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OIL LEAK STARTS FIRE
AID GIVEN BANK IN VAIN
Loss in Lockport Saw Plant Blaze Reorganization Failed to Save Ripley Undetermined. Institution, McGinnies Explains.
Special to the BUFFALO NEWS. LOCKPORT July fire originating from an erable damage early Friday the melting department the Simon Saw & Steel companl plant. Ohio street. The fire was discovered shortly after raging in the pit beneath the furnaces where large quantity of oil unknown to plant employes. The fire department was called and the blaze by flooding the pit with water. Plant officials told Fire Chief Edwin Coyle that will be impossible to determine extent of the damage until closer inspection of the furnaces can be made The electric wiring was burned it feared. the steel the fire area mas warped If this true there will be several thousand dollars damage.
RIPLEY July 31 of the New York sembly and president of the First tional Bank Ripley said Friday closing of that bank Thursday marked the of attempt save the The reorganized McGinnies said. he and six other put $40.000 and were subject further of Frozen and slow payments have constituted our principal probMcGinnies felt that to the was best the bank rather than prolong the struggle.
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BANK RECEIVER NAMED
WASHINGTON July the the receiver for the First National Bank which failed was Friday Awalt. acting comptroller Mr Seriver expected to go to Ripley next