Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Oceasional light rain tonight; minimum about” 45; tomorrow cloudy; possibly light showers. Temperatures today— Highest, 48, at midnight; lowest, 45, at 1 pm. Trom the United States Weather Bureau report. Pl otatle on Pave Acgesu @ Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 12. 88th YEAR. No. 35,053. @h WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940—THIRTY-FOUR PAGES. % 1,300 Homeless As Floods Cover Vast Ohio Areas Hocking Valley Is Hit Hardest Since 1913; More Rain Due By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 20— Hundreds of families fled their homes today as Ohio’s Hocking Valley suffered its worst flood since 1913 and the rain-burdened Ohio River swept into lowlands and entered Marietta, pioneer city of 15,000. Athens and Logan virtually were isolated with roads impassable. A boy was drowned in one of many swollen tributaries flowing into the treacherous Ohio. Much of Southern Ohio was under Five Men Killed In Munitions Plant Blast in London By the Associated Press. LONDON, April 20.— Five men were killed and 15 injured in a munitions factory explosion in North London this morning. The blast shook the entire neighborhood. One workman who was nearby said the con- cussion was “terrific.” Ambulances were rushed to the scene, and almost as quickly there appeared workers' rela- tives, who thronged at the plant to learn who the casualties were. Plate glass windows were shattered as far as a mile away. One witness said he saw “a huge mass of gray smoke come up in the shape of a balloon with the end tapering over the factory.” The explosion was the sixth in British munitions or powder works since the war broke out. Another Transport water after nearly a week of rains totaling more than four inches. | More rain was forecast. | Four inches of water covered the | first floor of the Gordon Hotel at | Glouster as Sunday Creek left its | banks and poured down the main | street. Business houses there and in Nelsonville moved stock and equipment to second floors. 1,200 Homeless. Two hundred families in the Athens-Nelsonville area abandoned | Jowland homes. Six hundred were homeless in Morrow and South Lebanon. South Newark had 400 homeless as the Licking River covered all but two roads leading into Newark. Pomeroy anticipated 4 or 5 feet of water in its business district by to- morrow morning. A town of 3,500. its business district is built along | the water front. | Martins Ferry, Steubenville and | East Liverpool, expected lowland | floods. The Weather Bureau set a “ten- | tative” crest of 58 to 59 feet for[' Wednesday in Cincinnati but em- | phasized that “it all depends on | rain which seems to be continuing,"! ‘The river already was appmnchingl flood stage of 52 feet here. The bureau predicted the Ohio would go 1 to 5 feet over flood stage next week at Portsmouth, Hunting- ton, W. Va,, and Maysville and Ash- | land, Ky. | 20 Rescued by Boat. | ‘Twenty persons were rescued by | boats in low residential sections in Washington Court House, Ohio. | A landslide at Hartford, W. Va, blocked Baltimore & Ohio railroad tracks and forced rerouting of | passenger trains. | At Parkersburg, W. Va., the Ohio | reached flood stage of 36 feet and | the Weather Bureau predicted it | . would hit 42 feet tomorrow and go still higher. Warehousemen and residents of lower sections began moving out. The retail business section will not be affected unless | the stream touches 45 feet. Point | Pleasant, at the confluence of the | Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, was! within 2 feet of flood stage. | The Ohio reached 34 feet at Wheeling and Army engineers said the maximum stage probably would be 40 feet unless more heavy rain falls, and serious damage was un- like)y. “#ne engineers stressed that their information was not yet complete, however. Approximately 100 families were forced from their homes by the tur- bulent Little Miami River at Mor- row, a village of 700 near Lebanon. ‘The Red Cross immediately set up facilities for aid. Pittsburgh’s Rivers Rise Menacingly PITTSBURGH, April 20 () —The stage of Pittsburgh’s menacing rivers crept past the 25-foct flood level today in the wake of heavy| rains over the mountain watersheds of the Monongahela and Allegheny The stage at 8 am. was 252 feet 8t the downtown “point” of the (See FLOOD, Page A-7.) Census Gets Co-operation PRINCETON, Ill, April 20 (#).