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MEMS LEAGUE
DIVISION 1

Winning Team-Grace cub. ~.
Averages - High Average: Alb.
Barnhart, Grace cub. ~, 121.10;
Second High Average: Joe Bitner, St.
Paul's cub, 117.18; Third High
Average: Charles Harshman, Trinity
Lutheran III, 11614.
High Set-John Minnich, Trinity
Lutheran #2, 407; Second High Set:
Harold Carbaugh, Trinity Lutheran
I'll, 402; Third High Set: Farley
Bates, Grace cub. ~, 399.
High Games - Charles Kline, St.
Johns Lutheran ~ and Ed. Williams,
st. Johns Lutheran ~ tied for the
high single game 1850; Third High
Game: Earl Redding, Jr., Grace E
U.B. ~, 1854.
Presidential Awards: Wilbur Per
rott, st. Paul's cub, 1889; Harold
Williams, st. Johns Lutheran fl,
1920; Jack Koontz, First Baptist III,
111.36; George Kick, Shiloh cub,
109.55; Carl Rider, Grace E. U.B. ~,
10917; Richard Zimmerman, Trinity
Lutheran III, 1907; Richard Motz,
st. Johns Lutheran ~, 1892; Les
ter Kendle, Emanuel cub. fl,
106.71; Robert Rohrer, First Chris
tian, 1852; Franklin r. Miller, Trim
ity Lutheran NJ, 103.17.
DIVISION III
Winning Team - St. Matthew's
cub.
Averages - High Averages: Harry
Hause, Grace cub. III, Hill; Sec
ond High Average: Gerald Yonkers,
First Baptist ~, 1867; Third High
Average: Robert Hammond, Christ
Reformed NJ, 105.40.
High Sets-High Set: Roger Kram-
er, Washington So. Methodist, 403;
Second High Set: David Wolfnger,
st. Marks Lutheran, 372; Third
High Set: Tom Dively, Christ Re
formed ~, 1865.
High Games - High Game: John
Hause, Grace E.U.B. #31, 1853; Second
High Game: Robert Myers, First Bap-
fist FL, 1855; Third High Game: Lee
Holden, Christ Reformed II, 146.
Presidential Awards = Jim Cum
bingham, st. Matthew's E.U.B., 1859;
Richard Wiebel, st. Marks Lutheran,
10463; Robert Bowman, Washington
So. Methodist, 1920; Paul Horst,
Church of the Brethren, 1896; Will
liam Schilling, First Brethren, 101;
William Neikirk, Emanuel cub.
~, 100.32; Arthur Hause, Grace
cub. III, 1O028; Robert Ditto, Christ
Reformed ~, 98.49; ]. w. Martin,
First Baptist Fl, 1918; Howard
Mowen, Christ Reformed Fl, 97.29.
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
DIVISION /
Winning Team Daisies ~, Trim
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Army Pvt. Charles w. Hetzer, Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. William Het-
ger, Sr,, ISL N. Artizan street, Will
Transport, recently moved to Camp
Pickett, Va, with the 313th Signal
Battalion to provide communications
for LOGEX-54, the Army's annual
logistical vancouver.
Student officers and soldiers from
Army technical and administration
schools will work under simulated
combat conditions to perform the
paper work necessary to support a
AGO. 00-man army in battle.
The signal battalion, from Fort
Meade, Md, has set up wire net
work capable of handling 100000
messages during the six-day exercise
which began May 8.
Private Hetzer, who entered the
Army in November 1852, formerly at
tended the University of Maryland.
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John R. James, machinist's mate
third class, USN, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank James, Route 2, Williamsport,
is serving aboard the attack aircraft
carrier USS Midway now in the
Mediterranean area.
The Midway, unit of the Sixth
Fleet, is the flagship of the Com
mander of Carrier Division Four,
She has participated in two CONT
bined exercises with NATO allies
Greece and Turkey since her arrival
last January.
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Speeding on U. S. streets and high
ways last year killed 1880 men,
women and children.
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The matter of the pensions was
brought up again at the second spe-
cial meeting on Tuesday night and
after lengthy discussion the Coun-
ell approved a pension plan for these
elderly employees, along the lines
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WOMEN'S LEAGUE
DIVISION i

