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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1966
Page
5
In a news conference Javits called himself a new face in national politics and backed Nelson Rockefeller for a third term while noting Nixon leads in polls. He said the party would benefit from new faces and stepped aside from 1966 gubernatorial ambitions.
A cigar band featuring Adolf Hitler prompted police attention after a Dortmund customer reported it. The Karlsruhe prosecutor's office opened a formal investigation into the image as part of a Dutch produced series titled Great Men and Tyrants used to boost sales of 714 cent cigars.
Western sources report air marshal Vladimir Sudets and Yevgeny Savitsky, longtime leaders of the Soviet surface to air missile armada, were absent from May Day celebrations and dropped from candidate central committee lists. They face possible political downgrading amid limited missile success in North Vietnam.
President Jomo Kenyatta told 20 000 at a May Day rally that the war is on against left wing dissidents tied to the Kenya People’s Party. He warned arrests and hard labor for interference, and said by election recalls may occur in early June with Odinga likely to keep Kisumu seat.
Fidel Castro leads a massive May Day march in Havana with 150 000 anticipated attendees. The parade features anti US slogans Vietnamese and Korean delegations sugar cane brigades and large portraits of Guevara Lenin and Castro while Castro plans to address the crowd from Revolutionary Square.
President Johnson met more than a dozen Viet Nam wounded at a church service and gave them a private White House tour. He introduced them to Defense Secretary McNamara, invited beagle play, and allowed photos with Courtenay Valenti.
A three story Bethnal Green building fire killed eight people, including a man who jumped from a window with clothes ablaze. The blaze started in a ground floor shop at about 1 a.m. and trapped occupants on the upper floor.
East German communists held a 30 minute May Day military parade in Berlin defying four power accords. West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt urged responsibility and warned of shooting deaths, while the West and Danish officials condemned the display as a violation and questioned East Germany’s legitimacy.
Senator Eugene J. McCarthy said the Senate Ethics Committee could act on Dodd related Europe assignments but has no firm ground to judge campaign finance transfers. He warned against applying undefined standards, while noting the ethics panel lacks precedent for some charges and suggesting regional audits for funds.
The body of Prince Friedrich of Prussia was found in the Rhine near Bingen after an apparent suicide. He faced a pending divorce suit with Lady Brigid Guinness and had reportedly been despondent over the marriage breakup. The 54 year old, born December 19 1911, was identified by items including cufflinks from King George V.
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