Fire devastates nursing home killing 34 in Largo Florida
A wind swept fire destroyed a one story nursing home in Largo revealing 32 elderly patients and a nurse dead. Investigations by the state fire marshal the State Hotel Commission and the sheriff begin as 25 patients are saved. Mr and Mrs Littlefield owners recount frantic rescue efforts. The blaze raged about 330 am on a chilly Sabbath. Many victims died in beds while others escaped with neighbors aiding in the evacuation. The tragedy also claimed welfare director Angus D. Smith in a separate auto crash while transporting patients.
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Largo, Fla
State Hotel Commission
Sid Saunders
W. L. Littlefield
Largo
Clearwater
Mves
Angus D. Smith
Pinellas County
Littlefield
Littlefields
Wi Hardin
Palm Harbor
Gus Simonson
Frank Colley
Gertrude Warnick
Rurse
Peter Treola
NYC Sets Rail Damage At Million
The New York Central reported rail damage exceeding one million dollars after a triple crash near Conneaut Ohio killed 21 and injured about 150. Two passenger trains and a freight collided as two tracks reopened, with 60 plus injured in hospitals across Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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New York Central Railroad
Pennsylvania
Conneaut
Ashtabula
Harold Ballman
Cincinnati
Elsa Dickout
Kenmore
N. Y
Clayton Miller
Middlebury
FBI
Air To Chicago Express
No. 5
Southwestern Limited
Atlantic distress report and Cold War briefings
The freighter Henry Stevenson radioed that it was on fire in the Atlantic about 530 miles east of New York. Berlin announced Britain will meet with the Russians in East Germany Tuesday night to discuss preventing air incidents after a Soviet fighter shootdown of a British bomber. Washington reports a planned foreign aid cut with no final amount yet, but a reduction from the Truman era proposal is expected for the next fiscal year.
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New York
Henry Stevenson
Atlantic Ocean
Berlin
East Germany
Germany
Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Taft
Ohio
House
Martin R-M&ass
Truman Administration
Four Killed In Xenia House Fire
In Xenia Ohio a 21 year old woman Mrs Alice Virginia Brooks and her three children Steven 4 Larue 2 and Cherryl 6 months died in a Sunday house fire. Neighbor George Gray awakened the family. Mrs Brooks and her husband James 23 escaped while she reentered the home to save the children and perished. The children's bodies were found in their beds.
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Xenia
O.P
Alice Virginia Brooks
Steven
Larue
Cherryl
George Gray
Brooks
Bomber Crashes in Azores. Many Reported Survivors
A B-29 air force bomber with about 15 aboard crashed and burned at Lajes Field in the Azores. Hunter Air Force Base said 11 crewmen and four passengers, all military, were aboard during the takeoff.
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Savannah
Azores
Hunter Air Force Base
Lajes Field
Greek Premier Gains More Votes
Returns from weekend by elections show nine more seats for Premier Alexander Papagos' Rally party. Calm balloting in districts where November returns were invalidated gives the government all nine contested seats, raising its total to 243 of 300 in Parliament.
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Athens
Greece
Mrshal Alexander Papagos
Rally Party
Peterson pessimistic about A defenses
PHILADELPHIA The head of the federal civil defense organization says seven of 10 Russian planes could penetrate our defense net to drop atomic bombs. Val Peterson, interviewed on TV, said they can put one or more atomic bombs in every high priority industrial area in America at one time. Peterson said U S civil defense probably would not be adequate until 1955.
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Philadelphia
Federal Civil Defense Organization
Val Peterson
America
Peterson
U. S
Reds Rip Christmas Hill Drive in Snowy Korea Front
South Korean troops repelled a 300-strong Red assault west of Christmas Hill as U S Marines held Outpost Vegas on the Western Front. American Sabre jets claimed several MIGs shot down or damaged with Lt Col George L Jones scoring a fifth jet ace.
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Vegas-Reno Hill
Vegas Hill
Old Baldy Mountain
Robert B. Tuckman
Seoul
Christmas Hill
U. S
Vegas
Mundung Valley
Reds
Sabre
George L. Jones
Vero Beach
Fla
Outpost Vegas
Reno
Gene
House Tideland Bill Moves Toward Likely Passage
The House debates a tidelands bill to grant states title to submerged lands beneath their coasts and allow development of resources. It would let states lease, tax sever, and enforce laws with federal royalties and escrowed revenues returning to the treasury. The Senate plans debate next, with potential 10 days of discussion.
