New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 24, 1926, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 CHRISTHAS SPIRIT DRIVES WANT EROM DESTITUTE HOMES Dinners and Good Cheer Dis- tributed by Clubs and Organ- izations fo Needy Families NEW BRITAIN KEEPS UP PHILANTHROPIC RECORD Other Cities Join In Spreading Hap- piness — Bonuses Given by Many Business Establishments — More Than 12,000 Gold Coins Drawn F¥rom Hartford Banks to Be Given as Presents. Philanthropic organizations New Britain were active today dis- tributing dinners and good cheer to needy families and toys to make glad the hearts of little tots. Ior weeks they have been preparing lists of homes where the black finger of want has traced a smudge over the portals and today the workers are beginning to realize the truth of the essertion that it is better than to receive. Many a hom: which would be cheerless on thi greatest day of the Christian calen. dar, will be brightened, empty lard- ers will be filled and the hearts of jittle children will be gladdened by the spirit of Santa Claus. fortunate family need want for good things to eat, if their name is known | to the numerous clubs and organiza- tions which are feeding the hungry and offering a helping hand to the | Population of City Put at 72,365 In Unofficial New Year Survey destitute. Community trees are trimmed and lluminated, church choirs have com- pleted their rehearsals for cantatas, musicales and other exercises; tired clerks are looking forward to a day postal employes, having al- exhaustion, have rallied their re- sources for a final spurt; and this evening the South church chimes and the singing of carols will nounce “Joy to the World, Peace on Earth.” May Fill Sallies’ Kettle Fund The deficit in the Salvation Army kottles may be made up by a gift of the surplus in the community Christmas tree fund, it was intimat ed today. The Salvation Army is about $200 short of the amount of funds needed to provide Christmas dinners for 100 families. E hoped that this would be made up, but the count last evening showed & total of only $540.05 towards the needed $800. Today's receipts are expected to bring this to $600. On the other hand the community Christmas tree funds has been over- subscribed by about $100. A sug- gestion was made last evening to 0. Rackliffe, treasurer of the Christ- mas tree committee of the Chamber ©of Commerce, and chairman of the salvation Army advisory board, that the surplus amount be transferred from one account to the other. It is pointed out that the money, be- ing voluntarily subscribed for Christ- mas purposes, could be used more consistently in this manner, than for any other purpose, and that it being an unofficial fund, only a vote ©of the committee would be necessary to transfer it. Mr. Rackliffe admitted today that he had reecived the suggestion and £aid he would submit it to a mecting of the committee for discussion. Stores Close at 7 o'Clock Today being the last business day before Christmas the stores will (Continued on Page 16) PROMINENT BRIDGEPORT MAN KILLED IN WRECK Frank D. Butler Dead and Young ‘Woman Companion Badly Hurt In Auto Accident. Bridgeport, Conn., Dec. P— Frank D. Butler, 35, department manager and director of the How- land Dry Goods company and nephew of John G. Howland, died in Stanley when his car head on into a Stratfield trolley car operated by Motorman George Tar- rant on Brooklawn avenue carly to- day. Miss Margaret B. Kimlin, 27, record clerk at Howlands, who wa: in Butler's car at the time of the accident, was seriously injured. She fs expected to recover, although her condition was such this morning as to preclude q tioning by police relative to details of the accident. The woman's name was first report- ed as Margaret H. Smith, which was erroncous. The accident occurred about 1:20 &. m. Butler was hurled through the windshield, landing on his head in the road and fracturing his skull Miss Kimlin was thrown to the floor of the car and was held fast in the | wreckage of the machine. Special Deputy — Gandorf, who heard the crash, rushed down the road and with the assistance of the motorman of the car, lifted the un- conscious woman from the wrecked car. Miss Kimlin was rushed to St. Vincent’s hospital and Butler's body was taken to the morgue. Coroner John J. Phelan will hold an inquest on Monday. Butler has been a resident Bridgeport for about 15 years. was born in Worcester, Mass. He is Later it was learned that Miss Kimlin had been attending a party In Fairfield last night. Butler, who had been at the country club, saw her waiting for a trolley car and Aered to take her homs in his car. of He in | to gives| No un- | ign Frederickson | crashed | Y.M.C. A. That Jesus would probably have | married