Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1928, Page 1

WEATHER. (U, 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Generally fair and somewhat colder tonight; lowest temperature tonight about 38 degrees; tomorrow cloudy. ‘Temperature—Highest, 57, at noon to- day: lowest, 36, at 8 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page 6. Late N. Y. Markets, Pages 14 and 15 ¢ Foening Star. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The only ev service. Yesterday’s Circalation, _105,1_2_3 ening paper in Washington with the Assoc ated Press news No. 30576, Bntered as second class m atter . Flyer Drops Yeast post office, Washingtor To Breadless Town PRESIDENT LEAVES HAVANA AS PARLEY! ™ Flooded Section HAILS HIS MESSAGE Coolidge and His Party Sail Early Today on Cruiser for Key West. By the Associated Press. OROFINO, Idaho, January Orofino was back to gastronomic normaley today after an aviator cir- cled the community and dropped 40 pounds of yeast, thereby saving it from being a breadless city. Cut off from rail and highway communication since last Thursday because of floods, Orofino. which has 1,000 inhabitants, suddenly found it- self with no yeast and only one loaf of bread. A Spokane aviator arrived over the town yesterday and deliver- ed the necessary yeast. Last night was devoted largely to baking bread. DELEGATES APPROVE SPIRIT OF ADDRESS SEMTORS OTE TAXBLL DELAY | Hughes Gives Views on Conference | to Paper—First Plenary Ses- sion Is Due Tomorrow. . January 17.—Cuba said | 5 bon voyage to President Cooh:se tosd.ay 1$290,000,000 Reduction and sent him back to his country with | the memory of the greatest acclasim | Plan Sidetracked by Com- ever paid in Havana to the nsnufl‘ % : mittee Until After March 15. head of a foreign nation He sailed out into the ocean, on the | cruiser Memphis, bound for Key West, | having left a message of good S SR international amity—the first cver de-| ¢ ered in person by an American Ex- | The Senate finance committee voted ecutive on Latin American shores. | today to side track the $290,000,000 tax The first glint of day crept over |reduction bill until after March 15. historic Morro Castle, overlooking Hav-| An effort by Senator Simmons of ana harbor, as Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge | North Carolina, ranking Democrat on 8aid adieu to their hosts in the Cuban | tne committee. to obtain immediate National Palace and started thelr| ., gqeration of the measure, was de- homeward journey. The Memphis left | foared by a strict party vote. 11 to 9, promptly for Key West, where the|with the Republicans sticking by the President will board a special train postponement program awaiting his arrival there for the return | Informed by Chairman Smoot that trip to Washington. One formal stop at Jacksonville has been scheduled for Wednesday morning. The President 1s due to arrive in Washington Thurs- €ay merning Delegation Remains. | the Republicans intended to deiay con- ;sxderallon of the tax bill until after | March 15, when first tax returns of | the year are due, Senator Simmons declared “you will hear from us on this la Democratic members of the commit- WASHINGTON, D. C TUESDAY, ) JANUARY 17, 1928—FORTY PAGES. ¥ TWO CENTS. 1 ARSON SUSPECT ARRESTED VOTE ON SEATING F SHTHDELAYD ship Is Vacant—Final Ac- Students Fleeing In Stolen Airplane Arrested in Poland the Assoctated Press PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, January 17—Two students, who upon dis- missal from the military school at Prostejoy, Moravia, seized a plane and departed in it, landed at Lublin, By MOORE ASKS D. . VOICE IN CONGRESS Virginia Legislator Speaks Before 1,000 at Trade Prompt—_fl elp Is Sent From Baltimore. DEBT OF 1904 QUICKLY REPAID 90 Firemen Rush to/ Capital at Top Speed. Baltimore has repaid a 24-year-old | | debt to the city of Washington. It was a debt greater than any financial obli- | | gation—the obligation to serve a neigh- | bor in time of need. | At 10 o'clock this morning 10 com- | | panies of the Baltimore Fire Depart- | ment, including about 90 firemen and | officials, swept out of this city on their | | way back to Baltimore after fighting | ' shoulder to shoulder with Washington's | firemen throughout the morning to | check the series of incendiary blazes | | that aroused the city. | It was in 1904 that Washington fire | List of Fire Alarms Reveals How Blaze Epidemic Swept City Following is a complete list of the alarms turned in during the fire epidemic last night and to- day: 10:41 pm.