Evening star., 1936-07-12
TO-DAY is DUE
TOBE NEAR 100
Local Death Toll
Five, With Many
Frustrated.
Temperatures

Despite the approach of cooler
weather from the West. no definite
break in the Capitals intense heat
wave is in sight before the middle of
the week. the Weather Bureau said
last night in predicting the mercury
would rise near the 100-mark here
again today unless overcast skies tenn
per the suns rays.
Generally fair weather and high
Temperatures will continue to prevail
in the North and Middle Atlantic
States until Wednesday or Thursday.
when showers and lower temperatures
are indicated, Forecaster Charles L.
Mitchell said
Today and tomorrow will be little
different from yesterday. when the
temperature failed by slightly more
than l degree to reach 100 for the
third consecutive day but local thun-
dershoWers tomorrow afternoon may
afford temporary respite. the forecaster
pointed out.
9S.7 Yesterdays High.
Gentle variable winds, With no real
cooling effect. will prevail, Mitchell
predicted, but they will not compare
with those that caused the temperature
to drop 20 degrees late yesterday as
the city seemed due for a thunder
shower.
After reaching the highest point for
the day-98.7 degrees-at 3 pm, the
mercury started downward as the
winds shifted from west to south
southwest.
Clouds gathered and rain was ex-
pected momentarily but the storm
failed to arrive. The thundershowers
apparently veered around washington
and brought a severe hail and rain
storm to the Shenandoah Valley in
Virginia At Gainesville, miles west
of Fairfax. motorists last night re-
ported water was feet deep at some
points on the highway.
This disturbance however, cooled
the air and drove the temperature to
go at pm. and finally to 78 three
hours later.
Fifth Heat Victim.
The fifth heat death here and the
sixth recorded in the Washington area
since Thursday occurred late yester-
day. The victim was Mrs. Nellie Fos-
ter, SIS, of 733 Seventh street southeast.
She died in Casualty Hospital several
hours after being taken there for
emergency treatment after collapsing
at home.
Of the other four who Succumbed in
the Capital, one middle-aged wom-
an, still remained unidentified at the
Morgue, where her body was taken
Friday night after she was stricken
while walking in the 3100 block of
Twenty-fourth street.
Indirectly attributed to the torrid
spell was the death of Crifton Jones,
IA, colored, 464 M street southwest,
who was drowned yesterday while
swimming in Washington Channel at
Water and o streets southwest. He
was the second youth to lose his life
in the Potomac in two days the other
being Jack Shockey. %, of Clarendon,
who was drowned Friday. His body
was recovered last night by Harbor
precinct police near Three Sisters
Island.
Many Prostrations.
No accurate estimate of the number
of prostrations here has been posi-
BILE, many persons having been treated
at home and by private physicians.
Six more persons known to have
been overcome yesterday were Hugh
Andree, %, of 211 Seventeenth street;
wavely Young, %, colored, SOB M
street southeast; Arthur Floyd, %,
colored, 100 Fourth street; Owen
Jones, So, of ass c street; William
McKim, 81, of 854 Nineteenth street.
and Mrs. Elsie Cheverlange, 81, Of
627 Maryland avenue southwest.
As the Government departments
and private Offices closed in the after
noon, thousands left the city to seek
cooler places over the week end.
Automobile clubs reported they were
practically swamped with calls from
motorists planning to make short
trips to beaches and other resorts,
while Union Station officials said
trains carried near-capacity loads out
Of town until late last night.