Fire Kills Ten Nine Missing After Panic at Auditorium
In Baltimore a crowd of about 1000 at Arundel Park Auditorium sparked a deadly rush for exits. At least 10 women died nine people are missing and more than 200 injured as panicked attendees fled through two doors and windows. Survivor Al Barthelme described the scene of chaos and escape attempts as flames spread from a duct fire. More details on page two.
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ROK Official Shot to Death On Street
Maj. Gen. Kim Chang Yong head of South Korea’s Counter Intelligence Corps was shot dead in Seoul by an assailant who fled in a jeep. President Rhee rushed to CIC headquarters to direct the manhunt as authorities pursued clues to the killer and possible accomplice.
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Fire victims flood Baltimore hospital with near chaos
A cab driver recalls chaos as injured from the Arundel Park Auditorium fire pour into South Baltimore General Hospital. Doctors and nurses work nonstop, with blood plasma on the waiting-room floor while relatives, ambulance crews, and staff battled smoke and the crowd seeking news and care. One victim, Leo Rust, describes the blaze as the worst he has seen.
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AEC Plans Expansion of Research Program
The Atomic Energy Commission announced a large expansion of its research program to harness hydrogen bomb potential for peaceful power. The plan, named Project Sherwood, is described as long-range with work at Los Alamos, Livermore, Princeton, Oak Ridge, and New York University.
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Eight Wounded In Gun Battle At Nightclub
In Uniontown Alabama a Negro bandit and seven patrons of a night club for Negroes were wounded during a furious gun battle after a holdup attempt. The gunman fled, and several wounded patrons were reported as seriously injured.
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Teles Gaat
Eden Arrives in US for Talks with Eisenhower
British Prime Minister Anthony Eden arrived aboard the Queen Elizabeth with Selwyn Lloyd and planned three days of strategy conferences with President Eisenhower in Washington. Eden praised Eisenhower's reply to Bulganin and said Middle East and Asia issues would be discussed along with Palestine peace.
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Roger Makins
Beaten By Ice Ends Trans World Pilot’s Nonstop Hope
Trans World Airlines pilot William F. Judd, 40, landed near Paris after 24 hours 11 minutes aloft from White Plains. Icing and fatigue forced him to abort a nonstop White Plains to Cairo attempt, aiming instead for refueling in Paris with Rome as a potential midflight target.
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Alan Pate
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N.Y
William Odom
Honolulu
Teterboro
N.J
New Haven
Kan
Becaus
Baltimore Faces Second Transit Strike In Five Years
Baltimore is again without bus and trolley service as about 2000 transit workers strike at midnight. The union demands 25 cents more per hour, improved conditions, and better pensions, while the company seeks arbitration and offered no public counterproposal. Police enforce limited downtown access as city officials urge a halt to the strike.
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Thomas D’alesandro
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Marvin Mandel
Spartanburg Wholesale Hardware Sold to Winston-Salem Firm
Spartanburg based Montg ery & Crawford Co. Inc., a 60 year old wholesale hardware business, has been acquired by Brown Rogers Dixson Co. of Winston-Salem North Carolina. The Spartanburg operation will be run under the Winston-Salem firm name.
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N.C
West endorses Ike reply to Bulganin nuclear pact talk
Washington notes Western approval of a 20 year Russia United States friendship treaty proposal from Premier Bulganin. Moscow press touted the letter while R ussian papers omitted Eisenhower's rejection of the pact as unnecessary and potentially misleading. Eisenhower urged a change of spirit for world peace and suggested steps toward German unification and ending atomic war.
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Germany
Death of H. L. Mencken in Baltimore at 75
The renowned critic H. L. Mencken died in his sleep in Baltimore likely due to a blood clot. The essayist and author, aged 75, had suffered a stroke in 1948 that slowed his writing, and his funeral will be private per his brother August.
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Minority Report
Greensboro Six Negroes Convicted for Golf Course Trespass
Judge William Poteat convicted six Greensboro men Leon Wolfe Joseph Sturdevant Samuel Murray George C Simkins Jr Phillip Cook and Elijah Herr ing of trespassing on Gillespie Park Golf Course after they played nine holes on the white course Dec 7 denied permission to play and offered to pay greens fees. Each was fined 15 dollars plus costs and an appeal was filed. The judge said no sanction in our heritage justifies breaching the peace or usurping the law.
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Greensboro
William Poteat
Municipal County
Gillespie Park
Samuel Murray
George C. Simkins Jr
Phillip Cook
Elijah H. Herring
White
Nixon Heads Delegation To Brazil Inauguration Visit
Vice President Richard Nixon led a 17 member U.S. delegation to Brazil for Juscelino Kubitschek's inauguration. He reviewed an honor guard, received a 19 gun salute, and delivered greetings from President Eisenhower to outgoing President Nereu Ramos and the incoming leader.
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Eisenhower
Nereu Ramos
Kubtschek
San Francisco
Vincent Auriol
France
Confederation of Thetrial Workers
Celonies
Death Probe In Fayetteville Stabbing Of Maudie Hall
Fayetteville police investigate the stabbing death of Maudie Hall a Fayetteville waitress. Autopsy suggests no rape. $27 missing from the Cadillac Bar cash register and a man abducted Hall driving away with an unidentified companion. Her husband in Virginia was notified.
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Maudie Hall
D. M. Foster
W. H. Miller
Cadillac
Clark
Virginia
Leslie Griffin
Rt. 2
Lumberton
Relatives Queried In Mass Killing
Investigators questioned relatives of William Bauer's wife as Morris County prosecutors probe motive in the mass killing and suicide. Prosecutor John D. Collins called the case effectively closed by a homicide verdict and self-inflicted death.
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Troy Hills
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William Bauer
Morris County
John D. Collins
Bauer
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Anie
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