Cairns Post (Qld. : 1909 - 1954), Thursday 10 May 1934, page 7
AMERICAN DROUGHT.
PLIGHT OF FARMERS. WORST IN HISTORY.
(Australian Cable Service.)
NEW YORK, May 8.
Unless heavy rains soon fall in the Mid-West of the United States, Government officials pre-dict "the most devastating drought in American history." Showers fell in parts of Iowa and Kansas, but nothing like sufficient rain to turn the tide from crop failure.