SHORT DURATION
WEEKEND . RAINS
LITTLE RELIEF TO DROUGHT
DEATHS IN U.S.A.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. CHICAGO, July 13. Natalities in the past fortnight's terrific nation-wide heat wave approached 1600 today and hope of early relief was shattered as the weekend rains fizzled out. Michigan leads in human losses with a total of 365 deaths, and Illinois is second with 200. Fifty persons died hourly in the United States during the daylight hours today. Wheat fluctuated widely on conflicting reports, finishing weak after recovering its initial losses. Although failing to break the drought, the weekend rains greatly benefited the north-west, aiding crops and pasturage and lifting the fire scourge. 1 It is officially announced at Washington that Dr. Rexford Tugwell and other high officials are leaving by aeroplane tomorrow for Bismarck (North Dakota) to prepare plans to turn large areas of wheat lands into pasturage and to remove a considerable part of the1 population. The officials, on returning, will tour the region where the drought has been most severe. It is reported that thousands of families are using their war bonuses and trekking east and west to desert the_ "dust bowl."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 11
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191SHORT DURATION Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 13, 15 July 1936, Page 11
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