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World Coverage by A.P, Plus News of County Aftd Community Seventy-Eighth Year JDaily Allegany County's Daily Newspaper Home Town of the Braves 1958 Pennant Winner Of NYP League WELLSVILLE, NEW YORK, Tuesday Afternoon, September 16, 1958 Commuter Coach Recovered From Bay; Estimated 40 Dead, 33 Others Injured Five Cents Per Copy Aerial View of Train Disaster HERE'S HOW CARS OF COMMUNTER TRAIN plunged into waters of Newark Bay throueh a Irawbndge at Elizabeth, N. J. One coach, which later fell into inrou a locomotives into the water. (AP Wirephoto). George Stirnweiss, Allied Chemical Executive Were On'Board Tagged As Manager By ARTHUR EVERETT ELIZABETH, N.J.

(AP) A tricky hoisting operation early today recovered a Jersey Central commuter coach bearing 13 bodies from the swirling waters of Newark Bay. The railroad estimates that 40; persons died Monday when a five-car commuter train pulled by two locomotives, hit an open drawbridge on a trestle over the bay and knifed into the water. Twenty bodies have been recovered so far. Thirty-three others were injured. The locomotives and three of the five coaches came to rest on the silty bottom.

One of the coaches dangled over the water long enough for its passengers to scramble to safety and then plunged in. The raised coach, little damaged outwardly, was a shambles insMe, strewn with lugeage and I bodies. It was towed on a flat-j barge to the Bayonne Naval Depot. I The bodies were taken to the Bayonne morgue for identification. Among the missing and presumed dead were George (Snuffy) Stirnweiss, former New York Yankee second baseman, and Elton Clark, 71, a director of Allied BASEBALL sources were mentioning Solly Hemus, above, as having the inside track on the manager's job at St.

-Louis. The former Cardinal infielder, now playing for Philadelphia, would al juo succeed Fred Hutchinson. (API utes Wirephoto). would ndicat Eisenhower Conference With Rogers May Effect Resistance to Integration Nationalists Supply Besieged Quemoys Long, Long Night in Many Homes-- By SAUL PETT RED BANK N. J.

(AP) was a long night in many homes a'ixmg tf.e north Jersey shore. First, the empty chair at dinner Monday night. Then an empty bed. was Jerse Opened 3 fly TbrOUah IHIUUyn Dr.age, ftR Ncdling BonkrUDtCV ft 1 1 the Jersey Central train that plunged into Newark Bay Monday morning, leaving agonizing uncertainty behind. And 'in at least 40 homes, in the homes of the prominent, me wealthy and the obscure, they waited afraid that the phone would ring, afraid that it would never ring.

Friends and relatives caned. Reporters called. Local police called. None had any more information than the waiting family. And they waited, knowing that each hour that went by increased the grim possibility that a loved one had diel in the murky waters of Newark Bay.

They waited in the home of George (Snuffy), Stirnweiss, 39, former second baseman for the New York Yankees and father of six children. Stirnweiss almost missed the train Monday morning, catching it just as it was moving put of Red Bank. He was for York, where he held down two wijjti Caldell a ELIZABETH, N. J. Central was first New York through the bridge) from which one of its commuter; trains plunged into Newark Bay.

The bridge, supported above the! oily bay on piles, spans nearly miles between here and Bayonee, N. J. It was originally completed Aug. 1, 1864, and rebuilt in 1927 at a cost of 14 million dollars. Twin, vertical lifts up and' down drawbridges can be oper-i ated to raise tracks and provide' maximum elearance of 135 feet above the water for vessels pass-1 'ing beneath.

It was one of these lifts, work-1 ing like an elevator, that had left! a gap into which the train dropped. The main line of the system runs from there to Scrpnton via Wilkes-Barre. The Central also operates a line from Newark south to Delaware Bay and serves many of the coast resorts north of Atlantic City. Passengers commuting to New York board a ferry or bus in Jersey City to complete the trip into Manhattan. NEWPORT, R.I.

(AP) Presi- by tele- Dulles today. The conference with' in New York for the United Nations General came as Eisenhower awaited a meeting at the summer White House with Atty. Gen. Rogers. They arranged a riscussion of the federal government's role in the light of continuing Southern resistance to court- ordered school integration.

On the international front. Eisenhower got a.report from Dulles on latest developments in the Formosa Strait area. They also dis- cussod the speech Dunes will make later in the week at the U.N. Assembly. The President then went off for an early morning round of golf at the Newport Country Club course, close by his vacation residence at Ft.

