Alleged Murderer's Alibis Break Under Confession
Deputy Sheriff J C Jones reports a confession by Gloria Williamson admitting double murders once denied by Wayne Walker alias McGuire alias Solieau. Walker’s alibi places them between Durango and Alamosa July 12, while evidence links Walker to a stolen car and a $15 hot check cashed July 13 in Pecos Valley.
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J. C. Jones
Houston Police
Alias McGuire
Solieau
Gloria Williamson
Houston
Wayne Walker
Durango
Alamosa
Jones
Walker
Pecos Valley Trading Co
H. B. Spencer, Jr
First National Bank
Co. B. King
H. O. DeShurley
Joe Arragon
DeShurley
H. B.cer
H. B
Spencer
Gloria
Roswell
Gloria Wil
Glen V. Painter
New Mexico
Tinnie
Painter
Virgil Hall
Capital
Hall
Capitan
C. B
Buster” Kern
Harris County
Tex
Tatum
Clovis
Narrow Vista
Texarkana
Lice
J. C. Spencer
Martin Walker
Colo
Reading of Weather Bureau Intervals From Yesterday
Summary of reading times from 2 p.m. yesterday to 11 p.m. yesterday with temperatures at 2 00, 5 00, 8 00 and 11 00 hours and precipitation figures. Highest 100 and lowest 65 noted. 24 hour precipitation none. Month to date 0.01 inches. Year to date 5.35 inches.
City Car Crash Claims Lieutenant Williams At Hobbs Street
Lieutenant Williams, 24, of the 509th Air Refueling Squadron, Walker AFB, died instantly from a fractured skull when a car traveling at excessive speed crashed near St. Marys Hospital on Hobbs Street. Five passengers were in the vehicle, with Lt. Leona Christy injured, and witnesses said the car struck a tree and gas meter before uprooting a telephone pole and stopping on the lawn at 1604 South Main Street. Police and hospital officials were gathering facts as eyewitnesses reported the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith M. Williams Jr
509Th
Walker Air Force Base
St. Mary’s Hospital
Hobbs Street
S. Main St
Very St
Air Base Road
Tommy Thompson
Ee Neue E . Saan
Peiping Radio
People’s Daily
Chi- 509Th Ars
Communist Party
Inuries
U. N
Leona I. Christy
Largest Group of Americans Freed by Reds
The fifth day of the Korean armistice prisoner exchange began with 112 Americans and South Koreans released. The Reds returned 400 Allied captives today, including 473 North Korean women and children, 23 under five, and one Chinese nurse, with 250 South Koreans, 21 British, 13 Turks, 2 Australians, 1 Canadian, and 1 Filipino. About 1,600 of 12,763 Allied prisoners have been freed so far, while Washington warns the Communists to hand over all UN prisoners to the Armistice Repatriation Commission.
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Panmunjom
North
United Nations
Reds
Washington
State Department
Armistice Repatriation Commission
U. N
Walter Bedell Smith
Man's Mumbled Tale Leads to Body Near Albuquerque
Denver report outlines detective Flor quoting Michael Cavanaugh about finding a partly buried, naked body near Albuquerque. The victim Ralph L. Welch, ex marine from Chula Vista, was stabbed or shot, with a skull injury. FBI joined the probe as Welch had been missing since July.
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Denver
William Flor
Michael T. Cavanaugh
Albuquerque
N. M
Flor
Cavanaugh
Ralph L. Welch
Chula Vista
Calif
U. S. 66
Walter Geis
Geis
Welch
Tijuana
Mexico
Tucson
Ariz
Fletcher & Co Warehouse Inferno Destroys Main Storeroom
A Friday night blaze gutted the Fletcher & Co main storeroom on N Lincoln St with an estimated fifty thousand dollars in damage. Firemen faced roaring flames from the west roof as inventory in the main room burned while groceries in other sections survived. The cause was undetermined by Saturday. the alarm was misrouted at first delaying response.
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Fletcher & Co
N. Lincoln St
George Daniels
Off West Second
East Second
Glen Austin
Austin
E. E. Patterson
Tom Fletcher
California
Fletcher and Co
Lincoln St
Magazine Says Public May See A Bomb This Year
New York report cites Aviation Week that the public could view the atomic bomb during a December telecast marking the 50th Anniversary of Flight. The magazine says plans exist but officials may block the reveal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aviation Week
McGraw- Hill
Eisenhower
Final Plans Confirmed on Street Work
City Council held a special session to confirm street widening plans for Second Street. Construction by Armstrong & Armstrong is set to start soon with four 11 foot driving lanes and a parking lane on the south side between Richardson and west, plus two eight foot parking lanes on East Second from the Santa Fe track to the east, and four driving lanes without parking between Richardson and the Santa Fe tracks.
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Second Street
Armstrong & Armstrong
C. M. Woodbury
Tech
Richardson
Santa Fe
East German refugees raid West German Communist rally
In Rheine Germany hundreds of refugees fleeing Communism in East Germany disrupted a West German Communist Party rally last night. The clash broke up the meeting and left 10 Communist officials wounded.
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Rheine
Germany
East Germany
Communist Party
AP Photographer Noel Is Returned From Prison
AP photographer Frank Noel was released by the Communists and returned to Panmunjom after 32 months in captivity. He rejoined the United Nations prisoners in the 11 a.m. group following the Marine withdrawal from the Changjin reservoir.
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Panmunjom
Associated Press
Frank Noel
Noel
Changjin Reservoir
United Nations
Escapes With Life From Cement Mixer Incident
Frederick Hale aged 24 from Hartford spent about 15 minutes inside a revolving cement mixer in Glastonbury before escaping with only minor injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glastonbury, Conn
Frederick Hale
Hartford
Deputy Tracks Down Notorious Ex-Con Greathouse
Deputy Jones and Hagerman deputy sheriffs chased Lester Greathouse alias Ray Logan alias Jim Carson, a 50 year old Cadillac forger, across 16 states after bilking Roswell businessmen of 600.64 with eight counterfeit checks. Greathouse, a career con who served time from 1921 to 1951 in multiple prisons, was tracked to St Louis where police held him. The investigation spans six months and includes Breckinridge County, various aliases, and lengthy prison terms.
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Charlie Troublefield
Hagerman
Leonj and
George
Roswell
Harry D. Puryear
Lester Greathouse
St. Louis
J. C. Jones
Jones
Puryear
Greathouse
Ray ‘Logan
Jim Carson
Deputy Jones
Carson
State Reform School
Porillac
Jefferson City
Montgomery
Ala
L. C. Brown
Colorado State Penitentiary
Canon City
Colo
Federal Penitentiary
Atlanta
San Quentin Prison
Calif
California
Banks
Roswell Mer
Red Premier speech raises H bomb doubt in Washington
Western officials question Malenkov's claim that the USSR has produced a hydrogen bomb. Analysts say his aggressive speech may be a strategic show of force while science and policy circles weigh the likelihood of a Russian H bomb test and its impact on U.S. defense planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Russia
Malenkov
Soviet Union
U. S
Kremlin
Malenko
Lavrenty Beria
Beria
White House
Eisenhower
Colorado
Lewis Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Senate Housetree On Atomic Energy
China
Johnson
Denver
John Lapp
Congress
Milwaukee
Sen
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ben Gs
Senate House Committee
Rep
Price
Dill
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United States Weather Bureau
Chaves
FBI
Deputy Here
Slick
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Billy Henderson
Leon Lond
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