Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-21

A blazing sun this morning promised
the Capital another day of record
breaking heat, with no relief in sight
before tomorrow afternoon.
I'm the absence of clouds the. tenn
perature today will be as high as yes
terday's record of 1856 degrees" Of
hc1a1s at the Weather Bureau declared.
The break in the heat wave late to-
morrow is expected to come with the
arrival of cooler air from the north
west. The temperature is expected to
return to normal Wednesday.
Shortly before noon orders were Is
sued closing virtually all the Govern
ment departments to give the thou
sands of employees chance to escape
the worst of the heat. The District
policemen on duty were given permits
sion to remove their coats.
The Weather Bureau foreSaw a pos
sibility of thunderShower tomorrow
afternoon, but warned that it is not
likely there will be sufficient rain to
relieve the seriousness of .@the water
shortage in nearby Maryland.
Situation Is Serious.
With this warning in mind, recon-
mendati that regulations prohibiting
for other than household purposes he
promulgated were submitted today to
the Washington Suburban Sanitary
Commission by its chief engineer. Rob-
ert B. Morse. Action on the recon-
mendation is expected today.
The water situation in Maryland is
so serious that it is believed the supply
OF water in the Brunt Mills reservoir
will be exhausted in six days unless
heavy rains are forthcoming.
As the Thermometer continued TO
climb orders were issued closing the
Treasury Department at 1880 O'Clock
and the State Department at pm.
Workers in the Commerce Department
temporary buildings were EXCUSED at
noon.
The Treasury, Commerce and Justice
Departments joined the State Depart
ment in releasing all of their employees
who could be spared at / o'clock. The
temporary buildings under the Treas
ury had been ordered out at 1890
O'Clock. The employees of the Munitions
Building were released at l O'Clock
The District Building Offices were
closed at ! o'clock.
The Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing dismissed its personnel at 1890
o'clock
The Agriculture Department soon
after closed work for the day and the
War Department followed shortly after
ward
Men in charge of steel-erection work
on the Potomac Electric Power Co s
new building at Tenth and E streets
quit work before noon. They said the
metal had become so hot they couldn't
handle it.
The lowest temperature recorded at
the Weather Bureau during the past
"a hours was rs degrees at 6 o'clock
this morning. The thermometer was
climbing steadily however, and was
just under 100 degrees shortly before
noon.
Capital Second Hottest.
Red Bluff, Calf, with a temperature
of 10S degrees, was the only place In
the country hotter than Washington
yesterday. Local temperatures in the
Capital were in excess of those recorded
at Yuma and Phoenix, Ariz., two
notorious hot spots"
Today's heat was made more un-
comfortable by a rise in the humidity.
The humidity at 8 O'Clock yesterday
morning was A, but had reached 81
at the same hour today.
Daniel H Moran, So an attendant at
st. Elizabeth's Hospital, was overcome
by the heat yesterday. There we're no
proStrations reported today. At Dar-
gan, Md, however, Gus Allen, 25, jump
ed into the Potomac River and was
drowned last night 1t is believed he
became mentally unbalanced as a result
of the heat
The previous high temperature record
ia Washington was set in 1918, when
1865 degrees was recorded. At the
kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue the high
figure was ITO degrees. Yesterdays
maximum was reached at o'clock in
the afternoon.
Although it was expected that the
demands of the Maryland suburban dis
trict and the increased local use would
carry the total water consumption to-
day in the District above 100 .0G0, 900
gallons, no serious shortage was an
ticipated by officials at the District
Building.
The average daily consumption here
during the past fiscal year was $4,000
900 gallons. Yesterday 96,752,000 gall
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