Adams. retary James C. Hagerty said in reply to questions that Eisenhower arid his chief aide, Sherman Adams, have not been in touch directly since Adams returned to his White House office in Wash- warning signals. It ripped through an automatic derailing device that jerked it from the rails but failed to stop it. Jersey Central President E.

T. Moore called it an unexplained accident. Four of six crewmen aboard the train died, including engineer Lloyd Wilburn, 63, Red Bank, N.J. Skindivers, Navy underwater specialists and surface vessels recovered some bodies that floated free of the wreckage. One of the first rescuers on the scene, boatman Ed McCarthy, said: "I tell you I never want to see anything like this again.

It comes back to me how horrible it rjust have been for those people trapped under the water." The train had made its wav without incident along the north Jersey shore toward Jersey City anri ferry Terminals to New York City. En route it picked up New York-bound business executives. Wall st'-eeters and weekend vacationers headed back from the shore. Bridgetender Patrick Corcoran. 55.

pulled the switch that raised the elevator-type drawbridge to allow a barge to move through the heavily traveled waterway. "There was nothing I could do," he said, as he told of watphing helplessly as the train plunged into the water. "I heard the rumble. I can't describe my feelings. I By ROBERT B.

TUCKMAN TAIPEI, Formosa (AP) The Nationalists got more supplies to the beleaguered Quemoys by planes and ship today, the Defense Ministry announced. It was the third straight day the Nationalists supplied Little Quemoy by air. Seven cargo planes made the latest airdrop, the min- istray said. An LST Landing Ship, Tank rammed ashore on Quemoy and unloaded all Its cargo in 20 min- reported. This the cargo may have been taken off the ship in amphibious vehicles.

The Nationalists succeeded in a sbip landing on Quemoy Sunday alter a week of failures. The new ship run to Quemoy came as the Nationalist reported they were working new attempts to crack the Red artillery blockade of the offshore islands. New speedup methods of unloading Nationalist planes and ships at Quemoy and the parachuting of supplies to smaller islands near MOSCOW (AP)-The Soviet Un- 1 Quemyo were reported. More ef- fective ways to get supplies ion has agreed to exploratory through' the curtain of shells are talks with the West on ways to being sought, Premier Chen Cheng prevent i se attacks. An told Parliament, agreement by experts on a work- East-West To Discuss Safeguards able system could lead to political Four members of Parliament spearheaded a strong clamor in discussions on establishing safe-j Taipei against the U.S.-Chinese guards agafnst another Pearl Har- Communist talks which began in or- Warsaw Monday and recessed un- Iii answer to a series of notes tilm hu sd ay from President Eisenhower, the The talk a intended to ease Kremlin agreed Monday to meet Formosa Strait tension, possibly in The Soviet note handed bringing an end to the bombard- to U.S.

Charge d'Affaires Richard ment of the Quemoys which be- H. Davis proposed that elght-na-1 8 ai A 23. But the four promi- tion talks begin Nov 10 1 nent lfi Sislators said the talks The meeting would follow the mi JL A affec tne morale precedent of technical talks that of naWnalisf troops and civilians. ended Aug. 21 with East-West agreement on ways to police a can America seek peace Wltntne Communists when the ob- MQlV.V'll***!! 1 VU LJU1AV.C nuclear weapons tests ban.

The Active of international commu- United States, Britain and the so- nlsm is to conquer the world?" a viet Union are to begin political statement by the four said. It fol- negotiations on an actual ban in 9 wed numer us similar state- Geneva Oct 31 ments of Nationalist leaders urg- The two related aspects of eas- in 8 tn United States support for Ing world tension, by possible nu- military action against Red China, clear weapon test ban and safe-guards against surprise attack, contribute to Soviet Premier drive for a summit conference. At the same time, they represent the type of thorough preparaiton that the United States insists must precede any meeting by beads of government. 18 New Polio Cases Raise Total to 91 ALBANY, N. Y.

my life I never saw such a i mess in my life." Aboard the train as it rocked, onto the trestle, there was- little forewarning of disaster. i "All of a sudden the brakes seb His wife Jane called both offi ces George never reached either" was started in 1862 And she i sat back anri i waftPd i nr fi PSt The Soviet note suggested that fcaS 1 oli the hlghest weeklv a technical agreement on prevent- tal tn year were "Ported ing surprise attacks "undoubtedly la week in the 57 counties out- will facilitate fruitful examination Sldeh New York City 4 IU of the question at a meeting', The ne cases raised to 91 the of heads of government." The total Umb1e the area this Kremlin had not sought similarly yea f' Jth er Health Department re- to use the nuclear weapons test Ported Monday. This is six less discussions to press for a summit nan tne total at tne same sta 8 who boarded the train at loking. Joseph Di Stasip, jjg, of Belmar, a partner in UJe New York firm of Di Stasio arid yan Buren, consulting engineers," who had been designated in 1958 as Engineer of the Year by the Brooklyn Institute. James Clark, 30, of Red Bank, art director of a commercial studio in New York.

