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Show BLIZZARD IN MIDDLE WEST CHICAGO, Jan. 30 U'.l!' A full-fledged full-fledged blizzard, the season's first, plunged temperatures below zero in the middlewest today and taxed relief agencies. The swift transition from record-breaking mild weather was accompanied ac-companied by high winds from the Canadian north, driving a fine, powdery snow, insufficient to cover the ground. The entire area from the plains states to Ohio was frozen froz-en solid today. Frosts occurred as far south in Texas as Marillo. Devil's Laket N. D., was the coldest city in the United States today. The temperature there ("roppod to 28 below zero early in (he day. Prince Albert, Sask , whence the blizzard swept down, reported 40 below, the lowest on the north American continent. |