Stokes Gains Backing From City Business Leaders
State Rep. Carl B. Stokes wins broad support from Cleveland business leaders and major corporations as he campaigns to become the nation s first big city Black mayor. Republican figures and bankers host luncheons to introduce him to executives. Contributions average about 500 dollars per donor.
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Athens
Ohio
Stokes
James M. Naughton
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cleveland (Ap
Carl B. Stokes
Willard W. Brown
Cleveland Commerce
Ralph §. Locher
Pickands Mather & Co
Cleveland
Towell
Brown
Locher
Frank P. Celeste
Seth C. Taft
Taft
Brown Freed as Bond on Gun Charge Is Reduced
H. Rap Brown walked free after his federal gun charge bond was cut from 25000 to 13000 in a New York court. He left the jail at 3 20 p.m. and told a crowd justice is a joke in America while promising action if Lyndon Johnson taxes him. The case also involves a New Orleans grand jury indictment for carrying a carbine across state lines.
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H. Rap Brown
U.S
Thomas F. Murphy
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Federal House of Detention
Foley Square
America
Brown
Lyndon Johnson
Lady Bird
Johnson
Murphy
New Orleans
Maryland
Cambridge
Hus
Black Power Advocate Charged With Sedition
George Washington Ware 27 of Atlanta, a Black Power advocate who met Stokely Carmichael in Cuba, is jailed in Nashville on sedition charges after a Tuesday arrest. Bond set at 10,000. prosecutors cited his Libe ration School remarks that blacks must gain power by any means including violence. Ware denies guilt but supports violence if needed. law targets advocacy of overthrow by force.
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Nashville
Tenn
George Washington Ware
Stokely Carmichael
Cuba
Ware
Atlanta
Charles Galbreath
Jack Kershaw
White Citizens’ Council
Galbreath
Kershaw
Liberation School
Tennessee Ihow
Weather Halts Trapshooting Duel At Grand American
In Vandalia Ohio AP reports a weather delay interrupted the Grand American Trapshooting Tournament. Bueford Bailey of Big Springs Nebraska and Hiram Bradley of Greenville Ohio led a prolonged Class Championship shoot off after both broke 400 straight birds the previous night. Britt Robinson of Tohoka Texas won the special doubles championship with 99 X 100 and 39 X 48 in a shootoff.
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Bueford Bailey
Big Springs
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Hiram Bradley
Greenville
Ohio
Britt Robinson
Tohoka
Tex
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