INTENSE SUFFERING.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 13 July 1936, Page 7

INTENSE SUFFERING.

AMERICA’S GREAT DROUGHT.

PREDICTION OE RAIN

NEW .YORK, July 12

With the dead from the heat throughout the nation totalling 7UO, and 201) in Canada, where 130 have died at Ontario alone, where all temperature records have been broken, tlie first promise of considerable relief came to-day with a forecast that a body of cooling air originating in tlio North Pacific Ocean would begin to work its way across the continent and could ho expected to break the wave by the middle of the week, with rains of varying intensity also to be expected. Temperatures of 100 degrees or more nere reported from various parts of the United States and Canada today. Oklahoma, Georgia and Kentucky entered the grouji 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 to-day, making a total of 08 in four days. One hundred persons are dead as the result of the beat at Toronto.

JL'riecs of grains broke sharply on the reoort of an impending end to the drought, wheat losing the fixed five cents limit early m tnc Chicago pit. Earlier maize had dominated the grain pits, advancing to a maximum limit of 4 cents. V heat 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 fer rain were offered at Mitchell (North Dakota;. A new appeal for aid lias been sent to President Roosevelt by Governor V'elford, 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.

President Roosevelt told tho Press that the Administration had authorised tho creation of 55,000 new jobs in the five north-western States of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming, and 20,00(1 Works Progress Administration jobs in tho two other drought regions, one in North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky and the other in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma.

AUSTRALIAN MARKETS. GRAIN PRICES SOAR. SYDNEY, July 12. Under the impetus of rising values and options from overseas, the Sydney wheat market to-day gained another penny a bushel, bringing the price to the highest level at Sydney since 1930. Immediate prospects point to still, further rises. Ragged wheat was offered at 4s a bushel and grain in the country at 3s 5Jd, equal to about 4s at Sydney. While the drought is ruining the American crops reports state that European crops are being spoilt by excess rain. The wheat price at Melbourne also reached Sydney’s record figure. Experts state that the buoyant market is a happy augury for the coming season, when approximately 00,000,000 bushels of grain should be available for the market if the season continues to develop favourably. This would represent a net return of about £8,000,000 to New South Wales farmers.