Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
Appeals From Drought Area
Rapidly Mounting, With
587,0 34 Now Helped.
SENATE BILL JAM EASED
IN DEFICIENCY FUND OK.
House Hearing Ordered on $685..
600, 900 Appropriation Proposed
as Additional Aid.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Relief calls to the Red Cross for food
and clothing during the past few days
have been so great that Chairman John
Barton Payne today said close to a mill
lion people would need aid by Feb
ruary l.
Our reports today show we are caring
for 587,034," Payne said.
Our field workers in the one State
OF Arkansas alone estimate figures $780,
600 persons will be on the Red Cross
rolls in that State by February /. This
is more than one-quarter of the entire
population of the State.
Relief in Nearby Area.
Relief has been extended to a num-
Der of counties in West Virginia, Vir-
GINA, Alabama and Ohio by the ma
tional organization in the past few days
as the local resources of the communi-
ties and the chapters we're exhausted.
The magnitude of this task for car
ing for drought sufferers, and the acute
need for the relief fund of $4,000 900
which the Rsd Cross has asked for, can
be comprehended when a comparison is
made with the relief work by the Red
Cross in the Mississippi Valley flood
in 1927.
"At the very hight of that emergency
100000 persons were cared for by the
Red Cross. Today we are helping
within $4,000 of that number and our
workers tell me we will be giving food
clothing and other types of relief to
almost million persons by February /,
If calls continue to mount at the rate
established In the past few days"
Gifts Exceed S1,OOO,OOO.
Contributions to the R.d Cross $1o,-
100000 relief fund were boosted to
81 ,264,000 today,
Meanwhile Speaker Longworth an
nounced In the House he would refer
the Interior Department bill, carrying
to the House Appropriations Commit
tee for hearings.
He did so Immediately.
representative Cramton of Michigan,
chairman of the House Appropriations
Subcommittee, said full and fair" hear
tngs would be conducted, beginning
probably tomorrow.
Result Of Radio Appeal.
AS result of the radio appeal last
night by President Hoover, former Presi-
dent Coolidge, Alfred e. smith and
others, officials at Red Cross headquar-
tiers were busy answering inquiries as to
where to send money.
Chapters scattered throughout the
land had telegraphed to Washington
concerning the status of drives for funds.
The Van Cortlandt Chapter, in New
York, was the first to notify washington
it had oversubscribed its quota of $4,000
and anticipated ability to add to con-
tributions''
The st. Joseph County Chapter of
South Bend, Ind, had been given 1926
In unsolicited contributions prior to
launching its campaign.
Agriculture Bill Passes.
The $213,964 900 Agriculture Depart
ment appropriation bill. carrying $685.
100000 to be Immediately available for
road construction, was passed today by
the Senate.
The bill now goes back to the House
and probably will be sent to conference
for for reconciliation 1 of differences between
The bill is the fourth to pass the
Senate of the II supply bills which
must be enacted at this session. None
has been approved finally.
The Senate added an amendment to
provide for reappropriating about ST.
100000 for loans to drought-stricken
farmers in North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida and Alabama from the
funds which have been repaid by farm
ers in those States from the emergency
flood loans last year.
bill, proposed by Senators Smith,
Democrat, South Carolina, and George,
Democrat, Georgia, to authorize this
reappropriation for all the States except
Alabama passed the Senate early this
week and Senator Black, Democrat
Alabama, proposed the inclusion of his
State today.
Deficiency Bill Passes.
In burst of speed the Senate passed
yesterday deficiency appropriation bill
which will make $125, 100000 available
Immediately, much of it useful in fur
nishing employment and in aiding
drought sufferers. The bill had to go
back to the House for consideration of
amendments, among them 100000
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