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WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, FRIDAY, XIARCH I 22, X929. THIRTY.TWO PAGES. Fall Tlf rph and Cab Service of Tbm AMOclfttcd Fr. PRICE TWO CENTS iTA TNALL 26 DEAD, DRY THRUST; IN MINE EXPLOSION til I I III II I I II I III II J. I H-TS ALf I II I II I rr II I 37 MISSING- REPORT FEDERALS GREGAIACH VICTOR RESCUE WORKERS REBUKES SENATOR WOULD LAY FOCH P.

M.G. CADET HEARS OF FATHER'S EXECUTION NEW INDEX BILLS PASSED IN SENATE OFFER SURRENDER PARNASSUS BESIDE REMAINS PI -V 'J L' vAx NO NATIONAL AT AINTREE COURSE Easter Hero Only American Owned Horse to Finish. BILLY BARTON FALLS (By The Associated Press.) AINTREE, England, March 22. Oregalach by My Prince from St. Ger-malne, owned by Mrs.

M. A. Gemmell, won the classic Grand National Steeplechase today. Easter Hero, owned by an American, J. H.

Whitney, was second in the gruelling contest while Richmond, owned by R. Mc-Alpine, finished third. Gregalach was the winner by six lengths. There were no bad accidents to mar the great race although the record field of 66 dwindled rapidly as the horses swept around the second circuit of the grilling course. Easter Hero led throughout until the second fence from home when Gregalach forged to the front.

This difficult hazard on which Easter Hero lost his chance to win the world's greatest steepleehaslng feature and the $60,000 to $75,000 that (Continued on page 2) i higFofficers OF MEXICAN NAVY PLACED ill PRISON Await Court Martial for Conduct During Vera Cruz Revolt. GIL ORDERS A PROBE (By The Associated Press.) MEXICO CITY. March 22. Six of the highest officers of the Mexican Navy were lodged In the Santiago Tla ltelolco prison here today to cwait court martial in connection with their handling of the Atlantic fleet during the revolt at Vera Cruz. The six held were Commodores Jose Maria Miranda, Teodoro Madariaga, and Arturo Lapham; Captain Rafael Izaguirre of the gunboat Anahua C.

Captain Armando Ascorve of the Naval Academy at Vera Cruz, the Annapolis of Mexico, and Captain Adan Cuellaa of the gunboat Agua Prieta. El Universal, In a late edition today, says also that Commodore Hiram Hernandez, the supreme commander of the fleet, was among those arrested. All faced immediate court martial. It is understood that President Portes Gil wishes to investigate the action of the commanders when General Jesus Maria Aguirre, executed yesterday, revolted and seized Vera Cruz on March 3. Several days after the occupation of Vera Cruz the fleet steamed out of the harbor and sailed to Tampico where Commodore Hernandez said he had been forced to recognize the rebel Aguirre in order to get his fleet out of the port and he insisted he had proclaimed his loyalty to the Government at the first opportunity.

The arrest of the men was by personal order of General Calles, Minister of War. Some of the officers are said to have signed the Aguirre manifesto, proclaiming a new regime in Vera Cruz in opposition to the Central Government at Mexico City. FOUND MISSING RUGS IN DEFENDANT'S HOME Arraigned on the charge of the larceny of four rugs valued at $105 from J. Robert Grimes, 734 West Second St. Harry Christopher, 410 Maryland Ave.

was held in $500 bail for the Court of General Sessions by Judge Lynn in Municipal Court today. Grimes missed the rugs from the Second St. house while moving from 620 West Fourth St. Christopher claimed a colored man gave him the rugs, three of which were later identified by the complainant's daughter at the defendant's home. Detectives Wallace and Virden arrested the defendant DIPHTHERIA CLINICS FOR CITY TOTS TOMORROW Two clinics of three hours duration each have been scheduled for tomorrow morning in connection with the toxin-anti-toxin treatments being given by State Board of Health physicians in the joint campaign with the local board, against diphtheria.

