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Evening star., 1941-04-15
Beery's Ex-Wife Sues

LOS ANGELES. April Is P.-
Mrs. Mary Areta Foyt seeks a
divorce from Albert j. Foyt.
broker she married In Carson City.
New. May 7, 1899, a week after
divorcing Aim actor Wallace Beery.
She charges extreme cruelty.
Evening star., 1941-12-28

splinters, and the monster engine, its
speed scarcely slackened by the blow,
split the next car lengthwise like a
cardboard box"
1T is said there were two passenger
coaches and a smoker to the local. There
might have been three, or there might
have been six cars. There was no
judging from the ruins The mad en-
gine dashed half through the smoker,
and it was here that the telescoping
really commenced The rush of the
empty was not checked, but the smash
ing rear-end blow had walked the local
into movement, and the big engine
picked up the crushed and twisted
smoker on its back, and with shrek
hurled it through the fog and darkness,
half mile along the track. The whistle
Of one of the other engines was full on,
and like a mad thing it yelled through
the rain and gloom. For half mile
the track was streWn with splinters and
Wreckage Bodies were under what was
left of all the cars. The wheel of the
engine was across the body of one dead
man. and out of pile of twisted iron
bars. big as 2. farm wagon, the workers
picked the remains of two victims
The engineer of the train that ran
into the local was Harry Hildebrand;
Frank Hoff was the conductor; J. c..
McCallum, fireman; Robert Rutter,
brakeman, and W. A. Morris, baggage
master.
Up to 2 o'clock on December 81, the
list of dead, as copied from The Star,
included Col, Robert Alvinson, Newark,
Ohio; Fannie Austen, Mrs. M. E. Baines:
Lewis w Baldwin. DR.. E Oliver, St.
Clair Belt. Edward Belt, May Alice
Bohrer, Garret Park. Md; Corrine
Bohrer J. Bond, S L, Bond, Commodore
P. Brown, and Mrs. Brown, Sallie U.
Butts, Mrs. Mary A. Caher, Mrs. F. R.
Chase Brookland, D. c.; Francis Cunlo
Child. Annie Cunlo Child. May Cook
and infant, Carrie w. Cornwell, Nettie
Lee Compiler, Miss Rosalie Cross, Olin
L. Daley, Edwin L. Garrett Child,
George Higbie, John T. Kelley, Kensing-
ton, Md: T. A. Kelley. engineer at
Capitol; Prof. T. I. King, organist at
Wesley Chapel, home at Kensington;
Miss Lulu V. Kolb, B. L. Legge, Miss
Mary Lippold. A. Lee Lowe, Mrs. J. A.
Caghey, Lorne McCaghey, Mrs. John c.
Merkling, Thomas Elmer Metz, Mrs.
Evening star., 1941-12-28

with flowers. Friends had taken some
of the bodies home and held private
funerals.
Rev. Father A. Bokel. Of St. Dominics
Catholic Church. and Rev S V. Leech,
of Gorsuch Chapel conducted the
services band from Findlay Hospital
headed the procession. which was in
the charge OF John G.. Dudley. as chief
marshal Sergt. Hepburn, with force
of policemen from the Tenth Precinct.
Then came the officiating clergy
man, the long line Of hearses. alternating
with ambulances; President Lincoln.
Secretary Stanton and his son. officials
of the Arsenal; relatives, employees, a
large wagon of Adams Express Co..
drawn by six white horses; more than
$50 hacks, scores of other carriages.
and many on horseback.
I'm this order the procession moved
up -Four -and -a-half street to Penn
sylvania avenue, and was IS minutes
in passing a given point. At street
south, the funeral OF Miss McElfresh,
which had taken place at Ryland Chapel.
joined the procession"
At the Congressional Cemetery IA
coffins were lowered into two large pits.
each being feet long. Is feet wide and
512 feet deep. OF those, only six bore
plates of Identification. namely: Julia
McEwin. Mrs Collins. Elizabeth Bran
agan. Lizzie Brahler, Eliza Lacey and
Maggie YOnSon.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
By John Frye,
Wide World News.

