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FAIR
The Abilene Reporter ~ems MORNING
78IH YEAR, NO. 128 Associated Press (AP)
"WITHOUT OR WITH OFFENSE TO FRIENDS OR FOES WE SKETCH YOUR WORLD EXACTLY AS IT GOE^"—Byron
ABILENE, TEXAS, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1958—TWELVE PAGES IN ONE SECTION
PRICE DAILY 5c, SUNDAY 15c
Berserk Lawman Guns Down
NEW YORK (AP)—An off-duty The patrolman, father of three, said McDermott fired six shots in in chorus: "There he goes!" pistol and McDermott fell, at Edmund Leahy, 50, convicted plate glass windows along the
policeman went berserk in a entered the Pic-A-Rib restaurant, all Patrolmen Charles Prestia and Eighth Ave. and 55th St.
Broadway restaurant early Sun-a few blocks, north of Times There were six patrons at the Raymond Manners, both of Mc- McDermot twas shot twice in
day and—without warning—fatally. T bar, including one woman. As the Dermott’s own precinct, heard the the chest, once in the abdomen
shot four men standing at the bar. Square at s3rd ■1 a out 1:45 a.m. shots rang out, bartender Albert shots and shouts as they cruised and once in the left arm.
The officer, James McDermott, He went to a mens room at the Kecy ducked behind the bar and in their separate radio cars. They Both Manners and Prestia
*4, then fled, crashing through the rear and minutes later walked to- crouched on the floor
The restaurant proper is sepa- chase. [each grabbed one of the fallen
rated from the bar by a partition. Manners said he shouted to Mc- man’s pistols. One was his 38 -__- __________...__-___. -__
There were only a few patrons Dermott to drop his guns and was caliber service revolver and the struck off-duty Patrolman Larry truck collided and has been under
usurer, of Manhattan. Thomas route of the chase. Few pedes-
Joseph O'Hare, 55, an usher at trians were on the street at the
Madison Square Garden who lived
in Manhattan: a man tentatively time. '
identified as Lawrence Davion, 63, Chief of Detectives James B.
glass paneling of the exit door.
McDermott staged a running
gun battle with pursuing, patrol-
men. He wounded one pursuer be-
fore' be was shot down three
blocks away.
McDermott was not expected to
live. 1.
ward the door as if to leave.
Suddenly he wheeled and. with-
out uttering a word, began firing.
Three men at one end of the bar
fell with bullets in their heads.
Farther up the bar another man
was felled by a bullet in the head.
All four died in hospitals. Police
spotted McDermott and gave pounced upon McDermott and
- , each grabbed one of the fallen
of Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and Eugene Leggett said McDermott suffered
Cronin, 60, of Jersey City, N.J head and chest injuries last De-
One of McDermott’s bullets cember when his radio car and a
Roden in the right shoulder. His the care of a police surgeon since
in the restaurant. They watched, greeted with gunfire. Manners other a .32-caliber revolver. Roden in the right shoulder. His the care of a police surgeon since
speechless and horrified, as Mc-'dived into a doorway and shouted McDermott, w as charged w ith condition was considered'not ser- then. Two weeks ago, McDermott
Dermott made his crashing exit
from the establishment. Regaining
their voices, they could only cry
again to McDermott to surrender, homicide.
When McDermott fired again, The shooting victims were iden- at the time, joined the chase.
ious. Roden, strolling in the area went to Bellevue Hospital for X-
Manners said, he emptied his own tified as: ,
rays after complaining of head-
Flying bullets pierced many aches, Leggett added.
AP Wirephote
JAMES McDERMOTT
.. , suddenly began firing
One Killed, 16 Hurt
By Florida Tornado
4 Persons
Killed by
Windstorm
341ST BOMB WING CHAMPS
GET BIG DYESS WELCOME
Dyess AFB’s prize winning bombing teams from
the 341st Bomb Wing returned Sunday afternoon
from California to receive a heroes’ welcome.
“WELCOME HOME CHAMPS’’ read a sign
Damage Placed
At $400,000
across the front of an improvised grandstand south
of the south hangar, where the 341st aircrews and
ground support personnel were taken after their
planes landed.
