of Relief Poorer Chicago, July 13, Rain clouds which yesterday scatfered" life-giving moisture to the western edge of the great, drought asin have "simply evaporated," according to Mr. J. R. Lloyd, govern ment meteorologist here, leaving the rest of the nation to swelter for at Toast several days longer.
"The mass of cool alr which was expected to spread eastward spent its force in the west, and the relict did not roach farther east than? th Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota, Mr. Lloyd explained to-day. Mou {ana, Wyoming and Colorado, he declared, were the only states which were appreciably cooled off by the week-end rains. The precipitation, Mr, Lloyd asserted, "fzzled out in scattered showers in North Dakota and northern Minnesoia, The pros peels of relief to-day are poorer tha they were on Saturday and Sunda The meteorologist, "however, saw some hope of a fresh wave of cool alr moving "down, from the north Pacific, spreading over the Rocky Mountain region and probably reach Ing Nebraska on Tuesday, with Local showers in North Dakota, Minnesota, northern Wisconsin. and upper Michigan, The prospects for Minols, Indiana, "Towa, Missouri ud other middle-western states, however, continued to be "hot and ary" for "Tuesday and Wednesday.
Middle West, scarcely recovering from the record heat of the past week.
Mr. J. R_ Lloyd, Government meteorologist here, said that only a {few showers had fallen in the extreme northern fringe of the drought-[stricken area to relieve the blistering hheat from which more than $600,000,- 000 worth of property damage has resulted. The possibility of per~ manent relief next week was admitted by Mr. Lloyd, but he eaid the period was too remote for definite forecasts.
Meanwhile, the Government pressed forward with its relief activities The Resettlement Administration,
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