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Car, Train Crash Stalls Rush
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Politcal morticians have bees
alerted for the interment of Dixon
Yates. President Eisenhower him
self has announced its pending
demise. The only condition is that
the . City of Memphis. - actually
agrees to construct an electric
generating plant as X substitute
for the private plant ordered for
across the Mississippi. The Pres
ident can say that he suggested
this a long time since. Beyond
that, he gets scant salvage from
the Dixon-Yates imbroglio. From
a political standpoint it represents
the bieeest domestic "goof' of
the Eisenhower administration.
Regardless of whatever merit the
proposal may have had and it
did have some it was so poorly
handled from start to finish that
it became a political liability
The story begins .with the de
cision of the administration to
taper off on federal power ' de
velopment There was sound rea
son for this. The federal govern
ment has no constitutional author
ity for going into the power bus
iness. Where it did do -so original
ly it was on the basis of relation
ship to reclamation of public
lands, flood control, improvement
of navigation. But when TV A ran
out of hydro power sites, it start
ed, with congressional approval,
the building of steam plants until
now it produces more power from
fuel than from - falling water.
When' Republicans took over con
trol in 1953 they proposed to con
tinue to j -
(Continued- on editorial page, 4.)
Round-Up at
Lebanon to
Open
lUltnui Newsservice;
LEBANON Three days of
championship rodeo competition
open here today with cowboys
competing lor $7,000 in prize
mnnev at the Lebanon Round-Un,
Performances will be given each
afternoon at 1 p.m.
Rodeo dances will be held Fri
day and Saturday nights in the
Lebanon Armory. Highlight of
both nights will be appearances
by some 200 Indians who will per
form tribal and ceremonial
dinres .
Queen Donna Boyd will be
crowned Friday night and hon
ored guest will be Indian Queen
Annaheile Oueahnama and her
court from the Warm Springs In
dian tribe. - '.
This is the first rodeo in Leb
anon. Plans call for making it an
annual event
ANIMAL CRACKERS
BY NAHRIN MOOMCN
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Aa evening rash-hear crash of a train and ear at 12th and Center
streets Thursday completely tied up homebound traffic to the
east and hospitalized Mrs. Magdalene Hermina Moore, 0. 4085
Auburn Rd. Four patrol cars were dispatched to the scene and
the senthbetud Southern Pacific
ings te ease the congestion. Officer David J. Bain is shown inter
viewing a witness while another city policeman examine-Mrs.
Moore's car. the front end of which was demolished. (Statesman
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Oregon Military
Construction
Funds Provided
WASHING
Three Ore
included in a
gon projects
compromise $2.
300 military
construction bill
by the House.
Thursday
Also in the bin was 34 million
dollars worth of new facilities fori
the Army, Navy and Air Force in
Washington state. Additions at Ft
Lewis .will cost $15,272,000 and
Bremerton Naval Yard projects.
including a new drydock, total
$2,200,000. '
Oregon projects: Tongue Point
Naval Station. $92,000: Klamath
Falls Airbase, $2,042,000; Portland
Airbase $554,000. The total for
Oregon is $2,688,000.
The measure now goes before
the Senate for final action. The
compromise hoi was approved by
a joint conference committee Wed
nesday and Senate passage is ex
pected.
Owens Given
Agent Post
Ermal R. Owens was appointed
state purchasing agent Thursday
by Harry Dorm an, state director
of finance and administration. -
Owens has been assistant pur
chasing director for about two
years. He succeeds Roy Remington
who died Monday.
Owens, S3 has been employed
by the state in several capacities
since 1919 when he went to work
for the highway department at the
Salem shops. In 1921, he became
a stores clerk in the highway off
ice and was made storekeeper in
1933. He remained in That position
until transferred to the newly or
ganized department of finance and
and administration in 19ol as a
buyer.
He is married and lives at 349?
Brenna Ave. Owens has a son in
the Air Force and a daughter in
Eugene.
Showers, Clouds
Again Forecast
More scattered showers from
skies mostly cloudy were predict
ed by McNary field weatherman
for today and Saturday. The high
temperature today should about
equal Thursday's 70.
