Show S. S L L. ESCAPES ESCAPES ESCAPES' WINTRY BLASTS Warmth Contin Continues es Here Other Oth Oth- er S Sections Hit by Storms 1 f 4 t tv v Salt Lake might have stolen a march on Florida and welcomed the New Year with a bathing girl revue While many other sections of ot the country fought snow rain and cold Salt Lake and most of Utah basked in continued warmth that defied the weather marl man The forecast for Monday night and Tuesday is continued unsettled weather er with little change in temperature and probable showers A drop in the mercury Sunday indicated indicated in in- the days das and nights might be at an end but New Years Year's day dawned without a tinge of cold The maximum temperature Sunday was 49 two degrees below Saturdays Saturday's high The minimum was 39 three degrees degrees de de- de grees under the preceding days day's low California Hit Southern California was hard hit by a torrential rain that caused the collapse of a bridge on the Los An- An Glendale geles-Glendale highway Nine persons person's riding in two automobiles were vere hurled into the swirling waters of the Los Angeles river and it was believed all aU allbut allbut but three lost their lives Elsewhere in the state the storm damage was estimated in the hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ot thousands of ot dollars Several dozen families were driven to higher land in La Crescenta Cal and in some parts of Culver City the streets were under two feet of W water Los Angeles fought a mile 40 gale galeand galeand galeland land and one schooner was driven aground in the harbor Pounded by waves it 11 soon started to break up Four and one half inches of ot rain fell In the city from midnight Friday until last night At Topanga canyon near Malibu Beach 1013 inches were measured But in North Dakota and western Minnesota it was 16 degrees below zero and the mercury fell toward the zero zero mark in the Twin Cities The whole middle w west t was was warned to prepare for another onslaught of zero temperatures Warmer In East Farther east it was as warmer with II New York reporting g readings in th the 30 and Boston getting a threat of ofrain ofrain ofrain rain and nd Portland Me enjoying a aspell aspell aspell spell of ot 20 to 25 degrees above A fog settled over Indianapolis and warned of ot the cold to come Wiley Post world the flier filer was grounded at Terre Haute Ind md by the fog while en route to Day Dayton ton I Ohio from Oklahoma Cit City Louisville had a maximum of ot 60 degrees de do- grees grecs Sunday but prepared for colder weather today Richmond Va dis discarded discarded discarded dis- dis carded overcoats when a year four low of 12 degrees on Saturday developed developed de do- into a high reading of 66 |