Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1930, Page 1

\WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Partly cloudy today; showers. N ature. ‘Temperature—Highest, yesterday: lowest, 69, at Full report on page Forecast.) Monday local ot much change in temper- 93, at 4 pm. 4a %" he iy Star, WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION No. 1,328—No. 31,533. Entered as second class matte vosi office, Washingtén, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST BEN. ALLEN, LEADER . OF U RHNEFORCE EXPIRES SUDDENLY Commander of Army of Oc- cupation Is Stricken on Visit With Friend. PERSHING PAYS HONOR TO FALLEN COMRADE Noted Soldier's Great' Work Delicate Task After War Won Fame and Praise for Him. in Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, head of | the American Army of Occupation in | Germany and one of the most pic-| turesque figures in the World War, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at Buena ‘Vista Springs, Pa., a victim of a heart | attack. , | By a strange coincidence Gen. and Mrs. Allen were visiting the Summer cottage of Dr. Rudolph Leitner, first secretary of the German embassy, a Tepresentative of the nation Gen. Allen fought in the war. Gen. Allen was| stricken while standing on the porch viewing the scenery. A few moments later he collapsed and dropped about 15 feet to the ground below. Dr. H. C. Bridges of Blue Ridge Sum- | mit, who was called, said that the fall | had nothing to do with Gen. Allen’s | death. He was undoubtedly dead, the physician declared, before he fell from the porch. A blood clot was given as the cause of death. Gen. Allen was | 1 years old. 8g0. Had Been at Summer Home. “The body was removed to the Allen Summer home, at Charmaigne Knoll, about 2 miles from Buena Vista, Here Gen. and Mrs. Allen had been since closing their apartment, in Stoneleigh Courts, for the Summer. News of the death of Gen. Allen; stunned Washington's military circles | and Gen. John J. Pershing, who com- manded the American Expeditionary Forces during the World War, an- nounced he was “shocked and grieved.” “I am very much shocked to hear of the sudden death of Maj. Gen. Allen, sald Gen. Pershing. “He has served his country faithfully and well in many nt~ positions. He was of fine mr‘y appearance and bearing and was & splendid commander of troops. Recalls Service in Mexico. 1 recall his services with me in Mex- as commander of a regiment and He retired seven years | Division under his leadership 'Mm\\.mmmmmm- w s World Wi i troops_on the Rhine. a pos 'v'fxeh he n& with dignity and effi T am deeply grieved to learn of his | - | Funeral arrangements have not been | completed.- It h'ebelleved. however, his |;|.ol;‘ti"‘vfll be brought én w:!;mmn for in Arlington Cemetery. From start to finish of his Army | career, Gen. Allen took on constantly | ascending responsibilities, culminating with one of the most delicate tasks ever undertaken by an American Army offi- cer—command of the Army of Occupa- tion in Germany after the armistice. He had been fitted for the final major task of his life by contacts with men and conditions in many parts of the globe. Born at Sharpsburg, Ky. April 13, 1859, be went from preparatory school to West Point as a cadet. Soon after his graduation from the Military Academy in 1882 he made an excursion to Alaska as an explorer. Went to Russia. Then, in rapid succession, his Army | assignments carried him to Russia, Ger- many, Cuba and the Philippines and into Mexico with Pershing’s punjtive He went t France &s & divis| and_later was a' corps chieftain in the A. E. F. Distin- | jshed service there during the World fax won for him the coveted honor | of heading the American forces on the Riine. Gen. Allen’s ascendency in the mili- | tary firmament terminated only when he had given a noted performance of more than 44 years' continuous sefvice. He was retired at 64, lfur__w_hjsh he ontinued on Fage 3, Column HUNT FAILS TO YIELD CLUE TO GIRL’S KILLER Railroad Yards Are Searched at| South Bend in Pursuit of Slayer of Child. By the Associated Press. | SOUTH BEND, Ind, August 30.—A | thorough search today throughout the railroad yards district near the home of 8-year-old Marvarine Appel failed | to provide any clues to the identity of the child’s slayer. She was attacked and killed some time Thursday night end her body placed in an alley less than two blocks from her home. Authorities went through the district questioning every one who might be able to supply information that would | i ) lead to identification of the killer. Sev | ROANOKE, Va., August 36.