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The Weather nr. 8. Westher Sanaa. Cast Laaatns Cloudiness with light, snow this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperatures.

Low tonight 16, high Tuesday 28. The State Journal Receive daily the complete new reports of The Associated Press, The United Press and Tke International News -Service. THE STATE eUWM. PRICE FIVE CENTS NINETY-SIXTH. YEAR LANSING, MICHIGAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1930 22 Paget 198 Columns ML I The National Blizzard Kills 76 in East: Red Chinese Attack Halts Allied Drive Williams Rejected By Board Canvassers Refuse Sanction Of Governor; Will Await Supreme Court Ruling Property Eoss $100,000,000 Seaboard Big End-the-War Offensive Is Thrown Into Reverse; U.

S. Troops Suffer Heavy Battle Casualties TOKYO, Nov. 27 (AP) Bugle-blaring Chinese Red attackers today threatened complete collapse of the big United Nations end-the-war offensive. Elements of two Chinese Communist armies more than 100,000 men rolled back the Allies' entire northwest Korean front. The characteristic bugle calls of the Chinese Reds pierced the frozen night air as enemy troops swarmed to the attack.

A. P. Correspondent Don Whitehead, with the U. S. Train Crash Probe Opens Gov.

Duff Declares Emergency Pennsylvania Throws All Might into Effort to Recoup from Storm PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 27 (AP) The commonwealth of Pennsylvania today threw all its resources into a drive to dig the state out from under the multi-million dollar damage caused by one of the most severe storms in history. Gov. James H.

Duff declared a state of emergency as flooding rivers, deep drifted snow and snarled communications fouled efforts to bring the state back to normal. At least 23 persons were known dead as a direct result of the storm which swept into the state Friday night and whose effects were only slightly diminished today. Here is a section-by-section pic ture of the havoc caused by the curious mixture of a raging snowstorm in the western part of the state and hurricane-like Winds and torrential rains in the east: Pittsburgh Blanketed Pittsburgh: Buried under a blan ket of 27 inches of snow, the heav iest snowfall the city memory. Transportation nearly impossible. Schools closed down.

Industrial concerns, including the U. S. Steel corporation, shut down. Washington: This city, 30 miles southwest of Pittsburgh, buried un der a fall reported at 39 inches, the heaviest since way back 1799. Altoona: Hamstrung by a breakdown of telephone service and power failures.

Lock Haven: Hard hit by flooding waters of the Susquehanna river. Three feet of muddy water swirled through the city's main street Sunday. Towanda: Cut off from the out side world for 48 hours by a fail ure of telephone service and elec tricity. Philadelphia: Buffeted by 70-mlle- an-hour winds and a rainfall that reached nearly four inches in a 24-hour period. For the first time in its 10-year history, a section of the Pennsylva' nia turnpike was ordered closed to traffic.

No cars were permitted west of Bedford and none was allowed to go beyond Carlisle (near Harris-burg in the central part of the state) unless the driver proved he intended to go no further than Bedford. A turnpike official said the 'pike was not impassable, but that other roads were and that snowbound traffic was backed up by stalled traffic in the west. There was as yet no official indication of the total damage, but it was likely to be counted at weH into the millions of dollars. Damage to telephone service alone might reach a million. The governor cut short a Florida vacation to fly home and take See EMERGENCY Page 2 Troop Train Hits Freight; 3 Hurt Cars Burst into Flames in Georgia Accident SCREVEN, Nov.

27 (IP) A troop train smashed into a freight train at a small town depot today and both burst into flames. Three persons were injured, but no one was reported killed. The troop train, carrying about 200 soldiers, was en route from Sa vannah. about 75 miles northeast of here, to Camp Rucker, Ala. C.

W. Collins, a resident of Screv en, said he heard the crash and was at the scene in a few minutes. The freight train was parked at the depot," he said. "The troop train was coming from Savannah. The trainmen told me they saw the freieht.

and tried tn atnn. 25 th division, sized up the sit- uation this way: "The big United Nations offensive to bring an early end to the Korean war was threatened with complete collaDse today. This was the stark reality of the situation after 48 hours of savage fighting. "Chinese and North Korean Red troops have dealt a stunning blow to United Nations forces. The offensive that rolled forward for two days has been stopped cold.

