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Convict McGovern Miller, abed in Sing Sing prison hospital, woke one murky morning this week to a nightmare sight. Out of their beds leaped three fellow felons, fully clothed and armed with guns. Quick as murder they shot and killed the guard in the hospital ward, vanished through the door. That was the last Convict Miller saw of them...
Shrieking prison sirens roused the countryside. A State police plane roared overhead. Coast Guard cutters put-putted up & down river. Bloodhounds sniffed along the western shore. It was still only 9 a.m. when William Mullen, veteran woodsman and member of the Palisades Interstate Park Police, leading a posse along the side of Hook Mountain, heard a noise in the brush and saw a flash of white shirt. "You're surrounded," a posseman hollered. "Put up your hands." All fight gone out of them, Riordan and McGale stumbled out, gave...
...week's end the President's brother still sat in prison, waiting for a judge's decision whether to order trial, and, if so, for what degree of homicide...
...address 6,160 meetings attended by 2,355,880 persons. Newspapers gave over a thousand columns of free publicity. Radio stations contributed 403 free broadcasts. High schools assembled hundreds of thousands of youngsters for special auditorium rallies. Unions opened their labor temples. Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions held Mission luncheons. Prison wardens mustered convicts from their cells. And thousands of church workers rang over 100,000 doorbells in a great interdenominational drive to bring in the converts...
With his face hidden behind a mask made of a ripped Pullman pillowcase (to thwart photographers), Earl Browder stepped off a train last week at Atlanta, Ga. He was shackled to two Negro prisoners, escorted by G-Men. His destination: the U. S. Penitentiary at Atlanta. The Kansas-born Communist leader and onetime Presidential candidate was going to prison for passport fraud. Sentence: four years. By good behavior he could get out in three years, four months...