On the grandstand, with air crewmen on one side,
ground support personnel on the other, and the
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Four
persons were killed by falling
„ trees and branches as a wind-1 ,
I storm from the Pacific lashed king-size trophy on a table in the center, both
■ Oregon woods Sunday,
■ The victims were identified as
John Rice, 13. of Eugene; Dean
Ryan, about 40, of Tigard: Pat
Monahan, about 60, of Shadyville
KITTEN ON THE KEYS — These two felines want to send you an invitation to
attend a rummage sale Saturday sponsored by the Abilene Humane Society. It casp. , maerz, 4, „
will be at the recreation center near Woodson Elementary School, 520 N. 9th St., wealthy Salem building contrac-
from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Profits will go to aid in the placement of stray animals
and giving them medical attention. Persons wishing to donate clothes, especially
children’s, for the sale are asked to contact Mrs. R. P. Fisher, president of the
society, or Mrs. Lester Berg. Incidentally, this pair would like a good home. Any
takers are asked to call OR 3-7096. (Staff Photo)
Camp: and Enoch f. Maerz, 43,
FORMOSA LIKELY TOPIC
11-Year-Old
Dulles, Lloyd Plan to Wed
Talk 2
BRIZE NORTON, England (AP)
—Secretary of State Dulles talked
for two hours Sunday night with
British Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd. He then flew off by jet on
the polar route toward Formosa
to meet Chiang Kai-shek.
Dulles talked with his British
counterpart at this U.S. air base
in the heart of England. He ar-
rived here Sunday evening from
Rome, where he attended memori-
al services for Pope Pius XII.
Walworth Barbour, minister at
the U.S. Embassy in London,
joined Dulles for the talks. Lloyd
was accompanied by his private
secretary.
No w ord was available on what
the two statesmen talked about.
Lloyd accompanied Dulles back to
his plane-a four-jet KC135 tanker
transport-but neither would
speak with newsmen.
Nine hours after takeoff the
plane was due to touch down at
Eielson Field, Alaska, to refuel for
the 11-hour leg to Taipei, For-
mosa.
Dulles was accompanied by his
wife and his special assistant, Jo-
seph N. Greene.
Formosa Strait
Ships Withdrawn
Aboard the USS Midway in the
East China Sea (AP)—The U.S.
Navy has withdrawn some of its
ships from Formosa Strait since
the Chinese Reds voluntarily si-
lenced their guns Oct. 6.
Two U.S. 7th Fleet admirals dis-
closed this Sunday, but they said
the ships have not withdrawn so
far they cannot return in a hurry.
The ships w ithdraw n were .the
extras sent in after the Commu-
nists launched their artillery bom-
bardment of the Quemoy Island
complex off the Red China main-
land on Aug. 23.
Hours
The China offshore islands ques-
tion is assumed to have figured
high in the talks with Lloyd, who
last conferred with Dulles three
weeks ago in New York.
The two shared a turkey dinner
before Dulles’ plane took off.
A five-man crew headed by
Capt. William R McDonald, 39,
of Horse Caves, Ky., took the polar,
flight as routine. They had.flown
the route before on training mis-
sions.
Capt. John P. Quercia of Bos-
ton, Mass., the navigator, said the
plane would be flying at its nor-
mal cruising speed of 610 miles an
hour at heights up to 33,000 feet.
Dulles arrived in Rome Satur-
day for memorial services for
Pope Pius in Vatican City. He
took the occasion to hold talks
with Italy’s. Premier Amintore
Fanfani, and Foreign Ministers
Heinrich von Brentano of West
Germany and Maurice Couve de
Murville of France.
Thwarted -
ATLANTA (AP)Wedding bells
did not ring Sunday for an 11-
year-old Tenneessee girl and the
man she said was the former
pastor of her church at Happy
Hollow.
Authorities in two states shat
ered the romantic plans of the
chestnut-haired girl and the 33-
year-old preacher.
Detective W. K. Perry said the
girl was placed in the juvenile de-
tention home pending arrival of
her father from Happy Hollow.
Tenn.
She was still wearing the blue
satin gown and the high-heeled
shoes she bought for her mar-
riage.
Police at Sevierville, Tenn., said
they were holding the Rev. G. W.
