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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1963
Page
1
Thousands of anti-Castro Cuban demonstrators clash with riot police in Times Square area. Mounted units wear steel helmets as police attempt to contain street battles and protect bystanders. Injuries reported and arrests expected as chaos spreads across Manhattan.
Police killed a Black youth during a clash after rocks were thrown at white carloads following a church bombing. A dynamite bomb from a passing car hit a crowded Negro church, killing four girls in Sunday School and injuring dozens as thousands of Black residents flooded the area around the shattered building.
The dispatch identified the spy as Benjamin Acosta and reported he was tried and found guilty with a firing squad planned on Saturday. The communique said Acosta left Cuba last May after being trained in Washington by a U S Army officer, entered Cuba on July 21 aboard a vessel with weapons, and operated from a Havana base transmitting to Yankee intelligence in Miami before arrest by state security agents.
Two Chicago visitors in Las Vegas reported losing all their cash and valuables after a burglary in a Strip hotel room. Herman M. Harris and Harold R. Blankenstein said unsure how burglars entered through an unlocked patio door, taking money clips, chips, checks, bills, and credit cards before they flew back to Chicago.
The National Maritime Union accused First Assistant Engineer Louis Neurohr of arch segregationist acts, prompting United States Lines to cancel the America liner’s Europe voyage. NMU says complaints about Neurohr’s discrimination against Black and Puerto Rican crew persisted for about two years, affecting 960 passengers.
UPI reports Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. warned President Kennedy and Alabama Gov. George Wallace that federal action is urgent to avoid a racial holocaust in Birmingham and Alabama. He linked violence to the governor's actions and noted the blood of four children on their hands. No immediate White House comment.
London detectives detained two more men in the Glasgow to London mail train robbery case. The arrests bring the total to 13 in connection with the $7.5 million theft with six charged as participants and five charged with receiving stolen money. Seven defendants and a woman were to appear in court at Linslade near Aylesbury for their first full hearing.
State troopers and National Guard units were alerted after a dynamite bomb shattered the 6th Street Baptist Church during Sunday School. Governor Wallace announced a $5,000 reward and vowed every state enforcement agency would pursue those responsible as police clashed with angry mobs in Birmingham.
Partly cloudy today with isolated mountain thunderstorms. Winds 25 to 35 mph. Temperatures reach a high of 4 and a low of 68. Yesterday peaked at 97 and dropped to 69. Noontime humidity about 15 percent. Sunrise at 6 24 and sunset at 6 47.
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