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IT DID HAPPEN! West Palm Beach, Fla.W Confusion compounded: This town goes on daylight saving time Sunday. Strollers into nearby Palm Beach will find that place still on standard time, unless they walk into the First National bank of Palm Beach, where it will be daylight time. Cleat, cool end dry Saturday Complete WtaUiaf foncut, pt 1 FIRST WITH NEWS ESTABLISHED 1854 WATERLOO, IOWA, FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 1946 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS THE te IVfa MriS pflV Aerial View of Two-Train Tragic Wreck 125 INJURED, Food Plea at Climax Bank Bandit Given Life HO CASE FACTFINDING PLAN MAPPED 1 i A i r. 1 1 i fit 1 1 i 4 i I Ars lim rilTII.Illll Hill Illl -'rlf irf i. .,,,1 irn i I I- -'V This aerial view shows the area where the Burlington's Exposition flyer (center background), rolling at SO miles an hour, crashed into rear end of the Advance flyer (left) in Naperville, III.

Rear end oi Exposition's- locomotive (al crossing, canter) protrudes from reai1 car of the Advance flyer, which hat telescoped. Both trains were going west (toward lower left). (AP Photo.) Trapped Tell Jap Hanged tor War Atrocities Yokohama (U.R) Japanese Lt. Wreck-Smashed Rear Coach 31 SOW, RAIL CRASH Tragedy Strikes at Naper ville, when Crack Flyer Rams One Ahead. Naperville, 111.

(AP) Weary rescue workers Friday counted at least 43 dead a terrific rear-end collision of the Burlinsrton railroad's westbound fast Exposition flyer and Advance flyer Thursday. Of 125 persons injured when the Exposition flyer, speeding at more than 60 miles an hour toward San Francisco, rammed1 the stopped Advance flyer, 31 remained tn hospitals, some in critical condition. All but five of the dead, all women, had been identified The engineer of the Exposition flyer, who Burlington railroad officials said had adequate warning that the preceding train had stopped, was charged with man-slaughter. Du Page county official said, however, this was a technicality to make certain the engineer would appear at an Inquest and that no evidence of laxity had been uncovered. SI Minutes Out of Chicago.

The crash of the two steel-car. diesel-powered trains occurred just 31 minutes after they left Chi-cago's Union station simultaneously on separate tracks, but after a few miles moved onto a single center track, with the Advance Flyer, which ran on a faster schedule, in the lead. The Advance flyer, carrying 130 to 200 passengers in nine coaches, was bound for Omaha and Lincoln, Neb. The Exposition flyer, 11 coaches with 175 to 200 persons, was headed for San Francisco. Two minutes after the Advance flyer made an unscheduled stop in this village of 5,287, a terrific crash roared through the countryside aa the Exposition flyer plowed into the rear of the stalled train.

A moment of tragic silence was broken by screams and cries for help from the dying and injured. At first there was complete con fusion. Huge, shining passenger coaches were strewn across torn tracks, some in tangled wreckage. The cries of the dying came mostly from the rear coach of the Advance flyer, where passengers were trapped. Eleven Coaches Topple.

Others groped in bewilderment tor escape from the mass of steel wreckage. Eleven coaches were overturned or left the rails, six on the Advance flyer and five on the Ex position flyer. Search for additional bodies wa discontinued at dawn, when search ers were convinced all casualties had been accounted for. Workers attempted to remove the debris and restore travel on the main line. An emergency line, however, was set up to allow through traffic.

As Burlington officials pursued their Investigation of the worst accident in its history and also the most tragic in the Chicago area, State's Attorney Lee Daniels of Du Page county said a warrant charging manslaughter had been Issued or W. Blaine. 68. Gales-burg, 111-, engineer of the Exposition flyer. No Evidence of Laxity.

Daniels said the action was taken to insure Blaine's appearance at an inquest later into the deaths. Daniels said he had interviewed members of the train crews and found no evidence of laxity. The engineer suffered a skull fracture, the prosecutor said, and will not be arraigned on the manslaughter warrant for at least two weeks or until he is released from a hospital where he is under guard. His bond was fixed at $5,000. Daniels said that Blaine, for more than 43 years a railroad man, told him that just before the collision Fireman E.

H. Crayton warned him he was going to strike the Advance flyer, He said Crayton apparently jumped before the crash and was killed. Blaine, howeVer, stayed at his throttle as his train sped toward the stalled Advance flyer. The Exposition flyer's silver nose plowed into the rear coach and for a fleeting moment appeared to stagger in the air, tear through the roof, then plunge with ESTTOLD OF SUFFERING LaGuardia Gives Worldwide Broadcast from Little Minnesota Town. Climax, Minn.

