Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1937, Page 4

A—4 xx THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, MENE MINE BLAST FATAL 10 NINE PROBED Report Ventilating Fans Had Been Cut Off Is In- vestigated. BY the Associated Press. DUBOIS, Pa., March 29.—District Mine Inspector Tom Lewis said today | he was investigating a report that | “ventilating fans had been cut off”” for several hours in the Kramer mine, where two miners and seven rescue workers died in two explosions. | Lewis, in charge of the Dubois area | in Northwestern Pennsylvania, said he had been told the fans were idle | “from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday | (two hours before the first blast) be- cause of a change at the power house.” Ordinarily 800 men work at the mine, but because of the five-day week | Senator Boy Again at 72 fewer than a dozen men were there | M Saturday when the blasts tore through | the northwest corner nearly 2 miles | back in the shaft. Last Body Recovered. Rescue workers who had toiled steadily for 27 hours brought out the |CLEVELAND POLICE SEIZE MAD CHEF Investigation of Eight Torso Mur- ders, Still Unsolved, Is Begun Anew. BY the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, March 29.—Investiga- tion of Cleveland's eight decapitation slayings since September, 193¢, was revived today when police held & 26- year-old unemployed chef who went mad near the scene of the killings of Kingsbury Run. The man, a butcher knife in hand, went berserk in an East Side neighbor- hood about & mile from the desolate creek where six of the bodies were found. ‘W He barricaded h mself in his rooms | after throwing residents into terror. Police, called by distraught neighbors, watched as he broke 12 windows, & stove, & chest, an ice box, a bed and an oak dresser. While four policemen held his at- tention by daring him to cut them with the long knife, a fifth crept into the room and knocked him unconscious with a mop handle. The man was taken to & psycho- pathic ward and placed in & strait- jacket. He was unable to talk ra- tionally and questioning was delayed. c your BRIGGS BOLOGNA Is U. S. GOVERNMENT INSPECTED A member of the Bureau of Animal In- MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1937, DOUBLE INSPECTION DOUBLE ASSURANCE last body—that of Francis Dixon, Du- | p bois, early today. . - e Dixon and Thomas Heberling were | | WALL PAPER 000 mewubiful patterns 0 select rom. noug! or room 102 seat $1.50 MORGAN’S Paints and Hardware [| 421 10th st. 'N.w.”""NA. 7888 dustry of the Depart- ment of Agriculture in- spects ingredients and plant. killed in the first blast as they tool an empty coal train into the min operated by the Northwest Mining & | Exchange Co Sight hundred feet neare: the en- trance lay the bodies of seven men who had sought to rescue Dixon and Heber- | ling, but werc hurled to death in the | second and heavier explosion about | four hours after the first. | They were John McHenry, Dubois; Andrew O'Connor, Punxsutawney; George Hill, Dubois; Steve Yasenchak, | Stamp Creek: William Lewis, Punxsu- tawney; William Laird, Big Run, and ‘William McCracken, Dubois, assistant foreman. Only a few people stood about the entrance of the pit as workers carried out the bodies. Most of miners had left the village, 8 miles south of Dubois, over the Easter holiday. Describes Discovery. Leslie Nedrich, one of the rescue workers, described the discovery of the seven in the first rescue crew: “We found McCracken, Laird and |the safety record esablished during Yasenchak huddled together. | the last five years. The rate first fell “O'Connor and Hill were 150 feet | below three fatalities per million tons | farther in the mine. Lewis and Henry | of coal in 1932, he said. Last year 1t had been wn into a side entry.| was 2.65 per million tons. Lewis lay face down, with his coat | over his head, as if he had tried to | avoid some blow. ‘O’Connor also lay in almost the | same position. It was the only indi- | cation we found that any of the men | foresaw their doom.” Three Varieties HAM-PIMENTO-VEAL No wonder it tastes so good! Briggs uses nothing but pure selected meats and the finest seasoning. And there can be no let down in quality because Briggs Bologna is DOUBLY INSPECTED—once for the ingredients and then for grad- ing. In this way you are sure of getting a product of the IT IS U. S. No. 1 GRADE—the highest. 7 SERVE VEAL It’s One of Today’s Most Economical Meats And you'll find nothing but the finest quality milk-fed veal in our markets. Veal prices are down—serve it Tender Veal Cutlets - _ - 39¢ Rib Veal Chops - - - - 3l¢ Shoulder Veal Chops - = 23 Loin Veal Chops - - - - 35¢ Breast of Veal Shoulder Veal Roast e BRIGGS BOLOGNA Is U. S. GOVERNMENT GRADED After being inspected, Briggs Bologna is graded by a grader from the Bureau of Economics. It must grade U. 8. No. 1 the highest. ~ ADV ERT]SILME\ T His Best Friend Told Him It was his wife, and she told him the truth. But she didn’t say he had “bad breath.” Instead, she said, “My dear, you need E-Z Tablets.” A hint to the wise is sufficient. Don’t wait for some | one to tell you. If you feel sluggish, headachy, dizzy or bilious, due to con- _His 72 years weigh lightly on Senator E. D. “Cotton Ed” Smith of South Carolina. Here he is playing leap frog with Miss Lillie Mae Garrett at Greenville. He thinks Supreme Court justices should be retired at 75, not 70 as the President proposed. Spring base ball training brought out the Senator, who years ago was the original swat king on the Lynchburg pasture dia- monds. Ph.oto by Carter Lahmer EATING, CONTRACTORS & ENGINEERS E.J. FEBREY & CO. Est. 1898 finest quality. R, /// i A / o ESTABLISHED 1865 @ 7 || SERVICE ‘ ~ Of Paramount Importance . A FURNACE LIFESAVER You'll think %o, too, if you phone us when' your furnace needs attention CALL NATIONAL 8680 POSSIBLE BLAST CAUSE. e The value and long life of any The Bureau of Mines said today || 7/ business depends upon the ’ the Kramer, Pa., coal mine explosion |} °° SERVICE it renders. Barker last Saturday probably was started by sparks from an electric trolley points with pride to 72 years Daniel Harrington, chief of the | of prompt and accurate service to all buyers of lumber and millwork, both large and small. GEO. M. BARKER ® COMPANY o LUMBER and MILLWORK 649-651 N. Y. Ave. NW. 7 ) 1523 7th St. N.W. 7 % NA. 1348, “The Lumbu Number* 7 EVERYTHING WASHED & IRONED Economy Finished Service 10.51.30 Dupont’s economy finished service is a splendid laundry bargain. Flat work and wearing apparel finished by hand at no extra cost. Men’s Shirts, 7c ea. ex. Minimum Bundle, $1. Z RIDS FINEs THe woR! oToR 0': MOTOR OlL. 30,4 ifl 5 Donest BAYERSON °||. WORKS oLUMBIA bureau’s safety division, said six in- | spectors were investigating the dis- | aster, which cost nine lives in a series of two blasts. The bureau saia | the second blast probably was set off | by the first one. 17 Bureau experts ascribed a blast av (| 7 Logan, W. Va., two weeks ago 10 | electric sparks. Harrington said more than 90 per cent of the coal mines in the country use electric trolleys listed as ‘“non-permissible” by the bureau. 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