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Show STATES IE DIGGING OUT OF SHOW AFTER HEAVY EASTER STORM After "Warm Blizzard" Experts Ex-perts Predict Return to Balmy Spring Weather 4 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, April 5. The blizzard which Swept Missouri yesterday de- stroyed the entire peace,, ap- , pie, cherry and plum crops, ' causing losses of millions of -dollars, according to information informa-tion received by the state. 1 board of agriculture today. JOPLIN, Mo., April 5 Low temperatures that accompa-' nied Sunday's blizzard will cut down the size of southwest south-west Missouri's peach and apple ap-ple crops this year, J. H, H. v Mote, farm agent of Jasper county, said today. "Both crops have been badly bad-ly damaged, if not ruined, '"he said. "Buds were out on trees and many of them undoubtedly un-doubtedly were killed. ' ' CHICAGO, - April 5.-iffhe middle-west middle-west and southwest, heartened by weather bureau predictions of "a re turn to balmy spring weather," today set about digging themselves out ol record-breaking Easter snowfalls. The "warm blizzard" as offioial forecasters forecast-ers designated it, doveloped in the Texas panhandle and yesljerday swept rapidly through the central v.' est, today to-day continuing steadily eastward, the snowfall ranging from sl Inches to two feet. In the open country o the southwest, south-west, cattle were reported to havo suffered. suf-fered. There wero few reports of crop damage, liowever. By noon yesterday the snow, driven into hugo drifts by gales that average 35 to 15 miles an hour, had buried railroad rail-road tracks, city boulevards and couu-j try highways throughout tho affected regions. 'Suburban and transcontinental transcontinen-tal trairis movell hoars behind schedules, sched-ules, 'elegraph and telephone com-muuicajion com-muuicajion was cut off in some sections sec-tions and in Chicago and some other cities electric service was crippled. Whlli. the temperature In portions of the jsouthwest dropped as low as twentyfdegrees, in tho central west 27 was th0 minimum, according to reports. re-ports. 1 1 |