Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1921, Page 13

{ # 3KILLED, 79 HURT, | IN THEATER FIRE Crowd Panic-Stricken When New Haven Motion Pic- turé House Burns. INCENSE BELIEVED CAUSE Twenty-Two Yale Students Among “Injured—Heroic Rescues Made. Two Dead Unidentified. By the Assoclated Press. NEW HAVEN, Conn., November 28. ~—Three lives were lost and seventy- nine persons were more or 1 se- oriusly injured when fire broke out in the Rialto Motion Picture Theater here last night. It is possible that further search of the rulns of the playhouse will add one more name to the list of dead, as R. H. Perrigo of this city has not been seen since the fire was discovered and the panic- stricken crowd surged toward the doors of the theater. His son was among the injured. Fifty-eight persons who were elther burned or trampled by the crowd which stormed toward the exits when the flames swept into the theater from the stage were in hospitals today Twenty-one who were taken to hos- pitals when the fire was raging were given treatment and were sent to their homes. Twenty-two of the Injured were Yale students. All will recover, it is declared. Two Bodies Unidentified. Only one body. that of Timothy J. Hanlon, fifty-eight, had been identi- fied this morning. It was believed he was trampled to death, as examination of his injuries showed his neck was broken. Two other bodies taken from the theater were burned so badly that identification was impbossible. One was the body of an elderly woman and the other was that of a young man, apparently about twenty years of age. * Coroner Mix began an official in- quiry into the disaster today. Incense Likely Cause. “We are inclined to the bellef.” he said, “that the fire might have been kindled by incense burned during the photoplay being shown at the Rialto. This play, ‘The Sheik. was being ®iven an oriental setting, and incense was being burned on the stage. It may be that the flames caught some draperies and dropped on to the stage of the theater.” Lawrence W. Carroll, the theater, and James Carter, h: sistant. who were detained by the authorities after the fire, were later released upon their own recognizance to appear at the coroner’s hearing. The playhouse was crowded at 7:30 oclock, and preliminary features of the entertainment were being com- pleted when the fire was discovered. Sparks were seen dropping down in front of the silver screen upon whick the picture was to be projected. There was a shout of “fire,” and panic seized the crowd. manager of Rush for Main Entrance. Tn an instant there was a rush for the open air. but it appeared the most of the people tried to get out of the matn-entrance, instead of using the emergency_ exists at the sides of the theater. _Many cool-headed persons attempted to restrain the crowd, shouting there was no danger, but ! thelr work was futile, as was that | of the orchestra. which continued to play for some minutes after the first | alarm was given. Those who tried | to stem the human tide were swept | away in the erowg-which erushed its way towadrd the doors. Many who had seats in the balcony | of the theater leaped over the rails and fell on the heads of the strug-| gling people below. Several children poured toward in #he crowal the exists of the| theater and their parents were in many cases injured while trying to lift them above the press about them. The theater building was'a frame | structure. which burned like matéh wood. Yale students were active in the work of rescue, dashing into the burning structure and assisting the people to safety. No Student Missing. A check-up of students in Yale Uni- versity was under way during the morning to ascertain if any one was missing. The body of the young man, which is at an undertaker's, is be- lieved to be that of a city man. student had been reported as missing. Evidence brought out thus far i the inquiry tends to prove the asser- tion of spectators that flame from an incense pot ignited something close to the drop curtain, which was made of inflammable material. It is said that stage employes tried to extinguish the slight fire, but it got away from them. The burst of flames which went out into the house may have been caused by _a draft of air from back stage. Police Captain Cohane, who, with his close to panic. 