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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1943-05-20
SENATE POSTWAR UNITY MOVE

sailles. and by the failure of the
u. S. Senate to authorize Amer
lean membership in the League
of Nations.
Sen. Harold H. Burton Or
Ohio), co-sponsor of the Senate
resolution, sees the resolution as
a Bile of 'siInmeasurabiy
strengthening the Presidents
hand in the conduct of the war. .
He points out that the world has
learned that the U. S. executive
branch and the Senate, which
must approve treaties, do not
necessarily work hand in glove.
Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge and his
-dissidents proved that when the
League of Nations plan was carv-
ed to pieces on the Senate floor.
Any executive announcement
of postwar procedure would be
taken with a grain of historical
salt, so long as the threat of adj
verse Senate action exists. How
ever, Sen. Burton supports the
thought that an advance Senate
commitment to join action would
lay the ghost of the fiasco that fol-
lowed the Armistice.
Armed with this Senate COM
mitment, the Executive could real
Evening star., 1943-09-08

officer from the navy yard exam
ined them. Apparently satisfied. he
called away the detail and it van
ished as quickly and quietly as it
had arrived.
Calls from White House.
In the course of the day three
calls from the White House were
received by the superintendent of
Philadelphia hospital, inouiring
about the condition of the lieuten-
ant who lay in the morgue. Appar-
emily the White House had received
erroneous information that he was
only injured. The superintendent,
worried over the large number of in
)ured who had been sent to his hos
pital. knew nothing of the officers
tate and suggested that other hos
pitfalls be called. Whether they were
could not be confirmed. though in a
matter of hours the White House
received correct report, according
to an authority concerned in wreck
relief.
Ihe officer who perished and ap-
parently left intact whatever was in
his cherished brief case was Second
1t. Edwin B. Updyke, Sd. He is from
Alabama.
There was no further comment
from the Marine Corps or from any
one else. Doubtless there never will
be-at least not while the war is
waged.
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Ickes Returns 1873 Mines
Operated by Government
Hy the Associated Press.

h$ the Associated Press. ~
Secretary of Interior Ickes, as
boss of Government Uncontrolled coal
mines, announced today that 1873
more mines, belonging to "a COM
panies, had been returned to pri-
vate operation under provisions of
the Smith -Connally Antistrike Act.
This brought to 687 the total
number of mines returned to pri-
vate owners since August 81 The
shafts are situated in 25t States.
Thus far, there have been no re-
ports of strikes resulting from Gov
ernment release of the property.
The mines turned back to date,
Mr.. Ickes said, have an estimated
annual production of $4,000 900
tons, or more than q per cent of
this years 665 900 ,OOO-ton produc-
tion requirement for anthracite and
bituminous coal
Mines still under control of Mr..
Ickes' Coal Mines Administration
now total 2.69f, belonging to 1858
companies. Only 80 are anthracite
mines and the rest are bituminous.
Mr.. Ickes said these remaining
mines would be returned in accord
ance with the provisions of the
Antistrike Act, which require return
Of Government-seized property
within so days after the restoration
of productive efficiency"
Evening star., 1943-09-08
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Evening star., 1943-09-08
Recapture Of StaIino
Gives Reds Materials
!, ~
And Industrial Plants

