anaheim-gazette 1951-02-07

T. D. Sliger Dies in Orange Mrs. D. Sliger, 75, died last night at an Orange hospital after a brief illness. A native of Tennessee, he came to Anaheim 31 years ago. He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Cecile Lynn of Oakland, Calif., Mrs. Ola Essary of Los Angeles and Mrs. Cleavy Casey of Buena Park; two sons, Carrol Sliger of Bell, Calif., and Harold Sliger of Wolf Creek, Oregon; two sisters, Mrs. Eatharine Murray of Porterville and Mrs. Ellie Huff of Woodlake, Calif.; two brothers, Clayton Sliger of Portland, Ore., and Mack Sliger of Blackwell, Texas; 16 grandchildren and 6 great grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted from the Hilgenfeld chapel Saturday at 10 a.m. with burial to follow in the family plot in the Anaheim cemetery. WE FEATURE NEW... STEWART-WARNER ELECTRONIC WHEEL BALANCING Brand new, but fully proved method. All four wheels balanced without removal from car. Actual road-condition balancing... WHEEL BALANCING Brand new, but fully proved method. All four wheels balanced without removal from car. Actual road-condition balancing—every wheel in perfect balance. Tire, tube, wheel, hub cap, brake drum, balanced as one unit—electronically. Ends road pounding, assures a smoother ride, saves tires and other moving parts of the car. $100 PER WHEEL Plus 15c Per Wheel Weight ROY FIELD 538 S. Los Angeles At Ellsworth St., Anaheim Kear of Texaco Service Sta. Train Smash Continued from Page 1 into day, rescue workers hacked through the twisted mass of ed wildly and jumped the tracks bodies still unidentified. The 11-car Pennsylvania railroad train, "The Broker," swerved wildly and jumped the tracks as it sped onto the midtown overpass. The cars, jack-knifing crazily, hurtled down a 20-foot embankment. The new, temporary overpass had been put in service only a few hours before the crash. In Newark, the FBI said it was investigating to determine "whether sabotage was involved." The railroad, conducting its own probe, said it could offer no immediate explanation for the cause of the wreck. The dead included bankers, lawyers and businessmen, prominent in their localities and civic life, most of them home-bound from New York City offices. In mid-morning, the list of known dead stood at 78, with four bodies still unidentified. The rush-hour crackup was worst in the nation since 1956 when 115 were killed in a Nasdaqville, Tenn., wreck, and more dastrous than a 1943 accident on side Philadelphia that took lives. It was the third major wreck in the Metropolitan area less than a year. A total of nearly 200 died in the three crackups. In Washington, the Interstate inquiry into the new disaster, will Commerce commission ordered a public hearing to open tomorrow. On orders of New Jersey Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll, the state's attorney general, Theodore Parson also began an investigation. He reached the scene early today and sent an assistant to a hospital question the critically injured engineer of the wrecked train. It was loaded to the aisles with homebound commuters — mostly from New York—on their way to Red Bank, Long Branch, Asbury Park and other communities. First Choice IN ORANGE COUNTY For • PRICE • QUALITY • VARIETY ★ Complete Home Furnishings for over a Quarter Century • FURNITURE • APPLIANCES • CARPETING * Complete Home Furnishings for over a Quarter Century FURNITURE APPLIANCES CARPETING Aaron Schultz 301 West Center ANAHEIM Phone 2144 TERMS WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1951 ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA. MIN—Past vestrymen were guests of St. Michael's vestry last night for dinner and a meeting at here, left to right: Earnie Rose, LaVerne Stanton, R. A. Patrick, Oscar Brower, Millard Parks, with Earle Jackson, Miss Marjorie Pibel, Grant Brown, Jeff Palin, Foster Warwick, Joe Thompson (Gazette photo by Kreldt) E. J. Naffziger. New Jersey's wealthy North Shore. Engineer Joseph H. Fitzsimmons, a veteran of 33 accident-free years on the road, blamed the overcrowded coaches and the new trestle for the tragedy. Alive but injured, the 57-year-old Fitzsimmons said from a hospital cot: "The moment my engine passed over the trestle and lurched sharply I felt the rest of the cars would Anaheim Calendar Wednesday, Feb. 7 Community Industrial Land meeting. 7:30 p.m., at the Chamber of Commerce. It is the stock holders annual meeting. Junior Chamber of Commerce. 