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Along... THESE STREETS The sky was like the granite face of an old bank with vast frozen assets of solar gold. It was like a foundered savings and trust company issuing a dime on the dollar in an irregu lar refund through narrow win dows. In the poverty-grey air steeples spindled like spare widows. Houses were peaked orphans sitting down to a crust in a foundlings’ home. * • You looked at the sky on days like that, and looking up you saw the things that languish for inspection above the level of the eye. There were the cornices and moldings on the high brows of office buildings. The white raftered ceiling of the Orton porch, seen from the steps, was a surprising and unfamiliar loftiness. * * * On that scowling day, Joe Meier admired neckwear in Julian K. Taylor’s window. Pearly McKeithan stood in the doorway and urged him to come inside. Deputy U. S. Marshall Wal - _ more about STONE FROM PAGE ONE service to reboard the presi dential yacht “Williamsburg.” More than 2,000 other mourn ers, including delegations from the Senate and House, diplomats, jurists and lesser dignitaries, crowded into the towering cathedral for the 90-minute Episcopal serv ice. But only a small knot of family members and intimate friends joined the burial cortege at the cemetery. Rain slanted dismally over the canopied grave at the foot of a fir tree, almost within the shadow of the famed shrine where sits St. Gaudens’ brooding figure of a sorrowing woman. Intoned Final Words Only the clump of earth falling on the black coffin broke the sil ence as the Rev. Dr. Fleming Janies, a long-time friend of the Chief Justice, intoned the final words of the burial rite: '• . . .In sure and certain hope of the resurrection. . .blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. . . for they rest from their labors.” At the request of Mrs. Stone, the former Agnes Harvey, and hei two sons, Dr. Marshall H. Stone, of Cambridge Mass., and Col. Lauson H. Stone, New York City, no eulogies were spoken at the grave or in the Cathedral. The President, garbSd in morn ing clothes and a silk top hat, ar rived with Mrs. Truman and their daughter, Margaret, a few minutes before the service began. Party Sits Alone By tradition, the presidential party sat alone, in the first pew on the left, facing the altar. Across the aisle, sat the Chief Justice s widow and his sons. Ten minutes after the President arrived the funeral processions entered the cathedral. Mr. Tru man and the rest of the congrega tion stood reverently as the pur ple-robed cathedral choir entered through the nave aisle just ahead of the casket. Immediately be hind were Supreme Court Marshal Thomas E. Waggaman and Court Clerk Charles Elmore Cropley. Eight blue-uniformed Supreme Court guards bore in the coffin, followed by the honorary pallbear ers—Retired Chief Justice Charles - Evans Hughes, Associate Justices Black, Reed, Murphy, ^ Frankfur ter, Douglas, Rutledge and Burton, *nd Retired Justice McReynolds. ■ Justice Robert H. Jackson, now In Nuernberg for the, German war -crimes trials, and Retired Justice Owen J. Roberts were the only living members or former mem bers of the court absent. Bishop Angus Dun of the Episco pal diocese of Washington, and the very Rev. John W. Suter, dean of Washington Cathedral, assisted Dr. James in the service. MORE ABOUT KEYNOTE FROM PAGE ONE should figure in the order of the day of this session. Meet Again Today The meeting terminated at 8 o’clock. The next will take place Friday at 4 o’cluock.” Delegates said tire council agreed to begin discussion of the Italian treaty Friday. No decision was reached on whether German and Austrian treaties would be included on the program. French Foreign Minister Georges : Bidault, it was learned, spoke strongly in favor of early treaty talks regarding Germany and Austria. A decision was expected Friday when the agenda, discussed : Thursday will be completed and formally adopted. The rules of procedure drawn up by the council provides for ro tation of the ministers''as presi dent. It was agreed that their dep uties will meet each morning to tabulate and coordinate material for the ministers who will meet j each afternoon. English, French and Russian were made official languages of the meeting. Press Committee The ministers also established a Dress committee consisting of the I ter Hatch, Sr., and lawyers W. ! F. Farmer and Nathan Cole made a conversation group on the corner of Princess and Front streets. Walking on Second street, Dr. A. H. Elliot, county health