Long Beach Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - February 7, 1951, Long Beach, California 82 DEAD IN RAIL DISASTER GS Steel Routs Reds From Hill in Sight of Seoul X United Nations troops -I their main from In within six miles of Seoul liy American infantrymen Vilm swept the KwN hilltop in i spectacular bayonet din rise slight of the city by n of fire mcl spearheaded by Link task forces the U S Eighth Army the reeling Communists back one to four Ihi Korean front LONG LONG BEACH 12 CALIF WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 1951 VOL 8 PRICE ENTS TELEPHONE Editions Daily Truman Seen to Act in Rail Strike Ready Back Moves Gain Momentum but Spotty The mi momentum at minis and Mum lull till ill mi and furred Mill in r I1 r industrial Hi In h I -I i I'll I'll III t-s u ill Ift lM lhf tlir I I Vl III I li MM VI s si II I'll lull 11 SI t hie limit i til il it Mn n mi i artillery moved up be- Seoul range Hut ihry Ilir city In Keds in River for 1 List defense CM a I1 S Hull Corps attack ineil inure than two miles and inn within 25 nl isili I nf as and turn pushed their lines to within four nl A i punt M i n -i task forre ol ml who n by mi i ipi r K of led liis MIV in a wild up hill The cut down 17 with their nnd shot 50 like as they in lee Hie side of hill fimn the trap Hie I'm leu surpt nn linked up will Kurce rut miles lines S iwo col- iin el nn in ted number of fif Seoul ey Turnpike Under Construct Doubled Speed Limit Engineer Tells Prober 500 Injured When Crack Commuter Train Plunges Off Trestle in New Jersey WOODBRIDGE N J Feb 7 AP Authorities said today that a crack commuter train was traveling twice its authorized speed when it roared off the rails here last night killing 82 persons Approximately 500 others were injured in the dealing wreck worst in the United States in more than a quarter century Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Alex Aber con- Ducting one of a half dozen investigations said that the train was at 50 miles an hour when it plunged WHERE COMMUTERS MET air view taken today shows the scene of last night's tragic wreck on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Woodbridge N J The commuter Chief Mobilizer Concerned Over Rise tram left the rails while crossing a temporary wooden overpass The wreck brought death to at least 82 persons and injuries to about Press WASHINGTON Mobilization Chief Feb 7 Charles Ml M M m III ri tun of In late Wilson was m tlic forees very concerned over in in eil Five were- A t rest n food prices Hc was reported planning to ask A lank pinup Task Force for changes in the wage-price law U N Flatly Clipper m i rr Russ Charge U on Rocks Acts as Aggressor incoming Feb 7 AP The i Ji i Only the flve countries voted to support the to Coast Guard s- Forty-nine countries th 1 MS K Ill it I U pule led In Hie lill nl I III timi Me i ill In t n ev till hli neu pi I i Ihr I If lir I the In in nil eKc Cn ill nit II idea nut in fin rnm nnd At In Hit eual fit UN MnM mini M ro lille III Hie In HKI In I M in 1 K V n trunk -e aw by in an effort to remedy the c Forty-nine countries opposed the proposal tion Burma and Indonesia abstained i a trestle He said that the engineer Joseph Fitzsimmons interviewed in his hospital bed had admitted he was ing this speed although the railroad had ordered a limit over the trestle section SIGNAL Fitzsimmons was quoted as saying he had slowed down from 60 miles an hour but had not further retarded his because he found no caution signal Throughout the night and far into today rescue workers hacked through the twisted mass of wreckage They said Bother bodies still may be found in the crumpled coaches and debris The Pennsylvania Railroad train The swerved wildly and jumped the tracks as it sped onto the midtown overpass The cars jack-knifing crazily hurtled down a embankment The new temporary overpass had been put in service only a few hours before the crash FBI INVESTIGATING In Newark the FBI said it was investigating to mine whether sabotage was involved The railroad said it could offer no immediate tion for the cause of the wreck The dead included bankers lawyers and businessmen prominent in their localities and civic life most of them from New York City offices In the list of known dead stood at 79 with A fishing vessel ran bodies still unidentified The crackup was the worst in the nation since 1918 when 115 were killed in a Nashville Tenn wreck It was the third major train wreck in the metropolitan area in less a year A total of nearly 200 died in the three crackups N rocks at the base of a sea iv politica com- cliff ncar Bend in Russia S charges heavy fog early today and was aggression against seriously damaged but none of 11 crew members was in- urn 10 miles nf in seven miles hls as he nf Senul ment on