Show STORM SWEEPS MIDDLE WEST HALTS TRAINS Below Belo Zero Temperatures Reported Report d as Blizzard Piles Drifts Br U 1 Chicago Feb Feh Sc en Seven great reat mi mid mid- lIe dlo western states are In the rp of a tonight ht Drifts arc are pl piling n high stalling trains and anil tele telegraph I I graph and auth tl telephone communication while temperatures are arc rapidly raIling falling below zero v vEarly Earl Early tonight ht the storm torm took roll lon ot 01 t two o lives and fifteen n others w were re In Injured Injured in- in when a passenger train on the thc Minneapolis c St. St Louis Louis' 1 1 plowed into a freight train stalled In a snow snowdrift thirty miles west ivest of oC St. St I IThe Paul Paolo The Thc blizzard Is m most st severe ere oVe o Iowa Minnesota 01 ola Missouri Oklahoma Kansas u Nebraska k and South Dakota but Is lIS f Jt In several adjoining tlC Freight s schedules oi on th the the- Chicago f I iii l H ll c t. t laut bet between J l WR w e. annulled d today oda out cm t tTa trains ns w io rg being boig s moved mo hours behind schedules Near tar Wit usa Neba Minneapolis lInn c I Omaha passenger train is stalled I Farmers arc are struggling through snowdrifts snow noW drifts to to tarry larry food and wa water t r to toI I five twenty wen y Che marooned pa passengers cn ers Rapidly falling temperatures ad add to tho the seriousness o ot the thc situation Lincoln Lincola Lin Lin- cola coln and Omaha r reported port d 5 de degrees be belou below be- be low lou zero zero tonight while hile at points In South Dakota temperatures of oC 16 b below bolow bo- bo low were reported Snow covered Grou Ground ld Menace to td Stock Kansas CIl City Mo 10 Feb 28 Train 8 Train service into Kansas City from rom he ho w Wet t tn n ind north was paralyzed toda today L oy ay th hit night AM l I ito 01 which set act ct in lri la late c last trains were from three to eight hours l late l So St oral ral trains were tere nill ii In the thc Kansas ansa Cit City terminal yards alls m until il early arb hig 1119 e evening on ace acc mt of oC snow took took- od lug InS switches l Hep elJ iris s received h r I om Kan Kansas as today show ow that while tho storm wa was general all over the state slate no serious damage except pt to tostock tostock stock In the west western rn part part- was report report- ed There snow which has s h been en on th thc th ground air t already ad for more han ban sixty Ixl days is a a. menace menco TO stock stocka feeding a id i a g. g Smith Center reported the tue lowest lovest temperature In Kansas to today a 10 below be Falls Fails in tho the thermometer of ot from Crom ron ron-i 34 4 de degrees dc- dc grees grecs at Hutchinson to 46 16 at Arkansas City were ivere reported Central northern ant mr t southern Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- toda today reported snow and cold Iowa 1 an and Nebraska l' also reported much snow now which delayed train Ono One or two trains aro are reported report cd snowbound Continued on page 2 2 ElECTRICIANS THREATEN WIDE NATION STRIKE Continued from page pase 1 work a hour four week on only I In face of threats of or discharge c made mado by bythe bythe bytho the tho shipyards It was announced today to toIla to- to Ila day This means menns that men will w quit work worl at noon tomorrow as 2000 OO called so-called radical members of or the Oakland Oakland Oakland Oak Oak- land Boilermakers Boilermakers' union have taken takena a like vote The shipyard managements say tha that t timm imm immediate will follow Collow any action of or the men tending to brcak break th the rort-el rort hour forty hour ht-hour work week re agre agreement pr prescribed under the terms of ot the Macy lacy a award ward Approximately members member o of the boilermakers boilermakers' union so-called so conser- conser who are seeking to form Corm forma a new union here will observe the tho full six six- day working wok ultimatum of or tho the shipyard managements It Is ls announced Seattle Feb 28 Th The end of or the strike of or metal trades workers from northwest shipyards shipyard was held to have been brou brought ht measurably lr nearer toda today perhaps to within ten days ars by the tho granting of or authority for Cor holding of r a conference regarding wage schedules to become effective April 1 I when tho Macy award becomes Inoperative Tho The authority was teas contained In a telegram telegram telegram tele tele- gram from rom Dr IA I. c. c Marshall assistant on industrial to Charles director general of oC th the emergency fleet leet corporation to federal officials and leaders of or tho the strikers The rhe conference as is outlined In the telegram ram would look toward formation of a permanent Puget Sound district council to consider wa wage o matters In shipyards I Tho strikers announced several Sc oral days ays ago ao the they would vote on returning to work worl If sr a conference to con consider lder wages on tic the Pacific coast taro ero promised them Approximately workers strikes which were arc are Involved ell In the tho called lcd In an effort cHort to obtain n wages 5 I hl higher her than those granted ranted b by the Macy lacy award O |