Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1938-11-25
Traffic Tied Up:
Many Mishops
Reported

washington ana nearby Mary.
land and Virginia today were digging
out of the heaviest November snow
fall in the history of the Nations
Capital.
With inches of snow in "a hours,
the heaviest November fall since
Weather Bureau records we're
started, fair and continued cold
was the forecast for the next "a
hours
Tonight's lowest temperature is
expected to be 20 degrees, with in
creasing cloudineSs and warmer
weather due tomorrow. The mer-
curry, dropping from % at pm yes
terday to Is at pm, slid down to
"a few hours later, remaining at
that point all night. 1t had climbed
to % at II am
Thawing On the streets under a
bright sun today. the snow will
freeze again tonight, the Weather
Bureau said.
Records of the bureau, which
were opened in 1884, showed
that the previous record snowfall
for November was 48 inches in 1898.
Since then, 4-inch falls were re-
ported on November 13, 1904, and
November 4, 1910.
| Since 1929 there had not been as
much as an inch of snow on any
one day in November until yester-
day.
Traffic Paralyzed.
Starting with light rain and
| changing to sleet and snow, the first
blast of winter swept over this area
Thanksgiving afternoon to paralyze
traffic, disrupt public transportation
schedules and cause countless acct
| dents
Hazardous streets and highways
! forced drivers of all vehicles to pro-
coed slowly. Several persons suf-
fered broken limbs in falls upon icy
pavement. There were countless de-
lays in motor and truck traffic and
hundreds of vehicles were stalled
along streets and roadways.
/ Sleet and snow that interrupted
Thanksgiving Day festivities here
did not spare other parts of the
country. The condition was general
from Canada to the North Carolina
line and from the Eastern Seaboard
to the Mississippi.
Extra Forces Clear Streets.
Meanwhile, transportation facili-
ties were being restored to normal
today. with extra street and high
way forces clearing traffic lanes.
Cfroot corc onI h,,coc NrorofinO
here were struggling to regain nor
NAL schedules. Interstate bus trans
portation was hardest hit. Trains
were running with moderate delays,
and airplane transportation was to
be resumed today.
The American Automobile Asso-
ciation warned that roads are icy
/ over virtual 700-mile area around
Washington, extending northward
through New England, westward
through West Virginia and south
ward to the Virginia North Carolina
line.
District authorities and the Capt.
tai Transit Co. were caught I'M
awares by the weather's sudden turn
to winter, and their trucks and
street sweepers were busy moving
snow and cindering and sanding
grades and tracks far into the
night.
Taxicab companies were unable to
cope with the situation. Hundreds
of motorists from the nearby area,
had to spend the night in Washing
ton.
Thirty-nine Accident Calls.
District police tabulated 80 acci-
dent calls between l pm. yesterday
and 7 am. today. There were nu-
merous other calls to break traffic
jams. Slow driving in most cases
prevented serious injury or damage.
The District victims of the win
ter's first snow and ice included Carl
Blankenbaer. IA, of 803 North Capt.
tol street, who sprained an ankle
when he fell in front of theater
in the 500 block of Ninth street
NV, and William J. Thomas. SO,
of 652 E street NE, who suffered
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