Mutiny in Viet Nam Navy Topples Commander Amid Turmoil
Twenty junior naval officers led by Cmdr. Khuong Huu Ba ousted Adm. Chung Tan Cang and deputy Lam Nguon Tanh. both vanished amid renewed mutiny support from the armed forces and government. Ba could replace Cang as about 90 percent of the navy’s fighting strength was under their command.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Adm
Chung Tan Cang
Lam Nguon Tanh
Navy
Armed Forces High Command
U.S
Khuong Huu Ba
Cang
Floods Hit Midwest as Red Cross Aids thousands flee
Destructive floods sweep across the Midwest with thousands seeking shelter. In Minnesota and Iowa, two deaths are reported and hundreds evacuated as rivers rise beyond banks. Red Cross shelters house hundreds while warned rainfall continues.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Minnesota
Battle Creek
Ramsey County
Cherokee
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Little Sioux
Cedar River
Des Moines
Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Fort Dodge
Red Cross
Webster City
Marshalltown
Britain Praises Johnsons Offer To End Vietnam War
Britain welcomes President Johnsons offer for unconditional talks to end the Vietnam War citing forward looking ideas for Southeast Asia economic reconstruction. Prime Minister Wilson calls the move statesmanlike and imag inative while Hanoi and Peking remain silent and U S officials plan messages for North Vietnam.
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London
Britain
Johnson
Viet Nam
Harold Wilson
Southeast Asia
Hanoi
Peking
U.S
Saigon
Voice of America Radio
Jakarta
Sukarno
United States
Soviet Union
CORE Blames KKK for Gun Battle in Louisiana Town
In Bogalusa Louisiana a gun duel erupted between civil rights workers led by CORE and unidentified attackers. Police cited a brick from a car and shots fired with no injuries reported while CORE described a two wave assault by the Ku Klux Klan. William Yates said 20 shots were fired from the house and 15 in a second attack as officers, auxiliary police and state troopers kept the peace ahead of James Farmer's planned tonight address and a possible nationwide boycott of Crown Zellerbach.
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Bogalusa
James Farmer
Ku Klux Klan
William J. Yates
Buffalo
N.Y
Farmer
Farmer's Congress of Racial Equality
Yates
Asst
L. C Terrell
Terrell
Robert Hicks
Hicks
Denver
Crown-Zellerbach Corp
Crown-Zellerbach
53 Arrested By Castro as Spies
Havana Radio reports 53 suspects were detained on espionage charges including an American Baptist Church executive named Cowdill and several Baptist ministers. The group allegedly planned counter revolutionary activities and provided military, economic, and political information to U S espionage agencies. Cuban authorities had been tightening pressure on Protestant groups, notably Baptists.
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Miami
Fla
Havana
Fidel Castro
Herbert Cowdil
Western Baptist Convention
Cuba
Cowdill
United States
New anticancer agent reported at ACS meeting
Dr Harold G Petering of Upjohn Co described a new thiosemicarbazone anticancer agent called KTS that binds trace minerals like copper to attack tumors in animals. Human safety tests are underway at Roswell Park Memorial Institute Buffalo and are only preliminary, not proving effectiveness.
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Detroit
American Chemical Society
Man
Harold G. Petering
Upjohn Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
Petering
ACS
Roswell Park Memorial Institute
Buffalo
N.Y
General Hester Dies From Brain Injury After Parachute Jump
Maj. Gen. John K. Hester, 48, commander of the U.S. 17th Air Force, died in Wiesbaden Germany from brain damage after a parachute accident on April 2. He remained in a coma after landing inverted at 1 250 feet despite emergency surgery. The fatal jump was the last in a five jump series.
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Wiesbaden
Germany
John K. Hester
U.S
Air Force
Army
Ex-Cop Thorman Flees Jail After Escape From Herkimer
Former Niagara Falls officer James F. Thorman escaped Herkimer County Jail by running from a deputy during a briefing at 8:30 a.m. Police issued roadblocks after a resident reported a stolen red and black 1958 car. Thorman, 32, pleads innocent to an Ilion robbery of $981 and is also wanted in Albany area holdups.
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Herkimer
Niagara Falls
Richard W. Falts
James F. Thorman
Thorman
Alan Howison
Sai Thorman
Public Loan Co
Ilion
Albany
Monroe County Supervisors Must Be Reapportioned
A New York State Supreme Court justice ruled that Monroe County’s 24 city ward and 19 town supervisors are unconstitutionally apportioned under the 14th Amendment and state constitution. The decision does not specify how or when reapportionment should occur.
