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Show WHITE XMAS SNOW FALL CHICAGO, Dec. 24 A heavy fall of moist snow which assured a white Christmas stopped street cars almost in their tracks this morning. Thousands Thou-sands walked to work, staggering through the slush and stung by the flakes whipped in their faces by a strong wind. Another serious aspect of the storm was the great curtailment curtail-ment of delivery of Christmas packages. pack-ages. The temperature was mild but much colder was predicted. This, it was thought, would tend to relieve traffic by tonight. KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 24 An eleven inch show combined with a street car strike had Kansas City virtually vir-tually tied up this morning but the local lo-cal weather today announced that the worst of tho storm was over and moderate mod-erate temperatures presaged an early relief. . Southern Kansas was buried beneath be-neath a fifteen inch snow this morning mor-ning and snow ranging in depth from nine to twelve Inches covered Oklahoma, Okla-homa, western Missouri, Arkansas and the Panhandle region of Texas. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 The weather map today showed rain and snow in all of the territory east of the Mississippi river except parts of the south. While the chief forecaster frankly confessed that he was not i proud of his Job. he promised better j conditions for Christmas Day. Be-lyond Be-lyond this bright skies and normal tem-! tem-! peratures wore predicted. |