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NEWS WINONA DAILY Thunderstorms and Showers Tonight; Cooler Saturday Largest Circulation In State Outside Duluth, Twin Cities 102nd Ytar of Publication Formerly Tha Winona Republican-Herald SEVEN CENTS PER COPY EIGHTEEN PAGES WINONA, MINNESOTA, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1957 Civil Rights Status Better, Tmoste Strokes KnowlandSays Southern Foes Defeated as Bill Goes on Calendar 'rM ii i i i 1 1 1 ri ii nr i i ii ni A v- At Least 85 tisz-U? AJf By JOHN CHAD WICK WASHINGTON 11 Sen. Know-land (R-Calif) said today a successful parliamentary maneuver had "enhanced' the outlook for civil rights legislation. But he stopped short of predicting passage at this session of Congress. Knowland, Senate GOP leader, engineered a victory over Southern foes of the House-passed bill last night, but it was only a preliminary skirmish in what promises to be a prolonged battle. By a 45-39 roll call vote, the Senate put the measure on its legislative calendar without referring it to the Judiciary Committee, where a similar civil rights bill has been bottled up for months.

Thirty-four Republican and 11 Democrats voted to put the bill on the calendar and keep it out of the hands of the Judiciary Committee, which is headed by Sen. Eastland (D-Miss), an avowed op home in Manorville, N. Y. The doctor attended to Hie boy during and after bis rescue from a well shaft. (UP Telephoto) BILLS Mr.

and Mrs. Benny Hooper gaze at the medical bill sent to them by Dr. Joseph Kris as Benny looks on at their DISSENSION MARS 'MIRACLE' Hurt; Damage $15 Million FARGO, N.D. UP) A giant tornado, striking from a lethal cloud towering more than 10 miles high, smashed through 100 blocks of a Fargo residential area Thursday night, killing 10 persons six of them children in one family. Damage was estimated at IS million dollars.

At least 85 persons were injured, some critically. The massive, black funnel lashed a swath of devastation 20 blocks long and five wide. Mayor Herschel Lashkowitx made the damage estimate. He said 500 home, high school and four churches were destroyed and that many other buildings and vehicles were damaged. The mayor said he was asking federal aid to provide housing for 2,000 persons made homeless by Hoopers Billed for $1500 jr.

-4 night. This debris is a home flattened by the twister, which moved through more than 20 blocks of Fargo. (AP Wirephoto) SEEKS VICTIMS A searcher hunts in the rubble left in the wake of a tornado which caused widespread death and destruction in a Fargo, N. residential section, Thursday EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT By EDWARD NICKERSON f'rm who brought the boy out of as a highway work foreman. His MANORVILLE.

N.Y. (fft Five the welL Stirij said other men wife, makes an after-taxes $43 a ago the Benny Hooper actually did more but were over- ISSVSS'JS story was one of unity and hero- looked. and rest up aftcr hcr i'm neighbors Joining in tireless Rumors have circulated in this ordeal labor to free a small child from rural community on eastern Long The Hoopers said they received an earthen prison. Today it was a Island that the Hoopers have prof thousands of letters from well-tale of division, dissension and iteered from the sensational res- wishers, but a cash total of less worry. cue of their son, and that all the than $400 in the letters.

The parents of 7-year-old Benny publicity has made them snooty. Benny received $1,000 each for told newspapermen yesterday they The Hoopers say the rumors are two television appearances. The were "stunned" to receive a bill untrue, they aren't snooty, they Hoopers gave one check to the for $1,500 from Dr. Joseph Kris, haven't received much money, Manorville Fire Department, the physician who attended their and mainly they're just worried which played a big part in the son while be was trapped in a well because the near-tragedy caused rescue, and put the other in a for nearly 24 hqurs May 16 and 17. them financial trouble.

trust fund for Benny's education. The man who supervised rescue "We haven't got the money, We're going over to see Dr. operations, Mike Stiriz, said there that's what's worrying us," said Kris. He must have been misled is bitterness over the heroic role the father, Benjamin K. Hooper, somewhere along the line that we assigned to Sam Woodson, a Ne- in commenting on the doctor's received a lot of money Hooper ponent of the measure.