— Bitting on the front porch of a farm home gathering facts from the tenant, Census Taker F. J. Fletcher asked: “Does this house need repairs?” At that moment the porch collapsed. War News Today’s war news—accurate, unbiased, authoritative—is in TODAY'S Star. For when ‘night falls on Europe it is ‘afternoon in Washington and *press time” on The Star. Yesterday’s Circulation The Evening Star Friday, April 19, 1940__*158,860 Friday, April 20, 1939__*154,230 Two years’ increase, 16,249 SReturns from newsstands not deducted and no samples included. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display) Lines. 62,144 31,220 The Evening Star. 2nd Newspaper _ 3rd Newspaper _. 'The Star, every evening and 8unday morning, is thoroughly read in most Washington homes and depended upon for all the reliable news and used Sunk by Planes, Germans Claim Nazis Warn Norwegians Of Determination to Break Opposition BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 20.—DNB, Ger- man news agency, reported today that another British transport had been sunk by the German air force in Norwegian waters. “In addition to reports which al- British cruiser and two transports were struck by bombs of the heaviest caliber on April 19, it now has been established that an additional large transport was hit,” DNB said. “A fire was observed on the ship and some time later it sank.” Norwegians Are Warned. Meanwhile, Norwegians were warned semi-officially today that Germany was bent on ending their “purposeless opposition as quickly as possible.” The warning, issued by Dienst aus Deutschland and other sources, was erly and central regions of the northern kingdom where efforts might be made to join Norwegian troops and allied expeditionary forces. A serious attempt to bring about such contact, it was said, “would merely make battlefields of certain sections of Norway which might war.” With Germany straining every nerve to hasten the “pacification” of Norway, Germans with a great show of confidence said British ef- forts on Norwegian soil were bound to be more or less ineffectual “be- cause of the demonstrated vulner- ability of the British fleet to Ger- man air bombers.” Troop Flow to Norway Continues. The Germans admitted, however. that English forces on the Lofoten Islands, opposite the northern port of Narvik, were formidable. The high command said the German oc- cupation was proceeding quietly as German troops continued to reach Norway without interference. The German Minister to Norway, meanwhile, was elevated to the status of general representative in occupied Norway since Germany no longer has diplomatic relations with King Haakon or his government. The Norwegian Minister to Berlin was ordered out of Germany yes- terday and it was considered un- (See BERLIN, Page A7) Nazi Plane, Fired On By Duich Guns, Crashes By the Associated Press. AMSTERDAM, April 20—A Ger- man warplane crashed in Southern Limburg Province, extreme South- astern Holland, today after being fired upon by Netherlands anti-air- craft guns. The five members of the crew, one of whom was wounded, were interned. The crash occurred near Bunde, about 6 miles north of Maastricht, where a narrow finger of the Netherlands juts south between Bel- gium and Germany. Earlier three planes, apparently German, attacked two others, pre- sumably British, near Siebengewald, Northern Limburg Province. Ma- chine-gun fire was heard and after a few minutes the two planes being attacked disappeared to the north under cover of a smoke screen. ready have been published that a | directed particularly to such north- | as well be spared the horrors of | Now in Norway Put at 40,000 3 British-French Divisions Landed, Swedes Report By the Associated Press. STOCKHOLM, April 20.