CINCINNATI, Dec. 81. - Swinging
across the heart of a continent is
great sluggish giant of river which
is just beginning to feel its strength as
q Nation arms for war.
From the golden triangle at Pitts
burgh, where the Allegheny comes down
to meet the Monongahela, the Ohio flows
981 miles to Cairo Point to dump an
unprecedented burden of commerce on
the mighty Mississippi, and to receive
the same in return from the Father
of Waters In that 981 miles Americas
industrial heart is in the making.
The Ohio, which once echoed with
whistles of packet boats Of the 10Th
century, now carries defense products
of the smoky Pittsburgh steel mills and
scrap from a thousand junk yards;
oil and sulphur from the rich Louisiana
and Texas fields and coal from the
West Virginia mountains; sand and
gravel from its own bed and bars, super
refined chemicals, autos, tobacco, whisky.
This brown giant carried nearly 30
100000 tons of these and hundred
other things last year-nearly as much
as the Panama Canal or the Suez in
1898. the last pre-war year. This
years total on the Ohio may run from
35 100000 to 5OOOOOOO tons. Army en-
gineers, whose job it is to keep the
channel nine feet deep and clear. speak
of the first figure as a casual certainty.
l., ,,,ct ie Ln1 tN
feel its strength. Only 81 years ago work
was started on the first lock and dam
five miles below Pittsburgh. In 1929 the
last was completed. There now are As
to step boats up and down the 429foot
Evening star., 1941-12-28

From that morning in April OF 1917
until late August of 1919 the Coast
Guard operated under naval purlsolc-
ton. Before the summer of 1917 was
over, Coast Guardsmen were in the thick
of things and there they remained until
the end, establishing an outstanding
record for service and bravery.
Official Government records show that
the percentage of deaths, due directly to
enemy action among regular officers, was
greater in the Coast Guard than III any
other branch of the military and naval
services. Considering all officers and
enlisted men. the percentage Of battle
losses in the Coast Guard was LA. while
the percentage for the Army, including
the Marine Corps, was 1.42.
When war was declared there were in
the Coast Guard 223 commissioned
officers. No better example of the con-
fidence the Navy Department placed in
these men can be seen than in the
assignments given them. Out Of 1873 COM
missoned line officers. "a commanded
combatant ships of the Navy operating
in the European war zone commanded
combatant ships attached to the Amer
lean patrol in the Caribbean, % we're in
command of cCmbatant ships assigned
to naval districts, we're in charge Of
large naval training camps and officers
performed aviation duty.
AS the war progressed the value OF
commissioned personnel became more
and more apparent to the Navy Depart
ment and calls for Coast Guard officers
came from all sides.
Shortly after the Armistice, three Coast
Guard officers we're assigned to COM
mand of large naval transports bringing
home troops from France, and a number
of other officers were assigned to trans
port duty. And the first United States
vessel to pass the great German fortifica-
ton at Helgoland and through the Kiel
Canal after the armistice was the U. S. S.
Aphrodite.
During August and September six Coast
Guard cutters left the United States to
ioin United States naval forces IN
European waters They comprised
part of the Atlantic fleet patrol forces
and we're based at Gibraltar. Throughout
the war they escorted hundreds OF vessels
between Gibraltar and the British Isles
and also performed escort and patrol
duties in the Mediterranean.
Other Coast Guard cutters performed
escort and patrol duties In home waters
on important missions to Bsrmuds and
the Azores, IN the Caribbean and OF the
coast Of Novia Scotia.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
The Ohio Valley Comes of Age

Success in moving the new submarine
net-tenders built for the Navy at Point
Pleasant, w. Va-more than 1000 miles
from salt water-down to New Orleans
is the tip-of on the latter angle. Three
of the boats, drawing 10 feet of water,
were taken down the 9-foot channel
without incident by releasing sufficient
water from the dams to create wave
on which they rode.
Rivermen believe their shipyards on
the Ohio, the Tennessee and the Mis-
sissippi are well adapted to turning out
smaller seagoing boats, thus releasing
the huge ways on the seacoasts for the
battlewagons. The river yards are close
to the steel and armor plate mills and
to the machine tool plants in the Cincin-
natl area. The shortage Of skilled labor
is not so acute as it is on the coasts.
While work of the fourth net-tender
continued at Point Pleasant the first OF
16 mine planters ordered for the Army
was launched there early in November.
Other small warships are under con-
struction near Pittsburgh and across
from Louisville All can be moved down
river by the same method as the net
tenders.
A factor military men consider highly
important in discussion of naval ship
building on the Ohio is the valleys COM
parative invulnerability to attack.
Power is adequate, the entire Midwest
a network of inter-connected power lines.
Even more will be available with COM
pletion of the s55 ,OO0, 900 Wolf Greek Dam
on the tributary of the Cumberland
River and the s22. 900 900 Bluestone Dam
on the New River in West Virginia.
The Ohin Valley has come of age.
Evening star., 1941-12-28
Coast Guard Is Ready
By Malcolm D. Lamborne, Jr.

