Brooklyn man charged after posing as sergeant to victims' kin
Police charged Francesco Flores, 24, with larceny and criminal impersonation for preying on families of Vietnam war dead. He allegedly used a sergeant's uniform to promise special caskets with a view window for a $100 fee, then checked lists in a Spanish language paper before visiting homes. He was arrested at his Brooklyn residence.
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Army of Marine Corps
Carrange
Francesco Flores
Reds Free 4 Yanks and 2 Yachts After Hong Kong Sail
Four Americans and nine others returned to Hong Kong aboard two yachts seized seven weeks earlier by China. One Swedish owned yacht and one British owned vessel were involved. Americans Simeon Baldwin and Hessie Hope Donald were among those detained for further investigation. Among those freed were Carol Zinley and Joan Hopkins von Sydow with her daughters Christine and Sarah.
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Peking
Simeon Baldwin
Los Angeles
Hessie Hope Donald
Bristol
Macao
China
Carol Zinley
William Roy Zinkey
Colorado Springs
Joan Hopkins von Sydow
Spokane
Christine
Sarah
Nab 14 Panthers Plot to Bomb Stores and Rail Line
New York police and federal prosecutors announced the indictment of 21 Black Panther members and associates in a conspiracy to bomb five Manhattan department stores Macy's Alexander's Bloomingdale's Korvette's and Abercrombie & Fitch the Penn Central railroad six Bronx tracks and two Bronx police stations. The plan aimed to injure or kill officers and divert law enforcement from the railroad attacks.
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Tion
Manhattan
New York
Black Panther Party
Atty
Frank S. Hogan
Macy’s
Alexander’s
Bloomingdale's
Korvette’s
Abercromie & Fitch
Penn Central Railroad
Bronx
Mysterious Ice Hummock Misleads Plane Wreck Search
In Hawthorne Nevada a strange ice mass near Boundary Peak misled searchers into thinking it hid the Gemblecs Special air liner missing since February. The DC-3 with 35 aboard vanished on a pre-dawn flight from Hawthorne to Barhant. No wreckage found. spring water created the ice feature.
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Hawthorne
Nev
UPI
Sierra Foothills
Boundary
Nevada
Barhant
California
FCC examiner backs talk format for KRLA frequency
A FCC examiner recommended assigning KRLA's 1110 kHz frequency to Voice In Pasadena for a talk format while keeping operation in Pasadena. The decision rejected nine other applicants amid concerns over media concentration and ownership.
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Federal Communications Commission
KRLA
Examiner Forest II
McClenning
Pasadena
Voice
Commission
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