Friday's expec lions for northern
Oregon beaches include cloudy
skies, occasional showers, westerly
winds of 5 to IS miles an hour and
temperatures ranging between 42
and 63 degrees. Y.i"
NORTHWEST LlAGCB 5
No games scheduled.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
At Oakland I. Portland 4 '
At Sacramento 3. San Francisco 1
At SeatU a Lot Ancrlea 4
s At Hollywood S. San lieo A ,
AMERICAN LEAGUE
At Kansas City 1. Cleveland f
AUDetroit I. Chicago U
At Boston , Washington S
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
At New York (. Philadelohia I
At Pittsburgh X Brooklyn 4
At Cincinnati t. St Louis
At Chicago I, Miiwaukc a
TOS If)
were
360X30.
passed
Purchasing
POUNDS D 1651
The Oregon Statesman, Salem, Oregon,
- Hour Traffic
freight was parted at two cross
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Woman Hurt
In Collision of
A rush-hour collision between a
car - and t train tied up eastbound
traffic completely Thursday even
ing and hospitalized a Salem
woman with broken Jeg and other
injuries.
Thrown from her car at Center
and 12th streets was Mrs. Magda
lene Hermina Moore, 60, 4085 Au
burn Rd. Salem General Hospital
described her condition as fair
She also suffered multiple abras
ions and a head injury.
The engine of the southbound
Southern Pacific freight stopped at
Court street, and all crossings north
north of there were blocked by
the train and home-bound drivers
stalled bumper-to-bumper., -
Four police cars were sent to the
scene to unravel the motor traffic
Trainmen parted the train at the
Chemeketa and Center street cross
ings.
The mishap, which completely
demolished the front end of Mrs
Moore's car and damaged the
right front 'step of the engine,
decurred daring a steady rain on
wet and. slippery streets.
Mrs. Moore was driving ..east
ward, police said.
New Gambling
Threat Told
A warning that statewide
gambling interests plan to oper
ate slotless slot machines in Ore
gon was issued Thursday by Atty.
Gen. Robert Y. Thornton.
- In a letter to all district attor
neys, chiefs of police, sheriffs and
state police, Thornton said these
interests hope to get around the
anti-slot machine law because the
machines don't have any slots.
But, Thornton rules, the devic
es violate .other, gambling laws.
The machine contains an elec
tronic device to count the num
ber of times it is played. The
player pays his money to an at
tendant , - ; ;
Thornton urged that such ma
chines "be confiscated and de
stroyed without delay."
Salem Short of
Blood Quota
Salem failed to meet its quota
of 140 pints of blood at blood do
nation day Thursday, but it was
near miss only 10 pints short.
Red Cross workers said five per
sons qualified as "galloners."
They were Earl Jensen, ,1314 Plaza
St; Mrs. Frances Zvtficker, Rt S
Box 339; Mrs. Myrtle Stewart,
4280 State SL; Robert R. Clark,
1779 Court St.; and Mills P. Marsh
Jr., 240 Boice St.
William H. Ector, - general de
livery, donated his 29th pint of
blood; Richard P. Judson, 3013
Silverton Rd., 15th pint; Mrs.
Gertrude Fiscus, 1509 N. 4th St,
14th pint; and Miss Marvin Rickert,
1710 S. Capital St, 10th pint.
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Friday, July t, 1955
Radio Voice Claims
Foreign Sub Takes
21 Ship Survivors
NEW YORK UP) A mystery voice, trembling as though from
terror, besought ,help at sea .Thursday. The radioed plea claimed a
foreign submarine picked up 21 survivors from an American fish
ing boat aflame and sinking off the New Jersey coast'
Seasoned seafarers heard the weird message as it was beamed
their way by radiotelephone. But there was mounting evidence that
Employment
At New High
During June
WASHINGTON III - Secretary pf
Labor Mitchell reported Thursday
mat employment rose to : a new
high last month and added:
"This should be the best year in
history for, American labor."
Mitchell's preview of forthcom
ing employment unemployment
statistics for., June came as Con
gress moved another step toward
fixing the federal minimum wage
level at $1 an hour.
