Irish Playwright Behan Freed After Hollywood Arrest
Irish playwright Brendan Behan, 38, was freed on 108 bail after being arrested for disturbing the peace at McGeo's Pizza in Hollywood. Manager Jerry Brentari said Behan started swearing and disorderly conduct. Behan allegedly swung at a patrolman who attempted a photo.
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Hollywood
Brendan Behan
Behan
Martin Bryman
McGeo’s Pizza
Jerry Brentari
Brentari
Negro drivers ride Atlanta transit buses in first desegregated runs
Atlanta Transit System desegregates its driver corps for the first time with two Black men on passenger runs. President Robert L. Sommerville says they will be assigned where needed and treated like any other drivers, after a federal court order desegregated seating in 1959.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Transit System
Robert L. Sommerville
Sommerville
Georgia to establish police academy within a year
Col. William Trotter state director of public safety announced plans for a Georgia police academy to train every officer. He called it a major step for law enforcement and said the school should become mandatory within ten years. Estimated cost is about 306,000 dollars.
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Athens
Georgia
William Trotter
Trotter
Georgians Honored by Weather Bureau Awards
Three Georgians received weather service honors in Washington. J Smith Lanier of West Point earned a Thomas Jefferson award among five named, while L Monroe Cason of Warrenton and William C Cromley of Brooklet were among 24 receiving a John Campanius Holm certificate. The pair join 12 000 volunteers who help make daily observations for the Weather Bureau.
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Washington Ww
Weather Bureau
J. Smith Lanier
West Point
Thomas Jefferson
L. Monroe Cason
Warrenton
William C. Cromley
Brooklet
John Campanius Holm
Bureau
Memorial Day Weekend Highway Toll Reaches Record
AP reports 463 deaths on the four day Memorial Day weekend in 1950, the highest traffic toll for a Memorial holiday period. Only the 1915 Fourth of July period had more fatalities with 491 deaths in 102 hours. Violent accidents totaled 683 with drownings and miscellaneous incidents adding to the toll.
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Chicago
Georgia Watershed Project Wins Senate Committee Approval
The Bull Creek Georgia watershed project gains Senate Public Works Committee approval and advances to the House for consideration. Estimated federal funding totals 1,849,300 dollars with the state share to be determined.
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Washington
Bull Creek
Senate Public Works Committee
Deliberate Failure To Protect Riders Denied In Alabama
Police Commissioner L B Sullivan testified in federal court that Montgomery police did not deliberately fail to shield Freedom Riders from a white mob. He said no indication of trouble existed before the May 20 bus arrival and that officers were instructed to monitor and disperse crowds. A captain also testified that he aided a Justice Department official after a race riot, reinforcing claims police were not lax.
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Alabama
Associated Press
L. B. Sullivan
Montgomery
Freedom Riders
Sullivan
Greyhound
Justice Department
Birmingham
Anniston
Ala
State Capitol
D. H. Lackey
John Seigenthaler
Post-Trujillo Dominican move toward democracy eyed
U.S. policymakers watch the Dominican Republic after Trujillo's assassination for signs it will move toward democracy or erupt in revolution. The Kennedy administration seeks a reform regime, avoids oppression, and weighs aid resumption, sugar purchases, and OAS readmission while wary of a communist takeover. Senator Smathers urged Marines to deter a takeover.
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Washington
U. Ss
post-Trujillo
Dominican Republic
United States
Caribbean
Trujillo
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
U.S
Kennabington
Organization of American States
George Smathers
D-Fra
Dean Rusk
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Heirs of Trujillo Face Power Struggle After Assassination
Dominican Republic reels as strongman Rafael Trujillo is killed. His son Rafael Jr and brother Rhadames rush from Paris as government pledges continuity. President Balaguer leads a cautious sentence of mourning while exiles and rebels contemplate democracy or revolution.
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San Juan
P. R
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Jr
Paris
Ciudad Trujillo
Rhadames
France
Porfirio Rubirosa
Venezuelan Hunt For Rebel Band Leaders Grows
Venezuelan authorities say 21 plotters were seized in dawn raids while leaders fled and may stage a violent act of desperation. Betancourt accuses Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo of arming the rebels and attempting his assassination in 1960.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Romulo Betancourt
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Trujillo
Betancourt
Destruction Begins Of Historic Fletcherville School
Dismantling crews started work on the former Thomasville landmark once the city’s only school known for “readin writin arithmetic.” Ordered by the Thomasville Board of Education after a state condemnation, the building will be removed and the 7.6 acre site expanded by about 17 000 square feet. Dekle & Bons will receive 3 6858 pounds. county offers and museum plans failed.
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Thomasville
Rombet Dekle
NAACP files desegregation suit in Mississippi
NAACP sues to desegregate Mississippi higher education. James Meredith seeks admission to the University of Mississippi. Judge Sidney Mize delays ruling on a preliminary injunction until June 12 in Biloxi. Motley argues alumni recommendations unfairly bar Negroes.
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Jackson, Miss
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Mississippi
Sidney Mize
James B. Meredith
Jackson State
University of Mississippi
Freedom Riders
Meredith
Mize
Bilox
Constance Baker Motley
New York
NAACP
Board of Trustees of
State Institutions of Higher Learning
EB. R. Jobe
Ole Miss
J. D. Williams
R. B. Ellis
A. B. Lewis
College of Liberal Arts
Kennedy and De Gaulle Agree on Berlin Policy
Kennedy met De Gaulle at the Elysee Palace and at Paris City Hall for ceremonial welcomes. He told cheering staff at the U.S. Embassy he would strengthen Franco American ties as Berlin talks bolster exploratory talks with Khrushchev in Vienna.
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Paris
Kennedy
de Gaulle
Poucy
Elysee Palace
U.S
Fance
United States
Berlin
Khrushchev
Vienna
Austria
Hotel de Ville
Roger Frey
Ex Cuban Forces Exectioner Faces Deportation in New York
Herman Frederick Marks a Milwaukee born adventurer once cited as Castro's executioner was ruled deportable by the New York office of the Naturalization and Immigration Service. He has 10 days to appeal and may face deportation to Cuba or Mexico with prior arrest records and a history of escapes and multiple charges.
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New York
Herman Frederick Marks
Milwaukee
Fidel Castro
U.S. Naturalization and Immigration Service
Marks
Washington
United States
Mexico
el Paso
Immigration Service
Castro
Havana
Cuba
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