Alamogordo Daily News from Alamogordo, New Mexico • Page 6

latlg Nrrna Sunday, Dec. 13, 6 Dead Car Thief Is Identified The driver of a stolen car who was killed in a rolling, tearing crash at Oscura Wednesday morning after stealing a state policeman's jacket and holding up a sleeping motorist has been identified Law enforcement officers, after identifying the victim by means of fingerprints sent to the FBI, have pieced together the story of how Richard J. Rust. 27, a veteran of 13 years in jails and prisons, fled on Dec. 6 rather than face charges of burglary' and larceny by trick in Springfield.

Ohio He was still running Wednesday when he met violent death. Rust escaped from the municipal court building in Springfield minutes before he was to appear for a preliminary hearing on the burglary and larceny charges. He managed to escape by asking to go to the rest room, kicking out a bar from a second floor window and crawling onto a fire Wednesday, more than half a continent from Springfield, he broke I into a state car at Santa Rosa, taking a police jacket i and radio transmitter. He stole another car nearby, and headed southwest for Carrizozo, 120 miles from Santa Rosa. On the waj he came upon Richard Fisher of Wichita.

sleeping in his car. Donning the state police jacket, he awakened Fisher and asked for his identification. Fisher handed over his billfold, which Rust re turned with the comment that everything was in order. When Fisher started to pay for gasoline at Carrizozo, however, he discovered his cash was missing Later, on his way south, Fisher came upon the bogus state policeman as Rust was approaching an other motorist, apparently to stage another robliery When Rust saw Fisher approaching, he jumped back into his stolen car and fled Shortly afterward the speeding car left U. S.

54, throwing Rust out and killing him. Bulletins: NEW YORK American Communist party is shrinking, the party's figures showed Saturday. A party official estimated that card-carrying members in this country now total no more than 10,000. The all-time high was about 75,000, reached in 1938-39, he said. SANTA FE he State Health Department reports that another dog has been found to be rabid in the Las Cruces 13th of the year there.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex. promoter John Milton Addison was acquitted Saturday on a charge of theft. A jury acted on instruction of Dist. Judge John Onion. MEXICO CITY Mexico today celebrated its greatest religious observance of the year as hundreds of thousands converged on the Basilica of Guadalupe to honor the 428th anniversary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary on Tepeyac Hill.

BERN, Switzerland black magic cult whose disciples were reported ruled by hypnotism and torture behind electrified barbed wire has been broken up by Swiss police raiders. Two Accidents; No One Injured A pair ot minor accidents, in which autos were damaged but with no injuries resulting to occu-1 pants, had occurred on Alamogor do streets by 9 o'clock last night, police reported. Both mishaps involved a collision between a moving vehicle and a parked car. In one, a Chevrolet station wagon driven by Betty Jean Thomas of the Boles Acres Trailer Park, collided with a Chrysler owned by Conley happell parked in the 900 block of 10th Street. The other involved a collision between a ear driven by Ray Gerald Fisher, 16, and an auto owned by Dean Mitchell, parked at 13th and Hawaii.

Giant Arrested After 'Blowout' A truck tire blowout simplified the arrest by city police yesterday of a giant-size fugitive wanted by Las Cruces authorities on a warrant charging assault with a deadly weapon. Sgt. Rex Carrell and Patrolman Victor Kerr were waiting in their patrol car at the McKinney truck stop west of the overpass on Highway 70 West early Saturday when Donald C. Swanson approached at slow speed in his trailer-truck. He was driving slowlj, he told the policemen, because one of the tires had blown out.

Later in the forenoon, Las Cruces officers came for him. Swanson. 29, is 6 feet-3 inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. Car Overturns On Highway 54 No one was injured Saturday afternoon when an automobile left the road and overturned on Highway 54. five miles north of Texas state line.

