WEATHER JUNE 14 DAILY PAPER IN THE OVER 5000 DAILY m Birthplace of OU tad Gai VOL 65 NO 174 PA SATURDAY MORNING JANUARY 4 1930 U S CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON IS SCENE OF BLAZE Fire Rages For 30 Minutes About Great House Documents Are Burned FLAMES ORIGINATE IN ARTISTS ROOM Twenty Fire Companies Quickly Respond and Confine Blaze To Document Room Ity Associated Press WASHINGTON Jan 3 Flames shot skyward from the capitol of the United States tonight in a blaze more spectacular than that which ruined the White House executive offices on eve After 45 minutes of desperate work firemen extinguished the fire in the studio on the top floor of the house side just to the west of the huge white dome For a while de struction of the document room where historic records of the nation are stored was threatened were damaged by water and smoke Carl Moberly one of the artists was carried unconscious from the studio Investigation of the cause of the fire late tonight was awaiting his ery Flames shot from the roof upon the dome of the capitol as firemen sped from of the city The firemen experienced great dif reaching the studio with water because of the small corridors and winding staircases to the fourth floor where it is situated Twenty minutes had elapsed before water could be played from the long hose lines rapid ly strung together Strung Over Ladders Meanwhile ladders were reared up the white sides of the building and over these more hose was stretched David S Lynn capitol architect and police immediately began an investiga tion to determine the cause of the blaze It was said that a lighted cigar ette might have been responsible The alarm was turned in at 7 p m by member of the capitol police force whose attention had been attracted by some time before the source was determined A general alarm brought companies from all corners of the city Fire Chief Watson announced the flames had been extinguished 45 min utes later Me estimated the damage as slight and the figure was placed at by Lynn Water Rushes Down Water rushed down the stairways of all four floors some seeping into the private offices of members of the su preme court and various representa lives Among these was the room of Representative McFadden of vania who to the capitol Rep Cramton of Michigan also was there The numerous figures in statuary hall and the oil paintings in the cor ridor many of them depicting the history of America were unharmed is 61 years removed to a hospital as soon as his condition warranted Dr George W Calver navy physician assigned to the house of representatives said the ar was in such a condition that any thing he might say as to the origin of the fire could not be depended upon The fire tonight was the third since August in the structure where the leg business of the nation is trans acted Then a carelessly thrown cigar ette lighter a trash box on the south side of the building and only about a week ago another trash box was ig in the house office building by a cigarette There was no damage at the other two fires but they caused some ex Lands Plane on Mowing Machine Postpones Trip MIAMI Fla Jan Alicia Patterson writer flier and daughter of Joseph Medill Patter son Chicago and New York publish er landed her plane en top of a mowing machine at the municipal air port here today Two city em ployes were injured not seriously Miss Patterson and her father leave tomorrow on an air tour of Cuba She indicated to night however the flight would be postponed In private life Miss Patterson is Mrs James Simpson Jr FERRY STRIKES AND SINKS TUG Child Says Mother Shot Trooper STRICTER DRY POLICIES NOW CAPITAL ADD Would Make Liquor Buyer Guilty of Conspiracy to Transport RULING IS ASKED OF SUPREME COURT Eighteen Men Are Thrown Into Bad ly Hurt HEAVY FOGTs BLAMED Here is Donald Schroeder of Benwood W Va who told police his mother Mrs Irene Schroeder pretty young divorcee shot a po The woman is wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Corp Brady Paul of the Pennsylvania state police on the highway near Butler Pa Dec 27 The child is shown here with Chief of Police Frazier of Wheeling W Va t Press NEW YORK Jan about in a dense fog two miles off her course the municipal ferry William R Hearst rammed and sank the tug Mutual today at Beards dry dock Brooklyn Eighteen men were thrown into the water and four of them members of the tugs crew who were dragged down as she was crushed between the ferry and the breakwater were badly in jured Two hundred passengers aboard the ferry became frightened but were quieted by tiw crew before anyone was injured The Mutual and several other tugs had crept up to the breakwater through the fog and tied up there to wait until they