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Trains Had No Lights
In Crash Fatal to 35
61s, Witnesses Say
By th« Associated Pre»*
SEOUL, Korea, Sept. 15.—A
fast passenger train-roaring out
| of a tunnel last night crashed
into another train halted on the
j track killing 35 homeward-bound
i American soldiers. Two Koreans
were killed and 120 persons were
I injured, including 80-American
troops. They were bound for
Seoul from Pusan (Fusan).
Witnesses said the fast train from
Mokpo to Seoul, which had no
headlight, telescoped the rear of the
troop train, which had no rear
I lights.
One passenger on the soldiers’
! train likened the wreck and subse
j quent fire to a Dante’s inferno.
' Rescue workers worked all night
■ digging out the dead and injured.
! The 35 American bodies were
brought here early today. The in
I jured were treated by American and
1 Korean doctors and many of them
were able to continue their journey.
Rear Coach Emptied.
Charles McCafferty of Chicago, a
passenger, said the engineer of the
i Mokpo train apparently did not see
' the other train until it was 50
| yards away.
The engine plowed half way into
the rear coach from which mo6t of
the passengers had jumped when
the other train roared from the
tunnel.
The rear coach was ripped from
its trucks and shoved into the
coach ahead, where most of the
casualties occured.
“We saw the train come out of
the tunnel about 1,000 yards away,”
said Mr. McCafferty, a labor rela
tions adviser to the military govern
ment in the American zone. “We
yelled to -the passengers and all got
off except one man in the washroom
who was not hurt seriously.”
Army officials said relatives of the
dead were being notified, but it may
be necessary to bring personnel rec
| ords from outlying detachments to
j complete identifications.
Torches Used in Rescue.
I Acetylene torches were used to cut
open the coaches to reach some of
j the dead and injured.
About daybreak today, a hospital
train arrived in Seoul with 20 bodies
and 16 of the injured..
A medical disaster team and sal
vage workers were at the scene.
Army physicians reported that at
least three soldiers remained
trapped in the twisted wreckage
when the first hospital train left
for Seoul.
M. E. Penry of Flushing, N. Y.,
among 30 passengers in the rear
coach of the rammed train, said he
shouted a warning when he saw
the other train approaching. The
coach was emptied quickly. He said
he ran alongside the train, waving
a small pocket flashlight in an
! effort-to' Warn the soldiers in the
, two^ coaches ahead,
i ' Seconds Tater and just before the
crash, he jumped from the right of
way into a rice paddy.
The crash, he said, sent the rear
car “right through the one ahead
riding through at the level of the
seat tops.”
•Tve got to hand ft to aif^M. P.
who was giving a warning from the
other side of the train,” Mr. Penry
said. “He jumped onto one Of the
soldier’s cars and got caught in the
vestibule when the crash came.”
The Pusan-Seoul train was not
on its regular route because of a
washout, the Army reported.
Chinese Tram Wrecked
By Red Mine; 100 Die
NANKING, Sept. 15 UP).—A Com
munist railroad mine last night blew
up a Pukow-bound train 90 miles
northwest of Nanking, killing at
least 100 persons.
Railroad officials said the mine
was planted near Pengpu and that
the locomotive and the first car of
the train were destroyed completely.
Meanwhile, government reports
said Communist troops had been
cleared from Shanhaikuan, where
the Great Wall meets the sea. north
ward 65 miles to Hsingcheng, indus
trial and agricultural center.
Government sources predicted
Communist bands would be cleared
along the railway between Hsing
cheng and Chinsien, 40 miles to the
north. Chinsien, former Japanese
industrial city, is the base for large
scale government forces in Man
churia.
Locust Hill Residents Ask
More Playing of Chimes
Locust Hill estate residents miss
! the chimes of the Naval Medical
| Center, Bethesda. They want to
hear them more often.