One clinic will be at the Public Building, city end, second floor, from 9 A. M. to noon. The other will be held from 9 A. M.

until noon at the Wesley Settlement. A physician will be on duty at each place. For safe milk and milk products call Cloyer Dairy. Adv. For your new Stetson hats Frank O'Donnell, 315 Market.

HA Contends Republicans of Each House Promised to Support Amendment. SAYS THREE ACCUSED SOLONS WERE LOYAL Led Fight to Put Hynson Bill in Committee, He Contends. (By Staff Correspondent.) STATE HOUSE, Dover, March 22. Representative Walter O. Tatnall, today, in an interview with a reporter for Every Evening, took exception to a statement attributed yesterday to United Senator Daniel O.

Hastings in which the latter termed as "a breach ot faith" the stand taken by three Republican Senators in voting to refer to the Senate Temperance Committee. Representative Hynson'a drastic prohibition enforcement bill. In defense of the stand taken by Tatnall contended that the Republican members of each house had promised to support a supposed Republican amendment to the bill in the event that it was presented. Mr. Tatnall pointed out that only a nrinr tn the refer ring of the hill to the Temperance Committeef the same tnree KepuDiican senators led an unsuccessful fight in the Senate to have the measure placed In that committee, where they felt it rightfully belongs.

Senator Green, a Republican made the motion at that time. When the bill was finally referred to the Temperence Committee, he showed that it was done on motion of Senator Elmer David, a Democrat, and It received the support of six of the eight Democratic Senators, one failing to vote and the other having been absent, The rtia RepubUcan Senators were then placed in a position where they had to stand In back of their original contention, he said. (Continued on page 2) TO DELAWARE BAR L. L. Redding First of His Race to Practice Law in This State.

Before Chief Justice Pennewill and Judges Harrington and Richards in Superior Court this morning. Louis Lorenzo Redding, colored, was admitted to the practice of law In the State courts. He is the first Negro to be admitted to the practice of law in Delaware. The petition for his admittance was presented by United States Senator Daniel O. with whom he was registered.

He was later admitted to practice in Court of Chancery. Redding is a graduate of Howard Hlgh-SiooI, Brown University, and Harvard Law School He was graduated from Brown in 1923. and taught school in Florida and Georgia for two years. He was graduated from the law school last June. The admitting of Redding was the usual brief procedure, the Chief Justice expressing to him the hope that, by his conduct as a lawyer, he would Justify his "admission.

FOUR SLIGHT BLAZES CALL CITY FIREMEN OUT Four slight fires occurred in the city yesterday afternoon. A trolley car caught fire about 3.20 yesterdav afternoon when a short circuit developed as the vehicle was proceeding on Market St. between Ninth and Tenth Sts. Sergeant of Police Arthur L. Gross, and the crew of the car.

Motorman Thomas Van Sant and Conductor George Hall extinguished the fire. It was out by the time apparatus arrived. Engine Company No. 10 extinguished a grass fire on a. pasture field at Thirty-ninth and Market late yesterday.

Another grass fire at Seventeenth and Thatcher Sts. was put out by Engine Company No. 3. An automobile owned by a Mr. Mc-Kerma, which caught fire from a short circuit while parked at Thirteenth and King Sts yesterday afternoon, was extinguished by Captain Thomas and Fireman Miller, of Engine Company No.

2. They ran to the blazing oar from the quarters of the company. 1200 King St. with hand extinguishers. Will Entertain Official.

The Shrine Club of Delaware at their meeting this evening in the Elk's Home will entertain Walter F. Fancourt, illustrious potentate of Lu Lu Temple. Mystic Shrine, and the members of his divan. A musical concert vaudeville show will be given and refreshments will be served. FOR CHARGE PAC HAD BEEN BROKEN NEGRO IS ADMITTED Youthful Son o4 General Aguirre Pays Parent a Loving Tribute "My father was a good man and a brave soldier.

