Briggs Gets Call Warning of Fire

An 11 p.m. phone call from an unknown woman, warning that there would be a midnight fire starting in the cellar of Briggs Hall set the Radcliffe dormitory's occupats on edge late last night.

Mrs. Dorrit Brock, housemother of Briggs, phoned Dean Mary C. Small upon receipt of the phone call. Miss Small, in turn, called the Cambridge police and the A.D.T. Electrical Protection Service.

A man who did not give his name but said he was a Cambridge newspaper reporter phoned around midnight to make an inquiry about a fire. Some residents claimed they heard explosions in the area shortly thereafter. The noise was attributed to firecrackers.