Anti Negro Poster Spurs New Jersey Teen Riots
A large sign reading Nigger go home incensed Black youths in Elizabeth New Jersey prompting violent clashes with police. One hundred plus demonstrators were arrested including many youths and several girls. Gov Hughes sent a civil rights official to address complaints of job discrimination at two construction sites.
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United Press International
Elizabeth
Richard Hughes
Chicago
Richard Daley
Daley
School Board
Clair M. Roddewig
Three Die In Wisconsin House Fire Tragedy
In Niagara Wisconsin six people died when a home fire swept through the Comstock residence. Five Comstock family members perished along with a visiting girl. A Kimberly Clark mill watchman alerted volunteer firemen about 3 30 am and the family patriarch worked at the mill. Names ages of the children were not immediately known. A son Robert about 18 was staying at a friend's six miles away when the blaze occurred.
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Niagara
Wis
UPI
Howard Comstock
Wisconsin
Comstock
Kimberly-Clark
Robert
Fannin urges California to lead in education and reform
Arizona Governor Paul Fannin criticizes federal policy as socialist minded while praising California. He condemns regulations that cloud industry and criticizes railroad labor practices limiting world competition. He lauds California’s junior college system as a 20th century educational advance guiding the nation for decades.
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Lake Arrowhead
Calif
Arizona
Paul Fannin
California
Fannin
Industry Education Council
United States
Two Spanish Anarchists Executed By Garroting
Two 30 year old anarchists, Francisco Granado Gata and Joaquin Delgado Martinez, were garroted at dawn in Madrid after being found guilty of bombing attacks that injured 42 people. General Franco refused clemency, confirming the executions officially carried out.
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Madrid
UPI
Francisco Granado Gata
Joaquin Delgado Martinez
Francisco Franco
Spain
Granada
Delgado
Granado
Burglary At Rainbo Baking Co Office
About $300 in cash was stolen from Rainbo Baking Co office safe at 827 E 17th. The 3 by 3 foot safe was pried open after a pane in the front window was broken and the intruder crawled in to jimmy the office door. The burglary was found at 4 a.m. by a potter cleaning up.
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Rainbo Baking Co
Ray Christman
Christman
Huerta Quits Post With Assessor to Enter Restaurant Business
County deputy assessor Joseph Huerta, 32, resigned from the personal property division to start a Mexican restaurant on North Oracle Road. He recently sold his Western Bar on North Oracle and framed the move as carrying on a family tradition with his father running a fountain and drug store for 15 years. Huerta leaves a $440 a month job.
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Joseph Huerta
Huerta
North Oracle
North Oracle Road
Agriculture to Buy Surplus Turkeys for School Lunches
The Agriculture Department plans to purchase surplus turkeys for the national school lunch program. Ready-to-cook birds will be served to about 17.5 million children using funds from import tariffs on agricultural products.
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Washington
UPI
Agriculture Department
Six Year Old Struck By Auto in Tucson
Six year old Sandra P Chavez of 127 E Navajo Rd was in satisfactory condition at St Mary's Hospital with a scalp cut and bruises after being struck yesterday afternoon on Ft Lowell Rd near Stone Ave by an eastbound car driven by Neal T Harris 18 of 2207 W Sunset Rd. No citation was issued.
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Sandra P. Chavez
Navajo Road
St. Mary’s Hospital
Ft. Lowell Road
Stone Avenue
Neal T. Harris
Sunset Road
Czechs Honor Soviet Woman Cosmonaut
Prague radio reports Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova awarded Czechoslovakia’s highest honor. President Antonin Novotny presented her the Hero of Socialist Work medal during a week long goodwill visit and award ceremony in Prague.
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Vienna
Austria
UPI
Valentina Tereshkova
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Antonin Novotny
Train Rams Another, One Killed
A self propelled passenger train derailed onto a siding and slammed into a stopped freight train in Bethel Connecticut killing a woman and injuring 28 others including a nun and several passengers. The New Haven Railroad blamed an open switch and said a full investigation would be needed to determine why it was left open. The fatal victim was Mrs Everett B Hurlburt 45 of Roxbury Conn with several others in critical condition.
