FBI Identifies King Assassination Escapee Galt
The FBI named Eric Starvo Galt as the James Earl Ray–like King assassination escapee, listing prior convictions from 1949 to 1955 in Los Angeles Chicago and Missouri. He has used multiple aliases and matches a 5 foot 10 inch, 163 to 174 pound profile with blue eyes brown hair and two facial scars. He was reported missing from Missouri State Penitentiary on April 23 1967 and is described as a drifter with a varied work history and a prior army discharge for ineptness.
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Washington
FBI
Eric Starvo Galt
Dr. Martin
Luther King
James Earl Ray
Missouri State Penitentiary
Los Angeles
Chicago
U.S
Missouri
Joliet
Pontiac
Leavenworth
Kaw
Ray
James McBride
James Walton
W. C. Herron
James O’conner
Illinois
King
Missouri Rhate
Jefferson City
St. Louis
State Hospital
Fulton
Alton
Army
Hanoi Rejects U S Site Proposal for Vietnam Talks
North Vietnam rejected the U S plan for a meeting site in Vietnam talks and condemned the list of ten suggested locations as delaying tactics. Secretary Rusk proposed sites in Asia and Europe without France among options, prompting Hanoi to call the moves a war provocation.
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Tokyo
North Vietnam
U.S
Vietnam
Hanoi
Rusk
Dean Rusk
Heaviest 1968 Raids on North Vietnam Reported
AP dispatch notes U.S. planes conducted 145 missions in North Vietnam the heaviest of the year to date, amid Johnson curtailment, with weather aiding operations. A major helicopter crash in South Vietnam killed 18 Vietnamese civilians and eight Americans as two choppers collided. US forces said 116 Viet Cong were killed in two battles near Saigon, with 11 Americans dead and 21 wounded.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Panhandle
Johnson
South Vietnam
Qui Nhon
Czech Bishops In Rome Prepare Direct Talks
Two Czechoslovak bishops arrived in Rome from Prague to lay groundwork for direct negotiations between the Roman Catholic church and the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
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Rome
Prague
View Regime
Czechoslovakia
ICC Examines Rail Owners by Subpoena to 5 Brokerages
An ICC examiner issued subpoenas to five brokerage houses to identify who owns large stakes in five major railroads. The move targets control efforts by Union Pacific, Chicago and North Western, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, and Rock Island Pacific. Officials subpoenaed include James Thompson of Merrill Lynch and others at Hold & Co, Cudd & Co, Sigler & Co, and affiliates in New York and Washington.
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Washington
UPI
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nathan Klitenic
Union, Pacific
Chicago and North Western
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Rock Island and Pacific
Klitenic
Merrill Lynch
Pierce, Fenner, & Smith
James Thompson
Francis Lyons
Hold & Co
Washington, D. C
Arnold McCullough
Cudd & Co
N. Y
T. C. Lewis
Sigler & Co
Eugene Banks
Service Near Normal Amid Partial Bell System Strike
AFL CIO Communications Workers reported their 21 year record strike at 90 percent effectiveness in most areas yet telephone service stayed near normal. Cables were cut in several regions including Ohio Indiana and Florida with an FBI inquiry opened over a cut that affected an FAA control center in Oberlin Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Afl-Cio
Bell System
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Ohio Bell. Telephone Co
FBI
Federal Aviation Agency
Oberlin
Ohio
Indiana
Florida
Seattle
1968 Chuckle Caption Reflects Freeways and Die Hards
A brief 1968 themed line notes cynicism about mankind and freeways with a wry closure. The item reads as a compact humor caption from a newspaper page.
Nixon Urges Pause on Vietnam Criticism
Former Vice President Richard Nixon urged a moratorium on criticism of President Johnsons Vietnam policy to allow peace efforts. He said it would be highly irresponsible to propose endgame tactics during negotiations with Hanoi and dismissed calls for Rusk resignation or a coalition government as irresponsible. He referenced Gov. Nelson Rockefeller and warned 1968 could be the year of the draft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Richard Nixon
Johnson
Nixon
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Hanoi
Dean Rusk
Eugene McCarthy
South Vietnam
Robert Kennedy
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
Leditors
North Pole Expedition Nears Goal
Six man expedition aiming to be the first surface party to reach the North Pole since 1909 was reported 15 to 20 miles from the pole. The Selz Organization said they planned to push on and hoped to reach the pole in the afternoon after earlier reports of attaining it were corrected.
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Washington
North Pole
Selz Organization
Chicago
Selz
Air Force
Weather Bureau
Leo Flores
Ralph Plaisted
St. Paul, Minn
Pole
Minneapolis
Montreal
Eureka
Ellesmere Island
Canada
Ward Hunt Island
Ward Hunt
Collins Radio Co
Cedar Rapids
Charles Kuralt
Cbs-Tv
Kuralt
Collins Communications Center
Polar
Ice
Collins
Worst Off Financially Since 1931
Federal Reserve chairman William McChesney Martin Jr warned at ASNE that the United States faces a severe budget and trade deficit and must act quickly to tax increases and spending cuts. He cautioned about a potential recession or inflation if deficits persist and urged congressional action during an election year.
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Washington
UPI
William McChesney Martin, Jr
Federal Reserve Board
United States
American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
Congress
Martin
Reserve Board
Johnson
Federal Reserve
Czech regime rejects Moscow line in independent path
Prague asserts an independent communist course despite Soviet and East European pressure. Rude Pravo warns against mechanically copying Soviet practices and stresses creative application of Soviet experience while avoiding past mistakes.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Rude Pravo
Czechoslovak Communist Party
Moscow
Pravda
Rude
Pravo
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Warning Voiced
Ceylon
Japan
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Nepal
Malaysia
Asia
Italy
Belgium
Finland
Austria
France
North
Today's Index
Ietibersick
Communications ‘Workers of America
CWA
Northwestern Bell’ Telephone Co
Vinton
Marion
Mt. Vernon
Anamosa
Monticello
Dick Short
Route One
Bell
ICC
District of Columbia
Western Electric
Joseph Beirne
William Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Viet
Goal
Frank Carey
U. S. Air Force
C.R
Ctory
White House
George Christian
Council of Economic Advisers
Lidova Demokracie
Major B. Pokorny
Czechoslovak Interior Ministry
Karnice
Brno
Pokorny
Jan Masaryk
Horn
Masaryk
Augustin Schramm
Schramm
Ladislav Safranek
Safranek
Czechloslovakia
Soviet Communist Party
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