The Washington times., 1932-12-19
SNOW CREATES
JOBSFOR IDLE .
HUNDREDS
End of Cold Wave Not Yet
In Sight; Streets Gradually
Beinq Cleared

0CIIlY SlC0t GU
Washington today continued to
dig itself out of the heaviest
snow in 10 years as sub-freeZing
temperatures still held the city
in an icy grip and made the
cleanup job more difficult.
One death and many injuries,
some serious, were the result Of
Saturdays snowStorm and the
preceding and subsequent biting
cold.
Relief Not Yet In Sight
Although the forecast is for
warmer weather for tomorrow,
the Weather Bureau holds out no
immediate prospect for relief from
freezing temperatures. It was is
at tbs a. m. today. 'IOmorrow's
lowest temperature will be 18 de-
grees, forecastels said.
For the first time since 1925
the Potomac River here was
partly frozen today. While the
channel was open, a two-incn
coating of ice stretched out over
the muddy waters from each
bank.
The bright spots in the pic
ture was that hundreds Of job
less men were given work yes
terday and the announcement
by District officials that as many
as want to labor can fird EN-
ployment again today.
Streets Being Cleared
From early yesterday until
nightfall crews of workmen in
ragged clothes welded shovelS
along the streets in the down.
town section and those handling
heavy cross-town traffic trying to
make them passable for work-day
traffic.
The task was a strenuous one
and only a dent was made in the
tightly packed blanket of white.
The snow was trueked to- sewer
openings and dumped in or else
Ioosened in cutters and washed
down drain basins by water from
fire plugs. Thousands Of tons Of
water were put. to such use dur
ing the day.
Missions Are Crowded
Suffering among the city's un-
employed and homeless people
was intense, all missions being
severely taxed. Their facilities
would have been put to greater
stress, mission officials said. but
for the fact that so many jobless
persons found work.
Thomas Blackwell, SO, of the
500 block of Sherrier Pl. N. W.,
was the death victim of the
storm. He was found unconscious
in front of his home early yes
terday clutching broom with
which he had been sweeping the
snow from his sidewalk. He was
pronounced dead at Georgetown
University Hospital.
List of Those Injured
Others treated at hospitals for
injuries resulting from the storm
were:
Mrs. Anna Thorn, S3, 400 block
of Fourth st. N. W.; Ed Daniels,
1900 block of Fourteenth st. N.
W.; Alec Powell, q, colored, Of
the 100 block Of Francis ST. N. E.;
Rosa Tohin. II. colored. of the
first block Of M st. N. W.; Joseph
Ferrell, 80. colored, of the 1000
block of Sixth st. N. W.; Mrs.
Mary Pearell, 100 block of Tenth
St. N. w. and Holton Small, OF
Riverdale, Nd.
Scores of others, treated at
home. were reported injured in
falls or suffering from frostbite.
The street car lines were resum-
ing regular schedules today, but
were handicapped by the fact that
many motorists were unaGle to
move their automobiles FROM their
outdoor parking places. Hundreds
of machines were frozen to the
streets or curbS, while hundreds Of
others were out CT commission be-
cause of frozen radiators or ex.
hauSted batteries.
Park Roads Opened
Several hundred public park
employees, aided by corps of ur-
employed. worked nearly all night
last night to free park roads of
snow. Today Frank T. Gartside,
chief of public parks, threw open
all parkways and roads blocked to
traffic since Saturday noon.
WOMEN PLAN CLUB
Plans to organize a college
woman's club in Annapolis and
Anne Arundel county will be dis
cuSsed early in January by q
group of interested women, Mrs,