For the Russians the recapture
of Stalino represents maj jor VIC
tory in terms of raw materials, in
dustrial capacity and key position.
The steel city. named for Stain,
was the nerve center of a region
rich In coal, with iron and man.
ganese conveniently located to the
west. When the fires set by the re-
treating Germans have died down
its re-establishment for production
again promises the Soviet steel and
pig iron, machinery, building ma
terials and warmth for freezing
homes in the coming Russian win
ter, according to the National Geo.
graphic Society.
Stalino was one of the big cities
of the Soviet Union. Before it's
occupation by the Germans in Oc-
tober, 1941, it had nearly half a
million residents. The annual ca
pacity of its metallurgical plants
was estimated at we'll over 500 900
tons each of cast iron and steel.
Workers employed in the nearby
mines and local plants numbered
one-sixth of the total industrial
workers of Soviet Russia
Site of Deep Coal Mines.
In the Stalino area one could
trace all the steps of modern in
dustrial production, from the mines
to the coke ovens, the rolling mills,
and factories turning out such fin
ile oh ir1a Il
and structural steel.
Under the once f1ourishing wheat
fields around Stalino lies a vast
maze of deep coal mines. In the
outskirts of the city is Russias
deepest and. largest mine, which
furnished a good part of the unions
fuel and power needs.
AS early as the 1870s, Stalino,
then small town called Yuzovka,
was significant in Russian industry.
1t turned out iron rails under the
direction of an Englishman, John
Hughes, who held concession
from the Tsarist government The
old name, Yuzovka, was the Rus
sian derivation of Hughesovka.
125 Miles From Dnieper.
Stalino is situated west of the
Donets River, in the heart of the
big southern bend made by that
stream on its way to join the Don.
1t is, however, far to the east in
the Ukraine, thus its reconquest
finds the vast central and western
areas of the republic still in Ger
man hands. The Dnieper River,
where it has been suggested the
Germ ans may make stand against
the Russian counteroffensive. is
about 125 miles west of Stalino.
From Stalino railway lines lead
into the south central Ukraine by
means of a network whose many
links are within easy range of So
Wet bombers based in the Stalino
region,
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Prosecution Outlines
Army Case Against
Col. William CoIman
BE- the Associated Press.

bs Inc ASSOClateu ffeSS.
SELFRIDGE FIELD. Mich, Sept.
8.-Capt. w. Stanley Dolan. assist
ant trial Judge advocate, today told
members of the court martial trying
Col. william T. Colman on series
of charges alleging % violations of
the Articles of War, that the Gov
ernment proposed to show that Col.
Colman was "a careless, drunken
man."
Col Colman, relieved as COM
mandant of the Army air base here
following the shooting and wound
ing last May of Pvt. william Nc
Rae, a colored chauffeur, has plead
ed innocent to all the charges and
offered testimony designed to show
he was suffering from a mental dis
order at the time of the shooting.
Capt. Dolan said the Government
would seek to show that Col. Col
man would have shot the officer of
the day, or anybody else who hap
pened to be within range at the time
Pct. McRae was shot.
Offered to Arrange Transfer.
The Government would also show,
Capt. Dolan said In an opening
statement to the court, that Col.
Colman once asked his girl secre-
tary: Haven't you got boy friend
you want transferred here?"
Later, Capt. Dolan said, the girls
cousin. saxophone player. enlisted
at Selfridge as parachute rigger
and was assigned to the field band
by Col. Colman.
The Government proposed to show,
Capt. Dolan continued, that Col.
Colman was given the continuing
use Of summer lodge near Oscoda
Mich, by Herman Granse, repre-
sentative of Bay City, Mich, firm
erecting buildings at Selfridge, after
the colonel arranged to have
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Man Who Lost Wife, 2 Children
In Train Wreck, Ends Own Life