it He had not been prevent- ed by the wandering life which He {led, was an idca advanced by Rev. Willlam H. Alderson, in a talk glven [to the Y. M. C. A. men’s Bible class |last evening. “I think that the type | of His ministry in all probability was | what kept Jesus from taking e wife,” |sald the pastor of Trinity Methodist church. “He was not against marriage. He mingled in tho social affairs of His day and was the most popular din- |ner guest of His time. I think that |He would have married 1f it had been practical for Him to do so. | Divorce Rampant Evil Then. | Rev. Mr. Alderson said it was nec- |essary to understand what Jesus’ attitude was toward marriage if one were to interpret His mind regard- ing divorce, the subject of the speak- | er's address. “He found divorce a rampant evil just as it is today. The rabbis grant- ed divorce on widely divergent and | various grounds. It was easy for men |and hard for women to secure a di- vorce. “The Mosalc law was the basls and was part of the religious system. Imost any imaginary defect in a wife was a basis of her husband |to secure a divorce. “Jesus denounced the old laws and gave infidelity as the only basis for divorce. He thereby placed a high ideal on the marriage relation- ship. Hasty and Ill-Advised Marriages Are Given as Cause of Divorce Evil; Pastor Frowns on Parking Parties| Rev. W. H. Alderson Would Forbid Remarriage to| Guilty Party in Divorce Case, He Tells BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926. —TWENTY PAGES. | | Bible Class Decision Made in Dark. { “One of the causes of the present | divorce evil is hasty and i1l advised marrlages. Tonight young people are | sitting on the divan of. parlors and | on the back seats of automobiles parked beside dark country roads. The most important decisions of life are being made in the dark. “People are making decisions in the dark which will bind them for 50 years perhaps, in a condition that will make it seem like walking through hell barefoot. 1 “Such decisions should be made with the lights burning. You wouldn't buy real estate in the dark. Neither should you enter into mar- riage in the dark.” Remedy for Divorce Evil. As a remedy for the divorce evil the speaker advocated uniform laws regarding marriage and divorce. He | suggested that these laws should re- | quire two or three months of elapsed | time between the date the license | was secured and the marriage cere- | mony was performed. He also said | residence in the state should be re- | quired of both parties. | For divorce the. only basis upon | which it should be granted is in- fidelity, according to Mr. Alderson. | He said that the innocent divorced | party should be required to wait a | certain time before remarrying. | “The guilty party and the core- spondent should not be allowed to remarry.” PON this anniversary of the birth of a Child in a lowly manger, a Child whose life and “death” gave to man promise of the happy solution of His great mys- tery, the annual well wishes of one of us to another are due. Not merely because they are due, however, does the Herald extend the greetings of the season to all, it finds it very easy to wish a bright and Merry Christmas to the community. The Herald is proud of the oppor- tunity to voice its sentiments, it is most sincere in the hope that one and all may find, without search, plenty of reason for cheer and happiness in this happy season. And so, again, MERRY CHRISTMAS OUTLOOK FOR 1927 CONSIDERED BRIGHT 1Good Business Early in Year Predicted by Observers A J. SLOPER OPTIMISTIC George Kimball, Arthur G. Kim- ball and Elisha Cooper Predict Industrial Conditions Will Be Good for Several Month's at Least. | i Steadiness in business and trade during 1927 is prophesied by four of New Britain’s leading business lights | re- | |in statements issued today. A turn to normal conditions is look- two see success on the horizon and one looks only so far the first three months of the year. George T. Kimball Feared Rent Raise By Their Landlord Got Turkey Instead o Holyoke, Mass.,, Dec. 24 (A— || Tenants of an eight apartment || block in East Dwight street, who || have feared a rent raise since {| their landlord visited them re- 1| cently and asked the number of || men, women and children in each family, were agrecably sur- prised today when he sent a turkey to each houschold, the size of the bird depending on the || size of the family. ARMY’S PAN-AMERIGAN TRIP NOW IS HALTED Pending Repairs to Air- plane St. Louis Washington, Dec. 24 () — The army’s pan-American flight will be {halted temporarily at Tampico, Mex ico, because the airplane St. Loui: burned out its motor yesterday and |must await a replacement from |Duncan fleld, San Antonio, Texas. San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 