TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, DECE3IKER 10, 1919. EVEN AN. OLD-FASHIONED BLIZZARD, DIRECT FROM THE FAR NORTH, HAD ITS ADVANTAGES PORTLAND IN GRIP A IN PORTLAND YESTERDAY. IN GRIP OF OF Heavy Snow, Blizzard, Zero Temperatures Reported. Five Inches of Snow Regis tered on First Day. TRAINS LATE, WIRES DOWN FORECAST IS FOR. MORE PACIFIC STORM TrafNc Is Blocked In Places and Fuel Supply Cut Off Records for Cold Are Broken. fContinud From Ftrgt Page.. set in and whipped the valley all day. Tonight a light snow set in and the weather moderated. BEND. Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) Starting shortly after midnight, snow fell steadily through the early morn ing and continued without respite through the day. totaling 28 inches by 5 o'clock this afternoon. The water equivalent was .8 of an inch. The fall is the heaviest in four years. Apparently working south. the torm did not hit Fort Hock. 60 miles south of here, until 8 o'clock this niornhig. Streets were practically blocked to motor traffic here, and snow plows were used on the side walks when shovels failed to clear a path for pedestrians. The most noticeable effect of the storm was seen at the plant of the Bend Water, Light and Power com pany, where one-third of the normal water flow passed through the tur bines this afternoon. Snow and slush dams across tributaries of the Des chutes are believed to have been the cause of the reduction from the nor mal, as the cold, although Intense dur ing the last few days, has hardly been sufficient to halt the rapid cur rent of the river. It was found necessary to cut off the power furnished the Brooks-Scan-lon Lumber company plant, only the mill continuing in operation, while at both the Brooks-Scanlan plant and the Shevlin-Hixon mill it was feared that work would be stopped entirely to night because of the depth of snow in the yards. The storm recalls to the memory of old timers the winter of 1884-85, when in one continued fall a four-foot snow was precipitated, the mercury fell to 25 below, and cattle and horses died by hundreds. PENDLETON, Or.. Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) Pendleton is today in the grip of a severe snow storm and the cold est weather yet registered here. Early this morning the thermometer fell to zero the first timej that mark has been readied, although the tempera ture has dropped to 6 above on two different occasions, on the night of November 26 and early in the morn ing of December 7. Today's highest reading is only 11 above, which is 6 degrees colder than the previous low daytime tempera ture. Snow began falling about 8 o'clock in the morning in fine sifting flakes, and by 3 in the afternoon covered the ground to a depth of three Inches and was still falling. i Pendleton folks will have an oppor tunity to enjoy ice skating within a couple of days, for high school boys today began the flooding or tneir oig athletic field in or-er to make a skat ing pond. The field is half an acre or more In extent and it is believed it can easily be flooded and frozen for skating. MOLALLA, Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) The snowfall that began here last night had reached 14 inches tonight with no sign of abatement. So far there has been no trouble in com munication and train service has not been decreased more than necessitated by the coal shortage. MARSHFIKLD, Or.. Dec. 9. (Spe cial.) The storm in this vicinity is from the southwest, and it is warm. The day passed with gusty, driving rain and all telegraph and telephone lilies were down early in the day. f?wspapers failed to receive their daily dispatches and communication by telephone was impossible save at j snort distances, inline carnage omer than to the wires has been reported. SALEM. Or., Dec. 9. (Special.) Train service on local railroad lines operating out of Salem is disrupted, telephone and telegraph service is being maintained with difficulty, and street traffic is hampered, as the re sult of the heaviest snowfall experi enced in the Willamette valley for many years. Late this afternoon the fall measured ten inches, and it was still falling. Trains on the Southern Pacific lines are arriving here from two to four hours late, while the gasoline motor operating between Salem and Dallas this afternoon was reported snow bound ten miles from this city. All road construction work has been, abandoned. The mercury was slightly above the fret-sing point' tonight and there is no Indication of a cessation of the storm. