Evening star., 1932-03-07

tion to the rural section was crippled by
fallen wires.
There were many collisions due to
slippery roads.
State police blamed the icy surface
of the Baltimore Boulevard for a COL
lision at Contee in which three persons
were injured Louis Bright of Balti-
more, Murray Cohen of Long Island, N.
Y, and Edward Cohen Of Brooklyn. N.
Y, suffered bruises and SprainS when a
car driven by Bright collided with one
operated by Edward Jacklowitz Of
Brooklyn, N. Y. The injured were
State Trooper John A. Klass investigat-
ed the case.
Scores of persons from Washington
and Baltimore were reported stranded
in the mountains of Western Maryland
when fallen trees and telegraph poles
made the highways north and west of
Frederick impossible. Electric light
and power lines were crippled telegraph
and telephone service disrupted in many
sections and bus communication Sus-
pended.
The Eastern Shore OF Maryland was
hard hit
The blizzard put a stop to all air
transport operations yesterday Defy
irg the gales and icy fields, however,
w L. Jameson, night airmail pilot.
took the regular second northbound
! Eastern Air Transport mail plane
through Washington last night. Taking
off from Richmond with the mail from
Florida, he landed safely at Washing
ton Hoover Airport at o'clock this
morning and left a few minutes later,
being reported later from his destina-
ton. Newark Airport, the New York
terminal.
Passenger planes began moving this
morning on the coastal run through
| Washington.
Boiling Field was in darkness and
without heat during the night when
power lines were blown down. The
field heating plant depends on cleo
trically driven blowers which stopped
when the power lines broke. Flying
operations yesterday and today were
Cancelled.
Among storm damages listed by the
police were % windows broken and the
roof blown off a house at 1920 Ingo-
mar street. There were 129 emergency
calls received, chiefly due to fires. minor
collisions and other mishaps due in part
to the storm.
Unemployed" at Work.
Employees of the park division of the
Office OF public buildings and public
parks were routed out Of their beds
about midnight last night to clear away
the traffic hazards in the parks caused
by many fallen trees. They were en-
gagged in removing snow from the
walks In the parks and cutting up and
removing timber that blocked the road
| ways.
Frank T. Gartside, chief of the park
division, and David Saunders, head of
| the horticultural section, made a tour
OF inspection by automobile yesterday
afternoon during the height of the
! storm to estimate the situation and get
ready for the cleanup work. Mr.
| Gartside's name is on the Weather
! Bureau list of those to be notified when
/ unusual weather conditions are Drew-
! ing Saturday night he was summoned
/ out OF bed by the Weather Bureau
news that the temperature would fall
/ 10 20 degrees aid q blizzard was ac-
companying the drop. Early today
about 400 of the regular workers OF the
I park division were at work in the parks
/ and these were supplemented by some
las unemployed" supplied by the Dis
trict Employment Committee as part
of the customary weekly quota Al
! though 275 were asked for this weeks
work. some of the unemployed" failed
to show up today and others in outly
ing park sections we're sent home again,
as the snow was too deep in these un-
improved areas for them to make much
headway.
The % people VINO weis tssassd IA