14 THE NEW YORK SUN, SATURDAY. JANUARY 15. 1938.

licensed Vice Lords of Reno Look Like Story-book Cowboy Graham and McKay Here Facing Third Trial

for Mail Fraud—Said to Be Worth a Million a Year. By JULIAN STARR JR.

When William J. Graham and James C. McKay, own­ers and operators of night clubs, gambling houses and the licensed vice district at Reno, New, are called for their third trial in the Federal court next Wednesday, before Justice Willis Van Devanter, on the indictment charging them with mail fraud and conspiracy, New York will re­new its acquaintanceship with two of the West's colorful figures.

Calm, alow-talking Bill (Red) Graham ia lean and ruddy, with a sandy thatched head and a freckled face that shows little of his middle age and the worries that have be­set him for the past eight or nine years. His partner. Jim McKay, is shorter and darker, but just as cool and easy in his movements.

Both look like Westerners, people out of books, and it takes their own testimony on the witness stand to shatter this illusion. Gambling and licensed prostitution are legal in Reno, but New Yorkers, familiar with their Lucianoes and profes­sional madams, listened in amaze­ment when Graham and McKay, at their previous trials, calmly admit­ted controlling the Stockade, that street of little brick stalls or cribs on the city line where Reno's pros­titutes are segregated.

Control of the Stockade, which accommodates some eighty girls, is vested in the Acme Realty Corpora­tion, holding company for Graham and McKay. Their other interests in Reno include the Fortune Club, the Bank Club, the Cal-Neva Lodge at Lake Tahoe, pieces of the slot machine business, the race track booking concession and many smaller clubs and gambling houses.

A Million a Year. The Stockade, according to one

report, has earned as much as $60,000 for its operators in a peak year, and can be expected to turn In from $25,000 to $40,000 in an average year. From their other varied interests, including a heavy slot machine take, the income ac­cruing to the partnership is esti­mated at close to $1,000,000 a year, a circumstance which carries a lot of political weight in a small town.

The foregoing gives only a slight Indication of the grim, desperate fight Graham and McKay are mak­ing in the Federal court to prove their innocence and win acquittal on the indictment charging them with acting as protectors and bankers for the Reno Ring, the largest and smartest group of con­fidence men and swindlers ever assembled in one Grand Jury bill.

The present indictment against Graham and McKay names twenty-seven defendants in four counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy, and covers a period from 1929 to 1934 when the ring was most active.

At the first trial the Government called thirteen witnesses, most of them eldeily men and women, who testified that they had been swin­dled out of a total of $734,750 by members of the ring.

$2,500,000 Fraud. Bank records in the possession of

the Government showed that the swindles had amounted to a grand total of $2,500,000 during this pe­riod and that on two consecutive days, December 7 and 8. 1936, the ring's take from it's victims ran Up to $311,000.

Victims' individual losses ranged from $15,000 to the grand coup known as the Beeson transaction in which the "con" men worked the old stock-switch game on Miss Katharine K. Beeson, elderly Pitts­burgh spinster, for a take of $177,-000 in stocks and bonds which, had she kept them, would have been worth three-quarters of a mil­lion dollars today.

Reno, in every instance, was the scene of the fleecing, although some of the victims were picked up in Canada and on the high seas and brought 3,000 miles across the country for the kill. In every in­stance the now defunct Riverside Bank of Reno was the institution that took the victims' stocks, bonds and personal checks without ques­tion nnd converted them into fresh, new $1,000 bills for the "con" men's convenience.

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The man they were convicted of harboring, Baby Face Nelson, was a former associate of John Dlllin-ger and was one of the most des­perate of the Mid-Western gang leaders. He and his partner, John Paul Chase, are credited with the death of three Federal agents in their wild nights to and from Call fornia by way of Reno.

