Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 3

STUDY FILM BLAST " AS SAFETY MOVE Prehers Say Fire Generated Sufficient Poison to Kill 4,000,020. B the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, May 20.—Potential @eat for millions, imprisoned in X-ray film stored in hospitals and archives everywhere, was in the minds of officials today in their investigation of the fire and cxplosions at Cleveland Clinic, which tock 124 lives from poison gas. The burning film generated sufficient foison to kill four million people, Fed- eral investigators said. They were co- operating with State and local agencies in learning the propertics of the deadly gas, and the means of averting similar calamities. Call for Tents. hile, hospital and surgical cen- radius of 1,000 miles had ied calls for “oxygen tents” ng the remaining vic- tims persons were in ho: pitals today, five of them seriously in- Jjured and of these two were expected to Hic at ¢, physicians said. “tent” i hood fitting over the nead, excluding the air and permitting administration of pure oxy- gen. Its sides are fitted with trans- parent material for observation, Two were available in Cleveland when the blasts came. Two more arrived, one from Cincinnati and the other from 1, r A. J. Pearse today neared : : \PRESIDENT’S FRIEND | | ! i play, “Betty Lou,” for the Odd Fellows Players from the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church who will present a | died at his home here today after a | Club, Wednesday evening at 8:15 o'clock. Front row, left to right: Elsie Schulze,| He was president of the A. Dorothy Galladay, Anne Moffat and Pearl Howard; back row: Herman Fakler,|der Co. and had established shoe fac- | William Gilgore, Norton Little and Horace Guilford. —Star Stafl Photo. | tories at Annville, Elizabethtown, Pal- | ! | William H. Fitzhugh Is Victim of | Heart Disease at Age of 75 Years. | | By the Associated Press. " SAN FRANCISCO, May 20.— William | | M. Fitzhugh, multimillionaire oil man and intimated friend of President | Hoover, died yesterday of heart disease. | He was 75 vears old and a prominent figure in the life of San Francisco and the West. i | Fitzhugh a geologist. went into Wyoming some 20 years ago and is| credited with having uncovered there ! one of the highest grade ofl flelds in | the word. From this Salt Creek field | he is supposed to have taken as high | as $17,000,000. | CONGRESS EX-MEMBER, | AARON KREIDER, DIES | Pennsylvania Manufacturer and | | Banker, 66 Years 01d, Estab- | liched Several Shoe Plants. | By the Associated Press. ANNVILLE, Pa, May 20.—Aaron S. | Kreider, 66 years old, manufacturer, | banker and former Representative from | the " eighteenth Pennslyvania district, in the auditorium of the National Press | lingering illness. i S. Krei- i | myra, Middletown and Lebanon. He | ooty neared| SOLDIER AND BRIDE efforts are di- mbling_all available s and collecting all possible in- tion, before opening a public in- ter this week. Doctors to Be Questioned. E. Lower, member of the con- } board of the clinic, were to tes- tify their version of the disaster before Coroner Pearse today. Dr. Crile was ot at the clinic at the time of the blast, but was in Clinic Hospital, on East Nineticth street, where he had just com- leted an operation | ¥ He hastened to the clinic and took | Eharge of rescue activities. He stationed | himself in front of the building and issued instructions to the hundreds of | wolunteers who were carrying victims s4from the smoking structure, [¥__“It is not our intention to question | Pr. Crile, but we know his version of he disaster will be of invaluable as- | mistance in arriving at the cause,” Dr. arse said. |55 A formal inquest by the coroner will | ‘“be held, but it probably will be two | | weeks before Dr. Pearse is prepared for 8t, he said. There are many loose ends | %o collect and many witnesses to be in- | Berviewed privately. The principal witness so far has been | | Buffery Boggs, steamfitter, who was the | [ last known person to leave the base- | ment where the fire started. He already | has told of trying to extinguish the fire, which was giving off the clouds of | | brown gas that shattered the interior and killed more than half the building’s pccupants, before he escaped. | GIRL’S BODY IS FOUND AT FOOT OF PRECIPICE| WFiance Makes Discovery Near! |+ Trysting Place—Police Chief |4 Says She Killed Self. | s the Associated Press. HAVERSTRAW, N. Y., May 20.—The | body of Miss Claire Kramer, 21-year- -old domestic, was found at the foot of a ! “B0-foot precipice here yesterday. The skull was fractured. Beside the body was an automatic_pistol, which had jammed. Chief of Police J. Stis- singer expressed the belief that the girl first attempted to shoot herself and when the revolver jammed she leaped | from the top of the precipice. The body was found by Harry Suss of Haverstraw, who told police he was | Miss Kramer's flance and that he had found the body near their usual tryst- #ng place. {°_ Police learned the girl came to this #ountry from Germany about & year ago. | AERIAL SURVEY PLANNED. ( An cxpedition known as the Alaskan |, Asrial Survey Detachment, representing &o-operation between the Navy, Agricul- | ture and Interior Departments, is now ‘ou!flttinl and will soon Alaska for a continuation of the task | of making air pictures as a basis for | maps of certain areas of that Territory. ! It is in charge of Lieut. Comdr. A. W. Radford. Other miembers of the party are Lieut. E. F. Burkett, executive officer; Lieut. Comdr. A. C. Smith. medical officer; Lieut. Thomas Macklin, in charge of the airplane tender. and Lieuts. R. F. ‘Whitehead, C. F. Greber, L. P. Paw- SPECIAL NO’ ¥LECTRIC FIXTURES, NEW LATEST styles. inst received. at unusually low prices. " “HECHINGER CO.. 3—Branches—3. | EARPENTER - BUIL orches. inclored, Jobbine, | Iows: 20 Vears' exp. Wash. sub. |} At HEN LEAVING THE CITY BY WAY OF | nion Station, why mot park your car in | EXECUTE DEATH PACT | Wife of Two Days Takes Blame for His Slaying Her and Self Near Statue of Liberty. By the Associafed Press. NEW YORK, May 20—A soldier and his bride of two days executed a ferry boat yesterday. Charles B. Canto, attached to the military police stationed on Bedloes Island, the site of the Statue of Liberty, shot his 21-year-old wife, Jean,' and himself as they waited for the ferry General Melgs to make its first trip of the day. Their bodies were found by other soldiers on the ferry, who had been awakened by the shots. In a note Canto's superior officers Mrs. Canto took responsibility for her own death and asked that her husband be ab- solved from blame if he survived her. she wrote: Jean, alone am responsible for this act and not Chick. I forced him to do it.” PAUL CLAUDEL TO SPEAK. Ambassador to Address Battle Vet- erans in Baltimore. del, today accepted an invitation to speak at Baltimore, July 15, at the eleventh celebration by the Rainbow Division Veterans of the Champagne Battle of 1918. Gen. H. E. J. Gouraud, military governor of Paris, who com- manded the troops in the Champagne during the battle, has cabled that he will be present. President Hoover was invited the day after his inauguration by a country- wide committee of Rainbow veterans. Secretary of War Good, Gen. John J. Pershing, now in Paris; Gen. Charles P. 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