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Most of the woman reserves are housewives, yern and physicians, re the sole weapons All wore of a dark irt, with a has been granted for the use of umbrellas in cane of rain INDICTS LAMP-THROWER FOR 1st-DEGREE MURDER Grand Jury Holds ‘Jesse Dozier Responsible in Death of Myrtle Wilson. Murder in the first degree s charged in an indictment returned today against Jesse Dozier, colored, in connection with the death of Myrtle Wilson. August 324, last, It is alleged that the man threw a lighted lamp at the woman as she lay in bed. She became enveloped in flames which caused injuries re- sulting in death. Wiliam A. Murray Is charged: with manslaughter in an indictment re- ported by the grand jury. He is sald to have caused the death of his wife, Estelle Murray, at their home. Mar- yay clalms that the woman fell and struck her head agalnst & plece of furniture. Conspiracy is alleged against Jacques M. Jarrell, Frederick S. Lip- phard, Gladys T. Bartlett, Robert L. Glass' and "Addison Carver. It fis claimed that they entered into an agreement to defraud the Western Unlon Telegraph Company through a bogus money order. _Arson is charged against James Kendrick, it being claimed that he set fire to a houseboat in the Potomac river. Others Indicted and the charges against them are: Edward Douglas and John LeClercq. assault-with dan- gerous weapon: Frank Kuhn, Willlam Forsyth and William Frey. joyriding; Margaret E. Reynolds, Jovis. Hule, n Parker. alias George Bell, and liam Thomas, grand larceny; Richard Howard ‘and David Webb, larceny after trust. WOMAN HAS ARMY PLAN. Fraulein Baer, at World Federation {LOSS OF $107.500 o m - INSALARM FIRE Thirty Companies Battle Blaze in Baum Furniture | - Plant on Pa. Ave. Thirty companies of firemen re- sponded to & five-alarm fire that started on the first fleor of 912 Pennsylvania avenue northwest, one of two buildings occupied by Charles H. Baum & Bon, furniture dealers, shortly before 6 o'clock yesterday morning.. The fire started near the elevator shaft. where furniture was cleaned. and probably was caused by spontaneous combustion. Fire Mar- shal Seib estimated the damage to several buildings and contents at $107,500. A motorist driving along Pennsyl- vania avenue diecovered the fire and sounded an alarm. The fire had gained considerable headway at that time, and when firemen arrived they sent’ in additional mlarms. Several mbers of the departnient werc affected by smoke. Guests of Ararat Hotel, 90¢ Pennsylvania avenue, were driven out or the building by the smoke many of them appearing on the street in their night clothing. They found places of safety nearby, and were able to return to thelr rooms later. Firemen Rescue Watchman. Willlam T. Nelson, employed as tchman in the bullding of the ashington Safe Deposit Company alarmed* by the smoke that poure« into the building, called down t Chief Watson that he wanted to gei out of the bullding. He was locke: in the structure. however, and i became necessary for firemén to tak him down a ladder from & &econ story window. About ten years ago iron gratings were removed from upper windows of the bullding at the suggestion of the| fire department, it is stated, officials of the department fearing just such lan emergency as occurred at yester- day's fire. Commissioner James F. Oyster, who has immediate supervision of the fire department, was an early arrival on the scene. Furaltare Damage, $50,000, Fire Marshal Selb sald this morn- ing that damage to the furniture and buildings occupled by Charles H. Baum & Son amounted to about $50,- 000, and it is probable that the rear wall of the structures will have to be taken down. Damage to the Ararat Hotel and contents was placed at §1,050 and the damage to the bullding and contents of the Washington Safe Deposit Com- pany amounted to $500. A. Guiftre, Meeting, Gives Figl;re& GENEVA. November- 10.—A new | standard of what standing armies the | various countries should maintain has | just been given to the International | Federation of Working Women at its | session here. Fraulein Baer, the German delegate, | took her own country as a measure of miitary needs. ‘She sald that. | based on populatiop, the equivalent of | German's 100,000 defensive army | would be for other countries an army | of 68,000 in France, 74,000 in England, | 59,000 in Italy and 193.000 in the | United States. | —_— | the crowded theater, thought the| stage light and smoke was a part of | the production until the spectators surged toward him in a condition close to panic. He said the conditions seemed to change in an instant, and | he was borne out by the rush, but went bagk to help in the rescue work. In another minute or two, he said, ! flame was everywher, 1 | 2,500 Pairs 2 and Pumps who conducts a shoe repairing estab- lishment at 908 Pennsylvania avenue, estimated his water damage at $500. Christian Heurich is owner of 906, while 908 and 910 belong to the M. Gatti estate and 912 to the Kingsley estate. —_— DECKER JURORS CALLED. Testimony in Murder Case May Start Tomorrow Morning. COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. November 28.