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FINAL EDITION ribxmt WEATHER Showers or thunderstorms tonight or early Tuesday. Cooler tonight. Low tonight 50; high Tuesday, 70. VOLUME 60, NUMBER 99 SIXTEEN PAGES LACROSSE, WISCONSIN, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 24, 1964 TWO SECTIONS PRICE TEN CENTS Delegate Clash Looms As Demos Open Convention 2 Mississippi Groups Fight For Floor Seats URGE SEATING More than 100 young civil rights workers picketed convention hall in Atlantic City, N.J., early Monday urging the seating of the Freedom Democrats. The demonstration was hastily organized when supporters of the Freedom Democrats learned that President Johnson was not supporting their Telephoto.

Pledge Fair Enforcement' Of Civil Rights Act Alabamans Line Up For Loyalty Vow ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) Democrats began group was seated, the curtain on their 1964 convention today as they moved to Whatever happens on the civil pledge fair enforcement of the Civil Rights Act and to denounce rights plank and on the Missis- lawlessness on either side of the fight. sippi delegation contest, there While the Platform Committee hammered out this plank, i seemed little likelihood of any peacemakers worked backstage to cool off the most heated dis- significant Southern walkout, pute. The Credentials Committee sought to find some compromise that would satisfy, if not please, both Southern states and civil rights supporters in the row over seating the Mississippi delegation. At issue is whether the convention will seat the regular Democratic delegation or the predominantly Negro group representing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party.

Humphrey, among others, came hung on choice of his up with a forecast that the diffi- running mate. And he did noth- culties would be ironed out with- ing to clear up the mystery. out a bolt. The name heard the most in the vice-presidential talk was! Pacing along with Humphrey that of the Democratic Senate in the non-contest for second whip Hubert H. Humphrey of place on the ticket were Sens.

Minnesota. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minne- The weather for the opening sota and Mike Mansfield of session was bright and steamy Montana. There was also talk of more or less traditional for Franklin D. Roosevelt political convention.

dersecretary of commerce, be cause Johnson continued to re gard the late president with By EDMOND LEBRETON Associated Press Writer which officials said was proved by voice vote, By IRWIN FRANK Thousands of delegates, alter ATLANTIC CITY (AP) President Johnson, his nomi-nates and their families mingled high esteem. Three Alabama delegates and nayon to be little more than a on the hot boardwalk with sun- Gov. Edmund G. Brown of two alternates signed a formauty Wednesday night, has burned tourists. jCalifornia, mentioned as a pos ap- ty pledge to the party's presi- been keeping the party guessing Almost from one end of the also dential nominee today and one as to bjs choice for a running boardwalk to the other were stalls hawking mementos using the likenesses or initials of ATLANTIC CITY tbe concern predicted a majority of the del- mate as be called signals from Democratic Platform Commit- llnot onjy wjtb peopie's right to egation would sign it.

Washington shaping the plat- tee approved a plank todav be fre0 but ajso wjtb If that should come to pass it form and trying to ease North- pledging fair, effective ty to use their might keep the Alabama dele- soudl clashes. sibility, had a he said, that it would be Humphrey. Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York City said he TWO DEAD Two persons were killed in a two-car collision north of Sparta Saturday night. Dead are La Vein W.

Peters, 18, of R. 1, Cataract, and Spencer Hinds, 40, of Sparta. Both the Hinds Car, shown here, and the Peters car were badlv damaged. The committee was attempt- hassling over its seating. It would represent a drastic overturn in the delegation which had voted 33 to 3 Sunday night not to sign the loyalty pledge of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

ing to put the final polish on a The civil rights plank is in- piank condemning extremism eluded in a section tbe extrernist tactics of Opportunity of such organizations as the and condemns lawlessness party, Ku Klux Klan used to deny equa and the John Birch rights or to obtain equal Tbe fud piatf0rm Committee which the credentials committee right s. met jn executive sessions to had made the price of seats on pass on these recommendations, the floor. cannot and will not tol- among others, from its execu- erate the plat- tive paneb 1 ready to Reuben form declares. can and Newton of Jasper, told Na- will seek to eliminate its eco- Approval was predicted al- tional Committee Chairman nomic and social causes. though the full committee could John M.

