Fifty years on the safe deposit box mystery revived
The U S Comptroller of the Currency plans to publish a list of about 23 000 owners tied to unclaimed items from failed banks. Stored jewels silverware stock certificates and odd keepsakes were sent to the Treasury during the 1930s banking crisis and only now eligible claimants can recover them. A seaman s chest false teeth antique firearms and family papers are among the items.
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Cox News Service
Washington
Treasury Department
Doug Barnard
D-Ga
House Banking Committee
J.P. Jones
Dean DeBuck
Comptroller’s Office
Mother shoots robber in motel gun fight
In Lavonia Georgia a mother fired nine rounds from a .45 caliber pistol at two robbers who broke into her motel room after a prior family robbery at an Interstate 85 motel. One robber was critically wounded and the other escaped as James Howard Patterson suffered a fractured skull. Briana Patterson slept through the incident. The family was en route to Washington when the attack occurred and valuables were left in a briefcase.
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Lavonia
Franklin County
Joe Foster
Carol Patterson
Enterprise
Ala
James Howard Patterson
Foster
Pattersons
Patterson
Athens General Hospital
Birmingham News
Washington
Banks County
FBI closes most mail order diploma mills after three year probe
FBI in Charlotte reports a three year Dipscam probe led to the shutdown of most of 38 phony mail order colleges. Dozens remain active as investigators pursue indictments for mail and wire fraud. One man, Larry Weinberg, has been convicted. Authorities say transcripts were faked and most schools had PO boxes, no classrooms.
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Charlotte
N.C
FBI
Robert L. Pence
North Carolina
Pence
Dipscam
Canada
Zurich
Switzerland
NFL
Washington
Larry Weinberg
New York
Weinberg
Johann Keppler
Bulletproof criminals face longer sentences
A New York bill to add one to four years to prison terms for those committing violent crimes while wearing bulletproof vests passed the Assembly 135 to 1 and won Senate approval earlier. Wearing such clothing would be a felony, with the measure awaiting Gov. Mario Cuomo’s signature.
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New York Times Service
New York
Albany
Assembly
Senate
John C. Dearie
Bronx
Mario M. Cuomo
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