A new chapter in the colorful history
of the United States Coast Guard will be
written in this war, and when it is over
the service whose motto is always
Prepared should turn in record OF
outstanding bravery and devotion TO
duty, If the records of the last war
are any criterion.
To every ship and shore station of the
Coast Guard there went out by radio
and land wire from Washington early
last month a message ending with the
cryptic words: " Plan one. AcknoWl-
edge"
The message opened with excerpts from
an executive order of President Roosevelt
issued the night before. Plan one
meant but one thing to commanding
officers. Officials in Washington had
gone over it months before and the
officers had been instructed to expect
the message at any time.
BY that message the United States
Navy was increased by 1,707 officers,
2lS37 enlisted men, 29O vessels and so
airplanes-all comprising the Coast
Guard-and until the present war is
over the Coast Guard will receive It's
orders from the Chief of Naval Opera
tons.
Just "a wears. 6 months and 20 days
earlier the same words, plan one. Ac-
KNOWLEDGE" were flashed from head
quarters in the Capital to Coast Guard
cutters at sea and stations ashore. That
message resulted in augmentation OF the
Navy by some 220 commissioned officers.
approximately 4,5OO warrant officers and
enlisted men and Al ships of all sizes.
Over and above the personnel and
ships, what more is the Navy gaining
in this transfer? The record of the last
war and the reputation of the Coast
Guard since that war tell the story.
Many experts on marine matters claim
that Coast Guardsmen are the finest
seamen in the world. In no service OF
any nation can be found the type OF
sailor turned out by the Coast Guard,
they say. Certainly their myriad duties
from spotting icebergs and resculng
merchantmen in North Atlantic gales to
fishing capsized sailboats and their skip
pers from summer boating waters-moid
these men into all-around seamen.
Then, too, their morale is always high.
Men who are busy have no time to COM
plain or bemoan their lot. The Coast
Guards morale has always been high
and even more 30 under the present
commandant, Rear Admiral Russell h.
Waesche.
Evening star., 1941-12-28

laboratory and right in the sun. They
became ignited by the extreme heat.
From the fireworks a piece Of fuse
f1oated through an open window into
one Of the rooms in which were seated
29 girls. and landed in some loose powder
from which the cartridges were being
made 1t is reported that the explosion
which followed was terrific, and as the
ensuing fire spread there were further
explosions. though Of a milder character.
When the fire had been eXtinguiShed
the bodies and parts of bodies were COW
cred with canvas and an inquest was
held by Coroner Woodward and the
blame was placed on Thomas B. Brown,
who. the jury said, was guilty Of the
most culpable careleSsness and negll-
gence in placing highly combustible sub
stances so near a building filled with
human beings, indicating a most reck-
less disregard for life. which should be
severely rebuked by the Government"
The explosion took place on Friday.
and on the following Sunday the funeral
was held from the north side of the
old penitentiary building, where, re-
port tells us:
Fifteen bodies were placed on plat
form covered with duck, and trimmed
with black; over this was a canopy
draped with the American flag. Eight
bodies were on the north side of the
platform. and marked unknown several
were on the south side each coffin bear
ing a name, and the whole were covered
Evening star., 1941-12-28
BY John Clagett Proctor

oy oOIil SloSCGG lOClOl
Nineteen forty-one has given us much
to seriously think about, and wonder
what is coming next. Indeed, what will
happen before the infant cherub, Nine
teen Forty-two makes his appearance in
a few days? None can tell! We know
expect most anything from this quarter,
but it is the unexpected things, that
none can visualize.
For instance, no one in this world
could have predicted the Terra Gotta
wreck of Sunday, December 80, 1906, just
one day before that year was saying
adieu for all time to come. Christmas
had been celebrated, and the stockings
had been hung by the chimney with
care, and Santa Claus had made the
homes of Washington happy by his
much appreciated annual visit, and the
North. New Years day was fast ap-
oaching, and every one was looking
forward to a grand occasion when
friends visited friends, when old
acquaintances were renewed and new
friendships made. 1t was a glorious
season of the year. but only to last
for few short hours.
Many Of our residents had been spend
Ing a few days outside the city with
their relations and friends, and were
returning home in anticipation of enjoy
ing the first day of new year with their
families All trains into Washington
were we'll filled with passengers that
evening, and this was only too true of
the Baltimore and Ohio local on the
Metropolitan branch, travelling between
Frederick, Md, and the District, which
was due in Washington at o'clock
This was train No. 66, which had stopped
at Terra Gotta, short distance south
of Takoma, where it had been tagged
at the former station to take on pas
sengers, at $50 o'clock. 1t was about
to move when the accident occurred
that snuffed out the lives Of so many
fine men and women and injured scores
of others, and brought a very unhappy
New Year Day to the people of WASH
ington
Star Issued Extra.
Thirtyive years ago. Terra Gotta
Station was in quite rural section of
the District, and news did not travel
nearly as fast as it does today, and it was
Evening star., 1941-12-28

