The Morning Herald from Uniontown, Pennsylvania • Page 4

MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 133 THE MORNING HERALD. UNIONTOWN, fA PAGE FOUR Five Residents Deaths Of Pennsylvania On Injured List (Continued from Page One) Additional Skeletons Unearthed In Distict Giving Evidence Of Turtle Clanw Of Tribal Indians SWEETHEART OF MOTOR VICTIM GRAVELY HURT Driver Of-Tow-Truck In Which She Ws A Passenger Seriously Injured Saturday there. SEWAK FUNERAL Punernl services for John Sewak. Philadelphia relatives saio. uissto had planned to take a plane from Chicago but decided against It "for fe- i 52, who died Friday evening in the Found on the Jacob Antrim farm resented a human being, a bird and tys sake." Brownsville hospital of complications, will be held Monday morning at 9 GIRL KILLED, 25 OTHERS INJURED IN TRUCK WRECK Gala Picnic Crowd Hurtled Into Screaming.

Tangled Heap As Machine Overturns TWO BELIEVED CRITICAL FHIUPSBURG. Aug. 13. (AP) A fifteen-year-old girl to killed arid 25 others weir injured, two critically, at Sandy Ridge, near here, last night Declare Derailment Done Deliberately; Sixty Others Hurt (Continued from Page One) occurred about 10:33 p. m.

(1:33 a. Sunday. Eastern Standard Timej Engineer E. T. Hecox said green tumbleweed covered the spot where the rail had been moved and that he felt the track give way as his power car passed over.

The train was due in Oakland, this morning. Stories of terror, misery and courage trickled from the wreck scene, nearly 250 miles east of here. Passengers were sleeping or gaily enjoving their last night aboard the luxurious train as It sped through the which, according to primitive Dr. Betts was en route to tne west i lock at the family residence w- stood for eartn, air ana coast to deliver a series of lectures. He two miles from New Salem, several skeletons and other relics throwing new light on the primitive red men water.

Importance of the Clay shrine, ae who roamed western jrciuiayivaiua public. followed by a requiem iuku mass at the St. Man's Greek Catholic church in New Salem. Rev. Anthony J.

Knapik will be celebrant. Burial will be In the church cemetery. 20,000 yean ago were uneartneo pointed out by Mr. Fisher, lay in the fact that it was tlie first evidence ever during the past two weeks by ueorge. S.

Fisher, head Of the Pennsylvania uncovered of the existence of a turtle In addition to his widow, Julia, ne an aborii! nal rtoud correspond Indian Research. ing to present day lodges or fraternal Is survived by the following children: Mrs. Mary Lukitch, Republic; Julia, These discoveries, added to those organizations. Pate which a week ago decreed the death of her sweetheart, Andrew Duncan, of Derry, Pa-, nearly added Miss Anna Rellick, 26. of the same place, as a victim, late Saturday afternoon.

The woman is In the Connellsville hospital (he same Institution in which Andrew died of a fractured skull on August 4. She Is suffering from severe lacerations of the head and chin the result of the wreck of a tow truck nnrt.heaat of Connellsville as the of New York; George and John, at. Another Interesting skeleton there home. Also surviving are two oroui- when a truck overturned, "ui" ers, Mike, of East Pittsburgh and already brought to light in past months, will be turned over to the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, while a few will be retained by the discoverer for his own use. a screaming.

gala picnic crowx have been seven found to date was that of a man with a Ilint spearhead lodged near the heart. Clinton A. Weslager, young Pitt graduate and former Carrick resident, said the In tangled heap by tlie roadside. Helen Sokol died of head Injuries ui Philipsburg State hospital where Walter Sokolsky. 24.

and Vincent Bogus, 11, were reported in "very serious" con- Two of the most Important nnaings thnew site, according to Mr. dian brave had probably been killed wrecked machine owned by Miss Rel-Ifck was being taken home. Is a member of the faculty of thej Pennsylvania State college and Is director of the reading clinic of the de- partment of education and psychology. Dr. Bruce Moore, head of tlie department, said Dr.

