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Stalled Cities. While Westerners waded, one of the most sudden and violent storms in memory swept north up a wide tier of Eastern states. Blizzards almost completely paralyzed Ohio and Pennsylvania. Twenty inches of snow fell on Cleveland, 29 inches on Youngstown, 18 on Akron, 28 on Pittsburgh, 38 on Washington, Pa. The Pennsylvania Turnpike and virtually all other roads in both states were blocked by enormous drifts, airports closed, trains stopped or ran hours behind schedule. In Ohio, 20,000 cars were abandoned on the highways...
Wind, bitter cold and the smothering snowfall put a dozen big cities and scores of smaller ones almost completely out of operation. In Pittsburgh and Cleveland, newspapers and department stores shut up shop, steel plants and hundreds of other industrial works closed down; in Akron, Youngstown and Morgantown, W. Va., thousands of automobiles, trucks, cabs, buses and police cars were stalled inextricably. National Guardsmen patrolled Cleveland to prevent looting and used Sherman tanks to tow stalled trucks and cars from the drifts...
Through the Rye. In Youngstown, Ohio, Judge Frank P. Anzellotti dismissed a drunkenness charge against George Shirley when Shirley proved himself sober enough to spell the name of his home town, nearby Punxsutawney, Pa. In Bloomfield Hills, Mich., the charge against Abdulla ben Brahim was reduced from drunken driving to reckless driving when Abdulla proved his sobriety by walking around the police station on his hands...
Robert Taft, the man whom organized labor wants most to beat, was in Ohio last week campaigning for his political life. When word got out that he would tour the Campbell plant of the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., some 100 employees decided to be outraged. They walked out, complaining against being made a "captive audience." Since most of them worked in the power plant, some 1,500 other employees had to be sent home...
...Youngstown, Ohio, Vindicator...