24 (®— A Liberty motor and other spare |parts for an amphibian plane were {sent to Tampico, Mexico, from Dun- {can fleld here tbday in response to la telegraph from Major Herbert A. |Dargue, commander of the army's {pan-American flight. | The material was started on its |way after a crew of men had work- |ed almost all night preparing it for {shipment. The message sald a brok- |en oil pump on the St. Louis was |the chiet difficulty at Tampico, ac- cording to messages recelved here from Major Dargue. The telegrams |said that the New York, Detroit and San Antonio probably will hop to Vera Cruz today and the St. Louis will follow as soon as the spare parts which were shipped by express, ar- rive and are installed. Tampico, Mexico, Dec. 24 (P— Mechanical difficulties prompted Ma- por Dargue, flight commander, to {order postponement of the hop to vera Cruz by the Pan-American {zoodwill aerial expedition. The San Franclsco, manned by Captain Eaker |and Licutenant Fairchild, went on |to Vera Cruz, but the other four |machines, after circling the city, he- |turned to the Huasteca flylng field. Northampton Gas Co. Also Reduces Its Prices Northampton, Mass, Dec. 24— —As a Christmas present to its cus- tomers, the Northampton Gas Light company today announced a reduc- tion of ten cents per thousand feet in the price of gus. Effective with bills rendered May 1, 1927, the rate will be $1.40 net for the first 30,000 cuble feet, and for all over 30,600 feet per month $1.30 net per thou- sand, The rates on gas here have de- clined steadily since 1918, when the pealk price of $1.80 per thousand was reached. $30,000 GEM ROBBERY Seattle, Wash., Dec. 24 (P—Two men, one disguised as a Telegraph company, messenger boy, ransacked the jewelry store of Thomas J. Cas- sutt, here today and escaped with loot estimated at $30,000 after beat- ing up A. G. Cassutt, brother of the Jeweler, b i Flight to Stop at Tampico | |Increase of 12,949 Since | Government Census Six | Years Ago Indicated in Estimate. i | The population of New Britain at the opening of 1927, seven years after the last decennial ce: is 72,365, compared with 69,993 at the opening of 1926, and 59,316 in 1920, an increase of 22 per.cent, according to a survey just completed by The Newspaper Teature Bureau. The survey, with definitely ascertained | figures of increase, is not to be classed with estimates derived only | trom the gain of the 1910-1920 de- | cade. Characteristics of the New Brit- aln population are: 1920 1927 Census Survey | 59,316 72,365 | 30,850 87,648 28,457 34,717 33,661 41,066 17,962 15,699 Population Males ... Females Persons over 21 . Males .. .. Females ..... Diwellings . 6,109 Eamilies . . 12,07 The survey is based on statistics from local sources giving compara- tive figures for the close of 1919 and the close of 1926: | Excess of births over deaths of {7,665 since 1920. | No annexation of territory since | the census of 1920, Report from the City Department of Schools of public schools enroll- | ment of 11,133 at the close of 1919; | 13,875 at the close of 1025 14,200 at the close of 1926, an in- crease of 3,067, or 27.9 per cent. and | (Contlmwd‘ on Page Two) AUGUSTA' CITIZENS HOLD MASS MEETING Public, State and City Officials Endorse Ty Cobb’s Honesty Augusta, Ga,, Dec, 24 (P—Around | the Confederate monument on| Broad strect today, hundreds of| persons were intent upon pledging anew their faith in Tyrus Raymond Cobb. A “testimonial meeting” was call- ed by the Chamber of Commerce and ofticials of -city and state were among those prepared to declare| thelr confidence In the “honesty and integrity” of the veteran of a thous- and baseball battles. | Judge Wiliam H. Barrett of United States district court; Mayor William White, and L. S. Arring-| ton, president of the Chamber of Commerce, were among the speak- ers. | Cobb returned to his home yester- | day. The charge of “Dutch” Leon- ard, former Detrolt pitcher, that Cobb was involved in a “fixed” game | in 1919 between Detroit and Cleve- | land, welghed heavily upon him, but | he declared vehemently that the charge was “untrue.” Evidence that | thousands of his friends and follow- | ers believed him was at his home in telegrams from men of high and low estate. Other testimonials were prepared for presentation to Cobb today. Judge A. L. Franklin, of the Rich- mond county superior court, long| a friend of the former Detroit man- ager, was to present them. | (Continued on Page Five), |b |next year, when he |He said: || night. The statement of George T. Kim- 1, president of the Americ ardware Corporation, given ex clusively to the Herald, is as follows “Business prospects for the fi three months of 1927 appear to be very good for New Britain. They | will