Eighteen Executed in Aegina Prison in Greece
Eighteen more murder convicts were executed at Aegina prison near Athens on Friday, as total executions in 36 hours reached 61 and 213 for the week. Reports note ongoing cabinet reshuffles amid political turmoil, while Greek forces press against Communist guerrillas in central Greece and near the border with Turkey.
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Athens
Aegina
Salonika
Clifford Norton
Constantin Tsaldaris
Norton
Michael Mavrocordato
Tsaldaris
Themistokles Sophoulis
Teal- Garis
Paul
Sophoulis
Dwight Griswold
Greece
U. S
Griswold
George Stratos
Macedonia
Thrace
Greek government condemns 152 executions after 1944 uprising
The Greek government announced on Tuesday the executions of 152 persons with 830 more under death sentence for involvement in the 1944 left wing uprising. The next day the British Labour government voiced concern with the executions while the Daily Herald denounced the policy.
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Greece
Laborite Daily Herald
Ex-GI Cleared in Death of Wife and Baby Near Crown Point
Yavapai County Attorney said Robert Lawrence 28 was acting under a service connected disability when he found his wife 30 and their newborn dead after a weekend in Prescott. He drove the bodies to Prescott, reported the deaths later, and the remains will be sent to Phoenix for burial after investigation. Mrs. Lawrence's mother Inez Surratt arrived to arrange burial plans.
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Prescott
Yavapai County
David H. Palmer
Crown Point
Robert Lawrence
Palmer
Lawrence
Phoenix
Inez Surratt
One Day For Bigamy And Years For Fraud
Charles Freemont Hayes, 33, was sentenced to five years and a day in prison for fraud and bigamy. Judge Vincent A. Carroll imposed the sentences after Hayes pleaded guilty to bigamy and was found guilty by a jury of fraudulent conversion and false pretenses. Witnesses said Hayes posed as shop steward and vice president of the Punxsutawney local of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and charged members $60 to $185 for cards and insurance. Detectives testified Hayes, taken in Jacksonville, Florida, last April 13, married Gertrude Graham, 30, while still married to his first wife. the second marriage was annulled.
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Philadelphia
Charles Freemont Hayes
Vincent A. Carroll
Hayes
Punxsutawney, Pa
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Pair Held For Cracking Safe In Williams Theft Case
In Flagstaff on May 7, a 17 year old boy named Richard Frederick Morton of Cumberland Maryland and 26 year old Robert William Halliday were held for cracking the Williams high school safe and stealing a lumber yard truck. About $125.73 was found hidden under a mattress where they stayed in Seligman after a stolen car broke down. The pair rammed the safe with a crowbar and later abandoned the truck seven miles west of Seligman before walking back to Seligman to await the repair of the car.
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Flagstaff
U.P
Williams
Williams High
Richard Frederick Morton
Cumberland, Md
Seligman
Robert William Halliday
Bill Stanbeugh
Williama
Stanbaugh
Lumber Company
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