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carry others from an overturned
coach to ambulances.
There were shocking sights
an arinless man, and a dead mar
protruding from window, his
body grotesquely twisted back
through another window.
In the same car, State troopers
found a little colored boy. hold
| ing up bravely despite o smashed
leg. Until he could be freed
with q torch. another passenger
a priest, remained with the boy
and comforted him.
Some of the older passengers
suffered heart attack. and those
who were conscious lay on the
ground gasping for breath.
Most Of the passengers suffered
from cuts to the face. Mrs
Alton Donaldson Of the Laurel
Rescue Squad never put on SC
many handages."
Fear Of Power Lines
There was fear OF further
tragedy from the high tension
wires hanging in thick festoons
overhead. But railroad officials
gave assurance that in such in.
stances. the current automatic
ally cuts OF.
The last body was taken from
the wreck at $40 pm. Workers
brought 1t out by cutting un-
iderneath the overturned car. Al
'8:45 pm. wrecker-crane nosed
behind the last overturned car
and began the removal work.
As word OF the accident
spread, and the roads became
damned. many of the curious
linked a quarter OF O mile from
the Washingt Baltimore park
way Newsmen and cameramen
were forced to hitch rides or
the cars still able to move. Park
ing space became q premium
commodity.
Civil Defense units assisted In
various ways. including coffee
and sandwiches for rescue work.
ers. Fires built by the workers
with splintered ties and tram
pied shrubs were welcomed by
the passengers.
District Red Cross workers also
were on hand. some manning q
icanteen truck with coffee.
More Importantly, the Dis
trict Red Cross sent 275 pints
Eof blood to three hospitals carry
ing for the injured. This was
exactly the amount collected
Wednesday by the bloodmobile
at the Mayflower Hotel.
DR.. Raymond Dart, director OF
the District Blood Center, ap-
lpealed for more blood donors
today, especially o Negative type
since 1t was completely wiped
out by the wreck.
Twelve doctors and Is nurse.
set up production line system
at Fort Meade. Each victim re.
lceived a blanket as soon as hi
entered and was tagged for in.
Ijuries and assigned to one OF q
dozen treatment points.
| All of the patients were In
shock--you Just couldn't get d
word out Of Them an attendan,
said.
Surgery and X-rays were or.
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mittee, said this inquiry will
make it possible to md out how
various groups have operated ip
the field OF influencing legisla-
ton. He mentioned the Ameri-
cans for Democratic Action. the
Committee for an Effective Con-
gress. labor unions. the National
Association of Manufacturers,
the oil interests and bureaus In
the executive branch Of Govern
ment.
The full membership of the
Special Investigating COMMITTEES
as announced yesterday follows:
Democrats-McC lellafl Of Ar
kansas, Anderson Of New Mexico.
Kennedy Of Massachusetts,. and
Gore.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF New
Hampshire, Thye Of Minnesota.
Goldwater OF Arizona and Pur-
tell Of Connecticut.
The resolution creating the
committee passed the Senate
Wednesday. 10 to /. and author
ICES $350.000 for expenses. Al
though 1t Is an outgrowth Of
the recent fight over the natural
gas bill. the resolution Is broad
enough TO let the new committee
inquire into the activities Of any
group. on any legislative subject.
Confined to Pressure
Members Of both parties have
emphasized. however. that the
committee should look only for
illegal pressure. and not interfere
with the right of petition guar
anteed by the Constitution to
any group affected by legisla-
ton.
This committee does not have
power to draft legislation. ANY
recommendations 1t makes will
have to be referred to the sew
eral regular committees having
jurisdiction ~ Judiciary, Rules
and Government Operations.
In accepting appointment to
the new Committee. Senator
Goldwater resigned as chairman
OF the Republican Campaign
Committee. which works for the
election OF @. O. p. candidates to
the Senate. Similarly, Senators
Gore and Kennedy resigned
from the corresponding Demo-
cratic Campaign Committee.
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for many stock cupboard races
He was an organizer and the
first commodore OF the Chesa-
peake Cupboard Racing Associa-
ton of Baltimore and a member
of the Overall Stock Cupboard
Racing Commission for the Ma
ltion. He had promoted races In
many communities.
