SEVEREST WINTER IN MEMORY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21707, 14 February 1936, Page 13

SEVEREST WINTER IN MEMORY

UNPRECEDENTED COED IN CANADA AMDrC-S-,

TRANSPORT SERVICES ALMOST! SUSPENDED.

(OEITED PBESS AEBOCIATIOIT—COPtRIGHT.J (Received February 13, 8.42 p.m.). NEW YORK, February 12. Cold beyond living memory gripped the North American continent to-day. Even . Canada, accustomed to Arctic winters, saw all records broken as a new and more severe cold wave dropped out of the North-West and struck the central plains. A temperature of 50 degrees below zero was registered: officially at Saskatoon, where for 56; consecutive days the temperatures have not been above 20 degrees below. Other parts of Saskatchewan were almost as cold. Mechanical transport—railways, trams in the cities, and motor-cars —was all but suspended. More snow was piled over all the traffic lanes from Montana to Ohio in the United States as the cold wave from Canada’s Mackenzie River Basin struck again the already crippled transport lanes of the area, where food and fuel are growing increasingly scarce. Temperatures in the north-west of the United States ranged from 10 to 36 degrees below zero. Snow is again falling in Chicago, which has been buffeted by one snowstorm after another for more than six weeks.