This is the sense of a resolution
adopted last night by the citizens’
association of the community. The
chimes now play only at 6 p.m. after
residents complained of the four
times-daily schedule in effect until
a few months ago.
The association elected Harold F.
Clemmer, 8586 Locust Hill road,
Bethesda, president. Other officers
are Dr. Karl Habel, vice president;
Mrs. L. J. Oliver secretary, and L.
M. McKenzie, treasurer.
Meeting at the home of Mr. and
Mrs Rudolph D. Schneider, 4703
Elmhirst lane, the association rec
ommended that a street be named
Cedar lane, which now is known
variously as Cedar lane extended.
County road and Browns lane.
The group also asked for a reduc
tion in the speed limit on Rockville
pike through the community from
50 to 35 miles an hour.
Piccard Group Leaves
For Gulf of Guinea
By the Associated Press
ANTWERP, Belgium. Sept. 15.—
The diving ball in which Prof. Au
guste Piccard expects to descend
nearly 24 miles into the sea started
today for the Gulf of Guinea.
It is called a bathyscaphe and
weighs 40 tons. Prof. Piccard, his
assistant. Max Gosyns, and his ex
pedition left aboard the ship Scaldis.
Their destination is off the West
African coast.
Greenville Alumni fo Picnic
The alumni association of Green
ville fill.) College will hold a picnic
at the Palisades Field House, Dana
street and Sherrier place N.W. at
4 pm. Friday.
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State Department Takes Action
Against Aide in U.N. Spy Charge
Alexander to Fight
Under Civil Service
Rules; Counts Secret
By Garnett D. Horner
The State Department has
started disciplinary action
against Robert C. Alexander, as
sistant chief of its Visa Division,;
as a result of his charges that
subversive agents have entered
this country under cover of the
United Nations, it was learned
today.
Mr. Alexander's allegations before
a Senate Judiciary subcommittee
staff last July brought him into con
flict with Secretary of State Mar
shall, who said no case of actual
danger to American security from
aliens attached to the U. N. had
arisen.
A committee of three private citi
zens appointed by Gen. Marshall re
ported September 1 that “there is no
basis’’ for the charges made by Mr.
Alexander and two other subordi
nate Visa Division officials, and said
it was “shocked” by the manner in
which they were made.
As a result, formal charges have
been preferred against Mr. Alexan
der under Civil Service Commission
procedure which gives him oppor
tunity to reply in writing and at
tempt to' refute them before final
action against him is taken. If the
charges against him stand, he is
subject to reprimand, suspension or
discharge.
Mr. Alexander, a veteran employe
who entered State Department serv
ice in 1917 as a clerk and worked
his way up to recognition as an ex
pert on technical visa matters, plans
to fight the case vigorously. His
friends report indications of con
siderable support for him on Capi
tol Hill.
It is understood his defense will
be based in part on a contention
that civil service employes are
entitled to protection against dis
ciplinary action by their depart
ments for testimony they give be
fore congressional committees.
Any move for disciplinary action
against two other officials who sup
ported Mr. Alexander's testimony
before the Senate group—William
M. Harlow, chief of the Diplomatic
Visa Section, technical branch, and
R. Clyde Larkin, chief of the Public
Safety and Security Section—will
await outcome of the Alexander
case, officials indicated.
The specific charges against Mr.
Alexander are held confidential by
the State Department. They are
undestood to involve formal alle
gations of neglect of duty and mis
conduct and to be based largely on
the report of Gen. Marshall’s In
quiry’ Committee.
That committee was composed of
B. M. McKelway, editor of The Star;
James H. Rowe, jr„ former Assistant
Attorney General, and Marcellus C.
Sheild, retired former clerk of the
House Appropriations Committee.
“Poor Administration” Hit.
The committee’s report provided
the basic for a neglect of duty
charge in a section stating:
"So far as we can determine, the
subordinate officials who testified,
even if they were disturbed over the
sffHSusness, as 'tlftf saw itruriR.
developing situation, had never
made any persistent effort to bring
it to the attention of the responsible
policy-making officials of the De
partment of State. In any field of
governmental activity, such failura
deflects poor administration. More
particularly is this true ' in the
delicate field of foreign relations.” .
