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THE DETROIT FREE PRESS MONDAY. JUNE 20, 1938 Views of Wreckage of Transcontinental Flyer "Tie a Red Thread Major Wrecks of the Past Long-Missing Son Returns Comes Back Home on Father's Day Continued from Page One Asked for an explanation of his son's disappearance the elder Robinson said: "He went away because he wanted to go away. 1 have not asked him as yet any i -4 i V1 i 1 Detroit Women Tell of Wreck Escape Death on Vacation Trip MILES CITY. June 19 Two Detroit women were among the survivors of the wreck of the Olympian who save graphic accounts of the horror the disaster. Miss Estelle Drew nil Miss tsther Soklenski.

the Delimiters, who were on their way to Alaska, described the scene as oie of tenor, filled with the tragedy of death that came riding on the crest of flood waters down a comparatively small creek in the middle of the night. "We waited until dawn." said Jtiss Ditw. "before we caught the full significance of the terrible (disaster. It was appalling to think that down there in the murky waters were human beings, Caught like animals in a rage and Unable to escape." I-eft Detroit Friday (Relatives in Detroit said that Hiss Soklenski and Miss Drew left the city Friday afternoon on three-week vacation trip to laska. Both are employed by the Fere Marquette Railroad, Miss foldcnski as a stenographer and Jliss Drew in the accounting 0 f.

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632 WmI Art, "THANKS FOR SAVING ME THOUGHT every car dealer in town had had his pockeu sewed up tight until I visited a Hudson showroom. Now I'm thanking Hudson -for giving me such a fine trade-in deal and saving me money every mile I drivel' See the cars that give you most that's new -new style, championship performance, top room and comfort, record economy. See, too, what wc mean by a liberal trade-in allowance. Where? Aaron De Roy Motor Car 4444 Cass or the nearest Hudson dealer. Open evenings.

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Worry Is Blamed "The doctor in the Virginia hospital and I had a long talk and we agreed that he is really suffering from a form of hysteria brought on by worry. The boy was in no trouble when he left. That I can tell you definitely. He has been working part of the time since he left Detroit. What he did and where he went, however, are no part of this story.

"1 believe his primary reason for leaving Detroit was to get a job. Every day he stayed away from Detroit his sense of worry grew stronger until finally it cul minated In an attack of semi- hysteria. "Police In Virginia when he was found tried to Jolly him along at first to discover his Identity. They tried being tough with him. But all they could get out of him was "Dr.

Simpson, Harper Had Had Operations Dr. H. Lee Simpson, of Harper Hospital, is an old family friend and operated on the younger Robinson for removal of tonsils and for sinus trouble. "Anyway, his mother and I are happy that he Is back with us," the father said. "His first concern was his mother's health.

"It is going to be a little difficult for the boy to adjust himself at first, so we are going away for a brief but quiet vacation; just we three alone. We're leaving tomorrow." The reunion Sunday night at the Robinson home at 2151 Iroquois Ave. ended an eleven-month vigil in which the elder Robinson, never losing faith in his son's ultimate return, visited the Police Missing Person's Bureau twice or three times each week. 100 Windsor Boy Scouts Guests of Detroit Group One hundred Boy Scouts and Cubs from the Immaculate Conception Church, Windsor, were guests of Scouts and Cubs from 15 Catholic churches in Detroit Sunday at a rally in Gabriel Richard Park and later at the St. Charles Borromeo Church, Baldwin and St.

Paul Aves. The Rev. Father Harold Ma rkey, of the Catholic Youth Organization of the Archdiocese of Detroit, addressed the boys in the church. The Rev. Father Aloysius A.

Delmel, Cub master of the St. Charles Borromeo Pack No. 617, assisted by William Murphy, Invested six new Cubs. The aerial view of the wrecked Olympian passenger train jn Eastern Montana shows how cars piled up in a flooded creek'. Lower left, almost submerged, is the sleeper in which at least 17 bodies were believed trapped.

Most of the bodies recovered in the disaster were taken from another coach farther downstream, out of the picture to the left. On the far side of the stream are the two tourist coaches, mail car, baggage car and tender. The locomotive lies beneath them. In the distance is the rescue train which came from Miles City, 25 miles away. This photograph was taken after the water began subsiding in the stream.

29 Killed, 65 Hurt as Train Plunges into Raging Torrent Continued from Page One i -4 i- By the Associated Presi Major passenger train accidents in the United States, excluding Sunday's at Miles City, have taken 1,400 lives in the last 62 years. However, reports filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Bureau of Railroad Economics show only 10 fare-paying passengers killed In railroad acci dents In the last three years. The major wrecks with the larger death tolls, cities near where they occurred and the num ber of persons killed follow; 1876 Dec. 29 Ashtabula, 60. 1887 Aug.