Rollins on a kidnap charge. Offi-
cers identified him as a Baptist.
The girl was picked up after a
telephone call from Sheriff 0. C.
Drinnen, at Maryville, Tenn.
Perry said the pastor and his
intended bride, who looked about
tor.
Maerz, who Was on a deer hunt-
ing trip near the eastern Oregon
town of Mitchell, was sleeping in
a pup tent when the storm blew
up at about 4 a. m. His brother,
Edwin, sleeping nearby in a trail-
er, called to Enoch, telling him
to come inside. Enoch was crawl-
ing out of his tent when the top
of a tree—two feet in diameter
and 30 feet long—snapped in the
wind and fell on him.
Rice was riding in a car with
his father and driven by Myron
Ricks of Cottage Grove, Ore.,
when a pine tree fell across it,
injuring the boy fatally. The acci-
dent occurred in the Silver Lake
area.
Ryan was killed when a tree
fell across the tent in which he
groups were landed by Col. Frank P. Sturdivant,
commander of the 819th Air Division; Cal Young,
president of the Abilene Chamber of Commerce;
Col. Anthony J. Perna, commanding officer of the
prize-winning wing; and Col. Charles F. McKenna •
111. commander of the 96th Bomb Wing, which also
finished in the top bracket in the SAC bombing
and navigation competition.
Wives, and children of the returning officers,
and airmen were allowed on the fight line to meet
them and attend the welcoming ceremony.
Charles Nordyke,
Baird, Dies at 87
PAHOKEE, Fla. (AP)—A torna-
do burst out of a squall area and
ripped through this rich farming
community 92 miles northwest of
Miami Sunday, killing one person,
injuring at least 16 others and
causing damage estimated at
$400,000. ‘.
The tornado rare for this part
of the country, struck this com-
munity of 5,000 persons at 7:45 a.
m vCST>. It moved in from Lake
Okeechobee and struck first at the
airport, a mile west of town.
Nine light crop-dusting planes
were smashed, several of them
twisted and torn to shreds.
“It rolled my four planes up like
a ball" said Jack Phillips, one of
the dusters. -
Then it bowled over a row of
two room migrant workers’ hous-
es, flattened a row of trees along
U.S. 441 and bounced into another
patch of houses across the high-
way.
Johnny Lee Moore, 30, farm
worker, said he and his wife and
two children ran indoors and lay
flat on the floor when he saw the
Hope Fades for 10
Trapped in Plane
ARGENTIA, Nfld, (AP) - Res-
,BAIRD (RNS) - Charles T.
Nordyke, 87, died at 11:55 p.m.
Saturday in Callahan County Hos-
pital after a lengthy illness* He
was a pioneer resident of Calla-
han County and a retired farmer.
A survivor is a son, Lewis Nor-
was sleeping near John Day, dyke of Amarillo, a former news-
where he was hunting with a paperman who is now a -free
. a , tornado bearing down
coin County, Missouri on Aug, 1, A:
1871. He came to Texas at the ...I started praving. Moore said.
! There was an awful roar and
pieces from the house next door
kept banging against my house
My house shook all over but it
stood. I think prayer saved me."
Moving toward the east, it
whirled wreckage through the air
were homeless. He set up emer-
gency headquarters in a vegetable
packing house. Members of the
Westwood volunteer fire depart-
ment of West Palm Beach brought
in a truck load of clothing.
The town's power was disrupt-
ed.-Felled trees, water and debris
blocked highways north and south
of the city. The highway patrol
station was operating on auxiliary
power.
The crops of beans and sweet
corn just coming into harvest were
damaged somewhat by heavy
rains but the tornado only cut a
swatch - about 100 yards wide
across the farming community
which is strung out along the high-
way.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thomas and
their son, Ed Jr., 16, were trapped
in the wreckage of their home.
The boy crawled out, then went
back and brought his mother to
safety. Later, the youth also res-
cued an unidentified boy pinned
beneath a tree
group of men.
Monahan, a prospector, was
found dead in his cabin at Shady-
ville Camp, some 35 miles south-
east of Eugene, Ore. Two trees,
one three feet in diameter, had
fallen across the tiny dwelling.
