Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 1

Crash -f- T- -F Second Story' Thugs Take $630 In Guns, Ammo THI Wailing Wall WIIPIN' WILlll Laugh Lines A woman wrote to a daily newspaper from a very lonely spot. "My sister and I aren't exactly lonely out here. We have each other to talk to. But we do need another woman to talk about. on Young 'Softies' The Conference Youth Fitness, held in Albuquer que Thursday and Friday, was i most inspirational event.

Little did we realize that parents are rearing a generation of softies and that fitness seems to be i forgotten thing. In years past kids walked to school, had all kinds of chores, and kept themselves physically fit whether they realized it or not. This is a national program, being promoted by President Eisenhower, and the time and effort that has been put into the program is tremendous. And the facts put us to shame. No longer do we require chores of our kids, we provide an auto for them for every trip longer than a city block, and this is making a bunch of softies to face a world and its responsibilities.

The picture is not one of physical unfitness alone, but mental fitness seems to be gauged by physical wellbeing also. The kids are not alone. While we are spoiling them, we are also indulging in the same comfort and ease and parents are just about as unfit as kids. These are some of the many things we heard, from some of the finest speakers we have ever heard, and truth of their remarks just simply cannot be denied. Plan Needed We thoroughly enjoyed every minute of the two-day session.

We sincerely hope that It doesn't just stop now, and result in the people of the state having heard many fine speeches and let it go at that. A plan of action must be derived, and something positive done to correct a bad situation from a rich and fat nation. Not For 'George' One thing we noted particularly. The first speaker of the session admonished his 1,500 or more listeners to listen, work, contribute to the conference, and come up with some positive ideas for correction. merely figure out another job for someone else to do," he said.

Of the recommendations at end of the session, however, most all of them were to add new programs in the schools. They either handed the responsibility to the state department of education or the local schools. That get the job done. Unable To Open Safe Second story burglars invaded Hardware store at 919 New York Ave nue in predawn hours yesterday and got away with loot estimated at $6 39. Entrance was gained by prying boards off a window on the upper story from the roof of adjoining Store.

The list of stolen items as given to the investigating city police officers. Sgt. Hex Carrell and Patrolman Kerr, includes: Four .38 caliber revolvers, a .32 revolver, a .22 revolver a .32 caliber automatic pistol, a .45 automatic, two transistor radios, $20 worth of ammunition mostly of .22 caliber, approximately $10 in coins taken from a soft drink machine and about $5 in cash. Using an ax and a hammer from the own stock, the burglars knocked the dial and hinge pins from the office safe but were unable to get it open. The early morning of Jan.

1,1957, was burglarized by break-in artists who forced a rear door. Two pistols and a quantity of ammunition was the loot that time. Volume 294 Uptown Push Merchants in Uptown Alamogordo are working together this Christmas season, and they've contributed to a pot to be given away as a door prize right near Christmas Day. The fund amounts to about $350, and registration can be made at any of the stores advertising a list of those merchants. They're urging shopping "Uptown," and to make it more convenient, they'll remain open nights beginning this Friday night.

It's this kind of promotion that makes for better business. Giant Titan Explodes Above Pad CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. A Titan, biggest military rocket, exploded into a roaring inferno Saturday as it lifted off on its most'critical test flight. The, 98-foot intercontinental- barely struggled from its launch pad when it was ripped by tons of burning fuel. The eruption sent an orange ball of fire soaring hundreds of feet into the air.

A cloud of black smoke capped the spectacular scene. When the wind blew the smoke away, the Titan service tower was a fire- blackened mass. None of the 60 members of the launch crew, in blockhouse 100 yards away, was hurt. The blowup was almost identical to the last Titan launch on Aug. 14.

That missile also rose a few feet, then was consumed in holocaust. The August explosion was blamed on a faulty release mech anism. There was no indication of what caused the latest blowup. Both the ill-fated launches were aimed at igniting the huge second stage for the first time. If See 6 Alamogordo, New Mexico, Sunday, December 13, 1959 24 I 0c Recalls Jake The Barber DEATH This car was pried open like a can when it was struck broadside Friday night by another at the intersection of State Highway 83 and U.

