Eight convicts escape Western State Penitentiary in Pittsburgh
Eight inmates described as armed escaped Western State Penitentiary by overpowering four guards with razor knives. They slid down a 70 foot wall on a rope of sheets and towels, while a ninth fugitive surrendered later and a tenth was captured on the roof. One escapee was soon arrested in McKeesport. Police from nearby states joined the hunt. Two guards were slightly wounded during the breakout.
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Pennsylvania Western Penitentiary
Pittsburgh
Western State Penitentiary
McKeesport
Clairton
Cormack F. McNelis
Steel Company
John Peterman
William Engle
Virgil Toney
Ingram
Resorter Draws Waupun Term By Reason Of Driving While Drunk
GREEN BAY Arthur Schmack 58 operator of a resort at Markton Langlade County was sentenced to 18 to 24 months in Waupun State Prison for negligent homicide by reason of driving while drunk. Circuit Judge E M Duquaine denied defense motion to set aside the guilty verdict citing weaving car prior to the Aug 20 1951 collision that killed Mrs Kathryn Jeffries of Shawano. Judge Duquaine said evidence supported intoxication and noted the examining doctor found no pernicious anemia. Defense attorney Allan Cain of Kaukauna asked a stay of execution, which was denied, and he said the case would be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
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Green Bay
Arthur Schmack
Markton
Langlade
Waupun State Prison
E. M. Duquaine
Schmack
Highway 29
Hit Run Car Blamed For Man s Death
Thomas L. Falk aged 57 of 1350 Kane Street died from injuries after being struck by an unknown driver in Onalaska early Sunday morning November 9 1952. A coroner jury ruled the hit and run crash caused Falk s death with pneumonia a secondary cause.
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Thomas L. Falk
Kane St
George D. Reay
Woman Dies Beside Mate In Cemetery
In Barkingside England Mrs Anne Bowring sixty six who visited the cemetery to sit beside her husband found herself missing four days. her daughter discovered her in an open grave near her husband with a plank moved aside. Authorities say she likely climbed in and waited for death in the grave after pulling the plank back to cover her.
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Barkingside
England
Anne Bowring
Weather: La Crosse Clouds Give Way to Clearing Tonight
The forecast for La Crosse and vicinity calls for cloudy skies with snow ending tonight and clearing by Tuesday morning. Tuesday will be partly cloudy and warmer with a low of 24 degrees tonight and a high of 35 degrees.
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la Crosse
Shrapnel From Mortar Kills Marine As He Writes To Wife
A young Marine in Korea, 21, killed by mortar shrapnel while writing a letter to his wife. He had learned his wife had just borne a son, and his platoon mates recalled his good humor and steady presence at a frontline observation post. The report notes heavy fighting outside the bunker as the sun streamed in.
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Korea
Flaten Murder Trial Opens in La Crosse Court
Oscar Flaten, a 40 year old La Crosse photo finish er, goes on trial for first degree murder in the fatal May 25 shooting of Donald Colburn, a 27 year old railroad man from St Paul. He pleads innocent and insanity. Judge Lincoln Neprud presides before a jury panel of about 60.
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Oscar Flaten
la Crosse
Donald
Jack Colburn
St. Paul
Flaten
Quincy H. Hale
Reginald E. Nietsch
John Bosshard
Philip G. Arneson
Lincoln Neprud
Neprud
Levi Chapiewsky
Bangor
Orrin Knudson
Hamilton
Bernard Pralle
Campbell
Louise Shedesky
Arthur B. Fay
Charles W. Palmer
Otto E. Weiss
Frank A. Kenney
Tobin Urges CIO And AFL To Merge
Maurice Tobin urged a quick merger between the CIO and AFL to present a united front to the incoming Republican administration. At the CIO convention in Atlantic City delegates debated leadership as Walter Reuther and Allan Haywood vie for the CIO presidency amid split support from major unions.
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Atlantic City
N. J.P
Maurice Tobin
CIO
AFL
Republican National
Tobin
Philip Murray
Walter P. Reuther
United Auto Workers
Allan S. Haywood
George Meany
American Federation of Labor
William Green
Murray
Green
Reuther
Haywood
Auto Workers Union
Electrical
Unons
Steelworkers Union
Communications Workers Union
Quill
First Ladies Meet at White House Preview
Mrs Truman hosted Mamie Eisenhower at the White House in Washington for a brief visit. Photographers crowded the entry as the two women toured the mansion, exchanging cheerful remarks in the sub freez ing weather while Mamie Eisenhower prepared to move into the second floor family quarters next month.
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Washington
Dwight Eisenhower
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Harry Truman
Mamie Eisenhower
Bess Truman
Mrs. Eisenhower
Mrs. Truman
the Land
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
Baby Election closes with 300 winners to be named
Election day in the tri state area features the Community Popular Baby Election sponsored by La Crosse merchants and The La Crosse Tribune. Baby votes must be turned in to election headquarters by 9 p.m. on Dec 2. The 300 winners will be published next Sunday and may claim awards Monday. You may vote as often as you wish during the final hours.
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Tri-State
la Crosse
la Crosse Tribune
Army Team to Inspect McCoy and Camp District Sites
An Army investigating team led by Maj. Gen. Miles Reber will inspect Camp McCoy and nearby installations to verify the justification for the closing order. The Wisconsin protest group pressed for Korean type warfare training and highlighted high costs. the army noted millions spent on payrolls and maintenance since 1950.
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Washington, D.C
Army
Camp McCoy
Wisconsin
Washington
Miles Reber
Camp Williams
Camp Douglas
Gardner Withrow
John Ward
la Crosse
Snow End Monday Night With Warmer Tuesday Forecast
Snow is expected to end Monday night in the Coulee Region with warmer conditions likely on Tuesday. Meteorologist A. D. Sanial notes snow starts Monday morning and clears by Monday night as temperatures rise from 27 degrees at 11 am.