—Work of completing &election of & jury formed today's program in the trial "here of Fred Decker, charged with murdering Leroy Lovett, ip an alleged insurance plot. Indications are that a jury will not be obtained before night and it Is not probable that the taking of evidence will start before Tuesday. Eleven tentative jurors had been chosen when court adjourned Satur- day, but neither side had exercised any” of its allotted c! $5.95 to $8.75 W'omen.s Oxfords NATL.P#OTO Photograph. showing all that remal Pennaylvania avenue, the bi busy for severnl hours yesterdny and caused a damage estimated at $107,500. | e in which kept nearly of the bulldings at 910 and 9 e entire fire department EFFECT OF BLOOD TRANSFUSION FROM DRUG ADDICT STIRS SCIENCE By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, November Whether the transfusion of blood from the veins of a drug addict carries with it to the patient a taste for drugs is a question that is causing several New York phy- siclans concern today. Members of the narcotic squad yesterday arrested James Milo, who sells his blood for trans- fusion, on charge of being a drug addict. Police say that he has ad- mitted that he has been taking drugs for three months, and that he has been used in five blood transtuslons during that time. Dr. Carleton Simon, head of the narcotic division 6f the police de- partment, has begun an inquiry to ascertain whether any evil results attended the biood transfusions in which Milo engaged since acquir- ing a taste for drugs. It was learned that one patient, into whose system a quantity of Milo’s blood had been injected re- cently, had died twenty-four hours after the operation, but the pa- tient, according to the physiclan in charge, was not expected to live operation when the was per- Sale Continues Tomorrow and Wednesday at All 4 Stores HE important things to remember are these: That they are regular “Hahn” Shoes; this season’s styles; formerly $5.95 to $8.75; and plenty of all sizes in the combined ‘lot. No wonder we’ve been so busy’today! g Included, in Part, Are . Patent Leather Turn-Sole Mocgasins Tan and Black “Brogue” Oxfords Tan and Black Sports Pumps “Short Lines” Turn-Sole. Pumps and ‘Tan and Black Boots EMEMBER that there are ALL SIZES—with plenty of Large Sizes for women usually disappointed in sales. \ five transfusion cases, and his name and addregs are on almost every hospital 1fst in the city. He has Teceived from $35 to $50 for each transfusion. WILL TRY OUT NEW CAR. |W. R. & E. to Test Combination Two-Man or One-Man Type. | The Washington Railway and Elec- Vtric Company within a few days will |try out a new combination car that may be used either with a motorman and conductor or as a one-man car. The new carrier will be similar in design to the one-man .cars now in use, except that it will have a rear door that can be used when a con- ductor is assigned to the car. The company has not decided what route the car will be used on. MEXICO'S ENVOY IN BERLIN. B the Associated Pre BERLIN, November fredo Caturegli, Mexican minister arrived here. bino Davalo: Stockholm. 28.—Dr. Al- mewly appointed to Germany, has His predecessor, Bal- . has been transferred to |Come in and ~ get full infor- mation introducec Savin The Bank that the Insured Plan toWashington WATER EXTENSION DEESON EXPECTED Question of Servica to Nearby Maryland Communities Soon to Come Up. - The question ef whether the Dis- rict should furnish water to nearby Maryland communitfes before the new sonduit from Great Falls is completed ¥1ll come before the Commissioners for decision within a few:days. Residents of Chevy Chase, Mr., have ipplied to.the Commissioners for an :xtension of the city mains across he District line to serve their homes, it was learned today: The_Commissioners have authority >t law to extend the water system into the Maryland towns adjacent o the District when in their opinion t can be done. Need of New Conduit Bar. District officials In the past have aken the ground that such extension should not be made until the water suply is increased, in view of the act that the District itself has been using close to the maximum capacity »f the existing condult during cer- *ain months of the year. It 1s estimated that it will take it least two years to build the new onduit recently authorized by Con- :ress. The