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2 JnbftirttbfHl-lnuntat. Tuesday. August 23, 1955 Derailment Of Zephyr Blame On Track Fault HAYWARD Investigators today tentatively blamed a soft spot beneath a section of newly- laid track for the derailment of nine cars of Western plush California Zephyr near a downtown Hayward intersection. Although most of the 196 passengers aboard were shaken and frightened when the train jumped the tracks late yesterday, none vras reported injured. Two crewmen suffered minor injuries.

I' IR.XIX view ot Western Californin Zephvr which lelt the rails at Havward while en route to Oakland. Approximately 500 leet ot track were torn by the eight cars which were derailed. Only slight injuries were reported. NONE OVERTURNED None of the cars overturned and all remained coupled to one another after the 12-car westbound streamliner came to a crunching jolting stop after ripping out an estimated 960 feet of track. Railroad ties were scattered about like matchsticks.

The diesel locomotive its baggage car and a passenger coach remained on the tracks. Western Pacific Investigators said a section of newly-laid track shifted out of line and overturned beneath the dining car, fourth in line behind the engine. The diner jumped the rails, pulling eight cars with a crowded cafe-lounge car, a domed observation car, a coach and pullmans. Lauds Atoms Meet Stratojets Assemble Stratojet bombers, arriving from all over the country for the series of air continued to touch down today at March Air Force Base. The six jets of each of the B47 medium bombers whine in earnest tomorrow when the first flights of the seventh annual Strategic Air Command bombing and navigation competition take off for targets in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Spokane.

French Strike Back The competition is being held jointly at March Air Force Base and Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane. Ike Asks Flood Aid 10 Kids Killed As Train Rams School Bus Storm Smashes Honeymoon Cruise Boat; Husband Dies SPRING CITY, Tenn. (JP) A long freight train, its whistle tooting shrilly, rammed into a loaded grammar school bus here yesterday, killing 10 yongsters and injuring 30 others and the bus driver. The yellow-pa in ted bus was mid- wav acroea the downtown grade ERIE, Pa. (U.R)—The honeymoon i their marriage.

She had never cruise of a 78-year-old Spanish- i sailed before. American War veteran and his 70- xhey piloted the 18-foot craft year-old bride ended in tragedy north along the Atlantic Coa.st in- yesterday when a sudden storm tn the Great Lakes and had smashed their cabin boat to bits I tended to continue on to Chicago on Lake Erie and the husband I and to return to Florida bv SUDDEN LURCH Engineer L. L. Seyforth of San Leandro said he had just pulled HARTFORD, Conn. Eisenhower today pledged a special session of Congress to relief for flood-ravaged Northeastern states.

Simultaneously, he summoned the public to contribute everything possible to the Red Cross. After an aerial inspection tour of parts of the devastated region and a meeting here with the governors of six afflicted states, the President said in a broadcast: my opinion everybody within the sound of my voice will sleep better tonight if he turns in everything that he can spare to meet this great disaster that has happened to our fellow CASABLANCA (JPs Armored French columns under fighter plane cover struck today in overwhelming strength at the mountain strongholds of Moroccan tribesmen who launched an insurrection Saturday. Heavy reinforcing columns set out last night from Rabat and Meknes to join the already strong French forces cutting off the Kas- ba Talda area east of Oued Zem. French officials would not disclose the number of troops employed, but said, you go into those mountains, you do it with 50 Although the operation was characterized as a French officials said there would be no which in French military terminology means no mass executions. Ambassador Ejected HOUSTON, Tex.

a restaurant supervisor thought they were Negroes, ambassador to the United States and his secretary were asked to leave the public dining room of a swank eating place yesterday. Mrs. Mary Alley, the supervisor, was reported by a witness to have said she asked the pair to take service in a small private dining room. the she was quoted as saying. DENVER (iP) The a peace conference in Geneva assisted the cause of and President Eisenhower is hopeful there will be another such meeting, Lewis L.

Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said yesterday. Strauss, in Denver to report to the President of the just-concluded meeting, told Eisenhower that out of the conference came Indications the United States is clearly of Russia in development of atomic power for peaceful use. Texas law forbids serving Negroes and white people in the same room. Reformatory Revolt Ask TV For Redding died. Mrs.