Bctts'. family had motored to the coast and that Dr. Betts had planned to meet them there, traveling by airplane and train. Miss Anna Snyder is secretary to the board of health In Warren and her sister, Mattle, Is employed by the public utility commission in Hanisburg. Tlie sisters left Warren last Friday for a three-week tour of the West.

Members of their family received a telegram from Carlin today informing them the Misses Snyder had been able to continue their trip to San Francisco by rail. Mattle Snyder was secretary to Attorney John Slggin at Warren until Slggins recently was named to the public utility commission. She then was employed by the commission and now makes her home in Harrlsburg. Tlie other Phlladelphian injured was Miss Genevieve A. Shryock.

54. Traveling alone, she was on her way to San Francisco to attend the fair. the arrow, since war implements Andy or Philadelphia; a sister, Mary, of Pittsfield and a grandchild. CHARLES E. MYERS Charles Elmer Myers, aged three vears, five montlis and eleven days, died Sunday morning at 8:05 a.

m. in the Uniontown hospital. Death came as the result of complications. He is survived bv his parents, Mr. Mr nmer Mvers.

of White House, Fisher, were a stone, crudely carved with religious symbols, and a clay desert regions. Suddenly, there was a terrific jolt and the crash of metal against metal. Sleeping passengers were hurled from their berths and tossed about in the aisles. Women screamed, the train lights went out as the hurtling cars lurched to a stop. Injured cried cut in pain.

Aid was quickly summoned from nearby centers. Carlin and Sparks, Nevada, and OKden. Utah. Four spe Tnlnred also In tile second accident were usually buried at tlie sides of the body. turtle shrine.

Markings on tne svouc. Only one of the 26 persons returning was Reginald Stauffer, forty-seven, also of Deny, and driver of the truck. according to Chief Rainbow, lun Commenting on the site of present In the truck from an outing of a fraternal order escaped injury excavations, Weslager said that the diggings fall Into what has been term Stauffer took the Breakneck: roau Instead of Route 119 north of Con blooded Maumee Indian w. known and almost extinct tribe related to the Dela wares), probably rep- He was 10-vear-old Victor TJnick, who iralri he was hurled through the nellsville. In descending a hill ne attempted to shift from second to low gear.

Both the truck and the car cial trains sped during the night to the wreck scene. President A. E. McDonald of the Southern Pacific, planned to board one of the relief trains at Soda Springs, personally to direct rescue efforts. Long.

York, Pa. Time 29.47 seconds. Heat No. 38. won by Lloyd Pippett.

Sioux City, Iowa; second, James Mil- Jer, Erie. Pa. Time 29.6 seconds. All available doctors and nurses were which had souin oi ui-nellsvllle, carried Duncan to his death, crashed Into an embankment. The heavier vehicle was completely upset, the occupants being caught In the wreckage.

Miss Rellick's auto, which had been, damaged on one side in the wreck of a week ago, was almost completely de- summoned to the scene. Warren L. Monroe, publisher of the ed the Mononganeia woocuano. cunuie. All of these relics, he said, are prehistoricthat Is, they represent an era before the white men came.

The young scientist, who today helped uncover the only woman's skeleton yet discovered, was impressed by the excellent condition of the ancient bones. A third discovery, the skeleton of a child with the hands and feet missing, was probably the most exciting from the archaeologists standpoint. The tips of the child's ankles and wrists were charred. Indicating that the appendages had been burnt off In the rites following death. Rumors that the skeletons had been found on the Antram farm last week brought so many of the Idle curious to the place that police had to be (End first round).

(Second round): Heat No. 4, won by George Yasso, Betlilehem, second, William Flomerfelt, New Brunswick, N. third, Harry H. Judy, Harrisburg, Pa. Tune 28.73.

Heat No. 14, won by Jack L. Hark- Elko, Independent, and one of the first outsiders to reach the scene, when- the truck plunged over a 12 foot embankment and rolled over twice. The boy said he "lit on a fal woman." All of the 26 lived in or near Oceola Mills, a bituminous coal mining town. William Vaugh, a resident of Sandy Ridge who witnessed the accident, said the bodies ol the picnickers 'looked like a bunch of birds taking off in the air" and that they settled in a -stack." Dr.

