Show W WORK RK tEEN IN T 1 WASHINGTON 10 A. A Serious C Conflagrations on fI 1 irow OW w Nations Nation's Capital CapitalI Into Turmoil I 1 ASHINGTON Jan 17 AP AP- AP tra alarm larm fires interspersed several minor ones and a few Sies nes threw the national capi- capi I i IDa state of turmoil last night ear early eaMy y today and led tie the police Heye I ve firebugs were at work amazes the first of which be- be shortly before midnight con- con after altel 9 o'clock this ling line bringing apparatus from fromI I Y Virginia and nd Maryland s to aid an exhausted Washa Wash Wash- In a crew and starting a wide h fOr suspects believed to deliberately set fire to the theS the'S S 'S s and hd to have turned f in t tales false lse Os to divert tho the fire Ire fighters man taken in the hunt a temporary psychopathic pa- pa Reed hospital He Hethe Hethe the name of John Jacob Tacob Fisher his was found a a fire o 0 ot of tho the town of ot lIe Ire v was as held for N BY FIRE BOX her ther was as arre arrested ted after ter three said ad Id they h had d observed ived him him at a firebox in Eckington section where a al l elevator levator was burned at F Fourth Northwest her fires were at the Ue Wool Wool- l tor c t s l Pennsylvania enns lv nia avenue ci een eon and Tenth streets sheets a ab aber aher b her ber of produce stores stoics near Cen- Cen Market a little more than thai a away a grain store on H Hc H c tr Northeast near tho thio union on n viaduct and a lumber yard vard at Fourteenth and W streets in th the northwest residential district revealed no fatalities in any of the blazes although a score of firemen were overcome when a gas main broke In the tIle Wool Woolf worth north store the first blaze in iii the series serles that kept a continued procession slon sion of fire fighting equipment running run running run run- ning over the city ity for more than thail nine hours and ad started ten pieces of apparatus over the long fortymile fortymile forty forty- mile nille run vun from Baltimore Firemen from the Maryland city besides beside's aiding in two of the fires were placed in vacant fire firehouses firehouses houses in various sections for protective pro pro- t purposes ses EMERGENCY FORCE The police department threw a an t emergency force into every section of ot the city to run down dow own a any sus suspects while a sc score re of others were placed on OIt guard at large industrial plants lumber yards yard and oth other r establishments t to forestall any other possible e fires Fisher was vas arrested at a home homo homon homen n near l ar Walter Reed hospital after ho had been trailed there on an automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile license number tip Police began a checkup of hl his past record to see if he had bee been 1 L in any arson cases here herer or r at |