Evening star., 1941-07-28
Roads Jammed
AsThousands
Flee Humidity
Many U. S. Offices
Dismiss Employees;
Warmth to Continue

W0rmfh TO CONTINUE
The heat record tor l94l was
broken this afternoon when the
thermometer scared TO 100 degrees
at 2:30 pm. to give a swelterin2
Washington its highest temperature
of the year and the hottest July 28
in Weather Bureau history.
The temperature, recorded at the
Weather Bureau station at the new
National Airport. came as thousands
of Government employees were dis
missed for the day and heat pros
trations mounted.
BY 5 pm. the thermometer had
dropped to 96.
Previous high for the year was
chalked up on July 2, when reading
of 98 was recorded. Officials said only
twice before in bureau history had
the temperature neared 100 on
July %. Last year and previously
in 1929 the reading vas 81 degrees
records disclosed.
1OI in Baltimore.
Baltimore reported reading of
l0l early this afternoon.
Employees of the War, Navy Agri-
culture, Treasury and Commerce
Departments and of the General
Accounting Office and of all Dis
trict buildings were sent home at
hours ranging from 1890 to 2
O'Clock. BY 3 O'Clock swimming
pools. theaters and parks were
crowded, and roads leading out of
the city were jammed with traffic
OF 19 persons treated in Wash
ington hospitals since yester-
day morning for heat proStration
the most recent cases, all stricken
after pm today, were Robert Hub
bard, 20, of 1101 North Garfield
street. Arlington, Va; Perlie But
ler colored, As, of Shows court, and
Clurne Lloyd, colored, 80, who COL
lapSed while working at a filling
station in the 4400 block of Con-
necticut avenue NV: Madeline
Prue. %, colored, of 2819 Eltans
road Sc and John Atkins, 43, of
1912 Half street SW.. both treated
at Providence, and Leroy Wells, 81,
colored. of 81 Quincy street NV,
treated at Freedmen's Hospital.
These we're all admitted to Emer-
gency Hospital. A fourth. Miss
Julia Lewis, colored, 81 was treated
at her home, 1445 Robinson place
Sc, by Casualty ambulance doc
tors.
Weather Bureau Service.
SWamped by telephone calls, the
Weather Bureau instituted hourly
weather reports for residents who
dial West 1912. This new service
will continue through the hot spell,
according to Comdr. F. w. Reichel-
derfer, Weather Bureau head. The
reports are customarily changed
only four times a day.
Slight relief for the whole coun-
try was predicted Tuesday. followed
by warmer weather without the
humidity which has already pro-
duced 80 heat deaths and more than
80 deaths by drowning.
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the State Department remained
open, as did the air-cooled Offices
of the Justice, Labor and interior
Departments.
Adding in Washington to the dis
comfort of high temperatures suf-
fered all over the country is the in
tense humidity. At 7;30 o'clock this
morning temperature and humidity
ranged side by side at 80 degrees
after reaching a high of 96 yester-
day.
10 Persons Treated.
Casualty Hospital ambulance doc
tors treated four persons for heat
prostration yesterday and Emer-
gency Hospital crews treated six.
The only heat injury reported was
vertebra injury suffered by Will G.
Wright, Is, of 3008 North Second
street, Arlington. who dived into
shallow water in the Potomac River
near Gunston Manor. He is being
treated at Alexandria Hospital
Traffic was jammed in all direc-
tlons yesterday, police reported, as
residents sought relief at beaches
and parks. Thousands slept in parks
/ and along the Tidal Basin last night.
Unofficial high temperature in
the Nation yesterday was l04.8 de-
greeS in Cincinnati Other record
ings were Cleveland, 102: Indian
apolis. 100: Toledo, 100: Charleston,
w. Va, 100; Louisville, 100, and
Chicago. 81.
SO Degrees in Pittsburgh.
In Pittsburgh, 93-degrees heat
forced 3-year-old Joan Kilkeary in
to the family refrigerator. The
door slammed and her parents had
a frantic search before she was
discovered uninjured.
Showers broke the heat in Iowa
| and other plains States, but no last
ing relief was in sight. A mass of
cold air slowly moving out of Can.
ada might relieve the Dakotas, but
no farther.
In Virginia, Richmond reported a
| 98-degree record Saturday and SO
yesterday.
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