/ Mr.. johnson Joined the Glenn
Il. Martin Co. In Baltimore be-
fore World War III. Friends said
he was returning from the
Pentagon when he was killed.
Survivors include his widow
Carolyn; two small daughters
and his father.
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dered for some patients. Some
were sent down halls on wheel
stretchers. an aidman holding q
draining bottle Of glucose at
their side.
The hospital had 80 minutes
to get ready for the rush, and
was pretty well lined UP when
the first load arrived"
Trains from the north still
were arriving many hours late
today. All northbound Pennsyl.
Ivania trains were Cancelled until
$50 pm. when the first left oyel
the B d O tracks.
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here. there was a criminal homi-
eide for every $4,000 persons In
the city. a rape per 1000 persons,
Ia robbery per 1852 persons, an
Aggravated assault per 1873 per-
sons. q HOUSEKEEPING per 240
persons. q larceny per 108 per-
sons and one auto theft for every
IA vehicles registered here.
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help pay fof some Of the pro-
posed new retirement dement's
The agencies share might be
higher-even 3 or Q per cent at
first-to permit the Govern
ment to catch up with its share
of the contributions TO the fund
The hackers of the plan feel
that by making each agency
responsible for retirement con-
tributions to match those OF the
employees, Congress would be OBJ
ligated each year to vote such
appropriations to the agencies
as part of their regular personnel
| funds,
Not only would it place the
Government In the position OF
matching employe contributions
in the future. 1t would result in
the Government systematically
wiping out the $l3 billion it now
owes to the fund.
Might Promote Liberalization
Once the financing tangle Ia
ironed out, it might pave the
way for liberalization OF retire
ment and family surpivorship
benefits within the framework
of the civil service retirement
system.
The administration has pro-
posed increasing these benefits
by supplemental social security
lcoverage. But Federal employe
leaders have unanimously ops
posed such a move and there
seems little likelihood that Con-
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N6AN
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TO- He is survived by his wife
and two daughters.
Others Killed
fOthers killed were:
Thomas Reed johnson. IS, Of
baltimore.
Alfred B. Haupt of Baltimore
sydney jackson. so, colored
Of New York. q porter.
Edward @. Holloway. Wilm-
tnaton. DEL. q fiagman who died
shortly after the accident In
Tort Meade Hospital.
Only three Washington area
persons were listed among the
81 admitted and 80 others
treated and released at six hos
pitfalls. All three were released
after treatment. They were:
Alfred .. Mcmillan, 50. Of
S722 Jay street NE, and Paul
Sims. 20. of 1880 I street NE.
both colored. porters on the
train, and Pfc. John e. Allen
Of Riverdale, Md.
Most of the injured on the
popular commuter train were
from Baltimore. Philadelphia
New York and New Jersey.
Locomotive Stays on Rails
The freakish wreck began
almost halfway through the IA
car tram. The electric locomotive
and first seven cars came to a
stop q quarter Of a mile from
the less fortunate rear cars, and
saHrernained upright though some
wire derailed.
The train was running on
time. Engineers Mailer said he
saw nothing on the tracks. Then
came the bump, the lurching and
violent impact.
OF the first eight cars. the
last three were on the tracks,
but did not upset. The first
three OF the ill-fated rear sec
.fion plunged from the rails and
overturned down a 15-foot EN-
|. bankment skirting a bog. In
this group were the diner, fol-
loVed by a dinner kitchen, q
1eoacf and three Pullmans.
The first diner caught the full
force of the collision. Appar-
emily it began tipping and leav-
ing the rails Just as it passed one
Of the huge steel stanchions sup
porting the $4,000 volts Of cleo
trio power. 1t ran full force
into the tower. and the roof was
peeled back like q sardine can lid
The tower ripped through halt
Of the car as though it were
paper.
BandageS lmpr0vised
The front end of the car was
gaping wide. and strewn for SC
10 IS feet around the car were
dining chairs. towels and nap.
kifis. some Of them blood stained
Soon these either were being
used by the injured, binding one
another's wounds. or were blacket
by the tramping of rescue
parties.