Portland police reported 19 ac-
cidents on rain - drenched city
streets.
lance writer and has often writ-
ten for the Saturday Evening
Post.
Mr. Nordyke was born in Lin-
age of 3, and his family first set-
tled in Coryell County. He moved
to Cross Plains sometime before
1900 but lived in Limestone Coun-
ty for a while before returning to
Callahan County in 1900.
He was married to Nancy Cof-
fee in December 1899.
He was usually the* champion
fiddler at the Callahan Old Set-
and it lifted two freight cars off a
siding, cut down telephone and
telegraph poles and moved away.
Lt. E D. Dugger of the Florida
Deer Hunters
Blamed for Fires
SALT LAKE CITY (AP>—Forest
and range fires—blamed on an
army of deer hunters—broke out
in spots all over Utah Sunday.
They were fanned by high winds
carried on an advancing cold
front.
15. arrived in Atlanta Friday and
planned to get married right
away.
But they found that a three-day
waiting period was required. The
girl was left with a family in
Atlanta and the pastor went back
to Tennessee to pack the rest of
THE WEATHER
Blaze Destroys
Block-Square
leather Factory
tiers’ Reunion He was a member
of the Baptist Church at Baird, figure at $400,000.
Funeral will be held Monday
at 2:30 p m at the Wylie chapel.
Interment will be in Ross Ceme-
highway patrol set the damage
Corpse Hanged
From Houston
School Flagpole
HOUSTON (APi-Police found
the body of a funeral home oper-
ator, stolen from a mausoleum in
tery.
| Survivors are his wife: three
daughters, Miss Alda Nordyke of
Baird, Mrs A. J. Ellis of Moran,
and Mrs. Hazel Dunn of 881 Cedar
BERLIN, Wis. (AP) — A fierce St., Abilene: two sons, Lewis of
fire appearently caused by a short Amarillo and Noel of Snyder: sev-
circuit in the ignition system of a
truck parked nearby destroyed a
block-square leather goods factory
early Sunday with a loss of $300,-
en grandchildren, and 16 great-
grandchildren.
his clothing. He was arrested
there.
cuers expressed fear Sunday night The girl whose name was with-
that wind-whipped waves may held under Georgia juvenile law.
have broken up a big U.S. Navy told officers she first met the pas-
plane that crashed in Placentia tor while he was preaching in
Bay off Argentia. Happy Hollow . ‘
"We'd been planning this a
long time," she said. “I love him
Wiped out in the predawn dark-
ness was a two-story brick struc-
ture housing the Berlin Glove Co.
and the Midwestern Sportswear
Co., this community’s largest in-
dustries with a payroll of 60 per-
Firemen from Berlin, 20 miles
west of Oshkosh, and Ripon
poured tons of water on the tow-
"It’s pretty grim," said a U.S
Navy officer when asked to com-
ment on the chance that 10 men
believed trapped inside might
have survived this long.
The plane, a Super Constella-
tion, plunged into the bay Satur-
day. Eighteen of the 29 men
aboard were rescued by surface
vessels. One was known dead and
and 1 intend to marry him.’’
Her father, however, is expected
to take her right back to Happy
Hollow.
Joins UN Unit
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
WEATHER BUREAU .
ABILENE AND VICINITY (radius 40
miles) - Partly cloudy, warm and windy
Monday and Monday night, possibly turn-
ing colder Tuesday afternoon. High Mon-
day near 90, low Monday night around
60, high Tuesday about 80.
EAST and SOUTH CENTRAL TEXAS -
Partly cloudy and a little warmer Mon-
day; Tuesday mostly cloudy and mild - -—
with showers northwest portion late Tues- lasted more than six hours.
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS - Partly- The roof collapsed at the height
cloudy And 2 Ten cod, of the blaze, leaving only the four
I WEST TEXAS - Partly cloudy and a walls standing
little warmer Monday: Tuesday increas- walls standing.
ins CoudineEMPEETITRES A preliminary investigation by
Sum. p.m. Berlin Fire Chief Wilton Marks
n. a.m.
59
. He was preceded in death by
two children. A daughter.' Mrs.
