London, Feb, 16.
It is understood "that " physicians! all ending Farl Beatty believe the Jerisis in. his illness has passed. A bulletin issued to-day says there has been a decided improvement in his condition—Reuter.
New York, Feb. 14, Heavy snow-storms, raging foods, sharp earthquakes and a series of Dllnding dust-storms scourged the nation to-day as the population struggled to maintain transportation services and prevent serious shontages of food in many areas, The storms which have aflictod the greater part of the United States for more than a week spread. far out into both the Atlantic and Paci-fe oceans to-day, and several vessels were reported in distress, 'The British freighter 'Trelissick was in distress off the coast Oregon, while on the northeastern coast the trawler Winthrop - was sinking off the port of Boston, with fourteen members of Its crew' help=
Tess, New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were griped by the heaviest snow and sleet storm of the season. "In the middle west the food situation neared the acute stage. Elven snow-bound towns in South Dakota walted for the arrival of both food and. fuel supplies by aeroplane, Severe earthquakes were resumed in Helena and Butte, Mont, scenes of serious quakes which destroyed much property and. claimed. several lives last autumn, In both cities the temperature was 28 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit, adding to the suf-foring of the population, Few sections of the country escaped either snow or sleet but those which did, encountered other dimeulties, Winds which reached the proportions of a gale raised dust~ sorms in Colorado, Texas and, Oklahoma, and the fine particles dust and sand were carried as far north and east as the State of Michigan.
Towa was the hardest-hit area of the nation today. The town of Marshall reported a temperature of 20 degrees below zero. Sen problems of sanitation added 10 the food and fuel shortages in many towns, when sewage mains froze, Flooding creeks and rivers "me undated 20,000 acres of fertile Call-forum land in the San Jonquin valley, and twenty square blocks of residential districts In Merced were Mkewise Mooded, The towns Tuttle, Planada and Lo Grand were euuirely submerged—Uniled Press,
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