Gunman Fleeing Store Duel Loses Limbs and Escapes
In Oakland a gunman snatched 179 dollars from a grocery store, led police on a pistol duel with two patrolmen, and slipped while boarding a freight train losing a foot and an arm. The train engineer Hans Hanson died during questioning. Alvis Moore, 45, is identified as the shooter. officers found the money and pistol.
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Oakland
Calif
Rudolph Mestrovich
Charles Raynor
Alvis Moore
Hans P. Hanson
Gunman Kills Town Officer in Southampton Kitchen Farewell
Southampton police report Harold Winters about 45 was shot in the head while kissing his wife goodbye before patrol. The assailant Zieman, described as wanting to kill Winters his ex wife and himself, was involved in the incident. In Miami a 25 year old black man Lewis West is serving 1 year 11 months for forging government check endorsements totaling 100 dollars.
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Savannah
B. B. Heery
Southampton
N. Y
Harold Winters
Zieman
Winters
Miami
Fla
Lewis West
John W. Holland
Secret Service
West
Oklahoma City divorce ends in custody for test tube baby case
Julie Strnad won custody of six year old Antoinette in a final divorce from Antoine Strnad after a four year dispute rooted in artificial insemination. The couple wed in 1941 and the wife charged cruelty as the husband allegedly became jealous and took the child to Europe, with escapes to Prague and Austria before returning to New York.
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Oklahoma City
Julie Strnad
Clarence Mills
Strnad
Antoinette
Antoine Strnad
New York
Europe
Detroit Patrolman Subdues Three After Accost Incident
Patrolman Carl Byers, after being knocked down in a sidewalk struggle, fired at the ground to stop three youths as two girls reported an accosting. A ricochet from the shot wounded the lower legs of two youths while Byers captured the trio single handed.
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Detroit
Carl Byers
Byers
Puppies Learn to Roll On Skates in Dayton
In Dayton Ohio two six week old puppies born without front legs gain mobility after roller skates are fitted. The dogs born to Frederick and Mrs Turner of New Lebanon were assisted by Dorothy Turner the family’s 12 year old daughter. The father is believed to be a Spitz and the pups previously wriggled or wormed their way around.
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Dayton
Ohio
Frederick Turner
New Lebanon
Spitz
Dorothy
Turners
Greenlee Extends Record with No Traffic Fatalities
Greenlee county reports over 2,000 registered vehicles and no motor fatalities for the 10th month. The last fatality in the county was Tom Hargreaves, 41, of Stilwater, Oklahoma, on Oct. 10, when his truck left Dead Man's curve north of Clifton and plunged 200 feet down the canyon wall. it was the ninth and last in 1948.
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Clifton
Greenlee
Tom Hargreaves
Stilwater
Okla
Dead Man's Curve
Becker admits robbery aims to fund painting study
Twenty one year old Gerald Becker told officers he stole to fund painting study and promised Magistrate McDiarmid he would repay society with his paintings. Detectives testified Becker took about $1,000 from lockers and clothing of at least 25 downtown employees and $4 from Trinity Cathedral church poor box.
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Pittsburgh
Gerald Becker
W. H. K. McDiarmid
Becker
Trinity Cathedral Church
India Uses Own Method In War Against Heat
India relies on Ayurveda based heat remedies using buttermilk lassi lemon water almond paste and green mango drinks to cool the body. The chatti clay jug cools water via evaporation and khus khus grass mats dampened with water cool rooms and offices. U S Ambassador Henderson covered the embassy with khus khus coolers this summer.
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India
Robert Branson
New Delhi
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