Moore and infant, Lacy Belle Mulliker.
Deerwood Md; Miss Annie w. Reading,
Mary Rice, Brookland, D. c.; Miss
Reeves, Takoma Park, D. c.; Miss Eliza
beth J. Reid, Rupert. Norman
Rogers. Marion, Ind; Lille D. Schaeffer.
Mrs. S. w. Shrewbridge and baby,
Mabel Sturgeon, John Wright, Balti-
more. Md, and Magdaline Wright
Child.
The injured were: Roy Adler, Pooles-
vile, Md; - Anderson Of Pooles-
vile. engineer of Train &c; Sammy
Austin and Fanny Austin, colored
Daniel w. Baker, United States district
attorney; Louise BALDWIN. Mrs. Linco IL
Barnes and daughter Estelle; Bertha
Beake, Frank Bolitz, Austin Brown.
Doubs, Md; Mrs. Don M. Carr, Ken
sington Lucille Campbell, Al. Cham
bers. Howell Chambers, - Churchill
Child, Lucille Compiler Child, Mrs.
N. F. Cooley, Raymond F. Cooley, Mrs.
Cunlo. John A. Cunlo, Mrs. Ray Cross.
John Dickens, of Terra Gotta; Cornelius
Eckhardt, before mentioned; Roy Eadler.
fUOleSNlut, fllCIldlu ElSlll, y. Idedll,
Frederick. Md; B. Franklin, brakeman;
Charles T Hazen, Frederick; Thomas C.
Hamlin. Seneca. Md; DR.. E. Gather
Harris, dentist; Fred Hiser, Terra Gotta
Thomas c. Homiler Seneca; Miss
Catherine Hughes, Harry Higbie, Terra
Gotta - Horner. B. &, o. conductor;
William c. Johnson, Lysle Jones, John
A. Kaultmer. John C. Kauler, Harry
Kriebs, Terra Gotta; Henry Kriss,
Takoma; Mrs. c. J. Kumle, c. j. Kumle.
Frank Ladd. - McCling, j. c.
Merkling, John P. Martin. Harpers Ferry:
B. N haywood, Alexandria. Va; John
Merklin, H. o. Miller. Mrs. A. Moon,
Chester I. Moore, Miss Annie Moore.
Clinton L. Moore, G. w. Moore, J. C.
Moore, Mrs. j. c.. Moore. Mrs. A. Moore,
Fannie Olsen, Mrs. D. Peake, Braddock
Heights; Elizabeth Purman Clarence A.
Proctor and Mrs. Proctor, jeanette Read,
James M. Reed, - Reeves, Camden
Remsberg, Frederick, Md; B. F. Seggs,
Addie Smith, Doubs, Md; Raymond
Evening star., 1941-12-28

slope between Pittsburgh and Cairo.
A rainy year that kept the river stage
high enough to permit opening the dams
more than the usual five or six months
would give the Ohio a vastly greater
capacity. When the dams are open the
boats need not stop for locking, but push
on over the lowered wickets.
That is the Ohio today, the river Of
which some forgotten statesman once
snorted: The Ohio! Dry half the year
and frozen the other half"
1t is navigable II months Of the year
for the biggest inland waterway towboats
in the world as it helps transform the
Ohio Valley into center of heavy in
dustry, munitions and gasoline distri-
button.
To visualize the immense capacity OF
the river-speaking of gasoline alone
push one of the four 1s52O-barrel barges
owned by the Standard Oil Co. of Louisi-
ana to terminal for emptying into tank
cars for shipment When the barge
is empty 1O2 cars of 8,000-gallon capacity
each will be full, with some to spare.
With factories throughout the valley
demanding more coal for the power to
produce defense goods, coal shipments
on the river alone probably will reach
100000 tons this year. In past years
the bulk of movements was downstream,
but the current demand for scrap iron
and sulphur in the upriver steel mills
ooG for pa aSoljne and Oil from Southern
refineries has turned the river around"
Valley observers see for the future
growing intensihcation of industrial ac-
tivity. partly through expansion OF
present manufacturing and partly
through development of new lines, in
cll1dinu naval Shinhllildino
Evening star., 1941-12-28

