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each Post New York Stock Market Tuesday-Saturday raim VOL Li No. 214 WEST PALM BEACH. FLORIDA, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1958 28 PAGES TODAY i- PRICE CENTS fcvonp. iflfi. in riiirT! THUMBNAIL EDITORIAL Whero a few words to chronic traffic violator will not ufflcs, a long sentence ahould bo tried.

Ine Tin 9 nn ttd JiMlfiF. witar Makes 11 TV 7 Ai 60 Families Left Homeless By Blow By BERYL B. LEWIS Post-Time County Editor A tornado roared out of the west from Lake Okeechobee and leapfrogged in a seven-mile path around the southern and eastern perimeter of Pahokee at about 8 :45 a.m. Sunday, sweeping everything in its path as it took angry bites at dwelling units, packing and other houses. One person was killed, 10 remained hospitalized last night at Pahokee and in this city and six others received first aid at Everglades Memorial Hospital, Pahokee.

Police Chief Leon Guthrie said 50 dwelling units were destroyed as th tornado swept down with terrific fury. The winds uncoupled two boxcars on a siding beside the Farmers Market Pvd. a couple of hundred! Three Inch Deluge Of Rain Pounds Palm Beaches Area yards north of SR 15 and threw them on their sides about 60 yards apart. All their wheels were ripped off. Power lines were ripped down east and south of Pa- A "rippling" low pressure area struck the Pahokee area Sunday morning.

Ihokee. Communications brought squall rains and slashing winds to the Palm Beaches yesterday and then moved out to sea. The Weather Bureau said that several low pressure areas devel oped and moved along a cold front were disrupted. Eight planes at the Glades County Airport just outside the The heaviest winds registered In that pushed east across the state. this area came about noon, the southwestern city limits were The center line of activity appar Weather Bureau said, when it re termed completely destroyed, two ently passed close to this area.

corded winds of 29 miles an hour, others badly damaged and another A Weather Bureau spokesman with gusts up to 39 miles an hour. was said to be missing. All were said the low pressure areas were Sunday's thunderstorm dumped 'like ripples" moving out from about three inches of rain on the (See Additional Pictures on Page 6) the cold front. Palm Beaches. The heaviest down The heavy winds stirred up high pour began about 10 a.m., eased up and then fell heavily again in described as being crop dusting tides at the ocean beaches.

Waves reached the concrete seawall at and private light planes. The dam the early afternoon. age to the planes was unofficially The Weather Bureau at Palm Beach International Airport re Palm Beach yesterday at high tide but no damage was reported. The lake along Flagler Dr. rose almost to the top of docks.

corded 3.09 inches of rain during the day, and the rain gauge atop The cold front moved in to West The Palm Beach Post-Times build Palm Beach about 2:15 p.m. Sunday but stayed briefly, crossing to estimated at more than $35,000. The swath cut by the tornado was placed at not more than a quarter mile at the widest as it swept across SR 15 (US 441). Generally it was not more than 100 yards wide. Relief, law enforcement and ther agencies moved in on Pa ing, showed 2.90 inches fell from 6 p.m.

Saturday to 6 p.m. Sunday. nwHik- 4 -1 --tt "tin Kin 11 it 11 iii a nun-1 111 Til niiiiimiiinir in iiniriinii the east. Averill Photo In Us wake, however, pleasant The Weather Bureau issued a fall weather is expected today in Wreckage At Left Once Row Of Houses At It. B.

Simonsou Quarters this area. Fair skies and 80 de forecast of fair skies and temper-ate weather for Monday. A high of 83 degrees is forecast, with a low gree temperatures are predicted. hokee swiftly to provide help, maintain order, keep traffic lines open and prevent looting. of 73 degrees this morning.

Winds The swirling winds caused by the low pressure area caused the will be about 20 miles an hour but will decrease this afternoon. formation of the tornado that Australian pine trees were blown 65 Perish In Red Mystery Crash down across US 441 and also US Pahokee hospital with head in east of Canal Point. They werei juries. quickly moved and the highways Johnson was able to escape from reopened to traffic. The only known death was of Gun Rattle In Now York City the house and ran to the Unity Farms packing house 60 or more John Gray, 70-year-old Negro, who was in his house with his wife, yards to the south along the Flor Alice, and, it was said, with Willie ida East Coast Railway track.

Blood was coming from his mouth. Berserk Cop Kills Four At Bar Johnson, 49, of Bob Sampson's Police Hunting Negro Suspected In Wife's Death possible fractured leg. conditio good. Taken to Good Samaritan Hospital was Mrs. Nora Thomas, 42, Station No.

