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(Chtragn Batttj GJrifcutt Hunt Ransom Hoax Sadist in Pupil Deaths Thursday, December 4, 1958 Parti Page 3 ARMY EXPERTS ON BURNS JOIN FIRE DOCTORS Johnson JariinKsd 1 Claims Two Live I They Died in School Fire '71 the neighborhood for the prankster. "It's the gruesome prank of a twisted mind," said Detective Robert J. Lane. "It's the lowest form of prank." Accept Dental Evidence Mr. and Cichocki and Mr.

and Mrs. Filipponio, who i 3k BUMAHfttllHMtf -v'M --'V lit II had insisted that the bodies James Moravec, Eileen Pawlik, center, and Mary Ellen Fettenon. and Demands $50,000 In a cruel sequel to the fire at Our Lady of the Angels school, a sadistic prankster telephoned the parents of two dead children Wednesday demanding $25,000 ransom for the safe return of each. The calls were received at the homes of Mr. and Mrs.

Stanislaw Cichocki, 950 N. Ridgeway and Vito Filip-ponio, 527 N. Hamlin av. Later Admit, They're Ours At the time of the calls, the at the morgue were not those of their daughters, accepted the assurances of dentists .1 1 Diana Marie Santaugelo left and Angeline Kainowski. and physicians that the teeth in the charred bodies matched I Smartly Styled WOOLEAS he dental charts of the two City Acts to Avert New Tragedy As city officials took precautions Wednesday to prevent a future tragedy similar to Monday's fire in the Our Lady of the Angels school, 909 N.

Avers a team of army experts on severe burns was being sent here from Brooke hospital, Fort Sam Houston, to help treat 71 survivors still in hospitals. Fourteen of the victims are in critical condition. The army experts, Col. Edward H. Vogel and Lt.

Col. bodies. Mr. and Mrs. Cichocki hesi tated to claim the body of the remaining victim because of parents were at the county nail polish the mother had never seen her daughter use.

Carolyn Perry, James Rogona center, and Edward Pikinski. their bodies have been identified. The telephone prankster talked to Mrs. Katherine Zdeb, Joseph Modica left, Lawrence Earlier Wednesday, the body of Diane Marie Santan 1 in Petite Sizes gelo, 9, of 527 N. Hamlin was identified thru dental Wilford T.

Tumbusch, will con of 2635 W. 55th st, who was Hr is on of 'our most popular charts. The body was claimed by Mr. and Mrs. Robert San- Grasso, and Mary Ellen Fettenon.

Cichockis and the Filipponios told police and priests, Yes; they are ours." Lucille Filipponio, 8, was a fourth grader at the school, and Bernice Cichocki, 12, was in the seventh grade. Rendezvous a Vacant Lot Now, the bodies of all of the 87 pupils who died when fire tangelo. woolens at a mod- erate prlca. Light 1 in weiqht, youth- I fully styled I 100 wool in I I a fc or navy, 1 sizes 10 to 18. 71 Are Hospitalized Of the 71 hospitalized fire baby sitting at the Cichocki home, and said: "Bernice is alive.

If you want her, bring $25,000 to 5520 W. Diversey av." This message also was telephoned to relatives staying at the Filipponio home. Homicide detectives found an empty lot at the Diversey victims, three are nuns, one is Lucille Filipponio left and Ber-nlce Cichocki. morgue trying not to believe a fireman, and one is a janitor, 95 Many of those injured will swept the Catholic elementary that the charred and distorted bodies they had viewed were be hospitalized 30 to 60 days, school, at 909 Avers av. Mon Styles of Individual-it I in All Sit Bange those of their children.

said physicians. Many will re day have been identified. avenue address and searched Three nuns also perished and But by late afternoon, the quire plastic surgery which cannot be started for about Johnson HarDco 10 days. miU HM. MM) rival here of fire chiefs and marshals from various cities.

The fire victims are in Gar 37 N. WABASH AVE. fc They want to find out any field Park Community hospital, Franklin Boulevard Com thing they can from the fire to prevent similar catastro- sult with physicians in the four hospitals where the survivors were taken. Volunteer to Help Msgr. John W.

Barrett, Catholic archdiocesan, director of hospitals, said they volunteered to come here to give whatever help they could to the suffering youngsters and to study the mass civilian casualty. Eighty-seven pupils and three nuns died, in the fire Monday. As city officials made plans to enact regulations and laws for greater-safety measures in schools, James Raymond, 43, janitor of the school that burned, expressed the opinion the fire must have been done by a human hand." If one of the kids did start the fire, you can bet your life it wasn't on purpose," he told a reporter from his bed in Garfield Park hospital. He is recovering from a loss of blood, incurred when his wrists were cut as he tried to rescue pupils. He said he hadn't been able to eat since the fire, and would not return to work munity hospital, St Anne's For ew WaiMngtoa n4 treirti' thruotit tha world, read the Chieafo Trih une, the American Bewspaper lor Amen nil which h( the xadUtiee to ret tkm (acta and the courage to print them.

phies in their own cities. hospital, and Walther Memo 7 I It -f I1! i Fire Marshal Martin Scott rial hospital. of New York City and his dep the janitor. Raymond already has been questioned intensively by Lt. James E.

Kehoe, head of the fire department's arson bureau, and has denied that there was any rubbish at the bottom of the stairwell. Lt. Kehoe told Quinn that despite Raymond's denial there was a metal drum under the stairs. It was learned from school officials the drum was there so teachers could dispose of waste. They told Lt.

Kehoe that Raymond was supposed to empty the drum ALL STORES OPEN EVERY NIGHT UNTIL CHRISTMAS hatches to discharge smoke and heat in the event of fire. Will Call Top Officials The insurance building auditorium will be used because the city council chambers are not available. McCarron said he will call in top city, county, and state officials in his investigation. The Chicago chapter of American Institute of Architects placed the services of its disaster committee at the service of city officials in helping make a "thoro and uty for fire prevention, Thomas J. Hartnett, and Fire Marshal Matthew H.

McNally of Detroit are here for the investigation. Fire offi cials are scheduled to arrive from Miami, St. Louis, San Francisco, and other large cities. every Tuesday. Lt.

Kehoe ruled out any Police and fire department investigators were joined by conclusive investigation with recommendations to prevent re-occurence of this calamity." Ramsey exploded a widely private investigators from in possibility the fire might have started in baskets of trash taken to the basement by pupils on orders of the teach surance companies, including representatives of the Na tional Board of Fire Under ers. He said the area where circulated report that the rapid spread of the fire up a stairwell was caused by an writers. Most of the private in vestigators agreed that the there because I couldn't possibly work alongside the memories of those few horrible minutes and their aftermath." We will make sure it can open door leading from the they dumped the trash was next to a small incinerator in the boiler room, and that area was not involved in the fire. fire started under a stairwell stairwell into the second floor, in the northeast corner of the where the damage was great-; building. Brown has asked officials of the school to provide a list of never happen again," said Mayor Daley as various investigations of the fire continued.

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est and the fire was the worst. Lack of Fire Door There was no fire door leading from the stairwell into the second floor corridor, said Ramsey. His investigation showed that there was a large arch, but no safety door to check any flames or smoke. Fire Commissioner Robert J. Quinn said he sincerely believes that there was rubbish at the bottom of the staircase for holiday evenings, the provocative shimmer of light or dark gold.

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m. Dec. 10 in WREATHS. CENTER last two boys to reach the basement with trash said the janitor ran into the boiler room and shouted for them to call the fire department. The fire tragedy sparked the board of education of Chicago's public schools into sending out notices to all schools on rules covering fire inspections.

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