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Show SAVED BY AN IRONING BOARD I Now York, May 3 An Ironing board placed between the roofs of two buildings saved tho lives of fifty persons per-sons who wore trapped In an apartment apart-ment house fire in uptown New York early today Tho tenants wore all asleep when ' the fire was discovered at the foot of the main stalrs.f Their escape was cut off, but a woman from an upper story, carried her .ironing board to the roof and stretched it across the narrow nar-row gap between the apartment houso nnd the adjolningl building. Within a few minutes after the last person had crossed the Tfarrow footway to safet the flamesjburst through the roof on which they -had been standing. stand-ing. - |