Archie Bagley, died in 1952, and
a son, Texas Ranger Clarence
Nordyke, was killed in a car
wreck in 1954.
Pallbearers will be Jerry Loper,
B. F. Freeland, Ben Russell, Fred
Ellis, Roy Higgins, and Bob Nor-
rell..
----N---------------
John Gray, 70-year-old Negro,
was the only casualty. His body
Was recovered from wreckage of
his home. His wife, Alley, 64, and
five other persons were hospital-
ized at Everglades Memorial Hos
pital A dozen others were treat
and released.
Drizzling rain, whipped by winds
up to 40 miles an hour in gusts,
lashed the community throughout
the day while rescue workers dug
into debris to account for the miss-
ing and relief agencies moved to
provide clothing and shelter for
the homeless.
Corrugated roofing and other
debris was blown across fields
green with sweet corn and beans
a mile from the scene.
R. M. Shirk, county Red Cross
' which it had rested since his death
disaster chairman, said 42 persons’ tomb.
in 1938, hanging from a flagpole in
front of a public school Sunday.
Officers said the body was
drawn to the top of the 35-foot
pole by a chain used to raise the
flag in front of James S. Hogg
Junior High.
They blamed teenage vandalism.
Three teenagers were arrested for
questioning and a fourth was
sought.
The body was that of I S Lewis,
Negro funeral home operator who
died Dec. 14. 1938
Garland Butler, custodian of Oak
Park Cemetery said the body was
embalmed by a special process
and had been in the mausoleum
more than 19 years. He said Lewis
paid more than $7,000 for the
ering flames during a battle that
82 and Dept. State Fire Marshal
8 Earl Schwabe of Brillion led to
“’ the belief that the fire started in
ii a company truck parked next to
71 the building and then spread to
the structure itself. They said a
short, circuit in the ignition sys-
tem of- the truck apparently
touched off the conflagration.
High and low for 24-hours ending 9
p.m.: 84 and 54
r A- 1 High and low same date last year
joined the U.N. Educational, Scien-68 and 49.
Sunset last night 6 03: sunrise today
:46; sunset tonight 6 01
Barometer reading at 9 p m 28.03.
Humidity at 9 P.m. 37 per cent.
PARIS (AP) — Albania has
High and
the other 10 were believed caught tific and Cultural Organization It
in the sunken fuselage
is the 81st member
Marks estimated damage at $300,-
000.
Blaze Kills 28 Race Horses
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. < AP) It has another week to go on its Twenty other horses were freed New Dice was reported blinded fracture when kicked by a horse
— An estimated 28 race horses current meeting from another burning barn and and shot after it came charging he was trying to round up.
Track officials said the meet ran wildly through the track out of the barn. Cause of the fire was not imme
were killed and 27 others injured ing will continue this week as
Sunday when fire swept the stable scheduled grounds for two hours. -. 'Twenty-seven horses which were, diately determined. Lt. James
area at Marlboro race track. Track workers said they re- Early estimates of the loss ran burned or cut were being treated Chapman of the track police and
to 1110,000 at the receiving barnLawrence R. Woltz, Prince
Georges i County fire marshal,
removed an electric hot plate and
a coffee pot from the tack room
in the large barn which was des-
troyed. Fire regulations bar such
appliances from the barns.
Two barns were destroyed and
two others damaged as a stiff
northerly wind whipped the flames
out of control for an hour.
The half-mile track is located
P miles southeast % Wash-
moved at least 26 bodies of horses
Firefighter Richard Maxwell, 22,
from one major barn. At least one
other horse had to be shot as it fected barns were listed as Songai, of Seat Pleasant, suffered a possi-
rolled in agony on the ground and
touched off a brush fire as it tried
Three of the horses in the af-
which broke the track record for
to put out the flames searing its
body.
a mile and sixteenth opening day.
Starwart Bond, which won the
first race Saturday, and New Dice
ble ankle fracture and a severely
bruised arm when a wall fell on
him. Ben Schwartz, 88, of Morn-
ingside, received a possible arm
WIND-STREWN RUBBLE — A power company worker surveys the splintered
lumber of about 20 transient workers’ homes smashed Sunday by a tornado at
Pahokee, Fla (AP Wirephoto) u
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