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WEATHER Continued Warm. Variable Li<ht Winds; Clear Tomorrow MARKETS Stocks Are Listless, Wheat, Cotton Mixed VOLUME 2—NUMBER 166 LEWIS FACTION FINALLY WINS IN WORKER STRIKE WHEELING STEEL COM PANY TO RESUME OP ERATIONS PORTSMOUTH. Ohio, July 11 (TP) —Four thousand striking steel work ers at the Wheeling Steel Company plant in Portsmouth rejoiced today over the announcement that terms have been reached with their em ployers. Joseph Gaiter, an associate of John L. Lewis announced the; settlement. He said: "Employes wil-lstart return ing to work on Sunday.” The 4,000 strikers met Friday night to vote. Oh :a proposed settlement of their demands for revised working conditions. They voted in favor of the terms offered. The Portsmouth* strike started last May 22. The hngh Wheeling plant normally employe* 5,500 men. The settlement was hailed as a first favorable outcome for the Lewis forces which are trying to unionize the great army of steel workers from coast to coast. Terms of the settle ment were withheld. A tentative agreement earlier this week fell through when the head of the steel union charged the company with failure to keep its pledges under the proposal. He announced at that time that the Portsmouth strike was a rallying point in the present steel unionization drive. That drive is headed by mine union president, John Lewis, and his committee for industrial unionization. Union workers in Portsmouth said their settlement incorporated favor able terms of a peace pact drawp up In Pittsburgh on Friday. BOMBING THREAT FRIGHTENS TOWN EX TORTION IST MAKES BOLD BID TO PROPHET ’S TOWN MAYOR PROPHETSTOWN, Hl.. July 11 (TP)—The entire population of Prophetstown is ready for rapid flight tonight. Prophetstown’s mayor received a threat that he’d have his town blown to bits by dynamite bombs tonight if he didn’t come across with $1 000. The deadline is set for 7 o'clock, Cen tral Standard time. Either Mayor George S. Brydia must meet the ex tortionist and hand over the money then, or his town is threatened with being blown right off the map. The mayor says he’s not gs-ng to pay the SI,OOO. All day today, insur ance agents in Prophetstown have been doing a capacity business. The population is taking out every dollar’s worth of insurance it can afford to protect itself from serious damage by the extortionist. Meanwhile, as the zero hour ap proaches, some of the more timid— or perhaps more cautious—are quietly leaving Prophetstown until things as mme a normal attitude. BRIDGES TO HEAD DOCKMEN’S UNION LABOR ELECTS NATIONAL FIGURE AS LEADER SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 (TP) 'The International Longshoremens Association announced tonight that the labor leader, Harry L. Bridges, has been elected president for the Pac-fic coast district. Bridges bested Cliff Thurston of Portland in the dsi tfict balloting. The final count for (he whole coast was: Bridges, 7,150 rotes; Thurston, 2.550. The new I. L. A. president is an Australian born ex-sailor. He went to lea when he was 15. He is only 35 low. In addition to the presidency )f the coast I. L. A., Bridges is presi lenb of the San Francisco local, and )f the San Francisco council of the Maritime federation of the Pacific toast. Bridges has been a longshoreman iver since he quit the sea in 1922. He steered the waterfront strike which Ater tied up all Pacific coast shipping Vnd led Xo San Franciscos general itrike in 1934. Although Bridges has lob taken out his final citizmship pa tors, officials say he can stay in Ihe United States as long as he reg iters with federal authorities once (very seven years. LABOR LEADERS DELAY LONGSHOREMAN’S STRIKE WASHINGTON, July 11 (TP).— The labor department announced to lay that a Longshoreman's Union itrbce that would have tied up ship, ping on the Atlantic coast from Wil mington, N. C., to Pensacola, Fla., has been postponed for two weeks. The strike had been called by the International Longshoreman’s Union ind was scheduled to start Monday. The labor department explained that the delay came as the result of mediation efforts on the part of As sistant Secretary of Labor, Edward McGrady—the New Deal's ace labor Arbiter, S (Tim fs PHONE 6183 FARLEY STEPS OUT HOWE STEPS IN i —— i * wa,Ml,,aM y* ■»■■■ »~*>arr-winilii i ■ iff I i .... —. . Jpl ■F/ / i i I WK 4 8 jMwwSfe V 'V ’S Will wM&S James A. Farley W. W. Howes Granted a four months’ leave of absence so that he can de vote his time to the Democratic presidential campaign, Postmas ter General James A. Farley, left, wishes luck to the man who will act in his