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THE BINGHAMTON PRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1943. 3 Joint Probe Into Train Wreck Probably Will Be Held Here Schiller Street Woman Dead After Scalding Former City Resident Is Injured; Eyewitness Tells of Crash A joint Public Service Commission-Interstate Commerce Com- mission investigation into last night's wreck of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Limited near Wayland, in which one Binghamtonian was killed, probably will be held in Binghamton, Commissioner Neal Brewster announced today. Two Public Service Commission representatives were at Wayland, today to gather information preparatory to the joint investigation. Fred J. Spangenberger, chief boiler, and locomotives inspector, sent he had been assigned by the commission, and a second representative was dispatched to the scene from Binghamton.

Train Was Late Here Mrs. Helen I. Foster, 52, of 4 Schiller Street, was fatally injured and a former Binghamton woman was slightly hurt in the wreck. Binghamton officials of the railroad said that between 20 and 25 persons purchased tickets on the Buffalo-bound train at the Binghamton, Vestal and Owego stations. The train was scheduled P.

did not leave until to leavout Binghamton at 2:20 30 minutes later. The casualty list carried by news service dispatches today contained name of only one passenger from this area in addition to that of Mrs. Foster. Mrs. Katherine Webber, 32, Niagara Falls, daughter of Charles E.

Quain, 16 Emmett Street, was listed as injured. On Way to Visit Son Mrs. Foster, who died at 11:15 p. m. in a Wayland hospital after being scalded by escaping steam from a broken steam cylinder on the fast passenger train, was en route to Cleveland to meet a son, Charles L.

Foster, a a subdeacon in a Rochester Seminary. Mrs. Webber, mother of four children, was en route to her Niagara Falls home after visiting at the home of her father. Mrs. Webber, whose husband notified Mr.

Quain this morning that daughter was only slightly hurt, had planned to leave Sunday but was unable to get reservations. In the Wayland hospital, Mrs. Webber was to be X-rayed today for a possible leg fracture. She also is suffering from shock. Among persons known to be on the train was R.

Crosby Coughlin, 12 Campbell Court Road, vicepresident of Clark-Cleveland, Inc. Realized Crash Inevitable According to Carleton A. Cleveland, president of the firm, Mr. Coughlin, who was en route to Buffalo on business, was an eye witness of the accident. Mr.

Coughlin told Mr. Cleveland by telephone from Buffalo at 7:30 this morning that he was riding in the lounge car directly behind the baggage car and was unhurt. Mr. Coughlin related that he saw the approach of the switch engine and realized a crash was, inevitable. Mr.

Coughlin escaped injury despite the fact all of the windows in the lounge car were broken. He said a man seated next to him suffered several rib fractures. Also on the train was Private William E. Leach of 67 Broad Avenue, who was returning to Camp Breckenridge, and Mrs. Charles A.

Prouty, relatives of Harold Rawlins, 43 Fourth Street. Johnson City, who were en to their Butte, home after, spending the summer in Johnson City; and Lieut. Joseph Stemensky of 5 Slauson Avenue, who was returning to his army post. Private Gordon Sullivan, of Mr. and Timothy Sullivan, 51 Robinson Street; Christopher McCarthy, uncle of George F.

Rogers, commander of the Broome County American Legion, and F. Richard Schumacher, of the U. S. Army, son of Fred Schumacher, 126 Helen Street, also were believed to have been on the train. Conductor Not Injured The conductor of the train, Squire L.

Cooper of 61 Johnson Avenue, who was reported uninjured, could not be reached at his home. Private Leach, who is the son of Mrs. Grace Leach, 220 Front of Street, and husband of Mrs. Isabelle Leach, telephoned his wife at City Hospital last night and informed her he was not hurt. telephoned from Buffalo.

The soldier was returning to camp after a 15-day furlough granted him so he could be with his wife, who recently underwent a serious operation at the hospital. The body of Mrs. Foster will be returned to the J. A. McCormack Sons Funeral Home, 158 Court Street.

The wife of Charles L. Foster, an engineer, Mrs. Foster is survived, in addition to the son, Charles, by the following: A son, Corp. Robert Francis Foster, who is in the army at Camp DeRidder, four sisters, Mrs. John B.

Bowen, Mrs. John M. Cronin and Mrs. John J. Reardon, all of this city, and Mrs.

Richard Butler of Cleveland, Ohio; four brothers, John P. Sullivan of Napoleon, Ohio, Thomas M. Sullivan and James F. Sullivan of this city, Lieut. Joseph Sullivan of U.

S. Navy; a cousin, Miss Mary Kane, city. CAP to Join Guardsmen's Maneuvers 150 From Triple Cities Going to Gilbert Lake Park Sept. 12 Between 500 and 700 members of the First New York State Guard, including more than 150 from the Triple Cities, will take part in maneuvers for their first regimental problem at Gilbert Lake Sept. 12.

Under the leadership of Col. Willard H. Donner of Albany, companies from the Triple Cities, Oneonta, Walton, Poughkeepsie and Albany and a communications detachment of the Sixth Regiment of Utica will take part, Capt. Kenneth L. Black, commander of Company I of Oneonta, said today.

During the maneuvers, the regiment's Third Battalion, working with a Civilian Air Patrol (CAP) will be on the defense under Maj. Arthur S. Murray. The CAP Aight will provide aerial observation. The offensive will be conducted by the First and Second Battalions under Colonel Donner.

The communications detachment from will work with the attacking force. 15 Will Umpire Capt. Lewis M. Baker, of Company G. Tenth Regiment, National Guard, will be chief of 15 umpires, all former army officers.

The maneuvers, it was explained, are the first to be held aside from the regular maneuvers conducted during the summer at Peekskill. They are the first in which the full regiment will take part simultaneously, former maneuvers being set up largely for companies and platoons, Captain Black pointed out. weapons Small will arms be and employed, it automatic was explained. The Red Cross Motor Corps also will assist the regiment. The Sept.

11 maneuvers by the regiments will follow a regimental parade and review to be held in Oneonta the Saturday regimental afternoon. band and Captain Baker, parade marshal, the parade will be part of Oneonta's War Bond rally, Captain Black said. Taking part in the parade and maneuvers will be the following units: Regional Headquarters company and staff headed by Colonel DonI ner; the First Battalion under Maj. Arthur H. Norris, first regimental band, medical detachment, headquarters and service companies, all of Albany; Second Battalion under Maj.

Roy T. Hutchins of Binghamton, including the headquarters detachment and Companies and of Binghamton and Company Walton; the Tird Battalion under Major Murray, including headquarters detachment and Company of Poughkeepsie, Company of Hudson and Company I of Oneonta. CAP personnel of the district, under supervision of Tri-Cities Airport CAP officials, and civilian units also will take part in the parade. Review to Be Held Following the parade, a regimental review will be held at 6:30 p. m.

Saturday at Neahwa Park. Mess then will be served the men at Wilbur Park in Oneonta under the directiono of the American Women's Volunteer Service and battalion mess sergeants and cooks. The City of Oneonta is sponsoring the cost of food. The regiment then will proceed to the old Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp at Gilbert Lake where the men will bivouac fo rthe night. Captain Black has been appointed to be in charge of military arrangements for the Sept.

12 maneuvers. Interracial Society To Resume Programs The fall and winter program of the Interracial Association will be started Sept. 15. Club groups, suspended during the summer, will resume activities and new organizations including men's activities, will be formed. Special features of the program include classes in dressmaking, designing, cooking with emphasis on wartime menus, dancing and physical activities.

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BLA BLANDING'S ELECTRIC CO. WASHINGTON AT HENRY STREET Latest Broome Blackout Test Is Quietest Yet ROCHESTER Oneida Lake WATERLOO ern Railroad passenger train which left Binghamton at 2:50 p. m. yesterday was wrecked at 6 o'clock last night. Wayland is 120 miles from Binghamton.

GENEVA STRACUSE Te YORK CARTLAND WAY MILES I 1 8 WHERE IT HAPPENED-This map shows the relation of Binghamton and other Southern-Central New York communities with Wayland (arrow, south of Rochester) where a Delaware, Lackawanna and West- Binghamton Missionary, Held By Japs, to Be Exchanged Held by the Samuel Smith, native oners to be exchanged tion just received marck Avenue. The communication, the first word Mrs. West has received about her son in nearly two years, said that he has been listed as a passenger on the Grips holm, scheduled to sail for Portugal. Just before she was advised that her son was being held prisoner ago, Mrs. nearly two weasel Japanese at Shanghai, the Rev.

