Unwilling Woman Aids Escape Five Felons Ball Guard
Mrs Edd Sheets described her brief, unwilling role in aiding five dangerous felons escape from an Ashe County prison gang. The escape occurred as a prison truck carried 12 prisoners and three guards. five prisoners fled the scene after disarming guard Handy and shooting foreman Absher. Judge Judd Jones and other guards pursued as Absher died en route to a hospital. North Carolina troopers and federal officers mounted roadblocks in the mountains, with other states on lookout for the armed group. The five escapees were George Brown, James Waller, Tommy Styles, John Allen Henry, and Junior Burgess, each with lengthy sentences for violent crimes and prior escapes.
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Jefferson, N. C
Edd Sheets
Ashe County
Jefferson
Blue Ridge Mountain
Cranberry Creek
William F. Handy
Handy
Fields Absher
Judd Jones
Jones
Absher
State Highway Patrol
North Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
George Brown
Wilkes County
James Waller
Gibsonville
Tommy Styles
Asheville
John Allen Henry
Miami
Fla
Junior Burgess
Hickory
Brown
Waller
Henry
Burgess
Firemen Still Battle Inferno After Plane Crash Tragedy
In Joliet Illinois a Trans World Airlines Constellation crashed near Midway Airport causing a fiery blaze that killed three crew members and at least four residents. Firefighters battled the flames as four homes and one apartment building were destroyed and others damaged. Rescue workers reported multiple explosions and fear of more casualties as the wreckage burned. The plane was en route from New York to Los Angeles via Philadelphia and Chicago when the disaster occurred.
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Chicago
Midway Airport
Trans World Airlines
Constellation
New York
Philadelphia
TWA
634Th St
Cicero Ave
Thomas Fracassi
Fracassi
Geraldine
Los Angeles
C. W. Helwig
D. E. Waters
A. L. Auge
Robbert Quinn
Gertrude Bolin
William Mallory
Mallory
Humphrey to Decide Candidacy Early Next Year
Philip AP report states Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota said he will decide in January whether to seek the Democratic presidential nomination. He described his effort as unofficial campaigning and said the outlook is encouraging.
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Humphrey
Philadelphia
Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minn
Early Christmas Birth in Ventura From Hospital Dash
Mrs. Lloyd Christmas of nearby Ojai gave birth to a son while her husband drove her toward the hospital in Ventura on Monday.
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Ventura
Calif
California
Lloyd Christmas
Ojai
West Virginia Weather Forecast Becomes Colder With Snow Flurries
The report shows cloudy mild conditions across West Virginia with occasional rain and possible thunderstorms. Tonight turns windy and much colder with scattered showers changing to snow flurries. temperatures drop to the 30s. Wednesday remains cloudy and windy with a few snow flurries, mainly in the north. Beckley and Oak Hill data show highs in the 50s, lows in the 40s, with light precipitation and river gauges near normal to muddy.
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Beckley High
Oak Hill
Weil
Stores Stay Open All Day Tomorrow
All local merchants will keep their stores open all day Wednesday due to being closed Thursday for Thanksgiving. This also marks the start of stores remaining open all day every Wednesday until Christmas. Beginning Dec. 17, stores will stay open until 9 p.m. daily through Dec. 23, closing at 6 p.m. on Dec. 24.
Aldo Ray Arrives in San Francisco Without Joanna Bennett
Aldo Ray, 32, arrives in San Francisco from London with a stubble beard and sweat shirt, wiping his nose with bandaged fingers. He says his intentions are absolutely honorable and says the press is trying to cast him as a latter-day Errol Flynn. His companion Joanna Bennett cannot travel after her father vetoed her visa efforts.
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Errol Flynn
Aldo Ray
San Francisco
London
Johanna Bennett
Ray
Grandfather Attacks Family Killing Two Children
In Baston Pennsylvania a 60 year old crane operator Elirio Mantoni attacked his daughter Lillian Gabert and her children with an ax after deciding to prevent the children from being taken away. Two grandchildren Raymond Gabriel Gabert and Elaine Gabert died from wounds. Mantoni died by suicide after leaping from a warehouse fire escape. The other child Paul Gabert and Mrs Gabert remained unconscious with brain damage as investigators linked a note claiming mercy killing to the tragedy. Mantoni had been staying with his daughter during his wife’s hospitalization amid a 103 day strike at Ingersoll Rand Co. plant.