calls from New York during his
hours OF waiting, Washington
family was equally anxious about
the fate of the Bordens.
Young Stephen had spent the
summer here with Mrs. Anna Wool
Mrs. Borden's sister, at 854 Whittier
place NV. His mother and older
sister arrived last week end to take
him home with them.
The names of the Bordens did not
show up on the list of casualties but
the name of Grace Ward" whose
address was given as SGT Kingston
street, Brooklyn, did appear. Mrs.
Wool's son, Abe Wool. who is en-
ployed at the Office of Censorship,
feared Grace Ward" was actually
Grace Borden because the Brooklyn
address was the same.
Efforts of the Red Cross to locate
the Bordens failed and it wasn't
until last night that the father
learned the fate of his family.
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Speedy Repair Work
Keeps Trains MOVING
Despite Two Wrecks
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. s.--Speedy re-
pair work and handy rerouting ia
cilities, railroad officials said today.
Kept war-crowded transportation
from begging down when two main
Eastern lines were blocked by wrecks
on the New York Central and Penn
syiyania Railroads over the Labor
Day week end.
Delays In schedules were not
more than five hours at the most.
railroad officials disclosed. as freight
routes and other roads running
parallel to the main lines were
brought into use to keep moving the
wartime travel, which was especially
heavy in the New York State area.
Ofhcials of the New York Central
whose main line from New York to
Buffalo and the West was blocked
by derailment of the 10th Century
Limited yesterday morning at Cam
astota, N. Y, said the maximum
delay of the roads schedule was
Awe fhOulS.
Pennsylvania officials said the
wreck of the Congressional Limited
at Philadelphia held up schedules
only two hours for trains en- route
to Washington, one hour for those
en- route to Philadelphia and, from
one-half to three-quarters of an
hour on westbound traffic.
Rapid work by repair crews had
replaced the torn and twisted tracks
not many hours otter the accidents.
Two of the four Pennsylvania
tracks put out of use at Philadel-
phia, officials said, were restored
early Yesterday and the other two
were in operation by late after
noon. -Four tracks also were made
impossible at Canastota by the
20th Century wreck, but all were
back in use last night.
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Wreck Of Two Trains
Not Due 10 Wartime
Strain, Eastman Says

joseph B. Eastman, director Of the
Office OF Defense Transportation,
said today there was no indication
that either the wreck of the Con-
sressional Limited in Philadelphia
or the Twentieth Century Limited in
New York State was caused by the
railroads serious manpower and me-
chanical problems created by the
war. Sss
Mr.. Eastman pointed out, however,
that railroad equipment is. being
operated under terrific pressure be-
cause of the great increase in traffic.
He added there was no indication
that either of the wrecks was due to
wartime strain.
A spokesman for ODT pointed out
that serious railroad accidents &C.
cur in normal times as well as in
war and often at close intervals.
Crisis Forecast.
In addition to driving equipment
at q pace far beyond the peacetime
rate, ODT pointed out, railroads,
like other industries. have suffered
a large turnover In personnel and
now are forced to use many new en-
pioyes.
Mr.. Eastman issued statement
Saturday warning the Nation was
approaching a railroad manpower
crisis. He proposed a 13-point pro-
gram intended to meet the crisis,
which included use of war prisoners,
suspension OF full crew" laws and
establishment Of system whereby
essential workers might be deferred
from induction into the armed forces
as long as possible.
Warned Of Collapse.
Last spring Mr.. Eastman told a
House committee railroad equip
ment was being used under such
terrific pressure, with very few re-
placements available, that 1t was
apt to collapse like the one-herse
shay"
Shirley N. Mills, safety director
OF the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, said there were 8,209 rail
accidents in the first six months of
this year, an increase of 80 per cent
over the similar period in 1942. He
added there had been q gneral in
crease in the number and length sof
trains and said in aras where war
industries were developed, equip
ment has been used ito such an ex-
tent that safety of operation has
been seriously impaired"
Evening star., 1943-09-08
1t. Updyke, Killed in Wreck,
Believed War Secret MESSENGER
BY CARTER BROOKE JONES,

PHILADELPHIA. Sept. "a war
secret, apparently so important
it concerned the White House,
figured in the tragic wreck of the
Congressional Limited in north
eastern Philadelphia Monday night,
1t was learned today
A mystery around which an i'm
penetrable veil fell surrounds the
episode. and efforts to find out
more about it bring only silence.
Passengers who escaped un-
Scathed or with minor injuries re-
called that a young marine lieuten-
ant got on at Washington, ac-
companied by an armed guard of
marines. He carried a brief case
which appeared to be sealed. The
brief case never was deserted a
moment. If the lieutenant left his
seat, a marine non-com took charge
of 1t and carried it or sat beside it.
Rescuers Waved Back.
Hours after the middle section
of the Limited collapsed, grinding
into debris. with loss of life now
disclosed to he around IS persons,
one Of the cars was lifted by a
crane. A body wedged in some
where fell to the track.
A marine sergeant, himself.
bruised and a little dazed, rushed
forward and waved back the SOL
diers, police and volunteer workers.
1t was the body of marine lieu
tenant. The sergeant summoned
another marine and stood guard
over the body, waving back every
one with his pistol. The other ma
rine ran to the side of the embank-
ment and used the trainmens tele-
phone.
Within half an hour a detail of
marines, led by an officer. arrived
from the Philadelphia Navy Yard
and surrounded the splintered, part
ly raised car. The body was car
ried away by marines. No one was
allowed near 1t.
Meanwhile, marines searched
frantically about the spot where the
dead officer had been wedged. They
emerged with the fragments of .
brief case and a shesf Of papers. The
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Construction
Continued From First Page,)

