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2 THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1934 , A Stirring Pictorial Record By Margaret Bourke-White, Of an American Tragedy = 3 =] | Famous Camera-Artist Rain — Shi —onine It's cloudin’ up! Looks mighty like rain! ... And Sunshine, and plenty of it aes Shriveling crops, sterv- ing stock. A farmer “looks” his resentment, a smile stretches Mr. Farm- er’s leathery cheeks, STALK COLLAPSE—Out where the tall corn didn’t grow .. . sun-shriveled stalks, torn sign-posts of disaster foliage too scant even for fodder, as the Nebraska farmer who cut a row discovered. OASIS—A sun-boiled river has become little more than a ak ¢ é r SKIES ABLAZE—For five rainless months unrelenting trickle of water ... but welcome water, nevertheless, to heavens peeled the baad yinty on [epevoain leaving piarsing and thirsting cattle roaming the powdery, de- . SKELETONIZED STORY—This is Drouth! In one severe iain earth, death, desolation—and a Na- camera study, Margaret Bourke-White has described the catastrophe that befell the cattle country, ESCAPE—A short-lived, blissfully cool dawn ,,. then enother oven-hot day, ¥ FARM PROBLEM—Tense, earnest faces ... an automobile (visible upper left) has Eeausht Teacher to tell Dakote farm souths the “why” of duusstar va the tends 2 DEATH AFIELD—Dust lay atreams dry, 00 no water... ‘ ,