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MAN AT LEFT is trapped by wreckoge, with just head showing. COMPLETE HEWS ft ft ft ft ft WEATHER Fair and pleasant today; fair and seasonably cold tonight. 5 CENTS EVERYWHERE fcttrtd Srookljm P. O. Id Glut Mill MUM IROOKLYN 1, N.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 190 109th YEAR No. 4 DAILY and SUNDAY Coprrlcbt, U50 Thi BrooSljn Enle. Im.) WW 7 mi rvi JVL uvu Brilliant Emerald Ball Raises $50,000 to Aid Boro Diocese Children Passenger Tells How 'Bravest Man' Lost His Legs in Tragedy 'Hit Like It Was Atom Bomb Another Says; Bodies Piled in Heap at One End of Car VOGELER 'CONFESSES' SPY ROLE Tells Hungary Court His Telephone Post Was 'Only a Cover' Budapest, Feb. 18 (U.R) Rob SEE NO HOPE OF QUICK END IN COAL TIEUP Fact-Finding Board To Toss Crisis Back to White House Today Washington, Feb. 18 (U.R) President Truman's fact-finding board and his chief mediator were scheduled to toss the coal crisis back to the White House today.

Federal Mediation Director 4 By JOHX KEXXETH WALSH As Told to the United Press Faces Manslaughter Charge for Running Red Light; 107 Are Injured Rockville Centre, Feb. 18-At Least 28 persons were dead today and 79 were in hospitals in Nassau County as the result of a head-on crash of two Long Island Rail Road passenger trains last night on a single-track section in the heart of this village. The motorman of a westbound train which railroad officials said ran through a red signal light was arrested on manslaughter charges and placed under police guard at his home in Baldwin. Although the crash occurred at 10:35 last night, the last body was not taken from the tangled mass of steel wreckage until about 6 a.m. today.

In addition to the 79 persons in nearly half a dozen hospitals, at least 28 others had been treated for minor ert E. Vogeler. 39, of 35-15 78th Rockville Centre, Feb. 18 (U.R) I've got the blood of the Jackson Heights, L. I gamest, bravest man I ever saw right here on my shirt sleeves I held his head while the doc sawed hit legs off.

pleaded guilty today to spying; "Take it easy, dog," he said. "You're hurting me. I know against the Hungarian government for the U. S. Army in you've got to do this to get me loose, but for God's sake take with him and they carried him it easy." He was a brave one, all right off to a hospital doc said: "I guess he won't make it." But It's my bet he wilL Cyrus S.

Ching and fact-finders David L. Cole, W. Willard Wirtz and John T. Dunlop will give the President a report on three days and two nights of bargaining between John L. Lewis and spokesmen for the nation's soft coal producers.

Ching and the Brave ones like that always The doc could only give him a local couldn't knock him out completely. He was caught under smashed steel and his legs were Just as smashed as telligence service. Vogeler said his jab as assistant vice president and Eastern European manager of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company of New York was "actually only a cover for my espionage work." He admitted the government's charge that he had been an American espionage agent since do make It. Going to Lale Show I. I work down in Wall Street, I'm a stock analyst for a bro- board ure observed the nego tiatlons.

Xo Immediate Hope' kerage house. I was going into New York to see a late show the steel in Last Car I had been riding In the last car had just gotten on the train here at Rockville Centre. After the big smash I jumped Last night's session broke off since I don't work Saturdays 1942. After the war, he said, he was assigned to Hungary to and the only reason I'm alive is that I got into the last car. Usually I ride up close to the collect military, economic, ps- Other Pictures on Pages 3 and 9 shortly before midnight, with Cole disclosing there is no hope of any "immediate" settlement of the dispute which has plunged the nation into its worst coal crisis.

Lewis and the down to the ground and ran litical "and first of all technical front. Somebody was looking data for U. S. Army intelli gsnce authorities." after me tonight. up front and there was my friend, Doc Bill Murphy of Rockville Centre, perched up there on the wreckage, and he It was the first time in the We had just got started when Continued on Page 8 history of Eastern European there was a big bump.

It wasn't a loud crash back in the last calld down to me: spy trials that an American citizen followed fully the pat "Hey, Jack, climb up here car and we didn't think any 10 HURT AS BUS, 2 AUTOS and give a hand." tern of confession established thing serious had happened. I climbed up, and I'm glad CRASH IN BROWNSVILLE by the great Soviet purge trials Somebody said: I did, but I wouldn't want to of the middle 1930's. "Maybe we hit a truck." Ten persons were Injured, I 'B haev to do it again. A couple old women started Asked by Judge Vilmos Olthy two seriously enough to be hospitalized, in a collision involv if he pleaded guilty, Vogeler But he was a brave man. After the doc got through Con tinned on Page 3 replied "yes" in a firm voice which could be clearly under stood throughout the packed ing a city bus and two automobiles late last night at Riverdale Ave.

and Legion Brownsville. Taken to Kings County Hospital were Roy Ellis, 32, of 644! DEAD, INJURED LIST courtroom. Others Pleaded Guilty rirMkis- Tnr Photo by Lambtrt LEADING THE MARCH District Attorney Miles F. McDonald and Mrs. McDonald lead off the grand march ot the 1 10th annual Emerald ball.

