Doctor recounts hostage hold by Trujillo plotters in Dominican Republic
Dr Robert Reid Cabral says four men led by retired Gen. Juan Tomas Diaz held him wife and infant for four days after Trujillo was assassinated. Hunger and fear drove the fugitives from hiding. Diaz was killed in a gun battle, De la Maza mortally wounded, Estrella and Caceres Michel surrendered.
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Ciudad Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujillo
Robert Reid Cabral
Trujillo
Reid Cabral
Juan Tomas Diaz
Diaz
Marcelino Velez
Velez
Antonio de la Maza
Salvador Estrella
de la Maza
Maza
Estrella
Luis Caceres Michel
Truman Urges Northerners To Sweep Their Own Yard First
Former President Harry S. Truman told two antisegregationists that vigorous desegregation efforts in the North should start at home. He mocked protests as publicity stunts and urged cleaner streets in New York, Boston, and Chicago before targeting Southern venues.
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New York
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Joel Geier
Chicago
Young People’s Socialist League
Thalia Syracopulos
Delta Ave
Akron
Ohio
Geier
American Broadcasting-Paramount Theaters, Inc
Austin
Tex
Boston
Council to Open Revenue Bond Bids Tonight
City Council meets at 7 30 to open bids on 400000 in revenue bonds for off street parking lots insurance copper pipe water valves gutter broom wire and traffic lights If approved the funds will buy three off street parking lots and lease a fourth in the downtown area.
Sarah Churchill fined for drunken disorderly act in Brighton
BRIGHTON England AP actress Sarah Churchill daughter of Sir Winston Churchill was fined two pounds for being drunk and disorderly in a Brighton pub. It was her eighth such appearance in two years as she pleaded guilty and expressed regret to the magistrate.
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Brighton
England
Sarah Churchill
Winston Churchill
Baltic Regatta to Feature International Yachtsmen in Tallinn
Soviet officials announced the Baltic Regatta will be held in Tallinn on June 18 25 with competitors from eight countries including the United States.
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Moscow
United States
Tallinn
Supreme Court Backs Action Against Reds
The Supreme Court split 5 to 4 upholding two major actions against the Communist party in the United States. The rulings upheld the Smith Act clause making membership in such an organization a crime and the requirement that the party register with the attorney general as a Kremlin puppet. Justice Frankfurter wrote the majority opinion. Junius Scales, former Communist party chairman in the Carolinas, was cited in the ruling and had six years’ imprisonment after his second Smith Act conviction.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
U.S
Communist Party
Kremlin
Justice Department
Gus Hall
New York
Soviet Union
Felix Frankfurter
High Court
Frankfurter
John M. Harlan
Junius Irving Scales
Carolinas
North Carolina
Scales
Duke City Woman Is Shot to Death
Bernice Coco Jones, 28, was shot to death at 4 30 a m in a south Albuquerque cafe. Police sought a 24 year old Negro woman and said the suspect was with a man. Jones awaited trial on a murder charge tied to the death two months earlier of Ann Petty. Eleven material witnesses were held for questioning.
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Albuquerque
Bernice
Coco’’ Jones
Ann Petty
Miss Jones
Boys Staters Name City Officers in New Mexico State Program
In New Mexico Boys State nearly 400 youths chose city officials for ten mythical cities. Mayors, councilmen, clerks, treasurers and judges were named for Monticello, Armijo, Cortez, Coronado, Montezume, Mendoza and other cities with officials from Las Cruces to Santa Fe.
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New Mexico
Edwin L. Mechem
City of Monticello
Keith Hensen
Las Cruces
Willie Dame
Corona
John Marish
Espanola
David Hendrix
Socorro
Louis Kavanaugh
Tom Gutierrez
Albuquerque
George Esquibel
Las Vegas
Dwight Turner
Texico
City of Armijo
John S. Lee
Alamogordo
Martin Bond
Jal
Jesus Estrada
Artesia
Robert Russ
Cloudcroft
James Wilmot
Roswell
Chester Pine
Tucumcari
John Gurule
Louis Gauna
Vaughn
City of Cortez
Mike Sherill
Lovington
Danny Archuleta
Octaviano Trujillo
Taos
Richard Reidy
Billy Robinson
Clovis
Jay Harris
Leroy Gomez
San Patricio
Jim Libby
Clayton
City of
Coronado
Ron Schnakbuch
Los Alamos
Terry McNutt
Mescalero
David Fernandez
Santa Fe
Moe Varrareas
Alfred Sena
Pecos
Manny Silva
Hurley
Jimmy Moore
Joe Lopez
Santa Rosa
Montezume
Charles
Charles Creek, Las Cruces. Councilmen, Bill McTheron, Hobbs; Leon Clendenen
Ed Lewis
Bill Bartlett
Joe Prater
Farmington
Fred Knight
Chester Mauchline
Mendoza
Alfred Rich
Mexico City
Mexico
Daniel Butler
James Stewart
Joe See Boys
Roswell Education Board Approves Athletic Budgets
The Roswell Board of Education approved athletic budgets totaling 30 217 50 for football basketball baseball track and tennis across Roswell High and four middle schools. Several sport budgets were omitted due to no submissions and new public property insurance forms aim to raise replacement coverage while lowering overall costs.
