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Show SUNDAY HERALD Sunday, February !l9, 1950 Gamest Man C 2? Kilted, 115 Injured In NX Ilsad-O- n Crash I Ever Saw Survivor Tells About Victim . Whose Legs Were Amputated was my friend," Doc Bill Murphy of Rockville Centre here, perched up there on the wreckage and he called; down to me. "Hey, Jack. Climb up ' here and give us a hand." I climbed up and I'm glad I did but I wouldn't want to have to do it again even if I ... had to. After the Dociygot through with him and they carried' him off to a hospital: Doc " said: j "I guess he won't make it." But it's my bet he will. Brave ones like that always do make it. I work down in Wall Street. I'm a stopk analyst for a brokerage house. I was going into New York to see a late, show since I don't work Saturdays and the only reason I'm! alive is that I got into the last car. Usually I ride up close to the front.: Somebody was looking t after me tonight. By JOHN KENNETH WALSH As told to the United Press ROCKVILLE CENTRE, Ni Y., Feb. 18 (U.R) I've got th blood of the gamest, bravest man I ever saw right here on my shirt sleeves. I held his head while the Doc sawed his legs off. (Continued from Pace Owe) jj , - Clare of pitiful screams of pain split through (the air.: "Kill me, for God'1 sake kill me," cried a man impaled on a piece of jagged steel. "My arm, my arm, I've lost shrieked a woman my arm, whose left arm was banging by a tenaon. . , The man who lost both less talked bravely as a doctor, using ampuoniy a local anaesthetic, i tated. ' ' "Take it easy. Doc," he said You're hurting mej I know you've got to do thlsto-ge- t nie loose. But for 'God's, sake take it arc-ligh- ts, He said:. "Take it easy. Doc. You're! hurting me. I know you've got to do this to get me loose But for God's sake, take i ' .' ; . " -- .easy.";.-- f ' Worse Than War ' i' i ,..? Eye witnesses, many of s them cam veterans ox bloody war-tim- e paigns, said it was worse than any battle scene they had seen. Shreds of flesh were caught on jagged steel. The cold metal (of the telescoped cars was slippery with blood. Some of toe passeng era had been decapitated. Others, who had been sleeping with their heads propped on train windows sat dead but still upright in their seats. Other bodies were pitched in the sprawl of death on - car , floors. It was one of those accidents railroad men thought couldn't happen in these days of modern track signals ' The train. with about 800 men and women bound lor home from dinner and busi ness .in New York, left Pennsylvania station at 10:03 p. m. for train, Babylon., The west-boufrom Babylon to New) York, car- riea sdoui zuu persons returning to the city from visits with, suburban friends or to their-- night jobs. I;west-bou- :, . The train had Just pulled out of the Rockville Center station. U had the right and was picking up speed as it moved onto ' the gantlet i - ' : I . . . easy." He was a brave" one. al right. The Doc could only couldn't give him a local knock him out completely. He was caught under smashed steel and his legs were! as the steel just as smashed .'.' y Vc was.': I had been riding in the last car had just gotten on the train here fit Rockville Centre. After the big smash J I jumped down to the ground, and ran up front and 'there) , -- - . 1 Ix-- - j, L yiv:- ; Vogeler Pleads Guilty To Spying Charge; Asks Mercy . Vogeler, who was dressed inl a black suit and a white shirt, told the court in a calm voice that he was trained as a spy by the U. S. federal bureau Of investigation In 1942, and that he had been an American agent; ever since.! He said his job with ITT was "only a cover for my espionage i Involves Chapin f. He indicated that former U. S. minister to Budapest Selden Chapin and, Indirectly, President Truman and other high American officials were linked with the spy ring he )s accused of heading. He said espionage and sabotage f , WOrk. v" f activities in Hungary were orderVogeler testified that after the ed by, Col. Sostehenes: Behn, a man who president of ITT Vogeler said had "associations" with Mr. Truman, Secretary of LDS State DeanM G. Acheson, i former Secretary of fH5tate George C. Marshall and former Treasury To Secretary Henry Morgenthau. Vogeler said Behn had ordered Standard Electric, ITTs Hungar track. ; iah subsidiary, to decrease pro Suddenly, out of the night, the train, running a few SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 1$ IXE) ductlon and to do no business with minutes late, roared aown ine Czechoslovakian officials have ;hard currency" countries..! one-wtrack for a head-o- n col refused to authorize continuation (Behn telephoned his New York office from Santiago, Chile, to