Soon those able to move. vert
D part Of an eerie scene in q
desolate area a quarter of q
mile from the closest road. Elk.
cept for the bog where three
Of the cars tumbled, the wrecked
ears we're surrounded by woods
Many Of the passengers CON-
nented on the calm with which
most OF their fellows endured
the ordeal In 25-degree cold
Some thought perhaps the lack
OF panic was induced by shock.
When the confusion began, II
was from the streams OF rescue
workers and spectators who
choked the road. From Fort
Meade alone came a procession
Of 10 anabulances. Access roads
became so choked with vehicle,
that it finally was necessary te
walk IL one really wished tc
reach the wreck.
Finally 1t became necessary
10 close the roads part time to
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incoming trafiic. so ambulances
could haul their burdens to hos
pitfalls at Fort Meade. Baltimore
and Anne Arundel County.
j AS firemen. soldiers. Marines
and police crowded into the area.
1.-THE confusion mounted. At one
point policemen were interfering
with other policemen. officers
were countermanding other ON
GERS. and it was evident too many
people we're trying TO do .
good job.
Torches Cut Cars
Luckily, there was 20 fire. But
iit was necessary to cut into the
bottoms Of the cars with acety-
Ilene torches to bring out some of
the dead and injured.
Many OF the injured were
treated on the scene and were
able TO Join uninjured passen-
gers who walked to the coaches
ahead and awaited a relief
train.
It came from Baltimore, 3la
hours after the accident. and
took the able bodied passengers
to that city and other destina-
tons.
Tracks were torn up for 500
yards. and ties were showed to-
gether hike dominoes. It APP
peared traffic would not move
along that section for many
hours. and indeed trains were re-
routed on Baltimore e. Ohio lines
until after midnight. But wreck
ing crews and section hands had
the trains running again before
morning.
Victims Get Help
AS In oil disasters, the unin-
jured and even these less seri-
DUSTY hurt. turned to the care of
their less fortunate companions.
Many carried others from the
train. toward the ambulances,
some Of which were operating up
and down the tracks.
Among those assisting other
passengers was Herbert r.
O'Conor Of Baltimore, former
Maryland Governor and United
States Senator. Although slight
ly injured himself. he helped
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Police Force Of $500
Sought by Law Council

special committee of the District Council Law Enforce
today reported its unanimous for Police Depart
ment of at least $500
The report HANDED to Council Chairman George
Hart who promptly set meeting for next Friday to act on
bill to increase the force 222 to reach the 250l
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Congress concentration on head.
line-grabbing investigations in
stead of on constructive legiSla-
ton. It seemed to him that his
own program was limited enough
since a number of measures hac
been deliberately set aside to al
low the Administration a chance
to get on its feet. But much Of
even this modest program failec
to pass that summer.
Congress either ignored or re.
Ijected such Administration meas.
lures as expansion of social Sc.
Icurity, amendment of the Taft.
Hartley Act. the st. Lawrence
ISeaway. the Hawaiian Statehood
bill. a boost of the $275 billion
debt limit by SIS billion and ar
increase in the postal rate.
housing bill was passed only after
Congress had chopped down the
Presidents recommendations or
new public housing units.
Mr.. Eisenhower had aspired tt
IA display Of Republican unity
and progress that looked to the
1854 elections. After everything
he had done to get along with
Congress, to respect its preroga-
tives and extend the hospitality
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brought up the case of the Pro-
lgresSive Party which Roosevelt
headed in the Bull Moose cam
Ipaign Of 1912 as an example of
how third parties. even though
they may serve a useful purpose
lat the time. are unable to sur
Iviye.
Reviews Outlook
Thus the idea never progressed
beyond the Presidents thinking
and private conversations. After
Congress adjourned and the bick-
Iering of that first session died
away for while. Mr.. Eisenhower
took a new and calm look at
what he was doing and where he
was headed. On balance he
came to the conclusion that his
best hope of attaining his goals
was to persevere in trying to give
the Republican Party a new
viewpoint and a new complexion.
He hoped that with patience
on his part and through the logic
of events and the influx of
younger Republicans devoted to
his philosophy he could to a
considerable extent modernize
and unity the party.