another food front pre- pared to issue a i time markets and meat l- s loi li Corps drive nos under price controls in A spokesman for the of i six miles of Defense Mobilization told junction crs already had me Hie on the of the Telephone Union Ballots on Strike in In Washington the Interstate Commerce Commission recurrence of an inquiry into the new disaster with a public Russia the fog that last night and to open tomorrow in morning thickly on On orders of New Jersey Gov Alfred E Driseoll thc Formosa I Diego Barbara to San attorney general Theodore Parsons also began an Thc committee also j Tne fishing boat was bound for investigation He reached the scene early today and san Pedro with 95 tons of yellow an assistant to a hospital to question the critically injured tn tuna when the engineer of the wrecked train The New Jersey Public S Commission and the railroad territory The U S has crew used a small to It was loaded to the aisles with homebound commuters IIP Salvage attempts with a on their way to Red Bank Long Branch Asbury Park and Feb 7 New problem Threat of a possible the second jointly owned by Manuel Silva ENGINEER'S FIRST VERSION was five in favor of San Diego and thc Van dropped some bombs on Chinese i rt nu 1 J JV Of within L men He said Wilson would ask hung over five western 01 -san ana mo van Engineer Fitzsimmons a veteran of M ii desperately soon for technical states today as about 1000 toll j Yugoslavia abstaining The set in at Beach On the road blamed the overcrowded coaches and the road changes m the Defense technicians began a strike vote by The committee's action dis- Municipal Airport at p m new trestle for the tragedy n nn Act srt up thc mniL visibility lifted to Alive but injured the Fitzsimmons nt first fr m tlir waRC control machinery He in- The vole was called by the were leveled at fourths of a mue before noon said from a 11 prut 11 otn the J the tho r i The d said Smith Korean troops was were about farm battalions dug products reached primarily der of and Toll the United States while the U N I The Marine Exchange reported considered similar accusations I that two ships outside the harbor moment my engine passed over the and nn Pace Col which had and I 3 Children Die in Kerosene Blast New Floods Slides Kill Six in Italy t tii i 2111 -j t tv iu prices of alter seven weeks against Communist North delayed from entering until lurched sharply I felt the rest of cars would never not yet of negotiations wirh Pacific Communist China the fog make it parity and therefore Phone Telegraph Co A move was to be made The log came in the wake of a i trestle at pol rise considerable higher affected wouW be speed of the train certainly couldn't be blamed for tho Inder thc law price W a s h n g t o n item on th of Angeles yesterday had 81 When I started to sway I applied the brakes but it cannot be imposed on farm This will complete highest reading for the was too lato until in L Monahan committee's agenda carried over dale was 100 idle U said ast a ou The Weather Bureau Passengers and at least one railroad did failed to produce a U sources confirmed numerous calls yesterday give his with the on the T the atomic explosion speed of the train The detective said it was nt top anything wh jt hjt thc heat Callers The Pennsylvania in a statement a TSUI M I Keti Thirp a tan f kern I'D uvl area north I.CMI- up In nl inwards the Yugo Kel T if new in thc resumed with state and MMI Mb T A n price stabilization program as federal mediators in San n has long as advancing food pi ices cisco in December -ix continued to add to thc cost of Monahan said negotiations will spread in northern Italy continue and that union workers hit Al Ic time officials will stay on the job until apparently ready to an- 12 under an agreement Weather was a storm tie The storm if it r.-iny south of the J reaches Southern California will ui home Tlir mill in thire r and one nf them UMI In In Several Arabs Slain ijn Raid on Village 7 highway now under construction hn with newspaper the D i settlements of two company and pending sources today as saying tho i Pennsylvania unmc dictional disputes among the new of the mail ballot Jordan has protested to the alphabetical over a raid last speed limit was in effect on the now track opened to traffic less than five hours before The Broker cracked up at p m The new track was swung aboul 50 feet from the old one of the heaviest rains of j one to clear the way for the Jersey turnpike big r However the bureau said the j lne Pennsylvania saia six over storm was stationary today and trestle safely before The Broker new over a raid last night no rain is predicted through and road nn I he roads Tarvis Passes The Allen gri nl lins by In Pa Ihr in John 7 I nl Ihr Ihr i In AM fell on a village and rear killing three