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Baston
Raymond Gabert
Elirio Mantoni
Raymond
Elaine
Mantoni
Paul 1
Lillian Gabert
Phillipsburg
N. J
Delaware River
Anna
Betts Hospital
Mrs. Mantoni
Mrs. Gabert
Palmer Township
Easton Hospital
Paul
Ingersoll Rand Co
West Easton
New York Reporter Admits Fabricating Bribe Claim
New York World Telegram and Sun reporter Eugene Gleason confessed to district attorney officials that his bribery tale about a high city official offering money to halt slum clearance coverage was false. He stated he lied twice, first in 1956 to fellow reporter Fred J. Cook and again on a TV program, saying he was exuberant and carried away.
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NEW York
Eugene Gleason
District Attorney's Office
Gleason
New York World-Telegram
Sun
Asst. Dist. Atty
Alfred J. Scotti
Fred J. Cook
CoOk
World-Telegram
Wnta-Tv
the Nation
Dist. Atty
Frank S. Hogan
Boeing 707 Cuts Transatlantic Flight Time to London
A Boeing 707 jetliner flew from New York to London in just under six and a half hours to inaugurate Trans World Airlines jet service across the Atlantic.
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London
New York
Trans World Airlines
Atlantic
Sherwood Glutz Praised as Ladies Man Yet Warned of Risks
In a slang laden claim, Sherwood Glutz boasts of his charm with women and notes that even a stumble in courting could ruin his reputation. The piece humorously warns that his gleeful pursuit could invite disaster and keep his smile from lasting long.
Prefers Dog To Turkey In 10 Year Old's Dilemma
Syracuse AP report: Kevin Miller, 10, earned 1.80 from odd jobs. Faced with buying a Thanksgiving turkey or paying a veterinarian for his injured dog, Kevin chose the dog over the turkey after his mother said they could not afford either.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Kevin Miller
Kevin
Thanksgiving Songfest Halts as CO Fumes Sickened 500 Pupils
At Oklahoma State University a Thanksgiving songfest drew 5400 high school singers from 109 districts and 3000 spectators. Carbon monoxide fumes infiltrated Gallagher Hall via bus fumes and air intakes. About 200 students suffered varying poisoning, with 8 hospitalized after arrival in Tulsa. The program paused before Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus as ambulances and oxygen were rushed to the scene.
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Stillwater
Okla
Wandae
Ninht
Oklahoma
Oklahoma State University
Gallagher Hall
Weldon Barnes
OSU
David Pursley
Lawton High School
North Central Oklahoma College
The
Steel Conspiracy Charged In Suit
SAN FRANCISCO AP Western steel processors face a government civil suit accusing an Oakland trade association, six steel companies, and 12 fabricating firms of conspiring to dominate 75 percent of the rebars market in seven Western states in 1953. The suit seeks dissolution of the Western Reinforcing Steel Fabricators Assn and labeling all defendants conspirators in antitrust violations.
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San Francisco
Western Steel Processors
Western
U. S
Oakland Trade Association
Arizona
California
Idaho
Nevada
Oregon
Utah
Washington
ATTY
William P. Rogers
Western Reinforcing Steel Fabricators Assn. of
Oakland
Bethelehm
U. S. Steel
Two Preemie Babies Highlight Separate Fortunes in 24-Ounce Births
In Follansbee a 24-ounce Charles Toothman Jr. died after birth at West Alexander. In Raleigh General Hospital Sophia infant Sherri Lynn Hunt, also 24 ounces at birth, thrives at two weeks, gaining weight and showing a healthy appetite.
