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fiiht its wkv scat ,•I the :n of from Furoperl„ Ih ,h r „t oltortl- New. \ nrlt - t-�—A'twln-anRlnod Fire of unknown origin early to -
midtown office hun,i i,•,> 1', 1:10 'e„ of m „bore he ,t•,. .1,:ia.lnl chief g day destroyed the Charles Steen-
se.rnds befog a I•It :,.e.+ ��,;, the Iron pieun r I rr.lurl1011 114- Arn,r I I n n o, groping crashod blindly berg feed mill on Main St., Tru-
tica side of the Empire 8i,,I: l+ulidut�;. 1 was right . miler the h110di e ,I I hl,nl1h n, 900 ffloor oot vof ether 71-story mansburg, and feed and equipment
fig Pt 1lfatly saw it first n .:b�,vc 19d'94th 51, and Fifth afro, tt'hen the th:u,kll„f the Manhattan Company valued at about R30,000. For a time
whe c st , apparently heade.i ^.uhwusl, crash occurred, Building in tiro skyscraper -packed the fire threatened an adjoining
tarsi t and Nome feared it Niot,ld hit the "The pinne seemed to be having. flnanelnl district Monday night, business block.
Thar towering Grand t'c1,1,tI office rudder trouble he Bald. "It must bringing death to all its occupants, I The latter building, extensively
1 r building astride Park a, c. Then it have been out of control, Other -
to h a WAC lieutenant and four Army. damaged by smoke and heat, is oc-
whe' banked, micsin_C the building. A t, ise it could have turned away officers, cupied by Paul McDonald, plumber;
number of people thou-0it it nor- The motor sounded okay. The I Tho'shi dislntegrated In blind -
Or; rowly missed the S00 Fifth avc. weather wasn't. hart'; visibility was P Gregory's Restaurant, in store
m eye i lag flash of flames after exploding pharmacy, a Victory Chain store
preir I building' good• against the rear of the Wall St. and the insurance offices of Frank
of m- Altho (here wns disagreement i "The plane was going' south. II building —the world's fourth high- S. Bower.
grout among the scattered witnesses• mcOsl narrowly missed the tower of 500
ot-di. of them agreed that the pilot was Firth Ave, And then plowed right est—and sent showers 4bf flaming _ Fire Starts in Basement
debris hurling to the pavement. T1�e
\Ie having engine or rudder difficulty, into the Empire State, like a Jap- building is 937 feet high. I Mrs. Charles L. Steenberg, wife
nell and that he had not blundered care-, anese suicide lane, and immedi- g of the mill proprietor who left the !;
lease lessli• into the stone traps formed' P One witness said the flames P P
assist i by the high buildings which sud- ' ately burst into flames. Flames i seemed to pour down from floor village on business after the fire,
116 S, deal\ surrounded him. Nhot out of the building four or ' to floor," The fires, however, quick- said that the blaze apparently had
caste five stories wide. A big hole was ly were extinguished. Police esti- originated in the basement where `
One army air man said he was knocked into the 34th st, side of I a carload of corn which had just
Electr certain mates put the number of persons in
that the plane "weaved- and the building', i the building at the time of the ac- arrived Monday, had been stored.
To Me ` another said it was definitely having "The explosion was terrific, It The fire was discovered b a
Boat rudder trouble. didn't knock me off my feet, but I cident at from 500 to 2,000. The asserb at about 2:30 a.m. and
it ho Other people among the thousands building has about 5,000 occupants P Y
F P P it shocked me enough to make me
marlin who looked up or out of their win- hesitate. Glass vnowduring the day. when Trumansburg firemen arrived
ered down and
plr_vsic doors said the plane wobbled before half bricks and rubble b the plane on Routine Flight at the scene, the flames were
mately the pilot made a last minute effort y spreading rapidly throughout the
thousands, I was hit b a little I While none of the persons in the
and or to evade the city's h' hest sky- y interior of the mill which had been'.
'� falling glass and stone, but wasn't ^ structure was injured flue were operated by Steenberg for the last 1
?e heli scraper when it suddenly appeared hurt. struck by flaming particles in the 25 years.
lay before him out of the mist, "I went thru buzz -bombs in street.
ould Confused. and surrounded by London, was within four blocks of It was the second such accident Ithaca Sends Aid
camir towers on all sides, the pilot seemed, one such explosion, but this one for New York in less than a year. Under the direction of Chief .
Boar to be in clouds and half the timelseemed to have more high tension. On last July 28 an Army B-25 Grover Marquart, the village fire-
ougF in the few swift seconds it took him ' The other had a duller sound. I bomber punched through the 79th men did all they could to check
c to cross Manhattan island diagon- w•as surprised that more glass did I floor of the 102-story Empire State the blaze which was getting be -
)se ally from the East river. One Wit-, not fall out of surrounding build-! Building, killing 3 fliers and 11 of- yond their control when calls were
ts, nes_s said he was descending out of ings and stores as in buzz -bomb. flee workers. put in for aid, The Interlaken fire
ar a cloud as he crossed 42d st headed , explosions. Compared with a buzz- ' The public relations officers at department responded, and soon `
e i directly for the Empire State build- bomb explosion, this was a pretty Newark Airport, where the victims afterwards Chief Raymond B.
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f of Monday night's tragedy were Travis with Torrent Hose Com-
e based, said the plane was on a pany, Not 5s new pumper arrived
iffighest Fire N. Y. Ever Fought e routine navigational training flight at the scene to lend assistance.
