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Show RATURE3 MOSTLY CLOUDY 1 ' Sunday, with increasing N high eleudinesa duinr the day. Con- , tinned mild. Local . patches of ground fog early Sunday morn- lac High temperature Sunday 41. ' FrT- '. . . . ; 4 S4 Salt Lake .4J 1 Otn 34 it PrUaa4" Butt , Vaito wtteaa 0nyr ... Chios . . . Dulath ..... New York Miami . . . WWW. . Ul VU ,44 ss . Phocalx , , 77 41 Lot Aaftlts 11 44 Sa Fraa. J7 -to IB S 41 N. Orloau VOL 26, NO. 38 PROVO, UTAH-, COUNTY, UTAH SUNDAY,. FEBRUARY 30, 1949 PRICE FIVE .CENTS v if App ropriations Bill-Ready For . By HUGH A. WILSON v United Frese Staff Correspondent " The Utah legislature's joint appropriations committee. : caught with its deadline down, went into a weekend session i Saturday to prepare the 1949 appropriations act for introduction intro-duction Monday. According to custom, the bill that distributes the biennial bi-ennial allotments of state funds must be completed by the 40th day which turned up Friday. But harrassed committee-" committee-" men have been able to turn in only about 25 minor reports. $225,000 Fund Recommended For Vocation School - By United Press The Utah legislature's Joint appropriations ap-propriations committee will recommend rec-ommend $225,000 for operation of 'the Centrsl Utah Vocational school during the next two years, it wss learned Saturday. This is 1 midway between the $411,000 sought by the school's officials in their requested budget, and the $100,000 recommended by Governor J. Bracken tee. W. W. Sorenson, superintendent of the vocational school, could not be reached Saturday for comment. com-ment. . The committee recommendation is for operational expenses, and is not related to the $1,000,000 request re-quest which the schoolghas made for a new permanent buuding, Legislative action on the latter proposal has not yet been taken. Salt Lake area vocational school was recommended to receive re-ceive about $515,000 plus credits, as against requests for $1,550,' 000 and a projected building pro gram. Total of $2,500,000 The legislature's Joint appro priationa committee will recommend recom-mend a total of approximately $2,500,000 more for junior colleges and coUeges throughout the state than Gov. Lee recommended in his budget message. Sub-committee reports Satur day included all but the Univer sity of Utah and Utah State Agrt cultural college. Co-Chairman Sen. Fred J. Mil-liman, Mil-liman, D., Mammoth, said the total for the seven institutions of higher learning in Utah would run about $8,225,000, plus dedi : cated credits. The governor recommended $5,- : 700,000, plus credits. Colleges i recommended a total of approxi mately $10,500,000. $ School Totals Here are approximate appropri ations for junior colleges as rec ommended by sub-committe re ports, subject to revision Weber Junior college, Ogden, $795,000. Carbon Junior college, Price, $185,000. Branch Agricultural college, Cedar City, $315,000. Dixie Junior college, St. George, $195,000. Snow Junior college, Ephraim, $210,000. Four Children Burn to Death LANSING, Mich., Feb. 19 (U.R) Four children, the oldest 13, were burned to death Saturday despite frantic efforts of their mother to save them when a flash fire raced through their frame home.' i All were trapped in their beds. The bodies were burned beyond recognition. The victims were the children of Mr. and Mrs. William Clark ' Shirley Carol, IS; Stanley, 12; Edward, Ed-ward, 10, and Ronnie, 9. The mother, Mrs. Velma Clark, 31, was drinking coffee in the home of. a neighbor when she saw the flames. She rushed to the house but was unable to enter because of the intense heat. The father also was away. The blaze was believed to have originated or-iginated in an overheated coal stove. News Highlights In Central Utah Flood Dangers Told To Utah County Commissioners.. 2 U.P. Railroad. Tracks Clear At . Point of the Mountain S Orem Chamber of Commerce Discusses Business Resonlng . . S SpringrvUle Mayor Releases Report On City Affairs 4 Meet Set To Discuss Utah Valley . Hospital Enlargement.. 6 Winter Causes Extensive Utah County Road Damage ... t If the present trend of appro- priations continues, departments which take a substantial share of state revenue, such as institutions of higher learning, can expect re ductions amounting to approxi mately 15 per cent. It was deadline time In the house and senate Friday. . too. Twenty bills came into the senate and 23 Into the house. Among the more important ones reaching the upper house were two lengthy bills dealing with industrial com pensation increases, occupational disease benefits, and a proposed amendment to legalize sale of liquor by the drink. The latter was in the form of a joint resolution which would put the proposal to a popular vote at the next general election. Three sizable appropriation bills, all of them for new build ings, were presented in the house, The University of Utah asked