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THE COURIER. JOURNAL, LOUISVILLE, KY. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1947. SECTION 1 1 25 Die, 124 Hurt As Part of Train Dives Off Mountain Curve Truman Plans 15 Days On Caribbean Vacation Washington, Feb. 18 (AP) The White House today announced a 15-day vacation itinerary which will take President Truman by plane and ship next month to the Caribbean.

The program includes official receptions in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands after a three-night stop at Key two sleepers, a coach, and an express car stayed on the rails. Pennsylvania Railroad officials were at a loss to explain the accident. The Red Arrow was running about 50 minutes behind time when the engines jumped the rails at 3:25 "a.m. E.S.T. A company spokesman said the speed called for at the scene of the accident was 35 miles an hour.

Rescue workers used acetylene torches to get into some of the cars. Sgt. Melvln Drum, 28, Dubois, pinned in the debris, quietly talked with rescue crews labored for hours to cut him free. left arm of a Pittsburgh girl was pinned in the wreckage, but she kept the spirits of others high. 4 Cars Remain On Rails.

The two locomotives plunged from the rails, tore up several hundred feet of track, then dived into Gum Tree Hollow. With the two engines went a combination coach and baggage car, one diner, and three sleepers. Another coach and combination baggage car and coach toppled over on their sides along the rails. Three other sleepers were derailed, but remained upright. The last four cars of the train Rabbi George E.

Lieberman, 36, Canton, Ohio, led prayers requested by other passengers "in case anything should happen" before they were rescued. Rabbi Lieberman conducted the prayer service for half an hour. It required 4 hours for rescuers to extricate him. Pvt. John Murphy, 18, Detroit, en rpute to Camp Kilmer, N.

and several other soldiers broke windows and helped a mother and her baby to safety. Tales were told of how another soldier severed several fingers trying to break a window. The ported "critical" in Altoona Hospital and likely to die. The bodies were taken from the death scene, two miles from scenic "Horseshoe Curve," to Altoona. The removal task ran well into this evening.

One of the' injured, Mrs. Samuel Samaritana, Detroit, died late tonight. 6 Mail Clerks Perish. The dead included 16 passengers, six railway mail clerks, and three members of the crew an engineer and two firemen who Jesus Pinero, at La Fortaleza. a harbor-protecting fort started in 1533 and now used as the Governor's official residence.

There will be an official reception there later in the afternoon. To Stop At Guantanamo. The President will witness fleet maneuvers March 12 and 13 ard put in at 5 p.m. March 13 in Charlotte Amalie Harbor, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.

He will go ashore for a reception at the residence of Governor William H. Hastie, former dean of Howard University Law School here. He will spend a night aboard ship, and attend a luncheon at 1 p.m. March 14 at the Governor's house. Officials of the island Government will be present.

The remainder of the cruise will be strictly informal and unofficial, including a stop at Guantanamo around the 17th. The party will debark at Key West March 23 and return by plane to Washington that day. Police Chief Hatfield Held As McCoy Slayer Matewan, W. Feb. 18 (AP) A McCoy was dead and a Hatfield was in jail today after a shooting scrape reminiscent of the feud that raged between the Hatfields and the McCoys in this mountain mining country 60 years ago.

Sheriff Dan Chambers reported that Chief of Police Allen Hatfield, 51, admitted shooting Hubert "Bay" McCoy, 28-year-old veteran and mining company employee, who died of a head wound. Chambers said Hatfield claimed self-defense. He said Hatfield told him that Patrolman Curtis Coleman asked his help in making a routine arrest. McCoy was at the scene and accompanied the arrested man to jail. Hatfield was quoted as saying: "Bay wouldn't leave.

He said the man had his hat. We got his hat. Bay still wouldn't leave. He said he wanted the man free on bond. "Jim McCoy, a brother, took Bay in tow, but he broke loose and hit me.

He knocked Coleman down and tried to get his pistol. "Their heads were close together, but I fired from six or eight feet." West, Fla. The trip starts from here March 8 and ends March 23. The Chief Executive also will witness fleet maneuvers and make an unofficial visit 'to the American naval base at Guanta-namo, Cuba. Will Fly to Key West.

