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The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • Page 4

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THE DES MOINES REGISTER THURSDAY AlURNTN'G, MARCH 21, 1935. Reed Resigns From STATE CHOKES Wednesday's Dust Storm Recalls Similar. Storms During 1934 U. S. Revenue P0st (Th RejliUr'i Io Ntwi Servid, BURLINGTON, son Reed, United States collect of Internal revenue stationed announced Wednesday that he ha resigned and will return to home at Fairfield, Mar.

31 assume active management of m. insurance business there. IN DUSTSTORM Swirling Grit Halts Traffic; Boy, 2, Dies. PAliK FOUK iiwwi ft f9. Dust Continued From Pnge 1.

IVeddingRings I 'mmh 11 14 tV i llMlwj if 1 1 mn-ftlimim-A VmJrjSZ of poor visibility during the dust storm. Hope for early relief from the dust storm in Iowa was seen In a report from Council Bluffs late In Attractively en .95 the afternoon that skies had s2 cleared of dust almost with the graved, white or yellow gold. Specially priced Diamond Set wedding hnnda, white or yellow gold. Smart new some speed as they filled with grit .95 at noon. rianes Fly Agnln.

'6 The gale-ltke wind that carried the tons of dirt from the south "Pay As You Earn" west Into Council Bluffs had abat ed and shifted to the northwest A dust haze still hung over the Dust almost hub deep in roadway near Des Moines last year. Dry weather aggravated dust situation for cars. Stuart, road (upper) choked with 1934 dust. Farmer used "snow" fence (lower) to keep dust drifts from field. A South Dakota farm (upper) on May 15, 1934.

An Iowa fence row (lower) piled high with dust blown across slate. A row of fence posts near Des Moines partly submerged with loess in the strong dry winds of last spring. Tractor In South Dakota (up-pet) all but covered with 19S4's dimt. Fence row near Boone, (lower) almost covered. Man at Seventh and Locust tri ts, Don Moines, finds It difficult In see people mtohs street In last May's dust storm.

city, however. SI 4 Hal. St. la. P.

M. Wall. Hunk BM, United Air lines officials Wednesday night reported planes flying east to Chicago, but that westbound ships from Chicago one division of the Santa Fe rail Dust Last Year road because of dust storms. were being held pending clearing Sidelights on Dust Storm Breathing was with difficulty. of ikies.

Rain Helps In Iowa. in the history of the state. It was this bad In some sections before, but not generally." Static electricity carried by the dust interfered with telephone and telegraph lines and radio. Intercity telephone conversations In Kansas City came faintly over the wires. It wasn't their larnyx but their lounges that worried moat house Weather bureau officials pointed out none of the dust was picked up in Iowa because most lections of Hundreds of hospital patients breathed through wet cloths.

Mall carriers In Kansas went their routes with masks of wet handkerchiefs over their faces. lessen the pressure, plant attendants said. One west Des Moines house keepers. Most women interviewed Bring quick relief from the Itching of punplee, ecxema and other skin irritations. Then rely upon the regular nee of this simple treatment to soothe and protect your skin.

Soap toe CHntmtn Ue and SoU at til druttiM. gave little thought to the dust In-flamatlon of throat and nasal membranes, but fretted much holder took advantage of the There were many dust storms in Iowa during 1934, the most severe being: Mar. IS Swept in from Da-' kotas. Apr. 8 Sun obscured In northwest Iowa.

Apr. 21 From northwest, blanketing state. Apr. 2S Described as worst of season. June 1 Carried In from settling dust, to sew grass seed, 'v Light Poor.

Most Kansas schools closed be about (he way the dust settled on over which the wind peppered a tapestries and velours of their fine protective coat. fore noon. At Hutchinson, it was impossible for children to study FOUR INJURED IN ACCIDENTS Woman Evangelist and Son Hurt in Crash. davenports and other furniture and in curtains. because lights in school rooms would not pierce the dust which For many hours after the storm is over the dust will swirl In Des Moines driver's windshields, for the streets department will now READ THE WANT AD PAGES TODAY filtered through closed windows.

In some towns, railroads sta Medical Advice Physicians In some midwest cities warned families to remain Indoors during the storm as the dust dried nasal passages and provoked the possibility of spreading disease. Dr. Frederick J. Swift, deputy commissioner, Iowa state department of health, however, saw no serious danger to health of Iowans. Because of the nasal tract Irritation, It "might make some persons more susceptible to Infection," be said.

put out special flushing or sweep lng equipment to clean the streets. Four persons were Injured In automobile accidents in Des Moines Wednesday afternoon and tioned men with lanterns at street crossings. Kansas highway patrolmen blocked the roads, tying A few Dm Moines housewives bewailed the fart that they waited until Wednesday to do the laundry. Most of them had to take the wash off the line before It waa dry. They had to finish drying It inside, and In soma case rinse or wash It all over.

Dry cleaners and laundries cared up travel to forestall accidents. night. et C0i Mrs. Violet Spencer, 44, evan eiiA OA Beauty parlors expected additional business aa the result of the storm from ladles who could "just feel the stuff In their hair." Poor Visibility. Kansas City, seriously "13 gelist, 1411 Walnut and her son, Jack Spencer, 8, were in stricken for the first time by the dust storms which have blown for jured when a car driven by Mrs 0 little if the dust forced added weeks, was limited to visibility of two blocks and less.