director, smiled to friends, was apprehensive when rain lightly freckled the pavement. Lieut. Henry Bost( director of the port of Wilmington, look ed out of a Customhouse win dow, saw the sun appear brief ly like a ring of fat in chicken soup. U. S. Marshall Ford Worthy saw the wind twitching awn ings on Front street. Past, the Post Office went Robert D, Cronly. In his brief case were policies insuring comfort in old age, insuring security for widows and or phans. * * * Like heavy bank directors the cloud a stood between the people and the sun. They cach ed it somewhere in the west woods and rolled off leaving the people in the dark. press chiefs of each delegation to draw up communiques which may or may no. be issued daily. The Soviet concession on admit ting France to discussion of all treaties came after brief discus sion of a French request, circulat ed shortly after the meeting open ed. Some observers said Russia ac ceded to the French request as a friendly gesture and in hope of ob taining French support later in the discussions, possibly on more important issues. The harmonious first meeting, in which Bidault’s opening address simply expressed a "hope that our efforts will be successful,” was not taker, as necessarily an omen of future harmony. Viewpoints on the issues to be threshed out in the palace were too much in opposi tion, particularly those of Russia and the United States. MORE ABOUT BREAD FROM PAGE ONE Agriculture department from Far go, N. D., where he went to open a drive to buy foreign relief wheat from farmers, Anderson said the further conservation must come from feeding less wheat to live stock and use of less wheat as food. He did not say whether the government would take further for mal steps to bring about the re ductions. “No Cause For Optimism’ * In commenting on the wheat stock report, the secretary said there is “no cause at all for op timism.” “At the same time, there is :io cause for dismay. We cannot af ford to be dismayed. Wre must tighten our belts and fight all the harder to reach our export goals.” Coincident with the wheat report, the department announced that shipments of wheat to famine threatened countries between Jan. 1 and April 20 were 512,000 tons, or 19,200,000 bushels, short of the goal for that period. Exports dur ing that time amounted to 118, 312.000 bushels against a goal of 137.512.000 Jsushels. The report on exports said "it is almost certain” that the gov ernment will not te able to meet an April commitment of 41.250,000 bushels. MORE ABOUT TRUMAN 1 FROM PAGE ONE yachting party for the trip back to Washington Sunday afternoon. Needs Some Rest Ross said the “Williamsburg” j probably will leave Quantico Fri- f day afternoon to continue a cruise started last Sunday to enable the President to get some rest. Earlier Thursday the President tlked with Judge Joseph C. Hutch eson, American co-chairman of the Anglo-American Palestine in quiry committee about a report • soon to be issued on Jewish immi gration into Palestine and kindred < problems. I Snyder’s discussion with the President aroused speculation it concerned the coal strike. He sat • in at a conference Saturday with , Labor Secretary Schwellenbach and John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. Close-up View Eisenhower is making his trip to get a close-up view of Army installations on the other side of the world. Hutcheson, who drove to Quantico with David K. Niles, White House administrative assistant, returned to Washington with the President when the latter left his yacht to at tend the Stone funeral. Hutcheson, a Te^an, and a member of the Fifth U. S. Circuit Court of Ap peals, said he was anxious to re turn home after an absence of nearly four months. The President greeted reporters with a handshake ai he boarded 8 smaller craft which took him out to where the “Williamsburg” lay anchored. He wore a dark hom burg hat and a dark coat. Nearly every major Warning industrial and agricultural activity is represented in Lovell, Wyo. t MORE ABOUT MACARTHUR FROM PAGE ONE striving to curb MacArthur’s au thority in occupied Japan, and the policy statement furthered that end but only to the extent that it pro posed a theoretical limit on,, his control of Japanese food imports. A resolution adopted by the com mission recommended that the Japanese should not receive pref erential treatment over Allied or liberated peoples except when Mac Arthur determines that additional food must be distributed for the safety of his occupation forces. The last proviso appeared to leave it pretty much up to