DEADLY DROUGHT

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12914, 16 July 1936, Page 5

DEADLY DROUGHT

U.S. DEATH ROLL 2000. CROP DAMAGE 1000 MILLION DOLLARS. COOL WAVE NOW ON WAY. (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel, Copyright). (Received July 15, 11 p.m.) CHICAGO, July 14. ' Washouts in the North-West and re ports that a cool wave is descending from Hudson Bay marked the imminent end to-day of two weeks’ torrid heat, causing 2000 deaths and crop damage amounting to 1000 million dollars. The effect was immediately felt in the grain pits, all cereals moving lower led by maize and wheat. . The down turn was retarded, however, on reports irom Winnipeg that the Canadian crop is desperate. At Lanark (Montana)- a cloudburst washed out 900 feet of railway track. At Climax and Kokomo (Colorado) four inches of snow blocked the roads. ROOSEVELT’S PLAN TO AID AMERICA RE AFFORESTATION AND PREVENTION OF EROSION (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright). WASHINGTON. July 14. President Roosevelt to-day allocated £600,000 to the Works’ Progress* Administration to continue the nat-ion-wide programme ter curbing soil erosion and to aid reafforestation for toe control of floods. The allocations were fr 2'J States besides 12 officially designated as drought States. A statement issued by tn official Hates that, the -‘Works Progress Adm’nistration is interested in longrange relief, not merc-Iy drought relief. “We are confronted with » chronic or recurrent tragedy”, he declared. He outlined the Works Progress Administration relief measures, including the erection of 50 dams in South Dakota and an artificial lake 20 miles long in Minnesota, and small dams, reservoirs, and wells in Wyoming. To-dav, for the first t‘me m any recent drought, the Government moved sheep to: North Dakota.