probably be in every way com- parable with the last three of 1926, which have brought success for the business wor: beyond the first three would not care to Mr. Kimball, Andrew J. Sloper Andrew J. Sloper, president of the New Britain National bank, issued the following statement toda “It cannot be expected tl high levels of 1925 and 1926 in all kinds of business can be maintained indefinitely, yet it seems to me that there is no immediate prospect of a serious falling off in manufacturing ind trade for the coming six monti The truth is that the facili production have been so largel creased that it is to be apprehended kat we are about to enter upon 2 period of competition and price cutting that has not been enced In the past few years. Of course the great wealth of the coun- try will be able to absorb a tre- mendous amount of merchandise of all kinds but there is always a limit to requirements, and it seems as though we must in the not distant future find a recession, in many lines of manufacture. With the unpre- cedented strength of the bank inter- csts of the country there can be no possibility of our and we shall presently go back to normal conditions (for the past two or three years have certainly been abnormal) and trade and business will move along steady and con- servative lines.” Arthur G. Kimball Arthur G. Kimball, president of |the Landers, Frary & Clark Manu- facturing company, said in behait of his concern: ““We anticipate no decided change /in business conditions for the first |part of the New Year from those {that have obtained for the las months. Competition has been, and will continue to be, increasingly | keen each year, but a normal busi- Iness may reasonably be espected by |established concerns wlio proper organize to meet the conditions.” Elisha Cooper Elisha Cooper, the newly elect chairman of the board of directors of the Fafnir Bearing company, was also optimistic regarding conditions was Interviewed. I see nogreason to anticipate any- thing but favorable conditions throughout the year. Things slowed up to some extent last fall, but fundamentally everything is sound and there are no clouds on the hori- zon. There is every reason why we should see a pickup of business and a renewal of activity.” VERMONT EXPECTS SNOW St. Albans, Vt, Dec. 24 (P—A Christmas day that will be warm but will see a fall of snow is what | northwestern Vermont and southern Quebee are promised by weather ex- perts hore, It will be a white Christmas any- way for there is now more than six inches of snow on the ground and sleighing in the rural sections is excellent. BONUS FOR EMPLOYES Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 24 (P— bonus of 25 per cent of annual sal- | aries the Christmas gift of Schoellkopf, Hutton & Pomeroy, in- vestment securities, to their one hundred employes today. Last year this company gave employes a bonus of 50 per cent of their salaries. * * THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Probably rain or snow tonight and Saturday; warmer to- e % TROLLEY WAN SAW VICTIM OF MURDER Gonductor Links Meriden Hotel Worker With Slaying THREE OTHERS DETAINED Body of Johh Mastriano, Jr., of Sil- ver City Found In Hamden—Fred Ltzel. Matis Employe, Questioned By Coroner Mix. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 24— Stzel, counter man in the cafeteria of H atis, in Meriden, was un- ed Average Daily Circulation Fo!' Week Ending Dec. 18th ... 14,015 PRICE THREE CENTS 19 PERSONS DIE IN TRAIN WRECK | | PNEUMONIA FATAL 10 JAP EMPEROR Stricken December 9 and Death Follows Relapse PRINCE NOW IS RULER| Crown Prince Hirohito Becomes Japan's 124th Emperor—Emperor Yoshihito Ascended to the Throne | In 1912, Tokyo, Dec. 25 (P—(Saturday)— Emperor Y ihito of Japan died of pneumonia at 1:25 a. m. today. | Crown Prince Hirohito, who has been regent since November 1921, | sncceeds to the throne, becoming | Japan's 124th emperor. | Yoshihito's condition became de: perate at 5 His respir: on was $4, his pulse too fast to be | counted. Rattling in his windpipe 1s noticeable. The numerous phy- ans who had attended him for a | | { |ed for by one of these men, while | der examination by Coroner Eli Mix in his office here today to secure in- formation, if he had any, as to the| murder of John Mastriano, Jr., 23,| fortnight did everything possible for en to be hopeless. Family at Bedside. Princo Regent Hirohito and other e monarch, but his condition was | with them | | founa, Su | that he saw Mastriano Sund: | sin, D, experi- ! summer he was employed old time panics! |a of that city, The latter's body was found in Mt. Carmel, town of Ham- n | den, late yesterday. He had been killed probably Sunday. Thre men have been detained for questioning at Meriden, it reported to