W. B. Heaton of Philipsburg. Centre county coroner, said an inquest would be held when the Injured were able 'o testify. Private Andrew Royko of the state motor police Identified Toficld Gravish, 24, as the driver, and said skid marks showed he must nave lost control of the truck.

Gravish, the son of the president of the lodge, was one of those least New York Lad Winner; Zack Loses and a sister. Caroline, at nome. his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Chipps.

Haydentown, and Mr. and Mrs. George Myers of White Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of "the parents. Rev. Dander will conduct the services.

Burial will be at the Smithfteld cemetery. The bods-was removed to the family home Sunday night from the Sharp funeral home, Fairchance. IDA H. FRANKS Mrs Ida Harader Franks, 63, widow of Thornton Franks, died at Mondav morning, Augiist 14, 1939, the family residence, 61 Lenox street. Death, following an illness of two weeks, was attributed to a heart condition.

Funeral arrangements will be announced later. said one car was so badly smashed acetylene torches would be needed to In First Derby Heat ness. Terre Haute. second, Jack Roberts. Washineton, third.

Rich cut into it. "I saw bodies and parts of bodies and I saw people lying around will-broken arms and less," he reported. ard Bvler. Marion. Ind, lime 27.9 (Continued from Page One) Champaign, second, Leland Bech-tel, Pottstown, third, Allan Mc- seconds.

New derby record. Heat No. 33, won by Charles Tubbs, "It was an awrul plleup. Only four of the 17 cars did not turn over. One Hospital reports say that sunnier has a severe laceration of the scalp and a possible fracture of the left shoulder.

His condition Is reported "as fair. Miss Rellick Is less seriously hurt. When an automobile, driven by Elmer Anderson of Dunbar, crashed into a telephone pole on' the way to church Sunday morning, George Seaton, aged ten, also of Dunbar, suffer'- cerations and a fractured right leg. He was taken to tlie Connellsville Akron: second, Joe Cook, El "aso, Kinney, Morgantown, W. Va.

Time third, Ronald Hoskins, Donora, .1 seconds. Heat No. 21, won bv Dean Bailey called to keep The site has since been thoroughly fenced, roped off and posted. Fisher has been there two weeks, camping on the edge of Memphis, Tenn; second, William Lofft, Treated at the office of Dr. George Pa.

Time 28.4 seconds. Heat No. 19, won by Robert May, Rochester, N. second, Joseph Knotts, Anderson, third, Gene Pfendler, Oil City, Pa. Time 28.3 seconds.

Philadelphia, Pa. third, John Jones. Scranton. Pa. Time 28 seconds flat.

the ll-acre field with other Indian Rlcketts were Clarence car the dinette, I think they called it was so badly smashed they'll never get into it except with torches. "While I was there, they were taking bodies from the Humboldt river, where one of the cars had tumbled. "Some of the injured were groaning, but others were talking and laug.iing like nothing had happened. You could see doctors and nurses tending to peo Heat No 37, won by Wilbur Ballard. research experts.

He expects to remain several more weeks. Walter Beres, 12; John Matia, 20; Joe Buclianon, W. second, John Sokol, 17, a brother of the dead girl, and Mrs. John Adams, 45, and a Subway-Elevated Wrecks; 21 Hrut ple and carrying others around on stretchers. "I saw Tive men, some of them negroes, lying in one group.

Every one A REMINDER that's IMPORTANT of them had at least a broken leg, but NEW YORK, Aug. nn-nns were injured today they were jolting about it." daughter, 10. Treated at the hospital and discharged were Paul Rusnosky, 55; Al-phonse Boliski. 15; Vincent Graboski; Mary Shincarick, 16; Irene Sokol, 8, and Margaret Sokol, 9, sisters of the dead girl. Treated and detained at the hospital, besides Gravish, Sokolsky and Bogus were Vicky Moskovich.

16: John Popo-vich. 15; Martin Olosky. 24; Mike Dipko. 24: Paul Jones. 75; Flank Ka-tules.

22; Mrs. Victoria Sokol. 50. the mother of the dead girl: Steve Yoko-bosky, 24. and Mrs.

