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...authorities began combing the countryside for a quiet man who drove a 1934 Ford sedan. When the trail led to John Byers, they found it hard to believe that he was a bank robber. He had lived frugally, worked hard, first as a pumping-station oiler, then as a fireman on the Sante For Railroad, during all his years of crime. But police found money sacks hidden in his garage. In bed in the Spears Clinic lay his son, still paralyzed, still getting expensive treatment. Last week John Byers confessed, was taken off to Fort Scott County Jail to await...
...fires of undetermined origin broke out within the University early this week, sending local fireman to extinguish fires in Little and Sever Halls, and causing $385 in damages...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate...
There was: war-jammed cities all over the nation felt the pinch of the greatest housing shortage in the nation's history. In Kansas City, the Veterans' Housing Center had 700 applications, could fill only 30. In Portland, Ore., a veteran turned city fireman lived with his wife and child in one room, shared a bathroom with seven other families. In Birmingham, veterans and their families lived in tourist camps, heated baby bottles on automobile radiators...
Undaunted, Fireman Corporal Harry Slick loaded 21 freight cars with 1,000 tons of supplies, including high-octane gasoline and explosives, and set off northward. Coming down a mountain, the throttle broke and the brakes refused to grab. Corporal Slick was doing 90 m.p.h. when he reached the flat again-somehow still on the tracks-and his supply train roared through eight stations before it finally stopped. The reward which he got from a grateful Red Army commander was the coveted Order of the Red Star; it entitled him to free rail-transport anywhere in the Soviet Union...