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Show r Falling Plaster Causes Riot in Texas Church of Militant Minister FORT WORTH, Tex.. Aug. SI. (LT) Difference of factions friendly and opposed to policies of the Kev. J. Frank Norris. Baptist pastor who .shot and killed IX E. Chipps, wealthy lumberman, three weeks ago, were at a continued tension ten-sion today following Sunday developments devel-opments when Norris repeated charges that a plot existed on the part of religious enemies to take his life. Services, conducted by the militant minister Sunday morning, was interrupted in-terrupted hy a disturbance when plaster fell from the ceiling, injuring injur-ing several persons slightly and causing a city wide rush to the church by radio listeners, who, hearing hear-ing the crash over the church broadcasting broad-casting unit thought a shooting had occurred. Four ambulauces answered an alarm and one man was taken to a hospital suffering internal injuries after the crash. Sunday Evening services were marked by the aggressiveness of the paster in reiterating assertions that his act resulted from self defense in a plot conducted by a group resenting re-senting his sermons on "Catholicism." "Catholic-ism." Norris introduced several of his church workers on the rostrum whom he represented as witnesses to "visits and threats" made in his study. He told in his sermon of an incident in San Antonio, Tex., while preaching against "Catholicism" there. He said a captain of the Texas rangers came to his hotel, awrned him that his life was in danger and "left me a present not a Bible either." "That night some men knocked at my door," Norris recounted. "I thought they would break it down. Sitting on the edge of my bed, I said "if yon break through that door the undertaker wlll.take you away,' and they didn't break through." Collections were taken by Norris Sunday night for contributions to three night watchmen of the church broadcasting station, said by the pastor to have been the object of tampering. |