Evening star., 1933-12-13
SNOW OR RAIN DUE
IN CAPITAL TODAY
Icy Streets in Prospect as
Early End of Cold Wave
Is Seen.

The prospect of snow or rain which
NAV freeze as it strikes the earth was
held out for Washington today as the
country began to draw breath OF re-
lief from the clustering weather which
has left a trail of SIS dead from coast
to coast.
Although the Naval Air Station aerial
observer airplane this morning founo
the higher air strata near the satura-
ton point, precipitation was not ex-
pected to bcgin until tonight or pos
siblv tomorrow morning. Temperatures
a milc high hovered around the treez-
ing point and were rising, indicating
the possibility that rain, falling mo
the colder stratum next to the ground
1nigtt be turned into a sheath OF Ice.
This vas occurring today at Lynch
burg, Va.
Tonight Not So Cold.
Tonight will not be quite so cold as
the past "a hours, with the mercury
expected not to go below % degrees.
Rv tomorrow afternoon or night. 1t was
said at the Weather Bureau, the colo
spell probably will be over ana ine
ternerature near the normal Tor tnls
time of vear-slightly under 40 degrees:
The official thermometer registered 20
nt II o'clock this morning rise OF
degrees from the 19 degrees low op-
served at am. A gradual rise Is pre-
diCted. , ,,o,,,or;a,
rejecting pool tonight appeared pos
sibility, with one and one-naIl lnCnes
of ice covering the surfaceth is morhnls'
Officials said skating would not pc per,
mitted, however. unless the ice reaeiieu
a thickness Of at least two mcneS.
A strip along the upper Atlantic sea-
hoard was the cold spot today on the
Nations weather map, according 10 AS
sociated Press dispatches. From tnls
section cold air was creeping along the
surface to washington, While the upper
stratum of warmth was coming from
the Southwest. which threw OH lts ICY
woke a day or two ago.
Fifteen-degree temperatures were re-
ported in Pennsylvania and New YORK
Pittsburgh had low OF IA at . al
end New York City's minimum was 10.
Snow at Great Lakes.
Snow was falling in the Great Lakes
region and the mercury tumbled 10 10
at Cleveland Chicago reported reao-
ing e "a, Cincinnati, %; Louisville, 81
and Evansville, 33. The remainder OF
the r,untry enjoyed comparatively hlio
weather. ,,,,s o,,d
foods have worked destruction across
the country for several days, causing
millions of dollars in property damage
nc well as the toll in lives.
The fatality nearest to Washington
was at Aberdeen, Md. 5O-year-olo
canning factory employe was 1ouno
frozen to death in an abandoned snack
on the outskirts of the town: He was
identified as Frank Kilker, thought 10
come from Baltimore. The temperature
at Aberdeen last night was ABOVE
Seventeen persons lost thelr AVes II,
Ohio, many OF them on ice-CoteteT .a.oi
highways. This was the largest Qua ou.ai
in the country. The next was fenn-
svlvania with 13 dead, while Michigan
and washington had 10 and 3, re-
spectively.
New Flood Menace.
Warm rains along the Pacific Coast.
following earlier mountain bilZzarQs,
brought the new menace OF noooS; IN
Northwestern Washington the Skagl
and SnohQmlSh Rivers s"eAeo "1014 'A1e
melting SHOWS and rains.
Subzero temperatures IN Canaoa
reached across the border States ana
extended as far as the uplands OF New
York State. where Owls Head reported
a temperature of "a degrees below, zero
yesterday, its fifth successive suozero
day.
unusually early thrust, freezing canals
in France, allowing pre-Christmas skat-
ing in London for the first time IN
years. and causing misery across the
continent as temperatures dropped De-
low zero in Hungary and france.
: The cold snap was CONSIDERED py Cne
weather Bureau today as just an eX-
cention in the general trend in the
United States for the last 20 years TO-
ward a warmer climate, and not mdl-
eating any general reversal.