—Virginia the end of the day all had been re- | Republicans in State convention here eral suspects were questioned, but at A man was taken into custody at Kokomo who was said to answer a general description of the slayer, He gave his name as James M. Name, 30 and admitted that he had just come from Mishawaka, a city close to South Bend. He figally convinced Kokomo authorities th' he had no connection with the crime and was released. ROCKEFELLER’S NEPHEW IS KILLED IN FRANCE By the Asociated Press. BORDEAUX, France, August 30— Marcellus Hartley Dodge, jr., & grand- nephew of John D. Rockefeller, sr., was killed near Manesq on the road from ‘Bordeaux to Bayonne today as the small ‘American car in which he was driving with Ralph Applegate crashed against i tree. o (:;plu-u. a young American friend of Dodge, was taken to the hospital at Dax with & broken left leg, injuries tc the head and body bruises. His rondi tion was not considered grave. The cause of the accident was known, but it was believed the man at | G. Burch of Martinsville ind Clifton A, | Fellers; been overcome by the ) the wheel -had msreme beat. | estimated speed of 162 miles per hour, | ’ Famous QoldlerDeadl MAJ. GEN. HENRY T. ALLI MAL LA MREADY PADLY INJURED IN CRASH AT CHICAGO Plane Demolished as Strut; Folds Rounding Pylon at 162 Miles Per Hour. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 30.—Maj. John A. MacReady, noted air pilot, was severely | injured when he lost control of his ' plane while rounding & pylon at an | and cracked up, at the National Aic | Races today. A’wing strut folded as MacReady turned the course in the first. lap of the | free for all speed event, according to ! witnesses. The ship spiralled about drunkenly for an instant but by skiliful maneuvering the former Army ace brought it to earth right side up. The plane struck with terrific force, bounded high into the air, and was demolished on the rebound, Maj. MacReady, holder of altitude and speed records, was taken from the wreckage unconscious and rushed to an Evanston hospital where his condition | was reported as serious but not grave. An examination disclosed & fractured shoulder, fractured nose, head and planned to Ay his Thompton Trophy y. 1In preparation for it out varly ‘oday to practice the pylon turns. . Jt was said % be capable of more than 200 ilss an hour. Made Record in 1923, ‘The accident occurred awsy from the airport and out of sight of the race spectators. In company with Lieut. Kelly, Maj. MacReady executed the firit non-stop transcontinental flight in 1923. He re- signed from the Army two years ago. MacReady was the fourteenth porson injured since the air meet opened eight days ago. There have been three fa- talities, Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau, Fritz Albrecht, Edward Zimmer and Frank Hack, the German flyers who crossed the Atlantic by the Arctic route in their flying boat, a Dornier Wal, arrived over the race crowd in the | edges of the city proper in the North- DISTRICT PROPERTY ASSESSMENTS RISE 10 1200000001 $17,500,000 Increase Over Last Year Is Estimated by Richards. NEW BUILDINGS PROVIDE TWO-THIRDS OF BOOST Advances on Existing Structures Put at $7,000,000, Due to Changing Conditions. i As Washington property owners pre- | first half of their real estate taxes for | the current fiscal year, some of them | Will find their assessments increased, | for the total assessed value for this year |is estimated by Assessor William P, | Richards to be approximately $1,200,- 000,000, or about $17,500,000 more than last year. Of the $17,500,000 increase in the total valuation, Mr. Richards figures that two-thirds consists of new build- ings placed on the books, leaving about $7,000,000 of additional assessments on previously existing properties, He esti- mates that the increase in the total over last year's assessment is about 2 per | cent. | There was not a general increase of assessments all over the District, but in ocalities where, in the opinion of the appraisers, values were affected by changing conditions, $20,500,000 m Revenue. With the tax rate at $1.70 per $100 of assessed value, this new ftotal as- sessment of $1,200,000,000 in round numbers is expected to produce some: where near $20500,000 in real estate taxes for the current fiscal year, of which half is due during the coming month and the balance next March. According to the assessor's office, the increased assessments will be noticed along the outer stretches of Connecticut | venue and Fourteenth street; in cer- | ain spots in the Northwest section of the city proper, near business Activi- tes; whenever ' zoning changes have | iven enhanced value; also on the outer east and Southeast sections, In