Grand Jury Clears, But Attacks Desk Set in New Mexico Case
Santa Fe District Attorney Bert Prince flatly denies corruption charges as the grand jury names Prince and three other New Mexicans in its final report. Gov. Mechem declines comment while hearings edge toward Sept. 21 and possible Supreme Court scheduling. Gage and Richardson face embezzlement counts tied to 1950 prison property and funds. Hartman cited for negligence in audits of Santa Fe officials and New Mexico A&M College dairy finances. The panel urges more frequent grand jury reviews of state and county operations.
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Santa FE
Atty
Prince
Gage, Richardson
Hartman
Edwin Mechem
Supreme Court
Dist
Robert Fox
David Carmody
Gage
Richardson
Fox
McKinley
San Juan
Rio Arriba
Los Alamos
A. E. P. Robinson
New Mexico A&m College
Yasmin and Rebecca Welles Held After Death Threats
Actress Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan’s daughter Yasmin, alongside her half sister Rebecca Welles, eight, are under guard after two death threat letters demanded Hayworth return to Aly Khan. AP Wirephoto.
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Yasmin
Rita Hayworth
Prince Aly Khan
Rebecca Welles
Miss Hayworth
Aly, Khan
Youth Charged After Knifing at Dance at Ave Maria Center
Solomon Gonzales 19 was charged with assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly slashing Henry Madrid 17 during a dance at Ave Maria Center 401 Bland St at 10 40 p m Saturday. Madrid received four to six inch deep wounds and one half inch long, police said. The incident occurred after declined dance requests when Gonzales asked if the girls were with Madrid.
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Solomon Gonzales
R. Perry Beall
Justice of the Peace
Gonzales
Henry Madrid
Tommy Thompson
Ave Maria Center
Bland St
Madrid
Women to Be Heard As Well as Seen at Political Fishfry
CHICAGO Democratic fishfry showcases women speakers and fall finery as the party tests a new policy integrating its 31 year old women division. Chairman Stephen Mitchell says Democratic women gain equal status in national party work and highlights the two day rally.
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Chicago
Policy i
Stephen Mitchell
Wome
Mitchell
Weather Summary from Local Weather Bureau Report
Reading at three hour intervals shows high 92 and low 50 with precipitation trace for the period. Normal highs and lows are 85 and 59. Sunrise 5 41, sunset 6 06, length 12 4 hours. Mostly clear through Tuesday with little change tonight and a low around 54.
The Last Posse Features Roswell and Area
The Yucca Theatre shows The Last Posse about Roswell in its early days with action set in Roswell and nearby towns Carrizozo Vaughn Fort Sumner and others. The theatre invites residents over 50 who lived in New Mexico before 1910 to view the film before it ends its engagement on Wednesday.
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Roswell
Yucca
Carrizozo
Vaughn
Fort Sumner
Yuccan Theatre
Newice
Broderick Crawford
Charles Bickford
John Derek
Bickford
Four Wounded In Gun Duel At Lovington
Four men were wounded in a gun duel on the Lea County courthouse lawn after an earlier assault at a dance hall near Lovington. Ramon Carrasco Alberto Meneae and Trinidad Velasquez were among the injured, Velasquez shot in the back as police sought in Hobbs and local treatment. No charges filed.
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Lovington
Lea County
Jewell“McAdoo
Mike Vega Jr
Young Vega
McAdoo
Ramon Carrasco
Alberto
Velasquez
Vega
Lea General Hospital
Hobbs
Pecos Valley Baptist Association Opens Local Convention
Representatives from 28 churches gather at Calvary Baptist Roswell for a two day annual meeting. The program includes song service scripture prayer announcements a 3 15 p m singing session and a 4 50 p m address by D R Trolinger president of the New Mexico Temperance League. Rev Wilson Akins of Carlsbad serves as moderator.
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Pecos Valley Baptist Association
Calvary Baptist
W. Alameda St
Chester Bunch
J. H. Brister
Calvary
D. R. Trolinger
New Mexico Temperance League
South Hill Baptist
Roswell
Wilson Akins
Carlssbad
Pedestrian injured in South Main collision
Amada Ramirez suffered a cut over the right eye in a pedestrian automobile crash at South Main and Tilden at 7 30 last night. He was taken to St Mary's Hospital after crossing South Main into a southbound car driven by Ralston W Wohlfahrt 18 of Walker AFB. Police say the vehicle skidded seven steps before stopping and Ramirez walked against the traffic signal.
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Amada Ramirez
South Main
Tilden
St. Mary’s Hospital
Ramirez
Valdez Cafe
S. Main St
Ralston W. Wohlfahrt
Walker Air Force Base
Surplus Property Agencies Meet at Arrowhead Lodge
Representatives from eight Southwestern states begin a 24 day meeting at Arrowhead Lodge near Santa Fe to discuss surplus property issues. The event runs through mid March with various sessions and planning.
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Santa FE
Arrowhead Lodge
Moritow
Cleveland Ninety Five? No, Red Sox Rally Early
The box score fragment shows the Cleveland and New York game with late-game runs and pitching lines, plus the Chicago and Boston matchup with listed pitchers and runtimes. Specifics on final scores and full details are incomplete in the readable text.
Red Tinged Allied POWs Hit Kaesong
Allied prisoners who refused to return to their homelands near Panmunjom arrived at Kaesong amid Indian guarded demilitarized zone transfers. About 5 000 Indian guards and 14 700 Chinese and 8 000 North Koreans are held there awaiting fate from the political conference.
