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Show ICE IS FOUND ! EVERYWHERE Southern California Has Coldest Weather in Many Years I os Angeles. Cal Jan. 6 Dense palls ot smoke from the smudge pots in orauce groves overspread tod ay (he entire citrus region of southern Cali- fornia in an effort to precenl tremen dous damage from the coldest weather weath-er known in this vidnitv for years j Ice formed everywhere. The weath- i er bureau here reported "killing" fro?Ls on all the shelves of the foot-I foot-I hillg where orange growers lor years have known no severe temperatures j Damage was general, but until the i Weather abates no estimates on the losses can be accurate. Riverside, in the heart of the orange belt, was the coldest spot of all Damage Dam-age probably was greatest there. At midnight the thermometer fell to 18 decrees. S A. little, head of a fruit company, com-pany, said that 90 per cent of the oranges or-anges immediately around Riverside would be a total loss. No estimates of crop damage were available this morning except at Po-j mona, where the temperature rang-ed rang-ed from IS to 26, and where the wind 1 that rose at midnight lifted the' smudge smoke and let the frost set in j its work on the orange trees It was; reported conservatively that at least 16 per cent of the citrus crop w;is mined. The dutnnce, it was ctttted, I would hac been greater had not the fruit heen well advanced toward maturity ma-turity and in hardy condition. San Dlepo, with a minimum of 28 degrees, experienced the coldest weather in its history, according to weather bureau records. At Santa Barbara water pipes were, I frozen and one man was treated for a frozen ear Citrus growers are fighting the frost with the smudce iots. I In Ix)s Angeles the minimum was j j '.'t degrees Standing water every- j j where was frozen over. |