the coroner, following he testimony of a trolley car con- or who had told of scelng Etzel 5 a car near Dudley's switch, place where the body was lay. A coat and hat had ht to the coroner’s office home in Meriden, tzel Questioned Coroner Mix working on the the- ory that Mastriano ad been_rob- Dbeen | from o1 bed before or after his death ques- | tioned Etzel as to his being in com- any with the former. Mastriano's 18 pockets liad been turned inside out, and it was known that had had $150 about him, th ey having been paid to him I father. While Coroner Mix ind closed door: hat Etzel had said night. Both were employed in Hotel Matis which is owned by Mastriano's cou- it se. the police say, has worked hotel for three months. on tze in th the Dudley farm. The police have been informed t he w ntenced to a three to ive year sentence for robbry in 1021, Since release from Sing Sing prison a year ago he had been liv- ing in or around Merlden. Etze came to this country from Germary in 1910 and had wandered about the country Body Dragged There The police have been trying to locality of the mur- said there was no sign le near the body and der. They of a struggl | from a trail of blood in the snow, | it was evident that the body | been dragged face downward from had > road What connection the three men ained in Meriden might have with the crime, Coroner Mix re- members of the imperial family were gathered at the monarch's bed- side, in his villa at Hayama, where | the emperor hecame critically ill of | pneumonia Dec. 9. Bronchitis, which attacked his majesty several weeks previously, developed into the | more serious disease a fortnight | ago. When the sovereign's illness be- came acute, all amusements stopped in Japan, business was halted, and the nation gave itself up to prayer. Yoshihito, beloved by his people, | had been an invalid many years of an affliction dating from his in- faney. Ascending the throne in 1912, on | the death of his father, Emperor Mutsuhito, he was crowned three a later, Nov. 19, 1915. His cor- onation having been deferred be- cause of the death of the Empress Haruko. The emperor’s physical and m. | tal health became so undermined by a complication of discases that he vielded the direction of government to his eldest son, Crown Prince Hirohito, who became regent of Japan in November, 1921. Had Friendly Policies Emperor Yoshihito's reign was called a continuation of his fath- ors “era of enlightenment.” He announced at the outset of his rule (Continued on Page 17) TAX COLLECTIONS IN - "26'TOTAL §2,601,950 July i Mark With $1,922,798 ‘ Received | Tax payments made in 1928 to- talled $2,601,955.40, the books at the Was High Water| { day six | y and declined to give office of Collector | ber collections up to the close of | business last night. | The report, by months, follows: $36,260.07; February, March, $40,365.48; April, ; May, $29,638.18; June, yed Cards questioning with witnes understood Coroner Mix learned hat Mastriano had been card play-| 1 days prior to Sun- coroner probed to Bernadotte | | Loomis show. This includes Decem-j“ © Baatl Hed eliced ‘Heavily, hat deal ad stalk vily. (learn if there had been quarrelling | Captain Whelahan and after {liminary examination or any heavy winninzs and losses. The outside investigation is in charge of Captain Whelahan, of the Hamden police, takin : up the stor reported by Mrs. 46 Whitney avenue who followed yo trail of blood through the snow | from Dudley road opposite the en- trance to the property of IFrank Butterworth, to a‘clump of woods about 100 yards:aw Reported Frozen Body Mrs. Alling told the police o had noticed the blood ile on her way to Jepp's ome distance away. She reported the frozen body of the man a pre- by Med miner George H. Joslin, it w removed to Beecher, Bennett and Lincoln's undertaking rooms. Mas- | triano had been shot just below the left eye the bullet lodging in the back of the head. No weapon was found. Powder marks on the face indicated close range shooting In the course of his ident ion itzel as a passehger who got off his car, the conductor a there was another man and the ¢ iption fitted that of Mastriano, Word from Meriden before this had been that Mastriano was at Matis lotel with his father Sunday and ft in an automobile with another The conductor’s testin ed Mastriano as 1 from the car at Dudley switcl ¢ of also nony re. ali 1 *. | NO HERALD TOMORROW | The Herald, according to | custom, will not publish to- morrow, Christnfas Day. | | | | | * * to] 234,606.97; July, $1,922,798.96; | August, $144,503.17; September, $45,277.88; October, $37,896.02; No- | vember, $37,535.76; December, to date, $20,568.22, Total, $2,601,955.40. Levialling, of | ‘TWO WOMEN INJURED A§ | AUTO SKIDS, HITS TRER Physiclan