DARKNESS AT NOON
GREAT DUST STORMS
AMERICAN STATES SWEPT
THREAT TO CROPS
Ui\'ite<l Tress Association —By Electric TclO' i?rapli—Copyright.
WASHINGTON, February 15.
A; message from Guymon (Oklahorr.4 \) says that dust storms sweptUhe •'Dusi: Bowl" sectors of Colorado, Texa-^. Oklahoma, and North-west Kansßi ', reducing visibility to 100 feet in mon': of the affected area.
The » /inds caught up loose topsoil in the loni ' dry fields of Oklahoma and the Pal ihandle, and motorists and housewf4 es were forced to use lights at n00n.., Farmers said that wheat must ha\A- immediate'rain to survive. Wheat is' being ' blown out of the ground in- several districts. 'The wife ids, carrying huge blade clouds of tdust, were so strong that they broke' 20 power lines and left the area near L\ md Springs without lights. Roosters cria wed in the afternoon at Guymon wh* n the dust lifted momentarily and permitted a glimpse of the Meanwhile blizzards and 15-foot snowdrifts plf* wed Vermont, _ Minnesota, and Arizona. Many highways are impassable,, and aid was rushed to scores of people- who were reported to be marooned in various outlying districts. A huge ra otorised snow-plough required ten hou :s to advance seven miles in Arizona- Three deaths are reported in Minnc* sota.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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