question, therefore, for he Commissioners to declde on the resent application is whether it vould be advisable to furnish water o Chevy Chase, Md, pending com- letion of the new conduit, Price May Be High. An official of the engineer depart- ient_pointed out today that water )r Chevy Chase, Md., would have to iss through the third high service :ction of the District, which would can that it would have to be pumped considerable pressure. Vhile the Commissioners have not ided whether they will grant the piication, it was Indicated at the| , istrict bullding_that if service is urnished to the Maryland community |it probably would be at a price that {would meet the cost of pumping it. Col. Keller, Engineer Commissioner, said he was waiting for reports from Assistant Engineer Commissioner Wood and J. S. Garland, superintendent of | the water department, before taking! up the request with the Commission- ers for action. —_— POSSES AFTER BOMBMEN, WHO DESTROYED BRIDGE $3,000 Structure Partly Wrecked in Arkansas by Dynamiters Shortly Before Midnight. MARKED TREE, Ark., Novepber 28.—Two men were belng detained here today and others are being sought by city and county offigials, who have joined forces in an in- vestigation of the dynamiting last night of the county bridge over St. Francis river here, a steel frame structure erected fifteen years ago at a cost of approximately $30,000. About forty feet of the bridge was wrecked by the explosion., which let go with such force as to shake build- ings within a radius of half a mile. Scores of window glasses were broken]} here. T explosion occurred shortly be- fore midnight, fifteen minutes after a youth told the police that he had! overheard tvwo men declaring their | intention to dynamite the structure. | Police hurried to the scene. but were | too late to prevent the explosion. _ Recent census figures show that in Warsaw there are 85,000 more wom- en than men. you wish to save. years. Account balance. you had made only béth; - no extras. PN DONALDSON, 2. GOLDEN DO CAPITAL $1,000,000.00 RESOURCES OVER $15,009,000.00 Scientist Finds New Planet Between Orbits Of Jupiter and Mars “By the Associgted Pre BUENOS AIRES, November 26—~The discovery of a mew planet in the group of asterolds which - revelve between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars ced by Dr. Hartmam direetor of the observatory of the University of La Plata. The planet is of the four- teenth magnitude and ix ween at present from thisx Iatitade in m_Cetus, which “great nquare” evening nky. FIVE CHINAMEN ARRESTED, OPIUM WORTH $500 TAKEN Men Are Accused of Violating Anti-Narcotic Law by Main- taining Smoking Outfits. Five Chinamen were arrested charged with violation of the Harrison anti- narcotic law_and five smoking layouts and about $500 worth of opium seized in a raid vesterday afternoon on premises at 325 and 846 Pennsylvania avenue. The raid was conducted by Detectives Sanders and Evans of the police narcotic squad. assisted by Revenue Agents Rakusin and Evans and a squad of sixth precinct police- men led by Sergt. Bobo and Detective Guy Rone. At 325, where a raid was conducted some months ago, Detective Sanders and Revenue Agent Rakusin gave what they termed the “high sign,” muttered in “something that sounded like the Chinese language, and when the door was opened they entered. Had it become necessary to batter down the door. the officers stated, the use of a heavy battering ram would have been necessary, the door being labout six inches thick and reinforced with iron, each hinge. At 346, where Detective Evans and his son, a revenue offiCer, connducted the raid, it was necessary to break down two ordinary doors in order to gain access to the room in which, it is charged, there was opium &moking. The five Chinamen placed under ar- rest, the layouts #nd opium were taken eight heavy bolts being in to the sixth precinct police station, where_the_prisoners registerd as Jin Lee, Pennsyl avenu, y-cight yeai New York avenue; Lee Dogg. vears, 346 Pennsylvania avenue: Goon. fifty-five vears. 