Winning Team Daisies ~, Trim
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Councilman John Valentine, of
Ward l, again took up the matter of
providing sewerage for a number of
homes on Nottingham Road and it
was finally decided that the Mayor
and the entire Council would make
an immediate inspection of the road
and then decide, at tonight's meet
ing, what could be done to solve the
Yornb1nYro
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Renlafc|l Is Set
For 18Th Or FIST
In New York
Examination Shows
Champions Eye Has
Healed Completely
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK. July 2s.-Rocky
Marciano agreed to defend his
world heavyweight boxing title
against Ezzard Charles today.
with the fight scheduled for
either New York's Yankee Sta
dunn. Wednesday, September
Is or the Polo Grounds. Tues
day, September 81.
Marciano defeated Charles in
q fierce hereunder In the Sta
dunn June II. It was in this
bout that Marcinao suffered
cuts over the left eye which
held off the signing Of the re-
match until today.
For the coming fight Mar
ciano will receive 40 per cent
and Charles 20, the same terms
as for the previous encounter.
Tickets again will be scaled from
S. to $40.
Jim Norris, president of the
promoting international Boxing
Club, said television plans are
uncertain. The last fight was
carried on theater TV.
Marciano came to town from
Grossinger, N. Y, for an ex-
animation Of the eye. Both DR..
Vincent Nardiello. Marciano's
personal physician, and DR..
Alexander Schiff of the State
Athletics Commission found the
eye completely healed" and de-
clared the champion in fit con-
dition to fight in September.
The champion and his man
ager. AL WE'LL, were present
when the match was announced
in Norris Office. Charles and
his handlers were absent, having
agreed to the terms long ago.
Marciano said he expected to
start training almost immedi-
ately at Grossinger.
The. first Marciano-C Charles
match drew a gross of $543,-
092.24 plus $4,000 from radio
and about 1922. 500 from theater
television. Marciano's 40 per
cent came to approximately
| $3.50, 900 and Charles 20 per cent
| to about $4,000.
| One of the major problems to
be settled will be whether to
telecast the rematch into the
homes for a national sponsor,
probably with New York blacked
out, try theater TV again or
] black out everything.
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BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, July 29.-Base-
ball fans everywhere and Ma
tional League pitchers. too, are
beginning to take Willie Mays
threat to Babe Ruth's home run
record more seriously.
With SIS games remaining on
the Giants schedule. Mays to-
day stands IL games ahead of
Ruth's 1927 pace.
Willie connected for his 36th
home run yesterday in his
teams goth game. When Ruth
hit 60. he did not produce No.
36 until his 10th game.
A breakdown provides this
data on Mays feats:
l. He's hit Is homers at home
and Is on the road.
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Son Also Big League Pitcher
Jim Bogby,- ST., Dead at o.;
Won 81 for Indians in 1920
BY the Associated Press

MARIETTA. Ga. July 90
Jim (Sarge) Bagby. who, along
with Stan Coveleskie, pitched
the Cleveland Indians to the
worlds baseball championship
in 1920. died in a hospital here
today.
Bagby. whose full name was
James Charles Jacob Bagby, ST..
won 81 games and lost IL for
the Indians in 1920. In the "a
years since. only Lefty Grove
in 1891 and Dizzy Dean in 1884
ever won as many as 80 VIC
tories.
In the 1920 World Series
against Brooklyn, Bagby had
only a Ii record, but became
the first pitcher ever to hit a
home run in the fall classic.
Coveleskie, whose season mark
was "a and IA, won three World
Series games.
Son in Majors, Too.
Bagby. who was "a, had been
in poor health since he suffered
stroke in 1912 while umpiring
game in the Piedmont League.
He died at RHINESTONE Hospital,
where he had lived for the past
several years.
Survivors include a son, Jim
jr., who followed his famous
father as a major league pitcher
in the 1930s. He now is en-
p1oyed at the Lockheed aircraft
plant here.
Bagby was hammered hard in
the 1920 World Series. but won
his second start in one of the
most amazing games ever played.
He lost the second game of the
series. 80. to Burleigh Grimes,
but won the fifth. 81. The lat
ter was the game in which he
banged his unprecedented home
run and Elmer Smith walloped
a grand-slammer and Bill
Wambsganss made an unassistcd
triple play.
That season marked the zenith
Of Bagby's career, however. The
Indians traded him to Pitts
burgh in 1923 and he finished
the year with Seattle. He shut
tied around in the minors until
1880. when he made his last pro-
fessional pitch for York. Pa.
In 7ha years in the majors. he
won 1913 games.
Bagby was born In Taliaferro
County, in East Central Georgia.
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Williams playing what says his last year. finishes with
375 Whereabouts while the title is bestowed $50 hitter
williams may not have the rooers in baseball but those
who his disciples rabid they don't kick Storm
technicaty deprives their boy of his fifth championship
1t will be the upset of the season.
THERE HAS GOT TO BE heavy sentiment for Williams
number of If he carries out his threat to
retire. what other ball player will have done the same after
leading hitters? Too bitches in Marine aviation
help build sentiment not mention the broken shoulder and
the prolonged bout with the flu that have kept him out Of
There oophoe in the official book (Rule 1017 you
know that would enable Williams to become champion
he doesn't bat 400 times But the Kid would have to
do it the hard way
The "out" is as follows Williams winds up with only
say and his still would be the highest
by adding imaginary 20 times at the plate to his total
he would be eligible.
If anybody spot of the American League 20
at-bats however, williams is the AS hers, such
official Noren Minoso Mantle Rosen and Avila
good but good Williams This is refec-
the other gentlemen either Only two batting cham
pions modern historyTy Cobb and George siserever
topped Teds Jackson hit 408 in 1911 but
Cobb picked that year to bat .420
THE of it all is that the 400 at-bats rule
which designed protect the real hitters from tempo
rary hot parttimer backfre and hurt Williams
of the all-time great stckmen.
If memory serves it was some time in the early 1s4os
when put into effect Too many cheese cham
pons inspired it. Deb Garms for one and Dale Alexander
and Bubbles Hargrave better hitter than any of these
and legitimate champion in 1888 Ernie lombard be-
National League He played in only los that season
and batted only 800 times!
arms when he played for the Pirates hit 1855 in 1910
with only 358 at bats Hargrave brother of the Pnky who
Senators thrdsng catcher in the 20 batted only
1926 times in 1926, when he hit $685.
ODDLY THE MAN who won more batting championships
anybody else-Cobb less-proed back in the
when 400 official trips to the plate not mandatory Not
moderns likely to realize it, but Tvs stupendous
winning nine in from 190195 would have been
snapped if the present law had been in effect.
Cobb hit 1868 in 1914 but he played in only 81 and
was at bat only 345 times But like Williams he had
handicapped first by broken rib and later by broken
finger.
There other short season in which Cobb tr-
umphed-1918 But while Tyrus had penchant for making
war on the diamond the old Detroit Tiger star bameles
World War which forced curtailed With 1882
Ill games Cobb richly deserved his nextolast title
1t wouldn't surprise If Ted Williams found himself high
on batting points, low times at bat but unlike Cobb with
no official When and that happens it will be time
batten down the matches before the storm breaks
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in 1889. In 1910 he made his
professional baseball debut at
nearby Augusta, the same South
Atlantic League club which a
few years earlier had given the
great Ty Cobb his start.
He also pitched for Hattiesburg,
Miss, before the Cincinnati Reds
gave him his first glimpse of the
majors the next year. He won
two and lost one for the Reds,
then was sent to Montgomery.
Ala, and later to New Orleans
for further seasoning.
Won Is for Indians.
Cleveland snapped him up in
1916 and the following year he
won rs games for the Indians.
posting a sparkling 1876 earned
run average. He stayed with
Cleveland until his sale to Pitts
burgh.
Jim, jr., also hit his peak with
Cleveland after several years
with the Boston Red Sox. He
pitched for the Pittsburgh Pr
rates later before dropping into
the minors.
In addition to the son, survi-
vors include the widow, the
former Mabel Margaret Smith
of Newport, Tenn; two daugh-
tiers, Mrs. Hoyt r. Fincher of
Atlanta and Mrs. Glenn L.
Moore of Marietta. and his
father, W.. H. Bagby OF Au-
gusta.
Funeral arrangements are In
complete.
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Major League Standings
THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1854.
AMERICAN.

Results Yesterday.
BALTIC, 2; Wash. /,
Cleve., 9; Boston, !
N. Y, z: Chicago, 5,
Detroit. 10; Phila., 2
Games To-day.
Wash. at BALTIC. 200
New York at Chicago
Boston at Cleveland
Phila. at Detroit ca
Games Tomorrow.
wash. at cleve.. $40
N. Y. at BALTIC. tnl
Boston at Detroit in)
Phils. at Chicago lnD
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Threat to Ruth Record Rises;
MAYS II Games Ahead of Pace

2. He's walloped "a Of his
home runs off righthanders and
IL off southpaws.
8. Brooklyn's Carl Erskine has
been his cousin" with four
gopher balls.
4. Twenty-one of Willie's
homers have come with no one
aboard.
S. Twelve times he's hit for
the distance in the second in
ming.
6. The Giants have won "a
and lost only eight of the games
in which he's hit homers.
Z. He's slammed two homers
in a game four times.
8. He's hit three home runs in
April. IL in May, 10 in June and
IL so far in July.
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Stobbs Defends
Senator's Weak
Grip on Fourth
PorterfieId Victim
Of Sixth Setback by
Margin Of One Run
by burton noMklnS
Sior Stoff Correspondent

