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Show OVERCOOKED CHICKEN CAUSES FIRE ALARM Special Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, April 19. A policeman on hlo beat In tho Rue Btchat, Paris, recently saw smoke pouring from ' an upper flat. Remembering the proverb, "There is never smoke without Are." he alarmed the Are brigade, and, accompanied by the caretaker, ran upstairs. The flat door was shut. Without hesitation the policeman po-liceman broke It open. When the two pot inside the rare-taker rare-taker burst out laughing. Professional dignity prevented the policeman from doing do-ing so. On the gas stove, which the tenant had left for a few minutes to go out shopping, were the remains of a plump fowl, uphapplly burnt to the bones. |