Thirty-four Democrats, including Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, and five Republicans voted in favor of sending the bill to the Judiciary Committee. Knowland, jubilant over the outcome, said "it cuts out one prospective filibuster" against the bill, a key part of the legislative program urged by President Eisenhower. The bill is aimed generally at protecting voting and other civil rights. Had the bill gene to committee, a motion to take it away from the committee and put it on the Senate calendar would have been subject to a filibuster by Southern Relentless Funnel Rolls Toward City FARGO, N.D.

(Jfi An eyewit-1 form in the distance and roll slow Baby Ripped From Mother's Arms Found Safe FARGO, N.D. A 7-months-old boy was ripped from his mother's arms by Thursday night's tornado, but escaped serious the storm. The dead included six children of the Gerald Munson family. They ranged in age from one to 16. The mother was hospitalized with shock.

One of the Munson children, Lois Ann, 2, died of injuries early this morning. The body of a young girl, unidentified, was found later by searchers probing ruins of a home. The other dead were three adults two men and a woman. At least three persons, two of them children, were listed as missing. One of the adult dead was identified as Don Titgen, 26.

Confusion arose ever Identifies tion of two others. The coroner listed one victim as Mrs. Mai Kankelfitz, about 56, and the bod gro employe ot ms construction oiu. lie taxes come sez a weeK saia. ness to the swirling death cloud ly but relentlessly toward the city.

"As it came closer, the funnel which ravaged a residential section here Thursday told of watch gradually began to take shape un U.N. Voids Ban on opponents. As it is, however, two prospec til when it was about a mile away. ing the ominous funnel for almost half an hour before fleeing the city with his family moments be tive filibusters still lie in the path it looked like a huge tube that Mr. and Mrs.

Jerry Davenport were caught out of doors with their swirled hundreds of feet in the ot tne diu one on a motion to take it up for debate and another fore tne storm struck. air." New Korea Arms on its passage. Farmers Vote To Continue Wheat Quotas By OVID A. MARTIN WASHINGTON, tf) The na He told of cars picked up, rolled over in the air and thrown into two children when the funnel cloud thundered into their neighbor He said the destructive funnel appeared to be about half a block the street, on lawns and into hous To break a filibuster takes the votes of 64 senators, or two thirds of the entire membership. Past By DON BALDWIN hood.

Davenport grabbed their young es at the height of the storm would include Jet aircraft which can carry atomic arms, but "at PANMUNJOM. Korea The Forewarned by reports of a fun attempts to muster the necessary daughter, and his wife carried the baby as they rushed for shelter to U.N. Command today voided the thick, although dust and debris whirling on the fringes made it look even larger at times. "When the funnel got to the outskirts of town, and began tearing this time oo atomic weapons are nel to the west of the city, hun votes nave met witn defeat. Korean armistice ban on new being given to ground forces dreds of residents took the their Knowland said an effort would FEDERAL AID ASKED WASHINGTON UP) Sen.

Langer (R-ND) said today North Dakota has asked President. Eisenhower to declare the tornado-damaged city of Fargo a federal disaster area. weapons to match the Communist nearby residence. But the winds whipped the baby from his mother's arms and sent cars and fled from town, He refused to say whether atomic ammunition would be stored at Korean bases for use against an at buildup in North Korea. Associated Press newsman Rich be made to get action on the civil rights bill before Congress adjourns.

But he said that if this tion's farmers voted in a referendum Thursday to continue federal into homes, cars and trees, it seemed to veer toward where we Murray Snyder, U.S. assistant ard Rasrmisson with his family tack. were standing. him swirling into the air with the tons of debris. Neither of the parents remember marketing quotas on next year's and neighbors watched the funnel secretary of defense, said in Washington that the new arms fails, the bill still will be on the calendar at the start of the next session in January.

"That's when I bundled my wheat crop. The unofficial count from the The ILN. side declared it would continue to observe "fully" the cease-fire provision and all other points in the 1953 armistice agree family into the car and followed much of what occurred after that, except that they gained safety finally in the basement of a house. High Court the huge caravan of cars out of 36 commercial producing states in which the balloting was the city," he declared. ment.