Howard W. Huntington 54, Neptune City, N.J., statistician of the New York Times financial department for 33 years. i because of his relations with Bos- Donald Weaver, 32, a Union i jersey city ton industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Beach, N.J., clerk in a Manhattan Last June, when the controversy bank, said: "I was reading my Jersey fj rs flared, Eisenhower rejected a Per. I thought the car was de- in the SUC demands.

The President has railed. The next 1 1 been silent since the clamor start- i car was ful1 of meeting. For the Nov. 10 talks the Kremlin proposed equal representation in 1957. However, the figure is well under the average of 945 for the Date of Vote In Little Rock Moved Ahead LITTLE ROCK, Ark.

Gov. Orval E. Faubus today advanced the date of the scheduled vote in Little Rock on the question of integrating the city's schools from Oct. 7 to Sept. 27, saying "time is of the essence." A planned demonstration by pupils at Hall City School against the closing failed to materialize.

Only 10 boys appeared, preparing to stage a sit-down protest, they said. Guards ordered them to leave. Today was the' second day of what would have been the start of the fall school term in Little Rock. Faubus by proclamation last Friday ordered' the schools not to open. This was five hours after the Supreme Court ruled against further delay in enrolling Negro pipils.

I Faubus criticized the Little Rock School Board for a "cruel and unnecessary blow to the children" in canceling this year's football schedule and other extracurricular activities. "This move yesterday was just spite. The board is using the children in its own pressure campaign in this cold war for inte- gration," he said. I The scheduled referendum gives the voters an opportunity to say whether they w.ant the schools to be reopened on an integrated basis. The new date falls on a Saturday.

Elections normally are held on Tuesday in Arkansas. I Should the people vote against 'reopening the schools on an integrated basis, Faubus presumably I will move ahead with plans to operate them as private schools. Quiet prevailed at Central High, scene of the riots last year and where paratroops were sent to escort Negroes into the building. A number of automobiles with out-of-state licenses appeared today and people were taking snapshots of themselves with the building in the background. Guards ordered them away.

A federal grand jury went into session but authorities said it does not foreshadow any action by the U.S. government in the integration struggle. Hundreds of anxious parents cast about for a way to get their teen-agers into high schools somewhere. I Sources Report Government Has No Precipitate Action Planned as of Now issue a ABOUT FmE dav on the Job, Ray Curry asked hls wife not to telephone S' Sne dld an wa y. to say the house wa on fite burned to the ground.

Curry, 26, his wife and flve children ent the night i a a neighbor's. APPOINTMENT AGGREABLE ATHENS (AP) A foreign ministry spokesman said today the U. S. government has agreed i to the appointment of Alexis Liatis i as Greek ambassador to Washington. 1 Liatis now is in charge of the! Greek foreign ministry office for' 'Arab and Asian affairs.

NEHRU OFF ON TRIP NEW DELHI (AP) Prime Minister Nehru set out today for a 16-day trip by plane, motor vehicle and horse to one of India's oldest and most remote neighbors, the little Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan. The primitive nation of about 600,000 persons occupies an important position on the almost impassable mountains between in- Federal Court Gives Go-Ahead For SPA Work on Reservation restive province of Tibet. India controls Bhutan's almost nonexistent foreign affairs. WET AND HUMID Western New York, Northern Finger Lakes to Lake Ontario, East of Lake Ontario, Black River rain and muggy air with some chance of a thunderstorm today and tonight. High temperatures between 70 and 75.

Low tonight 60. Wednesday rate and turning colder. High 65 to 70. Light variable winds mostly south to southwest under 15 shifting to northerly Wednes- NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.

A party of State Power Authority surveyors started work on the Tuscarora reservation today and there was no Indian opposition. Sheriff's deputies reported that about 15 surveyors showed up on the disputed territory. A few caroras appeared as well, but seemed only to be watchfng, they said. A federal court Monday gave the SPA the go ahead to take over 86 acres of Tuscarora land and the authority said' it would start work' today. Authority spokesmen today, however, refused to make any comment on the situation at all.

