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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1963
Page
1
A Las Vegas SUN publisher receives public thanks for devoting hours to mediate between Negro and white leaders. The note recalls a prior downtown settlement and questions where officials were while the publisher assisted. References to Do mestic Rabbit Week and local events frame a portrait of community effort amid local drama.
A federal judge found the head of the FBI's Chicago office guilty of criminal contempt for refusing to testify about FBI shadowing of reputed gang boss Sam Giancona.
Judge Grant Bowen set a death date for the Reno Torso Slayer after denying defense attorney Harry Anderson’s bid for a new trial. Anderson's motion claimed the court erred in instructing the jury on the mental illness definition.
The Defense Department said an American defected to Russia and claimed by the Soviets was an NSA employee named Viktor Norris Hamilton who was dismissed four years ago for psychiatric reasons. The spokesman cited mental health issues as the cause for his departure from the agency.
U.S. District Judge Richard B. Austin fined Marlin W. Johnson five hundred dollars and ordered his release on his own recognizance pending appeal. Johnson, following Attorney General Kennedy's orders, refused to answer questions about surveillance of Gianina and was held by U.S. marshals for about 15 minutes. This marks the third contempt finding against a Chicago FBI man in 14 years for defying court questions on FBI activities in hoodlum cases.
President Kennedy asked Congress to empower the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose binding railroad work rules for two years as unions and management negotiate. Labor Secretary Wirtz warned a strike could be prevented if Congress acts by July 29. Congress's mood was uncertain as the proposal faced action.
Alan Laythorpe, a Las Vegas SUN sportswriter since last year, is appointed sports editor by Bryn Armstrong. Ross Tucker resigns as sports editor effective today to take a publications coordinator post with the Clark County School District. Laythorpe, born in Leicester and a 29 year old U.S. Army veteran, previously ran a California weekly and covered major events including the Liszt Patterson fight at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Police detained over 300 demonstrators protesting job discrimination as they knelt and lay before cement trucks at a New York construction site. More than 200 were arraigned in Brooklyn Criminal Court and then paroled until a Friday hearing. Many returned to the site after release.
Roy Wilkins testified before the Senate Commerce Committee denying that the Negro rights protests are communist backed. He defended Kennedy civil rights policy and condemned demonstrations against police brutality discrimination in jobs voting and public facilities.
The NAACP executive committee called off a planned March on the Las Vegas Strip and Convention Center amid hotel industry assurances. Rev. Marion Bennett said the decision aimed at pursuing negotiations for better job opportunities rather than demonstrations. He prepared to inform gathered Negro groups at the venue.
Christine Keeler testified that Lord Astor paid rent for a flat she shared with another party girl as the vice trial of Dr. Stephen Ward opened in London. She linked Ward to a web of sex and high society that touched government crises and the Profumo affair.
North Las Vegas fire crews investigated an early morning blaze that gutted a new $100,000 concrete block warehouse on Losee Road and damaged contents valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars. Fire officials said the cause remains undetermined as investigators examine the interior origin.
Mostly clear today with scattered afternoon clouds and southwest winds of 15 to 25 mph. Highs reaching 108 and lows around 85, yesterday’s high 109. Noontime relative humidity not specified. Sunrise at 5 41, sunset at 7 53.
Merlinda Allaries, 39, of Henderson, died in a U S 93 collision with a trailer truck. Ernest Corvell, 40, of Victory Village Henderson, suffered minor injuries and was jailed for manslaughter investigation. Kenneth Place, 28, of Silolam Ark, and Jerry Farnsworth, 28, also from Silolam, were hurt.
Sonny Liston retained the heavyweight title by a first round knockout of Floyd Patterson at the Convention Center in 2 minutes 10 seconds. Liston dropped Patterson with a left hook then finished with an overhand right as Nevada’s gate record drew about 300000 dollars. Referee was Las Vegas official Harry Krause. judges were Anthony Smercina and David Zenoff.
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