Sailors in Brazil End Sit Down Rebellion
About 3,000 dissident sailors and marines surrendered to the army after a two day sit down strike in a downtown building. They were taken to barracks and an effort to quell the insubordination was led by Labor Minister Amaury Silva and Col. Domingos Ventura. Admiral Paulo Mario de Cunha Rodrigues named navy minister after Adm. Silvio Mota resigned following the failure to restore duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Miller
Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Guards
1St Army
Cpl
Jose Anselmo
Anselmo
Joao Godart
Gots
Amaury Silva
Col
Domingos Ventura
Goulart
Adm
Paulo Mario de Cunha Rodri-gues
Navy
Silvio Mota
Mota
Association of Sailors and Marines
Johnson Won’t Leave Country
Washington AP reports the State Department informed Congress that President Johnson will not leave the United States while the vice presidency is vacant. The notice came in a letter from Asst. Secretary Frederick G. Dutton to congressmen who proposed a Johnson de Gaulle meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Congress
Johnson
United States
Asst. Secretary of
Frederick G. Dutton
Charles de Gaulle
France
Loud singer banned from church by judge
Betty Chapman, 41, was barred from Marista Baptist Church after a Superior Court judge ruled her loud off key singing and facial expressions disturbed worship. Judge McIntyre Faries noted his admiration for her but said she would cause further disruption without leadership changes. The dispute traces to 1960 with a prior temporary injunction against her family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Cooke
LOS Angeles
Betty Chapman
Faries
Chapman
Civil rights bill debate shifts to floor next week
Senate backers plan Monday speeches to praise the civil rights bill. Hubert Humphrey announced the measure remains the Senate's pending business after Thursday’s vote. Senator Richard Russell warned the fight continues, calling for future amendments and signaling no votes will occur next week. Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. held a Capitol news conference following the vote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Hall Washington
Senate
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
Richard B. Russell
Dga
Humphrey
Russell
Georgia
Martin Luther King
Capi
Easter Sunday dedication of Bald Knob Cross in Alto Pass
The 111-foot bald knob cross atop 1084-foot Bald Knob near Alto Pass hosts Easter sunrise services after a weekend of dedication events. Industrialist L. G. LeTourneau and Dr. Lawrence C. Jones slated as speakers. SIU band and choir to perform. cross lights upgraded to neon and spotlights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. LeTourneau
Longview
Tex
Laurence C. Jones
Piney Woods
SIU
William H. Lively
Wayman Presley
Miranda
Shawnee Hills
Cobden
State officials seek 1000 more Illinois police amid gambling probe
Illinois crime investigators told a Springfield hearing that manpower is tight as they study widespread gambling activity. Director Joseph Ragen proposed a 1,000 additional state police, while deputies cited regional gaps and local law enforcement shortfalls. The commission plans county by county data and next hearings in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Til
Illinois
Joseph Ragen
Illinois Public Safety Department
Joseph Morris
Chicago Police Department
Arthur J. Bilek
Cook County Sheriff's Police
Chicago
Cook County
Commission
Charles Siragusa
William Morris
State Police
St. Clair
Madison
Morris
St. Clair County
Lawrence
Alexander
Lawrence County
Alexander County
Williamson County
Buddy
Harris
Peach and Apple Crops Not Hurt in Southern Illinois
ANNA Illinois AP reports that fruit growers and farm advisers found no signs of serious damage to Southern Illinois peach and apple crops after frosty temperatures in the 20s. Union Johnson and Jackson counties reported only minor peach bud damage with no apple damage, though effects may reveal over days. Jersey County noted buds not yet vulnerable as yet.
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Anna, Ill
Illinois
Union
Johnson
Jackson
Jersey County
Truck Crashes Into Bus In Denver, Three Die
A Continental Trailways bus collided with a dump truck that entered a busy transcontinental highway from a side road near Jefferson County Colorado. Bus driver Earl Chamberlain 52 truck driver Carl Hicken 32 and Pamela Jo Grant 4 of Louisville Kentucky died. Thirty three injured.
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Denver
Colo
Continental’ Trailway
Highway Department
Earl Chamberlain
Carl Lewis Hicken
Pamela Jo Grant
Louisville
Jefferson County
Ray T. Russell
Toledo
Ohio
Russell
San Francisco
New York City
Bandit calmed victim with whisky in suburban Illinois raid
A gunman posing as a gas company employee trapped Mrs. Catherine Jordan in a Timbers Lake home outside Wauconda, then retrieved a $5,000 diamond ring, $50 cash, and a raccoon coat after offering a glass of whisky. Jordan noted heart trouble as the intruder left.
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Wayconda
Ill
Catherine Jordan
Timbers Lake
Wauconda
MacArthur Shows Marked Improvement in Lung Condition
General of the Army Douglas MacArthur’s moderately inflamed right lung showed marked improvement today at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Spokesmen said he remained in serious condition but continued progressing satisfactorily.
