Evening star., 1932-03-09
NEW STORM SEEN
FOR CAPITAL AREA
Temperature Expected to Go
to ID Degrees Tonight
After Touching 19.

Washington today stood at the
northeastern apex Of a storm which
promises to add hundreds of thousands
of dollars to property damage already
done since Monday night, according
to Weather Bureau reports.
Concentrating its fury along the
Southern coastal region. the storm was
bringing heavy snowfall to Norfolk and
Cape Henry and North Carolina and
Northern Georgia. Rain in mid
Georgia and Northern Florida promised
to change to snow tonight, with freez-
ing weather due as far South as
Tampa.
Little or no snowfall was in sight
locally, but the temperature, which last
night reached 19 degrees, was due to
touch ID degrees tonight. Continued
cold is promised for tonight and Thurs
day, and no break in the january
weather is in prospect before Saturday
Many Phones Still Out.
Linemen laboring to repair the wreck
age of telephone poles and lines in the
Alexandria district, where 4,200 tele-
phones were out of commission as a re-
suit of the storm, fought losing battle
Monday and Tuesday as a high wind
threw down poles faster than the work
men could set them up. A force of $50
men working in the Washington area
yesterday was augmented by so more
drawn from Norfolk, Va. this morning
With more favorable weather they were
making progress in repairing lines.
Struggling to make only temporary
repairs, telephone crews hoped to set
up lines to Warrenton, Va by tonight
and promised to reach Winchester and
the Shenandoah Valley by tomorrow
1t will be weeks, officials Of the Chesa-
peake g. Potomac Telephone Co. said
before regular circuits can be restored
Heavy damage to truck garden crops
and cotton was predicted for Florida
and Southern Alabama.
Warning to Motorists.
Motorists were advised by the Amer
ican Automobile Association to avoid
Pennsylvania and New York and to
proceed with caution in Maryland and
Virginia, where uprooted trees, fallen
telephone poles and other debris on the
highways still makes motor travel haz-
ardous. The road from Washington to
Richmond Is open. though dangerous.
The Shenandoah Valley is still closed,
with telephone lines to Winchester still
down, and the roads west OF winchester
still in bad condition.
All roads out OF Washington beyond
fifty miles north or west OF the Capital
are still blocked, the A. A. A. reported
1t was not possible to travel west Of
Warrenton, Va, and motorists going
West were advised to avoid mountain
highways. 1t was possible with eau
tion to reach Harrisburg, Pa. and
westbound travellers were routed via the
Roosevelt Highway from that point on
crder to avoid mountain passes.
After being snowbound nearly 48
hours near Loganville. Pa, by drifts is
feet high Mortimer c. Johnstone, a
, pressman for The Star. reached his
home at Berwyn Heights, Nd, last
night.
johnson and his family were
stranded with so other motorists at
| Gore Va Several Washingtonians
were in the group which ate and slept
in a dining hall, 10 by 20 feet, from
Sunday night until 8 pm. yesterday
when snow plows finally succeeded IN
opening the road
Plans for two funeral services were
| disrupted at Charles Town, w. Va, the
hearse drivers managing to reach un-
dertakers' establishments with their
burdens while the funeral professions
were forced to disband.
A number of small yachts were re-
, ported sunk at their anchorage or
smashed along the beach near Leon
ardtown. Md.