Deadlocked Ku Klux Klansman Escapes Murder Conviction
In Hayneville Alabama a jury deadlocked 10 to 2 ending the five day first degree murder trial of Collie Leroy Wilkins 21 for the slaying of Viola Liuzzo 39 a Detroit mother of five. The state will seek retrial in September.
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Hayneville
Ala
Collie Leroy Wilkins
Viola Liuzzo
Detroit
Wilkins
Montgomery
Alabama
Richmond Flowers
Lowndes County
Liuzzo
FBI
Clifford McMurphy
Collie Wilkins Jr
Center
Honor Student Keith Rabie Found Dead At Home
Keith H Rabie an 18 year old Lansingburg High School honor student who was to graduate cum laude next month was found dead with a bullet wound in the forehead in his cellar. The body was discovered by his sister Susan 14 and a .22 caliber single shot rifle lay nearby. Coroner Anthony E Matera ordered an autopsy and withheld a ruling pending results. Keith had registered with the draft board the day before his death and planned to attend college. Police described him as nervous after draft registration and the family had been preparing for a camping trip with his father.
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Lansingburg
Keith H. Rabie
122Nd St
Susan
Anthony E Matera
Samaritan Hospital
Keith
Draft Board
Kenneth Rabie
Watervliet Arsenal
Matera
James V. Barrett
John E. Grimmick
August M. Rokjer
Thomas G. Maguire
Bernard F. Madsen
John A. Comitale
Detective Bureau
William J. Canavally
George T. Butler
James Purcell
Frank Brearton Jr
William H. Connors
Three Die In Ship Collision In Straits Of Mackinac
In foggy Straits of Mackinac a collision between the Cedarville of U S Steel and the Norwegian vessel Todbalsfjord sank the Cedarville. Three crew members died and seven were missing from the 35 aboard. Survivors were rescued by the icebreaker Mackinac and other craft.
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Mackinaw City, Mich
Cedarville
U.S. Steel Corp
Straits
Mackinac
U. S. Steel
Bradley Transportation Lines
Rogers City
Mich
Coast Guard
U.S. Steel
Stanley Haske
Edward H. Jungman
Reinholdt S. Radike
Coast
Coast Guard Ends Search For Heiress
Coast Guard ends the search for heiress Mrs Eileen Kelcher Jeffers Yager 61 who vanished during a honeymoon aboard a yacht off Southern California. Her husband Superior Judge Thomas C Yager 47 says he would give up everything for his bride as investigators treat the disappearance as an accident.
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Thomas C. Yager
Coast Guard
California
Eileen Kelcher-Jeffers Yager
Judge Yager
James Francis Cardinal McIntyre
Los Angeles
Yagers
Hawaii
New York
Washington
Boston
Memorial park dedication honors Edward R. Murrow in Pawling
A 65 acre recreation area in Pawling will be dedicated May 23 as a memorial to Edward R. Murrow the noted news commentator who died April 27 at his farm in Pawling. The announcement came from the Pawling Fine Arts Council.
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Pawling
Edward R. Murrow
Pawling Fine Arts Council
Murrow
Former pilot steals WWII B 25 in Honolulu scare
James A. Ashdown, 34, an advertising salesman, stole a World War II B-25 bomber at Honolulu airport just before 1:30 a.m. He roared toward Waikiki brushing palm trees and hotels, struck a radio tower, and damaged the fuselage and gun turret glass before landing back at the airport. He was charged with plane theft.