—Allied troop landings at three points on the Norwegian west coast and continued German advances in East Central Norway today plunged the embattled Scandi- navian nation deeper into war- fare as the battle ground of Western Europe’s major powers. Swedish newspaper reports said one French and two British di- visions (between 30,000 and 40,000 men) had landed at Namsos, Laer- dal and Molde. The dispatches reparted, on the other hand, that the German sweep in Eastern Norway had netted two more towns, Hamar and Elverum, both of which were temporary headquarters of the Norwegian gov- ernment in the first days after the Nazi invasion forced authorities to flee Oslo. German Repulse Reported. Travelers reaching Sweden from Norway said, however, that the Ger- | mans had been repulsed with heavy losses at Elverum. On the west coast, the Germans were reported to have sent troops to | Levanger, 40 miles northeast of Trondheim and south of Steinkjer, where Swedish advices have said decisive fighting may break out be- tween the invaders and allied and | Norwegian troops. German soldiers who had been |close to the Swedish frontier were | said to have been sent to Levanger | to strengthen the forces from Trond- heim. Allied and Norwegian troops to the north of this region were re- | ported receiving heavy reinforce- | ments from still further north. | | Trondheim Battle Looms. { | The allied landings were reported at widely spaced coastal points, two of them apparently heading toward a major engagement in the Trond- heim region, the key to Central Norway. These reports said one division | had landed at Namsos, 100 miles north of Trondheim, and another at Molde, an equal distance south, evidently intending to cut off the German occupants of Trondheim. Molde lies at the mouth of the | Rauma River valley which pro- | vides access to Central Norway. A third division penetrated 90 | miles inland to land at Laerdll.g head of Sogne Fjord, one of Nor- | way's deepest coastal indenutlom.‘ This division would be 90 miles| northeast of Bergen and 140 miles | northwest of Oslo. ! Swedish correspondents said British reinforcmeents at Namsos | | were arriving every hour along a | 15-mile line and predicted decisive |fighting might start at Steinkjer, north of Namsos. Consultation Reported. | __The east central fighting, between Norwegian and German forces, cen- | tered around Hamar, 60 miles north | of Oslo, and Elverum, 15 miles fur- | ther northeast. British officers were (See STOCKHOLM, Page A-7) Husband Finds His Wife Hanged in Home Mrs. Mary E. Patterson, about 50, was found hanged in her home at 311 C street S.E. about 10:30 o'clock this morning. Her husband, William Patterson, retired Navy Yard worker, dis- covered the body when he returned from a shopping trip. His wife was suspended from a gas jet on the second floor, a bath-robe cord around her neck. A chair stood nearby. Mr. Patterson had left the house less than an hour before. On dis- covering the body he summoned C. W. Shepherd of 305 C street S.E. Their efforts to revive Mrs. Patter- son were futile. Mrs. Patterson had been in poor health for some time, it was said at the home. Mr. Patterson had re- tired from the Navy Yard recently. The woman was pronounced dead by a Casualty Hospital ambulance Pphysician. Two sons, Irving, 33, Government Printing Office employe, and Her- bert, 28, a salesman, survive. After 2.01-Inch More rain was predicted for today by the Weather Bureau, following a night during which a fall of 2.01 inches was recorded. The day will be cool, the forecaster said, and cloudiness will prevail tonight. The mercury reached a low of 46 degrees at 5 am, and was only slightly higher four hours later. ‘The Weather Bureau explained the temperature usually varies little in steady rains. Flood experts at the bureau saw no. immediate prospect of a dan- gerous rise in the Potomac River, but said an overflow at Hains Point and at places on the Anacostia River could be expected within the next 24 hours. One Potomac gauge read 7.45 feet at 7 a.m. and 7.65 feet at 8 am, as against a flood stage of approximately 10 feet on this gauge. A high tide will occur at 6:42 pm. A swollen Rock Creek this morn- ing forced closing of the Massachu- setts avenue underpass, but parks office officials said later that it was as the accepted buying guide. ) reopened when rush-hour traffic be- gan. All fords were closed. More Rain Forecast in Capital Fall Last Night Bladensburg, Md., experienced an- other of the frequent Peace Cross floods, and several cars were re- ported stalled early this morning before traffic was detoured. Water | 2% feet deep covered the roadway. Several families in the North Brentwood (Md.) area were taken from their homes in boats by mem- bers of the Brentwood Fire Depart- ment when water rose about the doors. The 2.01 precipitation figure was for the 12-hour period ending at 7:30 am. At 10:30 am. the total precipitation for April was 6.12 inches, well above the average figure for the entire month, 3.27 inches. The Potomac was rising at Cum- berland this morning, and a 13.71- foot stage was reported. The flood level there is approximately 17 feet. Rising waters of the Western Branch, near Largo, Md, today threatened the homes of several families, according to W. Beall Bowie, who lives nearby. The fam- ilies were still in their homes this | by President Roosevelt condemning Allied Troops Dt A Political Fantasy of 1940 oy 'k‘ i i >0 TR ‘Mediterranean Entente Sought By France With Italy, Spain Undeterred by Lack Rome, Reynaud Tell By the Associated Press. PARIS, April 20.