Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 1

final JOURlWURIER g'4' NORTHWESTERN GREATEST NEWSPAPER 1 No 192' Vol 23 A the journal established 1829 LAAYETTE WEDNESDAY EVENING AUGUST 12 1942 the courier established imi 16 WO CENTS 4 MARINES HOLD GROUND IN SOLOMONS fe SOVIETS USE SCORCHED EARTH POLICY AS ARMIES RETREAT Reds Still ight uriously in Withdrawal Into Wild Lands of Caucasian oothills as Nazis Plunge on Between Black and Cas pian Seas With Great Prizes Ahead i MOSCOWAug Russian droops withdrew grudgingly and still fighting furiously into the wild lands of the Caucasian foot hills today as the German army lunged 'on between the 'Black and Caspian seas its greatest prises still ahead German columns were moving westward almost within gunshot i of the Black sea' naval stations MR AND 'CYCLEACCIDENTS ARE 3 ATAL TO TWO Ji McKinney City inyCar on 52 MHooker Pine Village Also Dead 105 Joseph McKinney 37 of 1014 Hartford street formerly of Del phi route 2 was killed in an automobile accident on 52 six miles southeast of early Wednesday His body was discovered about 5:30 a by two truck drivers Coroner John fi Morrison said he had probably been dead about two hours a skull fracture being given as the cause of death The victim also suffered fractures of both collar bones "State police who investigated kaid it 'appeared that McKinney who may have fallen asleep was driving south when his car evidently got off the pavement andhe lost control The McKinney car a ord cpupe was observed setting across abandoned section of road as the truck drivers of Cincinnati and A Pennington of Indianapolis came along on the new pavement They investigated CLX1Q lOUnQ JVICJEUIUIcjf 1 Wjl In arid partly nnit of the cardy ing face downward One pant leg 'was caught on: the gear shift lever in the floorboards and it appeared the body had been drag ged 40 feet as the car 'careened from the new to the old and now unused pavement HIT AND RUN CAR Lafayette city police Sergt Matt Oley said Wednesday he had identified car as being the hit and run auto which col of Novorossik and Tuapse 4 and southeastward toward the rich oil fields of Grozny andthe Caspian sea beyond Rolling ever new reserves and equipment into the struggle with their' customary talent for sup ply arrangements the Germans confronted the battered Russian forces at Krasnodar with numer ically superior forces and launched attack after attack mid day communique said Krasnodar is the main obstacle on the road to Novorossik 1 3 Germans are trying at all costs to cross to the southern bank of a the mid day communi que said More than 1000 Ger mans were killed 12 tanks de stroyed in this effort the Russians said (The mentioned' probably is the Kuban which flows from Krasnodar into the Black sea north of Novorossik) NEAR NEW OIL' IELDS Edging along the Rostov Baku railway the Germans reached Cherkessk 70 miles southeast of Armavir and less than 200 miles from Grozny Red Star reported that the Russians had avoided a German snare to surround them in the Cherkesk region but that fighting there was hot and heavy and both sides great losses The' armies sfought under a burning sun and' the heat was intensified by blazing houses and woods over large areas Red Star said Whole cities were flaming as the Germans expanded their Pravda noted the extreme pres sure the south with thV state are the spaces of our country but we have no place to I SLOW OES AT MAIKOP Russian counter attacks' were reported slowing the German ad vance in the Maikop region studded' with oil but the Germans were gathering all their (Turn to Page 7 Col 5) lided at 2:15 a with one owned by Li Percifield parked In front of the home 424 South Third street Oley said that horn part of the grille and a headlight lens and rim picked up at the accident scene came from the'McKinney car The rear bumper the Percifield car was bent slightly NATIVE COUNTY '3orn in Tippecanoe county 11 miles west of Lafayette McKinney was a son of David and Lou Women orbidden uqek bounty Dars CHTCAGO Aug The women of Chicago even be ablato go into the unincorporated areas of the county to buy a drink at the bar after Aug 15 (Turn to Page 7 Colz3) American Pilots Join in Action in Desert Warfare CAIRO Aug A to ken force of American pilots some of whom already have seen action the African desert was undergoing final training to day preparatory to full scale col laboration with the RA in the task of blasting Nazi ield Mar shal Erwin Rommel back to Libya Disclosure that the American fighting arm is here was made in An official announcement that an Alabama colonel has taken com mand of the squadron A substantial number of Ameri can fighter pilots are now com pleting their final training with the RA and The time for con certed action Is Imminent Delay in sending