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Supreme Court
California
Texas
Louisiana
Truman
Eisenhower
Senate
House
Taft
Ohio
Florida Gulf
Secretary of the Interior
Interior Secretary
Continental Shelf
Federal Treasury
Barges Wallowing Helpless At Sea Aboard Six Men Aboard
Six men were aboard two large barges adrift in heavy Atlantic seas about 150 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras. The oil barges broke loose while being towed by the tug Marion Moran from Bermuda. High seas prevented return of the crew, and two Coast Guard cutters were deployed to assist.
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Coast Guard
Marion Moran
Bermuda
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Moran
Plane Down In Africa Near Mangrove Swamps
A Viking airliner with 18 aboard was found 80 miles southwest of Dar es Salaam Tanganyika at mangrove swamps. Fate of 13 passengers including two women and five crew remains unknown. Native reports unclear if crash or forced landing occurred.
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Salisbury
Southern Rhodesia
Dar Es Salaam
Tanganyika
Central African Airways
B&O Freight Derails 11 Cars on Embankment
A Baltimore and Ohio freight train derailed 11 cars on a high embankment in St Bernard Sunday. No injuries were reported though one car plunged down and crashed through the wall of a grinding mill.
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Cincinnati
Baltimore & Ohio
St. Bernard
Chinese Red proposes repatriation plan to end Korea war stalemate
Premier Chou En Lai in Tokyo offered a compromise to resolve the Korea war prisoner repatriation question, the final obstacle to an armistice. The plan mirrors UN programs and seeks to speed prisoner exchanges and improve security assurances.
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John Randolph
Tokyo
Red China
Chou En-Lai
Chou Enlai Leads Nuclear War Prisoner Talks
Chou Enlai proposed that both sides repatriate prisoners who want to go home and hand over the rest to a neutral state to ensure a just repatriation solution after hostilities end. He tied this to the Korea armistice talks and referenced U N and Panmunjom as the decision arena. The plan echoed earlier proposals while the United Nations considered the stance.
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Panmunjom
United Nations
United Nations Assembly
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Mark Clark
U. N
Moscow
Stalin
Russia
Korea
Greeks Fix Official Bar On Shipping
Harold E. Stassen accused Senator McCarthy and the Senate Investigations Subcommittee of undermining agencies striving to cut trade with Iron Curtain areas. An accord allegedly reached with Greek shipowners would bar Greek flag vessels from carrying cargo between Communist ports, while ships under other flags would avoid Greek actions. McCarthy claimed the plan extended beyond the Greek decree and highlighted questions about executive versus legislative prerogatives in foreign affairs.
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Harold E. Stassen
Mutual Security
Sen
McCarthy R-Wis
Senate
U. S
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
North Korea
China
Mutual Security Administration
Frank C. Nash
Defense
Eisenhower
White House
State Department
Rin gling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus Opens 83rd Season
The Rin gling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus arrived in New York with elephants horses giraffes and other animals parading from the Harlem River yard in the Bronx to Madison Square Garden. The 83rd season opens Wednesday night drawing children and adults alike to the show.
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Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
New York, New Haven and Hartford
Harlem River
Bronx
Madison Squire Garden
Cancer Control Month Message Sets Fear Against Cancer
An editor notes fear as cancer’s main ally and urges informed action during Cancer Control Month. The piece highlights advances in treatment, stresses realistic fear, and lists seven cancer danger signals prompting medical evaluation. Tomorrow’s topic is cancer of the skin.
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The
American Cancer Society
AEC Plans New Auto Test At Nevada Proving Grounds
Harold L. Goodwin, civil defense atomic test director, said a new round of car exposure will be detonated at the Nevada Proving Grounds to supplement March 17 data. The tests use different conditions to assess passenger protection in atomic events.
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Las Vegas
Nev.p
Nevada Proving Grounds
Harold L. Goodwin
Civil Defense Atomic Test Director
Boy Drives Taxi, Crashes Into Hotel In West Palm Beach
A six year old boy allegedly took a taxicab from a parking lot in West Palm Beach drove it a block and crashed into the Dixie Court Hotel. He fled but was captured minutes later and handed to juvenile authorities with his parents. Taxi damage set at 158 dollars and hotel damage minimal.
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West Palm Beach
Dixie Court
Ted Garrison
Elton F. Garrison
Ted
Wayne Shurley
Shurley
Tragedy Brings Tulsa Twins Together After Years
Two teenage Tulsa brothers who grew up in the same city and attended the same high school meet by chance after a foster family tragedy. Ted Garrison and Wayne Shurley discover they are related through adoption and share a mother, Mrs. C. A. McClain. Wayne plans Navy service in May, while Ted departs for San Diego.
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Okla
Wayne
Ted
Viltogers High School
C. A. McClain
San Diego
Calif
Navy
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