Fire kills teen prisoners at Sandia Atomic guardhouse lock failure
An investigating board reports a key broke in the guardhouse lock during a Sandia Atomic fire trapping 16 teens. Pvt. Wilbur Henry Jot tried to release inmates but flames and smoke struck after the key jammed. Thirteen died at once, the 14th two hours later. two survived. One inmate, Robert C. Darsnek, 20, improved. another, Pvt. Harry, is unnamed.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Sandia
Wilbur Henry
Zanesville
Pris
Iire
Wedden
Pie
Robert C. Darsnek
Minnneapolis
Min
Mandsley
Hamilton
Washington
John E. Miles
Congress
Admiral Boone Demoted Over Defense Hospital Plan
Rear Adm Joel T Boone testified before the House Armed Services Committee that his demotion stemmed from not cooperating with a Defense department hospital economy plan. He said Navy Surgeon General Clifford A Swanson claimed the transfer to the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery was retaliation. Boone had served as personal physician to Presidents Coolidge Harding and Hoover.
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Defense Department
Joel T. Boone
House
Armed Services Committee
Washington
Navy
Clifford A. Swanson
Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Boone
Coolidge
Harding
Hoover
International
Two Men Injured as Airport Fire Destroys Beechcraft Plane
At Lima airport a Beechcraft valued at $15,000 was destroyed by a flash fire caused by a broken light bulb. Two Neon Products Corp employees Otis Leist and Walter Cooney suffered minor facial and hand burns. Two other planes were moved to safety as firefighters contained the blaze. A 1947 fire had destroyed ten planes and the hangar and repair shop.
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Lima
Otis Leist
Walter Cooney
Neon Products Corporation
South Amherst Honor Charter Members Honored at Meeting
Five charter members of the South Amherst Legion Auxiliary Post 197 were honored for 25 years of service at the March meeting in the Legion home. Recipients included Mrs. Paul Mori and others, each receiving a yellow daffodil bouquet. The gathering, with 28 members present, reviewed early records from 1922, installed officers, and planned charitable actions while highlighting the auxiliary’s growth to 87 members and upcoming events.
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South Amherst
South Amherst Legion Auxiliary Post
Legion Home
Paul Mori
Henry Kolb
William Slack
Charley Nickel
A. F. Nalley
Louis Lieb
Elmer L. Gibson
Conrad Reinhardt
Homer Dute
Sargeant-At Arms
Lodi Gibson
American Legion
New Legion
West Mainstreet
Xenia Children’s Home
South Amherst Girl Scouts
The
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Mildred Dudosh
Fileen Urie
Columbus
Henry Makinski
Athlee
James Lambourne
C. C. Vandersall
Walter Ellis
P.T.A
Stanley Truszak
Henrietta
Eddie Finnigan
Baldwin-Wallace
Harrison Dillard
Bruce Boehler
Boehler
Felix Lence
iLambourne
Counterfeit Dollar Case Dropped in Beatrice Neb
Police Chief D W Church halted the inquiry after learning the forger obtained the bill from a post office salary check and that the post office had received it from a bank. Also notes the Loyal Order of Moose founded in Louisville in 1888 and tin can industry start in 1891.
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Beatrice
MOOSE
J. H. Wilson
Louisville
The
Loyal Order of Moose
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Renoir
Bloomield
Sabet Ng
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Ohio
America
Atte
Bobbie Brooks
Alice Stuart
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