700 Negroes Arrested in Dallas County Demonstration
Associated Press reports 300 teen-age Negroes were arrested outside the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma for a right to vote protest led by Sheriff James G. Clark. Dozens sang freedom songs as they linked arms, while authorities warned of contempt of court penalties if defiance continued.
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Dallas County
Jim Clark
Rex Thomas
Associated Press
Selma
Ala
James G Clark
Marion
Perry County
James G. Clark
James A. Hare
Hare
Local clubs schedule meetings and fire report note
The Mathias home hosts a Thursday 7 30 p m club meeting with Rev J M Holland speaking on dahlias. North Alabama Shrine 7 meets Friday 7 30 p m at the Masonic building with initiation ceremony. Decatur Fire Department reports no calls since 5 a m Tuesday while state troopers note no accidents Tuesday after 20 wrecks on Monday. See DIARY On Page 2.
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Charles Mathias
Summerlane SE
J. M. Holland
Dahlias
North Alabama
Order of the White Shrine of Jerusalem
Masonic
Decatur Fire Department
Former Private Charged in Passport Sale to Soviets
A former Army private, Paul Carl Meyer, 25, is charged by a federal grand jury with four counts of violating the passport law for delivering 15 U S passports to Soviet agents in East Berlin. He was arrested in Chicago after living with his wife in a $95-a-month apartment.
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Chicago
United States
Berlin
Paul Carl Meyer
Yolanda
Meyer
News Distributing
U.S. Atty
Edward V. Hanrahan
Hanrahan
South America
East Berlin
Justice Department
Faithfulness Doubts and Christian Guidance
A reader asks why she doubts her faithful husband and fears infidelity. The response offers two possible causes including personal non Christian standards or suppressed desire redirected to the husband. It urges Christian influence and commitment to Jesus Christ as remedy.
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S.T
Jesus Christ
Christ
God
Bundy Plans An Appraisal In Viet Nam
McGeorge Bundy, top White House adviser on foreign policy, heads a team to Saigon for a fresh appraisal of South Viet Nam. He will confer with Ambassador Maxwell D. Taylor while Johnson seeks updates on the ouster of Premier Tran by Lt. Gen Nguyen Khanh amid a political lull during lunar New Year celebrations.
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Malcolm W. Browne
Saigon
South Viet Nam
McGeorge Bundy
White House
Bundy
Johnson
Nguyen Khanh
Washington
Maxwell D. Taylor
Taylor
Viet Nam
Parking Ordinance To Get Full Study
The Decatur Planning Commission moves toward final consideration of off street parking changes for new and existing structures in residential and nonresidential zones. City Planner Garry Voketz will have the proposal drafted by City Atty A J Coleman. The commission also re elected its officers and denied two zoning changes in SE Decatur.
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George Biggers
Ill
Decatur Planning Commission
Garry Voketz
Voketz
A. J. Coleman
Rutlerge Thomas
J. O. Colvard
Gene H. Lentz
Austinville Rd
Corrine Ave
4Th
6Th Avenues
Sherman, St
Gordon
Sukarno urges US withdrawal from South Vietnam
Indonesian President Sukarno told worshippers at the presidential palace mosque that the United States should pull out of South Vietnam and let Asians handle their own affairs. He cited the Sukarno Macapagal doctrine urging Asian consultations to resolve the crisis and criticized American intervention as the cause of the conflict.
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Antoine Yared
Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
United States
South Viet Nam
Presidential Palace
Macapagal
National Press Club
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
No Immediate Indonesian Atomic Bomb Threat Seen
U S officials say Indonesia unlikely to build an atomic bomb soon, though with aid the nation could detonate a rudimentary device in the future. Brig. Gen. Harto no in Jakarta asserts about 200 scientists are developing the program and promises a surprise at Armed Forces Day in October.
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Elton C. Fay Washington
US S
Indonesia
Hartono
Jakarta
State Department
Offi
Lingo Hospitalized in Selma for Chest Pains
Col. Al Lingo Alabama public safety director was admitted to Memorial Hospital in Selma Tuesday night with chest pains. He is under observation and will undergo an electrocardiogram as doctors monitor his heart. A nurse reported a good night and that he slept well.
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Selma
Ala
Col
al Lingo
Alabama Public Safety Director
Memorial Hospital
Lingo
Stocks and Commodities Mixed as Markets Hold Steady
New York AP reports mixed stocks with active trading, bonds firm, and quiet cotton. Chicago grains rise on export buying as soybeans rally. hog prices slip 25 to 50 cents, top $18.00 while slaughter steers hold at about $25.75.
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New York
Chicago
White House monitors Selma crisis as arrests rise
AP reports President Johnson is kept informed on the tense situation in Selma Alabama where hundreds of Negroes have been arrested amid a mass voter registration drive. Governors and officials react as events unfold with national implications.
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Washington
White House
Johnson
Selma
Ala
Another UT Deaths Prompt Calls For Preventive Measures
Knoxville leaders react to a snowball fight at the University of Tennessee that left two or three dead. Marnell Goodman 18 Swampscott Mass was fatally shot after his vehicle was hit with snowballs. Walter Lee Yow 55 Albemarle NC died after ear injuries from snowball hits. Roland F Lawson 58 Knoxville died of a heart attack seconds after his car was pelted with snowballs.
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Knoxville
Roland F. Lawson
Floors Cleaned and Peliched-Ma Water & Mop New Way
A compact item notes floor cleaning work and a new water and mop method introduced by Glenn Gatieneter. The brief mentions Peliched-Ma water and a refreshed cleaning approach.
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New Way
Glenn Gatieneter
Rival Forces Clash in Vientiane Street Riots
In the Laotian capital Gen Kouprasith Abhay’s army backed by the High Command fights police and paramilitary units. Casualties are reported on both sides with at least eight dead and one hospital treating 30 wounded. The Phouma regime faction battles Col Bounlet Sycossie’s revolutionary committee near the government radio station as artillery opens the clash.
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Kouprasith Abhay
Kouprasith
Vientiane
U.S
Phouma
Bounlet Sycossie
Com
Sheriff Hires Investigator For Morgan County
Donald Hobby a veteran law enforcer for 17 years began work today as a special investigator for Morgan County Sheriff’s force announced Sheriff Thornton Fleming Hobby formerly radio operator for the Decatur Alabama Highway Patrol He also served with the Georgia Highway Patrol as a governor’s bodyguard and is noted as Morgan County’s first official crime investigator
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Donald Hobby
Morgan County
Thornton
Dick) Fleming
Hobby
Decatur
Alabama Highway Patrol
Georgia Highway Patrol
Fleming Othe Decatur
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