BALTIMORE. July 28.-Chuck
Stobbs will attempt to salvage
the last game of the series with
the Orioles today when he seeks
his fourth straight victory in q
contest which could end the Sem
ators' brief enjoyment of life in
the first division.
The Senators, unhappy trav-
elers who have played 500 ball
at home but only at a 1866 clip
on the road, will return to fifth
place if the Orioles sweep the
series and Detroit beats Phila-
delphia.
Billy O'Dell. 21-year-old left
handler from Clemson who Ii
Baltimore's lone bonus player,
will be trusted with his first ma
jor league start against Stobbs.
ODell has pitched only six
innings in four relief appear
ances and has no record.
A two-game losing streak has
supplanted the Senator's string
of six wins. with the Orioles
grabbing a 81 decision over Bob
Porterfield last night before q
crowd of 1901. Joe Coleman
restricted Washington to three
hits in notching his 10th triumph
as Porterfield lost for the sixth
time by one run.
N0-Hitter Until Fifth.
Porterfield has dropped two
81 games, a pair of 81 engage
ments and has a 10 affair
among his eight losses. He held
the Orioles to five hits. walked
none and retired the first II
batters in order before Clint
Courtney nicked him for a single
with two down in the fifth.
But Bob wound, UP being OUT
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Probable Pitchers
BY the Associated Press

AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Washington at Baltimore-Stobbs To-
81 VS.. ODell 600.
New York at Chicago-Ford Ce-0 o.
Reynolds u0-D VS.. Johnson (156.
u-D and Dixon (4-5) vs.. zuverink
(5-5) and Hoeft aid,
Boston at Cleveis unlikely t4-6) w.
~ NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Chicago at Brooklyn-Rush Co-l1)
VS.. Palica (3-2).
VS.. Liddis (4-2).
CINCINNATI at Philadelphia tnight)---
Valentine (7-9I VS.. Miller go,
(1O-10) VS.. Friend (4-9).
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Games To-day.
Games Tomorrow.
NATIONAL.

Results Yesterday.
q, Y, 10; 81. L., o.
Bkiyn., 8; Chicaso. /
Phila.. 8; Cincin.. 2.
Nuv.. 6: Pitts. 4.
Games Today.
Chisago at Bklyn.
st. Louis at N. \,
Cine. at Phila. tn).
Milw. at Pittsburgh.
Games Temorrew.
Miiw. at Bklyn. tn,,
Cinci4. ct N. Y. ttn).
- * at Phila. (nl
Ehicsso at Pitts. (nl,
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The Red Sox siugger now Is a Few points
ahead Of Irv Noren, the listed leader, but
Ted isn't being recognized at the moment.
Through no fault of his own, he has played
in only So games. What with the number
of walks issued to him, plus the sacrifice-fiy
rule, Williams may not get to bat 400 times
AS of now, he's been up 1873 times and is
batting 1851.
The Red Sox have SO games to go and
Ted has to average roughly 81 at bats per
game, if he plays all of them, to meet the
400 mark. He has averaged barely more
than at bats so far.
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MeIe, Batting .239
For Orioles, Sent to
Red Sox on Waivers
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
: BALTIMORE, July 90
The Orioles announced to-
day they had let Outfielder
Sam Mele go to the Red Sox
on waivers.
Mele came to the Orioles
from the White Sox earlier
in the season and has been
batting .239, compared with
his .274 average in Chicago
last season.
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Results Yesterday.
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RaIIying Braves
Face Do-or-Die
Eastern Swing
Rhodes Blasts Three
As Giants End Skid;
Mantle Saves Yonks
BY the A.soeiassd Press

