Tape Recording Trapped 4 Indicted Port Chiefs
Indictments stem from a bribery scheme involving Watson and Smith tied to a World Trade Center contract in the Port of Los Angeles. Grand jury charged five harbor leaders with stock transactions and office-kitting schemes. Di Carlo drowned during investigations. bond set for defendants.
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Smith
World Trade Center
Withgage
Herbert Jacobson
Grand Jury
District Attorney’s
Los Angeles Times
Commission
Pietro di Carlo
di Carlo
Rundberg
Starr
Grand
Harbor Commission
Los Angeles
Harbor Department
Hamburger Bandit Slain After Gun Battle
Police chase ends in the back parking lot where a bandit with a rifle is killed as officers fire through a restaurant door. The other robber and manager suffer injuries, with about 1000 dollars recovered from the safe and alleyway quarters. Suspects including Gandara and Grageda were booked on robbery charges.
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Hamburger
E. C. Karsger
J. E. Newman
Feaster
Feater
Albert Estrada
S. Grand Ave
San Pedro
Daniel Gandara
Santa Cruz St
Robert Kinsey
R. D. Wright
Zeke Zeiner
Pete Grageda
Herbert
W. Fourth St
Donald Galaz
Meyler St
California Talks Set by Powell
New York Adam Clayton Powell, expelled Harlem congressman, plans California speaking tour next month. He will address UCLA on January 10 and San Francisco on January 14 on the topic The Black Revolution. Powell, ousted March 1 after a Libel case, cited being jailed for contempt as reason for exile.
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New York
Adam Clayton Powell
Harlem
Bimini
Bahamas
California
Wcbs Radio
Powell
Ucla
San Francisco
Powel
House of Representatives
House Select Committee
Congress
CONTINUE PROBE URGED BY JURY HEAD IN LA HARBOR CASE
Grand jury foreman Lynge Frantz urged the 1968 panel to continue probing conflicts of interest in the Los Angeles Harbor Department. He noted the 1967 grand jury indicted harbor commissioners and said further inquiry serves good government, though the new panel has no jurisdiction.
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Los Angeles Harbor
Lynge Frantz
Frantz
Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
Scuba Firefighters Quell Large Wharf Blaze At Sea Tank Farm
Scuba firefighters battled a heavy blaze along a wharf at Mormon Island where three ships were berthed. A potential gasoline flare sparked by welding cut fuel leaks as water and jackhammers battered pilings. By dawn the fire was under control after 11 foot high water sprays and coordinated divers operations.
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Aco Marine
Mormon Island
Texaco
Simon von Utrecht
Nina Maersk
Texaco Louisian
Tne
Raymond Hill
Hill
Jazz King Whiteman 77 dies of heart attack
Jazz great Whiteman, long based in New Hope Bucks County, dies at 77 from a heart attack. His career spanned Broadway Carnegie Hall and film, with hits like Rhapsody in Blue and King of Jazz. He lived in semi retirement at Coda and had battled weight loss in later years.
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Jazz King Whiteman
Whiteman
New Hope
Bucks County
Delaware River
Whitman
Denver
Colo
Denver Symphony
West Coast
Atlantic City
N.M
Broadway
George White
Florenz Ziegfeld
Billy Rose
New
Hippodrome
London
Prince of Wales
Duke of Windsor
George Gershwin
Acclan Hall
Victor
Musical
Union Jack potato chip variety labeled in Britain
Gardener Joe Kirkham, an 85 year old retiree from Cannock England, developed red white and blue potatoes with blue specks. He names the variety Union Jack after Britain's flag and says they look and taste appealing despite garbled text.
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Cannock
England
Upt
Joe Kirkham
Kirkman
Britain
Marines Sweep Cemetery as 770 Communists Die in Four Days
A U.S. Marine battalion, under heavy sniper fire, swept a Da Nang area cemetery finding fallen comrades’ bodies. In four days of fighting since the Christmas truce ended, U.S. and allied losses were light, while Communist casualties neared record levels. The An Hoa battle, near Da Nang, cost 17 Marines and 26 wounded amidst broader Viet Cong pressure along a 25 mile coastal front.
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Saigon
UPI
da Nang
An Hoa
Hanoi
Haiphong
An Ilva
South Vietnam
U.S
Secret Aid to Groups Abroad Ends Dec 31
Washington announces that all secret financial support for overseas activities of American educational and private groups will end by the deadline of December 31. State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey says covert aid, including from the CIA, will be discontinued in every case. The presidential committee led by Nicholas DeB Katzenbach reviewed CIA support after earlier controversy. McCloskey did not name the organizations or count, but noted only a very small number of the roughly 1,000 groups overseas had received secret funds.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
Department
Robert J. McCloskey
Johnson
Central Intelligence Agency
National Students Association
Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach
John W. Gardner
Draft Card Burnings Reported Across States
Washington reports 618 draft cards burned or disposed of in 46 states. Hershey says about half were vulnerable to induction while others were ineligible or in other categories. Since 1965 twenty one charges and fourteen convictions have followed card misuses with several cases pending. Officials expect final totals under 700 cards.
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Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Pentagon
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Paul Jr
Vanda Hoff
Margaret
Margot
Pfeiffer’s
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