SEVERE HEAT WAVE
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NO GENERAL RAIN SINCE MARCH. SOME DEATHS REPORTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This-Day, 9.10 a.m.) LOS ANGELES, September 19.. The worst heat wave in twenty-two years has entered on its fifth day, with early temperatures of 85 to 90 degrees. Schools have been closed and water consumption has been curtailed. Four persons have died and score? have been admitted to hospital. Damage to vine crops, including tomatoes and cantaloupes (musk melons), is estimated at over a million dollars. No general rain has fallen since March.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1939, Page 5
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91SEVERE HEAT WAVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 September 1939, Page 5
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