not until 10 O'Clock that night that The
Star issued its first extra edition, the
first public announcement made in the
city Of the wreck, which briefly said:
twenty-five to 80 killed and from so
to 100 injured is the story of a wreck
on the B. & O., at $50 this evening at
Terra Gotta Station, District of Colum-
bia.
AN empty passenger train at that
hour crashed into the rear of the
Frederick accommodation, due in this
city at o'clock, smashing the rear three
cars into kindling wood and killing and
manning the occupants.
Many of the killed are frightfully
mutilated. Nineteen dead bodies have
identified.
AT o'clock two trains with injured
had already started for Washington"
later extra issued at 11:45 pm,
mentioned among the injured Cornelius
Eckhardt of Kensington, Md. an audi
tor of The Star. and gave his injuries
as critical with severe injuries about the
head and body. He was taken to the
Garfield Hospital where he recovered
and lived for a number of years after
ward.
On the following day, December 81,
The Star gave a more complete account
of the accident. together with list of
the dead and injured.
Rushing out of bank of fog, into
the glare of the clay furnaces at Terra
Gotta" said The Star. "the biggest en-
CINE in the Baltimore e. Ohio service
last night, at $50 o'clock tore through
the length of local just pulling out of
the station. Between so and so persons
were killed and over so injured. 1t was
the worst railroad wreck that has ever
occurred around Washington, and the
worst disaster in the history of the
city since the cave-in of the old Ford S
Theater, where many Government
clerks were killed and over 100 injured.
Accounts differ as to how the accident
occurred The local train was No 66,
from Frederick, Md. 1t had stopped at
Terra Gotta, dischargng and taking on
passengers. 1t was just beginning to
move when the roar of the oncoming
death and the sinister glare of the great
headlight cut through the fog behind it.
The engineer of the local knew his train
was doomed, but he threw open the
throttle and tried to get on headway
to lessen the shock of the collision 1t
was too late. While the wheels of the
local were still spinning in the wet
rails, vainly trying to move, like man
In a dream, the big empty train, rush.
ing down the grade behind, tore through
the slow-moving local like an axe split
ting sapling. The empty train was
what is known as a dead-head equip
ment train, made up of empty Pullman
and passenger coaches, and drawn by
engine 2l2O, one of the new series of
locomotives, the heaviest in the service.
Crowded Cars Telescoped
The impact was like an explosive
shell The dead-head was going at be-
tween so and so miles an hour. OF the
rear end of the local there was simply
nothing left. Telescoping does not de-
scribe It. The car simply burst into
Evening star., 1941-12-28

thanksgiving Photo.
Sturgeon, Mrs. Elizabeth Terrian, Mr..
and Mrs. H. L. Thompson. Harry
Thomas, wife and baby; John wilkins.
Edward Williams, colored; Alfred York,
Woodburn, Md.
Many Injured on Platform.
All of those killed and wounded were
not on the wrecked train. Indeed, as
stated. the train had been tagged at
this point for the purpose Of taking on
passengers and some of the fatally in .
jured or hurt to more or less degree.
were standing on the platform and
thus met their deaths or injuries by fly
ing parts Of the wooden cars or by being
crushed. One of those who was killed
in this way was Miss Mary Lippoid. who
had been visiting friends in the vicinity
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-04

for the fifth concert season with
Fritz Berntsen. founder of the
group. as director.
Newest member of the group is
Thor Larsen. formerly with Pa
cific Lutheran Choir OF the West
and more recently singing with
the University of Washington
Mems Glee club directed by Charles
Lawrence. He takes the place Of
Gale Sampson, who is attending
Harvard university this year.
One vacancy is yet TO be filled.
William McCallum, last years
president, has been transferred 10
Salem, Ore. Applications for this
place in the tenor, section may be
made through MA 4534 before
Monday evening.
First appearance OF the Sibel-
ians this season will be at the Lief
Erickson festival in Jason Lee
auditorium next Thursday. Oct. 9.
Robert Booth is the new presi-
dent; Helmut Jueling. vice presi-
dent; Lawrence Berg. secretary
treasurer: S. Evan Davies, attend
anee secretary.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1941-10-04

Announcement BY Ned Edris.
general manager Of the Hsmriek
Tacoma theaters. that the Seattle
Symphony orchestra. with the
eminent conductor. Sir Thomas
Beecham. viii appear at the
Temple theater Nov. u adds the
final touch 10 a music season Of
exceptional character. This an
nouneement will be good news 70
the hundreds OF Tacoma music
people who have followed the ca
reer Of the noted English COM
poser and conductor.
With this interesting news also
comes the announcement from Mr..
Edrs that Roland Hayes. top
ranking Negro tenor, has been
booked for a concert al the Tenn
pie theater Friday. March q.
The vitaHzing influence Of Sir
Thomas Beecham is being felt
throughout America as it has been