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Roswell
Ernest L. Harp Jr
Harp
Mercury Again Bubbles to 100 For State's High
Scattered thunderstorms moved through eastern New Mexico with Hobbs reporting .18 inches of rain. Roswell hit 100 degrees while Gallup recorded 80 as the state endured a warm day with fair western and central skies and showers in the east.
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Associated Press
New Mexico
Hobbs
Roswell
Gallup
Grants
Alamogordo
Four Hurt In Mishaps On Poe St
Police report two Poe Street accidents injure four people. Margaret Bever, Max Lare, and Katherine O Neil are hospitalized with multiple injuries from a rear end collision and rollover. Earlier Raymond Aragon was struck while crossing Poe Street by Clyde Taylor, suffering head injuries and possible broken leg.
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Poe Street
Main Street
Margaret H. Bever
WAFB
Max LeRoy Lare
Dexter
Katherine O'Neil
S. Fir Ave
Lare
Miss O'Neil
Lare Auto
Raymond B. Aragon
E. Poe
E. Poe St
Aragon
Clyde V. Taylor
Santa Fe Woman Killed in Castle Rock Car Crash
Christina R. Stauffer, 58, of Santa Fe, was killed when a skidding car swung across the highway and ran over her near Castle Rock Colorado. Her husband Maynard Stauffer, 64, was also thrown from the vehicle and escaped with facial cuts.
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Castle Rock
Colo
Christina R. Stauffer
Santa Fe
Maynard Stauffer
Kennedy Reports From Vienna Summit And Berlin Stand
President Kennedy returns from summit meetings with Khrushchev de Gaulle and Macmillan and to address the nation. Democrats see potential for East West progress while Republicans remain skeptical about concrete results.
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Oriellie
Khrushchev
Charles de Gaulle
France
Harold Macmillan
Kennedy
Berlin
Congress
Vienna
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Sen
J. William Fulbright
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Browa
John Sparkman
Ala
Homer Capehart
R-Ind
Hickenlooper
Pilot parachutes from burning F100 near Roswell
The Air Force pilot 1st Lt. John F. Cheatham of the 522nd Tactical Fighter Squadron based at Cannon AFB parachuted from a burning F100 jet that crashed north of Roswell yesterday afternoon near the Pecos River. He was recovered at Cannon AFB.
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Air Force
Cannon Air Force Base
Roswell
John F. Cheatham
522Nd Tactical Fighter Sqdn
Cannon Afb
Clovis
Pecos River
Spokesman Says Pentagon Target For Red Germs
An Army spokesman warns the Soviet Union could attack the Pentagon's 30,000 workers with trained operatives and germs. Testimony to the House Appropriations Committee says the Soviets lead the U S in chemical and biological warfare and could start a general war.
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C. Yates McDaniel
Washington
Army
Soviet Union
Pentagon
U.S
House Appropriations Committee
Chemical Corps
W. E. Black
Arthur Trudeau
Marshall Stubbs
Sovies
United States
Ben Martinez Dies in Santa Fe Highway Crash
New Mexico toll rises to 131 with the death of Ben Martinez, 58, of Chimayo. He died in a Santa Fe hospital after his truck rammed a parked, unlit truck on State Road 76 east of Espanola Saturday night. Last year at this time 162 highway deaths were reported.
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Santa FE
New Mexico
Ben Martinez
Road Toll So Far This Year Tops Last Year At This Date
The tally shows 131 fatalities on the road this year to date, surpassing the figure recorded by the same date last year as authorities review traffic safety measures.
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N. M
Astronaut Shepard Says Vibration Fogged Vision Briefly
Astronaut Alan Shepard told physicians that rocket vibration briefly blurred his vision in the early part of his 15 minute suborbital flight. He urged design tweaks including more head foam and a stronger space capsule adapter ring to reduce vibration on future Mercury missions.
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Vern Haugland
Washington
Alan Shepard
Shepard
U.S
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Grand Bahama Island
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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