Evening star. [volume], April 21, 1935, Page A-8, Image 8

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WAREHOUSE FIRE
BOWLS OVER 1
100 New York Firemen
Overcome or Injured
Fighting Blaze.
Wj the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 20.—Dense
Clouds of acrid smoke from a ware
house Are bowled over more than 200
persons on both sides of the East
River today and halted service on one
subway line between Brooklyn and
Manhattan for nearly three hours.
More than 500 Aremen, massed
around the burning warehouse on
the Brooklyn water front by an emer
gency call of seven alarms, settled
down tonight for an all-night siege
as the blase ate Its way through stores
cf rubber, creosote and paper.
Overcome by fumes that becked
into the East River tunnel of the
Broadway-Seventh avenue subway, 125
persons were treated by ambulance
surgeons and police emergency crews
at the Manhattan end.
43 Sent to Hospitals.
Thirty-seven of the smoke victims
Were sent to Beekman Street Hospi
tal, where an emergency ward was
established, and six more went to
Broad Street Hospital. Several cases
were described as serious.
In addition, more than 100 firemen
were overcome or injured by bursting
hose lines and back-draft explosions
at the scene of the blaze.
Apartment house dwellers poured
Into the street, gasping for air, as
the heavy smoke spread over a wide
area in the downtown sections of
both boroughs.
Walls Near Collapse.
A police cordon, directed by Com
missioner Lewis J. Valentine, was
thrown around the blazing warehouse
200 yards in all directions as the
walls threatened to collapse.
Service In the Clark street tunnel,.
Which carries the seventh avenue line
of the Interborough Rapid Transit
under the river was suspended in mid
afternoon when the smoke obscured
signal lights and caused near-panic
conditions among the passengers.
Trains were rerouted through
another tube.
Before the tunnel was closed hun
dreds of passengers had emerged
gasping and tear-blinded from the
Wall Street Station after the ride
under the river from Brooklyn. In
halators and oxygen tanks were rushed
to that area and most of the sufferers
were quickly revived.
Origin of the blaze was attributed
tentatively to spontaneous combustion.
BROOKINGS’ N. R. A.
REPORT ASSAILED
BY RECOVERY CHIEF
(Continued From First Page.)
the life of N. R. A. Is extended If Its
administration is left in keeping of
those who have had it now so long.
Part of the Brookings report assailed
by Richberg was put into the Finance
Committee’s record Thursday, just
after Johnson’s warm defense of
N. R. A.’s general principles. The in
stitution yesterday made public a re
sume of the whole document, one part
of which claimed that N. R. A. had
“retarded recovery” by limiting pro
duction.
Preceding the resume, the institu
tion said of its release:
"The institution announced its
complete findings in advance of sched
ule after parts of the report had be
come public through insertion in the
record of the Senate Finance Com
mittee hearing on the bill for exten
sion of the N. R. A.
"Proofs of part of the report had
been made available to the members
at the request of Senator Harrison,
chairman.”
Leon C. Marshall, member of the
N. R. A. Governing Board, was listed
among the contributors to the report.
Richberg said it was “interesting to
learn” from Brookings’ statement
that Marshall had contributed only
to the "factual content” of one sec
tion, and that George Terborgh alone
was responsible for the conclusions
“widely published as a joint state
ment of seven economists.”
Long Been Critic.
Terborgh, he said, had long been a
“virulent critic of the N. R. A.” Rich
berg continued:
“The sum and substance of his eco
nomic theory is stated flatly in the
concluding paragraphs of Mr. Ter
borgh’s last chapter, where he writes
that ‘anything which tends to freeze
the wage and price structure stl'l
further against necessary • adjust
ments in a downward direction makes
more difficult the stabilization of busi
ness at a level of full production and
full employment.’ * • •
“In plain English this is the old
deflation theory of ‘recovery’—naked
and unashamed. Cut prices to the
bone and cut wages to starvation levels
and after aU the little fellows have
gone bankrupt and labor is wiUing
to work at any wage, capital will start
a rush for fat profits and business will
revive. • * • *
“But, If economists of his faith be
lieve that the people of the United
States will accept such a program, It
ahould be offered candidly—not under
cover of a political argument that
N. R. A. is a ‘failure,’ but as a demand
that the American people reverse their
entire program of recovery * * • to
find that ill-balanced prosperity of
the last century when huge fortunes
were being made out of the underpaid,
overworked toilers on the farms and in
the cities.”
