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Show Kansas Hard Hit By Heat Kansas City, Mo. Scorching south winds swept the southwest again and temperatures soared well above the 100-degree mark, setting new records for the summer and bowing only to the maximum of the hot summer of 1918. After a hot night, however, there was some relief, the weather ', bureau announced, when the wind veered early into the west and then i into the northwest. A 10-degree drop is expected to follow. The hottest weather in twenty-eight twenty-eight years was reported by Winfield, Kan., where the thermometer reached 110. Topeka, with 105 degrees, and Kansas City with 103.3 degrees, experienced ex-perienced the highest temperatures since 1918. Corn in Kansas was hard hit by the hot winds, especially in upland fields, pastures were badly burned and in some places farmers were forced to feed hay or green corn to livestock. The state board of agriculture said that not even sorghum crops, which are almost drought resisting, would mature unless rain falls soon. |