Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1935, Page 3

BURIAL OF CRASH VICTIMS 15 BEGUN Separate Services Planned for- 14 Killed at Rockville. Br a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WILLIAMSPORT, Md., April 13— Residents of stricken Williamsport awoke to another dismal dawn today as parents of the high school pupils killed in Thursday night's bus accident at Rockville planned funerals, and witnesses of the tragedy departed for Rockville to attend the inquest. The Board of Education late yes- terday offered to provide the high school auditorium for a mass funeral service Monday morning, since no church in the community is large enough to accommodate the crowd ex- pected at the ceremony. It was believed today, however, that separate services would be conducted for the 14 young victims of the col- lision between a school bus and an express train. Schedule of Funerals. The preliminary schedule of funerals announced here last night follows: Claude Brindle at 1:30 p.m. today from Downsville Christian Church. Le Roy Kendle, from his late home here at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow. Margaret Eva Zimmerman, from St. Augustine’s Catholic Church at 9 am. Monday. Bertha Castle, at 10:30 a.m. Mon- day from her late residence. Lois Winters, at 1 p.m. Monday from the residence of Rev. W. C. Huddle. Norris Downs, at 2:30 p.m. Monday from the home of Dr. Huddle. Claude Myers, at 4:30 p.m. Monday from the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Winters. Elva Harsh Rites Tentative. Elva Harsh, daughter of Beall Harsh of Roanoke, Va., probably at 2:30 p.m. Monday from the residence of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Harsh of Williamsport. The girl had been making her home with her grandparents. ‘The hour of the fu- neral was tentative, while relatives de- cided if it mieht conflict with fu- nerals of the others. Paul McElroy at 10 am. Tuesday at his residence. Pearl Emerson at 10:30 a.m. Tues- day at the Lutheran Church. Virginia Myers at 2 p.m, Tuesday at her home. Mary Louise Downs at 3 p.m. Tues- day at the residence of Dr. Huddle. Phoebe Kelly at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Methodist Church. James Flurie at 11:30 am. Wednes- day at the home of the Rev. Beattie. Mayors Issue Proclamations. A proclamation of sympathy for the bereaved parents was issued by the mayor of Williamport yesterday and was followed today by a similar | statement from Mayor Irvin M. Wertz and his City Council of Hagerstown The latter proclamation read: “The city of Hagerstown extends sympathy to the parents of the 14 victims in the Rockville grade cross- ing disaster and to the entire sad- dened populace in our neighboring ‘Williamsport “It is our humble wish to serve in any way possible to lighten the bur- den in this hour of Motor vehicles, policemen and any other city service are at the disposal of the grief-stricken community.” Ambulances freighted with the bodies of the victims slipped into town throughout a rainy, bleak morn- ing yesterday, while bells tolled from church towers and the grieving citi- zens collected about the little funeral parlor where the bodies were de- posited. Schools were closed for the day. Bcarcely a home in the little town of 2,000 escaped a measure of the | general grief. 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WASHING- in accordance with the provisions ction 3 of an Act of Congress approved March 1, 1920, (Public No. 161, 66th Congress). entitled “An Act to 1eguiate the height.'area and use of butidings in the District of Columbia and to create a Zoning Commission, and for other purposes.” notice {s hereby given that & public hearing will be held in the Board Room of the District Building be- ginning av 10:00 AM. Wednesday. April th. 1935 for the purpose of consider- {ng the following proposed changes in the undaries of the use height and_area districts_to_wit: CHANGE FROM RESI- ENTIAL 60" “B" RESTRICTED AREA 70 " RESIDENTTL “C” AREA: AL, 60" 829 square 2609. known a: TON. April 5 194 of AN 1 SULTAN. M. C ALLEN, DAVID LYNN. X [ERER. Zoning Commission the District of Columbis. ap5-d&Su-10t of bereavement. | IS CRASH PROBE OPENED BY B. & 0. Inquiry Begins as Williams- port Starts Tasks of Burying Dead. | ___(Continued From First Page) ' the chemistry class which the young l | bus passengers composed, has said the | | same. Other survivors supported them. | Opposed to this was today's open- ing testimony and the statement | of C. W. Galloway, a vice president of | | the railroad, who sald yesterday “‘we | definitely know” warning bells “were | operating at the time of the accident,” | and that. as is required, “the engine whistle was blown approaching the| crossing.” | Rev. Charles R. O'Hara, the Rock- | ville priest who administered to the dead and dying. said that shortly after the wreck a westbound passenger train ' passed, “and I