In life he held my admiration and deep respect. In death I hold him in deep reverence." Attired in the natty gray uniform of a cadet at the Pennsylvania Military College at Chester, a 15-year-old Mexican boy yesterday, his heeia clicked together In true military fashion, and rigidly at attention after the regulation nalute, stood before Colonel Frank K. Hyatt, commandant of the school, and without flinching heard from the kindly official the sad news of his parent's death before firing squad of Mexican soldiers. He is Leon Humberto Aguirre, mn of General Jesus Marie Aguirre, one of the leaders of the revolutionary forces who had been captured on Wednesday, tried before a military court at once, and executed yesterday morning. Colonel Hyatt had sent a telegram to the President of Mexico asking that General Aguirre, for the sake of this boy, be spared his life and sent Into exile, but about the time this appeal was sent word came of the execution.

Losses Estimated at Several Thousand Dollars in Rural Sections, START IN DRY GRASS Suburban fire companies about Wilmington and city Jltji companies neat the edge of the eity are being "run ragged" by the most numerous, and in some caees rious, series of grass, brush and wooaC fires that this section of the Stat ls experienced for many years. Both Claymont Fire Company and the dywine Hundred Fire Companr have been answering calls to fires of the above description at the rate of two or three fires a day. The Holloway Terrace Fire Company, Mlnquas Fire Company, Cranston Heights, Elsmere, Five Points, Mill Creek, Marshallton, nearly all the fire companies in the section have been called out on a series of repeated gres that have caused damage this week alone that has run into several thousands of dollars. In almost all cases the fires have been due to the carelessness of people burning rubbish or burning of old brush and grass on fields. Locomotive sparks are also said to have caused several fires.

The most serious damage yesterday was caused at the farm of John W. Davis, on Pyle's Lane, where a fire burned off the and brush on a ten-acre field and a number of valuable dog kennels. The flames threatened the Davis home nearby. Fire On Philip du Pont Property, When fire started in the woods on the estate of Philip du Pont, at Fair-ville, yesterday, six volunteer fire companies were called, and they were busy several hours before they finally succeeded in extinguishing the fire with spades, rakes and blankets. Buildings on the property of Francis Stuart, on Boxwood Road, were nearly demolished when a grass, fire started there yesterday.

Flames were extinguished when they had reached the houses by members of the Newport, Mill Creek and Mlnquas Fire Companies. A fire on the property of John Frost at Marshallton was also extinguished by the members of the Marshallton, Mill Creek and Mlnquas Fire Companies. There were also other fires of lesa serious nature which had to be suppressed by the rural fire companies to prevent extensive damage. CONTRACT AWARDED FOR NEW FARMINGT0N SCHOOL (Special to Every Evening.) DOVER, March 22. At a meeting of the Farmington School Board Commission together with the State Board of Education bids were opened here this morning for the Farmington school building.

The contract was awarded to Andrew J. Murray, Georgetown, whose base bid was 19.500 and whose alternate bid was $500 additional. The school will be a three room brick structure. YEAR'S FIRST HAUL OF SHAD MADE IN BAY CAPE MAY, March 22r Captain Dave Gallagher of the Schellenger's Landing fishing fleet, haj brought to port the first haul of roclrftsh and three large shad, caught with his partner. Link Nettles, in Delaware Bay.

Captain Gallagher predicts that this Spring will be the best shad fishing season for more than a decade. Those much-sought fish have seldom been taken in the Delaware this early. SUBURBAN BLAZES DO GREAT DAMAGE DURING PAST WEEK TO ENEMY FORCES Possession of the City Will Give Rebels Rail Head; Naco Attack Fails. AMERICAN VESSELS DISPATCH MESSAGE Revolutionaries at Del Rio, Cananea, Await Santa Cruz Forces. (By The Associated Press.) NOG ALES, SONORA, Mexico, March 22.