—Premier Paul Reynaud told the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee today that France | was looking toward a “Mediter- ranean entente” with Italy and Spain and has continued “a friendly exchange of views” with those two countries since the beginning of the | war. | The fact that such overtures have | failed to bring an Italian response, | the Premier declared, has not | changed the French attitude. ! Such a Mediterranean entente, | said a communique issued by the committee, is regarded by the French as “one of the indispensable | bases of peace.” | In the hope of reaching such an entente, the premier told the com- mittee, France would continue “equitable regulation of all pending questions” with Ttaly. | M. Reynaud cited recent speeches | | pledged government had the slim- of Response From s Senators aggression and praised “the common ideals which motivate the large| democracies,” the communique said. This communique said M. Rey- naud described in detail the “efforts | which France has put forth during the past few months” for a settle- | ment of existing differences with | Italy. The communique cited particu- larly the expression “Mediterranean entente,” which it said the Premier used in discussing the Southern Eu- ropean situation. M. Reynaud, the communique | said, declared France's purpose in Southeastern Europe is the “main- tenance of peace and independence of all countries.” He recited France's guarantees of aid to Rumania and Greece in case of aggression. Premier Reynaud. whose action- | mest ofr parliamentary approval be: (See REYNAUD, Page A-7) Nazis fo Send Arms, Planes fo Rumania For Trade Favors Reich to Get Wheat and Balkan Nation More Than 100 Planes By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, April 20.—Ger-‘ many has agreed to send huge quantities of munitions and squad- rons of fighting planes to Rumania in return for Rumanian concessions in an amendment to their trade treaty, which was signed at noon today. It was learned the amendment to the existing five-year trade treaty provides terms of the agreement will be extended to the Bohemia- Moravia protectorate and German- occupied Poland when Germany drops trade barriers between those areas and the Reich. Trade experts said this means huge contracts which Rumania had with former Czecho-Slovakia, her ally in the defunct little entente, would be continued with the Nazis on terms very favorable to Rumania. Wheat Contract Signed. Rumania also agreed to fulfill wheat contracts signed with Ger- many prior to the Rumanian em- bargo on wheat exports. Dr. Karl Clodius, the Reich's ace | trade negotiator, was learned to have signed contracts the day before the embargo for 20,000,000 marks ($8,000,000)0 worth of wheat this year. Germany confirmed Rumanian contracts with Skoda munitions works, in former Czecho-Slovakia, and agreed to speed up deliveries. Outside the formal treaty, a gen- tlemen’s agreement pledged the Reich to send 100 Messerschmidt pursuit planes to Rumania and it Senfences of Death Eased in Norway as Hitler's Birthday Gift But Nation Is Warned To Cease Resistance or Suffer ‘Dreadfully’ By the Associated Press. OSLO, Norway, April 20—Gen. Von Falkenhorst, commander in chief of the German Army of occu- pation, today commuted the death sentences of Norwegians doomed since the invasion as a birthday gift from Adolf Hitler and extended & “final” demand that the nation cease resistance, under pain of “dreadful” punishment should Nor- way refuse. “If the Fuehrer and Chancellor’s generosity and mildness which I show today should be interpreted as a sign of weakness,” Gen. Von Falkenhorst warned, “the German sword will hit Norway with its full sharpness and dreadfulness.” He said he was using “for the last time my highest privilege” in commuting the sentences of all Norwegians “who, according to the international laws of war, have for- feited life.” He also said: “I invite the Nor- wegian nation, which is misled by the agents of Premer Nygaarsvold and is marching toward ruin if it continues this nonsensical resis- tance, to receive the extended hand of German friendship.” Hitler Celebrates Birthday With Military Conference BERLIN, April 20 (#).