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Douglas MacArthur
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Jung
Mt Vernon Faces $45,000 Post Office Price Ask
City Manager Chester Lewis disclosed that Mt Vernon must pay the full 45000 price to purchase the 11th and Main post office from the General Services Administration with no strings attached. A sales contract is expected by mid April for council study before federal final approval, and a 20 year no tear-down restriction carries one remaining loan obligation.
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Mt. Vernon
11Th and Main
Chester Lewis
Chicago
General Services Administration
Washington
Lewis
Land optioned for 41 unit motel at car shop site
Town Center Development grants Imperial 400 National a 90 day option to lease 30,000 square feet on Vernon car shop land for a 65 year motel lease. The 150 by 200 foot tract on Tenth Street near Prairie Avenue would rent at 575 dollars monthly with tax payments by Imperial. Construction completion triggers rent start. Travelodge and a coin operated car wash partner are also in talks for the site.
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Vernon Car Shops
Town Center Development, Inc
Imperial
National, Inc
Englewood Cliff
New Jersey
Tenth Street
Prairie Avenue
Circuit Clerk’s
Gilbert Seibert
Town Center Development
Good Friday and Passover coincide in today
New York AP reports Good Friday, the Christian calendar’s sorrowful day, overlaps with the start of Passover the Jewish festival of liberation. Churches across denominations hold three hour services marking the crucifixion. Passover begins at sundown and lasts eight days for Orthodox and Conservative Jews, seven for Reform.
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New York
Play boys misrouted mail lands at church in Pasco
A Riverview Methodist Church in Pasco received a large mail pouch labeled from the Methodist Publishing Co. Nashville Tenn containing 100 copies of Playboy magazine intended for Massachusetts subscribers. The incident highlights mail routing error across the automated system.
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Pasco, Wash
Riverview Methodist Church
Methodist Publishing Co
Nashville
Tenn
Playboy Magazine
Massachusetts
Wabash River funds urged at annual meeting
The Wabash Valley Association asked for more federal development funds and stricter enforcement of water pollution laws at its annual meeting in French Lick Indiana. Delegates urged federal and state action to curb pollution, boost flood control, and expand small watershed projects amid drought and flood losses totaling millions.
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French Lick
Ind
Wabash Valley Association
Indiana
Association
Henry J. Wallace
Crossville
Wabash River
United States
Wallace
Illinois
Congress
Leon Dworsky
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Dworsky
Ralph Whitmer
Charleston
Merle Yost
Newton
The
Wabash Plain Dealer
Grayville
Mercury- Independent Radio
Carmi
Fastest River Hydrofoil Built in Soviet Union
The Soviet Tass agency reports a new river hydrofoil achieving 68 mph top speed and carrying 150 passengers. The vessel uses gas turbine propulsion with water jets instead of screws.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Tass
Moon Trip Proposes 3 Astronauts for 120 Days
NASA officials outlined a plan to orbit three astronauts around Earth for 120 days after Apollo moon landing. The proposal envisions a modified Apollo spacecraft with a space laboratory replacing the Lunar Excursion Module to study life support, engineering, and scientific experiments in weightless conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold R. Williams
Houston
Tex
Earth
Manned Spacecraft Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Space Laboratory
Outer Space
Space Agency
Baby Giraffe Born at London Zoo
A 5 foot 10 inch giraffe calf arrived at London Zoo and is reported healthy with the mother Maude. Keepers monitored the expectant mother by closed circuit television, but the birth occurred in the early hours when staff were not watching. The calf's sex has not yet been determined. Giraffes typically measure about 5 foot 8 to 6 feet at birth. Mother Maude stands about 15 feet.
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London
London Zoo
Maude
Russians Free US Airmen in East Germany Flight Shootdown
The U S airmen Capt David I Holland 35 of Holland Minnesota and Capt Melvin J Kessler 30 of Philadelphia were released after 17 days amid U S diplomatic pressure. Lt Harold Welch 24 of Detroit was freed March 21. The Pentagon said the RB66 was on a training mission 20 miles into East Germany when shot down. East Germany claimed it carried spying gear while Washington denied the charge. President Johnson said the matter was sensibly settled as he vacationed in Texas.
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Helmstedt
Germany
U.S
East Germany
Ait Germany
United States
Washington
David I. Holland
Holland, Minn
Melvin J. Kessler
Philadelphia
Harold Welch
Detroit
Welch
Holland
Kessler
Magdeburg
Berlin
Johnson
Johnson City
Tex
Abraham Kessler
David
Ambrose Holland Sr
Mann
ADN
RB66
U.S. Air Force
George Reedy
Texas
Austin
Texas White House
Moscow
Harold W. Welch
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Dean Rusk
Kessley
White House
Rusk
Holeland
Bergstrom Air
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