The House Labor Committee ap
proved this figure 21-9 after de
feating, by a 15-15 tie vote, a Re
publican move to hold the increase
to 90 cents an hour as requested
Dy President Eisenhower.
The Senate already has voted to
raise the wage minimum from the
present 75 cents an hour . to $1,
effective next Jan. L The House
measure sets next March 1 as the
starting date. : ,
Eisenhower told his news con
ference Wednesday that his pro
posal for 90 cents "is the correct
one." But he declined to say what
attitude he would take toward a $1
minimum if it reaches him.
Mitchell announced that June em
ployment figures, which will be re
leased in detail, Friday, show a
"smaller than seasonal rise in un
employment : . l v
Asserting this will result in a
seasonally adjusted unemployment
level which would be the lowest in
a year and a half, he added:
"It seems to ' me that we can
expect : increased employment and
declining unemployment in the
fall" . ' . .: ! ;
Soldier Gets
Life Term for
ASTORIA tf A 19-year-old
awuu soldier who kept i a young
boy captive for 37 hours Bear here
last May was sentenced to life im
prisonment Thursday I
Sentenced on a child stealing
charge was William E. Kent, a
former Portland resident who also
gave Las Vegas, Nev., as his home
address. He was AWOL from Ft
Campbell, Ky.
after receiving a report from the
state mental hospital, -Circuit
Judge Howard K. Zimmerman said
Kent is "definitely a menace to
the welfare of society in his pre
sent frame of mind and mental
condition."
Kent lured Tommy Woodward,
7-year-old Elsie boy, away from
play near his home May IS. Kent
was caught two days later and
stealing. He , pleaded guilty, and
admitted a record of offenses
against children. ;
Ex-Rose Festival Queen
To Vie for Miss Oregon
PORTLAND (UP) Blond Jan
Markstaller, former Rose Festival
queen here, Thursday was selected
by the Junior Chamber of Com
merce to represent Portland in the
Miss Oregon beauty contest at
Seaside July 15-17. .
Stealing
Boy
Link to $305,000 Bank Holdup Investigated
As 2 Men Jailed in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS. Nev. W Two
men were arrested here Thursday
with more than $87,000 in their
possession and police immediately
began checking then possible con
nection with a $305,000 bank rob
bery in New York. i ,
That was the robbery of the
Chase Manhattan Bank in Queens,
N. Y., last April 6. The amount
taken comprised the largest cash
bank ; robbery in history. Three
men, one with a submachine gun.
invaded the bank about five miles
from midtown New York. :
Police in New York said ' that
fingerprints of the two men are
being checked, and their photo
graphs will be shown Friday to
victims of the bank robbery.
The men were arrested after a
sudden flurry in crisp $100 bills in
casinos at this gambling resort Of
ficers said $66,200 of the money
was in $100 bills, $21,000 in 10s and
everal thousands more in nego
tiable casino chips.
The two men identified them
PRICE 5c
No. 103
it was nothing but a fantastic hoax.
A vast air and sea search 'of
3,700 square miles of calm Atlan
tic waters failed to produce any
concrete evidence to back up the
marine drama so vividly described
by the voice crying out in the
night.
Last word received from a ves
sel identifying itself as the 40-foot
fishing boat. Blue Star, was the
agitated cry:
"A submarine is surfacing about
350 yards from us. It is coming
alongside. It is proceeding to take
survivors aboard. It is not an Am
erican submarine."
Voice Ends '
Then a pause, and the voice
trailed off with the words: -
"I don't think they'll let; me talk
any more."
After that, silence and, despite
hours of intensive search, no trace
of any disabled fishing craft or its
occupants.
All American and allied submar
ines in the general Atlantic jarea
were accounted for. , p
Coast Guard Capt. Julius Jay-
cot, a veteran of 31 years service
said the search would continue "as
long as there is a possibility of
someone being trapped out there."
'Tm not excluding the possibili
ty that it's a hoax," he told re
porters. "It's hard to put the vari
ous parts of this thing together
and get a good picture. You just
can't jump to conclusions that it
is a hoax."