Paul Rosnosky, 50. when a subway-elevated express train Three railway lines participate operation of the train, one of the na tion's smartest and fastest transcon tinental fivers. Thev are the South for all of our from Coney Island oeacn spin, and crashed into a brick tower at the overhead ocean Parkway station. Two men were hurt seriously enough to be kept in a hospital overnight, the Pacific, the Union Pacific, and Chicago and Northwestern. The train was on Southern pacmc tracus wiiiai others only slightly.

CCM.0 BOND! the wreck occurred. The streamliner, painted a distinctive yellowish tan with brown top, travels between Chicago and San Francisco in 39 hours. The scene of the wreck is arid and Big Increase In As the six-car express sped into trie station within sight of Brighton beach, the front end of the first car passed over the switch but a broken wire caused the rear wheel trucks of the head car to jump over to a parallel set of local tracks, derailing the rest of the train. At almost a right angle with the rails the car slid about 200 feet before Colgates Profits mountainous, and is the home of many Shoshone and Piute Indians. Customers Six Americans Among JERSEY CITY.

Aut'. 13. Colgate- Victims As Transport Palmolive-Peet Company, one of the largest manufacturers of soaps and toilet articles, with plants in Jersey the DISCOUNT STAMPS smashing into the brick tower at one end of the concrete station platform and going nearly half way through it who want Cracks -up In Harbor City. Jeffersonville Kansas (Continued from Page One) City, and Berkelev. CalifJ.

earned a net profit of $3,427,093 in the first half of 1939, an increase of 47 percent over the same months of 1938. E. H. Little, president, announced here today in they were: Capt A. G.

Person, pilot, ol Miami, veteran of 1,000,000 milts flown for the company's semi-annual report to Passengers on tne piauorm nc endangered. A blaze from broken electrical lines set fire to the railway tires and part of the elevated structure, adding to the panic of the shaken passengers, but the fire was put out In about 10 minutes. All the injured were in the head car. The motorman suffered lef lacerations. A man on duty in the switch tower escaped In time.

Pan American. stockholders. Capt. George King, co-pilot, 01 The net profit of J2.427.093. equalling Miami, and 88 cents per common shares after pay ment of regular preferred dividend: Russell Jenkins, radio operator.

The fourth member of the crew, was Is nearly double the earnings per the steward, Julio Trujiilo. The only persons of the IB pas sengers and crew aboard who wen common share for the first hall ol 1938, Mr. Little pointed out. The earned net profits were then sl.M6.421 equalling 47 cents per common share life saved were Oswaldo Hirth, a German engineer, who suffered a broken leg Commerce Leader and shock, and Mario Lyra, a Brazil and the company's net profts for the 1938 calendar year were the highest since 1931. To Speak Tonight ian, who was cut and bruised.

Launches from the Brlzalian navy arsenal put out and rescued them. They were taken first to the navy hospital and then to another hospital. It was against a crane of the arsenal Mr. Little also reported that the company has called for redemption and retirement as of today of 50,000 shares of preferred stock at the call price of S102 5O a share, plus accrued Plans of the newly created Pennsylvania Department of Conunerce for at that the plane struck. The other seven passengers, dividends from July 1 of .5167 cents dead share.

This action was decided on by tracting new manufacturing concerns to the Keystone Stale will be outlined in detail by Mark S. James, deputy a vote of the board of directors last Mav 11. It will result in a reduction secretary of the department, at a din preferred stock dividends totaling ner meeting in the White Swan hotel tonight at 6:30 o'clock. were South Americans. The plane was Pan American's East coast flyer which departed from Miami last Wednesday for Rio de Janeiro.

It left Recife. Brazil, 1,200 miles northeast of here, at 8 a. m. and had made six other stops. The last at Victoria, before the fatal accident.

The. Diane struck a dock as it made BUY Mr. James is coming here under the auspices of the Uniontown Chamber Commerce. A number of reservations on their July accounts due not later than AUGUST 15 that is tomorrow! This reminder is DOUBLY IMPORTANT to those who charged purchases JULY 29th and JULY 31st-Two days when DOUBLE STAMPS SAVED 5 on cash purchases and articles charged. But to get these DISCOUNT STAMPS on July purchases Double stamps on merchandise bought the last two days ac have been made for the dinner bj Uniontown.