Nelson, according to one witness at the trial, hid out in Reno for a year after his escape from guards of the Illinois State Peni­tentiary. Another witness, an em­ployee in Cochran's garage, testi­fied that Nelson drove a truck -or the Cal-Neva garage part of this time and often brought cars into the garage for repairs—cars which he identified as belonging to Graham and McKay.

The Town's Hospitality. Fatso Negri, defendant in the

harboring case who pleaded guilty to the indictment, told a long and colorful story of the movements of Nelson and Chase in the period when they were so "hot" that even Reno hesitated to take them in. Tex Hall was their contact in Reno and Tex gave the signals when the G men were in town. Lights on all night in his home meant the G men were there.

Cochran, according to the Federal agents, identified not only pictures of Nelson and Chase as frequent visitors to Reno, but also picked out pictures of the notorious Alvin Karpis, Barker and Campbell as others having relied on the town's hospitality. It was also testified that Cochran had an arrangement with Nelson and Chase which warned them whether or not it was safe to stop at his home.

If his car was parked in the driveway the signal was "clear out, Federal agents are here," Otherwise they could stop, have re­pairs made and relax.

This * a s the Reno of March, 1934, one month before the date set for the first Graham-McKay trial in New York. It. was on March 22 that Roy J. Frisch, cash­ier of the Kiverside Bank and the Government's key witness, went downtown to a movie and was never seen again. Frisch, who had been to New York and had told his story to a Federal Grand Jury, had a subpoena in his pocket to appear as a witness at the trial the following month when he dis­appeared.

MAY URGES ARMY PARITY WITH NAVY

Wants Land Force Increase on Sane Basis.

Sun Staff Photo.

Heine Offerman, left, Grand Central yardmaster, watches Signal Station Director James Stimson drop 'em into the right slot underground at the Grand Central Station.

All Are Concentrated in 2 Levels Covering 80 Acres, and Big Herman Offerman

Rules Over Them as a King. By GAULT MacGOWAN.

When Theseus descended into the Cretan labyrinth, Ariadne gave him a magic thread to find his way out again. But civilization has marched on since then. When your reporter went to visit "King Minos of the Grand Cen­tral Catacombs" yesterday, he was led in and out with unerring accuracy through the intricacies of an eighty. acre maze by a highly trained technician.

Gen. Billiard, 77, Looks Ahead Sees No War Around the Corner, but Peace

and Good Will Are a Long Way Off.

Counter-attack Bullard they called him in the world war. But the tall, gaunt, hawk-nosed "Injun" scrapper, who after a youth spent fighting Apaches, Spaniards, Fili­pinos and Moros entered the 1917-1918 period as a colonel of infantry and left it as the seasoned commander of half-a-million men in the A. E. F., sat back in a chair in his office today and gave opinions instead of orders on war and the way of it. The occasion—his seventy-seventh birthday eve!

"Well, I suppose," he said, "if 11 are much the same as ever they had to relive my life I

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.By DAN ANDERSON.

In the Early 1930s. Graham and McKay, according

to direct testtmony offered at the two previous trials, furnished po­lice protection to the swindlers in Reno, vouched for the identity of victims at the Riverside Bank and "took 15 per cent off the top" as their share of the proceeds.

Both of them, however, stoutly denied any knowledge or partici­pation in the swindles, and the juries at the previous trials could not agree on their guilt or inno­cence.

One of the clearest pictures of Reno in the early 1930s, when Graham and McKay were riding highest, was presented during tht trial in San Francisco in March and April, 1935. of seven defendants Charged with conspiring to harbor and conceal Lester M. Gillis, known better as Baby Face Nelson. The case was tried before Federal Judge Walter C. Lindley and ended with the conviction of four and the acquittal of three defendants.

Those Convicted. The Identity of those convicted

Is interesting. They included Thomas C. (Tobe) Williams, six-foot ex-safecracker who was the owner and manager of the Vallejo General Hospital at Vallejo, Cal. Tobe Williams, personal friend of Bill Graham, was fined $5,000 and sent away for eighteen months by Judge Lindley.