(UP) Fiorello La Guardia, director general of UNRRA Friday pleaded with northwest farmers to release spare wheat to save the lives of starving people in Europe and Asia. In a worldwide radio address from this tiny town before some 5,000 farmers of the fertile Red River valley, the former' New York mayor made a fervent and dramatic plea and tears came to his eyes as he described the starving misery of Europe. "People are dying and we need wheat to save millions from starving," he said. "Please, I beg of you help me," he said. LaGuardia said the next days are critical and wheat was needed in Europe before May 15th.

He von the confidence of the assembled farmers as he described himself as a "farmer from the paved streets of Manhattan." Good to See Real Farmers. He said that for the past two weeks he had been seeing a lot of "government statisticians with aoft White hands," and that at Climax it was "good to see real farmers and real He praised the 30-cent bushel bonus plan as a plan which would enable the farmer to "deliver his wheat and have it too." La Guardia criticized the speculation in wheat and said that the work UNRRA is doing is aimed at resulting, through United Nation agriculture and food commission, a world wide distribution system. "That means that wheat will be pooled and not the figure on the ticker." "We are not interested in gamblers or speculators who claim wheat. We are interested in preserving a constant market for the farmers without reducing production. Anderson Praises Farmers.

"We hope especially to get along without speculation agencies in big towns," he told the people. Preceding La Guardia's address, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton B. Anderson spoke. He complimented farmers on a "magnificent job" and said he hoped for a better spring crop. "It is a wonderful thing to see wheat on wheels, rolling toward ports, en route to these starving countries." Earlier in the day, 200 trucks, carrying approximately 25,000 bushels of "mercy wheat" rolled into town to dramatize the appeal.

The party arrived and LaGuardia was immediately presented with a sack of wheat by Marillyn Letns, 13, daughter of Farmer Tom Letns. Has His Picture Taken. La Guardia performed for news-reel photographers nailing up UNRRA relief signs on box cars, climbing an 11-foot ladder to peer into box car loads of wheat and getting dusty and grimy climbing into trucks loaded with wheat. "Speculative side of wheat must be wiped out," La Guardia told newsmen prior to his address, "UNRRA is doing more than feeding countries of the world. What we are doing is of big concern to farmers all over the country." He said the speculative angle should be eliminated to help protect farmers and that sale of wheat future should be stopped and sale of wheat itself should be made.

Anderson said "Our recent effort to move wheat off farms to ease the famine emergency abroad has given rise to charges from some sources that the farmers are hoarding their wheat." Never Moved Faster. "We know that never in our history has wheat moved off farms at a faster rate than during the marketing this year," he said. Since last July, he decalred, more than one billion bushels has left the farms. "Eetween Jan. 1 and April 1 of this year, our figures show that farmers reduced their wheat stocks by 165 million bushels." The plain facts are, he added, (Continued on page 2, column 6) MI Aurora, 111.

(AP) Terror and fear gripped the passengers trapped in the rear car of the Burlington railroad's Advance. flyer when it was struck by the line's speeding Exposition flyer at nearby Naperville Thursday. Some of the victims, in St. Charles hospital here, related their harrowing experience and told of the many acts of heroism as unidentified men and women helped lift or carry injured passengers through windows to. safety.

After the first shock and fright, there were more agonizing moments for the trapped passengers, fearing that fire would result as acetylene torches dropped sparks into the car while workmen attempted to rescue them. Many of the passengers were caught under the wreckage, bodies and luggage. Delbert Boon, 21, a sailor of Luray, was one of the men taken out of the car and brought to St. Charles hospital. There he immediately telegraphed his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Resolution by Three Nations Given UN Still Faces Russian Veto. New York (UP) Aus tralia, France and Poland Fri day iointlv submitted to the United Nations security council a draft resolution expressing the UN's moral condem nation of Franco Spain and calling for creation of a five-nation fact-finding committee to study the Spanish situation. The surprise announcement was made at the opening of the morning council session. The French, Australian and Polish delegates met in private Thursday night and Friday morning in an effort to reconcile their different points of view.

After Col. W. R. Hodgson of Australia read "with pleasure" the draft resolution put together over night by the subcommittee, the Mexican delegate moved that a vote on it be postponed until early next week to afford an opportunity for study. Over Major Hurdle.

Agreement by France, Australia and Poland on the draft represented the crossing of a major hurdle. But the biggest question mark remained will Russia veto even this resolution in the light of its expressed flat opposition to any kind of a United Nations investigation of Spain. Soviet Delegate Andrei A. Gromyko wants action not talk and investigation against Franco French-Polish-Australian agreement, a major accomplishment Few delegates Thursday night-after three and a half hours of wrangling thought it would be possible to obtain unanimity among those three points of view. Friday's session was the shortest in the short history of the security council 14 minutes.

