Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1924, Page 26

FATAL BLAZE HELD { DUE TO INCENDIARY Firemen Find 0il Was Scattered | in Building Where Nine Lost Lives. THREE QUIZZED AND HELD Buins Searched for Traces < Other § Victims. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, April 19.—Firenien, who last night fought fiames in a four- story stone box factory on the West Stde, in which cight firemen and one civilian were killed and a score in- jured when the walls collapsed, testi- fied at the inquest today that oil was found sprinkled over various parts of the building. Two firemen told of finding oil strewn over the floor, and one said he | found a pile of oil-soaked waste in a corner. Battalion Chief Michael F. Korwin, first at the scene of the fire, declared a terrific explosion inside the burning structure had caused the walls to crumble. pitching the fire- men into the roaring flames. The in- | guest was continued after five wit- nesses, all firemen, had testified Three Men Held. Three men were held tonight after & day spent in questioning them They were: Sam Polinsky, Samuel Moors and Leo Unell. Moore and Unell, owners of a leather goods com- pany’ which occupied the building, and Polinsky is said to have held a $32,000 fire insurance policy on their business in connection with a mort- gage. Reports that a small hoy had told of seeing a man fleeing from the building as the fire started were also being investigated. X Tribute to Dead. Fire Commissioner John F. Culler- ton announced today he will ask the city council for a fund of $200,000, the interest to be used for the familiés of firemen who lost their lives. A public funeral for the firemen killed is also being planned The smoldering ruins of the build- ing were being raked over tonight in | a hunt for additional victims, it be- | ing reported that a ten-year-old boy | was entombed in the ruins. | SOCIETY OF NATIVES PLANS YEARLY FETE Dinner and Festival to Be Held May 6—Will Discuss City's Development. Historic descriptions of Washing- ton and the many po; ities for the future development of the Capital will feature the third anniversary dinner and festival of the Soclety of Natives, at 2400 16th street Tuesday night, May 6, according to an an- nouncement vesterday. Plans will be completed for the dinner at a meet- ing of the dinner committee at the Public Library tomorrow night. Representative Henry R. Rathbone of Tilinois and Representative Wii- liam P. Connery, jr., of Massachusetts will be among the guests of honor and will tell something of the history of this city. The dinner will mark the anniver- sary of the laying of the corner stone of the District, and of the establish- ment of the federal government at Washington. Je chairman of and Mis 15th street, has charge of the app cations and rese ations for tickets. The Scciety atives is one of the Toungest crmanisations of ita lind.tn ‘Washington, but already numbers 800 members. BOYS TO TILL SOIL AT BENNING GARDENS "l'lnrty Selected for Special Course This Summer—Work to Start Next Saturday. Thirty boys selected by the Juve- nile Protective Association will start courses in gardening next Saturday, under the auspices of the Civitan Club, and under the direct instruction of C. A. Garner, horticulturist of the Department of Agricultur The selected young men will occupy a special block of seats at a perform- ancé at the Ambassador Theater next Saturday morning, at which will be shown gardening scemes and pictures of outdoor life. Other voungsters have been invited to the performance. Following the show the thirty young- sters wili be taken in automobiles to the garden plots at Benning, D. C. where they will begin their seas tiling of the soil. Ev Saturday during the summer a committee of the Civitan Club will work with the youngsters in the garden. Prizes are 10 be awrded to the boys who show themselves to be the most effective workers Clarence L. Harding is'chairman of the committee of the Bovs' Garden Club, and is being assisted by Mrs. Henry G. Ferguson, s Louise F. King and members of the Civitan Club. row—Many Notables gates to Vis Facing one of the most extensive Pprograms it has eyer drawn up, the American Chemical Society will open Atoms, Insulin and Vitamins To Be Discussed by Chemists American Society Opens 67th Session Here Tomor- on Program—Dele- it White House. possibility of isolating these. Other discussions will be held in the fields of industrial and engineering chemis- try and organic and biological chem- %pld here in 1891, 1897, 1902 and 1911, its sixty-seventh meeting in Wash- [istry. D e DPPOW, its| A reception will be held at the Ne: ington tomorrow, and comtinue its|. b, JrotPagl Nim Tucsday evening. sessions through Friday. The meeting | Wednesday, Thursddy and Friday will will be the' fitth of the society in|be devoted to technical discusaions, Vas v with visits to government abora- Washington, meetings having been AL LA osson, prominent writer on chem- The *echnical program begins Tues- | will deliver nrl| ad s on “The 5t he | Expansion of Chemistry Gl “"‘"\‘ i gl ’"i ";‘\ The soclety and Its guests will go baliroom of the New Willard Hotel. |1, (he White House Thursday, and on when Dr. R. A. Millikan, winner of |Saturday will go to Edgewood the Nobel prize in physics for 1923, | \ri» al on a special train. Francls fol r alien property cus- professor of physics of the Calitornid | 1% (71 VAT, fOmEr SR BIODELS, Sho- Tnstitute of Tachnology, will discuss| bt & Sinper to be Eivon &t the Walc the atom as seen by ist. | dorf-Astoria in New York Saturday This discussion will be followed by a |eveuing. signalizing his services to SO | the cause of chemistry. y of | General meetings of the conven- atom as seen by [tion will be held in the ballroom of |the New Willard Hotei, with division- |al and sectional meetings at Central . in Wash- | HI hool ion of med following chairmen of meet- t four re announced: C. H. Balley, W. “The Present State of Our | T. Rovie, F. B. Dains, Graham Hdgar, in Regard to the Ch i J. Esselen, gr.. J. Hale, R. R by Dr. John J. A . R, Hensi; unpklm University S ear, W vorker: “Production and Use H Voiwiter, J¢ Arthur Wilson, B by Dr. G. H. A. Cowles, |W. Zerban. describe the most recent de- | The convention will be welcomed in this freld; “Organic |at the Willard by R. S. McBride. pres- and Some Therapeutic Ap- |ident of the Washington section of by Dr. . C. White, and |the soclety, who will then surrender “The Chemistry of Vitamins,” by Dr. |the chair 'to President Baekeland. Atherton Seidell, who will discuss the | The general addresses will follow. WORKHOUSE PLANS |POSTAL HEAD MIX-UP CHANGES PROPOSED | IS CAUSE OF TROUBLE Considers | New Gets Mail Daily That Writers Intended to Go to Post- master Mooney. Penal Commission | Scheme for Replacing Present ; Occoquan Structures. | Seventh and yé Streets. Service T}) at Counts Another way of putting it is—service is WHAT counts, and you'll ind us rendering it as faithfully and fully in the necessities of house-keeping as in the more decorative features of home-making. 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