Police Nab Chicago Cop Killer After 23 Hour Hunt
In Chicago, fugitive ex-convict Carpenter hid in a third floor Powell flat with tear gas filling the air. He fought off officers before being dragged out by Detectives Zuley and Kennedy and other squads. The capture ends a 23 hour manhunt that drew nearly 500 officers and followed a shootout at the Biltmore Theater where Officer Kerr was wounded. Powell aided by his family sheltered Carpenter before police were alerted and captured him.
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Edgood Zuley
Carpenter
Zuley
John Kennedy
Kennedy
Worth Ave
Biltmore Theater
Kerr
Murphy
Potomac Ave
Leonard Powell
Powell
Stella
Robert
Diane
Vilrnger
Taeir
Dillinger
Capehart urges annual world trips for Congress
Senator Capehart proposes that travel broadens members for global duties and local outreach. He argues official trips should be government funded and plans to sail from New York to attend a World Bank IMF gathering in Istanbul.
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Washington
Sen
Capehart
R-Ind
House
Senate
Congress
United States
New York
World Bank and International Monetary Fund
Istanbul
Turkey
Train Wreck Just North of Riverside Five Die
A train wreck near Riverside left five dead and nineteen injured as a Lake Shore Limited passenger train from New York to Boston derailed after a washout in rain. A baggage car plunged into the Westfield River while diesel units tumbled toward the water. Authorities blamed the high-speed travel of 48 mph for preventing a larger disaster and said most passengers were initially hospitalized but expected to be released.
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Cage
Boston
New York Central
Lake Shore
Westfield River
Medford
Lowell
AFL CIO merger celebrated by I State AFL leaders
The I State AFL praised the AFL CIO merger at the Sardah-Inval convention in San Diego, urging state level steps to comply. Delegates rejected a declaration on school funding strikes but reaffirmed support for school board elections and union involvement.
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San Diego Pi
California
Resolutions Committee
AFL
CIO
New York
Federation
22 Dead as Floods Rip Into 9 States
A vast flood disaster stretches across nine states with at least 22 dead. Deluges swamped towns from New York to Massachusetts, flooding rivers including the Delaware and Schuylkill, isolating communities, washing out roads and bridges, triggering evacuations, and prompting state emergencies and military airlifts. Towns like Tamaqua and Port Jervis faced peak crest levels, while rescue efforts extended to helicopters and Coast Guard amphibious craft assisting campers and residents stranded by rising waters.
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Hazleton
Weather Bureau
Delaware
New York
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Tamaqua
Port Jervis
N. Y
Easton
Vfrains
Fort Jervis
Poconos
James E. Cole
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Boston
Russell
Otis
Farmington River
Berkshires
Armed Services
Coast Guard
Schuylkill
Ramapo
Delaware and Neversink
Potomac
Virginia
District of Columbia
Maryland
Westfield
Mad
Lackawanna
Coast Guards
Eddy Farm
Sparrowbush
Hunt Ex-GI 'Female' for Bad Checks
Los Angeles police seek Mrs. Tarsara Adele Rees Courtland former Army paratrooper on suspicion of passing bad checks. A bulletin described the ex-GI as male or female and noted more than 20 checks linked to markets and hotels. The suspect, 30 white American, reportedly photographed in papers after a sex-change operation. Also mentions Denver fair poultry favored winner Enge II.
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Los Angeles
El—Ponics Today
Tarsara
Adele Rees Courtland
Police
All-Points
Courtland
Hollywood
Gerald FE. Wright
San Francisco
B. Courtland
Sacramento
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Richard Carpenter
Riverside
Dr. Stone
Tulupnikov
Coats
A. G. Boyce
Dean Knowles
Ryerson
College of Agriculture
University of California At Berkeley
Vladimir V. Matskevich
Mission Inn
Matskevich
E. V. Dales
Chamber
Ben Lewis
Us.s. 3
Kern County
Corona
Visers
Petr N Svechnikov
People’s World
Taliman
Svechnikov
People's
Boris P. Sokolov
Bulganin
Dales
Chamber O
Lewis
Strohm
State Department
Dean Ryerson
Boris VV
Saveslev
Tip
Homer Varner
India
Maitskevich
Mosnour
U. S
Ective Farm
Mikhail Lopoukhin
Tass
I State
Products Co
Navy
U. S. Maritime Commission
Far West Coast
Secretary of Commerce
U. S. Maritime Administra- Hotel Statler
Maritime Reserve
Pervisor
Roger Jessup
Urday
Canada
Riverside County
Valley
Worcester
Poptand
Scranton
Pottstown Fallon
Reading
Bethleerm
Phillipsburg
Torrington
Conn
Abraham Ribicoff
National Guard
Connecticut River
Montague City
Delaware River
Hunt
Denver
W.kI—uia Enge II
Djenge
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