for $8,000,000. Utah, State Agricul tural college. , $2,800,000; and Point-of-the-Mountain state pris on farm, $2,000,000. Other house bills would give the attorney generals office an enforcement division which could be loaned out to locan enforcement enforce-ment agencies. Although the mat ter of liquor control was not specifically referred to, the attor ney general s staff would be able to supplement local officers in any enforcement duty, under the provisions of the bill Still' Marking Time As for action on legislation al ready before the legislature, both houses continued to mark time iCmnuUee.could I uiing vuv avrtiic vi me iiuiiiur one bills The house agreed to an amended amend-ed welfare - appropriation bill, calling for $189,000. which would (Continued on Page Two) USO Ordered Reactivated By Truman WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.R) The USO, whose civilian troupers brought Broadway to millions of homesick GI's in World War II, was formally reactivated re-activated by President Truman Saturday. The president announced he is reviving the United Service organization or-ganization as a "civilian counterpart" counter-part" of the nation's peacetime military program. He said USO will be a "strong and steady link" with home for the 2,100,000 men and women in uniform this year, particularly for the 60 per cent who are still in their teens. The president recalled that when he gave the USO an "Honorable "Hon-orable Discharge" at the end of 1947 he reserved the right to recall re-call it in time of need. "The conditions which make it necessary for us to have a large peacetime defense establishment call for the reactivation of this agency as a civilian counterpart," he said. The USO is expected to put 140 to 150 entertainment units into operation this year in the United States, Alaska and Guam. But the - president's announcement announce-ment made no reference to a pro- fram for occupation troops in apan, Germany and Austria. Although the USO officially had been out of business for more than a ear, 105 & servicemen's clubs, lounges and information centers still are being operated on USO fUnds by six national agencies. And USO funds have continued to provide entertainment entertain-ment for patients in 112 army, navy and veterans' hospitals throughout the' country. Mr. Truman said those programs pro-grams will continue undet the reactivated USO and will be expanded ex-panded in areas where needed. Acting President of China Set To Negotiate For Peace NANKING, China. Feb. 19 (U.R) Acting President Li Tsung-Jen is prepared to negotiate directly with Communist, leader Mao Tze-Tung, Tze-Tung, it was reported Saturday night, but authoritative sources said retired Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek retained veto power over any peace talks. A source close to Li said the acting president was willing to go to Communist territory for the ' talks. The source was commenting com-menting on a report in the Communist Com-munist Peoples Daily at Peiping saying Li would be welcome if he decided to go there for di Not-So-Selective Service , :;",' v ' " ' - " . t - I. I Si h' v' V ' , - . - V ' f Z - - 'i f v.-tzr- V.vr- l) : " . - -r.-fV a The Jefferson County, Colo- draft board must be scraping the bottom of the barrel. They sent a selective service questionnaire to William E. (Butch) McKune of Golden. Butch Is eight months old. He's decided to wait a little while before going. American Communists Suffer Jarring Defeat On College Campuses of United States By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.R) American Communists have just suffered a jarring defeat on the,college campuses of the United States. Their set-back among American youth is quite as important im-portant as the reverses recently suffered by Communists in their efforts to dominate or infiltrate big labor unions, especially espe-cially within the CIO. ' Communist propaganda is beginning to be a hard bill of goods to sell in the Unit.ed States. The Communists them- selves admit defeat on the campuses. cam-puses. They invaded the colleges at patriots and believers in de - " - jectives was to obtain moral lead ership of the hundreds of thousands thou-sands of G. I. Bill of Rights students. stu-dents. That has failed. But the Communists concede defeat for the time being, only. To Try New Start They are backing up now for a new start toward spreading communism among American college col-lege students. Defeat was conceded conced-ed by the Daily Worker, New York Communist newspaper, which has announced dissolution of an outfit known as American Youth for Democracy, A YD for short. AYD was invented by the Communists Com-munists on Oct. 17, 1943, to snare young Americans in college. On that date the Communist authorities authori-ties assembled a convention of an organization then in existence known as the Young Communist League. John Gates was head man of the