Bad-Check Suspect Surrenders to FBI in Washington
The FBI pursues 23 year old Charles Kenneth Gatling once active in Los Angeles and California. He allegedly passed numerous bad checks while posing as a military officer, or Air Force lieutenant, and traveled across the east and west coasts. He surrendered after moving to Washington, D C, with checks tied to New England states and other locations.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Theos Angeles Fbli
Washington, D. C
FBI
Charles Kenneth Gatling
California
Air Force
New England
Mass Killer Starkweather Cuffs Photographer in Court
Charles Starkweather cuffed photographer Ray Carnay outside a Lincoln courtroom and later apologized. Bystanders heard him mutter threats as he admitted involvement in 11 killings. Carnay was unharmed when a swung arm knocked his camera into his forehead.
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Lincoln
Neb
Charles Starkweather
Starkweather
Ray Carnay
KIOA
Des Moines
Iowa
Carnay
Princess Astrid Visits St Olaf College Campus
Princess Astrid of Norway visits St Olaf College in Northfield Minnesota where students applaud her. College president Dr Clement Granskou is pictured with the royal guest in the campus scene. AP report.
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St. Olaf College
Northfield
Minn
Astrid of
Norway
Clement Granskou
Compton Market Holdup Steals Pants and $12000
Compton market manager William A. Founzen, 35, was accosted at dawn by two masked gunmen. One pistol whipped him to unlock a safe, then forced removal of his trousers and entry to a walk-in fridge. The bandits fled with the money as Founzen hid and alerted police.
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Compton
William A. Founzen
Town Park Shors
U .S. Atlantic Ave
Founzen
Tounzen
Tounten
King Mahendra gifts six month rhino to Communist China
Red Rhino King Mahendra presented Communist China with a six month old rhinoceros, a move reported by the Red China News Agency.
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King Mahendra
Communist
China
Red China News Agency
Long Beach Bounds Tighten Near East and South
A damage suit involving a cocktail waitress and a dead mouse has been settled out of court. Details appear on C-1 as part of a broader story about boundary concerns for Long Beach, seeking more elbow room along the east and south edges.
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Long Beach
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Upturn in Farm Employment and Retail Sales Reported
Washington reports upturns in farm employment and retail sales. Farm work rose to 7,368,000 in late April, within 1 percent of a year earlier, with a forecast bumper winter wheat crop and strong hay prospects. Housing activity rose by 33 percent from March with 95,000 units under construction nationally. Retail sales gained 2 percent in April, durable goods leading the advance. Unemployment insurance claims fell by 66,900 to 3,265,700. Forty-one states showed declines.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Veterans Administration
Labor Department
Commerce Department
Nixon praised for calm handling of Lima mob
President Eisenhower sent a personal message to Vice President Nixon praising his courage patience and calmness amid a Lima Peru protest. The State Department assured no intent to let Communist inspired incidents harm U S Peru relations after a Peruvian embassy note of regret.
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Washington
Hisenhower
Nixon
Lima
Peru
State Department
United States
Miguel Grau
Big Dam Proposed in Placer County Water Project
The Placer County Water Agency has authorized studying an 80 million dollar dam and power project on the middle fork of the seuienloat River. A weather note teases drizzle for the weekend and a pun about yolk and dogs.
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Auburn
Placer County
Mother turns off gas after explosion at home
Mrs Gwene Paul 118 W Coolidge St ran from her burning house after flames scorched her clothes and she shut off the gas at the meter to save the dwelling. Her children Shelley 14 Lennie 9 and Jeff 6 were at school. She was rushed to Sea side Hospital then Harbor General. She was in critical condition with burns. Police said a wall heater pilot light ignited a gas leak from an uncapped pipe. The Pauls had moved in the day before from 286 E Mountain View Ave.
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Gwene’ Paul
Coolidge St
Shelley
Lennie
Jeff
Seaside Hospital
Harbor General Hospital
David Paul
Pt.a
jJane Addams
Exceptional
Children's’ Foundation
Pauls
Mountain View Ave
Harry M. Hart
Paul
Aircraft labor talks stall in Southern California unions
Douglas Aircraft Co and junior negotiators reported little progress as bargaining sessions resume amid a strike threat in Southern California. Federal Mediator Harry Melcolm observed talks with UAW Local 148 in Los Angeles. A union spokesman said talks would extend past the 5 pm limit. Meanwhile, 16,000 Lockheed workers vote today on a contract including a 22 cent per hour raise over two years at Hollywood Legion Stadium.
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Douglas Aircraft Co
California
Harry Melcolm
Douglas
United Auto Workers Union Local 148
Los Angeles
Lockheed Aircraft
Hollywood Legion Stadium
Malcolm
Biltimore
UAW
Autonetics
Downey
Kalamazoo ballgame memory of a gal and a stray bum
A fragmented verse recalls meeting a girl in Kalamazoo and watching her play ball with flair. It references a stray bum and a misstep that would have kept him away, all delivered in a nostalgic, stray lyric tone.
L. B. Man Killed in Gardena Stadium Motorcycle Spill
Burt Raush of Long Beach, a top Southern California motorcycle racer, died after a spill at Gardena Stadium Friday night before 4,000 fans. He suffered a basal skull fracture, died an hour later at Broadway Hospital. Raush, 30, lived at 305 E. Fourth St and was survived by his mother.
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Burt Raush
Long Beach
Southland
Gardena Stadium
Raush
Assn
Broadway Hospital
Fourth St
California
Man’s alleged money demand sinks marriage in court
Martha Kayser Kayser Brown won an annulment in Long Beach Superior Court, testifying Kenneth Starr Brown, then 38, demanded $10,000 a year to stay married and sought a half-interest in her Villa Riviera estate. She said the 30 year age gap and alleged lack of consummation showed the union was unhappy. Brown, from near Twentynine Palms, did not attend.
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Kenneth Starr Brown
Martha Mitchell Kayser
Brown
Long Beach Superior Court
Joe Raycraft
Villa Riviera
Twentynine Palms
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