Republican Press, The (Newspaper) - February 11, 1926, Salamanca, New York OF TED ASSOCIA PRESS CIRCULATION Average for 2392 Year No 243 SALAMANCA N Y THURSDAY FEBRUARY 11 1920 IN 1925 EVER Associated Press Washington Feb euin output of Stales ing 1020 is believed by the jj pn ot lwo Illon Minos lo have all previous Singles Copies a Week By Mail a Month BODIES OF TWO MEN POUND IN AUTOMOBILE j BOOTLEG FEUD THEORY Associated Press 0 Feb The COAL PARLEYS Operators and Miners Com- with Flames destroy Strand Theatre menacing iness District and while thai Blaze is at Its Height Wells Garage bursts into Flames LOSS ESTIMATED AT ABOUT FALLING WALL INJURES SEVERAL Family in over Garage barely escape in Night Clothing with Mercury 4 Towns asked to send Aid Two fires involving a total loss roughly at and in which several persons were injured two of them seriously enough to be hospital patients today destroyed the Strand theatre building street owned by the Schine company and the 1 E Wells age Broad streel last Members of the Andrew family who lived in one of the ments over the Wells garage escaped from their home in night clothes and Mrs stepped on- to the lop of an automobile driven close to tlie building and were saved Firemen Injured Six persons are said to have been injured when cement block wall of lie Strand collapsed at about 2.30 Hiis morning Those seriously injured were Krwin Waite 20 years old Summit street of left leg Edward T Myers 17 street injuries to bolh legs Claude Perrigo Summit street eral bruises Some of Ibe lighting the blaze in near zero er suffered from frost bile Waito a volunteer Salamanca man and Myers a paid fireman sli are in Claude volunteer was able lo leave the ho afler receiving treatment an to continue tlie fin Bernard Valley ed injuries to his feet contusions an burns on bolh hands He receive dressings at he hospital Howard of received injuries to both fort able lo leave John of Lillle Valley hai his hand frozen and went to ill for a dressing All the men injured arc said io lum been hurl while fighting the fire at tin two fires about half a mi from each other and in sec tions of the rily separated by Allegany river gave local more than they could handle and ai was summoned from Little Valley Olean and Bradford Basement in Flames ud in a week burled spot for 12 hours They are workin Northeastern United Stater two on Hie theory that a liquor feud was i leei of look 1C lives and held drenching il received Monday night Miss Helen Schwenk who lives al 21 Maple first discovered lire it is said and called firemen by telephone Her attention was rd by Ibe barking of a dog and look- ing out she is said to have seen lwo men emerging from alley which runs from Maple to theatre building She saw the smoke from he blaze and turned in the alarm This was about 10 minutes after 10 When firemen arrived they found the fire well spread through he basement the virtually hours Adding lo heavy snowfall of lale last which look lives in Kasl I slorm clinked responsible for Ibe of men last night's conflagration completely wiping out the theatre stocky of the stores the building housed and the furniture of upwards of nine families which had been stored in the ment W L Trass manager of the Theatrical Company owners of the building the loss to his company at this including the building insured and the equipment ami lures of the theatre and dance hall the amount of Insurance on which more could not be learned here It is be- Hie loss is well covered by insurance Tlie stock of the II K shoe store on the ground of tlie Strand building suffered the next Just what Ibis would amount to could not he definitely learned carried insurance on tlie stock it is said Effort to recoup Revenue I- Losses Associated Washington Senate vote Snow was general from western Pennsylvania and tomorrow on passage of the tax West Virginia to Atlantic tion was forecast today by coast Early Passage posal to increase bile Speed Limit to 35 Miles Albany Feb 10 Ihc Lower time the scene is again In where the negotiating committee of the operators and the of the miners art assembled hut not In direct touch with each other operators are In the lon the minors in tlie ford across the street Both sides de- ny there is anything directly pending between fact each gave the samp reason for assembling legislative matters of an hour it was possible fo Washington Feb Senale added lo its The Strand fire broke out about 10 o'clock and I lie building damaged in a fire Monday complete ly gulled so I hat only sections of the walls remain standing Firemen by an alarm at 10.10 found be a mass of lames to file flamer there proved fu When fire was at iis height the flames beginning lo break through the roof Wells garage a large two slory frame structure was dis- covered to be on ire and tlie second alarm of the night was turned in This burned rapidly ing at least four automobiles ery slock and fixtures of tlie garage and all the belongings of the Andrew and Emory Simmons ilies who occupied apartments on the second floor At about the time that the garage walls fell in Ilio flames caught on ho residence of Dr C A Lawler next door nml burned woodwork about the windows before were ed Thin residence a frame structure which had been veneered wilh brick successfully served as a barrier lo further spread of he flames by snow on roots which pre- vented sparks from selling other houses on flro Otherwise it is ed the row of frame residences among them some of the finest in Gome Articles Al Niles whose shop was located in once used as a city hall almost a Joss of his stock ami estimated a