sweep In the East which should
determine whether there is any
substance to the ghost Of q
chance they still hold in the
National League pennant race.
A highly regarded entry dur
ing spring training. the Braves
fioundered through the first
half Of the season. But they've
started to roll in the last two
weeks. and last night they ran
their current winning streak to
six games with a Ga victory at
Pittsburgh.
A getaway game with the
Pirates today will be followed by
four games in Brooklyn starting
tomorrow night. three in Phila-
delphia and three with the
Giants.
It would take a virtual sweep
to make the Braves a serious
threat. Teams have done it be-
fore. although not recently.
Milwaukee trails the second
place Dodgers by eight games
and the Giants by 10. In the
past week the Braves have cut
their deficit by 5h lengths.
Giants Check Tumble.
Neither the Braves nor the
Dodgers gained any ground yes
terday because the Giants broke
their six-game losing streak at
the expense of the Cardinals,
100. Philadelphia vaulted into
fourth place with a 80 victory
over Cincinnati. Brooklyn de-
feated Chicago, 81.
The Indians kept rolling over
the Red Sox, 81, for the 18th
time in Is decisions. New York
beat Chicago, Us, on Mickey
Nantes three-run homer in the
ninth. Joe Coleman pitched a
three-hitter as Baltimore
trimmed Washington, 81, and
Detroit trounced Philadelphia,
1872.
Milwaukee caught up with
Pittsburgh after Preston Ward
put the Pirates ahead with a two
run homer in the first. Rookie
Hank Aaron drove in three runs
with a pair of singles and a
triple.
No. Is for Antonelli.
Johnny Antonelli handcuffed
the Cardinals for his fifth shut
out and 18th victory. For a
change the Giants didn't really
need such expert pitching. jim
DUSTY Rhodes hit three home
runs and Willie Mays banged his
seth ofsthe season.
The Dodgers managed only
four hits off the combined Offer
ings of Dave Cole and Hal jeff
coat, but they were enough to
give Russ Meyer his 18th con-
secutive victory over his old Chi
cago club. A Cub threat in the
ninth, when Ralph Kiner doubled
and Hank Sauer singled. was
snuffed out by Jim Hughes, who
came in with one out and struck
out the next two batters.
The Pills victory over Gin
cinnati came in the eighth as
Earl Torgeson greeted Relief
Pitcher Frank Smith, with a
triple and scored on Smoky
Burgess long sacrifice fly.
Early Wynn, who spaced IA
Yankee hits in his last start,
gave up IL more last night to
Boston. The Red Sox punched
singles by Bill Console, Jim Pier
sail and Ted williams for their
only run. Cleveland won it in
the sixth when Bob Avila singled
and scored on AL Rosen's double.
Vic Wertz singled home Rosen.
The Indians got only five hits
off Rookie Russ Kemmerer.
Nantes homer in Chicago
came off Jack Harshman with
Irv Noren and Joe Collins on
(See BASEBALL, Page C-3.)
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Results Yesterday,
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Marciano Agrees to Defend Title Against Charles September
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS sTANN

LOT OF PEOPLE are not going to like 1t If Theodore
Samuel Williams winds up with the top batting average In
the American League, only to be disqualified champion
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Mercury in Cos for Fourth Day;
No Rain in Sight Till Monday

normal high of IS and above the
normal low of So.
Although 1t stood at 48 per
cent at midmorning, a COM
paratively low humidity helped
make the heat slightly more
bearable.
The heat accounted for one
death. Bernard A. Wissman. Al.
of 1108 Oats street NE, yes
terday who collapsed while at his
job at the Naval Gun Factory.
The Weather Bureau reported
q trace of rain--which means it
wasn't even measurable about
10 o'clock last night, while the
temperature stuck in the 70s.
The low was rs degrees at 6::33
am
Rainfall in the Washington
area is 2.26 inches under normal
for the month and 7.31 inches
under normal for the year, the
Weather Bureau said.
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Browneu Suggests Big Rewards
For Tips on Atom Smuggling
Would Offer as Much as Half Million;
Aliens Families Would Get Asylum

for introduction in Congress. He
said the proposal had the back
ing Of the National Security
Council.
1.-THE Department Of Justice, +"
he said in identical letters to Mr..
Nixon and Mr.. Martin, "has
for some time been study
ing with other departments
and agencies primarily con-
cerned the problem of pos
sible illegal introduction into
the United States. and the Illegal
manufacture and acquisition in
the United States, of various
atomic materials or weapons, the
presence of which would consti-
tute a threat to the security of
the Nation and the welfare of
its people,"
y The Brownell proposal fol-
lowed the recent disclosure that
FBI Director j. Edgar Hoover
had privately circulated an alert
to law enforcement officers in all
parts of the country, cautioning
them that developments in the
nuclear field now makes posi-
BILE the manufacture of atomic
weapons of a size which could be
concealed on the person.
Police everywhere were asked
to cooperate in the detection of
such weapons.
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Auto and Train Collide;
DAMAGE Is Only $40

An auto and train collided in
Arlington last night but no one
was injured and the only dam
age was about $40 to the auto.
Arlington Policeman Walter
L. Hughes said the accident &C.
CURED about $50 pm. at the
Washington & Old Dominion
Railroad crossing on North
Quinn street near Lee highway.
Driver of the auto was STAN
ley E. Budzisz, "a, of 1903 South
Walter Reed drive. He told po-
lice he heard the trains horn
and damned on his brakes, but
was unable to stop in time.
The engineer. Arthur w. Cole,
20. of Herndon. said he was
moving at a speed of only 2
miles an hour and did not see
the car at all before the acci-
dent.
No charges were preferred.