The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-12-17

Four scantily clad men
dropped unconscious in Chi
cago streets and died by ex-
posture. Firemen who an
swered 1876 alarms in a little
more than twenty-four hours
worked with extreme diff
Guilty. Their booted feet froze
to the pavement as they piled
hose lines.
Below freezing temperatures, ac-
companied by sleet and snow. swept
Dixie from Louisiana to Virginia.
Ten inches of snow blanketed Hot
Springs, Ark, winter resort. -Four
inches of snow fell in Atlanta. and
Mississippi and Alabama were COW
cred with sleet and snow.
Floods in the Mississippi delta re-
glon added to the suffering. HEAVY
rains that had fallen for several
days turned into sleet and snow
IN places Where snow had not fallen
in twenty-five years. Loss of live
stock, it was feared, would be heavy.
Al Degrees Below Zero
Sub-zero weather in the south
west endangered food supplies of
Indians on Oklahoma reservations.
Senator Elmer Thomas sought fed
eral permission to allow the Indians
10 revert to their native food supply
by killing surplus buffalo and elk
IN The Wichita game preserve.
In Quebec, Canada, where the
temperature dropped to low of al
below zero, Premier Taschereau de-
MED statements that 10000 persons
IN the Gaspe region faced starva-
ton.
He said suffering existed in
Gaspe as in other districts, but de-
clared the province was acting to
relieve distress.
Ice gorges in several rivers threat
enec possible floods. At st. Louis
the Mississippi river reached the
lowest stage in seventy-two years.
A stage Of three feet three inches
was reported due to gorges which
damned water upstream in the Il
llnois and Mississippi rivers. At
some points dynamite was used to
blast gorgeS and make a channel.
Influenza Is Spreading
Definite indications that a mild
influenza epidemic was spreading
with the bitter cold were shown in
reports from scattered cities that
cases were increasing. The United
States public health service report
ed large increases of cases. Schools
were ordered shut in seven Indiana
towns due to the prevalence of the
disease.
In the east sub-zero temperatures
were reported in several localities at
Owls Head, N. Y, and on the sum-
NIT of Mount Washington, New
Hampshire, the thermometer read
26 below zero.
Il New York, the intense cold
sent thousands of homeless to
municipal lodging houses and food
stations. The city's relief facilities
were taxed.
Only Florida Still Warm
An explanation of the cold wave.
the most severe since 1929, was Of
fered by United States Metorologist
Charles D. Reed of Des Moines, Ia.
He suggested that volcanic dust from
an eruption in the south American
Andes last April had f1oated over
North America, partially screening
off the suns rays. He said it would
take possibly a year to determine
the accuracy of the theory.
Virtually all parts of the country
with the exception of Florida were
affected by the cold.
Phoenix, Ariz, had the first snow
in twenty-five years. Frost was re-
ported in Los Angeles suburbs.
The central great plains area had
temperatures ranging to 20 below
zero. Gulf ports recorded tempera-
lures below freezing as did Texas
points. Raleigh, N. c., had snow
and marks not far from zero were
common along the Atlantic coast.