The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-07-21

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Sunday. At 6 a.
m. the thermometer registered 80
degrees. at p. m, 90.
High temperature here Sunday
was 1913 degrees, one of the lowest
maximum readings in the state.
Royal Center and Lafayette each
reported SO degrees, while other
cities in Indiana registered tempera-
lures from 100 to los degrees.
Rains within a few days will save
most of Indiana'S corn crop, al
though pastures in many places are
burned so badly they will not be re-
stored this season, according to the
Indiana Farm Federation.
Heat Broken in West
While devastating to immatured
crops, the drought and heat were
ideal for wheat and oats crops, one
of the best in years, the federation
Prayers for relief from the scorch-
ing heat and whitening winds of the
last four days were answered in
parts Of the middle west today, but
the rest of the nation sweltered in
mountaineering temperatures, Unit
ed Press dispatches said.
The number of deaths during the
heat wave shot upward to a total
Of $50 today as cooling northwest
winds pushed down the mercury in
the near northwest and in the
northern tier of northwest states.
Minnesota, the Dakotas, Kansas
and northern Missouri and Illinois
were released from the grip of the
heat during the night.
Weather forecasts promised cool
winds would blow eastward and
carry relief as far as the Ohio val
ley by Tuesday, and finally TO all the
Atlantic coast down to Dixie.
Extreme heat continued today
from Oklahoma most of Missouri
and Illinois through a blister belt"
spreading eastward and northeast
ward to the Atlantic and through
out the old south.
liz at Columbus, U.
Heat records of a quarter century
were broken Sunday as hot winds
and a soaring sun ran up new high
temperatures from the Atlantic sea-
board to the Rockies.
Hundreds of Kansas residents
Sunday gathered in churches
throughout the state to pray for
rain which would save part of their
crops.
Taking advantage of a bright
moon, many farmers delayed their
field work until night brought cool
er working conditions for both men
and horses.
Forecaster c. A. Donrel of the
Chicago district predicted gen.
eral drop in temperatures, accom-
panied by rain in many sections,
for today. He said indications are
that temperatures would recede
from 20 to 30 degrees.
Among the new record heat marks
established yesterday was that of
Columbus, O., where the mercury
mounted to 112-the highest report
ed reading in the nation. Washing
ton, D. c., had a new record of
1856.
Chicago suffered Sunday for the
second successive day under q
temperature of 100 degrees.
Many New York Deaths
Other temperatures we're: Rich
mond, Va, 107; Phoenix, Ariz., 104;
Baltimore, 102; Cincinnati, 1o2;
Omaha, 102; Milwaukee, 1902; Kan
sas City, 100; st Louis, 100; Cleve-
land, SO; Philadelphia, go; Pitts
burgh, 90; Detroit, 96.
burgh, 95; Detroit, 90; Toledo, 102.
The thickly populated New York
City area recorded probably the
greatest number of deaths resulting
from Sundays suffocating teinpera-
lures. Nine cases Of heat prostra-
ton were fatal and ten persons
were drowned. The humidity ac-
companying the 92-degree weather
was exceptionally high, and Sun
day night thousands slept on the
sands of Coney Island and other
metropolitan beaches to escape the
almost unbearable heat Of fats anS
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