per i red Id tions and Department will price violators in OPS had Kills 11 Injures 7 several I Philadelphia Food Trial ills for treble killed and seven injured up It said the PHILADELPHIA Feb 7 in a mine foot was in violations of the price nt damages OPS had in a mine explosion 2000 feet was in retaliation for i Flagrant violations of the price i- Price control would be Aground The disaster occurred recent border incidents near di- freeze by four food markets and n IIH noons oi tne Keno handicapped unles OPS itself near-by Bruay in the heart Jerusalem in which two a distributor have been un- handled the civil cases northern France's coal were reported killed 2 Over the objections of mil and injuring several others of Labor Tobin Mobilization trapped in a house Director Wilson was said to be j ready to announce a new j level committee on manpower I policy reporting to his office SCHIAPARELLI SPECS SPORT Skirt Becomes Cape but Then What Covers Frh 7 spring fashions showed ing rtn that nf capps and ragle sleeves that re- filled frop In braid printed i ind with a few more ol the by this Thr nnd will bp shown in the in turnabout shown in shantung for and nf In suits dresses full HIT around the to A Big on evening coats td nut frames rimmed with la One of thpm a with t built mid the toy of il News High Lights OFF THE TELETYPE What to do with glar after his arrest puzzles WHERE TO FIND IT i Classified Ads Pages to A-1 9 i A-1 I Radio and A-1 6 Tides and Women's to I the regional office of lie Stabilization cy here The stores raised prices on some processed foods and ceries as much as 20 per cent above the base price allowed the agency said yesterday The evidence appears to rant prosecution a spokesman said Dewey to Speak on Foreign Policy Gov deliver i Chinese Unable to Drive GIs Out Says Gen Church WASHINGTON Feb 7 Maj Gen John H Church former commander of the 24th Division in Korea said today United Nations forces cannot be driven from the peninsula and may be strong enough to drive north of the Parallel once again if ordered to do so There is a possibility that they have the military power Church said He referred to Chinese Communist losses as rific He said that whether the U N command decides to go into North Korea depends upon directives from the U N Church talked to reporters at a ih the tagon He led the 24th Division from July 22 to Jan 26 taking over command after Maj Gen William F Dean was reported of the National Republican missing in action Church returned to this country to command the infantry school at Fort Benning Ga He said he is certain the Chinese Reds will never build up enough strength to force N troops off the Korean peninsula They simply can't muster enough power he said As fast -as they bring up their masses of men he continued U N troops destroy them A United States division of men he said can almost handle a Chinese army which consists of about 30.000 U N forces have inflicted terrific casualties on the Chinese Church said He estimated their losses have been at least 10 to 1 compared to the Allies The railroad said the trestle itself was not a factor in the engineer's statement Mayor August Greiner of Woodbridge said he the trestle buckled beneath the weight But the Continued on Page Col RESCUERS BATTLE REDS WITH NEW YORK Feb 7 i Thomas E Dewey will an important address on foreign policy on Feb 12 The speech broadcast from the annual Lincoln Day din Club at the Hotel Chairman Daniel J ner announced yesterday Considerable fog tonight and tomorrow with partial midday clearing Slightly cooler row Copter Pilots Save Eight Wounded Trapped GIs FIFTH AIR Korea Feb 7 Eight wounded infantrymen surrounded by Communists werf saved by two helicopters today in one of the most daring air rescues of the war The two pilots were under heavy small-arms firp as they dragged and carried the wounded men to the helicopters and had to take time put to fire back with their pistols to keep the Communists away Allied fighter planes strafed the enemy during the operation The wounded infantrymen could be seen waving to Allied planes last night at dusk The helicopters could not get there before complete darkness and had fo wait until early this morning The pilots were Capt Daniel J Miller and Lt Earnest L the latter from Los Angeles Miller made the first landing and he and his medic started loading the wounded In the meantime MacQuarrie set his copter down While Miller was carrying one of the wounded men the Reds opened fire and he was forced to take cover Both pilots then returned the fire They carried out two men each the first trip then returned for the remaining four The wounded men were taken to an aid station and after treatment were picked up by two more helicopters and taken to hospitals The Army withheld their names