Truman will travel by naval plane and aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg. The journey Romania Bans Message Bucharest, Feb. 18 UP) Romanian Government censorship today held up publication of President Truman's message announcing diversion of food shipments to Romania to feed sufferers in the northern Province of Moldavia. will get under way two days after his return from a three-day official visit to Mexico. For that trip entirely by plane he will leave here early on March 3 and return March 6.

The President will take off by naval plane at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 8, and arrive about 3 p.m. at Key West. He will rest three nights at the commandant's house at the submarine base there, where he spent six days last November, then take off at 5 a.m. March 11, by plane, for San Juan, Puerto Rico.

He will arrive in San Juan around 10 a.m., and go aboard the yacht Williamsburg. At 1 p.m., he will go ashore to attend an official luncheon by Governor ArmedsGreek Communists Seen In Bulgaria Witness Says 1 ii ii ii I' a 'ii I ii ill ii i THIS IS BENNINGTON CURVE, where the Red Arrow left train is in the left foreground. Rescue workers are gathered Police Bar 1,000 'Rent-Marcliers' From New York CapitoVs Chambers g4. From Overseas Dispatches. Athens, Feb.

18. A witness told the United Nations inquiry commission today that he saw 20 to 30 Greek Communists carrying arms in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and that the Greeks and Bulgarian militiamen were "obviously together." The witness was introduced by the Greeks merely as "Nedelkov." Bulgarian liaison officers said he was a former Bulgarian flier. The commission, here to inves Candidate Urges Voters to Support His Opponent Carbondale, 111., Feb. 18 UP) Elmer Tuegel, who says he agreed to run for Mayor of Carbondale "in a weak moment," today appealed to voters to vote for the only other candidate in the primary election next Tuesday. Tuegel, a traveling salesman for a St.

Louis dry-goods firm, has been traveling in the wake of friends campaigning in his behalf, trying to undo their efforts. He explained that his. job required him to be out of town several days each week. Tuegel is campaigning for his opponent, John I. Wright, a history professor at Southern Illinois Normal University." manned the twin locomotives in the train's hard climb over the mountains.

Going into Bennington Curve, nine miles from here, the 14-car Red Arrow, en route from Detroit to New York, suddenly left the rails. Rabbi Leads Prayers. In a matter of seconds it was a mass of twisted steel and the air was rent- by the cries of its passengers. Many were the stories of heroic deeds. Suspended in mid-air from his berth, his leg pinned in wreckage, announced that Attorney General Nathaniel Goldstein had ruled the "closed doors" were legal, the Assembly formally approved the action.

The vote was 100 to 40, on strict party lines. The march was sponsored by the Emergency Committee on Rent and Housing, which claims to represent a million New York City tenants. It was staged as a demonstration of support for Democratic and American Labor Party legislation which would continue rent control at present ceilings, extend stays of evictions, and provide more low-cost housing funds. Although the marchers lost their battle to gain mass entrance to legislative chambers, the troopers permitted entrance of small groups late in the day. A Supreme Court justice issued an order for the G.O.P.

leaders to show cause tomorrow why the "rent-marchers" should not be admitted. However, a special train returned virtually all the demonstrators to New York City late this afternoon. Denied general admission to the witnesses to testify against Senate seating of Senator Theodore G. Bilbo Miss.) Rankin Would Ignore Him. Rankin told a reporter he preferred to ignore Bolte's remarks, but added that the vote in the committee was "overwhelming and not even on my motion and it-takes more than one man to get action on anything in a committee of Congress." The House committee's rule says simply that "testimony before this committee be limited to those organizations which have exclusively active, participating veterans of American wars." O'Konski Offered Rule.

Members said it was adopted by. a vote of 15 to 9. It was offered by Represenfative O'Konski Wis.) as a substitute for a proposal by Rankin to permit testimony only from "accredited" veterans organizations. Bolte said it operated to bar A.V.C. since that organization has some 400 members who served in the Merchant Marine.

In addition, the A.V.C. admits Americans who served with Allied armed forces. 3 Sleeping Cars Among Coaches In 150-Foot Fall Altoona, Feb. 18 (JP) Twenty-five persons met death on a jagged Pennsylvania mountainside in the predawn darkness and 124 others were injured when part of a crack Pennsylvania railroad passenger train plunged over a 150-foot embankment. Many of the injured were re- Pact to Control World Wheat Is Drafted U.

