Sprenz Wins Auto Chase
A Mahoningtown Pennsylvania constable pursued a man resembling FBI fugitive Frank L Sprenz in a 1959 Olds on Western Reserve Road ten miles south of Youngstown Ohio. Sprenz, 29, is charged with a $25 955 bank holdup on March 2 in Hamilton Ohio using a stolen plane. A related trail shows a stolen Oldsmobile found in Covington Virginia and a similar auto bought near White Sulphur Springs West Virginia on March 5.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Frank L. Sprenz
Lawrence Rich
Mahoningtown Pa
Western Reserve Road
Here
Rich
Sprenz
FBI
Hamilton
Ashtabula
Covington
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Man Caught With Loan From Bank at Krum Texas
Charles Roy McCrory 19 robbed the Farmers and Merchants State Bank in Krum Texas after his tractor was repossessed. An hour later highway patrolman Claud Hogue arrested him as he tried to stash cash in a pickup's gas tank. $1,865 was recovered from the glove compartment. McCrory claimed he needed $2,000 for two years using a note as security. Dist Atty. Robert Caldwell Jr. said charges may be revised since no gun was involved.
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Krum
Tex
Charles Roy McCrory
Farmers & Merchants State Bank
Texas
McCrory
Claud Hogue
Dallas
Dist
Robert Caldwell Jr
Cobery
Vicory
McCrory Aims to Reclaim Repossessed Tractor Near Krum
McCrory stayed up late Wednesday seeking funds to recover a tractor repossessed near Boyd in Wise County, with his parents, Mr and Mrs R B McCrory. He decided then to cob the Krum bank.
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McCrory
Boyd
Wise County
R. B. McCrory
Krum Bank
Ministers clash over faith as they disagree
Two ministers argued heatedly about their respective faiths. One soothed the dispute by saying they would agree to disagree. Both claimed they were doing the Lord's work in their own way.
Wet spring forecast for Miami Valley with showers
A low pressure system moving toward the Miami Valley from the southwest is expected to bring showers and thunder storms through Saturday. The forecast calls for showers today and tonight with a high of 65 and a low of 45. Saturday will be cloudy and mild with more showers and cooler by afternoon, then cool Sunday. Miami Valley records show a Thursday high of 66 at 5 p.m. and a low of 31 at 3 a.m.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Ius
Seven Victims Buried After Ohio Auto Train Crash
Funeral services set for seven victims of Ohio's deadliest auto train crash near Xenia. Eight Girl Scouts and two mothers died when a PA Railroad freight train rammed their station wagon at an unprotected crossing. Driver Lucille White 44 at fault per patrol. Services scheduled for White and daughter Sharon 12. others include Randall 39 and Paulinetta 12, Lapinski 12 and Connie 11, Wilvert 11 and Winda Ward 12, Moorman 11, and Anne North. Victims all from Beavercreek Township. crash speed 5 mph per engineer, with 50 mph legal limit cited by railroad. Highest auto-train death toll in state history, surpassing 1999 Belle vue and 1918 Archbold incidents.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Here
Ohio Highway Patrol
Lucille White
White
Sharon
Jeannette Randall
Paulinetta
Fatricia Lapinski
Connie Laprise
Anna Wilvert
Winda Ward
Cindy Moorman
P'Er
Anne North
Beaver
Creek
Dayton
Ohio Department of Highway Safety
Bellevue
Archbold
Legislature Aroused By LO Deaths
In Columbus Ohio Rep Richard B Metcalf charged Democratic administration with delaying a bill to fund grade crossing protection after a Greene County car train crash killed ten people including eight Girl Scouts and two mothers near Xenia While Rep R Martin Galvin accused Metcalf of politicizing the tragedy The governor's highway safety director Grant Keys reported the crossing lay outside state authority and that state surveys show most fatalities occur at protected crossings The incident was filmed by the Highway Safety Department as a typical hazard for television
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Ohio
Greene County
Richard B Metcalf
R. Franklin
Xenia
Metcalf
R. Martin Galvin
D-Lucas
Galvin
House
Franklin County
Metcalls
Bill Still
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Grant Keys
Highway Department
Keys
Kidnapper recaptured after brief prison release in West Virginia
Mrs Elma Baldwin and her three children were unharmed but exhausted after a kidnapping ordeal. The suspect A J Payse, 23, was recaptured eight days after escaping from prison, at a police roadblock in Logan West Virginia, about 70 miles from their home.
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Charleston
W. Va
Elma Baldwin
A.j.a Payse
Corty
Parma
Wis
Logan
Acre
Tagae
E. Ser. Toring
Kidnap Suspect Payne Gives Double Story on Weeknight Crime
Payne rammed his account of abducting a 20 year old from their home in the southeast suburb on Wednesday night. He claims he intended to use them as leverage to secure the release of Turton Junior Post from a mental facility so he could kill Post, saying the plan spanned about two weeks before he acted. He says he approached the victims under a pretext of needing help to use a telephone three doors from his home.