Such a reversal, Rlchberg said,
would lead "down to the brink of, or
over the verge, of revolution.” The
Brookings economists, he maintained,
"will find it hard to persuade the
American people to follow them.”
Held on Swindle Charge.
MIAMI, Fla., April 20 UP).—A man
booked aa Sal Ramagll, charged with
a $1,500 swindle in Mlneola, Long Is
land, was taken from the county jail
today by Northern officers, who will
return him to New York State. His
removal was ordered after Circuit
Judge H. F. Atkinson passed unfavor
ably on his habeas corpus proceed
ings.
Fumes Choke Subway Riders
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Smoke and gas from this burning warehouse of the New York Dock
Co., on the Brooklyn water front, seeped into the subway under the East
River yesterday, forcing suspension of tube traffic. Three fire boats and
equipment from two boroughs battled the blaze, fed by stores of paper,
rubber and creosote.
GLEN ECHO OPENING '
SET FOR SATURDAY
Pretzel Makes Appearance This
Season—Crystal Pool to
Open May 25.
Glen Echo Park will reopen next
Saturday at 1 p.m. with added attrac
tions to lure the young and old, who
enjoy outdoor amusement.
The Pretzel, which thrilled crowds
at the Century of Progress, will make
its appearance this season at Glen
Echo, in addition to over 50 other
attractions. The Pretzel Is the sport
of stout-hearted people, a wild dash
In total darkness along a steel-bonded
track, which twists and turns like
a pretzel.
Phil O’Brien will again direct Dave
McWilliams’ 12-piece orchestra in the
Spanish Garden ball room. Dancing
this season will begin at 9 p.m., and
will be a three-hour session on week
nights only.
A new three-acre parking area for
automobiles north of the gate is near
ing completion and will be ready for
the opening next Saturday. That day
also street cars will resume their regu
lar Summer schedule to and from the
park. Special round-trip tickets at
reduced rates will be sold.
Crystal Pool, where hundreds like
to swim In hot weather, will open
May 25. Admission to the park as in
the past will be free.
Streamlined Car Popular.
More than 136.000 passengers trav
eled between Oxford and Southall on
the streamlined, rail car during its
first year of operation, making the
service second only in popularity to
the Cheltenham Flyer, Britain’s fast
est steam train.
Matricide Awaits Fate.
OTTAWA, April 20 </P> —It will be
April 29 before Harold Vermilyea,
sentenced to hang at Belleville. On
tario, May 2 for the ax slaying of his
mother, knows whether he will re
ceive executive clemency. All capital
cases are reviewed by the cabinet but
a decision is not made until two or
three days before the date set for the
hanging.
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Two months ago, in the city of Rich
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bition of Ford Automobiles was inaugu
rated ... THE FORD FAIR.
A tremendous show room, devoted to
the first complete display of Ford auto
mobiles. Every type, every model, every
color... passenger and commercial, was
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exhibited. Every feature, inside and
outside, of the Ford Car was shown and
explained. The replacement board,
showing the parts that go to make up
the car... the open chassis and the mov
ing pictures, showing the assembling at
the plant.
Now .., Washington is to have such a
FORD FAIR. It took the foresight of
one of Washington’s largest Ford Deal
ers to realize the need of such a shopping
convenience in the National Capital. A
show room that would accommodate
three times the normal number of NEW
FORD CARS shown. A place where all
models stand side by side so that com
plete satisfaction and comparisons, both
as to shade and type, could be made.
HEYRY FORD
.. /orirnrd icitft Ford in 1935
Mr. Wm. J. Nolan
announces its opening
. . . invites you to visit
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and avail yourself of
the many conveniences
that will result from
this unusual exhibition.
We will refrain from enlarging on our
description (except to say that it is a
replica of the original) and we want you
to visit... at any time ... and view THE
LARGEST INDIVIDUAL DISPLAY OF
FORD AUTOMOBILES EVER
SHOWN IN WASHINGTON...
In Paris it’s the Rue de la Paix
In London it’s the Picadilly Circus
In New York it’s Fifth Avenue
... but in Washington the
Easter Parade takes place on
CONNECTICUT AVENUE
r— right past Nolan's Ford Fair 3
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Visit Nolan’s
EASTER PARADE
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display like it in Washington.