The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 2

TTTE MIAMI HERALD TiiMdat Dee 2 1953 JL i lie Wallis Past Charred Heshs Coty Out All Left a Shoe a Book National To Lose Ch JO? De Gaulle puise I wondeied why the purse wasn't dirty Public library books one entitled Linda Clayton" were stiewn beneath a first-floor indovv never seen anything like it Thrie is an aieaway rext to the south wall of the school and it is through here I walked after fnemen had completed their task of bringing out bodies Judge Asks Relocation building next to the door a light was on in a basement classroom The room looked clean and warm A religious statue stood on a desk Behind wooden street barricades stunned parents milled and listened to a portable police loudspeaker telling them to look for lost children at a nearby precinct station Policemen many ciying gently kept the throng in Vnited Pm Interna -tlonal Reporter Ira Luriey has been assigned to mar ders train wrecks and fires lie or riied at Our Lady of the Angels sthool shortly after the tragic fire beian Here is the scene he reported after the school had been clear ed of bodies By 1R LI RYFY CHICAGO (UPI) Black tar paper hung next to the file laddeis where it was thrown from the collapse of the second-floor roof On the ground were pads and pads of empty composition paper in puddles of atcr Tlieie was a white rubber ball in one corner and in another a girls blue plastic purse with a wallet attachment in back There was a red horse painted on the blue Sole Entry Beside the book were charred and broken desks thrown out bv firemen There also was a lampshade Continued from fage 1 Underneath the ladders there was a black shoe sort of a ballerina slipper ext to it was a pair of blue-rimmed glasses One lens was smashed anv partj and if the TCC take no further action tha ruling will automatically take PARIS Gen Charles de Gaulle was given a clear On the other side of the aieaway in the unscai red field Monday night to run for the presidency of the new effect in 50 days French Republic and in effect let it be known he is ready to take the job I IIis election bv a newly other candidate ever has been Anv appeal would require the FCC to hear oral arguments before rendering its created and -large electoral col- mentioned seriouslv by any lege is a virtual certainty reputable political figure since I De Gaulle new Constitution th development with aoni- won 0'erwie'rninS approval scr)i said Monday the ruling munique confirming that Ires- the Frcnch people Sep would probably be challenged final decision Public Washington Attorney Norman Jorgen- 294 Died Texas Disaster For Highest Toll If the commission upholds Stern as predicted it could Ident Rene Coty and Premier De Gaulle have been consulting about the election and that Cotv want to stand again election in whch jdcid to award 10 to candidate waving the banner of De Gaulle gained control 1 Public Service again or to one of the other three original contenders for the channel of the parliament was another straw in the wind In the present political climate of By Th Atcncialed Presi Only two school fires in the last 100 years of American history have cost more lives than the tragedy in Chicago Monday The greatest school disaster was on March 18 1937 when 294 died in a school explosion and fire in New London Tex The fact that De of- ice allowed the communique to i 1 I ranee no Individual could be issued was virtual eonfirma- stni before the fi8-ear-old tion of what everyone in France 1 general overwhelming has believed that the new Constitution is tailor-made for De Gaulle as the first presi- The electoral college includes dent of the Fifth Republic The some 70000 mayors municipal yob carries tremendously more I councillors and other govern- power than formeily given mental figures The election These are YYKAT Ine which wa severely criticized by Stern for it own improper a a a to Commissioner Mack North Dade Video Inc which Stern also criticized for an act in the Channel 10 case and ilson Inc of Cincinnati The other maior school fire Katie Jane Nuising Home fire was on March 4 1908 when li6 Warrenton Mo will be Dec 21 A runoff a week later is provided for but In ruling Judge figurehead presidents Cotys withdrawal left the feld clear for De Gaulle and even this was a formality No will hardly be necessary The Ste rfused Public Service WKAT and perished in the Collinwood school fne in Cleveland In the last century there have been 26 flies in this country in which as many as 50 persons died including two 1 school fires tcim is seven years Machini efio I in I inf riH Only eight fires with suih loss of life have occurred In the last 20 years none of them In schools Apnl 5 1949 74 dead in St Hospital fire in Effington 111 Dec 7 1946 119 