Mr. Alexander is expected to at
tempt to show that he had taken
sufficient action to bring his views
to the attention of higher officials
in the department.
It is understood that Mr. Alex
ander is accused of misconduct for
making serious charges before the
ROBERT C. ALEXANDER.
—Harris-Ewing Photo.
Senate group which, in the opinion
of the committee reporting to Gen.
Marshall, he was not able to sub
stantiate.
In reporting it was ‘'shocked” by
the manner in which the subversive
agent charges were made, the com
mittee said:
"Subordinate officials of a non
policy-making division of the De
partment of State testified at a pub
lic hearing on a matter of high pol
icy before a Senate subcommittee
presided over and directed by stall
employes with no Senator present.
So far as we are aware, this practice
is without precedent. The testi
mony produced serious repercussions
on the foreign policy of the United
States and that testimony was ir
responsible in its lack of factual
support."
Mr. Alexander is expected to con
tend that so far as he knew he was
bound to answer questions by the
committee staff and to point out
that when the questioning touched
on the United Nations he sought to
answer only in executive session to
avoid publicity.
The bulk of his testimony related
to technical visa matters, into which
the subcommittee was Inquiring as
the basii for possible revision of the
immigration laws.
Mr. Alexander told the Inquiry
committee, it reported, that after
looking into the records following
his Capitol Hill testimony he was
convinced that "the danger to our
national security” from admission of
questionable aliens into the country
as employes of the U. N. and other
international organizations "appears
to be more potential than actual or
immediate.”
Committee Saw “Calculated Risk.
He classed as potentially subver
sive all aliens coming from Com
munist-controlled countries, and in
sisted that “if the problem of these
subversive persons coming into the
country is allowed to go on the
security of the Nation might be
jeopardized.” The committee’s po
sition was that any risk was a “cal
culated risk” implicit in the location
of U. N. headquarters here.
The basis for disciplinary action
against Mr. Alexander was laid in
a letter sent to him on September
9 by Arch K. Jean, chief of the
Division of Departmental Person
nel, preferring specific charges. Mr.
Alexander has through next Mon
day to make a written reply.
Three attorneys, Arthur J. Hil
land, James R. Murphy and Charles
Warner, are helping to prepare his
defense.
Vigorous repercussions are ex-,
pected from the Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee, headed by Senator
Revercomb, Republican, of West
Virginia, before whose staff Mr.
Alexander testified. Senator Rever
comb already is pushing a request,
which Gen. Marshall has denied,
for access by his group to the visa
files concerning aliens attached to
the U. N. so the subcommittee can
complete its own investigation.
Davis Expands His Little World,
Walks to Middle of Boulevard
By th* Associated Pres*
PARIS, Sept. 15.—Garry Davis,
the man without a country who is
talcing refuge in the United Nations
Assembly area, widened his little
world today.
The 26-year-old American war
time bomber pilot, son of Orchestra
Leader Meyer Davis, ventured half
way across a boulevard separating
the new U. N. restaurant—his squat
ting place—from the meeting halls
in the Palais de Chaillot.
Mr. Davis, who gave up American
citizenship to be a “citizen of the
world,” had understood previously
that the boulevard was French ter
Chest Planning Tours
To Acquaint Workers
With All Agencies
A series of tours to familiarize
Community Chest campaign volun
teers with the work of Red Feather
agencies is scheduled to start Sep
tember 27, it was announced today.
The tour groups will travel by bus
to three Red Feather agencies each
afternoon, the announcement said.
About 40 persons are expected to
make each of these daily trips in
preparation for the $4,500,000 cam
paign, which opens formally Octo
ber 7.
