Show Mercy Crews Fight Drifts To Save Sick and nd Starving By United Press t Heroic rescue of two p persons dangerously ill and the fight to reach villagers facing starvation after a months month's isolation today topped the battle against winters winter's intense cold and snow R Residents of or the village of ot Hatfield Hatfield Hat Hat- Hatfield field in northwestern Missouri have been cut of off front from the outside world wo for a full month Fuel supplies sup sup- pUn plies were exhausted today Only 12 tacks sacks of flour flours and a few tew cans of ot beans bean and other tinned ed go goods s re remained remained re- re to be rationed A force of ot C C C youths and state elate highway highway- plows plow attempted to cut through the drifts with more more snow w falling tailing An airplane was wu to drop food for tor the town if it the tho elers failed For the past few days householders household household- ers era have been cutting down shade trees s-ees and small abandoned med buildings to obtain fuel Suel Twenty men shoveled through seven miles of ot drifts for tor two daSto days daS to reach the tho farm h home m-e m near Bedford Bedford Bedford Bed Bed- ford Iowa where Mrs rs Dale Sleep was suffering from hemorrhages after giving birth t to a a. child chUd Sh Shwas She was removed to her sisters sister's home at Bedford last night Other rescuers reached a farm fann home near Gentry M Mo Ma where 15 year old Ell Eli Williams was suffering from acute appendicitis They bundled bun bun- died him carefully into a bobsled and rushed him over 70 miles of snow choked roads to a aSt St St. Joseph Mo hospital where an emergency operation was p performed Eight men trapped d in a a houseboat by jy huge ice floes in the Ohio river above Paducah Ky for more than thana a week were safe at home today A steel hulled government towboat t cu cut through the ice Ico and carried them Jiem ashore late Saturday night They s said id they would have needed new food supplies today but otherwise otherwise otherwise other other- wise had suffered little S Severe vere cold and nd snow will wUl continue continue con- con over most mosto most of of the central states today and ana tomorrow w we weather ther forecasters fore tore forecasters casters said The Tho new cold wave shot the mercury t to 50 degrees below below be- be low ow zero at N. N D D. breakIng breaking break- break Ing ng the 46 below elow record established the tho previous day It was wu 46 48 below at Havre Mont and nd 41 below at Rhinelander Wis Gas seeping from frozen mains took ook four lives Jives at River Rouge Rougo Mich bringing to 13 the number of deaths death in similar accidents over the Jie midwest during the past week The new victims victim died in an sion slon An overheated furnace was held I responsible for tor a fire tire at Moline Ill which killed Violet B Barber 12 and I her brother John 10 Their mother Mrs Minnie Barber heard their screams but was unable to reach the tho bedroom in which they were trapped by flames A A- coroners coroner's Inquest inquest inquest in in- In- In quest revealed the children died of fr fright a and d suffocation A snow crew worked with with with-a a derrick derrick derrick der der- rick t to clear lear Chicago fc Great Western West West- cut ern tracks aft after r 12 derailed freight c cars ra n near near M Marshalltown Iowa blocked the line from Chicago to Des Moines for more than 24 hours At Rapid City and Belle Fourche S. S D. D planes continued rescue flights over the tho snowbound Black Hills re region region re- re gion dropping food medicine and mall mail Farmers throughout the Great Creat Plains region have been unable to take fe feed d to their stock Many cattle cattle cat cat- tle Ue froze to to death Some farmers killed cattle and chickens for food |