RAIN AT LAST
WESTERN STATES
FALL IN TEMPERATURE
CHICAGO, July 12.
Relief frorri America's devastating heat spell, .which in ten days has taken toll of 890 lives, appeared in the Far West today, when rain caused temperatures to drop from 100 degrees to 40. Rain sweeping in from the Rockies was, howeVer, draining ineffectively off the drought-denuded land, which offered little resistance to the wasteful outflow. ' ' ■,
The heat persisted from Mississippi to the Atlantic, but was relieved by showers in many eastern States.
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Evening Post, Issue 12, 14 July 1936, Page 9
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