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Treatments. In Omaha, firemen driving a nine-year-old girl to a hospital to have a piece of candy removed from her throat went over a bump, which did the trick. In the same city a doctor pulled down a ten-year-old boy's eyelid preparatory to operating for the removal of a b.b. shot. The shot rolled...
Inside the ship, pitch-black after the lighting system was fouled, police emergency crews stumbled in search of workmen who had failed to get out at the first warning. Some 200 workmen and firemen were injured or overcome; one died...
Training of auxiliary firemen for the University began last night, when about 50 students, Faculty members, and employees met at the Cambridge Fire Department, opposite Memorial Hall. Emphasizing the fact that fire fighting is not childs' play, but hard and dirty work. Chief Gutheim conducted the first in the series of 15 lectures and demonstrations...
...need for Auxiliary Firemen is great. Officials estimate that it will be necessary to have at least five volunteers to every regular firemen. In case of an emergency, the auxiliaries will go out with the professional men, as assistants. Decision has not yet been made concerning the equipment, such as rubber boots, coats, and helmets, to be used by the volunteers...
Many were just as bewildered as an elderly lady in Los Angeles who bustled into the Defense Council insisting that she wanted to make bullets. Eager lady volunteers turned up in all kinds of unlikely spots. In Boston, militant women practiced firefighting, had firemen worried over the possibility of their turning up at a fire, to get tangled in hoses. Members of the Women's Ambulance & Defense Corps of Los Angeles, in khaki suits with Sam Browne belts, appeared at the sheriff's office on the night of Dec. 7, saluted smartly, announced to the startled sheriff that...