could see their way cut Suddenly the big ferry loomed up ancl there was a crash Captain Is Rescued Caught between the ferry and the breakwater the tug was crushed and sank carrying down her captain Harry Bass and his crew of seven The impact also threw ten men who were standing on the breakwater into the water The ferry turned on her big search lights and threw lifelines to the Mutuals crew the others in the wa ter having managed to scramble back onto the breakwater without assis tance hurt in the collision Cap tain Bass failed to grasp a line an drifted out cf reach Captain Bennett cf the tug tied up alongside Mutual leaped into the water swam ever and brought him ashore unconscious Ke and three members of his crew who also were seriously injured were taken to a hospital the fog another municipal ferry the Rodman Wanamaker ran aground on a reef east of Governors island Neither the William R Hearst nor the Rodman Wanamaker was ser iously damaged and both continued in service after the accidents Belgian Princess Leaves For Marriage in Italy BRUSSELS Jan 3 AP Princess Marie Jose tonight rode away from her native land in a sumptuously decorated royal train for Italy where in the normal course of events she will one day share the throne The official party journeying to Rome for her marriage to Crown Prince Humbert on next day occupied three trains They left here in close succession after p m with the exact route to be followed withheld from the public in order that there might be no chance of an antiFascist demonstration which might endan ger the life of the 23yearold princess TRIGGER WOMAN Wheeling Police Find Dress Believed Discarded by Blonde Slayer FOLLOW TOLEDO CLUE NEW fU Associated CASTLE Jan Irene FLASH OF METEOR SEEN EULY Observed in Northern Ohio and Western ville Sees Glare CLEVELAND O Jan The startling appearance of a large meteor in a brilliant MOVIE PLANES IS LOCATED BOMB SENDER NOT YET FOUND Investigation Develops Little Headway in Maryland Tragedy DEATH TOLL NOW AT 2 SEAT PLEASANT Md Jan of police that an arrest wouldbe made in the New Years Day bombing which took the lives of a young bride and her infant sister had not been fulfilled tonight as prepar ations went forward to bury the vic tims of the fatal Christmas package in the same grave Despite three days investigation by Maryland state police assisted by Dis of Columbia detectives the iden tity of the person who sent the gaily wrapped high explosives to the bride of Herman Brady at the home of her father remained hidden behind the evidence left in the wrecked Schroeder socalled blonde trigger woman wanted in connection with the slaying of a highway patrolman re mained a despite a week of unrelenting search by police of three states Two men alleged to have been with the woman when Corporal Brady Paul was killed and Private Ernest Moore wounded near here last Friday also being sought Authorities today continued to run down clues as to the whereabouts of the trio Police of Wheeling W Va said they had found a dress believed to have been discarded by Mrs Schroeder while she was in this section last weekend to leave her 4yearold son with relatives The dress was located in a hotel room The Schroeder child who had trav about the country with his parent has been quoted by police as saying his mother shot two cops The child ac cording to investigators also revealed the womans companions as her broth er Tom Crawford and Glenn Dague It also was mentioned in police cir cles at Wheeling today that Mrs Schroeder might have gone to Ala bama where she was known to have several months not long ago Clue Leads To Ohio TOLEDO O Jan state policemen two from Pennsylvania and one from West Virginia were in Toledo this afternoon seeking clues to Plans Are to Have Divers Try to Find to Twisted Mass SANTA MONICA Cal Jan submerged wreckage of the two motion picture airplanes that col and plunged into the sea in flames with a loss of ten lives yester day was located about 400 yards off Rocky Point today and efforts were started to recover the bodies of the seven missing victims Pilots of two navy planes spotted the wreckage Immediately water craft engaged in the search sped to the scene and dropped grappling hooks in an attempt to lift the locked remnants flimsy home Two suspects were said to have been placed under surveillance but the few nails a small coiled spring bits of brown paper in the dynamite j was wrapped and tales of jealousy sur rounding the marriage of the slain j bride had not provided the investigators with the evidence they needed to make an arrest j Results of the autopsy performed on the girl principally for the purpose of obtaining bits of the metal which tore her body to pieces were