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‘Heroic Nuns, Nurses Bove
Lead Patients From Building In Dallas, Tex. |
By United Press DALLAS, Oct, 24 Heroic nuns and nurses shepherded 260 patients out of St. Paul's Hospital today as a five-alarm fire burst through the roof and threatened to send it crashing down on them,
The blaze was discovered at 2:27 a, m. and was extinguished an hour and-.26 minutes later
It. roared through the the five-story brick
roof of building as
members of the hospital staff carried and guided the patients out into AH0-degree weather to Await remov; to other institutions Patients who underwent surRery. less than 24 "hours before the blaze walked down as many As three. flights ‘af stairs, - A
mother whose hahy terday da carried her chil
A child was
was born yesthe nursery and d out in her arms. born in a nearby nurses’ home five minutes after the mother was evacuated.
shed fo
Removed Mothers First
Nuns under the Sister Alberta
direction of mother superior of the order of Daughters of Char ity, and student called from their beds, removed mothers and babies first The 30 infants were
nurses
taken to the nearby nurses home and 'assigned’ to trainees for care. The fire, believed to have re-
sulted from defective. electrical
wiring, broke out in the fifth-floor quarters of the nuns Sister Alberta said she awoke ta see the ceiling of the room “spluttering and then it and a wall broke into flame It spread quickly through the dormitory.” Every ambulance Dallas
dozens of police and sheriff's department cars, countless taxicabs and’ a city bus were used in the evacuation Sixty-two to Bavior away: 30 Parkland Hospital. four were taken to Methodist Hospital, and patients not seriously ill were taken home by relatives Fire Chief (". N blaze caused about £1 age before it was extir 1.57Ta m One patient. a-75-vear-old wom an critically ill with cancer. was the onlv sick not removed from the hospital She was carried on a siretcher to a floor office There ‘a priest administered final rites of the (Cath
olic Church
taken blocks
were four
patient < Hospital were received at
Penn said the 05 OOF dam uished at
person
ground
while firemen rtished hose and other equipment through the office Quilts and hlankets hrought arby homes to keep the patients warm until their turn came in the ambulance run to other institutions,
were
Many in Shock
Many of the shock, and moaned as they were moved about by relatives or spec-
patients were in
tators aiding nurses assigned to the street Mrs. Anna Mav Farmer, suffer-
ing from an injured leg. said “everybody was calm, and there certainly was a lot of heroic work \ She =aid the blaze seemed ton have started just above the maternity ward, and the 30 babies in the nurserv were directly under a part of the fire. Joseph K. Lane, St. Paul's pergonfiel director, said “it took little more than 15 minutes to evacuate all the patients
Child Dies After Stick Ruptures Windpipe
LAWRENCEBURG, Oct, 24
(UP)— Larry Thomas, 3. son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Thomas, was injured . fatally when his
windpipe was ruptured by a stick his 5H-vear-old brother, Leonard
Jr.. threw at a hickory tree The two. bovs were knocking nuts from the tree near their
l.arry stepped in front of as he threw a stick struck Larry. He ran hig parents rushed him Fred Heuston
home. Leonard just The stick home and to the office of Dr, where-he- died:
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EXCITING WORLD-—This baby girl in the arms of Nurse Mrs. Margery McGuffin was born in St. Paul's Hospital minutes before fire routed patients from their beds. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P, Lucky of Dallas.
Egyptians Fire on Israeli Patrol Boat
ted Press
53 Reliable sources said Egyp-
By CAIRO, Egypt, Oct.
‘Larrison
tian coastal batteries opened fire today on an Israeli patrol vessel near Egyptian-occupied Gaza in southern Palestine and forced it tq withdraw,
The shooting erupted about 125
miles -northeast of
(Canal zone and brought new anxety to the troubled Middle East, The ROUrCes cad Egyptian
yastal guns blazed forth when the Israeli coastal patrol Egyptian territorial waters the Egyptian government banned all anti-British demonstrations throughout the land today and threatened drastic penalties -for anv recurrence of the bloody battles vesterdav between
demonstrators and police, 4 ’
Defy
In Cairo
Threat At the same time, the Egvptian government ordered its officials in the Suez Canal zone to follow a program of rigid non-co-opera-tion with the British forces there. The order was issued in defiance of a British threat to invoke ‘‘severe measures” against striking Egyptian workers. » The port of Suez, southern gateway to the canal, has been partly crippled by the walkout of Egyptian dock workers. In addition, Egyptian canal pi?sey have paralyzed. ship movernents at the pyrt by ref a gu ide vessels with r equipm
Ising t
In Cairo. Alexandria, and other enters police were deal rut with any to disturb law and order, informed sources said.
