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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1947
Page
4
Jay Oli of Kenwood Transfer and Storage Cedar Rapids found a hitchhiking cat on his spare tire after a 25 mile run. He removed the animal twice, then handed the cat to the Humane Society hoping to straighten out its fixation.
A wave of fires and explosions Sunday killed four people and caused damage exceeding 3 million dollars across multiple states. In Indianapolis a rooming house blaze killed three men ages 45 28 and 42. Other fires touched York Pennsylvania Philadelphia and Gary Indiana. A blast at a Cities Service natural gas station near Blackwell Ohio killed 38 year old Pelph E McCormick and cut gas service to parts of Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri. The cause of the explosions was not immediately known.
A massive series of fires including a Danville Virginia blaze destroyed a tobacco warehouse and five businesses causing about 1 million dollars in losses. In York Pennsylvania a seven story Colonial hotel fire damaged a third of the structure and saved 225 guests. Other fires in Philadelphia and Brooklyn injured firemen and disrupted hotel guests while authorities traced causes to short circuits and unknown origins. Security and firefighting efforts were intensified across multiple sites.
Secretary of War Patterson orders better rations for the army to sustain high morale. He cites morale as essential to winning battles and maintaining readiness for the war department mission both in war and peace.
Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo, diagnosed with bronchitis, was rushed to a U S army hospital on Monday while on trial with 25 other leaders for war crimes. He had been returned to prison after a high fever rose.
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