held secret by investigators and the corners jury awaited completion of the police probe before making a formal finding Meanwhile with the death toll standing at two Litte Dorothy Hall aged four hovered on the verge of joining her oldest and infant sisters in death Mrs Nora Hall and two sons were said to be recovering stream of fire was witnessed early toi of the two air cruisers day by hundreds of persons in north Failing in efforts to raise the wreck Ohio and western Pennsylvania So age to the surface it was planned to far as could be ascertained tonight the use divers to make a search for bodies meteor burned itself out while passing believed to be imprisoned in the burned i Doran Says Less Industrial Alcohol Will be May Head Committee Hy WASHINGTON Jan strin prohibition enforcement policies were undertaken today by the Justice and Treasury Departments as the cap itals controversy over the liquor situa tion continued to seethe The Department of Justice asked the supreme court to rule that when a per son gives a bootlegger an order requir ing transportation of the liquor he is guilty of conspiracy with the bootleg ger to violate the prohibition law Prohibition Commissioner Doran an that an agreement had been entered into with the industrial alco hol manufacturers to reduce this years output of alcohol by 15 percent Leaks of industrial alcohol have been pointed to by dry leaders as the main problem of prohibition enforcement Secretary Mellon returned to his post and announced was stand ing behind the coast guard crew which killed three men on the rum runner Black Duck in a chase off Newport last Sunday He insisted the guards men acted wholly within the law Watch Developments At the senate where the quarreling of Republican drys over the Hoover administration enforcement policies started the agitation over prohibition the ceased as each side watched developments There were indications that Senator Fess of Ohio would be the administra tion choice as chairman of the pro posed joint congressional committee to study reorganization of the enforce ment post that Senator Fess has proposed be tendered to Sen ator Borah of Idaho chief critic of the Hoover enforcement program senator declined to discuss the possibility of his appointment as chairman of the committee beyond saying he did not want the task and would take it only under compulsion President Hoover had Senator Fess as a guest at dinner tonight at the White House Senator Capper of Kansas another dry also was a dinner guest Hughes Prepares Brief Senator Borah who has called for a cleaning out of the governments enforcement personnel from top to bottom smiled warmly at the Fess suggestion that he be made chairman He commented only that I am deeply moved by the solicitude of my friend from Ohio Solicitor General Hughes prepared the brief for the supreme court ask ing it to reverse the decision of the circuit court of appeals which held that Alfred E Norris a New York banker was not guilty of conspiracy in ordering liquor from a Philadelphi an If the purchaser carries liquor to his home the brief said he is guilty of the crime of transportation and while he keeps it he is guilty of the crime of possession If a purchaser agrees and cooperates with the seller to have the liquor transported not to himself but to a friend it seems clear that he is guilty of a conspiracy to transport We submit that there is no reason why the fact that the agreed transportation is to himself makes him less guilty Whether or not the national pro act makes the act of pur chase a crime of itself a question which is not involved in this it IN HITS BUS AND KILLS TEN BOYS AND Cartoonist Dies Clare Briggs creator of many news paper cartoons including When a Feller Needs a Friend and Mr and Mrs died at the age of 54 yesterday in New York City He was one of the best known of the modern day cartoon ists the whereabouts of Irene Schroeder and two men wanted in connection with the killing of Corporal Paul of the Pennsylvania highway patrol near New Castle a week ago today The officers examined clothing left by a blonde woman and a man in an automobile abandoned here after the holdup of a grocery store three days before the Pennsylvania slaying A boy about 4 ears old accompanied the manifestly does not invest the pur bandits who escaped in an automobile with any special immunity from CURE BRIGGS PASSES AWAY Well Known Newspaper Car Dies After Long Illness WAS 54 YEARS OF AGE IS it Associated Press NEW YORK Jan A Briggs newspaper cartoonist died late this afternoon at the Neurological institute after a long illness He was 54 years old Mr Briggs had endeared himself to the hearts of many thousands of newspaper readers He was the crea