Ho carried no insurance Mr Niles succeeded in carrying some of slock to safety Taek who ran a shoe re- pairing shop in the building estimates his loss at with no insurance In falling the chimney on Strand building through the than an hour however when the ax reduction today after voting lo fiames began lo break through the j roof Sparks were carried on the wind in loward cast and fear was pressed for nearby buildings The calion of the fire threatened the side business rout as the taxes on automobile first len flays of February While are in Canada forecasters see a headed thai way While a rancher was ing grasshoppers as an indication Ihal and trucks admissions i winler was over 10 inches of snow was and dues were voted out ot tlie in rapid order adjournment was laken Snow on the roofs however mini tomorrow when Chairman Smool the between home and the First M K church would been destroyed Losses are Heavy Nearly of the loss as roughly estimated was re- sult of the firo at Strand theatre roof of of Mrs Gary Horth avenue immediately in the rear of the causing able damage lo house The nifuro in Hi bouse was oil as well Mrs Cary carried ance on bolh the residence and ture Upwards of nine families had part of it valuable antiques in I IIP Strand The of Hie loss on his and insur anco not be foday Tlie loss of Ibis maj swell damage considerably J E Wells Loss loss in the fire which destroyer J E Wells garage is roughly at Mr Wells owned building on which carried Machinery slock ind fixtures were covered insurance Two dies known o have been destroyed in be wore Insured for Mr owned lie new cars Two owned by M 1 Edmunds and Heigle They were All of furniture and other of the and lions families were An- carried inee on his nnd Simmons carried insurance There was no show or dance in strand theatre building last night and mass meeting for men and boys held n the theatre was over some little inie before the blaze was discovered nd all of the had left Probe Origin of Fire Some aspects of the fire lead lo lie belief that it may have been of origin A member of be re commission Hint was investigating to de- if possible the cause No signs of fire were observable in the theatre during the lime mass meeting was in progress and Assistant Fire Chief Andrew declares that there was no sign of fire when ho Inspected the building shortly after he mass meeting was aided firemen Garage Catches Fire II was just as the flames were be- ginning to break through that the garage was discovered to bo on fire The alarm was sounded Little Valley Olean and Bradford were called on for aid Little responded at once and j sent a truck wilh hose a big need at bat time When Iho Little Valley firemen ar- rived Hie two story frame building bousing Wells garage directly falling in Philadelphia and final passage was sought but afler considerable debate it was placed on calendar for Monday night be- cause Assemblyman was not Assemblyman John Boyle Jr of Suffolk declared during the course of discussion on that it inviting the very tiling we are at- ton 11 C wilh a fool or more further of the Finance Committee announced i slorin now headed norlheaster- to of children by speeders The Senate received a able report from its Finance lie would ask for reconsideration of in the Atlantic ocean whipped huge j tpo llc some of be actions taken and for a final vote on the Repeal of Jho inheritance lax vided for in he as presented to the Senate by ils finance committee was approved to eighteen joining with 31 Republicans in supporting the proposal Declaring it a damnable outrage lo lake lax off the ator Couzens Republican Michigan seas and drove shipping lo shelter I for e.v- station C 126 was a loss ani or Uie across the from the home of Hon A T was a mass of names Night Clothes Mr nnd Mrs nnd heir lwo children one aged about -1 years Hie less than a year were one of I lie Republicans who it went ashore on the Rhode Island The crew of six escaped Railroad suffered heavily hough energetic snow removal lie quickly Freight on the New York New Haven Hartford railroad was badly ed and passenger rains of Ibe Washington Feb of the federal government are taking a very active interest in the renewed negotiations for peace in the anthra- cite Industry Although President Coolidge apparently is not prepared to abandon his policy of tion mediators of the Labor De- are concerning themselves directly peace discussions and proposed plans for settlement are receiving careful scrutiny In high official circles Secretary Davis dis- cussed the situation today with ident Coolidge Harrisburg Feb Negotiating of the anthracite operators and miners would be called on by the Pennsylvania legislature to resume negotiations at once and to remain in session until an agreement is ed under a presented in he House today by the Committee on Mines It was laid over until the next session which wil Ibe held Monday night system this year aro a f received the approval of lwo wen Smith Republican loaders Lapt year a similar measure was passed by both Houses but by the Governor who objected o a vision Ilif Land j lie approving body for park land pur Scranton Pa Feb 11 Two men from stab beaton up in a clash between several hundred men coal bootleggers at dale today Police rescued Thomas nnd ns they were at- tacked by ho crowd while hauling an fo two billi i com- fn f fls wpg ns iancu levy than Ind a of burgh licans in voting with an almost solid lor of the taxes acted upon On ahead and ruin your fiena in when the fire tor repeal of r-n I Several small towns were cut off from world by the drifts prising fhe Governor and men