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W4A VOL XCIX No 71 Member Associated Press 12 Pages Tips County Youth Killed i'Zi 14 id 24 PASSENGERS INJURED INJURIES ATAL TO AREA WOMAN 86 CREWMEN ABOARD Sailing Ship Is Presumed Lost 1a fA 4 7 their i juXSu "Tho Weather 1957 City Traffic life had of in 58 56 55 54 A nmd Austin woman' died at pm Sunday three hours af ter aha suffered injuries in a car truck crash eight miles southwestof Austin just over the reeborn 3 A 4 A i caped injury The truck was de livering milk to the Red Oak Grove Creamery TImHoM soM 61 Kfl MA AAAUMUltL MwUU UMYUI fMAI ance in the first place" said Chair man George Robinson of the I yiXkjf After this meeting 'these "offi cials will have 10 days to select a successor' to Schlichting Schlichting was feom near Lake City in 1889 and moved to Oregon with his family when he was two years old He returned to Lake City in 1909 and "bought a farm near Waltham in 1914 after mar rying Emma Rinke at Milwaukee in 1911 Invite to Son Church Withdrawn by YDL urday after radioing that she had lost all her saifa about 550 miles southwest of the Azores 86 Aboard' The owners said 62 cadets of whom 25 on their first trip were aboard the vessel There were 17 regular crewjnen and officers Jhis made a total of 86 persons aboard PEABODY Kan The Rock Island Twin Star Rock et headed from Minneapolis to Houston piled off the rails at the south edge of Peabody early to day Twenty four were treated at hospitals' for injuries Initial' examination of the In jured showed only one serious condition Wallace Hutchinson 63 Wichita Kan had possitite skull fracture There was no indication of the cause of the wreck where the Rock Island and the Santa cross bn the south edge of Peabody Most of the injured were in two passenger coaches which landed athwart the crossover and on their sides Both rail lines were blocked' pre diesel locomotive dragged oe mail and baggage car about 33 yards beyond the crossing The locomotive remained on the rails AUSTIN WOMAN KILLED Helen Wolff died of injuries three hours after car in which she was a passenger collided with a milk tryck' about 9:20 a mt Sunday morning eight miles southwest of Austin YDL (Continued on Page 1) 1056 1957 667 624 1 63 87 I None $86356 $79120 A 14 year old Grand Meadow boy was killed Instantly Sunday near his farm home when a trac tor he was dnvfng toppled over on him as he was making a turn Charles Alden Palmer had just taken to ngrovon his farm six miles north west of Grand Meadow and was returning home when the acci dent occurred Deputy Sheriff Halstenson said Charles drove out of the grove about 12:45 pm heading east As he reached the township road he made a right turn Hal stenson said the front wheels the tractor locked upsetting it the ditch ather Hhars Crash The father Everett heard the crash at the house and ran to the scene about a 'block away County Corner isch said the youth suffered a broken neck $nd a crushed skull Charles was a freshman at GtadeasiQWKh Scfeogl Wil recently was voted the most like ly freshman quarterback prospect for the! lootball team 10th" Traffic atality Sheriff Al Reinartz said that the fatality would probably tount as a traffic death It is Mower Coup? 10th 'traffic fatality this year compared with six for all of 4956 1 Charles is the second tractor fatality this year in Mower Coun ty eb a Rscine farmer Ron ald Wolfgram 37 was killed when he was pinned under his tractor after it had skidded into a ditch one mile south of Racine i STREAMLINER DERAILED Highway patrolmen move in fotheck two overturned Teaches Of RockJsiard's MihneapolitUiHoilsron Twifi Srar body Kan early today There Were no deaths but 24 passengers were hospitalized 4 7 7 one with serious injuries AP Photofax) Schlichting died Saturday evening leaving behind him an unequal record of longevity pt a coun ty commissioner post" Schlichting died after suffering a hemorrhage at his home at Brownsdale He was taken in an ambulance at about 9:30 pm and died a few minutes later The 68 year old retired farmer was elected county commissioner of the irst District ill 1932 and has been reelected every four years thereafter last facing the voters in November 1956' He was of physique 6 foot 3 and weighing in the neigh borhood of 250 poundjkrHe was ac tive uptil the last He had been chairman of the board several times since he took office under the rotation plan followed by the board He last served in this cap acity in 1954 A successor to Schlichting will be selected within 14 days by Town Board chairmen and village may ors of his constituency The board chairmen of Dexter Lansing Red Rock Sargeant Udolpho and Wai tham and the mayors of Browns dale Dexter Mapleview pansing and Waltham will be 'notified by i County Auditor Graham Uzlik to appear at the office with The finding of two