Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1937, Page 6

A—6 * BUSDAVERSHVE 7 FRON FLAVES Operator Collapses After Helping Passengers to Safety Near Fairfax. E: & Staf” Correspondent of The Star. ¢ FAIRFAX, Va, June 1.—Tony Jen- kins, 30, of Charlottesville, aided a score of passengers to escape from his flaming bus after it caught fire last night, and then collapsed from burns. It was the second time in three days that the operator of a loaded bus had placed his own life in jeopardy in order that his passengers might be saved from death or serious injury. Jenkins, driver for the Virginia Btage Lines, assisted the occupants in fleeing through the windows of his bus after it caught fire in a three-car crash on Highway 211, just outside the town limits of Fairfax. Driver Collapses. When the last of his charges had | reached the safety of the road, Jen- | kins collapsed with burns. Landon Hoover, 40, of Woodstock, Va., driver of the car directly ahead of the bus, also was severely burned and received a cut on the head. Last Saturday, Hal Rose Burrls, 33- year-old driver for the Pan-American Bus Co., brought his bus safely into a fllling station driveway before col- lapsing at the wheel and dying a few minutes later. ‘The fire was started in the bus and the Hoover car after the bus had crashed into the rear of Hoover's automobile and telescoping it against another car which had stopped on the highway. The third car, driven by Miss Pauline T. Reynolds of Glen Carlyn, Va., was not damaged and its passengers escaped injury. Disregards Flames. In striking the Hoover car the doors of the bus were jammed so they could | not be opened. The gas tank of the Hoover car was broken open and the | gas flowed out on the highway, where | it became ignited. Disregarding the leaping flames which were enveloping the bus, Jen-} kins grabbed a fire extinguisher and | rmashed most of the windows to free | his trapped passengers. None suf- | fered more than minor scratches, Several persons who aided in fight- | ing the flames, including Fire Chief | Robert Williams, paid high tribute to Jenkins' courage in getting his pas- | sengers to safety. Fairfax firemen brought the fire under control. Company officials said 20 passengers were aboard the bus at the time. The bus, on its regular run to Charlottes- ville, left Washington at 7:30 o'clock last night. Both Hoover and Jenkins were treated by Dr. E. S. Waring of Fair- fax, Jenkins remaining at the phy- | sician’s home last night for further | treatment. His condition is not re- | garded as critical, Dr. Waring re- | ported. LEGION HEAD ASKS “T0 SAVE DEMOCRACY’ It Is Business of Country to Pre- serve Present Form of Rule, He Says. By the Associated Press. | DENVER, Colo., June 1.—A plea to “‘Save America for Democracy” was made here today by Harry W. Col- mery, national commander of the | American Legion, in a Memorial day address. | “To save the world for democracy is a noble and courageous aspiration, | but in a world constituted as it is today it behooves all of us to turn | our attention first to saving America | for democracy,” saild Colmery in 2| prepared speech which was broadcast over a national network. “If other people and other nations prefer communism, fascism or Hitler- ism, that is their business,” Colmery added. “Our business is preserving the form and institutions of govern- ment, which in a mere-century and a half have carried us to a place of leadership and contentment.” “For this,” said Colmery, “those whom we honor on this Memorial day laid down their lives.” RESORTS. NOVEL SEA SPORTS QUAINT CARNIVALS IN NOVA SCOTIA SO much that is different, awaits you here in this nearby Vacation Playground Sea Rodeo and tic Ca ls. Regattas—during ln‘{ and August—along Fundy Bay and at Halifax... See Evangeline's ro. mantic Acadia—the historic scenes of m"i"‘f Colonial days ... All these plus good living at comfortable inns and inexpensive hotels. Golf, trout fishing, canoeing, boating, camp life. Convenienttrainserviceeverywhere. 15 hours by steamer from Boston to Yarmouth; 22 hours from New York. Ask sbout All-Expense Tours. DOMINION ATLANTIC RRILWAY 50 Franklin Street, Boston, Mass. or Canadian Pacific. 14th & N. Y. Ave. ashington—or apply Travel Agent. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY Route: of the Empire Builder. Between Chicago_and_Pi £ FRE es. Fully_fl now for your copy. New En 2il, Dept. WS., Boston. Travel nerth to Canadian Nati { lea's Targost National Park via Stop at Jasper Park Lodge in the n an Rockie: always, $22-13 S, 0. W., Wash.. 0.C. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. LDENNIS LANTIC CITV &A. M. Dunn, IN THE MOUNTAINS OF VIRGINIA Bryce's Hotel and Cottages (Basye. Va.) ust before you get to Orkney Springs. . bigger and better each year. Reputation built on food Swimming pool. sulphur and iron water baths. | _sports and amuserients free Bowling, pool. dancing. tennis. Saddle horses f and ser ice. MASS MEETING SET Federal Workers to Make Anti- Economy Plans Tonight. The Committee Against False Economy of the American Federation of Government Employes will meet at the Hamilton Hotel tonight to dis- cuss plans for the mass meeting June 10 which is designed as a protest against the retrenchment program under discussion in Congress. The committee issued another statement today attacking the leader- | ship of the A. F. G. E. for refusing | to sponsor the meeting. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 22-BILLION-GALLON GASOLINE USE SEEN \"Figure Is Estimate of 1937 | Consumption—Tale of End of Supply Scouted. | BY the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June Pilot, 27, Has Trained 86. Valentina Grizodubova, aged 27, of Moscow, Russia, who has been fly- ing since she was 18 and has trained 86 pilots and instructors, has named her baby Sokolik, which means “Little | Falcon.” SIDNEY 1.—Mobile, mechanized America will | use 22,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline | this year, Fred Van Covern of New York City, director of the department | of statistics and economics of the | dAmerlun Petroleum Institute, said to- ay. an Covern is one of 400 oil men WESTinc 14th and G Sts. Summer Suits That . Shantung Silk wont let the hot days ‘get you down’’ here for the seventh midyear meeting of the institute. ‘The New York man said this year's anticipated gasoline consumption would run 9 per cent above the record set last year. Keyed with Van Covern's prediction was the statement by the institute’s president, Axtell J. Byles, also of New York City, that this year's first-quarter demand was 14 per cent over the first quarter of 1936. Similarly, Byles said, the demand for crude ofl and ite products showed an increase of 11.7 per cent. Van Covern said he doesn't pur much stock in predictions the coun- try’s oil supply will be exhausted | Within a few years. “I have been watching these statis- tics for a good many years,” Van Co- vern said, “and every now and then some one pops out with the statement our oil supply will all be gone in, say, the next five years. More Now Than Ever. “But somehow, before the five years are up, we find there is more oil in sight than before. Oil reserves are estimated at more than ever before— the figure on January 1 was 13,000, 000,000 barrels for the United States and approximately the same amount of oil exists elsewhere.” Van Covern sald the use of oil- burning furnaces in an estimated 1. 350,000 homes is helping the industry s0lve a major problem—the balancing of demand for distillate fuel and gaso- line. 1937. LIQUOR VOTE SET TODAY IN CAROLINA COUNTIES Three Elections to Determine ‘Whether There’ll Be Prohi- bition or Not. By the Associated Press. RALEIGH, N. C, June 1.—Three more North Carolina counties will de- cide today whether to continue pro- hibition as a liquor policy or to legal- ize county package stores for the handling of alcoholic beverages. They are Mecklenburg, Wayne and Wash- ington, The last week produced a wet-dry “JUNIOR MISS"” 58.95 A lovely modern mounting of solid gold set with genuine brilliant diamond. PAY 50c A WEEK OR $2.00 A MONTH. battle in Mecklenburg and its county seat, Charlotte. In Wayne County prohibitionists waged an active campaign, and no or- ganized opposition made itself ap- parent. Washington County failed to get worked up over the election. B0 far the anti-prohibitionists have the edge in elections held under the 1937 local option law. They have won in Durham and Johnston Counties. Prohibitionists have carried elections in Columbus and Alleghany Counties. Fox Tongues Believed Cure. ‘Tongues of foxes are being sought | Northern Ireland, in Tyrone County, |PURVIS’ EX-FIANCEE PLANS NEW YORK TRIP By the Assoctated Press | SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 1.— | Miss Janice Jarrett, Texas' “centen- | nial sweetheart,” who broke off her engagement to Melvin Purvis, former | ace G-man, last month on the eve of | their wedding, will spend the Summer | here with her sister, Mrs. A. J. Rum= mel, it was learned last night. Friends said Miss Jarrett will are | rive here today. Later, it was re= ported, she plans to go to New York. Miss Jarrett, former model, departed | from San Antonio abruptly shortly § where they are considered a cure for before the date set for her marriage. many ilis. | Purvis also hurriedly left the city. 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