Escape Artist Caught In Busy Times Square
Albert Joseph Kostal the Colorado jail escapee awaiting murder trial was captured by FBI agents near Times Square after pulling a gun on agent Frank H. Gerrity and wounding him in the leg. Kostal had escaped Jefferson County Jail on November 21 with Arthur Watson and fled in a stolen car before separating. Watson surrendered.
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Times Square
New York
Albert Joseph Kostal
Colorado
FBI
Kostal
Frank H. Gerrity
Gerrity
Jefferson County
Golden
Colo
Denver
Arthur Watson
Watson
C. P. Reed
Reed
Dancer Recalls Fatal Shooting In Taxicab Case
A 19 year old dancer testified that Leroy Keith 42 formerly convicted of Ohio murder fired three times at cab driver David Sure and killed him after Sure ignored a wrong turn request in a Bronx street. Two women testified they were forced to accompany Keith on a planned robbery. Keith faces first degree murder charges.
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New York
Leroy Keith
Ohio
Betty Jean Ward
Keith
David Sure
Sure
Dorothy Chaney
Sura
Miss Chaney
Miss Ward
Bronx
James Morris
Florida
Akron
Jersey City
N. J
Biggest Mayor Leonard Bean Dies at 63 in Berea
Leonard Bean often called the biggest mayor of Strongsville Ohio died Saturday at Berea Community Hospital at age 63. He served as Strongsville mayor from 1929 to 1941 and later supervised radio operations for the Ohio Turnpike Commission, on leave due to illness six weeks earlier. Bean weighed about 300 pounds and Strongsville stretched 25 square miles.
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Cleveland
Leonard
Bean
Ohio
Strongsville
Berea
Commission
Ohio Turnpike
Desert Fox bandit Dadshah slain after desert gun battle
Tehran police announce the longtime bandit leader Dadshah was killed in a fierce desert gun fight near Haft Kuh, southeastern Iran, ending a manhunt urged by the Shah. His younger brother also died. four others were wounded or captured. The ambush killed three Americans, including Kevin Carroll and Brewster Wilson, and abducted Carroll’s wife.
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Tehran
Iran
Desert Wilds
Aligholi Golpira
Dadshah
Haft Kuh
Golpira
Kevin M. Carrroll
Issaquah, Wash
Anita
Land Brewster A. Wilson
Portland
Ore
Near East Foundation
International Co-operation Administration
Carroll
Wilson
Future Science Clubs Proposed to Boost Youth Interest
Rep Wright proposes the Future Science Clubs for America to form high school groups akin to FFA. He introduces a bill for 75 million dollars annually, matched by states, to accelerate secondary science education nationwide.
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Washington
Wright
D-Tex
America
Future Scientists of America
Future Fund Farmers of America
FFA
Cincinnati Musician To Be 100 On Monday
Philip Bernhardt, longtime Cincinnati musician who led his orchestra in German dance halls, will celebrate his 100th birthday Monday. He has lived in Cincinnati all his life and says he helped in building the first Baldwin piano.
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Cincinnati
Philip Bernhardt
Baldwin Piano Co
Officer Stops Firing Of Gun Just In Time
Cincinnati detectives stopped a gun with a quick thumb action during an arrest of two men tied to an Indianapolis loan store holdup. Thom as Brade and Charles Oakes Jr. were taken into custody after admitting the robbery. $400 was reported by police though Indianapolis listed $1,000.
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Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Thomas Brade
Charles Oakes Jr
Crab Orchard
Kelly Angus
Thompson Buchanan
Associates Loan Co
Angus
Give Up Big Trinidad Naval Base U S To Battle West Indies Claim
Two U S admirals and a civil engineer prepare to negotiate a two to three month commission on the future of the Chaguaramas base in Trinidad. Local leaders seek the site as a ready made capital for the West Indies federation, while the U S weighs a compromise involving Whitall Field as a possible capital.
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Trinidad
U.S
West Indies
Port OF Spain
Federation of the West Indies
British Caribbean Islands
U.S. Naval
Chaguaramas
Spain
U. S
Joseph H. Wellings
Navy
Martin W. Kehart
Atlantic
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Ellwyn Seelye
New York
Gineer
United States
Britain
Cape Canaveral
Fila
Whaller Field
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