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1 I TO CITY CHURCH BUILDING HITS PEAK OF BOOM Permits for Nearly $3,000,000 Issued Since Late 1946 Train. Derailed at Dassei i1 "TTr" 1 P5P If I iff- f-'ti 7 PAC OF 95 IN DIC A TED FOR CITY Minneapolis will have heat of 90 to 95 'degrees today, only slight improvement over yesterday's high of 99. Much of the Upper Midwest will have more decided drops in temperature, the weather bureau said. Skies will be partly cloudy over the city and a few showers are expected tonight. A low of 70 tonight will be followed again Saturday by heat of around 90 degrees.

Last night, cool gusts of wind swept through the city from the northwest. Rain spattered scattered sections in the Min neapolis area and there was a -mil" i illll-f riaiaaiJiWaVrtiatlh 'i fl TtMil -I t. St4ix4fcto.W MIMVF.APOt.IS TRIBINE rilOTO BT LAKRT SCHBEIBEK AT DASSEL GREAT NORTHERN'S ORIENTAL LIMITED Mail and baggage cars shmvn on sides; other cars Ex-POW Sues Former Comrade By BARBARA FLANAGAN MiaaeaaoUa TribaM Staff Writer A church building bxm which began in 1946 is expected to reach a peak this year, according to permits filed mth the city building inspector! office. Added to the $1,989,000 in per- mits filed last year, and the in 1946, this year's pet mits bring the total to more tnan Approximately 30 new church buildings are in the planning or construction stage in Minnejipo-li and suburbs, or have I pen completed recently. One of the largest.

Mount Olivet Lutheran church, 5009 Knox avenue has br-en In construction more than two years. The Rev. Reuben K. YoungdahL pastor, said he hopes services can begin there by Dec. 1.

Dedicition ceremonies are planned for January. Cost of construction of the gothic style stone building will be 5600,000, Mr. YoungdaM aid. Sanctuary of the church and two chapels will seat 1,300 piople. A large dining room in the church basement will accommo date 600 diners.

The room also includes a stage equipped with cressing rooms lor church pro grams. A choir room, Boy Scout Tieet-lng room, offices and a reception room also are included. Hugo Haeuser, Milwaukee, is the architect, and T. M. Carl son, Minneapolis, the contractor.

Catholics Honor First U. S. Saint Commemorating the first Unit ed States Catholic saint, St. Fran ces Cabrini church. 1501 E.

River terrace, was dedicated June 27. It is built in contemporary style, of red brick. The Rev. 3rian Keany said the cast including furnishings amounted to approximately $200,000. The church will accommodate 340 people, and the adjoining rec tory will be living quarter for the priest and his sssistant.

Long and Thorshov are the architects and E. M. Ganley contractors. Another new Catholic ch arch is Church cf the Visitation at 4530 avenue S. The church has been lr use since May 1.

The Rev. Robert E. Cogwin is pastor. Visitation is a two-story and basement building containin? the church and parochial schoo The sanctuary will hold 700 pecle and is decorated with copies of third century triptych City Churches Continued on Page Four WITNESS SAW OTHER Carole's 3 HUR 14 CARS LEAVE TRACKS SPECIAL TO MINNEAPOLIS TRIBl'NE DASSEL, MINN. The Minneapolis-bound Oriental Limited of the Great Northern railroad was derailed here Thursday night.

Three persons were hurt, including a nun, but the only one whose injuries were considered serious enough to require hospi DERAILED leave tracks 3 RAIL UNIONS SETTLE DISPUTE 15i -Cent Hike. Rules Changes Accepted WASHINGTON UP) The wage dispute which threatened a nation-wide rail strike and caused government seizure of the railroads was settled peace ably late Thursday. The settlement was announced by the White House. Representa tives of management and the three railroad brotherhoods which called the strike adjusted their differ ences in a series of conferences there arranged by John R. Steel man, presidential assistant.

