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Baca Issues Warning To Roswell Death BarState Liquor Director Elf ego Boca has notified the owner of a Roswell bar where two Negroes were killed last Saturday night that he coji-ihicrs the establish meat a ' public nuisance.Knorr BlamesGovernmentROSWELL W — John Knorr says' part of the responsibility /or thnj staying of State Policeman Nush! Garcia Js jnlsma nngcrnenl or In-j dlan affairs by the federal govern-1 mcnLEncrr, candidate for Republican-nomination ioT U.B, senator amli former GDP slate chairman, states: I Some part of the responsibility j for the horrible slugging and fatal shooting’ of State Police Officer1 Nash Garcia must be latri to the’ bungling incompetence and the vl-' clous mishandling uf New Mexico Indians at the hands of the icdcral government.Indian laws are archaic, unworkable and unjust. Indian law enforcement is a farce. The fed' eral government has made a cruel failure of all this. 'Otherwise Slate Patrolman Nash Garcia would not have been forced Jo go Into a federal reservation.Pressure Group Ip West ScoredTUCSON UP) — Dr. Howard J. McMurray, hvad ol the University ol Kuw Mexico government department, today called /or action to cut down on wide open lobbying in the West,Speaking at the annual meeting of the Western Political ScienceAt the same time he warned Grace German, operator of Eddie’s Bar, that If her piece of business Is permitted to remain a nubsonce yonr llcuu*u will be suspended or revoked.Chester Hunker, attorney lor the State Liquor Division, explained that under the law a warning must be Issued before more drastic action can be taken,He said ‘the warning would be served on the bar owner by W. R Reed, supervisor of the Roswell field office who reported the two murders in a routine report to Boca.At the some time he toid the liquor director that the police have been called to the bar at 3D1 SnuLh ;Ma]n St. a total of 34 times between |Nov, 30, 1351 nitd March ]. 1D2.I The calls were for nttcnsGs ranging from gang lights to shooting a soldier in the foot., Reed told Baca that the two persons killed Saturday night were I Jack Rted, 28-year-old cook, and • Thomas J. Smith, 2£, civilian vm-'plo.ye at Walker Air Force Base, j Both were Negroes.His report said that Reed was ‘shot four times by Leroy Grant, [43-year-old janitor, after the two -argued uiiC-ii Grant went Into Lhc •bar huuUng for bis wife.Smith was shot several hours later by Mrs. Dimples Smith, 46, owner of the Everybody's Cafe. Ol fleers were told that the two got Into an argument over a 50-ccnt sandwich she claimed he had not paid for last November. The two Srnltlis were not relatives.Office rs said that after Mrs. Smith shot the other man she con-jllnucd to flrn wildly at him, wourrd-.Ing a Negro w cmazi Jn the shoulder and a Negro alrrrnrr In tpe jpgPolice closer! the bar temporarily after the shooting.i.Grace Dorman la the while owner of the bnr.N1shov*EuriWactaandseenBrylClrcenLDiper/slugfilmalta
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Thu, Apr 17, 1952
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