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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1948)
PACE TWELVE HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28, 194f Biting Cold Grips Wide Section Of Country Today As Death Toll Reaches 160 By The Awwclatrd Press Winter's rrknllnw aleie of cold, now and Ice droit furlhrr damas Inf blows la a wide section of the country today. The Inclement weather affected many meg-menta of business and In dustry and made Idle thousands of work en. The death toll In the mt. eolith and midweat u near ly 16. The third cold wave In a week chilled resident from the Rockies to the Atlantic coast. A billiard swept New .Mesice. A numbinf rold eprrad over Texas from the Panhandle to the lower Kio Grande Taller. Snow falls in Tennessee measured from four to It Inches. Ice from three to six Inches -eep covered Arkansas and other pans of Uie soulh nit By com weainer. cloning schools. Impeding traffic and disrupting communications. High Wind ' California did not escape the antics of the elements. Gusts of 65 miles an hour swept through On tario, Calif., and winds of between SO and 60 MPH in other parts of the San Bernardino valley yester day. Trees and some telephone Clear Weather For 9 Days Polks In these parts who have laid bets that this month will se. an all time record for clear January days, can lake back their money. The weatherman chalked up nine consecutive clear days, January 12 to 20, inclusive, but January 21 and 22 were labeled "part cloudy." The record for consecutive clear days goes to 1920 when 16 straight days, without a cloud in the sky, was the weatherman's report. The minimum temperature that year in January was 12 degrees above zero, same minimum reading for this month. In 1817, there were 10 days of clear weati-er running day by day, but the minimum reading was 13 de grees below zero for the month of January. It was 16 above here this morning at 7 o'clock. The young fry took advantage of the below freezing weather and took to the government canal last night where bonfires were burning to warm their hands and feet in be tween sashays on the ice. Skating looked good for tonight but the city recreation office still warned of skating on Upper Klamath lake. HOTELS OSBORN HOLLAND EUGENE. ORE. MEDFOBD Thoroughly Modern Mr. l Mrt l. t. Earlcy an. J. Karley Fr.prl.tra poles were felled as the winds whip ped up heavy clouds of dust and sand. The weather generally in Southern California was clear. In Northern California forrcutrrs said there was a "hare possibility" of rain for the drouiht-ttrirkcn area but the immediate prediction was for continued clear skies. The reiion has been without rain for more than five weeks. The current fuel shortage brouKht further discomfort to many com munities as the cold neither lightened its Icy grip over the arcs from the Rockies to New England. No estimate was available as to the number of workers made idle by closing down of plants and lactones to conserve fuel. However, in Detroit area alone au estimated 200.000 workers were made tempor arily Jooless when the Michigan Consolidated Gas company suspend ed all gas supplies to Industrial users. The order, to be in eifect until next Tuesday, virtually hailed auto production in the motor city. Workers Idled Continued cold weather abo was responsible for idling 15.000 workers in the Pittsburgh district follow ins an almost 100 per cent curtailment of Industrial gas supplies. In Buf falo, t., a snoruce oi gas prompted the American Brass com pany to put 400 of its 800 empioyrs on a four-hour shift. Another Buf falo company temporarily laid off 600 of its 1200 employes. There was promise of some relief from the bitter cold which has grip ped the Midwest this w eek and j temperatures started to moderate last night In North Dakota. But the mercury was far below zero m i many sections of the central states , this morning, with a low of -20 at j Atlantic, la. The sub-zero line ex tended into Northern Illinois, where ! Chicago's early morning minimum w as -4. I Police Press Hunt For Killer TOKYO, Jan. 38 ( Metropoli tan police said today they expect soon to arrest the fiend who cooly poisoned Tetkoku bank employes killing 12 and escaped with an estimated 164.000 yen i32Mi. Inspector Hortsnkl Slugrkl said Ihe bizarre robbery was similar to two previous bank robbery attempts. As in the latest case, the roboer posed as a public health official and induced empioyrs to drink poison with the explanation 'it w as an anil dysentery medicine. In the previous cases, liar em ployes were only sickened. , Thousands of Japanese police are searching for a pallid, big-nosed Japanese with white hair. He en tered Die bank at closing time Mon day, ordered 16 employes to drink the "medicine" and scooped up the currency as they writhed on tne floor. Four are expected to recover. Tankers Held Big U. S. Sea Hope NEW YORK. Jan. 28 i.4 Proposed tAnker construction is viewed by shipping men as the greatest im mediate hope of keeping the Ameri can shipbuilding industry alive and healthy J. Lew is Luckenbach. president of the American bureau of shipping, savs orders for new tankers hold out hope o. enabling the shipbuilders to "maintain the nucleus of a train ed and skilled staff." A fear of losing trained and skill ed personnel during the lean years is one of the reasons shipyard oper ators are seeking a long - range steady program of ship construction. Luckenbach reports that the oil j inaustry nas piacrd orders lor IB new tankers aggregating 278. 690 gross tons and 466.000 deadweight tons. Iraq Cabinet Resigns LONDON. Jan. 28 i' Govern mint plans to establish a Urtttsh Arab security system against com munism In tin Middle Kast have suffered a severe setback by a blow up In British relations with Iraq. The Iraq cabinet resigned last night after violent riots In protest of a revised treaty of alliance Willi Britain cost 70 lives. A Beirut dispatch snul Lebanon had been Informed by the Arub league that the league was studying a British proposal for a council of Britons and Arabs to coordinate de fenses of the Arab nations In the event of war. In Cairn, an Arab league press official told newsmen the Iraq riots "should Induce Britain to chart a policy serving the people's In terests" It was thought they would at tempt to find and support a new premier willing to work at con vincing the Iraq people that they should accept the treat). Efforts ot I Premier Sallh Dry el Jubiir were I fruitless and violence broke out ! when he said he would push Ihe ! proposal. It stopped w hen he quit. ( MIUK.MAN UNIVERSITY OP OUKOON. Eu- I gene, Jan. 28 iMprtiali Joan I O'Neill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph C. O'Neill. 1130 Monclalre ; street, Klainuth Fulls, 111 be lunch i i eon chairman for Duds' Day week j end on February 14 and 19 on the University of Oregon rumpus. I Miss O'Neill is a souhnmoie in architecture. Worker Treated For Flash Burns William L. rJolen, 2151 Darrow was treated early this morning at Hillside hospital for flashburns to his eyes received late yesterday afternoon while at work at Bell Machinery company on S. 6th street. Nolen works as a machinist at Bell's and was near an arc welding job at the time. He is resting at his home. Phone your Want-Ad to the Her ald and News, 8111. or bring your ad to the office at Pine anu Esplanade. Pay in advance, get 10 discount. 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