U. N. troops are on the defensive after giving up most of their gams. Reserve units of Americans, unt ish and Turks were rushed up to bolster a sagging 30-mile eastern sec tion of the winding 80-nuie iront stretching inland from the Yellow sea. Tne iront runs irom iu to ou miles south of the Manchunan border.

An estimated 130.000 Reds most of them Chinese in quilted winter uniforms began the counter-assault late Saturday night. Republic of Korea fR.OJt.i troops and the U. S. Second and 25th divisions bore the brunt of the at tacks, which continued with increas ing fury Sunday night. Casualties Are Heavy Field dispatches indicated heavy Allied casualties.

An indirect cen sorship settled over operations as a securitv measure. In Tokyo. General MacArthur's spokesman said the Chinese counterblows were expected. He asserted that the U. N.

offensive, which Mac- Arthur honed would end the war by Christmas, was halted "temporar ily" but "is continuing. The spokesman described Sunday's withdrawals as limited and added that, in any general advance, the foremost spearheads can be expected to be pushed back. That's what is happening now, he said. But he declined to elaborate on what was meant by Lmited withdrawals. Correspondent Whitehead said the ''reversal in battle fortunes came with startling suddenness and the Eighth army is battling to hold the southward surge of sea troops.

"There is no chance of otiensive action on this Iront until the Red attack has been nailed and a firm new line established," he added. Troops Pun Back A TJ. S. First corps spokesman said the battle-hardened American 24th division pulled back from Chongju today to protect its flank from Com munist infiltration. Communist units were seeping through the Republic of Korea First division line to the east of Chongju.

This was the second time in a month the 24th division has been forced to give up Chongju. All along the nortnvest front, hard pressed United Nations forces attempted to regroup under tne impact of a violent Communist coun terattack. A First Corps spokesman described the situation as "quite contused Elements of the South Korean second corps which were thrown out of Tokchon were trying to set up a defensive line to protect the Eighth army's sagging right flank. the west of the R. O.

K. Second corps, units of the U. S. Ninth corps 25th and Second divisions fought Chinese Reds in a fierce battle that raged throughout Monday. A sookesman said the Ninth corps' right flank had been turned at Somin.

In the north-centrai sector. U. S. See CHINESE Page 2 Observer The News Behind The Day's News LTHOUGH labors top brass refuse to admit that they have made a major blunder by committing all their eggs to the Democratic political basket cr. the single issue of Taft-Hartley repeal, a threatening revoi' among the leaders and mass membership of union locals may force the bigwigs to revise their tactics.

"Get out of part. sm politics and get back to the Gompers strategy of fighting for higher wages, shorter hours and better working conditions fv.r us on a non-partisan basis," is the theme of the workers' protest. It was heard in great, volume at the recent C. I. O.

convention, where Pres. Philip Murray defended his long-time alliance with the White House, and It has been voiced in union halls throughout the country. In post-election interviews, William Green, A. F. of L.

president, and other professional leaders agree with Mr. Murray that labor's unusual political acfiv.ty did not react adversely. Like Pres. Truman, they attribute the Democratic reverses to "local Unlike fcim, they admit that Secy. Achesori's foreign policies and the Korean setback on the eve of the voting also accounted for the looses of a pro-labor administration Dignified AfR.

MURRAY and Mr. Green base their contention that workers themselves did not repudiate their political activities by See OBSERVER Page 8 Lame Ducks Limpi ling In Truman's Short Session of Congress Expected to Fizzle Out WASHINGTON. Nov. 27 (IP) The 81st congress returns today for a short "lame duck" session and it was pretty evident the lawmakers were not in the mood to do all the things Pres. Truman wants them to do.

Republicans generally havent left much doubt that they would prefer to leave everything but emergency legislation until Jan. 3, when the new 82nd congress witn increased G. O. P. strength takes over.

Many of them subscribed to the program of Sen. Taft who when asked what he thought thej expiring congress should quipped: adjourn. The program Mr. Truman wants is pretty well known. It includes a S4.000.000.000 excess profits tax on corporations, rent control statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, relief funds for drouth-stricken Yugoslavia and probably See "DUCKS" Page 2 Accident Is Fatal To Woman (Special to The State Journal) CHARLOTTE, 27 A Ver montville woman was killed and her husband is being held by sheriff's officers for investigation loliowm! a three-car collision at the north east city limits here early Monday.

Sheriffs officers reported that Mrs. Henrietta Border, 46, was killed instantly when a car driven by her husband. Velmar. 47, was struck in the rear by another vehicle and caromed across the highway to hit a third car. Injured in the mishap were: Mrs.

