"' ~ 7~ I~ ,7 ~ ? / T olor 0 u i iv d rod d i rd1 un f> ed i ni ht.. h n r e k r n th~ train boun for Hot i,rt1 Sulphur Springe turned out o be so eone el e. It ell b gan wi b twelve convicts makin a prison break from he Colorado State Penitentiarr, at Canyon Ci y. Twelve convicts got away. Eleven recaptured. One of the desperadoes felled by a far■ woaan who slugged hi ■ with a ha ■ mer. of the fugitives still at large - Ja■•• Sherbondy) •the lone wolf'• they call hia. - - ~ Then followed word of an inhuman cri ■ e, ~ thought to hJY! been ~~•;iitted by,.Sherbondy. FZ1'9 ~ ~-~'J1'.t2,P ~ ,, 1 Robert Hutchins and wife and at aaall child, fro ■ I\ ~~~~~ Caetle Rock.lle~urdered the husband, tossing his body out, and then shot the wife, wounding her gravely -- the child unharmed. Th cri in d ov on un 1 h reek cAr - - fer hich th ,t ice raced him to h Un ion ~ ta ' , · on in Denver. Th 0 " ' they surrounded he etation,to corner him - ~nly to find he had boarded a train} on its way,l"'\Bot Sulnhur with he train already ~ ' I Spring~/Athe next s t o p . ~ The Police and Sheriff planned I l •Pt l'tsd,- to close inlln · the _ killer 1rben the train arriYed. ~ 7- ARa1 Best, the warden of the Penitentiary.-=- at Canyon City, aent word t~ the posse at Rot Sulphur, adYi1in1 the■ to shoot first a~aat question~ _ afterward./ -- The conductor, of the train ■ 1anahilw waa notified to take the fugitiYe's ticket and give no indication that bis identity was known.~t Hot Sulphur Springs, the S~iff and a group of law ,, officers waited, ~ guns ready. But they didn't have to shoot. The murderer surrendered when he found himself surrounded. An"l he turned out to be someone else. Bot Sherbondy, the missing convict. The en t ken fa rom he in Rot Su 1 p h 11 r t ••at i II id en t i i e d b i 1 f as Do n Tu c k e r, of {k)-f.R Peru, Indiana. W. calmly admi ed b ■ urtier of the A motorist) Robert Hutchins. e ~ ',) So tonight, the search for the ■ iasingASherbond, goes on. In hE- en r 1 . e i , rran n Bri · h w rships ~ bav sei ed I\ two ate refugees -- the large r wi h twelve housan Jewish consi~nmen of f : 1 ~ I ,t ( emigrants ever sent out t o the Holy'Lan .The vessels are the Pan Crescent and the Pan York - A■ erican b u i l t , ~ ~ ! ~ d r Panamanian registry.) After all the stories or trouble in the seizure of i ■ ~igrant ships, we ■ igbt expect• cli ■ ax of Tiolenoe in the caae or the two lRrgest. But not at all. British warship1 . took over the Pan Crescent and Pan York, and are transferring the record breatln1 nu■ber of refugee• to Cypru1 --Call without any disturbance whateTer. Thia M- because of an agr.ee ■en with the Jewish Agency -- the agency deciding that it would be futile to sate resistance and risk 1011 o life, when the British are going to withdraw fro ■ Palestine in a few months anyway. Then the refugees can come in as they please)The Zionist plan being to bring the ■ to Palestine as fast as they can be r ns p or ed . A t he sa e , B • 1 n o @ ref u e ••• ves s el, a sm a l l er on, a ctual l y o o the Palestine Coa st , and succeeded in landin g two-hundred of its passen g er li s t o s ven•hun d red. The British intervened a t the last moment a n d took the refugees i-nto cu s tody, sending ~ to Cyprus - .. all this !J~i~ without violence. lost of the new hosts of emigrants are fro ■ Ru■ ania and Bulgaria, •~•• where the Co■■ uniat ·,r, -t. _ ◄- a u tho r it ill make no objection to theAexodu1. , - . ~ ~ a:A~1' they cleared the Pan Crescent and tbe Pan Tort. -- - - - 1P ' It ta all part of a ■ ass flight from the Red dictatorship in the Balkans. A Jewish agency repreaentatiTe stated today for exaaple, that in Ru■ ania from eighty-nine to ninety percent of the Jews want to ~ et out and go to Palestine. Fro ■ fifty to sixty percent are willing, in the words of the Zionist representative - •to leave a the first op p ortunity, legal or o t herwise.