Wind blown fire kills seven airmen at Syracuse
Wind gusts up to fifty mph fed a barracks blaze on the Syracuse University campus killing seven student airmen and injuring thirteen as they fled by windows and doorways. The clapboard 22 room building housed Russian study trainees for Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
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Air Force
Syracuse
N.Y
Syracuse University
Peter Dowling
Kalamazoo, Mich
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Ohio
Thomas Merfeld
LaCrosse
Wis
University
Dowling
Four Britons complete three day Atlantic balloon crossing
The Small World balloon voyage started December 12 from the Canary Islands aiming to float 3000 miles to Barbados. After three days aloft they abandoned the balloon in a storm and sailed 2000 miles in the gondola with rations. they were rescued near Bridgetown by a fisherman and reported by the London Daily Mail.
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Bridgetown
Barbados
Atlantic
Canary Islands
West Indian
London Daily Mail
Arnold Eiolart
London
Ejiolart
Timothy
Kidnapping Case Shifts Search To Coney Island
A note pinned to a diaper in a Coney Island subway station directs toward St Peter's Hospital and a baby girl abducted Friday from Brooklyn's Frank Chionchio family. Police seek a heavyset bleached blonde woman 30 to 35 seen at the hospital and are examining hospital records for infant deaths.
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New York
Coney Island
St. Peter's Hospital
St. Peter's
Brooklyn
Frank Chionchio
John J. Bradt
Cascade
New York City
Urrutia Moves to Restore Govt in Cuba
Provisional President Manuel Urrutia assumes control in Havana after Batista era ouster. He names Jose Miro Cardona premier, orders elections within 18 months to two years, summons cabinet, and ends martial law while Congress and criminal courts are dissolved. Fidel Castro’s forces advance toward the capital.
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Havana
Manuel Urrutia
Urrutia
Jose Miro Cardona
Castro
Batista
Insurgent Senators Back Coop er Against Dirksen for Leader
A group of 11 liberal Republicans announced support for Senator John Sherman Cooper over Everett Dirksen for floor leader. They also backed Thomas Kuchel for party whip and Styles Bridges for policy chair, with Bridges open to Kuchel as whip. House insurgents debated a leadership-sharing plan to curb 20 year rule of Veterans.
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Washington
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
George D. Aiken
Vermont
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Dirksen
Thomas H. Kuchel
California
Styles Bridges
New Hampshire
Leverett Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Milton R. Young
North Dakota
Bridges
Kuchel
W. Martin
Mass
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Martin
Republican House
Republican House Policy Committee
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Illinois
William F. Knowland
Salk Urges Fourth Polio Shot At Nationwide Drive
Dr. Jonas Salk promotes a fourth immunization dose to curb infantile paralysis. University of Michigan experts debate whether three doses suffice for those unvaccinated. AMA leader Gunnar Gundersen urges rapid two shot plus booster coverage to vaccinate the uninformed and needy. Thomas Francis Jr. backs health compliance codes as the March of Dimes campaign opens to raise 65 million dollars for polio arthritis and birth defects.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
Jonas Salk
Gordon Brown
University of Michigan
The
American Medical Assn
Gunnar Gundersen
Thomas Francis Jr
Salk
University of Michigan School of Public Health
Kickioff
National Polio Foundation
IGY REPORT CARD Greatest Hunt For Knowledge By IGY
The 18 month International Geophysical Year united 66 nations and 30 000 scientists to study Earth and space. The sun was observed by 100 observatories yielding sunspot activity and solar X rays from flares. Rockets lifted above clouds revealed solar X rays originate in the corona. Ultraviolet observations showed stars wrapped in unexplained nebulous radiation. Rocket astronomy promises to expand knowledge of the heavens and the outer sun’s atmosphere.