—Box 191, Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue; Woolworth's, three alarms. 10:54 p.m.—Box 191, second alarm. pm.—Box 191, third 11:01 alarm. 11:12 pm.—Local call to No. ‘111 Engine Company; automobile re. 12:32 a.m.—Box 152, Tenth and C streets; Produce row, three alarms. 12:37 am.—Box 152, second alarm. 12:47 am.—Box 152, third 137, Tenth alarm. 1:17 a.m.—Box street and New York avenue; Washington Paper Store. 1:54 am.—Box 647, H street, between North Capitol and Pirst street northeast; in). 2:08 am.—Box 647, fourth alarm. 2:07 a.m.—Box 17, Fourth and Pennsylvania avenue; Hammond Cleaning Works. 3:37 am.—Box 664, Eckington place and Q street northeast; McDowell & Sons, warehouse. Three alarms. 3:40 am.—Box 664, second am.—Box 664, third alarm. fighters battled for two days beside | those of Baltimore to conquer the dis- | |astrous fire that swept Baltimore's | business district. For 24 years Balti- | | more remembered the debt and stood 5:11 am.—Box 89, Fourteenth and Belmont streets: Lank Wood- work Co. Four alarms. 5:18 am.—Box 89, alarm. 5:29 am.—Box 89, third alarm second AFTER DISASTROUS FIRES ROUSE CITY; 30 INJ URED Total Damage Is Estimated at $100,000. BLAZES RAGE AT SAME TIME Conflagrations Are Held Work of Incendiary. Dazed by an all-night series of ma; conflagrations of incendiary stamp, re- | quiring the assistance of outside fire | companies from as far away as Balti- more, the National Capital was grop- ing today to take stock of the dozen of injured and of the widespread prop erty damage. | To the dying discord of howlin: | sirens and roaring flames in sundrv | parts of the city, exhausted fire anc police officials checked over a steadil: mounting toll list reaped by five mul- 5:51 am—Box 89. fourth alarm. 7:29 am—Box 885, Rock Creek Church road and Warder street. 9:24 am.—Box 313, Twenty- first and F streets; automobile. 9:27 am—Box 641, North | Poland, because of a shortage of fuel. They were immediately arrested by Polish authorities. In taking the plane, the students | assaulted and bound a sentinel on | duty at the hangar. | ready to repay it when the time came. | ! The call came this morning. | A few minutes after 2 o'clock this | morning Fire Chief Watson telephoned | succinctly to the Baltimore depart- | ment, “We need help.” Less than wi Behind, the President left Charles | tee were called for an early conference | Evans Hughes and the rest of the at which the North Carolina Senator | American Celegation to the Pan-Ameri- | expects to map out a plan for carrying can Congress which Mr. Coolidge open- 1 his fight to the floor for early consid- ed yesterday. Mr. Hughes and his col- | eration of the tax bill. gems “rux mma:néo g:"w 5 h: Senator Smoot e)}:aressed Rc:nn;xlfncc ernment nce, which ' that the jublican | 1 expected 1o last about six Works | e mecing ¥ tion Planned Tomorrow. Board Gathering. New impetus to the movement for granting a voice in Congress to the BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Reed slush fund committee today the fority would stick together on the sibmitted to the Senate a final report Accompanying the President home- | Aoor for delay of the bill which nas ward were Secretary and Mrs. Kellogg | far exceeded the limitation on tax re- in the case of Senator-elect Frank L. Smith of Illinois recommending that | 500,000 disfranchised residents of | minutes later Tenth Battalon Chief | | Capitol and I streets: false. 10:15 am.—Box 292, Hungar- ian legation, 1424 Sixteenth street end Secretary and Mrs. Wilbur. The | juction proposed by the administration. | presidential party was due in Key West | I———— ’. e e & ety o e | DIAZ. WILL REMAIN he be denied a seat. and that the seat | be declared vacant. | Prompt action today had been expect- | >d on the report. But immediately after | its submission by Senator Reed of Mis- | souri, chairman of the committee, Sen- | ator Borah of Idaho announced that he | should like to have until tomorrow be- 11:15 am.