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Dec. 9. Two inches of snow fell here early today. The thermometer registered 20 de grees, the coldest of the winter. This is the first snow on Grays Harbor in three years. Mrs. L. G. Humbarger, state chair man of the conservation committee of I the Daughters of the American Revo lution, sent out an appeal today to Daughters of the . American Revolu tion members and the general public throughout the state to feed birds during the present snow and cold fepell. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9. Storm warnings were posted early today, advising mariners of the approach of a gale due within the next 24 hours, which is expected to carry greater de structive force than the one which swept tills district last week. Few ships put to sea today in the face of the warnings. There was frost in San Francisco this morning. BOISE. Idaho, Dec. 9. Southern Idaho and eastern Oregon are today in the grip of the worst blizzard ex perienced for the last four years. Temperatures range from one degree above zero to 18 and 20 below. A wind prevails which varies from 15 to 25 miles an hour. A fine dry snow is falling which may impede railroad traffic Coal stocks are almost ex hausted at many points. HELENA, Mont., Dec 9. Tempera tures, the lowest this season, were registered in Montana Monday night and Tuesday morning, according to weather bureau reports received here. Billings reported 36 below. Havre 30 below and Miles City 18. Helena reg istered 28 below zero and Kalispell 22 below. WASHINGTON. Dec. 9. A pro longed period of cold weather over the entire country . Is indicated, the weather bureau announced today, by the abnormally high pressure over the region west of the Mississippi and the low pressure over the Gulf of " i i - - ir SC;?. - f . 1 -' ' . V - X fV- - J . 1 t1&Vw1 v , Tj Uf Upper -Somebody going to set anovr down hi npok In minute. Center never been excelled. Lower There are folks In the park, no Mexico, the Ohio valley and off the North Pacific coast. The cttld wave in the west ia spreading eastward and southward with zero temperatures as far south as the Texas Panhandle. - NORFOLK. Neb.. Dec. 9. New castle, Wyo., experienced what is be lieved to have been the coldest weather In the United States today. According to reports, the ' thermom eter registered 40 degrees below zero during the early morning hours. HEPPMER, Or., Dec. 9. Special.) Heppner is experiencing the worst spell of winter weather in several years. Six inches of snow fell Satur day night, followed Monday morning with a temperature of 5 degrees be low zero. This morning the mercury registered 9 below, and at day light snow began falling and has continued all day with no signs of letting up tonight. The weather is the coldest experienced here in a number of years.- Farmers are pleased to have their wheat protected from the intense cold by the snow blanket, and stockmen with plenty of hay are not disposed to worry. The fuel shortage is the worst feature of the winter, stocks of wood and coal being entirely exhausted and dealers do not expect further ship ments until the last of the week. There is no suffering reported so far. KELSO. Wash., Dec. 9. (Special.) Kelso had its heaviest and earliest snowfall in years last night and this morning. After a week of cold weather snow commenced to fall last night, and a 'heavy snowfall con tinued all night and was still falling at noon, when the snow had reached a depth of 12 inches. This is the heaviest snow in 20 years and is the heaviest in December within the memory of the ' oldest resident. The snow is quite dry. Logging operations of this vicinity are closing down until after the first of the year as a result of the heavy early snowfall, wiich has attained a depth of several feet on the hills. SEATTLE, Dec. 10. Several Puget sound cities today were experiencing the coldest December weather in 30 years, the Seattle weather bureau station announced. At Tacoma the thermometers touched 22 above, and at Seattle they went down to 24. Snow and northeasterly gales were predicted for tonight. Storm warnings were displayed at all Washington points. On Grays Harbor a blizzard raged early today, according to reports telephoned to Seattle. ASTORIA, Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) Astoria is running a close race with the Dakotas in the weather game, and today has been staging a snow storm that is almost a blizzard of the genu ine middle states type. The snow storm, which started with a few flur ries last evening and has continued