Memphis Attack Tied to North Carolina Prison Break
Four escapees from Ivy Bluff Prison in North Carolina broke into a Memphis home at 1:15 a.m. tied a couple, and threatened them with knives. The manhunt for 19 convicts continued with planes, helicopters, and bloodhounds as authorities connected the incident to the NC prison break.
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Memphis
Tenn
North Carolina
Clarence Wortham
Wortham
Ivy Bluff
Yanceyville
N.C
Worthams
N. C
Ft. Bragg
FBI
Virginia Line
Roanoke
Buchanan
W. R. Robinson
Robinson
Virginia
Tatwell County
Roan
Virginia State Line
Caswell County
W. F. Bailey
Luther Hodges
Convict's Father Was Executed In 1925 Killings
Raleigh AP reports Charles Yank Stewart, engineer of Ivy Bluff Prison breakout, admitted his role. He endured a troubled past with six escapes and a 1954 hospital escape. The two Stewarts were executed in 1925 for murdering H. M. Lilly’s father, a prohibition officer.
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Raleigh
Ivy Bluff
Charles
Yank) Stewart
Stewart
Merden
W.va
Wilmington
Sherif
Central Prison
Convict Break At Ivy Bluff Prison Sparks Blades Mystery
Reports from Ivy Bluff prison detail how hacksaw blades likely reached isolation cells through a window with the screen cut, aiding Tuesday’s escape. Guards noted a mop handle possibly aided the delivery, with an honor-grade inmate suspected to have assisted.
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Charlotte
Ivy Bluff
Julian Scheer
John Kilgo
Charlotte News
Prisoand Eee Bluff
J. D. Meadows
Bane Named Head of Federal-State Local Problems Commission
President Eisenhower selected Frank Bane of Washington to lead a 26 member panel examining common problems across federal state and local governments. The Smithfield Virginia native, former head of the Council of State Governments, voiced that state government growth was a key issue in education highways welfare mental health and conservation.
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Washington
Frank Bane
Council of State
White House
Eisenhower
Bane
Smithfield
Virginia
Randolph Macon College
Columbia University
Virginia State Board of Charities and Corrections
University of Virginia
Social Security Administration
Council of State Governments
Governors’ Conference
Second Major Drug Firm Questioned About Pricing
Senate investigators question pricing practices of Merck & Co and Schering Corp in arthritis drug costs. Merck president J. T. Connor testified as witnesses. Schering's Francis C. Brown challenged subcommittee figures and argued high cost markups, defending a 12.3 percent return on sales as reasonable given industry risks.
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Bloomfield
N. J
Subcommittee
Brown
John Blair
Blair
Schering
Bad Gale Overturns Freighter
North Sea winter gales sank and overturned a Norwegian freighter Elfrida with 20 crew feared dead or missing. Six bodies recovered from overturned lifeboats, other lifeboats found empty, search ongoing by planes and ships.
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London
North Sea
Europe
Norway
Oslo
Buffalo
Oslofjord
Anvad
North Carr
Royal Air Force
U S Aids A Second Red Seaman
In the Bering Sea the Soviet refrigerator ship Jana reported a crewman ill. A Coast Guard plane with a doctor flew from Kodiak to Cold Bay to pick up the seaman and fly him to Kodiak Naval Hospital. This follows a similar aid last April to a crew member of the freezer ship Pischevaya Industriya.
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Kodiak, Alaska
Bering Sea
U.S. Coast Guard
Jana
Coast Guard
Kodiak
Cold Bay
Here
Aleutians
Eisenhower’s Indian Welcome Draws Massive Crowd in New Delhi
In New Delhi a crowd of more than a million greeted President Eisenhower as he rode with Nehru through the capital on a lengthy motorcade. Nehru hailed the visit as a pledge of peace with India and the U S leaders pledged to pursue world peace.
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Eisenhower
India
Eed
Wim Cvyel Anuw Taguhy
China
Nehru
U. S
Rajendra Prasad
Washington
Lord Willing
United States
Kabul
Afghanistan
Eisenhower Touts Friendship on Afghan Tour
President Eisenhower told Afghan officials that true friendship and mutual responsibility mark his goodwill tour after visits to Pakistan and India. King Mohammed Zahir welcomed him at Kabul airport as thousands gathered in chilly, ceremonial crowds in the high-altitude capital.
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Eisenhower
Afghanistan
Mohammed Zahir
Kabul
Pakistan
U.S
India
Mohamed Zahir
Firing Squads Idle After Cuban Trials
Tribunals in Havana handed long terms to foreign and Cuban defendants after debates lasting nearly a week. Americans Young and Lambeton received 30 and 25 year sentences respectively, while Rafael del Pino faced potential death, and Fernando Pruna Bertot was spared with 30 years. The rushed April death sentence of Alan Nye contrasted with these recent verdicts.
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Cuba
Fidel Castro
Young
Miami
Peter John Lambeton
Nassau
Havana
Rafael del Pino
Pinar del Rio
Fernando Pruna Bertot
Columbia University
Alan Robert Nye
Whiting, Ind
Nye
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