heard the bells operating.” t Will Use Relief Fund. The determination of the President to proceed with grade-crossing elimi- nation from work relief funds now ' available in the $4.880.000.000 appro- priation, was disclosed at his press conference yesterday afternoon when he declared the Rockville crash gave pointed emphasis to the need for such a program, which long has been agitated. At the same time, he outlined four | basic principles to govern the spend- ing of money. The States or localities shall provide the land for doing away with the crossings. ‘The crossings eliminated shall be on main-line railroads. The Federal Government will pay the full cost of the work. To these he added a previous speci- fication that he had 1ald down for all work relief—that all of the work that can be done shall be completed before July 1, 1936. Would Eliminate Disputes. Because of this, he said. there | would be no time to iron out disputes that might arise over obtaining the land for elimination work. | The President added that there was | a growing tendency to do away with | branch line railroads because of bus and other competition, and for this reason no work of that character would be done except for main-line roads. | The development trains, which were changing train speed from 45 and 50 miles an hour | to 70 or 80 miles an hour, further | demonstrates, he said, the need for crossing elimination work. { The argument previously had been | advanced that the Federal Govem-i of streamline | 5. | ment should bear the full cost of cross- ing elimination work because of the public safety factors involved. Mr. Roosevelt said the Bureau of | Public Roads would handle grade crossing elimination work and that perhaps a special division of this bureau would be set up. The bureau already has compiled a long list of projects on main highways, with esti- mates of the cost of such projects. Some States to Do Work. The President said that in some | States, llke New York, which has a grade crossing elimination agency, the States themselves would do the work with the Federal Government provid- ing the money. In others, which are not so equipped, he said, the Federal Government would do 1t for them. Line will face a coroner’s inquest at Rockville Tuesday, at which Police Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt prob- ably will preside. County and State police who have been conducting an investigation will be on hand to testify. The bus driver was held in custody until last night, when his bond was made in Washington. Crash Reveals Marriage. The crash brought a strange coinci- dence when Jane Staley Murray, the 17-year-old bride who escaped with & broken arm, was thrown by the impact into the yard of St. Mary's Catholic Church, where she was married to Ned Murray a little more than a year ago. Family and friends were expecting the couple to be married after Jane's graduation in June, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jessie L. Staley, were sur- prised when, hastening to Washington with Murray, he spoke up as they passed the church and said, “That’s the church where Jane and I were married.” The girl probably owes her life to the fact that she had just left the back of the bus at the request of a.com~ panion to sit up in front when the train struck. The Kreps girl, who is 16, was the more seriously hurt of the two, suffer- ing internal injuries. Her widowed mother, Mrs. Janet Kreps, is with her. i Upper (left to right), Pearl Emerson, Carl Brindle and Phoebe Kelly; lower Zimmerman, Paul McElroy and Claude Myers among those killed. £ (left to right), Margaret Eva D. C., SATURDAY, DANUBIAN PARLE VOTED AT STRESA Powers Decide to Hold Con- ference on Austrian Free- dom Next Month. (Continued From First Page.) Flandin of France, and Premier Mus- solini of Italy put their diplomatic | heads together for the final talks. After a general feeling of pessimism in the first days, Reichsfuehrer Hit- Three of the survivors of the bus crash at Rockville, Md., photographed | after returning to their homes at Williamsport. Md. Upper (left to right), Dwight Fearnow and Helen Boyer; lower, Willlam Gower. | —Star Staff Photos. Special Entertainment Planned Detroit in “Old Heidelberg.” ‘The Knights of Columbus will hold a bingo party tonight at 8:15 o'clock | in their club at Tenth and K streets. Alfred P. Neff is in-.charge of ar- rangements. After the party there will be spe- cial entertainment in “Old Heidel- berg,” described as the new “knight” club of the order here. Government employes are especially invited, it is announced. To accommodate those who wish to attend the 2 am. mass at the Im- maculate Conception Church tomor- row, the Knjghts of Columbus Board of Directors has authorized the House | Committee to keep the club house open until 1:30 am. Soviet Order Scored. By placing an order for gasoline with Russia, city officials of Glasgow, Scotland, have aroused a veritable hor- nets’ nest among_anti-Soviet_Scots. THE NEW TELEPHONE DIRECTORY CLOSES APRIL 23 To order a telephone, extra listings, or ad- vertising in the yellow pages just call MEtropolitan 9900 | [K. OF C. PARTY TONIGHT COUGHLIN DRIVE MAPPED Rally April 24 Will Launch Campaign. DETROIT, April 13 (#).