stead, W. W. Howes, first assistant postmaster general. Farley not only is national Democratic chairman, but New York state Democratic chairman as well. —Central ?ress. • II A NEW IDEA! BOSTON, July 11 (TP)—The 70-year-old elephant at FrankLn Park zoo is developing a taste for linament as a hot-weather drink. The elephant is called Waddy. Recently she contracted rheuma tism in her right leg. Curator Harkins has been trying to treat it with linament. He puts on a pint of the fiery stuff at one ap plication. Says Harkins: "But using lino men t externally isn’t a success. As soon as we rub it on, Waddy takes it off with her trunk and then— whoops! she sprays it into her mouth.” italianTanon RADIO DISPATCHES DRAWS PROTESTS WILL UNITED STATES AL LOW SHORT WAVE CENSORSHIP? WASHINGTON, July 11 (TP)— The State Department today refused to say whether America would follow the lead of Great Britain in protesting an Italian ban on the use of legation wave radio sets in Addis Ababa. Marshal Rodolfo Graziani —Italian Viceroy of Ethiopia—has ordered the American, British, French, and Ger man legations in the Ethiopian Capital to keep their private radio stations 1 silent for 15 days. The British gov ernment promptly protested the order. The State Department however, said it had no comment to make on the general situation. American Min ister Van Engert in Addis Ababa is understood to be obeying the order. It is believed the Italians issued the ban because of reported Ethiopian uprisings against their rule. Diplomatic officials explain that since America has not recognized Italian domination over Ethiopia, a formal protest would tavolve several perplexing questions. The order means that all messages from Van Engert to Secretary Hull can be censored by the Italian govern ment. They will have to be transmit ted by the Italian owned commercial station at Addis Ababa. During the Addis Ababa uprising ‘ the American radio station was the only means of communication be tween Washington and Ethiopia. SEARCHERS SEEK BURIED TRIO EXPL°SI°N CRUMBLES ALCOHOL WAREHOUSE; RESCU r ERS HUNT FRANTICALLY FOR MISSING WORKERS. • BALTIMORE, July 11 (TP).—The terrific heat of the smouldering ruins . of three Baltimore buildings tonight i hampered searchers hunting for three • missing persons whom they fear may have been killed. A dozen persons . were injured in the explosion and • fire that wrecked the buildings late J today. 1 The cause of the sudden explosion has not been determined. The ware- 1 house of the company roared open f and crumbled. Walls cracked and a • shower of bricks and glass rained on i the street crushing everything in its r path. Persons in a building across the street were thrown against the PEACE EFFORTS ARE FAILING IN PROPOSED TRUCE LEWIS AND GREEN CON TINUE TO TAKE ADAM ANT STANDS WASHINGTON, July 11 (TP).— Reliable reports from labor quarters say that administration efforts to ef fect a truce between warring fac tions of the American Federation of Labor have failed thus far. At present the break between the A. F. of L.’s executive council and John Lewis’s committee for industrial organization is as wide as ever. Both groups are at odds over union or ganization policies. The council met four days this week to decide on punitive action against Lewis’s group for repeated defiance of A. F. of L. orders. Those seeking a compromise settle ment were successful in delaying the final council decision until next Tuesday. In the meantime, the ad ministration—tnrogh its ace labor arbiter, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward McGrady—has tried to find a compromise formula to bring the two warring factions together. The situation is so grave that last night. McGrady held a midnight con ference 'with President Roosevelt at Union Station in Washington as the executive was starting on his three week vacation. Today McGrady con tinued plugging ahead with his ef forts. Numerous conferences, how ever, have all failed to break the im passe. RAND FAILS IN STRIKE BREACH CINCINNATI, July 11 (TP)—Pres ident James H. Rand, Jr., of the Remington-Rand Company failed to day in an effort to end the strike at the company’s plant in Norwood, O. The strike has resulted in out breaks of violence. Similar strikes have been in progress in Remington Rand plants in other cities. Rand is said to have offered to re employ the Norwood strikers, but to have refused to m°et with the heads of ’.heir union. This offer was re jested. President Rand said the strikers to’d him their wages were satisfac tory, but that they would not consider the settlement until the strikes were se’t.’ed in all