Bogalusa Slaying Case Spars With Racial Tensions
Bogalusa police chief said the nighttime slaying of Clarence Triggs was not a racial murder and predicted an arrest within 48 hours. Civil rights leaders decry a police information blackout as they plan night marches. Triggs widow could not identify the body.
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Bogalusa, la
UPI
Bogalusa
Claxton Knight
Clarence Triggs
Knight
Triggs
East Louisiana
Robert Hicks
Bogalusa Civic and Voters League
Tri
Armed Services
Japanese Cabinet Shuffled in Move to Balance Factions
Premier Eisaku Sato reshuffled the cabinet adding twelve newcomers while keeping six ministers including Foreign Minister Etsusaburo Shinna. Two ministers moved to new posts as part of an annual renewal amid Diet dissolution rumors.
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Tokyo
UPI
Eisaku Sato
Liberal Democratic Party
Etsusaburo Shinna
Sato
Hayao Ikeda
Diet
LSD Fatal Jump At Berkeley Party
Berkeley police report a 15 year old youth Ver non P Cox died after taking LSD at a neighbor’s apartment party. He reportedly believed he could fly and leaped from a third story window as witnesses, also under the influence, could not offer consistent testimony. He died on arrival at Herrick Memorial Hospital.
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Berkeley
Calif
UPI
Vernon P. Cox
Cox
Europe
Herrick Memorial Hospital
Klansmen Face Federal Charges in Slaying
Fifteen alleged Ku Klux Klan members were to be arraigned in Hattiesburg Mississippi on federal conspiracy and intimidation charges in the Jan. 10 firebomb slaying of Vernon F Dahmer Sr. The indictments name Sam Bowers as imperial wizard and allege a conspiracy to intimidate black citizens voting in Mississippi elections.
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Hattiesburg, Miss
UPI
FBI
Hattiesburg
Mordaunt Hamilton Sr
Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer Sr
Mississippi
Dahmer
NAACP
Burns
Hamilton
White Knights
Ku Klux Klan
Sam Bowers
Imperial Wizard
Wilson Accused of Lunacy Over Wage Price Freeze
London Conservatives denounce Prime Minister Harold Wilson for a wage price freeze and tax plan they call a breach of faith with the electorate. Iain MacLeod voices a twin attack on six month wage and price controls and a six month extension, plus a selective employment tax.
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London
API
Harold Wilson
Iain MacLeod
Labor
MacLeod
Wilson
House of Commons
Liberal Party
Robbery at Jefferson's Super Department Store
A six-member gang robbed Jefferson's Super Department Store in North Miami Beach using torches and drills to force open safes in the credit and jewelry sections. They overpowered a guard and escaped with up to $100,000 in cash and jewelry while lookouts coordinated from the parking lot.
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North
Miami Beach
Fla
UPI
Jefferson’s
Arthur Porep
Chinese Workers Get Communism Refresher
The NCNA reported 1,200 factory directors and party secretaries in China completed a two month study course at the Taching oilfield to cement Maoist leadership in industry. The course emphasized absolute party control and building a proletarian industrial army.
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Tokyo
CPI
China
New China News Agency
NCNA
Taching
Mao Tsetung
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Wallace bid seen as boon to Johnson in 1968 race
Alabama Governor George Wallace plans to run in 1968, a move Rep. James D. Martin said would split the conservative vote in the South and secure President Johnson’s reelection. Martin, Republican gubernatorial nominee, noted Wallace’s entry would affect the fall contest against Lurleen Wallace.
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Washington
UPI
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Johnson
James D. Martin
House
Wallace
South
Martin
Lurleen
Picketing of CORE Called Off in Maryland Court Ruling
In Baltimore the National States Rights Party shelved plans to picket CORE headquarters after a court injunction barred demonstrations. NSRP leaders like Joseph Carroll faced rioting charges alongside Connie Lynch and Richard Norton amid weeklong tensions and a Friday injunction restraining further rallies.
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Baltimore
UPI
National States Rights Party
NSRP
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Joseph Carroll
Connie Lynch
Carroll
Richard Norton
U S Jewish Leaders Warn Against Dialogues with Churches
At the World Jewish Congress opening in Brussels Nahum Goldmann warns that overzealous dialogues with Christian churches risk assimilation and eroding Jewish selfhood, especially among youth, stressing Judaism as a distinct people not a religious branch. Abba Eban attends amid 500 leaders from 50 nations.
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Brussels
UPI
United States
World Jewish Congress
Congress
Nahum Goldmann
Abba Eban
Willy de Clercq
Goldman
Chicago Civil Rights Marches Lead to Arrests in Gage Park
Civil rights demonstrators planned a prayer vigil in the all white Gage Park area after marching along Kedzie Avenue and picketing a real estate firm. About 500 confronted jeers and projectiles as nine white youths were arrested for disorderly conduct and nine others injured including Rev. Jesse D. Jackson. Police stationed 300 officers in riot gear to police the area.
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Chicago
UPI
Southwest Side
Jesse D. Jackson
Martin Luther King
Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
King
Southern Christian Leadership
Gage Park
Kedzie Ave
Marquette Park
Pakistan claims India plans first underground nuclear test
The United Nations reported Pakistan accused India of planning an underground nuclear explosion to circumvent the Moscow Treaty. The letter warned of immediate repercussions to Asia’s balance of power as China massed troops near India. An Indian spokesman declined comment.
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Pakistan
India
United Nations, N.Y
UPI
Thant
Disarmament Committee
Geneva
U.N
Asia
China
Kashmir
Red China
Lake Search For Missing Boy Near Fallon
Draggin and diving teams worked at Lake Shontan west of Fallon to find 5 year old Kurt Lewind of Sut Valley near Reno who disappeared Saturday while wading. The Churchill County Sheriff’s Office identified him. search continued yesterday and would resume today if no clue emerged.
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Fallon
UPI
Lake Shontan
Here
Churchill County
Kurt G. Lewind
Sut Valley
Reno
Indians Stole 109 Bases Last Season in Cleveland
The Cleveland Indians collected 109 stolen bases last season the most by a Cleveland team since 1917 when the Tribe swiped 211. Key figures include the team leading speedsters and the era comparison to 1917.
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Cleveland
UPI
Cleveland Indians
Tribe
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