Evening star., 1934-01-30
WARMER WEATHER
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Frigid Wave Wanes After
Reaching Lowest Point
in Four Years.
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Alexandria firemen yesterday. Damage
estimated at 81, 500 was caused to the
roofs of four houses at 2l5, PIT, 2l9 and
221 North Pitt street after one of the
house tops caught fire from sparks of
chimney. After helping at both fires,
Fireman Leonard Devers had to be
carried to the Alexandria Hospital for
treatment of frozen feet.
c. C. C. Fights Blaze.
Two frame residences at Indian Head
were destroyed by fire which yes
terday afternoon threatened to sweep
the town, but which was finally placed
under control by 200 colored members
of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp
nearby and the fire departments Of
Accokeek. La Plata and Indian Head.
Members of the Accokeek department
were called out short time later on
second fire and succeeded in saving
the home of Edward GLADDEN. at Acco-
keek, from destruction after the house
was ignited by an overheated chimney.
Firemen battled the flames for four
hours and succeeded In confning them
to the two rooms in which they started
The fire at Indian Head was at
tributed by firemen to q defective f1ue
at the home of Henry Speak, barber,
and it spread Immediately to the ad-
joining home of Leonard Martin, pro-
prietor of a cleaning and pressing es-
tablishment.
Hampered by sub-free1ng weather
and high winds. the firemen battled to
subdue the flames, but made little head
way and the fire threatened to spread
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c. c. c. camp joined in the fight and
tore down the next house in line to pre-
vent further spread and the fire was
finally placed under control
The house razed by the c. c. c. men,
berS was occupied by j. E. Johnson, a
baker, his wife and five children Neigh
bors furnished the homeless residents
with shelter 1t was reported that
damage caused by the fire totaled 5000,
covered by insurance.
Business Section Threatened.
The fire at Denton last night de-
stroyed a two-story frame building
housing the Rue Publishing Co. Fam
ned by high gales, the flames for a time
threatened the business section, the
Associated Press reported.
Dispatched down Chesapeake Bay last
night in answer to distress signals from
barge off Point Nopoint, st. Mary's
County, Md, the Coast Guard cutter
Apache found the vessel at 10:30 am.
today. no longer requiring assistance.
The skipper of the barge Columbia
with his wife and child and a single
helper aboard, was en- route to Balti-
more and was handicapped by the icy
wind. The barge was located off Drum
Point, in the Chesapeake, just north of
the mouth of the Potomac River
A wireless report from the Apache
early today said the Coast Guard cut
ter Pontchartrain, out of Norfolk. Va,
also was en- route to the aid Of the
barge.
Fires famed by its icy gales claimed
a number Of lives over the country.
Two men burned to death when fire
destroyed a veterans clubhouse at Troy.
N. Y. A 3-year-old girl died in the
flames Of her parents cottage at Ham
monton, N. j. Deaths from exposure
and traffic accidents were recorded.
C. w. A. Work Stops.
At Chicago the intense cold prompted
the suspension Of all c. w. A. work on
forest preserve projects, keeping 10000
men away from their jobs.
Mild relief came to Minnesota, where
in some sections temperature decline
Of II degrees in SO hours had been re-
ported over the week end. At st. Paul,
where low of 19 below was reached,
the temperature had climbed back to
near zero by late yesterday afternoon.
Through Wisconsin and tho Upper
Michigan district the cold was slowly
abating. The coldest yesterday In that
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