Evening Star Newspaper, November 22, 1929, Page 21

OUT-OF-TOWN FIRE COMPANIES HELP High Praise Given Nearby Towns for Aid in D. C. Emergency. Valiant ald of the fire departments of neighboring towns in Maryland and Virginia saved what might have been | a serious situation yesterday afternoon | when the explosion and two serious fires caused great strain on the city's avallable fire-fighting apparatus and rsonnel. Five towns in nearby Mar: and and Virginia helped repay thel Capital the debts they owe the fire-| fighters of the District for the many serious fires in outlying sections that| have needed the ever-available aid of the District Fire Department. From Hyattsville, Silver Spring, ‘Bethesda, Potomac, Va., and Bladens- burg yesterday afternoon came volun- teer firemen to stand in®the city’s empty station houses to serve as re- serves in case they were needed while 21 engines and 6 trucks of the city's fire-fighting forces battled two_serious | fires at other points which followed the Seventh street explosion. Strain on Police. The explosion and two fires, with their gatherings of huge crowds, also put a strain_on the reserve force of the Police Department, nearly 100 policemen from practically all the pre- cincts of the city and from headquar- ters and the Traffic Bureau being called in for reserve duty in addition to the regular reserves always available. The explosion, the third and final | alarm for which was received at 1:35 o'clock yesterday afternoon, drew into service 12 engines and three trucks. Some of this apparatus was still working at the scene of the blast when the five alarms for the fire at First and Indiana avenue came in. As much as could be spared from the scene of the explosion was sent to fight the big fire, the ex- plosion situation having been pretty well in hand. 15 Companies Called. | With 15 engine companies and four trucks working on the First and Indiana avenue blaze, Fire Departments in the outlying sections of the city were being shifted to present the best front pos- sible in case another serious blaze broke out. Then came the offers of help from the Fire Departments of the nearby towns, and as fast as they came in they were assigned to the stations of com- panies out on alarms. ‘The Hyattsville company was sent to No. 10 engine house on Maryland ave- nue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. ‘The Silver Spring volunteers went to No. 24 engine house at Georgia ave- | nue and Rock Creek Church road. Bethesda fire fighters came into town and were assigned to the empty No. 28 station house on Connecticut ave- nue between Ordway and Porter streets. | Virginia Volunteers. | ‘The Potomac, Va. volunteers drew the assignment at No. 13 engine house at_Tenth and G streets southwest. Bladensburg's company went to No. 7 engine house at Twelfth and Monroe streets northeast. Meanwhile every clerk in Fire De- partment headquarters in the District Building was put to work rounding up | the off-duty firemen and assigning | them to duty at the various station houses possessing reserve fire-fighting | equipment. | Within an hour after the last alarm | was received from the Pirst street and Indiana avenue fire, practically all of | the off-duty firemen were in harness | and ready for action with apparatus. | ‘This front to the fire peril was pre- sented despite a further drain on the department’s equipment and_personnel by a two-alarm blaze at North Capitol | and L strcets, calling for six engine ' companies and two trucks. i By 6 o'clock the local firemen had the | situation well enough in hand to dis- pense with the services of the out-of- | town firemen. They were thanked by Fire Chief George S. Watson and or- dered to return to their home stations. Fire Chief Watson took personal | charge of the firemen’s activities, both | at the explosion scene and at the First | street and Indiana avenue blaze, leaving | the scene of the explosion after most of the debris had been removed. The District fire chief today paid high praise for the spirit shown by the out- of-town firemen. “We were left pretty wide open after the five-alarm fire at First street and Indiana avenue, and these men who came to help us might have been badly needed had the North Capitol and L streets blaze been more serious,” he sald. CAPITAL WOMAN HURT WHEN AUTO OVERTURNS | Husband of Victim Claims Car Forced Him Off Road in Maryland. By & Btaft Correspondent of The Star. LAUREL, Md., November 22.—Mrs, A. T. Rowe, 2500 block of Seventh street, was yesterday severely cut about the body when the automobile in which she | was returning from Bowle, overturned on the Defense Highway, near Lanham. She was treated by a nearby physician. According to State Policeman Whee- Jer, who investigated the accident, A. J. Rowe, husband of the injured woman, was driving the car, and claimed an- other machine crowded him off the road but failed to stop. He gave police a de- scription of the machine. Rowe and two other persons in his car escaped injury. BAR LAUDS LAWYER. Staunton and Augusta County At- torneys in Memorial to Associate. | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va, November 22— | Thirty members of the Staunton and | Augusta County bar. practically 100 per cent representation, met in the| courthouse here and adopted a memo- ! rial relative to the late Julian Minor Quarles, whose funeral was held here | yesterday. A. C. Gordon was elected chairman of the session and Taylor McCoy, sec- setary. In taking the chair, Gordon spoke of his relations and associations with the deceased and lamented ‘“so| grert a companion and friend.” Others | wha spoke were L. W. H. Peyton, Pey- ton: Cochran and Rudolph Bumgard- neri all testifying to the character and abiiity of Judge Quarles in his work ! and life. PADEREWSKI TOUR OFF. Illness Delays Trip to America Un- til Next Season. NEW YORK, November 22 (A).