Today, the first of 3,000 business
firms will be invited to send their
employe group solicitors on the
tours. They will receive letters from
the Red Feather Tours bureau,
which has been set up at Chest
Federation headquarters.
Arrangements already have been
completed for trips for volunteers
in the Government and residential
units. Heads of 11 Federal depart
ments will be asked to recruit their
own volunteers for the tours and
it is expected that members of many
women's clubs and other organiza
tions also will send representatives.
Campaign staff members empha
sised that the tours are open to
anyone wishing to visit Red
Feather agencies. Inquiries should
be directed to Mrs. Helen Martin at
Chest Federation headquarters. 1101
M street N.W., Metropolitan 2282.
Each trip will include visits to
three agencies, and take about two
and a half hours. It will include
a family or children's agency, a rec
reation and a health agency. About
52 different agencies in all will be
visited.
Chile Exports Fuel
Chile recently resumed export of
fuel to Argentina, discontinued sev
eral years ago, by shipping 2,500
tons of "carboncllla*’—small coal.
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rltory and he had scrupulously
avoided stepping on it since the
French government refused to re
new his visa.
But this morning an artist brought
an abstractionist painting around
for Mr. Davis to autograph. At the
request of photographers he and
the artist went to the middle of the
street and had their picture taken.
Mr. Davis said he now has been
assured by a U. N. official that the
street was legally inviolable under
the “extra-territoriality” granted by
France to the U. N. for the dura
tion of the General Assembly open
ing next Tuesday.
The U. N. legal department said
the street is part of the Assembly
area. Thus Mr. Davis can cross
safely to the doorstep of the meet
ing hall.
He went back to his squatting on
the restaurant steps and said, grin
ning: "I am expanding my world.”
He is not allowed to eat In the
restaurant, but said he was being
"fed by humanity,” the sympathiz
ers who bring around handouts.
Small groups crowd around to
hear Mr. Davis’ speeches for a fed
eralized world without passports.
Although U. N. officials are pri
vately concerned over what to do
about him, they have made no move
to eject him. In a wide range of
speculation, it was suggested from
one unofficial quarter that the U. N.
hoped the French government
would ask that Mr. Davis be hand
ed over. In that case, one official
said, he would be given up by the
U. N—with a sigh of relief.
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Picket Line Averts
New Refinery Clash
•y the Aueciotad Prau
RICHMOND, Calif., Sept. 15.—
Another clash between CIO pickets
and police at the strike-bound
Standard Oil Co. refinery was
averted today when no attempt was
made to pass more AFL maintenance
workers through the picket lines.
Yesterday such a move erupted
into a rock and tear gas battle in
which nine persons were injured.
Today, the union maintained only
the legal permissible four pickets at
each gate to the refinery, but several
hundred other strikers gathered at
the union headquarters, Just around
the comer from the main gate of
the refinery, and another 100 or
more loitered across the street from
the gate where the fighting broke
out yesterday.
About 10 police, many in white
riot helmets, petroled gates to the
plant.
Union Uses Loudspeaker.
Shortly after 7 a.m. a union loud
speaker advised the assembled
pickets that it was not expected any
attempt to run AFL workers past
the picket lines would be made
today.
The loudspeaker repeatedly warned
strikers to co-operate with reporters
and photographers, in an effort to
avoid the roughing up given several
newspaper photographers in the
fighting yesterday.
At about 7:30 a.m. Jim Stanley,
president of the striking CIO oil
workers broadcast an announcement
to nonstrikers, inside the gates since
yesterday that they could “leave now
if you want.”
"This is a last announcement to
this effect,” he said.
“Truce” Is Observed.
In a reference to yesterday’s con
ference of CIO and AFL representa
tives, designed to avoid a recurrence
of yesterday’s outbreak, the CIO
union announced: “Apparently the
truce is being observed this morn
ing.”
An estimated 2,000 strikers, many
of them wearing the white caps of
longshoremen, brawled with police
for two hours yesterday in the bit
terest clash of the 11-day strike
against six major oil companies.