Both parents were injured, taken to hospitals. Neither expected to One woman who had sought ref WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST Winona and vicinity Variable conducted gave 143,333 for and The Communist command of a man. tentatively, as that of her husband, also about 56. However, relatives of Max Kankelfitz in Minneapolis, maintained they had talked with him by telephone Thursday night and that ha reported all members of the fami. ly were safe.

The coroner said identification was made by a rela uge with her son from the twister see the baby alive. Their daugh promptly charged the UJtf. with 28,833 against the Agriculture De on a porch seconds before it was Ike 'Not Too Disturbed' by Budget Cuts By MARVIN L. ARROWSMITH "attempting to make South Ko Confers on Girard Case demolished told of being swept 50 feet through the swirling air and partment's control program. That was a favorable majority rea an atomic base and prepare for a new war.

landing beneath a twisted pile of cloudiness with occasional showers and thunderstorms tonight, with a chance of severe thunder-storms. Little change in temperature. Saturday partly cloudy tive. Some bodies were mutilated. rubble.

North Korean MaJ. Gen. Chung Mrs. C. 0.

Leverson and her Kook Rook declared impassively By PAUL M. YOST National Guard troops ordered into Fargo by Gov. John Davis, police and volunteers searched tha son, Richard, 25, apparently es "We are vehemently opposed to WASHINGTON President WASHINGTON tfl The Su equipping u.N. forces witn new caped serious Injury, although en gulfed and thrown by the power and cooler with few showers possible. Low tonight 65, high Saturday 80.

preme Court studies today the types of weapons, wrecking the Eisenhower was pictured today as "not too disturbed at what Confess has done in reducing his knotty legal question of whether ful wind. ter was uninjured. Their one slim threat of hope was realized when an unidentified baby at another hospital turned out to be their child. Rescue workers had found him on the ground, and rushed him to the hospital. Doctors this morning said the baby was not seriously injured.

Fargo Phone Facilities Overloaded armistice agreement and perpet devastated area at daylight for other possible victims. More, than 200 homes were leveled or heavily damaged by the deadly blow. Winona Co. Vote LEWISTON Wheat marketing quotas were approved by the only three Winona County farmers who voted, according to the ASC office here. Thirteen farmers were eligible to vote.

Their car had stalled and after uating the U.N. occupation of GI William S. Girard should be tried by a Japanese civil court LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 budget." giving up frantic efforts to start South Korea." U.S. Marine Corps MaJ. Gen on a manslaughter charge.

hours ending at 12 m. today: Rep. Jensen of Iowa made that Many others bore scars of tha it, they ran for protection to Eight of the court's nine jus huge twister. Maximum, 85; minimum, 68; house seconds before the "dirt- Homer L. Litzenberg, senior The tornado did not come with report on Eisenhowers attitude after Jensen and 39 other House Rpnublicans had breakfast with filled funnel" descended on them tices planned to be on hand for a closed conference on a Justice member of the U.N.

Command, noon, 83; precipitation, none; sun sets tonight at sun rises to out warning. Hundreds of residents notified the North Korean and Chi' The front door of the house was beked and the twister struck Department plea for a quick re morrow at 5:24. the President at the White House nese Communists of the U.N. de versal of a decision that Girard while they pounded to be admit saw the twister approaching over the prairie and fled the city. Radio stations had broadcast tornado warnings.

cision at a meeting in the truce AIRPORT WEATHER (North Central Observations) may be tried only by a U.S. mili ted. The meeting, over scrambled eggs, bacon and fish cakes was the third in a series. Eisenhower hut in the demilitarized zone. Litz Max.

temp. 85 at 4 p.m. Thurs of 83.3 per cent far in excess of the necessary two-thirds. It compared with a majority of 87.5 per cent given quotas in a similar referendum a year ago. tary court.

The ninth justice, William O. Douglas, left Wash enberg said the Red reply was Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Gillipo, day, min.

