Four police capture Richard Coleman in Linden kidnapping and shootings
Richard Coleman, 36, accused of killing his wife and sister in law and wounding four others, including his brother and a neighbor, was captured by Newark police after abducting Mary Kaminski. The girl was later found, and Coleman was trapped between two cruisers. Coleman held the Kaminski family at bay for four hours before releasing Mary.
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Linden
N.J
Richard
Teddy’” Coleman
Mary Kaminski
Elizabeth
Coleman
Newark
Here
Miss Kaminski
White
Edwards
Rube
Kaminski
Michael Kaminski
Mary
Theresa Kaminski
Michael
Church Sets All-Out Race Equality Bid
The United Church of Christ forms a nine member mixed race committee to lead a militant civil rights drive with Dr. S. Garry Oniki as executive coordinator. Initial funding of 100000 is pledged plus emergency church collections this fall to cover bail and defense for those jailed while pursuing social justice. The plan urges business support for integration and cooperation with other faith groups, with synod members broadly approving the program and a preamble pledging work for nonwhite access to jobs and public accommodations and acceptance of interracial marriages.
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Denver
United Church of Christ
Executive Council
Ashley Bladen
Glen Ridge
N. J
Joseph Connolly
John Middaugh
Morris Lieberman
Baltimore
Inter- Faith Committee On Human Rights
Stunt Cyclist Fails Test at Southend Fun Fair
Cindy Willis a 17 year old motorcycle rider at the Southend wall of death failed her driving test and will still display L plates as a learner driver. The item notes her stunt role at the fair.
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Southend
England
Cindy Willis
Duke and Duchess of Wind Sor Leave New York for Europe
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor travel aboard the liner United States bound for Europe after spending a month in New York.
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New York
Duke and Duchess of Windsor
United States
Europe
Two Inch Rains Hit North Iowa with More Forecast
Heavy weekend rainfall drenched northern Iowa with Garner recording 2.52 inches and totals exceeding four inches in three days in places. Forest City, Webster City, and other towns reported over two inches, while southwest Iowa faced a tornado threat and flooding appeared in low areas. Storms brought high winds and lightning, with additional showers forecast for Saturday night and Sunday.
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Iowa
State
Garner
Forest City
Webster City
Boy 13 Survives 40 Days on Potatoes After Teacher Die
Kenneth Youngman 13, son of evangelist Alexander Youngman, survived 40 days on raw potatoes after his teacher Anna Thiessen died during a flood near an island in the Peace River. He rebuilt a raft, sheltered on the cabin roof with tarpaper, and credited faith and his father for eventual rescue when he was found after his father returned on June 20.
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Missouri
Kenneth Youngman
Alexander Youngman
Northwest Territories
Assn. of Fundamental Ministers
Kenneth
Anna Thiessen
Coaldale
Alta
Peace River
Fort Smith
Miss Thiessen
Khru shchev in Kiev Amid Secret Soviet Talks
Moscow reports that Premier Khrushchev travels to Kiev for a secret meeting at a villa in the Lenin Hills overlooking Moscow. Pravda defends coexistence policy without detailing talks while Chinese papers mock him for shifts toward softness on the West and call him selling out communism.
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Lenin Hills
Moscow
Pravda
Khrushchev
Hong Kong
China
Russia
Ching Po
Kennedy
Berlin Wall
Berlin
Peking
New China News Agency
Clergymen Released in Park Desegregation Protest
Mass protest at a privately owned segregated park led to 174 arrestees freed in their own recognizance after a day in jail. Another 109, including several prominent clergymen, posted bonds for trespassing. A committee to desegregate Gwynn Oak Park was formed, with trials likely in late summer or fall and plans for another march.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Gwynn Oak Park
John Serio
Walter Carter
Congress of Racial Equality
James Price
Two Held for Huge Grocery Meat Thefts
Two men from Iowa City were bound over to the Johnson county grand jury after allegedly stealing thousands of dollars in meat and groceries from Curt Yocom's restaurant in Coralville. Fisher and Bullman, both employed at the restaurant, face charges as investigators say the thefts occurred for six to seven years. a third man, said to be the leader, fled to California.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Curt Yocom
Coralville
Johnson County
Grand Jury
Ralph E. Fisher
Donald Bullman
Donald Wilson
Dave Cook
John McGaffey
Fisher
Bullman
California
Meredith accuses own group of intolerance over rights clash
James Meredith denounces intolerance and bigotry among Black Americans after a hostile reception at a NAACP youth meeting in Chicago. He says the treatment shook him and questions leaders' conduct while Roy Wilkins defends the NAACP and mocks Meredith’s remarks.
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Chicago
UPI
James Meredith
University of Mississippi
Meredith
NAACP
Roy Wilkins
Red China Assails Khrushchev in Moscow Session
Red China renewed its criticism of Premier Khrushchev as a seven man mission to Moscow opened what appeared to be the first real working session on the ideological feud. The delegations met after a largely ceremonial organizational session on Friday and travelled to the Kremlin on Saturday.
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Moscow
Red China
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Woman Survives Week After Plane Crash In Grants NM
Frances Tweed of Van Nuys Calif survived a week in a semi desert area six miles southwest of Grants after a light plane crash that killed her husband Wendell age 47. Rescuers praised her stamina as CAP planes spotted her and she signaled SOS with clothing and rocks. She subsisted on Norwegian pastry and rainwater until a rainstorm provided water. She was treated for burns cuts and dehydration and spoke of her husband who died six hours after the crash. The couple had been visiting Tweed's mother in Le Grand and had left Marshalltown Iowa six days earlier with a refueling stop in Albuquerque.
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Grants
Santa Fe
Wendell
Maxine Ferguson
LeGrand
Tweeds
Denver
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Ukraine
Park Freed
By Frank Spencer
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
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Naacp Life
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Harry Moskos
N.M
Frances Tweed
van Nuys, Calif
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