Ransom Plot Ties Chowchilla Kidnapping to Cash Extortion
Investigators link the Chowchilla school bus kidnapping to a $5 million ransom plan. Documents found at Fred Newhall Woods estate include a ransom draft and a victim list. Suspects James and Richard Schoenfeld, held on $1 million bail, face multiple charges as justice and police pursue further ties.
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San Francisco
UPI
Chowchilla
Calif
Fred Newhall Woods
San Mateo
Woods Estate
Sacramento County
Alameda County
James Schoenfeld
Richard
James
Menlo Park
Woods
Kidnap Suspect Jailed In Utah After Van Chase
California prison escapee Paul Howard Anderson, 35, was moved from Tremonton hospital to Box Elder County Jail in lieu of 200000 bond after he rammed a stolen van into a police car. He faces two counts of kidnapping for abducting Susan K. Melton and her five month old son Scott from Barstow, California. The suspect was arraigned in hospital and later transferred as authorities pursued the case across Utah and Nevada.
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Brigham City
Utah
UPI
California
Box Elder
Paul Howard Anderson
Tremonton
U.S
Daniel Alsup
Anderson
Susan K. Melton
Scott
Barstow
Calif
Alsup
Art Redding
Renoire Convicted Of Murder In Washoe District Court
Gerald M. Curtis found guilty of first degree murder in the beating death of two year old Kenneth Todd Butler. Jurors deliberated 11 hours before verdict at 2:30 a.m. Judge John Barrett set sentencing for Aug. 31. Public Defender Bill Puzey plans a new trial motion before then. Curtis, 32, lived with Maria Butler and claimed he slapped the boys after they tipped an ironing board.
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Curtis
Washoe Medical Center
Butler
Cal Dunlap
Yerington Boy Dies In Wreck In Truckee River
A car with three Nevada youths ran off a curve near Eric Peterson 18 Reno and Clint Stanley 18 Yerington died in the Truckee River. Eric Peduci 19 Sparks was treated and Eric Peterson released from Tahoe Forest Hospital Truckee and Washoe Medical Center Reno sent for tests.
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Truckee
Calif
UPI
Nevada
Clint Stanley
Yerington
Nev
California Highway Patrol
Highway Patrol
Eric Peterson
Reno
Tahoe Forest Hospital
Eric Peduci
Sparks
Washoe Medical Center
Nagasaki bombing reportedly killed about 50 Allied POWs
Tokyo based former Japanese army cook Jidayu Tajima says roughly fifty Allied prisoners died in Nagasaki on August 8 1945 most were Dutch and British captured in Southeast Asia. He cites a camp near Saiwaimichi district and a shipyard refuge three miles from ground zero.
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Tokyo
API
Nagasaki
Jidayu Tajima
Indonesia
Southeast Asia
Tajima
Saiwaimichi
Princeton University
Hiroshima
Pentagon
Titanic Baby finally writes down fabled survival tale
Norfolk case notes Frank Philip Aks, known as the Titanic baby, finally gives his eyewitness account of the 1912 disaster. Aks, 65, recalls being 10 months old aboard the Titanic with his mother Leah Aks, who died in the 1960s, and a man snatching him from her arms and tossing him overboard before being saved.
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Norfolk
UPI
Frank Philip Aks
North Atlantic
Aks
N Ledger-Star
Leah Aks
Quake Death Toll Rumored At Hundreds Of Thousands
Reports from Asahi and Chinese agencies describe Tangshan and nearby areas suffering massive damage after a strong quake near Peking. Officials cite grave disaster with tens to hundreds of thousands dead and millions homeless, while relief efforts and self reliance shape the response.
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Charles R. Smith
UPI
Hong Kong
Peking
Hiroshima
Japan
Asahi
Tangshan
Tientsin
New China News Agency
Peking Radio
Communist Party
Central Committee
NCNA
China
United States
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Les Dieckman
Dieckman
Schoenfeld
Renoire
Upifote
Tom Santoro
California Institute of Technology
Las Vegas
Las Vegas Sun
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