• There a re some t hree-hundr ed -and-fifty-thousand Jews in Rumania - and t hey a re described as being in a desperate i ua ion. The, a~eordin to previous accoun , i no so ucb b~c u e o n i-s mitism, as of com unism. The Red overlords are wiping out the ...sv'-"2- middle classes, small m nufacturers and trad• - A and these in Ru■ ania are largely Jewish. They are being ruined by the Coamuniet pressure on the••• aerchant claes, their means or lJvelihood taken away. So there's a aass aove in the direction of Palestine - awelling the twentieth ientury Jewiah exodu1. - The Greek governmen reports the th town of Ionitss hes been relieved, with forces of soldiers breakin into the beleaguered place from t~•• three sides. The Coa ■ unist guerrillas ••P• driven out of their positions on rugged ridges, to the lest, South and !aat, ~ ' ..._ governaent troopw"l)Our~in - re cuing the a■all /\- I ' A garrison that had stood a red siege ever 1ince -- Christ ■ ae. he / fu.'led ■ a the aJf T h i ~ fro■ broadcast proclai ■ e a line of newa entirely different -- saying the government forces haTe failed the siege. ~ ~ ? ~ ~ \ ~ t r a d i c t i o n in war bulletins. to break 10 familiar BRIT! H ST RI [f. --- -- --- In G r t Br ita in t h e N e w Year b eg an with new phases o f so ci a l ism g o i n , in o ef fe ct - the Labor Government tak i ng ov e r the r a ilroads, for exam p le, and other propaties connected •i th t ransport ) Which, in turn, produced an outbreak of labor trouble at the port of Southa ■ pton -- where the sailing of the ■•••••* lauretania was delayed for hours by a strike of dock workers. The trouble••• of the m ost Br.iti•h • character) •••••*••A-- all because of a cu~ of tea. The so•ern ■ ent toot oYer the Soutba ■pton - docte, and raised the price of the cup of tea 1er••4 to the water front wortera. The !ngliah ha•• to ba•e their ca, of tea, and dock ■ en on the job were 1ettia1 l -ri~~~•\ theirs, at two-and-a-half ce;9 a cap~-Oci&ie■ increaeed t ! t ~ n d a third cents a capf .!.II. the workers went on strike in protest. After t7ing a, sblpoing, including the lauretania, the strike was co ■ p romiaed - when the • !overnaent agreed to postpone t he A.~reaae of t1M pric~ of a cup of tea, p o s t p o n e ~ un t il January ,.( BRITISH STRI{ - 2 ----------- Fifteenth.1f"In England Jou can nationalize, and you can in8titute socialism -- but Jou can't monkey around with that British cup oft a, I I I NQ_! Q HAF.L In h e R oy al R um a n ia n r o m n ee , e ha ve the ~ story as told A Princes ·Anne of Bourbon-P a rma. In Denmark tod a y, she sai d she d i dn't know when t he abdicated Iin g Michael would ge t out of Co ■ muniat Ru■ ania to join her -- but she hoped i t would be soon. Princess Anne relating the story to an••• ■ an of the London Star, told how it all began and the heartache that followed: •we aet for the first ti ■• in Claridge, when•• were in London for the Royal wedding•, said she. •Peo~le say it wae lo•e at first aight -- I ne•er thought such a thing would happen to ■ e.• But it did - an~ the young couple wondered what to do about it. Iing Michael was 1up p osed to go bact to Ru ■ anie, back to the Coaaunist o•erlords, and the tem p tation was there are other things - to duct out ot that.But, ,considere~ to b•~••••t•••~-- friends and family in Ru■ ania, and I sup p ose there w a s the ■ att r of finance -- the royal property. Moreover, lichael is said to have felt t hat it would be cowardly [ING MICfl!tL - 2 not t o o ack. However, he d.d prolon is t rip -- his mission of at ending the fe tivities of the London wedding of Princess Elizabeth, heiress to the British crown. •we prolonged our stay in London, and then I went •1th ling licbael and his lother to Lausanne. When he •ent back to Ru■ ania,• she goes on, ••e knew that pre11ure Wal being put on hi• -- but nobody (P•r•ua4• tried toA.,J••••I■ hi ■ not to go. I did not say anything against it. I thought it Yery courageous of hi ■ to go back.• To which ehe adds: •I did not think, nor do I think that did, that the situation would end in abdication.