—Box 152, 206 Tenth District of Columbia, and for an equi- S g | !table readjustment of the (ump-sum | George D. Otter's little red car weui | o | fiscal plan for Washington, was given | dashing through the streets and into | it/ ’ | last night by Representative Moore of | the darkness on the 40-mile run to the | : street. FUND |_S @RUV[D!WH“ in” addressing the “Virginta | Capital | n. The press is devoting much attention to the first plenary session of the con- ference, which will be held tomorrow | "6 OF FIREFIGHTER night” observance of the Board of | Tr;d e‘;v;ntlhe: 12":.3,:fi',;g of more!| Behind him were Deputy Chief Lew- th-:e 1,000 members of the trade body | in H. Burkhart. Capt. Charles T Gal- and thelr guests. among whom were a | lion. superintendent of machinery, und number of leading Virginia officials. | P. W. Wilkinson. secretary of the fire Wild Ride Over Road. The five most disastrous fires, into hind them, at one-min- | smoldering ruins of which water still detegal 8age was “a very true statement of the general principles of international jus- Hce and fair dealings mong nations ” This, delegates said, voiced the very Policy Mexieo upholds as the cardinal ‘The Chilean delegation met criticisms that no new policies had been set forth with the remark that only well tried and hallowed formulas of democracy and international good will would final- Iy realize the pan-American ideal. disappointment was ex pressed by some delegations that Mr, | Coolidge did not define more exactly | the role the United States intended 10 play in the conference and in pan- American affzirs in general, and did not discuss in particular his country’s | problems in her relations w her south- em neighbors. In general the view was held that Mr. Coolidge, as the head of a great rrounded by many constitu- g and decisive questions now s of the Americas. Diario de la Ma local newspaper, today printed a series of questions re- garding the conference and the an swers furnished by Mr Hughes, head of the American delegation. These were “What in your slanding note Conisdge? inion was the out- the speech of Mr, Stresses Aspirations. After an eloguent tribute P people stressed the common pirations and re Ataerican repub] tiex for the e don of the spint of Gemocrary unger the teign of law, with the ization that the highest Jaw it 7 eration, CO-UpTaLon. frievasiy and chanty. 1 should take b closing words ks conve the ex- sence of his thought: “The light whick olambus followed Las not falled The which carned bim on still van i people of Bolivar and of Washingon st luy our yoysge of exploration wiete understanding end the h your opinion wportant pointe in of Gen. Machado (President of Cuba) 1t would be dife W express y the pointe in the most eloguent w of President Machado We nat in the most felicitous manner | » expressing not only the mind te heart of te people of Cuba Getined pan-Americanism with u crmination and & compre ew Pan-Americanism @ not merely the result of cove- tre ' or poble nstitutions wnd primarily. puBlic san ot e prople 806 collective were the sg bt e e o yia h e emphiasied the great principle of We count it a privilege bis noble vision o w w1 ption n Gives Lapectations. “Whet wre your expectations with re- €L10 W Lhe coming sixih conference? My expectations sre that Uik con- ce will mike firmer e tes of & Telernily of equsl FaLes Co-oper- W the benedt of wil” Hdent Conlidge publicly expressed o Voke 4, Column b) “Complications Might Result.” the Associated Press MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 17.— With Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, com- in chief of the American Ma- , here to aid in the drive against rebel Gen. Augustino Sandino, to a free election next Summer. it Diaz bas set at rest rumors intends to resign. s congress afie ihe Srst contingent T rst contingen! of Marines arrived to suppress disorder, said: “I had intended to resign but | due to complications which might result, I have reconsidered my decision.” SLAYER OF TAXI DRIVER “UNKNOWN,” JURY FINDS Coroner's Report on Death of Wil- liam H. Jones, Who Was Fatally Shot Baturday Night. William H. Jones, 23-year-old Black and White taxi driver, who was fatally | wounded