Evening star., 1945-01-01
Clear, Cold Weather
Due Tonight in Wake
OF Days Warm Rain
Fog Grounds PIones.
Slows Auto Traffic;
Several Hurt in Accidents

New Year Day brought Washing
ton warm rain, which had melted
most of the snow and ice during the
night, but the Weather Bureau
promised clearing and much colder
weather tonight.
Several persons were injured in
traffic and shedding accidents over
the week end. Despite the warm
weather many rural roads still we're
ice coated this morning.
The heavy fog which accompanied
a drizzle and moderating tempera-
lures New Years eve kept highway
traffic at snails pace and ground
ed all planes at the National Air
port. The planes were beginning to
move out on their runs this morn
ing, however, as the ceiling lifted.
though some incoming planes were
| delayed by heavy weather along
| their routes.
Temperature Rises to 55.
The mercury stayed above freezing
all night. The lowest was 33 degrees
at 2 m. BY 8 am. the temperature
had risen to SIS. A low of 81 was pre-
dicted for tonight.
-Four persons were injured when
two taxicabs collided last night at
Delaware avenue and D street NE.
Dorothy Norman and Patricia l..
Bennett, both of 120 G street NE,
passengers in one of the cabs, were
taken to Casualty Hospital. Miss
Norman was released, while Miss
Bennett was admitted for observa-
ton. Two persons in the other cab,
Charles Lee, colored, of 1914 Rose
dale street N E., and John A. Ashton,
colored, Of 219 I street S.W., were
treated for cuts and bruises.
Mrs. Frank L. Ball, 4527 North
Seventeenth street, Arlington, was
in Arlington Hospital today with a
broken vertebra inflicted when she
fell from slippery back steps of her
home yesterday. Her husband, a
former Virginia State Senator, broke
his arm when he slipped on an icy
sidewalk Christmas eve.
A fractured left leg was suffered
by Geraldine Alexander, Is, of 3811
Suitland road Sc, when a sled in
which she and companion were
coasting ran into a parked car. The
other girl, Lucia Hitaffer, Is, Of
1915 Fort Davis drive Sc, suffered
a shoulder injury. They were taken
to Casualty Hospital.
! Other Shedding Injuries.
Two colored children, Evelyn Lee,
Is, of 1913 Whittingham place NE,
and Paul Hanbury, l6, of 1923 Min
nesota street NE, were hurt Sc
verely when their sled collided with
an automobile at Forty-fourth and
Gault streets NE. They were
treated at Casualty.
i Edwin G.. Wallis of 4445 Thirty
fourth street, South darlington, Ar
lington, Va. was taken to Gallinger
Hospital with injuries suffered when
he was thrown from his automobile
in collision at Potomac street and
pennsylvania avenue Sc. His wife
Mae, who was driving, escaped in
jury They told police the other
scar did not stop for the accident.
r Five Hurt in Alexandria.
; Five persons were injured slightly
, early today when their car skiddeo
on an icy street and went into
, ditch at Monroe avenue and River
road, Alexandria, police reported.
Police listed the driver of the
auto, who was uninjured, as 1t
Max Geise, 90, of Fort Belvoir. The
injured, none of whom required
hospital attention. were listed al
1t. Robert Washburn. %, and 1t
John j. Stubber, 81, both of Fort
Belvoir, and Miss Dorothy Lewing.
| ton, 81, Washington: Miss Viviar
Unger, "a. of the 5000 block oi
{ Dent place NV, and Miss Eleanor
Artley, "a, of the 1900 block oi
North Longfellow street, Arlington