lision. there wera two of misisonary work by the LDS day to say that the "dates) and al Although tracks in the gantlet, one rail of church and the 17 remaining mis leged activities' mentioned in the each track was inside the two sionaries will leave next week. Budapest trial "could not pos rails of the otherY The front cars Czech misisori sibly have been true in the light of the two trains ripped through lace , P. Toronto president Wal of full knowledge ' of Vogeler's that emphasized knife through each other like the misisonaries were not being whereabouts during the period cheese I ,v witnarawn because of the arrest being discussed.") He said also dl "several Blocks that rieard Far of , two missionaries recently. He r , said a new church law requires rectors of Other American under The orash was heard for blocks. tnat ail clergy of all churches In takings, like the directors of Within frninutes, the deserted the country Standard Oil," had told him that be Czech citizens.. 20 miles U. S. firms operating in night streets of this town other Toronto told from Times Square were filled here' that he church authorities eastern Europe had "similar in planned to appeal structions.' with men and women, all running to President Gottwald Klement Before railroad. toward the long at the and Premier Antonion Capotocky there were " 20,000 Confiscated in '4S people for permisison to continue mis " v.,scene. - Ambulance! screamed 4o the sionary work in Czechoslovakia.! (Standard Oil's Hungarian sub wreck from all the nearby towns Meanwhile, misisonary duties sidiary, the Hungarian-Americin Nassau county. More than 50 are being turned over to some Oil company, was confiscated by doctors t dashed to the scene. 250 church members in the coun the Budapest government in 1948, Workmen in this industrial town try. after two American officials of ran to their, shops and factories, . The. foreign office has announc the company had been forced, to and came back with acetylene ed that the two arrested mis- sign "sabotage confessions.) torches, sledge hammers and- sionariesStanley E. Abbott, 23, Vogeler said that he and Chap crow barjs to pry into the wreck- Lehi, Utah, and ;C Aldon John- in had discussed Geiger's ouall son, 22, Idaho Falls, Ida. would fications, and that the former U. Police tiere forced to rope off be held until completion of an S. minister had written a letter area to prea square saying that the Hungarian, al h vent relatives from pushing Into investigation, David O. McKay., second coun though nominally a Communist, of loved in search the wreckage selor in the first presidency of was completely trustworthy. v " :i Ones.''.-1- '' fllv LDS church said that the ac The motormen of both trains the Geiger, Budapest manager of tion taken by the Czech govern Standard but survived! only Electric, said Friday miraculously Kief er was arrested, policesaid ment has been expected. He said that he had discriminated against he faces? a maximum (penalty "Of arrangements had already been Russia and other east European 15 years 'in jaU and a $10,000 fine made to transfer some of the mis nations taking orders and dis sionaries to the British mission lor second degree manslaughter. shipments of goods. was while those who have been gone patching . Service in both directions The American defendant told more than two years would restored shortly before; noon. train for chief Hungarian Prosecutor Gyula . return home. . Railroad men sai'" the Alapai that "most of the Amer wreck epuld have been- - avoided ican businessmen in thispart of The run second." a of matter "by the world are specialists, tan Babylon HINT ACCEPTED between New York and one-wThe structed to collect special'data OSHKOSH, Neb. Oi.fi is about 50 miles. The Garden 300 County News asked' its which they have to report to the about only gantlet track, was the only place the readers for' suggestions for im- headquarters of u. 5. army in yards longcould f ,i proving the weekly publication. telligence. have occurred. accident jj,; Someone, suggested that somethe After Vogeler's testimony, thing ought to be done about three Hungarian codefendants those sparrows that perch on the completed their plea of guilty in big sign over the newspaper's little over an hour. The court re front door. The News announced cessed at 2:30 p. m. until 9 a. m. editorially that it had bought five Monaay. v ,.r pounds of poisoned oats. east-bou- nd nd - : . nd of-w- av ' i Missionaries Be Pulled Out Of Czechoslovakia The BERLIN, Ftb. 18 (U.B three western powers rejected Russia's explanation of her "baby blockade" Saturday and accused her of a calculated attempt to curb normal traffic between western Germany and Berlin, , They also disclosed that the Russians had deliberately delayed a second U, S. army passenger train at the Berlin border the , A of Feb; 4. night ' The American, ' British and French commandants in Berlin made their third and strongest protest against the "baby blockade" of Berlin in a letter to their Soviet counterpart. ; - ! j j i - I four-week-- old ! I MocForlane To See!c As Party Chairman , -- Koti-kov.