50 BELOW ZERO.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13182, 14 February 1936, Page 5

50 BELOW ZERO.

SECOND EDITION

WINTER IN NORTH AMERICA. COLDEST IN LIVING MEMORY. United Dress Assn.—By ElectricTelegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 12. Cold beyond the memory ol living men gripped the North American continent to-day. Even Canada, accustomed to Arctic winters, saw all records broken as a new and moro severe frigid wave dropped out of the north-west and struck the central plains area. Fifty below zero was registered officially at Saskatoon, wbere for -56 consecutive days the temperatures have never been above 20 degrees below zero. Other Saskatchewan prints were also as cold. Mocha nical transport—rail way s, trams in the cities, and automobiles —-was all but suspended. More snow piled over all the traffic lanes from Montana to Ohio in the United States as the cold wave from Canada’s Mackenzie river basin struck again the already crippled transportation lanes of the area where food and fuel are gnowing increasingly scarce. The temperatures in the northwest of the United States ranged from 10 to 36 below. Snow is again falling in Chicago, which has been buffeted by one storm after another for over six weeks.