RAIN RELIEF

Evening Post, Issue 11, 13 July 1936, Page 9

RAIN RELIEF

FORECAST IN U.S.A.

MANY DEATHS IN HEAT WAVE

GRAIN PRICES] RELAX

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NEW YORK, July 12. The dead from the heat throughout the nation total 700, with 200 in Canada, where 130 died at Ontario alone, and where all temperature records were broken. The first promise of considerable relief came today with a forecast that a body of cooling air originating in the North Pacific Ocean would begin to work its way across the continent and could be expected to break the wave by the middle of the week, and that rains of varying intensity could also be expected. ' Temperatures of 100 degrees or more were reported from various parts of the United States and Canada today. Oklahoma; Georgia, and Kentucky entered the group of States where a sharp drought emergency exists. Damage from the drought, in Canada and the United States may total 500,000,000 dollars. Cities like New York, Chicago, and Toronto reported continued suffering and a high death and prostration rate. Seventeen persons died at New York today, making a total of 68 in four days. One hundred persons are dead as the result of the heat ai Toronto. THE GRAIN MARKET. Prices of grains broke sharply on the report of an impending end to the drought, wheat losing the fixed five cents limit early in the Chicago pit. Previously maize had dominated the grain pits, advancing to ia maximum limit of 4 cents. Wheat also turned up sharply in Chicago, following the Winnipeg lead, coming near the 5 cent limit. All grains shared the advance. Suffering has increased in North and South Dakota, and civic prayers for rain were offered at ■Mitchell, North Dakota. ' ■ A new appeal for aid has been sent to President Roosevelt by Governor Welford, of North Dakota. Dust is blowing again in Kansas, and forest fires are raging in Wyoming, Montana, and South Dakota. In Northern Arizona sheepmen drove their flocks to railway watering stations, paying 25 dollars for a tank of water, NEW JOBS IN THE STATES. President Roosevelt told the Press that the Administration had authorised the creation of 55,000 new jobs in the five north-western States of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming, and 20,000 Works Progress Administration jobs in the two other drought regions, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky, and western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.