Nellie Austin, 39, of Flint. Paul Miller, 20. of Pontiac. Howard Bennett. 22.

of Flint, and Harry Gray, 28, or Pruxico. Mo. They were treated at the Hayes-Green-Beach hospital here for lacerations and bruises. Officers said that Mrs. Border was tossed from the car in which she was riding.

Officers said that the car driven by Border was struck in the rear by one driven by Kenneth Bahr, 31. of "Charlotte. Border's car then collided with a car driven by Charles Bennett. 41. of Pontiac.

AU the injured were riding with Bennett, officers said. The mishao occurred about 2:20 a. m. on US-27. Coroner M.

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Gets Back To Normal Most Power, Traffic and Phone Service Restored In Stricken Areas NEW YORK, Nov. 27 (AP) Life for most of the eastern seaboard's millions was getting back to normal today, 48 hours after the great Appalachian storm spread death and destruction from South Carolina to Maine. The death list in the coastal states and New England Etood at 76, threatened to grow as delayed re ports came in from isolated areas. Some estimates put property loss at $100,000,000 in the northeast alone. Most power, traffic and telephone service torn up by the storm was restored yesterday, but many areas still were cut off mostly suffering rrom power lauure.

Thousands still shivered from lack of heat and met the darkness with candles if they were lucky enough to have them. The storm itself moved away from the coastal region Saturday night, leaving behind a cold wave that hovered just under freezing. Contrary Pattern Contrary to all normal weather movements in the northern hemi sphere, the storm's center turned northwest instead of continuing northeast. It left New York only to swing over Lake Erie, then down on northern Ohio, and then northeast again over Lake Huron, where the weather bureau said lt was blowing itself out today. Tnis was the storm center only.

Around it on all sides were rasine. snow-laden winds whirling out near ly ouu nuies every direction and hitting from Maine to the Missis sippi river at their widest span. On the storm's earlier northeast passage, the 6hore areas were ripped by, winds with gusts up to 108 miles per hour, and drenched with rain. The. deluge in the New York city watershed area alone was enough to gallons into the city's reservoirs a 25-day supply of water that was one of the storm's few.

bright spots. The heavy runoff, however, was too much for the dam that backed up a hotel's private lake at Pine Hill, 35 miles north of New York city. It tore out last night, sweeping away eight highway bridges, flooding an area 25 miles square, and isolating Pine Hill and affecting Phoenicia, Shandake, Mt. Tremper and Fleischmann. Upstate New York, the rain turned to snow and perilled at least 100 hunters in the Lake Placid-Sar-anac lake region.

Death Causes Vary Storm deaths came from manv causes. Many were electrocutions from fallen power lines. One man was killed by a falling cornice in New York city. Others drownpM. died under falling trees, from exposure, in storm-caused traffic accidents, or from heart attacks brought on by exhaustion and strain.

The seaboard death list, by states, showed New York 31. New Jersey 28, Connecticut 6, South Carolina 2, North Carolina 2, Maryland 2. Massachusetts 2, Vermont 1, Virginia 1 and New Hampshire 1. Pennsylvania, hit hardest by the storm's western onslaught, had its own death toll to add to those in Ohio and Indiana. The weather bureau said the storm was nearly a "land hurricane" and rated it the worst ever recorded in the northeastern United States.

All along the coast todav were the signs of its passage smashed beach houses, flooded flatlands, washed-out bridges, broken trees, windows and a perfect harvest of television aerials. Boat owners took extra heavy losses greatest since the 1938 hurricane. Even Manhattan's stone and steel yielded to the winds. Some whole blocks were still roped off where cornices and parts of building roofs and windows had ripped away or seemed about to give. 24, Edward 22, and Kino Mattson, 48.

Prison Fire Starts Three hundred convicts escarjed injury when flames destroyed a wooden Alabama state prison barracks near Montgomery. The fire was believed to have started from the chimney of a coal heater, overtaxed by 20-degree weather. The fire occurred before dawn. Guards and trusty prisoners awak ened the sleeping inmates. None of tne convicts attempted an escape after they left the flaming barracks.

