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...Oakland, Calif., firemen discovered they could not move Invalid P. J. Evans from his burning home. They covered him with a rubber sheet, supplied him with an oxygen tank to prevent suffocation, put out the fire...
...Washington, D. C., one Joe McHale, 7, stuck his finger in a knothole, could not withdraw it. His playmates uprooted the post, took Joe. finger, post to Joe's mother. Police and firemen whittled the post away...
...Firemen, policemen and locomotive engineers are no longer treated in the cinema as heroes. Modern cinema depicts careers of more sophisticated daring, careers of ruffians, lawyers, filles de joie, doctors. Last year reporters were popular because they are considered dissolute and apt at repartee. This year, Broadway colyumists are even more popular for the same reasons. No fewer than three pictures about colyumists appeared last week, with more in prospect...
...Royal summer estate at Sandringham a haystack caught fire last week. Out roared George V's up-to-date motor fire engine. While the haystack burned and the firemen tinkered, the engine refused to squirt...
...life. Sailor Charles ("Bud") Cowart had straddled a toggle above the ring at the end of the cable, was taking two bowline hitches about his waist. Several times' Lieut. Commander Rosendahl maneuvered the tossing ship toward earth, but fearing that Sailor Cowart would be bashed to death, soared again. Firemen stretched nets to try to catch him if he fell...