The Wilmington Morning Star

STUDENTS KILLED
IN "FRAT" BLAZE

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Oct. 21—(A)—Two Rutgers University students and a young woman were killed and six other persons, including another young woman, were injured when a fraternity house leased by Sigma Alpha Mu was burned out by fire early today.

Dead of suffocation were Raymond Berger, 19, of Jersey City, and Benjamin Gordon, 20, of Trenton, who had been sleeping on the third floor, and Miss Joyce Patricia Katzman, 20, of Teaneck, who had been sleeping on the second floor.

The injured jumped to safety from second-floor windows.

Raymond Schiff, 19, of Jamesburg, said the group attended a wedding anniversary celebration last night at the home of one of the youth's parents near here.

They tried to make arrangements for the young women to sleep at Schiff's sister's home here, but were unable to contact her, Schiff said, so it was decided to have the young women sleep at the fraternity house.

The girls slept in one room on the second floor, three of the boys in another room on the second floor, and the other youths on the third floor.

Approximately 20 members of Sigma Alpha Mu normally lived in the house, leased from Phi Gamma Delta, but all the others had gone home for the weekend.

Earl Reed Silvers, dean of men placed Sigma Alpha Mu on indefinite social probation for violation of the university rule forbidding the unchaperoned entertaining girls in fraternity houses.