NEiV YORK. (F)—The bomber after the plane struck the fog_from Smyrna, Tenn., to Newark, Efforts of the hosemen by then
The casualties were assigned to the were being confined to the adjoin-
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story )crash into the tower of the 102- shrouded tower. Atlantic Overseas Air Technical ing building, and even at a late
a Empire State building yes- The commissioner said the flames Service Command. hour this morning firemen were
t terday created the highest fire ever Were not hard to fight, and the. Dead Listed still pouring water on the smoulder-
Cfought in New York city, main difficulty was in reaching the The dead were listed by the War ing ruins of the mill to reduce the
"It turned out to be a fairly easy upper floors. Some firemen took Department as: heat,
I;. elevators to the 60th floor and Maj. Mansel R. Campbell, 27, the . Mrs. Steenberg said that the loss
,job," Fire Commissioner Patrick trudged up the stairs from there to
i Walsh said when the fire was, the 78th and 79th floors with hose; Mona lived at Eat, Mich. The His of the feed and
onipment, along
brought trader control 40 with the mill y partly cov- I
✓minutes lines. couple has one child, Ross Edward, ered by insurance,
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Capt. Tom L Hall 29 f A
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3IRS, BLANCHE IMCMULLEN,' Oliver S, Rappleye 48, of Friendsville Stage, died'i Oliver S, Rappleye, 47, of New -
,'Sunday evening at Our Lady of j geld, died unexpectedly Thursday,
Lourdes Hospital, after a short, Feb. 6, 1947, in Memorial Hospital.
illness. She is survived by her He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
husband, Richard McMullen; Edna Rappleye of Newfield; two
three daughters, Airs. Shirley sans Dan Lee of Newfield and Karl
Woodruff of Vestal, Mrs. Jean Malarkey of Endicott of Ithaca; a daughter, bins. Charles
and Miss i Fairchild of Newfield; a brother,
Judith McMullen of Friendsville Howard Rappleye of Rochester; a
Stage; two sons, David and Ed- sister, Mrs. Lloyd Jenks of Ithaca,
yard ll2eD1u11en Friendsvi
of lle and several nieces and nephews.
stage; three grandchildren; two He was a member of the First
asters, Mrs. Adaline Wheeler of Baptist Church of Ithaca, Ithaca
uburn and Mrs. Liva McLain of: Aerie 1253, Fraternal
wego; Fix brothers, Roy and i Eagles; Ithaca Order of
chard, both of Vestal, Wald of �'ewfield Rifle Club and the
Inticoke Fire Department.
Stanley of Endicott, Funeral services will be held in
%renet of Endicott RD 1 and the Allen Funeral Chapel Newfield
1 nrf sKdOf is Canandaigua;
isagat 2 p.pSunday, withoepmdcusins nSen°f the
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MO'Prd to the Cole- tatg "rest Danby, offlDA1110t Funeral Horne ' Burial will be made later at
Y,trtt ;Mato hlir!'t, Endicott T�'1'tw Cemetery,
IAMIly i, 111 re kl v kends may all at the chapel.
dt K r4 *te! *Y tfate! 7
o ustin,
Tex. He listed his beneficiary as
his wife, Helen Lindseth Hall, of
Sioux Falls, S.D. They have two
sons, Randall, 4, and Kenneth, 1.
First Lt. Robert L. Stevenson, 25,
of the Bronx,
First Lt, Angelo A. Ross, 28,
Whitehall.
«VAC First Lt. Mary E. Bond, of
Newtown, Pa.
The ship ripped a 15-foot hole
through the corner of the building
as it plowed into the offices of the
Atlas Corporation. The bank build-
ing fronts on 40 Wall St. and runs
` back into 33 Pine St.
Drew --young
Miss June E.
Mr. and Mrs. H
Richfield Sprinl
the bride of Ot
Mr. and Mrs. 0I
aca RD5, at 8 p:
1'946, at the hom
Rev. Edward V.
the double ring
The wedding
by Mrs. Lawrei
James green sa
"Always."
Given In mart
the bride was
blue and wore
and white pom
Young of Utica
was maid of h
coral dress ane
mixed pompon:
Vernon, was be
A reception
mony.
The bride, r
Winfield High
and of the Exe
ness in 1943 ha
ed as a cost cle
in Utica, Drew
Ithaca High S
serving nearly
Marine Corps,
farming.
The couple
through the S
return will re
For her going
chose an outf
brown accessc
Out of tow?
from Jacksot
Ithaca, Chepa
D. C.
Mrs. Lettie Griffen
Mrs. Lettie Griffen, 73, died to
day, Sept. 24, 1945, at her home
near .Trumansburg. She was thl
wife of Daniel Griffen. I
Besides her husband, she leaven
a son, Walter of Trumansburg;
daughter, Mrs. Owen P,.olfe of
field; five grandchildren,
great-grandchildren, and se
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will .
ducted at the residence
Wednesday by the Rev,
pen of Mecklenburg. B
in Grove Cemetery, T
Mrs M' --
lna E. Ross ' `
Funeral
rr Horton
services for Mrs.
E. Ross, who died Sunday, Mina
taro Horton,
1943, at her home in Enfield were
held
m Laughlin t
at 2:30 P.M. Wednesday, Nov,
21, from the Gilbert
near rela '
Memorial
Home, 125 E. Buffalo St., with
Funeral se .'
the
Rev, M. Ford Crippen, pastor of the
Mecklenburg Methodist
P•m- We
neral C
Church, of-
ficiating• Interment
�'. W a
was in the
family plot in Grove Cemetery, Tru-
ethadlat
iciat
manshurg,
Bearers were Henry Rotherinic
Howard
Holley, Theodore &
Chancey McKeegap�larol'
and Earneat Lane ..,
Dew t I
Airs. Cora
Funeral
E. Leonar
Rd., who
1949, were
� nesday it
Home, 42
the Rev.
Mecklenb
I Pet on
err
an a
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tiR' Y•
i t n on
Mrs. 1
49, of E
mortal
E946. St
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