The engineers, firemen and switchmen accepted a wage in crease of cents an hour, retroactive to last Nov. 1, plus several changes in operating rules, some of which will increase the railroadmen's take-home pay. Railroad management repre Rail Accord Continued on Page Four in Prison Debt A Minneapolis veteran of Japanese prison camps Thursday filed suit in a California court, charg ing that a fellow prisoner failed to pay a $10,000 promissory note made while both were war prison ers of the Japanese. An attorney filed the suit on behalf of Robert E. Conn, 4S7U W.

Lake Harriet boulevard. A former infantry major, Conn was captured on Bataan. Thes uit was filed against Robert Morris Vanderbilt Brown at San Jose, International News Service reported. The complaint stated that Brown made out the note to Conn while both were prisoners of war In Jinsen, Korea, in August. 1945.

It said that the $10,000 note was for "value received." Attorney Nathan Finch said Brown agreed to pay off the note "six months after release" and had not done so. U. S. ASKS ARABS TO RENEW TRUCE Urges U. N.

to Act Against Arab League LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. LV) The United States said Thursday the security council should invoke strong measures including force if necessary if the Arabs fail to extend the Palestine truce. United States deputy delegate Philip C. Jessup appealed to the Arab nations to reconsider their decision to resume warfare in the Holy Land at midnight last Minneapolis time, when a four- week armistice ends.

He said if they refused, the United States was ready to carry out its obligations under the U. N. Jessup's statement here was interpreted as meaning that Washington would be ready to join in diplomatic and economic sanctions or even supply troops should the U. N. decide to take such steps.

The council decided it did not have enough official details to act. It issued a hurried call for direct information from Israel, the Palestine Continued on Page Five SUICIDE LETTER brilliant display of lightning. The mercury dropped from 83 at 11 p.m., when the wind began, to 76 at midnight. Temperature in Minneapolis at 2 a.m. today was i.

The weather bureau said wide ly scattered showers extended aj lar west as Sioux Falls, S. D. BETTER FOR DAKOTAS The Dakotas and northern Min nesota will have a better "breather" from the week-long heat wavt than Minneapolis. Dakota highs will be from 80 to 90. Minnesota will be partly cloudy and scattered showers are predicted for the northern part of the state.

There is no indication that the heat wave will definitely be broken, however, forecasters said. Parts of Minnesota and the Da kotas got slight relief yesterday. A low pressure area which has been largely responsible for seven days of heat, moved out of th Dakotas. It hung over Winnipeg, Canada, at noon. A cold front looped from there into South Dakota.

Temperatures dropped 5 to 8 degrees west of the front. Rapid City, S. re ported 77, Pembina, N. an 83. To the east, temperatures steamed on at the rate of 101 in St.

Paul, 99 in Minneapolis and 98 at St Cloud. SWIMMER DROWNS A Minneapolis man seeking re lief from the heat drowned In Theodore Wirth lake. The body of Jackson Scott, about 46. op erator of a rooming house at 512 Lyndale avenue was found by another swimmer at 10 a.m. yes terday.

Drownings of two women In tha Minneapolis area Wednesday vera reported previously. At Valley City, N. John Hendrickson, 64, was found dead in a hayfield. He apparently was overcome by the heat. Mrs.

Alice Andrews, 72, was found dead at her farm home near Fairmont, N. D. Coroner Frank Schmitt attributed death to a heart attack from heat and exhaustion. TWO OVERCOME Two Minneapolis residents were taken to General hospital after they were overcome by heat, James Fourre, 82, 127 E. Fifteenth street, was reported in critical condition.

John Pauly, 65, 2934 Nicollet avenue, was in poor condition. Seventeen cows suffocated at the Martin Timmer farm near International Falls, Minn. They jammed into a small chicken house, trying to escape from flies. Tim-mer managed to get six others out. The hottest July 8 on Minneapolis weather bureau records Is that of 1936101.

