Eight die and 23 hurt in San Francisco apartment blaze
A pre-dawn fire tore through a four story frame building in a historic district. At least eight killed and 23 injured as residents fled through smoke filled stairs. Seventy plus residents were present with 18 missing. Catholic sisters sheltered survivors and priests aided victims. A resident awakened others by ringing apartment bells.
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Robert Coffey
San Francisco
Sanni Wiertensen
Martin
Robert F.ffey
St. Patrick's Parish
Father McGee
Arrowhead Fire Threatens Lake Arrowhead Resort
A forest fire in the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead, California, has burned over 2000 acres of brush and timber. It destroyed two cabins and a US Forest Service fire truck and at times came within half a mile of the residential district. Over 200 firefighters and volunteers backfired to shield the north shore and Hook Creek areas as winds threatened a southerly shift.
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Lake Arrowhead
Calif
Lake Arrowhead Mountain
San Bernardino Mountains
United States Forest Service
Little Bear Creek Canyon
Lake Arrowhead Dam
Mojave Desert
Hook Creek
Education Crisis at NEA Convention in San Francisco
The National Education Association meeting in San Francisco drew attention to funding shortages for nationwide school programs. Delegates noted that spending on gambling exceeded education funding by more than four times last year, underscoring the budget squeeze across schools.
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National Education Association
San Francisco
Admiral Sherman dies in Italy on heart attack
U S Navy Chief Sherman dies during a European tour in Madrid and Naples after two heart seizures. His widow says he died forthright and brave as he prepared to return to Washington. He recently met Franco and Eisenhower and had tours across Frankfurt, London, and Naples before a New York funeral planned for tomorrow.
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Duenyene Aerwaasroerge
Madrid
New York
Avas
Washington
Generalissimo Franco
London
Naples
America
Spain
Pomeoii
U. S. Navy
Robert Carney
Mediterranean Fleet
Allied Forces
Navy Orders All Flags at Half Staff
The Navy ordered all flags on shore stations and ships in port to be flown at half staff for Admiral Forrest P. Sherman, chief of naval operations, who died in Naples, Italy. Flags will remain at half staff in mourning until sunset on the funeral day. ships underway do not fly flags at half staff. Sailors at home abroad and at sea were informed by a brief communique from Navy Secretary Francis P. Matthews.
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Europe
Shermans
Naples
New York
Sherman
United States
Generalissimo Franco
Madrid
United Sea Navy Cinef
Washington
Silly
Navy
Adm
Forrest P. Sherman
Naval Operations
Italy
US 8
Francis P. Matthews
British Ship Unloads Steel for China Reds
The British freighter Greystoke Castle sailed from Canton after unloading large quantities of steel from Europe and six ton trucks. The 8000 ton ship reportedly carried about 15 million dollars worth of steel plates and trucks picked up in Poland Germany and Belgium for the Red port.
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Tiong Kong
Canton
Europe
Poland
Germany
Belgium
Red
Landlord Slays Man and Wife Over Loud Radio
A landlord, Bernardo Hernandez, is sought after the killings of Otilino Garcia and her husband Lawrence in Los Angeles. Garcia, dying, named Hernandez as the shooter after a dispute about a loud radio and a switch-off of their porch lights. Police described a rapid manhunt extending from the city toward the Mexican border with no capture by nightfall.
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Bernardo Hernandez
Esmeralda St
Pico
Los Angeles
Otilino Garcia
Esmeralda
Hernandez
Lawrence
Los Angeles General Hospital
D. H. Whipple
R. D. Williams
Gartia
Demutior
Garcia
L[hernandez
Hernangee
Ralph V. Parra
Manuel H. Aguirre
Parra
Baby Strangled By Blankets In Home Crib
A 16 month old girl, Elizabeth Callaghan, died last night in her Seaside Walk home after becoming tangled in crib blankets. Her parents, Mr and Mrs John Callaghan of Penny-Owsley Music Co, 4326 Atlantic Ave, discovered her body when entering the bedroom to help their older daughter Molly prepare for bed.
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Elizabeth Beecher Callaghan
John Callaghan
Seaside Walk
Callaghan
Penny-Owsley Music Co
Atlantic Ave
Betty Callaghan
Molly
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Gilman C. Hofland
U.S. Navy
China
Reds
Featuri
Drew Péartan
Cker
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