last Saturday night near the corner of Twenty-fifth and M streets, died from a bullet wound inflicted by & “pistol held in the hand or hands of some one unknown to the jury,” a coro- ner's inquest decided, as a result of 8 By s and the opportuni- | hearing at the District Morgue today Witnesses told of hearing shots fired, | of seeing Jones' taxicab crash into a tree on Twenty-fifth street, and also of | seeing & colored man jump from the | cab and run Into an alley. James T, White and Henry Gibson, | both colored, of 2414 M street, testified they had removed Jones from the cab after it had crashed into a tree, and | that s “light-skinned colored man. of | medium size, wearing & sheepskin coat | and light cap, jumped from the taxi- cab and fled before they could attempt w catch him.” | ANNE MORGAN By the Awociated Preas . NEW YORK, January 17.-—Denlals of reports that Miss Anne Morgan Is | engaged W the Prince of Monaco are | made in her bebalf | A statement lssued by Miss Mor- |¥an's private secretury brands the re- port @s “utterly without foundation” and “untrue” The Prince of Monaco, traveling in- leognito ws the Comte de Thorigney, accompanied by his son-in-law and duughter, the Comte and Combesse de Marchals, arrived in New York a ek ugo wnd left on Thursday with They wre e heritage of the fernard M. Baruch on a hunting teip | heartening “All's well!” W the laiter's estate at Hobean, 8. C | News sgencies wnd newspapers in ance have carried the reports, |"Cokelers” Ce]cbratc 70th Anniversnry: N BETROTHAL | House Gets Independent Of- fices Bill With Arlington Span Provision. Carrying an appropriation of $2.300,- fore voting on the resolution. “I would like to have time to study | the testimony in the last hearing before | the committee,” satd Senator Borah. | He added that he was interested in this | case wholly aside from Col. Smith, and that he might have something new to present in regard to the proposal to| declare the scat vaoant. . ... 000 for continuing the consiruction of Reed Invites Discussion. the Arfingion Memorial Bridge across | Senator Reed replied that he did not | the Potomac River, the independent of- wish to cut off discussion of the reso- ficos appropriation bill was reported to | lution at all and that he wished every | the House today from the appropria- | heard. As far as he was concerned, |he said, he was agreeable o letti | the yote on the resolution go over until tomorrow. He sald. however, that he had talked with Senator Deneen of | Illinols and that the Mlinois Senator was ready to proceed with his state- ment defending the right of Col. Smith to be sworn in. | | After Senawr Borah had made his| Erequul tor further time, Senator Short- | :lh?!vo‘l’i &'"é"w"’r‘fmfi'&fi"’.fi'fi“r, lnhx:«;lmul $84,650,250, which include Senator Curtis, Republican leader. in |200,000 for the Veterans' Bureau, $7.- order to expedite matters. sought and | 367,000 for the Federal Board for Vo obtained unanimous consent of the | uonal Education and $2.700,000 for th Bflla'c to take a r}:'.cmh:hfl ";‘l‘"m&ir‘cdeul Reserve Board, until tomorrow so that the Smith res- : . > olution could come up early and prob-| _ ‘Work Now Frogressing. ably be disposed of before adjournment | The committee report presented by tomorrow. Mr. Wood says that the Arlington Me- | The expectation is that the resolu- | morial Bridge, as designed, will be a| tion declaring the Smith seat vacant |low-level segmental arch bridge, with | will be adopted when it comes to a|Dine arches, the center span being 185 | vote. feet long. Fhe work is progressing sat- ‘The Smith case has occupled atten. | isfactorily, the foundations and sub- (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) | structure being practically completed. | A contract for the superstructure is i being entered into, and the stone for NINE MINERS SAVED; ENTOMBED t2 HOURS this superstructure, in large part, al- ready has been delivered, cut and ready Rescuers Dig Holes 50 Feet Deep to for use. It Is contemplated that the bridge will be completed and ready for Reach Men Trapped in Penn- sylvania Pit. use in the Spring of 1931. Already . of Towa. It carries a total of $526,193,- | 111, which is $7.715303 less thau the | wtal of the 1928 