Evening star., 1933-06-10
HUMIDITY DROPS
TO &c, BREAKING
HEAT PAIL HERE
Three Dead and Score Pros
trated During Record Friday
Temperature.
100 MARK MAKES D. C.
SECOND HOTTEST CITY
More Than 100 Deaths Toll III Heat
Belt Covering States This Side
of Mississippi.

A sharp drop in humidity, coupled
with slight cloudiness and a breeze
from the northeast, today brought
temporary respite from the record heat
of yesterday.
The bureaus regular daily forecast
predicted thundershowers tonight and
Sunday; not much change in tempera-
ture Gentle variable winds" The
weekly forecast for Middle Atlantic
States: Possibly scattered showers and
thundershowers at beginning of week
and again about Friday Temperatures
mostly normal or above"
A survey of the effect of yesterdays
heat showed three were dead and more
than score Frustrated.
The dead are:
Joseph Francis MAIDEN, At, Of 1913
Gales street northeast who died early
today.
William H. Bell, 6s, colored, of 14o0
D street southeast, who died late yes
terday
John Wallace, "a, colored, of the
2100 block Virginia avenue, who COL
1apsed about 4:30 pm. yesterday at
Fourteenth street and Constitution ave-
nue. and died three hours later at
Emergency Hospital.
Both Heart Sufferers.
Madden and Bell both suffered from
heart trouble, according to physicians
of Casualty Hospital. but their deaths
were attributed to the heat.
One other man, Merrell Golden, 80,
colored, of Surratsville, Md, was in an
> extremely critical condition today at
Casualty Hospital as the result Of
sun stroke, suffered while he was pitch
ing hay yesterday. He may not re-
cover IL waS said
Excessive humidity made the heat
yesterday almost unbearable. The OFF,
cial Weather Bureau Thermometer
rocketed to 100 degrees late yesterday,
making the Capital the hottest city in
the country, with the exception OF
Phoenix, Ariz., where the temperature
was I02. The humidity went over 81
per cent yesterday, but this morning
was recorded at only Sc per cent.
Yesterday was within two degrees of
being the hottest June IN the records
of the Weather Bureau. In 1874 the
thermometer hit 102 The officia; tenn
perature recording, however. was ex-
ceeded on the thermometers OF many
private citizens, which reflected the
eddying heat waves from sidewalks and
buildings.
Deaths Exceed 100.
Throughout the heat wave belt,
covering practically every State this
side of the Mississippi, more than 100
deaths were reported. At Clifton, Va,
an 80-year- man, John Nowlan, was
overconfs while walking along a road
near the Old Diamond House. He was
found dead by Bazel Amber. Nowlan
was a bachelor and is survived by a
niece, Mrs. w. F. Edmonds of Falls
Church.
All Washington public schools were
closed yesterday at 12:15 pm. and
numerous Government establishments
excused their employees. Thousands
focked to swimming pools and out on
the highways in search of cooling
breezes. Municipal swimming pools at
the Mckinley High School and the
Francis pools for colored, at Twenty
fifth and N streets, were opened for
the season today.
Park police were faced with an old
seasonal problem today-what to do
about youngsters who persist in jump
ing in park fountains. They reported
numerous complaints had been received
and pointed out the practice must be
curbed.