Show DUST BLANKETS HALF OF NATION KANSAS CITY March 21 P- P Stilling shrouded the advent advent advent ad ad- vent of or spring from eastern New Mex Mex- ico co to the Great Lakes today Powdered soil soil white white yellow red and black whipped black whipped up from drouth drouth- scourged prairies by equinoctial winds hampered traffic closed schools hid the sun with a veil three miles nilS thick and spilled across the Mis- Mis Mississippi eastward bound Nauseating to many it beat relentlessly relent- relent lessl lessly upon the senses of taste touch sight and smell as if in acceptance of ofa a challenge in the grim jest of an Oklahoma old timer Let er blow blow it it takes grit to live out here Physicians said inhaling of ot dust caused the pneumonia to which 2 old year Joseph Bernard Meier succumbed suc suc- succumbed at Hays Kan Dozen Deaths Counted A dozen other other- deaths due to suffocations suf suf- induced dust pneumonia and traffic accidents were charged against disturbances over affected states totes in the pa past t week A fringe of the reached Chicago last midnight sweeping into Illinois behind rain ram and hail that killed tilled chickens and smashed windows at Jacksonville and injured a field fieldworker fieldworker worker near Greenfield Airplane pilots carried on under dif difficulty The weather bureau at Washington reported dust clouds hanging over the Atlantic seaboard Schools closed in several communities communities of western Kansas Oklahoma Nebraska and Texas Freight trains rolled to sidings siding at athe atthe the he height of the storm and passenger ger er trains traveled semidarkness semi- semi darkness under slow orders Low visibility grounded planes plane at many nany points Motorists drove with headlights on the on-the the bulbs shedding a feeble blue glow in the haze Sand ground into car engines swelled garage garage garage ga ga- ga- ga rage repair business at Dodge City Kan The Kansas highway comm commission commis- commis s- s sion ion closed three cross state cross state routes to prevent the possibility of or further fatal accidents Wheat prices jump jumped d 2 to 3 4 1 cents a bushel as winds cut into dry southwestern fields Governor All Alf AllM M tf M. Landon of Kansas appealed to Pr resident President Roosevelt for federal aid and the A A A in a Q move Secretary Wallace described as intended to protect protect pro- pro consumers lifted restrictions on the he planting of ot spring wheat wheaL Livestock suffered in the storm Dust drifts covered fences in southeastern southeastern south south- eastern Wyoming Kansas City observers ob- ob servers found dust at an altitude of or feet Vague uneasiness manifest at the persistence of the storms attributed storms attributed b by y crop authorities to failure of oI vegetation vege- vege tation to get sufficient growth in dry soil soil oil was passed off in jests Short order cafes cares took away the counter pies and doughnuts to shield them hem from the dust One solution for hat silly taste in in n the mouth was chewIng chewing chew- chew Ing ng gum Smokers found also that chewing tobacco would down the flavor favor of wheat ranch cotton fields and sand hills that smoking didn't seem cem to help Statistically minded victims had a alot lot ot lot of fun in jotting jolting down assorted facts acts on paper filmed with dust Mrs John A. A Turnbull Maple 1 Hill Kan van got a broom and blanket when the he storm got to going good swept off a SI space of 25 square feet teet on her herront front porch weighed th the collection and found she had a quarter of a pound of red dirt dirL I |