ordered to
hless]y efforts
The worst riot occurred in Alexandria yesterday. One demonstrator was killed and four injured after police drove back a stone-throwing crowd with clubs and shots. One police officer and several policeman were reported injured. In Suez, the British garrison command warned Gov. Ibrahim Zaki El Kholi to get striking dock workers back to their jobs. The threatened to take -se-
°8 nhoto by Henry E. Glesing Ji
the tense Suez
entered off
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vere measures if the governor did not issue the order. The ritish message was the rst written warning delivered. t Egyptian authorities since the lareup of violence in the canal zone. Cairo ordered the Egyptian icifals at Suez to cling to the non-co-operation policy
Schricker to Take: To TV to Give Support to Bayt
Gov. Schricker. a of the movie screen, will take to the tele-
“star”
vision screen in support of Phillip Bayt. candidate for Mayor. Gov. Schricker's office sald today he had agreed to make “at least one’ TV appearance for Mayor Bavt in his mayoralty battle" with Republican Alex Clark. B. .Hgward .Caughran federal district inently ment ndidate 1952, handled the arrangements
Democratic
former here and as a Dem-
attorney N ; nrom ioned
ocrati for Governor
been =eGovernor's lone
No definite date has lected for the TV appearance, Arthur Campbell, executive secretary of the Governor, said “Gov. Schricker will make at least one TV speech for Mavor Bavt. Mr. Caughran has =submitted between eight and 10 available dates from which the Governor will select one. It will probably be in the very near future.” Gov. Schricker is no newcomer to television. He made his debut on TV medium at the State Fair. Alo ng with Times Columnist Ed Sovola, the Governor made his motion picture debut in “Johnnv Holiday.” the movie about the Indiana Boys Home ; at Plainfield
Safety Board
. Goes Shopping |
The Safety Board shopping today and spent more than $41,000 for a “buggy.” two fire engines and other equipment, “The
went
“buggy” is fire department;
* talk for a battalion chief car,
purchased from Community for $1918.
750-gallon pumpers
MoTwo were represetntive of Maxim Motor Co. on a low bid of $36,200. The two engines will two: 30-year-old Stutz
replace pumpers
A police prowl car was purchased to replace the one wrecked in an accident in whih Detective Sgt. James T. Gaughan was killed. John Ramp, Inc.,, won on a low bid of $1531. A panel truck for the fire de-| partment was purchased from! International Hafvester for $1273.| The board also spent $277 for) 700 special police badges.
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New Albany Man | Killed in Plane Crash |
A New Albany man and a Kentuckian were killed in .a plane crash yesterday near the airport at Shelbyville, Ky. Carl C. Coleman, 43, New Albany, and James D. Wilson, 41,
Lethal Booze Hikes Toll to
31 Atlantans
By United Press
"ATLANTA, Oct. 24 A closed hearing began today into a poison liquor orgy that killed 31 persons who drank a lethal mixture of racing fuel and water that allegedly was distributed in the city by a man known tb the police department. The death toll was calculated from records at Grady Hospital which listed 25 dead and a report filed with his a tment .by Dect, Lt. L.. T. Bullard listing six others who died at home
More. than 100 others half blind and pain-racked after consuming the stuff that was pur
chased during the week-end were treated dt the hospital which battled its greatest emergency fince the 1846 Winecoff Hotel fire, 12 Questioned ’ Solicitor General Paul Webb questioned 12 persons who are being held on suspicion of manslaughter and selling. the liquqor, They said earlier they will plead innocent on grounds they bought their supplies from, a “wholesaler” and didn't know it was dangerous, Three new patients were admitted to the hospital's emergency clinic today, indicating that the tdeath-dealing intoxicant still is in circulation. One of the three said he drank it.last night. Most of the victims were resi“Peoplestown” section behind the ‘apitol. All had drunk the lethal “popskull” distributed in the area for 50 cents a’pint ;
dents of the
state (
Atlanta detectives said today 12 suspects, including tHe manager of a nightspot had been
jailed. “and we're“Yoing to arrest the man who: peddled this stuff as soon as we can find him.” They refused to .identify the man. Imbibers were still pouring into Gradv's emergency ward, where harried physicians ‘have treated some 200” for the effects of the poisonous potion. Fearing the liquor had been generally distributed in Atlanta, a warning against drinking anything not purchased in a liquor store Detective Lt. L. T. Bullard said methynol — sometimes used to ‘soup up” racing car motors— can be purchased in 50-gallon drums for $1.50 to 32 a gallon. He «aid investigation showed the deadly fluid was distributed for $6.50 a gallon, then retailed at 50 a pint after it is watered
police issued
cents down Twentv-three of the victims died after arrival at Grady. Six never reached a hospital. In some imbibers were stricken as long as 48 hours after drinking the mixture. Others became blind and deathly sick immediately.
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A l Cad NICKY AND BETSY—Nicky Hilton and Betsy Yon Furstenberg
meet on a terrace of the Shamrock Hotel in Houston, Betsy flew to Texas from the West Coast Yesterday.
A Bedside Conference— Acheson and Mossadegh Seek to Settle Oil Crisis
By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 tary of State Dean Ach armed with new peace propo S There was little likelihood that for the Iranian oil controversy, Britain would be brought into scheduled a bedside conference to- the Washington talks because of Iranian Premier Mo- the British elections tomorrow,
for the first time since direct talks broken off last month in Tehran,
were
hammed Mossadegh. But Mr. Mossadegh's answers to The two men and their advisers Questions and proposals by Mr. were to meet at Walter Reed Atheson may determine whether! Army Hospital. where the 72-year. the British will re-enter the ne gotiations after the election, it
old Iranian leader is resting Presidential suite
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Faw grounds ior new hope that
: : of State George C. McGhee. and the U nited Sate 8, acting as mid ther. officials conlerred with Mr Coule rel st 4 dleman ould g stalled Mossadegh vesterdav d uring British-Iran oil negotiations going: junch at Blair
House ] : Mr. Truman was understood to U. 8S. officials are gambling have renewed his appeal that that British and Iranian tempers jran negotiate with the British have cooled enough to make possi- in order to keep oil supplies flow. ble ‘reasonable’ oil negotiation ing to the West :
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