empty boats and a raft previously raised fears the vessel had gone down Rescue planes and ships criss crossed the mid Atlantic without finding a trace of the four master that had weathered many a storm in her 52 years at sea The Pamir carrying barley from Buenos Aires to Hamburg radioed Saturday night that she was sinking about 600 miles west of the Azores Hie ship was listing at' 45 de grees and all sails had been stripped US Air orce 'planer reported last night that they had spotted two lifeboats and a raft all emp ty One lifeboat bore the name "Luebeck the West Ge TRACTOR ATALITY Charles Aldten Palmer was killed 1 2 :45 pm Sunday when the above tractor he was driving toppled over on him as he was 4 making turn Wolff was a complete wreck uneral services for Miss Wolff will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at Grace Lutheran Church the Rev Sclireitmueller officiat ing Interment will be in Rest Cemetery Myrtle riends may call at the Jordan Chapel until noon Wednesday and at the church before the jJielL Wolff 63 was a passen ger Jn a car driven by her brotji er rank 64 The two were on their way to church abguV 9:20 am when the mishap occurred Both were taken to St Olaf Hos pital but the woman failed to re cover rank is in fair wuaj vST PAUL (J) Young Democratic armer Labor group is withdrawing the invitation extended Sen Church (D Idaho) to principal speaker at a memori al dinner because of the stand on civil rights (Church had been asked to ad dress what was to have been the first annual ranklin Roosevelt memorial dinner one week from today But some Negroes in the DD' supported by white mem bers protested that Church should not be invited because of his co sponsorship o( the jury trial amendment to the civil rights act They threatened to set up a picket line if Church appeared that important and was registered The ship was operated by Ze'rs sen and Co of Luebeck as a grain Carrier and training ship for the German shipping industry' LONDON a The Hamburg owners Of the German sailing ship Pamir said today they pre sumed the four masted bark 'had been lost in the storm lashed At lantic The owners held out hope how ever that some survivors 86board might still be found The sailing vessel vanished Sat 7 a rr 44 A A 43 9 A 44 A' 46 11 A 48 UNooo 53 Young DL executive committee after a meeting on the problem Sunday Robinson said that James Goff and Paul Thatcher leaders of the dinner planning committee were being ousted from those posts as result of the squabble The dinner was postponed indefinitely'' In a statement from his Boise headquarters Church said that the news came as no surprise crisis in Arkansas has stretched racial emotions to a breaking point and tempers are troubled throughout the he said am dedicated to the cause civiljdghts andJ beIiever when times are more reasonable that the jury trial amendment will come to be regarded as having serraf ihc UesT interests orclvn Tractor Schlichting Long Time Commissioner IsDead County Commissioner Henry UN Expected foSidenack Red China Bid UNITED NATIONS NY The General Assembly is expect ed today to sidetrack until next year the question of seating Com munist China5 in th6 Delegates generally foresaw that the Assembly would adopt a UB resolution late today on rec ommendation of its Steering Com mittee Indian sources conceded that India lacked the votes to get the Chinese representation issue on the agenda Nationalist Chinese Delegate' Yu told a reporter his delega tion calculated perhaps 50 delega tions will vote far the US The vote last year was 47 24 with 8 abstentions The US 1 t'l which cleared: the Steering Committee 9 4 with 2 abstentions Thursday rejected 'the Indian Request It said the Assembly would consider i no proposals this 'session to oust 1 Nationalist 'or' seat Communist Chinese i Mostly fair today ond" tonight warmer tonight low 45 Tuesday fOnt ond C001 out look Wednesday cooler Crash Injuries atal to Minnesota Man SISSETON SD (JI Orvflle Adarns Breckenridge Minn died early Sunday of injuries suffered Saturday night when his car rolled ch US 81 south qf Sisseton JHe ffieiTafmr alm? Sunday The death was the 125th on South' 5 A' 47 Dakota highways this year i and get my kid out An officer gritted noi 1 going 4 ambulances rolled tqt No hotly was In White' Pupils Laava V' Suddenly another and cheering and clapping came from the crowd A white pupil carrying his books qarna down the front steps 7 was followed by two girts' IA the next few poinutes other students came put Between 15 and 20 Jeft the school Within the next half hour" 'v 1 Each time appeared' the crowd clapped and cheered "Come on they yelled stay in there with the nig 1 gers Go back and tell ail of them to come outJJ 7 Inside it was reported eight Negro' pupils were in the of fice of the principal not much education going