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no cwir WALL STREET Most of Passengers Asleep as Limited Plunges Off Rails Little Falls, N. April 20 (P) The New York-Chicago Lake Shore Limited, roaring westward along the Mohawk LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST: Rain, cool tonight; occasional rains tomorrow Valley 15 minutes behind schedule, hurtled the rails shortly Deiore mianigni last nignt, carrying at least persons 10 99h YEAR FntMfd jt the Brooklyn ptnffice 2d Cits" Mail Matter (Copyright 1940 The Brooklyn Eaglet DAILY AND SUNDAY BROOKLYN, N. Y.f SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1940 aeam ana leaving iuu injured. State police told the United Press that at least 33 persons were killed in the wreck. With most of the 250 to 300 passengers asleep, nine cars of the 16-car New York Central fast express were turned in a flash into a mass of twisted steel as they were derailed on a vide curve and piled up lor a half Defecated Swede mile along the main east-west highway and the Albany-Buffalo Barge Canal.

Railroad men, investigating the New Yorlc Central's first passenger fatality in 13 years, voiced belief the train taking the curve at high speed sprung a rail. Flanges Into Embankmcpt The locomotive plunged across the highway Into a rock embankment, tossing J. Y. Smith of Schenectady, the fireman, to Instant death and pinning Jesse Earl of Albany, the engineer, in a battered cab, where he died three hours later from los of blood and two fractures. The high-powered locomotive carried with It the and baggage car.

One coach, uncoupled, sped down the tracks and apparently was not damaged. Another coach was cut open like a can of sardines, its top ripped off and the inside a complete wreck. A Pullman came to rest on Its right side. From each several bodies were removed. Bodies Strewn About A dining car was tipped at a 75 degree angle, a mas: of wreckage.

British Transport Sunk by Bombers, Says Berlin Report Beilin, April 20 DNB, German news agrncy, report' ed today that another British transport had been sunk by the German air force in Norwegian waters. Stockholm, April 20 The repulse of the (remans with heavy losses at Elverum, former refuge of King Haakon VII and his government, was reported late today by travelers reaching Sweden from Norway. Stockholm, April 20 (V) Allied troop landings at three points on the Norwegian west coast and continued German advances in east central Norway today plunged the embattled Scandinavian nation deeper into warfare as the battleground of western Europe's major Powers. Swedish newspaper reports said one French and two British divisions (between 30.000 'Sailed Through Crash Survivor Says Few Steps One Way or Another Meant Death, He Says Editor Tells of Horror and 40,000 men) had landed at 1 Namsos. Laerdal and Molde.

tin London it was announced that Allied expeditionary force had reached Norway without loss of a single life. Deny Tianspnrts Wff Sunk The press said that "dny af'er day our transport ships have car PORTER RESCUES 16 I'tica, April 20 (U.R) Passen Iters of the ill-fated Lake Shore Limited said today that one of the heroes of the wreck was Negro porter, J. A. Taylor of 400 W. 150th St, Manhattan Vninjured passengers who rime here on relief trains said Taylor, thrown from his bed in the arrident, broke a window and lowered through it IS persons, among then women and ehildren.

Two more Pullmans tilted precariously near the edge of the barge canal. The dead, the injured, car cushions, clothing and personal effects were strewn along the right of way. Feet of some of the victims protruded from the wreckage. Crumpled metal, ties ant gave a Junkyard appearance to the ghastly scene. Survivors straggled back and forth looking for friends, relatives and luggage.

There was no hysteria, Continued on Page 2 me from more serious injury State tropper stood over me. My first thought was of my traveling companion, Norman C. Hicks. I remember the tropper asking me if I was hurt. I was too dazed to reply, although I was tully conscious.

As soon as I was able to talk, I asked if he would help me find Mr. 'Hicks. Hears Calls for Help I had severe cuts on the thigh, a bruised hip and a back Injury. Apparently I had been thrown out of the smoking compartment when my car went off the rails. It was a strange sensation, finding myself in another part of the car and not knowing how I got there.

There were several other injured persons in the car and I could faintly hear some of them calling for help, although the sound of escaping steam from the Continued on Paga HIT-RUN DRIVER KILLS WOMAN IN FLATBUSH Mrs. John Sullivan 45, of 2212 Ditmas Ave. was killed at 2:15 a.m., today by an automobile which kept on going. The accident occurred at Flatbush and Newkirk Aves. as Mrs.

Sullivan was crossing Flatbush Ave. Police send out a general alarm. for an automobile with bloodstains on the fenders. 4 I. R.

A. Hunger Strikers Reported Recovering Dublin, April 20 (U.R) The second of six Republican Army hunger strikers was dead today but the other four, who had called off their strike, apparently were recovering, Only a few hours after the announced that the five hunger surviving after the death last Tuesday of Anthony Darcy had started taking nourishment, one of them, John McNella, died. The prisoners had been fasting 57 days. IN TODAY'S EAGLE II I Mrs. Harriman Pleads For U.

S. Aid to Norway Lives Depend on Food, Clothing, Asserts 'Old Lady' Sent to 'Such a Peaceful Spot' 3 CENTS ried heavy artillery, tanks and army equipment tocether with thousands of troops over 400 miles of sea to ports in northern Norway without mishap." i Tilt'1 claim rame qiickly after a joint War Office-Aomiralty corn-Continued on Page generosity of the American people to help them through these dark days. Surgeon General Hoist, chief medical officer of the Norwegian army, says Norway does not need medical supplies. They are getting plenty of those from Sweden but thousands of lives depend on the American Red Cross getting food and clothing for Norway." Thrives on Work I met Mrs. Harriman at Sarna after my return from a two-day automobile trip through Norway.