S. 54-70, one mile north of Alamogordo. A passenger in the rear seat, Walter S. May, 46, died in this crash Three others were critically injured According to State Police reports, the vehicle failed to stop for the posted intersection, with the above result (Staff Photo) Ex-Alamogordo Man Killed In Kansas City Delbert Hill, 29, formerly of Alamogordo, was fatally injured Friday morning in Kansas City, Kansas, when his car skidded on an icy spot on a freeway. He died at a Kansas City hospital in the afternoon.

Mr. Hill leaves his wife, Mrs. Rutbie Hill, of Silver City, N. and two children. He attended grade school in Alamogordo and went to High School in Deming.

He was a graduate of New Mexico Western. He was a Marine corps veteran. UN To Hove Voice On Outer Space UNITED NATIONS. N. Y.

The U. N. General Assembly headed for adjournment Saturday night in agreement on outer space, but still deadlocked on choosing between Communist Poland and U. Turkey a Security Council seat. A U.

plan to give the United Nations a voice in peaceful! exploration of outer space was ap- proved unanimously by the Political Committee. The Assembly was expected to ratify the committee's decision. The Assembly failed to approve a new Asian-African resolution urging informal French Algerian talks for ending the five-year-old rebellion in Algeria. The vote was 30-22 with 20 abstentions, which fell short of the required two- thirds majority. The United States abstained on the resolution.

But even with Algeria disposed of adjournment was still hours away. A major hurdle was the contest betwen Turkey and Poland for the two-year seat on the Council being vacated by Japan. Private talks between representatives of the United States and the Soviet backers of the rival to produce any compromise agreement. A two-thirds majority is required in the Assembly for election. Some diplomats speculated that the Assembly might adjourn without filling the vacancy and try again at a resumed session in January.

Agreement on outer space was See UN 6 'Pilgrimoge' Proised Ike, Nehru Talks Range The World NEW DELHI, India Presi- ficial announcement on the ground dent Eisenhower and Prime Min ister Nehru held private talks Saturday night on a range of press- for ing world problems. More personal discussions between the two will follow Sunday. Saturday night's meeting came after a dinner Eisenhower gave for Nehru at the U. S. residence.

There was no of- News On Hill Our circulation department is happy to announce that arrangements have been completed to deliver The Daily News into Cloudcroft on the afternoon of publication, so that the papers will be available for newsstand purchase. Papers should be available at two locations, the Cloudcroft Pharmacy and Schaaf's Grocery, by 3:30 p. m. After the first of the year, we hope to be able to arrange home delivery in Cloudcroft. Blind Legislator Bride Anita Blair Wed In Secret Here Fake Air Captain Is Soon Unmasked ST.

LOUIS, Mo. (yp There much wrong with Frank J. pose as an A i Force captain except: He had bars pinned improperly to his shirt. He addressed a real captain as "lieutenant." The identification card he carried was for an airman first class. undoing came at St.

Louis University, where he visited the ROTC unit as part of what he said was a plan to raid the campus for money, buy civilian clothes and leave town. The real captain he addressed as demanded his identification card, then summoned the FBI. Churcio, 28, a former convict from Reading, was sentenced in U. S. District Court Friday to four months in jail for illegally wearing a military uniform.

covered, but reliable informants said the talks centered on issues ranging fro border troubles with Red China to world disarmament. After the meeting Eisenhower returned to his suite in the Indian presidential house for the night. The stage for their latest meeting on this fourth day of visit to India was set by a glowing tribute from Nehru to in quest of peace." A U. S. official said the three hours of discussions Eisenhower and the leader of the most populous democracy have had previously were "exceedingly cor- He declared U.

re- lations at the moment were at the highest peak since India became i independent. M. C. Chagla, Indian ambassador to Washington, said visit to India will open "a new' chapter in w'orld history." One major result of the Eisenhower-Nehru meetings so far seems to be an easing of tension between Pakistan and long at loggerheads over boundaries, water rights, and the princely State of Kashmir claimed by both countries. Sure glad The Indians are reported to got have been assured that U.