the Southwest there were few cha i lln’qhvllues. T e assessments on which the Mllsd for the present fiscal yem’f ':;’e‘ based were to v ), since the law il ! on l”:l requires tion and Revicw it from the first Monday in January to the first Monday in June to hear appeals. Out | of the nearly 200,000 pieces of prop- | erty assessed there were 500 appeals | filed this year, which was about the same as for the past two or three years, aithough somewhat more than were filed five years ago. Total Climbs Steadily. A study of the figures for the seven years since the District began assess- | ing on a full value. instead of a two- | thiras basis shows that the total as- | sessment of land and improvements here has climbed steadily $723,- 199,288 in 1923 to this year's total of about $1,200,000,000. Discussing the outlook for the future, Mr. Richards expressed the view that | while the total of assessed value wiil continue to increase annually at about the same rate as the ation in- creases and as new buildings are added, | he predicted that assessments in the next few vears will be more stabilized ship early in the afternoon. They were met over Municipal Pler in Chi- cago by an escort of Army planes. The Dornier Wal was not equipped to be set down on land, so the tiyers cir- cled the field, flew low over the grand- stand and took it to the Great Lakes Naval Station to be docked. They were saluted by aerial bombs. An hour or so later they returned to the races by automobile ‘and remaifved” the rest of the day as guests of hondr. Ford Plane Is Wimser. A race for huge, multi-motored ships featured the day's program. It was won by a tri-motored Ford plane, which flew the 50-mile distance at an average speed of 144.24 miles per hour, Flown by Leroy Manning of Deardorn, Mich., the big plane cut the pylors as closely as do the small racing ships then, upon finishing the race, perforraed a loop. | It was the first stunting with a trans- port plane since ugamm began. A tri-motored ch plane finished second in the multi-motored competi- tion, maintaining an average speed of 13744 miles per hour. It was flown (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) G: 0. P. IN VIRGINIA SHUN SENATE RACE Leave Contest to Glass and Byars. Plan Hard Drive House Seats. for By the Associated Press. today voted to leave the contest for the Uniled States Senate to Senator Carter Glass, a Democrat, and J. Cloyd Byars, an independent, and to throw their strength to five Republican can- didates for Congress. The decision was not reached with- out a fight. A spirited {wo-hour de-, bate broke through the traditional harmony of Virginia Republican con- ventions as enthusiastic perty members sought to set aside the recommenda- tions of the Nominating Committee and name a-Republican for the Senate. Opponents of the nominition, led by than they have been in the seven-year period just passed. Indications are that | if the District's annual budget continues to go up, the further raising of as- sessments on real estate eannot be looked to as a means of produeing very much additional revenue, But if Con- gress should require the District to meet the growing expenditures without in- creasing the Federal share, the result | would be an increase in the tax rate, | and the effect on the taxpayer's pocket- | book is just as burdensome whether his tax bill goes up by way of & grow- ing assessment or a mounting tax rate. Senate Takes Notice. ‘The Senate took notice in the last session of the growing disparity between the increasing total of District expendi- tures and the hitherto stationary Fed- eral contribution of $9,000,000. After a strenuous battle in conference the Sen- ators obtained an increase from the House of $500,000 for the current year. While they accepted this figure as a compromise to cnd the deadlock over the bill the Senate group regarded $12,- 000,000 as a fair proportion for the Federal Government. This question: of how the expenses of the National Capital should be ap- portioned between the District taxpayer " (Continued on Page : TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—12 PAGES. General News—Local, National Foreign. Serial Story, “The Dagger'—Page 10. PART TWO AND PART FIVE (Combined) —8 PAGES. Editorial Section—Editorials and Edi- torial Features. Sports Section. PART THI Soclety Section. News of the Clubs—Page 4. Army and Navy News—Page 6. District 50( Columbia Naval Reserve— Page 6. District National Guard—Page 8. PART FOUR—8 PAGES, Amusement Section—Theater, and Music. and —8 PAGES. Screen pare to pay during the next 30 days the |- 31, 1930 —EIGHTY-SIX PAGES. — - s.uum{{{ilu I Daughter Summons Aid