The 86 acres are part of 1,383 the SPA want to condemn for the 650-million-dollar Niagara power project. The Indians have taken the condemnation case to the U.S. Supreme Court. In Rochester Monday, Federal District Judge Haroll P. Burke granted the SPA immeditae-pos- session of the land for power lines.

The SPA said the decision will save the state half a million The attorney for the Tuscaroras declined comment. U. S. Supreme Court Justice John M. Harlan has granted the Indians temporary delay in the stale's condemnation proceedings pending a possible appeal to the full court.

The Tuscaroras have until Friday to file a formal appeal. Justice Harlan left it to the Federal District Court to decide whether the 86 acres for the power lines could be taken over by the SPA immediately to save time and money. The Indians have until Oct. 15 to appeal Judge Burke's decision. I Burke also stipulated that the SPA must deposit with the court as compensation for the 86 acres, or to pay for damages if his decision should be overruled.

I too fast, much to fast." train left Bay Head, a north Jersey shore resort at 8:28 a.m. Its last stop before the trestle was I Elizabethport, N.J., across Newark Bay from Bayonne. The trestle approach to the open drawbridge was strung with warn- inB signals. An "auHnn sip-1 nal was a mile from the draw. A quarter of mile closer the! draw was another.

And 550 feet from the draw was a red stop signal. Railroad officials said all three were working. Engineer Wilburn's train ignored all three signals, ripped through an automatic derailing device and bumped on for 500 feet over the ties before it plunaed off the lip of the 216-foot drawbridge. Estimates of the train's speed varied. Under normal circumstances, with all in its fi- vor.

it was limited to 45 m.n.h. A towermari said it hit the d-raw at about 30 m.p.h. Passengers aboard estimated its speed at up to 60 m.p.h. Even then, but for a caprice of timing, the train might have escaped its watery plunge. The huge concrete weights of the drawbridge normally block the tracks when the bridge is wide open.

But thev had started to rise as the bridge was being lowered back into alignment with the trestle. Through this gap, the train plunged. BRITISH PAINTER CRITIC LONDON (AP) Stephen Bone, 53. British painter and.art critic, died Monday of complication's resulting from an operation for cancer of the kidney. He has been the London art critic for the Manchester Guardian since 1948.

of the North Atlantic Treaty Or-' ears 1951-1953, before widespread ganization and the anti-NATO use of the Salk lio vaccine. Warsaw Pact. The note suggested! Four teen of last week's cases the attendance of the United ca "sed paralysis. Health officials Britain, France and Bel- said none of these victims had re- gi'um for the West and the Soviet celved the vaccine, which is de- Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia and signed to prevent polio. Romania for the East.

The samel six of th paralytic cases oc- nations participated In nuclear ciirred i Erie County. There were ban technical talks except for Can- two Or ange County and one acJa took part instead of eac in Madison, Nassau, Niagara, Onondaga, Oswego and Tompkins counties. Onondaga and Orange counties also reported one non-paralytic case each. The other two non- ODESSA, Tex. cloud- paralytic cases were in Oneida burst over this West Texas city County.

Monday night dumped 1.67 inches' The state is urging all persons of ram within an hour, flooded under 40 to take the vaccine some streets and low areas and A total of 6,087 persons received derailed a train. ifree vaccinations at the recent Water rose four to six feet deep State Fair In Syracuse, the depart- in places on U.S. 80 between here ment said, and Midland. Cloudburst Floods Streets, Derails Train at Washout Incident Breaks Lull In Codfish Dispute LONDON (AP) The Icelandic gunboat Thor tried to put a boarding party on the 397-ton British trawler Red Lancer Monday night as the codfish war off Iceland flared up again, the British navy reported. An Admiralty communique said the destroyers Hogue and Lagos and another British Arctic the Ice- landers away.

I The incident broke a lull of sev- i eral days in active Icelandic at- j.tempts to arrest British trawlers fishing inside Iceland's new 12- mile Ifmit. About 10 cars of a Texas Pacific freight derailed at a track RECORD ENROLLMENT ALBANY, Y. rec- washout about two miles west of ord total of 15 341 'persons attend- here. ed summer sessions at State Uni- Rainf a Rainfall Water in the city stood six feet versity colleges this year, the deep in low sections and crept into university reported Tuesday eSS I The total as well above the over West Texas 13,500 enrolled last year It was Pf 0 nches atPalnt almost do enroll! Creek fn Haskell County. ment 10 years ago.

ANOTHER CROSBY CAPTURED HOLLYWOOD chorus line at a Las Vegas, hotel has captured another Crosby heart. Phillip Crosby anonunced Monday he'll wed Sandra Dummond, 20-year-old dancer, in the near future. They met through Phillip's 23-year-old twin Dennis who re cently married showgirl Pat Shee ban. By JACK ADAMS WASHINGTON (AP) Atty. Gen.

