Evening star., 1940-01-20
Weather
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dled from other causes attributed to
the weather.
Louisiana State University STU
dents ice skated on the campus for
the first time in history. Minimum
temperatures of near zero were ex-
pected on the Gulf Coast as the
cold wave penetrated deeper into
the southland.
The bitter and protracted chill
halted much shipping on inland
waterways, menaced grain and fruit
crops, and added to the hardship
OF the poor and homeless.
Early today the mercury dropped
five degrees below freezing at jack
sonville, Fla, and touched 80 at
Tampa. Citrus growers and truck
farmers, fearing serious damage to
their crops, prepared to use smudge
pots.
In Chicago and other northern
cities homeless men crowded into
police stations and transient shell
ters for protection against the
cold. ~
1000 May Miss School.
Lack of adequate clothing threat
ened to keep 1000 to $500 pupils
from attending schools in Athens
County, Ohio, Attendance Officer
James G.. Russell reported.
To protect residential consumers
of gas, the East Ohio Gas Co. cur
tailed its output for industrial uses
The shutoff affected II Cleveland
industries and Is other concerns
in Northeastern Ohio. Thousands
of factory workers were laid off as
a consequence.
Seven thousand men and 1000
machines were put to work in New
York City yesterday clearing 2
inches of snow from streets and
bridges. With the mercury around
10 above New Yorkers regarded
with anxiety a strike of coal ham
dlers. Dealers asserted deliveries
had been reduced 95 per cent, but
the handlers union put it at IS per
cent.
Upstate New York opened most
of its highways after one Of the
worst snowstorms of the winter. At
midnight temperatures ranged to
below, with only temporary relief
in sight.
The mercury dipped to 3 at
Pittsburgh yesterday, the coolest
there in four years. Navigation on
the Ohio and Allegheny Rivers was
suspended because of ice. Ice
gorges, one 7 miles long on the
Allegheny, were reminders of poten-
tial flood conditions.
Floating ice in the Delaware
River threatened to block intake
pipes at the Torresdale filtration
plant, source of more than half of
the Philadelphia water supply.
Engineers were summoned to an
emergency conference to deal with
the worst ice jam in the Schuylkill
River in 40 years. Philadelphia
degrees early today was the lowest
reading in four years.
SuD-Zer0 Temperatures.
Sub-Zero temperatures were re-
ported overnight in Virginia and
Maryland. The caretaker at the
University of Virginia Biological
Station at Mountain Lake, located
in mountainous Giles County, said
the mercury dropped to IA below
1t was 5 oelow in Floyd County and
10 below at Lebanon.
Maryland's official low was re-
corded at Big Savage Mountain in
the Western section of the State,
where the temperature fell to 13
below. Other readings yesterday
ranged from II below at Frostburg
to ~ above at Salisbury.
New England Shivers.
New England's severest cold spell
of the winter went into its fifth
day today with temperatures well
below zero in many Northern COM
munities. Weather Bureau officials
said it would become increasingly
cloudy during the day with light
snow and cloudy and moderately
cold tomorrow.
The areas death toll during the
siege rose to nine.
The lowest reading reported was
20 degrees below zero at Greenville
Me. Other low temperatures: Mount
Washington, N. H., lie; Mortified
Va, -13; Montpelier, VT, 10;
Bangor, Me-, 3; Concord, N. H., -
It was 8 above in Boston.