Bailey. 1 his part of the platform. make changes. Members on both have 22 or 23 of the which will be submitted to the sjdes 0f the civil rights dispute delegation sign said Roy party convention Tuesday night, sajd they thought that the plank McCord, a delegate from Gads- also calls for revision of the im- would be approved without a den. Another delegate, Bill Har- migration laws eliminate fi00r fight.

din, also of Gadsden, predicted the discriminatory provisions Qne proposed plank reads: the number would be around 30. which base admission upon na- condemn extremism, tional whether of the right or left, in- The platform also pledges cjuding the extremist tactics of support of legislation toward sucb organizations as the Com- full equality of opportunity for munjst Party, Ku Klux Klan fight appeared slim women as well as men and to and the John Birch strive eliminate discrimina- The key section of the pro- tion against older Americans, posed plank on civil rights says jority Alabama sign-up is borne especially in their employ- that the new law and out, there still remained the requires full observance by eve- prospect of a battle over Mis- This section of the platform, ry American and fair, effective sissippi representation. Missis- enforcement if there is any de- sippi Negroes were saying The plank also declares that The credentials committee disregard for the failed to decide Sunday whether rights of others is wrong the largely Negro Mississippi whether used to deny equal Freedom Democratic delegation rights or to obtain equal or the all-white regulars from It says lawlessness cannot be tolerated but, can and will seek to eliminate or correct its causes. President Johnson and the late certainly the President John F. Kennedy.

nomination but sitting gation on the floor during the But a spokesman for Missis-1 The balanced civil rights plat- around dreaming about getting convention and prevent further sjppj Freedom Democratic par- form is an obvious concession to it. ty delegation, Washington law-Uhe difficulties President John- Atty. Gen. Robert F. Kennedy yer Joseph Rauh claimed son is expected to run into in the resigned Sunday as a Massa- today he had enough votes to South in November.

chusetts delegate, asking that force a floor fight over the Mis- The fight over the Mississippi he be replaced by Joan Kenne- sissippi question. delegation was dramatized wife of Sen. Edward M. He reiterated at a news con- ly today when 75 Negro and! Kennedy. This action was preference that the group would not white demonstrators sat on the! liminary to his expected resig- accept a compromise proposal I boardwalk in front of Conven- nation from the abinet to seek that the regular Mississippi del- tion Hall and vowed to remain the seat now filled by GOP Sen.

egation be seated and the Negro there until the Mississippi Free- See DEMOS, Page 2 group be given a voteless and voiceless place on the conven tion floor. GIRL, 18, INJURED Saturday Night Crash In Sparta Area Kills 2 Rauh said his group was hold-; ing out for a plan where only those Mississippians from both rival groups who sign a partyj loyalty pledge would be allowed; State Demos Hope For Delegate Compromise floor By HARVEY BREUSCHER iwants to bring this to a Up to the time of the reported a geat (Associated press writer) fight if that can be shift, the chance for keeping a jbe cjvd rjghts plank was a ATLANTIC CITY Kastenmeier called initial at- dispute over the Alabama baiance(i statement delegation to the Demo-tempts to reach an agreement gation erupting into a flooi cjvd Rights Act of cratic national convention sell which he said the 1964 deserves and requires full cided today against an early I Wisconsin delegation should not observance by every American caucus vote that would have accept. Even if forec-ast of ma-and fajr effective enforcement demonstrated the sup- proposed compromise if there is any port for seating the Freedom would simply mean that these As the convention got into Democratic party of Mississippi, people (Freedom party mem- high gear the only real suspense Rep. Robert kastenmeier of bers) who for so many years Watertown, a member of the have been moved to the rear of Mobs Burn, Sack Buildings In S. Viet Nam that state should be stated The committee resumes today its search for a solution it hopes will satisfy Southern states and WHERE TO FIND IT Credentials Com- the bus could come to this con- mittee, proposed a head count vention and be seated at the in asking authorization to file a rear of the no au minority report we fail thority to the congress to reach an acceptable solution man said, to the Mississippi By MALCOLM W.

