90 Perish In Chicago Grade School Fire
CHICAGO, UP) — Fire struck a
parochial grade school with ter
rifying swiftnes Monday, trapping
pupils and teachers at their desks
a few minutes before dismissal
time. Ninety perished.
The fire that flashed through
Our Lady of the Angels School
Monday shortly before closing
time cost the lives of 87 children
and three nuns. v
More than 85 youngsters re
mained in hospitals.
It was Chicago’s most disastrous
blaze since the Iroquois Theater
holocaust in 1903 and the third
worst school fire in the nation in
100 years.
The flames shot up in the two
story brick building like fire from
a blowtorch. Heat and smoke
trapped the victims on the upper
floor of the north wing of the U
shaoed structure.
Twenty-four bodies were found
in one room. Most of them were
jammed near windows. Firemen,
sickened by the spectacle, said a
few of the children were still at
their desks, apparently paralyzed
by fear and panic.
Others leaped from windows.
The little survivors suffered
from burns, bones broken in falls
and the shock of the horror they
beheld.
Fire Commissioner Robert J.
Quinn considered the possibility
of arson. That possibility was
raised by the swift spread of the
blaze.
“It was the wors^ thing I have
ever seen or ever will see,” he
said.
Quinn also said the black smoke
indicated an oil-type fire.
Investigators pinpointed t
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A 38-gallon can was found in
a stairwell in that section of the
structure. It was taken to the po
lice crime laboratory for care
ful examination.
Just 18 minutes was the differ
ence between life and death for
the 1,300 students and black-robed
teachers in the school. The first
box alarm was turned in at 2:42
pjrt. The school let out at 3 p.m.
Within minutes the building
turned into a wild, screaming in
ferno. Smoke and heat filled stair
cases and second-floor corridors
so fast that normal exits were im
passable.
Many children panicked, stam
peded to windows. Some leaped
to death on sidewalks below.
Nearly all the eighth-grade
class in upper-floor classrooms
perished-.
Screams of children trapped on
upper floor floors drifted down to
hundreds of horrified spectators
and hysterical parents.
Of the dead, 53 were girls and
34 were boys. The heroic nuns
accounted for the other three.
Navy Planes Grounded
By Lack of Parts While
Surplus Parts Balloon
WASHINGTON, UP> — An aver
age of 8 per cent of the Navy’s air
planes were grounded for lack of
spare parts last September.
The General Accounting Office,
reporting this today, noted at the
same time that hundreds of mil
lion dollars worth of parts were
being declared surplus for dispo
sal purposes.
The GAO reported to House
Speaker Sam Rayburn on an ex
amination it recently completed of
the aviation segment of the Navy
supply system.
It made a series of recommen
dations to improve the situation,
and said the Navy has accepted
most of them.
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Federal Trial
Reveals Huge
Beck Profits
TACOMA, — Former Team
ster president Dave Beck Sr. near
ly doubled his money in an air
line ordered out of business a
month after he invested in it, a
federal court jury was told Mon
day.
Mrs. Virginia Evans, once vice
president of the Golden North
Airways, said Beck received
stock in the company for $27,500
he put up towards purchase of
a surplus transport plane. Within
a month, the Civil Aeronautics
Administration ordered the line’s
certificate revoked for flying
more than its prescribed number
of trips between Seattle and An
chorage, she said.
Nine months after his invest
ment, Beck sold his holdings for
$52,000, Mrs. Evans said.
Earlier, Beck chuckled when he
heard himself described from the
stand as a ranch backer who
didn’t know one end of an .ani
mal from the other.
The testimony came as the gov
ernment went into the fourth
week of its attempt to prove that!
Beck evaded $240,000 in income
tax for the years 1950-53. The
trial is expected to last two
months.
WESTERN ALLIES SUGGEST
GLOBAL MISSILE INSPECTION
GENEVA, UP) — The United
States and the four allies today
suggested the establishment of a
globe-girdling inspection system
to lessen the danger of surprise
attack by ballistic missiles.
In a detailed document intro
duced in the surprise-attack con
ference, the Western powers de
fined a series of warning methods.
The Soviet bloc countries at the
10-nation conference were urged
to join the Western nations in a
technical study of the whole prob
lem. The first Soviet reaction was
negative, Western sources said.
ALASKAN WINS 4-H CLUB
GARDENING SCHOLARSHIP
CHICAGO, OP) — Vadney Bled
soe, 17, Wasilla, Alaska, yester
day won a $400 scholarship in the
gardening category at the 37th Na
tional 4-H Club Congress here.
He was among 26 winners of
scholarships. *
IN THE PROBATE COURT
FOR THE CAPE NOME PRECINCT
SECOND DIVISION.
TERRITORY OF ALASKA
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF
CURTIS JACOBS, Deceased.
No. 813
NOTICE OF HEARING ON FINAL
REPORT AND ACCOUNT OF
ADMINISTRATRIX AND DECREEING
OF HEIRS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
Jennie W. Martin, of Nome, Alaska, the
Administratrix of the above entitled
estate, has filed with this court her
Final Report and Account, and that the
19th day of January, 1959, at the hour
of ten o’clock A.M. at the office of the
above entitled Court at Nome, Alaska,
has by Court Order been fixed as the
time and the place for a hearing on said
Final Report and Account; and also, at
such time and place the court shall
determine the insolvency of said estate,
and decree heirs.
Objections, if any there be, to said
Final Report and Account, and proof of
heirship will be heard at that time. ,
DATED this 17th day of November,
1958.
jeNnie w. martin.
Adm inistratrix.
Publish Nov. 19, 26, Dec. 3, 10, 1958.
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