—Adolf Hit- ler celebrated his 51st birthday today by holding his usual morning confer- ence with his military advisers in the chancellery workroom and briefly (See RUMANIA, Page A-7) (See HITLER, Page A-7) Summary of Page. Amusements, B-16 Church News, A-13-15 Comics __B-14-15 Editorials __ A-8 Finance A-12 Garden Pg. B-8 Page. 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PageA-17 Miscellany Barbara Bell Pattern. Needlework. Service Orders. Vital Statistics. Nature’s Children. Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page A-}} Page A-. MISQ B-6 Page B-9 Page B-9 Page B-14 Page B-14 | notification was made by Robert N. | | Denham, the examiner, in a report | the Ford Co., commented at Dallas Winning Contract. Page B-14 Traffic eivundl approves Scott Circle underpass. Page A-18 Page B-15 Page B-15 Y. Uncle Ray’s Corner. Cross-Word Pussle, Ford Faces Problem 0f Telling 100,000 0f Union Rights All Workers Should Be Notified, Labor Board Examiner Says By the Associated Press. The Ford Motor Co., charged by| a Labor Board examiner with using | a “strong arm squad” to beat and | terrorize union members, was con- fronted today with an unprecedent- ed proposal that it notify individ- ually its more than 100,000 workers that they are free to join any labor | union of their own choosing. | The recommendation that the company be required to give such | to the board, holding that the com- pany had “gathered together the most brutal, vicious and conscience- less thugs in its employ” to defeat union organization at the Ford plant | in Dallas, Tex., in 1937. | Gabe P. Allen, an attorney for | that the examiner's charge was “just a conclusion and wild in- ference” designed to carry out the Labor Board's policy of “persecut- ing” the company. Declaring the findings were not warranted by the evidence, he said he and Co-Attor- | ney Neth L. Leachman would file exceptions to them and to the ac- companying recommendations. Testimony Is Cited. Mr. Denham cited testimony takes.| in a five-week hearing on a com- plaint against the Ford Co. at Dal- las, which, he said, showed that plant officials organized a “strong arm squad” which beat up union sympathizers. He recommended that any remedy prescribed under the Wagner Labor Act be applied to all Ford plants in the United States. “No case within the history of the board is known to the under- signed,” Mr. Denham wrote, “in which an employer has deliberately planned and carried into execution a program of brutal beatings, whip- pings and other manifestations of physical violence comparable to that shown by the uncontradicted and wholly credible evidence on which the findings are based.” Ordinarily the Labor Board re- quires remedial action by employers only as to local situations held to be in violation of the Wagner Act. Policies Planned, He Says. But in the Dallas Ford case, Mr. Denham contended the circum- stances disclosed by the hearing “reach far beyond local conditions in Dallas.” “The labor policies of the Ford Motor Co. are admittedly planned,” he said, “not in the local branches but in the main office in Dearborn (Mich.), and it is uncontroverted that the senior officials of the Ford Motor Co. in Dearborn knew of, helped plan and subsequently ap- proved the program of terrorism carried out in Dallas.” The examiner declared other cases against Ford in which the board had acted only served to “accentuate the conclusion” that the initial impulse ‘From Press to Home Within the Hour’ Most people in Washington have The Star delivered to their homes every evening and Sunday morning. THREE CENTS. Rail Deaths Reach 25 In New Yo rk Wreck; 100 Passengers Hurt Flyer Hurtles - Piles Up Alon From Curve, g Highway In Mohawk Valley (Pictures of Wreck on Page A-3.) By the Associated Press. LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., April 20.