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Payne
Turton
Post
Baldwins
Baldwin family car halted by state troopers on WV 10
State troopers J E Asbury and R C Stove spotted the Baldwin family vehicle on West Virginia 10 Thursday afternoon and radioed for help. Corp M S Hofstetter and officers intercepted Payne at a city ledge, who fired twice at the pursuing cruiser. One shot shattered its windshield but no officers were hit. Payne surrendered about six guards from headquarters. Mrs Baldwin said the family were in the car most of the time and the children viewed the ordeal as a trip and a big adventure.
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Baldwin
West Virginia
J. E. Asbury
R. C. Stove
M. S. Hofstetter
Logen
Payne
Hofstelter
Payne plans to free Baytwins and seek another stage
Payne told newsmen he planned to free the Baytwins Thursday night and hole up somewhere until he could get to Post. He regretted being caught before he could get Pos, saying he would have “laid his head” to avenge a foe described as hatred at first.
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Payne
Baytwins
Post
Fragmentary note hints at motion against will holding
Fragmentary OCR text references motive for holding against will and alleged mistreatment. Mentions names like Baldwin and Post, and a car journey. Details are garbled with partial phrases and unclear actions, no clear events or dates can be confirmed.
Ike and Macmillan Confer on Future of Germany
President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew to Camp David after meeting at Walter Reed to discuss allied unity for negotiations with the USSR over Germany. They will hammer out positions with Aide Herter and Lloyd, weighing reunification, Western forces in Berlin, and possible summit plans with Khrushchev.
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Macmillan
Germany
John M. Hightower
Washington
Eisenhower
Harold Macmillan
Soviet Union
Camp David
John Foster Dulles
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Catoctin Mountains
White House
Christian Herter
Foreig
Selwyn Lloyd
Konrad Adenauer
Charles de Gaulle
Berlin
Wes
Nikita Khrushchev
de Gaulle
United States
West Germany
East Germany
West Berlin
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Paris Left Bank to Welcome 52-Story European Skyscraper
Paris plans a 52 story ultramodern centerpiece to reshape the Left Bank studio district. In Washington an airman killed himself using a high altitude test chamber as a weapon at Davis Monthan AFB on March 8. Eisenhower and Macmillan begin discussions on Berlin with Dulles at Walter Reed amid other war news. Bill Mullen, 34, reports a promising North Atlantic test flight as a backer hails the effort.
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Europe
Washington
Air Force
Pentagon
Walter Moore
Anniston
Ala
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
Ariz
Washington Attorney Fined for Unregistered Work Abroad
John Joseph Frank, a Washington attorney and former FBI agent, was fined $500 for acting as an agent for Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo and the Dominican Republic without proper registration with the Justice Department.
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Washington (Ap
John Joseph Frank
Washington
FBI
Generalissimo
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Justice Department
Obscenity debate at Cincinnati cites Annie strip as harmless
University of Cincinnati psychiatrist Dr James L Titchener argues obscene literature does not create sex offenders. He says Little Orphan Annie may pose similar social threat as smut but reflects long term relationship issues, not mere reading. He urges focus on helping youths develop healthy attitudes toward sexuality.
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Titchener
Advocate Warns of Harmful Impulses in Comics
A speaker cites “extreme feelings of aggression and violence” in the Little Orphan Annie comic strip and notes a recent strip urging people to avoid paying income taxes. He says such content scares him and could incite improper behavior.
Psychiatrists and lawyers debate obscenity and censorship
Dr Richard M Emerson UC sociologist and Atty John A Lloyd Jr back the psychiatrist view arguing obscenity lives in evaluative codes not printed pages. Lloyd warns censorship hampers imagination urging acceptance of both good and bad in expression.
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Richard M. Emerson
John A. Lloyd Jr
Emerson
Rich Delinquents Flood London Subway For Wild Brawl
Nearly 200 young socialites including debutantes models Guards officers and undergraduates caused a drunken brawl on a London subway car in Chelsea. The party spilled across stations with bottles and broken glass as police chased revelers and the crowd dispersed to apartments. One organizer Maureen Purdy described the chaotic scene.
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Raymond Palmer
London
Chelsea
Boy Dies as Mushrooms Suspected in Dormitory Death
Redlands Cal AP reports toxicologist's findings may confirm death of Michael Hawks 18 from a hypnotic drug after he was found unconscious among test tubes. Chemicals in room tentatively include mushroom crystals mescaline and lysergic acid. Hawks, a University of Redlands freshman, had interest in mushrooms and color dreams. Deputy Coroner confiscated Hawks dream tape. police say he conducted experiments with drugs on five students at the university.
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Redlands
Calif
University of Redlands
Michael Hawks
Hawks
Edward Doyle
Stanley Aowen
Hawks Notebook Ties to Six Hour Hallucination Claim
Investigators found entries by Hawks in a notebook and tape conversations suggesting a subject endured hallucinations for over six hours. A tape also contains a philosophical discourse on colors and reactions to hypnotic mushroom potions. A university spokesman said Hawks was warned in January to discontinue experiments.
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Bowen
Hawks
Bill Passer Seized by Cleveland Agents
Service agents from the Cleveland district office arrested a man Thursday for passing counterfeit $100 bills. He was identified as 39 year old Flo rea, who testified during questioning. He will be brought to Cleveland for a hearing.
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Cleveland
Florea
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