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Panmunjom
Vity
Nearaa
Wilfred Burchett
Tony
Burchett
Paris
l’Humanite
Red Command
Kaesong
Demilitarized Zone
S. P. P. Thorat
Thorat
Red
Thornt
Repatriation Commission
Truce Supervisory Commission
Sven Grafstrom
North
South Korea
Jan Hajdukiewicz
Americar
Joint Military Armistice Commission
Democrats Rally as Stevenson Signals 1956 Crusade
Democrats opened a national rally in Chicago with Adlai Stevenson hinting at a 1956 bid and calling for a crusade against Eisenhower policy. Truman praised Stevenson while party factions debated stance and internal tensions surfaced ahead of a high priced dinner and panel sessions.
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Chicago
Adlai Ecconnen
Illinois
Truman
Eisenhower
Stevenson
United States
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Allan Shivers
Texas
Stephen Mitchell
Congress
Mitchell
Rep
Rayburn
House
Sen
Monrooney
D-Okla
General Mo
Defense Wilson
General Motors
Douglas
D-Ill
Yugoslavia warns West over Trieste dispute flare
In Rome and Belgrade Western leaders study Italy's plebiscite plan for Trieste while Tito warns Italians not to press for Trieste by force. Pella supports a full Trieste plebiscite and rejects Tito's idea to place the port under Yugoslav control. British and American troops guard the port while Tito calls for restraint.
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Yugoslavia
West
Trieste
Rome
Britain
United States
France
Italy
Tito
Yungslav
Giuseppe Pella
Adriatic
Split
Pennsylvania pageant winners at Miss and Mrs America
Pennsylvania provided the Miss America winner Evelyn Ay of Ephrata and Mrs America winner Erne Snyder of Verona as the top beauties at Asbury Park and Reading. Ay, 20, is a UPenn student with a navy fiancé and a $40,000 appearance estimate plus scholarships. Snyder, 24, is a mother of two from Pennsylvania with $10,000 in awards and a tour of appearances.
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Evelyn Margaret Ay
Erne Snyder
Asbury Park
Miss Ay
Evvy
New York
Ephrata
University of Pennsylvania
Carl Sempier
Verona
N. J
Newport
R. I
Reading
Pennsylvania
Snyder
Constitutional Changes Best With Voters Tomorrow
Chaves County voters head to the polls tomorrow to decide 11 proposed changes to the New Mexico Constitution. Roswell voting machines will be at the probate judge’s office and the senior high school auditorium. Polls open 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Returns go to the county clerk. Bars are closed during voting as required by state law.
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Chaves County
New Mexico
Roswell
S. Richardson Ave
Dorothy Herring
Plane Hooks Fence North of City Sunday
A Piper Cub plane lost a propeller and had a wing damaged in a minor accident one half mile north and west of the Clovis Vaughn road Y at 4 p.m. yesterday. The Walker Aero Club plane’s pilot, uninjured, apparently attempted to land, then rose and hit a barbed wire fence. officers report no name was released.
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Clovis-Vaughn Road
Walker Aero Club
Rest Room Blast Injures Woman and Girl at Service Station
A gas explosion in a service station restroom near Las Cruces caused second and third degree burns to a Tucson woman, 57, and her five-year-old granddaughter Sheryl Houtz. Both were hospitalized at Memorial General Hospital in critical condition.
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Las Cruces
Tucson
Anna Ellis
Sheryl Houtz
Kenneth Houtz
Memorial General Hospital
Elderly Man and Boy Die in Two New Mexico Wrecks
Two unrelated highway crashes in New Mexico killed an 87 year old man, Tom Skeet of White Water, and an 8 year old boy, Larry Gene Hall of Star Route near Estancia. Skeet was a passenger in a pickup driven by Genny George, who was being held for investigation after the collision. The Hall boy died when his brother’s truck door opened and the vehicle ran over his neck and chest. The incidents raised the state's road toll to 267, following the recent death of nine month old Marsha Buskirk and her father Donn Buskirk in Carlsbad.
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New Mexico
Tom Skeet
White Water
N. M
Larry Gene Hall
Star Route
Estancia
Skeet
Genny George
Bill Hastings
Hastings
George
Gallup
Hall
Marsha Buskirk
Joyce Buskirk
Carlsbad
Marsha
Donn Buskirk
Marie Sena Dies in Santa Fe Revered Leader
Requiem high mass will be sung at St Francis Cathedral Wednesday for Marie Sena a member of a prominent Santa Fe family who died at her home Sunday She taught Spanish at Santa Fe High School for 33 years.
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Marie Sena
Santa FE
St. Francis Cathedral
Miss Sena
Getaway Car Driver Surrenders in Labor Leader Murder
William Howell, 35, of Ridgefield New Jersey, suspected of driving the getaway car in the murder of labor leader Thomas F. Lewis, surrendered to Bronx police after a nationwide search. Lewis, 35, president of Local 32-E AFL Building Service Employees Int. Union, was killed in his Bronx home. Edane Ryan, 45, an ex convict, was killed in a gunfight with police while fleeing. A Bronx County grand jury will hear witnesses as the Harness Racing Commission investigates the raceway hiring of two ex convicts.
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New York
William Howell
Thomas F. Lewis
Howell
Ridgefield
N. J
Bronx
Lewis
Edane Ryan
Ryan
New York Daily News
Margaret
New York City
Bronx County
New York State Harness Racing Commission
Lawrence Lynch
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