the supreme commander to decide all major questions of food policy, regardless of the FEC. U. S. Only Shipper The United States is the only one of the 11 nations represented on the commission which is ship ping food to Japan, so that the FEC recommendations were di rected almost exclusively to this government. McCoy said the United States was beginning to supply MacAr thur with food reserves to insure the safety of his occupation troops —presumably against food riots and disease—during the present lean months between harvests. The FEC also asked the United States to review its entire pro gram of food relief for Japan in relation to the world' situation. Its recommendations coincided with publication of MacArthur’s report on conditions within Japan during February, a report which called attention to the "stringent'* food shortage existing there and to his recent action in releasing 2, 000,000 pounds of wheat flour for the Japanese people. Assume Major Proportions There was no direct mention ol Russian opposition to MacArthur in the FEC statement nor in the supreme commander’s own report, but that feud and the whole ques tion of Soviet-American relations in the Pacific appeared to be as suming major proportions in Wash ington. American anxiety for some defi nite Allied action on Japanese reparations was underscored by McCoy's disclosure that the United States has proposed formation of an inter-Allied reparations group vithin the FEC. McCoy said the proposal, which vould open the way to direct Amer can-Russian talks on the repara :ions problem, was being taken inder consideration by the com nission. At the same time, the U. S. Jtate department announced tnal tussia has replied to the second American note dealing with Soviet emoval of Japanese industrial quiprnent from Manchuria. MORE ABOUT BUTCHERS FROM PAGE ONE However, they may slaughter inly 80 per cent as many hogs as hey did during 1944 base months. The order also provides for with lolding of subsidies from any ilaughterers who violate the new juotas. These wartime controls are be ng restored, the agency said in a oint statement, to assure a nor nal supply of livestock to the ration’s large packing houses. Hit Smaller Plants The effect of this, the agency added, will be to cut the operations af smaller plants—many, of them lewcomers—which have increased slaughter “to such an extent that -hey have upset normal meat dis tribution and have made it dif ficult to enforce price ceilings.” “The program places no restric tion on production of meat,” Ander son said. “Its purpose is to get meat back into normal channels and as an additional compelling reason, to get the necessary amount of meat to provide fox shipments to famine-stripken area* rhis can be done if meat moves normally in normal channels.” OPA had said previously that since last fall, when quota restric tions were revoked, many slaugh terers have been killing “several times their normal proportion oi the available supply of livestock.” As a result, the agency said, other meat plants—namely the large ones—have been finding il difficult to obtain more than 50 to 60 per cent of their customary share of livestock. OPA officials have contended that meat “black markets’’ have resulted principally from bidding up of prices by many small pack ers who have entered the meat business since quota controls were removed. The new order covers all slaughterers except: 1. Farmers who sell or transfer less than 6,000 pounds of meat annually from their own livestock. 2. Non-federally inspected plants which have been certified by the agriculture department. There are about 100 plants in this category. OPA will handle enforcement oi the order as it applies to all other non-federally inspected plants, while the Agriculture department will have jurisdiction over the federally inspected plants. MORE ABOUT STRIKE FROM PAGE ONE 300 railroads the afternoon of May 18. Demand “Satisfaction” President A. F. Whitney of the trainmen said that “unless we come back from Monday’s meet ing with the carriers in Chicago with a satisfactory settlement, the strike will not be called off.” He said that all trains, with the exception of milk and troop trains, would be brought to a stop. Whitney refused to say whether the trains would be operated if the government took over the rail roads. The Brotherhoods had demanded a 25 per cent wage increase and 45 rules changes. The fact-finding board appointed by President Tru man recommended a wage raise of 16 cents an hour and only a few ol the rules changes. “Lack of Courage” In a joint