The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-15
SUMMER REIGN
TO END; COLD
WAVE ON Way
Blizzard Sweeps Through
West; Tornado Takes
Lives in South.
MERCURY SCARS TO 1o4
Pennsylvania Reports Rec
ord Temperature; Cali
fornia Gets Snow.
By United Press

The weather experts who have
been marking up cold records in
warm regions with one hand and
heat records in frigrid areas with
the other, awaited a return 10
normalcy.
The winter strawberry growing in
the north and SNOWFALL hurting at
Pacific winter resorts is about at
an end, they say.
But the toll of the weird disloca-
ton OF Weather that brought ter
rifle billiards. to the west and sum-
mer heat to the east mounted with
! another of the succession of tor.
nadoeS that have swept the south.
Nine were dead and several ex.
pected to die after a savage twistar
wrecked a farm home near Irene
ton, Tenn.
End of Summer Forecast
Today, hailstorms, accomnaniad
by thunder and lightning, presaged
the end of the balmy era in the
midwest, the weather bureau pre-
dlcted. The January lightning diss
play in Chicago was almost un~
precedented, meteorologists res
ported.
A Sub-zero wave from the north
west drove into the central states.
accompanied by rain that turned
to sleet. Temperatures from Nom
tana to Minnesota ranged below
zero. The weather bureau, which
has been predicting an end to the
heat for days, once again am
nounced that frost threatened
blooming winter flower beds.
In the east, where the sensational
mark of 104 degrees in the sun was
reported at Altoona, Pa; 70 at
Philadelphia: rs at Washington,
D. c., and So at Boston and New
York, the forecasterS were uncer~
tain what would come next. But
they were convinced that the "sum-
mer" could not last long.
Cold in Rockies
In the west skies were clearing
with bitter cold reported in the
Rocky mountain area. Lander, Wyo.,
had 26 below zero. On the Pa
cif1c coast, snow was falling at
Portland.
From San Francisco, where snow
fell for the first time since 1922, to
Los Angeles, where ice filmed oc-
casional puddles, and the sky was
overcast with smoke from citrus
smudging, cold snap gripped Cali
fornia today.
Southern CalifornianS bundled up
in overcoatS and mufflers. Newsboys
and workmen lit bonfires on street
corners to warm their hands.
Smudge pots poured forth pillows
of smoke which mingled with clouds
and overcast the sky.
Snow piled to depths as great as
sixteen feet in the mountains, and
many roads were closed at high
attitudes.
South Hit Hard
Floods and tornadoes in the south
have spread misery, made thous
sands homeless and taken a toll OF
thirteen lives in Alabama and Miss
SlSSlppl.
The storm deaths were near Tuss
caloosa, Ala, and at New Hamilton.
Miss. The heavy flood damage exs
tended over nine counties in the
Tallahatchie- Coldwater flood basin
OF northern Mississippi. In that
area thousands were homeless toa
day, many being destitute and huns
CRY.
Rain continued to fall as rivers
over-run their levees. Dynanits
was used in some sections to rip
away the entertainments to relieys
pressure farther downstream.
Boats supplied the only means of
transportation for the nine flooded
counties. All roads were blocked or
under water. Railroad service was
badly impaired.