Abernathy Says No Peace In N C Without Voter Settlement
In Plymouth North Carolina Rev Ralph D Abernathy SCLC leader warns that without solving voter registration problems there will be no peace. A Klan rally drew about 2000 as 60 patrol cars with 100 officers patrolled the area amid past racial clashes.
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Plymouth
N.C
Ralph D. Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
North Carolina
Mr. Abernathy
Ku Klux
Klan
Abernathy
David S. Coltrane
SCLC
Washington County
KKK Grand Dragon
Robert Jones
Foreign Aid Bill Advances Amid Viet Nam Build-Up
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 3.19 billion foreign aid bill through July 1. Senate leader Mansfield hopes for debate this week as Vietnam troop numbers surpass Johnson's 125,000 target, with unofficial estimates suggesting up to 50,000 more could be sent. A Poland Romania trade mission aims to boost American exports. 8600 former summer Post Office workers may have their names released upon request. Mississippi challenge in a closed House hearing accuses five white congressmen of illegal election due to Black voter exclusion.
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Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Loase
Johnson
India
Pakistan
Vietnam
U.S
Viet Nam
State Rusk
Rusk
Europe
Johnson Administration
Poland
Romania
White House
Post Office Department
John A. Gronouski
Gronouski
Congress
Mississippi
House
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Louisiana flood search widens for missing barge
At Baton Rouge officials launch a broad hunt for the missing barge under President Johnson’s orders. Navy destroyer Hyman and submarine-hunting planes join divers from the Navy and Army as authorities close riverside areas and stockpile gas masks amid flood dangers and disease threats.
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Paye Qne
Louisiana
Baton’ Rouge
President Johnson
Navy
Hyman
Batton Rouge
Norfolk
Army
Baton Rouge
White House
New Orleans
National Guard
Covington
Bogalusa
Franklinon
Hammond
LSU Chancellor assures safety as barge on campus proceeds
On the State University campus a barge owned by Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. remains in place without threat, with LSU Chancellor Cecil G Taylor confirming fall term registration and activities will proceed as scheduled. The vessel's voyage from Lake Charles to New Orleans was diverted to weather Betsys winds, disrupting river shipping from Baton Rouge to the Gulf. Chlorine, though highly poisonous, underpins plastics, explosives and dyes.
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LSU
Cecil G. Taylor
Taylor
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
New Orleans
Lake Charles
Betsy
Mississippi
Baton Rouge
Plaquemine
Gulf of Mexico
Turmoil as India and Pakistan trade claims in Punjab clashes
The article reports shifting claims from India and Pakistan amid heavy fighting on the western front. India says troops gained ground in Lahore and Sialkot sectors with air strikes near Kasur and heavy tank activity. Pakistan claims routs of two Indian divisions and territory held southwest of Amritsar, with raids causing civilian casualties in Jammu and other areas.
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Shastri
Pakistan
New Delhi
Lahore
Sialkot
Kasur
India
Amritsar
Punjab
Jammu
Kashmir
Gujarat
Jamnagar
Bombay
Arabian Sea
Suit argues voting rights vs voter challenges
Michie contends the right to vote should not be equated with barring others from the list. He calls the attempt to keep an allegedly unqualified voter from casting a ballot a perversion of the act. The judge says simplifying vote challenges to match ballot casting is practically impossible.
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Michie
United States Eyes 50,000 More Troops for Vietnam War
The Johnson administration signals potential addition of about 50,000 American troops to South Vietnam this year as the 1st Cavalry Division lands at Qui Nhon. Pentagon assessments vary on manpower needs while overall U.S. forces rise from 23,000 to over 107,000.
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U.S
South Viet Nam
Maxwell D. Taylor
John F. Kennedy
Taylor
Viet Nam
Johnson
Fforces
Pentagon
Guer
Porpoise Tuffy Joins Sealab 2 Aquanauts as Helper
A trained porpoise named Tuffy joined Sealab 2 aquanauts in La Jolla California to perform tasks of a watch dog guide and messenger. Navy torpedoman Kenneth Conda and John Reaves describe Tuffy as capable of tapping a diver to hand a life line. Tuffy measures seven feet and 270 pounds and bears scars from past shark encounters.