Number Too High
' Jaycot said 21 seemed like an
abnormal number of people on such
a small craft. He pointed out that
the broadcaster was on the radio
phone for an hour and a half on a
boat supposed to be afire and sink
ing.'. - ..
It Was a damned hot place to
be on the'radio for an hour and
half." the captain declared. :
Jaycot also remarked on the ab
sence of calls from persons anxious
about the fate of relatives and
friends aboard such a craft J
Finally, Jaycot added: " '
"The submarine that just puts
it in outer space." i
Searchers did find, an orange life
Jacket bobbing in the sea about 10
miles south of where the Blue Star
was reported in distress. - But it
bore no markings to tie it to such
a vessel.
An oil slick was sighted in thea
same area. However, Coast Guard
officials said such a slick need not
necesarily denote a tragedy.
Mexico's Storm
Toll Reaches 10
MEXICO CITY un Southern
Mexico's storm toll stood at 10
Thursday night and a new disturb
ance was reported moving north
ward along the Pacific. Coast.
High winds and heavy rains
which have lashed the area since
Sunday cut rail, road and com
munication lines in some regions.
The Weather
Max.
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Min. Prec.
Salem
44
Portland
Baker
48
40
44
47
43
49
71
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Medford 81
North Bend 65
Roseburg 81
San Francisco T ; 71
Chicago 95
New York
8S
Los Anreles .... 82
58
Willamette Kiver o.o wet.
FORECAST (from U. S. weather
bureau. McNary field, Salem):
Mostly ciouay witn scattered show
ers Friday and Saturday; high to
day near 70. low tonight near 48.
. Temperature at 12:01 a.m. today
was 60.
SALEM PRECIPrTATIOV
Since Start ot Weather Year Sept. 1
This Year . Lat Year Normal
32.18 44.90 . 39.18
selves as Frank Ellsworth, 36, and
Ray Wilson, 33, police said. Later
Detective Lt. B. J. Handlon re
ported that Ellsworth was free on
bond in bank robbery cases at
Memphis, Tenn., and Tulsa; Okla.,
and that there also is a robbery
charge against him at Wichita,
Kas.
The detective said Wilson told
him that he had served time in the
Oklahoma prison at McAlester.
The arrests stemmed from a re
port from a casino late Wednesday
night that two ' men Had : bought
dice table chips with $100 bills. A
few plays later they would move
to another table and buy more
chips, the casino said.
The men bad left, however, by
the time police arrived. . When they
were apprehended later in down
town Las Vegas, police said Ells
worth had 61 hundred-dollar bills
and Wilson had 91. The rest of the
money was found in their room,
stuffed into suitcases, - dresser
drawers and even in sock.
Detectives said Ellsworth told
Steeple Back on North Church
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BOSTtV A new 50 foot steeple was hoisted to the top of historic
old North Church here Wednesdayless than a year after it
was wrecked by hurricane CaroL It was the second restoration in
the landmark's 215-year history. The windows from which the
warning lanterns flashed their signals to Pan! Revere to announce
the coming of the British in 1775 were saved, and other ancient
woodwork, are being built back into the restored steeple. (AP
Wirephoto). -
Rifle Fired as Test
In Trial of Oyeross
By THOMAS G. WRIGHT JR. :
, , ' , ." Staff Writer, The Statesman 4 '
Chambers of Circuit Judge
precedented rifle testing area Thursday as the state sought to by
pass defense objections to evidence in the - first : degree murder
trial of Casper A. Oveross. . .,
Materials for the test were
Courthouse from the State Crime
Damage
Payment by
Russ Accepted
WASHINGTON W - In a move
to smooth the way for the Big
Four conference, the United States
Thursday accepted Russia's offer
to pay half the damages for the
shooting down of an American
plane in the Bering Strait last
month.
Secretary of State Dulles had
previously demanded full compen
sation for the loss of the Navy
Neptune patrol plane, destroyed in
a crash landing on Alaska's St
Lawrence Island after being fired
upon by Soviet jet fighters. Dulles
also wanted full compensation for
injuries suffered by 7 of 11 crew
men. Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov
had offered to pay 50 per cent of
the total damages for plane and
crew. In a note made public Thurs
day the United States accepted
that offer.