S. Would Get $1 to $1.30 a Bushel Washington, Feb. 18 (JP) "American farmers would be as sured an average farm price of about $1 to $1.30 a bushel for Tvheat sold in foreign markets under a proposed our-or-f ive-, year international wheat agreement made public today. The agreement wilr- be submitted to a conference of major wheat exporting and importing countries in London beginning March 18. It would not govern the domestic price.

The document was drafted by International Wheat Council organized before the war to com- bat world surpluses. U. S. Gets 16 Pet. of Market.

American farmers also would be assured at least 16 per cent of the world export market if they cared to take advantage of it. This country's share of the world export demand would be bushels. i v. The agreement is designed to 'stabilize future prices, produc-i tion, and stocks of wheat in a -manner designed to prevent pressed farm, prices on the one hand, and excessive prices and shortages for consumers on the other. Must Be Ratified.

The agreement would become effective when ratified by the four major exporting nations Canada, Australia, Argentina, and the United States and by enough importing countries, including the United Kingdom, to make a r- market for at least 400,000,000 bushels annually; or by any three cf these exporting countries and six importers, including the United Kingdom. Ratification by this country would necessitate Congressional approval. O.K. Forecast For Labor Bill Special t. The New York Time and The Courier-Journal.

Washington, Feb. 18. The House Judiciary Committee fore-" cast today approval, possibly tomorrow, of the first legislation restricting labor's privileges that will come to the floor of the Republican Congress. This is a measure written by Representative Gwynne -Iowa), springing from the portal-to-portal back-pay controversy. Actually it goes beyond that issue to restrict the future potential liability of employers under every aspect of the Wage Hour Act.

While the chairman, Representative Michener declared at the end of the committee's closed session that a vote had not yet been reached on the bill, he added: "No amendments to it were proposed." Copyright, 1947. Senate Approves Extension of Grace On G.I. Insurance Washington, Feb. 17. OI.R) The Senate today passed unanimously and sent to the White House a resolution granting veterans an additional period of grace in which to reinstate their G.I.

life insurance without taking a physi- cal examination. The measure already had been approved by the House and re-i-: auires only President Truman's signature. No specific period for rein- statement is provided but Vet-i erans Administrator Omar N. Bradley has informed Congress that ex-servicemen probably will -f be given until August 1 to resume their insurance. rnnnlil.Hrtn nt the Focus.

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Dewey's Republican Administration today barred 1,000 demonstrators from New York legislative halls and a loud-and-long political wrangle ensued. Minority Democratic lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate staged a' "strike" and declined to participate in work of the Legislature. They asserted any legislative action would be illegal because the doors of their chambers were closed to the public. Record Budget Approved. Republican leaders, accusing the leaders of the "march on Albany" of being "Reds," defended the action.

They proceeded over Democratic protests to approve Dewey's record $671,000,000 budget for 1947-48. After Speaker Oswald D. Heck 1 Iff III President's Mother Cheerful, Comfortable Grandview, Feb. 18 (P) Mrs. Martha E.

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Testimony Washington, Feb. 18 (AP) The House Veterans' Committee today adopted a rule which members said will bar testimony before it by representatives of the American Veterans Committee. Associated Press Wirephoto. the tracks. Wreckage of the near some of 'the coaches.

Capitol, the marchers gathered in a hall across the street and cheered speakers' references to Governor Dewey's "storm troopers." Approximately 150 State policemen, armed with riot sticks and wearing side arms, guarded all doors at the Capitol. Heck, in defending the bar against the demonstrators, criticized what he termed an "unholy alliance between the elected members of the Democratic Party and disorderly forces led by the Communist Party." "It seems to me," he added, "that the revolutionary technique of sabotage and the sit-down strike has finally been adopted as a process of government by the Democratic Party." Heck explained that he originally agreed to permit the marchers to meetin the Assembly chamber today after the legislative session ended, but rescinded permission after reading notices of the affair in the Communists' Daily Worker. He said his suspicions were confirmed by reports from New York City and New York State police. I.R.O. to Do Tracing Geneva, Switzerland, Feb.

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