Kill Sik Convicts f '
In Prison Riot ■ ’■
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (AV-Guards
shot six negro convicts to death
and wounded seven others Friday
after officers said they attempted
to escape from a prison camp. An
inquest was called Saturday.
The affair had its inception
when 40 road gang prisoners re
fused to work.
Warden W. G. Worthy said 13
obeyed his order to return to work
but that the other 27 went on a
four hour strike. They were taken
back to the prison camp and were
herded together in the prison
yard.
Worthy said one of the prison
ers. Willie H. Bell, charged and
sought to disarm him. The warden
said he fired and wounded Bell in
the leg. Worthy and county police
chief Russell B. Henderson said
all of the negroes then started
running for a 12-foot barbed wire
fence which encircled the camp.
Prison guards opened fire with
shotguns, mowing the fleeing con
victs down.
Nome Not On
Good Will Tour
TACOMA G*P)—Only a few days
after completion of a Seattle good
will tour of Alaska, a group of 15
Tacoma civic and business leaders
left by plane Sunday morning on
a similar journey. Mayor C. Val
Fawcett headed the party.
Their ininerary is: Fairbanks
Sunday evening and Monday; An
chorage, Tuesday and Wednesday;
J u neau, Thursday; Ketchikan,
Friday; and return to Tacoma on
Saturday.
Members of the party are Faw
* cett, Elbert H. Baker II, C. W.
'Youths Play '*• •
Flying Disc” Hoax
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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (/P)—Four
lads with an imagination that
runs to flying discs may or may
not be laughing up their sleeves
after their version of a flying
saucer had practically the entire
local populace, the FBI, army in
telligence officers and police on
the run Friday.
The boys created and planted in
a local yard an object that looked
to them, as well as to the army
and civilian officers, just like a
flying disc should look.
Their hoax was exposed after j
assistant police chief L. D. Mc
Cracken was tipped off that one of
the boys knew something about
the disc.
The creation which took two
days to complete, was made from
parts of an old phonograph, burn- j
ed out radio tubes and other dis- j
carded electrical parts. It had I
a plexi-glass dome, radio tubes,1
burned wires and glistening gold,
and silver sides.
Since the boys are juveniles
their names were withheld. They
will not be prosecuted, McCracken
said.
The object was discovered early (
I in the morning by a Twin Falls
woman, and it was not until late
; evening that the mystery was
cleared with the boys’ confession.
i
Benfield, Chauncey Baker, E. D.
Click. Fred Haleny, Frank J.
; Johnson, Allen H. Link, R. R. Mat
; tison, J. C. Richards, T. A. Ste
venson, T. A. Thronson, Charles
Walker, Charles F. Wolf, and Karl
J. Maxwell.
“How did you break your leg?”
“I threw a cigarette into a man
hole and stepped on it.”
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Reds Boycott Paris |
Say U. S. Will Dom-|
inate Economy
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(By The Associated Press)
Weekend developments in both |
trade and military fields drama
tized a rift between the east and i
west over the Paris conference
plans for economic cooperation, i
The Soviet Union—having just |
enlarged her trade relations with |
Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia—ap
peared concerned today that Scan
dinavian commerce might be tied!
up with that of other western na- J
tions.
The Moscow Communist news-1
paper Pravda accused the United i
States of trying to hinder Sweden, <
Norway and Denmark — among
the 16 nations represented in Paris
—from developing “normal rela-,
tions” with eastern Europe and to
dominate their economy.
On the other hand, Russia made
new barter trade moves of her
own with two neighbors which
followed the Soviet Union in boy
cotting the Paris talks.
A new five-year Russian-Czech
oslovak trade pact calls for an
immediate and vast increase in the
exchange of goods.
Under a Russian-Bulgarian
agreement, announced yesterday
in Sofia, Bulgaria will send agri
cultural products, including a
large amount of tobacco, to the
Soviet Union in exchange for
manufactured goods, cotton and
rubber.
Political tension was heightened
by fighting in northern Greece.
The Greek government said its
troops were driving back an expe
ditionary force of 1,000 men, in
cluding “parts of an international
brigade,” which had struck across
the border from Albania.
