AMERICAN DROUGHT
FOOD SHORTAGE SPREADING United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. President Hoover has been advised that unemployment, disease, and, in some cases, actual starvation, is complicating the situation due to drought, and which is becoming progressively worse despite a, few scattered storms yesterday. •The’ New York and New Jersey area received yesterday’s storm, but, instead, of rain, they were showered only with destructive hail. Other areas have been badly damaged by, the usual thunder storms in which there has been no rain, but only . injurious lightning, which had the object of firing buildings and killing live stock. Emergency water restrictions have been ordered hi the State of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania* and West Virginia. The live stock in these States are being fed on winter rations of hay and bran.
Ten-dollar spring lambs are being sacrificed for fifty cents each. The canneries have elosed, owing to their being a corn shortage. Several towns have asked their citizens to send their laundry eleswhere to conserve the water.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 August 1930, Page 6
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