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Evening star., 1939-08-13
Two Killed as Trains
Crash Near Denver

DENVER, Aug. IL R.-Two per-
sons died and 50 others were injured
today in the collision of two pas
seneer trains at a South Denver
crossover.
A crack, locomotive Denver
and Rio Grande Western train
rammed a coach of the Santa Fe's
Navajo" with sufficient force to
bend the head locomotive at right
angles and send a kissing geyser
of steam 100 feet into the air. The
car was crumpled inward so far
acetylene torches had to be brought
into action.
A. S. Mock, 62-year-old conductor
of the Navaja, died instantly.
Roy S. Scott, 56, Denver, a pas
senger aboard the same train, sue
cumbed several hours later.
The injured, all aboard the Den
ver-bound Santa Fe, were taken to
hospitals, but only IA remained after
emergency treatment.
The smashup occurred at 38-
degree crossover track block south
of the Alameda avenue overpass.
Both trains were behind schedule.
"It was in the smashed spot that
most of the people were hurt" said
Artie Davis, a retired officer, who
witnessed the accident. They were
screaming and shouting inside the
train and they began fighting to
get out the smashed windows. Most
of them were covered with blood. I
looked in and all the front seats
were jammed together. -
1.-The train conductor who must
have been standing where the Loco
motive jammed the side of a coach,
had been knocked through the op-
posite side of the car and his body
was lying there. -
"The front end of the head loco
motive was bent. at almost right
angles to the rest of it. 1t looked
like giant had just taken hold of
it and twisted it in the middle. -
"The engineer of one of the trains
franticaly was trying to let
the steam out Of the overturned
engine so it wouldn't blow up"
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Stute Accuses Oil Firms,
Asks Anti Probe
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo, Aug. 12.-Wyo-
ming accused major oil producing
companies today of charging con-
sumers what the traffic will bear"
and suggested an alleged gasoline
trust operating in the State be in
Testigated by a Federal grand jury.
Ewing T. Kerr, attorney general,
in letter to Thurman Arnold, As
sistant United States Attorney Cen
eral in charge of the Department Of
Justice antitrust division, declared
he had sufficient evidence to prove
the companies are violating both
State and Federal antitrust laws.
Earlier this week Mr. Arnold asked
Mr.. Kerr to come to Washington to
present facts to support his asser-
tions that gasoline trust existed
in Wyoming.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
U. S. Air Attuche Saved
From Plane in Hurbor
BY the Associated Press.

BUENAVENTURA, Colombia,
Aug. 12.-Capt. Uzal G. Ent, Air
Attache of the United States En-
bassy at Lima, Peru, and me-
chanic were rescued uninjured to-
day after their Army land plane
was forced down in the harbor here
A launch sped to the aid of the
flyers, whose plane sank immedi-
ately. They had taken off earlier
from Colon, Panama for Guayaquil,
Ecuador, en- route to Peru
The motor of the ship, an attack
bomber, cut out, and the craft lost
altitude so rapidly that Capt. Ent
was unable to glide it to shore
landing.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Fuehrer and Ciano
Extend Conference
On Axis Policy
ItoIy's Foreign Minister
Is Stern and Serious
After PorIey
BY the Associated Press.


