Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-02

bowled over a police call box at Four
tenth street and New York avenue.
More ice may form on the streets TINS
afternoon, when a renewal OF the lght
rain which started about z am. is
promised by the Weather Bureau. The
local forecast is for rain this afternoon
and possibly early, tonight.
Slightly colder tonight. with min
imum of about Is degrees, followed
Tuesday by fair and colder weather &C
companied by moderate south shifting
to west and northwest winds"
.OI of An Inch Precipitation.
Although only .O1 of an inch precip-
itation was reported this morning, 1t
was sufficient to coat thoroughly the
surface of paYementS This condition
usually results in rainy weather after
particularly cold spell, when the ground
temperature is below freezing and the
air temperature above freezing.
The conditions which bring about the
formation Of ice glaze on chilled sub
stances is particularly hazardous to
flying and one Pitcairn air mail pilot
had a narrowing experience with the ice
this morning. although he brought his
plane and himself through uTiScathed.
Pilot c. c. Talliaferro. who arrived
here at $40 am. from New York, with
considerable ice coating his plane, had
the deposit Clipped off and left lew
minutes later in an empty plane to ny
back to New York. The ice commenced
to form Immediately on leaving here
and his plane collected more and more.
Several miles this side Of Logan Field,
at Baltimore he saw that almost a
half-inch of ice had coated his guy
wires, wings and fuselage, but was able
to bring his ship into the port without
mishap.
Early Mail Goes Through.
The usual mail schedule was flown,
however before the rain set In THIS
morning. and if the conditions get no
worse than at present the mail schedule
will be maintained tonight.
From IS degrees, at o'clock this
morning, the temperature rose degree
an hour up to o'clock and through
9 and 10 O'Clock remained at reading
of 80. The worst ice coatings form
when the upper air is slightly above
freezing and the surface of the earth
well below.
A collision between a taxicab anc
a street car, attributed to slippery
streets, sent Mrs. Martha Hardy, %, 81
Indiana avenue, to Sibley Hospital
where she is under observation for pos
sible conclusion of the brain.
Mrs. Bessie Michaelson, 43. of 333'
Eighteenth street, was shaken ant
bruised last evening when struck by {
taxicab while crossing the street a
Dupont Circle. The driver, Francis M
johnson, 3216 Hyatt place, took her t.
Emergency Hospital. where she wa
treated by DR.. John Schwarzman OF tn
staff.
A second woman was injured late yes
terday She is Miss Ruth Thomas, 16
of 4ll9 First street southeast. She wa
knocked down by an automobile driver
by A. A. Davis, %, of Indian Head, Md
at First and Atlantic streets southeast
Davis took her to Providence, and ply
sicianS there said one hip was injured
but it would be necessary to take al
X-ray photograph TO determine hoi
badly.
SprainS Ankle.
Others slightly hurt yesterday ant
last night were John Armstrong, col
ored. 40, of Fairfax, Va, whose auto
mobile collided with a street car a
Thirty-sixth and P streets, and Jane
Stewart, colored. 80, or 1882 Sixtl
street. who sprained his ankle Will
alighting from a street car at Sixtl
street and Florida avenue.
Most of the delay of street cars wa
due to skidding automobiles and tie-ur
at street intersections where minor me
tor mishaps had occurred.
Buses of the Washington Railway
Electric Co. left outlying garages f
the run to the city before the rain 81
in this morning, and many were force
to draw up on the side OF the street
await service cars with chains. ConsiC
cradle difficulty was experienced on tn
score on the Rhode Island avenue lin
particularly at the hill near the intel
section Of First street northeast.