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Bethel
Conn
UPI
New Haven
Danbury Hospital
New Haven Railroad
Robert McKiernan
South Norwalk
Danbury
McKiernan
Roxbury
Mary Gregory
Reading
Jesse Bonds
New York
Murray Klein
Brookfield
Stolen $20,000 Hals Portrait From Stockholm Museum
A painting valued at about $20,000, titled portrait of a boy and attributed to a pupil of Frans Hals, was stolen from the national museum in Stockholm. Police said Interpol has been alerted as the thief is believed to be part of an international gang of old masters thieves. The painting was taken after the thief cut the steel wire and concealed the work under his jacket.
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Stockholm
UPI
National Museum
Carl Nordenfalk
Frans Hals
International Police Agency
Interpol
Sweden
Russians Near Guantanamo Naval Base Questioned
The State Department said there may be some Russian troops around U S naval bases at Guantanamo but there were no large concentrations or noticeable increase in personnel.
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Washington
State Department
U.S
Guantanamo
Department
Police Seek South Side Prowler After Fremont Avenue Break-In
Detectives hunt a man who broke into a South Fremont Avenue home on Thursday night and attacked a 27 year old woman as she watched TV. She fought him off with a water glass and ash tray, receiving non fatal injuries. Police found blood on the door and porch. the intruder tore the woman's negligee and fled. Investigators say the case appears unrelated to other East Side prowling incidents.
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Fremont Avenue
Near East Side
Conservatives suffer slim Stratford margin in by election
The Stratford on Avon by election produced a narrow Conservative win for Angus Maude 15 846 votes to 12 376 for Labour’s Andrew Faulds with Liberal Derick Miffin 7 622. The result fueled talk that PM Macmillan’s government faces a crisis and may not fight a general election this year.
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London
UPI
Stratford-on-Avon
Angus Maude
Mer
John Profumo
Maude
Andrew Faulds
Derick Miffin
Daily Herald
Profumo
Britain
Harold Macmillan
the Herald
Obscene Note Leads to Arrest in Rendezvous Case
Ralph Erwin Bowers, 34, of 1348 E 10th St, was arrested at 4:17 a.m. on suspicion of indecent acts and simple assault after an obscene note found on panties on a clothesline. A woman on East 9th Street reported the note, and Cathy Payne posed as the recipient during surveillance.
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Ralph Erwin Bowers
10Th St
East 9Th Street
Cathy Payne
Deactivation of D-M’s 303rd Bomb Wing Ends SAC Top Unit
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base will deactivate the 303rd Bomb Wing next spring, ending one of Strategic Air Command’s elite units. The wing earned top honors, set flight safety records with 125,000 accident-free hours, and received 16 awards in 15 months under Col. Max W. Rogers.
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
303Rd
Strategic Air Command
United States Air Force
Air Force
Archie J. Old Jr
15Th Air Force
Davis Monthan
SAC
Haskell Gray
Col
Max W. Rogers
Japan
Rogers
William C. Bacon
12Th Strategic Aerospace Division
D-M
36Th Air Division
48Rd
Carswell Afb
Texas
36Th Division
43Rd
Bond Release Of Gunther Seen Near
Arrangements for the release on a $10,000 bond of Charles J. Gunther, charged with slaying his wife's infant daughter, are expected to be completed early next week according to his attorney. Gunther has been jailed since his arrest March 29 on an open murder charge, with an October 28 Superior Court trial date set. An autopsy found the child Sonja died from a skull fracture. his wife Sandra reported mistreatment in the past.
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Charles J. Gunther
A. Alan Hanshaw
Alice Truman
University of Arizona
Gunther
Hanshaw
Alfred Marquez
Sonja
Sandra
Sheriff's Deputies
Sex and Liquor Parties Held for Youths
Police charged 72 year old John Cooper of Kirkwood with operating a house of ill fame for teenagers. Officers said he sold liquor to youths from middle and upper income families and let them use the garage second floor for sex and liquor parties. The incidents were discovered in July after police stakeouts interrupted a party. Cooper faces 30 days in jail and a $100 fine and admitted the charges.
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St, Louis
John Cooper
Kirkwood
Cooper
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