1, Pahokee, fractured leg, condition good. Mrs. Myrtle Vann was said to be the only white person remaining at Everglades Memorial Hospital last night. Luke Dufresne, hospital administrator, said five Negroes remained there, three of them women. He was unable to give their condition, he said.

More of the airplanes at the 16 Communist China Officials Among The Dead He exclaimed he was hurt and was felled by a bullet in the head. emptied his own pistol and Me Dermott fell at 8th Ave. and 55th He and three others taken to the Pahokee hospital were trans All four died In hospitals. Police said McDermott fired six shots St. NEW YORK trWAn off-duty policeman went berserk In Broadway restaurant early Sunday and without warning fatally shot four men standing at the McDermott was shot twice In in all.

LONDON UPI) Communist BELLE GLADE A 44-year-old There were six patrons at the the chest, once in the addomen and once in the left arm. Farm at Pahokee, The powerful winds ripped Gray's home apart, leaving nothing at the site. Gray was carried with portions of the house about 150 yards to the Coast Railway and Farmer Market Rd. Rescuers dug through debris to find his body in a field that was cleared and apparently ready for planting. Parts of the house were scattered over the field.

Negro man who, authorities said. bar. The shooting victims were shot and fatally wounded his wife and then disappeared into the The officer, James McDermott. bar, including one woman. As the shots rang out, bartender Albert Kecy ducked behind the bar and airport were badly damaged, some appearing as though they Identified as: weeds behind his house Saturday ferred to hospitals here.

Among those brought here to Pine Ridge Hospital were: Willie Johnson, 49, Pahokee, severe lacerations of back and chest, condition serious; James White, about 60, Pahokee, crushed chest, condition serious, and Henry Johnson, 78, Pahokee, Edmundy Leahy, about 5, who crouched on the floor. night, was still being sought Sun police said, has a gambling rec had been lifted and then smashed down with a giant band. Two light planes parked in the lee of 34, then fled, crashing through the glass paneling of the exit door. McDermott staged a running gun battle with pursuing patrolmen. He wounded one pur The restaurant proper Is sepa day by police here.

ord; Thomas Joseph O'Hare, be rated from the bar by a Neighbors who called police said tween 55 and 60, of Manhattan; the Lake Okeechobee levee mi China disclosed Sunday night that 65 passengers. Including 18 Red Chinese government officials and 49 "foreign friends," were killed In the mystery crash of a Soviet TU-104 Jet airliner In Russia A Pelplng Radio broadcast Rave the first report of the number of casualties in the first announced crash of Russia's big "prestige" airliner. The crash, which occurred east of Moscow near Kanash during a Alfred Dexter apparently followed suer before he was shot down raculously escaped damage. An- a man known as "Larry the Bar- ber" who carried papers listing There were only a few patrons His wife, Alice, was rushed to his wife, Sally, 26, out a rear door (Con tinned an Cat Col. 4) three blocks away.

during a domestic riff. Police said in the restaurant. They watched, speechlessly and horrified, as McDermott was not expected three names Lawrence Davlon, Larry Jenkins of 2 California to live. she had been shot once with a .22 caliber pistol. The bullet entered' McDermott made his crashing The patrolman, father of three.

exit from the establishment. Re the woman's neck in the left front entered the Pic-A-RIb restaurant, few blocks north of Times gaining their voices, they could only cry In chorus: "There he quarter and lodged in the lower part of her brain. regular Pelping-Moscow run, was goes!" the first of a commercial Jet air The Dexters lived at 116 N.W. 5th Patrolmen Charles Prestia and Square at 53rd St. about 1:45 a.m.

He went to a men's room at the rear and minutes later walked toward the door as if to leave. liner since a series of troubles Raymond Manners, both of Me- Mt. Vernon, N. and Frank Anderson of 58 South Mt. Vernon and Eugene Cronln, about 55, identified from a card as a member of the American Assn.

of Professional Baseball Players. Valcri Seen As Next Pontiff St. Lt. Vernon Clark said neighbors were alterted when the two were seen struggling on the floor Dermott'a own precinct, heard forced the grounding of the ill-fated British Comet I airliners in 1354. im vv Suddenly he wheeled and, with the shots and shouts as they cruised In their separate radio out uttering a word, began firing inside the house and police were notified at 8:54 p.m.

