The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-27
City Grade Schools Close
at Noon; Mercury Gains
After Dip.
HIGH SCHOOLS CONVENE
Temperature to Remain at
Low Levels, Weather
Man Predicts.
TEMPERATURES

Faced with a possible low
temperature tonight and to-
morrow of between 5 and 10
degrees below zero Paul c.
Stetson, superintendent of the
Indianapolis Public Schools,
said that another half-holiday
would be granted pupils in ele-
mentary schools.
Schools will close at noon, he
said, if tomorrow mornings temper
allure rivals today's low of 10 de-
grees below from 4 a. m. to a. m.
Traffic in the city and state,
slowed by the Subzero weather, re-
ceived little encouragement from the
United States Weather Bureau
which forecast fair and continued
cold, tonight and tomorrow"
I'VE are making schedules from
day to day during the present Sc
we're cold SPELL" said Mr.. Stetson.
High Schools Are Open
City high schools are to hold reg
ular classes and registration for the
new semester today.
All school buildings in the city
have been heated continuously
throughout the frigid temperatures
with the result that claSsrooms were
warm and comfortable as pupils at
tended their morning sessions.
From l a. m. through 3 a. m. to-
day, the thermometer registered 9
degrees below zero and then slipped
to 10 degrees at 4 a. M, where it re-
manned through 7 a. m. 1t climbed
to 9 degrees below at 8 a. m. and
then broke 20 degrees below at
8 a. m.
A 14-mile wind that the Weather
Bureau said might increase grad
ually during the day and die down
in the late afternoon, added to the
suffering
Mercury May Climb Tomorrow
to take their downward slide late
this afternoon toward 10-degree
below for tomorrow morning.
The mercury was not expected TO
reach higher than degrees above
today.
A slight hope of rising tenn
perature was seen by the Weather
Bureau for tomorrow afternoon, but
no definite break in the cold wave
was forecast. A Canadian blizzard
tended, weather observers said, to
keep Hoosierland hugging firesides.
Illinois street cars were held up
Is minutes at T:25 a. m. when a
trolley wire snapped at Illinois an0
New York-Sts.
No indication of milk shortage,
due to the severe weather, has been
reported to DR.. Herman G.. Morgan,
health board secretary. DR.. Morgan
said Indianapolis was more for
tunate than other cities in that its
milk supply is within 30 miles of
the city.
The city woodward, under the
supervision of w. H. Marsh, report
ed it had cordwood on hand today
sufficient to care for 125 relief fam
lilies. During last weeks subzero
Temperatures the yard gave wood to
1877 families. Trees cut down at the
Municipal airport to provide a land
ing field are being used.
Five schools in Perry Township
and the high school, three in Gen.
ter Townshop, outside, and one
school in Wayne township, in adj
dition to Ben Davis F1igh School,
remained closed today.
j. Malcolm Dunn, county super
,ntendent, said a balky heating
plant that failed to provide suffi-
cient warmth caused the closing
Of Ben Davis High School.
Schools will be open tomorrow
in the county" he said.
Township trustees, he declared,
made special arrangements for
transporting pupils. Buses will cling
to the main travelled roads. All
county highways are clear of drifts.
From midnight Saturday TO early
today the mercury did a hop-skip-
and-jump with temperatures drop
ping from above to / below at 6
a. m. Sunday and then alternating
between 2 below and zero until 10
a. m.
During the Sabbath afternoon the
mercury reached ur-degree high
and then skidded to zero at S
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