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Show EAST SWELTERS IN HEAT WAVE NEW YORK, July 9 (UP). The whole eastern half of the United States was sweltering today. Thundershowers and hail broke the heat wave in the midwest during dur-ing the night, but from the Atlantic Atlan-tic seaboard inland as far as Ohio temperatures remained high. A United Press tabulation today showed that 53 persons had been killed by heat prostration and 154 drowned while seeking relief in lakes, streams and sea since the beginning be-ginning of the holiday death toll rolled up on the fourth of July. |