Next was Frank Cochran, garage Owner of Reno, who was fined $2,000 and sentenced to one year and one day.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (A. P. ) . —Representative May, Democrat, of Kentucky, newly elected chairman of the House Military Affairs Com­mittee, urged today that army ex­pansion be kept in step with the proposed strengthening of naval forces.

He said he would confer next week with Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, about building up the na­tion's land forces.

From other House members came suggestions for the purchase of au­tomatic rifles and other modern equipment in large quantities.

Members of the House Naval Committee d i s c l o s e d President Roosevelt's message asking a new naval construction program would not be sent to Congress until the House completes action on the reg­ular naval appropriation bill about the middle of next week.

Funds to start construction of twenty-two new naval vessels were recommended for inclusion in the regular measure, but tha President is expected to request authorization for a huge construction program which would expand the navy well beyond the limits of the defunct London naval treaty.

Some members said unofficially the extra construction would pro­vide between thirty-seven and forty warships—three battleships, three or four heavy cruisers, a similar num­ber of light cruisers, twenty de­stroyers, six submarines and three aircraft carriers. They said the program also would call for aircraft construction about 20 per cent in excess of treaty strength.

URGE WISE SPENDING Club Women's Campaign to

Combat Recession. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (A. P. ) .

—The General Federation of Wo­men's Clubs undertook today to en­roll the women of the United States in a campaign to "buy wisely" and combat the recession.

The job was turned over to Mrs. Roberta Campbell Lawson of Tulsa, Okla., federation president, and Mrs. William Dick Sporborg of Port Chester, N. Y.

If the nation's purse strings are constricted, Mrs. Sporborg pointed out, women's fears must be partly

would go back in the army and make the same mistake all OVPP a^ain. And if another national emergency should arise, I should expect the youth of the nation to rise to the situation just as they did before. And that goes for the women too. The peace and goodwill business is still a mighty long way off."

Yet Lieut.-Gen. Robert Lee Bul­lard, retired, the only living Amer­ican to hold that rank, does not think another war is just 'round the corner.

"No, sir," he says. "The people of Europe and Asia and America who took part in the world war had enough to last them a good long time."

Old Pictures Called Up.

The general's hawk-eyes looked out of his office window at 45 West Forty-fifth street and seemed to see again the wreck of homes and buildings In the shell-cursed fury of the Meuse-Argonne battle zone when he was famed for the words he most favored in beginning his operation orders: "We are going to counter attack."

Now, he smiled, his bright sunlit smile that the hard-bitten soldiers of the old First Division loved.

"Ordinarily, after a good, stiff war it's hard to draw people into another one until a generation has grown up that has forgotten the hardships of the last one. And if a generation is growing up now that might be ready to fight some time in the future, it is seeing for itself what war means by the spectacle of fighting in Spain and the Far East. And the Japs, the Chinese and the Spaniards who are doing the fighting are those who | did not take a serious part in the world war.

"I estimate that two post-war generations will have to pass away before the people of the United States are ready for another war. Maybe two and a half generations."

Two Generations Not Up. "But is there then no danger.

General, of a war in which the United States may be involved in the near future,"

"We haven't had our two gener­ations yet," he persisted. Gen. Bullard's memories go back to suc­cessive waves of war-fever that have brought Uncle Sam into con­flict abroad and on his borders. "Our experience in the world war was a full and a big one. We had all the war we wanted and it will take very provoking 'incidents' in­deed to make us willing to rush into battle again."

"What is your advice then, Gen­eral, to the young man of today. Is there any need for him to bother his head with military train­ing or joining patriotic societies?"