BROWNE SAIGON, South Viet Nam mobs in Saigon, Hue and Da Nang sacked and burned buildings today in the worst outbreak of organized rioting in South Viet Nam since last summer. Several hundred students supporting the government sacked and burned the Student Union building in Saigon in a demonstration. In Da Nang, South Viet Nam's second largest city, more than 1,000 howling youths stoned a U.S. enlisted barracks as antigovernment demonstrations took an increasingly anti-American tone. The platform committee's ex- Southern and Northern Negroes, ecutive panel, working late into Dr.

Aaron Henry, Negro A grenade exploded at the the night, decided to avoid controversy on two other subjects simply by omitting them from See PLATFORM, Page 2 chairman of the Freedom group from Clarksdale, said the group would not take a See WALKOUT, Page Births Page .............13 Classified Adv. 14 and 15 Comics, Movies TV 12 Crossword Puzzle 2 Daily Records 2 Death Notices ...........13 Editorials 4 Local News 9 Markets 2 Sports 10 and 11 Tri-State Deaths ............13 Weather Map ............13 News 6 and 7 Leaves 14 Dead; Heads for Jamaica SPARTA, Sparta busi- wood, was killed early today orij nessman and an 18-year-old North Side after Cataract youth became Mon- his car missed a curve and DOMINGO Domini- roe 11th and 12th traf- smashed into a tree. He was Hurricane tie victims of the year in a two- manager of the American Cas wWrM past the Domini. car collision two miles north of ually Co. I can bU tod and dcd Sparta at 11:45 p.m Saturday Caribbean toward Dead arc La Vcrn W.

Peters Kenneth Clark. Ill, of Arling and Cuba. 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold was kiUcd Sunday night with the storm skirting along Peters, andiwhen his auto bounced off a Haiti's southwest peninsula, Ra- Spencer (Moit) tree and stopped within inches of dio Sant0 Domingo reported no bachelor, ownei and opeiatoi of a douse aper leaving Highway damacp injuries on the CUrVe 15 intean Republic's OTitheni Bar- south side, who died at St.

west Kenosha. He was alone. neninsula The storm's Spa'ta 01 cSpPas3tilLteto1err A I.iu-?h,n,. rnrr car ral Rosholt was kllled The storm swirled past south- A passenger (he 1 cters (ar, eariler a two-car col rn puert0 Rjco Sundav after Miss Mary Johnson, 18, daugh- iij0hwav 43 in west- I Mr onH Mrc FrianH Highway in west Altering the Guadeloupe is- InhnsL I Melrose'isfn SI ern Kenosha lands. Officials blamed Cleo for whh mulLle Cor0ner at lcasl 14 deaths- 10,1 in-iuries Mary Hospital with multiple car left the roadway.

and million in damaue to the lacerations and other injuries. I nntn it and into an 10 ine Her condition is good skidded back onto it and into an French possession. Her condition is gooa. oncoming car. cleo win probably strike The crash occurred on State Jamaica tonight with huirieane Highway 27-71 as Hinds was re- Bohte, 87, Medford, force the Weather Bureau said, turning to Sparta following a.

was killed Sunday night in the Gale force winds and heavy late dinner at the Four Corners collision of his car and another Tam pounded the southern coast Night Club auto on highway 13 a half mile of the Dominican Republic early Amnrdino to Traffic Officer north of Medford, Small but powerful Cleo, Farrell Sousek, the Hinils car t-aanty' wtth HOmilo center i had rrnQCPd tho hiehwav center- Victims listed earlier were: onward south of the is line and was more than two feet Mrs. Jessie Brooks, 75, May-1land of Hispaniola, which the But with the credentials com- into lane of' The HI- I Dominican Republic shared The Freedom party is at- mittee scheduled to meet again ninds car traveled about 250 feel Robert Storm, 20, of rural with Haiti. Severe lowland following the collision and the Merrill 400 HOMES DAMAGED, DESTROYED tempting to unseat later in the day, Kastenmeier Democratic regulars and the ef- agreed that delega- fort by the predominantly Ne- tion could adopt a wait and see gro group has attitude. A second caucus was full support. scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