statement, Whitney and President Alvanley Johnston, of the Engineers scored the recom mendations of the board, claiming it showed “lack of courage” and “warped concept of achieving equality” in its findings. They said “the board’s conclu sions and recommendations re garding the rules proposals are no more satisfactory than its conclu sions and recommendations re garding the wage proposals. MORE ABOUT SUNSET FROM PAGE ONE when Mayor Lane voted against tiim and put a three to three dead lock on the ballot. The council then voted to deter action on the matter until next regular council session on Wednes day, May 1. It is entirely possible ‘hat Rhodes will be given the seat at this meeting. MORE ABOUT ALONG THE CAPE FEAR FROM PAGE ONE ice clutched in cold fists, the bur ly man with the damp leather cape slung over his shoulder and the huge tongs in his hand. In the kitchen stands the ice-ma chine, a magnificent white god dess, a miracle of sanitary self-ef- 1 ficiency. And so coldly unromantic. MORE ABOUT SOLONS FROM PAGE ONE George Simons, Jr., city plan ning consultant, has readied the I map and ordinance for council ( action today. If the council approves the plan, 1 a date will be set for an overall ! public hearing on the matter, since 1 the law requires that it be sub- • mitted to the city’s residents for discussion before it can be official- r ly enacted 1 I MORE ABOUT WRECK FROM PAGE ONE rammed into the rear of the Ad vance Flyer one block from the Naperville station, in view of scores ot persons. The two west-bound trains left Chicago at 1:35 p. m. (E.S.T.) Fold Like Cardboard The impact sent the diesel engine a half length through the interior of the Advance Flyer’s rear coach, throwing the bodies of some vic tims from the windows of the pas senger car. The sides of the metal coach were rent asunder and turn ed back like cardboard, witnesses said. Relief workers quickly removed the bodies of dead and injured from the cai, piling them along the right of way between the coach and a fence paralelling the line. All avahablc doctors, nurses and ambulances were summoned. The Red Cross, sent 11 ambul ances, first aid crews and relief equipment. Warning To Stop and injured of between one third and one half of the number of pas sengers on both trains. The Bur lington estimated the Advance Fly er carried between 175 and 260 pas sengers in its nine cars and the Exposition Flyer from 150 to 200. Edward Flynn, executive vice president of the railroad, said a check of the signal system show ed it was in perfect operation for normal safe operations of trains and that the engineer of the second train had a warning to stop for two miles in advance of the point of collision. The trains left union station, Chicago, at 1:55 p. m. (E.S.T.) Flynn said, and at Downers Grove, six miles east of the collision, they were traveling three minutes apart This distance, the official said, is a safe separation on an automatic block signal trunk. Clear Track Section Flynn said the collision occur red on a clear section of track ap proximately 1,100 feet west of a “wide vision’’ curve. At the curve, ne said, was a red block signal warning oncoming trains to stop Another 6,684 feet east of the red signal was a yellow caution board. The engineer of an oncoming train, Flynn stated, would have a clear vision of the caution board three - quarters of a mile away from it. E. H. Crayton, Galesburg, 111., tireman on the Exposition Flyei was killed. ine iate oi me engineer, W. W. Blaine ot Galesburg was not learn sd immediately. Four Sailors Killed Four sailors, were among the passengers killed. Their identifica ;ion tags were missing and their lames were not teamed immedi ately. The front trucks of the Exposi ion Flyer’s diesel locomotive were ;heared off when the engine tele scoped into the Advance Flyer. Hie rear coach of the Advance Fly ;r telescoped nearly half the length if its adjoining dining car. The hird coach front the end of the Advance Flyer was turned over md the fourth and fifth coaches -vere derailed i Rescue workers said nearly all >f those killed were in the last two toaches of the Advance Flyer. Five coaches of the Exposition ’’Iyer were derailed and two oi hem were slightly telescoped, ■lone, however, turned over. Both trains were of all steel con-! itruction, but the rear coach of he Advance Flyer was of non itreamline design. The Advance tlyer was made up of nine cars md the Exposition Flyer of 11 Eyewitnesses said the cars ieemed to “go up in the air” when he trains collided and that victims vere shot through the windows of he telescoped cars onto the rail oad right of way. Rescue workers, including fire tad to cut their way into the oaches to remove all the victims Wesley Overman, Caldwell Ida ‘ %■“?