Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
Calls Farm Board Heads to
Conference Pending Com
plete Report.
SOME HOPE IS In SIGHT,
WEATHER MAN REPORTS
Red Gross Plans Action if Nation
Wide Survey Shows Human
Suffering Requires It.

President Hoover virtually has put
aside all other business to give his full
attention to relief of the drought
stricken sections.
Pending receipt of definite informa-.
ton from the Agriculture Department
Monday on the damage done and
threatened, he called three members of
the Federal Farm Board and Its gen.
eral counsel Stanley Reed, to the White
House for conference. The board
members we're Samuel r. McKelvie,
william F. Schilling and Charles S.
Wilson.
Relief Measures Expected.
Secretary Hyde also saw his chief for
the second time in two days and it was
announced at the White House that at
the cabinet meeting today Mr.. Hoover
would present relief measures under
consideration.
Later he expected to talk over long
distance telephone with Alexander
Legge, Farm Board chairman who is
in the West and in direct touch with
the situation.
In order that no time may be lost
in laying the basis for relief work, the
President was considering canceling
his proposed trip to his Virginia noun
tain lodge today and not leaving until
tomorrow
It was reiterated at the White House
that, because of the many conflicting
reports, nothing could be done until the
report of the Department of Agriculture
is compiled Monday, showing what aid
Is needed.
nj addition to the measures co1tem-
placid by the Government, the Red
Cross also is ready to take hand If
the report shows large extent OF
human suffering.
Some Hope in Sight
The Weather Bureau said today
"some hope is in sight" for break in
the prolonged drought.
r. H Weightman, forecaster, ex-
planned that no immediate relief was in
sight, but added pressure conditions in
the Far North now prevailing have been
generally followed In the course OF a few
days by showers and lower tempera-
lures in the upper Mississippi Valley
and Plains States. He said alienation
for the corn and wheat belt might come
about the middle of next week.
A high-preSSure area attended by
lower temperatures exists in the Nc
Kenzie Valley area and the Great Slave
Lake regions of Canada.
Weightman made it plain, however,
that he was unable definitely to predict
rains from present conditions or to tell
when it would come or the amount Of
precipitation.
Dry Heat Predicted for District.
For the washington district dry heat
will prevail again tonight and tomor-
row. Despite higher early morning
temperatures, it was said the maximum
this afternoon would hardly equal the
81 degrees registered at Weather Bu-
reau station yesterday. A minimum of
"a degrees was reported at o'clock
this morning BY 8 o'clock the mercury
had risen to SO degrees and at 10
o'clock it was registering 81. This was
degrees higher than the correspond
ing hour yesterday. The humidity how,
ever, had dropped from Ct to 80 per
cent, which served to counterfeit the
higher temperatures.
Slightly ltwered temperatures will
prevail in the Washington district to-
night, according to expectations, but to-
morrow will be continued fair and hot.
Inhabitants of sections where 100-de-
gree temperatures are now common
place and where j. Pluvius has forgot
ten to rain upon scorching fields for
weeks might like to know that the
weather hasn't changed permanently
for more than 200 years.
In fact, c. F. Marvin. chief Of the
Weather Bureau, believes there has
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