BERCHTESGADEN, Germany,
Aug. 12-German-Italian discus
sions designed to outline a course
of action in tense Europe will go
into a third day because of their
"complexity" responsible German
sources said tonight.
This disclosure followed a closely
guarded conference at which Adolf
Hitler weighed the international
situation during the day with his
foreign minister. Joachim Won Rib
bentrop and Premier Mussolinis
foreign minister, Count Galeazzo
Ciano.
Looking unusually stern and Sc
rious, Ciano returned to his Salz-
burg hotel tonight after spending
almost four hours with Hitler and
Won Ribbentrop in the Fuehrer's
mountain chalet, the Berghof, near
Berchtesgaden.
May Meet Again at Fuschl.
1t was presumed the talks would
continue with Hitler at his retreat,
German sources said, although it
was quite possible that just the
two foreign ministers would meet
alone at Castle Fuschl, Won Rib
bentrops summer place near
Salzburg, as they did Friday at
their first meeting.
German spokesmen explained
that in Europe so laden with
danger" it was necessary to take up
each detail of the various problems
affecting the Rome-Berlin axis
Danzig, for example-very slowly
and carefully because they were
so involved and complex"
Before returning for dinner to-
night with Won Ribbentrop at the
Hotel Oesterreichischer Hof in
Salzburg, Ciano lunched with Hit
Ter at his Gaestehaus, where guests
of the Fuehrer frequently stay.
Skip Music Festival.
The length of todays conference
made impossible the scheduled at
tendance of Ciano and Won Ribben-
trop tonight at an open-air per-
formance of the Salzburg music fes-
tival on the towns Cathedral
Square.
Previously todays talk with Hit
Ter was believed to mark the end OF
the official part of the Italian for
eign minister's visit. He was to have
accompanied Won Ribbentrop to-
morrow on a wild duck hunting trip
| fn 1oHn El1cnh1 q 11I,1rn hY1t
the event was Cancelled.
Political opinion meanwhile held
that the problem of the free city o1
Danzig-with all the repercussions
its possible union with Germany
might have-received a thorough
examination.
Polish Attacks Charged.
An indication that the future Of
Danzig may have formed the prime
topic of discussion was seen in the
manner in which the controlled
German press not only was empha.
sizing the dispute with Poland ovel
Germany's claims to the free city
but also reports of alleged attacks
by Poles on German nationals ir
Pomorze, the Polish corridor.
Accounts published on front pages
of newspapers charged that the
Poles had killed six Germans anC
seriously wounded 81 others in 204
raids during the last five weeks.
Forster Visit Reported.
Reports circulated here without
official confirmation that Alber
Forster, Nazi district leader in Dan.
zig, again visited Hitler yesterday
while the foreign ministers were
opening the talks in nearby Castle
Fuschl.
The Danzig Gauleiter had visitee
(See SALzBURG, Page A-7)
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Admiral Peoples, Head
Of Procurement, Shifted
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOClated Press.
Rear Admiral Christian J. Peo-
Piles, who as director of the Treas
ury's Procurement Division for four
years was one of the Governments
heaviest spenders, was ordered to
the Pacific Coast yesterday by the
Navy
Effective in October, he will be
general inspector of the Navy Sup
ply Corps for the Pacific Coast.
The Procurement Division is the
principal purchasing agent of the
Government. Capt. A. G. Collins
succeeded Admiral Peoples as it's
director
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Steinhurdt Sees KuIinin

MOSCOW, Aug. II R.-Laurence
A. Steinhardt, new United States
Ambassador to Moscow, today pre-
sented his credentials to Michael
Kalinin, head of the all-Russian
central executive committee. Stein
hardt succeeds Joseph e. Davies,
now Ambassador to Belgium.
Evening star., 1939-08-13

Ogden, Utah.
The streamliner travels through
the sparsely settled section OF CEN
tral Nevada at speeds of as high as
80 miles an hour. The section where
the accident occurred is in the Hum
boldt River gorge of the Tuscarora
Mountains, a bleak and rugged re-
gion.
Dining Car Into River.
Fragmentary reports at Sacra-
mento from the dispatcher's ofnce in
Sparks, New, indicated that the
dining car of the luxury train was
swept into the Humbolt River. The
number OF passengers in the diner
at the time was not learned.
The dispatcher said, however, he
believed there were scores OF them" J"
Reports indicated the first three
units of the train, corresponding to
the engine and tender of steam
trains. passed over the rock, but
pushed it back under the following
cars.
The boulder sheared of the deck
of q steel bridge and plunged the
diner into the river, the reports
said.
Due to meager communication
into the rugged region it was not
known whether the lounge car,
directly behind the diner, had been
pulled into the river.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Il Reported Killed
As Train PIunqes
Into Nevada Gorqe
Is Cars Leave Track With Diner
PIunging in River as Boulder
Sheers Deck off Bridge
Bulletin.

SAN FRANCISO, Aug. IL (P).-Twelve persons were
killed when six of the wesbound streamined train
"City of San Francisco" deraled in central
Nevada about 200 miles east of Reno tonight Southern
Pacific headquarters here reported.
Most of the dead dining employees, the
company said
A large number of persons were believed injured.
Full reports from the were not expected be.
fore morning.
The Southern Pacific said that several of the de-
rallied rolled into the Humboldt River which flows
below the tracks at that point
RENO, New, Aug 1.-THE Southern Pacific said an
number persons killed tonight when
the sreaminer City Francisco deraed 200 miles
east of Reno in Central Nevada.
A large number of persons were believed injured
The chief dspatchers office at Reno said all II OF the
left the track Several of them plunged into the
Humboldt River
travelling Southern Pacific tracks at point
IS miles west Carlin bound route from
Chicago to San Francisco.
Believed Track.
deramen could not be determined Immediately
railroad at Elko near Carn
said the train struck rock the track
The accident 932 pm Coast time but because
of the remoteness of region received for
time
hospital train and eight left Reno
made The train expected at the
scene sometime after midnight
the Southern Pacific said special trains
doctors and equipment were going to the
accident from Can and Sparks Nev and from
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Parks Name Chonoed

