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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1969
Page
1
Police disarmed a dynamite device found on the 30th floor of a downtown Chicago building. A second bomb threat triggered a sweep of the Federal Building linked to riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention as eight defendants face opening arguments on conspiracy charges.
Police say Watterson Johnson 22 and John Leigh 20 along with Raymond Kassow 24 were in a Whitley City motel and later Pine Knot Kentucky as four women were shot during a Cabinet Supreme Savings and Loan robbery that netted 275 dollars. Witness Joseph Huebner saw three men flee. Kassow was jailed and later charged with receiving stolen goods. The victims include Helen DeWald wife of a Cincinnati officer, Henrietta and Luella Stitzel, and Lillian DeWald. The case links Chapman suspects from Cincinnati to a Kentucky crime scene.
In a 13 block area north of Miami a snail infestation reaches up to 20 000 giant African snails eating foliage and even paint. Officials led by Art Calvert survey the scene and plan granular bait as plane spraying is impractical.
Three U S border officers were shot at Champlain New York as they questioned a man at the border crossing. Customs agent Leonard Chagnon William Grinter and David Hoff were wounded and hospitalized. A warrant was issued for Jesus Mark White 22 of Brooklyn on three felonious assault counts.
Military leaders led by Gen Alfredo Ovando Candia overthrow President Luis Siles Salinas in La Paz. Bolivia joins neighbors under military rule as other Latin American nations face coups. The action suspends all national activities and urges residents to stay home.
Nine men, including three tavern owners Ronald L. Brown Robert L. Wells and Daniel F Mazzeo were arrested in Cleveland for distributing more than $10 000 in counterfeit money. Mazzeo identified as ring leader supplied most of the bogus five and ten dollar bills.
The Middletown area expects cloudy skies with little temperature change. Lows tonight in the upper 40s to lower 50s. Saturday high near the upper 60s and evening low around the 40s.
U S helicopter gunships fired on Vietnamese civilians mistaken for enemy troops for a second time in a week. Fourteen civilians were killed and nine others wounded west of Tam Ky. The incident is under investigation as a prior Mekong Delta strike also faces review.
The Robert Lehman collection, valued at about 100 million, is donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It holds roughly 3 000 objects including Rembrandt Botticelli El Greco Goya Van Gogh Renoir Gauguin Matisse Picasso spanning 12th to 20th centuries with bronzes tapestries jewelry furniture and ceramics. Museum officials call it priceless and unmatched in private collecting history.
In Wilmington Massachusetts six members of the Landers family died in an early morning house fire. Nancy Landers 36 and five of her eight children perished. David Landers 36 husband Joseph Casey 22 a cousin survived along with Susan 15 and Harry 17. Onlookers said Landers and Casey were badly burned. Harry reported waking to screams and seeing his mother try to rescue children before returning inside.
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