''American Heat"

After the wettest, coldest summer in years--a summer that rotted potatoes in the ground in Ireland, nearly ruined the French wheat crop, brought disastrous business to summer resorts--all Europe fried last week. Newspapers, eager to blame anything from the cost of living to the morals of the younger generation on the U. S., wrote columns about the "American heat." Only wine and wheat growers rejoiced, hoped that the dry, hot weather would revive the remnant of their water-logged crops.

Great Britain. Temperatures went up to 93DEG, stayed there. In a week of blazing heat 77 people died of heat stroke, heart failure, drownings. Waitresses in ABC and Lyons' shops refused to serve men in shirtsleeves, later capitulated. Naked urchins were chased from fountains by perspiring bobbies. Traffic was suspended on the London & North Eastern Railway when rails expanded out of gauge. Under the glass roof of Olympia the British Confectioners' Exposition was abandoned when tons of chocolate creams melted in gooey puddles.

At Hastings five trained bears, crazed by the heat, tore their trainer Adolf Cossmeyer, to pieces.

Four soldiers of the Brigade of Guards dropped dead of heat stroke on maneuvres in Surrey.

King George & Queen Mary were marooned by terrific thunderstorms at Balmoral. Sheep and cattle drowned in Yorkshire.

Fishermen on the River Dee said salmon were being "shriveled to death."

Ishbel MacDonald, Prime Minister Ramsay's apple-cheeked daughter, reported birds and animals whimpering round Lossiemouth. Prime Minister MacDonald, attempting to fly home, had to make a forced landing.

France. Temperatures rose to 104DEG in Paris, 122DEG at St. Etienne. Paris meteorologists reported dust from the Sahara in the air. Mannequins from the dress houses strolled along the Champs Elysees in backless dresses. Victim of sunstroke: Etienne Clementel, author, senator, one-time Minister of Colonies (1845).

Italy reported temperatures of 90DEG to 98DEG. Forest fires swept through the pines of Rome. A two-hour blaze seriously damaged the Villa Medici, seat of the French Academy in Rome.

Portugal. Guilhermina Rosa Madeira, 118, renowned throughout Portugal as the country's oldest woman, died of prostration.

Morocco. The village of Ben Guerir topped all records with an official temperature of 131DEG Fahrenheit. Throughout Morocco camels, donkeys ran amok. The important Casablanca Marrakesh Railway canceled all daytime trains.

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