Anti-Vice Nominee In Alabama Slain
In Phenix City Alabama guardsmen were ordered to keep the peace as officers seek the gunman who killed anti-vice Democratic attorney general nominee A L Patterson. Gov Gordon Persons authorized steps to prevent trouble and offered a 5000 dollar reward. A broad off limits order restricted Ft Benning soldiers from city venues. Police and sheriff officials widened the inquiry with casts of footprints and a roundup of known criminals. Patterson had campaigned on ridding Alabama of organized crime.
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Alabama
Guard
Phenix City
Ala
National
A. L. Patterson
Army
Ft. Benning
Joseph H. Harper
Persons
Phenix City Chamber of Commerce
Alton V. Foster
Foster
Lee Smelley
State Department of Public Safety
Patterson
Russell County
Ralph Mathews
Pat Daniel
Mathews
Herbert Hubbard Home on Two Week Navy Leave
Herbert Lee Hubbard 18 son of Mr and Mrs J E Hubbard 724 E 23rd St is home on two weeks leave from the Navy. Hubbard finished boat training at San Diego and will report to an electronic technicians school in San Francisco after the leave. He is a 1953 graduate of Roswell High School.
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Herbert Lee Hubbard
J. E. Hubbard
E. 23Rd St
Navy
Hubbard
San Diego
Electronic Technicians
San Francisco
Roswell High School
Execution date set for Whitaker in Texas murder
Vernon Texas reports that Walter E. Whitaker Jr. has been scheduled for execution on August 2 at Huntsville State Prison. He was convicted a year ago for the strangling death of 18 year old Joyce Fern White of Lubbock, whom he met while an Air Force cadet at Reese Air Base.
Security Council Prepones Session on Guatemalan Conflict
The United Nations Security Council will meet at 2 p.m. today in an extraordinary session on the Guatemala conflict, moved up from Monday afternoon after Guatemala’s delegate pressed for urgency.
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United Nations
N. Y
United Nations Security Council
Guatemala
Weather Summary for Local Area
Reading at three hour intervals yesterday shows a high of 93 and a low of 64 with little rainfall. Normal values are 92 high and 63 low for the date. Conditions: clouds increasing tonight with little if any rain and a high of 96 today. low tonight around 63. Sunrise 4 48, sunset 7 10. day length 14 4 hours.
Hawaii Man In Congress Found Dead
Joseph Rider Farrington delegate to Congress from Hawaii was found dead in his Capitol office. He was 56. Police said death due to natural causes, possibly a heart attack, after he failed to keep an appointment and was found by staff. Farrington, a Republican, had represented the territory since 1942.
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Washington
Joseph Rider Farrington
Congress
Hawaii
Capitol
Metropolitan Police
Farrington
Territory
Lester C. Hunt
Washington, D. C
Simms Begins Campaign Tour With New Stops
John Simms Jr. Democrat candidate for governor will launch another campaign tour starting today. He will attend church in Mountainair on Sunday and speak in Carrizoro that evening, then Alamogordo Monday, Artesia Tuesday, and Hobbs Thursday for the state American Legion convention opening.
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Albuquerque
John Simms Jr
Simms
Mountainair
Carrizoro
Alamogordo
Artesia
Hobbs
American Legion
Charred cross found at Woodlawn pool incident
A charred cross appeared early Saturday in front of the Woodlawn swimming pool after Friday morning several white swimmers left the water when five Negro youths entered the pool.
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San Antonio
Woodlawn
Wanted Man Is 2nd Best In Gun Battle
Harry Dalzell wounded three times in a morning gunfight in a railroad yard at Tucumcari. Dalzell, wanted for stripping and robbing an Indiana State Trooper, was captured with 16 year old Ronald Clauser after a confrontation with Sheriff Claude Moncus. Dalzell was hit three times. Moncus and Clouser were not injured. Moncus said new developments may occur as Indiana officials monitor events. Eight others on the train are held as witnesses.
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Harry Dalzell
Claude Moncus
Dalzell
Indiana
Clough Moncus
Moncus
Southern Pacific Railway
Ronald Clauser
J. Alfred Walker
Indianapolis
Walker
Mancus
Clouser
Truman Admitted To Hospital After Acute Indigestion
Former President Harry Truman was admitted to Research Hospital in Kansas City after a day of illness described as acute indigestion. He entered with his wife and personal physician Dr. Wallace Graham and went directly to his room.
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Kansas City
Harry Truman
Research Hospital
Wallace Graham
Truman Taken to Surgery After Appendicitis Scare
Former President Truman was rushed to Research Hospital at 1 30 a m for emergency surgery after illness at Starlight Theater. Mrs Bess Truman said it was appendicitis and he had shown good health since leaving the White House seven years ago. He turned 70 in May.
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Kansas City
Truman
Research Hospital
Bess Truman
Starlight Theater
Perle Mesta
Washington
Luxembourg
Independence
White House
Plane crash kills LeTourneau Co. engineer
A company plane owned by the R. G. LeTourneau Co. crashed yesterday in Longview Texas killing one company engineer on board.
