Romanian Churchmen Flee to Austria Amid Purge
Two Romanian Orthodox leaders Dr Lew Basil and Dr Florian Galdau escaped to Austria from Communist Romania via Yugoslavia, saying they faced arrest for opposing church unification with the Russian Orthodox faith. They spent two months in a refugee camp before reaching western Austria. A separate probe considers a Hungarian judge in the Mindszenty trial who may have fled to Austria, with handwriting experts alleging the cardinal was drugged to extract a confession.
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Vienna
INS
Austria
Europe
Cardinal Mindszenty
Hungary
Laszio
Hannah Luther
Lew Basil
Flo
Yugoslavia
France
Sofia
Bulgaria
Galdan
General Episcopalian Seminary
New York
College of Social Sciences
Columbia University
Romania
Hospital Shunned Polio Aid Cutoff Sparks Controversy
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis stopped $600 monthly payments to Janet Gentle a 17 year old Alabama polio patient who left Baltimore Children’s Hospital in 1947 with her parents insisting she return home. Janet has lived at home with an iron lung and two nurses at about $9000 total. she says she prefers life with family over hospital care. The foundation proposed Milton Milton Milton respirator center at $400 monthly.
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New York
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Alabama
Janet Gentle
Baltimore Children’s Hospital
Russellville
Ala
Janet
Foundation
J. C Gentle
Milton
Franklin County
Monroe sworn in a day late after 1817 inauguration
James Monroe succeeded James Madison as president in 1817. Inauguration day fell on a Sunday, so Monroe was not sworn in until March 5, leaving the United States technically without a president for one day.
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James Monroe
James Madison
United States
Monroe
Madman Attacks Pilot During Alaska Air Flight
Anchorage dispatch reports Filipino seaman Tlaredo Bellow attacked pilot Donald Dorothy aboard a Christensen Airlines flight from Seward to Anchorage. Dor othy subdued the assailant with a fire extinguisher during a barrel roll flight and fled to a straitjacket upon landing as federal marshals met the plane.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Tlaredo Bellow
Donald Dorothy
Christensen Airlines
Dorothy
Seward
Bellow
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Flatwheel Railroad
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Phonograph Records
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Florida
Califoia
Hershey
Vox
Hormel
Potosi
Whison
Orrell’s Pride
Idaho
Birdseye
Bebb Bartlett Pear
Jet
Insurance Agency
DIAL
Burkhalter, Jr
White Eagle Coal CO
First Street
Dexter
Dexter “Thrift
Modern Appliance Co
Third Ave
Iowa
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