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Show ! Heat Wave Takes Heavy Death Toll Through Nation i 513 Deaths Reported Early Today from Heat i Alone With Hundreds More From I Drownings; Water Shortage Acute j KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 2r (U.R) Almost two thirds i f the United States today entered another day of torture j comparable to existence within a blast furnace. Little relief was promised fro man unprecedented droubt and heat wave j (Klt has caused more than 500 deaths, cost millions, and j interfered with the lives of thousands of Americans, all - within a 1 1-day period. 1 The heat area extended from Wyoming and New Mexico emergency relief administration. The government has spent $20,- I 000,000 in the last month. fast to the Alleghenies, taking in " ! die southwest and a great part of he south. Temperatures exceed- ' infr 100 degrees were the usual i ihmf. Complicating the suffering j vras an acute water shortage in parts of the middlewest and the j southwest. I , f)e:ittis At 513 j A United Press tabulation of ' deaths, carefully complied each j day the heat has persisted, stood at 513 early today and was increasing in-creasing almost hourly. Cattle markets here, at Chicago, Chica-go, and other places, were jammed jam-med with thousands of heads ship-i ship-i ped by distressed farmers unable ' to obtain food or water for them. . ; The animals looked like famine beasts. A United Press survey of the drought and heat areas showed an alarming increase in the costs of foodstuffs to housewives. Gro-eers Gro-eers and wholesalers, with an eye to the thousands of acres of destroyed de-stroyed crops, predicted prices D would continue to increase. Since May 1. they have gone up from 5 to 10 per cent in Dallas and 20 to 25 per cent in Omaha. Water Shortage Acute shortage of water for human consumption was reported in many sections and throughout Oklahoma and Kansas, where river beds are practically dry, a frenzied, life and death hunt for water was under way.. Hundreds of wells have been dug in the last week. , In addition to the more than 500 dead from causes directly traceable to heat, deaths by drowning were far beyond nomal in all sections. More than 100 drownings have been reported within the last week. Federal and state agencies mustered all resources to relieve human suffering. In ' Washington relief officials estimated that 1,600,000 droug victims are entirely en-tirely dependent on the federal |