Young Communist League. Gates told the assembled delegates dele-gates that the time had come for the YCL to disappear and the delegates voted the organization out of existence. Immediately at the same meeting the delegates organized themselves into American Ameri-can Youth for Democracy. This was about the time the Commu nist oartv of Ihe United States was changing its name to Com munist Political Association. ' The name changlnes were in tended to improve the chances of recruiting supporters of the Communist Com-munist movement. American Youth for Democracy was a fine souding title with no hint of the Communist nature of its direction. It claimed to have organized at least 60 chapters in as many colleges col-leges and universities shortly after its creation in 1943. AYD headquarters'admitted existence ex-istence of chapters in the District of Columbio and in 14 states: Arizona, Ari-zona, California, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts, Massachu-setts, Michigan. Missouri, Minnesota. Minne-sota. New Jersey. New York, Ohio. Washington and Utah. AYD leaders were cautious about identifying campuses on which their chapters were active but one was known to be at Harvard. AYD has now gone out of business. busi-ness. But it may re-appear with a new name, so .far undisclosed. as an undisguised Communist or-(Continued or-(Continued on Page Two) rect negotiations. Tho Communists also sounded Li out through Wu Yu-Huo, head of a peace delegation of Nanking professors which returned last week from Peiping. Canton newspapers news-papers quoting Wu said Mao had suggested conferences with Li. .Observers believed any such meeting would greatly boost peace hopes which received another an-other impetus last night when the Communist radio for the first time in weeks adopted what was described as a "reasonable" tone toward the Nationalist, government. Transit Strike Settled In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Teh. 19 (U.R) Top company and union execu tives reached an agreement in Mayor Bernard Samuel's office Saturday night for settling the crippling nine-day-old city tran sit strike. The agreement was announced by Samuel after a nine-hour conference con-ference with officials of the Transport-Workers Union (CIO) and the Philadelphia Transportation Transpor-tation 'Co. j The basis for the agreement was an eight-cent-an-hour-wage increase. Originally, the union demanded de-manded 25 cents and the company com-pany offered two.' The-agreement was ratified by the PTC's executive board imme diately in . a telephone poll by President Charles Ebert. The agreement now is subject to ratification by the union's executive board, the joint execu tive committee and the entire union membership. TRAIN WRECK HURTS II BURGETTSTOWN, Pa., Feb. 19 (U.R). -A Pennsylvania railroad mail-passenger Pittsburgh-to-St. Louis Express crashed into the rear fo a locomotive and caboose here Saturday, injuring 10 passengers pas-sengers and mail clerks. The caboose was telescoped into the locomotive, which was knocked knock-ed 150 feet on its side along the main tracks. 2 Members Of Congress Urge 'Operation Faux Pas' Probe WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UJ) Two Democratic members of congress, Saturday urged a full-dress full-dress investigation of "operation faux pas" tne unsubstantiated army report on prewar Communist Com-munist espionage in the. far east. Sen. Lister Hill, D., Ala., said it would be "most proper" for congress to look . into the array blunder "and perhaps into the whole question of the efficiency of our intelligence service." Rep. Overton Broks, D., La., said he would take up the question ques-tion of an .investigation with other members of the house armed arm-ed services committee next week. The controversial army report was pulled from Japanese police files and made public last week by military intelligence officers at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo. It said the Russians opera ted, a spy ring in Japan and another in China before and during the war. It warned that some of their far eastern agents may be working work-ing secretly right now in the United States and other non-Communist non-Communist countries. Charge Denounced ' Among other things, the document doc-ument said Miss Agnes Smedley a well-known American writer on the Orient, spied actively for the Russians in China before Pearl Harbor. Miss Smedley, now living In New York, promptly denounced the charge as "a despicable lie." Hecd-Qn Air Crash Kills 4 In Britain Thr Americans la LfetOfDad;Wrck Scattered On Village EXHALL, England, Feb. 19 (U.R) A British airliner crashed crash-ed head on with a Royal Air Force training plane in clear skies above Exall Saturday, killing 14 persons whose mangled bodies plunged with bits of flaming wreckage onto the town below. Three of the passengers were Americans. They were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Michaels