Applies Brakes to Avold | | | | | | Gillespie went on. the diner were out and because of | the extreme darkness and pouring | AT ROCKMART, GEORGIA: ENGINEER BLAMED BY RAILROAD OFFICIALS Ponce De Leon Express Speeding at 50 Miles an Hour Crashes Into Royal Palm Flier— Half Hundred Injured, Many Seriously and Death List is Expected to Be Increased. | Survivor, Leader in Rescue Work, Describes Scenes of Utmost Horror as| But Wreckage Is Probed for Dead and Injured. | Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24 () — Un- der the red glare of danger fuse: placed by railroad men, John Gil- lespie, former Detroit police com- missioner, led rescue workers in removing dead and injured from the wrecked cars of the north- bound Ponce De Leon, Southern railvay passenger train bound from Miami to Chicago, which last night crashed head on into her sister train, the Royal Palm, bound south from Chicago to Florida at Rockmart, Ga. Mr. Gillesple, who arrived here this morning on that part of the | Ponce De Leon which was able to | move, gave a graphic description | of the crash. The train on which Mr. Gillespie | reached Atlanta brought several of the dead and injured as well as those uninjured who were rerouted here and continued to their original destinations to be there Christmas day. Crash at 50 Miles “The crash came at 6:40 p. m., | entirely without warning and while our train was making about 50 miles per hour,” said Mr. Gillespie. “I was in the second car behind the diner and every person in our car was thrown to the floor. The impact was terrific and the train jerked, groaned and creaked. “There was a great crunching, crashing sound and windows cavec in almost the length of the car. If |ths brakes on our train were ap-|ipp, plied at all, it was at the very mo- ment of the crash. Signalled Too Late “As soon as I realized what had | happened 1 got out and began in- | gating the damage and how it happened. ‘The fireman of a vesti all | treight train which was on the sid- ing told me that the Ponce De Leon had sped toward his train and the on-coming Royal Palm, which was around a slight bend, and that as the Ponce De Leon approached the freight her engineer saluted and the freight engineer, realizing that for some reason the northbound train was unaware of the existence of the other southbound immediate- ly slgnalled to him to make an emergency stop. It was too late, however, and the crash resulted a few seconds later.” ‘Wreckage Was Terrible Mr. Gillespie then climbed along the 15 foot embankmeént on which | the train rested, and in ankle deep mud gained the cars ahead. “The coach was virtually driven through the dining car, and tele- scoped almost the entire length, with its top extending several fest above the top of the diner,” Mr. “The lights in rain it was impossible to see inside | but it took but one glance to prove gathered two or three uninjured men and commandeercd an auto- mobile which had stopped in pass- ing and we went into Rockmart for aid.” Ted Volunteers Back At Rockmart Mr. Gillespie ob- alned several ladders and lanterns with doctors and volunteer following, and with relief t and nurses [requested from Rome, Atlanta and | other cities, returned to the wreck. There bonflres were lighted from wreckage. “The | of Rockmart soon cooperated in the work of rescue and went at it coolly and in determined manner. As fast as bodies were removed Elm Strect Crash and Companions | they were laid aside in a nearby Are Hurt. | Two women whose names were not learned were slightly injured about 6:45 last evening while riding ¥ in an automobile owned and driven by Dr. Mendel Volkenheim of 750 Main street, Hartford, formerly of New Britain. The car sideswiped a car driven by Walter Verrier of | 224 Whiting street and tnen sxidded and struck a tree near the north end of Paradise park at Elm ane Stanloy streets, splitting the tree, bending the right front fender on the car, in addition to bending the right headlight, breaking the chas- sis, smashing the windshield ann otherwise doing damage. | Officer John O'Brien Investigated the accident and reported that Ver- rier was turning his car around to 2o south on EIm street, when Dr. Volkenheim’s car, going south on | Stanley street, sideswiped it. Dr. | Volkenheim sald he signalled Ver- but the latter pulled to the left and In an effort to avold the | collision, Dr. Volkenheim pulted over and struck an fcy spot in the |roadway. Applylng his brakes in |an effort to stop, Dr. Volkenheim caused his car to skid and it struck the tree. Dr. David P. Waskowitz attended the injured women. | | | badly field and we did not take time to try to identify those we knew were dead. Lives had to be saved, and it was the injured that we worked after.”” Scenes of