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Outside Paris, terrorists sabotaged the railway at Salbris, fired gasoline depots near Le Havre and in six different places in the south of France. In Toulouse, 300,000 gallons of gasoline burned up. Near Marseille, firemen fought a gas fire that was to last all week...
Homecide. In Columbus, Clarence McLoughlin decided to kill himself, disconnected a gas pipe in his one-story clapboard home, dozed off, later reached for a cigarette, struck a light that demolished the house, suffered only minor injuries, was found still lying on his couch in the wreckage, told firemen: "I forgot about...
Last week, in Canada, the firemen gave way too. After a bitter, two-year struggle -regarded as a test case for all North American railroads -the giant. 17,000-mile Canadian Pacific Railway Co. finally wrested an admission from the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that a fireman has no useful function on an oil-fired diesel locomotive. To establish the principle, the C.P.R. proposed to remove firemen from yard and freight diesels. Arguing passionately that the fireman was vital as a safety lookout, the union last week tried to shut down the C.P.R. with a strike, watched...
...biggest problems the firemen faced was getting their hoses through the narrowly-ribbed fence and keeping the huge engines from getting in each other...
However, unlike previous occasions, firemen had no complaints yesterday about parked cars blocking their way to the fire...