Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-08-12
81 Is Due Today,
But Heat Break
Twill Follow
Thundershowers Likely
This Afternoon, With
More Tomorrow

A definite break in the torrid
weather of the past week is due
in about "a hours, according to
the Weather Bureau, but, in the
meantime, the District area is
suffering through another scorcher
with the temperature today ex-
pected to reach yesterdays rec
ord-setting 81, new high for
the year here.
The Weather Bureau saw the
possibility of thundershowers late
today and predicted the possible
ity of additional showers to-
morrow.
The temperature began inching
toward yesterdays high at II am.
and at l pm. stood at "a degrees,
the same as at l pm. yesterday.
The humidity was 48 per cent,
also the same as yesterday.
The record temperature for this
date is SO degrees, set in 1925, the
Weather Bureau said.
8 Frustrated by Heat.
Relief appears to be on the way
slowly but steadily. the forecaster
said. The heat sent eight persons
to hospitals yesterday and caused
the dismissal for the afternoon Of
virtually all Federal and District
employees not housed in air-cooled
buildings.
In addition to the chance Of
scattered showers in and around
the city late this afternoon and
tonight, low tonight of about
"a degrees is expected. Last nights
low was rs.
Tomorrow should be a little
cooler. the bureau said. Clearing
skies and pleasant weather were
forecast for tomorrow night, con-
tinuing through Sunday.
Cool Air Moving This Way.
The forecaster believes this
change will be brought about by
the first definite movement Of
cool air from the Great Lakes and
Canada in many weeks. The move
ment, he said, is pushing slowly
but steadily southwark attended
on its fringes by scattered showers.
Thos Frustrated yesterday
Cleo Carson. SO, colored. s33
Acker street NE. District laborer
working in 800 block of New York
avenue NV, admitted, and Miss
Ora Lee Ford. 23, colored, $40 vir-
ginia avenue S.W.. treated and
released. Both were taken to
Providence Hospital.
| AT Casualty Hospital: Carroll
Hartman, So; colored. $500 K
street NV. taken from a vacant
lot near Sterling avenue and Har-
wood road Sc, admitted.
street Cleaner overcome.
At George Washington Hospital:
Gunter Hasker, So, colored. 1917
Fifth street NV, a street cleaner.
found stricken near the hospital.
treated and released.
At Garfield Hospital: Otto
Franklin. 913 c street NE, treated
and released.
At Emergency Hospital: Andrew
Blount, 81, colored, of GIT Second
street NE, a worker on con-
struction job at the National In
stitutes of Health, Bethesda, adj
mitted; John Gibbons, "a, Of 1909
Seventeenth street NV, a switch
board operator in the garage at
the Interior Department, treated
and released; Ethel Brice, IS. 2818
Seventeenth street NV, laund-
ress, treated and released.
An unidentified woman was
treated for heat exhaustion on the
seventh floor of the Hill Building.
Seventeenth ana l SCreeLS NV.
Thousands Crowd Parks.
The temperature reached 81
degrees at $50 and again at 4:56
Yesterday afternoon. The previous
high for the season was 96.2 re-
corded in July.
The cool air mass brought
some relief yesterday to heat
groggy New Workers and New
Englanders, who had been expe-
riencing temperatures in the 90s
for days. Thundershowers in New
York late yesterday gave at least
temporary respite after three sue
cessive days of ecord-breaking
fav. This Gao cnr