as Pair on River Outing Step in Deep Water. One Would-Be Rescuer, Seiz-' ed by Both, Is Barely Able [ to Save Himself. The screams of a 6-year-old girl, terrified as she stood on the bank of the Potomac River yesterday afternoon and | watched her mother disappear under | the water near Three Sisters Islands, | attracted the attention of a nearby | resident, who rescued the mother, Mrs. | Pearl M. Goodman, 28 years old, bul | was unable to save her male companion. | An hour later police had recovered | the body of Charles R. Turley, 26, who | lived.mear Cherrydale, Va. | o an, Who lives in the 3608° block of Canal road, was saved by Gus L. Follis of 4100 K street, after another man, Ray Gill of 3627 Canal road, ha rescue. River Drops Suddenly. | Early yesterday afternoon Turley and Mrs. Goodman decided to go on an outing to Barkers Point, about a mile above the Key Bridge on the District (Gontinued on Page 2, Column 7.) MANIAC ATTACKS ANDBURNS WOMAN Victim, Blinded by Acid, Dies in Hospital—Man Flees. By the Associated Press. PEKIN, Tll, August 30.—Blinded by acid, attacked and then set afire by & maniac who fled into the woods, Mrs, Tranquita Rinaldo, 32, died in & hos- | pital here tonight. John Rinaldo, her husband, and her 12-year-old son found the woman nude and badly burned. They had started a search for her when she failed to re- turn in time for dinner. The assailant discharged acid from a squirt gun upon her face and neck and fied after attacking her and setting fire to her clothes, Sherifl Ernest L. Fleming | of Tazewell County said he léarned from Mrs. Rinaldo as she lay dying in a hospital. She said he was “about 40" and that he “blew a whistle,” Mrs. Rinaldo, wife of a farmer living | at Reed City, was returning from a visit with a neighbor. The man leaped at her from some bushes she said. Officers had no-traces of the assailant. Coroner Arthur E. Allen of Tazewell County said that no one had taken a formal statement from Mrs. Rinaldo. He added, however, that she told a doc- tor working over her that her attacker | had used & squirt gun to throw acid on her, but that she fought him off and that then she took fire. Dr. Allen said he did not believe the woman had been criminally assaulted, but that her struggles had been too much for the assailant. ENGLAND’S STORMPROOF HEAT WAVE KILLS EIGHT Increased Humidity Counterbal- ances Drop in Temperature. MacPonald Escapes Bolt. By the Associated Press. LONDON, August 30.—Eight persons In the Motor World—Page 6. Aviation—Page 7. Radio—Page 8. Robert H. Angell, State Republican chairman, won the fight by a vote of 891 to 577. Once the decision was reached on the senatorial nomination the conven- tion guickly moved througt: its calendar. A platform was adopted praising the record made by Herbert Hoover as President ‘of the United S:ates and the activities of the State’s three Republi- can Congressmen. The plitform scored the Democratic party for alleged mis- management of the administration of the public schools and the election laws in Virginia. “The fifth and sixth disirict delegates PART SIX—10 PAGES. Financial News and Classified Adver- tising. Veterans of Foreign Wars—Page 10. Fraternities—Page 10. Y. W. C. A. Notes—Page 10. Spanish War Veterans—Page 10. PART SEVEN—24 PAGES. Magazine Section . Books—Page 18. Reviews of New * e—Fage 23. Cross-word GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. World Events in Pictures. 2150 met in convention during the day 2nd decided not to offer opiposition to T. Democratic Woodrum of ‘mominees for COLOR SECTION—8 PAGES. Moon Mullins; Mr. and Mrs.: sReg’lar Mutt and Jeff; L tus;, The i lights of 4 died today from England’s stormproof heat wave, which continued with high humidity despite heavy storms in the porth and cooler breezes in the south yesterday and during the night. ‘The highest temperature in London today was 81 degrees, 13 lower than yesterday's highest reading, but the in- crease in humidity more than counter- balanced drop on the thermometer. Eighty-o! degrees in Londdh is in any case considerably more humid and unpleasant than ‘the same temperature on the other side of the Atlantic. Con- sequently the heat is less bearable. Indications are that the heat wave will continue over the week end. Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald, arriving at hi. Scottish home in Lossie- | Republican Senator and four Republican | this year that the Republicans are to | wh here, and to win with a lead that is | comparable to Republican victories in | | Maine in other “off” years. | the Democrats will admit that, if they | the other States. T etapet, imuty vesteday from. ly injury ¥ a atroke of tning ' the almost storm that raged Northern CHILD'S SCREAMS SAVE MOTHER | AS MALE COMPANION DROWNS | i | nearly lost his life in an attempted™ | ADA FRANCES GOODMAN. ! —Star Staff Photo. REPUBLICAN SWEEP | | N AN 5 SEEN | Democratic Opposition Be- lieved “Flat on Back” in Pine Tree State. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, Staff Correspondent of The Star. PORTLAND, Me., August 30.—Maine, a week and a day hence, in all probabil- ty will elect a Republican Governor, a members of the House. It is Jucky for the Republican party this year that the first test of strength in the congres- sional campaign and election comes in the Pine Tree State. The old saying, “As Maine goes, 5o | goes the Nation,” is not always to be relied upon, but there seems little doubt Democrats Are Crushed. ‘There are a number of reasons for this. In the first place the Iemocratic party in Maine is flat on jts back. Even are not to be quoted. It has been flat on its back for some time. Not since 1914 has a Demoeratic Governor been elected, and the Jate Senator Johnson of this State, a Democrat, was elected way back in 1911. Secondly, Maine has suffered less from the business depression than other States of the Union, generally speaking. Its incustries and business did not reach the: high peaks reached in_other States during the boom time. Bus it is also true that they have not suffered as greatly during the depression of the last 10 months as have others, For that reason there is less soreness here with the Republican party than in several of Thirdly, the prohibition issue, which | has troubled the Republicans in New | York, Massachusetts, Illinols, New Jer- | sey and other States, is not troubling | the G. O. P. here. Maine is still dry. | No one is talking about prohibition in this campaign. One candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination, Dugale Dewar, ran as a wet, but he got only a few usand votes. G. 0. P. Is Well Organized. While the Democrats have no organi- | zation to speak of, the Republicans on the contrary, have an efficient organiza- tion. Democrat: of other days, it is said, -have enrolled as Republicans, and have taken part this year in the Republican primary. They were tired of casting votes that never counted for victory. ‘The Democrat workers, the: , are at a loss where to turn when y begin their canvassing. They are 3 i S LSS ve cen - a& tion and have and over the lands and waters of Wmauw;mmmuqu-m‘-. Ctnal Zo) e e e R JUNTA SCRAPS LAW IN PERU T0 PUNISH LEGUIA ADHERENTS Constitutional pended to Hasten Trial of President and Others. By the Associated Press. LIMA, Peru, August 30.—Peru's new | military junta bore down heavily today on ex-President Augusto B. Leguia and the adherents of his 11-year adminis- tration. Leguia and his son Juan are des-.| tined to imprisonment on San Lorenzo Island, Callao Harbor, the former there to await trial and punishment for his acts in office. Newspapers reported today the trans- fer from the cruiser Almirante Grau the island had taken place, it later tending ex-president, had advised against ding him immediately be- cause of his ill-health, and the govern- ment had acquiesced. Dr. McCormack refused to make any statement, and the reports could not be checked from other sources. Eoth Leguias will occupy the quarters of a former Leguia prisoner, Dr. Arturo Osores, exiled in New York. Their guard is headed by another Leguia prisoner, an officer released only with the revolt. Evasion Is Thwarted. The government decided to suspend articles 24 and 31 of the constitution dealing with the rights of citizens in order that accused former officials might not take “advantage of certain consti- tutional rules to evade punishment.” Among persons the government in- tends to prosecute is an officer of the American Naval Reserve, Lieut. Comdr. Harold B. Grow. He headed the Peru- vian Air Force under Leguia, and Lieut. Col. Sanchez Cerro says he will be | prosecuted because of a plan to bomb | fract Arequipa under the former President's orders. A newspaper dispatch from Lam- bayveque says that another American held is Charles W. Sutton, in cha of the Lambayeque Irrigation Works under Legula. He was arrested on a charge of embezzlement when he at- tempted to leave the city by air, and was imprisoned under charges of mis- managing funds. A Leguia project in public education was overturned. The junta annulling a reorganization ordered by the former President shortly before his downfall. In addition, the prefect of Lima orders enforcement of a prohibition law which had lain dormant more 10 years. This bars the sale of alcoholic beverages