Face Trial on Murder and Kidnap in Cotati Bank Robbery
Two women and an ex convict charged with second degree kidnapping and murder in the Cotati California bank robbery of 38913 dollars on New Year’s Eve. Donald Anderson 28 of Petaluma faces murder and kidnapping counts. Ann Anderson 28 and Shirley Maniscalco 32 charged with kidnapping. Preliminary hearing set January 21. FBI also accuses bank robbery. Bail set at 20000 for each woman. Anderson held without bail. Victims included motel owner’s wife and a motel guest. two suspects forced into a car during a snowstorm. one wounded man died from loss of blood after a gun misfire.
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Cotati
Calif
Donald Anderson
Pet
Shirley Maniscalco
San Francisco
Nevada
FBI
Anderson
Barker
Jack Sparkman
Sparkman
L. V. Nash
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Tips on straight thinking in Reader's Digest style
A concise note promoting logical thinking and scientific approach to problems. Highlights two sided questions and warns against black or white thinking. Mentions January Reader's Digest features Stuart Chase in condensed form with 40 articles from magazines and books.
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Stuart Chase
Actress Across 1 Challenge Word Puzzle
Actress Patricia with Gaelic clues and mineral rock terms across a word puzzle grid. Clues include Bail as water from about, Cravats, Gastropod mollusks, and other standard crossword prompts with various numbered entries and word lengths.
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Patricia
Inaugural Innovation Knight Powers Take Loyalty Oath
California Governor Goodwin Knight and Lt. Governor Harold Powers took their oaths in a regular inaugural ceremony. They swore they have not advocated overthrow by force and have not been members of subversive organizations in five years, as required by a 1952 state law.
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Sacramento
California
Goodwin J
Knight
Harold J. Powers
Phil S. Gibson
State Supreme Court
United States
Earl Warren
Trick Treat Murder Admitted by Sailor
EBENSBURG Pa UP I MA 38yearold unemployed sailor has pleaded guilty to a general charge of murder in the trick or treat pre Halloween slaying of six year old Karen Mauk. Judges Ivan J McKennicky and George Griffith Monday ordered Harry Gossard committed to Torrance State Hospital for
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Upima
Karen Mauk
Ivan J. McKennicky
George Griffith
Harry Gossard
Torrance State Hospital
Admirals Tour in Singapore Brief Courtesy Visit
Adm. Ray Spruance and Adm. Hugh Goodwin arrived in Singapore to participate in Halloween games after a U S Navy plane. A coroner said Karen was strangled and her body was found near her home not far from Johnstown.
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Singapore
Gossard
U. S
Jdor
Philippines
Karen
Hugh Goodwin
Gommarder
Johnstown
Manila
Ioroner
Knight and Legislature Open In Harmony Amid Some Disputes
Gov Knight and the new Legislature opened in harmony though traces of the Assembly speakership fight lingered. Lincolns Lincoln Abe, elected speaker, praised the governor’s address as a clear appraisal of state problems. Senate President pro tem Ward and Lt. Gov Powers echoed support, while Munell called the program progressive and Warrenesque.
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Knight
Assembly
Luther H. Abe Lincoln
Oakland
H. Allen Smith
Glendale
Clarence C. I Ward
Santa Barbara
Senate
Harold J. Powers
Lincoln
Smith
California
William A. Munnell
Montebello
Earl Warren
Suez Cleared of Wreckage Lets Ships Move Through
Port Said reports a damaged bridge wreckage cleared after a Greek tanker World Peace collision blocked the Suez Canal. A dense fog lifted and 69 ships moved southward while 34 waited north of the Bitter Lakes. The World Peace had been impaled on a swing bridge near the southern entrance.
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Port Said
Suez Canal
Bitter Lakes
World Peace
James Michener Divorce Suit Filed by Wife
Philadelphia report states author James A. Michener, Pulitzer winner for Tales of the South Pacific, is named in a divorce suit filed by his wife Mrs. Vanger Nord Michener. Attorney Edwin P. Rome filed the complaint on her behalf. no further details were provided. The couple married in New York in September 1948 after his first marriage ended in divorce. Michener resides near Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa.
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Philadelphia
James A. Michener
Edwin P. Rome
Vanger
Nord Michener
Rome
Michener
Doylestown
Bucks County
British Rail Strike Looms as Cabinet Considers Pay
Prime Minister Churchill presided over a meeting of ministers and alwaymen to discuss wage proposals and counter arguments from the National Union of Rail workers. A three-man inquiry may be heard with wage scales cited from 6 pounds 1 shilling 6 pence up to 8 pounds 12 shillings 6 pence, as Britain braces for possible paralysis of state lines this Sunday.
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London
20 Years Later Holdup Victim's Son Guilty of Murder
In New York a 19 year old, Joseph Ferrantelli, pleaded guilty to second degree murder for the 1953 holdup slaying of Arnold Fuchs a Brooklyn haberdashery owner. The judge set no term yet but a minimum of 20 years is possible. The defendant forgave no one as his mother Harriet and Fuchs' widow wept.
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New York
Joseph Ferrantelli
Brooklyn
Young Ferrantelli
Arnold Fuchs
Samuel S. Leibowitz
Joseph
Fuchs
Harriet
Western Auto to Buy Gamble-Skogmo Stores on West Coast
Western Auto Supply Co will acquire 140 Gamble-Skogmo retail stores on the West Coast. The sale, approved by both companies, becomes effective April 1 subject to Western Auto stockholder financing. The deal expands Western Auto from 280 to 420 stores nationwide, with an estimated price between five and ten million dollars.
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Gamble-Skogmo
Kansas
United States
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