DUST AND COLD
DISASTROUS VISITATIONS IN AMERICA RUIN TO REMAINING WHEAT CROPS (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright.) (Received April 16, 6-30 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 15. The effect of the nrd-Western dust storms became virtually nationwide to-day, as a thin haze was noted over New Fork, while vast clouds if dust are being swept from the Panhandle section of Texas across New Mexico and Arizona. Meanwhile, an unseasonable cold wave is descending from the north-west, threatening additional crop damage as the result of freezing. Aviators on the New York and Washington commercial lines reported very fine diwt clouds at altitudes lip to 14.CC0 feet. One Kansas fanner reported that 700 acres planted in wheat had been •■ompletely destroyed, and practically an entire dairy herd died of lack of water.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12531, 17 April 1935, Page 5
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