By JACK I. GREEN (Associated Press Writer) The state board or canvassers refused Monday to certify that Gov. G. Mennen Williams was re-elected to a second term a move designed to produce a state supreme court decision on the complicated governor ship succession problem. The all-Republican board voted to ask the supreme court for a declaratory judgment as to it County Awaiting Box Collection Plans for collecting ballot boxes here and throughout the state for the forthcoming gubernatorial recount will be mapped at a conference sometime this week.

This announcement came Monday from Comm. Donald Leonard of the state police, who has been placed in charge of the collection. "Any definite word about collections must wait this meeting," the commissioner said. A story Saturday that Leonard will be permitted to enlist aid from local law enforcement officers in collecting and guarding the boxes until i recount is completed. Undersheriff Jack Lechler said Monday he had had no word relative to this chore from the commissioner.

The county clerk's office reported that the boxes would likely be stored in the second floor circuit court chamber in the county building with a guar.1 probably placed over the boxes after delivery. must certify Williams as Democratic Atty. Gen. Stephen J. Roth says it must.

Roth held the board must cer tify Williams and permit him to take office Jan. 1 if a pending gov ernorship recount is not finished. Republicans have argued that the office should stay vacant and that Lt. William C. Vanden- berg, Holland Republican, sit as acting governor until the recount is completed.

State attorneys could not recall when the supreme court has issued a declaratory judgment Fred M. Alger, secretary of state, chairman of the board, said that if the court would not accept the plea for legal guidance, the board would reconvene and make a definite decision which then could be attacked in the court. The board officially confirmed that Williams had the highest num- See BOARD Page 2 Storm Delays Some Students M.S.C. Youths Returning Steadily; Are Glad To Be Back Michigan State college students were plowing their way back to classes from a long Thanksgiving vacation Monday despite one of the most severe snow storms in recent mid-west history. By noon, college officials still were not sure how many students were snow-bound in hard-hit Ohio and Indiana, but housemothers and resi dent advisors in the dormitories reported students were coming in steadily and were glad to be back.

A check or womens dormitories women have to check in and out of their living quarters showed that slightly over 5 percent of the co-eds were stalled by the weather. The 11 womens dormitories reported 132 co-eds missing at noon Monday. Reports showed from one to 20 absentees in the dirrerent dor mitories. Sleepy housemothers, up most of the night admitting storm-delayed co-eds, expressed surprise at the See STUDENTS Page 2 rear of the house Just as Mr. and Mrs.

Loach ran out of the house with the children. Meanwhile Set. Donald Jackson of the local police department, who had noticed tne lire a oiS' tance, had radioed for the fire de partment and drove to the scene. Mr. Loacn, wno was unable to walk because of severe ourns on his feet, was picked up ard carried to the police car by Mr.

Hudson. His wife carried Susan and Mrs, Loach, although painfully burned, carried the baby to the police cruiser which took them to t.ie hospital Firemen said a strong north wind accompanied by snow, fanned the blaze into a fiery inferno, and quickly gutted the two-story frame building. They said the fire apparently started from an overheated pipe leading from a coal stove, setting fire to a partition. The house con-tamed five rooms, three on the first floor and two on the second floor. Chief Charles Decker of the fire department said the only things salvaged from the fire was the coal stove and Mrs.

Loach's billfold containing $30 in currency. The billfold was found in the smouldering embers after daylight Sunday. Chief Decker said damage to the house and contents was estimated at $5,500. He said the Loach family carried $1,500 insurance on the house. This is snowbound Pittsburgh which felt new fury today from a record snowstorm.

You're looking down Webster ave. toward downtown skyscrapers. Cars are covered with snow. A bus is ma Industry Stalled Chicago-Bound Passenger Rams Rear of Freight; Fireman Killed ANDERSONVILLE, Nov. 27 (IP) Investigators sought today to fix responsibility for a train wreck that killed a locomotive fireman and injured five other persons early yesterday.

The fireman, Thomas J. Thomas, 29, of Detroit, was killed when a Chicago-bound Grand Trunk pas senger train rammed into the rear of a freight train near here. The collision threw 30 passengers aboard tne express from their seats. Two train crewmen were hospital ized with moderate injuries and two passengers and a train crewman were treated and released. The 100-car freight train was pulling onto a side track when the passenger train roared through the snowy darkness and hit it.

The express was traveling at about 45 miles an hour. Railroad officials said the freight train should have sidetracked about 10 minutes earlier, but bad weather and a heavy load caused a delay. There are no signals there to warn oncoming trains that another train is on the main line, a Grand Trunk official said. Curtis A. Lawrence of Detroit, engineer of the passenger train, said he did not see any flares or flags before hitting the freight train.