Spencer and a car driven by Virgil am iik; im Ordrn 6th and Locust Custodians of downtown office buildings, as well as housewives, wailed over the added dusting bur Temple, of Ames, collided at washing of their ever-clean trucks, because It brought In much more While In some sections the dust Fifteenth and Locust streets. ZIIE REX ALL DRUG STORES. seemed merely to be sifting ndjthan enough laundering and clean- den, janitors reporting several the state received heavy showers early Wednesday. The precipitation varied from .28 Inch at Des Moines to .6 inch at Waterloo, where hall accompanied Mrs. Spencer suffered pounds more dirt in their hallway Ing business to pay for this effort.

settling to the ground, with little wind, It was driven on west winds wrenched neck and bruises while sweepings. her son suffered body bruises. Donald Boudinot, 23, of 812 Automobile owners who had just Pleasant suffered face cuts 1.00 Pepsodent Antiseptic 67 50c Aqua Velva 34 75c Squibb's Mineral Oil 59t Coty's Face Powder 69d 1.00 Ironized Yeast 7ld 1.00 Alarm Clocks 79 1.20 Sal Hepatica 803 Increased tine of water on dust-grimed hands and fare, and In bath-tuba waa not noted at the Des Moines water works. "The few extra thousand gallons" used waa not sufficient to and John Van Horn, 39, of 2336 E. Twenty-fifth suffered washed their cars of the slime from two recent Bnows, found the dust settling in waterspots left by the morning's rain.

hand cuts and a bruised knee, in collision between their cars at ELECTRIC Guthrie ave. and Avenue Fred' FLAT IRON erick M. Hubbell. Lifebuoy Soap 3 for 17 1 Pt. Upjohn's Super Cod Liver Oil $1 50c Ipana Tooth Paste Complete with ATLAS SHOE POLISH Black, brown A.

or tan 6 lbs. cord Constitution Called 1.23 averaging 35 miles an hour In Nebraska and Kansas. Reasons, Kansas agricultural authorities explained the dust storms are attributable to the fact that much of the western sod has been plowed up toi wheat. Having lost the protective covering of grass and being dry from drought, It can be blown freely. Often In years past blowing has been reduced by the fact wheat waa permitted to get a good start, holding the soil In place.

This year much of the crop was off to a poor start because of weather conditions last fall. There was little rain last winter. 23 Miles an Hour. Weather forecasters said the tremendous dust cloud was moving for Bulwark by O'Connor the fall. Boy, Die.

Land and air traffio was paralyzed by the dust storm. Kansas schools were closed. Business was tied up. Human Uvea were threatened by traffio dangers and possible suffocation. Stock suffered.

Joseph Bernard Meier, 2, died at Hays, of pneumonia the attending physician attributed to Inhalation of dust. This fatality was the fifth charged to the week's disturbances In Kansas. There were two other child victims of pneumonia, Shirley Ann Frazler, 2-month-old Graham county baby, and Bernlta Towns, 13, of Falco, Kan. Trains Cancelled. For the first time In history, train schedules were cancelled on (The RtgiiiUr'i Iowa Newi Servict.) AMES, IA.

The American con 75c Vick's Vapo Rub 50 50c Barbasol 34t 1.00 Nature Remedy Tablets 67 40c Listerine Tooth Paste 33 75c (astoria 50 50c Jergen.4 Lotion 36 1.20 Scott's Emulsion 80tf 35c Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder 25 1.25 Absorbine Jr )4tT day, unless checked by rain or snow. Riding on a high wind, the dust storm, rolled eastward from the midwest plains, engulfed St. Louis, and moved across the Mississippi river, into southern Illinois late Wednesday night. "Snust." Forecasters said If the dirt-laden air encountered rain, mud would fall, Contact with snow would result In the queer brown mixture of snow and dust which Kansans have dubbed "snust." It was Impossible to ascertain stitutional judiciary system is the planes could fly to take observations.

Captive balloons were invisible almost as soon as they left the ground. Wheat Crop Destroyed. Surface soil was blown so badly that many sections despair of a 19.15 crop. "The dust storm will cut out the wheat remaining In the western part of the state," said R. I.

Throckmorton, head of the department of agriculture of Kansas State college. "Prospects Worse." "Prospects are worse than last year. It is th worst dust storm bulwark of the people against their own Ill-advised action, their 3 own uninstructed will, Atty. Gen Edward L. O'Connor said Wednes day In a radio talk over station 5c Lady Esther Cream 55 Large Listerine 59 WOI.

Thermos Bottle, Quart 1.59 "It saves them not merely from their enemies but it saves them eastward at 25 miles an hour. It was expected to reach Chicago to- RIBBERSET hrw high the dust extended. No from themselves," O'Connor said, Shaving AQ Cape Cod Lamp 98c Large Ovaltine 57 50c Forhan's Tooth Paste 34 75c Doan's Pills 50t 1.00 Hind's Honey Almond Cream 74 50c Phillips Milk of Magnesia 34 1.50 Fitch's Shampoo )8tf wJoc Anacin lc 25c Mennen's Talc 17 1.00 Lavoris 67 1L i-ic rucker lar Soap 17 'i lb. Hershey Milk Chocolate Bars, Plain or Almond, 2 for 250s 25c Johnson's Talcum lf) 50c Mentholatum 42 iac rnuiips flliik or 3Iagnesia Tooth Rubber Gloves Roxhnry Hoiine. A hold, pair 1 7C Electric Toaster i 18 Tomplete with cord 89c Dr.

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Digestion Improve. Bowel work better. The skin clear. Energy Increase. Begin to eat the new F1elrhmnn'e Yeaat.

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