Hollis Binghamtonian, is listed among prisat Portugal, according to notificaby his mother, Mrs. Edna West, 1 Bis- containing Farm Boy, 15, Gored by Bull Lewis Maga Is in Serious Condition in Hospital A 15-year-old farm boy seriously injured when attacked by a bull at his farm home was among five persons who were taken to City Hospital for emergency treatment between 3:30 yesterday afternoon and 10:30 this morning. In serious condition is Lewis Maga, 15, son of Nicholas Maga of Binghamton R. D. 1, who was gored by the bull.

Admitted at 6:35 p. the boy was badly injured in the groin and abdominal regions. In fair condition at the hospital is Malcolm Witteman, 11, son of John Witteman, 33 Prospect Street, who suffered a left arm fracture yesterday afternoon in a football mishap. Police, who took the child to the hospital in their ambulance, said they were told he was playing football at the Fairview Avenue Playground when hurt. Two adults treated for burns and another adult treated for a finger injury suffered on a milk can were discharged.

They were: HAROLD BRINK, 47, of 31, South Washington Street, an employe of the Crowley Milk who suffered second degree burns of the right foot while working with a steam hose. He was admitted at 2:30 a. m. MRS. ALICE RATHBONE, 37, of Binghamton, R.

D. 2, who suffered minor burns of the face and neck when a can of corn exploded while she was canning at her home yesterday afternoon. EDWARD BARRON, 23, of 17 Sheldon Street, who injured his left index finger on a milk can this morning. THINGS TO COME TODAY'S CALENDAR Chamber of Commerce sponsors dinner meeting at Arlington Hotel. 8-Townsend Club 9 sponsors a game party at 209 Conklin Avenue.

Beulah Rebekah Lodge 115, I. 0. 0. opens fall sessions with a covered dish supper at 6:30 p. m.

Thursday in Calumet Temple; business session starts at 7:30. Letter Carrier's Auxiliary meets Thursday at 7:30 p. m. in the Y. W.

C. A. Social hour follows the meeting. South Side Home Bureau holds its first fall meeting Friday at 7:30 p. m.

at the home of Mrs. Raymond Brink, 11 Bond Street. Thomas H. Barber Auxiliary 35 meets Wednesday at 8 p. at 299 Chenango Street.

Mrs. Elizabeth C. Schaefer of New York City, department president, makes official visit at the meeting. Townsend Club 1 serves a publie supper tomorrow starting at 6 p. m.

at 93 State Street. A business meeting follows at 8 p. m. Three Incidents Staged; Whole State Included in Practice MRS. H.

I. FOSTER MRS.KATHERINE WEBBER Mrs. died Foster, 52, of 4 Schiller Street, late last night in Wayland Hospital of injuries suffered in D. L. W.

wreck. Mrs. Webber, former Binghamtonian, was slightly hurt. Tentative List of Dead And Injured Wayland, Aug. 31 (P) -The tentative list of dead and injured in the Wayland train wreck: DEAD H.

MEINCKE, Scranton, supervisor of locomotive operations for the L. W. system. CATHERINE ELLIOT, 21, of New York City. MRS.

HELEN FOSTER, 4 Schiller Street, Binghamton. I ployed CLAYTON at the ROLOSON, Mercury 54, Aircraft Bath, emHammondsport. MARGARET GRAMBACH, Cleveland, Ohio. ANNA HEYMAN, Brooklyn. HENRIETTA SMITH, 23, Brooklyn.

MILDRED COHEN, Jersey City, N. J. DOROTHY MIDDLETON, 32, Buffalo. ANNE CHELKO, 22, Cleveland, Ohio. MRS.

MAVIS KING, Williamsville. MISS HELEN PFEFFE, 16, Ridgewood, N. J. MARGARET SAUTER, 28, East Orange, N. J.

MRS. FRANCES RIPLEY, Painted Post. INJURED JOSEPH ADAMEC, New York City. L. G.

ADAMS, Elmira. H. L. ANDERSON, Kenmore. EDWARD BRESLIN, Brooklyn.

CLEMENT CAHILL, New York City. FRANK CAYZ, New York City. DOMINICK DONATI, New York City. MRS. C.

F. EVANS, Newark, N. J. THOMAS EUSTEE. New York City.

STAFF SERGT. RICHARD L. FRANZ. 23, Marshfield, stationed at Camp Roberts, Cal. MRS.

HARRIETT GIBSON, 31, Corning. JOHN GILL, New York City, WADE J. GIBSON, Carbondale, Pa. AUGUST HUNT, New York City, MRS. PEARL L.

JONES. Chicago. MR. AND MRS. KRAMER, Pottsville, Pa.

LOUISE KRAMER, Pottsville, Pa. PAUL KING, Williamsville. ROBERT KAISER, 32, Kenmore. LAURENCE LOVER, Brooklyn. JOSEPH LAVEN, New City.

LOUISE LEROY, Niagara Falls. WILLIAM LAURY, Brooklyn. JOSEPH MAY, Brooklyn. MARTIN MURPHY, Brooklyn. JEROME MURPHY, Brooklyn.

MAURICE NEWMAN, Troy. JOHN O'CONNOR, Newark, N. J. MARJORIE PATTERSON, Niagara Falls. JEAN RANKESE, Rahway, N.

J. JULIA RICHMOND, Princess Bay, Staten Island. BERNARD REILLY, Brooklyn. RICHARD RYAN, New York City. FRANCIS SHANLEY, Brooklyn.

WILLIAM ROSNER. New York City. WILLIAM STAFFORD, no address. JOAN A. SMITH, Buffalo.

MRS. EMMA WIEDEN, Erie, Pa. FRED WEIGEL, Brooklyn. MRS. JOSEPH WEBER, Niagara Falls.

JAMES E. LEROY, Buffalo, engineer of the Limited. THEODORE PALADINO, Buffalo, fireman of the Limited. Erie Collision in '33, With 14 Dead, Worst Binghamton Wreck One of Binghamton's worst disasters was the Erie train wreck on the night of Sept. 5, 1933.

when 14 persons were killed and 24 injured in a crash at the foot of State Hospital Hill. Train 8, known as the Atlantic Express, had stopped for a freight train which was switching on the eastbound main line, near the hospital water works. It was 7:19 p. m. An eastbound milk train crashed into the rear of the passenger train, a minute after it had stopped.

Thousands of persons watched the rescue work. -By a Binghamton Press Photographer, NEW BROOM SWEEPS CLEAN- Hickey is the official municipal broom maker, plying his trade in the city public works plant in Robinson Street. He manufactures those large street cleaning brushes by hand, using imported stalks. Jr. Chambers Plan for Club For 12-17's to Be Weighed! Plans of the Binghamton Junior Chamber -of Commerce for the establishment of a club for Binghamton youths between the ages of 12 and 17 years will be considered at a meeting of representatives from organizations working with youth at 2:30 p.

m. Friday in the Y. W. C. A.

The junior chamber's, plans called for a centrally building which could be used as a club for the youth of the city. Temporarily named the Young Citizen's Club. it would be governed by a board of control made young people, assisted by an advisory committee of members of organizations interested in the youth problem. Friday's meeting was called by Arthur F. Baker, chairman of the Group Work Division of the Broome County Council of Social Agencies.

Organization which invited to send representatives to the meeting include the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Boys' Club, Boy Scouts, Girls' Club, Girl Scouts, Interracial Association, Y. W. C. Y. M.

C. public schools, Children's Court, Junior League, and the Business and Professional Women's Club. Any other organizations interested in the problem are invited to send representa- Broome County experienced its quietest practice blackout since Pearl Harbor last night. The surprise test, second here this month, covered all of New York State, with the exception of New York City and the area surrounding Wayland, scene of the train wreck which took the lives of 26 persons. Headquarters of the Second Service Command.

which authorized test, issued the orders ending the blackout in the Wayland area. Only three incidents were staged in Broome County, these being two in Johnson City and one in Binghamton. Civilian Protection George I. Cargin, county director, who drove the County Control Center from his Lisle home on receipt of the yellow warning at 8:50, announced at the close of the practice air raid that incidents will be planned immediately for the next test. Mr.

Cargin and Jay L. Gregory, Binghamton's CP director, said the blackout was quite satisfactory. Several glaring sign and store lights were left on in the downtown section of the city, however. Generally, the blackout described by CP workers was, "real quiet and uneventful." Binghamton's sole incident sent CP services racing to the East Junior High School, "demolished by a bomb." Johnson City had a mock fire in an Allen Street building, while a water main was "broken" at Grand Avenue and Baldwin Street. Official times of the various signals were: Yellow, first blue, red, second blue, 9:45, and white, or all clear, 9:59.

Mr. Cargin also cleared up a misunderstanding over the typeof lights that must be used by motor vehicles in operation during a blackout. The county director: said that all traffic may move during the blue periods, but headlights must "dimmers," be, on as "lowbeam," raid not. wardens and auxiliary police apparently "Only vehicles," he said, "may drive during the signal period and they must use. lowbeam lights then, too." tives to the meeting, Mr.

Baker said. The youth problem is timely, Mr. Baker said, and one which demands thoughtful and careful consideration. The object of calling representatives of all organizations together, he said, is to develop a plan which is as broad and as comprehensive, as also possible. consider tentative plans of the Binghamton A.

for the formation of a Junior Commando Canteen for youths between the ages of 14 and 17. Whether A. plans will be combined with those of the Chamber of Commerce have not yet been decided. received a cable- REV. H.

S. SMITH gram from him saying that he was "alive and well." Before being taken prisoner, he had served at one of the largest Episcopal missions in the Far East. Until Japanese bombers attacked Zangzok in 1939, damaging the mission properties there, Mrs. Smith and their children, Marjorie Lynn and Samuel, had lived in China. After the raids, Mr.

Smith brought them for a visit in Binghamton and then they made their home in Brooklyn. Subsequently, he returned to his war torn post. Mr. Smith was a communicant of Trinity Memorial Episcopal Church. He was ordained June 26, Binghamtonian Dies in Wreck (Continued From Page One) you couldn't see where you were going." Odor of Burning Flesh Robert Kaiser, Kenmore, said "the odor of burning flesh was terrible." Mrs.

Harriet Gibson, Corning, who was injured, recalled "There was a terrific jolting--people were screaming, trying to get out of the coach. Some broke the windows and went out that way." Blood was flown from Rochester, Buffalo and Oswego and administered to the injured in several hospitals in the Wayland area. Meanwhile a crew of 300 attempted to clear the wreckage while railroad authorities began formal investigation. Passenger traffic was rerouted over the Erie line and freight over the Lehigh. Soldiers Aid Rescuers Several soldiere, on the Lackawanna rescue the passengers and broke windows to permit steam to escape.

Railroad officials said 23 persons died instantly and four died today. Of the dead, 14 were identified. three undertaking establishments were bodies of 18 women, three men and two small girls. Some of them were scalded and burned so severely identification was reported extremely difficult to establish. The wreck scene is about 50 miles south of Rochester.

Al Driscoll, engineer on the switch engine, was reported to have escaped injury. He could not be reached for comment. Agency Head Appointed Bond Drive Radio Chief Washington, Aug. 31 (A)-Secretary Morgenthau announced the appointment today of Alfred M. Steele, vice-president of the D'Arcy Advertising Agency of -St.

Louis, as radio advisor of the Treasury's War Finance Division. Mr. Steele, former advertising director for the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, will be in charge of production of all War Bond radio programs for the $15,000,000,000 Third War Loan which opens Sept. 9.

WATER WELLS DRILL NOW Call or Write for Estimate JOS. KOPYAR Bing. R. D. 4 Phone 4-0123 Postoffice to Observe Labor Day Holiday The Binghamton Postoffice will observe Labor Day next Monday by dropping home delivery service and parcel post, stamp and money order window service.

This was announced today by Acting Postmaster Charles W. Craig, who pointed out that only mail service to war plants would be maintained. The lobby of the postoffice remain open. Washington (INS) More than 78,000 pounds of food are required daily to feed a single armored division. Your War Bonds, Securities, and Records NeedPROTECTION! Are your valuables protected? What if your home was destroyed by fire? Suppose it was buglarized? What would you do what could you do? Here's your answer.

Next time you're near the bank, stop in and rent a safe deposit box. Then you need not worry about the security of your valuables loss, fire or theft becomes a fear of the past. CITY NATIONAL BANK BINGHAMTON'S OLDEST BANK Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. BUY ALL THE WAR BONDS YOU CAN AS OFTEN AS YOU CAN PLENTY OF FOOD.