today, is the first Astoria has seen in three years, and by far the heaviest in a quarter of a century. The strong northeast wind which sprang up during the night caused the snow to drift into piles from three to four feet deep, while the average snowfall wa& approximately seven inches. In addition, the mer cury dropped to 22 degrees above zero, the coldest by several degrees of the present season thus far. All the public schools of the city closed today, and no attempt was made to operate the street cars. In the forest-covered hills, on both sides of the river, the snowfall was much heavier than here, and as a result practically all the logging camps have suspended operations. The snow is unusually dry and as the ground underneath iS frozen solid the indi cations are it will remain several days uness the wind should shift suddenly to the south and bring a heavy rain. This evening the wind nnd snow storm moderated materially. TILLAMOCK Or., Dec 9. (Spe cial.) It has been snowing all day here. About six inches has fallen. CHEHAL1S. Wash.. Dec 9. (Spe cial. ) Snow to a depth of more than a foot banketed all this section of the l state today, the faU starting- last night about 9 o'clock. . AH the saw mills and logging camps are closed down as a result and transportation of all kinds is seriously impaired. During the day the snow continued to fail. The cold spell that has preceded the present snowfall has "been the longest and most unusual known in this part of the state for years, there being heavy frosts nightly and freez ing weather that has proved serious to a variety of industries. CENTRALIA. Wash.. Dec 9. (Spe cial.) Six inches of snow fell in Cen tralia during the night. Up to noon today there had been no cessation in ! the downfall. ! CARLTON, Or.. Dec. 9. (Special.) After several days of freezing weather snow started falling at about 11' o'clock last night and is still falling at 8 o'clock. The snow is very fine and now covers the ground to a depth of six inches. The thermometer stands at 20 above. - As there was no thawing during the freezing weather, fall grain is not hurt. ' Skating, which has been the sport of the younger set for the past ten days, will now give way to tobog ganing. WALLA WALLA," Wash., Dec. 9. (Special.) With the mercury at zero this morning. Walla Walla had its j ntn day or winter. It was the fourth coldest December day since 1872. Eleven above was the warmest tem perature of the day, and with this in tense cold came a steady snowfall that started early this morning and con tinued throughout the day. There is now about six inches of snow on the ground The blanket of snow covers most of the county. Even in the light land districts west of the city there are four to five inches of snow. Farmer are now engaged in getting feed to their livestock. PASCO BOY'S BODY FOUND Roy Van Xest Located in Ruins of Drug Store Gutted by Fire. PASCO, Wash., Dec 9. (SpeciaL) After working in a blizzard of con siderable proportions volunteer work ers located the body of Roy Van Nest at noon today in the ruins of the Pasco drug store basement. Young Van Nest is the 16-year-old boy who lost his life when the drug store, post- office, Bank of Pasco and several other buildings were destroyed by fire last night. Evidently the boy had been killed by the explosion in the basement of the drug store, which caused the fire which resulted in the destruction of so much property. The postoffice has been located temporarily in the Masonic building and the bank is preparing to open for business in the Telephone building as soon as the vault in the burned build ing can be opened. REDS' TERMS IMPOSSIBLE British-Russian Plan for Exchange of Prisoners Fails. LONDON. Dec 9. No agreement has been reached with soviet Russia on the exchange of prisoners question, according to announcement tonight by Lord Stanmore. The conditions proposed by Maxim Litvinoff. the bolshevik plenipoten tiary, were too comprehensive to be accepted by the British government. Lord Stanmore said. GOULD DIVORCE IS VALID Wife's Opposition to Paris Decree Is Overruled. PARIS, Dec. 9.