Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1934, Page 32

B—12 %% S50 FRE HTS W, &LUNVERSTY Law School Building and Library Are Destroyed at Lexington. By the Associated Press. LEXINGTON, Va., December 17.— Fire swept through Tucker Hall, Law School Building at Washington and Lee University here, early yesterday and destroyed the building and the law library it housed. Coliege author- ities set the loss at $85,000. The Tucker Hall blaze was discov- ered a half hour after firemen and townsmen had subdued a stubborn lumber yard fire. Officials of the fire department said sparks from the yard might have fired Tucker Hall. Three students and a Lexington resident were injured in the Tucker Hall fire. Investigation Planned. Commonwealth Attorney ~Willlam W. Ackerly said an investigation would be started. For a time the Tucker Hall blaze seemed in danger of getting out of control, and fire department officers feared the entire group of college buildings might be endangered. The flames spread rapidly and only a few law books were saved by professors and students who aided firemen. Of the three injured students, only Thomas P. Waring, freshman, of Sa- vannah, Ga., was seriously hurt. He received a severed tendon in his foot as he carried fire extinguishers to the roof of nearby Washington College to combat flying embers. He was taken to a hospital, but will be re- Jeased tomorrow. None of a group of V. M. I cadets, who also aided fire- men, was injured. Injuries Not Serlous. Graham Painter of Charleston, W. Va., and Wililam H. Byrns, Cam- bridge, Md., both students, were less seriously hurt. Willlam Burdette of Lexington was injured when he fell on a shattered window. His condition was not learned. Paul M. Penick, treasurer of the university, said the building was in- sured for $20,000 and the law library it housed for $10,000. The most se- vere loss was a portrait of Chief Jus- tice John Marshall, which, with a bust of John Randolph Tucker and other valued objects, was in place when the building burned The lumber yard fire, officials of the company operating it said, caused loss estimated at between $25,000 and $30,000. BLAZE THREATENS 0IL STORAGE TANKS Volunteer Companies and Wash- ington Firemen Rush to Virginia Fire. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROSSLYN, Va, December 17.—A disastrous oil fire in the congested wholesale oil district here was averted shortly before noon today by the| quick response of one fire company from Washington and three Arling- ton County volunteer companies to an alarm at the Independent Oil Co’s plant. According to J. A. Balster, yard | manager, an employe, P. English, dis- covered the fire when he took a man- hole plate from the side of a 50,000~ gallon tank containing a small amount of garoline. As the flames shot out, English rushed to give the alarm. Before the fire could spread, | firemen had it under control. In another tank a few feet from the | one in which the blaze was discovered | | were several thousand gallons of high- test gasoline. The plant is one of || several in the neighborhood, the com- | | bined capacity of which is two or| three million gallons. | The companies responding to the | alarm were Jefterson, Clarendon and | Cherrydalz departments of Arlington County, as well as Engine Company No. 5 of Washington. THE EVENING STAR, Stationer Will Play “Santa” Through Aid of “Trinket Club” P. D. Morrison, shown with toys he has collected in his store for dis- tribution to needy chiidren. —Star Staff Photo. < 'and office workers by the thousands passed near his office every day. “Why,” he asked himself as he stood \WAS the night before [ Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring—" | except a middle-aged man who had always wanted to make little children happy, but never had the money. Feverishly he was working over a broken doll, a mechanical mule that couldn’t walk, and a set of build- ing blocks he was preparing to paint. In his small way ‘)e was going to “play Santa Claus” to' his neighbors’ Kkids. That was four years ago. This week he is busy sorting toys and stacking thousands of them in a dingy back room to give them away—free— to poor children of Washington. Unable to Help. Paul D. Morrison, stationery and office supplies dealer, for many years had watched Christmas day come and go in his neighbors’ homes. Of- ten they were too poor to rob the larder for the few cents it takes to buy toys for their youngsters. The holidays passed, uneventful, for the kiddies. Soliciting money with which to buy toys was ())jectionable to Morrison. It seemed that every one was asking for funds at Christmas time, all for some worthy cause. Yet his desire to do some charitable work—to give—had to be worked out some way. 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Form a ‘club’ to make kiddies happy at Christ- mas * * *.” Customers Like Plan. He talked with his customers. They liked the idea. A club without initia- tion fees or subscriptions seemed ideal. And no matter how many toys they gave, if they knew of a needy family with several children, all they had to do was come in and get enough toys for them. And they could come back as often as they liked. Soon, one by one, passers-by stopped in his fourth-floor office at 1110 F street to leave a doll, a child’s game or various other toys. Old worn-out ones, they left for Morrison to fix in his spare time. Last year the “Trinket Club,” with hundreds of members, gave more than 1,000 toys to children here. year, with 576 members and “mem- bership” steadily increasing, Morri- son will again “play Santa Claus” to thousands of children whose Christ- mas would be spiritless without him. — TWO ARE SHOT HERE Pair Treated at Freedmen's After Receiving Wounds. ‘Two colored men, Olunj O. 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CHILDREN IN HOSPITALS WILL GET YULE TREES Washington Unit of Florists’ Group to Place Them in Wards Next Friday. Christmas trees will be placed in the children's wards of hospitals and the orphanages Friday by the Wash- ington Unit No. 1 of the Florists’ Telegraph and Delivery Association. The decorations for the trees will be furnished by the institutions and the public, Granville Gude, chairman of the District uni nounced last night. This is the sec- ond year that the association has donated trees to cheer up the chil- dren of these institutions. The following hospitals and or- phanages will receive the evergreens: Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat, Chil- dren’s, Emergency, Casualty, Found- ling, George Washington, George- town, Freedmen’s Gallinger, Gar- field, Providence, Sibley, Tuberculosis and Glenn Dale, the German Orphan Asylum, the Eastern Star Home and others. /i MENTHOLATUM Gives COMFORT Daily The Hoover Christmas wa‘—m.»moh ice at Kentucky avenue and C street southeast, fracturing her hip and re- ceiving minor cuts and bruises. Miss Paulus, according to her physi- cian, was recovering from & skull frac- ture and other injuries she received in an automobile accident while on her way home from nearby Maryland last J uly. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald Miss Mamie L. Paulus, 58, died in |has ordered an autopsy to be held in Providence Hospital early today, one | the District morgue, the date of which week after she slipped and fell on the has not been set. WOMAN, 58, SUCCUMBS WEEK AFTER FALLING Miss Mamie L. 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