Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-21 | Page 2 | Nation Gripped in Winter Chill

NATION GRIPPED IN WINTER CHill CHILI PORTLAND Ore Dec 21 cuP cuPA UI UP UPA UIA A A howling easterly gale todi today left a trail of ot minor damage di db wire communications ma madl highway travel dangerous and ij it ic directly cost two lives Jives Peter Nelson 75 burned to dealas death deal as he lie slept when his home ome here hei caught fire from an overheat stove George Brainard 60 wi W burned to death when he sought tc extinguish a fire which destroy the home of or a neighbor In Grove SAN DIEGO Ca CaL Dec Dee 21 CUP UI UP Storms which already had claim three lives continued to pound ti Mexico the Mexico California coastline toda todAY increasing fear for safety of a di dis tuna clipper and a lobster boat Three unidentified Baja California fishermen were reported drowned when huge w waves overturned their boat I IThe The coast guard cutter speeded to aid the tuna c clipper p tr disabled and adrift I Is the storm miles mUes south of ot hen bert hert The crafts craft's engines were report reported disabled and several of ot Its cr crmen crewmen crew men ill 1 JI The lobster boat Carolina wit i three men aboard was as long lon oVe due duc here CHICAGO Dee 21 Kill Winter Vinter held a shivering nation t this ii his palm toda today after ascending his to bS throne 2 24 hours before his cue eue t fron frOiS the calendar Today was the official of winter the shortest day of ot thi 1 year but yesterdays yesterday's frigid wa w 1 already had given most sections section i taste of winter weather i Generally moderating temperatures temperatures tempera temPers tures were predicted for the WUk vet end accompanied by clouding and occasional occasioned snow flurries in th northern states In South Dakota Iowa W Wiscon Wisconsin scon sin and Minnesota the rne slid below zero and from Illinois w most to the eastern coast roid ro rok were ice coated From the Roc J Mountains east and from the Ca CaD CaD- 4 dEan dlan border to below the Maso j Dixon line minimums for the y were chalked up generally J Warmer weather was from the western plains wh whet r t 7 mercury was up in Nebraska tana and Wyoming 11 1