Show MIDWEST HIT BY WINTERS WINTER'S WORST COLE COLD T Subzero Weather Sweeps Down From Canada Six Dead n Br united Pre i CHICAGO Feb 1 The I-The The winters winter's coldest weather gripped the midwest today with forecasts of ot snow over a wide area Subzero cold which swept into the United States over the week-end week from rom the Canadian northwest brought half haIC halfa a dozen deaths Below zero weather was vas reported from rom Helena Mont to upper Michigan and as far ar south as Omaha and Des Moines In Chicago the thermometer hovered hovered hov hov- ered near but did not touch the zero mark maik unequaled for or more than two years Four deaths were attributed to the cold wave here PREDICT SNOW Slightly warmer temperatures and md entire snow now are predicted over the region from the Rock Rocky mountains to the Great Lakes today John Taylor Talor 14 a Boy Scout lost his life in a blizzard on the slope sope of Mount Hood He was frozen to through 14 death fighting his wa way foot snowdrifts on the mountainside Four other Bo Boy Scouts who became lost in the hills in the heavy snowfall made their way back home safely RECORD BROKEr BROKE All records for or Yosemite national park were broken when the total snowfall reached inches indies three inches more than the previous record record record rec rec- ord made in 1906 Heavy rains and cold winds swept the entire Pacific coast The lowest mark reported to the weather bureau was 46 below zero at Battleford Sask The lowest mark markin in Jn the United States was vas 26 below at Devils Devil's Lake N. N D. D 4 I |