Convicts Nabbed In Walpole Prison Tunnel Escape
Three long term inmates at Walpole State Prison were caught in a tunnel escape attempt discovered four weeks earlier. James DeCoste James MacDonald and William Schubert dug from the foundry toward the wall 140 feet away, planned to reach Route 1A after months of digging. Officials kept watch and halted them in time.
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Walpole
Mass
UPI
Walpole State Prison
State Commissioner of Corrections
George F. McGrath
James DeCoste
Somerville
James MacDonald
South Boston
William Schubert
Monponsett
DeCoste
McGrath
Schubert
Three Major Pulitzer Prizes Not Awarded This Year
New York United Press International reporter Merriman Smith won the prize for national reporting on Kennedy's assassination. The fiction drama and music categories received no nominations, marking a first in 47 years. Awards still given in biography history and general non fiction.
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Pulitzer
New York
UPI
Merriman Smith
White House
United Press _ International
Kennedy
Smith
Trustees
Columbia University
Pulitzer Advisory Board
Columbia
Discrimination Across Nations Takes Many Forms
The World Wide United Press International report on discrimination surveys biases in many nations. The first dispatch focuses on Great Britain, with later pieces covering Europe the Soviet Union the Middle East Africa Asia Australia and Latin America. Discrimination affects Eskimos Koreans Copts Oriental Jews West Indians Chinese and others despite anti bias laws in many countries.
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United Press International
Great Britain
Europe
Soviet Union
Middle East
Africa
Asia
Australia
Latin America
Greenland
Japan
Egypt
Israel
West Indies
London
Indonesia
United States
South Africa
Britain
Spain
England
Commonwealth
Southall
Nottingham
Sheffield
Dudley
Notting
Bourbon Becomes American Whisky By Congressional Action
Washington reports the House approved legislation granting bourbon U S citizenship and to curb labels misrepresenting foreign spirits as bourbon. The Ways and Means Committee traced the name to Bourbon County Kentucky and outlined questions of authenticity and protection against imitators.
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House
U.S
United States
Ways & Means
Bourbon County
J F Mitchell Again To Be Ringmaster For Hoosac Horse Show
Joseph F. Mitchell Jr. of Old Chatham will again serve as ringmaster for the Hoosac Valley Horse Show on Memorial Day. The event plans include a new locust fence around the show ring. Speaker at the noon program is John Stevenson known as Uncle Charles. Don and Jack Roberson will perform guitar and song acts.
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J.F. Mitchell
Hoosac Horse Show
Hoosick Falls
N.Y
Joseph F. Mitchell Jr
Old Chatham
Harry von Haggin Jr
Couples Club
The
First Baptist Church of
John
Uncle Charles) Stevenson
Don
Jack Roberson
Editor Ousted Over Oakland University Kinsey Report
The Oakland University Observer editor Wolf Metzger was suspended after refusing to suppress a Kinsey Report on campus sexual conduct. Chancellor Varner ordered destruction of the May issue and cited concerns about embarrassment and publicity as the reason for the action.
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Rochester, Mich
UPI
Oakland University
Kinsey
Wolf Metzger
Germany
The
Observer
D. B. Varner
Varner
Metzger
Michigan State University
O.U
Harvard
Radcliffe
Oakland
Warner
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