Word: calif
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jose, Calif...
Sneaks. In Palm City, Calif., two men stole a house...
Honeymoon. In Sacramento, Calif., Private Carl LeRoy John started on his honeymoon. He wrecked his car, was arrested for auto theft, discovered his bride was a bigamist...
...Frank Nash, and in which four officers were killed. On that occasion Vetterli was grazed by a bullet under the left arm. But Nash was killed (Floyd got away). Vetterli was the FBI agent in Kansas City when Mary McElroy was kidnapped; he helped round up the San Jose, Calif, kidnappers of Brooke Hart in 1934 (mobsters lynched the kidnappers after the FBI withdrew from the case), he investigated the William Gettle kidnapping in Arcadia, Calif, the same year...
Inhabitants of the quietly arty little town of Carmel, Calif, were enjoying their annual festival of music by the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Climax of the festival was to have been the unveiling in Carmel's city park of Sculptor Bufano's 14-ft. cylindrical steel and granite statue of Bach. Two nights before the scheduled unveiling, muscular mischief-makers tipped the statue off its wooden perch, stole its 200-lb. blue granite head. Some Carmelites observed that the statue had looked more like Bufano than Bach anyhow. But Mayor Keith Evans was hopping mad. Said...