President Roosevelt has signed
bill to change the designation Of
the Fort McHenry National Park
in Maryland to Fort McHenry
National Monument and Historic
Shrine.
Evening star., 1939-08-13
Weather Forecast

Full Details on PAGE Az
Partly cloudy, warm; possibly shower
Sunday afternoon; showers Monday;
moderate winds. Temperatures today
Highest, 80, at 4 pm; lowest, 70, at
am. Full report on Page Az.
Evening star., 1939-08-13

.(see sQUALUs, Page A-5)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05

Brockton Fair. which a year ago established a Geological Park as special attraction for thousands of children attending the fair, has scored again this year iii the iieid of natural history.
 Through the cooperation Of the New England Museum of Natural History in Boston. Brockton Fair Will feature several outstanding Muse um collections during the week oi September 10 to Is. These exhibits will be located in the Hall of Recre- ation, where an interesting group of recreation and travel displays also will be found.
 Executive Director Bradford Washburn has announced that the New England Museum exhibits will embrace five different classified tions. These feature the newly-de- veloped dissoivlng exhibit, which the Boston museum is first anywhere in the world to use for educational pur- poses.
 Fair visitors will be fascinated by this exhibit, which shows a family of weasels change color from brown to white, with the setting also dis solving from summer to winter. John Patterson. museum preparator, who in his younger days made a study of magic, developed this amaz- ing new museum medium through an ingenious arrangement of lights and mirrors. The exhibit, recently unveiled by Governor Salstonstall, has attracted worldwide attention of museum officials, and Brockton fair. is fortunate to have 1t for the duration of the fair.
 Also being arranged by the mu- scum are an exhibit of taxidermy, including both small birds and small animals; a magnificent pictorial ex- hibit entitled Alaska from the Air; a display of prize natural history photographs, contributed by East man, Agfa, Zeiss and Leica, and a saltwater gameflsh exhibit featuring & near-record wahoo, weighing 85 pounds. recently caught of Bermuda by George L. Hunt of Boston, and a 392-pound striped bass. presented this week to the museum by Fred Huber, of Belmar, N. J.
 Alaska from the Air" comprises a collection of photographs made by Explorer Mountain Climber Wash- burn on his National Geographic anud Harvard university expeditions during the summer of 193. The out standing picture is a 38 K 50 Agfa enlargement of Mt. Mckinley, high est peak on the North American continent, with an elevation of 20,300 feet.
 A dog sledge used on Washburn's successful Mt. Sanford expedition also will be exhibited. This is of spe- cial interest because the dogs who pulled this sledge went to an alti- tude of about l4,700 feet, believed to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05
CHINA EXPAND
 WAR ECONOMY
Budget for Industrial Units Tripled for Years
 Work

Chungking, Sejt. 5-(UP)-Large scale plans by which the coal of 10000 industrial cooperatives will be attained by next year were an- nounc by the 40 delegates from the five regional headquarters of the China Industrial Cooperatives at the conclusion of their five-day confer ence here.
 The budget for this work will be tripled, they said.
 There are now 1,080 industrial cooperatives, employing 10000 peo- pie, these delegates asserted. Of this number, 462 cooperatives were in Szechwan Province, while the rest were scattered throughout the China's Far West and Yunnan, they added.
 Future plans, these delegates an- nounced, called for establishment of three additional regional head quarters. One would be behind the Japanese lines in the heart of the guerilla areas, one in Chekiang and Anhwei provinces, while a third would supervise cooperatives in Hupeh, Honan and Shansi.
 .. No Longer Experiment is now past these new cooperatives will specialize in war economy, delegates explained.
 They hoped by next year to pro- duce in their cooperatives 3,000,000 of the 10,000,00o bolts of cotton cloth used annually in free China besides replacing entirely the light industrial products formerly pur- chased from Japan, the announce ment said.
 Furthermore, the Chinese cooper atives planned to invade Japan's export market by selling fine Chi. nese hand embroidery in competi' ton with the more expensive Jap. anese products, delegates said.
 The director of the Northwest operatives, Lu Kwang -mien, said
 "These industrial cooperative! have ushered the Northwest into the 20th century-prior to our in. vasion there was less industry in tht entire Northwest than in one hun dred yards of any Shanghai indus trial street."
 War Supplies Produced
 Lu added that the cooperative! were now producing 60,0o0 pounds of medicinal gauge monthly, alst large quantities of ammunition light guns, blankets and books, al lat cost lower than they are pro. } duced in Chungking." Meanwhile foreign sources sait that Ralph Lapwood, British pro lessor of mathematics at Yenchini University in Peiping and at thu 1. American Missionary Institution there. would come to Chungking t join the Chinese.
 Chinese sources here said thu first Yenching University professor to engage in the cooperative move ment were Dr. Y. P. Mei, dean O the College of Arts: J. B. Taylor professor of economies, and Ku Chi : kang, professor of Chinese history.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05

