Hijackers Seize Boat Then Escape to West Berlin
A hijack crew led by ship’s cook Joerg Lindner intoxicated the captain on the Friedrich Wolf and steered a 386-ton excursion boat across the River Spree into the American sector. Fourteen refugees including a 14‑month‑old baby reached shore unhurt after a hail of bullets. East German guards fired on the boat as West Berlin police returned fire, marking a bold attempt to flee communism through Berlin’s waterways.
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Berlin
East Berlin
Freedom
Spree
Joerg Lindner
Helmsmen
Osthafen
Flight By Boat
Red Wall
Soviet protest blames West Berlin for border clashes
The Soviet Union accused Western powers of provoking incidents along the Berlin wall and vowed to defend East Germany amid calls to end the Western occupation. Notes to the U.S., Britain, and France cited border clashes and a May 23 shooting, framing West Berlin as the aggressor and urging normalization of the West Berlin situation.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Berlin Wall
West Berlin
Berlin
United States
Britain
France
German Democratic Republic
East Germany
U.S.S.R
Khrushchev
Walter Ulbricht
East Berlin
Fatal Virginia crashes raise Old Dominion toll to 337
A 37 year old Tennessee man Ralph Elmas Rich died instantly in Russell County Virginia when his two ton truck veered on Virginia 63 and brakes failed. Three more fatalities occurred in Roanoke County and Richmond area from separate crashes including a car into a crane at a Richmond road site and a train crossing collision. Additional victims include Anita C. Scott 21 Roanoke. Hubert Leonard Aliff 18 Elliston. John Earl Aliff 16 Elliston. Horace Joseph Ridley 53 Richmond. Margaret Harris 36 Richmond. Sadie L. Curtis 30 Richmond. and Robert Presley Hannah 64 Glen Allen. The toll for the year climbs to 337 with continued traffic dangers reported statewide.
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Tennessee
Russell County
Old Dominion
Wytheville
Ralph Elmas Rich
Jamestown, Tenn
Virginia
Richmond
Roanoke County
Anita C. Scott
Roanoke
Hubert Leonard Aliff
Elliston
Aliffs
John Earl Aliff
Southern Railway
U. S. 11
J. R. Edmundson
Edmundson
N&w
Bristol
Monroe
Lynchburg
Horace Joseph Ridley
Margaret Harris
Sadie L. Curtis
Ridley Auto
U. S. 301
Robert Presley Hannah
Rt. 4
Glen Allen
Richmond Memorial Hospital
Solomons Store
Henrico County
Hannah
Kennedy Clinches Massachusetts Democratic Convention Nod
Edward Kennedy won the Massachusetts State Democratic Convention endorsement for the US Senate seat previously held by his brother President Kennedy. Edward McCormack Jr. conceded after early results showed Kennedy leading 691 to 360 across 24 districts, signaling a rapid confirmation amid contested district polling.
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Springfield
Mass
Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts
President Kennedy
Edward McCormack Jr
Young Kennedy
McCormack
Kennedy
Seven Hurt In Two Car Wreck In Green Valley
Seven persons were injured in a head on two car crash on the Bluefield Princeton Road in Green Valley about 10 p.m. Five were identified including Clifford White Benny Hodges Tim Hodges Wanda Mootz and Mary Jane Brown all Princeton residents. State police investigated and hospital staff treated victims by number with unknowns.
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BS Bluefield Sanitarium
Green Valley
Clifford White
Benny Hodges
Tim Hodges
Wanda Mootz
Mary Jane Brown
Princeton
Bluefield
White
Benny
Tom Hodges
U.S. Navy
Bluefield Sanitarium
Four Giles County residents hospitalized after Route 61 crash
Four Giles County residents were hospitalized at St Luke's Hospital in Bluefield after a one car wreck on Virginia Route 61 nine miles east of Tazewell Friday afternoon. Identified injured are Jean Robertson Martin Patricia Martin Anthony Martin and Phyllis Whittaker Stevens of Narrows Pearisburg area. A fifth and sixth occupant escaped serious injury.