dead in Wmecoff Hotel fire Atlanta Ga June 5 1946 61 dead in La Salle hotel fire Chicago Oct 20 1944 135 killed in Clev eland liquid gas explosion and fne July 6 1944 168 dead in Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus fire at Hartford Conn Apnl 23 1940 198 killed in Negro dance hall fire at Natchez Miss i North Dade Video from any futuie consideration as possible licensees of Channel 10 but said their conduct should be held against them in future deliberations by the FCC Both the Justice Department the own legal counsel recommended that the three parties be disqualified because of their earlier actions in the award of the valuable channel The FCC could also decide to open the bidding for Channel 10 to all comers Assocated Presi Wlrephoto Firemen on Roof and Ground Battle to Control Blaze parochial school on Chicago's Xorthucsl Side Taken To End EAL Tieup Worst of these was the Cocoanut Grove Night Club fire in Boston on Nov 28 1942 in which 498 died OTHER FIRES with major losses of life in live last two decades aic Feb 17 1957 72 dead in Continued from Page 1 No Exits Rescuer Declares mechanics walked out last Monday causing a system-wide shutdown of the nation's largest passenger line been to meet with Mr Brock or any other company representative at the bargaining table An Eastern official disputed the union contention that the airline had been unable to agree to arbitrate a year ago The strike has put some 14- In revoking It own 1937 award the commission could order Public Service off the air immediately or it could let the company operate the channel until a successor is named The first break in the negotiating deadlock over wage and other issue came 90 Die in Fire At Chicago School Mondav afternoon vv 000 of 16 000 em-Brown and the other union Ployes out of work about half officials met at the Miami of them in Miami Spring ilia with Eastern lee President Brock Continued from Page 1 and other company officials Daniel Grimaldi 32 as getting a haircut in a nearby barber shop when he saw children running screaming from Our Lady of Angels school Grimaldi ran from the shop and into the school building Here is his story I ed out hatless coatless panic written on their faces PAA Personnel Joting on Strike Hours after the holocaust authorities were seeking to determine whether there were adequate precautions at the school An investigation showed there was only one fire escape a wrought iron ladder at the rear of the building The meeting was held behind closed doors YVhen it bioke up the union and air line negotia- Some 2500 Miami-based tohs looked exhausted w-fhsht attendants and ground wrinkled shirts with ties at 1 maintenance personnel voted half-mast (Monday night on whether to In Chicago Monday a federal Pan American judge continued in effect an0 Airways if system-wide older prohibiting a strike by contract negotiations bog down the Air Line Pilots Association1 Pcrmanently New York opened on the second floor of the northeast and southwest corners black suffocating smoke rolled in Childien piled into the ldor helter-skelter There were screams as youngsteis went down in the crush The bolder children ordered their companions to grab hold of each shirts A nun made it by crawling through the smoke with students hanging onto her skirt For others there was no FCC officials refused to comment on any of these possibilities Monday There are no clear precedents to give any indication of the likely course of action they said The Stern report issued Monday ticked off the names of high political figuies including three senators who made pn-vate pleas to Mack on behalf of either Public Service or WKAT The criticized included Senators Smathers and Holland of Florida and Sen Kefauver of Tennessee former Miami Mayor Perrme Palmer Jr and Democratic National Committeeman Jerry Carter of Florida These men plus Ben Fuqua vice president of Florida Power and Light Co and YVKAT owner Frank Katzentine himself sought vote for YVKAT" Stern concluded Bv DANIEL GRIMALDI Ai Told United Presi International CHICAGO More fire excapes That what there should have been There were no fire escapes at all on that north wall The children had no way to get out I was sitting having my hair cut when they came running by then I got up and saw some smoke so I ran toward the school Assaulted Presi Wirephota One of Those Who Escaped Holocaust pupil in tears from pain of burned hand could have been a touch-off" Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn said anger Touch-off is the fireman's word for arson The police arson squad was sent to the scene to help fire investigators In the play court whore the bodies lay were piles of smoldering clothing and shoes torn off by children who jumped from the windows to escape death