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Honolulu
Waikiki Beach
Federal Aviation Agency
James A. Ashdown
Ashdown
Jacob Yoon
Waikiki
Kalakakua Avenue
Foster Towers
Gil McCoy
FAA
Frederick Pack
Five-Man Junta Replaces Dominican Military Authority
In Santo Domingo a three-man junta resigned and a civilian military five member group led by Gen. Antonio Imbert formed a new government of national reconstruction. Caamano denounced any coalition and spoke for the rebels as the inter-Americas police force looms. Imbert urged peace and national unity while Caamano held his brother prisoner and rejected communist claims.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Francisco Caamano Deno
Antonio Imbert
Caamano
Imbert
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Elias Wessin Y Wessin
U.S
OAS Plans Election Program for Dominican Republic
The Organization of American States envisions a 60 day plan to restore constitutional government in the Dominican Republic. It considers appointing three anti dictatorship reformists as special commissioners to oversee the transition and enable a U.S. troop withdrawal. The three likely appointees are Romulo Betancourt Luis Munoz Marin and Jose Figueres.
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Washington
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
OAS
United States
Romulo Betancourt
Venezuela
Luis Munoz Marin
Puerto Rico
Jose Figueres
Costa Rica
Districting Plan Draws Strong GOP Fire and Criticism
Democratic reapportionment plan draws sharp opposition from Republican leaders in Rensselaer and Schoharie counties. Douglas Hudson calls it a stall to block elections this year while Assemblyman Russell Selkirk denounces it as gerrymandering at its worst. He cites a U shaped district crossing five districts and warns incumbents could be drawn together weakening upstate influence. The plan’s fate hinges on a federal court review and a Senate redistricting timetable still 7 to 10 days away.
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Federal District Court
Senate
Rensselaer County
GOP
Douglas Hudson
Russell Selkirk
Schoharie County
Selkirk
Columbia County
Greene County
Cobleskill
Hoosick Falls
Clarence D. Lane
Willard C. Drumm
Hudson
U.S. Expands Vietnam Raid And Reinforcements
U S forces strike North Vietnam with 81 jets and add 6 000 troops on Dien Bien Phu anniversary. F105s hit Thanh Hoa bridge while a plane is shot down for the first time since April. Marines and Seabees land 3 000 each at Chu Lai to build a new air strip as 45 000 troops are deployed. Viet Cong attacks intensify in Hai Yan and other areas.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
United States
France
Dien Bien Phu
Thanh Hoa
Hanoi
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Chu Lai
da Nang
U.S. Army
Army
Okinawa
Bien Hoa
Vung Tau
Deep South
Hai Yan
Periscope Local Methodists Advocate Higher Drinking Age
A city note indicates local Methodist group urges raising the legal drinking age. The item cites community concerns and moral standards discussed in the church setting.
Public Schools Aided Newburgh Under Federal Aid Plan
The Office of Education announced it has reserved 148 684 dollars for Newburgh public schools under a federal aid law. The funding targets districts facing education problems intensified by the presence of federal personnel.
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Washington
Office of Education
Newburgh
Peace Force Legality Challenged in UN Debate
In a drawn out U.N. Security Council session the Soviet Union and Cuba attacked the legality of the inter American peace force proposed for the Dominican Republic while the United States defended it. A Soviet resolution demanding U.S. withdrawal was delayed to Tuesday as Cuba and the USSR used the legality issue as a tactic. Cuban delegate Fernando Alvarez Tabio claimed the OAS vote was invalid due to a Dominican Republic delegate’s participation and a coalition flouting proper procedure.
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United Nations
Soviet Union
Cuba
United States
Dominican Republic
U.N. Security Council
U. S
Fernando Alvarez Tabio
Organization of American States
Alvarez
Santo Domingo
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McMurphy
T. Worth Thagard
Edmund Sallee
Thagard
Eugene Thomas
William C. Eaton
U.S. 80
Martin Luther King Jr
Selma
Leroy Moton
Johnson
LHS
North End
John J. McNamara
Long Beach
Calif
New Five-Man Group
Gardless
Julio Pospigo
Bosch
Revolutionary Party
Carlos Grisolis Poloney
Donald Reid Cabral
Alejandro Zeller Coco
Col
Pedro B. Benoit
Saldovar
Snoopy
Peace Force Legality
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