Detroit Mayor Criticized For Not Welcoming Negro Delegates
AP report notes Thurgood Marshall challenging Detroit Mayor Louis C. Miriani for not attending a Negro medical convention. Marshall quotes the absence as evidence of Jim Crow in Michigan and urges a clear reason for the mayor’s absence. Delegates include about 1,500 of the 5,000 NAACP doctors. a city councilman did welcome them.
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Man Takes Bus Stop Melee Prompting Assault Charge
Robert Bryan 39 signaled a Malden bus to stop, boarded after it passed, and punched driver Walter Crowley. Bryan faces assault charges in Malden District Court with a hearing set for next week. Marshall criticizes Jim Crow while noting Integration progress in some Southern schools.
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Walter L. Crowley
Crowley
Old Soldier Williams Fights Pneumonia at 116
Walter Williams the Civil War veteran and Hood's Texas Brigade forage master remained in critical condition from pneumonia. His daughter Willie Mae Bowles said he refuses to eat or speak as he is fed milk egg and water by eye dropper, from his Franklin Texas origins to Houston.
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Cleveland man admits fatal shooting after card game dispute
A 20-year-old Cleveland man admitted fatally shooting William B. Coleman, 26, in the back Tuesday after an argument over a $1 debt during a card game, detectives Peter J. Becker and Joseph F. Kilbane reported.
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Joseph F. Kilbane
James R. Sallee
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Congress to Stay Through September Says Johnson
Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said Congress will remain in session into September to pass labor housing civil rights highways and pollution control measures. Republican Leader Dirksen urged adjournment by Sept 5 while Khrushchev’s Sept 15 visit looms. Johnson warned of no fixed adjournment date and emphasized passing key bills before leaving.
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Bertram J. Cahn Dies Noted Chicago Manufacturer
Bertram J. Cahn, 83, chairman of B. Kuppenheimer & Co., clothing maker and civic leader, died Tuesday after a two month illness. He was a former president of the Chicago Crime Commission and a life trustee of Northwestern University.
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Bertram J Cahn
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Chicago Crime Commission
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Boat Tragedy Off Bayview Beach Claims Three Fishermen
Three fishermen drowned when their 14 foot motorboat struck a submerged jetty near Bayview Beach on the Delaware River. A fourth man clung to the overturned hull for four hours before two fishermen rescued him. The incident prompted a lengthy note on rail advertising investments by the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railway.
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