Louise Hecker, New Port Rickey, whose husband died in her arms as they bobbed in life preservers, said their boat opened up and split She struggled desperately for of the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico. The couple had nearly reached the halfway mark of their journey Friday night when they arrived at nearby Dunkirk, N. Y. They resumed their journey Saturday out of the station at Hayward, some 20 miles across the bay from San Francisco, and was heading for nearby Oakland, the West Coast terminus, when he felt slammed on the emergency he said. God all the cars remained Western Pacific officials the rails apparently spread at a soft spot in the new road bed, 75 feet west of a downtown intersection.

Repair crews had just laid the new track and additional ballast has not yet been placed between the ties, investigators said. LINCOLN, Neb. bottle- tossing and fire-setting riot at the Nebraska State Reformatory was quelled last night by guards who jerked more than 100 prisoners from cells, stripped them and slammed them into tiny cells of the maximum security jail. It followed a riot and fire at the state penitentiary last week. Reformatory Supt.

George Morris said his own trouble started because the inmates wanted to distract attention from a search for tWo work detail prisoners seeking to escape. WASHINGTON Shasta Telecasters today applied to the Communications Commission for permission to build a television station at Redding, Calif. It is the only applicant for that facility. The company is composed of eight business and professional men. including Redding Mayor George C.

Flehart. none of whom have any present broadcasting interest. A strong young male elephant is worth $800 to $1,400 in East Pakistan, says the National Geographic Society. The oil filter in your car will remove a pound or more of sludge and dirt in 5,000 miles of driving. crossing when the 100-car train niore than two hours to save her niorning but were driven back by smacked into it at an e.stimated speed of 45 miles an hour.

some with children aboard the bus, stood horrified as the little bodies were flung along the tracks. husband, Capt. Harvey Hecker, i weather. The same thing oc- before she was taken by Coast curred Sunday. When they left port yesterday U.S.

farmers used an average of 373 kilow'att hours of electricity in July, 1954. This is 46 more than in July, 1953. Guard boat to an Erie hospital. Coroner Millard 'Turner said Hecker died of a combination of storm struck. the weather was fair and the lake calm.

Four hours later the fatal The chiidren, raneini In and exposure. exports of $1.222,948 worth of autos in the first six months of 1955 were up 80 per cent from the previous year. from 6 to 12, had ju.st begun the The Coast Guard rushed to the second week of school. All were about 14 miles east of here killed or injured. when Herbert Durst, a farmer, IN SERIOUS CONDITION heard Mrs.

a At least 5 of the 21 hospitalized short distance off shore. He said overnight were in serious condi- he found the woman struggling to tion. Nine others and the bus remain afloat. She was clutching driver, Raymond Moore, 39, were the body of her husband, who had treated and released. All the victims were thought to have lived in the Back Valley com- died about 30 minutes before.

Mrs. Hecker and her husband were on a honeymoon munity northwest nf began at New City, a town of less than 2.000 and residents between Knoxville Chattanooga. Moore, who started driving a school bus only last week, said he stopped at the crossing but his view was blocked by four parked cars. I started across the tracks I saw it train? and i heard the engineer blowing his he said. prayed I would make it but I knew I was too i Moore was charged with manslaughter and released on bond at nearby Dayton.

Walter Boles, 10. one of the less seriously injured pupils, said: remember turning a couple of flips in the bus but about all. I remember hearing the train whistle blow. It was over so quick I just know how it DESCRIBES SCENE Crene Cri.sp, a television repairman, said he reached the tragic scene after the crash. Shattered glass and school books lay among the mangled bodies.

boys came running toward me out of the dust, hollering I was never so glad to see anybody in my sons. Robert. 7. and Francis, 8. required only first aid treatment.

Paul Gilles, engineer of he Southern Railway train, also was charged with manslaughter, highway patrolmen said. Spring City schools, as in many other rural Tennessee areas, start classes in August to allow a harvest-time recess Gov. Frank Clement ordered an immediate investigation. The crossing was equipped with automatic warning State Highway Patrol Set Stmder quoted Moore as saying the signal device was not working. Strader said several bystanders reported Port Richey last May soon after Race Track Betting Hits $400 Million SACRAMENTO race bettors poured $410.804,270 through pari-mutual windows at California tracks during the 12-month period ending June 30 and the take totaled $23,259,726.

State Controller Robert C. Kirkwood said five of the six major tracks contributed $18,663,752. The state takes a share of the betting pool along with taxing the tracks. Kirkwood said the general fund received $5.469,611. the state college fund, $1.318,748 and the balance, $16.471.367, to the fair and exposition fund.

That fund was divided: Citrus fruit fairs. $787.285: county and district fairs. University of California, California Polytechnic College. other state agencies. $907,498, and reserve for fair building purpovses, $3.637.256.

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