Scattered showers fell on Sunda New York, New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Georgia, and good rain was relieving Alabama 'The United States Weather Bureav, however, said that it was impossible to draw' an effective picture of the territory relieved by xain, because of the scattered nature of the showers.
Meanwhile, cloudbursis deluged Bunkerville, Nev, Isolating 200. residents of the town and necessitating the sending of an expedition with food supplies from Las Ve Showers visited the Dakotas to-day, bit the slowness with which the wall of hot alr yielded to the breezes of the northwest prevented the relic? {fom reaching the middle west, where the -sleventh day of the heat established new records. under the direction of Dr. Rexford G, Tugwell, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, announced plans for the purchase of 4,000,000 acres of arid Tand in Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming and the Dakotas, to be converted into controlled grazing areas, a3 "the basis of a permanent caitle industry. The estimated cost of the project is $13,749,000.
The Agricultural Adjustment Aa-ministration at the same time announced that it was purchasing 2,000,000 bushels of wheat in the Pacific North-west, for distribution to needy persons all over the nation. United Press,
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