Remingon Rand plants. walls by the force of the blast. Sheets of flame followed the explosion and spread to two adjoining buildings be fore firemen could get the fire under control. The three-story warehouse which was used to store alcohol, was completely destroyed. Manhole covers were blown up out of the pavement. One of the three mising persons is a woman—the other two are men. The woman is 22-year-old Augusta Renner, an office worker in the Webb building. Miss Renner’s fath er, William Renner, joined in the search tonight for his daughter and other possible victims. It is feared the three missing persons were trapped by falling debris. SAVANNAH. GA., SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1936 LONG TRIP FOR NEW ENACTMENT BILL FOR PUNISHMENT OF WITNESSES TAKES 3,000 MILE JOURNEY TO SECURE FINAL SIGNATURES. WASHINGTON. July 11 (TP) There is one bill’ passed by the last ( session of Congress that had to take i a 3,000-mile trip before it became law. The measure strengthens the procedure by which congressional committees can punish witnesses who refuse to appear or give testimony. It was passed after Dr. Francis Town send —head of the S2OO-A-Month Pen sion Fund—defied the Bell Congresss ional Committee. Somehow however, capitol attaches forgot to get Speaker Bankhead and Vice-President Gamer to sign these AUSTRIA BURIES FEUDAL HATCHET WITH GERMANY MUCK REJOICING IN BOTH COUNTRIES AS NEWS ANNOUNCED BERLIN, Germany, July 11 (TP) Austria and Germany tore down hos tile barriers tonight and paved the way for a strong union. The momentous reconciliation be tween the two European nations was proclaimed simultaneously in Berlin and Vienna. The Austrian chancellor, Schuschnigg, announced to his peo ple that the time had come for Aus trians and Germans to bury the hatchet—not only for their welfare but for the peace of Europe. In Ber lin. the Nazi minister of propaganda, Paul Goebbels, pledged that Germany would respect Austrian independence. Both government spokesmen were heard in nation-wide broadcasts. Chancellor Schuschnigg explained that both nations pledged themselves not to interfere with the domestic policies of the other. Germany hence forth will cease all attempts to foment the Nazi movement in Austria. The last bold attempt ended in the as sassination of Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria and the complete estrange ment of the two German-speaking countries. Schuschnigg proclaimed tonight— "We Austrians are Germans. We have a German country.” So, said the chancellor, Austrian Nazis will tak- 3 up their responsibilities in political life as members of the sole Austrian party—the patriotic front. The Austrian government will pro claim a general amnesty for all Nazi prisoners. -Both governments planned tonight’s action to lead to a solid al liance. The existing peace pact does not alter the previous pacts Austria made with Hungary and Italy. These nations had signed strong protocols to protect Austrian independence. The reconciliation of the pre-war powers was regarded as a great con tribution towards European peace, in Paris, relief was expressed that the old World war allies could not discuss German rearmament without the threat of a German military thrust at Austria. However, grave doubts were expounded by French diplomats as to the future of the new alignment. It was pointed out that the pact might lead Germany to launch a tre mendous economic drive on -Austria which end up in the virtual submis sion of Vienna to Berlin. London ob servers noted that Premier Mussolini must have had a hand in the new arrangement. The threatening al liance of Germany. Italy, and Austria loomed darkly in lheir minds. GEORGIA WOMAN BRUTALLY BEATEN NEAR DEATH FROM THE EFFECTS OF BLOODY STRUGGLE (Special to Savannah Daily Times) TOCCOA, Ga„ July 11.—Mrs. Jo seph Herren, wife of a retired army major, was found brutally beaten and near death in' the rear of her Toc coa Falls cottage shortly after noon today. Her husband found her when he returned after a trip to town. From the spot where the woman was found a trail of blood led to a flower bed in front of the modest home where there were signs of a struggle. A bloody mattock was nearby. Chief of Police W. H. Scott .said she had probably been attacked while working the flowers and then drag ged to the rear of the home. At the hospital here doctors said her condition was very critical. BOSTONSWEPT BY SERIES OF STORMS BOSTON July 11 (TP)—The fourth electrical storm in little more than 48 hours swept down upon Boston this morning. The fourth storm broke over the Merrimack Valley and assisted by