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Lovelorn Yout

By United Press

MIAMI, Fla, Apr. 25—A burly fireman snatched a love- | lorn youth from an 11th story

hotel ledge here after he had

turned a deaf ear to the pleas of a pretty girl and a priest. James Vickery, 22, Atlanta, lingered for two hours and 20 minutes on his dizzy perch yesterday, threatening to jump to his death because “I want my girl, ”» Big John Lundstédt of the fire department rescue squad prevented a tragic ending to the real-life television drama seen by thousands of south Floridians, Mr. Lundstedt caught the redhaired youth off guard, lunged over the roof railing and grabbed him, Four firemen pulled the pair * to safety. A Catholic priest, the Rev. Fr. D. Cronin, and Marjorie Kojac, a pretty blond, had pleaded with Vickery to come off the ledge. He refused. Policemen Sound Alarm

Pale and glassy-eyed, Vickery J was carried to Jackson Memorial & Hospital for an examination by Fas doctors, who ordered him taken to Miami Retreat, a mental institution. Police indicated no charges would be filed against Vickery, ¢% but they said they would ques- * tion him today. The alarm was sounded by two patrolmen, Who found the doer to the hotel's roof propped open with a tooth brush and a safety razor. About the same time a bellhop, investigating an open telephone line, found a suicide note in Vickery’s room. The patrolmen found Vickery pacing around a 6-inch ledge, just below the hotel's rooftop.

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Vickery told officers he had a “fuss” with his girl friend, a Mrs. Lois Ware, an Atlanta woman who had come here to work as a waitress, She left for Key West after the quarrel, police said. Vickery’'s unsigned note said: “Please tell Mrs. Ware I am sorry I have to end my life this way. Tell her to call my mother. Tell her I love them all. By the

of young men and women invaded Indianapolis today prepared to show Hoosiers how they can help remake the world and themselves. This was the advance guard of Moral Re-Armament, a cause for good and clean living. Tonight, the young men and women will give a dramatic demonstration of how MRA can

time anyone gets this I am fixing/ change individuals, classes, races

to jump off this building.” Fire emergency squads rus

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ations. They will appear at orld War Memorial at 8

to the scene, television camera-ip. m. The public is invited withmen wheeled up their equipment out charge.

and an estimated 5000 persons gathered below in the Venetian causeway to Miami Beach, Vickery, dressed in a white shirt and light blue slacks, waved a handkerchief as he teetered on the ledge with a 15-mile-an-hour wind tugging at a brown tie hang-|* ing from a hip pocket. Watch Every Move

His hands gripped a similar ledge at his waist. His heels prq-

This movement, which has spread to 80 countries and which

is regarded by many diplomats

lenge to communism in the struggle for men’s minds, appeals to people of all ages, religions, and economic backgrounds. Purpose of the movement is to get men and women to live by four absolute moral standards— honesty, purity, unselfishness and love. With these . weapons, the MRA hopes to solve the difficulties of men—divorces, strikes and c even wars. The moral re-RrmAmMEmEnt movement has a slogan for a new era in human relationships—not who is right, but what is right. There are no dues, titles, rules or salaries. Nothing to join or resign from.

“Yacht Bandit’ of "20s Faces Execution Today

By United Press SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Apr. 25—

truded over the shelf and he bal-img)) 1 ison-aged Lloyd Sampsell,

anced on the balls of his feet as/ ng time king of bank bandits he stared dazedly at the crowdiwho carried away his plunder in

150 feet below him. below watched his every move.

an expensive yacht, dies in the A dozen firemen holding a net!sta

’s lethal gas chamber today

for killing an innocent bystander

He shook his head as two po-/in the twilight of his career.

licemen and the priest begged him not to jump.

The 52-year-old killer, once

listed among the FBI's 10 most

Miss Kojlagc, who lives in the wanted men, was condemned for house where Mrs. Ware was stay-/the slaying of aircraft worker Aring, was brought to the rooftop/thur W. Smith during the holdup

by officers.

She told him Mrs.[0f a San Diego finance office, May

Ware was waiting at the rooming|27, 1948.

house and wanted to talk to him.

Sampsell lost his last chance

“Just bring her up here,” Vick-|T0F reprieve yesterday when both

ery replied, + A bystander, Ed Hickey, Atlanta, also attempted to reason with Vickery. ‘Too Keyed Up’ Then Mr. Lundstedt, an amateur hypnotist, tried to persuade him not to jump. “He was too keyed up,” the fireman said. “I couldn’t do anything with him.” Crouched on the rooftop over the ledge, Mr. Lundstedt changed his method of approach. “Get -down-this-ledge, elimb-up: that fire ladder and get in here,” he snarled. Surprised and confused by the command, Vickery turned as if to follow Mr. Lundstedt's instructions, - “1 just waited until he crouched and got his head down, and then I reached over and grabbed him,” “He apparently didn"t know I was waiting for him to come near”

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Phe State Supreme Court and Federal Judge Louis E. Goodman rejected his final pleas for another stay of execution. His accomplice in the crime, Ben (Fatty) Richardson, surrendered to authorities and is currently serving a 5-year-to-life sentence in the same prison.” Sampsell himself was not captured until nearly a year afterthe killing. He was finally arrested by federal agents in"March, Iolo, as he stepped off an airplane in

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Worst Flood Peril I Passed, Officials Say

By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., Apr. 25— The unprecedented crest of the Missouri River churned harmlessly between Kansas City’s reinforced levees today and offiIs said the “worst has come d passed.” Officials reported everything holding fast as the “Big Muddy’s” flood-tide leaned its: full weight against the 47-foot levees. The crest reached a height of 30.66 feet and then began a drop. | Jittery Kansas City, scene of the “billion dollar’ flood” last July, apparently had met and matched the strength of the Missouri nearing the end of its most | devastating rampage. The river struck its final blow at the $3.5 million Sherman Air Force Base upstream at Ft. Leavenworth, Kas It wa the climax to a 3-week tour of disaster which started in Montana and engulfed areas in the Dakotas, Iowa, Neveasiea, Missourt and finally Kansas.

Phoenix, Ariz, while fleeing from the robbery of the Los Angeles!

Bank of America. He was convicted by an all:| woman jury in San Diego Superior Court and spent almost Fh years in “death row” within the Shadow of the state's gas: chamr Originally slated to die July 21, 1950, he was granted a stay of execution by the U. 8. District Court of Appeals two days before he was to have walked the “last mile.” His appeal was carried to the U. 8. Supreme Court, where| it was denied last Jan. 28. 1 Sampsell, who boasted of having stolen more than $200,000 in well over 100 holdups, won doubt-| ful fame as the “yacht bandit” late in the roaring 1920’s when he was the terror of bank tellers from Vancouver to Los Angeles. Teamed with Ethan Allen MecNabb, he used the luxurious yacht “Sovereign” to travel ‘up and down the Pacific Coast, striking at banks and then fleeing to sea while police set up fruitless road. blocks ashore.

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