The accident occurred shortly after 4 p.m. Patrolman Allyn Whitehouse of the state police investigated. Pope To Preside At- Consistory VATICAN CITY Pope John XXIII will preside Monday at a secret consistory to elevate eight prelates of the Roman Catholic Church to its College of Cardinals. Among them are two from the United States, both native sons of Milwaukee. They are Archbishop Albert Gregory Meyer of Chicago and Archbishop Alois Joseph Muench, until now Bishop of Fargo, N.

and for several years since the end of the war the apostolic nuncio to Germany. DEATH- (Continued from Page 1) answer was invariably a graceful shrug, a smile and the reply: falsifications, sir. I am a business man. People who buy stocks and bonds take certain risks. My task is to give them my best and most honest So.

most of the facts for my magazine life of Jake the Barber had to come out of newspaper clippings and court records of charges filed. Jake claimed to have been born in Hull, England. Legend was that he spent an impoverished boyhood in a small town in downstate Illinois and eventually wound up as a barber in a frowsy neighborhood barber shop on Halsted Street. Legend also had it that a chance customer, a salesman for a Loop brokerage firm, impressed by personality and facile line of conversation, told him. in effect: wasting your talents snipping hair.

Man, you could sell stocks like hot And so it proved, after Jake took off his apron for the last time and turned securities salesman. Reportedly, it was the off color nature of some of those securities that led to his taking a vacation trip to Montreal. The kidnaping, if such it was, brought headlines in the Chicago papers, of course. Charged with the ransom abduction of the suave broker were Touhy, Basil (The Owl) Banghart, characterized as a gang machine gunner, Gus Schaefer and Albert (Polly Nose) Kator. All were sentenced to 99 years in 1934.

Touhy was recently paroled after spending 25 years behind the bars. He was the titular head of The Terrible Touhys, a gang of brothers and others who had and tried to hold a portion of the North Side in Chicago as a prohibition era beer and bathtub gin domain ai the same time Al Capone and his syndicate garnered the cream of the business from the Loop and its environs. During the time Factor was missing. the Morrison Hotel penthouse was a lush spot, with lawyer signing the tabs for food and other refreshments we reporters had sent up. Those in the on Chicago papers wrote that Touhys had turned to ing because repeal killed bootlegging and the Touhys were unable to muscle in on Capone's racket victimization of labor unions.

The $3 million libel suit was fikd for Factor by Attorney Stanford Clinton, who described his client as a Beverly Hills. real estate man who had irreparable damage and unjustified because of book and has been exposed to disgrace and Other defendants are Pennington Press, and Merrick Lithographic both of Chicago and Cleveland, O. and the following firms which sold Stolen the Fair Store, Easy Street, a night club. Clinton declared that the fact Touhy was allowed while in pri- ANITA- (Continued from Page 1) and her place of residence Austin, Tex. It is understood that she is in Austin attending graduate school at the University of Texas.

The bridegroom was Curtis Rennolds Charticr, 45, who gave his address as El Paso. Witnesses were listed as Beverly B. Louder, daughter of Judge Beacham, and Cor- innc Parsons. While a schoolgirl here, Anita Blair's close chum was Frances Morgan, sister of State Land Commissioner Murray Morgan and Ralph Morgan, an employe of The Alamogordo Daily News. Frances Morgan is now Mrs.

Ward Harrell, of Lubbock. Texas. A sensational highlight of Anita mature life was her escape, with her seeing eye dog Fawn, from the disastrous LaSalle Hotel fire in Chicago in 1946. At the time of her visit to Alamogordo last year. Miss seeing eye dog was Rita.

As an El Paso resident. Miss Blair began a career of lecturing on safety before school and club groups. Her lectures took her to many parts of the nation. She was elected to a two-year term in the Texas legislature in 1952. Miss Blair got her first seeing eye dog in 194U.

Thereafter she became a familiar and respected figure on dow ntown streets there. Due to her shrinking from personal publicity, knowledge of the Alamogordo marriage took this long to leak out in El Paso. (Continued from Page 1) CENTO pact and not a menace to India. This seemed implicit in repeated statements that there are no problems between India and the United States. A communique the two will issue before Eisenhower's departure is expected to dwell on the principle ol negotiation rather than force to settle disputes.

It also is expected to declare that disarmament is the only means of warding off the annihilation of humanity. The unprecedented outpouring of affection for Eisenhower from the masses the past three days was matched by 8,000 of New elite Saturday afternoon. nearly mobbed the U. S. president at a garden party given in his honor at the magnificent Moghul Gardens by President Rajendra Prasad.

