Evening Star Newspaper, March 8, 1927, Page 18

WELLESLEY GIRLS AREHERDIGINFIRE Save Valuable Contents of Laboratory Building De- stroyed by Flames. aboratory where lowed 1) 4 erday saved 1t we aluable botani- re flames destroyed 7 the fire raced through the rick building and burst re voof within half an hour girla continued until the col- let them con- ger. A few wooden tower nts. who had ors as a dormi few weeks to the new | dormitory kept the < confined to the labo- flames shot high in building was endan- Hall was being re- classroom facil- cause of the fire was not The college authorities gave no estimate of the damage. Among the things saved by the stu- servative estimate, since they repre- sented the life works of several for- mer instructors and would be Impos- aible to replace. Among these collections were 1,700 water color paintings of North Amer- fcan plants by Helen Francls Ayers, Brendel's glass models of cryptogams, a herbarium of 60,000 sheets, including the lichen collection of the late Prof. ¢lara E. Cummings, and many mu- seum specimens. SMALL FIRES REPORTED IN VARIOUS LOCALITIES Damage to Property in City in No Case Was - in Excess of $1,000. Several small fires last night and early this morning, two of them in the downtown section, were quickly extinguished, the damage in no in- stance being estimated at more than $1.000. A small fire was discovered in the hasement of the Happiness Candy Stores, 1107 F street, early this morn- ing. but firemen extinguished it without water damage. Three hours later an overheated pan of grease in a lunchroom con- ducted by Frank McCormick, 212 Ninth street, resulted in a fire which was prevented from spreading to a { poolroom on the second floor. Smoke pouring from the top floor of the administration building at the Home for the Aged. Blue Plains, about 10:30 o'clock last night, signal- ized a small blaze of undetermined origin. The floor was unoccupied and the fire extinguished with slight damage. goisde $200,000 Sugar Burned. HAVANA, March 8 (#).—Twenty thousand sacks of sugar were burned at Casilda, a small port in Santa Clara Province, in a fire at the Mey e, which burned all day yester- collections valued The loss was estimated at T ware- | BOND IS REQUIRED OF JONES BROTHERS Commutation of Prison Sentence| . Awaits Adjustment Under Charge of Income Tax Evasion. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, Ga., March §.—Neuflerd T. Jones of Baltimore, whose two-vear sentence to the Federal Penitentlary here on charges of prohibition law violation has been commuited by Presi dent Coolidge, along with that of his brother, Winfield Jones, must post a $5,000 bond on charges of evading in come tax payments before he is re- leased, the United States marshal's office announced last night. Failure to post the bond will mean his detention in the Fuiton County jail, those holding the warrant charg. ing’ the tax evasion said. The brothers convicted at Bal- timore in Ja misuse of by the Mary d Drug Co. 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