Vol. 79/No. 20 June 1, 2015
June 1, 1990
HOUSTON — On May 4 a police chief and two county deputies from the small East Texas town of Hemphill were found guilty of murder in the death of Loyal Garner, Jr. Garner, a 34-year-old Black truck driver, was beaten in the Hemphill jail on Christmas Day 1987. A jail guard found him comatose on the cell floor the next morning. He died December 27.Garner, a Hemphill resident, was on his way to a nearby town with two buddies to pick up a car he was going to overhaul. Hemphill Police Chief Thomas Ladner pulled him over for drunk driving. Garner was beaten with a blackjack by Ladner after demanding to make a phone call.
May 31, 1965
“The Yankee government wants to make Bolivia a second Dominican Republic!” This was the theme of broadcasts from the radio stations of the Bolivian miners beginning May 16. Like the Dominicans, the Bolivian workers are waging a heroic armed resistance against a frontal assault by a U.S.-instigated military junta, that of Gen. René Barrientos.The eruption of this conflict, which has been simmering since the overthrow of Paz Estenssoro last November, comes at a time not so favorable for Washington; the battle could result in a major advance of the Bolivian revolution, and thus of the Latin American revolution.
June 1, 1940
MEXICO CITY— Mexican police are seeking George Mink, agent of Stalin’s G.P.U. (secret police) as the chief of the G.P.U. murder squad which attempted to assassinate Leon Trotsky and his wife. Planned down to the last detail on a scale possible only to people commanding enormous resources, it was clearly the result of long preparation under direct orders of Stalin himself.More than twenty Stalinist assassins armed with machine guns, rifles, and incendiary bombs, succeeded in breaking inside the walls surrounding the residence of Leon Trotsky and sprayed fusillade after fusillade through the doors and windows where Trotsky and his wife were sleeping.
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