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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1965
Page
6
Philippine police and Air Force units joined a manhunt Saturday for gunmen who robbed the NCOs club of $170,000 from a U.S. enlisted man in Clark Air Base Philippines.
Belgrade Yugoslavia reports indicate Tito favors a halt in bombing North Viet Nam as a prelude to peace talks. Harriman and Tito, with U S ambassador Burke Elbrick, meet again after their first discussion. Shastri joins via report that a multilateral meeting is urgently needed to advance peace efforts.
The report cites Traffic Commissioner Henry Barnes firing six probationary meter maids for bulging figures and warning four others to reduce or resign. Barnes counters only two were dismissed, while supporters defend the women as attractive.
Three large blazes erupted within six hours at three company buildings, damaging nearly $1 million and injuring at least one firefighter. About 200 fire crews battled the fires, moving between incidents as flames flared.
Geraldine Chaplin marked her 21st birthday in Madrid and said she will keep American citizenship with a British passport. She refuted reports she would renounce her U S nationality on reaching adulthood. In Moscow, doctors described Spirali Mislimov, a 160 year old man of the mountain, as having vital signs like a 31 to 40 year old.
An ex convict posing as a federal narcotics agent shot 44 year old off duty officer Maitland Mercer in Lavelle's Bar and Grill Brooklyn. Another off duty officer patrolman Kelvin Mills killed the gunman Kadlub on the street. Mercer died at Monuments Hospital about an hour after the shooting. Homicide detectives said Kadlub had been drinking and claimed to be a narcotics agent planning an arrest.
In Gatlinburg Tennessee three men were banned from Great Smoky Mountains National Park for five years in connection with a fatal bear shooting. Daniel Luther Ball, 30, of Bryson City North Carolina, was also sentenced to 60 days in jail. Two Bryson City companions were charged with drunkenness and received 60 day suspended sentences.
The nearly nude body of a 2?-year-old girl found in a shattered second story room of an abandoned house. Police say she appeared raped and had been drinking. Identified as Melvina Nickalhorne, relatives confirmed the name. Autopsy pending. death cause undetermined.
Dormmates of the slain coed were questioned as investigators noted the attackers were drawn to the scene by police sirens. Authorities described severe tracks near where the struggle occurred on periwinkle. witnesses, reluctant to identify themselves, feared retaliation by the slaver if named.
In London prime minister Harold Wilson ignores a left wing Labor MP William Warbey who urged resignation to back a neutral Viet Nam policy. Warbey’s threat risks Wilson’s tiny three vote margin as Edward Heath heads Conservative leadership challenges and Liberal support looks to prop up the government. Meanwhile a separate campus murder case unfolds as a student Miss Evans is murdered near Coker Arboretum with police detailing the attack and roommate testimonies.
Washington UPI report says civil rights leaders propelled Johnson voting rights bill toward final approval this week. A House-Senate compromise on poll taxes broke a potential deadlock, with passage expected in both chambers by Wednesday. The measure would outlaw poll taxes in several states and add federal registration of Black voters in seven southern states. The legislation marks the strongest civil rights voting rights effort since Reconstruction.
In a St Paul area case, Dennis Linehan confessed to choking 14 year old Barbara Iverson to death during a window peeping raid. He says he forced his wife to help dispose of the body near their home and later buried it in a dry well.
In Americus Georgia a clash outside a supermarket erupted as about a dozen white protesters charged into roughly 24 civil rights demonstrators. The melee left one Negro boy bloodied and several demonstrators battered while state troopers watched.
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