| Summary: | Previous Records Are Shattered. No Break In Sight From Sub Zero Temperature -- Floods In East Worst Ever Known. Previous Records Are Shattered No Break In Sight From Sub Zero Temperature— Floods In East Worst Ever Known The mercury only dropped to two below zero last, night which felt real comfortable after the 27 below mark earlier in the week. But tonight may prove a boomer again as indications point to a low mark by midnight and no break in sight. Down at Wells, Nevada, the thermometer could only register 5 6 below. How much lower the mercury would have dropped no one can tell, all of which shows how much worse off the residents of this district might have been had they lived in Nevada. The weather bureau holds out no relief for tomorrow. Floods Back east the flood waters are still rising, reaching the highest stages over recorded. More than 100,000 persons are homeless and the property damage is far into the millions. Rains continue and the rivers are rising higher. The Red Cross is rushing supplies and aid to the 10 stricken states. The great western cold wave brought new record too temperatures to some states yesterday. In others, records of up to half a century were broken. The coldest temperature reported was at least 56 degrees below zero, at Wells, Nev. Thermometers there could not go any lower. Freakish aspects abounded. At minimum temperatures, usually mild-wintered San Francisco was six degrees colder than Cordova, Alaska. Mount Wilson, overlooking Los Angeles, was 25 degrees colder than Ketchikan. Salt Lake city's 11 degrees below zero was the coldest in 49 years and its accumulation of 21 inches of snow the most ever recorded there. Forty degrees below at Blackfoot, Idaho, broke a 31-year record. At West Yellowstone, Mont., where thermometers dropped to 55 below, Assistant Superintendent Joseph Joffe of the Yellowstone national park said other portions of the park had comparable temperatures, including minus 47 in the southwest corner. Other record lows included: Oregon: Klamath Falls -13, Pendleton -20, and Baker -21. Nevada, however, had marks lower than Winnemucca's 36. these were -52 at Halleck, -49 at Deeth and -43 at Elko.
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