the squadron Into action in force was due solely to insistence bj the joint Anglo American high command that their training be thorough In the extreme The fliers are being schooled by veteran RAj pilots in every trick known to desert fighting bomber squadrons which have been in service in the middle east some weeks are under command of Maj Lewis Brereton The pilots are a mixture of reg ular air corps men andreservists caled in from civil life They are equipped with Kittyhawk (Curtiss Hawk 87 A) pursuit ships Indiana Wild Game Destroyed in lood BERNE Ind Aug (UP) Recession of Jloodwaters from lowlands near here has revealed the bodies of hundreds of rab bits pheasants quail and other game drowned in the' floods caused by recent torrential down pour of rain At one place the bodies of six The Cook county board over the protest of one of Its two wo men members joined the city of Chicago yesterday in barring ladies from sipping their drinks at the bai Commissioner Mary McEnerney called' the ordinance 'class legis lation" and said first thing I did when I walked into the coun ty building was to examine the backs of the coats worn by my fellow commissioners I expected their newly found angelic virtue to be sprouting When the city council passed Its ordinance Mayor Edward Kel ly explained it was designed to protect soldiers and sailors from women All Landlords Must ile Registration INDIANAPOLIS Aug (UP) Schell regional rent control director from Cleveland said today landlords must file dwelling registration forms by midnight Saturday and that there would be no extension of the dead line Schell met with Herbert Reade Indianapolis area federal rent director yesterday and praised' landlords for their the registration order Schools Will Go On Wartime Hours INDIANAPOLIS Aug (UP) grade and high schools will open here at 8:45 a this year it was announced last night by the board of school commis sioners In accordance with the wartime program the later open ing time was designed to stagger the load on the transporta tion facilities The Weather 4 orecast for Somewhat warmer tonight and Thursday forenoon 4 pheasants were found huddled to 'gether Scores of rabbits escaped by swimming to higher groundbut most of the young animals perished Local temperature from7 a Tuesday to 7 a Wednesday: High 80 low 57 mean 68 no rainfalL Sun rises 5:55 sun sets 7:49 1 (Turn to Page 15 Col 2) i Winning of War Is irst Objective Says GOP Chief NOBLESVILLE Ind Aug 12 (UP) The 1942 republican po litical 'campaign is a crusade to save the American form of gov ernment Ralph Gates Columbia City state GOP chairman told a Hamilton county political rally last night except winning the war must be side tracked for the duration and that is the primary aim of the republican party this Gates asserted In winning the war he ex claimed we must be ever mind ful 'of the one essential home duty that of keeping our demo cratic form of government for which the men on fighting fronts are battling Gates said central ized powers delegated to the fed eral' government for the success ful prosecution oT the war must be temporary in scope and those powers must be returned to the people congress at the close of hostilities In scoring the new deals 1 of public Gates said part of the republican party crusade would be to divert that ihoney into production of planes tanks ships and muni tions He pointed out that the 'republi can party needs 56 more congres seats in the lower and of that number Indiana has 11 He said during the last war Indiana elected 13 republican con gressmen it can be done He also stressed that several state issues must be settled in the Nov 3 election and urged Hoosiers to return a republican controlled legislature Two lazis Escape rom Prison Camp ALBANY Aug State police at the re quest of Canadian police today sent out aiv eight state alarm for two young German officers who escaped yesterday from a prison camp at Ripples New Brunswick The fleeing prisoners are Ger ard' Knoepf ul 22 and Heinz Wurtz 21 CONESSES SLAYING ST PAUL Minn Aug (INS) Clarence McLean 42 fa ther of three children has fessed he criminally attacked and killed a 14 year old girl formerly employed in bis home police said today' The victim was Ethel Swanson of Red uWing rench Patriots Use Grenades to Kill Nazi Airmen VICHY Aug rench patriots in Paris killed two Ger man warplane pilots and wound ed 18 eight gravely when they attacked a group of 60 with hand grenades it was reported today The 60 German pilots were ex ercising in the Jean Bouin sta dium on the western edge of Paris when the attack was made The men reportedly were closely grouped when thb grenades fell among them The attack one of the boldest ever made in occupied territory against the German occupation forces climaxed a week of inten sified sabotage and terrorism The attack occurred last Wed nesday The patriots had stalked the Germans watched them go to the field and then hid behind a high hedge until the aviators trotted' past on the cinder path As the group raced by two gren ades were thrown One German was killed instant ly A second died en route to a hospital rench police and Ger man gestapo and storm troopers immediately threw up a cordon around the entire stadium area and made many arrests but the patriots escaped gianOritish PLANE CARRIER EAGLE IS SUNK Large Number of Personnel Saved Lethal Blow by an Enemy Undersea Raider in Mediterranean LONDON Aug The British admiralty today officially announced loss of the aircraft carrier Eagle in the Mediter ranean The 22 600 toQ vessel was lost as a of boat action a' Communique A large number of the person nel were saved The next of kill of those lost have been informed At least one boat operating in the area where the Eagle was sunk' was destroyed it was an nounced The admiralty communique was issued some hours after a German broadcast had asserted the Eagle went down under the impact of four torpedoes fired at her while she was accompanying a strongly escorted convoy in the western Mediterranean The Italians previously claimed they had sunk the Eagle i Jan uary 1941 ORMER BATTLESHIP The Eagle converted in June 1918 from a former' battleship ordinarily carried a complement of 748 men and 21 planes She was 667 feet long overall had a maximum beam of 105 and a draught of 27 feet The Eagle was the fifth British aircraft carrier to be sunk since the outbreak of war The others were the Courageous Glorious Ark Royal and Hermes i Large Decrease in HUNDREDS BRITISH PLANES BOMB BIG NAZI JUNCTION Mainz on Rhine Undergoes Heavy Bombing During Night by RA Military Objectives at Ravaged Cologne and Docks 'at Le Havre and Some Airfields Also Attacked LONDON Aug The important German railway junc tion of Mainz on the Rhine was heavily bombed during the night by a strong force of royal air force planes the air ministry an nounced today i An estimated 300 to 400 British bombers took part in the assault 1 on Mainz which in addition to REP ISH WINS IN ROOSEVELT'S HOME DISTRICT Veteran Pre Pearl Harbor Critic of President Is Easy Republican Victor Over Three Opponehts the Associated Press) Pre war foreign views as a general political Issue were dis counted in at least four of five states today as primary returns gave a wide majority of office holders victories over opponents who had assailed them as iso lationists Example number one in nation al interest was the veteran rep resentative Hamilton ish pre Pearl Harbor critic of President foreign policy who won nomination in the home district over three opponents in balloting Wendell Willkie 1940' republl can presidential nominee who had joined with intra party opponents asserted in commenting on the congressman's lead that the sake both of the country and of the republican party the fight for his elimination must be 'Renominated three one ish Observed that wax issues were! sunk at 'Pearl Har bor and every fair minded Ant erican knows it and resents at tempts to revive OTHERS WEATHER STORM Other New York congressmen who weathered the cry "of be fore the war isolationism included representatives Edwin A Hall Binghamton republican Daniel A Reed 'western New York republi can Vito Marcantonio American labor party left wing leader 3 and three New York City democrats William Barry James A and Martin Kennedy But in Nebraska representative Harrys Coffee campaigned againstpn his congressional record prior to the war lost the demo cratic senate nomination to os ter May Omaha radio announcer The republican nomination to the senate seat now held by George Norris veteran inde pendent was won by Kenneth Wherry republican midwest di rector Norris did not compete in the primary but his friends (Turn to Page 7 CoL 4) Italians Imitate being an important rail center is the site of large factories pro ducing war materials for the reich The air ministry said its bomb ers had in the raid It was revealed that 16 British planes failed to return Reconnaissance this morning showed fire still burning at Mainz A supplementary announcement said that military objectives at ravaged Cologne docks at Le Havre and air field in the low low countries also were attacked 'RELENTLESS Mainz is situated at the junc tion of the main German rail jlnes from Cologne to Mannheim The attack against tne city marked a continuance of the relentless as saults by the RA to disrupt Ger transport and communica tions centers in an effort to hamp er troop and supply movements either to the east or west Royal Air orce attacks also were conducted against nazi occu pied areas of northern rance The planes which soared over Germany dropped both high ex plosives and incendiaries A Berlin radio announcement admitting the attacks claimed that six RA bombers were shot down Widespread raids were carried out over England by the nazi luftwaffe but the attacks were gen erally light Berlin asserted that' Derby in the midlands: and Salisbury on the south coast and Deal on southeast coast were raided LONDON HAS AIR ALERT London had its 591st air alert butthe all clear was rne passage ioi uniaencineu planes over the British capital caused the alert ive persons were killed when a shelter was demolished by a direct hit from a nazi bomb dropped on the coast High explosives were dropped on a town on the southeast coast State orest ires Tactics of Hitler INDIANAPOLIS Aug (UP) forest for the first seven months of 1942 have cost the state loss of only $46259 as compared against a total of $451457 destruction for last year Hugh Barnhart director of the department of conservation said today Statistics based on the first seven months of this year indicate that a total of 153 fires have been reported to date against 582 fires reported for the 12 months of 1941 "During 1941 more than 41979 acres of timberland burned as compared with a loss of 8679 acres of which have been destroyed by fire this year? Barn hart declared Indiana War Bond Drive Is Lagging 4 INDIANAPOLIS Aug 12 Against war bond drive for August appeared to be lagging today as State Bond Administrator Wray leming reported only 22 per cent' of the quota in vestedwith 26 per cent of the time already gone The percentages leming said were based on reports from 46 of the 113 bond drive uniiX which showed actual sales of $1 13484640 for the first reporting period1 The August quota for all Indiana is $19000000 State Sen Miller' In Naval Service EVANSVILLE Aug State Senator Milford Mil ler of Evansville was to report today at St Louis for assignment for duty as a lieutenant junior grade in the naval reserve Miller' who was elected 'to the state senate in 1940 on the demo cratic ticket has resigned from the assembly in order to accept the navy post He will serve as a supervisor in ship building at St Louis And Burn Villages LONDON Aug In imitation of tactics Ital ian forces in Jugoslavia have burned six Croat villages and shot more than 200 Croats said a dispatch today quoting reports from the Italian frontier The executions were said to be in revenge for help the villagers had given relatives who escaped to the mountain strongholds of Draja Mihailovich Jugoslav guer rilla leader 'V Workers Discharged As Chronic Loafers SAN RANCISCOAug (AP) Acceding to a' navy re quest the Moore Drydodk and Shipbuilding Co has discharged a half dozen workers as chronic loafers or for' not putting in a conscientious effort at their war work a company spokesman dis closed Charles Adams personnel director said yesterday the action was taken after a letter from authorities prescribed a work or fight policy Names of the men vere turned in to their draft boards for possible reclassi fication Recover Bodies of Eleven rom Ruins MILWAUKEE Wis Aug (UP) All but one body had been recovered today from the ruins of a brewery warehouse in which 12 workmen perished beneath the rubble of timbers and empty bottles when the 30 year old building collapsed Six bodies were removed from the wreckage last night the last body being identified as that of Joseph Mustapich 45 'The acci dent occurred on Monday while 25 workmen were inside storing empty cases Thirteen escaped but six were injured one seri Secretary Is New Head of Cary Home Mr and Mrs Stark 204 South Sixth street have been appointed superinten dent and matron of Cary home for children it was announced Wed nesday by Mrs Juliet Snyder director of the: county depart ment of public welfare The ap pointments made by the welfare board will effective Sept 1 The posts have been vacant since May 28 when Mr and Mrs George Wallace stepped out In the interim staff members and wel fare department workers have been in charge of the home Stark has been secretary of the Central A for the past three years and Mrs Stark is employed as head clerk of the stock room general engin eering department at Purdue The welfare board after con ducting a wide search for a new superintendent and matron feels itself fortunate in being able to employ Mr and Mrs Stark Mr Stark has been associated with most of the boys living at the home through the is ac quainted with them and their problems 15 YEARRISON TERM IMPOSED ON WM PELLEY Judge Baltzell Sentences Ex Silver Shirts Leader on Sedition Charge and De nies Motion for Retrial INDIANAPOLIS Aug (AP) ederal Judge Robert Balt zell imposed a 15 year prison sen tence today on' William Dudley Pelley former" silver shirts lead er convicted last week on a se dition charge Judge Baltzell imposed the sen tence after denying a motiofor anew Hi expressed the belief Pelley should be imprisoned the The judge said he considered it a necessity to the silver shirts of a leader at this time" QUOTES AXIS GOAL He added there was ques as to the objective of the silver shirts organization and quoted from writings' attributed to Pelley by the government in which Pelley said that what "Hitler and his brown shirts had done Germany and Musso lini and his black shirts had done for Italy the silver shirts would do for Pelley could hava been sen tenced to 20 imprisonment and fined $10000 on each of the eleven counts of the indictment on which he was convicted Judge BaltzelJ said however: "The penalties could be multi plied but I prefer to consider it one BROWN GETS 5 YEARS Lawrence A Brown associated with Pelley in the ellowship Press Inc and convicted with him received a five year Miss Agnes Marian Henderson secretary for several years and the third person con victed in the case was given a two year suspended sentence The ellowship Press was fined $5000 will perhaps finish this Judge Baltzell con cluded 3 Treasurer Named by tate Republicans INDIANAPOLIS IndAug 12 Members of the repub lican state committee today had elected James Costin of In dianapolis as treasurer of the committee to succeed Donald Jameson who resigned The was made at a meet ing yesterday State Chair man Ralph who an nounced resignation said demands of the own business made it necessary for him to give up the post33 3:3 Overloading Causes Building Collapse INDIANAPOLIS Aug (UP) Chief ulmer today attributed the collapse of a sev en story section of the Indianap oiis Warehouse and Storage com pany Monday night to overload ing George Popp city build ing' commissioner corroborated the statement 3 1 Thebuilding" which was in 1891 was filled with sugar groceries' canned goods furniture and fa few stokers some of which was federal property Estimation of damage awaited examination of inventory ledgers Severed Legs atalTo Mitchell Woman MITCHELL Ind Aug Struck by a Baltimore and Ohio railroad train at a crossing here Mrs Minerva Harper 81 was injured fatally last night Both legs were severed INDICATED JAPANESE IGHTING DESPERATE DELAYING ACTION Supporting Allied Airmen Strike Effective Blows Upon Enemy Bases and Shipping Along 3000 Mile Nippons in Aleu tian Islands Also Badly Pounded GENERAL HEADQUARTERS Australia Aug 12 (AP) Jungle hardened American marines battled on today in bitter hand to hand clashes to broaden' hard won toeholds in the Solomon islands while supporting allied airmen struck effective new blows upon Japanese bases and shipping along a 3000 odd mile front The leathernecks progress was hidden in official silence but the latest information issued in Wash ington was that operations were continuing in the area of Tulagi palm dotted two mile long island in the southeastern Solomons More definite word was not ex pected until a let up in the opera tions permits Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley allied commander in the South Pacific who is in charge of the offensive to send a detailed account over his now limited and overtaxed communica tions OPENS BIG OENSIVE But whatever the situation the navy in a statement in Washington hailed the landing of the marines on the shores of Tulagi as having the doors to an allied offensive in the South rom this it was taken that the land sea and air assault which began five days ago was making headway General headquar ters still silent on the main opera tion told of the fourth air at tack within as many days upon Rabaul big Japanese base on New Britain destruction of two and possibly five Japanese Zero fight ers over New Guinea another raid on Japanese ships south of Timor Dutch East Indies and an attack upon the Kei islands ALLIES BLAST RABAUL A headquarters communique said allied planes striking by night at Rabaul which is northwest of the Solomons 'scored hits near air drome runways from which Japa nese aerial assistance could be tn thA Tulavi defenders The air clash over New Guinea' occurred near Samarai Which is on the southeastern tip of the island oh a line directly west of Tulagi' Out of Seven Zeros en countered allied airmen either de stroyed or damaged every last one of them Allied fliers failed to determine results of their attack on Japa nese ships south of Timor where a cargo ship was sunk and an other merchantman and a de (Turn to Page 7 Col 2) Stampless I Autos Are Checked Up By State Police INDIANAPOLIS Aug (UP) revenue collectors ex pected a business today in the sale of automobile use tax stamps following a check up by state police and the revenue department yesterday on nine ar terial highways entering Indian apolis Will Smith revenue col lector' said checks on the blocked highways