Disastrous Fires Dark Christmas Across Cities
Fires in Baltimore, Nashville, and Groton ruin a holiday with multiple alarms. Baltimore firefighters battled a six story wholesale produce building into the morning hours, eight men overcome and hospitalized. In Nashville the Maxwell House Hotel fire drove guests outdoors in freezing air. occupants believed safe, one elderly man unaccounted. In Groton a mother grieves after a farmhouse blaze kills five children and a hired hand, one child cradled by the worker in a doomed rescue attempt.
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Baltimore
Groton
N.Y
Irene L. Thayer
Robert Brown
May Thayer
Korean Child Adopted By Native Of Wellsville
Linda Marie Pinkerton, a 13 month old Korean orphan, arrived in Omaha after a long adoption journey from Seoul under the Orphans Foundation. Her new parents, Elmer and Roena Pinkerton of Lincoln, Neb., fingerprinted, checked by immigration, and delayed by weather, welcomed the child just before Christmas.
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Seoul
Korea
Lincoln
Neb
Linda Marie Pinkerton
Linda Marie
San Francisco
Calif
Elmer M. Pinkerton
Lincoln, Neb
Pinkerton
Rowena Pinkerton
Wellsville
St. Louis, Mo
Amheeyoon
Pinkertons
Orphans Foundation
Creswell
Ore
Harry Holt
G.I
Holt
Linda
Immigration Department
United States
Omaha
Christ
Foreign aid totals $5.2 billion in last fiscal year
U S aid to foreign nations reached 5.2 billion in the last fiscal year but repayments by other countries reduced the net to 3.9 billion, the smallest since World War II. The 5.2 billion included programs such as Mutual Security Food for Peace Export-Import Bank and related efforts.
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Washington
U.S
Commerce Department
Banker Dies at Girard National Bank
Charles Tinder aged 58, longtime cashier of Girard National Bank for 36 years, died Sunday night after retiring six months ago, in Girard Kansas.
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Girard, Kan
Charles Tinder
Girard National Bank
Educator Laurence Parker Dies After Career At Pittsburg College
Pittsburg AP Laurence Parker 82 longtime supervisor of vocational education at Pittsburg State College from 1924 to 1946 died Sunday night He and his wife would have observed their 54th wedding anniversary Christmas day Parker's death ends a lengthy tenure shaping regional vocational programs and staff legacy at the college.
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Pittsburg
Laurence Parker
Pittsburg State College
Pomona School Christmas Operetta Dazzles Audience
A colorful Christmas operetta by Pomona grade four to first grades filled the multipurpose room with song and dance led by Louise Welborn. Performers included Neal Baker as page and Jack Frost dancer Thomas Fyler. PTA officers announced a Jan 5 meeting and Jan 8 regular gathering.
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Pomona
Louise Welborn
Clyde Giffin
Opal Nitcher
Mae Likes
Billy Driver
Neal Baker
North Pole
Jack Frost
Thomas Fyler
Santa
Jack Forst
Linda Shomber
Jack- In-The-Box
Cat
Mouse
Sugar Plum
Raeann McCravey
Brownies
Mrs. Welborn
Duplicating Machine Fluid Kills Inmate at Leavenworth
Warden J C Taylor said one inmate died and two others fell ill after drinking a clear alcoholic fluid used in duplicating machines. The liquid, kept locked as poison, apparently mixed with water. Daniel Leon McRae, 21, serving five years for voluntary manslaughter, died Monday in the prison hospital. Inmates James Luther Hill and Walter Harold Pummill improved. Hill faces four years for possessing unregistered firearms, Pummill 30 years for bank robbery.
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J. C. Taylor
U. S. Penitentiary
Daniel Leon McRae
Leavenworth
Petersburgh
James Luther Hill
Kansas City
Kan
Walter Harold Pummill
Astoria
N.Y
Hill
Pummill
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Maxwell House
Bernice Holden
Tive Land
Mas Tush
Jimmy Durante
Montgomery Ward
Scientifi
Ness
Pomona News
PTA
Fannin
Methodist Church
N. W. Huderson
Wesley Choir
David Bulmer
Janet Lindsey
Carol Crawford
R. A. Trowbridge
the Assembly of God Church
Santa Claus
Karl Johnson
California
Eldon Morris
Steven
Mabel Johnson
Concord
Mabel
Morris
Larry Pearson
Richard Pearson
Ottawa
Nick Huderson Jr
Nick Hudelson Jr
Washington, D. C
N. V. Hudelson
Betty Bethell
R. H. Bethell
Columbus
R. 0. Dyer
Topeka
Leavenworth, Kan
Dean Berlin
Robert Aa
Franklin County
First National Bank
Kansas State Bank
Peoples National Bank
Peoples State Bank
Richmond
Wellsville Bank
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