- The decree of di vorce obtained by Frank J. Gould of New York, from his wife. Edith Kel ley Gould, was sustained in judicial proceedings here today. The court overruled Mrs. Gould's plea that it had no jurisdiction be cause of her being a resident of the United states. Here's m ;trm of transit that's natter how eold It Is. WOMAN KILLS DAUGHTER EMILY R. POWELL ATTEMPTS SUICIDE AFTER SLAYING. Reputed Member of Socially Prom inent Eastern Family Writes Queer Xote Before Shooting. DENVER. Colo.. Dec. 9. Mrs. Emily R. Powell, 40 years of age. said to be the daughter of Horace G. Lippincott ." J,u"!.r"'' prominent, Pa. shot and killed her 12-year daughter Jacqueline as the child lay asleep at the mother's apartment today. Mrs. Powell then shot herself, the bullet entering her left eye. She was hur ried to a hospital, where it was said her condition was. dangerous. Mrs. Powell had' been separated from her husband. Other occupants of the apartment house where ilrs. Powell lived said she had been acting strangely lately. Mrs. Powell left a note saying: "I wished before I died I might have known what has always been wrong with my life the more I loved people, the more I always hurt them. Admiral Hilary P. Jones. U. S. N, is said to be a brother of Mrs. Powell. SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 9. Edwin S. Powell, former husband of Mrs. Emily R. Powell, who shot and killed her 12-year-old daughter in Denver and then shot and dangerously wounded herself, is an employe of a sporting goods store here. He could give no reason for Mrs. Powell's act. Powell said he worked as a reporter on the Cincinnati Times and the Den ver Post, but had been a sporting goods salesman for the past ten years. He said he came to San Francisco from Denver a year ago. PHILADELPHIA, Dec 9. Emily Lippincott went to Denver for her health. While there she met and secretly married Edwin S. Powell, said to be a newspaper man. This was in 1905, and three years later they were divorced. Mrs. Powell continued to reside in Denver. Besides the daugh ter, Jaqueline, who was 12 years old there ts a younger son. GREEKS DEFEAT TURKS Hellenic Troops Advance to "Dead Line" Eixed by Paris. SALONIKA, Dec. 8. Greek troops advancing to the line of demarcation in Asia Minor fixed by the peace con ference have clashed with Turkish forces, ten. resistance of the latter be ing broken, accroding to an official statement issued at army headquar ters. The Turks numbered about 2000, the statement says. , The Greeks lost an adjutant and six soldiers killed and a sub-lieutenant and seven soldiers wounded, while the losses of the Turks have not been de termined. PARRICIDE CHARGE FAILS Alleged Slayer of Father Accused of Killing Woman Also. JACKSONVILLE. I1L. Dec 9. After deliberating one hour and forty min utes the Jury in the trial of Dr. Horace A. Reddish, charged with the murder of his father, Stephen S. Reddish, rendered a verdict of not guilty tonight. The defendant Is still in custody and under indictment charged with the murder of Rachel Cisco. Pi'es Cured in to 14 Days Druggists refund money If PAZO OINT MENT falls to cure ltcmnc. Blind. Ble IDE or Protruding Piles. Slods irritation: tioothes and Heals. You can st - restful sleep sxtex tne llrst application. Prios ttos. Adv. S. & E Green sumps for cash. Holman Fuel Co. Main 353. 60-21. Adv. Street Cars Are Operated, But Auto Traffic Is Reduced East Wind Forms Drifts. (Continued From First Page.) ton-Jefferson, North and South Port land, Sixteenth street, Sellwood. Will lams avenue. Twenty-third, Wood- lawn. Passengers for Beaumont were be ing transferred from Rose City Park to stub cars: Bridge Transfer. Mon tavilla. Rose City Park, -vlississippl avenue. St. Johns and Woodlawn were maintaining fairly normal service. Route Changes Llted. ML Tabor cars were going to East Sixty-ninth, Council Crest through to Patton road, Hawthorne avenue was tied up at East Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth by derailments. Mount Scott was also out of commfssloii be yond Anabel station for a similar rea son. Richmond was being operated through to East Thirty-third. Wood stock was clear to East Forty-first, where another derailment blocked traffic beyond that point. Hourly service was being given on the Vancouver line. Sellwood service was cut down to 20-minute headway. The company had four big power brooms and six powerful snowplows out all day and all night, together with salt cars on each of the four di visions. One hundred of the large four-motor cars were operated tandem over all lines during the night and emergency track gangs were out on the firing line throughout the night, large num bers of ex-service men having been added to the regular track crews. Every extra man that could be round ed up was put to work clearing the tracks. Antos Add to Trouble. The greatest trouble was encoun tered" through freezing switches and the heavy automobile and taxicab traffic which packed the freezing snow into the car tracks