Quits for Weekend. The council agreed without objection to adjourn over the weekend to give delegations a chance to study the new proposal on Spain. and to confer with their home governments. The new resolution opened by declaring that the council's attention has been called to the situation in Spain and that it has been asked to declare that the Franco regime has led to friction and endangers international peace and security. The draft then cites the fact that the members of the council morally have condemned Franco Spain and that the United Nations have forever barred Spain from UN membership while the Franco regime remains In power.

Hodgson, the original proponent of an investigation of Franco Spain before the council decides what action to take, appeared pleased by the composite resolution which now has the sup. port of France and Poland and probably every other member of the security council except Russia. Important Exception. That exception is important, however, because Russia could veto the resolution. Hodgson won his major point with France and Poland that there must be no pre-judgment of the Franco case before the facts are ascertained by the sub-committee.

He pointed out to the council that under the resolution it will be for the council itself after the facts are in to decide whether the Franco regime has caused international friction and to determine what steps, if any. the council should take. Despite the new resolution, the threat of a Russian veto still hung over the council. Asked after the session whether he felt the same about Friday's resolution as he did about the original Australian plan, Gromyko said: "Exactly the same. I made my position quite clear Thursday, I believe." Thursday, Gromyko told the council he opposed any kind of an investigation and wanted immediate and complete diplomatic sanctions against Franco.

Seated is Clark Cummings, 25, Chicago, arrested In Rock Island, for the robbery of a branch bank at Denmark, la. Standing is Sheriff Joe Schneider of Rock Island county. (AP Wirephoto direct to Courier.) 3r Fort Madison, la. (UP) Clark Cummings, 25, Chicago, Friday was sentenced to life imprisonment for robbing the Denmark, Farmers Savings bank of $79. District Judge James S.

Burrows in sentencing Cummings said he realized that the penalty was harsh but that "I have no alternative under Iowa law which provides life imprisonment for robbing a bank." Cummings pleaded guilty to entering a bank with intent to rob at his arraignment and was sentenced immediately. Cummings, who was arrested at Rock Island, 111., Thursday night, confessed to the robbery after being questioned by R. F. Gregson and Gifford Strand, Iowa agents. Following his confession, Cummings waived extradition and was brought here by Gregson, Strand and Frank Kloppenstein, Lee county deputy sheriff.

The Rock Island sheriff's office reported that Cummings was arrested on a street there after officers recognized his automobile a Chevrolet as the one reportedly tsed in the robbery. Anest 700 Jews for Troop Attack Jerusalem (U.R) British troops arrested 700 Jews in Tel Aviv Friday in a widespread manhunt for terrorists who killed seven British troops in an attack Thursday night on a police station. Troops deployed in a wide area hunting the terrorists and arrested some 700 Levantine Jews in slum areas near the Tel Aviv-Jaffa boundary. An official communique characterized the attack as "murderous" and charged that the troops were "shot dead in cold blood." TO EXHIBIT HITLERANIA. Washington, D.

C. (U.RV- Adolf Hitler's marriage certificate, private will and last political testament will go on exhibition at the national archives here Saturday. Courier Backs OPA Revision Continue the OPA but impose price ceilings which include increased costs and which eliminate unfair features of present OPA policies, the Courier advocates in an editorial outlining its views on the price control controversy. The editorial appears on page 4. Other features today.

Page "Believe It or ot" .....11 Cedar Falls 14 Church Services, Sunday 5 City in Brief 3 Markets ..........15 Northeast Iowa .......15 Radio Programs 7 Sports ,9, 10 Theaters 10 Uncle Wiggily 11 Winchell in New York 7 Woman's Page 6, 16 of Terror in Frank Boon: "Come and see me. Was in train accident." Thirty minutes later he died. Mrs. Irene Cook, 20, who was on her way with her mother, Mrs. Florence Whitehouse, from Schenectady, N.

to a new home in Kahoka, was in the rear car of the Advance flyer. "I was seated facing the approaching train," Mrs. Cook said, "but it all happened so fast I didn't see It clearly. "Suddenly I must have been thrown into the air, because I remember hitting the seat twice with my head and waking up un der a pile of people and seats. "My mother was buried be neath another seat, a man and a woman.