The history of his ensuing
years in the White House is in
part a reflection of his efforts to
bring a more progressive phil
osophy and spirit than had DOM
mated it when he took office.
Copyright 1855.
N. Y. Herald Tribune Inc.
Tomorrow: How the President foeed
the foct Of the 1854 congressional cleo
tion,
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sentiments and natural appre-
hensions after such disappoint-
ling experiences deserve airing.
The doctor is the whipping boy
over many bridge table and
at many a cocktail party. Some
times he deserves Disagreement,
as was surely the case with the
doctors this woman alluded to.
At other times, doctors are in
nocent victims Of villification.
Odds On Your Side
The story we have made to-
day brings home the fact that
lit is distressing to pick a doctor
who turns out to be a lemon.
suppose it's easy to say the best
men occasionally make mistakes.
"A new bridge has toppled be-
cause of an architects mistake.
"A man has been hanged need
Ilessly because his lawyer wasn't
on the ball.
The moral seems to be: When
you choose your doctor. hope for
the best. The odds are on your
side. Most medical men are well
trained and efficient.
If you have any doubts, speak
up like this woman did. It's
your health and life. You have
the right to guard it to the best
|of your ability. Don't let any
doctor laugh you down."
released by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Tomorrow: Treot lucrative eoIitis
IcorefulB.
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How to
STOP KILLING
YOURSELF
Don't Let Doctor. Laugh You Down
By DR.. PETER }. sTEINcRoHN

worry needleSsly. That night
couldn't sleep because of the
pain; and because I had thought
of something else I had heard
somewhere. The doctor had read
the X-ray plates while they were
still wet.
Il called him up the next
morning and insisted he look
at the plates again now they
were dry. His nurse called me
back within 10 minutes and
asked me to get a cab and come
right over. Yes. had two frac-
tured toes.
MY husband now has coro-
nary thrombosis. God grant that
doctor we have is a good one.
Do you wonder I have lost con-
fidence in the medical profess
Sion?"
And so ended her story.
think it is an important enough
one to see the light. These re-
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Chest Federation
Reports Greater
Pledge Payments

Payment on campaign pledges
is well ahead of last year, the
Community Chest Federation re-
ported today.
John S. Hayes, president Of
the federation. which conducted
last falls record breaking fund
campaign in which $4,065, 900
was pledged by donors, called
the accelerated payments Of
pledges a vote of confidence
for consolidated fund raising"
The federation has received
1854, 009 more so far in payments
this year than at the same time
last year, he said. Deadline for
payment Of pledges is December
81 this year.
Next year, the federation will
be among the many health, well
I are and character building
agencies which are COMBINING
their campaigns in the new
United Givers Fund drive.
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Bernice-1 have good reason
to believe my mother-in-law has
been reading some private cor
respondence that goes back quite
a few years and that gives a
false and unfavorable impress
sion of me.
Before I married my husband
I had been dating another mar
who wrote me some wild letters
Very foolishly. I kept these
letters. and even more foolishly
I kept them in a place where
they were easily accessible. There
is nothing about these letters
that is secret from my husband
and l have no other secrets
from him.
We have been living in the
home of my husbands parents
until we can set up our own
home. We seemed to be getting
along fine until quite recently
when there was such a marked
change in my mother-in-law's
attitude for the worse that ]
realized something serious must
have occurred.
The other day I was going
through my things and noticed
that my pile of letters must have
been tempered with. I realized
then that my mother-in-law had
been cleaning in the closet where
l kept the letters and that. see
ing them, her curiosity must
have been aroused.
/ can understand how these
letters must have disturbed her,
but how can l ever discuss this
awkward problem with her and
clear her mind?
FredS-If my mother read those
letters, how can discuss the
matter with her without quarrel
ling? She is certain to resent
any implied charge that she was
shopping. ! feel my wife should
not have kept these letters at
all, and certainly should not
have kept them in the closet. l
am not sure my mothers at
titude has become hostile to-
ward Bernice. and I do not want
to risk quarrelling with my
mother and bringing this un-
pleasant business into the open
unnecessarily. .
