Pierside Tragedy in Toronto Leaves Nearly 200 Dead
A fire on the Noronic cruise ship at Toronto docks killed or missing nearly 200 holiday travelers, most from the United States, as flames swept the vessel in minutes. Authorities launched investigations while survivors identified friends among charred bodies. funeral plans were arranged and officials cautioned that casualty counts would rise.
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S. S. Noronic
Toronto Harbor
Wirephofo
Toronto
Oronto
Ont
Noronic
United States
Qaly
Coliseum
Canadian Department of Transport
Canada Steamship Lines
K. R. Marshall
Hiram McCallum
Red Cross
Detroit
Cleveland
Captain Tells His Battle to Get Passengers Off
Captain William Taylor of the Noronic spoke from his bed at RONTO on September 17 describing a fierce, hopeless effort to save passengers as fire swept the ship. His face scorched and right hand bandaged, he recounted checking every deck from A to D and guiding crew and passengers toward safety as the inferno spread.
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Ronto
William Taylor
Noronic
Morro Castle Tragedy Recalled By United Press
United Press recalls the Morro Castle disaster and notes its place among major peacetime ship fires. It cites the Noronic and General Slocum cases, including shipboard rescues and deaths, and mentions the Titanic sinking as the worst peacetime maritime disaster with 151 lives lost.
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United Press
North America
Morro Castle
Star
Titanic
Atlantic
Searchers Find No Sign of Pair Flying Atlantic
Air Force Navy and Coast Guard planes and ships scoured the Atlantic for Italian fliers Brondello and Barlogne who vanished after attempting a nonstop Azores to New York flight. Officials suspect fuel exhaustion after their Beechcraft Bonanza went down 180 miles south of Argentia with 240 miles remaining. The search, covering 600 miles off Newfoundland, paused at dusk and would resume with three Air Force planes continuing overnight.
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New York
Air Force
Navy
Coast Guard
Atlantic
Azores
John Bron’dello
Camillo Barlogto
Newfoundlands
Hammond Field
N. S
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Barrogne
Argentia
Nild
Egyptian swimmer completes English Channel cross from England to France
Hassan Abdel Rehim, a 41 year old Egyptian, swam the English Channel in 15 hours 58 minutes from England to France becoming the second man to swim the route both ways and the third to complete the England France crossing. He was the third swimmer of the year to succeed with Tim Jonker and others noted earlier.
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Cap Gris Nez
France
Hassan Abdel Rehim
English
England
Rehim
An Rehim
Philip Mickman
Fermand du‘Moulin
Marie Hassam Hamad
Tim Jonker
Dover
Eng
Calais
Austin Optimistic: U N Assembly Starts Calm Atmosphere
Warren R. Austin, U S delegate to the United Nations Assembly, said the atmosphere before the fourth assembly opening is calm and conducive to reasonable dialogue. He avoided predicting outcomes and noted absence of fear and defuseness seen at Paris start, calling the opening year a good omen.
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New York
Warren R. Austin
United States
United Nations Assembly
Austin
CBS
Paris
Atlantic Pact forms plan for unified North Atlantic defense
The Atlantic Pact powers created a military high command with permanent Washington headquarters to plan defense against Soviet pressure. A defense committee will draft a plan for the North Atlantic area, led by US Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, with meetings set for Oct. 5 and yearly touchpoints. A military committee of chiefs of staff will advise, plus a US-UK-France subcommittee will guide strategy from Washington.
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K Tashington
Washington
Atva
Ai2 Nation Defense Committee
North Atlante
Defense Committee
U. ‘S .Defense
Louis Johnson
United States
Britain
France
Omar N. Bradley
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Thermilitary Committee
Council
Pact
Arg
Dean’ Acheson
Senate Committee
Senate
House
Russia
Denmark
Norway
United Kingdom
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Canada
United “States
Italy
North Atlantic
Teeland
Portugal
Mystery Slugger Attacks Again in San Mateo
Police guard Community Hospital after a 43 year old Belmont woman, Nan B D Andrews, is found beaten and slashed at the bottom of a ravine near her home. She recalls a heavyset six footer with a brutish face as the assailant who attacked her in her house three weeks earlier.
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San Mateo
Community Hospital
Nan BD. Andrews
John. S. Andrews
Steel Dispute Peace Parley Slated Monday
Pittsburgh dispatch reports a national steel and coal crisis as miners may walk out next week after pensions and welfare payments were suspended. Union leaders push for Presidential board peace terms while mediation starts Monday in Washington to avert a wider strike.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers
Jand Midwest
U.M. W
U.M.W
John L.lewis
Lewis
U.mw
Murray
Philp Murray
United Steelworkers
Washington
Inland Steel
Chicago
Securities and Exchange Commission
UBL Ws Welfare Fund
Noronic's Owners Liable for Luggage
TORONTO Ont September 17 02 Officials of the Canadian Steam Ship Company said today that passengers aboard the Noronic traveled at their own risk but the company was responsible for the safety of their luggage.
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Toronto
England France Back U S Plans to Abandon China
Britain and France backed the United States policy to abandon Chiang Kai shek and China to the Communists. A 90 minute Western Big Three meeting produced a terse communique pledging accord on Far Eastern policies.
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England
France
U.S
China
Ashington
Great Britain
United States
Senate
Chiang Kaishek
Aol
Department
Chiang
Nations
Truman
Dean Acheson
Ernest Bevin
Robert Schuman
Schuman
Bevin
Acheson
Britain
Japan
Russia
Asia
Avalanche Kills Three at Big Creek
Three men were killed in a landslide near Big Creek Station No 4 in the mountains east of Fresno. The deceased were Walter H Coppinger 34 Au berry Glen E Morgan Clovis and Frank James Moore Pinedale. They worked for Morrison Knudsen Co. Cause of the slide undetermined.
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Fresno
Big Creek
California Edison Co
Here
Walter H. Coppinger
Auberry
Glen E.morgan
Clovis
Frank James Moore
Pinedale
Morrison-Knudsen Co
Polio May Reach Airtime Record of 40 000 Cases
New York reports 1949 poliomyelitis estimates by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis project 40 000 cases, surpassing 1916 totals. Dr Hart E Van Riper notes funding strain and medical costs may reach 37 million dollars as 26 461 cases are already recorded. Five states exceed previous highs: Arkansas Indiana Maine Michigan and Oklahoma.
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New York
National Foundation For
Hart E. van Riper
National Foundation
Foundation
Arkansas
Indiana
Maine
Michigan
Oklahoma
Ship's Fire Apparatus Criticized
Survivors of a Toronto fire charged today that the ship's extinguishers and hoses failed and that the crew abandoned passengers. A bitter argument followed over responsibility for the high death toll as crew blamed drunken passengers while passengers blamed the crew. One man said a fire hose yielded no water and another reported an empty extinguisher.
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Toronto
Noronto
Don Church
Silver
Lake
Ohio
Gun Sold for 25 Dollars in Birmingham Robbery Claim
In Birmingham Alabama on September 17 Joseph Bevil a Black man reported to police that he sold a nickel plated revolver to an unseen Black buyer for 25 dollars. The buyer allegedly turned the weapon on Bevil and retrieved the money.
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Birmingham
Ala
Joseph Bevil
Bevil
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