Federal Jurisdiction Barred To Fla Rights Demonstrators
Civil rights attorney prepared to appeal a federal judge's refusal to take jurisdiction in Florida cases against demonstrators in St. Augustine. No arrests reported Thursday. 285 arrests earlier for trespass violations. Mrs. Peabody, 72, jailed two days, posted 450 bond. Judge Simpson declined federal intervention and said county courts can handle the cases. William Kunstler said he would appeal to the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans. List of New England church members and others released or identified includes Yale chaplains, New Haven residents, and Boston residents among many names.
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ST. Augustine
Fla
Endicott Peabody
Boston
Als. Peabody
Jacksonville
U.S
Bryan Simpson
Isue
Peabody
New England
William Kunstler
New York
Simpson
Sth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
David A. Robinson
Yale University
Janice M Forman
New Haven
Governor's Mother Explains Civil Rights Involvement
Mrs. Malcolm Peabody 72 mother of Gov Endicott Peabody testified in U S District Court about civil rights demonstrations in St Augustine. She said discrimination spurred action and she joined as an elder ally when younger protesters asked for help. She expected arrest and joined the mixed white Negro group at the segregated motor lodge to face trespassing charges.
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Peabody
Malcolm Peabody
Massachusetts
Jacksonville, Fla
Endicott Peabody
U.S. District Court
St. Augustine
Moter Lodge
Tobias Simon
Segre Erated Motor Lodge
Mississippi Moves to Add 200 Police for Racial Strife
United Press International reports Mississippi plans for heightened security as civil rights demonstrations loom. The House approved increasing the highway patrol from 275 to 475 and backed a ban on picketing that blocks state buildings. The measure also lets Governor Johnson deploy patrols to local communities to maintain peace and broadens patrol duties beyond traffic enforcement to curb violence and intimidation.
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Mississippi
Mississippi House of Representatives
Paul B. Johnson
Johnson
Senate
Offering Sought For Alaska Aid
Bishop Gerald Kennedy urged 230 Methodist churches in Southern California Arizona and Hawaii to take a special offering this Sunday for Alaska quake victims and Crescent City relief. The drive supports a national Methodist gift for Alaska and Crescent City Calif hit by the tidal wave.
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Los Angeles
Gerald Kennedy
California
Arizona
Hawaii
Alaska
Crescent City
Calif
Hoffa protege indicted in bribery bid in Tennessee
Charles L. O'Brien, 29, a Detroit Teamsters local business agent raised by James R. Hoffa, faces a bribery indictment for offering $25,000 to Callie Ker, a Black widow juror, to falsely claim Hoffa lacked a fair trial. Bond set at $15,000, awaiting arraignment. O'Brien has lived in Hoffa's Detroit home with his wife and two children. The case follows Hoffa's conviction five days earlier and three days before sentencing. The probe by Special Prosecutor John J. Hooker also involves juror tampering in the Nashville conspiracy trial.
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Chattanooga
Tenn.ap
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Charles L. O’brien
Detroit
Ster
Callie Ker
Hoffa
O’brien
O'Brien
Kansas City
Teamsters Reader
Nashville
John J Hooker
Key
Tennessee Federation of Negro Women's Clubs
More English Masses Posed For Catholics
American Catholic leaders drafted detailed recommendations for increased use of English in Masses and sacraments. About 200 bishops and four of five American cardinals met in secret to approve the texts and the extent of English usage, with Rome’s approval expected.
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Washington
Rome
Cathlalic University
First Pony Express Rider Sent From St Joseph 104 Years Ago
The opening rider of the American pony express departed St Joseph Missouri bound for California. Advertisements sought young, skinny, wiry men under 18 willing to risk death. Pay offered was 25 dollars per week.
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Changing Times
San Francisco
American Pony Express
St. Joseph
California
Silver Cut In Dollar Opposed
The Treasury Department opposed a proposal to reduce the silver content of the dollar from 90 percent to 80 percent. Acting Secretary Roosa warned the move could erase current silver dollars from circulation and trigger melting of subsidiary coins, jeopardizing minting needs amid rising silver prices and collector demand. Senate critics argued the bill would preserve the dollar as currency without hastening such outcomes.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Robert V. Rousai
Rousa
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Lee Metcalf
D-Mont
Postmaster General in Anti Wallace Fight
Milwaukee Wisconsin AP The second presidential primary in Wisconsin shapes up as aDemocratic clash with Gov John Reynolds backing Johnson ally Wallace opposition while Postmaster General John Gronouski joins the anti Wallace effort under Johnson. Republicans seek to skip the primary underscoring a convention bound race with Byrnes Knowles leading GOP critics.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
Johnson
John W. Reynolds
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
Washington
John Gronouski
Mads
Partty
John W. Byrnes
Silver bill backed as a necessary step by mining group
Robert M. Hardy Jr. of Spokane, Washington, testifying for the American Mining Congress, endorsed the bill as a necessary step in the right direction, saying it would push the market price of silver to 80 per cent.
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Robert M. Hardy Jr
Spokane, Wash
American Mining Congress
House Would Ban Overlap On Bank Boards
In Boston the House gave near-final approval to a bill barring trustees of savings banks from serving as directors of commercial banks. The measure, after a Tuesday rejection, passed on a 100-97 roll call following a Beatrice Corliss amendment to exempt current bank officials until their terms end. Speaker John F. Thompson supported the reconsideration.
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Boston
UPI
Senate
House
Beatrice K. Corliss
R - Gloucester
John F. Thompson
D-Ludlow
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