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Alton Blakeslee
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Germany
Julius Bartels
Bartels
Goettingen
IGY
Earth
Space
Nature i
Herbert Friedman
Naval Research Laboratory
Bitter Cold Grips Carolinas With Subzero Lows
The Associated Press reports a bitter cold front sweeping the Carolinas with subzero temperatures in the Black Mountain region and Mt. Mitchell. Lows ranged from single digits to the teens across cities like Greensboro Charlotte Wilmington Fayetteville Anderson Florence Spartanburg Greenville Columbia Myrtle Beach and Charleston. A warming trend is predicted later with some snow possible in the mountains.
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Carolinas
Central
Great Plains
Mt. Mitchell
Mississippi
Black Mountain Range
Mt. Pisgah
Mein
Greensboro
Charlotte
Wilmington
Fayetteville
South Carolina
Anderson
Florence
Spartanburg
Greenville
Columbia
Myrtle Beach
Charleston
North Carolina
Piedmont
Insurance Rate Hike Is Sought in North Carolina Beach Areas
Insurance Commissioner Charles F. Gold heard that North Carolina seacoast insurers posted losses of 13.31 million on premiums of 4.95 million from 1948 to 1957 due to hurricanes. The North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau seeks a 100 percent rate increase for extended coverage to curb losses and adjust future risks on beach properties.
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Raleigh
Charles F. Gold
North Carolina
Seacoast
W. S. Bizzell
North Carolina Fire Insurance Rating Bureau
Rating Bureau
Ray Walton
Southport
Bizzell
Nursing Home Fire Kills Four in Martinsburg
A nursing home fire in Martinsburg West Virginia killed four people including owner Velma Stroop Smith and 82 year old Frank Bowers. Five others were rescued and two more patients were not hospitalized. Firemen were delayed by 6 degree temperatures and the blaze started in the basement spreading through walls.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Velma Stroop Smith
Minnie Pence
New Market
Smith
Virginia Blake
Frank Bowers
Bowers
Wilmer Schell
Isabel Wheeler
Velma Smith
Clifford
William G. Harden
Annie Griffith
Election Records Sought In Alabama Voting Inquiry
Federal agents visit Barbour Bullock and Macon counties to inspect voter registration files. The US Civil Rights Commission may question registrars about Negro voting complaints, a matter unsettled by a Johnson Jr. court order amid immunity claims under Alabama constitutional provisions.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
US Civil Rights Commission
US. Dist
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Barbour
Bullock
Macon
Johnson
Mikoyan Seeks East Berlin Status at Dinner Talks
Soviet deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan outlined Moscow aims to grant East Berlin a new status while preserving West Berlin access. He told U.S. officials at an exclusive dinner that East Berlin would be handed to East Germany by next May, with possible UN involvement to safeguard free access.
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Washington
Anastas I. Mikoyan
United States
Bern
Berlin
Kremlin
Mikoyan
State Department
Soviet Union
East Berlin
West Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Britain
France
Khrushchev
East Germany
United Nations
Rocket Ready To Enter Orbit
The Soviet Mech drone rocket is now about 310700 miles beyond the moon and 497120 miles from Earth since its Jan 2 liftoff. Alexander Topchiev said the 12-ton craft has practically entered orbit and is traveling toward an elliptical path. Radio contact with the craft was lost Monday.
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London
Mechia
Solar System
Soviet Union
Alexander Topchiev
U.S.S
Topchiev
Crown Prince Caught In Long Island Florida Fraud Tale
An imaginative Negro from MacClenny Florida known as Edward Lee Woods 26 has posed as a crown prince in six states. He claims to be Prince Nkabouri Kawama Mboyta of Ubangi Sheri, but locals doubt him. Hospitals found no kidney ailment, and he faces arraignment in Tampa on interstate transportation of a fraudulent check.
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Fort Myers
Fla
MacClenny
Edward Lee Woods
Nkabouri Kawama Mboyta
Ubangi-Sheri
St. Mary's
Athens
Woods
Tampa
Danville
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Donald
Congress
Criminal Courts
Ioon
Pro- Urrutia
Camaguey
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Cooper
Sen. Dirksen
West
Crown Prince
Florida
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