7 p.m. at Lum's Chop Suey place: It is neither good nor anything whereby brother is made worse Rom. 14:21. NEWSNOTE—Six or seven hundred members of the California 40th Infantry division—of which Anaheim's own Co.K. is a parade slated for overseas duty men will be replacements Gen. Douglas MacArthur Gen. Daniel Huddleson did not estimate how many local men will be included in the number. PEOPLE—Dave Ellis; a 14-year-old Anaheimer, was known from his bike in Fullerton when he darted in front of an one-ing car Wayne Adams, angelhorpe rancher is getting around with the old of a cane figured in an auto accident some time ago. Ironically, too, he is president of the Loma Vista morial Park Daily, aver attendance took a beating in Anaheim schools this week. The fluenza is keeping students attending classes. It is not like the World War I epidemic Dr. John Truxaw weather though Anaheim's Skeet weights are to play Bell Gardens in the annual Capitrano Club cage tourney t'marra. The got under way this afternoon New Jersey's wealthy North Shore Engineer Joseph H. Fitzsimons, a veteran of 33 accident-free years on the road, blamed the overcrowded coaches and the new trestle for the tragedy. Alive but injured, the 57-year-old Fitzsimmons said from a hospital cot: "The moment my engine passed over the trestle and lurched sharply I felt the rest of the cars would never make it." "When I started to sway, I applied the brakes, but it apparently was too late." Passengers and at least one railroad detective—who did not give his name—disagreed with the engineer on the speed of the train. The detective said it was going at top speed when it hit the trestle. The Pennsylvania, in a statement, said a 25 mile an hour speed limit was in effect on the new track, opened to traffic less than five hours before "The Broker" cracked up at 5:43 p.m. (EST). The new track was swung about 50 feet from the old one to clear the way for the Jersey Turnpike—big cross-state highway now under construction. The Pennsylvania said six trains passed over the new trestle safely before "The Broker." The railroad said the trestle itself was not a factor in the accident — despite the engineer's statement. Gov. Alfred E. Driscoll expressed shock at the tragedy and ordered an investigation to pin down the cause. The New Jersey Public Utilities commission at once launched a probe as did the railroad. Mayor August Greiner of Woodbridge said he thought the trestle buckled beneath the train's weight. But the trestle did not collapse. Attorney General Theodore Parsons asked for a signed statement from one passenger, Robert Thaler of Fair Haven. Thaler said he saw a burning journal box on the fourth car of the train before it left Newark—its last stop before the wreck. Thaler told Parsons by telephone this car's undercarriage may have collapsed as it whipped across the trestle. The train pulled out of Jersey Anaheim Calendar Wednesday, Feb. 7 Community Industrial Land meeting. 7:30 p.m., at the Chamber of Commerce. It is the stock holders annual meeting. Junior Chamber of Commerce. 7 p.m. at Lum's Chop Suey place. Izaak Walton League. 8 p.m., at the IOOF hall. Anaheim Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, No. 125. 7:30 p.m., at the Masonic Temple. Orange County Dental Assn. 7 p.m., at Elks club. Anaheim Chapter of the Red Cross. 7:30 p.m., at the City Hall. Quill and Scroll Club will meet in the AUHS cafeteria at 7 p.m., for a pot luck dinner. AUHS Board of Trustees meeting in the AUHS board room at 8 p.m. Senior Ebell Bridge Section meets at 1 p.m., Ebell club. Thursday, Feb. 8 Retail Division of the Chamber of Commerce. Monthly meeting will be at 7:30 p.m., at the Chamber of Commerce. Optimist Club. 7 p.m., at Mother's Kitchen. Veteran's of Foreign Wars. 8 p.m., at 106 N. Philadelphia st. Assistance League. 12:30 p.m., various places. Lutheran P-TA School library. Camera Club, 8 p.m., at the high school. Elks regular lodge meeting will be a visitation to the Qnatrio Lodge. Orange County Council of Rotary will meet at 6:45 p.m. Elks Club. California Loan and Finance Co., district meeting at 7 p.m. in Elks club. city of 27,000 persons 30 miles south of New York. Behind it, the first five cars of the train went this way and that in a jumble of jagged steel. Some of them turned over in the thick mud of the embankment. Others stayed upright, grotesquely twisted across the rails or along the embankment. Passengers were tossed about inside the coaches like dice in a president of the Loma Vista memorial Park. Daily, average attendance took a beating in