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...fifth day, just after New York's skyscrapers caught the shine of a bright blue autumn morning, teletypes clacked in all police stations, ordering flags flown at half-mast. Signal gongs in all firehouses began beating out the 5-5-5-5 rhythm which heralds the death of firemen and of great public servants. Newspapers began spilling off the presses with the black headline: LAGUARDIA DEAD...
...Manhattan, Francis Cardinal Spellman, who last July put out a fire in his bedroom singlehanded, was rewarded with: 1) appointment as honorary deputy fire chief, 2) honorary membership in the Uniformed Firemen's Association, the Uniformed Fire Officers' Association of Greater New York, and the International Association of Fire Fighters, 3) a shiny, new, silver fire extinguisher...
Hotbed. In Philadelphia, firemen burst into a hotel room to rip a blazing mattress from under sound-asleep William O'Toole, 45 minutes later found the mattress ablaze again, Guest O'Toole again blissfully sleeping...
...Baltimore, Sun Police Reporter Pierce Hunter phoned a newsy item to his city desk: firemen were on their way to put out a blaze in the Sun's pressroom...
...Association of Commerce. Next he walked down to the East Peoria yards and talked to the craft chairmen of the railroad brotherhoods. They had ended their six-year strike only a few days before. Under Coulter, they set to with a will to get the road operating. Engineers and firemen set ties and laid rails at trackmen's wages (80? an hour) until three flood-razed bridges were repaired...