Evening star., 1933-02-12
Snowfall Here Is Light CON-
pared With Other Cities
In East.
new YORK EXPERIENCES
BIGGEST STORM SINCE rs
Ice Coats Roads Around Capital,
but No Serious Traffic Accidents
Are Reported.

Winter will give washington part
ing dig tonight before departing east
ward over the seacoast Monday night
According to the forecast Of the U. s.
Weather Bureau, the temperature was
due for q drop to 10 degrees last night
or this morning. Friday nights low
was IS degrees.
Today, the forecaster said, would
be clear and cold. The temperature
is due for . rise tomorrow, but this
will bring In its wake snow or rain
toward evening. It will be cloudy al
day tomorrow. The wind today is due
to start from the northwest quarter
It will ease of from moderate to
gentle and shift to the northeast by
tomorrow night.
Although snow fell In the city yes
terday, washington escaped lightly
compared with the rest of the Eastern
seaboard. Associated Press dispatches
from New York told Of a snow in that
city which was the biggest since 1925
1t kept 10000 men, 1900 of them
recruited from the ranks Of the unem-
ployed. busy. clearing streets. The
snow reached q depth Of eight inches,
but the temperature was not low
enough to cause acute suffering.
l5h Inches In Springfield.
In Springfield. Mass, however, fif-
teen and a half inches fell yesterday,
Southern New Hampshire reported IL
inches and Rhode Island nine. Maine
had II. The Districts snowfall was
only four inches. In Pennsylvania the
snowfall varied from seven inches to
q foot.
The Middle West was still cold. and
more snow was in store for Chicago.
The Southern Illinois peach crop was
badly damaged by low temperatures.
Thirty-two deaths, directly or Indirectly
attributable to the cold wave and snow
storm, were reported from Chicago.
Still farther West, it was from zero
to IL below in parts of Minnesota and
South Dakota, but even so the weather
was said to be warming. At Superior.
Wis, 1t was 20 below Saturday and still
lower temperatures were predicted for
that District.
Girl Is Found Dead.
A 5-month-old girl was found dead
IN her bed In Milwaukee. It was be-
ieved she died either from exposure or
suffocation. The child was covered with
q blanket, but the family had been
without coal during week Of sub-zero
temperatures.
A man in Pittsburgh was frozen to
death during the night.
In western New Mexico an aged
death.
The weather was warming up gen.
orally, however, In the Far West, the
Rocky Mountains and the Southwest
Light snow from the Northwest broke
the sub-zero temperatures In Utah. It
was much warmer In Oklahoma, Texas,
Kansas and Missouri, but there were
still traces Of Winter.
Most Of the South was freed from
Winters grip, but In some States tenn
peratureS were expected to drop again
Ice meked on the streets Of Atlanta
and 1t rained In Richmond.
Carolinas Much Warmer.
The Carolinas were much warmer
and the sleet that fell during FRIDAY
night melted rapidly.
Baltimore reported an S-inch snow
fall with lower temperatures predicted
Kentucky got relief from its recent
sub-zero blasts. but colder weather was
expected to set In again soon.
In the South two fatalities were
caused by the storm yesterday. James
II: Hudgins Of Whitehaven, Tenn. was
killed as his automobile and a freight
train collided In the snow near Vincent
Ark, and Sam Simmons, a woodcutter
was frozen to death in q forest near
Manchester, Tenn.
=. Previously, two deaths attributed tc
the weather occurred in Louisiana, two
IN Alabama, one In North Carolina and
one In Georgia.
Nobody knows just how many were
hurt by falling on ice that coated q
great portion Of the South. Hundreds
IN Atlanta alone We're injured in va
rious degrees and hospitals were be-
sleged with emergency cases.
Snow fell heavily in portions of Ten
nessee and Virginia. leaving three
inches at Nashville and Knoxville and
Two inches at Memphis. Virginia and
the Carolinas also had a deluge of
Sleet, and Arkansas experienced snow.
The coldest point reported in the
south was Calico Rock, Ark. where
below zero was recorded.
Temperatures in Arkansas, Northern
Louisiana, Northern Mississippi the
north portion of Alabama, a great part
OF Tennessee, North Georgia and Vir-
glnla stayed around the freezing mark
or under all day. New Orleans with
q minimum temperature of AZ. and
Florida points were the warmest spots
in the South. 'H0'>'
Warm temperatures during the day
IN the District yesterday melted away
much Of Friday nights snowfall. The
subsequent drop last night coated some
OF the highways with a film of ice but
up to midnight no serious traffic cas-
ualties had been reported here.
The snow which fell in and near
washington was dry and offered little
interference with telephone or electric
light lines.