Puerto Rican Nationalist chief Albizu seized in two hour battle
Police seized Pedro Albizu Campos and five aides in a two hour exchange of gunfire and bombs in San Juan. The crackdown followed a Washington shooting by Nationalists last week. Albizu, hospitalized under guard, was said uninjured though exhausted.
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Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Pedro Albizu Campos
Luis Munoz Marin
U. S
Washington
Albizu
Doris Torresola
Griselio Torresola
Secret Service
Truman
Harvard University
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Jose Rivera Sotomayor
U. S. Army
Roy Wrenn
Greensboro
N. C
Women Propel Red Cross Campaign in Roswell Area
Campaign to raise 17246 in Chaves County surpasses halfway mark with 9056.84 collected. Ladies division led by Mrs. Blocksom and Mrs. Stapp reports 2704.81 and expects larger totals from communities beyond Roswell as workers urge others to subscribe through Fred Blocksom, First National Bank, or the Chamber of Commerce.
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Chaves County
Red Cross
Roswell
Fred Blocksom
Tom Stapp
Don Gillespie, Jr
Will Lawrence
Huff's Jewelry Store
Sweetbriar Shop
Norton Motor Co
Hall Poorbaugh Press
the Model
Merritt's
Knadle’s
Lawrence
People
First National Bank
Chamber of Commerce
Mechem Sees Campaign Troubles Ahead in Senate Bid
Gov. Edwin L. Mechem forecasts a difficult path as he prepares to run for Democrat Clinton Anderson’s Senate seat next year. He predicts an adjournment of Congress to let lawmakers campaign, comments on Anderson’s nomination, and notes his own campaign plans may be limited by duties as governor.
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Mechem
Santa FE
Edwin L. Mechem
Clinton Anderson
Senate
Congress
Anderson
Asst
Peter Cable
Bureau of Revenue
Cable
Alva A. Simpson
Simpson
Stevenson Assails Republicans Over McCarthyism and Slander
Adlai E. Stevenson charged the Republican party with a campaign of slander and deception to stay in power. He blamed Eisenhower for tolerating McCarthyism and warned of a split party torn by internal conflict and disunity at the Southeastern Democratic Conference in Miami Beach.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Adlai E. Stevenson
McCarthy
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Southeastern Democratic Conference
Sen. McCarthy
Wisconsin
Republican Party
Illinois
Sens
Holland
D-Fla
Fulbright
D-Ark
Congress
Presiden
Weather Summary for United States Regions
Reading records show 3 hour interval temperatures from yesterday afternoon through today with a 24 hour period ending shortly after midnight showing no precipitation. Monthly and yearly totals indicate trace amounts, with normal figures listed. Sunrise at 6 19 and sunset at 6 00 yield a 16 7 hour length of day. Forecast calls for high cloudiness and fair skies with slightly warmer temperatures and a high near 70 and a low around 28.
Dilley Seeks Re election To Roswell County Post
Fred H. Dilley Jr. 39 seeks re election as county commissioner in Roswell Chaves County He has led the county on a business like basis and has ten years in the area He is active in civicgroups including Lions Elks and the American Cancer Society and lives with wife Bernice and son Chip in the Berrendo District
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Fred H. Dilley Jr
Dilley
Roswell
Chaves County
Chicago
Roswell Osteopathic Hospital
American Institute of Banking
Ill
Morton Junior College
Cicero
Morton High School
Berwyn
Newark
N. J
Roswell Lions Club
Elks
Berrendo District
Bernice
Chip
86 598 Pennies Collected in Million Penny Drive
The third week ends with 86 598 pennies donated to the visible tank at the Public Service Company. Roswell and Chaves County students contributed as part of the City County PTA Council Million Penny drive for the Eastern New Mexico Medical Center. Top schools and their weekly totals listed.
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Public Service Company
Roswell
Chaves County
PTA
New
Eastern New Mexico Medical Center
Missouri Avenue
Washington Avenue
Mark Howell
Edgewood
Eastside
WAFB
Parkview
Mountain View
EGP
Highland
Hagerman
Four-District School Bond Vote Draws 26 Ballots
Only 26 people in four merged districts voted on a $20,000 school bond Thursday to build a new school for Elk, Dunken, Penasco, and Flying H areas. Results were not known Friday as returns went to the county clerk rather than the county superintendent. One vote opposed the measure while 25 ballots favored it.
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Elk
Dunken
Penasco
Flying H
Coffee incentive for TV set repairs in ad
A television service company offered one pound of coffee to every customer who orders a TV set repaired, as stated in a newspaper advertisement.
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Ban Francisco
Granddaughter of Sen Chavez Named Cherry Blossom Princess
Imelda Chavez Miller, 18, granddaughter of Senator Chavez of New Mexico, is named cherry blossom princess to represent New Mexico in the annual festival. She attends Visitation Convent and is the daughter of Mrs. George Dixon.
