the aft
ernoon or night. Tomorrow, however,
will continue fair
A minimum temperature of IS degrees
prevailed here at o'clock this morn
ing. At o'clock the mercury rose to 80
degrees. Five degrees were added during
the next hour. Then the mercury re-
manned stationary until at 1890 o'clock
it fell a point to "a degrees and took
jump of two degrees by IL o'clock.
A rather low humidity, Al per cent,
compared with II early yesterday, will
help matters during the day, the
Weather Bureau reported.
The one death, Allen F. Burris, col
ored As, of 1924 L street, having died
at Emergency Hospital, brought the
Capitals total heat tell for the year up
to Is. Burris was overcome while work
ing on a paving Job. The prostration
cases involved Elsie Weatherington, COL
ored laundress, 81 years old, of 356 H
street southwest; Mrs. Ann Bolton, So
years old, Of 1451 Park road; Alma
Lewis, %, of GIG Emerson street; Eliza
beth Griffith, colored, 1880 Twentieth
street, and N. j. Ward, 927 B street,
and George H. Hatcher, 1918 Eighth
street. None of the cases was regarded
as serious by hospital physicians.
Maryland Draws d. C. Water.
Suburban Maryland, more fortunate
than other sections of the State, con-
tinues to draw largely from the District
of Columbia to augment its own de-
pieted water supply
With the three emergency connec-
tons with the District water supply
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