The July 9 record Is 97 in 192L June rains in South Dakota nearly equalled total precipitation for the preceding five months of the year and boosted the state av-erage to .34 of an inch above normal, federal meteorologist B. R. Laskowski said yesterday. TURN THE PAGES TO: KIERSAS'S COKER Washington 2 Labor Politics 3 Editorials .5, 8 6 BJORXSOX: Xation'a Kilgallen Weather 8 'Round World 7 Theaters 8, 9 WiXCHKLE. 9 HART Picture Story.

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IT SAYS HERE, ON WAY DOWN! Top floor. Going down today. Upper Midwest hot spots Thursday, the seventh day of the heat wave: Paul, 101. Minneapolis, 99. St.

Cloud, 98. Willmar, 97. Rochester, 96. Grand Forks, N. 96.

Philip, S. 93. Swimmers Warned of Death Causes The Minneapolis park board Thursday warned that are two reasons why four swimmers lost their lives in city lakes dur ing the last week. Victims were either bathing at other than supervised beaches or were swimming after hours at guarded ones, the board said in a statement. SAME REASONS The statement was Issued by Charles E.

Doell, park superintendent, and Karl Raymond, director of recreation. They added that every drowning case Involving swimmers in the past several years In Minneapolis lakes can be laid1 to the same reasons. Persons who are not excellent swimmers should go only to the four main beaches, they said These are at Lake Calhoun, Lake Nokomis. Theodore Wirth lake and Webber baths. Guards are on dutv at each of them from 1 to 10 p.m.

Lifeguard services are avail able at six neighborhood beaches These beaches are not regarded to be as safe for novice swimmers as the main ones. OTHER BEACHES LISTED At the neighborhood beaches guards are on duty from 1 p.m. to 5:30 D.m. and from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

The beaches are: Calhoun Thirty-second street, Thomas; Nokomis Fiftieth street Har riet north shore: Cedar Twenty-eighth street; Hiawatha east shore. "We cannot keep the neighbor hood beaches open past 8:30 p.m because they are not lighted. We cannot watch swimmers in the dark," the board's statement said IGNORANCE IS Wrong Keys, Police Call Fail to Foil Bandit Things didn't break right for holdup man Thursday night, but he didn't know it and it probably wouldn't have made any differ ence if he had. As he bared a pistol, encased in a hip holster, at two men seated in an automobile in front of the Sheridan hotel, lie was observed by Mrs. Alex Giudicl, Hurley, a guest at the hotel.

She called police, who came within 60 seconds. The robber, meanwhile, obtained $10 from J. Strandskov, 2133 Minneapolis avenue, and Paul Beyreuther, Aitkin, Minn. Apparently hoping to block pursuit, he also asked for the car keys, saying he would drop them in a nearby alley. Strandskov, however, gave the robber his house keys.

This was a neat trick, but it failed to accomplish anything. The bandit fled before police arrived. Fat Mia Diamond Rlnr ihe'U alwm.a rhrriah, -hca a Keepsake from our large aelecuon. iiai A. Kobtn, 35 So.

tth it. Adr, Second Note Hunted HOLLYWOOD (INSi) British film star Rex Harrison, who found Carole LandiV body, Thursday flatly denied any knowledge of a second suicide note by the dead screen beauty. However, another witness at a coroner's inquiry declared under oath that she had stn a second note written by the blond talization was Harry Howard, Havre, an off-duty baggage man. He was taken to a hospital at Litchfield, with bruises and passible internal injuries. His con dition was reported as "not too serious." 250 PASSENGERS The Seattle to Chicago passenger train was carrying about 250 passengers, many of them Twin Cities people.

The train was due in Minneapolis at 10 p.m. The train left the tracks as it roared past Dassei station, where it does not stop. (Dassei is 55 miles west of Minneapolis in Meeker county. All but the rear five cars of the 19-car train left the tracks. A baggage car and a mail car turned on their sides, and a re frigerator express car full of fish was left badly tilted.

A mail car fell on its side. Remaining cars including things, in the note Miss Landis wrote her mother, was the following language: Tm sorry, really sorry, but there Is no way to avoid "Have you ever heard Miss Landis say anything that would indicate what she meant?" "1 cannot think," Harmon replied. "I'm sorry, I don't know what it could be." Nance asked if he thought four points divorce, her career, her fi nancial problems and her illness covered all possible reasons for her having committed suicide. The actor replied: "Yes." I KIK.M) DISAGREES Then Mrs. Florence Wasson, Beverly Hills, a close friend of the actress, testified: "I had been upstairs In the bedroom and there were a lot of men there, and someone handed me a note on a piece of paper.

"It was not addressed to any one, nut the thing that struck me when I read the note was the instruction to take the rat to the veterinarian. "I handed it back to the man who gave it to me, and I can't remember anything else about the contents of the note." Harrison arrived at the coro- Carole Landis Continued on Page Two UTCKfmO 1RAIN WRECK DASSEL MMHEAWtJjJ in a 0 AMLE3 20 coaches, sleepers, dining and observation cars, remained upright but were leaning. A railway official said it was believed the rear trucks of the Diesel engine left the tracks and pulled the other cars off. Busses were sent from Minne apolis to take the passengers there and trucks were sent to carry the mail. National guardsmen from Litch field were called out to help au thorities handle the emergency.

LINE RLOCKEIt The main line was blocked. A wrecking crew was sent here from Willmar, a Great Northern divis ion point. The westbound Empire Builder passenger train, which left Min lieapolis at 8:30 p.m. last night was re-routed through St. Cloud, Minn, to Fargo, N.

D. The east- bound Empire Builder, due in Minneapolis at 6:30 a.m. today, also was re-routed. Both trains will be several hours late, offi cials said. Ambulances were called to the scene from Litchfield but none was needed.

Passengers said that the derail ment occurred so quickly that they "didn't have time to got scared." A. F. Marquardt. 3832 Columbus avenue, Minneapolis, said: "The train was going through Dassei and all of a sudden several cars jumped the tracks. There was lot of screaming, but apparently nobody was hurt.

TRACK TORN I "Some of the cars were over on their sides and other just tipped. The engine didn't go off. A lot of track was torn up. Nobody seems to know just what happened." Manford Ishmael, Watertown, said he witnessed the wreck from about 200 yards. The re- Rail Wreck Continued on Page Two scene of I If JjVrA jfc'rjr ll akl illffiii'amtoiaiiaT'i' actress.

These conflicting develop ments occurred as funeral arrangements were announced. BCTUAL SATURDAY The ill-starred original "sweater girl" of the movies is to be buried at 12:30 Saturday the Church of the Recessional In Forest Lawn Memorial park. Glen-dale, Calif. A family spokesman sad she would go to her grave in a "heavenly-blue formal evening gown, embroidered with pearls aid sequins." It was Miss Landis favorite gown and was worn by ber in a recent picture. Harrison, minus his usual suav ity, took the witness stand and answered direct questions at a two-hour "informal Inquest" into the actress' mysterious sleeping pill suicide.

The hearing failed to solve the mystery. It failed to uncover any reason why the glamorous blond should have snuffed out her life. XOT QUITE SURE Deputy coroner Ira Nancr asked the British actor if he the 'X Si I i 3 4 SinxJ MRS. FLORENCE WASSON Recall second mexmge handwriting on an envelope which the victim clutched in her hands when her body was found. He replied: "I think it's Miss Landis', but I'm not absolutely sure." Nance asked him "Among other .5,.,,,.

'i-. Jr INFANT S.WKI) FROM DROWNING Waving her arm happily, Sandra Steffen, 9 months, sits on the lap of the man who saved her life Thursday. The infant toppled face down in a bathtub containing a small amount of water. Her frantic mother, Mrs. Louis E.

Steffen, 4615 Eighteenth avenue pulled Sandra from the tub and summoned C. E. Carlson, 4619 Eighteenth avenue S. His application of artificial respiration, said the fire department rescue squad, restored Sandra's breathing. 1.