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rr THE KANSAS CITY TIMES, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, llMM Elsa Maxwell Dies at 80 Keep the Trains Going So Miss Maxwell cajoled the ball committee into building box seats right on the Arena floor to crowd the dancers together. Seats there have been a custom of American Royal balls ever since. Miss Maxwell also visited here in 1938 when she lectured at the Music Hall. cant expanse of the Arena floor of the Municipal Auditorium and mused how to give it the intimate atmosphere. Crowded? she replied.

I want it crowded. It must be crowded. Lots of people, lots of places to sit down there you have that intimate touch that is so necessary for a successful party. a wide range of celebrities Columnist Hedda Hopper, Multimillionaire J. Paul Getty, Actress Jayne Mansfield, Cleveland Amory, social historian, and Singer Elvis Presley.

Miss Maxwell gave her first party for royalty in 1921. It featured as honor guest Princess Helena Victoria, a daughter of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. Sale on all Chairs, Sofas and Rockers Our Floor SAVE to 60 (Continued From Page 1.) standing with Mrs. Mesta or anyone else. She once wrote in an autobiography: I am recognized as the arbiter of international society and the most famous hostess in the world.

I have entertained more royalty than any other antitied hostess. Olivier (of the Ritz in Paris) stated that only three people in all his experience knew how to order a dinner properly the prince of Wales, afterward King Edward VII, Prince Esterhazy of Hnngary, and Elsa Maxwell. Miss Maxwell traced her career as a party-giver to a rebuff she suffered at the age of 12, when she was told her family was too poor to warrant her being invited to a party in San Francisco. I made up my mind I would give great parties all over the world, she later recalled. And so she did.

Miss Maxwell was the daughter of an insurance man who wrote a column at a salary of $10 a week for the defunct New York Dramatic Mirror, a newspaper devoted to the dramatic arts. The family moved to San Francisco where Miss Maxwell grew up. Never Finished School She never graduated from grammar school. Her father had an aversion to formal education and taught her himself. As she moved along in her unusual career she served as a pianist in a nickelodeon, a vaudeville accompanist, a partner in a Paris nightclub, consultant to a dressmaker, a columnist and a nationally known lecturer.

Recently, she won attention as a controversial guest on Jack Paars nighttime television show. She wagged a forefinger at the camera as she expressed her dislike of Presided at Ball Here Elsa Maxwell is remembered in Kansas City party-going circles as the mistress of ceremonies at the first American Royal Coronation ball, held here in 1939. Imported to design a festive evening, she looked over the va liKir 31S Broadway JE. 1 5754 Turms, Cuurst Op Doily to 9 Saturday 9 to A Fre Parking Dine in the Grand Manner I BUT SAVE WITH OUR LOW, LOW PRICES ON French Provincial HERE'S HOW WE DO IT: Low Overhead No Fancy Fixtures No Rent to Pay ONo Extras! cranked the diesels up to 45 miles an hour. The lights of the city were behind, to the north.

And with each mile came a recollection. There was the family south of Grandview that used to bring out coffee and sandwiches to the. slower moving trains of 30 years ago. There were the 18 head of cattle killed by a train a few months ago north of Hume. There was the spot where a crew worked on a wreck for 15 days and in the process drank up two boxcars of beer ruined in the accident.

The train snaked south, a dark, noisy rumble across the quiet fields. Near Drexel, on a long curve, the light of the engine could be seen far ahead. Only place between here and Pittsburg that you can even catch a glimpse of the engine, said Sparky. Why, when I came on the road in '24, 30 cars was a big freight train. But so much has happened in the last few years.

Bigger engines, radio between the caboose and engine, and these monster cars almost 90 feet long. At Drexel, Neptune, a Qualified railroad engineer, college graduate, and reserve lieutenant colonel in the Army, took over. The train sped south. On Through Sleeping Towns Towns like Mervin, Amsterdam, Graves Mound, Amoret, Worland, Stotesbury, Lisle, Tiger, Eve, and Mulberry flashed by, quiet and dark in the moonlight. Bo and Sparky kept looking out the bay windows for hot boxes.

In the rear of the diesel unit, Drenik did the same thing. Outside the north yard at Pittsburg, the tracks were cradled among the coal pits. Old railroad ties were burning orange alongside the roadbed. The Southern is replacing 100,000 ties. And at 12:40 oclock in the morning, along North Michigan avenue.

Bo and Sparky dropped off the caboose and headed for the Pittsburg yard office. Outside was No. 82, a northbound freight headed for Kansas City. It just goes on and on, said Sparky. Railroading! Theres no life or anything else like it.

(Continued From Page 1.) flour, and grain, soybeans, oil, and just about anything else. A New Crew, But On and On And while Pittsburg was the last any of the five crewmen would see of No. 77, she would go on with a new crew. South to Watts and Heavener, south to De Queen and Texarkana, west to Dallas, and still farther south to Shreveport, Port Arthur and New Orleans. Waiting at the Gulf ports would be the ships, ready to take on what No.

77 carried. By then the goods No. 77 carried would be a long way from the West Knoche yards. But the other night, Bo and Sparky were thinking about those cars of wheat. You get what we call slack action then, said Sparky.