S. mil-! a safety itary aid to Pakistan is granted council, as an ally in the anti-Communist See 6 Kept Death Watch' In Loop Hotel EDITOR'S $3 million libel suit now on tile by John (Jake the Barber) Factor against ex-gangster Roger (The Terrible) Touhy and several other persons arid firms brought back old Chicago newspaper days to Alamogordo Daily News writer Ray Black for reasons he gives in the following which he ard The Dsily News sincerely hope won't bring on us another S3 million libel suit. By RAY BLACK Not only did 1 talk to Jake the Barber several times while getting material for a life history 1 wrote for a true detective magazine but 1 was one of the gang of reporters who lolled about an expensive suite in the Morrison Hotel provided by Jake attorney as a press room while we waited to see if he ever come back from his 193 3 kidnaping. And one of the defendants in Jake's seven-figure suit is Ray Brennan, one of my newspaper cronies in those days and now city editor of the Chicago Sun-1 imes. In fact, I had a friendly letter from Brennan not long ago.

It is a book purportedly by Touhy called I he Stolen ears, obviously w'ritten by Brennan, in which Touhy charges that Jake the Barber faked the $70,000 ransom kidnaping for which Touhy and two others drew 99-year penitentiary sentences, to foil possible extradition to England for an alleged $7 million copper stock swindle, that is the basiS for the' big libel suit. My uflci Jake the Bar- her were in his austere and richly appointed LaSalle Street brokerage office. opened the office after a checkered career which had included fleeing to Montreal. Canada to escape stock" charges in Chicago and a sojourn in London during which he w'as charged with mulcting Britons of $7 million by selling stock in a Rhodesia copper mine that apparently existed only in the marvelous imagination. England sent a distinguished Counsel to Chicago for a series of extradition hearings but for legal reasons I remember.

Jake was never extradited to England, A tall. Adonis-figured man in a hand-tailored brown suit, Jake the Barber greeted me suavely on my first appointment in his brokerage office. His manners and diction were impeccable. To all questions about his reputation as one of the smoothest confidence men of all times his See 6 Three Hurt When Car Is Sliced By HAL WILLS A 46-year-old Alamogordo man is dead and three others are critically injured following a high-speed crash at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the junction of State Highway 83 and U.

S. Highway 54-70 one mile north of Alamogordo. Dead on arrival at Gerald Champion Memorial Hospital was Walter S. May, 46. He was a passenger in a car driven by James Kelso, 3 7, also of Alamogordo, who remained in critical condition following the accident.

Also listed in critical condition were John B. Dugan, 32; Carl Kelso, 4 3, and Kenneth Mooney, 23, all passengers in the Kelso vehicle. Also a passenger in the same machine, but uninjured was Raymond J. I Lopez, 24. Cars driven by Kelso and Paul W.

Liddle, 28, 2404 Tui lane, Alamogordo, collided broadside when Kelso failed to stop at the intersection, according to State Police. All six occupants of the Kelso machine were thrown out as the vehicle careened 104 feet after the impact. Liddle, driver of the other machine. was treated and released at GCMH. Both vehicles were demolished.

According to State Police, who investigated, the Kelso machine was bound west on State Highway 83. enroute to Alamogordo from Lovington, and failed to stop at the junction with U. S. Highway 54-70. It w'as struck broadside in the northbound lane of divided highway 54-70 by Liddle.

The Liddle vehicle, according to State Police reports, cut almost entirely through the Kelso machine, spilling the occupants out onto the roadway. Following the crash, the Kelso vehicle spun completely across four-lane highway and came to rest in the southbound traffic lane. May, killed in the crash, was riding in the left side of the rear seat in the Kelso machine, and received almost the entire impact of the collision. Dugan, Carl Kelso and Mooney, all unconscious throughout Friday night and listed in critical condi- See 6 BANDIT AND PARAMOUR, Frank Dennis Scott and Rebecca Justice, photographed in Carrizozo after their arrest. (Photo by Price Service, Corrizozo) Robbing Pair Stole Car At Gunpoint Alamogordo law' officers yesterday disclosed new sensational revelations about the accused trio of asserted cop and service station robbers held in Lincoln cvounty jail at Carrizozo.

