Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1937, Page 5

* PLUNGES T0 DEATH TRAPPED I CAR Richmond Man ?ights Fran- tically to Open Doors Be- fore Drop to Canal. * B the Assoctated Press, RICHMOND, VA, October 9.— With his automobile teetering on the brink of the James River Canal, Ralph Levy, 60-year-old Richmond manufacturer, fought frantically yes- terday to open the car doors, Me failed before _the machine | sltpped off to bear him to his death | in 20 feet of water, Poliee and firemen recovered the | Body and the car. He was driving down Dock street, in | the eity's water front section, on the WAY fro mhis office when he lost eontrol of the car, Mike Farkas, truck driver, saw the automobile swerve off the street, Wnder a Chesapeake and Ohio Rail- War viaduct and catch on the canal adge. Farkas jumped from his truck seat % Jook for a rope. He meant to| fasten if to the car bumper and to a viaduct pillar, But he did not have | sengers aboard an express train hound tion, With Civiliar ported by Gener BY MME. CHIANG KAI-SHEK. Wife of the Chinese Generalissimo, NANKING, October 9.—The city of Nanking itself has not been bombed much of late. Ordinarily we might think that the strong protests from other nations against these outrages had effected a change of heart at Tokio were it not for the unfortunate and tragic news pouring in on us at head- quarters of the daily and systematic destruction along railroad lines lead- ing into Nanking and the bombing of isolated towns around us. Thirty civilians, including women and children wer# blown to bita and hundreds wounded Thursday morning at Hainchow near Whampoa. The casualties in several other villages in | the vicinity of Canton, which were bombed have not been fully reported to us at headquarters. About 50 pas- for Shantung were killed and maimed | while the train was standing at the | ‘Wauseih Station on the Shanghai-Nan- king Railway. Two passengers, as well as many wounded, were the casualties at a time, “I don't know who the driver was, | but I saw him working at first one | door and then another, and then | the car dropped into the water,” the truck driver said, | ‘When the car was hauled out by a wrecking truck, one door was ajar, | and there were bloodstains to show | that Levy was hurt or killed whan the | ear struck the mud of the canal bottom. | Police, having talked with wit- | messes, offered a theory that he was examining some papers as he drove, | Levy was president of the Seebasco Laboratories, Ine. BICYCLE IS FASTEST CHICAGO, October 9 () Whm:.L the fastest vehicle in heavy city | traffic? ! A bicycle won a test designed to @nswer that question. The distance was approximately 1 | miie. The course led from Dearborn and Quincy streets to Halsted and Van Buren streets. The time was | & noon rush hour. The results, 1n minutes, were: Bicycle, 11';: taxicab, 11%: ele- vated train, 11%: private outo, 12; horse, 12'5: bus, 23 street. car, 24. A pedestrian made it in 127 ! WOODWARD & 10™11™ 1 AN G STREETS You Are Invited to Hear a Decorating Consultant | on moving trains with no respect be- similar bombing at Likuoyeh on the Tainpu Railway. The same thing happened at Yuchon and Pingyuan in Northwest Tainan. | The station at Chufu, which is the birthplace of Confueius, was again | bombed with destruction of many c®- | ilians. Hauchowfu Junction was bombed Thursday and yesterday as part of Japan's constant effort to de- stroy our transportation system. This same systematic bombing of rail and-stations occurred at Tainan and Taingtao, and at Tenghsien and at | Honan 20 bombs were dropped, in- volving refugees on a train. Most of these escaped panic-stricken, but five | were killed, eight wounded and many | became shell-shocked before they could | get out of the range of the explosions. | The technique being adopted by | these flying destroyers is to bomb the | stations and use machine guns above | ing paid to the nature of the trains. | | While of course their ai.a is directed toward the living, now they are train- | ing their fire even on the dead. About 20 miles south of Nanking, near the village of Melinkuan & funeral pro- cession with its white-dressed mourn- ers were deliberately attacked. One bomb fell within 10 feet of the coffin, | but did not explode. A half-acre of | rice sheaves were scattered from the Air by bombers, who apparently be- Pnoze discuss ;Sys,tematic Destruction of Transporta- LOTIHHROP THE EVEXNING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, SATURDAY, Mme. Chiang Re pOrts Bombers Turn Wrath on Rail Lines 18 as Targets, Re- alissimo’s Wife. lieved it to be potentially dangerous. 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