EXTREME HEAT
DEATHS & PROSTRATION THOUSANDS CEASE WORK RELIEF WORKERS DEMAND MORE ICE By Telegraph —Press Association. Copyright. NEW YORK, August .3. ' Deaths, drownings, prostrations and cessation of work by thousands marked the tenth day of the present nationwide heat-wave. Fourteen died in California and Arizona, where 111 degrees were recorded. The New York temperature of 93 degrees is an August record. There were four deaths in New York, of which the strangest is that of Kenneth Kelly. He pushed his bed close to the window, tossed about during the night, rolled out of the window and fell five storeys. Deaths today all over the country total 21. Thousands of Government employees have been sent home, and four factories, employing 7000, have closed down/ Relief workers demonstrated today demanding a large ice issue. Police were rushed out to combat a crowd which was threatening to storm the Bronx swimming pool, which closed during the lunch-hour. A continuation of the heat is forecast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 5
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161EXTREME HEAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 5
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