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DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1965 CO Train Oils Three MJ. Vouths OnWay to Opening-Day Classes By LEEDS MOBERLEY Three high school sophomores, walking to classes for the opening day of school, were killed by a two-car Erie Lackawanna Railroad train shortly after 8 A.M. yesterday at the Elm St. crossing in Kearny, N.J. plv Four friends, who escaped only because they were walking a few feet behind the others watched in horror as the westbound death train flashed past moments after an eastbound train had gone by.

The engineer told police he was doing about 45 m.p.h. when the boys suddenly appeared on the track only 15 or 20 feeet in front of him. He slammed on the brakes, but the train hit them so hard it hurled their bodies 100 feet. The 3 Victims The victims were Rodney Mur-dock, 16, of 14 Svhuyler Court; Richard D. Collins, 15, of Forest and Robert Floyd, 16, of Howell Place, all Kearny.

Him dncy Murdock, Robert Floyd and Richard Ci Train hurled their bodies 100 feet "They never knew what Eiit them," said one of the survivor, Thomas Jerome, 17, of 583 Forest St. The group, all close friends, had met at Jerome's home to go to school together, and had left there only about nine minutes before tragedy" struck. Detective Capt. Andrew Dono- van said all agreed that the cross- ing gate was down and the warn- ing bell was ringing, but the boys thought it was for the eastbound train. As they ducked under the I gate to wait for it to pass, they could not see the westbound train.

Andrew E. Smith, 38, of 3247 Kennedy Jersey City, engineer of the death train, and Whitford N. Yahraes, 28, of Bangor, the conductor, were to appear in Kearny Municipal Court today on a technical charge of manslaughter. hv untitled. The work above) is paint ing The Jarkson Pollix-k Franz Kline The Hand of I) is called Indict 2 in Sale of Time Sunning Out in Teacher Talks Forged Modern Art By SIDNEY KLINE With the union deadline for a contract settlement less than 43 hours away, negotiators for the United Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, and the Board of Education pressed bargaining last night at the Hotel Commodore in hope of averting a school strike Mondav.

BY NORMA ABRAMS A 17-count federal indictment charging- two men with art frauds was returned yesterday in connection with the sale of two allegedly forged paintings said to have been ascribed falsely to two leading abstract expressionist painters, both now dead. three mediators appointed by Mayor Wagner, centered on special demands of six groups among the 48,000 school board employes represented by the union. David Cole, a mediator, said after attending a joint negotiation session that he was "quite optimistic" that a walkout could be averted. Arrested hv FBI agents at his could be reached on something in between, and Albert Shanker, union president, spelled it out in these words: "Whether there will be a strike depends on how much is in that bundle." Opening day of school for one million children is scheduled for Monday. Yesterday's talks, prodded by Their immediate objective was to clear up all non-money items before today's session, when brass-tacks bargaining would take place on the key issue, money.

$H4 Million Apart The union has demanded a package which would cost $100 million. The school board has offered $16'2 million. Presumably a pact carrv a penalty of five years and $1,000 fine. Rainsford pleaded not guilty before Federal Judge John F. X.

MrCohev and was released in $1,000 bail. Guard Shoots Man in Post Office Lobby By EDWARD KIRKMAX A New Jersey man who resented being told he should not knock his hot pipe ashes into a wastebasket was shot and critically wounded yesterday in the main lobbv of the General Post Office at Eighth Ave. and 33d St. According to Robert J. Hickey, chief postal inspector, the disorder occurred at 2:20 P.M.

before home at Kidgefield, was Richard A. Kainsford. H5. a former antique dealer who has specialized in art restoration. Also named was Michael I.if-rieti, a Chicagoan.

Jarkson Pollock. Franz Kline The artists whose work was said to have been forged were Jackson Pollock, who was 44 when killed in a 1 auto accident, and Franz Kline, who died of a heart attack in 1962 at 51. The "Pollock" canvas, an untitled piece 5 by feet, was knocked down at auction to Myron Orlofsky, an attorney of 20 bur-bam Road, White Plains, for The supposed Kline work, called "The Hand of (Jod," was purchaserl for by Arthur Rubin of Bcechmont Drive. New Rochi'lle, president of the Princeton Textile Printing Co. Offered With Siezak F.ffccts Each painting was offered last Sept.

25 at an auction of effects of actor Walter Siezak at his home, 21 Pryor Lane. Ran hniont. 1 They were put tip a additional 1 items and had not belonged to Slezak. N'eal llurw itz, an assistant to U.S. Attorney Robert M.

Morgen- thau, said that the purported Kline painting had been displayed the previous May at the Parke-Bernet gallery but had been with- drawn prior to auction because its authenticity was challenged. I Orlofsky's was not paid but was put in escrow pending satisfactory authentication, which i was refused by art experts, according to Morgenthau. All 17 Counts Hit Kainsford Lifrieri was named only in the some 50 horrified customers in the post office. It all started when Douglas Little, observed a man tapping his glowing pipe ashes into a large waste paper basket. Little told the man that there were ash trays or less Douglas dangerous Little places to get rid of his ashes.

The pipe smoker, identified from papers as Cleveland Campbell, 38, of 161 Warren Englewood, agrily resented the guard's intrusion. The next thing Little knew, he said later, was that he was sprawled on the mai-ble floor by a punch from Campbell. As soon as Little got up, he was floored again by another blowr from Campbell. Little pulled his service gun and fired a shot into the air but Campbell continued to come at him, it was said. At.

this point Little fired at his attacker striking him in the stomach. vl I nrW mm ml nine counts relating to the "Kline" picture; Kainsford figured in all 17. Kainsford was accused of faking documents and ownership histories to support the forgeries. The indictments charged interstate fraud. Phone calls and letters sent through the mail figured in the charges.

An actual perpetrator of the alleged forgeries was not named. Each countcauld (XEWS foto by Frank Castoral) Cleveland Campbell is assisted where he collapsed after, fleeing post office..