The borough prosecutor is president of the Emerald Association. By GEORGE R. MILLS AND RKH.ARI) J. ROTH Three of Vogeler co-defend injuries and sent home, placing the number of Injured at 106. Police and doctors said the death toll might rise, many of the victims in hospitals being in critical condition.

The accident occurred on what amounts to a single-tracked section running through this village, a temporary track laid while the regular double-tracked line is being elevated in an extensive grade-crossing-elimination project. Two Cars Sheared Entire Lengths Actually, the layout Is known as a "gantlet track," with the east and westbound tracks overlapping, one rail of each track being between the two rails of the other. It was this track layout, which placed the right-hand side of both trains off center, that saved the lives of scores of passengers. Rescue workers agreed that probably no one seated on the left side of the first cars of either train could have survived. Both cars were sheared for their full lengths, right down the middle.

The railroad estimated there were 1,000 persons on the two trains, about 800 of them on the eastbound train which railroad officials said ran at high speed through the stop signal and crashed into the westbound train which had left the Rockville Centre station only a minute before. Only the first two cars of each train were damaged, passengers in the rear cars of each of the 12-car trains sustaining only minor Injuries, or being shaken up by the impact Only the fact that all the cars were solid steel prevented the wreck from becoming the worst In railroad history. John Summerville, Locust Dead ants pleaded guilty yesterday when the trial opened. Vogeler Rockaway Ave. and Charles Rraverman, 40, of 15 Matthews Charles Allen, Convent was the fourth to make his plea Place, drivers of the autos.

The Among the spectators were ine most Drunani 01 umeraid nails ended in the wee' others were treated by ambu Bohemia. Henry Schedd, 533 Allen Creek Road, Rochester. Richard A. Stananought, 2d Babylon. Henry Tosten, 55 Albany Chris Petrow, third secretary lance physicians and sent home.

ema hours of this morning, when the orchestra sounded its final chord, the lights dimmed in the grand ballroom of the Continued on Page 8 Waldorf-Astoria, and the great throng of 4,500 dancers dis- Amityville. Bandit's 'Toothache' Costs Dentist $45 FORMER BARKER INDICTED persed. And because of the en ttion. "Because of their charitable impulse we will be able to make a most substantial contribution to the care of the or IN SLAYING OF WIFE An unidentified man about thusiastic attendance, the Emerald Association will be able AmityviUe. Herman Barz, 5 Boulevard, Patr-hogue.

Harry Casey, 191 Garfield Place. William C. Davis, 77 Carmen Place, Amityville. George H. Duncan, 2116 49th Long Island City.

Daniel F. Ely, 169 Wynsum Merrick. Raymond C. Miller, 121 Ken-ney Merrick. John Muller, 230 W.

Islip Road, Babylon. Michael J. O'Brien, 27 Smith six feet tall made off with $45 John Weeks, Woodpecker Land, Merrick. Anthony Cianl, 48, 30 Duncan Ave, Babylon. James O'Hara, East Isllp.

Frank Massa, 359 Pine Drive, Morris Goldberg, former after throttling Dr. Morris Ep to turn over to Bishop Thomas E. Molloy a sum approximating stein, 45, a dentist, in his office $50,000 for his labors on behalf at 206 State St- late yesterday. Babylon, or 2358 64th St. Coney Island barker accused by police of the Valenthpe killing of his wife and infant son, today had been Indicted on a murder charge for the slaying of his wife alone.

Dr. Epstein told police that Edward McBride, Convent Thousands Gather at Scene Amityville. tne man complained of a toothache when he entered the of Harold W. Worzel, Blossom The crash was so loud that a fice and sat down in the den of the dependent children in the Brooklyn diocese. "I must thank all those who helped make this 110th annual the great success it Is," said 'District Attorney Miles F.

McDonald, thhis year's president of the Emerald Associa- According to Assistant Dis phans in Bishop Mollov's care." "I feel fine," Mr. McDonald added, sotto voice, "now my worries are over and the ball is the success I hoped it would be." "It is heartwarming to see so many turn out for such a worthy affair," Borough President Cashmore said. "I am particularly Impressed by the number of young people here. They Continued on Page 2 Coldbrook. Babylon.

tist's chair. As Dr. Epstein turned around for an instru William McIIugh, Company William Ring, 2114 Bathgate 9th Service Division( ForV brook and Freeport fire departments arrived with cutting torches and saws. Hacksaws were borrowed from the nearby Bee Line bus garage and volunteer workers set about the task of cutting few minutes after it occurred several thousand persons were gathered about the wreckage. But there was little anyone trict Attorney Edward F.

Bres-lin, of the Bronx, if the State should fail to tend Goldberg to the electric chair for the mur-l ment, the man grabbed him and Bronx. said: "Give me your monev or Marti Steel, 55 Maple DlX, N. J. Jefferson Allen, Convent Amityville. i ill cnoKe you." Dr.

Epstein Rockville Centre. IMIFIC TOM AWAIT TOO TH BBOOK- der of hli wife, It could seek could do until emergency crews I VN EAGLE WANT AOS. Tooil tram handed the man his wallet con Slgmund Simonson, Brook another indictment In the death from the Rockvilla Centre, Bald whtr there sr rood Jobi, llrlnt taarten, taining $45 and the bandit North Bellmofe. arriiBi. mi want am aaiir.

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