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Newspaper
Anderson Herald
Location
Anderson, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1956
Page
3
The Hungarian government says peasants have been sent to work in the Pecs coal mines to revive production. The move follows earlier shifts from uranium sites as factory workers face a looming economic downturn and potential job losses.
APALLY (UP) Indianapolis case with Municipal Court Judge Virgil Norris admitting profit from whiskey during Prohibition. Norris says political enemies pressured him to reveal the crime, claiming money shortages and relief limits forced bootlegging. He received nine months suspended, three years probation, and a $100 fine for selling whiskey over three months in 1983.
Amid a chaotic budget debate in Indianapolis, Esme J. Flowers, Terre Haute, whose death sentence was commuted to life by Governor, won a new trial due to erroneous jury instructions. The Indiana Supreme Court granted stays of execution while the case moves. Separate notes mention Yugoslav and U.S. military and broadcasting topics, including Channel 7 transfers and WKLO’s corporate context.
An escaped bank robber, along with a second convict, was captured near Cincinnati after fleeing from a South Bend jail. The men, both convicted in bank robberies, were to face trial in South Bend for a July 1954 Bristol Citizens State Bank robbery. The pursuit involved a large sheriff and FBI search, with a car stolen in South Bend. A Frankfort Teamsters contract secures a two-year union shop in four city departments.
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