Names Listed Of Dead Injured And Unharmed In Fire
Revised list identifiers dead and injured in the Winecoff hotel blaze names numerous individuals from Georgia the Carolinas Alabama and beyond with a separate list of injured pending hospital reports and a note of thanks from families for support and flowers amid the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Winecoff Hotel
Freda Constangey
Florence A. Baggett
Claxton
R. E. Williams
Naval Air Station
Norfolk
Ina Thomas
Asheville
N. C
Mary Alice Davis
Bainbridge, Ga
Sam Mooney
Arlington
J. A
Will D. Dickerson
Jonesboro
Bill
Mary Melinda
J. R. Moody
Joseph Goodson
Clay City
William Jones
Carving Hall
Oak Midge
Tenn
Robert Clay Williams
Pensacola
Fla
Edward L. Pettijohn
Mountain Brook
DeWitt Lane Morrison
Phillip D. Davis
Bice Eh
Bubies
Walter We Beck
Jacksonville
Charles Keith
Sarah M. Aldridge
Falkville
Ala
R. Carl E. Rasmussen
Despines
Iowa
Veterans Hospital
Paul Lain
Cliff Road
Birmingham
Billie Crawford Cox
Petrie Hospital
Murphy
Rome
Fast Sixth Street
Sarah Willer
Gordon, Ga
George William Walden
Irene Made Wilson
Knoxville
Cleveland Dillard Sisk
Buckingham Court
Ashville
Jacob M. Mauss
Philadelphia
Evelyn Adams
Georgia Ave
Thomaston
Ruth Powell
Bainbridge
Borgie McCoy
Canada
Cliffroad
Patsy Griffin
Patsy Uphold
Lena Harris
Cophill
P. R. Mennix, Jr
Columbus
Robert L. Sollenberger
Barnesville
H. E Swanson
Chicago
Ethel Stewart
Ralph
U. of Ala
Irene Tollett
15Th Street
Charles H. Thurn
Clarence B. Bates
Mary Minor
Nell Sims
Claire Williams
Cordele
Charlotte
de Pruitt
Anita
Virginia Tolbert
B. J. Williams
W. M. Jones
Long Beach
Calif
Robert Cox
E. B. Weatherly
Cochran
W. F. Winecoff
C. T. Steinspring
Cornelia
J. E. Brown
Elaine Sullivan
13Th Street
Tuscaloosa
W. FE. Tribble
la Grange
L. Harris
Earhardt Avenue
Arrie B. Meyer
Richard Street
Basil Off
Bathurst St
Toronto
Josephine Delilah Chamber
Josephine Hagan
Orrest Road
Hugh Henry Greene
Bilvd
N.E
Fred Jim Bowen
Lanier
James B. Phillips
Lithonia
Dorothy Moon
Rose Harvey
Willie Hope Latham
Alvin J. Millvan
Frank Smith
Valdosta
Martha Steed
L. R. Spurlin
Horror at hotel as 285 perish in blaze from improvised escapes
Emergency reports recount a pre dawn fire that trapped 285 guests on upper floors. Women and children leapt from windows while others clung to improvised rope rescues. No fire escapes were found as firemen and Red Cross workers recovered bodies. An injured fireman and a guarding sergeant survived as chaos unfolded.
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Jack Burnham
Red Cross
Harry Lindervall
Chicago
Natural Gas Flow Set for Big Inch Pipeline Start
Houston dispatch reports the Big and Little Inch pipelines will ship Texas natural gas east and north until about April 30 amid a coal strike. Gardiner Symonds, president of Tennessee Gas and Transmission, says the lines will operate for now and future operations are indefinite.
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Houston
Tex
Little Inch
Texas
Gardiner Symonds
Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company
Symonds
Appalachian
German Girls Will Wear Snuggies Made For WACs
New Jersey officials report 450 German women will receive WAC designed warm garments. Mrs Blanche Stoesser leads a volunteer sewing group in Madison to repair and distribute the items through the American Friends Service Committee in Philadelphia for relief to Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Dee
Blanche Stoesser
Madison
New Jersey Committee For
Robert W. Allan
New Jersey
War Assets Administration
Bell Captain Mobley Recalls Eleven Months of Combat
Mobley states he has endured eleven months of combat and many battles, praising a young girl named Nancy Turk for her resilience and strength in facing adversity.
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Mobley
Nancy Turk
Orphan Kurt Arrives in United States with Army Foster Father
A two year old orphan named Kurt arrives in New York with his foster father Major Joseph De Raad. The Army officer found him in a Bremen orphanage and adopted him during the war.
