Disastrous Blizzard
Rages Across
Northwest U. S.
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many of them needing emergency
supplies.
The weather bureau here fore
cast continued extreme cold Sat
urday—with no break in sight—
moderating winds, light snow
flurries and clearing.
The blizzard, caused by the
merging of two storms, spread
from British Columbia to northern
California before sweeping east
ward. As it raced across the Rock
ies Friday night, the Helena, Mont,
weather bureau put out what it
termed the ‘strongest warning it
had ever issued.”
Motorists in western and south
ern Montana were advised to get
off the highways and seek shelter.
“All interests are cautioned that
this is a dangerous storm,” the
bureau said, “and are advised to
take the necessary precautions im
mediately. Moderate to locally
heavy snows and blizzard condi
tions . . . will prevail in western
Montana and spread to most sec
tions east of the Divide Saturday
. . . with a severe cold wave.”
The blizzard hit the Pacific
Northwest early Friday after a
mass of Polar air spilling down
from Canada collided with a storm
pouring in from the Gulf of Alas
ka. They met headon near Port
land, Ore., with a giant turbulence
that spawned a true blizzard.
Snow-filled winds up to 75
miles an hour battered across 1,000
mies of coastline, choked western
valleys, hurdled the Cascades and
continued on with full violence
over the eastern plateau into
Idaho.
Port Angeles, at the northwest
tip of Washington, was buffeted
by north to northeast gale force
winds which dumped nearly two
feet of snow that drifted badly.
Bellingham, across Puget Sound,
had a Friday maximum of 3 above
zero, snow drifts up to 12 feet
in height and 70 miles an hour
winds.
The Grays Harbor area midway
down the Washington state coast,
was virtually paralyzed as 60-70
mile an hour winds brought in 20
inches of snow. Twelve to 15
small fishing boats sank or were
driven aground at Westport with
damage estimated at $100,000.
In the interior of British Colum
bit, where subzero temperatures
prevailed, 500 men of a Royal Ca
nadian engineer corps detachment
were marooned at Chilliwack with
only one day’s supply of food. The
R. C. A. F. planned a parachute
drop.
In eastern Washington the story
was the same—high winds, drifts
and intense cold.
Across the continent, storm
warnings were hoisted on the At
lantic coast from Maine to North
Carolina. Winds of 40 miles an
hour were reported.
A cottony fog hung over New
York, halting operations at the
city’s busy airports and hamper-1
Bartlett And
Gruening Protest
Closing Marks Base
WASHINGTON, (/P)—Governor
Gruening and Congressional Del
egate Bartlett of Alaska said Sat
urday they would make “a vigor
ous protest” against the air force
closing of the Nome air base.
The air force announced Friday
that it will be closed out by next
November, with the process to be
gin soon.
Gruening and Bartlett said it
was “a blow at morale” for the air
force to “pull out of the only air
base in Northwest Alaska.”
Bartlett said the protest would
be made at once to defense secre
tary Johnson and air secretary
Symington.
The air force announcement Fri
day said the inactivation affects
only the Arctic Survival School,
which will be transferred to Ladd
Field, and the airways detachment
unit, which unit was reported to
include only 12 men for handling
air traffic at the Base. They are
the only units at the Base.
Reports from Nome for several
weeks had told of local resident’s
j concern over closure of the base,
but an air force spokesman in
Washington had denied twice that
j there was any plan to close it.
Bartlett declared that the clos
1 ing of the base will leave all of the
i northwest of Alaska, an area
i larger than New England, without
' air defenses. He said it would
[ bring Alaska’s air defenses 575
j miles inland and strip the nation’s
Bering Sea front line to nothing.
_
; ing ship movements in the harbor,
i The weather bureau said the fog
i was caused by a mass of warm,
moist air from the south. Gales off
Iceland and Newfoundland slowed
ocean liners and ships arrived in
New York one to four days behind
schedule.
The screeching storm which
hammered the northern plains.
Rocky Mountain and northwest
States has veered over into Canada
today but it left the area with its
worst cold wave of the winter.
At least 52 deaths were attribut
ed to the storm, ten of them in
Canada. Nine died in the north- '
west blizzard, seven in crashes of
two small planes in rain and fog,
and a woman and her three small
daughters in an automobile crash
on an icy mountain highway.
Other fatalities were caused by
the winds, flood and traffic acci
dents.
Temperatures were far below
normal all the way from the Great
Lakes to the Pacific Coast, while
the remainder of the nation gen
erally had seasonal or balmly
weather.
Temperatures were expected to
climb today in the northern Rock
ies after lows of five to ten below
zero last night in Montana.
Throughout the northern plains
the mercury ranged downward to
—15 in South Dakota and an av
erage of 25 below in North Dakota.
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