that the armed forces and war in
dustry would need 100000 addi-
tional workers by July l. 1914. A
total of 100000 workers were to be
transferred from trade and service
industries and 100000 from the labor
force of construction and building
materials.
The decrease in employment in
the predominantly civilian areas of
the economy" the commission said,
will be concentrated largely in
trade and services, in construction
and building materials, and to some
extent in a miscellaneous group of
manufacturing industries and non-
war governmental agencies"
Lumber Critical Material.
In addition to manpower, steel
is still far too short to permit any
increased construction activity.
Lumber. needed in large quantity
for building, is one of the most
critical materials on the WPB list.
The necessity for holding down
construction activity in general. the
Official said. obviously means that
there cannot be revival of public
works.
Some observers predicted that
large public works program was
about to be started when the right
to determine essentially of public
projects was transferred from WPB
to Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming,
Federal Works administrator WPB,
however. still retains veto powers
over construction jobs since 1t con-
tinues to control materials distribu-
ton. 1t was pointed out that Gen.
Fleming has only about $50.000 900
remaining of the Lanham Act ap-
preparation of $500 900 900 for roads,
schools. hospitals and utilities.
The program to cut back construc-
ton has made WPB unpopular in
all sections of the country. The
official said the agency has only a
limited amount of materials with
which to work and these must be
reallocated to the programs which
will contribute most TO winning the
war.
A report, also widely circulated.
was that WPB will soon ease re-
strictions on home building by pri-
vate enterprise. The oficial said
this report also is untrue.
Evening star., 1943-09-08

Interstate Commerce Commission
and the Pennsylvania Public Service
Commission.
A railroad spokesman said the
axle, which catapulted the coach
into a Steel signal tower when it
dropped, had been found to be
scored as If overheated," appar-
emily the result of faulty lubrica-
|. ton.
John F. Sears, district FBI agent
in charge, disclosed last night he
! mad taken possession of the equip
/ ment for examination and tests
| The Washington FBI Office said
earlier there was no indication of
| sabotage.
The railroad company said last
night that the last bodies had been
removed from the wreckage. Near
ly score had spilled to the ground
| during the day as giant cranes lifted
the ruins of two of the most smashed
coaches.
The task of identifying dead pro-
ceeded in a brightly lighted room
In the city morgue. An orderly.
restrained crowd of relatives filled
an outer room, waiting their turn
to file past the rows in the inner
rooms. The scene contrasted sharp
ly with hysteria and sobbing evi-
denced earlier.
Many bodies were SO badly
smashed or dismembered that iden-
tiflcation could be esta blished only
by rings or tattered remnants OF
clothing.
One Of the SAL passengers who
boarded the Washington-to-Ne New
York train, Mrs. Marian Berry Nc
Cauley, 35. of New York, was miss
ing, and the list of dead and in
jured gave no answer to her g.
year-old son Ian's plea:
Where is my mama2"
Still Indicated.
A friend of Mrs. McCauley's. Mrs.
William Barbour of New York. Wis
tied Ian in hospital where he was
treated for slight back and head
injuries, then joined the apprehen-
sive searchers at the morgue.
She viewed all the bodies at the
morgue and said, Il feel positive
Marian isn't there. I am hoping
againstshope that she is wandering
about dazed and will be found"
Ian told this story to Mrs Bar
bour: Mama and got on the train
1t was so crowded We couldn't sit
together. sat down by somebody
else and mama went way back in
the car. I didn't see her again"
Mrs. Barbour took Ian home to
New York. His father, also named
Ian, lives at Port Washington. Long
Island. He is a reporter for Inter
national News Service.
Prominent Figures Unhurt.
Among those who escaped unin-
Jured in the pile-up were Or. Lin
Yutang, Chinese author: Roy w.
Howard, president OF Scripps- How
ard Newspapers, and Mrs. Howard:
Mrs. Myron C. Taylor, wife of the
Presidents special envoy to the Vat
lean, and Lee Tracy, promotion
manager of the New York Mirror.
| Another who was unhurt was a
Mrs. Patrick j. Hurley. A check in
Washington showed that she was
not the wife Of the former Secre-
tary of War.
The last person taken alive from
the wreckage, Mrs. Christina Nix,
%. of Jackson Heights. Long Island,
died later in a hospital. A physi-
clan amputated her leg during the
six hours she lay, half in and half
| out of a coach window.
Evening star., 1943-09-08