a cool breeze, moved over Boston, Essex County and down the south shore. Lightning struck in three places. State police teletype service was again disrupted. The temperature in the hub at nine as 70. The sky was overcast. The weather man had little encourage ment. The forecast is "fair today and tomorrow, not much change in tem perature.” bills before the heads of both Houses of Congress left town. Without their signatures, the bill could not go co the White House for President Roose velt's approval. A huge army transport plane was pressed into service. The plane first went to Birmingham where Speaker Bankhead’s signature was secured. Then the transport sped to Uvalden. Texas, where Garner affixed his sig natures. The bill was then hurried to Washington and to the White House —after a trip that totaled over 3,000 miles. IL DUCE STATES HARD FACTS TO GREAT BRITAIN MUSSOLINI THROWS DOWN GAUNTLET TO ENG LAND ROME. July 11 (TP)—Premier Mussolini threw down the gauntlet to Great Britain tonight. For all practical purposes, the Ital ian Premier told Britain that Italy could not take part in any further international peace discussions until Britain eased her grip on the Medit erranean. Italy demands that Brit ian’s naval pact with Mediterranean powers be renounced. The pact was signed at the height of tension be tween the two nations during the Ethiopian war. Tonight Premier Mussolini sent word to the Belgian Premier that Italy might not attend the forthcom ing Locarno conference. The Italian note said: "Certain Mediterranean obligations create an obstacle to par ticipation in the conference." Italy previously refused to attend the conference so long as the British fleet patrolled the Mediterranean. A few days ago the fleet began to leave the waters flanking Italy. Italian officials said that Italy could not talk peace arrangements with Britain until the last vestige of anti- Italian acts had died. The Italian note to the Belgian Premier Van Zeeland also suggested that Germany be invited to the Locar no conference. The meeting will open at Brussels next Wednesday The problems created by Germany’s de nunclating of the Locarno Pact ana the remilitarization of the Rhineland will blaze again at the conference. But without Italian attendance, the meeting may collapse. BRITAINTOKEEP MASTERY OF SEAS SO SAYS SIR SAMUEL HOARE IN PRAISING BALDWIN SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., July 11 (TP) —The First Lord of the Admiral ty, Sir Samuel Hoare, promised Eng land today that Great Britain will keep her mastery of the seas. Sir Samuel first pointed out that Britain depended for her very exist ence on the strength of her battle fleets. He said: "If our sea communications are cut by a foreign power, we only have enough raw materials to last three months, six weeks afterwards we should all be dead of starvation.” The First Lord declared it was, therefore, a matter of life and death that Britain should build her new fleet upon the right lines. Sir Samuel then assured Britons that the new fleet would be “strong enough to go anywhere and carry out its duties under any conditions.” Sir Samuel concluded with a tribute to his friend and chief, Prime Minis ter Baldwin. The First Lord declar ed that Baldwin represents the forces of security. RACING PIGEON RETURNS AFTER FOUR LONG YEARS BRYANTVILLE, Mass., July 11 (TP).—A homing pigeon, released in New York in September. 1932, is cooing on its roost at Bryantville to day. The pigeon is owned by Albert Ran dall. Four years ago Randall shipped the bird along with several others to Herkimer. N. Y., for a race. The bird never returned. Randall figured the pigeon had lost its bearings or been killed by a storm. But today— after four years, the homing pigeon came home. AIRPLANE CRASH KILLS EXECUTIVE AND FRIEND EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., July 11 (TP).—Two men were killed today when their airplane crashed in a field near East St. Louis. They were Harvey A. Parks, broth er of the president of an aviaiton school, and Charles L. Parsons, vi Harrison, Neb. The cause of the crash is not known. The plane was flying at an altitude of several hundred feet. It suddenly dropped into a nose dive and crashed to the ground wita the motor running full speed. The fliers were killed instantly. PHONE 6183 AID F. D. R. IN DROUTH PLAN •• •••• A 1 \ I WNHMbHb /* - Rexfbrd Guy Tugwell Aubrey Williams Rexford Guy Tugwell, left, under-secretary of agriculture and administrator of the Resettlement Administration, and Au brey Williams, right, assistant to Harry L. Hopkins, relief and PWA chief, emerging from the