Imperial Valley press., 1929-11-30
Freezing,
WEATHER
PREVAILS
Hoover Leads In Lauding
Byrd's Daring Flight In
Antarctic.
RETURNS IN SAFETY
Explorer Is Only One To
Have Flown Over Both
Polar Extremeties.

CHICAGO, Nov. 80. W.p)-The
coldest November day in history
spread suffering and death over the
raiddle west today.
Coming in the wake Of blizzards
that dashed out from the Canadian
barrens during the last 36 hours
aad covered most Of the hinterland
with a deep snow, the unparalleled
cold wave heaped misery on the
central states.
Deaths. were reported from many
midwest sections. There were many
cases Of frozen ears, fingers and
toes, and the poor shivered as de.
pleted fuel supplies were exhausted
in the battle with the cold.
A swath across upper Michigan
and Wisconsin was deep in snow
that paralyzed railroad and auto
mobile traffic. The blizzard that
uilcd drifts waist high in the
streets at Ashland and Superior,
Wis, had been supplanted by sting
ing cold.
At least seven deaths were at
,ributed to the bitter cold The
body of Frank Murray, patient at
the Oak Forest infirmary near Chi
cago, was found on the institutions
grounds, bis limbs frozen stiff. A
rix months old Chicago girl, Caro-
line Samoi, died in her mothers
arms after an automobile ride. Ex-
posure prompted a heart attack,
physicians said.
At Mason City, Ia, the frozen
body Of Charles Lannigan, 3s, a
rainter, was found by group OF
bows in field. The body was
identified by an army discharge in
a pocket. Death was caused by ex'
posure, physicians said.
Fires blazed out over Chicago
during the night and today, many
originating from overheatcd fur
nqces and stoves. Five women and
Is men were driven into the streets
WIN n rooming house caught fire:
rolicc Chief Lester Tiffany OF
Lake Forest, ILL.,, sick in bed with
Influenza. ran from his house in his
pa aiamas 10 rescue a woman trapped
in a burning garage. The chief ear
ried her into the house through the
yhree below zero weather.
Accidents Cause Deaths
The frozen body Of Nick Smolen-
ski, IS, was found near his home
at Racine, Wis. Near LaPorte, Ind,
William Brickman, 55, peddler,
,oppled over dead from the cold
inst as he reached the shelter of a
farmers house. While rubbing his
frost bitten checks with hy mittens,
Taniel Dunn, 65, malked in front OF
an automobile in st. Paul, and was
killed. Charley Levy was asphyxi.
etad in Chicago when he attempted
TO start his automobile with the
radiator frozen.
Steamboat traffic between Lake
Superior and Lake Huron was block
AIDED by ice in the Sault Ste. Marie
channel.
The coolest spot in the United
states yesterday was Thief River
Falls, Mimi, with 90 degrees be-
lew zero reading. 1t was seven be-
low at st. Paul, an all-time Novem-
her record, and three below at Mil
waukee. indianapolis had two
above, a 90 year record for frig-
idity.
The weather bureau predicted
gradually rising temperatures this
afternoon and tonight in the Chi
cago area with snow probable for
Sunday.
Temperatures in the Rocky Noun
tain region rose today, although
Colorado and Wyoming were blan'
keted with from one to five inches
of snow. Chepcnne, Wyo., center
Of a Thanksgiving day blizzard, dug
out from under a three inch snow.