I found her in good health and in good spirits, despite the worry and Continued on Page 8 drops trade barriers between tho.se ar.d the Reich. Rumania also agTeed to ullf ill wheat contracts figned with Germany prior to the Rumanian embargo on wheat exports. Germany confirmed Rumanian contract with the Skoda Munitions in former Czechoslovakia, and agreed to speed up deliveries. the formal treaty, a gentlemen's agreement pledged the Continued on Page 3 Rain, Rain, Urtil Sunday THien Cool and Cloudy After a light ram during the litgiv and moderate rain today, the Weather Bureau predicted more vain tonight and tomotrow. followed bv cool temperatures and cloudy skie.

A low prc.vtirp area, with its Kentucky last night, has been moving Northeast then. nr. James K. Kimball, the bureaus chief meteorologist, explained, bringing its fringe where Sorthea.st winds prevail, to the Mel ropolran area and carrying in clouds from the Atlantic. The whole low area, however, will I pass off shore tonijhu No.

110 Ls WHEELS WERE RIPPED OFF TRAIN WRECK VICTIM The cago luxury express train crash Man, 79, III, Commits Suicide With Revolver John Pigot. 79. of 268 Linden Boulevard, shot and killed himself imll MM mill Tis. By WINSTON Bl'RDETT Rrnnklvn Faot' and Transradio r'nl War Cnrretpnntfertt Sarna, Sweden 'By Telephone to Stockholm), April 20 This is a personal message from United States Ambassador to Norway, Mrs. J.

Borden Harriman. I interviewed Mrs. Harriman today at Sarna. where she came for a flying conference with American Scandinavian Red Cross units. When Mrs.

Harriman was assured that the interview would be broadcast by Transradio she requested: Please relay a message from mc to the American public. Tell them Norway needs food, clothing and oil. They are depending on the (Caroll D. Wright. Watertown, N.

a passenger on the wrecked Hew "ork Central railway train dictated the following dispatch to the United Press in the hospital vhere he is recovering from injuries.) By CAROLL D. WRIGHT Little Falls, N. Aprill 201 was in the small smoker, walking toward the mail car, the next car ahead, at the time of the wreck. My sensation, standing in the aisle, was of sailing through the air as the car lurched. I saw a ported ahead of me reaching for an emergency cord, and then lost consciousness.

When I came to, I was lying in the Pullman section of the car, ahead of the smoking compartment. The car lay on its side. I was buried in cushions, which had softened my fall and saved BOROUGH MAN KILLS HIMSELF IN STREET Alphonse La Pari, 30, of 16S0 77th shot and killed himself at 5 a.m. today In front of 1435 78th according to police. He was dead when police who had been informed of the shooting reached him.

Police listed the death as a suicide. They said La Pari had suffered a nervous breakdown recently. Park Dep't Opens Bids For Bolt Parkway Lights Th Park Department yesterday opered bids for installation of a l'Sliting system along the Belt Parkway from 16th Ave. to Grand Central Parkway, Queens. Low bidders were the Rao Electric Equipment Company, Watson Flagg Engineering Company, and Utility Electric Company, $138,900.

All three are Manhattan lirms. WHERE TO FIND IT Reich Pact Gives Carol Huge Supply of Arms and windows broken as Pullman body of one of the 30 persons Mil coaches piled on top of each Wide Wond photo killed in the New York-Chi- into his right temple with a revolver. He was dead when Dr. Maybarduk arrived from Kings County Hospital. Police said they were told Mr.

Picott had been despondent over illness. Wide World photo other in the train wreck. C.1.0. to Demand NLRB Set Aside i Lost Edison Poll Union Seeks Herrick Ouster, Charging Bias In Employes' Election The National Labor Relations Board in Washington will be asked by the Amalgamated Utility Workers OrBsnizinsr Committee. C.

I. to set aside the election, which it lost, among the 31.500 employes of the Consolidated Edison companies, and order a new and "impartial" election. Harold J. Straub, national director of the Utility Workers organization, declared the C. I.

O. 1 would ako ask the NLRB to oust Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, the board's regional director in New York, whom it had charged with pro-1 company bias in tae election. Because of thosve charges, counting of the votes was held up for Continued on Page 2 Cromwell lo Quit After Primaries Washington.

April 20 (UP' James H. R. Cromwell will resign as Ameri-i can Minister to Canada immediately after the New Jersey primary, in which lie is a Democratic candidate for Senator. Secretary of State Hull said todav. Kick Selves Into Jail i Reading, April 20 i.4'i Three youths kicked themselves riRht into the hoosegow with a new (rame they called kicking the can." They were sentenced to 30 days for disorderly conduct after police testified thev i strolled four blocks and kirkPd over I every garbage can they saw, Bucharest, April 20 Germany ha agreed to fend huge quantities of munitions and equa-drons of fighting planes to Rumania in return for Rumanian concessions in an amendment, to their trade treaty was signed at iv.xm today.

It was learned the amendment to the existing five-year trade treaty provides teams of the agreement will bp extended to the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate and Oermaiv occupied Poland when Germany Today's Scratches Narragansett Firs'--Oranri Wihw. 'i i I Winking Monn, On in Second Our Dhv ci Area. Op1: 1 Sixth Prair.p Ilr.s Ratnm and sloppy. Havre De Grace 1 First Bpcomly. greend- F'irk p.

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Retta Poles, who lives at the same address, heard a shot, and found that her lather had fired bullet ,1.