Bloodhounds Hunt 12 Escapees From Draper Prison Break
Bloodhounds joined a state wide manhunt for 12 convicts still at large after a mass escape at Draper Prison near Montgomery Alabama. Twenty one men fled after overpowering guards. seven were recaptured in a night effort as armed fugitives stole two cars and weapons from the prison arsenal. Ringleader Frank Green a life term inmate led the ruse with aid from Neal Michelson, while prison officials fired two tower guards for lapses. The break was discovered when a prison barber found open cell doors along the main corridor. Draper Prison sits about 22 miles north of Montgomery on State Highway 45.
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Speigner
Ala
Draper
Alabama
J. M. McCullough
Cullough
Selma
Robert Cottrell
Donald Phillips
Neal Michelson
Reeves
Draper Prison
Montgomery
Russians Use Disguised Units to Hide Armies Near Iron Curtain
Czechoslovak underground reports to Washington allege Soviet Russia hides military concentrations by deploying troops as farmers and workers. Thousands of civilians are said evicted to create disguised Russian strongpoints. Reports describe two changes: a switch to ONE A tactics and dispersion of war materials to avoid atom bombing.
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Washington
Soviet
Russia
V. S. Krajcovic
National Committee For Liberation of
Slovakia
Office of Representative Price
D-Th
Drajcovic
Dr. Krajcovic
Boyle Tug of War Over RFC Loan Spawns Senate Probe
Testimony links Democratic National Chairman William M. Boyle Jr to promoting a 645000 RFC loan to the American Lithofold Corp of St Louis. Lawmakers push witnesses, including Boyle and Max Siskind, while noting Boyle denies involvement. The RFC dismisses Oliver Kraft over a free fishing trip tied to Lithoford officials.
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Washington
Chancey Y. Dodds
St. Louis
William M. Boyle, Jr
G. Milton Kelly Washington
Senate
Boyle
Hoey
D-Sc
Nixon
Rcalif
Max Siskind
Ernest Howard
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Business Loans Division
RFC
American Lithofold Corporation of
James E. Toole
Lithofold
Litheford
Harley Hise
Toole
Oliver R. Kraft
Wisconsin
Lithoford
Eisenhower Backers Push GOP Bid for Nomination
A campaign to persuade Republicans that General Dwight D. Eisenhower belongs in the GOP and is a potential presidential candidate has begun. Governor Thomas E. Dewey and other backers outlined plans, with Kansas to lead later efforts and a grass roots approach aimed at public backing.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Eisenhower
Kansas
Dewey
Duff
Rpa
Ives
R-Ny
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Hugh D. Scott, Jr
R-Pa
Harry Darby
Eisenhower Brigade
Milton Eisenhower
Pennsylvania State College
Senate approves $400 pay raise for postal workers
The Senate passed a bill granting a minimum $400 annual raise to most of the nation's 500,000 postal workers, retroactive to July 1. The plan would cost over $200 million yearly, with raises up to $800 and higher amounts for some employees. fourth class workers receive 20 percent boosts.
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Washington
Senate
Red China charges UN violations at Kaesong in Korea talks
Tokyo AP bulletin says Red China radio accuses the United Nations of new breaches of the Kaesong neutral zone where Korean armistice talks are suspended.
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Tokyo
Red China Radio Today
United Nations
Kaesong
Quads Born In Baltimore As Dad Slain Before
In Baltimore at City Hospital Susie Avance gave birth to quadruplets timed within minutes beside two older children after her husband was killed in a stabbing two months earlier. The four infants four weeks premature weighed between two pounds six ounces and two pounds fourteen ounces and are under care in twin incubators.
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Baltimore
Susie Avance
City Hosital
Avance
Emerson Fackler
Arnol Tramer
Franchot Tone Beaten By Love Rival In Hollywood Fight
Hollywood reports Franchot Tone, 46, was severely injured in a public dispute with rival suitor Neal over actress Barbara Payton. Tone remained seriously injured with a broken nose and concussion, as Payton considered visiting him and a possible joint statement about the fight. Payton’s divorce from John Payton was finalized the day before the brawl.
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Franchot Tone
Hollywood
Tone
Barbara Payton
Tomeal
Neal
Miss Payton
Franchot
John Payton
Poll backs denying Tass press cards to U S editors
A Editor & Publisher poll shows 28 of 40 editors favor disaccrediting Tass correspondents in Congress. Alexander F. Jones urged the move citing Tass as a Russian propaganda bureau. Critics say it won’t aid Oatis or protect secrets.
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Capitol
U.S
NEW York
Tass
Capitol Hill
Alexander F. Jones
Associated Press
William N. Oatis
Czechoslovakia
Jones
Celler
D-Ny
Oatis
McCarthy Attacks Truman in Michigan Speech
Senator McCarthy labeled President Truman stupid and stubborn but not disloyal during a Coldwater address. He claimed Democrats lack a Washington party, warned of a new “Crat party,” and denounced Acheson’s retention as disaster for the United States and victory for Soviet Russia.