on Saturday and Sunday. Officials Being Replaced. Lieut. Col. Luis M. Sanchez Cerro, head of the Junta, continued to prepare charges against Leguia adherents and to put new men in official positions. ‘The appointments today included those of Naval Capt. Jullo V. Goicochea, named chief of the naval general staff; Comdr. Arturo Jimenez Pacheco, sub- chief; Dr. Fernando Gazzani, former member of the cabinet, advisor to the foreign office; Luis Antonio Eguiguren, mayor of Lima, and Alejandro Roldan, mayor of Callao. Provisional councils also were appointed for those cities. Otcar Vasquez Benavides was made chief of the prisons section in the min- istry of justice. A derisive poster directed at former President Leguia today took the memory ot Peruvians back to an incident that occurred 21 years ago. A few years ago the admirers of Leguia placed a bronze tablet bearing the words, “Do not sign,” on the pedes- tal of the state here to Simon Bolivar, the great South American hero. They wished thereby to perpetuate one of the incidents of the revolution in 1909 during Leguia's first term as President. In May of that year the President faced his first revolution and a group of rebels surrounded him on the steps of the Bolivar statue urging (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) PANAMA UNDER DRY LAW, DISTRICT JUDGE DECLARES By the Associated Press. CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, August 30. —Prohibition L‘wu held by District Judge James J. Lenihan today to be in effect in the Canal Zone as much as in the United States. ; All ships that leave Colon carrying | liquor ‘are considered under the Judges decision to be violating the United dge Lenihan of the wit the United States “enjoys the rights of sovereignt ‘fl ne to the exelum'm of the ex- of Panama rights, power or inion Ju ercise Rights Sus-| *¥ National 5000 to start immediate (#) Means Associal FIVE CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS “From Press to Home Within the Hour” | The Star 1s delivered every evening and Sunday w . Phone delivery. Press. [ TEN CENTS ELSEWHERE RAZESU.S. Government records. The seething flames, roaring flagration. duplicated. a woman clerk making a hasty aid of firemen. | | Fire Marshal C. J. gchstetter. Injured Firemen Firemen injured in the Trade Com- o | mission fire, still confined in hospitals last night, follow: & Wiltiam V. James, 35 years old, No. 2 Truck Company, overcome by smoke and suffering from shock, still uncon- scious, condition feported serious. Edward B. Smith, 26 years old, No. 3 Engine, 204 Tenth street southeast, suffering from shock, overcome by smoke, fracture of right ribs, reported in serious condition. Harvey J. Cressman, 28 years old, No. 29 Engine, overcome by smoke. Joseph Hanly, 28 years old, No. 20 Engine, 3016 Earl place northeast, badly lacerated right hand. Sergt. Thomas Baber, 46 years old, No. 17 Engine, 719 K street northeasj, overcome by smoke. Kenneth Martin, northeast, No. 1 Truck, shock. Joseph Weaver, 28 years old, 1107 Seventh street northeast, No. 1 Engine, ured ribs. . Pvt. John A. Nillsaps, 29th Motor ‘Transport of Headquarters Detach- ment, ly lacerated face and feet, in company Infirmary. ‘The following were treated for lesser injuries: Lieut. Charles L. Bryan, 40 years old, No. 1 Engine, 617 Maryland avenue northeast, left arm lacerated; Harry Yonce, 31 years old, No. 5 Truck, 2030 Thirty-seventh street, back of hand lacerated; J. liam McLearen, 37 years old, No. 2 Truck, 4800 Brandy- wine street, left arm lacerated; Lie 1305 Otis street suffering from eut. E. L. Hunt, 1247 B street southeast, No. 10 Engine; Capt. Owen R. Moxley, headquafters detachment; C.' T. Rine- hart, 24 years old, No. 23 Engine, 3035 Bladensburg road, lacerated knee; Dep- uty Chief John Carrrington, 60 years old, 1526 East Capitol street, puncture wound in left f J. W. Wissma years old, No. 3 Truck, street n east; Lieut. H. T. Davis, No. 21 ine; T. B. Shellenberg, No. 21 Engine; E. Richter, No. 21 Engine; H. G. Watson, No. 12 Engine, and Bat- talion Chief George Meeks, No. 12 En- gine Company. Raymond Hunt, No. 2 Engine, col- lapsed when seized with cramps in legs, given treatment on scene; J. W. Laugh- lin, 39 years old, No. 9 Truck, cut on wrist; Pyt. F. J. Pfiel, No. 2 Truck, in- Dr. | jury to foot: Pvt. V. M. Thompson, No. 2 Truck, lacerated hand, and Sergt. J. E. Suit, No. 5 Engine, cut foot. Others were treated on the scene from being overcome by smoke, in a number of cases getting back to work before an official record could be made. 26 FIREMEN INJURED, RECORDS LOST, ASFIRE STRUCTURE Many Documents Destroyed in Federal Trade Commission and