(Continued from Page 1) successful, it would have been the most powerful rocket engine ever fired in flight by United Slates. The 41-foot second stage was set to ignite after the 57-foot first stage had reached an altitude of about 27 miles. If all had gone right, the thrust of the upper engine would have boosted a dummy warhead to an ocean target 2.000 miles down the Atlantic missile range. son to collaborate with a newspaperman (obviously Brennan) in producing the hook is so outrageous as to warrant investigation by Illinois Gov. William G.

Stratton and the state legislature. ROBBING- (Continued from Page 1) Dennis (Skiny) Scott, 26. and his light love, Rebecca Justice, 20, spent the night before their capture afoot in the forbidding Malpais badlands west of Carrizozo. pair then were taken to Carrizozo by a Red Canyon range soldier, then Scott forced a Carrizozo woman from her car a gunpoint and speeded eastward until their capture by state police Thursday at Tinnie on U. S.

70-380. third member of the strange threesome. Jack Weaver, was overtaken as he drove westward some 20 miles from Carrizozo near Bingham on Highway 380. revealed that the threesome spent two nights in Juarez between the $160 armed robbery of the Gulf service station at Tenth Street and Washington Avenue here and the $167 robbery of the Western Texaco service station in Carrizozo last Wednesday night. Chief Walker also disclosed that Scott, a house painter 6 feet-2 inches tall but weighing only 150 pounds, identified the Alamogordo Gulf station attendant he is charged with robbing before the attendant, G.

C. Chesney, had time to identify Scott positively as the man W'ho held him up. the man I robbed in Scott said, according to Chief Walker. Chesney had gone to Carrizozo in his own car Friday to make the identification for the local officers. All three prisoners are being held under $25,000 bond each on charges of armed robbery, following their appearance before the justice of the peace at Carrizozo.

All three pleaded not guilty. Weaver w-aived preliminary hearing. Such a hearing for the others was set for Monday. "One of the meanest tricks pulled by Scott and the Chief Walker said, to support their story to the Red Canyon soldier of having been put afoot by a car accident by having a wrecker sent the 10 miles from Carrizozo to the Malpais and the scene of a nonexistent At about the same time the service station was being held up in Carrizozo, Scott admittedly held up a city policeman Concepcion Morales taking his gun and patrol car. The police car, with the gun on the front seat, later was abandoned in the town and the three started west in a red pickup truck, ownership of which is claimed by Weaver, who said he is a carpenter.

At the Malpais, according to the complicated and sometimes almost unbelievably weird story told to officers, Scott and the Justice woman got out while Weaver drove on. After spending the night among the infernoesque lava flows, Skinny and Rebecca showed up at Red i Canyon camp and told their fabricated story to the sympathetic soldier. The young woman, red-haired and pretty, freely admitted to Lincoln County Sheriff S. M. Ortiz, he avowed, that she had been an Oklahoma City call girl until taking up with Scott.

All three of the accused came to New Mexico from Oklahoma City in the red truck, as far as officers could determine NM Educators To Attend Meet SANTA FE At least 20 New Mexico have indicated they will attend a teacher education and professional conference in Denver in January. Some 200 educators from seven states will attend the TEPS meeting to discuss primarily the teacher education curriculum. Other states participating are Utah, Nebraska, Arizona, Colorado, North Dakota and Wyoming. Do-It-Yourself Census Planned WASHINGTON WV-A couple of do-it-yourself gimmicks to be used in next census will save the government considerable time. The Census Bureau made public Saturday one of two do it- yourself four-page item that will be mailed to the 55 million households late in March.

Householders will be asked to fill out this form before census takers make personal visits starting April 1. The census takers, officially called the enumerators, then will merely copy down the information instead of asking questions that might be difficult to answer on the spur of the moment. The bureau tested this advance form last February in two North Carolina counties. It said use of the form had cut the average visit of the census taker to 7 minutes from about 15 minutes and produced more accurate information. from their often-tunes conflicting stories.

Earlier all three had given Albuquerque as their address ami at first tlm woman claimed to be a Nancy Winn, 17. Chief Walker said Scott admitted not only the Alamogordo but the Carrizozo service station holdups. Weaver and the woman denied participating in any robberies. The revolver used by Scott is an old .38 caliber revolver from which the bluing had been sandpapered off. While the pickup truck is not registered to Weaver in Oklahoma, there is no record of its having been stolen in that state, officers determined.