10 Chatsworth, 111., 81. 1888 Oct. 10 Mud Run, 55. 1904 Aug. 7 Eden, 96.

1906 March 16 Florence, Colo, 35. Dec. 30 Washington, D. 53. 1907 Jan.

2 Volland, 33. Jan. 19 Fowler, 29. Feb. 16 New York City, 22.

March 23 Colton, 26. July 20 Salem, 33. Sept. 15 Canaan, 24. 1910 March 1 Wellington, 96.

March 21 Green Mountain, 55. 1911 Aug. 25 Canadaigua, N. 27. 1913 July 4 Coining, N.

40, 1913 Sept. 2 Wallingford, 21. Oct. 19 Buckatunna, 23. 19H Aug.

5 Tipton Ford, 40. 1916 March 29 Amherst, 28. 1917 Feb. 27 Penn, 20. Dec.

20 Louisville, 41. 1918 June 22 Ivanhoe, 68. July 9 Nashville, 115. 1919 Jan. 12 South Byron, N.

21. 1921 Feb. 27 Porter, 37. 1922 Aug. 6 Sulphur Springs, 40.

1923 27 Casper, 37. 1925 17 Hackettstown, N. Sept. June 50. 1926 Dec.

23 Rockmont, 20. i) Mir i if I I (Miss Soldenski. the daughter Edmund Soldi nski. lives at 2671 lielmont Highland Park. Miss Drew is the daughter of Mr.

nd Mrs. Samuel Drew, of 3737 JSelmont Ave.) Another passenger, Dan Kelly, fit Butte, vice president and managing director of the Anaconda (Copper Mining described the frene at the wreck as "tragic." Kscapeil in Disaster Kelly was in one of the rear Sleeping cars which did not plunge Into the flood-swollen waters of Custer Creek. "We were aware something terrible had happened," Kelly said, "but we did not realize the enormity of the tragedy until dawn came to give us a clearer View of the desolation and the terrible loss of life." "Never before," said R. L. Thors-Hale, of Seattle.

"have I been so impressed by the presence of death as when, at dawn, we passed by to be in a position to look into one of the cars a 111 tie above the water as the torrent receded and saw the form of jt dead person still sitting in the window of the car." Passenger Uemaiu Cool C. S. Franke. of St. Louis, president of the American Furnace who was asleep on the train when the first part crashed into the stream, said that "the most remarkable thing about the catastrophe, I believe, was the reaction IDf those involved.

"The passengers those who weren't killed or injured in the cars which had fallen into the etream displayed coolness and lacked any signs of hysteria. "The trainmen were just splen-Hid. They circulated about the groups of passengers and took fine fare of everyone." Forest Fire Rages SILVER CITY. N. June for the fifth day.

a forest fire in the Black Range today pushed beyond till immediate efforts at control. Speedway Cartage TRUNKS and BAGGAGE 3 1715 THIRD STREET I DAY and NIGHT 3 PHONE CHERRY 1004 Detroit prefers Harris service and economies by 9 to 1 Nine times the average. Complete funerals J100. No extras. IF i fir and wood beaten into hash.

Baggage, clothes, pillows, bedding, hats and purses were a mass of sodden, snarled rubbish. Mud and particles of bushes that had washed in through the open and broken windows and wTenched-off doors silted the interior as the waters receded. As the rescue work got under way, and the 23 bodies were brought to the surface. Lou Grill, editor of the Miles City Star, told of seeing bodies lvlng half covered with mud, water and debris, still in the cars. The scene of the wreck was across the creek from the nearest road, hampering rescue operations.

As the flood waters began receding, however, rescuers redoubled their efforts to account for missing passengers. The difficulty of identifying the dead was increased by the fact that the railroad had no list of passengers excepting those who had sleeper reservations. Many of the victims were making short trips as day-coach passengers. The wreck was-the first in 20 years on the Milwaukee Railroad in which a fare-paying passenger had been killed. Detroit Boys Win in Model Flights Take First Seven Nine Prizes Detroit model airplane build ers captured the first seven of nine prizes and a Jackson boy took ninth place in a field of 80 entries from five states in a gag model contest Sunday at the TO' ledo airport.