of Highland High-land Park, 111., and Cameron Aitken of Rhode Island, an em ploye of the London . branch of tne cnase National Bank. The Michaels left New York for London last Saturday on the liner Queen Mary on a business trip. Michaels, secretary treasurer of the Hyman-Michaela Co., brokers of second-hand railroad equipment, was believed en ruote to Scotland to place an order with a steel firm. - , Unlimited Visibility Six passengers were aboard the British European Airways - DC3 Dakota which carried a. British crew of four. . Four RAF airmen were in the second plane, a twin-engined twin-engined Anson trainer. One of the bodies was reported dressed in an American army uniform. There was no explanation for the crash. Visibility was unlimited unlimit-ed when the London-to-Glasgow airliner met the Anson at an altitude alti-tude of about 2,000 feet at 9:45 a. m. ' Witnesses said the RAF. plane appeared to hit the Dakota at the root of the airliner's rignt wing The Dakota's wing was broken off and at the same instant an ex nlosion "disintegrated" both planes. 1 . Two bodies fell to earth with unopened parachutes still strapped strap-ped on. Their owners never had a chance to use them. FalhrOar-Villago Burning wreckage, streamers of flaminc tasoiine ana diis oi hodiea were scattered over square-mile area. Falling debris narrowly missed Exhall hospital and fluttered down on rooftops, farms and roadways of this village of 500 persons. None of tne vu lagers was injured. Twelve doctors and nurse from tY hosnital ran ito the road after they heard the explosion There was nothing they could ex- cent heln stamp out bits of burn mo wreckage ana coueci me r r 1 A At- bodies. Fire eauipment from Coventry, 2Vt miles to the south, ana irom other adioininC towns extinguisn ed little blazes that sprinkled the countryside. 'Little Cabinet' Member Resigns WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.R) William H. Draper, Jr., resigned Saturday as undersecretary of the army to return to private busi ness. He leaves office Feb. 28 Draper was the third "little cabinet" member in the national defense setup to quit in recent weeks. Mr. Truman last week accepted the resignations of two assistant secretaries of the navy, Mark Andrews and John Nicholas Brown. All quit the government to return to private business, Army authorities in Washington acknowledged that someone had blundered in publishing such a report without proof that it was true. They said it was 'based wholly on Japanese police . rec ords and that the army could not probe its charges.. The writer next issued a statement state-ment thanking the, army for "clearing my name and reputa-tation" reputa-tation" but asserting that she had suffered "irrevolcable" damage. MacArthur's headquarters in Tokyo had no immediate com-ment. com-ment. But Ma. Gen. Charles .A. wiuougnpy, MacArtnurs intei ligence officer, announced last week that, he assumed, full " re sponsibility for the report. He said that as a private citizen he was "delegated" with its pub lication because of its lessons on Russian methods. Hill took a different view, particularly par-ticularly of the uncorroborated char?fts levelled against Miss Smedley. He noted that the mill' tary establishment's central . in telligence group is supposed to be authority on all such matters but that it was hot consulted. on the Tokyo spy report. "What happened to that wo man could happen to you or me,' he said, "and admission that it was a faux pas' doesn't repair the damage. Brooks agreed that a "peculiar ?y tragic" mistake had been made. But he said he saw no way in which Miss Smedley could obtain ob-tain redress. Western Powers Assured U. S. Set Orem Girl, 15, in- Car Collision 3 Others Hurt In Crash Two Miles Southeast Of Geneva Steel Plant A 15-y ear-old Orem girl was instantly killed and , three other ' young ' people injured Saturday night in a train-car crash east of the lower Geneva road and south of the Geneva Steel plant. Joan Jensen, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James C. Jensen, was killed when she was crushed in the rear seat f a 1948 sedan as it was struck by a Denver and Rio Grande diesel-powered train. The accident occurred about :3o p.m. Injured were: Carol Mbldaway, 14, daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Holdaway of Vineyard; possible pos-sible fracture of the left shoulder, broken nose, I Injuries In-juries to teeth and facial cuts. Thomas Patten, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ecra Patten of Orem, brohen right hand and severe bead and facial cuts. Russell K, Adams, 18, son f Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth AfJams of Orem, facial and neck cuts and knee injury. Believed to be the least seriously In jared' of the three. The Adams youth waa driving driv-ing the car. .