Aurelium schools this week. The fluenza is keeping students off attending classes. It is not like the World War I epidemic. Dr. John Truxaw weather though. Anaheim's Skew weights are to play Bell Gardens in the annual Capistrano Clock tourney t'marra. The park got under way this afternoon. Dave Hernandez is doing graduate work at Fresno State. "Dap Dave" is one of the best life men on fraternity row. NEWSTIP—Jess Hill may be new Trojan football member but some of his Northtrin County shirt-tail relatives also too elated about it. There's future in it! ANAHEIMITEMS—Schoolboy will soon be ringing at Anaheim new $247,000 Thomas Jefferson elementary school. If now seen trivial, but the controversy centered about the selection of its site is all but forgotten. George Holyake doesn't antelpate a snowshoe shortage in Anaheim; least he appreciates the federal bureau's interest in Anaheim matter how critical times may go snow shovels won't be on Airhelm's list. The Board Supervisors are considering township changes to provide better municipal court procedure. STATISTICS—Russ Campbell of the sheriff's juvenile delinquency in the county. Last year 1664 H investigations were made; 318 boys and 29 girls were arrested; 231 these boys and the 29 girls were either detained in the juvenile home or the juvenile division in the county jail. His figures not an increase of 26 per cent in juvenile cases in Orange county that's logical as it is proportionate to the population increase... And Mrs. Evelyn Geren of the marriage license bureau indicates that cupid is busy with his little darts. He got 159 couples last month. There were also passport applications. Folks must be getting the wanderlust again... Speaking of traveling reminds... Attorney General Theodore Parsons asked for a signed statement from one passenger, Robert Thaler of Fair Haven. Thaler said he saw a burning journal box on the fourth car of the train before it left Newark—its last stop before the wreck. Thaler told Parsons by telephone this car's undercarriage may have collapsed as it whipped across the trestle. The train pulled out of Jersey City at 5:10 p.m. (EST). Commuters from New York board it there after coming under the Hudson river by tube train. It was more crowded than usual because another commuter line, the Jersey Central, was knocked out by the switchmen's "sick call" strike. Many Central commuters elbowed in with the estimated 900 passengers who daily ride "The Broker." The train snaked its way from Newark across suburban North Jersey in the darkness of early evening. The lights of busy industrial areas along the tracks flicked by its windows. Then it hit the trestle, the engineer fighting the brakes to try and control it. "I heard him throw on the air brakes three times as she came down a grade and onto the temporary tracks," said Attorney Irving W. Teeple, on his way home to Leonardo, N.J., from his Newark law office. "He was doing his level best to hold her back." But the steam engine rolled on across the trestle for about three car lengths. The big engine left the tracks and plunged in an arc to the pavement of a street below, in this city of 27,000 persons 30 miles south of New York. Behind it, the first five cars of the train went this way and that in a jumble of jagged steel. Some of them turned over in the thick mud of the embankment. Others stayed upright, grotesquely twisted across the rails or along the embankment. Passengers were tossed about inside the coaches like dice in a cup. Many were mangled to bits under the grinding weight of sharp, broken metal. Others survived or died in tomblike crevasses of steel, as some of the cars were bent into a U-shape by the terrible force of the crash. It took about seven hours—until after midnight—to dig and saw the last one clear. The moans of trapped men and women rose on the night air. One man pinned under a heavy coach wheel begged feebly: "Help, help me." A bulbances hurried to the scene from all over North Jersey. Blood plasma was sent from New York and Jersey City. A morgue was set up in a garage. Blood-splattered rescue workers tenderly placed the dead in long rows, then pulled brown sheets of paper over their still forms. The feet of the dead sprawled limp and lifeless, uncovered by the paper shrouds. WALL PICKUP If you haven't colorful maps, prints or pictures to pin up on the recreation room wall, coat colorful road maps with several coats of shellac and glue them to the walls. 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