Advice to Young Men. "I think the young man of to­

day and every day should fit him­self to do his duty to his govern­ment and to his people in case of war. I believe the best insurance against war is preparedness; pre­paredness in all respects. Our pre­paredness should be great enough to make any nation or people think seriously before giving us such

were. "There was a time when we

thought that the entry of women i n t o p o l i t i c s a l l o v e r t h e w o r l d

There's scarcely a picture among the 335 in the annual exhibition of the Press Photographers Association of New York which does not deserve to be called excellent. There's none less than adequate. It's a show which any one interested in photography should see—until January 23 on the seventh floor of La Maison Francaise at Rocke­feller Center.

Embarrassed by riches, the judges must have had a woeful time. As was to be expected, a Hindenburg explosion picture took first pnze in the spot news class

would reform politics. But have'Second prize in th.s classification they? Are they likely to make went to "Chain Gang on the future wars more improbable?"

"That great experiment, the League of Nations has failed. Thpre were hopes at one time that the

Levee." by John Lindsay, which won the Editor and Publisher prize last year and then was disqualified because the shot was made in 1937,

pictures be judged. In the pictorial class, one of Vin­

cent Lopez's series, published in The Sun with the standing head, "New York by Night," took first

SWEDENBORG TO BE HONORED ON JAN. 2 9

250th Anniversary of His Birth to Be Observed.

nations would be able to compose j and specifications were that 1936 their differences in some such way as the British Empire has worked out. A composite of peoples with a% central authority, such as also the United States has developed. But it seems plain now that goodwill is so remote that there is no use talking about it. If people do not know how to estimate each other, they are not going to have the same views.

"I remember when I first went to England, I could hardly under­stand the modern English used there. I had been reared on old English. And a man from Texas who called on me today to wish me 'happy birthday' was telling me the difficulty he had in understand­ing the average New Yorker. Un­less there is some central power with authority to exercise control over rival inclinations and ambi- • tions, it is no use talking about peace."

But whether or not Gen. Bullard sees peace and goodwill abroad, there was plenty around him at home last night. For a group of personal friends gave him a testi­monial dinner in the Hotel Astor when under the cheerful direction of Major A. P. Simmonds, the toastmaster, they sang: "Happy Birthday, Dear General, Happy Birthday to You."

And they were a distinguished chorus. Here are their names. Rear Admiral Clark H. Wood­ward, Commandant of the Third Naval District and New York Navy Yard; Rear Admiral Reginald R. Belknap, U. S. N., retired; Gen. Louis W. Stotesbury, N. Y. N. G., retired, president of the Veterans Association of the 107th Infantry; Brig-Gen. Frank R. Schwengel, 111. N. G., retired; Major-Gen. John J. Byrnes, N. Y. N. G., retired, com­mander of the Fourteenth In­fantry; Major-Gen. Frank R. Mc­Coy, commanding officer of the Second Corps Area; Major-Gen. Dennis E. Nolan, former com­mander of the Second Corps Area; Col. Karl Treusdell, commanding officer of Fort Jay, and Col. Au­gustus F. Dannemiller, First Di­vision Chief of Staff.

Also Col. Ralph C. Tobln. Com­mander of the 107th Regimcnf, N. Y. N. G.; Col. John W. Downer, Col. Franklin Q. Brown, Major John L. Aimes, Major J. A. Umpleby, U. S. Senator Royal S. Copeland, former State Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr., Fred-crick A. Muschenheim, Robert. K. Christcnberry, John Pullman, Low­ell Thomas, George C. Howard, F. Gordon Brown, J. R. McGrath, and Capts. Lawrence M. Marks, War­ren Ransom and John R. Brandon.

The 250th anniversary of the birth of Emanuel Swedenborg will be commemorated on January 29 In about forty cities of the United States and in European cities.

The principal observance event In this city will be a commemora­tive dinner at the Hotel Delmonlco on January 26. Speakers will be: Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip presid­ing; Dr. John Dyneley Prince of Columbia University—"The Histor­ical Scene"; Dr. Max Mason of the California Institute of Technology —"Man and His Physical and Spir­itual World"; Dr. Howard W. Hag­gard of Yale University—"Sweden-borg's Contributions to Physiol­ogy": Dr. William Adams Brown of Union Theological Seminary— "Christian Unity"; Rev. Charles W. Harvey—"Swedenborg's Out­look on Religion."

