FBI Undercover Man Links Klan to 1951 Bombing
Winter Haven based FBI informant Richard I. Ashe testified before a Florida Legislature committee that Orlando Jacksonville Lakeland and Tallahassee Klans planned violence to resist school integration. He linked an Orlando bomber to the Moore home blast and named Klansmen storing dynamite guns and ammunition. Ashe also said he joined the Klan to aid the FBI and led the Lakeland chapter before his expulsion.
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Tallahassee
FBI
Orlando
Ku Klux Klan
Richard I. Ashe
Winter Haven
Jacksonville
Lakeland
Miami
Ashe
John Williams
Florida
Polk County
Edgar Brooklyn
Harry T. Moore
Mims
NAACP
Brooklyn
W. B. Rogers
Bill Beach
Rogers
Beach
Federal Court Rules Bus Segregation Suit Invalid
A federal panel in Memphis dismissed C. Z. Evers NAACP suit challenging Tennessee bus seating laws as lacking an actual controversy. The decision followed claims Evers was placed on the city bus to provoke a test case, with the court emphasizing no genuine deprivation of rights shown.
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Memphis
UPI
Crea
Tennessee
South
Little Rock
Ark
C. Z. Evers
Chicago
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Evers
Robert Carter
New York
NAACP
H. T. Lockard
Florida Senate Run Possible If Cramer Passes
Emerson Rupert a St. Petersburg industrial designer says he will seek the U S Senate seat from Florida if GOP Rep William Cramer does not run Rupert who has not held public office will announce next week He came to St Petersburg in 1949 after World War II roles in War Department industry Military Intelligence Service and Office of Defense Mobilization.
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
David W.grant
W. Frank Mulder
Plaza
Sarasota
St. Petersburg
Grant
Molder
U. S. Senate
Florida
Emerson Rupert
William
Cramer
Rupert
Washington
War Department
New Section
Industry
Military Intelligence Service
Office of Defense Mobilization
West Palm Beach
Florida Sheriffs Assn
Boys Ranch
Board of Directors
Orlando
Naples
Outdoor work surge cuts U S jobless benefits in mid June
The Labor Department reported 2,704,600 claimants drawing unemployment benefits for the week ended June 14, a decline of 113,000 from the prior week, while new claims for June 21 totaled 318,500, well above year earlier levels and the lowest weekly claims since mid November.
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Washington
UPI
Labor Department
Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Explorer III’s Final Descent Sparks Global Death Watch
Skywatchers worldwide monitor the Explorer III satellite as it nears atmospheric entry. Launched March 26, it is expected to burn on reentry with little chance of surviving, with observers urged to report sightings to the National Academy of Sciences in Washington.
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Jack Stillman
Huntsville
Ala
ITI
National Academy of Science
Academy
Washington, D. C
Cape Canaveral
Earth
Faulty Fuel Flow Trips Vanguard Launch
The Navy says the failure of its Vanguard satellite launch was caused by a fault in one combustion chamber of the second stage propulsion. Initial statements blamed the second engine not firing, but preliminary flight data indicate a propellant flow problem in the second stage.
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Washington
UPI
Navy
Vanguard
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E. L. Edwards
Atlanta
U. S
South Doast
Florida News
G. David Parrish
Florida Bar Board of Governors
Parrish
Paul B. Comstock
Bar Governors
Vice
Miami Beach
Gov. Collings
Kinsey
Highlands County
William P. Allen
Second District Court of Appeals
Bryan Willis
State School For the Deaf and Blind
Willis
Ee Tallahassee
James F. Blanton Jr
St. Augustine
Jerry Carter
Blanton
Goodrich Avenue
Main Street
James Seay
Philip E. Schenk
Datura St
Explorer
Ault
S&h
Allstate Insurance CC
Sears, Roebuck & Co
CyDell Surgical
Hillview St
13Th St
Duane Palmer
Second Street
Vae
Aly
First Lebral Savings and Loan Association
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