Show IDEA DEATH TH DEALING HEAT CONTINUES Toll foil Mounts to Livestock S Dying j Complete Crop CropS S Loss Looms By Associated Press toll mounted to today tolay to to- aa day lay as s intense heat cat blazed down on the he nation smashing records for lor in in- intensity easily and duration The blanket of heat as tenacious and oppressive as a mustard plaster showed signs o of lessening at the edges but ut in the midwest where its devastating devas- devas tating effects are greatest no re re- lid lief was sighted sigh An unofficial degree temperature tempera tempera- ture ure was recorded at M Ia la and nd above degree readings were general throughout the central west west- em ern rn states Each day added to the hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to crops and livestock and aggravated human suffering Missouri at the center of or the heat wave saw perish and Illinois was second with In Chicago alone where yesterday the airport ther ther- rose to degrees 25 have died from the heat The heat toll for the present wave follows Missouri Illinois Nebraska 54 Ohio 45 Iowa 40 Minnesota 25 Indiana 19 Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl- Pennsyl vania 13 Michigan l 13 Texas 11 Kentucky 12 Oklahoma 7 Tonnes Tonnes- see ee 6 Wisconsin 4 and Georgia 1 The total in I the 15 states is |