Tragic Lowell Fire Claims Mother and Five Children
A mother Mattie Maryland and five of her ten children perished when a three story tenement burned in minutes. A sixth child remained missing hours later and was believed dead. The father John Maryland was cut by glass but released after treatment. Police said about 30 people were in the building when the blaze started on the third floor and a stairway collapse trapped victims. Two older children were hospitalized with burns, four others escaped unhurt.
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Lowell
Mass
Mattie
Maryland
John J. Maryland
Gee
Ivy
Linda
Pamela
Willie James
Bobby Ray
John M. Jr
Dale Lee
Mattie Ruth
Christine
Heavy Rain Deluge Strikes San Antonio and West Texas
Up to 1.60 inches fell in 55 minutes in San Antonio with unofficial 6 inch totals in 24 hours. A 16 year old, Denny Dalrymple of Waco, drowned after being swept from a bridge. his uncle B J O Dalrymple 35, was rescued. Flooding damaged cotton near Trent and disrupted riverside areas across the region. Domestic evacuations numbered about 125 as rescuers ended the night.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Denny Dalrymple
Waco
B. J.O Dalrymple
Trent
Abilene
Texas
Mineral Wells
Junction-San Antonio
Rio Grande
Coast
Mrs Chambers Released From Hospital After Hiss Case Ties
Mrs Whittaker Chambers, 60, discharged from Warner Hospital in Gettysburg after critical admission following the death of her husband, a star witness in the Alger Hiss espionage case. She resides on a farm near Westminster, Maryland.
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Gettysburg
Whittaker Chambers
Warner Hospital
Lightning Strikes Youth Second Time in Merced
In Merced California AP report Leland Larioso 17 of Hilmat demonstrates with a 20 gauge shotgun injuring his foot again. He aimed at his recently healed foot and fired. Friends drove him back to the hospital for treatment of another shotgun wound.
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Merced, Calif
Leland Larioso
Hilmat
Mail Proves Writer Not Goofy About Garden Birds Goofs
New York AP reports readers shared letters about birds chewing marigolds petunias and zinnias, with protests over garden damage. Notes from Mrs. Thornton Hasbrouck Heights and Elmer Korilla Hasbrouck Heights describe marigold snatchers and petunia damage, while colleagues joke about cutworms and mothballs.
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New
York
Ronald Autry
Associated Press Bureau
New Haven
Maple St
East Longmeadow
Mass
Zinnias
Elmer F. Korilla
Terrace Ave
Hasbrouck
Elmer
Ar Starling
Heaven
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Mrs. Chambers
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Texas Jazz
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Ayr
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