- on -- , KICTH 03 ;CflBfJES: ee TREMENDOUS SAVINGS anti-evolutio- , 1 . , -- Refrigerator Finish Flushed Design For Easy Installation Chrome Hardwares Consealed Hinges Space Saving Streamlined Beauty jit AU Base Cabinets Burn Proof Micalite Top Thermal-Bake- d -- CONSERVE AT ay : -- CON SOLIDATED :NQ DOWN PAYMENT PAY A LITTLE EACH MONTH i I Phone Fails to Help uerendanr 30-d- ay nd . By The letter . rejected Kotikov's assurances Feb." 4 that there had SALT LAKE CITY. Feb. 18 W A Salt Lake county jail, inmate been no deliberate Interference a sentence for with traffic between western Ber- serving to pay support for two lin and western Germany and that failure minor daughters cooked up a control measures were introduced "tidy" scheme .for evading the only to prevent smuggling from sentence if it had only worked. the Soviet zone to western GerCornelius Bierman thought it many.' had worked' when he was taken j"The record of events during his cell and summoned into I the past several weeks leaves no from third U. Judge Albert doubt that, a series of measures Ellen'sdistrict ' courtroom.; has been taken or authorized by Ellett said "Bierman have you the Soviet authorities With the had people write and telephone clear Intention of seriously ob- me telling me what a good fellow structing this traffic by admini- you are?" strative action," the letter said. "Yes," Bierman answered. facts serve to strengthen "Then get on that phone and Mi. Gen. Alexander ,KotikovJ our"These conviction that these actions call all those people and tell them by the Soviet authorities are a to lay off,! Ellett replied. "I calculated attemp to resric the haven't beeja able to sleep at normal movement of persons and night because of your henchand western men calling me." gpods beween Berlin ' Re-electizones." on Bierman . phastily complied .j The western commandants re- using Ellett's phone and was called that they had asked ushered back to his cell with the Jan. 21 and 26 to remove warning that any more calls the traffic delays. would mean another 30 days. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 18 U.R) 4 Utah State Democratic Chair man Grant MacFarlane has con firmed his candidacy for reelec tion to the post at the state re organization May 6.Chalrman Parnell Black, of the Salt Lake . County Democratic an committee, simultaneously nounced that hewould be a can aiaate tor reelection orxne coun ;? ; tr post. ' 'i li" Black former, state chairman was approached by a group of ALL STEEL Democratic state, county and city "MONKEY TUAL at Dayton, Tenn in 1925 was a world officials who urged him to seek tion.) John Scopes, at right above, an obscure: teacher of biology, another! term. He assured them was arrested for breaking the Tennesse law against teaching Darhe would.! that of win's theory evolution. The test ease attracted the top legal and Is a former state MacFarlane newspaper talent of the nation, and for eight blistering-h- ot days senator was Salt Lake county in July all eyes turned on the trial in Dayton. To the defense came chairmanand ' AT of the Democratic-Committfamed lawyer Clarence Darrow from Chicago; aiding the prosecution 1942. He served two in was the Great Commoner William Jennings Bryan. Although terms in the state senate 'and was Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for his offense, the of the senate for one crfuse was held up to ridicule, t Final Irony in the ease presidentand two special sessions regular was the sudden death of Bryan shortly after he had tangled with We Need Room for New Merchandise The incumbents are the only : Darrow as) a witness for the "fundamentalists." announced .candidates for the . Jj. posts.' HENRY FORD'S WIDOW auto was pioneer, reported 'SLIGHTLY IMPROVED losses of the United States "slightly! Improved" Friday in her in Fire 1948 were the highest on recDETROIT, Feb. 18 (U.R) Mrs. battle against a serious heart ord. $711,114,000. according to the Henry Ford, 83, widow of the condition. jlf. Insulated and Sound Deadened. Encyclopedia Britannica. - east-bou- Calling Judge - war he was sent tor Hungary to collect military, political, "and, tions with Hungary because lof first of all, technical data for U. the treatment accorded Sanders.) 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