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Coulee
A. D. Sanial
Mercury
Wisconsin
Associated Press
Eau Claire
Grantsburg
Nebraska
Kansas
Pacific Coast
la Crosse
ABC Records Costly Disaster Year Since 1937
The American Red Cross reported that the year ending June 30 was its most costly disaster year since 1937, with expenditures of 103,605,782 dollars domestically and abroad for humanitarian efforts.
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ABC
Washington
The
American Red Cross
National Organization
Humanity
Christine Jorgensen Becomes Woman After Danish Treatment
Christine Jorgensen, 26, completes hormone therapy and surgery in Copenhagen to transition from male to female. Returning to the Bronx, she plans to study color photography and pursue it in the United States. Doctors decline detailed treatment discussion. outcome described as nearing completion.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Christine Jorgensen
Bronx
New York City
George Jorgensen Jr
Christine
United States
Rigs Hospitalet
Christian Hamburger
New York
New York Daily News
Jorgensen
U. S
Hamburger
Lily Elbes
Germany
Elizabeth Forbes-Semphill
Ewan Forbes- Semphill
Professor Dies On Hunting Trip In Menominee County
Professor A. Raymond Gilliland a 65 year old Northwestern University psychologist died of a heart ailment while deer hunting with his son Ralph 24 in Menominee County Michigan. Gilliland had taught at Northwestern for 28 years and was to retire after the next semester.
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Menominee, Mich
A. Raymond Gilliland
Northwestern University
Menominee County
Gilliland
Ralph
Evanston
Ill
Ralph Gilliland
Edward G. Reindl
Polio Mother Runs Household From An Iron Lung
Mary Ann Huff, a 30 year old polio victim in Van Nuys, runs her home from an iron lung by telephone. She can move her head slightly and uses a mouthpiece and cheek lever to contact an operator for instruction and emergencies. Her sons Hank and Johnnie fetch numbers for her and a list of important numbers is on the respirator mirror. She calls groceries and kids’ clothes by phone, claiming independence after three years.
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Howard C. Heyn
van Nuys
Calif
Mary Ann Huff
Mrs. Huff
Hank
Johnnie
Broad Gaps Seen In U S Defense Arc
An AP report outlines gaps in the U S defense arc from Alaska through Greenland and Labrador to Newfoundland, noting missing interceptor bases along a 1500 mile stretch between Greenland and Canada. It details Alaska’s airfields, Thule Air Base in Greenland, and gaps in radar coverage and fighter fields along the Arctic corridor.
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Washington
North American
Russia
United States
Canada
Far North
Alaska
Thule
Greenland
Northeast Air Command
Laborador
New Foundland
Bee Defense
Ike Looks Over Foreign Affairs
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower shifts focus to international affairs after a busy weekend naming top foreign staff. The announced lineup features John Foster Dulles as secretary of state designate Winthrop W. Aldrich as ambassador to Great Britain Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. to head the U N delegation and Harold E. Stassen to lead the Mutual Security Agency Lodge plans separate talks with Dulles and possibly Warren R. Austin to arrange a transition for the U N post Lucius D. Clay noted.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Arthur Vandenberg Jr
John Foster Dulles
Winthrop W.aldrich
U.S
Great Britain
Sen
Henry Cabot Lodge
Three Children and Mother Die in Sackett Fire
In Ridgway Pennsylvania a mother Helen Mason 27 and her three children Mary Jane 7 Charles Jr 4 and John 13 months died in a fire caused by an explosion in a two room hunting lodge at Sackett as the deer season began The father Charles Mason Sr 35 was burned critically Norman Keeler 17 suffered a slight face cut State police said the blast happened when the father tried to start a fire with kerosene.
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Ridgway
Pennsylvania
Sackett
Helen Mason
Meadville
Mary Jane
Charles Jr
John
Charles Mason Sr
Norman Keeler
International jurists back firings at UN over communists
A three member panel at the United Nations ruled that Secretary General Trygve Lie can fire any staff member who is an active member of the American Communist Party or who refuses to answer questions about espionage or subversive ties. The jurists said such actions align with U.N. staff regulations and U.S. law, though not binding, they influence future policy. The opinion, released as U.S. Senate hearings on communism resume, emphasizes the secretary general's authority over staff and the need for records confidentiality and a loyalty review process. The jurists are William de Witt Mitchell, Sir Edwin Herbert, and Paul Veldekens.
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United Nations
N. Y. Ph
Trygve Lie
U.N
Lie
International Jurists
U. S
Grand Jury
Senate
William de Witt Mitchell
New York
U.S
Hoover
Edwin Herbert
London
Paul Veldekens
Catholic University of
World Organization
International Monetary Fund
Igee UN
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Martin Sivertson
Ray Sunder
John Skemp
Herbert Garbers
William Schaefer
Leslie Howard
French Island
Amelia Hickisch
Vine St
Melvin Tostrud
Warren W. Smith Sr
George Gullickson
Maynard Berglund
M. W. Moriarity
Robert Colleran
David Baptie
Skemp
William C. Barnard
Kenney
Kenny
Knudson
Boss
Norman Walker
Michael J. Quill
CIO Transport Workers
Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
LABOR
Mamie
By Ruth Cowan
McCoy
J. E. Kidwell
James Conine
Quartermaster Corps
George
Casa Keane
Eee
Rtas
Ee Farm News Daily
Hal Boyle
Oban Rameni
Coeonsenenr
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Elton C
FAYAP
Elton C. Fay
Fay
North Pole
Alaskan
Ike
Winthrop Aldrich
U.K
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Aldrich
U.N. Secretariat
By A. I. Goldberg
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