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Longview
Tex
R. G. LeTourneau Co
Anti-Red Leaders Foresee Quick Guatemala Victory
Invasion heads from Honduras announce feeble resistance and quick success across Guatemala. Col. Castillo Armas declares 25 miles reached toward the capital as rebels seize ports and claim widespread border defections.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Jum 19
Liberation Army
Carlos Castillo Armas
Copan
Manuel Orellana Portillo
Orellana Portillo
Puerto Barrios
San Jose
Zacapa
Retalhuleu
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
United Nations Security Council
New York
Nicaragua
Washington
U.S. State Department
Guillermo Toriello
Col. Castillo
J. Edgardo Valenzuela
Associated Press
Guatemala City
Senator Hunt Suicide Shocks Senate Leader in Wyoming
Senator Lester Callaway Hunt of Wyoming died after shooting himself in his Senate office amid health concerns from a kidney ailment. Notes found addressed to staff and wife, timing tied to his decision not to seek reelection. his death affects Senate party balance and successor appointment by Acting Gov. Rogers.
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Washington
Sen
Lester Callaway Hunt
Wyoming
Kefauver
Senate
Clements
Sen. Hunt
Manatos
Hunt
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
Burke
C. J. Rogers
Ira Whitlock
George Calver
Congress
Los Angeles Man Dies in New Mexico Wreck
State police identified Aubrey Basil Page 39 of Los Angeles as the deceased driver after a one vehicle crash on U S Highway 260 five miles north of Deming at 10 45 a m. Marion Page 33 was hospitalized with a broken leg. The state death toll rose to 160.
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Deming
Los Angeles
Aubrey Basil Page
Marion Page
U. S. Highway 260
Bombers Hit Invasion Routes Near Hanoi Front
B 26 aircraft struck invasion routes on the western fringe of the Red River Delta cutting two key highways ahead of Vietminh supply convoys. The operation aimed to disrupt enemy movement and weaken their advance.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Red River Delta
Mendes France Pledges Peace and Fresh Ideas for France
Pierre Mendes France, the new French premier, pledges peace in Indochina and unveils a bold, cabinet-free approach. He shuns traditional coalition bargaining, interviewing deputies directly and forming a lean, reform minded government. He once proposed strict austerity and anti corruption measures, earning respect even when Cabinet posts eluded him.
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Mendes France
Britain
International Monetary Fund
Riddles and a Batlle End McCarthy Army Drama
Two 15 year olds were caught on the roof of J C Penney at 313 N Main St. after breaking into Beaty's Steam Laundry at 109 E Deming St. Police recovered clothes, cigars and gum, but no cash. The raid followed a prior laundry break in. The McCarthy Army drama lingered after the spectacle with questions about who lied and who ordered actions.
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J. C. Penney Co
N. Main St
Beaty’s
E. Deming St
Tommy Thompson
Pall Mall
Reckless Driving Case Highlighted By Verbal Warfare
A reckless driving case at Hagerman District Court follows a justice court verdict fining Fiynn D. Locke $75 for a May 17 collision with a post on airbase road. Airman John M. L. Haddy, injured, seeks $15,000 in District Court from Locke and associates. The trial featured sharp exchanges between district attorney Pat Hanagan and defense attorney Lew Kimmel.
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Justice Court
Fiynn D. Locke
Locke
John M. L. Haddy
Armament and Electronics Sqdn
Walker Air Force Base
Haddy
Frank McDaniel
Two-O-One Taxi Co
Inland Empire Insurance Co
J. E. Lusk
Hagerman
R. Bean
Justice Bean
Dick Bean
William W. Osborn
Pat Hanagan
Lew Kimmel
Don Shultz
New Mexico
Kimmel
Shultz
Hanagan
Airman Injured After Being Struck On Air Base Road
Airman Alvin L. Rithole, 20, of the 39th Bomb Squadron, suffered a compound fracture of the right leg and head lacerations after being hit by a car on Air Base Road about 8 40 last night. S/Sgt Irving Milton Stewart drove the striking car. Rithole was taken to Walker Base hospital for surgery and listed not to be in serious condition.
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Alvin L. Rithole
39Th
Air Base Road
Bill Allen
Ritchie
South Park
Irving Milton
Stewart
Air Patrol
Walker Base
Ballard
Chamber Backs DAV Convention Bid for Roswell
Roswell Chamber of Commerce praised by George Ganz for backing Roswell as the 1955 DAV convention city in New Mexico. Santa Fe was chosen because the capital has not hosted a DAV convention in a decade. Jess Corn of Roswell won a place on the state executive committee at last week’s Albuquerque convention.
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Roswell
Farmers to Learn Severity Of Next Year's Curbs Monday
Washington June 197- Agriculture Secretary Benson will reveal proposed tight federal controls on major crops for next year at a news briefing He is expected to urge continued strict wheat marketing quotas a 12 percent planting cut and measures to prevent surplus land from shifting to other crops including soybeans flaxseed barley rye oats dry beans and potatoes
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Benson
Nounce
Benson i
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