Evening star., 1934-07-16
Two Drown Yesterday as
Relief Is Sought From
81 Temperature.
MORE THAN SCORE HURT
IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Only One Prostration Is Reported
Here in Spite Of Intense
Sunday Heat.

by the Weather Bureau today, after
q week END that brought death TO
two boy swimmers and injuries to
more than a score Of other persons
rs thousands of residents of the Dis
trict, Maryland and Virginia sought
refuge from the heat at beaches and
In the country.
Although some let-up In the tprrid
wave was predicted for tonight and
tomorrow. Weather Bureau forecast
ers had little TO offer for today in the
way Of relief The best they could
promise was that the mercury prob
ably would not soar quite so high as
St did yesterday when a maximum
temperature OF 81 degrees was re-
corded.
I'VE don't expect it to hit 81 again
today" said the forecasters, but it
will be pretty we'll up in the COS,
The forecast for tonight and tomor-
row is fair and slightly cooler"
Only One PrOstratiOn.
Despite yesterdays high tempera-
lures. there was only one heat pros
tration, nearly all other persons re-
quiring hospital treatment being the
victims of traffic accidents. One man
was stabbed, however, during an ar
gument that followed an automobile
crash in which nobody was hurt An
traF 40 IN 20
discovery of a burglary.
The swimming victims were Charles
Heroth. 16, and Rocco Princippio. 8,
both of Baltimore, who drowned yes
terday near Annapolis.
Charles drowned in the Severn
River, at Maryland Harbor, and. al
though the crews of two Naval Acad-
emy boats dragged the stream for
several hours, his body was not re-
covered.
Rocco drowned in Marley Greek,
while attending an outing Of the Mar
ley Neck Democratic Club with his
parents His body was recovered in
about Is minutes, but members Of the
Glen Burnie Fire Department, who
worked over it for more than an hour,
were unsuccessful in their reSuscita-
tlon efforts.
Attorney is Injured.
The most seriously injured Of all
the traffic victims was G. E. Rowland,
a Federal Trade Commission attor-
ney, who was reported near death In
a Richmond Hospital. Rowland, who
lives in the Alban Towers, was hurt
in crash between his car and a
truck on the Washington Richmond
Highway about 80 miles north of the
Virginia capital yesterday
Harold Slick, 81. an employe of the
Manor Park Country Club, in Mont
gomery County, was overcome by the
heat yesterday while working on the
golf course He was treated at the
Montgomery County General Hospital
In Wilmington, Del, Harry Howes,
26. a Government employe living in
the 2600 block of Thirty second street
southeast, and his S-year-old daugh-
ter Jacqueline whose address was
given as Hyattsville, Md, we're in
jured in a double collision in which
four other persons also were hurt.
Crashes Into Ambulance.
Howes' machine, according to the
Associated Press, crashed into an
ambulance as it was pulling away
from the scene OF another mishap.
The Howes. dispatches stated, were
on an overnight trip to the Delaware
city.
Lawton Smoak, 3S, of the 1900
block Of Seventeenth street was
stabbed during a dispute that followed
a collision between his automobile
and one said to have been driven by
George Charuhas, 26, OF the 1000
block of O street at Pennsylvania
avenue and Twentieth street yeSter-
day Smoak, stabbed twice in the
chest. was treated at Emergency Hos
pital, where his condition was termed
serious. Charuhas was arrested and
booked for investigation
Weldon Pemberton. ~. of Alexan-
dria. suffered a broken neck yester-
day when a branch Of a tree he was
climbing snapped, plunging him into
the shallow water of the Northwest
Branch. near HyattSville, Physicians
at Georgetown Hospital where he was
taken by the Bladensburg fire rescue
squad. listed his condition as serious
Discovery of a wrecked machine at
New Hampshire avenue and Twentl-
eth street early today started an in
vestigation in which Policemen H. G
Cochran and r. H. Taylor, third pre-
cinct, learned of a robbery in which
SS7 was stolen from the home OF Lena
Dunkum in the 1000 block OF r
street. The automobile. the officers
aScertained. had been stolen from
its parking place in front Of the house
presumably by the burglars
Others Injured.
The other persons injured in acci-
dents we're.
Sylvan King. 40. of the $500 block
OF Military road, Leon Sylvester, .
OF the I40O block OF Pennsylvania ave
nue. southeast; James Demarco, 1, o.
the 800 block of Virginia avenue
southeast; Hammond Ridgley, IS. ol
the 800 block OF NJ street: John NJ
Long. 81. OF the 400 block OF l street
Mrs. Susie Long, same address; Mrs
Nellie Long, IS, Wheaton Md; Fred
erick Lewis. "a. cOloVed, 1900 block o.
Corcoran street. William Malloy, IS
colored. first block of / street south
west Aaron McRae, SO, colored, l20l
block OF Half street southwest; JOSEPH
Francis, y, Colored, 100 block OF n
street southwest: Sadie Gross, 20, col
ored. 1900 block of Howlson piacl
southwest, and Laura Robinson. &c
colored. same address. The Gross ant
Robinson women, after receiving hos
pital treatment, were arrested On In
toxication charges.
Yesterday was st. Swithin's Ga
and. accoding to the l.0o0-year-o
legend. lack of rain should bring 4
days of dry weather. The old tradi
ton was Scoffed at by Weather Bu
ieau officials, however.