Evening star., 1939-01-23
Weather
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wintry blasts. Two Baltimore chill
dren were injured by falling tree.
Western Maryland experienced COM
munications difficulties The East
ern Shore reported no heavy dam
age.
Scores of trees were uprooted in
the District, Maryland and Virginia
yesterday and last night.
Icy pavements continue to en-
danger pedestrians and motorists
in many parts of Washington.
James Kirkos, 43, of II H street
NV slipped on the ice while cross
ing H street near his home early
today. He was treated at Casualty
Hospital for severe back injury.
Northwest storm warnings were
issued by the Weather Bureau for
the Atlantic coast from Cape Hat
teras, N. c., to Eastport. Me. where
a storm was moving northward.
Winds Bar Airport's Use.
High surface winds at Washing
ton Airport forced all airlines to
use Boiling Field yesterday. East
ern Airlines Cancelled most Of its
Newark Washington trips, but
otherwise service was we'll main
tained by Eastern, Pennsylvania
Central and American Airlines.
Mrs. Roosevelt came through from
Newark at 80 m Sunday on an
Eastern plane that landed at Boil
ing Field. 1t was the last flight of
the day from Newark
Harbor police were busy yesterday
towing in four cabin cruisers torn
from their moorings in the Ana
costa River. The boats were taken
to harbor police headquarters. and
their owners were being sought last
night
The winds caused some property
damage here. A tool house was
blown into an excavation at Thirty
first and v streets Sc. Sheets OF
corrugated metal were blown from
the Navy Yard over the fence and
into street light in the 1900 block
| Of Eleventh street Sc.
Damage to electric light wires
set of several burglar alarms here
Sunday. Several business houses
in the metropolitan area suffered
plate-glass window damage.
IL Killed in England.
Twelve persons were killed on the
Southwest Coast of England, where
the storm struck with particular
fury, at times reaching a velocity
of "a miles per hour.
Upstate New York counted five
dead, including a Syracuse man and
his woman companion, whose bodies
were found frozen on Oneida Lake.
near Bridgeport. N. Y, where they
had been fishing through the ice.
In New York City the tempera-
ture dropped to 10 degrees above
! zero at $40 am-the coldest this
winter-and during the night gales
with velocity of 48 miles per hour
were registered.
The cold wave swept into New
York State after travelling l.l00
miles in "a hours. Temperatures Of
80 below were recorded in the Adj
rondack Mountain hamlet OF Noun
tain View, % below at Owls Head.
10 below at Malone, ST above at
Buffalo, 7 above at Rochester and
10 below at WatertoWn and Saranac
Lake, where inches of snow fell
in 20 minutes yesterday.
Three Killed In New England.
Subzero temperatures prevailed in
much of New England following a
freak Line squall" which brought
rain, hail and snow. Three fatalities
were attributed to the storm.
The Zine squall'-common at sea
but rare on land-was followed by a
sharp drop in temperature which
glazed highways and sheathed ships
arriving in Boston Harbor with a
heavy armor of ice.
Low temperatures included IA be-
low at Greenville. Me-, II below at
Concord, NJ H.; 10 below at Max
field, VT, and 5 above at Boston,
the lowest reading there since jan
uary 10, 1898.
Wind-fanned flames destroyed
business buildings valued at 500, 900
in Brookneal, Va.
State police at Oneida, N. Y,