Two Americans Hanged in Nassau Bahamas for Murder
Alvin Table Jr. and Billy Wayne Lees, the first Americans executed in the Bahamas, were hanged at Nassau Prison for the 1960 slaying of Florida charter captain Angus Boatwright. The pair, aided by Barbara Table, hijacked the Muriel III after stealing a Key West cruiser, leading to a boat chase and a fatal gunfight. They appealed to the Privy Council in London but were unsuccessful.
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Flor
Alvin Table Jr
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Angus Boatwright
Islamorada
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Elbow Key
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Barbara
San Antonio
Tex
Boatwright
Kent Hokanson
Lees
Wright
Coast Guard
Miami
Torrance, Calif
Etowah, Ark
Privy Council
London
Shepard Returns Home With Family
America's first space man Alan B Shepard Jr returns to Virginia Beach with his wife Louise and their children after a brief spaceflight. NASA declined to specify departure or reveal plans, leaving officials surprised by the quiet homecoming at Langley AFB.
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Alan B. Shepard Jr
Virginia Beach
Shepard
Space
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Atlantic Ocean
Louise
Langley Afb
Washington
Cape Canaveral
Langley Field
Langley
French scientist testifies on abuse of Jewish children in wartime France
Prof. Georges Wellers, a survivor and scientist, describes in court how Nazi authorities degraded and transported thousands of Jewish children from Drancy to Auschwitz. He says deportations from France peaked in summer 1942 and that 40,000 to 50,000 Jews were deported overall.
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Auschwitz
Adolf Eichmann
France
Georges Wellers
French National Medical Research Laboratory
Sorbonne
Wellers
Eichmann
Berlin
Drancy
Buchenwald
Rebels Refuse ICC Meeting in Laos Ceasefire Talks
Rebel officials at Hin Heup refuse to recognize the International Control Commission and say they have no instructions. Indian Canadian and Polish officers on the ICC decline comment and will report to chairman Samar Sen. Delay to Geneva conference possible due to rebel objections to the truce commission arrival.
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Vientiane
Laos
International Control Commission For Laos
Hin Heup
Geneva
ICC
Udon Sananikone
Three-Nation Commission
Commission
Samar Sen
Truce Commission
Hitler's Deputy Reportedly Was In Argentina
The Argentine former ambassador to Israel said Martin Bormann, Hitler’s deputy, was in Argentina under an alias and later disappeared into Brazil after Eichmann’s capture in 1960. He also claimed Joseph Mengele was in Argentina and vanished when sought by authorities.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Argentina
Martin Bormann
Hitler
Adolf Eichmann
Gregorio Topolevsky
Bormann
Brazil
Eichmann
Topolevsky
Mengele
Cooley Seniority Priority in North Carolina Redistricting
Raleigh reports Rep. David Britt urged the House Districts Committee to value Harold Cooley's seniority in redrawing North Carolina's 12 districts to 11. He warned opposition to Cooley could jeopardize the tobacco interests and Agriculture Committee chairmanship. Legislators did not act on Kemp and Hardy redistricting proposals, which pair Cooley vs Fountain and Whitener vs Jonas.
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Robeson County
David Britt
House
Congressional Districts Committee
Harold Cooley
Britt
Cooley
North Carolina
Agriculture Committee
Ed Kemp
Guilford
L. H. Fountain
Herbert Hardy
Greene
Basil Whitener
Charles R. Jonas
Reapportion Bill Approved by House Committee
The House Districts Committee reported favorably on automatic reapportionment after each federal census. Rep Ed Kemp Guilford sponsored the measure assigning reapportionment to the House speaker. Because it amends the constitution, voters must approve at the polls.
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Raleigh
House Congressional Districts Committee
House
Ed Kemp
Guilford
Roger Jackson
Hertford
Johnson Flies To Asia On U. S. Peace Mission
Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson departs for a two week trip to Southeast Asia with letters from Kennedy pledging support. Stops include South Viet Nam Philippines Formosa Thailand India and Pakistan with a possible Greece stop. He travels aboard a modified Boeing 707 with peace mission markings.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Southeast Asia
U.S
Johnson
Kennedy
South Viet Nam
Philippines
Formosa
Thailand
India
Pakistan
Greece
Manila
Bangkok
Rawal
Pindi
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
United States
Laos
Cambodia
Burma
Geneva
New Delli
Jawaharlal Nehru
Johnson to signal bigger U S aid to South Viet Nam
President Johnson plans to tell Diem the United States will raise arms aid by about 40 million dollars to boost South Viet Nam's 150000 strong army by 20000. U S troops are not on the table without a Diem request. The step aims to counter Communist guerrillas expanding from North Viet Nam and surrounding regions.
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South Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
U.S
Stamens fPeyaedis
Indochina Republic
Tottering
Johnson
Diem
United States
Washington
Red
Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
NATO ministers urge Portugal to shift Africa policy
In Oslo NATO ministers press Portugal to revise its colonial policy amid Angola bloodshed. Franco Noguera hears that Western unity requires embracing African nationalism and resisting hardline colonial stances. Lange Rusk and others urge dialogue with African states to maintain Western influence.
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Norway
Portugal
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Angola
Congo
Franco Noguera
Africa
United Nations
United States
U.N
Noguera
Britain
France
Halvard Lange
Harold Macmillan
Tennessee mother named American Mother of 1961 at luncheon
Louise Sevier Giddings Currey 58 of Lookout Mountain Tennessee is honored as American Mother of 1961. She fostered hundreds of needy children and reared her own six, with home tutoring for ill children and work improving housing and treatment for delinquent and dependent youths. She leads a residential center for disturbed children and a home for juveniles returning from vocational training.
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New York
Tennessee
Louise Sevier Giddings Currey
Lookout Mountain
Tenn
District of Columbia
Puerto Rico
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
American Mothers Committee, Inc
Tighter Governing of State Art Museum Gets Support
RALEIGH AP. Support grows for placing the State Art Museum under tighter state government control after endorsements from the art society and a three hour hearing. Sen. Robert Lee Humber said the art society approved the legislation but seeks changes including expanding art society trustee appointments from one to four.
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Study Commission
Art Society Direc
Tors
Robert Lee Humber
Pitt
Art Society
Humber
House
Senate
Shepard's Next Space Goal Aims Higher Orbits
The United States celebrates Cmdr Alan B. Shepard Jr. as the first American in space while planning future flights. Space chief James Webb warns of possible spectacular failures in unmanned test rockets before more ambitious missions. Shepard describes his 115 mile voyage in calm terms and confirms no desire to switch from Project Mercury.
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Washington
Alan B. Shepard Jr
Shepard
America
Space Agency
James E. Webb
Navy
Space
Congress
Cape Canaveral
Soviet Union
Yuri Gagarin
Thea Aanth
Gagarin
Kennedy rights bills may wait on rule change
Senator Mansfield signaled a delay on major civil rights bills as the Kennedy administration seeks four Senate rule revisions to ease filibusters. He stressed action on civil rights would follow before finalizing the broader administration program, with executive moves already pushing against racial discrimination.
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Kennedy
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
President Kennedy
Democratic
Congress
White House
House
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Emanuel Celler
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