White House in Washington fol lowing a conference with President Roosevelt on the drouth, stop to discuss certain phases of the President’s plan of relief. At the conference President Roosevelt launched a vast program for immediate cash relief of 204,000 farm families in the drouth stricken area and disclosed he will go to the drouth region late in August to review the effect of the relief program and to chart plans for the future. —Central Press. WEATHER MAN SAYS NO RELIEF HEAT SUFFERERS NATIONS MILLIONS SEEK _ NEAREST AIDS IN FREN ZIED ESCAPE WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 11 (TP) —The weather bureau warned a sweltering nation today that there would be no break in the heat for several days. Millions of people who have a week end holiday are heading for bathing beaches to escape the relentless sum. In Chicago and New York so many people took to the water that swim ming was impossible. Most of the bathers just stood in the cooling waves. Inland cities from the Rockies east reported another day of temperatures ranging from 85 degrees to well above the 100 marU Boston, Mass., got a cooling ran, but the mercury is ex pected to jump skyward again. The Ohio and Mississippi rivers, that were swelled with Easter flood waters only a few months ago, are well under their normal water lines today. Mississippi boats are loaded to draw less than five feet of water in upland channels. Deaths from the oppressis? heat are nearing 500. Prostrations number in the thousands. To the drought stricken farmer, the warnings of continued dry weath er meant a promise of even more de struction. M.dwestern farmers already have lost $300,000,000 in crops and livestock. Temperatures in cities throughout the heat belt remained, generally, to day at yesterday’s hihg levsM. The mercury in virtually every sect.on of the United States, from Montana to the Atlantic and into the deep south, has reached the highest levels in weather bureau history. ALABAMA FACES CRISIS WITH PARALYSIS WAVE MONTGOMERY, July 11 (TP).— Alabama health authorities are using every means in their power today to stop the wave of infantile paralysis : sweeping the state. More than 105 cases havs been re ported. mostly in the TVA section near the Tennessee border. A half i dozen youngsters died from the as- i fliction. ] PUBLIC SERVICE SETTLES ROW GRASS-HOPPERS CAUSE LEGAL QUESTION WHEN ACTS ARISE OUT OF RAILROAD TRANSPORTATION. DENVER, Colo., July 11 (TP).— The Public Service Company's legal department is rejoicing tonight be cause they avoided a row over grass hoppers. An indignant woman telephoned the company to complain that the hoppers hopped off their land into her garden. After eating their fill of vegetables and flowers, she said, the hoppers hopped back to the Public Service land. The company denied responsibility A GOD SEND SCOTTS BLUFF, Neb., July 11 (TP) —The first general rains in more than a mont hare reported sweeping the farming district be tween Cheyenne, Wyo., and Scotts Bluff, Neb., tonight. The weather bureau forecasts further down pours. Farmers hope the rain will save the sugar beet crop as well as the rain harvest. ROOSEVELT OPENS TRI-BOROUGH SPAN IN SIMPLE RITES $60,000,000 BRIDGE FORMAL LY DEDICATED BY HIGH OFFICIALS NEW YORK, July 11 (TP)—Presi dent Roosevelt, New York’s governor Lehman and a hGdc of other public officials stood in a blazing sun this afternoon and dedicated one of the New Deal’s greatest public works They opened the $60,000 000 Tri borough bridge, which links the New York city boroughs of Manhattan, Queens and the Bronx. Both President Roosevelt and New York's Mayor LaGuardia cited the bridge as a symbol of two elements in the New Deal philosophy. First, they said, it typifies the need for mod em changes to meet the more com plex modern needs of life. Second, it symbolizes the efforts to provide con structive work to unemployed men whowere victims of a great economic collapse. Public Works Administrator Ickes told the crowd that the bridge bears testimony to ulhat can result from a "partnership between the nation, the states and the municipalities.” Ickes turned to President Roosevelt and said: “Mr. President, it is my pleasure to report that this great project has been built not only well, but hones-iy and efficiently.” The president told how his grand father once owned a farm not far from the bridge. The structure was not dreamed of then, he said, but lb has become essential to the more com plex life of the people tod>ty. “And as the life of the people be came more complex,” the president 1 added, "government also has new and more complex