74 at 8 a.m. today. Noon Eye witnesses said they watched "milder than I expected. ington before the lower court de readings Temp. 82.

thin, scat is having all Republican members of Congress in as breakfast guests in an effort to win enactment of "I did not interpret it as a Red cision was handed down last tered layer of clouds at 20,000 the huge funnel for up to 30 minutes before it struck the northwest whose 3-room frame house was at the edge of town, said they watched the tornado coming The department had announced Tuesday. threat to resume the fighting that ended with the July 27, 1953, his legislative program. corner of town about 7:40 p.m. that if quotas were approved, it across the flat land west of the MINNEAPOLIS UP) Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. said here its facilities at Fargo were "tremendously loaded" today as a result of the tornado, but 40 of the 42 long distance circuits between Fargo and Minneapolis remained in service.

It is necessary to restrict serv feet, visibility 15 miles, wind from the south southeast at 15 miles an hour with gusts to 25 miles an hour, barometer 29.67 truce, he said. Mayor Hershel Lashkowitx said U.S. Dist. Judge Jostph C. Mo city for 20 to 30 minutes.

Then, suddenly, they saw it head early today that damage would be "many millions of dollars." Chung, spokesman for the 40 Garraghy ruled that Girard, i specialist third class from Otta would support the 1958 crop at an average of $1.78 a bushel, but would drop this to about $1.19 if quotas were rejected. and steady and humidity 55 per for town and they had only a few North Korean and Chinese Com In addition to the homes destroy The meeting with this latest group came on the heels of a GOP rally Thursday night at which Eisenhower was the speaker. At the party session Eisenhower steered away from specific legislative cent. moments to make it inside the munists attending the meeting of wa, 111., must not be tried by a Japanese court in the firing range basementless house and lie on the the Korean Joint Armistice Com ed or damaged, many cars and trucks were smashed, tossed into the air and slammed to the ground death of a Japanese woman. Mc ice only because of the heavy load of calls and to hold off the volume in Fargo, a spokesman for the floor under kitchen cupboards.

mission, reserved the right to re Garraghy held that Girard was Houses on either side for a block Droblems but urged his audience ply later to the U.N. charges of truce violations. He asserted the on duty at the time of the shoot company said. to "carry on the good fight for or more disappeared, but theirs was left standing, although heav Of the 20,000 telephones in Fargo, ing and that the soldier's constitutional rights would be violated U.N. Command was airing the America.

3,600 were knocked out by the tor charges to "cover up" Allied vio ily damaged. Large boards punch ed through the wall. if he were handed over to Japan nado. Another 100 telephones in lations. In Thursday night's speech Eisenhower defined Republicanism as "never-failing concern" for ev for trial.

Their story was typical of the Litzenberg told reporters "mod Moorhead, adjacent to Fargo, were out of order. survivors, many of whom said The justices probably will have to consider also a contention by em and effective weapons" will be flown into Korea soon, but said Fourteen crews are at work re ery American, "no matter what his religion or the color of his e3 they were saved only because they ran immediately to basements or lawyers for Girard that the sol pairing lines. Two were sent in he knew of no final decision on 4 skin." dier should be granted a writ of from Detroit. Lakes. Minn.

huddled on floors against the walls types, quantity or a timetable for Eisenhower has had some rough The transcontinental line through of their homes. habeas corpus so he may be returned to the United States. They bringing them In. Residents of the city had been Fargo was knocked out when 16 poles went down between Fargo going in Congress in trying to win approval of the administration's 171.800.000,000 budget. The House warned by reports of a tornado announced in New York yesterday they expected to file a "cross and West Fargo.

By rerouting, the funnel sighted earlier near Cassel appeal" today. They said Mc- and Senate already have voted company continued to handle trans ton, about 20 miles west of here. Thomson Veto Of 2 a.m. Tavern continental calls. some deep cuts, and the President by the powerful funnel.

Gov. Davis ordered 200 North Dakota National Guard troops to Fargo at the request of Mayor Lashkowitz. They hurried to the scene from summer camp at Devils Lake, N.D. under highway patrol escort. Fargo, with 40.000 residents, is the largest city in North Dakota.