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Coldwater, Mich
McCarthy
R-Wis
Truman
Washington
Dean Acheson
Acheson
United States
Soviet Russia
Michigan
Yalta
Korea
Allies Eye Retaliation If Reds Strike Manchuria Bases
U S Fifth Air Force commander Maj General Frank F Everest and Washington officials say UN air restrictions block attacks across the Yalu but would be lifted if Communist forces attack Allied troops. The plan envisions striking Manchurian air bases and pursuing Reds north of the border. Military officials expect UN nations would join the retaliation with minimal coordination issues.
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U.S. Fifth Air Force
Korea
Manchuria
Washington
Yalu River
North Korea
Frank F. Everest
United Nations
Yalu
Steamer Still Ahead In Race Across Central New York
AvON N Y AP After a night without sleep Jack Brause and Rube De Launty resume the Chicago to New York race heading toward Geneva on leg six. Brause in a 1913 Stanley Stearner and De Launty in a 1911 Stoddard Dayton lead by about an hour. They expect to reach Little Falls 163 miles away tonight and Poughkeepsie 150 miles farther Sunday night with Manhattan in sight Monday noon.
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Avon
N. Y
Jack Brause
Rube de Launty
New York State
Geneva
New York
Little Falls
Poughkeepsie
Manhattan
Brause
Stanley Stearner
Rube
Chicago
Oldsters
de Launty
Village Square
Buffalo
Chicago Museum of Science and Industry
Unusually Warm 30 Day Forecast Across Regions
The Weather Bureau reports the next 30 days will be warmer than normal east of the Ohio and Lower Mississippi Rivers and across the Far West. Colder than normal readings expected in the Great Plains and Western Great Lakes with rainfall likely to exceed normal in the Valley.
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Washington
Great Plains
Great Lakes
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Ohio
Mississippi
Czechs Protest Blockade of Air Traffic
Prague announces notes to United States Britain France over a Western blockade of Czech government airlines. Prague radio calls it open discrimination and a Potsdam violation as U S led reprisals tied to the Oatis spy trial and 10 year sentence.
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London
United States
Britain
France
Prague Radio
U. S
British
Germany
Paris
West Germany
England
Associated Press
William N. Oatis
Oatis
Truman
Washington
Allies Storm Hill Front in Prolonged Korean Battle
Allied troops gained high ground northwest of Kumhwa after a two hour hand to hand clash and bayonet assaults. Heavy artillery and mortar fire paused advances along an 80 mile front from Kumsong to the east coast as Red bunkers and pillboxes slowed UN efforts.
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John Randolph
U. S
Eighth Army
Korea
Kumhwa
Stan Carter
Yanggu
Inje
Seon
Seoul
Hong Kong
Kumsong
Parolee Returns To Jail Blaming Cost Of Living
SAN QUENTIN Calif AP A San Quentin parolee returned to the prison blaming the high cost of living. James A Woodruff 30 said he earned $68 weekly in Kansas City Mo but faced expenses. His ex wife received $45 alimony for their two children. He had been sent to San Quentin in 1947 for a Los Angeles burglary and lived on $23 weekly until he quit last Tuesday and hitchhiked back.
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San Quentin
Calif
James A. Woodruff
Kansas City
Woodruff
San Quantin
Los Angeles
California
Desperate Father Appeals For Help For Coma Boy
Madison Larry of Hicksville Ohio seeks aid for his two year old son Tommy Larry who has been unconscious for 18 weeks after measles and mumps caused brain damage. Tommy is at St Joseph's Hospital Fort Wayne and fed by a nasal tube. The family faces mounting medical bills and multiple hospitalizations.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Tommy Larry
Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette
Tommy
Madison Larry
Hicksville
St. Joseph's Hospital
Joe
Johnny
Larry
International Harvester Corporation
NATO consider Greek and Turkish seat bids stir Ottawa talks
The United States pushes to grant Greece and Turkey full NATO membership, hoping to broaden the alliance against communism. A Greek Turkish admission faces a unanimous council vote amid debate over burden sharing and costs of rearmament as Ottawa hosts NATO talks.
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Ottawa
Greece
Turkey
Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic Treaty Council
Moscow Fire On German Pact Awaited
Washington based AP reports Western Big Three foreign ministers await Moscow reaction to plans to make West Germany a defense partner. Anticipated moves include protests accusing the West of rearming Germany and Moscow pursuing a new treaty with Soviet controlled East Germany. Allied ministers say Bonn would join the anti Soviet defense alliance as rapidly as possible.
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Mediterranean
Council
Brussels
Ottawa
Western
Germany
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Paul van Zeeland
Belgium
NATO
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Bonn
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William Parker
Cole
Dayton Fairview
Doug Cole
Barnitz Stadium
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Middies
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Ed Mynhier
Lacy King
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Bill Weith
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