Robbery Try Fails At Ontario Jockey Club Heist
A multi‑hour armored car robbery at the Ontario Jockey Club failed as cops closed in after bandits seized two cash boxes from a security turret. Guards were threatened. gunfire erupted, sending suspects fleeing. Witnesses and drivers, including Edward Craven and his wife Ruth, escaped unharmed as authorities pursued. The haul totaled between 250000 and 350000 dollars amid track cash handling and pari mutuel receipts. One earlier Brink’s robbery cited as record followed, with 1,219,000 dollars taken and no convictions.
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Clohessy
Thompson
Kemp
Klodzinski
Edward Craven
Ruth
Eileen
Pettinato
Angelo Alba
Efe
Tony
Mazela
Sheridan
Louise Sapienza
Hell
al Cab
Melvin Weinstein
Ontario Jockey Club
Boston
Woman Held as Embezzler After Flight
Marian M. Petty a 35 year old interior decorator is held on $5,000 bail after being arrested in San Diego for misappropriating $3,000 from her employer and fleeing to Mexico. She faces three counts of grand theft with an arraignment set for August 11.
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Pasadena
UPI
Mexico
Marian M. Petty
San Diego
Savant Finds City Council Poor Career
UCLA researcher Jennifer Ferguson reports that Los Angeles County city council roles are varied and time consuming with pay often meager. About 50 percent of a council member’s time goes to public functions. duties span legislator director of a corporation administrative board member and public relations rep. No written job description exists and new members need time to learn the job after election.
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Los Angeles
University of California At Los Angeles
Jenniellen Wesley Ferguson
Ucla Bureau of Governmental Research
Miss Ferguson
Los Angeles County
Glendale Man Drowns After Boat Capsizes at Utah Lake
A Glendale man, 40, drowned when a boat capsized on Navajo Lake Utah. Witnesses said the craft tipped over, ejecting him into the water as responders searched and combed the area. He was attempting to swim to safety but suffered a fatal outcome.
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Glendale
Utah Lake
Navajo Lake
Utah
Joe Johnson
Calit
Johnson
Sue-Shack
Stowaway to England Starts Back
Richard David Martin, 27, an American art student, began his voyage home after stowing away on the Queen Mary. He swam two miles to shore before docking, evaded immigration officers, and was later found sleeping on a bench by a Southampton policeman, wet and oily.
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Southampton
England
Richard David Martin
Martin
Rosenberg Defense Fund Told by Alman Treasurer
Mrs. Emily Alman of Englishtown Nat told House investigators she handled about 300000 as treasurer from May 1953 to March 1954 for the National Committee to Secure Justice in the Rosenberg case. She refused to name recipients and would not say if she is a Communist. Four individuals in photos were identified as visiting Gov Williams office on behalf of the Rosenbergs in January 1953. Eve Neidelman said she now works for the CIO United Auto Workers in Detroit.
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Sandwire
Michigan
G. Mennon Williams
Rosenbergs
Eve Neidelman
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
HOUSE
Allman
Julius
Ethel Rosenberg
Comhusband
Rus|Rosenberg
Ilan
New York
Sobell
Frank
Tavenner Jy. Juureu
Mac
Dougal St
Ohio University
Rosen
berg-Sobell
Ohio
Milton J. Sandwire
Depot
Cleveland
Troit
Communist Party
Suit Seeks $5 Million From MGM
Dana B. Costello sues MGM claiming the studio used much of her original play Sangreal including setting and characters in a film, alleging the movie replicates her work and damages her. She says the play was copyrighted in 1934 and she sent copies to MGM then and again in 1985. MGM officials had no comment.
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Washington
Dana B. Costello
Cere Mayer Studios
Neidelman
Knights of the Round Table
Miss Costello
Detroit
Aet
Sobell
MGM
Alpine guide Silvia Pedrotti dies in Italy at 48
Silvia Pedrotti, a renowned Alpine guide from Sonddrio, Italy, and member of the Italian rescue team seeking the Italia wreck, died Wednesday at age 48 during Arctic flight operations associated with the 1928 Nobile expedition.
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Sondrio
Italy
UFI
Silvia Pedrotti
Italia
Umberto ‘Nobile
Turnabout Witness Free on $3,000 Bail
Harvey Matusow once a Communist insider recanted part of his 1952 perjury testimony and was freed on 3000 dollars bail posted by his mother Sylvia Matusow of the Bronx. He remains jailed pending trial with no date set.
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WEY
Harvey Matusow
Matusow
Sylvia Matusow
Bronx
Off His Roller Heat Triggers Roller Incident
A steam roller operator in Wisconsin illogically hops off to lecture a motorist who crossed a freshly smoothed blacktop. The unattended machine rolled on, struck a curb near a drug store, and was halted before reaching the storefront. Morat warns against losing temper in heat.
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Edward J. Thompson
Whittier
Woodland
Calif
Gordon A. Solum
Maxine
Savant
Sparkelugs
Winchester
Poice
Britain
Howard’s
Anasher
Zenith
RCA
RCA de Ial
ENE
Atlantic
Aaron Schultz
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