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Tuffy
Navy
Point Mugu
Calif
Io Sealab
Berkone
Luffy
Sealab
Conda
Canda
William H. Talbert Jr
Navy Mine Defense Laboratory
Panama City
Fla
Deputy Killed, Man And Wife Under Arrest
Greenville County deputy sheriff John P. Martin was found shot six times near Marietta, D C Late Monday night Vernon Clifton Carroll 24 and his wife Joyce Chapman 24 both of Greenville were arrested in Gate City Virginia Carroll allegedly lured the deputy to a sandpit and shot him Carroll signed a statement claiming her husband killed the deputy Sheriff J R Martin said the couple’s car was described and stopped without resistance.
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Greenville
S. C
Vernon Clifton Carroll
Greenville County
Gale City
Carrell
Joyce Chapman
Carroll
Chapman
J. R. Martin
John P. Martin
Marietta
D. C
Martin
Virginia
Gate City
Virginia Highway
Marlin
Georgia
Florida
Aid Bill Cuts Aid Totals in Foreign and Military Help
The measure would provide 2.023 billion dollars for economic foreign aid and 1.170 billion for military assistance, with 25 votes in the House. Totals fall short of the 3.360 billion dollars Congress had authorized for the foreign aid program in separate legislation.
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Pace One
House
Congress
Senate preserves dairy provision in farm bill amid labor clash
The Senate rejected a bid to strike the dairy clause sponsored by Senator Proxmire, voting 57 to 27 to keep a two-price milk program for city marketing areas. The foreign farm labor provision faced opposition from AFL-CIO and Atty. Gen. Katzenbach, while Republicans Javits and Case joined 43 Democrats in the defeat.
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Senate
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Senate Agriculture Committee
Spessard L. Holland
D-Fla
Afl-Cio
Atty
Nicholas Katzenbach
Humphrey
Jacob K. Javits
New York
Clifford P. Case
New Jersey
South
Eisenhower to Visit Richmond for Second Time in 1952 Race
President Eisenhower plans a return trip to Richmond as part of his 1952 campaign. He previously spoke from the Capitol portico in 1952 and visited Byrd Airport in 1956. An honor guard will greet him. Mrs. Eisenhower will not accompany.
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Eisenhower
Richmond
Capitol
Byrd Arport
Adlai Stevenson
State Capitol
Fisehower
Soviet urges cease-fire in India Pakistan conflict
The Soviet Union called for an immediate halt to India Pakistan fighting and warned the conflict could widen into a world crisis. Tass reiterated Moscow’s alarm, urging Thant's cease-fire efforts and cautioning that outside forces may pull more states into the hostilities.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
India
Pakistan
China
Himalayas
United States
Kashmir
Viet Nam
U.N
U Thant
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Alexei N. Kosygin
Thant
Tass
Izvestia
Passes and guards mark postflood New Orleans relief area
Mood armed guardsmen guard stricken zones with orders to shoot trespassers without passes. At aid stations residents describe evacuations, loss, and resilience while officials enforce identification and return passes for City Parish access and offshore work, amid widespread wreckage and halted ferries.
U S backs UN peace push on Kashmir and India Pakistan
U S officials downplay diversion from Vietnam while backing extreme limits to support a U N Security Council peace effort. Fulbright notes no direct U S intervention, Rusk reaffirms plebiscite for Kashmir, and McConaughy seeks permits to airlift about 1 500 Americans from Lahore and Dacca as fighting continues.
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Viet Nam
U.S
China
Peking
Rusk
Senate
United States
U.N. Security Council
J. W. Fulbright
D-Ark
Fulbright
State Department
Walter C. McConaughy
Pakistan
Lahore
Dacca
Early U.S. Troop Landing in Viet Nam North Saigon Area
U S military officials reported 107600 troops in South Viet Nam with advance elements of the 1st Cavalry landing at Qui Nhon 260 miles northeast of Saigon. The division trained for guerrilla warfare uses helicopters and bases at Ft. Benning. Buckner and Darby ships carried 2180 and 2705 troops respectively as typhoon delayed others.
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U.S
South Viet Nam
1St Cavalry
Qui Nhon
Saigon
South China Sea
Ft. Benning
Buckner and
Darby
Viet Nam
Mekong River
Soc Trang
North
U.S. Army
173rd_ Airborne
Bien Hoa
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Dean Rusk
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Talbert
Ike
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Himalayan
Adele Harris
Chalmette
St. Bernard
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Joanne
Sam
Belle Chasse
Plaquemines Parish
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Danville
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