—The New York-Chicago Lake Shore Limited, roaring westward along the Mohawk Valley 15 minutes behind schedule, hurtled the rails shortly before midnight last night carrying at least 25 persons to death and leaving 100 injured. With most of the 250 to 300 passengers asleep, nine cars of the 18-car New York Central fast express were turned in a flash into a mass of twisted steel as they were derailed on a curve and piled up for a half mile along the main East-West Highway and the Albany-Buffalo Barge Canal. Railroad men, investigating the New York Central's first passenger fatality in 13 years, voiced belief the train taking the curve at high speed sprung a rai 1. 4 The locomotive plunged across Wreck’s Toll * Dead and Injured | At Little Falls | By the Associated Press. LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., April 20.— | The list of dead and injured in the | New York Central train wreck last night follows: | The dead: Jesse Earl, Albany, N. Y., engineer. | J. Y. Smith, Schenectady, N. Y., fireman. | Charles H. Grasskoff, Toledo, Ohio. | Arthur G. Hall, Earlville, N. Y. Kasler White, New York City, porter. William P. King, Toledo, Ohio. Harold Rothman, Sioux City,! Iowa. Mrs. L. Berg, address unknown. C. L. Glyslinch, Syracuse, N. Y. George Robinson, Syracuse, N, Y. C. J. Blanchard, Utica, N. Y. The injured: | Alexander Hess, Buffalo, N. Y. | Thomas J. Jones, West Engle- | wood, N. J. | Ray Jennings, address unknown. | Edmund Krent, Syracuse, N. Y, Robert W. Muessel, South Bend, Ind. Merrill Morehouse, Bronx, N. Y. Richard Muhs, Chicago, Ill. Joseph Neadvin, Syracuse, N, Y. Mary Masslinski, New York City. Enoch Malmstrom, Chicago. John Morrison, address unknown. T. J. O'Hara, 72, Saranac Lake, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Neider, Wilmington, Del. Edward A. Raymond, Chicago. Mrs. Harry Rouse, Chicago. Albert Pederson, Hamden, Conn. Charles Price, Syracuse, N. Y. Sylvia Stiasny, New York City. John Scott, Cheektowaga, N. Y. Herman Schmidt, Ozone Park, Y N. | no shrieks, no screams. the highway into a rock embank- ment, tossing Fireman J. Y. Smith, Schenectady, N. Y., to instant death and pinning Engi- neer Jesse Earl, Albany, N. Y., in a battered cab where he died three hours later from loss of blood and two fractures. No Hysteria at Wreck Scene. The high-powered locomotive car- | ried with it the tender and baggage car. One coach, uncoupled, sped down the tracks and apparently was not damaged. Another coach was cut open like a can of sardines, its top ripped off and the inside a com- plete wreck. A Pullman came to rest on its right side. From each several bodies were removed. Motor traffic on the highway was blocked. A dining car was tipped at a 75- degree angle, a mass of wreckage. Two more Pullmans tilted precari- ously near the edge of the barge canal. The dead, the injured, car cushions, clothing and personal ef- fects were strewn along the right of way. Crumpled metal, ties and rails gave a junk-yard appearance to the scene. Survivors straggled back and forth looking for friends, relatives and luggage. There was no hysteria, Many per- sons grabbed blankets from the Pull- man berths and huddled in groups | against the freezing temperature. | Communication lines torn down by the plunging locomotive were en- twined in the debris. 30 Bodies Recovered. The scene of the wreck was in the | foot of jutting hills, 60 miles west | of Albany, and several hundred yards east of the highest lift-lock on the North American continent. Rugged, rocky cliffs line the road | bed. Roy Schreppel, Utica, N. Y. William Braski, Long Island City, Long Island. Andrew Bayreuther, Albany, N. Y. Hyman Blitz, Toledo, Ohio. Fred W. Bohen, Oberlin, Ohio. Jean Berta, New York City. Dr. Carlyle Bastian, New York City. Lee Chavin, Brooklyn, N. Y. Louis R. Chreist, South Bend, Ind. J. A. Christman, South Bend. Ind. June Donovan, West Brookline, Mass. Inga Dahlhaug, Minn. N(:ha.rles Estabrook, Fayetteville, | > Minneapolis, Louis J. Ford, Syracuse, N. Y. | Mrs. R. B. Ford, New London, ©Ohio. | Lucille Gregor, Chicago. | Mary Gabso, Schenectady, N. Y. Louise Gifford, Syracuse, N. Y. Sterling Haggard, Covington, Ky. | Charles A. Haley, Marshfield, Wis. Beverley Shipper, Bronx, N. Y. Irving B. Stafford, Syracuse, N. Y. | W. H. Sutherford, Cleveland, Ohio. H. W. Thompson, Albany,.N. Y. Carroll Wright, Watertown, N. Y. | Thomas Watson, Syracuse, N. Y. Gleason Yerdon, Camden, N. Y. Alphonso Yodice, Toledo, Ohio. Albert S. Zoffi, Maumee, Ohio. Margaret Newell, Toledo, sprained back (continued journey). 