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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1950.

Rail Disaster Sequel

Resignation Of Two Trustees Demanded

Wreck A "Crime" Declares Mayor

New York, Nov. 23.

The resignation of two trustees of the Long Island Railroad was demanded today by public officials after the collision of two trains which killed 77 persons and injured an estimated 300.

Mr J. Russell Sprague, Nassau County execu- tive, said action would be taken immediately in the United States District Court asking for removal of the trustees and their replacement with men of "nationally recognised experience in railroad management and operation."

The present trustees of the railroad are David Sacker and Hunter Delatour. The collision was the third Long Island Railroad wreck in nine months.

Thirty-two were killed and 100 injured in the first and 49 were injured in the second,

Mr Sprague's statement came on the heels of a demand by aroused city officials for

a

the

to

night's tragedy and as weeping relatives paraded through Queen's County morgue identify the dead.

Stretched out in the morgue were 76 victims, many of them "vigorous" investigation of last still clutching newspapers and

PRINCESS

MARGARET

magazines and many with their arms outstretched as if to ward off an expected blow. The bodies of four men who had been play- ing bridge lay with cards still clutched in their hands,

The 77th victim was Mrs Henrietta Schwitzer of Ocean- side, New York, who died in

injuries suffered in the wreck.

A "vigorous" investigation

FOR MALTA Flushing Hospital tonight of

London, Nov. 24.

bewas ordered today shocked city Princess Margaret will

officials The acting Major, leaving England on December 14 for Malta to join Princess Mr Joseph Sharkey, called the a "crime" and the in- Elizabeth and the

Duke of wreck

vestigation was begun by the Edinburgh.

District Attorney,

The visit is an unofficial one

Mr Charles

Swept Back Lands On

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Wing Jet Carrier

The first pilot to land-on with this swept back wing aircraft (Vickers Supermarine "Swift") was Lieut. Elliott, R.N. from the Royal Aeronautical Establishment at Farnborough. Two other pilots made landings immediately afterwards. They are Lieut. Parker, DSO, DSC, R.N. and Michael Lithgow, Chief. Test Pilot for Vickers Armstrong. The picture shows rocket-assisted take off from "Illustrious" by swept back "Swift" aircraft, with Lieut. Elliott at the controls.

A Thanksgiving That They Will Never Forget

At a forward hospital in North-West Korea,

Nov. 23.

Twenty-seven wounded soldiers of the United States First Cavalry Division, in faded blue hos- pital dressing gowns, ate turkey and pumpkin pie on Thursday on a Thanksgiving they never will forget.

Early on Wednesday, their the Commies, already there. We Chinese captors had taken them, were short of ammunition, and perimeter of the Allied

and Princess Margaret will be Sullivan, even before the last under a white flag, to the outer they just kept coming."

of the bodies was taken from near Yongbyon and released officers gave additional informa

lines Eighth Army intelligence Princess Elizabeth will fly for the shattered trains this morn-them. No one, least of all the tion about released prisoners on

cident.

hours after the ac-

there for a short while.

men themselves, know her third visit to Malta on No-ing, nine

what strange twist in Chinese design vember 25, She and her bus- band are leaving Malta for an Mr Sharkey prepared, a re- led them to freedom after more informal visit to Greece on quest to the State Public Ser-than three weeks in Communist December 3. The Princess will vice Commission to, order the captivity. sail in the dispatch vessel, slowing down of Long Island Surprise, escorted by the fri- trains within city limits-United gate Magpie, with the Duke of Press, Edinburgh in command, and

the destroyer Chieftain.

There

is no suitable accommodation for Princess Elizabeth in the Magple.

Release Of

the

that It is expected flotilla will pass through the

Kansas Sunflower In Right Lung

Kansas City, Nov. 23. Two-year-old Patricia Frederake, who was grow-

Kansas ling a stout

flower in her right lung, felt much better without it today.

sun-

In an hour-long opera- tion, surgeons removed a sunflower seed with several healthy sprouts, one of them half-ait-inch long.

Doctors discovered the sprouting seed in examin- ing Patricia because of re- curring pneumonia symp- toms. The vegetation was removed with needle-like forceps Inserted through a bronchoscope tube.-United Press.

Thursday night after questioning Nepal Situation

them throughout the day.

of Korean and

Discussed

Without exception, a spokes- man said, the men, during the On Thursday, as they cracked latter part of their captivity, had munched turkey and been well treated by the North

Washington, Nov. 23. nuts, tackled second helpings

An Indian Embassy spokes- the Chinese Reds. and pumpkin pie

rich fruit Their wounds had been dressed, man today said that Mrs Vijaya cake, they remembered

Indian Lakshmi Pandit, the days although poorly, apparently be- when soup and rice given them cause of lack of medicinal sup-

Ambassador, discussed "the by the Chinese, seemed a ban-plies, and they were fed

situation general

in Nepal" ade- quet.

when she called on Mr George. One little dark-haired soldier, He indicated,

quately on millet, corn and rice.

McGhee, the United States As- Army headquar- Pfc. Peter Vusapti, 20, of Newters belleved the decision to

sistant Secretary for Near York City, looked

Corinth Canal on December 5. Nazi Criminals the table at across release the prisoners was made Eastern and South-East Asian

arriving in Phaleron Bay the same evening. They will disem- bark on December 11 and the flotilla will return to Malta by December 14.-Reuter.

DUKE OFFICIATES

commander. - United

a buddy and at a higher level than the local Affairs, at the State Depart- said: "Remember that guy sector who couldn't stop talking Press. abcut food?

the Landsberg prison, including the eight Gibraltar, Nov. 23.

The Duke of Edinburgh opened Gibraltarts first Legis-

That man

ment yesterday.

Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 23

It was understood that Mrs The United States Army has now the names of more vic-

Pandit requested the appoint- ordered the release of 14 con- tuals than I ever heard of."

U.S. CELEBRATION

ment with Mr McGhee. The victed Nazi war criminals from

Vusapti, an artilleryman with

New York, Nov. 23.

Embassy spokesman declined to Cavalry Regiment, America's national Thanks- give any further details of the nine former guards at the

recalled the night he was cap-giving Day holiday was cele- conversation-Reuter. Mauthausen concentration camp, tured by the Chinese near brated today throughout the lative Council on behalf of the who were serving life sentences, Unsan. He said: "They were all United States.

it was learned on Thursday.

around us, even in the next fox- Roads The release

leading to football the holiday in the country or at fields and golf courses were their home towns. Friday.

with holidaymakers, jammed

All Government offices were while trains, buses and aero-closed but the United Nations' on a limited planes were all full with people sessions continued leaving the big cities to spend scale.-Reuter,

King at a simple ceremony 10- day.

The Duke arrived from Malta yesterday afternoon in a Viking aircraft of the King's Flight Reuter.

NANCY

Stair Case

was expected on hole. No one knew they were be released there. When the attack started, The others to were sentenced in the Dachau one of my best friends jumped concentrations camp case.-Unit for a nearby hole. I heard him ed Press.

scream as he was bayonetted by

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