Colonial life from the newspaper ads For those interested in Colonial life and manners there is no better source than the newspapers of that The flavor of the period it's quantneSs its manners and modes of thought its qualities that the history books omit or are unable to capture all preserved for us in those yeloWed and crumbling journals that recently inspected by re- searchers of the Federal Writers Project of New York City Can any taxebook tell about an era that gone than does this advertisement that appeared in the New York Gazette" on May 21, 1750?
 "This is to acquaint the public that there is lately arrived from London the Wonder of the World hon. est Barber and Peruke-Maker who might have worked for the King if his Majesty would have employed him. It not for want of money that he came here for he had enough of that at h0me nor the want o business that he advertises himself but to acquaint the ladies and gentlemen that such person is in town living near Rosemary Lane where gentlemen and ladies may be sup piled with goods follows Yves Fullbotoms, Majors Spencers FOxtals Ramales, Tucks cut and bob Perukes also Ladies Taemat0ngues and Towers after the manner that is at Court By this humble and 0bedient Servant John Still".
 What history book recapture the sweet nominees of this advertisement in the Weekly Post Boy o April
 1750? This is to give notice that Elizabeth Boyd go- ing to next door to the widow Hogs, in Broad Street near the long bridge and will continue usual to graft pieces in knit jackets and Brooches not to be dis cerned also to graft and foot stockings and gentemen gloves ttens muatees made out of old stockings runs them in the heels She likewise makes Chldrens stockings out of old ones at very reasonable rate"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05
JOSEPH KUPSTIS
 PRESENTED GIFT
Groom to Be Receives Purse at Largely At.
 tended Testimonial

Joseph Kupstis, who will be mar ried to Miss Alice Lonergan of Elmira, N. Y, in Elmira, September IS, was recipient of a purse at testimonial dinner at Matty Shea's Restaurant last Thursday evening. The presentation was made by Postmaster Edward Sullivan.
 Attending were Kenneth Acker- man, Lester Vail. Thomas Mcdonald, Albert J. Rush, Michael DeRita, Lee Hrynie. Frank Quinlan, Dr. 2. Pasetto, Charles Reardon, Frank Mazunek. James Embardo, George Drinkwater, E. Mayo, Frank De Paola, Harry Mayo. Louis Contrar- sesso, Boyd Urso, Harry Byrne, A. Cook, Joseph P. Morelli, Frank Pag- ley and G. Kipp.
 Also, Steve Senich, s. J. Sullivan, Carl Hockett, Jack Sullivan. Joseph Guides, John A. Dougall, Kenneth Moody. Joseph Wright, Jerry Hunl- han, Judson Rigney. Jack Buessl, Louis J. Mayo. S. W. Whitman, Don- aid White, Bernard Reilly, James Czarsasty. John F. Del, and Thomas Moynihan, Jr.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05

