| Show TOLL OF HEAT DEATHS IN INU US U.S. U. U S. S i RISES J TO I I Relief From Scorching Sun Promised d Middle West Westi Rain Predicted EF RELIEF PLAN HITS SNAG I It t Denver Tourists Cool Off in Snowball ll Fight t By 1 Associated ss Press i r The rhe sun siege attained its us most evere proportions of the summer today to to- day driving the number of deaths far above the mark and the f d drouth uth damage into billions of dol dol- 5 lars Jars wV 1 For the first time since the scourge if y j started however wever early arIy relief was predicted for the midwest the furj furnace fur fur- j nace of oC the nation while the east and Pacific coast enjoyed comparative l I cool weather t T The governments government's efforts to bring tt 1 relief to the drouth sections by buyIng buying buy buy- ing stricken herds and arid shipping them It to slaughter laughter or southern pastures i struck a a snag The farm administration announced an an- that the stockyards strike and congestion at other livestock livestock live live- stock c centers has forced temporary suspension n of purchases D Death T Toll ll Mounts 1 1 Heat d deaths piling up at times althe at al atthe tr the rate 2 pf pI 10 an ho hour r. r stood at y last night and mounted t today da to In Missouri alone persons perIshed perished per per- shed Illinois ISO Ohio 81 81 Nebraska 55 55 Iowa 50 and Indiana with 13 new deaths reported 38 36 I The high highest st official temperature re recorded qed yesterday waS was at Vi Vinita ita Okla OkIa N Noblesville bl Ind velt s sweltered r rii d dat at at atry ry C Continued on Pate Page Two TOLL OF HEAT FATALITIES Relief Belief From Scorching Sun Promised Middle West West West- Rain Predicted Continued from Ironi Pare Faze One 12 and Quincy Ill at its Ill its seventh seventh sev sev- successive ive day above Chicago suffered under the most oppressive heat heal ever recorded corded there thereas as the mercury soared oared to yesterday yester ester day two day two degrees higher than the previous aU time all time record set in jn 1903 RaIn Falls in New York In N New w York Cit City wh where re four our persons persons per persons I sons have died from the heat showers showers show show- ers fell tell before dawn today and the weather veather bureau said the Atlantic seaboard sea seaboard board would be favored with cooler temperatures S The far tar west continued to enjoy freedom from froIn the blasts and nature drew a joker from her weather pack 50 miles from rom Denver where tourist tour tour isis engaged in a snowball fight as aninch an aninch aninch inch of oC snow fell on Mount Evans Skies Slues were scanned anxiously about the great lakes Jakes as weather bureaus bu bu- bu told of oC a hi high h pressure area sweeping in from Alaska and expect expected ed to bring a respite late Inte today More than an inch of oC fell In some sections of Minn Minnesota Oklahoma Okla Okla- homa no ma was told of or a possibility of light showers and cooler temperatures tempera tempera- tures litres were predicted led for Nebraska Ohio Wisconsin Iowa Illinois South Dakota Missouri and Wyoming alI aU all stricken by the blight Oklahoma's parched surface faced a new menace today today forest forest lir fires 1 18 of 01 which were reported licking Ucking up the valuable pasturage and pasturage and the state date relief relic administration asked immediately to fight conditions the worst on record To add to the devastation a storm of hurricane force struck Texas today today to to- day and many seeking relief on the Texas beaches scurried for tor safety U. U S. S Continues Relief Although its cattle purchase machinery machinery ma chinery was stalled the government continued to pour forth relief reBel to the drouth areas where loss Joss in crops anc and cattle has already been estimated In the hundreds of millions of dollars dollar The fe federal emergency relief administration ad ministration has set aside for or this month for the needy and the government has started sinking hundreds hundred hun- hun dred of wells and constructing farm ponds to supply stricken areas with water Fifty wells are under way in W Wyoming omin and in the Dakotas |
