Show SUBZERO WAVE GRIPS COUNTRY Upper United States Canada Swept by Frigid T Temperatures Tern Tem m- m By fly Associated Pr Press Pits Northern United States and Canada Can ada crackled t today day in a paralyzing subzero wave that broke roke records a ahalt half halt century old 0 As f far r- r south as Louisville Ky thermometers read zero and tram from the Ohio valle valley up to the Dakotas s the them m mercury r ury dallied dalie from 10 20 to 27 below zero Up where the cold begins begins- at White WhiteRiver WhiteRiver WhiteRiver River Ont Omit it was 56 below and there were readings readings' from 20 to 44 below be low across the Canadian prairies from rom Alberta to Quebec It It was the fourth bleak day of at subzero subzero sub sub- zero temperatures in ln l Minnesota where the r range ran from 47 below north of Duluth to sub 17 at Min Miri neapolis Fargo and land Grand Forks N. N D. D stood around the stove at 27 21 below Charles City Iowa reported 25 below coldest December day in 43 years rears and northwestern Illinois citi cities told of record breaking low marks of 24 and 26 below 12 Die of of Exposure At Chicago the minimum was 92 91 degrees below and 12 persons died dice of exposure Two other victims of the cold were twin girls 15 months old smothered i hi bed with their parents par par- eats who had but half haifa a bushel of coal saved for today The weather welthe was due to moderate in the central states tonight with more snow and then another sharp cold spell in the offing New York put men to work shoveling away its 11 inches o of snow with the mercury at 16 16 above Bits about the weather elsewhere Indiana IndIana Four Four dead of cold in add addition addition ad ad- d tion to eight drowned in a Lake Michigan storm yesterday heavy snow with temperatures down to 10 below zero I Ohio Ten OhIo Ten below at Mt Vernor 4 4 4 below at Cincinnati and 2 above at Cleveland B Balmy Weather Colorado Wyoming and New Mexico Mex Mex- ico ico Overcoats Overcoats were shed in rel relatively relative relative- ly Iy balmy weather It was 52 above at It Denver this morning Michigan Michigan Fifteen Fifteen below at the Soo while Detroit was just 2 below Washington D. D C. C clear C.-clear Clear and frosty at 14 1 above Nebraska The Nebraska The mercury crossed zero upward bound but was promised prom- prom sed another drop tomorrow Ma Maryland Maryland-A and and-A A heavy coat of snow and ice the bright sun to molt it while temperatures ranged from 6 below in the west to 19 above along the seaboard Wisconsin Wisconsin Nineteen Nineteen dead of ot expo sure automobile or railway accidents in n Wisconsin and upper Michigan in inthe inthe the subzero wave It was 15 31 below at nt Wisconsin Rapids Civil Works Stop Missouri Missouri Civil Civil works jobs were wele abandoned in St St. Louis with streets ice clad and the mercury swelling after alter a bottom a of 4 above 8 above at Kansas City West Vi Virginia Neat Viginia-Neat Near Near zero weather in n the north and a heavy snow blanket blan blancet ket disrupted wire communications but jut relief was anticipated with a n abright abright bri bright ht sun shining It w is 10 above at al Charleston Pennsylvania Five Pennsylvania Five inches of snow made highways s perilous and arid three deaths were attributed to the er or The mercury st stOpped short one degree above zero at Pittsburgh and 19 9 abo above E at Philadelphia a degree below the previous low for the sea sea- 59 son Illinois Chicago lin chicago iS-chicago Chicago 92 below with snow forecast and then c colder lder again Dc DeKalb 24 below the lowest in three years Freeport 26 below low low- low 21 U years Morris 16 16 below with motor traffic all nIl but ceased Champaign Cham Cham- 2 low |