tor cf When a Feller Needs a Friend Aint it a Grand and Glorious Feel ing How to Start the Day Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Mr and Mrs and sev eral other cartoon series He was bom at Reedsburg Wis on August 5 1875 He attended the Uni versity of Nebraska and on July If 1900 married Miss Ruth Owen of Lin coln Neb They had three children He was employed at various times on newspapers in St Louis Chicago and New York Mr Briggs also was the author and illustrator of several books His home was at Park New N Y His wife was granted an tory degree of divorce in the supreme court at White Plains N Y last Feb ruary For two years before that time they had lived apart under a separa tion decree Eleven Others Are Injured in Crash at Grade Cross ing Near Woos ter 0 ON WAY BASKETBALL GAME At Least Three Girls Among Dead While Two of Three Girls Injured Will Die By Associated WOOSTER O Jan of death swooped into knight ana witn one grim sweep the lives of ten boys and girls and seriously injured 11 others At Shreve O a little village south of here a Pennsylvania burst out of a sleet storm to roar murderously into a bus bearing 20 high school youngsters of Burbank O returning from a basketball game at Big Prairie Shouts of laughter and cheering died on smiling lips as the engine of the flyer tore its way through crumpled steel and human flesh The driver Joseph Baker 50 in whose care the youths had been entrust ed was alive after the crash but the shock of the tragedy temporarily bereft him of the power of coherent speech He could only mumble unintelligibly and groan in answer to the question of how the accident occurred He died later Identified Dead The identified dead among whom are at least thre girls are Claude Repp 17 Eugene Talley 17 Wayne Baker and a boy by the name of Leh man The injured who have been able to give their names from their cotsin Wooster and for whom hos pital attaches hold little hope forre covery are William Baker Emil Charles Packard Donald Lehman Lola Talley condition serious Ellen Cow hick bruised and cut will live Grace Flory leg broken in two places and other injuries condition serious and Maurice Lenz coach of the basketball team cut about the head condition not serious At the City two of the three injured girls will die authorities At another hospital two girls and two boys were said to have a chance to live At Shreve railroad officials said that apparently Baker had not seeh the on coming train through the storm and had started across the track directly in front of the engine The bus was hurled more than a hundred feet down the track V Hoover Makes Statement Bated on Surveys and Reports From Several States stolen from a Toledo man The stolen car was abandoned after the New Cas tle killing HIT 13V AUTO DIES BLAIRSVILLE Jan Fred H Williams fiO cf Parnassus died in a hospital today from injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile last night while crossing a street here the consequences of doing which beyond question are made crim inal Investigating Shooting The treasury is making an Continued on Page Six STATE BRIEFS J fit HURT CUR IT CENT CITY Pl Flash in j yip f Admits Killing OI Flash in sky and JOHNSTOWN Jan Man Assaulting attributed to meteor are Lenart 8 was fatally Central man Companions imported seen and heard city today when struck by an BALTIMORE Jan for Price 35 negro tonight confessed of all state banking by an bile while on the way from school report on Guy E Hosteller 20 of Cairnbrook through the earths outer layer of at and shattered planes police the slaying of Reuben Heyman and the assault on Mrs Dorothy Bur and did not hit the ground The mine sweeper Brant and the after he had been At Greenville Pa however the tug Salt both from San bv a policeman during a run of the meteor was harbor were prepared for diving oner nied by a detonation and distant ble which made it a possibility that a j crews of two speed boats which part of the flaming mass reached the wreckage with grappling earth Witnesses of the phenomena at hooks said it was located in about 450 Harrisville Pa said its light was so of water much too deep for a brilliant they could not ascertain the tions as of Dec 31 is issued PHILADELPHIA Dynamite was the driver of the car He was not held An inquest was set for to morrow Hostetler is a teacher in the schools direction it from At Norwalk O the flaming body was described as colored both red and blue Clevelanders said the meteor ap between and a m and that it lighted the city brilliantly diver to reach the bottom Lad Killed as Cars Are Being Shifted at Cresson MEADVILLE Jan I CRESSON Jan 3 AP Merle North 9 was killed tinder a western Pennsylvania early today wit the fall of