Slaying Sparks Tide of Racial Violence in Augusta
In Augusta Georgia a white teen died and another was wounded in a shooting in a predominantly Negro area. Police arrested seventeen youths, mostly teens, amid a four day spike in disorder as officers and extra patrols seek to restore calm. A 16 year old identified as Leslie Lee Lukes was killed. 15 year old George Lewis was injured. Eddie Gay 16 escaped injury. Police recovered an air rifle and rocks from a car tied to the incident. Mayor Millard Beckum appealed for peace and pledged full resources.
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Georgia
Cacloads
Leslie
Lee Lukes
Laties
George Lewis
Lewis
Eddie Gay
Gay
Lattes
F. Beasley
Millard Beckum
M. C. Watkins
Dove builds nest on unarmed Polaris missile outside Smithsonian
A peace symbol dove has made a nest at the base of an unarmed Polaris missile displayed outside the Smithsonian Institution's arts and industries building. The perched nest adds a tourist attraction to the exhibit in Washington.
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Washington
Smithsonian Institution
Arts and Industry
Titov and Glenn to meet at U S space science meeting
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov and American astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. will exchange notes at a Washington, D.C. science symposium on April 30. Titov seeks a visa for April 30 to May 7, with both likely presenting papers on space flights including Glenn's Feb 20 triple earth orbit.
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Washington
Gherman Titov
John H. Glenn Jr
Outer Space
The
Washington Post
Maj. Titov
United States
State Department
Glenn
Third International Council
Soviet warns over Pacific nuclear tests at disarmament talks
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin threatened to walk out of the 17 nation disarmament conference if the United States proceeds with atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific within a week. He cited an irreparable blow to negotiations. Ambassador Arthur H. Dean said U S tests would proceed given Soviet intransigence. The Big Three debated the testing issue as Easter recess loomed, with only a tentative neutralist proposal accepted as a basis for talks.
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Valerian A. Zorin
United States
Pacific
Zorin
Arthur H. Dean
Dean
Soviet Union
Joseph B Godber
Britain
Zovin
Joan M. Hightower
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U.S
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Red China
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Peiping
China
Russia
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Easter Weather Outlook and Rain Possibility
The outlook centers on Easter Sunday with rain timing unclear. Saturday should be warmer with a high near 63, while Sunday and Monday turn cooler. If Saturday night brings rain, Sunday may stay crisp and clear. otherwise showers could dampen Easter bonnets. Tonight’s low near 8 under fair skies. Yesterday’s high was 60 at 1.45 pm and the overnight low 33 at 3 am today.
Major Suspended After DAR Talk
Maj. Archibald E. Roberts was suspended by the Army after delivering a DAR speech without Pentagon clearance. He labeled some officials as leftist, naming G. Mennen Williams and Los Angeles Mayor Samuel Yorty. Williams was abroad. Yorty denounced the charges as subversive.
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Archibald E. Roberts
Army
Pentagon
Edwin A. Walker
Roberts
Tion
Daughters of the American Revolution
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Samuel Yorty
Los Angeles
Yorty
Williams
Africa
Ft.Lee, Va
John B. Hines
Sen. Stennis
America
DAR
Young organ prodigy to play Easter mass in Syracuse
In Syracuse New York AP story nine year old John Cryer Sullivan will be organ soloist at his church Easter Sunday choir mass. Dressed in a red cassock he will perform Bach chorales Palestrina The Glory of the Magnificat and Concordia Laetitia. His father Donn Sullivan a bank clerk and church organist notes the boy is normal in interests and may choose candy store ownership as a future career.
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N.Y
John Cryer Sullivan
Palestrina
Donn Sullivan
John
Algerian Rebels Rise as Key Force in Exile
The Algerian rebel army in exile, disciplined and indoctrinated by political commissars, grows as the strongest force backing a provisional government. With about 30,000 in Tunisia and 12,000 in Morocco, heavy equipment from Soviet and Red Chinese factories, officers trained in the Middle East and behind the iron curtain, they plan to install the exile government after a self-determination referendum and later push revolutionary aims.
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LE Kef
Tunisia
Morocco
Algeria
Middle East
Tunisian
Mohammed Ben Bella
Moslems Flee Bengal Border Town After Violence
More than 1,000 Moslems fled from Malda in West Bengal to East Pakistan amid renewed Hindu Muslim violence this week. At least 12 Moslems were reported killed and eight wounded in the clashes.
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Calcutta
India
East Pakistan
West Bengal
Malda
Good Friday Observed Worldwide With Solemn Services
Christians mark Good Friday as the day Jesus died on a wooden cross two millennia ago. Across the world solemn prayers, bare altars, dark vestments, and three hour services recall the sacrificial act in awe and penitence before the hopeful Easter celebration of the Resurrection.
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Jon
Jesus
Integration Ordered In Reserves In US Armed Forces
Washington AP The Pentagon ordered rapid integration of all Negro and all white Reserve units to enforce Truman’s 1948 order. The National Guard is excluded, remaining under state governors. Ten states reportedly maintain segregated Reserve units, with full federal control across services yet questioned. Roswell Gilpatric issued the directive in April to Army Navy Air Force and Marine Corps units.
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Washington
Pentagon
National Guard
Defense Department
Roswell L. Gilpatric
Defense
Army
Navy
Air Force
Gilpatric
Truman
Regular Army
Marine Corps
Arrest of ex General Salan shocks Algiers
Bulletin from Algiers reports fugitive ex General Raoul Salan, leader of the Secret Army Organization, was arrested today in the heart of Algiers as French officials announced the development.
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Algiers
Raoul Salan
Secret Army Organization
Live Shell Found in Scrap Yard
A live 105 mm artillery shell, 15 inches long and weighing 30 pounds, was found in a scrap yard in Detroit. Police turned the shell over to the Army Ordnance Disposal Unit at Fort Wayne for safe disposal.
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Detroit
Ascrap Company
Army
Fort Wayne
Youths Killed Riding Bicycles After Snow Flurry
Three Belmont County boys David Eugene Vetula ten Roy Lee Thompson fifteen and Dennis James Thompson were struck and killed by a car near Holloway Ohio while hitching a ride after a snow flurry. Deputies said they were near Ohio 31 about 11 p.m. when the auto hit them as they loaded bicycles onto a truck. the driver did not see them.
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Ohio
Belmont County
Holloway
David Eugene Vetula
Roy Lee Thompson
Dennis James Thompson
Hoys
Depuuties
Todays Chuckle on Work Week Changes
A light take questioning calls for extensive changes to the work week. The writer suggests some workers may adapt without drastic shifts, critiquing notions of broader reform.
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