Our Lady of the Angels School Fire Horror
Fire and smoke engulfed Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago. FBI involvement and city officials search for a cause follow reports of 90 deaths and hundreds injured as students and nuns flee in panic. Survivors recount screams, burns, and frantic rescues as firefighters battled the blaze.
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Chicago
APJ
Drew Brown
FBI
Our Lady of the Angels
Brown
Our Lady of Angels
Linda Barleto
Salq
Andrea Gagliares
Linda
Calisin
Andrea
Bus Driver Collapses, Student Halts Runaway Bus
A 7 year old sophomore, Eddie Sowell, and 24 pupils were aboard when school bus driver Alphis Tennant collapsed at the wheel causing the vehicle to roll downhill. Student Eddie Sowell grabbed the wheel and stopped the bus at the bottom. Tennant died at a hospital from an apparent heart attack.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Eddie Lowell
University High School
Alphis ‘Tennant
Statler Run
Sowell
Tennant
Chicago Fire Tragedy at Our Lady of the Angels School
Chicago hospitals appeal for blood donations as 400 to 500 donors are urgently needed after the Our Lady of the Angels School fire. The blaze killed many and left firefighters stunned by the sight. Investigators consider arson possible as twenty four bodies are recovered in one room, with victims found near windows or leaping to escape.
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Our Lady of Angels
Chicago
Chicago 49
Our Lady of the Angels
Quinn
Robert
Where to Find It Chicago Fire Disaster Coverage
Readers are directed to multiple sections for extended coverage of Chicago's school fire disaster. Additional stories and pictures appear on pages 4.2 and A-3, with related items across Final Boyle page, Bridge page, Classifier page, Comics, 7 Crossword, Death Notice page A-2, Editorial page A1, Financial page, Red Shipping table A-1, Sports pages C-1, Theaters page A-19, Titles and Temperatures A-11, TV Radio page A-14, Wisco page 4-14, Women’s pages E, and Your Worst page A-3.
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Chicago
Long Beach Woman Found Dead With Fork Stuck in Chest
A 41-year-old Long Beach seamstress, Mrs. Hazell Elizabeth Lane, was found murdered with a barbecue fork deeply embedded in her left breast. Elwood Nelson, 41, reported the scene to police and led investigators to the apartment, where the victim lay on the floor as the TV played. Nelson, who claimed to live in San Francisco, was booked on a technical charge as detectives continued to verify his account amid the investigation.
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Long Beach
Hazell
Elizabeth Lane
Elm Ave
Apt. E
Znont
Elwood G. Nelson
Willow St
Nelson
San Francisco
Mrs. Lane
Accord forestalls Pacific Air strike in three year pact
In San Francisco negotiators reached a tentative three year contract for machinists at Pacific Air Lines. Joan Ledbetter of the International Association of Machinists said the proposal would be presented to union members at a meeting at San Francisco International Airport.
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Pacific Air
San Francisco
Pacific Air Lines
Joan Ledbetter
International Association of Machinists
San Francisco International
Eisenhower Returns to Washington After Golf Vacation
President Eisenhower flies from Augusta to Washington aboard Columbine III after a 13 day break mixing golf and work. He travels with Youngest grandchild Mary Jean and Maj. John Eisenhower and his wife, heading into a busy schedule and Congress convening January 7.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Washington
Columbine III
Mary Jean
Army
John Eisenhower
Weenens Fisenhower
Congress
Weather Update for Coast Area Wednesday
Late night and early morning on the coast show patchy fog with light winds. Temperatures change little. expect mostly stable conditions across Wednesday with mild coastal conditions.
West Berlin plebiscite idea sparks Allied talk
Allies ponder challenging Khrushchev to a plebiscite on West Berlin status with a vote expected to decide free city status. Informants say a rejection could force the Russians to drop the plan and honor four power accords while withdrawal of troops might follow if accepted. Federal authorities arrest a Sun Valley banker over a false bank records entry involving about $800,000.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Los Angeles
U. S
John E. Petersen
Suri Valley
National Bank
Lawyer Kills Self Over Fund Shortage
Noble County court records report Porter D B Crowell, a 52yearold prominent lawyer and former prosecutor, found hanging in a garage in Kendallville Indiana. A suicide note blamed himself for the fund shortage that could reach two million dollars affecting hundreds of friends.
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Kendallville
Inn
Noble County Credit Union
Porter
Crowell
Fiji hit by hurricane wrecks homes and power lines
A hurricane struck Suva and surrounding areas destroying houses and disrupting telecommunication services. Ships sought shelter as the storm, the first to hit Fiji since 1053, produced winds around 200 miles per hour in Suva and toppled about 20 houses in Waiheke.
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Fiji
Suva
Waiteka
Picklowan Doctor of the Year Named in Minneapolis
Dr Lonnie A Coffin 68 Farmington Iowa billed as the nation s outstanding family physician of the year by the American Medical Association He delivered 2000 babies at homes and helped develop Indian Lake park aiding boating fishing and picnicking He financed high school tickets and graduation clothes for students in need He says he is an ordinary country doctor and is the first Iowa winner
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Minneapolis
Iowa
Lonnie A. Coffin
Farmington
House of Dele
Bates
American Medical Amn
Moeter
Meir
Hee
TR. Coffin
Cecil W. Clark
Cameron
Hueeane
Audrey
Coffin Terns
Indian Lake
Propane Truck Explodes in Sterling Kansas Fire
A propane tank truck exploded during a fire in Sterling Kansas causing injuries including one critical. Earlier blast at a filling station touched off the fire as flaming debris spread. Forty minutes later the truck at the station wash rack blew up, sending a mushrooming cloud of flames and smoke hundreds of feet into the air.
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Sterling
Kan
Rone
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Lke
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