Among the sponsors of the com­memoration in London will be the King of Sweden, Prince Arthur of Connaught and the Crown Prince of Sweden. Sir Campbell Rhodes will preside at a meeting of over 2,000 persons at the Queen's Hall.

Emanuel Swedenborg, noted phy­sicist, mathematician and engineer of the eighteenth century, was the only successful man of science known to history to become the founder of a religious organization. He was for thirty years assessor of the college of mines of the Swedish government. His attention was fo­cused on religion as the result of a remarkable spiritual experience in middle life. During his last thirty years he produced eighty-three theological volumes. After his death a church was founded on the doctrines he formulated.

prize. Another Sun photographer, Antnony Lanza, won third prize in this section with "Rural Scene"; It might be Cape Cod or a farther shore, but actually the picture was made on Staten Island.

There's nothing outstanding in this show, because, everything stands out. The only thing to do is to go and see it.

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Leaving the Press Photographers' show, cross over to the Interna­tional Building, go to the mezzanine floor, and stop in on the annual Leica exhibit, also current until the 23d. Turn sharp left at the entrance, and look at the work of Harold Harvey, who tones his prints twice and'achieves astound­ing effects. First he tones them sepia, then blue, which gives him a total of two colors and black and white. But especially in "Bronx Pattern" one would take oath that there was a subdued rainbow in the picture at first sight. The ef­fect of the treatment Is worth studying in the portraits, too, where the color effect is not so obvious but very helpful.

Another impression of this ex­hibit is that color prints are still

,far from perfect (not Leica's fault, but something universal at pres­ent); one needs only compare the color shots by Anton F. Baumann and his monochrome on the other side of a panel to see that his best work is in the latter, though he's a color specialist. Among many good pictures, don't miss "Buz­zard" by Zickelkau, "Smoke" hy Jurgens, "After the Shower" by Mawhinney, "Foam" by Yuile, or "Pugilists" by Schaal, taking note of the facial expression in the last.

Legislative Council Proposal Revived

ALBANY, Jan. 15 (A. P.V- Cre-provocation as might lead to war. j at ion of a permanent legislative

"Though t am nearly seventy- | council to prepare a comprehensive seven, I have just taken on a new responsible. To prove her point.

Moreno, Frisco she quoted statistics stating that 80 Job. It is as adviser to the Castle character, was sent away for six . to DO per cent of the spending I Heights Military Academy of Ten-months. And Hmry O. (Tex) Hall' money of the country is controlled j nessee. I have been educating was fined $2,000 arid stntenced to | by women; also that women are people for t>«< pn>. <ln.« all rm one year and one day in the peni-1 responsible for the purchase of trntiary. Tex Hall, who died after J from 51 to 65 per cent of passengeT serving his term, was a partner of j automobiles. 51 per cent of gaso-

program for each session of the legislature was proposed today for

Graham and McKay in the Bank Club and the Cal-Neva ledge . He was also contact man with gang­sters and fugitives in those spe­cial services which Reno rendered.

line, 34 per cent of men's apparel, 78 per cent of drug store products, 80 per cent of dry goods. 74 per cent of suburban homes and 87 3-10 per cent of food.

adult life and I expect to go on doing so so long as I am able. And my job as president of the National Security League keeps me in constant touch with military af­fairs and military people, I have lost none of my Interest in the military vocation and my views

a. second consecutive year by two j lowing Republican lawmakers.

The council, composed of six Sen­ators and six Assemblymen, elected biennially, would be required to make its recommendations at least thirty days prior to the session.

Sponsors of the bill are Senator Thomas C. Desmond, Newburgh, and Assemblyman George B. Par­sons, Syracuse.