Gen. Enver Hoxha, Albania’s
Communist premier, charged in
Tirana that Albanian-Greek bor
der incidents “are part of a gen
eral anti-Democratic plan of An
glo-American reactionaries whose
aim is to bring about a new war,
recommended by Truman’s doc
trine.”
In neighboring Yugoslavia Bor
ivoje Pantelich, a former em
ployee of a U. S. army graves reg
istration unit, was convicted of es
pionage and sentenced to be shot.
A Budapest source reported au
night that Russian occupation au- ]
thorities in Hungary had ordered
the Hungary government to pro
duce immediately 120 railway
trains—enough to carry 40,000 in
fantry troops—for the transporta-,
tion of Russian soldiers from east
to west inside Hungary.
American military government
officials in Munich, openly con
cerned over a mass flight of Ger
mans from the Russian occupation
zone of Germany, into Bavaria,
drafted a report on the situation
for submission to Gen. Lucius D.
Clay, U. S. theater commander.
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Quiet Follows
Prison Disorders
FT. LEAVENWORTH, Kas. (/P)
Quiet prevailed and regular rou-!
tine was carried on at the U. S.'
disciplinary barracks today follow
ing a disturbance yesterday orig
inating among 18 inmates recently
brought here from Fitzsimmons
general hospital in Denver.
# Maj. Henry C. Triesler, Jr., pub
lic information officer, said the
military prison’s population went
to mess as-usual this morning and
that regular work lines were sent
out.
An investigation is unde" w~v
he said.
CHINA CAPITAL
DANCES AGAIN
CHUNGKING — This wartime
capital of China is dancing again,
jamming the halls to the point of
suffocation despite a cover charge
of 14,000 Chinese dollars.
It was illegal to dance in
Chungking during the war, but as
a concession to American forces
authorities decided to allow about
a half dozen dance halls to open.
These were built at great cost
and were just about ready to open
when the war ended and the exo
dus of the Arqericans began.
But the halls are prospering
anyway, because the eager Chi
nese seem to be trying to make up
for all the fun they missed during
the long and somber war years.
The orchestras on the whole are
poor, but they play valiantly from
opening to 11 p.m. closing time
without rest, and the Chinese pa
trons do not seem to suffer from
the discords. Besides the cover
charge, Chungking’s much-berat
ed synthetic vodka or gin is on
tap at 25,000 Chinese dollars the
bottle. Hangover comes for free.
Consequently, most Chinese pa
trons drink tea and eat oranges.
SEVERAL SHIPS
IN ROADSTEAD
Riding out the storm in the
today are the Square Knot, which
arrived in the roadstead July 5,
and is waiting to complete dis
charging freight; an army tanker,
and an army barge. The Kotzebue
is reported back of Sledge Island
awaiting favorable weather.
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Legal Blanks at The Nugget office
[A STRANGE TONGUE
IS THE ENGLISH
MIAMI, Fla. (>P)—The Engl i
language, which comes so easy to
most Americans, is something el e
again to Rafael, author of this 1’ -
ter printed by the Miami Herald:
“I am a Cuban trying to lea n
the English, and wish someo ;
would straighten your langue j;
out. I learned that rough was pr -
nounced ruff. So, too, were tou »
and enough. But then cough is n' t
cuff, it is kawf. And dough is rot
duff, it is doe. And bough is t u
buff or bawf or boe. It is bow, li e
a gentleman does to a lady!
“I am attending the Engli *)
school, and the teacher writes the
word bead on the blackboard. I
remember that I have learn • i
about head and bread and der \
so I say it is bed. She says no, ;t
is beed. I say why, and she says it
is the way the English is. So I
say what a strange tongue is the
English.”
MRS. TOWNER VISITING
PARENTS IN COUNCIL
Mrs. Earl Towner and two ch
dren, Earl and Ruth, flew to Coun
; cil Sunday where they will vis t
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Ost, for two weeks. Mr. Towner
was a round trip passenger.
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TIRED OF TRYING
MENLO PARK, Calif. UP)—Ad
vertisement by a motor sales com
pany:
“Murdercycle, 1944 two-cylin
i der. Please come and buy this b -
: fore we get killed trying to ride
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