and resulted in dozens of derailments and prostra tion of service in all parts of the city. Motor cars without exception followed the ear tracks after the company had j cleaned off the snow and this motor , traffic was continually hampering the I company in its efforts to provide serv- j ice for the thousands who were caught downtown and depended upon the street cars to get home. The much-abused Birney safety cars p"roved valiant snowbuckers and none of them had any serious diffi culty in making headway, much to the surprise of the operating officials of the company. According to observations at the local weather bureau, the storm orig inated in a low pressure area that bore down upon the coast country from the ocean, and that did not ex tend any appreciable distance inland. Early yesterday weather observers were of the opinion that the storm would moderate and turn to rain some time during the day, but late last night they reversed their opinion and decreed Portland to be in for "quite a spell of weather." Not only was the snowfall heaviest yesterday of any ..December day on record for Oregon, save in 1909, but the thermometer came xjlose to a minimum record for that month. There has been but one colder De cember day recorded, in 1884, when the mercury sank to 12 degrees above. And but one other day approaches the record of yesterday for any Decem ber, that of the same month in 1880 when 19 degrees above was the mini mum. Of course there has been cold er weather in other months, as for example January 12, 1916. when the mercury touched 13 degrees above and January, 1S88, when it estab- ished the notable record of two de grees below. At the wave of winter s wand Port land became a city transformed. Over the brown dead leaves and the green lawns was spread the cold whiteness of mid-winter. Down the stretches of wind-whipped pavement the eddies danced and whirled. Pedestrians with fuzzy coats and turned-up collars be came, very personable imitations of Santa Claus straight from the pole. Stores Have Bijr Business. Every department store drove a thriving business and not in the Christmas goods departments. And the same applied to the shoe stores. for all Portland went shopping for rubbers and overshoes yesterday. Fur coats that have lain in the pungent embrace of moth balls ever since the owners emigrated from the east came suddenly, out of hermitage and were pressed into welcome service against the storm. The children had their own ideas about the whim of the weather. They welcomed ia with unanimous whoops and utter disregard of the parental mandates to be careful and not catch cold, and every last one of them ut tered the fervent wish that it might continue to snow until the drifts were not less than six feet deep. They snowballed and slid and dumped snow down unsuspecting necks, and acted in accordance with the best traditions ROBUST CHILDREN A child should hot look pale, thin or worn. Such condition denotes malnutrition. To keep up growth and robust ness a child needs a pleni tude of food rich in vitamins. Scott's Emulsion abundant in growth-promoting properties, is an ideal supple mental food that could well be a part of the diet of every growing child. Children always) do well on Scott Emulsion. I M.J Is-U of the juvenile when the "old man is plucking his geese." Auto Traffic Hampered. The street cleaning department mobilized its forces early in the morning and applied its energies to keeping the crossings open. No extra men were employed, the regular force being deemed sufficient to cope with the situation as it existed yesterday. Automobile traffic 'Was cut down to a minimum by the storm, both in the city proper and along the roads leading to it. The approaches to the city, motorists reported, were banked deep with snow and in many instances were almost impassable. In places the highways were swept bare of enow by the broom of the wind, but in others the hedges and ditches banked it deep across the thorough fare. Train service was impaired to some extent, particularly on the O.