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Somehow a fire started and at week's end Cincinnati's firemen, police, citizens and even workhouse inmates were fighting not only flood but fire on a two-mile front. By vote of the city council. City Manager C. A. Dykstra was given dictatorial powers to deal with the situation as he thought best. Property damage: $5,000,000. Indiana. Evansville, Funnyman Joe Cook's hometown, was made base of the Coast Guard's relief forces. While 40 horses were rescued from the Dade Park race track, amphibians roared in from the Atlantic coast and radio...
...police headquarters to be notified, the No. 1 G-man and his squad rapped on Brunette's door, got a splatter of bullets for answer. For an hour they pumped revolver, rifle and submachine-gun bullets, tossed tear gas bombs into the apartment. Its Venetian blinds ignited. Firemen came, and were caught in the cross fire between desperado and G-men. Shot in the thigh, Brunette's wife staggered out of the smoking apartment. His pistols empty, Brunette soon followed with hands...
...person of hardboiled, up-from-the-ranks Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, New York's police officials filled the newspapers with charges that G-Man Hoover had broken his agreement with them and, purely to make headlines and grab all the credit, had endangered the lives of bystanders and firemen by his unnecessary gunplay...
...Haven and West Roxbury, Mass., Dr. Wilkinson was in Boston during its famed police strike of 1919, became a volunteer traffic cop on the motorcycle squad. Because he was also offered the chance to drive a hook & ladder truck, Churchman Wilkinson was mildly sorry that Boston's firemen did not join the strike. He is now in his 40's, looks younger. He has not met President Roosevelt, was selected by St. Thomas' vestry sight unseen...
Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Business School, yesterday lost his summer home in North Chatham when a fire swept unmolested through the house. Firemen arrived too late to salvage valuable antiques, which with the house were valued...