The exact Sum is to be deter
mined later. State Department of
ficials said. The plane alone, minus
equipment cost about Vk million
dollars.
The State Department released
the text of a note to the Soviet
Foreign Office. It was the last
in a series of exchanges following
the attack on the American plane
on June 23. Dulles and Molotov
had discussed the matter face to
face while both were in San Fran
cisco attending the United Nations
meeting.
With $87,000
them he made his money 'selling
magazine subscriptions. Wilson told
police that he had known Ellsworth
for several years and that Ells
worth was in the clothing business,
Both said they left Tampa, Fla.
July 5 and stopped in Los Angeles
on the way to Las Vegas.
In Tulsa, police records showed
Ellsworth was sentenced there to
eight years for his part in a $31,500
fur burglary and subsequent gun
battle with police.
He was given six years on a
charge of assault with intent to
kill, and two years on a second
degree burglary conviction, but
was freed under $13,500 appeal
bond. ;
In Omaha, Ellsworth was de
scribed by police as a companion
of Kenneth Kitts, with whom he
was accused of a Granville, Iowa,
bank robbery in 1950. Kitts was
convicted and is now in Alcatraz,
but the charges against Ellsworth
were dismissed following a mis
trial. : ' '
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George R. Duncan became an un
. ..
rushed to the Marion County
Detection Laboratory in Portland
in order to permit, use of the
30-30 Winchester carbine which
the state claims is the gun with
which Ervin Kaser was slain last
Feb. 17.
The test, conducted by Ralph
Prouty of the crime laboratory,
climaxed the 13th day of the trial
in which one state's witness as
serted two others had lied, and
another couple' testified Oveross
paid a nighttime visit . to then
home on the night of the slaying.
Visited Son ;
James Gilham and his wife
Jennie Gilham, who reside about
seven miles south of Silverton,
testified Oveross was at their
home to see Gilham's son Daniel
the night Kaser was shot to death
at his home.
Mrs. Gilham fixed the time as
11:15 p.m. by her clock "which
always gains a little." Gilham
said the clock was 15 minutes
fast when he retired at 9:30 pjn.
"That's a lie, yes!" Gerald
(Jerry) Hoyt, Silverton bartend
er, said on the stand Thursday
when Bruce Williams, defense
counsel for Oveross, asked what
would you say if I told you two
Silverton policemen quoted you
as saying Oveross was a good
suspect in the murder.
Key Exhibits !
It .was a day of some frustra
tions for prosecutors Charles
Raymand of Portland, and Mar
ion County District Attorney
Kenneth O. Brown. They were
blocked on attempts to have ad
mitted as evidence what was de
scribed as two key exhibits in
the case. One of these blocks
they hoped to get around with
the test firing Friday night
Attempts to have the Ames
Hardware Company invoice,
showing shipment of two 30-30
Winchester rifles to the store in
1949, . admitted as evidence for
the state were blocked by sus
tained objections of the defense.
The invoice i contains serial
numbers, of the two guns, one of
which was sold; to Steven Zolo
toff of Silverton. The state con
tends the second rifle was sold
to Casper Oveross and is the rifle
with which Kaser was slain. -
The serial number of the mur
der weapon is the same as one
of those appearing on the in
voice. " : s
Attempt Blocked .
An attempt to enter a test-
fired cartridge from the murder
gun which the prosecution said
would compare with one taken
from a target range in back of
the Oveross home was also block
ed by the defense on the grounds
the test was not made by legal
standards. ;
Co'trt resumes at 9:15 a.m. to
day in what may be the windup
of the state's direct presentation
of evidence. Only a handful of
witnesses remained to be called.
One of these, however, is Dan
iel Gilham who his parents testi
fied talked with Oveross outside
their home on the murder night
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Hills Creek, '
Ice Harbor,
Cougar Win
By FRANK W. VAILLE
WASHINGTON U) House-Seiv
ata conferees Thursday agreed to
recommend funds to start construc
tion of three new dams tn rh P.
cific Northwest.
