Reds Influencing Riots Probed and Officer On Trial
New York AP report outlines Police Lt. Thomas R. Gilligan's account of the Harlem and Brooklyn riots sparked by his fatal shooting of 15 year old Powell. Gilligan claims self defense after Powell advanced with a knife as bystanders recall differing witnesses. FBI probes possible Communist influence amid ongoing violence and incitement claims by Acting Mayor Screene.
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New York
Thomas R. Gilligan
Harlem
Brooklyn
James Pow
FBI
Paul R. Screvane
Communist Party
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Robert F. Wagner
Wagner
Cwence
Singapore Riots End After Curfew and Troop Deployments
Singapore faced a daytime curfew enforced by over 6,000 troops and police to quell ethnic clashes between Malays and Chinese. Eight people were killed and 341 injured as police arrested 157. the curfew remains, with a partial lifting for food shopping.
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Singapore
Singapore Island
Fisherman killed by lightning on LaDue Reservoir
In Auburn Township at LaDue Reservoir a fisherman, 44 year old John Parker of Akron, was killed when lightning struck his boat as he sat with his 16 year old son. Parker worked as a salesman for Bostwick Braun Co. in Akron. His son John Jr. suffered shock and received treatment.
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Gilligan
East 78Th Street
Yorkville
Manhattan
Chardon, Ohio
LaDue Reservoir
Auburn Township
John Parker
Bostwick Braun Co
Akron
John Jr
Akron flood disaster claims four lives in sewer crater
A torrential storm created a 25 foot by 40 foot hollow in Tallmaine Parkway Akron. A police officer, a Georgetown student and a 10 year old girl are missing and presumed drowned after attempting to rescue the girl. Rescues recovered Claudia Shidier and Janet Lewis with injuries.
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Akron, Ohio
Cuyahoga River
Claudia Shidier
Ronald D. Rotruck
Akron
Hugh M. O'Neil
Georgetown University
General Tire and Rubber Co
William O'Neil
Claudia
Velma Shidier
Janet Lews
Cubans Mar Parley of OAS Heads
Washington AP report on a Cuban exile march that disrupted a Pan American Union protest as foreign ministers met. Police clashed with several hundred Cubans. two Cubans and a officer were hospitalized, about 40 treated for injuries. Miami organizers claimed Castro infiltrators caused trouble.
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OAS
Washington
Dean Rusk
United States
Pan American Union
Miami
Antipoverty Bill Faces Senate Clash With Goldwater
WASHINGTON AP A 962.5 million antipoverty bill moves toward a head on Senate confrontation between the Johnson administration and Republican nominee Barry Goldwater. The measure aims to fund job corps, community programs, rural loans, and a Volunteers for America Corps while expanding welfare and vocational rehabilitation. Goldwater criticizes it as political maneuvering to gain votes, joined by Sen. John Tower in a minority report after Senate Labor Committee approval.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Mike Mansfield
Montana
House Rules Committee
House
Volunteers For America Corps
John G. Tower
R-Tex
Senate Labor Committee
Khrushchev Attacks Goldwater At Poland Anniversary
Soviet Premier Khrushchev blasted Senator Barry Goldwater and the Republican platform during a Poland anniversary celebration. He warned against anti communist war threats while denouncing the US political stance as fascist like. Khrushchev warned the Soviet Union would not be intimidated by threats.
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Warsaw
Khrushchev
Communist Bloc
Barry Goldwater
Poland
U.S
Communist Party
Wladyslaw Gomulka
San Francisco
Nuernberg
Goldwater
White House
Soviet Union
Chuckle About bachelors spending on wine and women
A light anecdote notes that some single men lavish money on wine women and song leaving little for luxuries, delivering a humorous observation on excess and frugality.
Federal Judges Test Rights Act in Atlanta
A three judge panel weighs first civil rights act tests amid two suits. One targets Lester Maddox’s restaurant after black patrons were denied service and film evidence shows him with a pistol. The issue centers on interstate commerce and applicability to Maddox’s business.
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Atlanta, Ga
Maddox
Weather Rains Bring Brief Relief in Ohio
The storm dumped up to three inches in central and northern Ohio, sparing Middletown. Relief for heat came yesterday afternoon and night but is short lived with humid hot weather returning tonight and tomorrow. Yesterday’s high reached 91 while today’s low fell to 46.
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Ohio
Middletown
Spacecraft Rockets on 25-Minute Ballistic Flight
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP a delta winged spacecraft successfully rocketed on a 12 000 mile per hour ballistic test flight to study materials for maneuverable manned space vehicles. The two stage Thor Delta launched at 10 39 a m EST climbed to about 40 miles before reentering and landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Recovery forces moved toward the splash point after an Air Force sighting 15 miles from target.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Atlantic Ocean
Air Force
Goldwater threats reported in Dallas on Tuesday
Two threats against Sen. Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential nominee, were reported in Dallas. A switchboard operator at an automobile dealership said she received the calls Tuesday morning, and police were alerted of the first before the second came in.
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Dallas
Tex
Barry Goldwater
Furst
Doctor's Freedom At Stake In Akron Hearing
Akron AP Sam Sheppard's freedom hung on a 6th Circuit hearing over a stay on his habeas release. The panel will review the bond and the Cincinnati motion claiming the habeas hearing was a star chamber proceeding.
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Akron, Ohio
Sam Sheppard
6Th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals
Slayer
Sheppard
F. Lee Bailey
Ceveland
New York
Bailey
Akron
Cincinnati
Corrigan
Weinmans
Star Chamber
Satellite TV plan to show Olympics instantly abroad
Washington AP reports a new Syncom TT satellite will televise the Olympic Games in Japan to the United States and Canada. The plan includes fast tape delivery by jet from Montreal to Europe so European viewers can see the games the same day. NASA will launch Syncom TV in midsummer into a stationary orbit 22 300 miles above the Pacific. COMSAT arranged the transmissions with NASA the Defense Department the Japanese government and Japan Broadcast King Corp.
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Washngton
Japan
United States
Canada
Montreal
Europe
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Pacific
Communications Satellite Corp
Comsat
NASA
Defense Department
Japan Broadcasts King Corp
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Beulah Barnes
Clifton Harris
Max Franke
Norman Schoenbrun
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Rotruck
Polie Central
Art McLeon
John Martino
John Chadwick
Verty
Nikita
Federal Judges Test Rights Act
Lester Maddox
Ann Landers
Society Sports Theatre
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Waveene Jf
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Bay Village
Ariane Tebbenjohanns
Chicago
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Lester L. Cecil
Dayton
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Clifford O'Sullivan
Port Horton
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U.S. District Court
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