Winter tramped prematurely out of the Northwest last week. A Montana stockman died in a blizzard. Minnesota lakes were skimmed with ice. Michigan had icicles. All around the Great Lakes storm-warning signals crackled in a 50-m.p.h. blast. Car radiators froze in Illinois. A heavy snowstorm swept Dunkirk, N. Y., wrecked power and telephone lines. At Eighteen Mile Creek, N. Y., 2,500 automobiles were stalled overnight in drifts.
Jobless men in half of the 48 States drew their frayed coats closer, shivered at the prospect of a hard, hungry winter.
With the cold snap...