—The pro- jected campaign of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s National Union for So- tial Justice to intensify its political action in State and national affairs will start April 24 with a mass meet- ing in Detroit. The meeting will be the first of a series of 12 State meetings. Father Coughlin said two United States Sen- ators would speak at the Detroit rally, but that their names would not be revealed until shortly before the gath- FLO Sunday, At Our N. Chevy Chase Greenhouses (9420 Jones L] Ride out through the new section of Rock Creek houses are quarter-mile north cf H y E 109, to 20%. Since 1855 WER SHOW r if desired, at a ler's action in offering to take part in a non-aggression pact, as an- nounced yesterday by Sir John Simon. British foreign secretary, created a feeling that Europe may now be or- eanized in a way to make war less probable. There was a shadow, however, in| the disappointment expressed by some that Europe still must wait for a gen- eneral pact of mutual assistance—a matter Hitler does not wish to go into. Britain seemingiy wants no more general commitments than those con- tained in the League of Nations cove- nant and the Locarno agreements, and the Reich still refuses to pledge any ntilitary aid under such a general pact. The closing hours of the conference showed that there is no united front against Germany as a result of her unilateral abrogation of the military | clauses of the Versailles treaty, as ex pressed in Hitler's announcement of a conscrpt army March 16. - France has not remained idle on other fronts as her statesmen talked at Isola Bella. Regional pacts have been developed, with France about to arrange one with Russia and another with Italy. J To Urge German Accord. | The Austrian problem will be studied further in the hope that Germany can be persuaded to come into an accord | guaranteeing that country’s future in- dependence. The air pact, as an- | nounced in the Anglo-French com- ! munique of February 3. also was to be examined further. | The developments indicated that Britain, pleased over Sir John Simon’s | success in getting concessions from | Hitler on non-aggression, is striving mightily to bring Germany into & definite form of general security, ac- complish her return to Geneva and | rejuvenate the disarmament confer- | ence. Armaments limitation agreements have been temporarily sidetracked in the tussle with other problems, but it | remained in the minds of the diplo- mats as an outstanding necessity. Many of them believe that if war and the fear of conflict is to be ban- ished, ruinous races for arms suprem- | acy must be flagged. | At the opening of the day's session the delegates had all of the main | points of achievement before them. They already have conferred a total | of 11 hours and have accomplished the following: | | 1. The three powers approved | | France's appeal to the League of Na- | | tions, and England and Italy agreed | | to support France's appeal when it | comes before the council. (France | abandoned its plan to ask the council | to condemn Germany.) | Progress Reported. 2. Approval of the procedure to be | followed by the three powers before the Council in the matter of handling Germany's violation of the treaty and the repudiation of future treaties by any ccntry. 3. Italy and France made much progress toward a security pact, one of the features of which will be to guarantee Austrian independence. 4. The three powers agreed to recog- nize the right of Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, the vanquished World | War nations, to rearmament and to recommend favorable consideration to the members of the Little Entente, since they are neighbor nations. King Painted in Khaki. A new full-size “jubilee” portrait of | King George in khaki has been painted at the request of the Australian gov- | ernment and is being shipped from England to Australia. Marketed by | §{ “Washington’s | First Fuel 0il : Distributor” April 14 Mill Road) Park. Green- APRID 13, 1935. CHURCH BODIES CALL FOR PEACE PRAYERS World Movement Sought Protestant and Jewish Organizations. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.—A world- wide call to pray for peace was issued yesterday by Protestant and Jewish church bodies. ‘The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the American Section of the Universal Christian Council, the World Alliance for Inter- national Friendship Through the i Churches, the International Missionary iCouncil, the Unlon of American i Hebrew Congregations, the United ! 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