Sabotage blamed for blaze at Santa Rosa sugar mill
Cuban radio in Havana reported that a fire at the Santa Rosa sugar mill in Las Villas Province caused about 300000 dollars in damage and was set by saboteurs. The broadcasts cited injuries across Cuba as sabotage spreads, including incidents at a Pinar del Rio theater and a prosecutor’s car bombing.
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Key West
Fla
Santa Rosa
Las Villas
Havana Radio
Cuba
Pinar del Rio
Riesgo
Palayo Fernandez Rudo
Havana Revolutionary Tribunal
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Manuel Ray
Castro
Ray
Miami
Cuban radio blames falsified news amid Havana fires
Reports claim Cuban radio lied about news while Havana suffered warehouse fires. One blaze reportedly ruined 1,000 bales of tobacco worth 120000 dollars. Fidel Castro and state radio stayed silent on 1,214 prisoners from the April invasion and on whether Castro will accept bulldozers for prisoners terms, proposed by a U.S. committee that spent a week negotiating.
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Ray
Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
United States
Six Children Perish as Tenement Fire In Jersey City
A 28 year old woman and six of her nine children died in a three story frame tenement fire in Jersey City. The top floor apartment suffocated while fourteen people, including a firefighter, were treated for injuries or smoke poisoning. A pregnant woman and a year old son were injured after leaping from a second floor window. Victims include Vivian Latti more, Carney Latti, Bessie Latti, Alfonso Latti, Marie Latti, Vivian Latti, and Dorothy Ann Latti.
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Jersey City
N.J
Jersey City Medical Center
Vivian Lattimore
Carney
Bessie
Alfonso
Marie
Vivian
Dorothy Ann
Right Color Slip Halves Negro Transfer Applicants in Atlanta
Atlanta officials report two steps of the pupil placement plan reduced 88 percent of Negro students seeking transfers to white high schools this fall. Only 16 of 135 applicants will receive personal interviews, while achievement tests IQ tests and personality tests appear to eliminate the remaining 119. Under a federal court order the 11th and 12th grades in Atlanta public schools must be desegregated this fall.
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Atlanta
Necro
Mrs Murphy Clarkson Dies in Arizona After Illness
Mrs. Marice Murphy Clarkson wife of Indian Detours Santa Fe operator died in Mesa Arizona after a lengthy illness. Funeral mass set for 9 am Wednesday at the Cathedral. Surviving are her husband James I Clarkson of Santa Fe a daughter in law Mrs J Raymond Murphy of Santa Fe three brothers J Raymond Murphy Jr Paul E Murphy of Farmington and Donald R Murphy of Hollywood California.
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Santa FE
Marice Murphy Clarkson
Indian Detours Travel Service
Mesa
Ariz
James I. Clarkson
J. Raymond Murphy
J. Raymond Murphy Jr
Paul E. Murphy
Farmington
Donald R. Murphy
Hollywood
Calif
Lions Convention to Feature Director Sherman Lowe
International Lions Club Director Sherman B. Lowe of Salt Lake City will speak at the state Lions Club convention in Clovis June 4 to 6. The event is expected to attract about 800 delegates over the three days.
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Clovis
International Lions Club
Sherman B. Lowe
Salt Lake City
Little Boy Starts New Life After Being Murder Witness
An AP report from El Paso notes Mel Hays now five, adopted by his aunt in Amarillo, after serving as the sole witness to his mother Ruby Hayes’s murder in Marrero, Louisiana, in 1960. Custody prevailed last year. his sister Rae Lynn, ten, also under adoption, attends nursery school as Mel adapts to a new life.
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EL Paso
Tex
Amarillo
Mel Hays
Ruby Hayes
Marrero
Mel
George Christakis
Hayes
Christ
Murder Case Stalls as New Leads Hold in Hayes Mystery
The Ruby Hayes murder probe in New Mexico has slowed with few fresh leads. Sheriff Nowell Ramsey reports no new information months after Mrs. Hayes’s body was found near Tucumcari. Mel, her son, later told officers of a shooting by a man named Ronnie, tying the boy to the case only after initial detours.
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U.S. 66
Nowell Ramsey
Tucumcari
Mel
Fl Paso
Ronnie
FBI
Hayes
Marrero
New Orleans
Little Mel
Amarillo
Christakis
Childress
Tex
Mal Hayes
Ponce
el Paso
Attorney Asks Kennedy As Witness In Riot Injuction Hearing
Montgomery defense lawyer asked Justice Department to bring Atty Gen Robert Kennedy to testify in a federal riot injunction case against Montgomery and Birmingham police. The move aims to learn Kennedy’s involvement with the Freedom Rides as testimony covered rioting in Birmingham after a May 14 arrival. An FBI agent testified that police were told to watch the Greyhound station, not Trailways, for the buses.
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Montgomery
Ala
Justice Department
Associated Press
Kennedy
Birmingham
William A. Mobley
Birmingham Post-Herald
Eugene Connor
Mobley
Connor
James A. Simpson
Greyhound
FBI
Freedom Ride
Goldwater Blasts Castro Blunder in Tractor Trade
Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater told a Tucson breakfast that Fidel Castro caused a global backlash by offering tractors to Latin America and charged President Kennedy blustered and blundered. He argued the moon program shows need for a Republican White House to curb communism amid 1962 defense budget plans.
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Tucson
Ariz
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
Fidel Castro
Kennedy
Goldwater
Republican Party
Republican Party Fund
Edward R. Murrow
U.S. Information Agency
Castro
Latin America
Murrow
Tractor Fund Committee
Temple Bell
White House
Temple Bell Returns to Japanese Temple After 14-Year Odyssey
A 200 year old temple bell from Jodoji Temple in Yokosuka was shipped back to Japan from Atlanta after a 14 year journey. Rotary Clubs of Atlanta and Yokosuka, plus Mayor William Hartsfield and Mayor Masayoshi Nagano, facilitated the homecoming. A 45 minute ceremony at Yokosuka featured U S naval and civilian officials and Japanese representatives. The bell, cast in 1747 by a Tokyo maker, had been donated to the Japanese Navy in World War II and later found in an Atlanta scrap iron depot before being located by Yokohama’s cultural center.
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Yokosuka
Japan
API
Atlanta
Rotary Clubs
William Hartsfield
Masayoshi Nagano
U.S
Attlanta
Tokyo
Yokohama
Yokosuk
J. Marshall Weaver
Statement Clears Suspect in Amarillo Killing Case
In Amarillo, after extensive questioning, the suspect was cleared of complicity in the killing. Mrs. Christakis remarked that it is better he does not remember, expressing relief that he remembers nothing.
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B. F. Fields Jr
Lewis Mauney
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Roswell’s Department Store of Cleanliness
Santa Fern
LIONS
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Frost Cera
Blythe
N. Main
Bob Kennedy
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Garrett- Moseley Furn
Dobbs
Dobbs Straw
Ball & Ray Clothiers
Velsicol Chemical Corporation
Clinton Drive
Galena Park
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