exists right now. It is prepared to set up sub-committees to deal with problems of transportation, manu- featuring facilities, raw materials. It has at its disposal the research of the already organized National Resources Planning Board, which has just turned in an exhaustive report on Americas resources in fuel and power. It can take the Mu- nitions Board under its wing.
 The program on which 1t would act is all set-ln the form of the War Departments Industrial Mo- obligation Plan, which could be handed to Congress for approval the day war was declared.
 GOVERNMENT WOULD
 RUN THINGS
 This plan provides for the most drastic regimentation Of American life yet heard of. It would empower the President (through the War Re- sources Board, presumably to con- trol labor, industry, finance, and ag- riculture.
 The government could fix all prices; could tell any individual or company how much of any given raw material it might buy; could license all manufacturers, merchants, and public service cor- porations; could regulate the man. ufacture. transportation. sale and
 distribution of all articles pro-
 duced in America; could c0m- mandeer any factory or other es- tablishment; could say whether given issue of securities might be marketed; could conscript all la Dor, control completely the sup ply and distribution of raw ma terials-cculd, in short, run agri- culture, industry, labor, business and finance down to the smallest and finest detail imaginable.
 Nor have the preparations stop- ped there. By the system of "edu- cational orders" recently authorized by Congress, the War Department can now finance a private corpora ton in the job of retooling its plant SO as to be ready to produce certain war essentials-machine guns. for instance. The plant thus retooled fills small peace-tine order for the department, the tools then be- come War Department property and if war comes, that factory can swing into production on short no- tice.
 Some 10000 industrial plants have been surveyed. The different army and navy departments know in just which plants they can obtain the things they will need in war. Il changes in those plants are needed the changes are all blueprinted. Ir case of war, both the government and these individual manufacturers know just what will have to be done.
 NEXT: Naval preparedness.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05
BIRTH CONTROL
 LEAGUE APPEALS

The Connecticut Birth Control League, Inc, has formally filed its appeal from the recent decision of Superior Court Judge Frank P. Me- Evoy holding that the state statute against dissemination of birth con- trol information to be legal. Judge McEvoy ordered the destruction of literature and devices seized at the Chase Dispensary in June.
 The appeal will be ruled on by the state supreme court of errors.
 In another recent ruling, Judge Kenneth Wynne held that the birth control statute was unconstitutional. An appeal from this decision is be- ing considered by States Attorney William B. Fitzgerald.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05

September What does it suggest? Well, there's kaydids and crckets godenrod wild purple aSter sweet corn (con), hydrangeas touched with pink, salvla' dahlias zinnas margods Then there's all the little pads the youngsters and the junior mlss the cute sweaters the sports clothes for lass ana lao' Then there's apples falling to the ground. Have we men, toned oysters? Let's not forget the first month for this bivalve since last April And there's school All the little shining faces more appear and teacher takes the pupils over the hurdles, and tries to remember all the new names Like Mr. Chips she remembers all the faces and they pass before her or him. left foot right foot Shorter evenings and darker mornings Heavy dew on the grass Cockeyed hats as always when the new season gets off to a start. Homecomers looking rested and brown and some of them not so brown or not rested. Brighter sunsets and meower days September. Well, it's here September, end of summer, and start of new season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05

En passant. |. The granddaughter of Francis Scott Key died last week. She was Mother May Key Blunt for over sixty years religious in the Order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Guford, Conn.,, is cee- bratng three hundred years of existence in many inter- esting and spectacular ways. pageant Heart of America" was enacted. Bells pealed at sunset which could be heard in the neighboring towns of Branord Madison. Historic houses were opened. . recent session at the Wliamstown, Mass. Institute took up the question of the "boy meets girls" theme in the
 movies Noted speakers opining that too much IS sui fcient of that sort of theme There will be sixty-sx conventions meeting in New York City during the month of September At long last the Duke Of Windsor goes back to his native country which he once served faithfully in time of In line with black outs all over the world the New York stage may figure in general blackout this week and there may be no shows for the visiting fremen, butter and egg men and the like.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-05
Museum Collections
 Arranged For Fair
Brockton Fair Offers Exhibits From New England
 Museum of Natural History-TO Show Sept. lO-l6

be the highest altitude ever travelled by sled dog team.
 Aerial cameras of the type used by Washburn on his expeditions will also be shown through cooperation of Harvard's Institute of Geographi- cal Exploration.
 Miss Margaret Baker of the mu- seun's department of exhibits has been responsible for preparation of the museums Brockton fair section and will be in attendance during the fair.
 Also of interest at the fair to natural history students will be the only sea COW in captivity in the world. This 2600-pound creature l also known as the manatee, is kept in huge tank of salt water, and its chief interest in life seems tc be consuming sea grass by the crate Max Linderman has gone to tremen- dous trouble and expense to make it possible for the American public to see this strange inhabitant of Florida waters through special permit of the federal government and the state of Florida.