It is located in the Red Riv-er Valley, noted for its rich farm crops. THE twister wrecked immense SLanley High School and the nearby American Lutheran Church, Richard Rasmusson, Associated Press staffer who lives near where the twister struck, said he and neighbors watched the black cloud forming an estimated 10 miles west of Fargo. "It looked like an elongated tri- angle lying on its side," Rasmus-sen said. "As it came closer, we could see the funnel begin to frrm. From a mile away it looked like a huge, flexible tube waving in the air." Thus forewarned.

Rasmusson, hi neighbors and many others in The company called all its 160 Glenn Perry, Sioux Falls, told on more than one occasion nas spoken out in opposition to such operators to duty in Fargo. Some newsman the tornado was his third in recent weeks. He had been reductions. from Grand Forks, N.D., who were in Fargo on vacation, also were put in the Kansas City and Faulkton, S.D.. tornadoes.

So the remtrk by Jensen that to work. Closing Sustained Eisenhower's "not too disturbed' This one seemed to move slow or at least doesn't seem to be- Woman Killed er, but it came up faster and was broader than the one at MADISON. Wis. UV- The Wis i I Faulkton," he said. consin Senate Wednesday sustained.

26 to 5, Gov. Thomson'i veto In S.D. Tornado Leonard Hildebrand. Detroit a bill that would have permit Garraghy's decision "did not go far enough." Court observers doubt announcements of any conclusions reached by the eight Justices will be made before next Monday's regular session of court. The court had planned to quit for the summer after next Monday.

If the justices vote in favor of hearing arguments by government attorneys and by counsel for Girard, a special court session may be ordered, and a final decision may not come until early July. Thomson Signs Eill Hiking Cigarette Tax MADISON. Wis. Of) Gov.i ted taverns in resort areas to remain open until 2 a.m. during Lakes, arrived at the north edge of town with his truck shortly before the tornado hit.

From his vantage point, he estimated the funnel was traveling at about five June. July, August and September. Sen. Donnelly (D-Eau Claire) miles an hour, "slow and steady." said it was not a fair bill inasmuch as adjacent towns might have different closing hours and 'ft Ambulances and other emergen the area got into their can and drove away from the storm. about the cuts came as something of a surprise.

House Republican Leader Martin of Massachusetts reported there was no discussion of business whatsoever at his table. As at the two previous breakfasts, Eisenhower moved around the dining room and chatted with House members seated at four different tables. "It was Just a social gathering at my table," Martin 6aid. The Eisenhower definition of Republicanism came in informal remarks Thursday night before a cheering audience of about 1,500 at the 10th annual convention of the Young Republican National Federation in Constitution Hall, cy vehicles from wahpeton and A hysterical mother, Mrs. Oer- this could result in driving between areas by inebriate drivers.

ABERDEEN, S. D. jf-One woman was reported killed when a tornado struck about 18 miles south of Aberdeen Thursday night. The state police radio said the woman, unidentified, died when a trailer house tipped over on her at Athol, S. D.

She apparently had stepped outside just as the storm struck about 10 p.m. The only other report of damage Was that a roof bad been blown off a barn and a granary blown over. Casselton, N.D., and Moorhead, Fergus Falls and Breckenridge, aid Munson, identified five of the In his veto message yesterday, dead as her three daughters Phyllis Louise. 16, Jeannette, 5, and Mary Beth, 1 and her two Gov. Thomson said "I would find 11 hard to justify approval of "this measure while at the time I am Uying to focus public interest and cooperation of law enforcement converged on the disaster scene.

Last August 30 a tornado struck Just south of the area hit by Thursday's twister, causing heavy property damage but no sens. Darwin, 12, ana Braaiey. 10. Thomson Thursday signed into law the bill increasing the state I tax on cigarettes by one-cent a package, effective July 1. The RUNAWAY ROMANCERS Christina Wennerstrom, 16, daughter of a Swedish air colonel, and Huw Williams, 18, of Falls Church, hold hands after their arrest It William sport," Pa.

The couple, missing since June 2, reported being in Canada in the interval She said they had been married, but her mother denied it (AP Wirephoto) Mrs. Munson at work away (Continued en Pag 11, Column S) boost wiu raise tne total levy to agencies or reducing the death rate on Wisconsin highways." TWISTER five cents a 1.