Many were huit the agamst American Airlines And planes of Trans Airlines as well as those of Eastern lemamed grounded by union disputes cutting out service on one third of the domestic lines The negotiations in Miami began as rank-and-file members of the IAM circulated a petition demanding a meeting at which they would call on their leaders to resume talks with the Arthur Hallgren head of Miami Local 500 Transport Workers Union said the vote here was part of balloting by a total of some 8000 flight attendants and maintenance workers throughout Pan system Hallgren said if the union members vote to strike it does not necessarily mean that a strike is imminent He said the vote only authorizes the union to call a strike if there is no settlement of the dispute Firemen broke into a room on the north side of the school and found 24 children at their desks their school books in front of them It was presumed that their teacher realizing escape impossible through the corridor had told I went right in through the front door and that seemed all right So I ran up the stairs to the second Door I have two children in school there Halfway Mark Hit In JJF Campaign the children to quietly and fire irtualy wippd out that they obeyed until the I thc eighthgrade ciass housed smoke suffocated them the noitheast corner of the would have to be quite naive to accept as a fact that they urged him only to decide the case on merits Alack certainly knew what was being asked of Stern declared Scoies of other childien tuin- oiawuigof the building Million Missing 1 Ranker Arrested Robertson svstem-wide head of Eastern's flight engineers meanwhile answered a telegram from EAL Board Chairman Eddie Ritkenbacker who proposed Sunday that the union let a neutral arbitration board try to deride the issues Robertson replied: As soon as I got to the second floor the smoke was so thick you move The boys and girls were screaming and yelling for help I shouted "Grab my Some of the children grabbed my hand and I led them back to the stairs children Mary Ann 8 and Frank 11 both escaped safely from the Thc school is U-shaped with a paved court between arms of the The Rev Joseph Cussen pastor of thc parish said the building is 40 years old and that fifth sixth and eighth-grade children occupied the wing attacked by fire Attorney Thurman White-side was a powerful" intermediary on the other side that of Public Service Television Stern reported VAN NUYS Calif Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested John Petersen Monday on charges of embezzling a million dollars from the Sun Valley National Bank where he was vice presi- the union and management were unable to agree on arbitration when it was proposed by the National Media- The 1959 United Fund campaign reached the halfway mark of its $3477000 goal Monday as public school teachers turned in $93000 in pledges Total raised thus far is $1802466 52 per cent of its goal Daniel Westfall chairman of the public school drive said the group has reached 90 per cent of their goal of $105000 with returns To reach the goal would set a record in Florida for charitable donations by any single employe group schools are averaging $1015 for each employe and 51 of the 164 participating schools have topped their goals Forty eight schools have had 100 per cent participation In other public employe drives Dade's State of Florida employes have topped their goal with 155 per cent Bal Harbour employes also with 155 per cent and West Miami employes with 137 per cent ed to the windows for salvation The children began jumping Neighbors and firemen tned to catch them as they fell but many lay on the pavement with broken legs Some of the plummeting children had hair and clothing afire One of those who tried to catch the children 74-year-old Ed Klock was a heart patient He suffered a stroke and was taken to a hospital Other children more agile or more lucky slid down dram pipes or hopped to lower roofs and then to the ground At the school doors children pour- Most classrooms were on th upper two floors of the building Only a few were on the ground level Nikita Meeting tion Board a year ago your i dent proposal seems insincere un-j The 49-y ear-old father of two timely and intended for pub-1 was taken in custody at his 1 'home and taken before licity only Commissioner Theodore Hocke for arraignment on a com- But the telegram addeu that believe the dispute can and should be resolved through collective bargaining YVe are Sen Hubert Humphrey (D Minn) had a long meeting Monday with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev No details of the con- Quinn said there was no explosion and Father Cussen said the boiler room was undamaged but 11-y ear-old Joseph Bro cato claimed there was boom in the furnace plaint