Rogers today headed for a Newport, R.I., conference with President Eisenhower that could have eventual far-reaching effects on Southern resistance to school Integration. As of now, authoritative sources, report, the federal government has no plan for any sensational or precipitate action to meet the high school closures at Little Rock, and other delaying actions elsewhere in the South. James C. Hagerty, White House press secretary, described the Eisenhower-Rogers conference as "a review of the integration situation to date." Washington offfcials saw nothing urgent In the meeting. They discounted the statement of Arkansas Gov.

Orval E. Faubus, when he ordered closing of Little Rock high schools last week to avoid integration, that the next move was up to Washington. They contend it isn't so, that the next move actually is up to Faubus. They indicated that any federal action will await Faubus 1 move; The feeling here is that Faubus must now find some method that will stand up in the courts, to get secondary school education under way again in his capital city. Federal authorities are putting some, but not total, reliance on a buildup of pressures on the part of Little Rock parents to get their teen-agers back into classrooms.

At least 100 tdlerf Little Rock students already have tried to enroll at other schools In the? state. There also Is talk in Little Rock of reopening the public schools on a prlvtae. segregated basis. The Little Rock school board asked Faubus to advise it how that could be done "with assurance of full accreditation under North Central Assn. "The federal position may be summarized this way: There is ho existing law under whfch the federal government can force a state? tb operate a system of public schools.

If the entire system Is closed down, that's it, and the matter is closed so far as Washington Is concerned. But legal authorities say a constitutional question may be raised in selective school closures de? signed to avoid obedience of a preme Court order. They say that when a state offers grades of education fn one area and withholds them In others, It may be possible to argue successfully In court that children in the latter areas are being denied the equal protection of the laws guaranteed by the 14Jh Amendment. East Will be Warmer During Next 30 Days WASHINGTON (AP) The weather Bureau said today the next 30 days will bring reversal of the weather pattern of the past 30. The East will be warmer, much of the West cooler.

The bureau said its 30-day outlook for mid-September to mid- October calls for temperatures to average above seasonall normals in the southeastern quarter, of the, nation, Texas, and in the area from the Ohio Valley Eastward through the Middle Atlantic States. The bureau added: "Near normal temperatures are Indicated for New England and states bordering the eastern Great Lakes. Over the west half of the country below normal temperatures are anticipated, except for above normal along the West Coast. This country-wide temperature pattern marks a reversal from that of the past 30 days when unseasonably cold weather dominated the East and warm weather the West. "Precipitation is expected to exceed normal over most of the area lying between the Appalachians and the Continental Divide.

Subnormal amounts are exoected over the Southeast and far South' west. Otherwise about normal pre- pipltallon is indicated." State Residents Apathetic About Civil Defense WASHINGTON of New York State, on the basis of samplings in four cities, are reported generally apathetic in their attitude toward civl defense from atomic attack. A municipal spokesman for Yonkers, who was not named, summarizes it this way: "The general public sfmply cannot seem t.o realize the very real dangers inherent in living in what has come to be termed the atomic age. "Because we have emerged victorious in two World de-1 spite unpreparedness and blunder-' ing they seem to have a childlike faith in our ability to do so again, "It Is an almost impossible task to get them away from their favorite television, programs long enough to spend the few hours a week necessary, for training and preparation to deal with emergency situations." Capsule summaries from the other New York cities showed: Buffalo "generally apathetic;" Rochester belief in need;" apathetic." The replies, from unnamed municipal officials, were contained in answers to a questionnaire submitted by the American Municipal Assn, in an effort to determine 'the municipal viewpoint on Civil Defense 1958." The association, in a summation of replies received from cities throughout the nation, had this to say: The United States continues to. be extraordinarily vulnerable to destruction by atomic attack and this vulnerability is so great as to seriously restrict the possibilities of the United States to deal effectively with the international problems that confront it and all other free nations." "What is needed now," the summary said, "is development of reception areas, stockpiling of essential emergency supplies outside target areas, and the building of shelter against blast as well as against thermal and radiological hazards.

A fifth New York City, Schenectady; whose reply was not contained in the breakdown of answers to the questionnaire, nevertheless commented on the need for federal leadership. In another phase of the problem, the Yonkers reply said that with the exception of a few of the larger manufacturing plants "we have had little encouragement or cooperation from industry." "The main reason seems to be reluctance to tolerate any Interference with production..