Horor As light was made available, scenes of horror greeted the eye, said Mr. Gillespie. “From two win- dows of the wrecked diner, I saw terribly torn parts of two mnegro coats smeared with blood. ¥rom another window we dragged the decapitated body of an apparently middle aged white woman. Two tots who expected to greet Santa Claus tomorrow no doubt, were s0 crushed that identification will be almost impossible. Through one window of the diner we saw a man still seated at his chair at the table. Apparently he was only dazed. We got him out somehow and found his body had been sev- ered just below the waist.” Details Rescue Work Detailing the rescue work, Mr. Gillespie sald men stood on each others shoulders to talk to the volces In the dark car of death and to obtain directions as to how best | Ladders were to extricate them. (Continued on Page 13) uninjured and the people | | ;Regular Pilot Was Not in | Charge of Locomotive Relief Man and Fireman Both Knew Or- ders, Officials Say. Rome, Ga., Dec. 24 (P—Robert M. Pierce, engineer on the north- | bound Ponce De Leon that crashed |into the Royal Palm, southbounil | from Chicago, at Rockmart, Ga., last | died of his injuries in a hos- here this afternoon, bringings | the death list to 19, | Rockmart, Ga., Dec. 24 (P— Eight een persons were killed as a resnit |of the head-on collision here last night between the Ponce De Leon northbound from Miaml to Chicago, and the Royal Palm, southbound, of the Southern railway. The se- riously. injured numbered 29. | The death today of little Goldic Williams of Detroit in a hospital at | Cedartown and of W. H. Brewer. {bagsage master on the Ponce D Leon, in a lhospital at Rome, brought the total known dead to 18. Railroad officials said they did not believe more bodies would be found in the wreckage which had | been thoroughly searched. The Ponce De Leon, with J. M. ;l’cnrcfl, road foreman of engines, at |the throttle, was maintaining _fts schedule with a long train. It was |under orders to take sdings at | Rockmart to -pass the Royal Palm | which had pulled up on the main {line to await the northbound train. | Railroad officials at the wreck said |the slding was occupled partly by |a freight train which also was be- lieved to have caused Pearce to k that the Royal Palm was on the sidetrack. The Ponce down at eight |speed, hit the | De Leon, coming mile grade at high Royal Palm engine head-on. The day-coach of the northbound special jammed into the diner just behind. The dining jcar was leveled and only three oc- |cupants were known to have es- caped. The baggage and club com- bination car of the Royal Palm was badly damaged. Following is a revised list of the dead: H. Moss, Atlanta, fireman of the Ponce De Leon. Mrs. J. W. Whittiker, Chattano- oga, Tenn. 1?]Lym'l Barkley Evans, Jacksonville, . An 8 year old girl with the initials “ H. M. H." on a bracelet, probably | the daughter of Mrs. Georgia Hardy, en route from Miami to Toronto, Ont., who was taken to an Atlanta hospital. W. H. Brewer of Atlanta, bag- gagemaster of the Ponce De Leon. Goldie Williams, 8, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Williams, 8000 Traddeus street, Detroit. J. E. Frost, Chattanooga. W. L. Dynes, Atlanta, sales man- ager for S. P. and George J. Morris. Dr. P. T. Hale, Loulsville, Ky. Four unidentified Negro men. Three unidentified white men. One unidentified white woman. One unidentified white boy, about 7 years old. Engineer Ts Blamed Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24 (® — The head-on collision last night at Rock- mart, Ga., of northbound Southern raflway passenger train Ponce de [Teon, Miami to Chicago, with the |southbound Royal Palm “apparently (Continued on Page 15.) | PRISONER ESGAPES, - GOES BACK FOR GOP Policeman Taking Man Back for Trial Is | Rescued | Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 24 (»—H. E. | Bullis escaped from the smoking {comparlmpnr of a car in the wreck- |ed Ponce Do Leon last night at | Rockmart, Ga., and then went back | waiters' bodies hanging, their white |inside for Edward Wiseman, 27 year- old Lexington, Ky., policeman, who was returning home to Lexington to | answer charges of forgery. Neither thought the occurrence worthy of note. “Sure,” sald Wiseman, “guys often come back to help the officers out of a jam like that.” Both men, {njured, lay alongside of each other in an Atlanta hospital while 2 policeman loaned from the city department sat placidly in be- tween. “Remember me calling you, BE4t* asked Bullis. “Gee, I thought you were killed at first, as soon s I got through think- g I was killed.” “‘Sure, I remember,” the policeman replied, adding as an aside that as soon as hospital physiclans would re- lease them they would gontonue their trip.