346 Pennsylvania avenue, and Lee You, thirty-sever vears, 325 Pennsylvania avenue, Jim -Tee, the police stated, was ir Criminal Court_about two months agc for an alleged violation of the Harr son law and sentenced to two year: imprisonment and fined $500. He paid the fine and was paroled in the matte: of the imprisonment. Held for Grand Jury. The Chinamen were arraigned be- fore United States Commissioner Isaac R. Hitt at noon today. Counse waived a preliminary hearing and the defendznts were held for the action of the grand jury. In consideration of Jim Lee's former experience, his bond was fixed at $3,000, while that of Lee Dogg. who, it was stated, had been arrested on a prior occasion. was fixed at $1,500. Bond for the others was fixed at $1,000. They fur- nished bond and were released. NEW MAIL-EARLY DRIVE. Mr. Hays to Ask Christmas Aid From Young Folks. Childrén of the United States will b asked to mail their Christmas gifts nex: week by Postmaster General Hays. to help relieve the rush of parcels that comes_directly before Christmas. A “Christmas message” from Mr Hays is to be read in every schoolroo: in the country mext Monday, accordin; to the plan to enlist the children in the preliminary “mail early” campaign The Commrci National’s INSURED SAVINGS PLAN ~—IS VERY SIMPLE, VERY PRACTICAL f You make small monthly deposits for 120 months. The deposit required at t‘hc average age is $8.20 for eagh $1,000 € If you live, you receive $1,000 in cash at the end of 10 1 If you do not live to carry out your plan, our arrange- ment with the Continental Assurance Company provides that the full $1,000 will at once be paid to any loved one you pame, in addition to the full amount of your Savings Immediately upon your acceptance, under the company’s rules, insurance for the entire $1,000 is in force even though one month’s deposit. _ {1 .Deposits are completed for you if you become totally and permanently disabled. Combined—a Savings Account and a life policy—with one small monthly deposit to care for Commercial National Bank OFFICERS: of the Board _President GUILLOTINE URGED FOR “BLUEBEARD” Godefroy Says Nothing Else Will Satisfy Prosecution in Murder Case. SUMS UP THE EVIDENCE Calls Prisoner One of Cleverest Murderers of All Time—Trial in Final Stages, By the Associated Press: VERSAILLES, November 25.—The Landru murder trial entered its fourth and final week today with the summing up of Prosecutor Godefro He went over the evidence presentci in the case of each of the cleven per- sons—ten women and a boy—whom the “Bluebeard of Gambais” is ac- cused of murdering and of crematin the bodies in the kitchen stove of h villa. The prosecutor passed light over the fifteen additional charges forgery and swindling against t prisoner. Tomorrow Attorney Moro-Giaffer counsel for Landru. will make 1 plea in behalf of the accused. T case is expected to go to the ju Tuesday evening or Wednesday. Asks Death on Gulllotine. A sentence of death on the guilly tine, and nothing else, will satisfy 1+« prosecution, Prosecutor Godefroy in- formed_the court in opening his ad- dress. He asked thc jury not to ta into consideration the factor of tenuated responsibility” of the cused, founded upon various mental examinations of Léndru by experts. The manner in which Prosecuto Godefroy presented the case was un- usual, 3 & declaration of the penalty demanded almost invariably is witli- heid in French courts untli the close of the prosecutor’s address insurance M. Godefroy described Landru as one of the most astute and clever murderers of all time. His intelli- gence was &bove the average and his memory marvelous, declared the pros- ecutor, who laid especial stress upon the testimony of the experts for the state and the positiveness of their identification of the bones found among the debris about Landru’s villa at Gambais as those of human beings He acknowledged. however, the in- ability of the prosecution to prove the manner Landru had adopted for the slaying of his alleged victims dru Appears Unmoved. Recalling the incredulity with which the accounts of the case were at first received by the public, which “refused to believe that human nature could fall to such depths of deprav- ty,” the prosecutor ridiculed the theory advanced in some quarters that the case had been “propped up by the authorities in April, 1919, to. distract attention “from the painful deliberations over the peace treaty, which failed to bring to France the promised fruits of victory. Landru listened unmoved, so far as outward appearances went, to the prosecutor’s scathing arraignment. He never even glanced in the direction of M. Godefroy, acting as if the matter under discussion did not concern him at all. From time to time he occupied nimself with abstractedly jotting down a few notes on a pad. SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET. A postponed meeting of the board of education will be held at the Franklin School Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock. General routine “matte; which include the appointment, trans- fer and promotion of teachers, will be ted upon. Yours if you live—your loved ones if you die