signed by Attorney 7 Laughlm Waters Bond of SEALS versation were announced ready now as we have always 535000 was recommended Ohio Valley Shivers in 20s Mercury Shoots Up to 60s in Montana Forecasts National Summary TUSEDAY 5 52 AM TUESDAY 527 PM OMoonrise TUESDAY :2 PM Moonsut TUESDAY 1 AM CNSunrise Sunset Local Temperatures MIAMI 80 731 Miami Beach 79 74 1 South Miami FLORIDA Solunar Tables THE WEATHER TODAY MA8 AT WCATHE8 MIAMI FLORIDA 7 PM MONDAY DECEMBER 1 1958 to) 79 67 79 71 Miami Airport Miami BF Pk MIAMI AND ICIMTY Partly cloudy thi ough Wednesday Widely scattered shower todav High today near 80 Small craft warnings displayed for northeast and east winds 20-30 miles per hour AM Min Mil Min Mil Today 10 10 S3 10 35 4 Wednesday 11 00 4 4V 11 25 8 1 Thursday 11 50 35 MS Friday 12 10 3 12 45 5S The sihedjlc of solunar periods printed abore hare been taken from John Alden Knuht Solunar Tabie Pan 'our da" so that sou mil be fishing eood territo-y or huntine In sood coter during these times if ou unh to find the best sport that fach day has to offer The Major Periods ere shot'll in bold face tvpe These beam el 'he time shown and last lor an hour erd half or to hours thereafter The Minor Periods ihown In reaular typ re of tomeuhat shorter duration High pressure along tha Vtah-Col nrado border preserved a pattern of lair skies over most of the southwest while a thin veil of high clouds ex tended across the central Rockies into portions of the western plains A disturbance approaching the northern Pacific coast spread ram across the northern California shoreline with ram over Washington and Oregon and cloudiness extending acroa the northern Rockies Coid air scat enng snow flumes O'er the Laites region ma n-tairs tne outiook for near or slightiy be ow xero temperatures in the upper midwest and teens or lowvr ere like through the Onto Valley and northeast Bv todav a small patch of snow ahouid remain across the northern boraer area from Minnesota to Michi-aan with flurries likely in northeast Opio and New York state The southern Tain pattern sched ed to spread from the lower Missis MPPi Valiey into southern Kentucky and across the Gulf stales to northern Georgia In contrast to 20s and 30s indicated for the Ohio Valley and mid-Atlantio states this afternoon tne mercury mat reach 60 degrees in western South Dakota and parts of Montana FlORIDl Considerable floud re 8ome light rain extreme nor or-lca and widely scattered showers aoutheet coast and keys toaav edneM3a parw cloudy ard no temoersure chance BOAT BILLLETIN Sma erafi naming lor northeast and eat wires 20-30 miles oer hour rough and bay sery choppy partly cioudy widely scattered EAT GUF Easterly wirds 10 20 miles per hour north portion and 15-25 miles per hour south portion Partly ctoudv wide scattered howert extreme south and 1 aht rain extreme north portion WESTERN CARIBBEAN Northeast and eat winds 15-25 mnes pc hour Partly cloudy with widely scattered showers Tides It (itTiami 33 a I Statistics Fh FR 3-4411 CIs I ed Ads FR 9-3711 Subscription Rites iB Cirrerl Dail nd Dilly inday Sundi 1 a y0 75 1 3 Id 83 0 73 77 70 Miami Harbor Entrance (Between Jettlee) HIGH IOW pm Today 12 oi 5 44 Wednesday 12 26 12 6 6 42 7 21 Thuraoay 1 32 1 5o 7 45 8 Friday 2 40 2 58 52 9 26 Vote Tor tide- at other point' dd cr euotract these corrections in hour and minutes to the Miami time Fort Pierce felly dorks) add 2 00 (inietl subtract 0 15 St I line inlet (jettieo subtract 0 20 Palm Beach mceani subtract 0 20 Hil '-boro Inlet add 0 25 Port Everelade entrance (Jetties! no chanie County causeway east end add 1 15 City acht Basin Biscayne Bay add 1 40 Cape Fortda meat aide! Key Bis-casne add 0 55 Soldier Key add 1 05 Kaieed Kei Biscesn Ba add 2 00 Anieifish Key add 0 25 Pumpkin Kex Card Sound add 3 carden Cove Key Fareo dd 0 5J Lrto Sound Kev Lereo add 3 23 Tase tiler add 0 35 In th eastern part of Florida bay th periodic tide li neglmbie 45 1 95 5 85 11 70 23 40 Tteeembr 1 Fsromeier uunev Fe ame humidity gheH past 12 hur Lvet past lk houis Mean Temperature Normal Temperature Accumulated extess in temp this month- degrees Aceumu tied cefu ency in tenp sncf Jan 1 oeiee Local ra nfall for 24 hours ercirg at 7 00 tnfa I th Month tn Inches A Tair'al! defic ency inches f6 Pa nfalj since January I inches 65 57 fttesa a nee Jsn 1 inene 947 W'rr at tprr Kevg Lighthouses 700rm tmph Crvfnt A aaior 7 402 30 1 30 3 90 7 80 1510 Sub-crip on Rates (By Ma and Possess ons Dmy ird Dii S-indiy inoiy i 1 52 87 2 17 4 fcO 2 bO fc 50 10 5 20 33 00 18 20 10 40 2b 00 Mill lubscripUcns piyib dvinct by post ollice or expri money eroer hsnlc drf er person ehe-it Send to Th iml Hen Intend second tins muter her 30 190 m-CALM 13 7 8-12 1HI 18-24 23-31 32-33 39-46 47-54 35-63 64-75 ABOVE 73 wwYje i.