A Grand Trunk official said, "if the freight was still on the main line its conductor should have set a flare to warn the other train. 'We are investigating to deter mine whether this had been done he said. Nearly 500 feet of track were torn up by the derailed- cars. Crews worked all day Sunday to clear the wreckage. The wreck occurred about 12 miles northwest of Pontiac.

Meanwhile the railroad rerouted its trains over the Chesapeake Ohio tracks. Searchers found Thomas' body beneath the passenger locomotive about noon Sunday 11 hours after the collision. The body was crushed, and burned beyond recognition. Authorities said they determined Thomas' identity by the process or elimination. He was a veteran of World War See PROBE Page 2 Students Return After Holiday Presumably stuffed with turkey and dressing, public and parochial students from Lansing and East Lansing schools returned to classes Monday after a four-day holiday.

Classes will keep pupils here occupied now for nearly another month, when the traditional Yule holiday win be marked. Lansing public schools close Dec. 23 to Jan. 8, parochial students will mark the holidays from Dec. 23 to Jan.

2 and East Lansing public schools will be closed Dec. 16 to Jan. 2. Vickie Loach Susan Loach and grabbed up the two children and carried them out through the naming house to the bark yard. Mr.

and Mrs. Robert Hudson of 1121 Cleveland who were driving by, noticed the house in flames and stopped. Mr. Hudson ran to the Joyce Loach Melvin Loach i ir-i The excursion boat City of New York, which runs from Manhattan to Keansburg, N. during the warm weather, was driven ashore at Keyport, N.

Saturday, after winds of near hurricane force broke it loose from its winter mooring in Raritan bay, a mile away. (AP Wirephoto. City Digs Out Drifts State Is Virtually Isolated From Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania Lansing and surrounding area were still busy Monday, digging out from the week-end's storms, and the state remained virtually isolated from its neighbors as heavy snows in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania completely blocked most out-of- state thoroughfares. While Lansing proper was cleared of snow on all streets within about eight hours after the fall ended, icy Ohio Snow Stalls School Meeting Ohio's week-end blizzard has forced postponement of the Lansing board of education meeting, scheduled Monday evening, it was learned today. Due to the fact that Supt.

Dwight H. Rich reports that he is snowed in in Cleveland, the board postponed its session until this Thursday noon, when members will confer at a luncheon at Eastern high school. The meeting will be held in the homemak-ing room. conditions brought about by Saturday night's rainfall continued to make travel hazardous on some side streets. Crews of workmen from the city public work department were called out shortly after midnight Sunday to start clearing snow from downtown streets with the city's Sno-Go, and spokesmen from the department said that the job should be completed by noon Monday.

They added that the Sno-Go will then be used to clear piled snow off curbs in the north and south sections of the city. County Roads Blocked In the county, however, some lesser roads still remained blocked. or crews from the county road commission worked overtime to open them to travel. Spokesmen from the department said, how ever, that most mam county roads were passable by noon Monday. They added that they hoped to get sanders out on the roads by Mon dav afternoon.

The state police reported that all main state roads were open but slippery, and advised against all They added that extremely poor conditions on some highways, especially in the See DRIFTS Page 2 Penn State Wins Cross Country Run Spartans Nearly Upset Lions in NCAA Meet Michigan State came within two points of upsetting highly favored Penn State in the 12th annual N. C. A. -A. cross country championship run at East Lansing Monday (Picture on Page 4) noon.

Penn State won, 53 points to the Spartans' 55. Wisconsin, the Big 10 champion, was third with 65 points. Herb E. Semper, Kansas university Junior from Forest Park, 111., became the individual champion by heading the field of 68 runners over a slippery course lined with snow ranks. 111s winning time was 20:31.7, as compared to the record of 19:523.

Warren DreuMer, the Michigan See PENN STATE Page 14 COLUMBUS, Nov. 27 (AP) Ohio's industrial might reeled today from the icy blasts of the worst snow storm in 37 years. The three-day blizzard obviously was blowing itself out. rooned. In the background at left you can see the new Mellon skyscraper now going up.

This scene is a duplicate of most any Pittsburgh street. Everything is tied up tight. (AP Wirephoto). in by Ohio Ston and rural areas there was only Thousands couldn reach many cases it didn't matter. "Manv firms were closed tor the duration.

