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Show Cold. Wave Grips East MIGRA TOR Y BIRDS ON WING Early Winter Predicted CHICAGO. Au. ' St. Although warmer westher waa promised In forecasts today, tha ut,rn. South, srn ana Midwestern sections of ths country continued to shiver and don overeoate aa furtbar raeorda (or eool Auguat weather wara broken and Hitht froete wara reported In eec-tlone eec-tlone gripped by tha eool wave. A cold wave blanketed tha Mld-dleweat Mld-dleweat and Northeast early today, sending Martin and teal flylnr aouthwmrd and causing temperature tempera-ture dropa to tha fortlaa and fifties. Starting in tha Korthweet ysster-day, ysster-day, the chilly raw weather epread 4h eet -4msyrucg ilvei a nd Into the 8outhwst. Warmer weather was promised for thla afternoon. The unuaually sarly flight of ml-aratory ml-aratory bird a waa declared by weather expert to pressgs aa early winter. Tha flight are two waeka ahead of schedule. Tha weather bureau aald the temperatures were the lowest la August Hi tea years. ALBANT. N. T. Aug. II (By V. P.) -Albany and eastern and north-era north-era New Tork are la tha grip of tha coldest August weather that has been recorded sine 1(71. . Tha mercury stood at ST at midnight mid-night and during yesterday and last night a parson without a top coat waa out of luck. rroata were reported front tha Adirondack region. . . TOPEKA. Kan, Aug. it (By V. P.) B. D. Flora, state metereloglst, announced today that, tha seoond lowest temperature In tha United Statee reported this morning was at Hutchinson. Kan, where the mercury mer-cury dropped to 44. The low mark at Topeka waa IS. the loweet August It recorded la Topeka. Flora said no frosts war reported report-ed anywhera la the elate. KANSAS CITY. Mo. Aug. II Lowest temperatures for August on record were reported ovsr the Southwest yesterday an today. The sssisuip saals a I -rl' of IS here. . Normal summer weather waa aa-pscted aa-pscted by tomorrow. ATLANTA. Oa, Aug. Au gust weather records continued to tumble today throughout the South. Lower temperatures were general, according to reports, soma of the Southern atatea reporting decreases of approximately IS degreea over that which prevailed during the first of the week. " Richmond. Va, last night experienced expe-rienced tha coldest August weather In Its history whsn tha thermometer waa reported to have registered 41. PITTIBURfJ. Aug. SI (By U. P ) Ptttaburgere hunted up additional blankets during the night and refreshment re-freshment parlors started brewing tha first ' "hot drlnka- thla morning morn-ing aa the temperature dropped to 44, tha loweet in forty-five years at thla time of tha year. . |