Police Chief Clarence Walker and Sheriff Terrel Herndon, who went to the Lincoln county town Friday to question the two men and women, declared they had learned that: See 6 We Were There Alamogordo was well represented at the conference, with people See WAILING 6 Secret marriage in an Alamogordo home late last month of Anita Lee Blair, former Alamo- gordan who after her blinding in a traffic accident near here went on to become a Texas legislator and nationally-known lecturer Oil safety, was revealed yesterday. Fittingly, the marriage was pronounced by venerable Justice of Peach Howard S. Beacham, who as sheriff of Otero county at the time of the traffic accident in 1936 arranged for Miss removal to an El Paso hospital by ambulance. In an interview she gave to Daily News reporter on a visit to this plant in January last year, Miss Blair said: was Judge quick and kind action when he was sheriff that saved my As a girl, Anita Blair attended Alamogordo High School in 1926 and 1927 while she and a sister were being given haven in the Beacham home. On marriage license records in the county office dated Nov.

21, Miss Blair gaye her age as 43 See ANITA Page 6 Two-Year Search Ends With Capture Of Escaped Trusty Sought nation-wide since he and another trusty walked out of the Otero county jail on Aug. 21, 1957 $50 from the desk on their Mahoney, carnival worker, is under arrest at Keyser, Sherilf Terrel Herndon was notified by telegram yesterday. Mahoney was to have gone to trial eight days later than his cape1 on a charge of participating in the assault and robbery of Casey White, 39. Alamogordo construction worker and ex-cowboy. White, suffering from broken where he had been seen drinking with Mahoney and a fellow carnival worker, Donald A.

Baehellor. Approximately $160 had been taken from his wallet. Mahoney was found hiding in the restroom and Baehellor was caught as he fled from the drinking place. Escaping with Mahoney was Airman Mathew Lyle, of Holloman, being held on a bad check charge. He later was captured in San Diego, Calif.

Mahoney and Lyle had been snapping beans for the sup- ribs and head and face wounds, per when they made their getaway was found in a South Pennsylvania They picked an opportune time be- WELLSFORD MAHONEY, JR. Avenue trailer park near the bar cause the then jailer. Joe Perea. w'as on duty in the office since the sheriff and his deputies w'ere searching for a missing woman in the mountains near Bent. Baehellor, who had been released on $1,500 bond, was granted deferred sentence and probation in district court.

He had declared that he took no part in the beating and robbing of White, although Mahoney did give him half the money stolen. telegram to Herndon from Virginia authorities said he charged with several robberies in that state. Herndon said the Virginia authorities probably will be allowed to prosecute Mahoney, although a hold order on him will be asked for Otero county. Paraguay Invasion Squashed ASUNCION, Paraguay sources said today an attempted movement from Argentina to overthrow the Paraguayan government has been "completely dominated." Informants saida government communique on the situation is in preparation. This capital remains calm.

Reports reached here that a revolt against President Alfredo Stroessner had been launched this morning from Posadas, Argentina, across the Parana River from Paraguay. In Buenos Aires, the Argentine news agency Saporiti said a "liberation of Paraguayans living abroad invaded Paraguay from Argentine and Brazilian border points in seven columns. Clandestine in Misiones Province of northern Argentina reported the liberation army was led by Juan Jose Rotella, 26, and Mario Steche, both identified as Paraguayan students. Despite the reports of revolt in various Paraguayan cities, Argentine airlines said flights to the capital of Asuncion were normal. A correspondent at Asuncion reported by telephone to Buenos Aires that all appeared quiet in the Paraguayan capital.

The call placed here was put through immediately. The Asuncion report conflicted with information being broadcast by Buenos Aires radio stations, which said uprisings had occurred in Asuncion, Villarica, and Concepcion. WEATHER ALAMOGORDO: Fair and a little warmer through Sunday and Monday. Low tonight 26, high Monday 65..