Evening star., 1924-08-08
NEW HEAT WAVE
: RELIEF FORECAST
Thousands of Clerks Return
to Jobs After Torrid Spell.
One Death Reported.

After causing one death and scores
OF prostrations, crippling govern
mental business by necessitsting dis
missal Of 1000 employees early in the
afternoon and depressing private en-
terprise generally, the torrid heat
wave was swept away late yesterday
afternoon by long sought thunder
showers.
Last night Washington slept sound
ly, forgetting in the cool night
breezes the sweltering days which
had preceded
Today the Thermometer is not ex-
rected to go higher than SO. It start
ed below so and had not reached 81
pected to play between SO and 90,
which Is normal. And then tomor-
row night the thundershowers now
rowing over Kansas and Iowa are ex-
pected to reach this section via the
Ohio valley, with the result that Sun
day and Monday will be cool when
compared with yesterday and the day
before.
PaperhAnGer fa Victim.
The death attributed to the heats
ravages yesterday was that of Lester
Coons, n, paperhanger, of IA Fox
nall TOdQ, VINO was WOfklnE at 0Zl
Harvard street when stricken. He
died at the house before the Emer-
gency Hospital ambulance could reach
it, and Coroner hewitt gave a certifi-
cate of death from heat prostration.
Three other prostration cases were
treated yesterday by Emergency Hos
pital staff physicians. but police es-
innate that many minor prostration
cases never were officially reported.
The three yesterday which were add
ed to the list of the two days pre-
vious included:
Ciementine Crown, colored, So, of
227 Four -and-a-Half street south
west, overcome in her home late in
the afternoon and treated there by
DR.. Cresweil Of Emergency Hospital;
Cornelius Winters. colored, 40, of 1851
Third street southwest, who was
taken sick at the first precinct sta
ton in the afternoon. and Maud
Stinemetz, A, of Amsterdam, Ohio.
Smithsonian grounds yesterday after
noon and treated at Emergency Hos
pital.
Thousands Arc Released.
Fearing that the heat would af-
feet many employees in temporary
buildings, Treasury Department Of
ficials issued informal orders which
resulted in between 1000 and 5000
employees being dismissed early in the
afternoon. These were, virtually ali
employed in buildings poorly insu-
lated against the heat, where the dis
comfort was intense. Annex No. of
the Treasury Department was
emptied of employees in the income
tax section at l o'clock. In Building
c, used by the prohibition unit. the
| narcotic division and public health
service employees were released be-
| tween l and 2 o'clock. Employees OF
| the general supply unit in Building
F. were released at the same time
while employees of the Treasury Re.
partment's main building on the
| fourth floor were allowed to leave
shortly after o'clock.
! Some 290 employees of the Federal
| Trade Commission, located in a tenn
porary structure in Potomac Park
| were released early in the afternoon
| as were about $50 employees of the
Women and Children's Bureau Of the
Department of Labor, located in the
same building. Scattered throughout
Government departments were other
orders for releases going to employees
in places where the heat was most
keenly felt.
The midday mail delivery, which
was eliminated yesterday to the graft
ficAtion of postmen. went back on
| routine today, at the order of Post
master Mooney. and Mai. Sullivan
chief of police, late this morning had
virtually decided to recall the order
relieving traffic policemen from duty
between 1880 and l 80 o'clock, which
was in effect yesterday.