Death Row Chessman Faces July Dates and Appeal
In a San Quentin profile, renowned sex offender and author known as the Red Light Bandit faces two major dates. July 15 marks his scheduled execution in the gas chamber, while July 1 brings the release of his second book. Chessman, a 34 year old inmate in Cell 2455, has lived on death row since age 27 and plots potential appeals via writs of review.
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San Quentin
Calif
Cary
Chessman
Los Angeles
Condemned Row
Greece Targeted by Moscow With Greek Soviet Ties Thaw
Athens says Greece is Moscow’s latest target in a new friendship push. Foreign Minister Stephanos Stephanopoulos spoke after a dinner at the Soviet embassy where he met Ambassador Sergeev and other envoys to discuss improving Greek Soviet ties and broader normalization with satellite states.
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Moscow
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Stephanopoulos
Mikhail G. Sergeev
Athenstas
Athens Academy
Russia
Chessman Case and Mental Health Defense Examined
Defense insists Charles Chessman was not responsible for the crime, noting the young woman committed to a mental institution years after the Lovers Lane incident amid long legal battles. The trial transcript, recorded by an aging shorthand reporter who died before finishing, has fueled appeals and six stays of execution as courts weighed its accuracy and impact.
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Chessman
Lovers Lane
Weather Crew On Mount Washington Reports Mile-Per-Hour Gust
National Geographic notes a year round team of weather men stationed atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire. They recorded the strongest wind gust on earth at 231 miles per hour in April 1934.
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United States
New Hampshire
Mount
Washington
National Geographic Society
Earth
Panama Miss Universe bid canceled over archbishop ban
Panama sponsors announced in newspapers that Panama’s planned Miss Universe entry was canceled after Roman Catholic Archbishop Francisco Beckman warned bathing beauty contestants commit a special sin. The archbishop’s cathedral sermon last Sunday stressed that wearing swimsuits at contests makes contestants unworthy of church sacraments.
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Panama
Francisco Beckman
Riots and Murder Shake Singapore Bus Strike Scene
Police probe fatal beating of Gene D. Symonds an American correspondent as Chinese truck driver Ong Ah Too is jailed on mob membership charges. Symonds native of Dayton Ohio was beaten to death May 42 during riots tied to a bus workers strike. The strike wave shows signs of waning with hundreds returning to work and others signaling intent to resume duties.
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Singapore
Gene D. Symonds
Ong Ah
Symonds
Dayton
Ohio
Replace Envoy From England
Singapore The British Embassy in Washington announces Sir Robert Scott will become commissioner general in Southeast Asia succeeding Malcolm MacDonald. Scott, 49, has served in Far East posts and will assume duties in late September. MacDonald, 54, son of Ramsay MacDonald, becomes British high commissioner in India and has been in Southeast Asia since 1946.
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Washington
Sir Robert Scott
Southeast Asia
Malcolm MacDonald
MacDonald
Scott
Far East
Britain
Ramsay MacDonald
India
He's Going Home A Different Way
Manuel Ramirez 28 lost his Chicago job and climbed into a sealed refrigerated boxcar hoping to reach Laredo Texas. Five days later he arrived in Philadelphia without food or water and remains in a hospital. An executive from an engineering firm offered to pay his fare, saying it would be nice to go home on a passenger train.
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Manuel Ramirez
Laredo
Tex
Ramirez
Chicago
Texas
Joseph T. Roddy
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