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Washington
Imelda Chavez Miller
Sen. Chavez
D-Nm
New Mexico
Visitation Convent
George Dixon
Fire Damages Irrigation Tile Plant in LFD Area
Explosion at about 1 15 a m woke sleepers near the J P White manufacturing plant in the LFD area causing 5000 damage to a 15000 dollar cinder block building and possible lighter damage to 30000 dollars worth of equipment used to manufacture underground irrigation cement pipe Insurance covered the building and equipment The East Grand Plains Fire Department two trucks led by Clarence Wheeler responded Roswell Fire Station No 2 also sent a truck under Lt Bill Carr The plant sits about three miles east and one half mile south of Roswell
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J. P. White
Lfd
Roswell
East
Uranium Mining Planned Near Caballo Dam in Sierra County
Robert H. LaFollette of the Badget Mining Co announces uranium operations will begin soon three miles east of Caballo Dam. Road work is needed to move machinery in. The company is the second to announce mining in Sierra County in recent weeks.
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Robert H. LaFollette
Albuquerque
Badget Mining Co
Caballo
LaFollette
Sierra County
Ballard Heads Roswell Ticket For Mayor Race
Bert Ballard leads the Greater Roswell Party ticket for the April 6 municipal election as candidates for aldermen are named by ward. Other profiles include Max Shepherd and Winston Daniel with several incumbents and new faces listed. Filing deadlines loom ahead of county and state contests with primaries set for May 4.
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Bert Ballard
Greater
Max Shepherd
Winston Daniel
Max Littell
Roy V. Tyner
H. D. Hughes
Melvin Clem
John F
Jack) Russell
S. Elmo Henslee
E. L. Burns
Dan Carpenter
Greater Roswell
Ballard
Ballard Funeral Home
Shepherd
Merchant Association
Main Street
Daniel
Daniel Paint and Glass Co
Tyner
Aubrey Gregg
Stanley W. Crosby
W. H. Whatley
Crosby
Clem
C. M. Robbins
R. H
Pop) Davis
Henry S. Corzine
Clarence A. Doyal
R. L. Ballard
Prescriet
S. A. Pritchard
Richard G. Bean
Clark Freehart
Dorothy Herring
Robert O. Anderson
Charles F. Waller
Ervin William Mitchell
Richard F. Whitman
Fred H. Dilley Jr
Kyes Resigns as Deputy Secretary of Defense
Deputy Secretary of Defense Roger M. Kyes, long noted as the department's business manager, will resign effective May 1. The White House and Defense Department said the move follows an understanding he would serve about a year, with Wilson urging him to stay until May 1 beyond the Feb. 2 anniversary.
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Washington
Roger M. Kyes
Defense Department
White House
Kyes
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Pentagon
McCarthy Committee
Army
Robert T. Stevens
Stevens
Mayor Cobean Files Acceptances
SANTA FE. Additional convention designates for the May 4 primary election ballot who have filed their acceptance with the secretary of state include John F. Simms Jr. Albuquerque Democrat for governor Louis Lopez Santa Fe Democrat for auditor Daniel K. Sadler Baton Democrat Supreme Court Warren R. Cobean Roswell Republican Congress Charles Battiste Carlsbad Republican lieutenant governor Clinton P. Anderson Albuquerque Democrat U S Senate.
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Santa FE (P
Secretary of State
John F. Simms Jr
Albuquerque
Louis Lopez
Santa Fe
Daniel K. Sadler
Baton
Drought and Erosion Threaten New Mexico Farmland
Land experts described a looming dust bowl as nearly a million acres in eight eastern counties lack adequate ground cover. Emergency relief and matching federal funds were urged, with rapid action deemed essential to prevent widespread land loss and wind erosion.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Congress
East Side
Edwin Mechem
R. L. Farrington
U. S. Department of Agriculture Drought Committee
Farrington
Mechem
State Board of Finance
Soil Conservation Service
Colfax County
Curry
Lea
Harding
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Andy Ganatos
Neal Alexander
Lee Nanosh
Floydt
Socorro-Catron
J. A. Conway
John J. Wolf
Hi Gill
Manuel Luis Miera
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Joseph Warner Jr
Carter W. Kirk
Wilson Hurley
Sue Mitchell Murphey
Nancisco Francis
Robert Katson
Pat Sheehan
Edward J. Fitzgerald
Santa Fe County
Anthony With
J. W. Garcia
Felipe A. Gonzales
Avelino
Moya
Henry A. Kier, Jr
Antonio M. Montoya
James Riley
Dick Montoya Jr
Rio Arriba
Albert Amador
Matias L. Chacon
Gregorio C. Martinez
Roman Jaramillo Jr
Frutoso Vigil
Reuben N. Sisneros
San Miguel County
W. O. Culbertson
Donald A. Martinez
Noble M. Irish
Peter Gonzales
Morris Shillinglaw
Antonio Sanchez
John M. Oakes
Mora County
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Benjamin F. Branch
Marcelino Torres
Celestino Garcia
Ambrosio Montoya
Billie Martin
Levi L. Turner
Howard McDaniel
R.W. Erwin
Adlai
United States
Board of Commissioners
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Caballo Dam
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Tivation
Quay County
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Torrence
Union
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C. S. Cates
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