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Daily News from New York, New York • 487

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3 DAILY- THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1956 7:) i Yr-V. ff" V'- a "to.lfc (Special to THE NEWSl Pueblo, Colo Feb. 22. A beautiful younj? mother, hostage of a desperate kidnaper who held a gun at her throat, escaped unharmed early today; during a fantastic fight in the glare of police searchlights on a lonely field 55 miles from here. The woman wealthy hus- Asso iated Press Wiretotos) Mrs.

Nancy Jackson seems dazed as she's taken away in car after rescue. Her kidnaper, Eugene Hurst is bound after being subdued. band took part in the rescue after the kidnaper eluded police by driving 90 miles an hour without headlights, then dragging his victim into a patch of sagebrush. Both the husband, Robert A. Jackson, 28, automobile dealer here, and the alleged abductor, Eugene C.

Hurst, 28, a high school classmate of Jackson, were slightly injured by the one bullet fired M.Mex.Vaif Not Damman Boy After All For several hours yesterday, authorities hoped that 3-year-old tephen Dunman, who was kidnaped last Oct. 31 in East Meadow, L. Call IPilgriEuiiageliii. Ala. ioycotft Montgomery, Feb.

22 (U.R). A Negro leader called tonight for a mas3 pilgrimage through the streets of Montgomery in protest against the arrest of scores of Negroes who led a boycott of segregat ed city buses. during the fray. Mother of Three The fight, in which Hurst was battered into semi-consciousness, Rev. R.

D. Abernathy, one of the leaders of the transit boycott who was himself arrested, charged that would soon be returned to his parents. But the prospect that a youngster found ended a frenzied, three-hour ordeal for Mrs. Nancy Jackson, 27, mother of three children and known as a beauty in the Pueblo country club set. abandoned near a Iew Mexico hamlet might be Stephen 46-Ton Tank Crushes Car, Kills Woman Covina, Calif Feb.

22 (U.R). A huge 46-ton California i 4.i It began, police said, when Mrs. Jackson entered her car in the was proved unfounded. Pueblo Junior College parking lot after attending, a lecture. Hurst.

The waif did not bear th birthmark of Stephen. And th abandoned child in a medical who had been parked next to her, got into the front seat, pointed a isijii p'-i gun at her and told her "to drive home. amok on a heavily traveled I'm sorrv to do this, but I have to see your husband," Mrs. thoroughfare today squashing one car and fatally Jackson quoted Hurst as saying. I need some money.

Crushing the woman driver. Car Not in Sight Thev drove nast the house four Fire and police rescue workers said they had to tear off the car's top "like a sardine can" to re- times in about two hours. Jack son's car was not sight, so they rnove the victim, Mrs. Jeanette B. Hendricks, 58, who was dead presumed he wasn't home.

Ac i.1 tually, he was home ana waning for his wile, tie haa loanea nis par in friend. Finally Mrs. Jackson receivea on arrival at Intercommunity Hospital. Flattened Station Wagon Th tank, which ran out of control and crossed the street's center line as the two vehicles ap permission to telephone the babysitter that she would be late. When her husband she proached from opposite directions.

handed the nhone to Hurst. flattened the 1955 model sjtation Hurst demanded money. jacK- son promised to get some from wagon to a neigm 01 auouc i wo and a half feet, police said. It his office. They agreed to meet Stephen Damman 1 Whtrtabouti it HI unknown dragged the car 30 feet, jumped a lAssuciated frets WirelotoJ Mrs.

Rosa Parks, whose refusal to more to back of bus touched off boycott last December, is fingerprinted after arrest yesterday. "in the mass arrests of 113 of our leading citizens a great injustice has been imposed on 50,000 Negroes. Because we are Negroes, we have been indicted." in a Pueblo park. Curb, ran through the front yard As Jackson and an assistant. rarity of one of his age had Tony Fortino.

were opening an of a residence, through a cement block wall and stopped as it en office safe, they received word only three teeth, wnue jsiepnen had a normal complement of 20. tered the yard of another that police tipped off by Jack Deputies rounded up 73 of the son were chasing Airs. Jackson the boycott began 11 weeks ago All Tips Fruitless Stephen, son of Air Force Sgt. car. would walk to the courthouse The tank's driver, Sgt.

