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and others attending the conference
will enter the State House at the west
door of the first floor and pass down
long corridor to an elevator that
will carry them to the main floor and
the Governors Office.
Canvas Curtain Hung.
No one will be allowed on the first
floor A canvas curtain extended from
the elevator door on the main floor
across the rotunda to the door of the
Gvernor's office.
The main floor rotunda we'll was
canvas covered so no one could see
the drought conferees as they pass
along the corridor below.
Gov. Herring said these arrange
ments were ordered by Secret Service
men to protect the President, Gov.
Landon and the others from being
halted on their way to and from the
Governors Office.
Only guests, conferees and newsmen
were admitted to the Statehouse
Outside the building, patrolmen were
| stationed to confine the curious to the
sweeping lawns and drives on Capt.
tol Hill.
The President, Governors and Sena-
tors attending the meeting were to
follow the same route through Des
Moines streets in their drive to the
Statehouse, but, Herring said, it
will not be q procession"
MIR. Roosevelt, Herring said. might
remain in the background" during the
discussions. He added:
II understand Mr.. Roosevelt's aides
will do most Of the talking, while the
President himself sits back and ab-
serbs the situation as it develops"
Roosevelt aides said en- route that
the President may confer separately
with each State delegation, but Her
ring said he had been asked to preside
at "the conference" and that he
understood it would be single meet
ing and not series.
Senators to Attend.
Senators to attend the conference
we're: Lester j. Dickinson, Iowa;
Bennett Champ Clark and Harry S.
Truman, Missouri; Elmer Thomas and
Thomas B. Gore, Oklahoma; George
McGill and Arthur Capper, Kansas,
and Robert La Toilette, jr., and F.
Ryan Duffy, Wisconsin. Nebraska's
two Senators, E. r. Burke and George
Norris, previously notified Herring
they will be unable to attend.
Governors, in addition to Landon
and Herring, were: Guy B. Park, Mis-
souri,; E. w. Marland, Oklahoma; Roy
L. Cochran, Nebraska; Hjalmar Peter
sen, Minnesota, and Philip F. La Fol-
lette, Wisconsin.
Capper, who said he Is supporting
Landon for the presidency, described
the drought situation in Kansas as
about the worst we've ever had"
He said many Kansas farmers will
need financial aid, and advocated a
program of water conservation to save
water at the source, where rain falls,
by building ponds, lakes and reser-
voirs."
Crop Insurance Plan.
The Republican Senator added he
was very much interested" in crop
insurance plan.
Senator Gore said that If the drought
was not broken soon in Oklahoma I'VE
will need more hurry-up jobs" The
State, he said, is "dry as dust" w. S.
Key, Oklahoma w. P. A. administrator,
who accompanied him, said $4,000
W. P. A. jobs have been authorized in
Oklahoma, and that "this may meet
the employment situation If we get
rain"
Senator Truman asserted the situ-
alton must be met by both an immedi-
ate program Of relief and q long
time conservation program. Gov. Park
stated he did not know specifically
what part he would play in the con.
ference, but that he was accompanied
by q group Of officials who know as
much as anybody about the drought
situation in Missouri"
Gov Petersen met with officials
from his State before the conference
opened to draw up specific recon-
mendations.
Herring announced he will ask the
administration officials for continu-
alton and possible expansion of the
drought relief program now in opera
tion In Iowa. The program, admins
tered through county drought COM
mittees. uses w. P. A. and Rural Re-
settlement Administration funds,
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS.