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Brownwood Bulletin
Sept. 14—BHS vs. Coleman
Sept. 22—HPC vs. Sam Houston
BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1956
EIGHT PAGES TODAY
VOLUME 56. NUMBER 280
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S. Fe’Train Wreck Deaths
ance.
Negroes File la
Oakley also said he would pro-
for classes.
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has been k
the eold war with Russia since he became Presi-
dent. (NBA Telephoto)
MAY BE KIDNAP VICTIM
British Parliament
)
Body of Infant
Called Into Session
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State Police Help
He said the crowd has been
brought under control with as
many as 20 arrests by state po-
lice and guardsmen.
two Negro
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I
Movies of 26th Division troops
in the
The division reunion wil be
To Cite Shivers For Contempt
were treat-
Eight of the
Foreign
min-
set with
Men-
were killed. Mort of the parson
Saturday after-
Thia
the Mansfield
a
Mon killed in both World War
TEXAS FORECAST
again
of
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N. Guard Uses Bayonets
To Control Crowd in Ky.
Tanks Stationed
In School Area
Movies of 36th
Division Action
Set at Reunion
in Brown
lay after-
tonight and
Friday and
Texas
Texas
f the
(Dul-
Nine of the eleven students who
wanted to register at the white
school were residents of Sturgis.
ins
iets
eep
in a telephone message to the
governor at Frankfort, Williams
I and
cane I
) 1888
Brownwood was found guilty on
a charge of selling beer in a
interests whose objectives are to
stir up trouble should keep out of
lee
oA
s a
lee-
mob action
from attend)
Prime 1
Menzies,
group, a
--
e .
A few white persons also were
knocked down in the melee as
they lunged at the guardsmen.
ference.
The col
utes this
it would
LASHED BACK—President Elsenhower sad his news secre-
taries, James Hagerty and Murray Snyder, sealed beside him.
enjoy haugh, apparently at question asked by reporter Marvin
Arrowsmith, at the President’s news conference in Washington.
The President lashed back at Democratic charges that the West
2. Talk
paths.
Nasser 1
any time
tee is re
Woodland Heights
Community Supper
Scheduled Friday
The annual Woodland Heights
community supper will be held
section about
mother was
at Presidia. It was expected to be
cooler to all but South Central
Texas today with the effects of
the front reaching there by Fit-
with the
erate wil
canal. Al
a new c
reinforce
transit g
-
2
Nelsosn, the missing Lubbock pri-
(See WEATHER on Page 5)
cident and Dean W. D. Akin said
they will be allowed to start clas-
ses next Monday with 1,000 white
students.
Texarkana police arrived short-
ly before midnight but the cross
had burned itself out. Aa investi-
gation was ordered.
The ernes burning ended a day
of uneasy calmness in eight
Southern states where Negroes are
attempting to enter schools which
previously have boon segregated
All was quiet in another troubled
Texas town. Mansfield, where
The
Yvonne Gray,
17, was
dry area by a
County court W
store’s gift-wra
2 p m., while
dress the
noon.
Mayor
I
I
Lloyd,
z con-
body of a baby was found to a
woods here today and state police
Maj. George Remer said “it prob-
ably is" that of kidnaped Cynthia
Ruototo.
The infant's body was wrapped
in a night dress.
body to do anything." Chandler
said. “But if anybody shows up
to go to school., we are not going
to let anybody keep them from
doing it."
Ware Photographer
Most of the crowd that appeared
and a
an in-
linked
coop-
« the
Jury Finds Billy R.
Weatherman Guilty
Of Selling Beer
Billy Ray Weatherman
arkana, Tex., in the newest pro-
test against racial integration of
Southern schools.
Unknown persons set fire to the
six-foot high cross only hours after
with
as
famous battles during its long
campaign, as well as other ac-
tion.
Vick Fowler of Dallas wi ad-
again
I was
5-Nation Group
Talks Privately
On Compromise
By WILBUR G. LANDREY
United Press Staff CsiTsspeadrai
CAIRO (UP)— The five-nation
Suez Committee met privately to-
day to study a compromise pro-
posal offered by President Gamal
Abdel Nasser oa operation- of the
Sues Canal. The atmosphere was
optimistic.
demanded a full debate on the
Suez crisis before Britain uses any
military force or intervenes direct-
ly withFERt- .
Ave. D; Gerald Scott, 1602 Vin-
cent; B. D. Sartos. 401 S. Broad-
way; aad Mrs. R- F. Coffee.
Bangs.
school plant during the summer
months. .
tors for the people of
quite capable of work-
wereu.rermited
- • c TJ »
of Jessatym
and Laure Dils,
without in-
to go ove
in the t
waa:
1. Mem
London c
les) plan
of the Su
2. Nasse
t
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SMB
ed at Colfax County Hospital and
released. Four were hospitalized,
but only James E. Wolter of
Rockford, m„ a dining car work-
er. was in serious condition.
No Passengers Killed
U
rented Negroes
school which a
VA
Santa Fe officiais
"Coincidental” that,
members and ns
It happened in Blanket.
Last year's graduating class
of seniors at Blanket High
School included 11 boys and
one girl.
This week, 11 boys and one
girl enrolled in the first grade.
If there are no addiuionsor
subtractions, history will re-
peat itself with the Blanket
graduating class at MB—11
boys one girl.
Id
(UP Ofl.
ound Mans
ocktheen
sere consp
and theia
lion leaders,
courts. In a
1 - goverm
e issue.
4 itself wad
*, with no
■ an effigy
I flagpole to
al waa miso-
Beer Charge Filed
Charges of selling beer in a i
dry area were filed In county1
court this morning against Otho |
Reaves at Brownwood.
gers and off duty crew members
were asleep at the time of the
accident.
The collision demolished the
locomotive units of both trains
and four cars of the Chief, includ-
ing a baggage car, the dormitory i
car and two pullmans. The dining
traveling to catch his regular run.
Bulldozers pushed the wreckage
to one side and other trains were
able to pass through by Wednes
dA afternonn wore Banta Fe em-
LONDON (UP) - Prime Minis-
ter Sir Anthony Eden today recall-
ed Parliament from its summer re-
fleas to an emergency session on
ployes, but only one was on the
mail train — engineer L. J. Rush
of Raton. The others were per-1
federal court had ordered inte-
grated.
Gov. Allen Shivers sent Texas
Rangers to Mansfield to preserve
order and subsequently ordered
the Negroes transferred to a Ne-
gro school at Fort Worth.
Shivers earlier had stated he
(See RACIAL on Page 51
were "wrong" and "above all
law.”
"Gov. Shivers to being advised
by an attorney who thinks that
the governor to above all law and
that the federal couts have no
Hail, Wind, Rain
Hit Cotton Crops
In Plains Area
By UNITED PRESS
A sold front rolled through Tex-
as setting oft scattered thunder-
showers today after possibly caus-
ing a ruinous blow to hundreds of
acres of maturing cotton north-
having lunch at the store’s snack
bar.
Barrows said he wanted to re-
check on the description of the
woman, who had been seen in
several places inside the store. He
said he wanted to fix a more def-
inite description so no one would
be wrongfully involved.
COLLISION—Aerial view shows tangled wreckage of the Santa Fe Railroad's streamliner. "The
Chief." after it rammed headon into a waiting mall express on a siding near Springer, N. M.
Twenty persons, all train crew personnel, were killed. Twelve persons were injured.
(NEA Telephoto)
WORD OF COMFORT— L Lewis Crutch field. Coffeyville,
Raw. eomforts 14. Richard Terry, Tulsa, Okla, as their T-M
trainer plane bums after forced landtag near Waco. Crutehfieid
was scratched and bruised and Terry reasivad a fractured back
aa he skidded vimne to belly landtag between U S. Hizhway 81
and a railroad track north of Waco. Maae was based st Davis
AFB. Muskogee, Okla. (NBA Telephoto)
la north and central portions to-
night. Freeh mostly northerly
winds aa the roast.
EAST TEXAS — Clear to part-
ly cloudy through Friday. Cool-
er tonight aad south portion Fri-
day. Fresh mostly north winds on
the coast, diminishing Friday.
The electrical storm dropped
50 of an inch of rata on
Bangs, with amounts reported
from M to M of an inch around
town. Up to an inch was report-
ad north and west of Bangs.
May received 40 of an inch,
with like amounts being reported
Three gblatyemsbeompd tofatoep
companies from Henderson. Liv-
ermore and Owiasboro arrived
-
FIERY CROSS
BURNS AT
TEXARKANA
By UNITED PRESS
A fiery cross burned for half an
Carine Oakley, superintendent of
union county schools, denied that
ident of the
rd, said to-
tollow th
Inn Shivers,
yone whore
lit in r dis-
d out M ths
ige, Ililnoto
"Galloping
"et
shortly after midmight and pitched
tents on a field near the school.
One light and three medium
tanks rum hied into the town with
troops.
Gov. A. B. Chandler called the
troops into Sturgis as a precau-
tionary move after crowds assem-
bled Tuesday and Wednesday at
the high school where Negroes had
hoped to attend rimers.
None Sitow
Nine Negroes appeared on the
campus Tn red ay but left quickly
when they aaw the unfriendly
crowd. None attempted to regia-
ter Wednesday.
It was reported that four of the
students had registered at an all
Negro school at Morganfield, the
Union County seat. Tuesday.
Chandler said he ordered the
guard undit to “preserve law and
order” in the event the Negroes
returned and demanded to be reg-
istered.
“We are not going to force any-
in the school lunchroom from ' - — .
5:20 to 7:30 P-m. Friday, accord-. BLANKET IS A PLACE
tag to Morrie Polk, school princi- WHERE MEN ARE MEN
pal.
5
tionotthe store.
Discovery of the infant’s body
came as police and the FBI
pressed a search for a mysteri-
ous. dark-skinned woman said to
have been seen with a baby in
the Sears Roebuck department
store's parking lot at the time of
the kidnaptag.
Police “hamr’aaResrbadtoma also
had asked all women who were
in the store with babies between
noon end 2 p.m. Saturday to re-
port to police headquarters.
The baby was taken from the
t
24,
and lounge cars of the plush
streamliner were derailed, but did
not overturn.
Most of the bodies were found
in the crew's dormitory ear.
noon. 4, f
He was fined $100 plus court
LOOtf.
The court to hearing a eivi
suit today. It to styled P. L
Wise vs. Ed D Miller.
Jurors hearing the civil core
4
west of Lubbock Wednesday night
Heavy hail, rain and winds up non
to 40 miles beat the area between daz ‘
WEATHER FORECAST
BROWNWOOD AREA: Partly cloudy
and cooler tonight and Friday. Low to-
night near 54, high Friday near 72.
Maximum Wednesday 93, low last
night 67. Sunset today 6 55, sunrise Fri-
day
President Gamal Abdel Nasser the
“Dulles plan" for placing the ca-
ul under international control.
Reports from Cairo said Nasser
has rejected the plan put forward
by the U.S. secretary of state and
has made a counter-proposal of
his owt-an advisory committee.
The five-nation committee today
was reported consulting on the
Nasser move.
Report by Lloyd
Eden’s decision to recall partia-
ment was taken after Foreign Sec-
retary Selwyn Lloyd reported on
his secret talks to Paris Wednes-
day with France and Britain's 12
North Atlantic treaty allies. Eden
had promised Parliament before
its adjournment at the end of July
he would recall the lawmakers if
necessary.
Eden expanded on this promise
in interim talks with Labor oppo-
sition leader Hugh Gaitskell who
Eden set the date for Sept 12
— a possible Indication the cabinet
may be determined to go ahead
with direct action if there hass
been no agreement on the Suez
by then.
Not since the Korean war broke
out has the British government re-
convened Parliament in the midst
of its traditional 2% months vaca-
tion.
The British Labor party recent-
ly appealed to Eden to recall Par-
liament to examine the govern-
ment's policy of using force "as a
last resort" to keep the Suez Canal
open to shipping.
Decision This Morning
“The cabinet decided this morn-
ing to ask the lord chancellor and
the speaker (of the House of Com-
mons) to recall Parliament on
said it was
only erew
passengers.
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
United Press Staff Cortespondent
SPRINGER, N. M. (UP i— Dial
trict Attorhey Arthur Noble today
called a six-man coroner’s jury
to rule upon the deaths o( at least
20 persons killed Wednesday when
a crack Santa Fe streamliner
the "Chief" smashed into a mail
train stopped on a aiding.
T. J. Anderson, Santa Fe's as-
sistant general manager, said a
fireman from Raton who was on
the mail train, P. C. Caldarelli,
became confused and threw a
switch too soon, shunting the fast-
mastug etreamlfneredto the sid-
Ing.
The Inquest began before Jus-
tice of the Peace Harry Smith at
11 a.m. cat.
Besides the 20 Santa Fe em-
ployes killed there were 12 per-
sons injured seriously enough to
be taken to a hospital here and
ed to stop guardsmen from es- warned a newspaper photographer
corting the Negro children into not to take pictures, however.
the formerly all-white high school.
held Saturday and
Hotel Brownwood
headquarters.
Meals will be 20 cents for chil-
dren and 40 cents for adults.
Those attending the supper will
be given an opportunity to view
High temperatures Wednesday The films will shew scenes
ranged from n at Dalhart to 99 from some of the division's more
thrhughweckgecontinedrtay.
Sheriff Dick Josey said it was be-
lieved that all bodies had been
removed but the sifting would con-
tinue until there was no doubt
“Workers found the 20th body in
the wreckage of Uto two Santa Fe
trains just before dark Wednes-
day. more than 12 hours after the
collision on a aidtag south of
Springer.
Bulldozers Clear Tracks
The last body found was that of
a Santa Fe employe. Lawrence
MeCormigk of Raton, N. M.
who had been off duty and was
STURGIS, Ky (UPl—National
Guard troops with drfkn bayo-
nets pushed their way through an
angry mob of 750 persons to es-
cort 11 Negro pupils into Sturgis
high school today. Officials
termed the enforced integration
situation explosive. 1 at the school Wednesday were
Several members of the crowd orderly and only a few boos and
were arrested when they attempt- catcalls were heard. Several men
feated for an hour that a plane -----
was down in the storm. Charles I and IL
tion ease
to) cme up
way as long
r.” Rowdou
liter them."
I Mananteia
I at L Ifo
roes inJort
out-of-state agitators were trying
The Negro children filed inside to stir up trouble,
the school and began registering
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS-
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight
and Friday. Cooler tonight and a
Hte warmer Panhandle aad
Bouh Plains Friday.
SoUrE CENTRAL TEXAS-
Partly cloudy through Friday
with scattered thundershowers in
extreme south portion
early Friday- Cooler
test the rights of the Negroes to
The crowd showed no signs of register if they attempt to do so
dispersing and continued milling this week.
==2T# Foundin Conn.
able amount of moisture, with _ HAMDEN. Conn. (P- The phen Ruotoio. was ia anoGer sec- "
«
)
Murray Milner of
The medical examiner was
called to the scene and police
roped off the entire area.
Cynthia, six weeks old, was
kidnaped from her carriage in a
local department store last Satur-
day while her mother, Mrs. Ste-
hour Wednesday night on the cam-
reported. "Order is being kept" pun of the junior college at Tex-
and no damage has been done. * _ .
its made on the
inch.
Woodland Heights received an
unofficial JO of an inch, while
the pecan station measured .n
of an inch.
Trans-Texas Airways reported
.72 of an inch at the municipal
airport.
Evans Boat Docks at Lake
Brownwood reported approxi-
mately half an inch, while .60
of an inch was reported at the
Wednesday September 12th,” a
statement from 10 Downing Street
nanaromnmspsneezuee“p“iiisexpsetsdthetbythenMr.
sound from the Chief, including Menzles".mission will have been
engineer E. O. Foster of Hatou. completed.
rsrs? sxx “ “
crew since he was riding . pass. Cairo
Therefore, It was not known that mittee to present to Egyptian
he was among the dead until the
wreckage waa sombed.
some places not even reporting
a sprinkle. Rata dM taU be-
tween there and Brownwood,
however.
Winchell, too, received only a
bare sprinkle while nearby
10 an inch of moisture.
Half an inch was reported at
Thrifty, while west of there re-
ports ranged up to JO of an
inch. Byrds received .20 of an
tach of moisture.
I never did see the train.. .1
don't remember much until I got
to the hospital."
F
about the grounds, booing the
guardsmen, stationed closely to-
gether around the building .
Tanks from the 24th tank unit
were stationed at each end of the
school. Kentucky Adj. Gen. J. J.
Tanks from the 240th tank unit
were stationed at each end of the
school. Kentucky Adj. Gen. J. J.
E. Williams directed the apera-
tion. Several units of state police
umn nearuy uliaa also helped
keep order. . —
Shepperd Dares NAACP Lawyer
union here. ■ • *
Local Man Is Fined
For Being Drunk
James Hughes of Brownwood
pleaded guilty to a charge of
drunkenness in justice court this
morning and was fined $20 plus
costs by Justice of the Peace
I. H. Hart.
He was arrested near May
about 9 p.m. Wednooday ky
Sheriff Ray Masters.
AUSTIN (UP- Attorney Gen-
erla —ohn Ben Shepperd today ac-
cused Thurgood Marshall of mak-
ing an "outrageously vicious" ver-
bal attack on Gov. Altan Shivers
and dared the NAACP chief coun-
sel to cite Texas' chief executive
for contempt of federal court.
Marshall, in a dispatch from
Washington, was quoted Wednes-
day as saying Shivers’ actions la
5,•02'!
Hoy belened-do-phe use of
force over Suez as “a last re-
fort,” but heh addede, "Three may
come a time when vital interests
which are not ours alone may
have to be protected.”
The lenders of the labor party
also met today to discuss the
Sues. They were expected to re-
new the Laborite demand that do
military force be used without full
United Nations approval.
- ---- i The other two were transfers
Many of the white pupils nt the from Terre Haute, Ind.
small high school, who continued; Presencs of the Indiana stu.
to attend classes during the dem-, aPresencausot themindimnaastz
onstrations earlier this week, left dents caused i grumbling
mheschoo after today'distur- outside interference, but
Among the mitary officials
expected for the reuniom are
Maj. Gen. Fred L Walker aad
Gen. John E. Dahlquist, former
commanders of the division, aad
Maj. Gen. Carl L. Phinney, Dal-
las attorney and present com-
minding general of the division
William B. Mobley of San
Benito to president of the 36th
Division Assoclatiom.
Brownwood to to deliver the wel-
coming speech to the some 900
members end ex-members of the
famed division.
Bill Allcorn of Brownwood, 35th
District attorney, will give the
memorial address at 11 a.m.
Sunday. The memorial service
will honor all men of the divi-
Fire
ited i
UP—An tn-
: today ta»
town which
. Middleton
in recent
include Stuart
Austin Ave.
Dublin: Mrs
means of proceeding against his
action. That is wrong." Marshall
was quoted as saying.
Marshair's statement in Wash-
ington was touched off by nn or-
der from Shivers directing that
students, white or Negro, be
barred fom the Mansfield school
if their presence might Incite fur-
ther strife. The Negro students
were transferred from Mansfield
to a school la Fort Worth; abort
19 miles away.
Shepperd said that if Marshall
thinks “the action of the governor
of Texas la trying to maintain law
and order and establish peace
among the citizens was in con-
tempt of federal court, be should
cite him before that court—and I
defy him to do so."
ne attorney general charged
Marshall was fostering a "com-
certed scheme by the NAACP to
stir up hatred among the people
of Texas who have lived aMo by
side in peace for years.”
"AU our citizens or anyone any-
where for that matter, need do to
take a good look around and
watch the needling NAACP at
their dirty work. At Brownsboro,
for example, they recently com-
pieted a new Negro school, and it
was apparent that the local Ne-
greet were well satisfied. But it
wasn’t good enough for the out-
side interests - namely the
NAACP. They started a house-to-
house canvass soliciting Negro
students to enter the white school
when at was clearly indicated they
were quite satisfied with what
they had. This is just one of many
such cases." the Texas attorney
SSMheNCp and other autside
Rain, Electrical
Storm Hits in
Brown County
Rata which accompanied a
heavy thunderstorm in Brown-
wood shprty after 5 a.m. today
gave the city an official .10 of
an tach of rain, and dropped
varying amounts of moisture
over moot of the county.
A brilliant display of lightning
ahid loud claps of thunder came
with the rain in Brownwood, and
similar displays were reported in
other parts of Brown County.
The rata was the first for the
area since Aug. 29, and brought
the official total in Brownwood
for the year to 11.51 inches of
moisture.
The rainfall varied widely over
the city. Up to an inch was
reported in the Bluffview area,
while the filtration plant report-
ware unofficially estima-
ted' at between one and a half
aad two inches aad natives said
the roads northwest of Lubbock
were “running like rivers” for
two hours.
nemaflO Net Totaled
Hail and wind damage to the
cotton had art been surveyed,
but- one agriculture man said "it
eould be ruinous.”
Civil Aeronautics authorities
studio aad
i Co. were
- firm dam-
today night
he Baytown
ved seriovs
leral alarm
imated the
Lubbock and Shallowater. 19
miles to the northwest, between
7 and 9 p.m. Lubbock itself got
high winds but only a sprinkle of
rata.
Charles Kincaid, a brakeman as
the Chief and a resident of Al-
buquerque. N. M.. sold be was
standing in the vestibule of one
of the puilmans when the trains
hit.
"I opened the upper half of the
vestibule window to see if train
number eight (the mall trata) had
any signals for us as we passed.
Coleman, 1915
Low, 1709
Moore, 1714
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