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United States
New York
Kurt
Joseph de Raad
Bremen
European Peace Talks Split Over German Settlement Plan
The Anglo American Byrnes and Soviet Molotov clashed over German treaty timing at a council session. Byrnes urged immediate steps toward a German Austrian settlement with a hearings commission, while Molotov pushed for a later meeting to decide deputies and hearings, resisting early expansion to other nations.
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Ministers Council
Iesean
Europe
Molotov
Germany
Austria
Council
Moscow
Byrnes
Belgium
Netherlands
U S Dims Madrid UN Ties Over World Assembly
In a tense debate the Madrid government faces scrutiny over UN connected bodies. Sen Connally restates that the United States will not sever relations with Franco and would not obey an assembly recommendation. Hayden clarifies that Connally meant the U S would shun any assembly decision. Progress stalls as the general assembly convenes to vote on a worldwide troop census.
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Madrid
Sen. Connally
United States
Franco
Assembly
Hayden Nee
Connally
General Assembly
Mine union leader vows lawful conduct in talks after contract
Lewis told his members he will pursue future negotiations within the findings of the U S Supreme Court and warned that a strike against government held mines or factories could violate the Smith Connally act. He cautioned against terminating the contract and signaling another strike.
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Lewis
Supreme Court of the United States
Woman Injured in Jamestown Curve Car Crash
Geneva Ivey of Greensboro sustained minor injuries when the car she rode in overturned at the Jamestown curve last night. Hospital officials described her condition as not serious and she was released after first aid treatment.
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Geneva Ivey
Greensboro
Jamestown Curve
Coal stoppage nears end as governors urged to curb consumption
A government request issued Friday asks 36 state governors to curb coal use in key sites such as waters, night clubs, schools and libraries. The end of the coal stoppage is expected to bring payrolls back soon with 690000 jobless, including 400000 miners, as railroads return to pre strike service levels. Steel plants run at 35 to 50 percent capacity amid fuel shortages.
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ODT
National Coal Association 17 Day Mates Week’s Output Reduction
The 17 day period ending November 30 saw bituminous production at 17 percent of normal. The Lewis contempt of court appeal in the supreme court could lead to heavier fines against United Mine Workers for defying an injunction. Government and union attorneys met Chief Justice Vinson three hours before Lewis halted the strike, amid talks over speeding the case and suspending rules. Lewis said the pause aimed to allow the high court to decide on issues without public pressure during an economic crisis.
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National Coal Association
Lewis
Supreme Court
United Mine Workers
Vinson
High Court
North Carolina student legislators approve several bills
Delegates from 24 colleges met in Raleigh for the two day assembly voting on 9 proposals including a 30 percent teacher pay raise, lowering voting age to 18, compulsory auto driver exams, sales tax exemptions on apparel, and an end to capital punishment.
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House
Senate
Raleigh
N. C
Max Gardner, Jr
Great Britain
N. Y. State College
Texas
North Carolina Consider 18 to 21 Voting Rights
At a dinner meeting a committee heard Bryan Dorn, a 30 year old congressman-elect from South Carolina, advocate letting 18 year olds vote. He argued the policy boosts political interest and should apply since young people can serve, but not vote, in government.
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North Carolina
Bryan Dorn
South Carolina
Dorn
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Queen Kinley
E. M. Snider
Kitty Tribble
Poole Hotel
Rockford
Ill
Langdon Thrash
Holley
Egos la
Bryan Wallace
Holly Springs
Miss
Ernest White
Frank W. Tribill
Melrose Ave
N. J
C. D. Austin
Decatur
William Frances Baker
Robert Bault
Tennessee St
William H. Barker
Edith Burch
Chamberlain Ave
Chattanooga
A. P. Brown
Andrew J. Burnham
Carlos Hamil
M. T. Constancy
H. B. Keller
Rudolph Olgivia
Charles Bos
Conley
L. R. Duke
Alice Edmonds
Moss R. Fishman
Strathearn Road
Charles Gray
Lookout Circle
John L. Harris
Everhardt Ave
W. T. Holt
Ima Dell Ingram
Mil
Dred Johnson
F. J. Jones
T. S. Ledbetter
Henry Lemons
W. E. Lipshutz
Edith McCauley
Chester
S. C
O. L
Cumber
John M. Mc McCloughlin
Robert Edward Muns
Charles Parker
Madiison
Montgomery
Olin T. Ridings, Jr
London County Council
Winecoff
Big Inch
Longview
Peachtree Street
Cannon-Fetzer’s
Manhattan
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