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RECALLS MURDER IN DONA ANA COUNTY JUST TEN YEARS AGOThe prison break Friday of 29-year-old Delbert Lord, who was serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary at Santa Fe, recalled the kidnap-slaying in Dona Ana county of elder-ly, crippled Robert Aubuchon, just ten years ago Saturday. Lord and the two men who escaped from the penitentiary with him were recaptured shortly after the break.Crucen Heads HomemakersCLOVIS. March 15 l/P»—'Teresa Viramontes of Las Cruces was elected Now Mexico state president of the Future Homemakers of America in the closing session of the third annual state ennvrn-liim hui'G today. She succeeds Nlnn Simpson of Lovington. elected at the convention nt Lns Cruces last year.Other officers: Kay Young.Carlsbad, vice president; Catherine Desmond, Rogers, secretary; Regina Cruz, Springer, treasurer; Mary Alice Lavato, Las Vegas^iis-torian; Billie .Joyce. p ail JaWn taring Jeane Summers. Grants, choir-man of public .relations; Betty Wade, Melrose, chairman of recreation; and Eloida Tlio'mns, chairman of state and ^national planning. yi ...... ■ ■■■■' —Fruit Flies Survive V-2 Trip at SandsFruit flias survived a trip more than 88 miles in altitude In thr wgr head of a rocket launched Inst jli'onlh at the White Sands proving ground.The Army disclosed the results of the experiment Friday afternoon reporting that the flies—first living organl9ms to be carried in the rocket—appenrrd none the worse for their ascent to an altitude of 360,000 feet.Sentenced t» Clmlr Lord was lound guilty of murder in the first degree here Aug. 20. 1A37. after a four-day trial, and sentenced lo the electric chair. His sentence was later commuted to hfo imprisonment.His brother. Ceorgc Alfred Lord, and Walter Smith were fond guilty of second degree murder in the ?ninc cose and given 50 to 60-year sentences; a fourth defendant, Emmett Powell, was acquitted.They were charged with kidnap-1 ning Aubuchon, who was nil em-j ployc at a Pcinlng camp ground.I robbing him, and shooting him on • she mesa near Aflr.-i when they! found he had much less money, than they had believed.Brother CanfcHKwl The Las Crucc-3 Dally News of March 16. 1937, soys Ceorgc Lord confessed that he nnd his brother, nfrtlfited by Smith and Powell, forced the older man into a car.'After slugging him with agun. the Dntly News said, themen forced him out of the rnr..vhichJtAd run out of gas.** Aubuchon broke away from hi*j suitors nnd tried to run away up a canyon. He was caught, however. and after he had begged m-successfully for his life, was shot twice, through the head.VlnvuonU's Sheriff Aubuchon hod become acquainted with the brothers when they visited the tourist camp in Drmlng where he was slaying early in February.Stories of the killing rated top heads in the Dally News for fourThe rocket carried special equip- i eons ecu live days; tin* lrj«] was mcnt to lower the containers hold- • considered top news for five unnsc* ing Insects nnd delicate instru-»rutlve days.ments by ribbon parachutes, in-1 Jose VlrmnnLni, sheriff nt that
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Las Cruces Sun News
Las Cruces, New Mexico, US
Sun, Mar 16, 1947
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