Three men at one end of the bar Russia announced the crash Saturday, saying all aboard the ti Lr-x. J3 cars. They spotted McDermott fell with bullets in their heads. After Mrs. Dexter had been shot and gave chase.

cinnt plane were killed. The an Farther up the bar another man once, Clark added got up and noiinccmcnt did not specify the Manners said he shouted to McDermott to drop his guns and an away from her husband. Dex number of dead, however. The ter fired again, missed, and fled was greeted with gunfire. Man WEATHER TU-104 usually carries 70 passengers and a crew of five.

i te' Into the brush and disappeared, ners dived into a doorway and I I VATICAN CITY tfl Valerlo Cardinal Valeri, with almost 20 Clark said. UVtVTj FOR EC ANT r.nirtty flr and mild through Tut shouted again to McDermott to surrender. When McDermott fired again, Manners said, he years of experience In the Vati The woman, a mother of a five- dy. KUirm to milt pr hour north wfst to north Hindu, low thin mom In 7, hlih todny So low tonlsht 7a year-old girl, unidentified by po Pelplng Radio, In noting that 16 lied Chinese were aboard, said the rest of the dead were "foreign friends" and "foreign experts" on their way home after attending can's foreign service, is being mentioned by the Italian press as lice, was still standing when po WKATHKR TARir a strong possibility for election Rio Grande lice arrived, but died about 9:15 p.m. in Belle Glade Memorial Hos rar noun Ending 1 r.

Oct 1 ss the next Pope. II en Ijnx rM Chinese Communist anniversary Alpena pital. As prefect of the Congregation of the Religious, the scholarly cardinal is also the Vatican's top Dexter was described as 8 feet, Atrmrlllo 4A AKhrvilla 2 Allan! 70 Vi .48 celebrations In Pelplng." Russia Itself still maintained si lenre on the identity of the vie Floods Drain 8 inches tall, weighed 140 pounds, i-a Allanllr City 4S administrator for religious orders. He will be 75 Nov. 7.

Born In a small Tuscan village and had lived In Belle Glade for several years. A pickup broadcast for Dexter was made to law en RIO GRANDE CITY, Tex tlms. But the Soviet cabinet in an unprecedented move, decreed that a top-level panel investigate .01 (UP1) Floodways drained off Hulllmnra SI 42 llitmlnshnm 7S SS lllimiirrk St 3ft H'ii titi 4tt Hmtnn 62 4n Muflnln tin nurllnalnn 34 Cnne Hxtlrma tf Averill Photo CARS HURLED OFF The fury of the Pahokee tornado uncoupled the above two refrigerator cart on the Florida East Coast Railway near the Unity Farms packinghouse Sunday morning and toppled them off their wheels. A railroad warning signal was bent parallel to the around by the winds not far from the two cars. 55,000 cubic feet per second of he decided at an early age to study for priesthood and entered forcement agencies throughout Florida.

the accident. Rio Grande floodwaters Sunday and a river official expressed Pelplng radio said that the Chinese Communist officials killed the Pontifical College in Rome Others who aided In the Initial hnrlmtnn, SC. XO when he was 17. investigation were Chief Police In confidence the worst of the wild Included Cheng Chcn-tuo, vice- Charlotlr 71 rhnHannoM 7S 67 Chi ratio tiS 47 1 He was graduated with brilliant chief of the cultural bureau, and est Rio Grande flooding was about over. vestigator Louis Lowery, and Deputy Sheriffs Bobby Newman and marks, not only in theology and Tfal Chu-fung, a member of the inrlnnall 67 Sfi llevrland 63 3 ('nlumtnja 67 S7 philosophy, but also In canonic John Selleck, of the Interna Frank Prevatt.

Communist Chinese sports fedcra tlon. tional Boundary and Water Com and Italian civil law. At the age of 27, he became mission office In McAllen, said Others Included officials of the Juke Box Hit Halla 62 IVnvpr 6.1 K2 Urn Mnlnn 19 4S Hrlrnlt 62 a nilluth 70 40 Krriino ,77 hi Hnimlnn teacher of dogmatic theology at the river probably would start re Chinese Communist trade and the Regional Pontifical Seminary ceding at Reynosa, Mexico, to foreign affairs ministries, the Pel- at Fano. After serving In the day from its 37,000 cubic feet per ping broadcast said. In $50 Raid nil anann Hi 64 SS Italian Army Medical Corps in second surge toward the Gulf of iinrknimviiift tin n.

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Uiw, S.iH t.m, 1.44 in. Averill Photo PLANE SMASHED The giant hand of nature crumpled this light airplane at County Airport Jtisl outside Pahokee Sunduy morning. The tornado was a giant compared to a light tornado that lashed the Pahokee area Sept. 30. Light damiige then was principally to TV antennas, trees and shrubs.

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