Hie police fired tear gas; the strikers
hurled stones.
When it was over, witnesses said,
CIO leaders told their men to "come
back tomorrow morning—and bring
six friends.”
Remain in Plant.
The 250 or so AFL workers who
entered the plant remained over
night rather than buck the picket
lines again today. Already inside
were an estimated 700 nonstrikers
who have slept and eaten there
since the strike started.
An oil Industry spokesman, Reese
Taylor, charged in a statement that
CIO longshoremen “played a leading
role” in'• yesterday’s riot. He de
clared that Harry Bridges, long
shore leader, is seeking control of
the oil workers in an attempt to
“widen his control over strategic
West Coast industries.”
Richmanas uuy council was
summoned into special session to
hear protests from oil workers who
charged police with undue violence.
One councilman sharply criticized
police actions.
Negotiations between the oil work
ers and the struck companies con
tinued in San Francisco and In Los
Angeles with no agreement yet in
sight. Federal and. State concilia
tors were participating in an at
tempt to bring the two sides to
gether.
Wages Chief Issue.
The chief issue was a union de
mand for 21 cents an hour wage in
crease against an employer offer of
12% cents.
J. Elro Brown, union district di
rector, said the company offer would
boost the present $1.68 an hour pay
scale to $1.80%, and that Eastern
and Texas workers have received
boosts bringing their scale to $1.95
an hour.
No appreciable shortage in gaso
line was yet noticeable, although
purchases were limited to five gal
lons per car in some areas. Com
pany spokesmen said supplies will
remain at about 75 per cent of
normal.
School Enrollment
Climbs to 86,809
On Second Day
Second day enrollments In the
District public schools found regis
trations climbing in the elementary
grades but still not as much as
school officials expected.
The total enrollment reported yes- j
terday after school closed was 86,808,
or 1,344 fewer than the 88,152 boys
and girls who had reported by the
second day of school last year. In
the elementary grades, however, sec
ond-day enrollment was up 917 over
what it was this lime last year. |
The increases were felt mainly in
the elementary schools in the newer
sections of Washington, which last
year had more than 1,600 children
in part-time classes in five white
schools and 1,200 in 11 colored
schools. Most of these schools will
have classes on part-time before the
peaK enrollment is reached, school
officials believe.
Had Predicted Increase of 4,000.
The second day figures showed
that 164 more white children had re
ported in the elementary schools
than last year at the same time and
753 more in the colored schools.
School officials had predicted an
increase of more than 4,000 in the
elementary schools this year.
This figure may still be reached,
however, it was pointed out. Peak
enrollment normally is reached in
the Washington schools in October.
Last year it was more than 92,000,
although opening day enrollment
was only 84,080. i
The enrollment figures for yes
terday showed that the white high
schools were down 1,449 and the
junior high schools, down 604. In
the colored schools, high schools
were down only 5 students while
junior high schools were up 40.
Figures Erroneous.
School officials yesterday, through
an error, told The Star that the
opening day enrollment last Sep
tember was 88,106 pupils, which
meant that Monday’s opening en
rollment of 83,112 was 4,994 less.
The correct opening day figures
for last September is 84,080 and
Monday’3 enrollment was only 968
less than last year's.
School officials believe the earlier
opening date this year is the reason
for the lower first day enrollment
plus the fact that many nonresident
students did not enroll now that
they have to pay tuition for attend
ing school in the District. Informa
tion on the number of nonresident
students who did enroll is expected
later in the week.
Gen. Walker Takes Over
Japan Occupation Force
By the Associated Press
YOKOHAMA, Japan, Sept. 15.—
Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker stepped
briskly down the gangplank before
the massed battle flags of eight
Army divisions today and took over
command of the American occupa
tion force.
He replaces Lt. Gen. Robert L.
Eichelberger, retired.
Gen. Walker came here from Chi
cago, where he commanded the 5th
Army.
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