CRASH- (Continued from Page 1) tion. were reported improved Saturday afternoon by Gerald bain pion Memorial Hospital. Although still only in lair condition, they were reported to have rallied. Charges, according to State Police, are to be filed against James Kelso, driver of the death machine, as soon as he is recovered. A word of warning to motorists was sounded Friday night following this fatal accident by State Policeman Richard Do Baca, one of those who investigated.

is no excuse for missing this stop De Baca said. junction of State Highway 83 and 54-70 has been a potential traffic hazard for the past two years, but it is properly posted, and the sign means for motorists coming off State Highway 83 to stop. stop sign means complete cessation of movement. It mean for motorists to roll through, into the intersection. Traffic on Highway 54-70 has the right- he emphasized.

Atm on those investigating fatal collision were De Baca, and State Policemen Darrel Austin, Bill Allen, Bob Thompson and State Police Sgt. A. B. Miuiscy. death Friday night brought New traftic death toll to within one of the state record lor highway carnage.

The state toll stood, after death, at just one name from becoming ail a 11 -time record. Two ollher deaths were reported of a Silver City man in an H.1 Paso hospital and that of a 20-year-old Santa Ke youth. Albert Lee McCoy of Silver City died Wednesday in an El Paso hospital but the death was not reported until yesterday. Twenty-year-old Johnny Garcia of Santa Fe was struck down on a Santa Fe street. McCoy was hurt Oct.

28 in a motorcycle accident at the edge of Silver City on U. S. 260. Young Garcia was injured Wednesday night when he and his father, Roman Garcia, 60, were struck by a car passing them on a Santa Fe street while they were trying to get their stalled car started. He died Friday.

Gerson Martinez, the driver ol the passing car, has been charged with manslaughter. He paid a fine of $300 earlier on a plea of guilty to charges of leaving the scene ol an accident, failing to report an accident and reckless driving. FOR CLASSIFIED ADS CALL HE 7-7120 Flower Mart Opening Set Newest addition to the ljusiness life of the Alamogordo community is the Flower Mart, opening Monday at 911 Delaware, in a building recently remodeled by Ralph Morgan. To be owned and operated by Mrs. Paul Stone and Mrs.

Sal Lopez. the new flower shop will sent free carnations to all the ladies visiting the store on opening day, ami cordially invite the shopping public to visit the store during their formal open house. Tony Chavez, well-known local stylist, will be associated with the shop as floral designer. WAILING WALL- (Continued from Page 1) from nearly all segments of the community. venture to say that we had probably the best representation of any county in the state.

Lost Found Lost and found column today includes a pair of glasses and a German Shepherd pup. We had announced the finding of a pajr of sunglasses the other day and John Stout, HE 7-6092 called up to see if they were his. They weren't, but while he had us on the line he mentioned that he had found a pair of prescription glasses, apparently a young with an expensive looking frame, although the frame was broken. If yours, let you get in touch with him The pup belongs to the L. E.

Rardin family, of 1703 Seventh Street, and is a fat, six- weeks old, light brown bundle of joy and affection. He followed their son to market in Uptown Alamogordo, and when the boy came out. the pup was gone. If seen him, the phone number is HE 7-0524 16 major American companies increased their newspaper adver- isme lineage enough in 1958 to be included in the list ol the top 100 national newspaper each with investments in excess of 1 000 000 JACK WHEELER HAS THE ANSWER! UN VOICE- (Continued Page 1) reached in approval of a resolution setting up a 24-nation committee to study international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. Given representation on 1 committee were 7 Communist, 5 neutral and 12 countries from the West or allied with them.

The pattern for the agreement was similar to that which produced unanimous U. N. approval on a disarmament resolution earlier In the session. It referred all disarmament proposals advanced here to the forth coming East-West disarmament conference to take place in Geneva early next year. Roswell Pair Die In Plane Crash ROSWELL New Mexico Military Institute instructor and a 17-year-old boy died Saturday when their light plane slammed to earth ard burned.

State Police said the two seat Aronca apparently was caught in a downdraft while flying at a low altitude. The bodies were burned badly, and it took several hours to confirm identification. The victims were Jack W. Lance, 37, and Raymond McDonald, 17, both of Roswell. A new projector that shows slides two ways the Bell Howell Project-or-View 710 Phillips Bronks said: Peace to Men on Earth Each year, during the Christmas and New Ycor holidays, we welcome the opportunity to extend our sincere greetings.

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