- . AH, injure - were a Mia Utah Valley hospital Saturday Satur-day night Investigating officers said the car was eastbottnd, and waa hit by a northbound train. Officers said occupants of the car told them they were distracted dis-tracted by a southbound Union Pacific train approaching approach-ing on a track just a short distance beyond the D. and R. G. crossing where the crash occurred. Their attention was apparently drawn to the other train nntil they failed to see the one which struck them. The car was struck in the rear as It was nearly across the tracks. The Jensen girl and the Patten youth were In the rear seat. The Holdaway girl was In the front seat with the driver. The crossing Is located about two miles southeast of the Geneva Steel plant and approximately one half mile east of the lower Geneva road. Faster-Than-Sound 'Flying Triangle' Tests Successful WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.R) The air force announced Saturday Satur-day successful completion of first test flights of a futuristic "flying triangle" designed to fly faster i.han sound. Speeds attained so far by the air force's newest and queerest looking research plane were kept secret. Flight tests are being continued at the Muroc, Cal., air base. The air force said the single-seat single-seat jet plane, labeled "Model 7002," was the first to fly with so-called "delta" wing. The radically-desiened wines with their 60rdegree sweeDback from an equilateral triangle jutting jut-ting out of the back half of a stubby fuselage. A large triangular triangu-lar stabilizer and rudder which forms the tail assembly of conventional con-ventional aircraft sticks up out or tne fuselage close behind the pilot's bubble-type cockpit. Until "Model 7002" came along a wing sweepback of 35 degrees had been the most extreme on any air force plane. Labor Approves North North Dies In Tra Norway OSLO, Norway, Feb. 19 (U.R) In a preliminary vote "the Jabor party congress overwhelmingly approved a govern ment proposal to join in the North Atlantic alliance, ah unimpeachable un-impeachable source said Saturday night, l The congress tentatively adopted a resolution recommending recom-mending that Norway align itself with the western democracies demo-cracies in the security and political fields, this source said. The vote was said to have been 329 to five. 1 r The source said a final vote on the resolution will, be taken Sunday. Political observers expected the convention to approve the governor's policy, but the size of the vote surprised them. to Sign Atlantic Treaty U.S. Will Not Stand Idly ! By If Others Attacked WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 .(U.R) Secretary of State Deaii Acheson assured Canada and" the five western European powers Saturday that the United States is willing to sign a North Atlantic defense pact "with teeth in it." Reliable informants said Acheson informed representatives represen-tatives of the six powers at a surprise meeting in the stat department that the United States will not stand idly by tf one of the signatory powers is attacked by an aggressor nation. Chairman Tom Connally of the senate foreign relations commit tee told a reporter, meanwhile, that he would approve treaty lan guage making it clear that this country will consider use of force to counter aggression in Europe. His one- reservation, Connally said, is that congress must say when. -Substantial Advancement He said his committee and the secretary of state have made "sub-tantial "sub-tantial advancement toward satis factory language" for the treaty, and Acheson is now free to seek agreement on the basis of the U. S. draft. There probably will be no more consultations between Acheson and the committee, Connally said. until agreement among the negotiating nego-tiating powers has been reached. Acheson met for one nour witn diplomats iof Canada, Great Brit ain. France. Belgium, Luxem bourg, and the Netherlanas. ine meeting was described as , in formal." Acheson conferred Fri day for three hours with the sen ate foreign relations committee on a draft of the; proposea aeiense treaty. On the basis of his discussions with the senators. Acheson re portedly outlined the position of this government. This is that the United States favors adoption oi the principle that ' an attack on one treaty nation should be con-sirtered con-sirtered as an attack on all others. "But "in discussing the? treaty with other nations, it was said, Acheson stressed that congress alone has final authority to de clare war for the United States. Steps Enumerated ' , In this connection, '! however, Acheson was said to hafe assured the six other oowersi that the United States would take imme Hint ern in heln anv nation at tacked. Such steps would include nromnt consultation with otner Signatory powers, possible trans fer of . arms, and application of drastic dinlomatic and economic sanctions aeaulst any aggressor. The soeed with which Acheson called the other nations in to dis continued on