Fire Kills 90 in Chicago Our Lady of the Angels Collapse
Investigators favor a theory that a carelessly discarded cigarette sparked Chicago's Our Lady of the Angels school fire, killing 90 people including 87 children and 3 nuns. The blaze originated below street level, possibly in a waste container, with swift spread trapping students on the upper floor.
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Chicago
Drew Brown
FBI
Our Lady of the Angels
U.S
Robert J. Quinn
Quinn
Police Crime Laboratory
Daniel O’shea
Iowa Street
First Polio Case Reported in Medicine Hat City
A three year old girl Gale Hendricks is diagnosed with poliomyelitis in Medicine Hat. She is hospitalised at Municipal Hospital and expected to be moved to Calgary's Red Cross Crippled Children’s Hospital. Doctor J M Brown notes two Salk injections earlier this year and a third dose pending. Municipal Hospital cancels several sillectomy plans linked to the polio case. Four prior polio cases were recorded in 1957, last reported November 15.
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Medicine Hat
Gale Hendricks
Nor
Emah Hendricks
Red Cross
Municipal Hospital
Medicine “Hat
Brown
Dolly Gosselin Compelled To Testify At Hearing
In the first day of a preliminary murder hearing, Dolly Gosselin was compelled to testify about her relationship with Zachary Gosselin of Medicine Hat amid disputes over marriage status. She recalled travel with Zachary and Victor Gosselin, a hotel stay, a later confrontation, and a fatal incident, while denying she would testify against her husband.
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Dolly Gosselin
Zachary Gosselin
Medicine Hat
Gosselin
Victor
J. G. Kidd
Dolly
Zachary
Saratoga’ Park
Bow Island
Mr. Kidd
Walter Semrau
Mr. Semrau
Trans- Canada
Victor Gosselin
Brother Not Sure Confession a Lie
Quebec authorities dismiss a Mohawk youth Francis Thompson confession about Coffin murder as a pure invention. Coffin’s brother says a name similar to Thompson appeared earlier in the case. Thompson linked an accomplice named Johnny Greene to the 1953 Gaspe killings.
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Quebec
Wilbert Coffin
Coffin
Francis Gilbert Thompson
St. Regis
Miami
Fla
Gaspe Peninsula
Thompson
Charles - Edward Cantin
James Minix
Milton Chesser
Montreal Star
Donald Coffin
York Centre
Que
Francois Gravel
Quebec City
Johnny Greene
Montreal
Greene
Gravel
Filbert Thompson
Minix
Montreal Gazette
Anthrax Victim Released From Hospital in Saskatchewan
Regina dispatch reports Linda Gail Apland six year old patient released Monday from Langenburg hospital after cutaneous anthrax. Health officials say no further cases have been reported in Saskatchewan and outbreak unlikely though spores can persist for years. Apland’s cow carcass near Langenburg is under lab examination to determine death cause.
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Regina
Linda Gail Apland
Langenburg
Here
FP. B. Roth
E. E. ,Cartison
Dominion Agriculture Department
Apland
Carlson
Earl Alexander Leaves Ottawa After Heart AilmentRecovery
Field Marshal Earl Alexander, hospitalized in Ottawa since late October with a heart ailment, will fly to London Thursday. Doctors report good recovery. The former governor general and his wife attended the English Speaking Union world branches conference.
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Ottawa
Earl Alexander
London
Canada
Lord Alexander
CPA seeks immediate competition to break TCA monopoly
Monopoly battle heats at the Air Transport Board as Canadian Pacific Airlines argues for transcontinental routes Montreal to Vancouver to challenge Trans-Canada Air Lines. CPA contends TCA plans foretell traffic, buy aircraft, and maintain a self perpetuating monopoly. CPA warns jet era will cement TCA dominance if not opened to competition.
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Ottawa
Canadian Pacific Airlines
Trans-Canada Air Lines
CPA
Jay Gould
Air Transport Board
Montreal
Vancouver
TCA
Gould
Gordon McGregor
Ian Sinclair
McGregor
Sinclair
Chocolate-obsessed thief jailed nine years in London
Eric Godfrey known as the Chocolate Kid was sentenced to nine years at the Old Bailey after a raid on a bank payroll in a taxi cab. He and four others used three stolen cars and iron bars to smash a cab and steal £13,210. Evidence linked him by chocolate dust and rust particles from the bars. The other suspects remain at large.
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London
Sunderworld
Eric Godfrey
Godfrey
Scotland Yard
Science
Old Bailey
Diefenbaker Sprayed With Water on World Tour
In Jakarta the Prime Minister received a playful water pistol squirt from Wing Cmdr Bill Carr of Ottawa aboard the RCAF plane carrying the Diefenbaker party. Carr appeared as King Neptune with a crown and red wig as the aircraft crossed the equator en route from Singapore.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
CPI
Bill Carr
Ottawa
RCAF
Diefenbaker
King Neptune
Singapore
Neptune
Is This Spring Weather Wavering Across Southern Prairies
Warm air blankets southern Alberta and southwestern Saskatchewan while the north sees cloudy skies and scattered precipitation including light freezing rain. No major pattern change is expected tonight or Wednesday as the recent 15 inch snowfall melts, leaving city streets muddy. Low temperatures fell to 38 degrees Monday night.
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Alberta
Saskatchewan
Identification Goes Grimly On
AP report from Chicago details the aftermath of a fire at Our Lady of the Angels school. Ninety sheet-covered bodies lay in the Cook County Hospital morgue as priests and attendants comfort grieving relatives and assist in tentative identifications of missing children.
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Edmund O’moch
Chicago
Cook County
Our Lady of the Angels
Joseph Ognibene
Our Lady
Pope sends condolences after Chicago school fire tragedy
Vatican says Pope John XXIII offers profound sorrow to Chicago after a fatal school fire. The report notes this tragedy ranks among the deadliest U.S. school disasters, with the New London Texas and Collinwood Cleveland fires as the other top losses in history.
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Vatican City
Reuters
John XXIII
Chicago
Vatican
United States
New London
Texas
Collinwood
Cleveland
U.S
Cocoanut Grove
Boston
Policy Debate Signals East-West Conference Idea
Berlin dispatch reports Moscow criticizes Western Big Three plans for an East West conference on Berlin. Moscow radio calls such talks a maneuver to torpedo the Soviet Union’s plan to end the abnormal Western Berlin situation. The broadcasts refer to upcoming Paris meetings of foreign ministers to discuss turning West Berlin into a free city.
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Berlin
Reuters
Russia
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Soviet Union
Paris
West Berlin
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