a meteor apparent ly of unusually large size string of empty coal cars today while playing along a siding at Cresson col lieries No 0 near here The cars There was a brilliant flash which were being shunted into a tipple posi sky as if it were daylight lion at the time of the accident Tho This was followed by a distant nimble boy died at an Altoona hospital sinick by aili automobile ning gun fight at the Pennsylvania j in register of wills office railroad station at during which he was probably fatally wound ed The policeman Talbott was slightly wounded MAN HURT IN BLAST SANTA CLARA Cal Jan terrific gas explosion today shat tered the fronts of seven stores on Santa Claras main street broke win dows over a radius of seven blocks and 10 a in nit sion shatters door at home of clerk of shade township Somerset Lads Rightfully Arrested But Wrongfully Docketed prohibi Kelley tion administration says information has come to him showing bootleggers and racketeers acting on inside in formation from mysterious source BALTIMORE Jan Em mitt J Codd 20 and Dorsey Burgoyne 21 arrested several days ago and dock eted at police headquarters as held for York Pa authorities in connec tion with a holdup today were released and found to have been rightfully ar rested but wrongfully docketed The warrant on which the youths C C Hays I were arrested was issued by Pittsburgh INDIANA Jan Johnstown president of state It grow out of a fight in a nsh 32 of died in a I Saloon League in annual report to Pittsburgh hotel and added hospital hero today from injuries of league says there is a it later had boon dropped after respect for prohibition had with police of injured fatally seven persons one probably were preparing to take the lid off in Philadelphia with beginning of 1930 for concentra tion of all state offices located in Phil adelphia in single building is icd INJURIES ARK FATAL DOTH IN SAM FRANCISCO Jan Three men died on the gallows in Cal today Anthony Brown and Poy Stokes being executed at Fol scm prison for participation in the fatal riot there on Thanksgiving Day 1927 while Lazarus convicted Oakland bank robber went to his doom at San Quentin penitentiary Brown and Stokes two of six con victs sentenced to death as ring lead ers of the Folsom outbreak which cost 11 lives exhibited an air el brag up to the last and died un flinchingly Lazarus walked up the scaffold with a sickly smile on his face and ap resigned to his fate Through Rabbi Rudolph Coffee cf Oakland he sent word tc his mother that he went to his death smiling WASHINGTON Jan 3 President Hoover said today drive for increase in improvement work to unem ployment was showing most ing results with indications the undertakings would be larger in 193 than in 1929 His statement made at the regular Friday press conference C basea upon surveys and reports from a num ber of state governors and the railway and public utility industries which show a total contemplated ture of Complete returns from 16 states and partial returns from 13 others showed that the total value of the public works to be undertaken by those states and the counties and municipalities within them together with federal government public works would total Prince of Wales Leaves For African Hunting Trip SOUTHAMPTON England Jan Prince of Wales sailed today aboard the liner Kenilworth for Cape Town South Africa to resume the hunting trip that he ab ruptly broke off when King became seriously ill more than a year ago To the accomplishment of cheers and friends and the strains of God Save The King the prince went on beard the Kenilworth Castle about p m The hawsers wore imme cast off MEADVILLE Jan ard Quinn of today was bound over to the February term oC criminal court charged with larceny Quinn and three other men are alleged to have staged a daylight robbery on Nov 20 last of the store of Frank Vernier at and to have obtained in cash and merchandise GIRLS ARE ARRESTED CARLISLE Jan girls were arrested here and were being taken back to homes They we Dorothy Blair 19 and Esther Straightiff 14 The Blair girl was said by Carlisle police to have escaped from the Oct 31 while her companion ha been missing from her home since They were apprehended in a rooming house here Now Years Day when ho wis out this state the Pennsylvania city BOND ISSUE APPROVED HARRISBURG Jnn Westmoreland county was granted per mission today by Secretary of Internal Affairs James F Woodward to float a bond Issue of for the rebuild ing of county and improving highways BIG THREE GUESTS PHILADELPHIA Jan Senator Joseph R Grundy Governor John S Fisher and W L Mellon for mer chairman of the state Republican committee will be the M a dinner to be by Jay prominent banker at home tomorrow night