Pagr Two) Sheepman Found By Crew Nearly Starved To Death - PAROWAN Joseph B. Adams, sheepman, who had been stranded, 22 miles northwest of here, was brought to town by a five-man rescue party Friday midnight, according' to City Mar shal Ray H. Adams, nephew of the herder and head of the rescue res-cue group. When Mr. Adams' was reached by the crew, driving a power-wagon power-wagon and a caterpillar tractor, he was found in critical condition condi-tion due to lack of food. He had a hind leg of frozen ralto venison in bed with him. He had gnawed on it in order to keep alive. Unable to move him from his bed in the camp wagon, the rescue res-cue party attached the wagon to the tractor and hauled it 28 miles through tortuous country back to Parowan. When he was foiled the herder was suffering intensely from stomach trouble as result of his. long fast. He nearly had starved to death the marshal said. The;r marshal gave credit to Garth Stubbs, familiar .with the region, who acted as guide for the expedition; to Claude Harris, who operated the power wagon; to Roy Curt, cat driver, and John Cannon, relief cat driver, who "did an excellent job." Royce K Knight, Cedar City pilot, aided from the air, locating the camp and stock in the vicinity for the ground party. Party Congress Atlantic Pact Strong Mining Man Asks Labor Lav Clause To Bar Communists WASHINGTON, Feb; 19 (U. A mining industry spokesman told congress Saturday that tht anti-Communits provisions of the Taft-Hartley act should be strengthened in the new labor bill. He also suggested non-Communist non-Communist affidavits for employ- erg as well as union officers. Howard I. Young, president of the American Mining Congress. put' that suggestion to the senate labor committee, which is con sidering President Truman's recommendations rec-ommendations for new labor leg islation to replace the Taft-Hart ley law. v Pepper Scoffs Sen. Claude Pepper, D., Fit., scoffed at the idea. He implied that management officials should be required to sign non-fascist rather than non-Communist af fidavits, l ! ; Another witness, Nathan P. Feinsinger, University of Wisconsin Wis-consin law professor, told ' the committee tne wnoie Tan-Hartley law should be scrapped as President Truman recommended. He urged re-enactment , of v the Wagner act With certain amendments amend-ments for dealing with jurisdictional jurisdic-tional and national emergency strikes.' Young, who also' Is president of the American Zinc, Lead and Smelting- Co., said extension of the Taft-Hartley law's anti-Communist provision to employers would do away with the charge that unions are being discriminated discrimin-ated against in that section. Communism Major Problem He testified that Communism is a major problem in the - metal mining: industry because, he said, the Mine, Mill and Smelters union (CIO) is dominated by Reds. He charged that the union has created turmoil in the industry's labor relations. Young said his own company refused to deal with the 'union because the CIO officials failed to sign the non-Communist affidavits. af-fidavits. As a result, he said, four of the company's plants were struck six months ago and three of them are still strikebound. He acknowledged under questioning ques-tioning by Pepper that his company com-pany could have bargained with the union without violating the Taft-Hartley law. But Young said he was against that course, and that the strike could be ended tomorrow if the union officers would take the non-Communist oath. , Feinsinger, a former public member of the war labor board, described the Taft-Hartley law as "a product of anger, confusion and compromise, but also of considerable con-siderable Idealism." He added that it had failed. y : - To End Wednesday The hearings are scheduled to end Wednesday.-and senate Republicans Re-publicans are mapping a campaign cam-paign to amend the new bill to save at least some Taft-Hartley provisions. " GOP Sens. Robert A. Taft, Wayne L. Morse, Ore., and Irving (Continued on Page Two) Train Wreck In France Kills 40 PORT D' ATELIER, F ranee, Feb. 10 (L'JR Forty persons were killed and 20 injured seriously Friday night when the Nancy Dijon express collided with a locomotive, lo-comotive, railroad officials , said today. The officials said 40 bodies) had been removed from the wreck. Rescue crews working under flood lights continued to clear masses of twisted steel and splintered wood Irom the trackl. Several of the dead, including two children, have not yet been Identified. More than 100 other passengers were shaken up in the crash. which occurred at a rail junction junc-tion near here, but they did need hospital " treatment. William Fauzre. a 26-year-old student engineer, ! was at the throttle of the lone engine rout from Belfort to Blairville' when it collided obliquely' with the express ex-press at a switch. He was held by police. - An official investigation is underway. -" . |