Show BOLD PlOT TO FIRE CITY SUSPECTED lOSS GREAT I Two Tro Principal Business Blocks Are Arc Gutted With Over Damage Martial l Law Is Proclaimed i SUSPECTS ARRESTED x ONE DEAD SCORE HURT Succession of Explosions in B Buildings Indicate VI Work rk of Enemy y Agents Ja Jackies ackies li s sand and Marines l on Guard Gual d NOR OLK Va Tan Jan 1 Early Early tonight tonight tonight to- to night the thc fire which destroyed the Monticello l hotel and several other buildings here today to ay broke out anew and ancI got be beyond ond the control of the combined fire departments of Norfolk Nor Nor- folk Portsmouth and Suffolk and naval naval naval na na- na- na val fire fighters Several marines on guard duty and two firemen were caught in the falling walls of the Lenox building on Granby street Three were brought out seriously in in- in Rescuers led by were trying t to l bring out the others lYO Nearly two blocks In the heart of ot Norfolk's business district Including the Monticello hotel were destroyed one man was killed and a 3 score scora or more Injured In a series serle or of explosions and fires today which both the tho police and naval authorities believe were ere diary The fire tire had been checked to tonight tonight tonight to- to night but nut still was burning fiercely In Inthe Inthe inthe the ruins The loss Is roughly estimated I ed cd at nt moro more than Three distinct explosions In as ns many man buildings one after the fire tire once had virtually been brought under control led to the general belief beller that enem enemy a agents were rere at nt work Mayor Mayo pla placed ecI the city under martial law and somo 2500 marines and from nearby naval stations assisted the police and ancI home guards in maintaining or order er and preventing vandalism Arrested d. Patrols rounded up suspicious p persons persons per per- r- r sons throughout the afternoon while five live men were arrested as suspects Two of ot these Hugo Schmidt and H. H K KLessing Lessing Leasing said to be Germans wore turned over to department of ot justice agents Tonight there were reports that two Germans had hall been shot by bv sailors during the dy but neither the the police pollee nor naval authorities would confirm confirm con con- firm them The started before dawn In the theold theold old ohl Granby theatre on Granby street and gained rapid headway as tho the firemen firemen fire tire men were handicapped h b by frozen fire tire hydrants low los water pressure and near zero temperature It quickly spread to the tho Monticello hotel and other near near-by y buildings in the block It was wa brought ht under control lato late In the day dart but broke out Rn anew w earl early tonight leaped across Granby street and levelled half halt QC of the thc block there before being checked 1 Killed d. d Falling floors and walls took toll of oC firemen anti and naval guards One fireman fire fire- man Charles McCoy McCo McCowas was killed kille and sev seven n others hurt in tho the collapse of an upper floor Clour of or the Monticello hotel In Inthe Inthe Inthe the day and tonight two firemen and several sailors Bailors ve were o caught In a fallIng falling fall- fall Ing ng wall of ot the tho Lenox building Three were brought out badly hurt hint but two others were left in the debris Firemen of oC Norfolk Portsmouth and Suffolk with organized sailor fire brigades brigades bri bri- gades fought heroically amid Ice and blinding smoke and led tho the rescue work when the fighters tighter were trapped Several of the firemen cau caught ht In the tho hotel were brought out alive e through h the thc daring of or a score of oC the tho jacl Jackies Reports as uS to o the tho number of ot explosions vary Yary It was first said that tho the fire tire In the Granby theatre had followed followed fol tol- lowed an un explosion but Fire Chief McLaughlin McLaughlin Mc- Mc Laughlin and naval Investigators announced announced an an- nO tonight ht that this was wa pot not the however there chore have enl ease They said ald been three separate and distinct ox- ox ox- ox in cloak doak al ami The first was a Continued on P Page Pago gt 2 2 rT A A l FLAMES RAGE IN NORFOLK VA Continued From Page I 1 1 hat whop shop near the time Monticello The second see sec ond wn was on tie time the sixth floor Coor a of that hotel after the tho first r t fire was j Cre practically der control and the third in the Under un Un- Lenox building which later laer was as destroyed tests JJ Flee e In Cold Guests Guest from the time Monticello forced to floe Cee In iii tho biting cold who were ere of or tho dawn after they had the tre burn Were ere taken talen watched the time theatre thea thea- care by hom homes and rind hotels of or In nearby nearby near near- er or 11 building went As building aft aft- ar- ar apartment hou house e. e down lown scores coreS with wih were them an homeless and tho the made national or ory in iii City Hall guard armor arm arm- laJ avenue a open to them was thrown workers There during the tho late da day Red Cross Cros and other oIlier after them and also volunteers look looked d supplied coffee sandwiches for tor the naval and patrols and firemen who from front their were wore forced Corcel to seek Heek rest rest flames fames gruelling work against tho the When hen the firemen r responded to the alarm tot for the time theatre fire they thay found round Cro all ni hydrants in iii tho time vicinity frozen Fires In tho the had llad me meantime to be lie built buit the time to firemen thaw them out on helplessly h looked while the big building burned When water theatre I finally came canto the J i pre pressure streams was so low loW that would not reach roach t to uS' the stories of the upper burning building and tho fire tire soon oon was beyond control control J Tire Fire Sinus I Portsmouth time the Elizabeth river ri I was nus called caled upon for aid and thi the the theIre 1 Ire was checked until falling sparks sparks' i I fired the Monticello tred where time man many ot of of guests had hall gone back to bed In iri the tue belief belef that the fire was controlled They Time were soon forced to turn out a again go in inThe Th The combined departments apparently ap- ap were ral snaking making ln good headway a against the UtE flames omos when the explosion occurred In the tIme cloak shop hop and another blaze started Suffolk then timeR was asked for or aid alii and rushed ap ap- ap to the time cf city I by train In Iii the meantime the naval na authorities at the navy yard yami and amid naval base offered aid and aimi scone scene ire fire brigades were soon on the Take Charge When hen the lie explosion occurred this time In the Monticello Mayor Majo put the time naval authorities In char charge Time They placed patrols throughout th the c business district threw a cordon of or marines an and ets around the tire fire district and nd be began nn picking up tip perSons perSons per per- sons unable to account for themselves Department of oC justice agents Joined with wih the city detective force In seeking seek seek- ing Ins to unravel the time m m ter of or the tho explosions ex ox Three of oC the men arrested were placed place In iii the time city Jail jai an and federal fedEral fed ted eral Eral agents took charge chan c of ol the tho other two to Schmidt and The latter later officers said first himself a as a department of ol Ju Justice tco official in Fire Tu TURK Tugs Fire tugs from Crom tho time na navy yard ard carl early in th time the da day took up positions on the tho waterfront three blocks blocks aWa away and an as assisted assisted as- as the tIme fire re en engines al and pumped d j as-j tons of oC water Into the burning buildings build build- ings but the time block on out 01 Granby street from rosa CI City Hall hail Hal avenue a to t street virtually destroyed a wa sas only two buildings s. s the tho DIxon and auli Commercial Commercial Com Corn mercial structures both now new escaping in ing destruction Time They The were badly damaged aged Just at du dusk k th time the fire in the tIme Mon broke out afresh and despite th the heroic herol work of oC the firemen and sailors the Lenox Carpenter and Tazewell buildings s story six lures tures across the time street were wrecked For a time the tIme Naval Y V. M M. 1 C C. A A. was threatened but time the wide lane j ep it front from the time burning buildings s enabled the firemen to save it il and other large bull buildings nearby rby Although thou h tho time fire fre still wa was burning bunting in itt the ruins ruing late toni tonight ht the fire tre chief announced il that tho time danger dan was over o If It the naval n patrols patrol could check tho the works of oC incendiaries 3 j Fire Near Barracks s. s j Newport New Va a Jan laim 1 I Three dwellings near Camp Stuart on tho the outskirts of time the cit cl city where fifteen thousand soldiers rs are fire quartered were destroyed by fire lire tonight Soldiers and ami firemen remen prevented the tho flames fames from teaching the time camp buildings Seed Soe l Jurn Charlotte Charlote N C C. Tan Jan l. l A I-A A seed of the time Buckeye e Cotton Coton Oil al company compan here was destroyed b by ire fire re tonight entailing a loss of or partially covered cO b by Insurance Sparks front from a motor in the plant are arc supposed supposed sup sup- posed to have started time the fIe Ire iro t TOV rota II lilt i. i Ph P Ja Jan n. n 1 Fire l Fire caused b by a Ja gas explosion tonight cause swept through four Cour buildings ln s in the heart or Monessen's business section entail entail- In Ins a loss of SOno 1 Fire n rut nt Catskill X N. N Y V Catskill Catskill N. N Y V Jan 1 An 1 An entire entre block of buildings s in iii the business section sec see tion timi ton of oC this tills village was destroyed b. b by fire re tolla today with a loss of over Over a ton burned of or mall mal was lost when tho the |