Brownsville and Oonnells- ville business men but any others who its regular landing near Ilha Das Cobras (Cobra Islands). Gasoline spraved from the tanks over the water may desire to attend may make their $300,000 a year, or approximately 15 tents a share of common stock. RETURN FROM EAST Mrs. Wallace Ryland and Mrs. Anna Gardner have returned from a ten-day visit to New York and other East-em points.

In New York City they were guests of Mrs. Ryland's sister-in-law. Miss Emma Ryland, and visited the World's Fair. At. Haverstraw.

N. they were the guests of Mrs Gardner's daughter. Mrs. Mildred Koontz. employed at the State Hospital there, and ennmte home stopped for a brief sojourn in Washington, D.

C. and caught fire, but Pan American officials declared the plane itself did reservations by calling the Uniontown Chamber of Commerce prior to noon today. Thers'i a yit difference in ref rig-sritors not much different in price. Give your pocketbook a break. Measure the velue ef refrigerator! before you buy.

Compare their features and velue with theee of the new 1939 Hetpoint Electric See fer younelf why "By Every Y.rditick Hotpeint i a Great Refrigerator Buy." Come in today and check Hot- not burn. Officials said that three passengers were aboard who had taken the plane at Miami. Of the seven bodies recovered, five were so badly battered that officials said It was Impossible to determine features. IJ5AVES FOR HI FFAJ.O definitely whether they were pai-sen-gers or crewmen, but it was believec thev were oasscngers. Miss Ann Lowe, daughter ol Dr.

and Mrs E. Lowe, will leave this morn The two Injured taken to a hospital ine lor a week's visit with school were Brazilians. friends in Buffalo. N. Y.

The plane struck a corner of the IUCTRIC RIMICtMATOR looses Balance While Wading; Survives Dive (Continued from Page One) by the nirrcnt. At the top of the falls she made another frantic effort to stop her forward progress but only received a further beating from the waters. Huge rocks stick out from the falls at tlie point where the young woman went over and thev also got In their Shr was finally thrown clear and landed in the drep water at. the foot of the falls. A.

B. McCartney ol Uniontown, and dock and crashed partly on land and partly In the water. Tlie bodies which were recovered were thrown onto the Ceaeaflem. it-peeat Iiiiiii-M, bteri. Asj.ettU.-Mik Uag iaW bar.

New ewit my. Vanea Male TMt- groimrX M. J. Rice. preaWcnt of Pan Ameri T.M4w.Hiiiici can in Brazil, superintended rescue operations which were hampered by- 7 sMMer awtktaiea.

Fre Menft dnwers. Aaaeaane hnrter Ugk. At-rtaM oUhl Fees witty ft. Aad 24 awre. DOWNSTAIRS STORK darkness soon after, the accident cu or vrriu Harold Young of McKeesport, were PERSONALS BY CLOVER CULVER cruising about in the vicinity In a motor boat.

They hurried to the scene and with the aid of two men. who were swimming below the falls, succeeded In celling tlie young woman Into tlie boat INWST ON SILBAUGH CONCRETE IURIAL VAULTS Her Amur Perpetual rroteeUo. A HOME rilODL'CT Miss Ruth Collins Is vacationing this week from her duties at the ComDauy. Tlie two swimmers had aidrd Miss Mr. and Mrs W.

J. Yocmn ot Wine street, are entertaining as their house Bcxtel in obtaining a hold on a rock where she was resting when the motor-bnat appeared on the scene counts rendered August 1 must be paid in full by 5 o'clock TUESDAY afternoon. WRICHT-METZLER of UNIONTOWN west for a tew weeks Mrs. Fred Lamke of Louisville, Ky. Tlie injured girl was pished to the office of Dr.

Phillips before returning Miss Nettie Silver of Grant street, spent the past week in Youngstown, visiting among relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mlskorlch have flowers torn IVBftY OCCAMON BARTON'S FLOWER SHOP j. W.

WHIT. Mgr. home. AllM llANCE VISITORS Mrs. Helen Darby Nixon and son Hurry spent Ihr weekend with Mrs.

Nixon's father, John L. Darby of the Palrchance-SanJUifteW road. returned to their home in Chicago, after spending their two weeks' vara tlon with the former's pnrtnW, Mi and Mrs. Joseph Mlmjth of.