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...startling was a recent radio capture. Four desperadoes in jail in Omaha slugged their guards and got away. Soon law & order and law's new kibitzer, radio, were hot in pursuit. First word of the escaped convicts came by telephone to radio station WOW, reporting them heading toward Gretna, 23 miles southwest of Omaha. Soon police, newsmen and radio newscasters with mobile transmitters were on the trail, among them WOW's dapper News Editor Foster...
...place selected for Pennsylvania's new penitentiary for "hardened criminals," is a 3,000-acre-military reservation near Harrisburg which was abandoned last year by the National Guard. Its site is Mt. Gretna, a rocky knoll in a remote corner of the reservation which authorities plan to make into a desert without a bush or tree to hide escaping inmates. Most spectacular feature of the prison will be circular walls which will make it look like a fortress, be cheaper to build, more efficient and stronger than straight walls...
...Gretna will rise three round units connected by an underground passage, each bounded by a 33 to 39 ft. reinforced concrete wall. One will house prison work shops, and probably a factory where inmates will make soap for 54 other State institutions. Another will contain recreation facilities and latrines. Centre circle-672 ft. across-will contain a hospital, an auditorium and six separate cell blocks, with accommodations for 592 prisoners, each in a private cell. The cells will be so arranged that any inmate who chisels his way out will find himself in either the next cell or a corridor...
Marriage Revealed. David Jerome Hopkins, 22, son of Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins; to Cherry Blossom Preisser, of the dancing Preisser sisters; in Gretna, Miss., across the river from New Orleans; on June...
...mangled bodies from the wreckage. The government railway earlier gave out that 80 had been killed, 65 injured. The Exchange Telegraph (British) news-agency's figures were 300 killed, 250 injured. If those last were accurate, the disaster was the worst in official railroad history, topping the Gretna Green, Scotland wreck of 1915 in which 247 were killed. 246 injured...