Revolutionary headquarters here this morning announced that the rebel army under Generals Francisco R. Mansw and Ramon F. Iturbe, had stormed Mazatlan, strategic West coast city of Mexico. The announcement here, given out by Oeneral Francisco Borquez, did not make known, any details of the reported attack, on Mazatlan or its outcome, Borquez also announced that headquarters had received wireless messages from "American vessels" in the Mazatlan harbor saying that Federal General Jaime Carrillo who was entrenched In the city with 2.000 soldiers, was "willing to surrender the city to the attackers." The revolutionaries here did not state by what means Carrillo had made known his alleged desire to surrender, nor did they reveal the namtn of the vessels from which the messages were said to have been sent. Mazatlan, a city of about 30,000, Is 700 miles south of the border and about 600 miles from Mexico City.

It has rail connections to the national capital by way of Teple, Nayarit and Ouadalajara, (Continued on page 2) GENERAL HOSPITAL Will be Turned Over to the Management April Occupancy Month Later. The Wilmington General Hospital, regarded one of the most r.p-to-date in United States, is nearly completed. The contractor expects to turn it over to the hospital management on April 1. The work of equipping the hospital will go forward rapidly, so that within a month it will be ready for occupancy. This week the windows have been washed, and scrubbing is going forward.

Then the plumbers and electricians will do the final installation work. Plumbers and steam fitters, painters and carpenters will have finished, it Is expected, early next week. The laundry machinery has been set up and is ready for testing. The linoleum will all be laid early next week. There are 700 dozen pieces of linen ready to be sterlized and laundered and made ready for use.

Some of the furniture is already here, and many of the fixtures, and these will be installed as rapidly as possible, starting April 1. According to the contractor, Robin Hall will be turned over April 6. Already to be sterilized and laundered building and walks and drives connecting the hospital with Robin Hall, which is the nurses' home, in the rear of the hospital building, is under way. Concrete pavements will be laid on Chestnut St. and next week the amiesite will be poured on the big drive into the hospital.

Landscape work on the front vand sides of the hospital building Is going forward, and will be completed by the time the institution is thrown open to the public for inspection. According to Charle3 Topkis, chairman of the building committee responsible for the hospital, it is the last word in the construction and equipment of such an institution. TAXI DRIVER FINED AFTER CRASHING BUS John J. Kelleher, who has operated a bus line to Rockland for many years, was a complainant in Municipal Court today against John Tull, 831 Kirkwood who was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery. Kelleher is well known to many Wil-mlngtonians, his bus being stationed at Sixth and French preparatory to the trip to Rockland.

Tull was fined $100 on the charge. According to Kelleher he was in the vicinity of Fourth wharf yesterday when a taxi operated by Tull dashed past his bus and knocked off a huo cap. The witness explained that when he went to adjust the cap, Tull backed his car into him. The defendant declared that he had no intention of injuring the aged driver. Thomas W.

Richardson, of Marshallton, charged with assault and battery on Rebecca Goldsteoin, 608 West Ninth was granted a continuance until tomorrow. Stelnle's famous Hot Cross Buns every day except Monday. Adv. NEAR COMPLETION FOLLOWING DEBATE Democrats Oppose Several Measures Affecting Kent County. ANDERSON EXPLAINS (By Staff Correspondent.) STATE HOUSE, Dover, March 22.

Following considerable discussion, the Senate, yesterday afternoon, on a strictly party vote of 9 to 8. pawed several bills for new indices to be made in Kent county. After the measures had been explained for former Lieutenant Governor J. Hall Anderson, they were attacked by Democratic members of te Senate. The bills, which had been introduced by Representative Shorb, authorize the Kent County Levy Court to cause new release and acquittance indices in the office of the Register of Wills, to cause new mortgage indices to be made, to cause new Judgment Indices to be made and to cause indices of real estate assignments in the office of the Register in Chancery and' Clerk of the Orphans' Court to be made.