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Giles County
St. Luke's Hospital
Bluefield
Tazewell
Jean Robertson Martin
Patricia Martin
Anthony Martin
Phyllis Whittaker Stevens
Narrows-Pearisburg
Virginia
D. A. Altizer
Route 61
Rocky Gap Road
State Board Releases Last $1.47 Million From Escrow
Charleston AP reports the State Board of Public Works released the final $1.47 million held in escrow as a precaution against a rainy day. It freed $581,206 from a legislative appropriation for county school system grants, as state revenue improves and a 3 percent reserve had reduced spending. Governor Barron called the move a sound fiscal ending to the year.
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Charleston
State Board of Public Works
Joe F. Burdett
Truman E. Gore
Barron
Board of Public Works
Doctor Cornered In Ontario Hideout Over Abortion Death
Federal agents traced Queens physician Dr Harvey Lothringer to a Canadian hideout after the dismemberment death of 19 year old Barbara Soframento. He faces unlawful flight to avoid arrest on an abortion charge and is believed to travel with receptionist Theresa Carillo. Police fear he may flee to Cuba.
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New York
Queens
Barbara Soframento
Harvey Lothringer
Miss Soframento
Brooklyn
U.S
Salvatore Abruzzo
Lothringer
Loframento
John Sullivan
Montreal
Theresa Carillo
Tim O
Cuba
Three West Virginia Postmasters Pay Restitution in Embezzlement Case
Three women postmasters from Mercer and Raleigh counties were given two years probation and ordered to repay embezzled funds after pleading guilty in U S District Court Southern District of West Virginia. Elaine Cook admitted $872.11, Edna Jenkins $1,529.30, and Grace Worley $696.86. The judge delayed sentence for pre-sentence investigation.
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West Virginia
Mercer County
John A. Field Jr
U. S. District Court
Federal Building
Bluefield
Elaine Eudora Cook
Goodwill
Ednad Louise Jenkins
Arista
Grace Waveline Worley
Stickney
Raleigh County
Field
Ex-Ag Man Says Estes Sent $400
An ousted Agriculture Department employee testified that he and an aide received $400 from Billie Sol Estes to buy Democratic dinner tickets for Texas financier James T. Ralph. The two $1000 money orders were sent early this year and there was no accompanying letter. Ralph said the money was for tickets to a Dem fund raising dinner marking Kennedy's inauguration anniversary.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Billie Sol Estes
Texas
James T. Ralph
House Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee
William E. Morris
Ralph
Estes
Imany
Freeman
Morris
Kennedy
Wythe County Boy Killed In Vehicle Pedestrian Crash
Ronald Ray Rosenbaum six year old of Rt. 1 Ivanhoe Wythe County died after darting across Virginia 602 two and three tenths miles west of Cripple Creek at 6 30 p m. He was struck by William R Hale Route 3 Wytheville and died at Wytheville Sanitarium. Trooper G A Farthing Jr continues investigation.
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Wythe County
Wytheville
Ronald Ray Rosenbaum
Rt. 1
Ivanhoe
G. A. Farthing, Jr
Virginia
Cripple Creek
William R. Hale
Route 3
Wytheville Sanitarium
Strom Thurmond clashes with Sylvester at muzzling probe
In Washington on Friday Senator Strom Thurmond sparred with Arthur Sylvester as the Senate Armed Services subcommittee neared the end of its inquiry into charges that anti-Communist military personnel are muzzled to fit a no-win foreign policy.
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Washington
Arthur Sylvester
Strom Thurmond
D-S.c
Senate Armed Services
Thurmond
Stennis
Subcommittee
Sylvester
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Ner
Jutta
Landwehr Canal
Dieter
Friedrich Wolf
Treptow Pier
Jutta M
Tass
State Department
Lincoln White
London
Foreign Office
Russell
Virginia 63
Dickenson County
Richmond Road
New Orleans
John McCormack
C. F. Little
Giles
High Administration
Robert E. Manuel
Manuel
Secretary ‘of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman
Wythe
Harold Graham
U. S. Army
Boston
Museum of Science
Graham
Strom
Pentagon
John’ Stennis
D-Miss
Ege
Abby
Church
Society
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