FIRE IN NEW YORK
SIX BUILDINGS DESTROYED DEFENCE MATERIAL LOST (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 12. A fire, the cause of which has not been discovered, destroyed six buildings and huge stocks of defence materials owned by the Firestone Rubber Company, leaving 2000 people out of work. Federal Bureau investigation agents and army intelligence officers are investigating the fire, which was still burning after 16 hours. Firemen from 60 stations fought the flames. The plant had been working day and night producing gasmasks and rubber cartridge belts for machine-guns, and other rubber products for the military forces.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24737, 14 October 1941, Page 7
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