Saddler Wins In Havana Crowd Riots Follow Fight
Sandy Saddler defeated an opponent in Havana to a first round knockdown and eight count, sparking a riot as Cubans booed Sosa. Saddler returned to New York Thursday, plans a March 15 fight in Venezuela, and said he would not mind returning to Havana.
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Sandy Saddler
Sosa
Havana
Cuba
Palace
New York City
National Airlines
Saddler
Venezuela
Willard Haywood Convicted in Ten Robberies
Willard Haywood aged 34 of 2365 NW 155th street was found guilty on ten counts of burglary Tuesday and received a 14 year sentence from Criminal Court Judge Ben C. Willard.
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Willard Haywood
155Th St
Criminal Court
Ben C. Willard
Union Organizers Charged In Shooting At Liberty City
Winners in the Grade Mothers contest at Liberty City Primary School included Mrs. E Truesdale Merchant Mrs Dor is Johnson and others. Separate reports allege two local Workers Union organizers attacked Holton J Newbold 25 near a canal with five bullet wounds and accused rivals of past murders tied to laundry union tensions.
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Liberty City Primary School
Holton J. Newbeid
19Th St
Unnamed witnesses place Newbold at union office with two men
Witnesses testify Newbold left the union office at 431 NW 3rd Ave with two men around 9:15 Wednesday morning. Organizers were out on bail arranged by Frank Solomon, attorney for the Laundry union. James Nimmo, a local Negro organizer, was picked up and released without bond after denying any involvement.
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Newbold
3Rd Ave
Frank Solomon
Laundry Union
James Nimmo
Nimmo
Death Penalty Sought in Korea Hero Maj McGee
Maj Charles E McGee 31 of Chicago received the Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea for extraordinary heroism as Gen Earl E Sept the Fifth Air Force commander praised his actions. McGee, son of Rev Lewis A McGee, a University of Illinois graduate, is married with two children living in Champaign campus town. In Columbia South Carolina a bill introducing a death penalty for first degree lynching was filed by Rep Ernest Hollings defining mob violence causing death as a death or five to forty years hard labor with mercy option. second degree lynching would carry three to twenty years. A mob is two or more people acting without legal authority.
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Charles E. McGee
Chicago
South Dogpatch Air
Korea
Earl E. Sept
Fifth Air
Maj. McGee
Lewis A. McGee
Free Fellowship Church
University of Illlinois
Champaign
ANP
Columbia
S. C
House of Representatives
Ernest Hollings
Charleston
Wometco Benefit Show For LaFleur Family At Harlem Theatre
Wometco Theatres stage a 11 p.m. benefit at Harlem Theatre for the late Patrolman Leroy LaFleur. National stars Walter Winchell Sugar Ray Robinson Larry Steele Billy Daniels appear on stage. film I’d Climb The Highest Mountain with Susan Hayward and William Lundigan screens. All receipts go to the LaFleur family. General admission 1.50, reserved 2.50. Advance tickets at local drugstores and police precinct.
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Wometco Theatres
Harlem
Leroy la Fleur
Walter Winchell
Sugar Ray Robinson
Larry Steele
Miami Beach
Cotton Club
Billy Daniels
Miami
Copa City
Susan Hayward
William Lundigan
Officer LaFleur
Economy Drug Store
Peoples Drug Store
Sweeting and
North
Toback
Coconut Grove
Woman accused of murder after shooting Martha Ellis
Dotsie Lightfoot, 32, of 1421 NW Second Ave, was charged with first degree murder after reportedly going to Martha Ellis's home and shooting the 32 year old at 236 NW 13th St. Police say Lightfoot shot Ellis in her home.
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Dotsie Lightfoot
Second Ave
Herome
Martha Ellis
13Th St
Lightfoot
Police Seek Killers of Chef James McGriff
Police hunt a man who fatally shot James McGriff 27 after an argument at 1839 NW Second Court. McGriff, employed at a Miami Beach hotel, was found with gunshot wounds to the head and chest.
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James McGriff
Miami Beach
McGriff
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Lyachers
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Albertha Johnson
Murrell
YWCA
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Gloria Pullom
Interclub Press
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Sugar Ray
Walter Winghell
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