*« in middle ’coach -f the Advance Flyer, was read ng a newspaper when the crash ame. “I saw a baby thrown from its S3£!. ™ ,Whe" th* coach arched, he said, “but an Army lieutenant grabbed it, and I don’t think it was hurt.” Employes from the Kroehler Manufacturing company, adjoin ing the tracks, rushed to the scene and aided in removing the victims. A total of 35 bodies were brought to three Naperville undertaking establishments. Three of the 75 injured persons taken to St. Charles hospital in Vurora died shortly after arrival. Another six injured were taken .0 St. Charles hospital in Aurora. Identification Delayed Identification of the victims was delayed by the lack of facilities in this small Chicago suburban community. . , The rear coach of the Advance Flyer was a non-streamline steel car. The Exposition Flyer, was powered by a diesel electric loco motive. .. The next to last car on u*c train was a streamline observa-, tion car. The third car from the end turned over oif its side but other cars remained standing, but tilted. All cars of the Advance Flyer remained upright. Blocks Main Line The collision blocked the Bur lington’s main line to the West Coast. The railroad dispatched a relief train from Aurora with physicians, nurses and medicines. Rose Hodel, an eyewitness, of Naperville said she was hanging out her washing when the trains collided. She said “everything just went up in the air.” Motor Machinist’s Mate James Gertg, one of a group of 18 sailors en route from the Great Lakes Naval Training station to the Pa cific coast, was in the dining cai of the Exposition Flyer. The train, he said, had just rounded a bend at about 75 miles an hour when he felt the brakes being applied, the train slowed and jolted, rock ing tables and spilling dishes. After the impact, he said, both trains stuttered forward about the length of four telephone poles. Gertz, of Cleveland, said none of the 18 sailors in his group was! injured. MORE ABOUT SPANISH FROM PAGE ONE Netherlands, Mexico and Brazil. The Chinese and Egyptian dele gates did not enter into the dis cussion. Poland, whose delegate, Dr. Os car Lange, precipitated the Spanish controversy by offering a resolu tion demanding a complete diplo matic break with Franco Spain by the United Nations, added to the contusion late in the session by of fering a resolution which would appoint a sub-committee of five members to study the basis for a unanimous decision by the council and to draft a resolution containing recommendations for “practical steps to be taken.” Vain Effort The French delegate, Henri Bon net, sided with Lange. The session ended with Hodgson shaking his finger at the-ifether dele gates in a vain effort to find some agreement on the issue and calling for a vote. Hodgson expressed the split in die council with a statement that Gromyko had made it clear that “there is a fundamental differ ence” between the opposing view- j points. Two major propositions stood out as the delegates sought some solu nnnin«>*nn The Weather WASHINGTON, April 25— (ff)-Weather Jureau report of temperature and rain all for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m., in he principal cotton growing areas and ilsewhere: __ . stations High Low Prec. [VILMNGTON - 7<i 66 0.00 Alpena - 54 43 0.00 Asheville - 64 58 0.63 Atlanta —'■—-- 73 62 0.19 Atlantic City -— 57 52 0.35 Birmingham - 68 64 0.80 Boston_ 03 46 0.00 Buffalo _ 69 39 0.00 Burlington —_—- 73 37 0.00 Chattanooga _ 66 63 0.92 Chicago_-_ 70 52 0.00 Cincinnati _- 75 43 0.00 Cleveland _ 70 45 0.00 Dallas -_ -_ 51 0.00 Denver -_ 79 47 0.00 Detroit _ 62 50 0.00 Duluth _ 69 46 0.00 El Paso _,_ 79 51 0.00 Fort Worth _ 77 55 0.00 Galveston _ 80 65 0.00 Jacksonville -_ 78 70 1.51 Kansas City_ 74 54 0.01 Key West . 84 76 0.0( Knoxville _ 67 59 1.4i Little Rock _ 79 56 0.0] Los Angeles_ 79 56 0.0( Memphis _ 78 58 0.21 Louisville _ 75 48 0.0C Meridian _ 70 65 0.6( Miami _ 81 74 0.0< Minn.-St. Paul _ 63 46 0.0( Mobile _ 81 67 0.01 Montgomery _ 74 65 0.4 Mew Orleans _ 77 65 0.3< Mew York _ 62 47 0.11 Pittsburgh _ 70 49 1.1: Portland, Me. _ 62 30 0.01 Richmond _ 60 54 1.0' St. Louis _ 71 51 0.0( San Antonio _ 79 52 0.0: San Francisco _ 56 47 0.0( Savannah - 74 64 0 54 Seattle - 70 46 0 Ofl Tampa- 79 72 0 9 Vicksburgh - 72 so 0 6' Washington - 38 53 j 1; lion before meeting Friday morn ing. 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