Unitarian Ministers To Exchange Pulpits

An unusual project in church co­operation will be undertaken by Unitarians in the metropolitan area tomorrow. One of the large problems of the denomination is to develop a closer acquaintance be­tween churches. To overcome this difficulty, a pulpit exchange among the various churches In the Now York area has been arranged, fol-

f a mid-winter conference, held at All Souls Chin eh on .lan-

The Zeiss Ikon show was here for only a week, closing last Saturday, but is now on tour, to stop at prin­cipal cities through the country. It was admirable; the cream of the work of Zeiss users in the United States wouldn't be otherwise. Worth attention of those who still have opportunities to see it is Maurice Laclare's portrait of a woman, an example of perfect lighting, with the forward 'part of the face well illuminated, the light shading off but never lacking, and no over-lighted, chalky areas. Mar­tin Polk had the daring in his study, of a farmer to get the hand holding the pitchfork into the foreground, so that It is over large by distorted perspective, but this was intention­al, and the effect Is good. Bob Leavitt's lioness with two cubs is an example of a well taken picture which gains from the soft effect of the print. J. Ghislain Lootens, in "The Homecoming," also shows that by no means all of photogra­phy is In the taking. Most striking in this respect, however, is the ele­mentary trick which Owen Smith has played twice, once with his lamplighter and once with his American flag. The contact prlnta beside the enlargements show how much the pictures have gained by a slight change in the angle.

Ernest B. Moorhouse, assistant terminal engineer, played the part of Ariadne, and New York's King Minos turned out to be big Herman Offerman, traffic yard generalis­simo at Grand Central, who apends his working life in semi-Stygian darkness, unseen by the crowds who daily dash at top speed Into his labyrinth and out again.

But they are carried in cars. To go into the labyrinth on foot is an eerie adventure—unless, of course, you have got so that nothing seems adventurous to you any more. In that case it becomes a plain trip through the train yards.

Our King Minoa's eighty acres comprise traffic rails, locomotive, mail and light freight yards and passenger train sidings within a subterranean honeycombed be­tween Fifty-ninth street and Forty-second street. Nearly fifty acres of It are on the upper level that takes care of general traffic, and more than thirty acres immediately be­low that, to take care of suburban commuters.

The Control Tower. Herman Offerman sits in a work­

manlike office in the control tower somewhere In the middle of the honeycomb and through his staff of train directors keeps in touch with every train that comes in and goes out of the terminal.

He is the commodore of the rail­road fleet, the man to whom every locomotive engineer at the terminal looks for Instructions and yellow lights and refers to familiarly as Hymie, the general yard master.

No commodore of a yacht squad­ron ever had a larger fleet. Mr. Offerman has to deal with between 400 to 500 trains a day entering and leaving his yard. Within his eighty acres he has some thirty-two miles of track—a startling figure when you reflect that it is less than a mile from the entrance of the yard to the far side of it.

The labyrinth of Crete's King Minos wasn't in it. A journey through the miles of byways, walled-off sections, dead ends, loop lines, baggage and working tun­nels is like a journey through the Roman catacombs lined with death-dealing electric currents. "Live rails," they call them.

"Electrification alone makes tbis underground railroad labyrinth pos­sible," Mr. Moorhouse explained as we approached the throne room of King Minos.

Upper and Lower Levels. "Systems that still use steam

trains in their terminals could not use it. The steam and smoke would make operation impossible. All trains in and out of Grand Central Terminal are operated elec­trically, the electrical operation continuing as far north as Harmon, 32.7 miles away, and New .Haven, 75 miles from the terminal. No s-team locomotives are now oper­ated in New York city.

"To form this underground lany-rinth about 3,000,000 cubic yards, mostly rock, was excavated in 1913 when the terminal was built. The lowest basement of operation to­day is about 100 feet below ground. This is the electric sub-station. The low level or commuter platform is 37 feet below ground.

