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Escape Try f
Ends in Deaths
Convicts
mubtooMERY, Ala., WV—Kil
by Prison officials yesterday con
sidered filing manslaughter
charges against two convicts who
escaped Wednesday in a dump
truck carrying 28 other prisoners.
After a wild chase with a
guard shooting at the tires from
a pursuing truck, the truckload
of “maximum security” convicts
overturned. Two of the passen
gers were killed and 13 injured,
one seriously.
Guards rounded up the group
without trouble and returned
•them to the state prison just out
side Montgomery.
Deputy Prison Director Frank
Lee said questioning of the 30
would continue but officials be
lieved only two convicts were re
sponsible for the bold bid for
freedom. They held the trusty
truck driver at knife point in the
brief dash.
"We don’t feel like this was a
concentrated move to make a
break,” Lee said. “The rest of the
men on the truck were sort of
victims of circumstances.”
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U.S. MiKlary Asks
Philippines for
Sites for Radar
MANIA, Uh—American military
negotiators have asked the Phil
ippines for land to establish an
early warning radar network
against air attack and to con
struct strategic dispersal airstrips.
The U.S. team said it was pre
pared to turn back to the Philip
pines “considerably more acreage
than we will need to complete the
modernization of the base com
plex in the Philippines.”
The American proposals were
made Wednesday during a meet
ing of the US.-Philippine panels,
discussing the modernization of
American bases here under the
terms of the military bases agree
ment between the two nations.
The talks have been going on for
two weeks.
The proposed locations of the
radar stations were not disclosed,
but it was understood they would
extend from the sparsely populat
ed Batanes Islands off northern
Luzon to Mindanao Island in the
south.
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Business Booming,
Owners Claim
KANSAS CITY, (JV-Dog own
ers by the' hundreds are enrolling
their pooches in “Canine Shield,”
a hot new item in the insurance
business and the first medical
care plan on a national scope de
voted exclusively to non-humans.
The project was launched only
five months ago by two veteran
Kansas City insurance men, Rich
ard R. Nelson and Gordon R.
Reabe.
Today, the founding fathers re
ported, “Canine Shield” boasts
some 3,000 agents and “several
hundred active policies.” In
Reabe’s words, "the influx is just
beginning. The response has been
fantastic, and not only in this
country. We’ve had inquiries from
as far away as New Zealand.”
There being no acturial tables
on pooches, Rebe and Nelson—
who own a boxer and a poodle—
had to start somewhat in the dark.
But the policies as originally for
mulated are working well, they
said.
These provide medical care and
hospital insurance for dogs be
tween six months and 10 years of
age, providing payments of up to
$75 per hospitalization for an an
nual premium of about $15.
WEATHER FORECAST
Mostly cloudy tonight and Sat
urday with some fog and drizzle
likely tonight. Little change in
temperature.
Nome data in last 24 hours as
of 7 a.m., today: highest tempera
ture 54, lowest 46. Max. wind 9
mph from the W.S.W. Sunrise at
4:40 a.m., sunset at 7:22 p.m.
A year ago today: high tem
perature 52, low 36. Extremes
this date since 1907: highest 65 in
1923, lowest 26 in 1919.
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