THE COUNCILS VIEWS
Fred is right in being unwill-
ing to accuse his mother Of hav-
ing read these letters. At the
same time it is important that
this mystery be cleared up.
The wisest course, perhaps,
would be for Bernice to go to
her mother-in-law for advise.
She might tell her mother-in-
law she found the letters had
been tempered with, and express
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dents recommended appropria-
'ltion, he stormed in the privacy
lof the White House. He called
lit stupid and short-sighted: and
it became apparent to him, as to
political observers at the time,
that more often than not his
views on what was required of
the United States were closer
to those Of the Democrats than
to many of the Republicans in
Congress.
What was the use, he de-
manded to know, of his trying
to lead the Republican Party
along a course that was progress
sive and forward-looking but still
chung to the middle of the roadp
He began to ask his most in
innate associates whether he did
not have to start thinking about
a new party.
Would Be His Party
AS he conceived it, such a
party would have been essentially
his party. 1t would have repre-
sented those doctrines, interna-
tional and domestic, which he
believed were best for the United
States and indeed for the world.
1t would have attracted those
men and women of the older
parties who believed as he did
and who wanted to promote and
preserve enlightened and pro-
gressive policies.
But the more the President
pondered the idea of a new
party the more he was forced
into the realization that it was
not the solution to the problem
His own experience in France,
with her paralyzing multiplicity
OF splinter parties, had aroused
him to the dangers attending
the augmentation of a great po-
litical party. He thought of this
now, as he had in the campaign
when he had warned in speeches
against the destruction of the
two-party system.
His mind turned, moreover,
to the failure of previous third
party movements in American
history. such as those led by
Theodore Roosevelt, one of his
heroes. and Robert M. LaFollette,
ST., and he realized, when he
thought it over, that in the
United States third parties have
tended to lose their focus after
the death of their founders. He
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Jenner Fovors Cutting
Romuniu, Hungary Ties

Senator Jenner. Republican Of
Indiana, has asked the Senate
to demand a break in United
States diplomatic relations with
Romania and Hungary and their
expulsion from the United Ma
tons. unless Soviet troops are
withdrawn from their borders.
Senator Jenner introduced q
resolution yesterday contending
that the presence of Soviet
troops makes both nations "oc-
cupied provinces of the Soviet
Union" and thus ineligible either
to have embassies or consulates
in this country or seats in the
u. N,
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|of the White House to its mem.
bers in a series Of luncheons, he
was dismayed at what some Con-
|gress members from his own
party had to say not only about
his program but about the people
with whom he had surrounded
himself.
"Kicked In the Sims"
At a Cabinet meeting on May
8 he asked Republican National
Chairman Hall to 60 to work
to round up more support fol
the Administration in Congress;
he said he was tired of having
lit kicked in the shins." When
Secretary of Defense Wilson said
wistfully at Cabinet session on
May % that he wished more
Republicans would recognize
they were no longer members OF
an opposition party. the Presi-
dent replied: Brother. I heartily
agree"
When Secretary Of the Treas
Jury Humphrey cautioned at this
same meeting that the national
debt might rise above the legal
limit. the President asked, "Who
will go to Jail if that happens?"
I'VE will have to go to Con-
gress," Mr.. Humphrey said.
"Oh. that's worse" Mr.. Eli
Senhower jokingly replied.
When a representative re-
marked at a legislative leaders
on May rs that critics
were directing their attacks not
against Mr.. Eisenhower but
against others in the Admins
tration. the President retorted:
81 don't feel neglected"
Storms in Private
Mutual security-he didn't like
it called foreign aid-waS the
issue around which much of his
Illustration conferred. He told
congressional leaders that if this
appropriation was to be cut
sharply then the administration
might better go back and review
the whole range of measures for
the national security. He said
mutual security was so effective
that if one or two billions was
taken from it, it might become
necessary as a counter balance to
increase other parts of the ma
tional security program by seven
or eight billions. There could be
no hope Of reducing defense
spending, he warned, if the heart
was to be cut out Of the mutual
security program.
When the House slashed about
a billion dollars from the Presi-