The only other award, that for eighth, went to a Napoleon (O.) entrant. The seven Detroit bovs are all members of airplane clubs con ducted by the Detroit Department of Recreation. The winners said they would enter the Eleventh National Championship Model Airplane Meet in Detroit July 6 to 9. The national meet, which is expected to bring more than 1,000 boys to Detroit from most of the United States and Canada, is sponsored by the Exchange Club of Detroit. First place went to Thomas Es-penship, of 8772 Crocuslawn with a flight time of 17 minutes, 6.8 seconds.

Espenship won first in a Crowley-Milner sponsored meet in Detroit a month ago, Sunday he won J2S in cash and a round-trip by Marquette Aid Lines to St. Louis. Other winners were: Second, John Olson, 3910 Narwalk Hamtramck, 11 minutes. 5 seconds; third, Edward Nadzius, Uni versity of Detroit sophomore. 14580 YVhitcomb, 3 minutes; fourth, Jack Tighe.

Wayne County Airport, 2 minutes, 29.9 seconds; fifth, Clarence Myers. 21008 John Hazel Park. 2 minutes. 2.3 seconds; sixth, Frank Franz, 5315 Iroquois, one minute. 45 seconds; seventh.

Michael J. Roll, 4439 Bingham Dearborn, one minute, 43.5 seconds; eighth, Arnold Schilpe-root, Napoleon. one minute, 25.5 seconds; ninth, Robert Smith, Jackson, one minute, 24.6 seconds. Boy Ride Stealers Held Three boys under 15 vears old were held Sunday by Canadian police on the report that they had stolen an automobile belonging to Dr. R.

Robinson, Askin Sandwich, and had driven it to Harrow. 23 miles from their starting piiint. before it ran out of gas. Then they thumbed their way home, police said, and started out for another highway trip, this time on their bicvcles. ft 4 4 son and Rademaker Aves.

and took $13t from the cash register, police said. The victims and Herbert Carpenter, of 61162 Holly a customer, then were locked in the basement. LIKE ME IS COMPANIES BUY AT BOUGHT MY BEST SEEN THAT HAPPEN MY GROWER SAME EXPERIENCE. CAMELS TOO tobacco (rower, iZ-'Si-ViX. TOBACCO PLANTERS SAY iKt 7 A WW If IS i M3tiJj-W-' ffttarA; --4 "Vita Jf s- struggled up through the raging waters that poured into the sleeper from the broken pane.

Her identity was not learned immediately. Cries of the trapped passengers were ghastly as the water slowly filled the coach, the survivors related. Engine Holds Cars Train crew's endeavored to lift the tender from the engine, which held the first three cars and kept the crewrs from dragging them out of the stream. Inside the coaches there was shredded, tangled steel, leather Aviatrix Starts for Joe Louis' Training Camp Carrying the signatures of Michigan fight fans who hope that Joe Louis will retain his heavyweight championship in his fight with Max Schmellng Wednesday night, Dorothy Darby, said to be the only licensed Negro aviatrix in the United States, took off from City Airport Sunday afternoon for Joe's training camp at Pompton Lakes, N. J.

Miss Darby, who is 26 years old and lives in Pontiac, was accompanied by her navigator, Rudy Pekaul, also of Pontiac. Flying a two-seater monoplane, she planned to fly to Buffalo Sunday afternoon and to continue from there to Pat-erson, N. Monday morning. Pompton Lakes is tw-o miles outside of Paterson. Besides the signatures of the 50,000 well-wishers, gathered by a committee of Joe's friends in all sections of the state, Miss Darby carried good luck letters from Gov.

Murphy, Mayor Reading, Mrs. Lillie Brooks, Joe's mother, and Reuben J. Patton, mayor of Detroit's Paradise Valley and president of the Michigan Colored Mayors Association. Patton and Mrs. Brooks were among the 50 persons who cheered Miss Darby and Pekaul on their take-off.

Miss Darby, who started flying in 1936 and received her license last year, has 150 solo hours to her credit. Townsend Fears Drift to Anarchy Talks to 20,000 on Convention Eve LOS ANGELES, June 19 (A. P.1 Declaring that the nation was drifting toward anarchy because of unfair taxation and widespread unemployment. Dr. Francis E.

Town-send told sonic 20,000 followers rallied in the Coliseum here today that his plan would restore prosperity. The gathering was repliminary to the third National Townsend Convention which will open tomorrow. The seventy-one-year-old founder of the pension movement which bears his name redefined his program: A system of taxation to compel everybody to pay taxes at the same rate on the use made of the public market. Use of tax money creating and building an expanding market, partly by paying old age pensions. Election to the Congress of men who will concern themselves with nothing but the general welfare of all the people.

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