Evening star., 1940-07-23
Weather
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t paign. For many years he was a
! sheet metal worker at the Washing
ton Navy Yard and later was a
guard at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. He was retired from
the latter position in 1888.
The victim was pronounced dead
by DR.. James Lotus, who was sum-
moned by Mrs. Cunningham.
| A native Washingtonian, Mr.. Bar
ry was member of the Richard
j. Harding Camp of the Spanish
War Veterans. Mrs. Cunningham is
his only immediate survivor.
25 Treated at Emergency.
At Emergency Hospital more than
25 persons were treated for heat
prostration. Among other hospitals
Casualty reported II heat patients
Freedmen's 3 and Georgetown l
Dozens of other heat victims were
treated by ambulance physicians
and in emergency rooms at hos
pitals, with no record being made
of the cases.
Five youths, all about IA years OF
age, were arrested last night in Po-
tomac Park for disturbing persons
who attempted to sleep on the park
grass to escape the heat in homes
and apartments. The youths. who
according to police, we're chased
from Franklin Park earlier for dis
turbing would-be sleepers, were tc
be taken to Juvenile Court today.
Despite the prolonged heat wave
fewer persons sought relief in the
parks last night than the night be-
fore, officials said.
Five heat victims who have beer
in Casualty for the duration of thu
wave were reported improved. Al
were admitted Saturday.
liz at Phoenix.
While Washington was swelterins
yesterday Phoenix. Ariz., reported {
high of 112 degrees and Yuma, 110
1t was los at Rapid City, N. Oak
and 103 at Minneapolis.
The 96-degree reading in the Dis
trict, however, paralleled or exceed
ed that in Detroit, Birmingham
Ala; Philadelphia and New York
For the third Monday in row tn
mercury jumped to SO in Baltimore
The Associated Press reported a
least 180 deaths throughout tn
country attributed, directly or in
directly, to the torrid weather
Thirty-one persons in IL State
were listed as heat fatalities, Will
81 States reported 149 drowning
victims among the millions wh'
sought relief at beaches and swim
ming pools.
Crop damage was reported in sew
eral sections of the country. Higl
winds and hail did extensive damag
in Massachusetts,, Maine, Ney
Hampshire and Connecticut. TIL
hail was particularly destructive t
the 100000 tobacco crop in tn
Connecticut River Valley section
Agricultural experts in Nebrask
said the heat wave was creating
serious crop situation in that State
And while most of the Natio
longed for breath of cool air, resi-
dents of Leadville, Colo, pulled u
blankets during the night. TIL
temperature there dropped to A
only 8 degrees above freezing.
; At the State Department yester
day customarily dapper diplomat
and foreign Office spokesmen dis
carded their coats and went abou
their business with sleeves role
up and collars open. Acting Sec
retary of State Sumner Welle
however, wore a dark summer SUI
all day, coat and all.
, Among those treated for MOI
serious results of exhaustion WEI
, Franklin Shreve, SO, of 2817
street Sc; Philip Smith, AZ, CO
! ored, 1924 New Hampshire avenu
NV; Harry L. King, 80, of Takom
, Park, Md; Dowell A. Robinson, 3
of 928 Fifth street NV; Alexand.
Harris, SO, colored, 927 Fifth sire,
Sc; Mildred Jones, "a, colo9ed. g.