Walk to Freedom march planned in Detroit on MLK Jr. day
A large Detroit demonstration led by the Detroit Council for Human Rights plans a 3 p.m. march on Sunday to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1943 riot. Dr Martin Luther King Jr will head the event aiming to raise 100000 for the SCLC and protest racial indignities in Birmingham and Detroit.
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A. F. Mahan
Detroit
Martin Luther King Jr
Woodwards Avenue
Richard V. Marks
Commission On Community Relations
Marks
James del Rio
del Rio
Detroit Council For Human Rights
Dr. King
Southern Christian Leadership Council
Birmingham
Belle Isle
South
Council For Human Rights
C. L. Franklin
New Bethel Baptist Church
Del
Racial Strife Hurts Economies Of Several Cities
Associated Press analysis shows racial unrest damaging city economies. In Little Rock four years of violence stalled industry until recently, while Birmingham’s economy slipped due to boycotts and street protests. A biracial pact aims to desegregate stores and upgrade Black workers, with Birmingham historically near the bottom of national economic rankings in early 1960s.
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Don McKee
Associated Press
Birmingham
Montgomery
Ala
Albany
Atlanta
United States
Little Rock
Ark
Everett Tucker
Tucker
Wyatt Tee Walker
Alabama
Birm
Ingham
Iran Reform Sparks Riots and Land Shake‑up
Five months after massive reform backing in Tehran, violent mobs clash with police as government claims land reform hurts mullahs and boosts peasant rights. The Shah’s program transfers 4,335 villages to 140,000 peasant families, with 15‑year payment plans and village cooperatives replacing landlords.
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David Lancashire
Tehran
Iran
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Assadullah Alam
Mom Faces Arraignment in 2 Deaths
Mrs. Margaret Adolphson 22 faces arraignment in Nicollet County District Court on first degree murder charges for the suffocation deaths of her two infant sons James Robert 2 months and Timothy John 14 months in 1961. Grand Jury indicted after nine witnesses. defense seeks continuance. mental examination denied by Municipal Court.
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Mankato
James Robert
Timothy John
James
Timothy
Johnson
Adolphson
Minnesotan Heads Canoe for New York City
Ben Ferrier age 60 of Grand Marais Minnesota and Kenneth Rusk 45 of Madison Wisconsin travel by canoe retracing the Mackenzie route across Lake Superior and St Marys River. They expect to reach New York City by August 21 while lecturing during the voyage.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Ben Ferrier
Grand Marais
Minn
New York City
Kenneth Rusk
Madison
Wis
Ferrier
Lake Superior
Lake Huron
St. Marys River
Mackenzie
Sir Alexander MacKenzie
Arctic Ocean
MacKenzie River
Council Bluffs Omaha Bridge Slated for 65
Iowa and Nebraska governors and highway engineers met to set a late 1965 opening for the Interstate bridge linking downtown Omaha and Council Bluffs. Nebraska’s Hossack said final blueprints may be ready in about two months with contracts possible next spring. Clauson urged rapid construction provisions, but Hossack doubted federal officials would approve due to higher costs.
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Omaha
Iowa
Nebraska
Council Bluffs
Frank Morrison
Harold Hughes
John Hossack
L. M. Clauson
Hossack
Kansas City
Clauson
Powys Dies in Welsh Village at 90
John Cowper Powys author poet and critic died Monday night in Blaenau Festiniog Wales at age 90. The writer of Wolf Solent and A Glastonbury Romance lived in seclusion in a small cottage in the town during the final 24 years of his life.
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John Powys
Blaenau Festiniog
Wales
John Cowper Powys
Powys
Glimmer of Hope for Racial Peace Shows Up in Jackson
Jackson Mississippi reports a tentative move toward peace after Medgar Evers death as Negro leaders accept a halt to demonstrations with reservations. Mayor Thompson sets dates for Negro police hires and school crossing guards while negotiations on desegregation continue.
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Jackson
Jackson, Miss
Medgar W. Evers
Congress of Racial Equality
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Student
Coordinating Committee
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Evers
Haughton
Thompson
Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
Ohio Veterans Records Microfilmed for Quick Copying
Ohio records of veterans from the American Revolution onward have been microfilmed and can be copied in ten seconds. The work was done with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, aiding family history research. Ohio claims office may be the first and only in the nation to fully microfilm its records.
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Columbus
Ohio
Soldiers’ Claims
Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints
Mormons
Military Claims Office
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Christine
Wendy
Bristol
England
Zoo
London
Michigan
Switzerland
Cess
Mom
N.Y. City
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Schuler
North Main Street
Norge Appliances
NORGE
W. T
Freezer Sale
Quality Appliance Company
2Nd St. NE
Austin
By John Hall
G.R. Haughton
Allen Thompson
Veterans’ Records
Austin (Minn
Herald
Whitewall
Firestone
Main St
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