INTENSE COLD IN U.S.A.
DEATH ROLL EXC EEDS 200. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 11. Intense cold still grips the ’Middle West with the Weather Bureau promising no relief 'Tor several days. Icy winds blowing across the Central States added t.- the suffering. The death roll resulting from the cold during the past three weeks is now estimated to exceed 200. Three fishermen marooned on float’*ng ice in Like Michigan have been given up as lost. From small towns throughout the States II nois, Indiana, Wisconsin. Nebraska. Kansas and Ohio came reports or exhausted or dwindling supplies oi fuel and food with snow drifts blocking the highways and halting some railways. On reports of profiteering in coal the authorities at Washington indicate*! they were considering fixing emergency prices if it became neces-
Tlie seven Conservation Corps b**ys cabled yesterday were rescued after a night on the ice. An aeroplane discovered them in Cape Cod Boy ami a coastguard cutter removed
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13180, 12 February 1936, Page 5
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