The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-14

A anSR and sieet storm, riding
 nds which reached eb miles an
 ||f. glazed highways in most of
 # York, New Jersey, New Eng nd ond parts of Pennsylvania, Air H1 rnil tFafiic faltered with that M lho ground. Tn New York city
 poo men battled to clear the
 Gots.
 Shipping all along the North At nlIe coast suffered. An uniden-
 |Gd oll tanker, locked in the fec W Long Island sound oil Sand Point
 ", flew distress signals. The Nfnet guard cutter Commanche and crows from three shore stations ent to its aid.
 Await Relief By Ar
 Several hundred persons in II &nuth Dakota communities that Nnve been Bnowbound for days AWnited relief by air. With clear 1sir weather forecast, 1t was hoped that food -laden airplancs could taEe of today from Rapid City, q D.
 New earth shocks were felt in IInlena and Butte, Mont, where xAsidents were fighting snowdrifts nfd 2b-beIow zero temperatures. qhey caused no damage, but were the strongest shocks since the farthquake there on Thanksgiving
 fn Colorado and the Texas and oklahoma panhandles, where there Wfe no snow, the wind raised great Nn6t storms. Farmers feared that unless moisture falls soon, crops this year will be blown away as they were last year.
 Dust Carried Miles
 Some of the dust was carried as fhr east as Michigan, where resi- dents of Kalamazoo said that last nights snow was covered With e Ikyer of yellow dirt.
 Breaking of an ice gorge in the Ohio river above Paducah, Kyp Threatened the lives of eight gov- efnment' workers marooned in Q lougeboat.
 Heavy rains flooded parts of the town of Merced, Calf.
 New Cold Wave
 Chicago, Feb. i4--tUP) = ski- equipped planes take off today to take supplies to il snow-bound cnmmunities in western South Da- kota. A new cold wave was sweep- iiig the central states and the east. Rain, sleet and snow over 90 per cant of the nation increased haz- ards and suffering of the worst win- ter on record. The death toll mount cd to more than 320.
 Federal Airport Inspector Lester Orcutt at Pierre, S. D., awaited safe fi4ing conditions before taking of for Rapid City where he will join the airpiane expedition to the ma yucned communities.
 Highway crews have been unable to break through huge drifts to Red OWL Advance, Cooper, Camp Crook, etdneville, Herford, Fairpoint, En- ning. Cedar Canyon, Sulphur and Pedro.
 Communicable lines were down t0 some of the ranching communi- ten and 1t was impossible to deter Wiuo the extent of suffering from lnck of food and fuel.
 "A new blizzard yesterday ai-d last night kept the planes on the ground but fair and colder weather was forecast for South Dakota today.
 Many People Isolated From fifty to several hundred per- sons were isolated in each of the allOwbound communities. Two hun- dred residents of Camp Crook ap- pealed to Gov. Tom Berry for food. No ordered supplies held in reserve at Pierre to be moved at the first opportunity.
 Communication lines were down to the towns of Cooper, Red Owl and several other small settlements. They had appealed for aid before the latest blizzard struck.
 Fred Height, Belle Fourche pilot, reported roads blocked to several of the towns after flying physician to ranch at Newell where several children were critically i'll. Height and other pilots dropped mail to the