Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07

few were playing about the adjoining
grounds. Within half an hour after the
damage was reported to the Franklin
Administration Building workn1en from
the District repair shop were surveying
the damage and planning repairs so
that the schools can be opened as usual
tomorrow morning.
Henry w. Draper. supervising princi-
pal of the first division, in which the
Grant road portables are located, visited
the structures and reported by telephone
to Mr.. Haycock. No one was injured,
he said and the damage was slight.
A metal cylinder, Is feet In diameter
and 30 feet high, erected on the roof OF
the Bureau OF Standards to test the
aero dynamic properties of cylindrical
objects. such as sr11okestacks, gave
way under the pressure at 10 o'clock
and was blown to the ground below.
nearly carrying down B. II. Monish,
a scientist of the wind tunnel section
of the bureau. who was checking instru-
ments attached to the cylinder
Five houses In row of nine Of the
100 block of Eighteenth street south
east were damaged, three of them Sc
verely, by the heavy wind this morning
The roofs of three Of the houses, Nos.
112, ia and lie, were ripped off and
hurled into the rear yr~r's. The occu-
pants of the houses go, - mt, so no
one was injured. r. roc { i16, resi-
dence of James Alexander, wa hurled
distance OF 40 feet and lodged against
telephone pole in the rear of the
yard, landing upright. Members of the
fire rescue squad pulled it over by ropes,
destroying the wooden fence that sep
arates the yards:
Roofs OF No. 1l2. residence of E. G.
Nussear, and ia, occupied by Wilton
Green, also were blown to the rear
yards, leaving the top floors exposed.
had just driven from her garage with
her small child few minutes before
the roof was ripped from her house.
Others Slightly Damaged.
The other two residences, No. ITO, oc-
cupied by Charles verrill. and 49, oc-
cupied by George Ekstedt, apparently
were only slightly damaged. Mrs. Elk
stedt and her children were at home at
the time, but no one was injured. The
wind caved in part Of the roof of the
second-foor porch and slightly DAM
aged the chimney.
The damage to No. 40 was done to
the roof. Parts of the tin were ripped
away.
A tree, blown down at Eighth and @
streets, narrowly missed several small
pupils Of the Immaculate Conception
Academy.
The force OF the gale between the
tall buildings at r and Fourteenth
streets pulled huge plate glass win
dow from Its frame on the Fourteenth
street front of the National Press
Building and hurled 1t into two auto
mobiles parked nearby.
Glass Penetrates Curtains.
Pieces OF the glass penetrated the
curtains of one machine and shattered
the windshield of another, 80 feet down
the street
Tha gale is expected to abate during
the afternoon and night. although the
cold weather 1t ushered in will continue
here tonight and tomorrow. The tenn
perature, which dropped from As de-
grees at 8 o'clock this morning to SO
degrees before noon, Is expected to
reach low mark of 40 degrees tomor-
row morning, with continued clear
weather in prospect.
BY Saturday, however, the tempera-
ture Is scheduled for a gradual return
to normally.
At its height this morning the wind
blew in show window on the Penn
sylvania avenue side of the Park Lane
Apartments at Twenty-first street. An
other window was shattered at the H.
G. Mclaughlin drug store, occupying
ground floor quarters in the Mercy
nolds Apartment, Eighteenth and @
streets.
A plate glass window was broken at
the Home DeIicatessen, 100 Upshur
street. Motorists were forced TO: detouS