Harlem clash over arrest warrants and civil rights figures
Sheriff McCloskey faces potential legal action over attempts to arrest Adam Clayton Powell. Harlem officials warn liability rests with the sheriff if any Sunday arrest occurs. Powell plans to return to preach at Abyssinian Baptist Church as Carmichael headlines a Vanderbilt protest event with MLK and Strom Thurmond in attendance.
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New York
UPI
John J. McCloskey
Harlem
Adam
Powell
Henry Calyton Powell
Harlem Williams
McCloskey
Palm Sunday
Williams
Adam Clayton Powell
Ately
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Nashville
Militant
Tor Stokley Carmichael
Congress
Vanderbilt Universin Office
Carmichael
Martin Luther King
Strom
Thurmond
R-S. C
Bob Eager
Black Power Speakers Set to Address Vanderbilt Campus
A spokesman for Black Power and James Carmichael will speak at Vanderbilt. Chancellor Alexander Heard calls the talks timely and revealing as the speakers present differing views on how Negroes should engage with contemporary America.
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Black Power
South
Impact
Carmichael
Vanderbilt
Alexander Heard
King
America
Education Budget Up To Legislature Ellington
Gov. Buford Ellington urged Tennessee lawmakers to give education the largest share of the proposed 2 billion dollar budget. He outlined 37 million more at state level for 1967-68 and 45 million for 1968-69 to advance education, stressing it benefits every child and requires funding. He warned critics and urged passage to avoid harming teachers and students.
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Nashville
UPI
Buford Ellington
Tennessee
Education
Ellington
Tenessee Education Association
Tempers Flare In Speck Trial In Peoria
Inside the Speck murder trial in Peoria Illinois tensions rose as lawyers and the judge clashed over jury selection and news coverage. Judge Herbert C Paschen criticized press restraints while public defender Gerald W Getty accused the court of re brainwashing jurors. The session recessed after heated chambers arguments with a juror noting difficulty finding neutral, intelligent prospects.
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Peoria
UPI
Richard Speck
Illinois Supreme
Herbert C. Paschen
Gerald W. Getty
Edmund J. Rooney
Chicago Daily News
Getty
Paschen
Rooney
Bawling Brawling Open St Patrick’s Day Fete
Dublin revelers toast St Patrick with stout and songs as shamrock prices rise and crop shortages hit. Mention of Joyce Moore Burke Emmet Kennedy and Nelson statue on OConnell Street recalls past pageantry and a recent IRA incident.
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Dublin
UPI
Erin
St.Patrick
Lord Nelson
O'Connell Street
Joyce
Moore
Burke
Emmet
Kennedy
O’connell
Irish ‘Republican Army
Nixon Eyes Sino-Soviet Frontier Visit
Nixon, in Moscow after Rome, plans trips to Alma Ata and Tashkent in Soviet Central Asia to view the Sino-Soviet border. He notes the Kremlin’s snub and says an opposition party is not recognized abroad. Alma Ata sits near China, Tashkent is a major Central Asian city.
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Moscow
UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Kremlin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Siberia
Romed
Nixon
GOP
Alma Ata
Tashkent
Central Asia
Russia
Kazakhstan
China
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