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Show Winter Deals Rain Joker' to S. L. Winter continued to deal a surprise sur-prise hand to Salt Lake City and vicinity Friday while other parts of the nation bent under heavy gales or suffered extreme cold. Not since 1894 has Salt Lake City gone this late In the season without a msasurable snowfall, federal weathermen said. The warm rain, which began to fall during the night, had measured .27 of an inch by S a. m. Friday, and the official prediction was that it would continue Friday night and Saturday, possibly intermixed with a little snow. State Agricultural Commissioner David F. Smith hailed the precipitation precipi-tation as a boon to farmers in this vicinity, storing up snow in the high mountains and laying water underground for next year's dry! farm' crops. Commissioner Smith wsrned, however, that if a cold snsp visits Salt Lake City suddenly trees msy be injured. The sap, he says, has remained above ground over-long. over-long. "Whole gale" signals fluttered from the mast of ths weather bureau bu-reau station in San Francisco, Cel., for the first time in history. Ty- Contlnud on Past Klsht) (Column Four 'Raifi 'Joker9 Dealt Here tCeeueeei ftees Pas Oh) phoons Interrupted clipper ship service ser-vice to Hawaii and the Philippines. The rain in Utah was brought by a low pressure area, centering off the Washington coast, whsre storms had reached gale proportion, sending send-ing ships to cover. Throughout th nation 100 deaths were counted a th result of a cold wave which reached dowa from the Canadian prairie Into the middle states. Some of the death were by fires, caused by overheated stove. Some person died of exposure, and others met death on ky highways. Even Florida shivered. The nation's coldest spot was Miles City, Mont, with a temperature tempera-ture of IS below sera. The mercury shrank to 40 below at Battleford, Sask., Canada, however. - Only a few scattered section of the country escaped the subnormal blasts. Utah, Artsona and part of New England. Pacific coast temperatures tem-peratures were normal, but this was offset by the unusual gales, which whipped the coast at from 30 to 70 miles per hour. |