The only way I can describe it is by saying its like running with a blindfold and hitting a brick wall. The cars move back and forth and with a train like this well, it gets pretty rough. Sparky was right, A visitor commented after the third jolt after that slack action reminded him of a motor car accident hed been in. You hit it right on the head! yelled Bo. In the Moonlight, Its Different No.

77 headed into West Wye, Airline Junction and then south to Sheffield Steel and Leeds. Kansas City looked different in the moonlight. The quiet residental streets were far away. Along the tracks the industries that fill the cars were alive. Near Hickman Mills some rocks were thrown at the train and caboose.

Happens all the time, said Bo. And its not only kids. Once I saw a man about 25, dropping rocks on the train. Down the grade toward Grandview now, the 9,821 tons aboard moving easier now but the slack action coming faster. Gene Chambers, the agent for the Southern at Grandview, was out to check the running gear.

He signaled it was all clear, and Gardner, whose locomotive was blown out from under him in North Africa in World War II, TfieTaJace a TIGERMAN SHOT AT CLOSE RANGE (Continued From Page 1.) resting on the right shoulder of th dark suit coat, Tigerman was wearing. Newman said this slug bore paint marks from the filing cabinet above. The slug apparently had bounced around the room and come to rest on the shoulder. Bullets Are Recovered From the three bullet wounds police recovered three bullets: One in the abdomen, one on the, shoulder and one flattened against the skull. They appeared to be .33 caliber bullets.

Police theorized that Tiger-man had been writing at his desk prior to the shooting. New man said a dozen or more pieces of paper were on the desk, some of them marked with figures apparently having to do with the used ear business. Tigerman was a man who wrote down everything he did, a friend told police. The pattern of the wounds could indicate that the killer walked to the side of Tigermans desk, at Tigermans right, and shot him in the stomach as he was seated. Then the second shot fired could have been to the right side of the head.

The wound at the top and back of the head was puzzling. Newman said the fact that that bullet did not penetrate the skull, and the fact that the abdominal bullet stopped inside the body without striking a bone, might indicate that the killer was using old, weakened ammunition. Pistol in Desk One puzzling aspect of the killing was why Tigerman would let an assailant get so close. He was a man who knew he had made enemies. He had an automatic pistol in a lower right hand drawer of the desk where he sat.

It was still in the drawer after the shooting. There was no evidence of any indication that Tigerman had stood up. The desk chair was squarely behind the desk. Tigerman slumped against the filing cabinet a foot or so from the chair. A dozen detectives worked on I he case yesterday and a squad of seven, headed by Sgt.

Arthur Jenkins, was assigned to continue the investigation. The time of the killing was thought to have beep between 9 and 9:20 oclock Thursday night. Thomas Ceresia, 49, of 4220 Highland avenue, told police he told Tigerman good night about 9 oclock as he left work at the car lot. Work to I)o At that time, he said, Tigerman was working at the desk and remarked that he had a couple of hours of work to do before he could leave. When Ceresia left, the outside display lights were shining on the cars in the lot and lights were on in the office and Tigermans small, inner office.

Ceresia and Sam Baxter, 61. of 4216 Wayne avenue, another salesman, found Tigermans body yesterday morning. The outside door was open and the lights were off. Newman said the lights had been turned off at the master switch in a garage part of the building. About 9:20 oclock Thursday night, a resident at Fifty-first street and Swope parkway, about 12 blocks from the car lot' called police and told of seeing a man park a car and run from it.

A patrolman checked the car and found nothing amiss. Yesterday morning Dropleaf Tables from Credenzas from Breakfronts from Tea Servers Chairs from Oval Tables And Correlated Bedroom Groups too! At Similar Savings! Beds from 49.95 Slender jumper shift (to wear self-belted or not) comes with its own turtle neck blouse of wonderful double-knit Acrilan acrylic. Creamy ivory jumper with black or red blouse. Sizes 6 to 14. Double Dressers from 9,9.00 Chests from 59.95 Poudre Tables from 69.95 TWO HURT OS ARMOUR Collision at Gillham Road Sends One to Hospital Two persons were hurt yesterday afternoon in a motor car collision at Armour boulevard and Robert Gillham road.

Mrs. Sylvia Bozis, 57, of Mount Prospect, 111., and George Pfeiffer, 77, of 714 West Thirty-fifth street, suffered minor lacerations. Pfeiffer was admitted to Trinity Lutheran hospital for observation. Cpl. Ralph Anthony of the police department said Joseph Bozis, 53, Mrs.

Boziss husband, reported he was blinded by the sun and entered the intersection on a red light. Easy Tei nis al Rank llales a check revealed that the car was Tigermans. Tests Are Begun Police laboratory technicians processed the car for fingerprints and began tests on a white rubber floor mat with two smears of blood on it. The mat was on the right front floor of the car. Police also found bloodstains on the bumper and side of a car parked near the office door at the car lot, as if someone with blood on the lower part of topcoat or trousers had jrushed against the car.

A resident near the car lot told police of seeing two youths run from the lot about 2 oclock yesterday morning. CLEARS DR. R. S. MORISON Washington (AP) The Senate yesterday confirmed President Kennedys nomination of Dr.

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