(Continued on page 5) BIG FLOOD OF NEW PASSED BY HOUSE Virden's Measures, 44 in Number, Acted on by Favorable Vote, TOTAL IS OVER $13,000 STATE HOUSE, DOVER, March 22. total of 44 new mileage claims bills. Introduced yesterday by Representative Virden, were passed in the House today. They represent the claims of members of the 1927 Legislature and they total $13,732.75. It Is understood that the new bills afe based on a compromise of 10 cents a mile for those who drove automobiles to the 1927 session and 3 1-2 cent a mile for those who came any other way.

Eight members of Ihe last session failed to file acy new claims. They are Senators Simontcn, II. M. Deputy, VV. Deputy, Hall and Wharton and Representatives S.

3. I. Duncan, Howard il Buctson, and William Ball. (Continued on page 19) FRANClSETAX BILLJS PASSED Would Replace Present Invested Capital Tax Provision. (Special to Every Evening.) STATE HOUSE, Dover, March 22.

Representative Brewer's bill creatiug a franchise tax was unanimously passed by the House yesterday afternoon. This proposed law is intended to take the place of the present Invested capital tax provision in the school income tax law which is eliminated from the bill which has been reported favorably in the House amending the income tax law. Representative Brewer explained the bill to the House. Under the bill a tax would be placed on corporations securing charters here according to the shares of stock issued but in no case would the tax be less than $5 or more than $25,000. The money would go to the school fund.

A substitute for the House bill to increase from 5150 to $600 a year the salary of the Game and Fish Commissioners was reported favorably tn the House. The substitute cuts the amount to $300. A substitute for Representative Smith's bill relative to certain school now attended by only descendants ue Nanticoke Tribe of Indians in Indian Rive, district was reported favorably. Negroes of the distric- 'so want their children to attend the school. The substitute leaves the matter up to the State Board of Education.

Teachers of the State are making a strong fight for the teachers' retirement fund till and members of the House are receiving many letters daiiy from teachers advocating its passage. ODonnell's suits and, top coats to harmonize with the new Stetson hat, 315 Fresh strawberry shortcake tomorrow at For lunch, try Clover Dairy cream cheese with crackers and cafe milk. Adv. CLAIMS BILLS IS FIND FIVE BODIES Miner Is Found Alive 24 Hours After BIat; Taken to Hospital. STATE, NATION PLAN PROBES OF TRAGEDY Fight Against Creat Odd in Water Filled Tunnel.

(By The Associated Prrn.) PARNASSUS, Mar-h 22 i Spurred on by the rescue alive of miner who had ben mor than 24 hours, resci crews toar? were pushing thfir way far into th r-plosion-wrecked Kinloch min'j in on effort to reach 37 men still unawvrjn-etl for. The list of known dad styyj at 26, five bodies having bn recovered early today. The fact that some of th entombed miners had greeted canvas bra-tiws in th workings, in an effort to keep out the deadly gas. led rescuers to hope that soro of thm were alive. While pushing thrown th thirteenth butt today, more than orw and one half miles from tht main slope, a rescue crew came upon Lawrence Althouse, 29, who had listed among the missing.

Althouse was wandrin? about the dark underground tunnels when found. His buddy the man who worked with him In the butt lay nearby dead. A minute after entering the emergency hospital, Althouse asked a doctor for a cigarette. As he puffed away, he said: "Gee, but it's great to see -a crowd of people again. I talked with God all night long, but it'a nice to have some one else to talk to now." (Continued on page 2 DEMPSFXFUGAZY EE TO MERGE Sign Two-Year Contract: May Promote Bouts Abroad.

(By The Associated Press.) NEW YORK, March 22. Jack Dexnpsey entered into a two-year agreement with Humbert J. Fugazy, metropolitan rival cf Madison Square Garden, today, for the promotion cf boxing matches here and in other sections of the country. Announcement of the agreement was made by Dempsey's attorneys after a series of conferences between the former heavyweight champion and Fugazy. Fugazy termed the new fistic alliance "an international combination." indicating that bouts also might be staged abroad.

