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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1958
Page
7
Berlin reports that over 800 East German police surrounded a Soviet Zone enclave in Steinstuecken and captured a man trying to flee to West Berlin. UPI says a high ranking officer may be the fugitive, while Maj. Gen. Barksdale Hamlett denounced the breach of American sector borders.
Mexico City's four day wildcat rail strike ended with apparent victory for rebellious union leaders. Troops withdrew from stations plants and trains as service slowly resumed on nationalized lines. About 100000 workers had walked out unauthorized paralyzing service. Sympathy strikes by telegraphers and teachers were called off and communications restored.
Karl Mende fled Germany after a 1933 street fight in Hamburg that he says involved a claim of murder. Reading a newspaper correction later, he believed he killed a Nazi stormtrooper and spent 25 years wandering globally from France to Peru and Brazil before returning home.
Gary Indiana Mayor George Chacharis offered to sell his 1956 black air conditioned Cadillac inherited from a prior administration. He does not drive and says the city needs a new garbage truck more than the mayor needs a car. Proceeds would help defray part of the $10,000 truck cost.
Wayne Davis, 93, convict in a Missouri state trooper kidnapping, lost his bid for a new trial. Davis, held at Alcatraz, sent a handwritten motion to U S District Judge Henry L Brooks in Louisville. Brooks had sentenced him and Carl Burton to life terms. Davis claimed insanity at the time.
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