Panicky Leapers Perish In New York Garment Fire
A five story New York garment building fire after a gas oven ignition killed 24 people, 18 women and 6 men, as mass hysteria sent workers leaping from four floors. Fifteen injured, several seriously, and investigators questioned seven related suspects in a string of southeast Los Angeles area robberies. The blaze began shortly after 4 pm when a worker lit a gas oven with a match. NEw details include an untouched stairway and delayed alarm.
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Garment Makers
New York
New York City
Edward Cavanaugh
Cavanaugh
Sheriff's Deputies
Los Angeles
Bell‘flower
Downey
Norwalk
Compton
Bell Gardens
Bell
Firestone
Lower Broadway
Man 92 Feet Tall Shrunk by Judge
William Clyde Brown, age 92, of 1025 E 15th St, was arrested for disturbing the peace at California Ave and TE Anaheim St. He pleaded guilty to orderly conduct and drunkenness before Municipal Judge Charles T. Smith who sentenced him to 11 days on one charge and 2 on the other.
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William Clyde Brown
Brown
15Th St
California Ave
Anaheim St
Charles T. Smith
Smith
Eisenhower rejects US summit site amid Khrushchev fears
The Eisenhower administration ruled out a US summit site and eyed Geneva in the fall citing Khrushchev’s push for a trip. Bulganin urged a world military standstill ahead of talks while ministers may meet next month to set work program dates and places. The Post Office seeks 425 million change of address cards for wartime efficiency. The Army will draft about 15,000 men in May, keeping monthly calls at 13,000 for 1958. In Oklahoma City, motions seek release of Katherine Kelly and Ora Shannon, wives of the late George Kelly, arguing legal counsel was inadequate at 1933 trials.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Geneva
Khruschev
State Dulles
Kremlin
Post Office Department
House Appropriations Committee
Washington P
Defense Department
Oklahoma City
George
Kelly
Leavenworth
Kan
Fire kills dozens in Norwalk Monarch building blaze
About 60 people were in the Monarch Underwear Co building when the fire started, many victims on the fourth floor. Abe Becker, owner of Monarch, is missing and feared dead. A jewelry-store robbery in Norwalk involved a hostage freed. $2,300 in gems were taken. Police identify a key suspect in at least 16 holdups and describe a scarfed gunman using a Luger type pistol. Continued on Page A-6.
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Monarch Underwear Co
Monarch
Abel Becker
Briefcase Lost at Atomfair Hunted by FBI in Chicago
Richard C. Wilson of Pittsburgh reported a missing briefcase carrying classified scientific papers during the Atomfair at the Nuclear Energy Congress in Chicago. FBI and other agencies conducted a wide search with secrecy orders, while officials gave no details on contents.
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Chicago
Nuclear Energy Congress
FBI
United Press
Richard C. Wilson
Pittsburgh
Wilson
Westinghouse
International Amphitheater
Atomfair
Congress
Midway Airport
WM Anemic All Efforts Prove Vain
The WM finds himself short as spring arrives unexpectedly. He still faces a surplus of clouds wind and rain to shed by Saturday. Yet he hopes his struggles will not be in vein as love remains the driving force.
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Tove
Plan for extending unemployment benefits approved
A plan to extend unemployment compensation for 12 weeks won federal government approval. A young desperado was arrested in Chicago hours before being placed on the FBI ten most wanted list for terrorizing a Torrance family.
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Desperado
Torrance
Chicago
FBI
Lonzo McGlothern Dies After Football Practice
Lonzo McGlothern, a famed Poly High School athlete at 17, died after collapsing on the field during practice at Burcham Field. The small, 5 foot 6 inch, 135 pound Negro student excelled in football basketball track and was an eight letterman. He lived with his mother at 13512 S. San Pedro St Los Angeles and had moved from Shreveport to Bakersfield before settling in Long Beach. He suffered an ankle injury the previous year against Downey but had been a star on defense and in the 1956 season.
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Lonzo McGlothern
Poly High School
Burcham Field
Urate
Lonzo
Seaside Memorial Hospital
Poly
Ffame
Lonze
Bill Mulligan
Mulligan
Léfigg
Zoerdia McGlothern
S. San Pedro St
Los Angeles
Alamitos Ave
Shreveport
Bakersfield
Long Beach
Downey
Launching of 100-Foot Satellite Under Study
Washington officials reported U.S. scientists are studying a 100 foot satellite inflatable balloon for an eventual Earth launch within two years. Dr Hugh L Dryden of NACA testified that the project aims to measure atmospheric drag and could inflate to full size after reaching altitude. In Cambridge observers sighted the Vanguard I moonler rocket stage, with moonwatch teams at Alamogordo recording a faint object moving eastward across the sky.
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Washington
United States
Hugh L. Dryden
National
U.S
T. H. Abbott
NACA
Dryden
Cambridge
Moonwatch
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Alamogordo
N.M
Vanguard
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Roaring Peak
International Assn
Montgomery Ward & Co
Carlo
Sophia Loven
Carlo Ponti
Hollywood
Tedda
Poly Star
Bob Whearley
Washington and Stevens Junior High
New Mexico
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