CQ0LIDGE SAYS PRIVATE LIFE.pT SO PRIVATE (By The Associated Prtu.) NEW YORK, "March 22. Former President Coolidge has found tha; private life is not so private alter Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine for which Mr. Coolidge had contracted to write a series of articles, asked him how it seemed to retire to private life. "Fine," he quoted Mr. Coolidge saying, "if it could only be private.

There's no privacy about this retired life at ail." Radio Highlights S.00 P. Servic Orchestra. 8.30 P. M. A Veedol Hour Ponce Sisters; Poilock nd Icng.

3 00 P. M. WJ Wrig P.eview WCAU True itorv Hour. 9.30 P. JL JZ Philco Theatre 10.00 P.

M. A Kocak Hour; WJZ HuJon-Essx Challengers. (Complete progmia ca page CO. tmusements Tonight Shubert Plavhouse "RJr Ttita." Aidina -The Wolf of Wail Street" Savoy "Circumstantial Evidence." Arcadia "Captain Lash." Strand "The Charge of the Oiiuehvi Uarrick "The Woman Parkway "Interference." Queen Vaudeville. Weather Forecast WASHINGTON.

March 12. Weather forecast for Delaw a-rt Cloudy, probably occasional showers tonighl ai-i Saturday not much change in temrera-ture moderate winds, mostly southwest and south. Sun rewe 'his morning H. i Sun sets this evening 4 Sun rises tomorrow morning 5.5L Sun sets touMrrow evening 6.J3 ilooa set this morning a.Oi Length of day, 13 hours, 13 liitnules. 4 P.

M. yesterday Sf Highest yesterday Lowest last night 8 A. Af. today Noon today 73 Ttd at Marina Terminal. High.

Lo. A. 10.43 P. M. 11.

SO S.04 Data compiled, by U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, AG OF Veterans Suggest General be Buried Under Arc dc Triomphc. HOME OF MARSHAL VISITED BY THRONG i Rush Arrangements for Funeral to be Held on Tuesday. (By The Associated Press.) PARIS, March 22.

Mourning thousands again paid their humble tribute to the memory of Marshal Ferdinand Foch today as the nation prepared' to pay him its greatest honors, one suggestion being that he be interred beside the body of France's Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. While hundreds of mourners lined the sidewalks near his home in the Rue da Grenelle, hundreds more at the rate of 20 or 30 to the minute passed into the courtyard and signed their names to the black bordered registers placed on tables there. Tills afternoon only men wounded in the war and the widows of men who died with the colors were admitted to view the body on its sombre catafalque within the home. The body was lying amidst burning candles In a plain oaken coffin such as a soldier of simple tastes would chose. Among the visitors today was White-horse Eagle, an aged American Indian chief who stood a few minutes silently beside the body as members of the old French aristocracy and plain Republicans who knew and loved tho great Marshal.

(Continued on page 3) TAKEN AS THIEF Quality Lunch Employe Is Said to Have Stolen $202.. 60; Nickel Only Missing. John Conomon, 35 years old, a cook in the Quality Lunch. 106 West Tenth was arrested in his bed this morning by Detectives Hynson and Pierce of the Wilmington Police force, charged with breaking and entering. It is alleged that Conomon entered the lunch room at about 3.30 this morning and stole a bag of money.

A bag of money containing $202.60 was found in the cellar of the Orange St. house under an ash can. John Metaxtos, proprietor of the lunch room, claimed that he had $202.65 cents stolen from him. Conomon, who worked with the proprietor in the lunch room until 2 in the morning, is said ho have gone into the alley in back of the lunch room, jimmied the small window in the rear of the restaurant, entered, and, hiding behind the counter, is declared to have gone to the place where the money had been hidden under some furniture. When the place was robbed, detectives suspected that it was done by someone either working in the building or well acquainted with it.

