Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1930-01-16
81 ARE DEAD IN
WINTER STORMS
Thermometer Ranges From Eight
To Forty-Eight Below Thru
out Northwest.

Chicago-Altho this metropolis was
battling its second storm of blizzart
proportions, and the states south Of
here where heavy snow carried be
fore 30-mile gale weighted and snap
ped wires and poles, the regions Of
the great northwest still bore the
brunt of the sub-zero spell which
ranged from eight below in Minneap
oils, Mimi, to forty-eight below in Sas
katchewan, Canada.
81 were dead as result of this ter
rible cold spell in the middle west
Kansas City had snow fall of seven
inches while in Minneapolis the snow
was from four to ten inches. Heavy
snow falls extended into Iowa, Neb
raska, Oklahoma, Missouri and Texas
Westward sub-zero weather hit Mon
tana, Minnesota, Wyoming and Gala
RADIO. In Winnipeg the mercury drop
ped to IS below and to 43 below al
Battleford, Saskatchewan, while al
Bemidji, Mimi, it was AZ below. In
Stockton, Calf, snow fell for the sec.
0Rd time in a decade.
The deaths attributed to the storm
were reported from almost every
state. At Okmulgee, Okla, 300 per.
sons narrowly escaped death when the
roof of tabernacle gave way under
. load Of snow. approximately 1900
motorists were reported snowbound in
the Sierra foothills between San An
dreas and Angels Camp. All through
the south the smaller as we'll as the
longer rivers are at flood tide and are
periling towns particularly in Ankan.
sas and Tennessee.
Another Foshay Receiver Appointed.
Minneapolis, Minn.-As the latest
development in the tangled affairs of
the W. B. Foshay concerns, Josiah E.
Brill, Minneapolis attorney, was ap
pointed as receiver of the w. B. Eos.
hay Co. Of Minnesota. This concern
was the original parents company of
Delaware, which took over the bust
ness and assets and assumed the liza
Silities Of the Minnesota corporation.
Judge c. j lockwood Is receiver of
the w. B. oshay Co. of Delaware and
Joseph Chapman is receiver of the
other larger Foshay concerns, the
Public Utilities Consolidated corpora.
ton end the w. B. Foshay Building
corporation.
CornstaIks for Industrial Uses Seen.
Chicago-Research suggested by
former Governor Frank o. Lowden and
carried on quietly for three years has
eliminated in 81 100000 corporation
formed to develop the industrial uses
OF cornstalks. The organization will
develop cornstalk processes and is op-
Grating plant at Dubuque, Iowa,
with daily capacity of 100000 square
feet Of insulating wallboard. The
company pays $40 ton for cornstalks
baled and delivered, price which, al
lowing for labor, hauling and freight,
provides approximately SO ton to the
farmer for stalks standing in the field.
Firm Granted 100000 by Board.
Neutrality-suspicious. totaling 100000
were granted to the National Order
Buying Co. Of Chicago, a division of
the National Livestock Producers as.
ISOLATION, by the federal farm board.
Two hundred thousand dollars OF the
amount was authorized to be used to
expand the company's system of &C.
curing and operating cooperative
concentration points. The remainder
was a merchandising loan of 500, 900
to extend order of buying activities
and to make advances to producers
Tor livestock when delivered to con.
centration yards.
Firemen Averts Wreck and Faints.
Whiting, Ind.-A fireman of a Penn.
sylvania railroad freight train, averted
disaster here. Clarence NJ. Bean was
on freight when it jumped the rails
ut street crossing and plunged across
the adjacent track, on which an east
bound limited was approaching. Leap.
ing from the derailed locomotive, Bean
raced down the track waving his Ian
tern. He fell, severely spraining his
back, but jumped up and continued
waving the light frantically. He
tainted as the fast train came to a
stop just in front of him.
Al. Smith Escapes In Boat Crash,
Miami Beach-Ex. Governor Alfred |
u Smith, OF New Mork, narrowly es.
capped injury here when the motor
launch in which he was riding collid. |
Cd with a newspaper reporter and |
photographers craft as they were at.
tempting to take his picture. No one
was injured.
Operates by Aid OF Flash Lamp.
Paris, Ill.-An emergency appendi.
citis operation was performed here BY |
Aashlight by Roland Hazen, when the
sleet storm put the electric lighting
system out OF commission. Ralph
Johns. the patient, was rested easily,
the doctor said.
ENJOYS to Be on the Air.
Washington-A series of IS weekly
radiocasts by ENJOYS OF all countries
represented at Washington will start
January q, the day the naval parley