The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-07-16

Fire vohnteers from station No. Z
responded to the alarm. They were
followed y police officials who declare
they fouh quantity of excelsior and
several ans of open kerosene. Sus-
picious ctions on the part of CAN'T led
to his lrrest. His son is alleged to
have tod police that he had struck the
match emitting the oil and waste.
Subsequent investigation, police say,
develoed that CAN'T had 81 900 nsur-
ance I'D that his lease on the storeroom
had epired.
Firehen Arrested.
d. III. Achord. "a years old. former
fireTn at headquarters station, and
Living at IA Linden, was arrested with
Dalks V. Stocks, 10, and Floyd Nav, II.
bot living at 831 Linden, following the
reprt of false alarm from a Beale
aVnue boarding house.
Pohce officials are reticent in dis
clSslng the evidence leading up to the
arrest but declare that confession
lad been made duplicating the trio.
Inc raise alarm was telephoned and
declared Freeman's restaurant on Beale
avenue was on fire. After the run, no
IRE could be found. The arrests were
made by Lieut.. Hovle and Detective
oerVeants Hecklo and Peters.
TWO former firemen James Mona
ghan and Frank Wigal, were arrested
early Friday morning at No. engine
mouse, charged with assault and bat
terry against Leon Oppenheimer, a vol
unteer at the station.
. Two other firemen accompanying
tnose arrested made their escape from
lhe house after the assault although
several shots were fired after them
IL Is alleged that Monaghan and Wigal
entered the station to get a drink and
became involved in a controversy with
Onnenheimer
Two fires kent the volunteers busy
durlng the night. The first was a
small blaze IN Chelsea which was ex-
unsulshed with no trouble. The second
alarm Of the night came from the
Sledge & Norfleet building on South
Front street. Here blazing cotton, with
dense clouds of smoke kept the volun-
teers occupied for some time. After
difficulties to be expected due to un-
familiarity with apparatus, the fire was
ee,Xtinguished with loss of not more
than 81, 900.
A large crowd gathered at the Front
street fire. These were for the most
part curious to see the volunteers in
action: Slight difficulty was encoun-
tered in raising ladders, but they were
soon in place and steady streams play
ing on the blaze made short work of
what might haves'dcv cvefoped into a Sc
George r. James, w. r. King, Clar-
ence DeVoy and Mavor Paine gave per-
sonal direction to the volunteers, and
with increased water pressure the fight
was a short one. -
Report Regularly.
Reports of equipment missing at one
or two Of the stations later were de-
clared unfounded. The volunteers,
numbering 600. reported regularly and
the different shifts were maintained at
maximum strength. Testing of appa-
ratus in all houses has given the
rockies a working knowledge and this,
with instruction from some of the vet
eran firemen of other days, has placed
them in good position to combat any
fire.
Guards were detailed Thursday night
TO patrol duty on the downtown streets.
Armed guards recruited from citizens
performed patrol duty in the Twentieth
ward Thursday night. This patrol was
formed following a meeting at the home
of S. NJ Williamson.
Members of the Nineteenth andtTwen-
tieth Ward Improvement clubs are
asked to attend meeting at 8 o'clock
Friday night at Maury school. 1t is
proposed that action looking to protec-
tion Of property and patrolling of dis
tricts viii be taken at this meeting.