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Charles Daniel Toothman
Follawsbee
Sophia
Sherri Lynnm Hunt
Sherri Lynn
John Hunt
Sherri
Raleigh General Hospital
Toothman
Harold Toothman Jr
West Alexander
Follansbee
Charles
Shortening The News From Wire Dispatches
A roundup of brief items notes Cranberries on Thanksgiving menus for all U S military personnel in Japan and Korea. The federal government to serve sauce to 22 300 inmates in federal prisons Thursday. President Eisenhower back in the White House for 10 days before a 20 000 mile goodwill tour. Libourne France court fines and imprisons wine merchant Pierre Jouhauneau for adulterating wine. Diplomatic circles expect East West summit with Khrushchev before June. A lone bandit in Pittsburgh robs East End Savings & Loan and is captured with $4 395. William Fisher wounded in Homewood. Astor II settles suit over estate with $240 000 tax free out of court. Eleanor Powell divorces Glenn Ford after 46 years. Alan Freed denies payola but ends deal with WNEW TV. Chaplin Jr and Susan Magness divorce in LA. Grand jury to hear Parker lynching case in Biloxi. Parkersburg special election to decide city charter adoption. Bids opened December 15 for 14 highway projects in seven counties. Seven ousted Dunbar officials see restoration denied.
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U. S
Japan
Korea
Eisenhower
White House
Criminal Court
Libourne
France
Pierre Jouhaneau
London
Bonn
Nikita Khrushchev
East End Savings & Loan Assn
Pittsburgh
William Fisher
Homewood
Pittsburgh Hospital
John Jacob Astor II
Eleanor Powell
Glenn Ford
Peter
Alan Freed
Wnew-Tv
New York
Freed
Charles Chaplin Jr
Susan Magness
Los Angeles
Miss Magness
Sidney Mize
Biloxi
Mack Charles Parker Lynch
Justic Department
Pearl River County
Parkersburg
Cabell
Hampshire
Jackson
Kanawha
Mason
Wetzel
Wirt
State Road Commission
West Virginia
Dunbar Commission
State Supreme Court
Hearing set on delinquency petition for 13 year old killer
In Clathe Kansas an AP report says George Martens a 13 year old deaf boy faces a Friday hearing to declare him a delinquent child after he admitted killing 8 year old Steven Moscoe with a knife on Saturday Martens says the act was to avenge bicycle damage and he cannot be prosecuted for murder due to his status as a juvenile
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Clathe
Kan
George Martens
Martens
Steven Moscoe
Street Scene Car Parks Across Two Spaces on Prince Street
A brand new automobile parked on Prince Street occupies two parking spaces while city police issue tags to other cars for overtime parking.
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Prince Street
Nelson Eddy Replaces Striptease in Las Vegas Show
Nelson Eddy replaces Candy Barr in a Las Vegas show to improve the moral climate of gambling venues. The incident followed county commissioners demanding the firing of headliner T. C. Jones, a female impersonator. Hotel owners pledged changes, including costumes for showgirls and dismissing Barr, who faces narcotics charges in Texas. Barr left town after saying she would reunite with her family.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Nelson Eddy
Candy Barr
T. C. Jones
Jones
Miss Barr
The
New Frontier
Bill Miller
Beldon Katleman
el Rancho Vegas
Texas
Mickey Cohen
Los Angeles
Katleman
Fireman and Boy Die in Detroit Explosion
An explosion at a two story frame house in Detroit killed a fireman Bruno J. Koulch aged 39 and a 12 year old boy Eugene Pietszak who lived on the first floor. Eleven firemen were injured and several officers were knocked to the ground as the blast occurred during a rescue attempt. Irene Pietszak mother of the boy started the coal furnace fire that preceded the disaster.
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Detroit
Bruno J.koulch
Eugene Pietszak
Irene Pietszak
Songwriter Samuel M Lewis Dead At 76
New York lyricist Samuel M Lewis aged 76 who penned more than 800 songs including Mammy Dinah and In a Little Spanish Town died Sunday Local obituaries report his death in New York Also Boston notes surgeon Dr Sara M Jordan age 75 co founder of the Lahey Clinic died Saturday of cancer She was an authority on internal medicine and retired in 1958
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New York
Samuel M. Lewis
Dinah
Boston
Sara M.jordan
The
Lahey Clinic
Jordan
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