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Show ilESI STATES IB FREEZING AREA COLD GIVES ZEST TO HOLIDAY SHOPPING; ZERO TEMPERATURE TEMPERA-TURE IS PREVAILING 8lxteen Deaths Charged to Abrupt Advent of Winter's Demands; Missouri and Kansas Receives Re-ceives Bitted Elast Chicago Winter gave color to Christmas shopping in a dozen states In the Mississippi basin and promised another twenty-four hours of zero temperatures tem-peratures before it departs. The cold wave which moved from Alaska and the Pacific northwest toward the Ohio valley Sunday and Monday had settled across the area from Ohio to Idaho, with temperatures at zero and lower from the Indiana-Illinois line westward. west-ward. Thet edge of the hitter blast which swirled across Missouri and" Kansas began to abate and the thermometer ther-mometer climbed in that vicinity, but-the but-the weather bureau said no warmer weather could be expected over the rest of the storm area until Wednesday Wednes-day night. . The death toll mounted to sixteen swelled by three, with the death by j freezing of an unidentified Chicagoan, J the burning to death of an aged man i who sought to warm himself In a Denver hayloft, and a death by freezing freez-ing at Park City, Utah. In North Dakota three school teachers teach-ers and five pupils cought in a blizzard bliz-zard near Manndan Saturday night while coming home through a sparsely settled region from a basetball game were rescued from an abandoned schoolhouse by their own efforts. |