Evening star. [volume], November 04, 1935, Page A-6, Image 6

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THIRD FIRE IS SET.
SIX DIE IN FIRST
Woman and 5 Children Per
ish in Tenement Flat
in Harlem.
Sr tha Associated Press.
NEW YORK. November 4.—A new
blaze, set In rubbish piles In a Harlem
apartment house, was discovered and
extinguished today as police searched
for a firebug blamed for a tenement
bouse fire which took six lives.
Fire Marshal Thomas Brophy said
he believed the new fire had been set
by the person responsible for the deaths
of Mrs Margherlta di Donato, 36, and
her fiw ahlldren.
Ttieir ftocnes were found in the
kitchen of their fourth-floor flat after
a fire early yesterday.
From 7 to 15 years old, the children
apparently had huddled around their
mother and perished with her while
Luigi Di Donato. 25-year-old relief
worker and sole survivor in the family,
staggered about East 121st street, too
hysterical to tell firemen of their peril.
Meanwhile, fire officials said, the
same pyromaniac was firing another
Harlem tenement. The second blaze,
started in a baby carriage, was quickly
extinguished.
The six victims of the first fire were
trapped in their fourth-floor apart
ment, Firemen entering the room*
found the bodies, some nude, some in
scanty nightclothes, piled on top of
each other in the middle bed room.
Spectacular rescues by firemen who
flambered up 85-foot ladders saved the
lives of another family of three in the
same building. Mrs. Mary Cunningham
and her two sons, Thomas. 9, and
Joseph. 6.
About 40 other tenants left their
‘'railroad" flats by rear balconies to
cross over to adjoining buildings and
to safety.
An 88-year-old woman was assisted
to the street by her son.
MAJ. HILL IS BURIED
Bombing Plane Victim Given
Military Honors.
NEWBURYPORT. Mass.. Novem
ber 4 (4>).—Funeral services for Maj.
Floyer P. Hill. Army Air Corps officer
killed Wednesday in the crash of a
large bombing plane at Wright Field.
Dayton, Ohio, were held yesterday at
the Newburyport Universal 1st Church.
He was buried with military honors
It Belleville Cemetery.
An American Legion post squad
tired a salute of 18 guns.
Russian Scholars.
Nearly 104.000 students are reported
to have entered Russian colleges this
semester.
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Sadie at Hurdy-Gurdy Ball
Beatrice Lillie, the Duke of Verdura. and Tallulah Bankhead are
seen, left to right, at Mrs. Tiffany SaportaV annual hurdy-gurdy ball in
New York Miss Bankhead appeared in the costume she wore as "Sadie
Thompson" in "Rain." —A. P. Photo.
Arlington Meeting Postponed.
LYON PARK. Vr , November 4
i Special i .—Because of tomorrow's gen
eral election the regular meeting of
the Arlington County Civic Federation
has been postponed until Thursday, it
was announced today. The meetmg
will be held in the Lyon Park Com- .
munity House at 8 p.m.
Democrats to Meet.
COLLEGE PARK, Md., November
* i Special i.—The Young Men's Dem
ocratic Club of Prince Georges County
will hold its monthly meeting Novem
ber 14 at 8 p m. in the Delta 8igma
Phi Fraternity house. Wellesley ave
nue, here. There will be refreshments
and other features.
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GIRL IS KIDNAPED
Chicago Police Seek Man
Who Held Her After
Robbing Escort.
Br tbe Associated Praia.
CHICAGO, November 4 —Mis* Jose
phine Seidel, It, was kidnaped and
assaulted yesterday In the latest of a
series of moronic attacks that has
nonplussed authorities.
Her assailant, armed with a knife
and revolver, appeared as the girl and
her escort, Urban Kimmel, 20, were
leaving a dance in suburban Blue Is
land. They drove to Willow Springs,
where Kimmel was robbed and ejected.
Despite an Intensive search by high
way patrolmen aroused by Kimmel. the
moron held the young woman pris
oner nine hours before he let her out
of the machine on the far South Side.
Although Mis* Seidel was placed
under a physician’s care, she gave offi
cials a thorough description of the
abdurtor. She reported he was about
25, of medium height and weight,
wore an onyx ring bearing the Initial
“M” and told of working in a Joliet
bakery.
Detectives have sought a man of
this general description since he
spread terror through the West Side
by whipping and assaulting several
women, within the last week one
woman was brutally beaten by an
Intruder who wielded a lead pipe, an
other was struck with a hammer and
a girl was assaulted by a degenerate
gunman who forced his way Into her
hotel room.
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MARTINSBURG RITES
HELD FOR MRS. BAYLES
Clarendon Woman, Who Died
Friday Formerly Resident of
West Virginia City.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURO, W. Va., Novem
ber 4.—Rites will be conducted here
today for Mrs. Myrtle Virginia Bayles,
26, wife of James L. Bayles, and a res
ident of Clarendon, Va., who died
Friday at the home of a brother,
Charles Penwell, this city. She had
been ill three months.
She was a daughter of S. H. and
Sarah Penwell and resided here before
moving to Virginia.
■Survivors are the husband, parents
and three children. Richard, Mary
and Betty Bayles of Clarendon and
nine brothers.
Burial will be In Jefferson County,
W. Va.
Berwyn Card Party Arranged.
BERWYN. Md.. November 4 (Spe
cial!.—The Woman's Community Club
will hold a card party in the Berwyn
School auditorium next Friday night
at 8 o'clock. There will be prizes and
! refreshment*.
65 SHRINERS SAVED
FROM ISLE IN GALE
Monte Blue, Film Actor. Among:
Group Beicued by Coast
Guard Cutter.
By the Associated Press.
SANTA BARBARA. Calif., Novem
ber 4.—Sixty-flve members of the
Royal Order of Jesters, a 8hrine fun
organization, including Monte Blue,
film actor, were rescued from Santa
Crus Island. 30 miles south of here, '
last night by the Coast Guard cutter |
Ewing, after being marooned on the 1
bleak island by a terrific gale.
The Ewing was called to the rescue
by Blue, director of the Los Angeles
Court of the Royal Jesters. Blue said
he had crossed the English Channel
many times, but the crossing from
Santa Barbara Saturday was the
"worst blow I have experienced.’*
The Jesters had gone to the island
Friday and yesterday for an initiation
ceremony at Capt. Ira Eaton's hunt- .
lng lodge.
They were caught in a terrific
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rainstorm and as they approached the
Island In the Pelican and Assje
the wind Increased In velocity.
After the ceremony Saturday the gale
allowed none to sleep.
Somerville’* Uncle Dies.
CHATHAM, Ontario, November 4
W).—Robert George Somerville, 39,
uncle of Slim Somerville, the film
comedian, died at his home yester
day.
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