Stilled bv snowfall reaching as high as 20 inches were many of the steel mills of Youngstown and Cleveland, the world's biggest rubber plants in Akron, the electrical plants at Dayton ana tne auto assemDimg works near Cincinnati. In Columbus, 88 large factories were shut down and similar reports came from all across the state. Cleveland Hardest Hit At Cleveland, a Chamber of Commerce business analyst estimated in dustrial shutdowns there may cost the city $10,000,000 a cay. The na tion's seventh largest city and Ohio's biggest was the hardest hit. See OHIO Page 2 Four Are Seriously Burned as Flames Destroy Home Here "But the brakes wouldn't hold.

iravei. Fires Throughout Nation Bring Quick Death to 12 But in the snow-clogged cities paralysis of normal movement. their daces of employment. In U-M Given 0. K.

for Rose Bowl CHICAGO, Nov. 27 (P) The Big Ten today voted to send its newly-crowned champion, Michigan's Wol verines, jnto the Rose Bowl next New Year's Day. K. L. (Tug) Wilson, conference commissioner, announced the outcome of the Big Ten ballot and said that H.

O. (Fritz) Crisler, Mich igan athletic director, and Ralph W. Aigler, faculty representative, have been notified. Under provision of the Bowl agreement the faculty representative of each member institution participates in the balloting to select the Big Ten After last Saturday's concluding games of the 1950 season they wired their votes to the conference office and rated three teams in the order of their preference. The vote tally was not disclosed nor was the order of selection after Michigan.

This January's game marks the fifth and last engagement between See Page 2 Reope: ningDec.1 For Percy Jones CHICAGO. Nov. 27 (IP) Fifth army headquarters announced today that Percy Jones army hospital in Battle Creek, will be ready for occupancy Dec. 1. Its ultimate capacity will be 1,500 beds.

The institution, formerly known as Percy Jones General hospital, was one of five closed last spring by the defense' department. After the outbreak of the Korean war. it was placed on a 6tand-toy basis. trainmen jumped and the train crashed into the freight." Burning oil from the Diesel engines spewed over the depot and cars of both the troop train and the freight. The depot and several cars of both trains were Army authorities at the scene said all the soldiers were accounted for.

Several had bruises and minor cuts, but none was reported seriously hurt. SANTA SAYS: V- Better be sure than sorry 90 do Christmas shopping now. SHOPPING DAY! TO CfijUfTMAS Two children and their parents escaped with their lives, but were seriously burned when their home was destroyed by fire here early Sunday morning. Firemen listed the victims as Mel-vin Loach, 30. of 4615 S.

Pennsylvania his wife, Joyce, 23, and their children. Susan 3, and Vickie, 5 months old. Mr. Loach 6uffered second and third degree bums to the face, feet, hands and back. His condition was (Picture on Page 3) reported as "critical." The mother received second degree burns to the arms, chest, face, hands and feet, and was listed as in "good" condition.

Susan K. was reported in "poor" condition with second degree burns to the face, hands, left leg and thigh, and little Vickie sustained minor first degree burns on the head. All were hospitalized at Edward W. Sparrow except Vickie who was given treatment and taken to me home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

George Olson living at 426 Beech st. Authorities said a third child, Judith, 6. was visiting at the home of friends at the time of the fire. The parents apparently were awakened "by smoke in the house (By the Associated Press) Fires in eight states caused at least 12 deaths yesterday and destroyed more than $3,600,000 worth of property. Among buildings hit were a Minneapolis hotel, a Hyannis, lodging house, the Arizona State Hospital for Insane, two college dormitories and a prison barracks.

Fifteen persons suffered injuries. Four persons died in flames that swept The Tower, a residential ho tel in Minneapolis, six persons were injured. The hotel occupied the top three floors of a four-story building. The dead were listed as Nels Olson, 55: Henry M. Jemmings, 67; Mrs.

Edna Sell, about 45, and an unidentified man. The property loss was expected to reach more than $500,000. In Hyannis, flames gutted a two-story wooden lodging house causing the deaths of Joseph M. James, Jr. A lire raged lor three hours and whipped through three blocks of buildings in Moultrie, Ga a cotton and peanut center in the southwestern part of the state.

No injuries were reported but damage was estimated at more than Fire departments from six towns, and hundreds of volunteers See DEATH Page I.