(EST). we still can hope for a The Wisconsin state conven- he told the first tion in June passed a resolution Wisconsin caucus. one urging the delegation to Atlantic City to support the predominatly Negro freedom group from Mississippi. 3 Cities Begin Twister Cleanup In the interim, it has become obvious that the state sentiment is shared by MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) he said.

a residential section eight'most of two other roofs pr worst is over; going I An emergency session of the blocks long and five blocks away. marv But for Frances Win- Common Council Sunday was wide. An insurance adjuster said nemuller of Port Washington attended by state officials. Pre- there would be about 1,000 there was no home of her own. sent were Frank Zeidler, direc-i There were no injuries the way from $25 Peters ear 130 feet and rolled Purcell, 40, of Argyle over down an embankment aft- Bauer, 18, of nnai er clipping off a guard post.

Mondovi. It is believed Miss Johnson was thrown through the windshield, which was shattered in the crash. She was thrown some 100 feet from the point of impact. A Sparta wrecker had to be called to extricate Hinds from his car, and although there was Negro Assembly Denies Support To LBJ, Goldwater (flooding was predicted. The Weather Bureau said that 125-mile wide mass of hurricane force winds apparently would skirt heartland.

The storm was headed toward southern peninsula, where thousands were killed last year by Hurricane Flora. Cleo also might strike Cuba with its fury intact, the Weather (Bureau said. It was too early to She, her husband and their tor of the Department of Re nine children were treated at St. source Development, and Har- Alphonsus Hospital after their vey O. Grasse, chairman of the home was destroyed by a torna- State Highway Commission, height of the riot, seriously in- do, one of three that slammed Robert L.

Williams, area civil juring three demonstrators, southeast Wisconsin Saturday, defense director, told an emer- There were no American casu- Twisters hammered Port gency meeting of the Common alties. Another blast a short Washington, Fond du Lac and Council Sunday there ap- damage was less severe than in to Port Washington. Fond du Lac Hundreds of trees were top- authorities said the roofs were pled, and Police Lt. James Shil- ripped from two homes, and See TORNADO, Page 2 Still, on the eve of reaching a decision in the credentials controversy Sunday, Rep. Robert Kastenmeier of Watertown raised the only strong voice in See DELEGATES, Page 2 time later killed a woman.

the Milwaukee suburb of Oak The 30 or more Americans in Creek. Destructive winds the barracks fired shots into the pounded Beaver Dam and Stev- air to scare off the demonstra- ens Point, tors as rocks smashed windows. The mob then attacked a nearby Roman Catholic village and set a house afire. Villagers moved out of their houses to defend themselves while their women carried children and belongings to a waterfront pier. AJter the fire, mob leaders called for a withdrawal.

But some rioters slipped back into the village and set two more houses aflame. Another grenade exploded as the rioters pulled back. A maid working at the enlisted barracks was wounded and died soon afterwards. More Americans are stationed in Da Nang, on the South China Sea, than anywhere else in the country, except Saigon. More than 400 homes were pear to be enough damage to require federal assistance.

But Zeidler said he would find out what kind of federal help might be available. The major problem late Sun- damaged or destroyed. Twenty- day was clearing streets of fall- five persons were injured, none en trees. Power had been cut seriously. off in about 25 per cent of the Port Washington, about 18 city but most main lines had miles north of Milwaukee, was been repared Sunday.

A gas hardest hit. All but two of the leak also had been repaired, injured live in the town of 4,755. But there were the problems of the individuals. of a sudden, all hell broke said Winnemuller Police Chief Vernon Labbs, whose own home was destroyed, estimated total damage to the town at $2 million. He said more than 230 homes were damaged, in describing the storm.

