Evening star. [volume], June 01, 1937, Page A-6, Image 6

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BUS
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Operator Collapses After
Helping Passengers to
Safety Near Fairfax.
a St»" Correspondent of The Star.
,, FAIRFAX, Va., June 1—Tony Jen
kins, 30, of Charlottesville, aided a
•core of passengers to escape from his
flaming bus after it caught Are last
night, and then collapsed from burns.
It was the second time in three days
that the operator of a loaded bus had
placed his own life in jeopardy in
order that his passengers might be
saved from death or serious injury.
Jenkins, driver for the Virginia
Stage Lines, assisted the occupants in
fleeing through the windows of his bus
after it caught fire in a three-car
crash on Highway 211, just outside the
town limits of Fairfax.
Driver Collapses.
When the last of his charges had
reached the safety of the road, Jen
kins collapsed with burns.
Landon Hoover, 40, of Woodstock.
Va.. driver of the car directly ahead
of the bus, also was severely burned
and received a cut on the head.
Last Saturday, Hal Rose Burris, 33
year-old driver for the Pan-American
Bus Co., brought his bus safely into a
filling station driveway before col
lapsing at the wheel and dying a few
minutes later.
The fire was started in the bus and
the Hoover car after the bus had
crashed into the rear of Hoover’s
automobile and telescoping it against
another car which had stopped on the
highway. The third car, driven by
Miss Pauline T. Reynolds of Glen
Carlyn. Va., was not damaged and its
passengers escaped injury.
Disregards Flame*.
In striking the Hoover car the doors
of the bus were jammed so they could
not be opened. The gas tank of the
Hoover car was broken open and the
gas flowed out on the highway, where
It became ignited.
Disregarding the leaping flames
which were enveloping the bus, Jen
kins grabbed a Are extinguisher and
smashed most of the windows to free
his trapped passengers. None suf
fered more than minor scratches.
Several persons who aided in fight
ing the flames, including Fire Chief
Robert Williams, paid high tribute to
Jenkins’ courage in getting his pas
sengers to safety. Fairfax firemen
brought the fire under control.
Company officials said 20 passengers
were aboard the bus at the time. The
bus, on its regular run to Charlottes
ville, left Washington at 7:30 o'clock
last night.
Both Hoover and Jenkins were
treated by Dr. E. S. Waring of Fair
fax. Jenkins remaining at the phy
sician's home last night for further
treatment. His condition is not re
garded as critical, Dr. Waring re
ported.
legionIeadasks
‘TO SAVE DEMOCRACY’
It Is Business of Country to Pre
serve Present Form of Rule,
He Says.
By the Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo., June 1.—A plea
to "Save America for Democracy" was
made here today by Harry W. Col
mery, national commander of the
American Legion, In a Memorial day
address,
"To save the world for democracy
Is a noble and courageous aspiration,
but in a world constituted as it 1s
today it behooves all of us to turn
our attention first to saving America
for democracy," said Colmery in a
prepared speech which was broadcast
over a national network.
"If other people and other nations
prefer communism, fascism or Hitler-,
ism, that is their business,” Oolmery
added. "Our business is preserving
the form and institutions of govern
ment, which in a mere century and a
half have carried us to a place of
leadership and contentment.”
"For this,” aaid Oolmery, “those
whom we honor cm this Memorial day
laid down their lives."
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MASS MEETING SET
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Economy Plan* Tonight.
The Committee Against False
Economy of the American Federation
of Government Employes will meet
at the Hamilton Hotel tonight to dis
cuss plans for the mass meeting June
10 which is designed as a protest
against the retrenchment program
under discussion in Congress.
The committee issued another
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Falcon.”
Figure Is Estimate of 1937
Consumption—Tale of End
of Supply Scouted.
Bt the Associated Press,
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo , June
1.—Mobile, mechanized America will
use 22,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline
this year, Pied Van Covern of New
York City, director of the department
of statistics and economics of the
American Petroleum Institute, said to
day.
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The New York man said this year’s
anticipated gasoline consumption
would run 9 per cent above the record
set last year.
Keyed with Van Covern's prediction
was the statement by the institute’s
president, Axtell J. Byles, also of New
York City, that this year's first-quarter
demand was 14 per cent over the first
quarter of 1936.
Similarly, Byles said, the demand for
crude oil and ite products showed an
increase of 11.7 per cent.
Van Govern said he doesn't pur
much stock in predictions the coun
try's oil supply will be exhausted
within a few years.
"I have been watching these statis
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some one pops out with the statement
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the next live years.
More Now Than Ever.
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are up. we find there is more oil In
sight than before. Oil reserves are
estimated at more than ever before—
the figure on January 1 was 13,000,
000,000 barrels for the United States
and approximately the same amount
of oil exists elsewhere.”
Van Covem said the use of oil
burning furnaces in an estimated 1.
350,000 homes is helping the Industry
solve a major problem—the balancing
of demand for distillate fuel and gaso
line.
LIQUOR VOTE SET TODAY
IN CAROLINA COUNTIES
Three Elections to Determine
Whether There'll Be Prohi
bition or Not.
B» ths Associated Press.
RALEIGH, N. C, June 1.—Three
more North Carolina counties will de
cide today whether to continue pro
hibition as a liquor policy or to legal
ize county package stores for the
handling of alcoholic beverages. They
are Mecklenburg, Wayne and Wash
ington.
The last week produced a wet-dry
battle in Mecklenburg and its county
seat, Charlotte.
In Wayne County prohibitionists
waged an active campaign, and no or
ganized opposition made itself ap
parent. Washington County failed to
get worked up over the election.
So far the anti-prohibitionists have
the edge in elections held under the
1S37 local option law. They have won
in Durham and Johnston Counties.
Prohibitionists have carried elections
in Columbus and Alleghany Counties
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Fox Tongues Believed Cure.
Tongues of foxes are being sought
in Tyrone County, Northern Ireland,
where they are considered a cure for
| many ills.
PURVIS’ EX-FIANCEE
PLANS NEW YORK TRIP
Ej the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 1.—
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nial sweetheart,” who broke off her
engagement to Melvin Purvis, former
ace G-man, last month on the eve of
their wedding, will spend the Summer
here with her sister, Mrs. A. J. Rum
mel, it was learned last night.
Friends said Miss Jarrett will ar
rive here today. Later, it was re
ported, she plans to go to New York.
Miss Jarrett, former model, departed
from San Antonio abruptly shortly
before the date set for her marriage.
Purvis also hurriedly left the city.
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