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CHICAGO, July 19.—Upward of a dozen persons died today from the record-smashing heat wave which overspread the middle west yesterday and brought the mercury to new high levels today.
The middle west and northwest probably will have another hot day tomorrow, weather bureau officials indicated tonight. Some hope for relief was held out with the prediction of possible thunder showers for some of the sweltering states.
RENO, Nev. July 17.-United States Senator Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada was painfully but not seriously injured while on a hunting trip in the northern wilds of this State yesterday.
New York, July 15.—AP—How a coastguard crew turned their government boat into a rum runner in order to “pick up some Christmas money” was told in court today.
Paul Louis Crim, one of the 16 men indicted with William Y. Dwyer in connection with the inactivities of a $40,000,000 liquor ring, suddenly appeared as a government witness in the trial of Dwyer and nine others.
LOS ANGELES, June 30—Edwin Ketcham, notorious bandit, escaped from a train that was taking him to Folsom penitentiary today, according to a telegram from G. C. Bladel, deputy sheriff in charge of the prisoner, to the sheriff’s office here.
