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...Lecture Hall were locked and bolted when the first of the group arrived, has been laid to the cunning of Col. Charles R. Apted, who yesterday afternoon vigorously denied that the doors were locked with malice aforethought. According to his statement the doors are always locked by the janitor when no class is scheduled to be held in the hall. Furthermore, he was inclined to pooh-pooh the matter as being a trivial incident...
...inquiry appointed by Governor Allred got busy to try to find out the disaster's cause. Twelve sticks of dynamite discovered in the ruins caused a momentary stir. Superintendent Shaw revealed that "to save about $250 or $350 a month" a connection had been installed by the school janitor to take natural gas from the nearby waste line of the Parade Oil Co., pipe it through the basement to the radiators. Parade officials denied they had given the school permission to make the connection. Mr. Shaw replied that the oil company did not "particularly object." A University of Texas...
Contrary to the theory advanced yesterday morning that Arthur J. Perkins, assistant University Janitor, was burned Monday night in a fire started by his pipe while asleep, it was learned last night that papers ignited by a dropped match caused the damage in his room at 1130 Mass. Avenue...
...year old University Janitor is in the Cambridge Municipal Hospital and his condition was declared "poor", yesterday, with Hospital authorities implying that because of his age he will not recover. Badly burned from the hips down and with minor burns about his chest and hands, Perkins, who has been working for the college since 1917, has been conscious all the time with considerable pain...
...years ago Dr. Gustaf Stromberg of Mt. Wilson Observatory, an able cosmologist who wears clothes like a janitor's and plays a radio while doing telescope work, evolved a theory which would allow solar systems to be much more frequent...