appropriations and | $1,360,691 less than the estimates sub- | mitted by the Budget Bureau for the | fiscal year 1929 | In addition to these appropriutions, | permanent annual and indefinti> appro- | priations made without annual ‘action | by Congress for the fiscal year 1929 | $5,500,000 has been appropriated, and $1,995,320 56 has been expended, leav- | ing a balance at the end of the fiscal | year of $3.504,670.45 expenditure during the fiscal year 1928 | in 82,839.670.45, and need for the fiscal year 1929 s 83,165, {000, making a total need of $6,004,- 67045, For the Bureau of Efficiency, which 15 now engaged on a comp Intensive survey of all activities in the municipal admintstration, and appropri- ation of for the fiscal year 1929 | for general expenses | and printing and binding By the Associated Pross - HAZLETON. Pa, January 17. En-| tombed for more than 12 hours by a fall of coal n a .evel 700 feet from the surface, nine miners were rescued today from their prison and brought | *"p,FE0 ndis . : bl port states that during the {out of the mine without a scratch. | past year the Bureau of EMclency co | Only a few 'olterers were "'I';“f‘ the | qucted a number of Investigations T entrance o the mine when the res| guing in Jarge savings to the Govern- | | cued and their rescuers came to the hrough the adoption of the re-| surface Fears of relatives th e nded Jmprovements in the meth- | allayed when at a late hour Ighl MED 0d of conducting the business of the | | the rexcue squad heard “All's welll” | yarioug offices, and at present 1s engag- ‘;')‘)’nul:d by one of the imprison “"-4 In & large number of important in- ! ners, vestigation, with requests pending for “The mine 15 located at Oneld, near | iiELIN (RN S, ponding here, and is owned by the Lehigh Val- | BalaryiBung i Beooten ley Conl Co a8 J { Tt was after they nad dug a hole 50 0 15 recommended feet deep that the rescuers heard the DpRoRtineeLitor '-'lla"‘rrujllfl,‘.“ . expenses of the Feder Commission for the ensuing fiscal year An ine o 880,340 In the sulary ap- propriation for the commission for (he facal year 1920 as compared with the | current appropristion is aceount by the fact that time the work of t been pertormed by ed from other - dopartments of govern- | ment. Beeklug o remedy this situation | | The last 15 feet of thickness was negotiated while the crowds at the mouth of the mine were going home | | ssent commission has | mployes det ! The estimated | the anticipated | 1} Cc]ibacy Encouragcd Among British Sect - | nect | | By the Aswscrates | Loxwoon, Piese England — A religious ! known ws the Cokelers which en- - | courages celibmey among it members {1 celebrating s seventieth suniversary | Willlam John Blrgood, the founder | opened many yewrs ago & village shop {for the benefit of e sect, wnd this P has grown oW & fourishing depart | ment swre Bligood was & potmsn, who Jolned a sect known as the Pecullar People, wnd became wn Unersnt shoemaker. Nou finding W the “Pecullars” all that he reguested, he seltled i the Bussex vil- Jage of Lozwood wnd started 1o Leach & doctrine of his own His first convert wis & poor wWonian w whom hie Jneunm by Ui wayside L e che tended her pigs Birgood met willhh much opposition. and more than once wus stoned and thrown into aiteh His first followers were called here thee cocon drinkers, Which gave tse tedr present title Birgood found that the demunds of the dally oceupations of his followers left them fusufficlent | time for devotions, %o he started o shop in which he gave thom all posi- tons Thetr datly work then became inter spersed with religlous observances in common. Bo well has e venture prospered that today, s & latge corpor- ation, iU supplies the needs of the coun- try people for miles around. ‘The head uf the Brm s tender of the sect | | | | und directly all of the conta of the commission, the House ap- A committee nserted in the Uon el for the current year o directing the Federal Power nisslon Lo eatimate for the salaries nployen whose aervices with the | commbaion have become permanent thiough such detatl As a result 28| employes are being provided for in the | bl veported toduy | The wppropriations committee recom- | mends that the sum of $164,000 be ap- propriated for