leading to the capital city showed that many motorists were lacking the stamp Those motorists" were given a 48 hour warning to purchase the stamp before their names would be turned over to the dis trict attorney for prosecution Smith said no arrests were made yesterday He also indi cated that other such checkups throughout the state would be made in the next few days Stock excuse of many drivers baited on the barricaded highways foi not displaying or possessing their stamps was that so: many other drivers were operating ve hicles without them they thought it unnecessary to purchase the stamp Authorities Informed them that the situation would be elim inated a Penalty for failure to' purchase and properly display the stamp is a fine of $25 or imprisonment for 30 days or both Knudsen Inspecting ort Wayne Plants ORT WAYNE Ind Aug 12 (AP) Gen William Knudsen director general of the office of production management came here by plane from Dayton early today and immediately began an inspection of industrial plants engaged in WPA produc tion He was accompanied on the in spection trip by off leers from Wright field and the Chicago ord nance district At noon he was a guest at a luncheon attended by ort Wayne Industrialists AUTHOR PLAYWRIGHT DIES NEW PALTZ Aug (UP) William Jourdan Rapp 47 author playwright and for 15 years editor of True Story maga zine died a heart attack today at Lake I Mohonk where he was spending the summer Rapp six months ago resigned from TJrue Story to become chief editor for the Cook Publications of Elgin DL COACH TEACHER IN LATEST LISTO SELECTEES Board No 2 Sends Out 29 Men Including Some from 1 Class for irst Time Straley Heads Group Gordon Straley West Lafay ette high school athletic director and coach and Marshall How enstein music director in the West Lafayette public schools were among 29 selectees to Indianapolis Wednesday morning by Tippecanoe county selective board No 2 for physical exam inations The contingent traveled by bus leaving at 8 Those who pass will be given 14 day fur loughs before they are called into active service Eight men in 1 the first of this class to be called were members of the contingent of 701 Bexley Road West Lafayette was named lead er of the group Other names and addresses in the group were: Howenstain 200 West Columbia street West Lafayette Carl Ed ward Minnear route 2: Paul red erick DeLaw Crown Point Tho mas isher route 3 Robert Bj Wallace 427 North ourth William Morehouse route 4 Melvin Warfield Buck Creek Ph ilip Patterson 8(X) North western avenue West Lafayette Edward Clare nce Tru man 131 Pierce Lafayette: James Rudisail route 4 Silas ult route 6: Newby Appel 229 ow ler avenue Ingram Bray jr route 5 Earl Charlesworth route 9 Wilbur Andrew Pendleton route 7 Clifford Rusk Clarks Hill? Morris Brunton Romney route 1 Omar Kauffman Colburn i Charles Wolf route1 10 Alva Beaver Battle Ground James Austin 219 Wiggins street West Lafayette Ray Newton 427 Steely West Lafayette William Kappes route 5 Edmond Dix on Dayton 'Charles Steckel 110 Lutz West Lafayette Ber nard Spitznagle route 5: Wil liam Vaulk Montmorenci Clif ford Hornbeck 430 South ourth Lafayette and Donald Grant Indianapolis 3 '3 3 Korean Is Killed After He Wounds High Jap Chiefs WASHINGTON Aug (INS) An report that Premier General To jo and former Premier Hirota of Japan were shot and wounded by a Korean patriot in Tokyo on June 17 waa made public today by Dr Kilsoo Haan Washington representative of the Sino Korean league Dr Haan said that according to the secret report from agents in the Tojo was not JJadly hurt but that Hirota and Maj Yuzo ujita well known Japanese army flier were taken to a hospital with serious wounds Major ujita and two Japanese newspaper photographers were hit in a hail of bullets from police guns which killed the Korean at tacker Park Soowon Haan said the report stated General Tojo he added? was shot "below the left Dr Haan said the attack occur red at 10:30 June 17 "on the entrance of the old war minis try brick in Tokyo 'Haan added that his organlza enta reported the Japs i subsequently arrested 92 young Koreans The 31 year old Korean who reportedly staged the assault on the Nipponese war lords Dr Haan said was a member of the Eurldan Korean terrorist organ! zation active against the Japs in Manchukuo and northern Korea '3'1 ly Child atally Hurt By Passenger Train Ind 12 Prentice "Stanley Simms jr 3 year old son of Mr and Mrs Prentice Simms1 sr of Indian apolis was killed last night when he was struck by a Cleveland and St Louis New York Central pas senger train in the rear of his home The child who was playing near the track evidently intended to wave at the train as it went by A cylinder' head on the alowly moving 'locomotive struck him and hurled him aside fl Xmkj JK 11 A is A 4 1 4V.