Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1926, Page 12

12 CATOCTNFOREST BLAZEIS SIBDUED Probe of Alleged Incendiary Origin of Fire Begun by Maryland Officials. Service is a Matter of Policy —not of Price! SUITE for $30.00 oraroom for $3.50. You'll find the same perfect, friendly McAlpin Service with either. Every member of the McAlpin Staff is ready and anxious to serve you—to help to make your visit comfortable care-free and pieasant and you don't pay one whit extra. McAlpin Service is some- thing you don’t pay for while you're enjoying the comfort andconvenience of New York's most popular hotel. 1By a Staft Correspondent FREDERICK, Md., May 11.—The damaging forest fire that laid waste 6,000 es of valuable timberland argund Catoctin Mountain during the Iast three days, and which for a time | atened an entire township and a of homes with destruction, had been brought under control by rang of the Maryland State forestr: and several hundred volunte 1700 comfortable, cheerful rooms from $3.50 to $12.00 per day. fire fighters this morning. 1 d up to early worked with Suites from §10.00 to $30.00 per day. g on all sides ation to hem it in. hed their goal when the wind that | determined to drive the flames | , ight down the mountain ridge to | HOTEL MCALPIN |5t i e aied . sadaonts T 1 made it possible to approach ne: cArthur L. Lee, Managing Director oneh it then f'}i e e 34th Street and Broadway Blaze Eighth of Season. NEW YORK CITY This was the eighth devastating blaze to whip through the valuable timberlands of the Blue Ridge tains hereabouts this Spri the entire countryside is « = 5 over what seems to be definite p that all of deliberately To he conflagrations we bei burn the <h from the Spring is to berry crop in the F Ofticials of the partment have b vestigation and there is talk of send ing strong forces into the mountains to seek out those who are respon- sible and bring them to quick trial. Police officials have expressed fear that if feeling continues to grow at its present rate, trouble may result between the mountaineers and the people of the va G There is a veritable feud under| way now between the mountaineers and the forest rangers. 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Besides finding rich revenu the timber of the mountains forests there constitute sheds for this entire valley, d that of the past is a real water shor pply Freder the richest gric the United Stat with the n expensive i tural counties in would be faced of developing an on system. s and volunteers de there can be no t fire, which was st damaging in the h section, was men dec ForInfants, Invalids, The Aged Nourishing—Digestible— No Cooking. The Home Food-Drink for All Ages |cne of the n . , Seneeee fory To il | “Hrebus.” saw it s points. doubt but t As ¢ to one place tlam anoth to the brush around the signal tower in which Ranger Louis Gardner Gardner returned home having made his way out flames died down. The little v the above the that he might be ath by the smoke. Once before, it is said, the berry pickers ignited the wooden steps lead- ing part of the way up the steel tower, Gardner returned in time to summon help and ex h the fire before any serious dar ulted. a steel ladde wooden stej show in Yellowstone Park This Year Why? It’s Different— 57 Ask B. M. Decker, General Age: 809-10Finance Bldg., Philadel; Since the SKYSCRAPERS BANNED. Buildings on TUnter den Linden Limited to 80 Feet Height. BERLIN, May 11 (#).—“No sl rapers for Unter den Linden” is the ogun proposed by the Berlin build- | ing_commission. The city council instituted a prize “Address iz Round Trip Summer Faro from Washington Booksortripslam interestedin (v) Yellowstor rk B et by con for the best plan to recon. 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Follows Charge of Drunken- By the Associated Press. i, May 11.—Charges J.E ATLA last week ident of the Atlanta Women's Civic Council, that there ness on the floor of the City Council culminated yesterday in th of three campaign “to purge idon. nnouncement followed a con- ference attended by two members of THE EVE ATLANTA WOMEN PLAN CLEAN-UP DRIVE IN CITY Campaign “to Purge Officialdom” ness in Council. leades of NG _STAR, Declaring holders. Andrews, pres- ad been drunken- CINCINNATI, announce- | Tinker has gone women's the city government, Mrs. Andrews and representatives of women's civic reform and voting councils, that they had been aroused by “an appalling expose of unhealthy conditions in the personnel of Atlanta's officlaldom,” the women sald they would launch a drive to secure the election of city officials who are representatives of the home spirit and proof against the petty temptations and corruption of office Joe Tinker Now Wed. May 11 and got marrled. Since the Tinker-Evers-Chance days he has acquired a lot of realty at Orlando, ¥la., and that is where he met Mrs. Mary Ross 13ddington, whose last name is now the same as his. WASHINGTO. BOY FOUND CRUSHED AT ELEVATOR LANDING Inquest in Death of 18-Year-Old Messenger Will Be Held Tomorrow. Jones of 1T discovered the afternoon, and the rescue the Fire Department had to to effect a release. When There were accident, o far as_police able to rtain. the boy An inquest into the death of David Wolfson, 18-year-old messenger boy employed by the Western Union Co., of 727 Sixth street southwest, who was fatally injured when caught be- tween the flooring of the fourth story of the Jenifer Building, Seventh and D streets, and the of a freight . will_be held tomorrow at rict Morgue, Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt announced today. Mr. and Mrs. E. e ed the third floor. P).—Joe - —— preparing for presental ¢ of Worcs he ties of fr the two cities. ter, England, Ellsworth Moore D of 700 I street northeast and Alonzo New Jersey boy wedged between elevator and landing late yesterday avenue squad of be called taken to Emergency Hospital, the boy was pro- nounced dead by Dr. Trudeau. no witnesses to the ave been 1t is believed that rted the elevator and was ien, unable to stop it prop- attepted to jump off as it The Stamp Collectors’ Club of Wor- collection n to the Philatelic So- o cement endship between VETS’ BEER GROUP FORMS. League Elects Officers and Denies Part in Draping Liberty Statue. NEW YORK, May 11 (P).—Tem- porary organization of the World War Veterans’ Light Wines and Beer League was effected yesterday and officers elected. A national conven- tion is planned for next October. 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