Granse's two soldier sons transferred
to the field.
Transfer of one of the sons, Capt.
Dolan said, was arranged within a
few hours of his scheduled embarka-
tion for an overseas theater of op-
erations.
Trial Is Resumed.
The trial before eight colonels and
one lieutenant colonel was resumed
today after the court late yesterday,
in 10-minute closed session. denied
defense motion to dismiss seven
of the most serious charges against
Col. Colman on the grounds of in
sanity.
Col. Colman was relieved of his
command following the shooting.
Pvt. McRae and two other privates,
one a sentry on duty at the field
headquarters, described the COM
manding officer as unsteady and
under the influence of liquor
Norman j. Nyland, the sentry,
said:
He asked me to get his cap. His
speech was irregular. 1 pointed
out to him that the cap was sticking
out of his pocket"
Pvt. McRae, in describing the
shooting, said he had responded
to call for a chauffeur. Col. Col
man, he said, told him to come and
get his 4-year-old son, Harner
Colman, from the Colman car.
Says COlman Cussed.
AS he reached the car door, Pvt.
McRae said, Col. Colman suddenly
cursed.
Then he turned around and
shot" the witness testified. Il
whirled around and circled around
the flagpole. AS I was making the
circle he fired a second shot. l
came back between two cars and
said, Take me to the hospital"
Pvt. Carl E. Blankenship another
chauffeur, testified he heard the
shots and saw Pvt. McRae holding
his side"
Col. Colman was standing by the
private (Colman's) car" Pvt. Blan-
kenship testified, weaving and
waving shiny gun. He pointed
it at me and I stepped out of the
car"
Evening star., 1943-09-08
Joint Inquiry Slated
Into Wreck Of Flyer;
Deaths May Reach "a
Ry the Associated PrAs

Ry the Associated Prs*s.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 8.-The
death toll in the Labor Day
wreck of the Pennsylvania Rail-
roads Congressional Limited
stood at 78 today as procession
of men and women with dread
haunted faces filed past the rows
of battered bodies in the city
morgue seeking friends or rel
atives among the % still uniden-
titled victims.
Railroad workers searched for
other bodies in the rubhle along the
Northeast Philadelphia curve where
Q of the flyers 16 cars wrenched
loose, and physicians said at least
s Of the 80 injured who remained
in hospitals might not live through
the day.
A Joint hearing to determine the
exact cause of the wreck, blamed by
the railroad on journal box that
ran hot and caused wheel on
the seventh car to separate from its
axle, was to begin today by the
Evening star., 1943-09-08
ItuIiun Prisoners
Huil Surrender
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MACON, Ga, Sept. 8.-Italisns In
the prisoner of war camp at Camp
Wheeler today greeted with cheers
the announcement of Italy's sur
render.
Camp authorities said the
prisoners were almost unanimous in
their expression of relief at the
news
They are glad their relatives and
friends are no longer endangered by
Allied bombs and Shells" a spokes-
man said. Practically all the
prisoners grinned widely when they
heard the news over radios per-
mltted in their quarters. Their only
fear now is that Germany will
punish Italy by bombing the sur
rendered country"
Evening star., 1943-09-08
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