"To the average commuter Grand Central Terminal consists of seven­teen platforms on the lower level. But actually there are about thirty tracks shooting off from the main line where it arrives at the en­trance to the yard. Some of these are used for making up mail and express baggage trains, but the vast majority of them are for lin­ing up the commuters' trains that have to wait from the morning to the evening rush hour.

"Some commuter trains are also handled from the upper level where there are forty-seven tracks easily distinguishable by the Inquiring traveler, but for the most part the upper level is noted for such famous trains as the Twentieth Century Limited that runs every day be­tween New York and Chicago. Between the high level and the low more than 100.000 passengers travel through the labyrinth dally. Switches at Fifty-seventh Street. "For the Incoming passenger to

see the switch of the track from high level to low, he must look out about Fifty-seventh street. There, the four tracks suddenly become ten, with four leading to the upper level, six running down* wards to the lower level.

"And within their respective yards the tracks bifurcate again and again until they have become forty-one tracks in the upper level and thirty-seven in the lower level."

Slipping behind a parked train, dodging a live rail and climbing a thirty-foot ladder at last brought your exploring reporter within the throne-room of "King Minos." He was surrounded by maps, charts and plans and in constant tele­phonic communication with two nautical looking chart rooms where traffic directors sit day and night plotting routes through the lahy* rinth for incoming and outgoing modern Minotaurs.

But he was not too snooty a monarch to stop to say, "Heilo." He is, in fact, a most democratio monarch, a monarch who has worked his way up from the bot­tom of the ladder to his present position of skipper of the cata­combs. And he took time to ex­plain his latest problem. It seems that the closing down of the Boston St Westchester line on December 31 meant more work for the sub­terranean kingdom.

What Extra Cars Mean. "Some 4,000 more commuters

switched to Grand Central tracks as a result of the death knell of the old line," he said, "and we had to take care of them all. Later on, it may be necessary to touts extra trains, but at present we have only to provide more accom­modation on existing schedules.

"This is not just a matter of hooking on an extra car or two and letting it go at that.

"Hooking on extra cars means increasing the length of trains and care has to be taken to see that there is always a platform vacant that is long enough to receive them.

"Then in routing these longer trains through the yards we have to make sure that they will not overlap switch points when wait­ing signals or be run into sidings that are too short to receive them. Accidents have happened in rail­road history when a freight train has been put onto a siding which' left a piece of it still out on tht' main line. We have to know the length of every train to plan its route and its speed over a given length of track. On an open track, you can move thirty trains an hour but Within the terminal we have to allow time to evacuate each one. Some of the trains that have to he shunted out of the platform may take twenty minutes to clear. At a few platforms we can leave the cars standing and run the locomo­tive straight out through the fa­mous Grand Central loop. This takes the locomotives right away under the Commodore Hotel and returns them facing north again ready for off. Excuse me—"

King Minos Offerman turned to one of his telephones. Another problem of state was pressing. A) week end excursion train speeding! to the big city through the subttr--anean gateway of New York. • ;,

Philippine Typhoons | Blamed for Beach Damage

PASADENA, Cal., Jan. »^<A. P.).—Dr. W. S. Grant, University of California geologist, today blamed Philippine typhoons for damage to southern California beach property In recent years.

Dr. Grant said studies made by him and Dr. F. P. Shepard. Univer­sity of Illinois, tended to show en­ergy was transmitted from the ty­phoons in the form of ground swells, traveling at a velocity of fifty-five miles an hour.

Associate Minister Resign!. The resignation of the Rev. Leon

Rosser Land as associate minister of the Community Church of New York, has been regretfully ac­cepted. Mr. Land served tie church on a part-time basis sine* September, 1934, and asked to be released so he could give full time to the Bronx free fellowship, of which he is the leader.

Castle Films released today Its sixteen-millimeter and eight-milli­meter movies, sound and silent, of the Panay sinking. The reels run for nine minutes, and not only show the action on the gunboat and the Japanese planes overhead, but be­gin with some background of the hostilities in China, follow the sur­vivors, show the President writing his memorandum of protest, and

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