STORM OF DUST

Evening Star, Issue 22576, 18 February 1937, Page 11

STORM OF DUST

SECOND AMERICAN VISITATION Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, February 17. ■ (Received February 18, at 8-a.m.) ■ • A message from Huymon states that the second, storm of black dust swept ■ ' Gklohoma and ■ Panhandle. Farmers < wsemhldd.'-with -chisel ploughs and ter-■‘-Vaeersto - groove the-shifting top soil - ridges. 'Wheat- blew out xn ■ many places. \- Meanwhile the dust : struck Texas' 1 coastal areas and xvio . Grande- Valley cities for the first time ,in two years. Light rains settled the dlust in Texas, Panhandle, and the ©astern border of -New Mexico. The winds have subsided in most of Western? Kansas and all Oklahoma, except Pan.handle., > • .■*’ • _ -v . : FARMERS ° ‘GUYMAN, Oklahoma, Feb. 17. (Received February 18, at 2 p.m.) ; . The third black blizzard in three days . has raged here. Dust-masked farmers .-prepared..to throw up protective bul- ■ warks of clods on their low lands, Visi- : .hility was virtually zero, and automobile .traffic was stopped. - A,cloud of powdery grey dust sifted over Texas and Panhandle and reduced visibility to 300 ft in various places.