Violent Protests Escalate in Jacksonville Area
A sniper killed a Negro woman and three men were wounded as racial violence intensified in and around Jacksonville. Firebombings and arrests followed a day of demonstrations near Mayor Burns campaign HQ, with many youths jailed for unlawful assembly and police dispersals continuing.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Johnnie Mae Chappell
John Santora
Haydon Burns
H. F. Branch
Hemming Park
LBJ Asks Builders To Fight Poverty
President Johnson urged building trades unions to help vanquish unemployment poverty and discrimination. He told the AFL-CIO Building and Construction Trades Department that the 1946 full employment commitment remains unfulfilled and must be reached.
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LBJ
Washington
Johnson
America
Building and Construction Trades Department
The
Afl-Cio
Sec
Japanese Youth Blindsides U.S. Ambassador in Tokyo Attack
A deranged Japanese youth stabbed U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer in the thigh outside the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Reischauer, 53, underwent surgery and was expected to recover. The assailant Norikazu Shiotani, 19, was seized by embassy staffer John Ferchak, 39, who disarmed him. Police say the motive was not political.
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Tokyo
U.S
Edwin 0. Reischauer
Reischauer
Norikazu Shiotani
John Ferchak
Shiotani
Kennedy
Japan
Hayato Ikeda
Johnson
Tuomioja Selected as UN Mediator for Cyprus Dispute
Geneva reports that the Greek Turkish and British governments approved former Finnish Prime Minister Sakari S. Tuomioja for UN mediator duties. UN Secretary General U Thant needed consent from Greek and Turkish Cypriots, which was anticipated. Paris notes President de Gaulle returns from a trip to Mexico and the French West Indies.
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Geneva
Sakari S. Tuomioja
Cyprus
U Thant
Tuomioja
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Mexico
French West Indies
Six Acres Burned in Five Forest Fires
Forest fires across five townships burned six and two tenths acres in a Monday blaze report by District Forest Fire Warden Ed Chesser. The largest fire consumed two and a half acres in Richland Township, Vinton County, with a two tenths acre blaze also noted. A one and a half acre fire occurred in Warren Township, Washington County, while Perry Township Hocking County and Olive Township Meigs County each reported one acre fires.
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Ed Chesser
Richland
Vinton County
Warren
Washington County
Perry
Hocking County
Olive
Meigs County
Glenn’s Injury Identified as Inner Ear Inflammation
Cleveland physicians report Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. suffers labyrinthitis an inner ear inflammation causing balance disruption. Recovery time ranges from three weeks to six months according to Dr. Earl Brannon and others. Glenn, a Democratic senator candidate, was injured after slipping on a bath mat in Columbus.
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Cleveland
John H. Glenn Jr
Cleveland Plain Dealer
School of Aerospace Medicine
Brooks Air Force Base
Tex
Glenn
the Plain Dealer
Warren H. Leimbach
Columbus
Air Force Hospital
Earl W. Brannon
San Antonio
U. S
Ohio
Gen Douglas MacArthur Seriously Ill After Emergency Surgery
Washington sources report General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 84, in serious condition after emergency surgery at Walter Reed Hospital. He is cognizant and talking, but remains in the recovery room with life support facilities available. His windpipe opening aids breathing and a tube through the esophagus handles bleeding. Col Edward Costello said postoperative recovery has been good.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Walter Reed Hospital
Walter Reed
Henry S. Murphy
MacArthur
Col
Edward J. Costello
Dems Hone Ax To Cut Baker Probe In Senate
Democrats on the Senate Rules Committee rejected GOP requests to summon White House aide Walter Jenkins and others. They argued testimony would be irrelevant or repetitive while pursuing the Baker inquiry into potential conflicts of interest. The panel, outnumbered 6 to 3, plans another closed door session to evaluate witnesses.
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Washington
Bobby Baker
Senate Rules Committee
White House
Walter Jenkins
Matt McCloskey
B. Everett Jordan
D-N.c
Baker
Sec
Retary
Senate
Jordan
Hugh Scott
Scott
Film Actor Lorre Dies Of Stroke In Hollywood
Hollywood mourns Peter Lorre a 59 year old Hungarian actor known for psychopathic roles. He was found dead beside his bed from a stroke after years of high blood pressure. Vincent Price called the death a tragedy. Lorre had survived a 1959 scare in Spain and preferred a relaxed lifestyle with little exercise.
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Hollywood
Peter Lorre
Lorre
Vincent Price
Boris Karloff
Spain
White says wife earned funds as divorce investigator
Prosecuting attorney Hom er B. Gall Jr. reports conferring with the state AG over an auditor’s finding of 9541.16 against the wife of former Common Pleas Judge Francis D. White. Gall has 90 days to start action. White claims evidence of investigations, offering to return funds if illegitimate.
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Homer B. Gall Jr
State Auditor
Common Pleas
Francis D. White
Gall
Cassius Clay Title Remains With WBA for Now
Ed Lassman president of the World Boxing Association says Cassius Clay will keep the heavyweight championship at least for now. Lassman, who had urged stripping the title from Clay after his win over Sonny Liston, projected no action before August.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Ed Lassman
World Boxing Association
Cassius Clay
Lassman
Clay
Sonny Liston
Fifteen New Cancer Drugs Target Breast Cancer Trials
Palm Beach Gardens Florida report notes fifteen synthetic drugs related to testosterone show promise in early trials for female breast cancer. Researchers Ralph Dorfman and team presented results at the American Cancer Society science writers seminar, cautioning no cure is expected but potential to extend survival in some noncurable cases.
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Palm Beach Gardens
Fla
Ralph I. Dorfman
Shrewsbury
Mass
Dorfman
Worcester (Mass
Foundation For Experimental Biology
Hearings Postponed on Demonstration Arrests in Xenia
A hearing on motions to dismiss the cases of 108 persons arrested in connection with a racial demonstration has been postponed until April 15.
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Xenia
Strike Talks in Logan Between Borundum Co and Union
Negotiations continued under a federal mediator at the Logan Trade Club offices after moving from Lancaster. From 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. both sides discussed issues without reaching an agreement as a week-long strike halted 315 workers at the Borundum Co. Logan plant.
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Logan
Carborundum Co
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International
Lancaster
Logan Trade Club
Job Corps Post Seen For Alden
Ohio University President Vernon R. Alden may be named chair of the Job Corps Policy committee by President Johnson. Alden would keep his university post while spending one or two days weekly in Washington on the War on Poverty planning, with federal financing pending congressional approval. He previously declined an administrative role in the program after meetings with R. Sargent Shriver.
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Ohio University
Vernon R. Alden
Lyndon B. Johnson
Job Corps Policy Committee
Doctor Alden
Washington
Congress
R. Sargent Shriver
Alden
Ohio voter registration soars ahead of May primary
In Columbus the May 5 primary draws near with registration possibly hitting records before the 9 p.m. deadline. Secretary of State Ted W. Brown cites promising county reports amid a $500 million highway bond plan and presidential delegate selections. Senatorial races gain national attention as John Glenn Jr. recovers from a February 26 fall, delaying campaign travel. Opponents question Taft Jr.’s liberal stance as criticism grows from Brown’s supporters.
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Columbus
Ted W. Brown
Ohio
John H. Glenn Jr
Annie
U. S
Stephen M. Young
Ting
Sessions
Washington
Robert Taft Jr
Brown
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