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Rochester
N.Y
Monroe
U.S. District Court
Suffolk County Board of Supervisors
Macken
Monroe County Board
Todd Who Helped Oust Sulzer Dies
Hiram C. Todd, 88, once a choir boy and college athlete, served as special investigator for three New York governors and helped oust a fourth. He died in Columbia Memorial Hospital after a career that included pursuing crime as U.S. Attorney for Northern New York and assisting in the 1913 impeachment of Gov. William Sulzer. He had retired in Copake Falls.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Herbert H. Lehman
Thomas F. Dewey
William Sulzer
Fred Tammany
Rochester Seeks Negro Recruits for Police
Public Safety Commissioner Harper Sibley Jr. said he is personally seeking Negro candidates for the Rochester police department. He visits settlement houses and churches in Negro areas to gather recommendations and hopes to work with Monroe County Community College on a cram course for civil service exams. There are 17 Negro officers on a 535-member force. nine vacancies exist and funds for 30 more officers are sought in the 1965-66 city budget.
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Rochester
N.Y
Public Safety
Harper Sibley Jr
Police Department
Sibley
Monroe County Community College
Wasp Sting Fatal for Formosa Woman
Mrs. Hsu Fan Hsien-tao, 34, died after a wasp sting to her tongue while talking with a neighbor in her yard in Taipei Formosa. She lost consciousness and died before reaching a hospital.
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Taipei
Formosa
Hsu Fan Hsien-tao
Hsu
Johnson opens door to Viet Nam peace talks and aid plan
President Johnson offered unconditional discussions on Viet Nam and proposed a $1 billion U.S. program to aid Southeast Asia. U Thant welcomed the move as constructive and said he would continue efforts for a peaceful settlement. Officials noted no immediate indication from Hanoi or Beijing on preconditions.
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United Nations
N.Y
U Thant
Johnson
Thant
U.N
U.S
United Nation
Baltimore
Southeast Asia
Mekong River
Washington
Viet Nam
White House
Hanoi
Peking
Moscow
United States
Johns Hopkins University
Congress
Soviet Union
Eugene Black
World Bank
U.S. Partic
South Viet Nam
Shriver Hall
Senate approves statewide Permanent Personal Registration bill
The New York Senate backed a bill to implement PPR statewide for voter enrollment, with Rockefeller support anticipated from the Assembly. About 80 percent are covered now, mainly in 17 of 62 counties, while seven Upstate Republicans voted against. The measure also seeks a consumer goods policing standards department and a voter referendum. A separate pay raise proposal would lift salaries to 35,000 for senators and 25,000 for assembly members, barred from non legislative work.
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Albany
N.Y
Senate
Assembly
Rockefeller
New York
Upstate
State Department
Seymour R. Thaler
Queens
Buffalo Man Named to Compensation Board
Gerald T Cullen a 36 year old Erie County businessman was appointed by Gov Rockefeller to the workmen's compensation board. The post pays 20475 dollars a year. Cullen succeeds the late Louis Pelowski of Buffalo on the 28 member board and resides in Hamburg. He has been district manager of the Buffalo and Syracuse offices of Fischer Porter Co.
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Albany. N.Y
Gerald T Cullen
Erie County
Rockefeller
Workmen's Compensation Board
Cullen
Louis Pelowski
Buffalo
Hamburg
Syracuse
Fischer & Porter Co
Tumor
Senator Johnston Undergoes Surgery in Columbia
Sen. Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina underwent surgery today in Columbia for a swollen heart artery. Dr. Leon Khory, the senator’s physician, reported there had been no spread of malignancy from the condition.
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Columbia, S.C
Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
Leon Khory
Young nurse asks about uniform deduction at IRS office
In Memphis, a young nurse visits the IRS Taxpayer Assistance Service and asks if she can take off her uniform. The agent clarifies that nurse uniforms can be deducted from tax obligations, answering yes.
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Memphis, Tenn
Memphis
Internal Revenue Service
Taxpayer Assistance Service
Rockefeller sales tax plan stalls in New York legislature
In Albany the Rockefeller sales tax proposal stalls amid a four way political clash. Democrats split on a 2 percent levy and Republicans divided between Senate compromise talks and Assembly opposition. Budget and school aid funding loom as parties delay action with pay vouchers issued and payrolls due.
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Albany, N.Y
Guv Rockefeller
GOP
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da Nang
Viet Navy
Berlin
Niagara Mohawk
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
Syracuse Congress of Racial Equality
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Fayetteville
Waters
CORE
West Berlin
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Monroe County
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Sulzer
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