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Show FARMER PAYING HIGH INTEREST Nebraska Banks Charge 10 Per Cent, War Finance Chief Is Told 1 1 'MARA. Neb., March 14. Western Nebraska farmers nnd cattle raisers! hae not been able to obtain loans! from the war finance corporation. Eu- j Korie Meyer. Jr . managing direetyr of 1 the corporation wan told today at a onference with Omaha Ihentock commission com-mission men The commission men told Mr. Meyer that the farmers were forced to obtain tholr loans from banks and were being; held up because be-cause the b.inkH required at least 10 per cent Interest. Mr Meyer oxpretaed surprise that loans had not been made In certain -pecifl. oaaes pointed out by the commission com-mission men. Mr. Meyer said that the farmer Is more hopeful today than he haa been j for 11 long time and that he was getting get-ting back to a njoncy-mnkintr. basis. "Here In Nebraska and Iowa," Mr. Meyer said, "the agricultural prospect id particularity good." He said that these two matet were looked to as a barometer of agriculture for the middle mid-dle west. or. 1 |