— George Engels, American manager for Ignace Jan Paderewski, planist, an- nounced yesterday that the musician's continued fllness had forced postpone- ment of his American tour until next season. NORRIS GIVEN PRAISE. Tariff Stand Commended by Far- mers Co-operative Union. OMAHA, Nebr, November 22 () The farmers educational and co-opera tive Union yesterday commended Sena- | tor Norris, Republican, Nebraska, for his | stand on the tariff question telegraphing | him to “give agriculture the same pro- tective duties that industry has long Woi N N THE EVENING BROADCAST LEADS TOWIFE'S IDENTITY Mrs. Charles E. Darlington, Blast Victim, Located by Radio Description. A description of an unidentified vic- tim of the McCrory 10-cent store boiler explosion, broadcast late yesterday b Station WOL, brought the first new: to Charles E. Darlington, 63 W street, of the fate his wife had met on her first Christmas shopping expedition of the season. Darlington, an employe of the Geo- N2 oy -——— = = = N> STAR, WASHINGTON, logical Survey, had come home from work about 5:30 o'clock, and while wait- ing for the return of his wife, who he knew had intended to do some shop- ping in a Seventh street department store, turned on his radio set and picked up the WOL broadcast of the McCrory tragedy. As he listened to the description of an unidentified woman who had been injured in the explosion he feared she might be his wife and immediately started on a tour of the hospitals. Pirst Darlington went to Sibley Hos- pital, nearest his home. His wife was not there. Then to Casualty Hospital he went, and there, too, he failed to find her. The police of the fourth pre- cinct were next appealed to for aid in 6cating her, and upon thejr advice he | went to Emergency Hospi‘al, where he‘ found his wife, unconscious and suffer- ing from internal injuries from which she is not expected to recover. ‘The Darlingtons have two young chil- dren, Charles Elmer, jr. 4 years old, and Joseph -Albert, 17 months old. D €. FRIDAY, Lt RED CROSS 10 AID BLAST SUFFERERS Expenses to Be Financed}: From Dues Obtained in Roll Call. Any possible assistance to famiiies of victims of the explosion yesterday at| the McCrory store will be rendered du ing the next several days by the local chapter of the American Red Cross, it was announced toda; Necessary ex- penses in connection with this work are to be financed from membership dues | ! received in the annual Red Cross roll | | members of the special volunteer serv- call now being made in this and other citfes. $25; Epiphany Church, $35, and Church Ipr, &, J. Pawan, chief bacteriologist of of Our Father, $43. Schools —+ Gunston _Hall (100 per Calls for assistance are being recelved | .ont) 3125, and Mount Vernon Semi- at the District chapter, the telephone number of which is Main 1910. When word of the explosion was re: celved yesterday, the chapter imme. diately “sent Red Cross workers to| Emergency Hospital and other hospitals | where injured were taken. Other aid was given to relatives of the accident victims. Hot coffee and sandwiches were served all night to firemen and police- men on duty at the fire at Second street and Indiana avenue, after lending aid at the McCrory establishment on Seventh street. Among workers who quickly answered the call for help were ices, first aid and life saving units, Red Cross nurses and doctors on the disaster medical service of the chapter. Additional contributions obtained in the Red Cross roll call are reported to- day as follows: . Churches—New York Avenue Presby- terfan Church, $31; St. Church, $12; St. M nary (100 per cent), $156. Government departments — art Dep: ment of Commerce, $165; Post Office Department, $664.35; Shipping Board, to | $204; District Building, $63 (addition- al), and Veterans' Bureau, $457. DOCTOR SAVES PLANE FROM QUARANTINE Lands 100 Miles From Scene of Epidemic in Porto Rico and Will Go on by Ship. By the Associated Press. SAN JUAN, P. R, November 22.—An Andrew's | epidemic of some undetermined disease | aret’s Church, jon the Island of Antigua has caused DWARD & LLOTHI 1 he Christmas Store < BUY NOW—MAIL EARLY FOR BETTER SERVICE \\\\1/// - e O Trinidad, to _make a hurried trip by airplane to St. Kitts. This word 'la brought here by Pilot Brooke, who sail he landed the plane at St. Kitts, more than 100 miles from" Antigua, to avoid quarantine of the machine. He said the doctor would _continue to the stricken island by ship. 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