• All of which ties in with the 1uppo1ition that lichael'• resignation of bis crown •a• pro•oked suddenly, when the Co ■ munist overlords refused to permit hia to aarry Princess Anne of Bourbon Parma. ror her it wae an anxious ti ■ e. She tried t• to phone Michael at Bucharest, but was told the lines were blocked. So she w as left in suspense. •t had no news,• she said today, •un i l I he rd the announcement of h·s abdication on the radio. We were at dinner. It came as a complete surprise•, she adds. She says their engage ■ ent is still unofficial, but it ie expected that the Princess will go to Switzerland to join Michael when he gets out of Bu■ ania -- while the Ru ■ anian Queen lother will go to Copenhagen to ■ ate arran,e ■ ente with the fa ■ ilJ of the Princess for the wedding. It •t ■t will be a wistful sort of weddin1 - ~herself~ rexilld \ the brid•A••2•~••~••,1 a Princess o~■zat •~ro1alty united to an ex-ting who goes into exile to ■ arr1 · her. And the1 will live the ■ elanchol1 life of royalty without a throne. Today she aaid:,•I do not know what lichael's plana are. I would go with hi ■ anywhere in the world.• POLL -- FOLLOW STRIKES .....-.-- ------------------ - Bere' s a poll from England, the Dail1 Express in London takin a straw voe to select the man of the year for Rineteen rort1-Seven. So whom did ~ 1(1->ll the British public pick? A A■ erican Secretary of State . , ,, ·,\ / ~· ,.._George larsball .t.lR: ch~◄.uP--IC'~ ••••ir n ~-~ •ccording to The Da~ly Expreae poll, 1~• hailed by the British people ae the outatanding figure of llnateen Forty-Sn~~- In • ~ ~ - ~ - ~ ' ) linaton Cbarchi 1 -~hird plac"-- -~r•• i4eat Tra■an. WEATHER ~--.-- The weather for Nineteen Forty-ei ht begins in a nbehaving way -- t least so far as the northern sta es are concerned. The Middlewest t ■ in the grip of a great winter stor ■, producin snow, sleet and blizzard. The !ast having murky rain and thaw, following the the banks of f1/t slush. huge snowfall after Cbri1taa1 - turni°'~ ~ ~ c..4"'2J. ~ snow/\t:a t h e ~ ll ■•A ■ lrn ••atJ•ll•r•• 11 1 arl:wa,, N H • ~ ••• Eeee■l pn ■ Al::llt. '9wer a c c i ~ •• ,,a , , ~ ... result of bad weather plenty of automobilea •·ere left in garages instead of being taken for joy ride• to place• of aauseaent. So fatalities on the highway were far fewer t h a n ~ espected. However, th~r• was a bad railroad wreck ' in 1111ouri -- two sections of a westbound strea ■ liner collid~near the town of Otterville -- with a death list of ~ l a t last report~: The streamliner■ ;\ WEATHER - 2 --------- ••• were running in a blindin g storm of sleet, anow and icy tracks, and the second•• section ran into the first, smashing the/rear Pull ■ an coach. he.r of ' ,.. RUHA AY _....._,. __ __ The police at West Palm Beach, Florida, are holding thirteen-ye a r old Ch a rley Crawford, who e:a:a. be described as - the cha ■ pion runaway. ~ Ch a rley's home is in 1 ~ay City, lichigan, which i1 ~~~~ twel•e-hundred ailes fro ■ Pal ■ Beac"' le left without a penny, but when the police picked hi ■ up, thirteen- year old Charley wa~ togged out in a spectacular brand new••• cowboy suit, complete with a ten gdllon hat. In addition to which he had a large 1lea ■ ia1 fla1hlight, not to aention the ratiah 1wa11er air of a cowboy of the lild Weit. low Charley did it ie a wonder. le aa71 he tra•elled all the way fro ■ lichlgan to Florida ia a first claae Pull ■ an. Be sneaked aboard, and hid under a seat - thus e•ading the conductor. After which a kindly gentle ■ an bought bi ■ an elaborate square aeal in tlle dine1'> ~-- ~ h i r t e e n - yea,:,...old -~~~, h a • e . , t ~ to talk hiasel! into runaway ■ ust that. Be didn't have a nickel when he got to Palm It •· r-;tP, /J '~ .' " ~ Beach, but s a ys he got into The w ~ .... ~ . I Breakers, ••• 0 ~ /\ RUN AW 1 Y - 2 \A _ _ O __ ~ ~ r ~ c ? v \ . e ~ hotel• in Amer·ca end how a runaway could achi ve that is a wonder. Amid the palms and the plush of The Breakers, he found a wallet with twenty-six dollars in it. Charley says he found it, although you don't ordinarily coae upon a bankroll lying around lite that. With t~e funds Charley bought a auaptuoua cowboy outfit in which he waa about to eabart on 1oae new•• and re•artable ad•enture, ~hen the polio•