ComDromisinff different in ih
two versions of the public works
aoDrooriations hm K mntwui
went along with Senate approval
oi one munon dollars for construe
tin of Ice Harbr Dam in Wash
ington, $500,000 in construction and
plannine for Couear Dam anri titt -
000 for construction and planning
of Hills Creek Dam, both in Ore.
gon. - . :
The House and Senate now mut
approve the conference committee
bill before it can be sent to the -
White House for presidential ac
tion. Said Over-Fishei ' ' ":'
Sen. Warren G. Ma?nnsnn rwf
Rep. Don Magnuson, Washington
Democrats and members of th
conference committee, said approv
al ot uie ice Harbor start resulted
from assurances (riven Hnnu
bers that over-fishing rather than
power dams are responsible foe -
decreased salmon runs in the CNJ
umbia River. 0
House members have reiectjvr
the Lower Snake River project
three times in nast vears on
grounds it would damage fish runs
The dav-lonff conference.
pertained to items on the Pacific
Northwest resulted in almost com-"
niete acceDtance of the hieher Siw
ate figures. , ,
Talent Project Cot -1' -
Major cuis were for oreron
where the conferees allowed only
$100,000 for planning on Green Pet
er Dam as contrasted with the Sen.
aie s aju.uuu ana eiiminaiea
.nnn fvnn 1 . . .1
000 construction money for the Ta'
lent .mvision reclamation work.
The latter cut left the Talent era.
ject with only $150,000 to be used'
for planning. - u -
The Senate's $600,000 allowance '
for planning of John Day Dam was
pared to $550,000. .:. ;
The conferees left untouched
$646,200 to complete the Tacoma,
Wash., -industrial waterway and
$750,000 to dredge the Columbia .
River at its mouth.'
Harbor ImDrovementa
Neither was any change made .
t uie benate-aDoroved szas.ooo-
planning and construction money
for the Coos Bay, Ore.,' harbor '
lmDFOvernent or me ajuu.uuo ior -
the Tillamook, Or bay and bar ;
project.:.'
Conferees trimmed $50,000 from
the Bonneville Power Administra-
uuoi fo,iw,wu csuxudic aiivwca
by the Senate for operation and
maintenance but concurred in Sen
ate approval of the Upper Olympic
Peninsula service survey and the
the Olvmnia. . Aberdeen trans
mission line. Both of these items
had been deleted by the House.
Also lost in conference was A
Senate nrovisinn earmarking S100.
ning on Brace's. Eddy Dam in
Idaho, (Story also on page 3, sec.
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Body Found;
Killer Soughtjg
CHICAGO CB The finding 5ot
the beaten, burned body of an
year-old girl Thursday touched off t
a search for a killer who was: ':
oranaea a maa aog.
The victim was Mary Manzo.-a,'
brown-eyed, dark-haired child whq
had been in the third grade in-?-
public schooL
Three street sweepers found thex
tiny body in a long, dim underpass
beneath , the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks at 46th St. and Normal Ave., ..
on the South Side.
Police Thursday night picked up :
and held for questioning a man
they said resembled the descrhv
tion of a man who approached the
slain girl and her cousin last Fri-
day.
The girls ignored the man's plea
to pick up some keys from the ,
ground and ran away, police said.
No charges were filed against tha
man taken into custody, police ',
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Detectives said the body had;
been burned in an attempt to der
stroy it . .
Coroner Walter E. McCarror
viewed the body and termed thfrJJ
slayer a "mad dog."
Officials moved 100 extra police
men into the , area east of toe-:
stockyards in a hunt for the killer.;.
Police Commissioner Timothy JJ
O'Connor said the girl probably!!
had been "sexually assaulted and
then murdered.
CARS ROLL 27 MILES
CARMAN. Man. Iff! Violent i
winds started two empty boxcars
rolling at Stephen field early this ;
week and pushed them through an -
open switch onto a Canadian na
tional nauways nrancn line, mey-
sailed along 27 miles to Sperling .
before being derailed No damage ;
resulted. " '.
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