the expenses of the Tarltt Commission This sum is an n- crease of $6BO0D over the wmounts avallable for the current your, and the House commitice expresses (he hope that with this additional appropriation sppromiate The woman Cokelers wear tghtly fit- ting bodices, buttoning up o the neck, skirts reaching almost o the ankles and small bonnets. The men wear cluthes of somber hus, the fnvestigations wnd reports of the (Continued on Page 4, Column b)) . Radio Programs—Page 35, ~ the District Commissioners and mem- bers of Congress, Mr. Moore upheld the in Congress and in the elecjoral col- lege and pledged his aid tow: a per- manent solution of fiscal relationship. Pledge Ald to Cause. Plapned with a_view to promoti cordial “relations mpvm g District and its neighbor to the south and west for the mutual benefit of all in the Capital area, the mee! t became a virtual love feast as oméfi, sid Senator to have an opportunity o be (jons committee by Representative Wood | spokesmen for the two jurisdictions | bouncing and lurching from side pledged their willingness to the general cause. Speeches, however, were not all verbal bouquets as spokesmen now and again seized the opportunity to point out problems and advantages that had been overlooked. Gibes were directed at the District for failing to appreciate fully possibilities of Alexandria and vicinity, and Virginia speakers poked fun at some Virginian characteristics, to the enjoyment of all present. ‘The climax of the unique program came with the outspoken declaration by Mr. Moore, chnmnlonln, the right of the District to a voice in the gov- ernment and to a better deal in fiscal relations. He said: “I shall vote for the measure giving the right to the people of Washington to be represented in Congress for right to vote in presidential elections. proposal {8 right and democratic in a real sense.” At the same time, however, the Vir- ginia legislator asserted his objection to the plea for a sweeping form of local suffrage, with the election of all local officlals as well as members of Con- Rress. Views Fiscal Relations. In discussing fiscal relations, and al- luding to the movement of the District Commissioners and local trade groups and citizen assoclations for a return to the 60-40 plan, MF. Moore declared, "I have thought we ought to weigh an apothecary’s scale the contribus Hon which the Federal Government makes toward the upbuilding and main- tenance of the District " The Board of Trade was 'auded by Mr. Moore for acting “resolutely and courageously” in the interests of the District Mr. Mbore praised the trade body particularly for its co-operation in the upbullding of nearby Virginia, includ- ing the bullding of the Key Bridge, the Arlington Memortal Bridge, now under construction: the rep.iring and mak- ing safe of the old Chain Bridge and | the extending to restdents of Arlington County the privilege of tapping Dis- | trict condults for water supply. Dougherty Speaks, Other speakers fncluded Commisston- | ers Dougherty and Tallaferro, P C.| Goodnow, vice president of the Alex- andila Chamber ot Commerce. State | Senator Frank L. Ball of Arlington | County Muj. Carey Hrown of the Na- | tonal Capital Park and Planning Com- mision and Edwin C. Graham, presi- | dent of the Board of Trade. Taking up the recently (hreatened .u:hl.muhlln tag war between the Dis- tre that this dificulty had been troned out by a cool-headed group of Washington trade body leaders, who went to Rich- | mond o confer with Gov. Byrd. After chatting with the Virginta governor This | and Virginia Senator Ball sald | { board. And bel | | ute intervals, came the 10 companies | | and an ambulance in charge of Dr. F. | | right of the District to representation g Ogden, surgeon of the department | It was a wild ride as the huge fire| | Aghters, with neadlights blazing u'.d= | sirens wide . went shrieking | | through the darkness. Cars scurfifd:, | to the side ot the road, lights flared up | | in bouses and curtains were raised as the mighty cavalcade past. ! " 'The little red cars were far in the | lead, skimming over the road at a dizzy | pace Behind them, packed glosely to- | gether, were the engines, swaying w | | wng up their speed. In! :‘h‘:"z‘:‘ i WAy emergency, was | overcome by smoke and gas at the the ambulance | Woolworth, Produce and Eckington A few minutes after 3—less than 50 | place fires, were given treatment at minutes from the time he left his house | pmergency Hospital. Pive were admit- | —Chief Otter drew up at No. 10 €n§in€ | tog for further treatment, and the ve. The other officials were close | lt:’:l;d him. and not many minutes Others were discharged. In addition |to these, 12 or 14 minor cases were later the entire force was here. No. 10 | | engine of Baltimore made the run in |ireated by Drs. Carey and Melineau of exactly 1 hour and 17 minutes. the Casualty Hospital staff, who, with Burkhart stationed five of his com- | first-aid equipment in a hospital ambu- panies—Nos. 6, 10, 58. 56 and 21—at |lance, traveled from fire to fire, render- | No. 10 engine house. and from there |ing ggistance where it was needed. they were called to the fire at Four- | Tyl o L A red teenth and W streets, where they fought [teenth and W Strcets N e oo | Louls Knight, 36 years old, 1422 T funtil 8:15 o'clock. Other companies ' street southeast. No. 8 Engine Co, pa- | were sent to Nos. 3, 9 and 18 engine | Uent at Emergency Hospital: condition houses to take the places of local com- | not serious. panies that were out fighting the f1es. | Treated at The other five Baltimore companies | pyryeq: were Nos. 14, 7. 20, 27 and 52 All saw 4 | active work before the night was over. | L. D. Gately. S ol 16 New o venue, No. ngine - Visitors Complete Job. come by smoke and gas. b By 9 o'clock most of the Work Was | J E Bradev. | done. The Baitimore firemen returned | strees nw‘,‘;‘”fio"“l“d‘;“‘:‘"“&h {to ther local stations for rest, sand- |~ g Rbigpas . wiches and coffee. Burkhart and Wil- | OVéreome by smoke and gas. kinson went for a tour of inspection. | H. F. Arthy. 28 years old. Ballston, They returned just before 10 and an- Va. No. 3 Truck. overcome by smoke nounced that the work had been done and gas. | without a single accident | P, H Thrift, 33 years.old, 4 < | ~The motors started again. More lel- | chanan street, No. 16 Engine Q"’o“:{_ | come by smoke and gas. Sharen Hughes, 30 years, 28 Florida surely this time the detachment drew away from Washington, while in their avenue northeast. lacerations about the right leg and burns on arm ears echoed the cheers of Washington | Lieut. Gilbert G. Fletcher. 51 vears firemen for a debt well paid old, No. 8 engine company, 3408 Dent [FRENCH FLYERS HOP OFF FOR VENEZUELA M, overme br ke ©0 | No. 3 engnie company, 314 G street 1 1,000-Mile Flight From Colon, northeast, overcome by smoke. 5 | Thomas J. Wiltams. 42 years old, Panama, Expected to Be Com- | 907 Twelnth street nartheast. No. 1 ene Kie company. overcome by smoke C. J. Fletcher, 39 years old. No Overcome by Smoke and Gas Fumes. pleted by Dusk. | By the Amsociatod Pross COLON, Panama, January 17 Dicudonne Costes and Joseph Lebrix, | Freneh fiyers, hopped off at 652 am. | | today from France Field, Canal Zone, OASt, overcoime by smoke. i Roy Morefield, 26 years ald, No. 1 engine, 153 New York avenue north-| for Caracas, Venesuela. As they will fol- | €8st overcome by | low the coast virtually the whole way, | Kl T. Barnes. No. 1 engine company, a flight of approximately 1000 miles 32 years old. U street southwest, Wax ahead of them | overcome by smoke The flyers expect to arrive at Cara- | Admitted to Casualty Hospital tor | cns At dusk, as they wiil lose one hour | treatment. conditions not sertous of the sun en route. Lieut. Klmer Hanback, 43 years old. From Caracas they will go to Barran- | 3811 Kansas avenue. No 1 truek Paul Beckert, 22 vears, 3640 Thirty- | ?{Allll. Colombia, and then to Bogota, tourth stieet. Mount Ramter. Md. olombia, returning from there to Pan | ama. Fram Panama they will start | Webster Frye. 31 years ald. 314 Twy- | lor strvet i northward to New York, stopping at Quatemaln Ofty and Mexieo City be- | L B Phillips aching the United States ¢k company, 1331 Kenyon street 23 years old, Na ll‘ { { l:iccnsc Refused. Playwright and Model | All But One of Victims Are|’ Sixteen firemen. all but one of them ! 3 engie company. 