of the Senate and Assembly ance Committees having been i bags of coal from a dump i FRED HEIL ALLEGANY HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGE Alleged Proprietor of Road The storm caused a railway compulsory physical House arreSted by near for all operators and in which 50 persons were hurt ope I chauffeurs of motor vehicles and for Two Boarders fined for Thefts car lax of all street cars and rapid have relatives Mrs Simmons and the Simmons and dues also proposed by Senator King was accepted by a vote of to mis Simmons and tlie Finance voted aie in Wesi Pa Mr Rimmons was not at home al iime of the fire Mr Wells was up own firemen fichl at Ibe lo CHI in revenue annually from this lax by exemptions of tickets costing 50 cents and less lo tickets costing 75 and less COASTGUARD PATROL peal of the tax adds to tlie when Ins lire says of bis em- ployes who was in I lie of th total reduction The commit lee had voted to re- aimed in order lo prof ret lives distilled spirits pedestrians and oilier automobilists bottles home brew two barre about 150 partly Under another measure lo lie with wine There was a 1C foot BOAT GOES ASHORE y Assemblyman Landau next i jn iho place anil two rooms were I week marriages lie void if mted with three small tables each traded by persons under 1C years of i The sheriff was accompanied by Sam New London Conn Feb age and void for persons between the I Locke Krie railroad at guard patrol boal attached lo I ages of HI and IS unless consent of it I olean who had a warrant for Mark base here was Ibis i least one of Hie parents of Williams and John Ryden who on eastern end of Long Island son had been The consent part of Hie time They garage first discovered Iho blaze j pPI afler been missing nenrly 21 of a judge of children's court stealing coal from which in the southwest cor- trucks which II was j Hie of Hie county in i me They were arrested and ner of the in or near tlie charging room Fed by oil and grease on the and an old frame building as fuel the flames spread rapidly Within a short lime after the alarm was turned in the building was a mass of flames ing up the sky more than did flic fire morning during Ibe slorm In- lo by telephone hut thin was voted down 54 to K s quired under measure 12 The House also has voted to re- peal the present 3 per tax on trucks The as il stood tonight pro the person resides also would lie re- arraigned before Justice of the Peace P Clairs of Allegany charged with Representatives of Hie slate larceny and were fined vides for lofal tax reduction of or 1 is high and dry out of immediate j and railroads met in j They paid the lines danger and the crew is safe i ence yesterday over tlie Hewilt intended to provide machinery for I out the grade h Today in Washington at Strand theatre Wind born I today announced j ed last fall and found themselves in j Tax fight continues In Senate more lhan 1 Albany Fell Secretary of State crossing elimination bond issue over about o'clock Mr through the basement where most of the fire Monday night was confined and where tlie fire started last night Manager Trass of Andrews adds lo this that one of his mtn was in the sparks were extinguished by fhe snow on Hie roofs of nearby bouses Little Valley Aids Lillle Valley firemen made Hie run from Hie village in record lime limit of tax reduction set by Secretary or K n Backer of Buffalo as accord in practically all of second deputy Secretary of Stale features of plan embodied Mellon 1 House leaders already have served notice hoy would oppose repeal of the i lax and il is said by some driver of one of I wo trucks had I in his face frozen il is said and j was taken to Iho for ment as soon as he arrived At mid- according Ho the temperature fill be the lion of Mark Slern of to the bl wi Somc on j Feb 10 Under provisions of the ure Ibe Public Service Commission Conservation Conference con- cludes House takes up War Department Appropriation Continued on Pace 7 Only Four for Child Labor Amendment Washington Feb stales have rejected or postponed tion on proposed Child Labor to the Constitution while only four Arizona Arkansas nia and Wisconsin have approved it Kellogg today informed the House the linal disposition of tile provision j Washington agreement for for a retroactive reduction on the of Hie debt lo Hie United higher inheritance rates provided States was ratified by Hie Chamber of tlie revenue act and which Deputies today was approved today by the Senate Gasoline Tax Hearing Feb 16 Gasoline Goes Up Albany Fell has been New York advance of set as the date for a hearing oo the one-half cent a gallon in the price gasoline lax hills introduced this railroad tank car gasoline at York Philadelphia and all Atlantic terminals was announced by the Sinclair Company The new price la 12 cents Another Car Kgg screened coal wonderful for hard per Ion de- livered Call SKI Ip would designate Hie crossings which Kobinson coal considered by which public safely demand shall be Senale committee Tlie in accordance j Military and committees of wilh Iho bond issue amendment is lo House resume defense hearings be borne lo the extent of 50 per cent by the railroads per cent by j slate and a like amount by the Other provisions on the cial phase of the proposal are also In- cluded e j fl l- i Lockport Boy Hangs Self Fell by his mother for losing money given him to buy groceries IS year old Frederick Smith banged himself tote after- noon from it tree back of the farm barn East Feb 11 275 slow steady 100 active and 3200 slow best grades steady to strong lights to 10 lower Sheep and COO slow and unchanged
