Evening star., 1934-07-25
Half OF Dakotas and Slope
OF Rockies Declared
UninhabitabIe.
TENS OF THOUSANDS
MUST GO, MEAD SAYS
Relief Promised Here in SO
Hours as Mercury Scars
to 81 Degrees.

1 p.m....... 81
AS the Weather Bureau reported
continuation of the drought with new
damage to crops and live stock, DR..
Elwood Mead. reclamation commits
sioner, said today the western half OF
the Dakotas and the Eastern slope
of the Rocky Mountains must be
evacuated
Tens of thousands Of people. DR..
Mead told the Associated Press, must
be moved off the stricken land.
In Its weekly weather and crop bull
letin, the Weather Bureau said:
Large areas of the interior had
record breaking heat and no pre-
cipitation OF consequence, many sta
tions reporting no rain at all.'
Another Fatality Here.
Meanwhile there was another heat
fatality in Washington this afternoon,
the third of the present wave. Deaths
throughout the country neared the
800 mark.
The temperature here at pm. had
reached 81 degrees and there we're
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before relief comes.
Today's victim was Mertti Pella, 54,
OF 800 r street southwest who was
prostrated while working on a con-
struction job at Seventh street and
Virginia avenue southwest. He died at
Casualty Hospital.
For the first time since the scourKe
started, however, early relief was pre-
dicted for the midwest, the furnace
of the Nation. while the East and Pa
cific Coasts enjoyed comparatively cool
weather.
Washington was promised ''grad-
ual breakup" of the heat wave by the
Weather Bureau, local thundershow-
ers being expected within 80 hours.
Last nights minimum here was
rs and the humidity at 9 am. was
SO per cent, also exceptionally high.
But for a cooling breeze from the
south, Washington would have spent
an uncomfortable night. Yesterdays
maximum was SO degrees. There we're
no prostrations.
Heat Deaths Pile Up.
Heat deaths, piling up at times at
the rate Of 10 an hour. stood at TIC
last night, and mounted today to 783.
In Missouri alone, 205 persons per-
ished; Illinois, $50; Ohio, 81; Me-
braska, 55; Iowa, SO, and Indiana, with
10 new deaths, reported, %.
The highest official temperature re-
corded yesterday was lit at vinita.
Okla. Noblesville, Ind. sweltered at
liz, and Quincy. Ill. at 1I1-its
seventh successive day above l0S.
Chicago suffered under the most
oppressive heat ever recorded there
as the mercury scared to los yester-
day. degrees higher than the pre-
vious all-time record, set in 1908.
In New York. where four persons
have died from the heat, showers fell
before dawn and the Weather Bureau
said the Atlantic seaboard would be
favored with cooler temperatures.
The Far West continued to enjoy
freedom from the blasts, and Nature
drew a Joker from her weather pack
so miles from Denver, where tourists
engaged in SNOWFALL fight as an inch
of snow fell on Mount Evans.
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Skies we're scanned anxiously about
the Great Lakes as weather bureaus
told of high pressure area sweeping
in from Alaska, and expected to bring
a respite late today.
More than an inch of rain fell in
some sections Of Minnesota, Okla
homa was told Of possibility of light
showers, and cooler temperatures
were predicted for Nebraska, Ohio,
Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, South Da-
kota, Missouri and Wyoming-all
stricken by the drought.
Oklahoma's parched surface faced
a new menace today-forest fires, l5
of which were reported licking up
valuable pasturage-and the State
Relief Administration asked $500, 900
Immediately to fight conditions the
worst on record"
Although its cattle purchase ma
chinery has stalled, the Government
continued to pour forth relief to the
drought areas where loss in crops and
cattle has already been estimated in
the hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration has set aside $40, 900 900
for this month for the needy, and the
Government has started sinking hun
dreds of wells and constructing farm
ponds to supply stricken areas with