Johnson Carries Full Schedule On Eve of Gall Stone Operation
President Johnson faced a 16 to 14 day White House absence as he prepared for gall bladder surgery. He kept a packed agenda from a national security conference to proclamations and a 7:30 p.m. Salute to Congress speech at the State Department before heading to Bethesda for Friday morning operation.
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Press Club
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Moyers
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Letterman Generals Hospital
San Francisco
Thompson
Party Bolt Threatened By Negroes
Washington civil rights spokesmen warned the Democratic party may bolt if Negroes are denied a place on the ballot and in the voting booth. They urged electoral reforms in the South at a Democratic National Committee hearing chaired by John M. Bailey. NAACP leader Clarence Mitchell called for more federal examiners under the Voting Rights Act, noting 20 Southern counties have examiners and over 100,000 voluntary registrations since act passage.
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Special Equal Rights Committee
Democratic National Committee
John M. Bailey
The
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Clarence Mitchell
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Nicholas Katzenbach
Mitchell
Justice Department
Live bomb found on trawler disarmed off Cape Henry
A three foot live bomb dredged from the Atlantic by the trawler Snoopy near Torpedo Junction was hauled aboard the Lady Anna and disarmed by a Navy demolition team after posing a threat to the crew. The incident followed a deadly explosion that killed eight aboard the Snoopy.
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UPID
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Here
Atlantic
Chesapeake Light Tower
Spaak Illness Reported For Belgian Foreign Minister
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, 64, is ill in Brussels. The nature of his illness was not disclosed and the AP report notes he was reported ailing on Wednesday.
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Belgium
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Complainants Reluctant at Springfield Police Hearing
In Springfield Massachusetts the police brutality hearings against six patrolmen and a sergeant began with most complainants declining to testify. Only two of the first eight witnesses spoke, describing Bonavita striking a detainee and others facing racial slurs, while the named victim Banks refused to testify. The sessions were delayed previously as 12 complainants failed to appear before the police commission.
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Don BE. Brown
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William Banks
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Ryland J. Tracy
Humphrey Cancels Week's Engagements
Vice President Hubert H Humphrey cancels all speaking dates next week to stay near President Johnson as he recovers from gall bladder surgery. If Johnson progresses well, Humphrey plans a heavy schedule starting Oct 18 resembling a presidential campaign. He aims to be on call for at least 10 days post operation. Scheduled appearances in New York City Kan- city and other venues are put on hold.
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Hubert H. Hmphrey
Johnson
Humphrey
New York City
Kan
Court Rules Red Party Must Pay Income Tax
The U S Communist party must pay federal income taxes the Tax Court ruled. It upheld the IRS finding that the party owes 326,313 in income tax and penalties for 1951. The decision allows appeal to a federal appellate court. The party had claimed tax exempt status but the judge found no basis under the tax code and noted no prior tax returns or exemption applications were filed.
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U.S. Tax Court
U.S. Communist Party
Internal Revenue Service
Graydon G. Withey
Federal Court of Appeals
Communist Party
Withey
Humphrey to resume air travels if no adverse developments
Vice President Humphrey plans a broad campaign tour schedule through October into November, including New Jersey and Hot Springs appearances, to court local Democrats nationwide. Friends see no major renomination challenge in 1968, though knowing many Democrats by first names could aid 1972 efforts. In Holyoke a precinct worker assisted an elderly blind woman voting, but she chose a candidate noting his grave lot beside theirs.
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Kansas City
Kan
New Jersey
Richard J. Hughes
Business Council
Hot Springs
Humphrey
Holyoke
Mass
UPI
Governors bid for truce in Georgia segregated bus protests
In Crawfordville Georgia Gov. Carl Sanders failed to secure a truce amid racial demonstrations over segregated buses. He met with white community officials and Negro leaders, urged a local settlement, and awaited a federal panel hearing on transport of white students. Civil rights leaders rejected the approach calling Sanders leadership irresponsible.
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UPI
Carl Sanders
Georgia
Ku Klux Klan
Atlanta
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Augusta
Taliaferro County
Leroy Johnson
Nosea Williams
The
Christian Leadership Conference
Code of Ethics To Be Revised By ABA Leader
Edward W Kuhn head of the American Bar Association says the code of ethics will be revised to include penalties up to disbarment for lawyers who jeopardize fair trials through out of court statements He urges newspapers not to publish criminal records or confessions before trial and calls for stricter self discipline by press and bar groups to protect fair trials.
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UPL
American Bar Association
ABA
Edward W. Kuhn
United Press International
Kuhn
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