16 Fifth street north- | | Marviand had responded by he potnted out, the “war.” which might {have caused great fll-fooling between | the two jurtsdictions, was squelched by | COMMON-Sense wgreement o suspend | o Lenfercement of objectionable features | Stage Mock Marriage to Satisfy Guests! 1 Horace \l\\‘l“l“l Assoctated Press NEW YORK, January 17 JO'Nelll, Floyd Dell, Patrick {and other guests of the Virginia lcense law until the | Virglnda Teglslature had had time to hear requeats of Washington inters Senator Ball announced he would introduce & bl I the Leghalature do “tenied Lo remove 'n‘o\'hluln\ of the law affecting Washinglon owners of truoks operating - Virginia umld edicted 1t would be passed by the General Aa- semhly. Henator Ball declared that Vieglnla no longer wan “a Stato of high taxes and deep mud” and sald that today the Blate was ribboned with hard-surfuced roads 3,000 miles 1 length, that Vi ginta now 18 in & high state of solvency, paying as it went for ita tremendous tm- Continued on Page 5, Column 7.) Kearney, playweight, and Mis Elisa- | CTsgine” said Sinmons Clviting [beth Russell, artists model, were re- | OU0 Kaln (o & wedding and then [vewled todny 1o hiave gone through a | TALIE 00 el We ity Tad o mock marriage ceremony vather than | gl A TR formerly was [ dixappoint assembled guests Whon MIss | 4 rabbi, to agive @ go through the Russell wan refused # loense because | form of ® cetemony Note of the other {she could not prove she was 30 [ HUESts Were aware of the faet that the The couple veaterday — oblained & | wodding wasi't strielly bona fide. leense when Miaa Russell produced an | Horace Liveright acted as best wan, amdavit slgned by her mother and they | Floyd Dell read a Kot of poetry ar some- later were married by & ¢ivil coremony . | thing and & fne thne was had by all The mock marrage ok place At M Kearney, whe s 84 vears oid, Kearney's apartment last - Chursday, | dramatised Theodote Dielsers “Awer- and was described by Karl Smons, | fcan Tragedy " It 85 his thicd martiage Alno & playwright, ax carvied out deaplte | Miss Russell alsa had deen married the lack of & license in arder Mot 10 previously. The couple mel At & pary disappoint Oulo M. Kahn, Bugene [ on New Year day was being poured y. follow: ‘Woolworth's fi d-ten-cent store, | 925 Pennsylvania avenue: five alarms: | great damage: about a dosen firemen injured smoke. | | M | scattering | fires, seve! as incendiary. major o be tory of Emergency and dis- | corner ir ing frefighters split the! bat the new outbreak and while battling against the spreading | the second fire, a U call came from the box at Tenth sireet and New York avenue Shortly before 2 o'clock this moming the grim trail of the fire demon jump- ed to Northeast Washington. where the Pillsbury conflagration called for & new concentration of the apparatus already on duty downtown Convinced now that the rapid succes- slon of stubborn fires was the work of A fire maniac, and fearful that a tinuation of his activi en the safety of the Watsan ielephoned Balizmore an urgent request for assistance Exact 0 | the | Deputy Chief Burkhart | Washington fro: V L ore pike, followed 21 minutes later dy 10 engwe companies It was the second time in th . af the Canital that Ba txmr:e:‘:-:\":: had come 0 the ald of the lval de- partment—the first ocoaston deing 1877, during the great Patent Office :;:\:r‘(‘ Ru:h‘rl}'m\lh\l that he was 3 e when the Washingt ~ Partment went ko Battimore & . In the meantime, all outlying velume Reafl o g volun companies from Virgaa and W the appeal far asustance. The volunteer m‘.‘:: Ries Were Asuirned 1 Srehouses vaeated Washington engines and trucks, and they alw rendersd valuable help Quelling several of the hlases. Radge Found on Swspect. Fiher was arrested an - fntormacon fQurnished Dy cltteens who dbwoovered the fire at the MeDowell grain ware- house, Evkiigton place and Q street northeast, and who gave to polive the Hoense number of A molorst who & alleged 10 have rejuvached Tumotny Daley, 1210 North Cupitol strwet, as he Was furnig i the alarm When arrested by Motor Cvele Oftoor Rorwce W. Lineburg. as e aoove wW W Ris hatne early this morning, his oot AR NG were covered with & tarry sube sance Detective Charles Weder, wha warched his car, found & dbadie of ihe Cntinued on Bage 4 Odwann $) Fire Pictures Will Be Found on Page 17,