on inside there one of the boys whocame'out told re porters Girl Carried Off A moment later two policemen rajdjnto the building When they pame out they were holding? a by both arms rushing her for cibly toward a police or an instant it tanked 'NEGRO REPORtER PUSHED of angiy whites at Little Rock Central High School this morning ight started aft er eight Negro students gained entrance to the I (AP Phofofax) Police ight i Angry Mob A Jut was upright toj roadbed Another mail and baggage car flipped over on lts side and skidded' down a 15 fpot embank ment ''r" One other coach turned over on its side along the right of way of the crossover The re maining cars ran off the rails but remained upright The Rocket was due at Wichita at 1:33 am having left Minne apolis tat noon It derailed about 1:15 ajn RTTTrmN LITTLE ROCK Ark (ff) Little Rock high school officials withdrew the eight Negro students who entered Central High School Monday 'Bv RELMAN MORIN LITTLE ROCK Ark (P) Eight Negro pupils walk ed quietly and without hurrying into Central High School today while the attention was diverted by another incident and then a swirl of marling and screaming women tried to break through police lines Police fought them off clubbing two men and appar ently pulling a gun on another i Police Lines Hold Nobody got through Pupils coming out of the school said three of the Negro boys who entered school had on their and fights had broken out inside the building The students told reporters the were chased torouRh toe Jialls wheq flnd werajd UcKeAjjyGstbsr students The initial violence outside the school was a frighten ing sight Women burst into tears and a man hoisted up on a wooden barricade roared: going all the crowd shouted But they The drama packed climax of three weeks of Integra struggle" In Little Rock came just after the buzzer inside the big 2900 pupil high school at 8:45 signaling the start of classes 4 ''Negroes Suddenly on a 'street leading toward theschooltoe Negro adults marching in twos down the center of the A man yelled "Look here come the rney were not pupils one ap peared to be a had a card in his hat and waa carrying a camera jumped into a glass windowed telephone booth on ths cornet The scene was clearly risIHe As the crowd suf ged toward the Jour Negroes they broke and ran Jumped by Whites But they were caught on the lawn of a home nearby Whites jumped the man with the camera from behind rode him to the ground kicking and beating him They'smashed the This obviously was a planned diversionary movement to draw the attention away from the school While I was dictating what I jaw aomewe going into the Enter Schoo! At that Instant the' eight Ne three boys and five were crossing the schoolyard to ward a side door at the south end of the school The girls were in bobby sox 'and the boys were dressed in open shirts All were carrying books They were not running not even walking fast They simply Strolled toward' the steps went up and were inside before all but a few the 206 people at that endptlhe street anew it Some did see the Nei ever 4 goni a roared "OhzGodl the niggers are in the I Woman Screams A woman screamed "Did they get In? Did you see them go in now some other men yelled "Oh1 my the woman screamed She burst into tears and tore at her hair Hysteria swept the crowd Other women began weeping and pcrEamir7gr Jumped on Barricade A tall gray haired man in a brown hunting shirt jumped on the barricade with othefs holding him He yelled waving his arms: going all the peonle riiout ed 2 They broke over and around the wooden? barricades rushing the policemen About a dozen policemen were at that corner of the street 1 Raised Clobs They raised their dubs Some grabbed men and women and hurled them back Two' chased a dark haired msta who slipped through their line like a football player They caught him on the schoolyard whipped his coat down his arms pinning them and hustled him out of the yard Another man wearing a con struction hard hat sud denly raised his hands high in front of a policeman It was only ia dozen yards or so in front of the phone booth see whether the officer had a gun in the stomach but he stopped running abruptly and went back Arrested Two men were arrested cavalcade cars cairying Arkansas State Police' heeled into the street from both ends "They came inside the barri cades and order was restored for a moment 7 The weeping and "screaming went on among the women 4 7 'A TQTTNT A II Hed a i TA Jl MV zK 7 JL1 1 JX1 1 I Ml IX atalltiea 1 I Damage Single 7c AUSTIN MINN MONDAY SEPTEMBER 23 1957 Autumn Gets Sunny Greeting By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Autumn arrived in sunny rai ment over most of Mlnnesota and the Northwest today Scattered over night showers gave way to fair skies that were expected to hold up most of the day Occasional