They learned that Metaxtos and Conomon accompanied by a waiter, all left the restaurant at the same time. The proprietor was eliminated, the waiter proved an alibi, and Conomon was detected with the cash, with one nickel missing, in the house he occupies. RECORD FOR SPEED IS SET AS MEASURES PASS (By Staff Correspondent.) STATE HOUSE, Dover, March 22. What is believed to he a record for speed in passing bills was established by the House this afternoon twhen that body passed 44 bills in less than one hour. The bills were the mileage claims bills for members of the 1927 session and take the place of those recently vetoed by Governor Buck.

It was 11.57 when Representative Virden called up the first of the bills and it was 12.55 when action was taken on the last of the 44 bills. This included the reading of each bill and the roll call of 35 members on each bill. Some of them were read and passed in one minute flat and others one minute and a few seconds but never more than five seconds over the one minute. Harry Ellingsworth, assistant reading clerk read the bills and M. C.

Dager, chief reading clerk called the roll. Both are execepUon-ally fast readers. W. HARRY BlYTHT" DIES; ILL TWO WEEKS W. Harry Blythe, an active member of the Wilmington Lodge of Elks, died at 12.55 this afternoon in the Wilmington General Hospital following an illness of two weeks duration.

Mr. Blythe came to Wilmington from New Jersey and had been residing at the V. M. C. A.

He has a sister living in Penn's Grove. UNKNOWN NUI ESTAURANT COOK LEON HUMBERTO AGUIRRE. Cadet Aguirre was summoned to the commandant's office. He had previously expressed for his father's (Continued on page 24) THREE MEN KILLED IN $1,000,000 FIRE AT PEORIA MARKET Watchman, Two Firemen Lose Lives as Four-story Building Burns. ORIGIN IS UNKNOWN (Bp Staff Cfrrtpon6nt.) lEORIA.

HU iMar. 22. Three mm lost their lives and property valued at $1,000,000 was destroyed in a fire which swept through the Peoria Market, a four story busines structure in the heart of the busines district, early today. The Block and Kuhl Department Store were damaged as the flames for a time threatened to engulf the entire block. Tho victims were two firemen, Thomas O'Connor and Richard Teu-fel.

killed when a stairway and wall collapsed, and the night watchman, Milton Strayer, who was found dead on the second Origin of the fire has not been determined definitely. Fire officials investigating a report that a gas explosion preceded the flames. The bodies of the two firemen have not been recovered. They were buried beneath a mass of timber and twisted metal. Every fire company and all apparatus In the city were called out to combat the blaze which was reported shortly after 5 A.

M. It took several hours to bring the flames under control although the firemen succeeded In preventing the fire from spreading to other buildings. SAYS HITCH-HIKER EY' Costs J. A. Campbell, Ar-den $100 Fine to Drink With Stranger.

Jacob A. Campbell, of Arden, was fined $100 on a charge of operating a car while under the influence of liquor by Judge Lynn in Municipal Court today. Patrolman Handlin arrested the defendant several days ago near Front and Madison af-ter watching Campbell operate his automobile. Handlin declared Campbell was under tie influence of liquor. Campbell stated that he had given a stranger a "lift" en route from Richardson Park and the offered him a drink of alleged wine.

The defendant admitted atking a drink but declared he believed the fluid was "doped" as he became bewildered on Front St. CREEK BEING GRAPPLED FOR MISSING 0YSTERMAN (Special to Every Evening.) BOWERS BEACH, March 22. James Banks, a Bowers Beach oyster-man has been missing from his boat since midnight and fears are entertained as to his whereabouts. All of hisoyster equipment was found the boat. Grappling irons have been secured and a search of the creek for his body has begun.

O'Donnell's Stetson hats. Arrow shirts and stylish clothes for young men, 315 Market. Adv. Fresh strawberry shortcake tomorrow at Stelnle's. -Adv, MAD OOP.