"There was so much screaming that I was as frightened when res' cued as when the crash occurred. "The men came with their torches through the top of the car and sparks fell. We were afraid they would ignite oil in the car. "One of my legs was caught under something, but I pulled it free and went around putting out the sparks as they felU "Even before the rescuers start ed working we were frightened by the smell of ashes. "I was taken out of a window, but I haven't yet heard what hap pened to my mother." Meanwhile, her mother, whose address was listed as Cohoes, N.

had been taken to the hospital in Aurora. She underwent a leg amputation, Mrs. Anne Hovey, 72, of Keokuk, who was sealed near Mrs. Cook and her mother, said that "things happened so fast that 1 don't remember what happened to me. "I was doubled up suddenly and knees were pushed against my chest Her legs were fractured.

i Mr. and Mrs. Henry Faber of I Keokuk, also in the rear car, said Four lowans Die in Wreck Naperville, III. (AP) our of the passengers killed in the collision of two Burling- on trains here Thursday have been identified as lowans. Six lowans were among the in jured.

The lowans identified among the reported dead were: Fred Robinson, 62, of Council Bluffs; Mrs. P. L. Mennen of Burlington; Joe Bentler of Ft. Madison or West Point, and Harry W.

Long, ex-serviceman, 21, Burlington, discharged Sept 30, Robinson, a well known Council Bluffs, automobile man, owned the Chicftan Motor Sales Co. lowans among the injured were: Thomas Chaney, 20, Council Bluffs, condition serious. Henry Faber, 28, Keokuk, condi tion not critical. Mrs. Henry Faber, 27, Keokuk, hurt badly.

Mrs. Anne Hovey, Keokuk, not critical. Dexter Sexton, Mt Ayr, con dition critical Pfc. Raymond Jaeger, 21, Burling' ton, not serious. Joeger, who had one arm and one leg in a cast as a result of war wounds as a marine private, said he didn't know how he got out of the train accident alive.

He was on the last car of the rammed Advance flier but escaped with shock and bruises. Among the dead were Mrs. A. J. Wiley and her two sons, Randy, 2, and Perry, 4.

of Chicago. They were en route to Burling, ton, la. The husband and father, a for mer marine, had seen his little family off on their trip to visit relatives only a short time before the accident The parents of two lowans also died in the wreck. They were Mr. and Mrs.

Mat thew L. Lawrence, Sr of Escanaba, who were en route from New York, where they had been visiting, to Ottumwa, where they were to spend some time with their son, Matthew L. Lawrence, Jr advertising director of the Ottumwa Courier. Another of their sons Is Craig Lawrence, general manager of ra- dia stations WHOM, New York, and WCOP, Boston. He left Des Moines In 1944, where he had been general manager of stations KRNT and KSO.

Matthew identified his mother's body here Friday. His father's body was identified Thursday night Kei Yuri, ex-commandant of the Omuta prisoner of war camp, was hanged on the gallows of Sugamo prison at 5:15 a. m. Friday, He was the first Japanese war criminal to be executed in Japan proper. Yuri was found guilty by an Eighth 8rmy military tribunal of ordering Pvt.

Noah C. Heard, Salinas, bayoneted to death, and of permitting Marine Cpl. James C. Pavlokos, Chicago, to starve to death in prison. DOROTHY LAMOUR LOSES $28,000 IN CAR THEFT Baltimore, Md.

(U.R) Movie Actress Dorothy Lamour estimated Friday that thieves stole $28,000 worth of jewelry and clothing by smashing an automobile window and taking luggage belonging to her and. her husband. The theft occurred Thursday night while she and her husband, William Ross Howard III, were, attending a dinner party in a hotel here. It Says Here By Bob Hope To bet or not to bet that is the question along the coast line of Los Angeles county, A certain gent, who used to run a fleet of gam bling boats off the Long Beach coast is plan ning to bring them back. But I don't think the district attorney likes the idea.

Yes terday I saw him down at the dock pric ing some sur Bob Hope plus subma rines. The city says It won't let the gambler run water-taxis out to his boats. I guess the customers will have to swim out, holding their money in their teeth. Of course, they won't have that trou ble coming back they won't have any teeth! The first gambling ship is going to be a reconverted minelayer, and they're keeping the minelaying eauicment intact on the boat They figure it'll come in handy for getting rid of losers! Of course, the gambling boats will have to be anchored three miles out Off this southern Call fornia coast they have to go far to get into clean water. And the money really changes hands fast on those boats.

I saw one silver dollar there and the eagle on it had been worn down to a squab. Concedes Roxas Election Winner 'Manila M3). Sergio Osmena's headquarters Friday night virtually conceded his defeat for the Philippines presidency with a charge that "the election is being stolen and apparently nothing can be done about it." A highly placed source at Mala-canan palace, who declined use of his name, said the chances of President Osmena defeating Senate Leader Manuel Roxas "are very slender." The Associated Press tabulation of votes at 6 p. from 4,748 of the commonwealth's 14,238 precincts, gave Roxas 478,543 Osmena 391.121. King Edward, Dutch Master.

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