30 beyond repair. was just about to get the All entrances to Port Wash- baby, but I never made said ington were sealed off Sunday Mrs. Winnemuller. started and only insurance claims ad- spinning, fell to the floor and justers were admitted. A sher- things started coming down on spokesman said top of were working full in the The tornado struck Port cleanup.

The travel ban was Washington at 4:15 p.m., and lifted Sunday night. half an hour later another hit As in the earlier disorders, po- in Fond du Lac, a city of about lice stood by without interfer- Despite the damage and the 30,000 40 miles northwest of ing. Firemen doused the flames confusion, Mayor Frank E. Port Washington, before they could wreck the Mayer said everything was un- Police Capt. Gustave Schmitz building but the interior was der control.

had a tre- estimated that 200 homes were ruined. mendous amount of coopera- damaged. The twister pounded PHILADELPHIA (AP) The newly formed National Negro, a seat belt in the vehicle he has whether i would pose any not using it. There were no its support to both Sen danger to the U.S. mainland.

in the Peters car. Barry Goldwater, the GOP was centeied at 4 d.ra., presidential nominee, and Pres- oa mi ts sou Officers at the scene included jdent Johnson on the Democrat. of Santo Domingo City, moving Dr Paul Albrecht, coroner; jc side on a path between west and Sheriff Arden'Oss; Mph Os- Negro Republican leaders abuut 17 P'h' borne assistant district at- formed tbe assembly Sunday. torney; and Iraffic Officers! xbcy termed it a vibrant or 5 Girls Disqualified Wallace Brown, Larrell Sousek ganization with a political ac- and Richard Fuller. poliey designed to give TOfTI rOgeQnr Besides his parents, Peters is Negro a strongcr voice in whal HUNTINGTON, W.Va.

(AP) survived by one brother, Larry dbe KePublican party does. The week-long Miss United at home; his paternal grandfa-i George G. Fleming, of East ther, Harry Peters, and his ma- orangC( N.J., was named presi- ternal grandmother, Mrs. Will dent Isensee, both of Cataract. According to Fleming, 50 Ne- Services for Peters will be gro leaders attended the Phila- held at 2 p.m.

Tuesday at Lan- deipbja convention. Most of Mortuary, Rev. A. E. tbern were delegates or alter- Frederick officiating, and burial nates to the San Francisco con- will be in the Cataract vention.

States beauty pageant opens tonight minus five lovelies. Pageant officials disqualified them because they do not live in the states they represented Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Robert Sehauh, the pageant tery. Friends were asked to fall think a vast majority of I attorney, said all five lived in at the mortuary Monday after -1 Negroes in this country sub Massachusetts. Winner of the noon and evening.

scribe to our said Flern-jMiss United States title will be ing. GARAGES TORN FROM BASES After Tornado Ripped Port Washington. Funeral arrangements for Hinds are incomplete at Sgt. John Hinds of Sparta, a brother of Spencer, was contacted at Camp Ripley, where he is in training with the Sparta National Guard. The brother is only close survivor.

Spencer was also a member of the Sparta National; Guard, but was recently discharged. (Bv The Associated Accidents in Kenosha and Monroe counties accounted for four of nine deaths during the weekend on Wisconsin highways and the death of a Milwaukee man early today added to the toll which has reached 638 for 1964, compared with 538 on this date a year ago. Michael Barrington, 24, Shore- I selected Friday. BEATLES COLLECT $50,000 FOR HALF-HOUR SHRIEKFEST HOLLYWOOD (AP) The hills were alive with the sound of screaming Sunday night as the Beatles made their local debut at Hollywood Bowl. It was a wild scene, man The hillside amphitheater, ordinarily the home of symphonies under the stars, was packed to the highest reaches with emotion-wracked adolescents.

The crowd of almost 19,000 sat restlessly through preliminary acts of rock roll personalities. Finally, the Beatles appeared, jaunty under their floormop hairdos. Pandemonium. The quartet breezed through their famous songs with scant regard for the shrieks that sounded almost continuously. In exactly half an hour, their performance was over.

They reportedly earned $50,000..