1 Morton S. Thomas, Bryan, Ohio, | sprained neck (continued journey) W. Blank, Toledo, right arm hurt (continued journey). | Joseph A. Cappe, Toledo, shaken | up (continued journey). Mrs. Levi Lewis, Paoli, Iowa, shaken up (continued journey). Fred A. Hall, Cleveland Heights, sprained back (continued journey) Frank W. Baker, Toledo, back in- jury (continued journey). Norman Wintermantel, Toledo, (See FORD, Page A-6.) 28 Chinese in U. S. Custody Among Survivors of Wreck By the Associated Press. LITTLE FALLS, N. Y., April 20— Twenty-eight dazed and bedraggled Chinese in custody of a United States marshal survived the death- dealing derailment last night of the New York Central's Lake Shore Limited. They were in the last car of the train, a day coach—one of the six which remained on the tracks. Their custodian declined to dis- close their original destination or the reason for the close guard, but temporarily at least they boarded & relief train eastward bound to Albany. Dennis Guinney, a Little Falls mechanic, quoted one of the sur- vivors: “I was about to play cards with four friends in the club car. Came the crash and all four lay dead.” The combined service with the Central’ system of Engineer Jesse Earl and Fireman J. Y. 8mith, fa- Y (See TOLL, Page A-3.) tally inpured in the crash, was 68 years. Mr. Earl was a veteran of 41 years, 34 of them at the throttle. Mr. Smith joined the system in 1913. Fifty-three survivors breakfasted as guests of the railroad at Utica, 30 miles west of the crash. Others left in taxicabs and automobiles offered by area residents for nearby hotels, eager to leave the scene without attempting to recover per- sonal belongings. Representative Fred J. Douglas, Republican, of New York, 71-year- old Utica physician, gave medical aid. His son, Dr. James Douglas, arriving 17 minutes after the crash, crawled into the locomotive cab to administer aid to the dying engi- neer. State police estimated approxi- mately 4,000 persons, some with night clothing under hastily donned coats, were attracted to the scene. A drizmling rain which began soon State Police Lt. John Ronan said 28 bodies were recovered in addition to those of the engineer and fireman. Identification of the victims was made difficult because most of them were in sleeping attire. Their | clothing and luggage, only clues to | identity, were lost in the wreckage. Hospitals in the area were jammed with the injured and ambulances and physicians rushed to the scene from miles around. Cots were placed along the highway and the | four-track line for those less seri- ously hurt. Railroad men of the line, which received the Harrimen Award last vear for passenger safety record, were inclined to discount a theory the locomotive exploded. Train Going Too Fast. The line’s New York City office | said in a statement that regulations call for operation of trains around the curve at 45 miles an hour and that the speedometer tape taken from the wrecked locomotive indi- cated the train was doing 59 miles an hour. It was a six-degree curve, the sharpest on the Central System, the office said. The last accident there was 40 years ago. C. H. Hoffman, chief dispatcher of the Central's Albany Division, said the actual cause of the acci- dent would not be known “for some time” pending a study “of all angles concerned.” “There is no way of knowing whether the accident was caused by defective rails, the engine itself or some other reason,” he said. “We are making every effort to ascertain the true cause, but it may be some time before we are able to do so.” The Bureau of Safety of the In- (See WRECK, Page A-3) Griffs and Yankees Idle Due to Rain By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 20.—The New York-Washington baseball game scheduled for today has been post- poned due to rain. The Nationals are scheduled to play in New York tomorrow and will start a three- game series with the Red Sox in Boston on Monday. Booker Washington Drama on WMAL The Star presents the Cross- Roads Theater players in a radio dramatization of the life of the Negro educator, Booker T. Washington. The program will be heard over Station WMAL at 7:30 o'clock tonight. This is another in the series of educa- tional features sponsored by The Star in co-operation with the Board of Education and the National Broadcasting Co. after dawn hampered rescue work. »