Evening star., 1940-01-03
Mercury Drops
To Is, With Z
Due Tonight
Respite Forecast
Tomorrow After
Years Low Record
Hourly Temperatures.

gripped the city for the last few
days will drive the mercury furthe,
downward today. the Weather Bu-
reau reported as a 1910 low of is
degrees was registered at and 3
am. and a low of IL degrees was
anticipated tonight.
A respite was promised tomorrow
when clouding skies are predicted
with gentle westerly winds ex-
pected to make it mot quite so
cold"
The sharp cold was felt in nearby
Maryland and Virginia where ice
breakers were called out on the
upper reaches of the Chesapeake
and business was severely curtailed
In the Old Dominion.
Missions Ask Clothing.
The cold drove the city's vagrants
into any shelter they could find and
has increased their pleas to mission
officials for more clothing. At ths
Gospel Mission Supt Harvey Prem
tice said the lodging space was
filled to capacity with some 500
persons. He urged citizens to con-
tribute old coats, shoes and under
wear. One man, who was unable
to get in, broke two mission win
dows, Supt. Prentice said.
At the Central Union Mission w.
K. Mckinney, business manager
said 40 to go more persons were be-
ing fed per day since the cold snap
and so to rs were allowed to get
out of the cold in the mission
chapel at night.
Able Only to humble Name.
An elderly man was in a serious
condition from exposure and frost
bite today, and at least six other
persons were recovering from mi
nor injuries sustained in falls on
the ice, most of them at the Lin
coin Memorial Rejecting Pool.
The man, about 10 years old, re-
gained consciousness at Freedmen S
Hospital this morning long enough
to say he was Michael Edwards.
He then tainted, and attaches could
learn nothing further of his iden-
tity.
The man was found in a semi
conscious condition last night lean
ing against the steps of the Car
dozo School at Eighth street and
Rhode Island avenue NV. Police
took him to the hospital.
He was described as we'll dressed,
5 feet inches tall and weighing
100 pounds. He has gray hair and
mustache and was wearing a gray
pin stripe suit, gray overcoat,
black oxfords and a blue hat.
Skaters Hurt in Falls.
Hurt in tumbles on the ice while
skating on the Rejecting Pool yes
terday and last night we're:
Clyde Hall, 81, of 3l4 Eighteenth
street NE, treated at Providence
Hospital for cuts and bruises: John
Trushein, II, of 1708 Pennsylvania
avenue Sc. treated by private
physician for cuts on the forehead; /;
Charles Helwig, 10, of 806 Twenty
first street NV, treated at Emer-
gency Hospital for a broken nose;
John Eween, 81, of 401 Upshur street
NV, treated at Emergency Hospital
for cuts on the head, and Warren
Whyte, 13, of 5401 Kansas avenue
NV. who suffered cut lip.
William Cory, %, colored, of All
I street NV, suffered conclusion
of the brain and cuts over the left
eye In fall on the ice at Ninth
and I streets NE last night. He
was treated at Casualty Hospital
Street Projects Delayed.
Frozen ground has handicapped
construction of two street ap-
proaches in the northeast section,
the District Highway Department
reported, but said these were the
only street projects incomplete. No
particular effects have been reported
In the other District construction
projects.
The Gather Bureau said the tenn
peratures have been sub-freezing
since HIS am. Saturday.
Meanwhile, park officials reassured
those concerned about the feeding
of the squirrels and birds saying
the usual rations of some rs to 100
pounds of cracked corn were being
distributed daily. The feeding was
being done in outlying sections of
the parks, 1t was said, to keep the
animals out of the way of traffic.
School officials paid tribute to
the custodians of the buildings as
no delays from cold buildings we're
necessary. School Board rules pro-
vide principals can excuse classes If
the room temperature is less than
"a degrees by 10 am.
At South Richmond, Va, $50
canaries, owned by Charles Hutzler,
died due to smoke in the attic while
Mr.. Hutzler was thawing pipes with
blazing newspapers.
Tobacco Sales Light.
Many growers stayed away from
the Virginia tobacco auctions open
ing after the Christmas holidays
and sales were reported light. At the
same time, the sub-freezing tenn
perature forced halt on masonry
work and new construction in the
State notably at the new State Lii
brary and the Medical Colleges new
general hospital at Richmond.
State Highway Commissioner
Henry Shirley said the freeze would
not damage the roads. The surfaces
are hurt, he said, by succession
of freezes and thaws when the water
level in the soil is high. The ground
has been comparatively dry this
fall and winter, he said.
As drifting ice made navigation
on parts of Chesapeake Bay dan
gerous for small, wood-hulled craft,
Baltimore called out its two ancient
ice breakers to clear the shipping
lanes.
At the same time Army engineers
splintered the pack" between
Chesapeake CITY and Turkey Point,