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to our private hydrogen A.  In the meantime the fire was making progress but its main intensity centered in the balance room corner.  Flames were licking Oppenheimer's barn and its Northern wall started burning.  By this time the hose began to work and by wetting the wall of Oppenheimer, the fire was stemmed in that direction.  Hoe ^hose^ was directed inside balance room where fierce fire was raging.  Flames were leaping out in upper room then afterwards in center room where motor car
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was kept.  I saw there was little hope of saving anything there.  So I went to back laboratory where Gotthelf had been working.  Broke two panes of glass opened the door and stepped inside.  Suffocating fumes & very hot.  [[underlined]] Looked for notes of Gotthelf, could not find them then turned back a second time. [[/underlined]]  This time with Mr. Taylor and saving two [[?]] containing calcium and Barium salts of Novolak ^which I was then studying^ and carrying them inside my house.  [[underlined]] This saved the result of two months work.  [[/underlined]] Then by means
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