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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1955
Page
5
A short, bearded man with a squint and a bottle robbed Colorado State Bank in Denver of 7780 dollars. Teller Joyce Platter described a five foot four inch, 50 to 60 year old suspect who handed a blank check and warned of nitroglycerin. Police and FBI had no solid leads as of Friday.
Hollywood report says Gregory Peck seeks stimulus and adventure now that Moby Dick wraps after seven months overseas filming. He recalls storms off Wales, a 65 foot prop whale collapse, two near drownings, and a cast facing seasickness amid a hard voyage with John Huston directing.
Deutsche Lufthansa of Germany has ordered four more Lockheed Super Constellation airliners to boost its trans Atlantic service. The new giants join four already contracted, aiming for delivery in time for Hamburg New York opening this summer after revival of civil aviation.
The Republican Western States Conference voted to hold its September meeting in Fortland Oregon. Delegates from 11 western states and Alaska and Hawaii decided at a Friday meeting chaired by Harlan S. Peyton that the gathering likely will occur in the last week of September.
British actor John Sutton, 46, was sued for divorce by his wife in Santa Monica superior court on grounds his conduct during eight years of marriage was perpetually unreasonable and intolerable. She sought a court order restraining him from annoying or molesting her.
Witness recounts Maj. Ambrose Nugent and others forced to eat toads, snakes, and dogs to survive after North Korean captors dangled food. Lt. Col. Harry Fleming testified Nugent's condition was very poor and food was withheld. Fleming said prisoners cooked weeds and roots. British trooper Ronald Cocks aided Red propaganda. Brig. Gen. Perry described Nugent’s capture amid heavy fighting and tank advance.
In Chicago on February 18 witnesses at an inquest cited human failure and apathy as causes of the Barton Hotel fire that killed 29 Skid Row residents. Fire department aides testified that hotel employees delayed reporting the alarm, while guests, many asleep due to alcohol, contributed to the high death toll.
Five governors including Milward Simpson of Wyoming will join Colorado Oklahoma Nebraska and Kansas leaders in a March 7 panel at the National Farm and Ranch Congress in the Denver stockyards. Undersecretary Clarence A Davis and Assistant Secretary Earl Butz will address the banquet and policies will be outlined by top officials and editors. The event aims to draw about 3000 attendees with speakers Roger Corbett Wheeler McMillan Rep. David A. Hamilton and the governors rounding out the program. The article also notes ancient origins of grape cultivation with seeds 3000 years old found in Egyptian tombs.
Mrs Dorothy Firestone a New York and Miami Beach socialite and John W Galbreath an Ohio real estate dealer and sportsman wed in a simple Miami Beach ceremony on February 13. Mrs Firestone is the widow of Russell A Firestone whose father founded the tire company bearing their name.
Chicago officials report 28 dead after Barton Hotel blaze on skid row. Firefighters found another body among the ruins, marking a final toll update with the building having burned last Saturday. Experts note potential U S agricultural output growth could feed 350 million under current standards per a Twentieth Century Fund report.
Mary Beth Staley, 16, daughter of a prominent Illinois executive, reappeared in Evanston saying she was tired and wanted a change. She left the Anderson School near Poughkeepsie February 6, hitchhiked to Chicago, and stayed at a YWCA. Her father A. R. Staley is a vice president at A E Staley Milling Co in Decatur.
Raleigh reports a flaming meteor seen across the state on Thursday night. The Raleigh Durham airport control tower said the meteor lit the tower like a photographer's flash bulb and sparked reports from pilots who saw it from Charlotte Richmond Danville Greensboro and Florence.
James Kevin Hazel of San Mateo California admitted to police that he passed nearly 200 bad checks in 102 cities over the past 48 months. He faced forgery charges in Eau Claire and said he had passed checks in 13 states since July 1953 including New Mexico Arizona and Wyoming.
Smoke from a grease fire shot up 14 floors through a chute to the penthouse of the Lincoln Hotel in Indianapolis causing 3875 guests to flee their rooms. No injuries were reported.
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