-W. R. & N. line to Huntington, where the trains drove through deep drifts banked by the wind that came up the Columbia. Connecting trains from the east were reported from nine to 18 hours late. Storm reports from various districts over the northwest chronicle the clos ing down of logging operations and various industrial plants, owing to the severity of the storm. Locally the plants of the Northwest Steel com pany and the G. M. Standifer Ship building corporation were closed by the storm. According to the weather predic tions the storm has not yet reached its crest. While Portland can manage to make shift somehow, until the green grass shows again and the overcoats are unbuttoned, there arecertain little residents of the city that will be hard pressed until the weather moderates. HOME. RULE BILL COMING Lloyd George to Introduce Measure In Parliament Monday. LONDON, Dec 9. Premier Lloyd George will introduce the new Irish home rule bill in parliament Monday, according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper adds that the bill provides for two legislatures with a co-ordinating senate, but that the powers to be allotted to the senate have not yet been defined. It says the fate of the bill will depend on the government's generosity in this respect. Public AUDITORIUM Today MATINEE, 3 P. M. TONIGHT, $:13 AMERICAN Syncopated Orchestra and Singers World's Greatest Negro Musical Organization Will Marion Cook and George Edmund Dulf , conductors. High class enough to please the most fastidious musical connoisseur, yet popular enough to catch the fancy of all who like good music that is easily understood. . PRICES: Matinee, $1.50 to 25c. Night, $2.00 to 50c Seat sale at Sherman-Clay's, Sixth and Morrison, until 1 P. M. Sale after 1 P. M., at Auditorium box office. W. G. McPherson Co. Heating and Ventilating Engineers Manufacturers of "COMFORT FURNACES" The result of our observation during 30 years' experience with our fuels and climate. We Guarantee Them Superior to Any in This City We also carry in- stock the most complete line of Perfect, Progressive and Victor 'Furnaces and repairs for same at reduced prices, which we also sell to all of our competitors. Gifts for Men to be most acceptable should be bought at a man's store where quality and style are given first con sideration. You may be sure that a Winthrop Hammond label on his gift will carry the thought that you felt the best was none too good for him! Shopping here is a real pleasure. We are never too busy to serve you courteously. We quote a few suggestions: Neckwear Shirts Lounging Robes Hosiery Pajamas Traveling Bags . , Gloves Bath Robes Evening Vests and a host of really useful gifts. Winthrop Hammond Co: CORRECT APPAREL FOR MEN -127 Sixth St., Bet. Washington and Alder Formerly Buffum & Pendleton Co. Established 1884 INLAND EMPIRE FROZEN BLIZZARDS RAGE, AVITH LOW EST TEMPERATURES IX YEARS. Situation Serious -in Parts of Mon . tana, Washington, Idaho, Due to Coal Shortage. SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 9. From the Cascade mountains of central Washington to the eastern boundary of Montana. ' temperatures far below any experienced at this time fit the year for SO years, were recorded. Trains were delayed by snow and cold. Cries for fuel went to Helena from many communities in Montana, and in response. M. H. Gerry. Jr., Montana state fuel administrator, is sued a statement tonight describing the situation as critical, particularly ns recrards northern Montana. In Butte, where thousands of min ers are out of work because of the enforced shutdown of most of the mines, the situation tonight seemed somewhat brighter. The campaign , of relief inaugurated by the citizens" j committee, and warmer temperature I tonight, together with reports that n ' small supply of coal was in transit, relieved the feelings of the local fuel administration. The last pound of coal in the ?lty was distributed this afternoon, but ten carloads of "'mine run" coal are expected to arrive to morrow. The situation at Billings and Great Falls Is materially improved, in both cases due to the work of the volun teer miners who are turning out coal at Sand Coulee, near Great Falls, and at Bear Creek, near Billings. The Billings city council repealed an emergency closing ordinance tonicrht, but a local priority order was given the fuel administrator. Volunteers at Sand Coulee turned out 122 tons of coal today and will renew their ef forts with reinforcements tomorrow. Lewiston. Mont., adopted a closing ordinance applying to all business houses, except hotels, restaurants and theaters. Banking hours were cur tailed. A report late tonight indicated a blizzard at Moscow, Idaho, with the temperature 15 degrees below zero. Wallace. Idaho, reported 5 below: Billinps, Mont.. 3s below: East Hele a m na, Mont., 37 below: Helena, vMont., 28 below: Pullman, Wash., 21 below, and other temperatures ranging from around zero at Spokane and Walla Walla to 25 degrees below at Orofino, Idaho. 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