Gordon Gray, 26, was quoted by police as saving the tank started to veer When Jackson and Fortino where the arraignments will take Jerry Damman, 26, and his wife. arrived at the scene, 55 miles nlace. Marilyn, 22, of 37 Mitchel to the right when the steering from JPueblo, searchlights were mechanism apparently locked. He The Negro minister also caiiea a mass meeting for tomorrow East Meadow, vanished while his mother was shopping in an East seeking out Hurst and his victim in the Bagebrush. Jackson spotted night at his Negro First Baptist was not held.

None Hurt in Tank them first, and he and fortino Meadow market. A two-day search of the area by hundreds Church "to Eing ana pray to 113 Negroes indicted on charges of leading the racial boycott. Of those arrested, 26 were identified as ministers a number of them women. AH were released on a standard $300 bond after being photographed and fingerprinted. Asks for Prayers Abernathy proclaimed Friday when those arrested are scheduled to be arraigned as "prayer pilgrimage day." He said that those Negroes who have gone to work in car pools or in cabs since advanced on Hurst.

Almiehtv God and get into the of volunteers proved fruitless. Four other guardsmen, all 17 "You said all you wanted was Since then, dozens of tips about hearts of Montgomery people so that justice may be done." money. Jackson called out. years old, were riding with Gray, No one in the tank was hurt. the youngster proved false.

have it with me." Proof that the New Mexican Abernathy said he expected 10.000 nersons to attend the Pounce on Kidnaper The tank was being returned to Its armory in Baldwin Park after being on display for recruiting foundling was not Stephen was established even as a Nassau "It's too late for that," Hurst meeting. Refuse to Ride Buses purposes. 6houted. "Don't come any closer, Thousands of Negroes have re I've got a gun against your wife's throat." County detective flew to Tucum-cari, N. for first-hand investigation.

Reds' Dread: fused to ride the buses since Dec, Meanwhile, Police Capt. Robert Mayber circled around Hurst. As Baniels Returns Today 5, when Mrs. Rosa Parks i fined $1 for refusing to move to the unarmed stepped nearer. Hurst pointed his pistol Black Yoice the Negro section of a bus.

City and state laws require segrega at him. Then Mayber, Jackson and Fortino jumped Hurst. The tion. Mrs. Parks was sentenced to kidnaper's pistol went off, the bullet grazing his own and Jack It was his hope, ha said, that matters would be straightened out promptly, so that, he could keep a night club engagement in Havana, March 16.

Daniels is accused in a five-count indictment of shooting 14 days in jail in lieu of the fine today after Circuit Judge Eu son's leg. Fortino pistol-whipped Hurst into submission. gene Carter, the jurist who or- dered the grand jury investiga Billy Daniels, the singer, in-' dieted last Thursday in the shooting of a fight trainer last Jan. 81 in a Harlem bottle club, was scheduled to arrive at International Airport at 7:15 A. M.

today from the West Coast. Daniels booked passage yesterday on a 9 P.M. flight from the West Coast. He told The News then that he would be at District Attorney's office at 10 A.M today, prepared for what might come. It's a dark day for Iron Curtain big shots when the Black Voice of Radio Free Europe puts the finger on their Red stool pigeons.

Phil Santora gives an on-the-spot report of this most effective cold war weapon on page 36. Hurst told police later that he had been out of a job for nearly two months. He left his wife and James R. Jackson, 33, of 430 W. 167th during a fight in the two children at his mother-in- law's home in Colorado Springs tion, turned down her appeal from the previous conviction in City Court.

She appealed Carter's decision to the State Supreme Court, and immediately afterward was arrested on a boycotting indictment. Seventy One-Ten Club, 102 W. and came to Pueblo to try to borrow money from old friends. 136th St. He was charged with assault and carrying concealed (Other picture on page 1) weapons..

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