White Students Strike Threaten Integration at Van Buren HS
About 60 white male students struck to oppose integration at Van Buren High School in Arkansas. They threatened to remove 13 Black students within six days and burned a Black effigy on the school grounds. Dozens later joined in, then fled from a night watchman’s spotlight before returning to light the figure and torch it. The event followed earlier threats and reduced Black attendance to three students. Public figures responded as officials were telegraphed for help.
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van Buren, Ark
UPI
van Buren High School
S.O.B
Roger Williams
Spikers
Orval E. Faubus
Little Rock
Faubus
United States sues to enforce Negro vote rights
The U S government filed a civil rights suit in federal court in Columbus Georgia to force Terrell County registrars to allow qualified Negroes to register to vote. The suit cites stark registration disparities between Negro and white voters and seeks an injunction against county officials.
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Washington
UPI
van Buren
Georgia
Justice Department
Columb
Bus
Terrell
Court Overrules San Benito Right to Work Ordinance
The California State District Court of Appeal ruled the San Benito County right to work ordinance unconstitutional and against state public policy. The three-judge panel, unanimous, said such ordinances would destroy collective bargaining in California. The ruling contrasts with Proposition 18 on the November ballot, a hot issue between Governor Knowland and Attorney General Brown. Brown approved the ruling in a Stockton visit.
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San Francisco
State District Court of Appeal
San Benito
California
U.S
William F. Knowland
Acity
Edmund G. Brown
Knowland
Union Shop
Brown
Stockton
Rivers Wins Alaska Democratic House Nomination
Ralph Fr Rivers former Alaska attorney general from Fairbanks secured the Democratic nomination for the U S House in the fall election. Absentee ballots from Anchorage and other totals gave Rivers a wide margin over Raymond Plummer of Anchorage with only small precincts unreported. Rivers 55 will face Republican commissioner of labor Henry Bynson in November.
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Juneau
Alaska
Ralph FR Rivers
Fairbanks
U. S. House of Representatives
Rivers
Plummer
P Rivers
Henry Bynson
Territory
Oi Bor
Washington
India to Receive 40 Million Pound Aid in Seven Months
LONDON experts report that Britain has agreed to lend India 40 million pounds in financial aid over the next seven months. The accord signals resumed financial support amid postwar reconstruction efforts and seeks to bolster India's economic stability through targeted assistance.
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India
London
Britain
Sarah Vaughan Wed Clyde Atkins in City Hall Ceremony
Blues singer Sarah Vaughan married Clyde B. Atkins taxicab fleet owner in a City Hall ceremony Thursday.
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Sarah Vaughan
Clyde B. Atkins
Teamster Bond Policy Set By Hoffa For All Union Employees
Union leader James R Hoffa announced that every employee on the Teamster payroll will be covered by 30000 dollar bonds to safeguard members against dishonesty and protect union funds. The move follows probes by Senate investigators as monitors prepare for actions on a potential convention and clean up commission.
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Washington
UPI
James R. Hoffa
Hoffa
Senate
Federal District
EF. Dickinson Letts
Teamsters
George H. Bender
Ohio
Martin F. O'Donoghue
O'Donoghue
Letts
UCLA Prof and Family Safe After Mountain Search
A UCLA history professor Clinton Nelson Howard his wife and two 13 year old children were found safe after a daylong mountain hike in the Appalachian region. They had become lost on a trail near Bolton Vermont while seeking a hiking partner and were aided by bloodhounds and helicopters as police maintained a sleepless watch. They regretted a delayed return and planned to drive home at once. Meanwhile a separate case saw George Edward Smith Jr. jailed for 1 to 10 years after admitting theft of three motorcycles in July.
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Bolton
White Ichian Gap
Clinton Newton
Howard
Los Angeles
Burlington
Clinton Nelson Howard
Aps
Clinton
Cofsister
California
Boston
George Edward Smith Jr
Hollywood
Ralph K. Piersor
Smith
Patients Accuse Doctor Posing As Healer In Chicago
Seventeen people filed complaints against a 31 year old former mental patient who pretended to be Dr Edwin Galfier and ran an office from a pizza restaurant. He treated dozens and at least five died with two exhumations. An inquest is set for today as investigations widen into dubious doctor referral networks in Chicago.
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Chicago
UPI
Peter J. Frank
Edwin Gal‘fier
sEdward J. McNamara
Frank
Chicago Medical Society
State Department of Registration and Education
Segregated Virginia School Opening Authorized By Judge
Federal Judge Albert W. Bryan authorized opening Virginia schools in the Washington area on a segregated basis pending a U S Supreme Court decision in the Little Rock case. The governor and local officials were told to rely on the state pupil placement board to assign pupils, with schools entering as segregated.
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United Press International
Virginia
Washington, D. C
U. S. Supreme ‘Court
Little Rock
Albert
W. Bryan
Alexandria
Bryan
J. Lindsay Almond
State
Almond
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