WINTER’S ICY GRIP

Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 5

WINTER’S ICY GRIP

NORTH AMERICAN SNOWSTORM DEATHS FROM EXPOSURE FARMERS. FACE HEAVY LOSSES. ■' United Cress Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) CHICAGO, Nov. 28. New snowstorms descended from w estern Canada to-day when a sub-zero temperature and- neavy blizzards weie general, adding imther hardship to winter’s first cold wave, which has already taken 100 or more lives m the northern half of the United States. temperatures of from zero to 14 below •vci-e general in Minnesota, Dakota, Northern lowa, Wisconsin, lUmois, ALicnigan, Ohio and Indiana.. lemeeratures in Tennessee Arkansas and Alabama dropped toward freezing touav and snow was reported from North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky, and on the North Atlantic seaboard states. * no cold wave extended southwa ru fiom the Canadian north-west tp tho interioi of Florida. Chilling winds lowered temperatures in the south west and only the Pacific states enjoyed: pleasant weather. The Government weather observers s-'id that uncomfortable temperatures brtow freezing point would prevail m the middle west to-dav and to-morrow, while snowstorms would reach into 11- . inn is and Indiana by to-night and would extend with varying intensity across much of the nation. Emergency relief measures tor unenrnloyedi were continued in many cities. Despite extraordinary provisions for sheltering- the destitute two -unemployed men died of exposure at Chicago and one at Minneapolis. Their bodies were found in alleys and -barns. Hie agricultural authorities of the central States said that the unusually early winter would result in millions of ddilars’ loss to farmers: unless the snow thawed. Streams and wells were at. low levels and farmers would find it necessary to sell cattle unless water supplies were replenished early. Snow would also pervent livestock from finding forage in the harvested maize and grain fields.