showers are forecast again for northern sec tions Tuesday spreading south eastward 4 Highs of from 48 to 55 in the northeast and from 55 to 65 in the aouth were in prospect toddy falling to a 38 to 45 range at night Temperatures were below freez ing over much of northern Min nesota early today International alls had 29 and Bemidji 30 Infant Given Ant Poison Critically III ST PAUL A 3 week old boy who was fed ant poison by his brooding mother remained in critical condition in a hospital here today Also hospitalized for mental ex amination was the 22 year old mo ther who told police the child two teaspoons of poisop be cause she feel capable pf caring for hjqj Relatives said? the woman suf fered a breakdown after the child was born When the child became violently ill after taking the poison the mother called relatives who drove her and the baby to the hospital No charges have? been filed Rock Island Rocket Derailed The Rocket jap into trouble The mail and baggage car skewed 04 CUI MUbbOUb' 4b though the try to break the linen aaam tn reo U1 MIO I L(: Ab I But they put her in tha car and' drove "swiftly down the street" past the barricade the south Screams catcalls 't and snore' yelling broke out as the car whip ping dangerously close to the peo pie ana tne barricades raced down the street 5 My Kid A mail distraught came sprint ing after it my kid in there" he yelled' "Help mb get my kid But the car was gone' Soon afterward four white ptr piis ran down the steps' of the school and across the street Po licemen were chasing them One of the boys said they had caught a Negro imy outside the principal's office V'' "We walked him half the length of the building and we were going to get him they said They refused to give names Police Reinforeed On the streets at both ends of the school clusters of troopersX took up stations reinforcing the police 1 Tbe crowd heckled them hurl ing insults and some obscenity "How you going to feel tonight when you face your a man shouted people called the police The officers stood poker faced making no move nor response Then the crowd lacking any other object turned on the news papermen and photographers A boy jumped up caught the telephone wire leading from one of three booths to the main wire arid swung on it trying to break it The booth swayed and nearly toppled "A reporter was in it or It probably would have eome crashing down OtimeixM said £'W vugin LITTLEROCK (Continued on Page Car Truck Collide at Intersection Lindahl said the car and a truck driven by Dale Jeflsen Rt 1 Glenville collided at an intersec li wuu neriii unaani saia aoout 15U Jensen told Sheriff farEaxr woe Aorta tntha twirV anH sar drivta by? a stoppea tor me intersection ana Jensen said he 'continued going Then the car suddenly started up again crashing into the truck Sheriff Lindahl who questionedWolff Sunday at the hospital said Wolff told fam he didn't see the truck Jensen and a passenger In the truck Darrell Nelson Myrtle es 2 Children Pilot Killed in Plane Crash STURTEVANT WIs An HU nois pilot and two children from Racine losj their lives Sunday aft ernoon when a small airplane crashed in flames near' the Sturte vant airport Donald Norton 10 and hfa sisterJree days of receipt of notice ZXUU yVliDDCU ILL WMfr UaUULlg wreckage Donald of School St Lansing Ill the owner and pilot of the single engine Ercoupe was thrown clear of the wreckage' He died at St Hospital in Ra cine about four miles northwest of here 1 At the airport were the chil parents Mr and Mrs Earl Norton and wife and two small children Racine County authorities said Salvano was giving the Norton children a ride in his plane be fore he and his family flew back to Lansing after spending a day at the Norton home The families are related i I WEATHER man citv where tha a Wtnn A JTLccLulLlg abOvV bWQflj fi Law previous 24 hours 37 High previous 24 hours 64 General Weather Clear Precipitation 05 SUNDAY i 62 61 I' 8 3 62 9 PM V7 4 62 10 5 63 11 12 5352 50 47 8 Negroes Enter SchoplWiolence lares SCHLICHTING body will 'lie in state at Trinity Lutheran Church Hayfield from 11:45 to 2 pm Wed nesifay when the funeral will be held Pallbearers will be County Board members Robert inbraa ten Milo Morse and Robert Shaw former board member Clarence Dugan representing Leonard Deck er who is out of town" Ualik and County Engineer Everett Carl son uneral arrangements are bfr ing made by the Hayfield uner al Home Survivor are five sobs and two daughters Wilmer' Anjold and Don Austin John Waltham Hen ry Jr Brownsdale Mrs Arnold Georg Washington' and Mrss Edmund Albers Red Wing brothers John Escondido Sherwood Oregon and sisters Mary Wetzel Sher wood and Rebecca Ehlers Twin alls Idaho cVt rjrws 5 Ay A Sr 1 'i HP wn ml JHWSiaPl a ilk 1 A Jfo 1 I 4 'v Wt i 7" 4 1 4 Te ss? 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