concerns.” -for the hoppers. However, they sent investigators to look into the case. The investigators reported that the hoppers were riding to the woman's property on cars operated by an in- < terurban railway. The injects hopped off the trains when they saw the i gardens and swarmed over'to eat like < a crowd of hungry tramps. So the Public Service officials got in touch with the woman again < They told her she'd have to take the i hopper question up with the railway 1 company. j Xi,* Published ever< cepting Shbura.L cents per copy Su* Delivered to your < fifteen cents per weei* TRANSRADIO FORTSON DIRECTS BITTER ATTACK IN FIRST SPEECH GUBERNATORIAL CANDL DATE OPENS FORMAL CAMPAIGN (Special to Savannah Daily Times) WASHINGTON, Ga., July 11.— Judge Blanton Fortson, of Athens, returned to the scenes of his boy hood here today to open his cam paign for governor. . ' ’ Speaking before a goodly crowd of enthusiastic supporters, the nominee of the Weltner convention said his was the only platform among the candidates for governor which was in full accord with the Roosevelt ad ministration. Without calling any names. Judge Fortson lashed out at two of his op ponents of “the man at Mcßae.” Charles D. Redwine. Judge Fortson said, "the candidate named by our governor said in the three mmiites allotted him at Mcßae that he stands for the policies of the man who put him in the race. Ths means, I take it. that he is inaitemably opposed not only to the policies of the Roosevelt administration, but to the platform upon which I stand, for it stands squarely upon the president's poll cies-” • ” . Referring to the “man at Gaines ville.” Speaker E. D. Rivers, Judge Fortson said: “He promises to give the people of Georgia every conceivable blessing except good weather, while at the same time advocating measures, which will reduce the public revenue by some 20 to 30 million dollars." Judge Fortson pledged hincself tb' support the platform adopted by the Weltner convention which nominat ed him at Macon, and said he was opposed to adoption of the 15 mill tax limitation amendment to the ‘state constitution. DROUGHT RAISES FOOD PRICES IN ’ LARGE CENTERS EXPERTS EXPECT A NEW HIGH IN COST OF COMMODITIES NEW YORK, July 11 (TP)—The withering drought and heat wave are playing havoc with America's fp7d -- crop. Wholesale prices of some stuffs have advanced as much as 50 per cent and experts say the end is not in sight. With the possible exception of rice and pears, every important item on the nation’s food list has been seri ously damaged. Wheat is estimated to be at least 225 million bushels be low the five-year average. Corn, oats rye and barley are far below the; average yield. Potatoes, apples, swee potatoes and beans have been badl; damaged. Grapes are drying up and dropping from the vines, with the probability that the yield will be hun-, dreds of thousands of tons short Peaches have been so badly damage* that the crop is expected to be « least three million bushels shor- Tomatoes and many other g f dr crops are burned to a crisp, canners anticipate the smallest in several years. A general advance in food prices is considered inevitable by officials Os the national industrial conference board. No attempt is made to esti mate just how much more food will cost this winter, but authorities agree ton ght that all time highs may be reached by many staple foods, SCHOONER WAITS FOR ROOSEVELT DARK HARBOR Me., July 11 <TP) —A 56-foot schooner named the “Sewanna”, is at anchor off this Maine town today, awaiting arrival of a famous passenger, President ’ Franklin D. Rcosevelt. The President's three sons are \ aboard. They bioughu the Sewanna up the New England coast from Forts mouth and are standing by for their father's arrival, expected on Tuesday or early Wednesday morning. When the President and his party > climb on deck, the Sewanna will be cast off for a leisurely cruli* along ■ the Maine shoreline. The Roosevelts nave a family home, at Campobello Island, in an area which is famous for summer vacationers. CANADA SUFFERS”” INTENSELY FROM EXTREME HEAT TORONTO, Ont., July H (TP). Canada counted 50 deaths today in the heat wave which is sweeping the 3 dominion’s eastern and central prov inces. The bake-oven temperatures continued without let-up and with end Promise of relief over week* n O Tin e ercU x ry at Toronto climbed ( a o ain tocay to 100. Crop and fores« V is running into many roil. 3* on. of dollars. So intenss is ths | hat tnat industrial activity come to a virtual standstill. Faitaiß worker re C L osed ln many cities workers showed signs of collama from the high temperatures.