Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-27
Fourteenth Street Line Is
Blocked for Nearly an Hour
by damned Link.
AUT0M0TIVE TRAFFIC
ARTERIES ARE OPEN
Rising Temperature, With Rain
Tonight and Tomorrow, Forecast
by Weather Bureau.

Despite the fall of a half inch of snow
within period of three hours this
morning traffic arteries in the National
Capital were kept open except for q
tie-up of nearly an hour on the Four
tenth street line of the Capital Trac-
ton Co. this morning, caused, it is be-
lieved, by the link of an automobile skid
chain jamming in the underground troll
ley slot of the northbound track al
Fourteenth street and Spring road.
Using temperature is expected to turn
the snow into rain this afternoon and
the rainfall is expected to continue
internationally tonight and into tomor-
row, with clearer and colder weather
Wednesday, according to the Weather
Bureau forecast.
Rail Sweepers Busy.
Both street railway companies turned
out sweepers when the snowfall began at
1920 this morning. The Washington
Railway & Electric Co. buses were
equipped with skid chains and all hills
on which the buses operated were
sanded.
The recalcitrant skid chain link in
the Fourteenth street car slot resulted
in complete tie-up of street railway
traffic in the section from Fourteenth
and U streets to Fourteenth street and
Colorado avenue from 7:21 to 8:15 am
The link resulted in pulled pillow" on
northbound car, Short-circuiting the
system.
After the pillow was removed down.
town traffic was slow because. of the
great number of passengers who had
gathered on loading platforms at every
stop. Cars which were halted in upper
Fourteenth street by the short circuit
did not arrive in the downtown section
of the city until o'clock.
Broken skid chain links are one of the
greatest single causes of street railway
te-upS in weather like that of TODAY,
street railway oficials said. When tie
car tracks are swept clear motorists
drive on the tracks and broken bits of
the skid chains fall in the center slots,
either wedging in the slot and pulling
the plows off the cars or causing short
circuits.
Weather General Over United States.
There is snow or rainfall over the
greater part of the United States to-
day, 1t was announced by the Weather
Bureau. The National Capital is on the
edge of the freezing line, with snowfall
to the north and rainfall to the south.
The warm belt is moving slowly north
ward, the Weather Bureau forecast
shows, and the temperature will be
above freezing here today and tomor-
row. Tonight the temperature probably
VIII fall nearly to the freezing point.
Bad flying weather prevailed over the
East Coast and there was no flying to-
day at the local fields. Air mail planes
on the Eastern Air Transport contract
mail route through the National CAPITAL
however, were on schedule last night
The southbound mail plane went
through, but the northbound plane
after leaving the National Capital, rar
into dangerous weather and stopped al
Baltimore, the mail being trained to
New York from that point.
Two pursuit training planes MR.
chased by the Cuban government left
Boiling Field yesterday, landing at Pope
Field, Fort Bragg, N. c., at 3:45 pm
yesterday. They are the last of a grour
OF eight military planes for the Cubar
army to be taken through the National
Capital by Cuban military pilots.