Labor Bureau’s Offices. TEMPORARY WARTIME BUILDING BURNS MORE THAN TWO HOURS Half Holiday Prevents Possible Panic or Loss of Life Through Absence of 500-Odd Employes. \ Fire of undetermined origin yesterday brought to a spectacular and disastrous end the 13-year-old “temporary” career of the war- born Tempo Building No. 4, shoving into the street the Federal Trade Commission and two Labor Department bureaus and claiming a toll of 26 injured firefighters and an unknown quantity of important through the tinder-like two-story structure for more than two hours despite the valiant efforts of all available firemen, left the frame-and-stucco building a charred ghost of itself—standing sentinel over grim piles of salvaged documents. Reports last night were conflictigg as to the number, nature and importance of the papers which became fuel for the stubborn con- From the best information obtainable it appeared that records of the Trade Commission in its power, chain stores and public utilities investigation were saved and that most other files could be A possible panic or loss of life among the 500-odd employes of the commission and of the Women’s and Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor was obviated by the Saturday half-holiday schedule, which had caused evacuation of the big structure scarcely more than an hour before the fire. Employes Routed by Fire. Four employes who had remained, time were chased from their offices by the rapidly spreading flames, atriotically, to work over- exit through a window with the Except for a small southwest corner, the antiquated building, which occupied the entire block bounded by C, D, Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, was practically a total wreck last night. Total loss in building and equipment was estimated at $225,000 by Acting President Hoover at his Rapidan camp was notified of the fire while it was at its height, and he the Might Have Been Cigarette. Capt. Montgomery declared he was conv&eed the fire was not caused by & short circuit. A carelessly tossed rette or match—both ot which are tal in the bulldin; it have been re- sponsible, he ‘The fire, discovered about 1:30 o'clock by a watchman, James McDone seemed to envelop the a short ce. Spa leaping high in the ;louaa of - -&oke’ attracted a uge crowd of spectators from al 3 o:fie city. Special police reserves held the -gmwn in check. Mcl ugh noticed smoke pouring {from a low corridor near the north en- trance, and immediately sounded an alarm from a box near at hand. The first companies of sounded second and third alarms, for by that time the upper floor was filled with smoke and flames were breaking ::hiet h wmewol the windows. = Pire George Watson, appearing in an- swer to the second alarm,. orde tal of five alarms sounded, <rr apparatus from many outlying districts. mpanies from nearby Virginia and Maryland responded after fifth alarm had been turned in and lent ef- into " actian, drenching e " missaning act ing tar roof with tons of water. A war-time aspect was added by the arrival of troops of soldiers quickly re- cruited from the Headquarters Company nearby and Fort Myer. Trucks rumbled tc the scene, discha: of doughboys and rumbled Officers ves. memdent salvage crews which func- tioned with military precision. Soldiers Rescue Records. l'"':d lasse: h?lne:i windows and ected and piled haphazardly sidewalk. Most of the salvage work - was done in the loufishemfl west wings of the structure. men entered the bus Women employes (Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) Nine More Temporary Structures Remain in Service of Government Nine other old temporary war-time buildings, similar to that occupied by the Pederal Trade Commission destroyed by fire yesterday, are used by thousands of Government employes dally and house meny highly valuable Federal records. ‘These old wooden, cardboard and stucco structures, long have been scored as fire hazards of the worst sort, and have been the greatest single factor in stimulating the great Government hous~ ing program, now under way here, to lace the Government departments and Burellu in fireprpof, adequate shelter, of an architecture commensurate with the® dignity of the United States O Qtany of the old wood buidings, put Many o wooden put , during the of war days, have already fallen before the wreckers, but nine of them still remain, nearly 12 years after armist'ce. AR ‘There are a numl temporary wartime buildings in the general vicin- ity of the so-called ‘Build- ing No. 4, at Twentieth and D streets orthwest, which Wm yesterday, de- of Perhaps the largesi single organiza- tlon still housed in the old fire hazards