Show HEAT NEAT WAVE SETS YEAR 30 RECORD IN MIDWEST w MERCURY SOARS ABOVE 1 0 00 0 MARK MARKIN IN MANY TOWNS Cattle Dying Crops Are Aref f s Greatly D Damaged maged in n na a P Torrid Arean Areat Area t n i By fly J Pun America Mid sweltered today under under un un- der the most blistering sustained heat wave wave arave of f the last 30 years would make no definite dentt den den- tt nite e p prediction di Uon when hot ra rays s 's of 01 the then sun tin n would be tempered by cooling rains Temperature recordings above c the degree mark were common readings read read- ings Inthe were reported throughout through throughout gh out cut all sections of at the va vast t area Cattle CattIe were reported dying Crops were greatly damaged Human suf- suf fering grew hourly In In Kansas City Mo the thermometer thermometer eter eer I climbed above the degree DO-degree mark ark for lor the eighteenth day this month tying a record made in 1901 Jn Iii n the same area a new time all record was set with only ony 03 of at an anInch aninch aninch inch of rain during the first 25 days s 's sol of ol o June From the southwest came reports nf at extreme temperatures from the theT T cx s gulf to the Panhandle HITS AT DALLAS A maximum of was registered at t Dallas DalIas Texas At Fort Worth the therm thermometer meter stood at at Abilene and and at at El EI Paso 96 Coas Coastal l cities s such ch as Brownsville sweltered under humid temperatures in the A r recording cording of at 1044 was made yesterday yesterday yesterday yes yes- at Oklahoma City Okla Okia It was the hottest June day in 43 years r Vinita Okla Okia reported degrees th the same report came from Guthrie and Newkirk I At Lincoln Neb the mercury climbed to at York to and at Fremont to Central and west portions of the state tate reported temperatures tern tem in the nigh high Scattered showers in the Missouri Valley Ulley yesterday brought only slight lIef It was wa's sticky gummy ST ST. gIn ln In n the Rock Rocky mountain region temperatures tem tern j also were above normal At g 9 o'clock today Denver reported a are re reading ding of 80 ap degrees and the mercury merry mer mer- cury eury ry expected to soar above e the 90 mark Grand diGrand Junction Colo had bad a maximum maxi maxi- mum num of at 96 yesterday and Pueblo 90 HARVESTING ADVANCED Excessive heat brought broucht early har- har I har-I w vets ts to many sections of t the area Binders and headers took to the fields ab ead of schedule In many sections had given up tip hope their hope their crops were parched their cattle dy dy- dy ing mJ or suffering intensely Water supplies throughout the affected at- at areas were said still to be adequate adequate adequate ade ade- quate for needs of humans and most cattle bu but in in many instances excessive excessive excessive sive suffering was was expected unless heavy cooling rains soon bring reI re re- re- re lief I t |