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TH I ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, November 24, 1947
The ROAD
RUNNER
By HAMILTON WRIGHT
Trainmen's ‘Music’ Takes Turn for
Worse With New Diesel's Whistle
The strident ding-dong-ding-dong
of the steam locomotive's bell on
the Texas & Pacific Sunshine Spe-
cial has yielded to the more mon-
otonous ding-ding-ding bell of the
famous train's streamlined diesel-
electric engine. And "he” rail-
readers of ancient vintage scoff
uneasily at the mild, tame whis-
tle-the honk-honk-honk"—of the
newfangled locomotive. They have
been used to the piercing, shrill
wail or moan of steam whistles
Engineers in old days developed
a sort of rail music not taught
in conservatories. They practiced
long on their whistles until they
coaxed out blasts of low and high
pitch ao concatenated and articu-
lated aa to evoke Instant attention
from townspeople who were so
pleased and entranced that they
stopped in their tracks to enjoy
every wisp of them The weird
blasts gave a person a smug, de-
lightful sensation.
An engineer I knew—one Joe
Green—sounded an extraordinary
series of blasts for a station ap-
proach Everybody knew Joe
Green by his whistle but few out-
_____side the rail circle knew him per: -
sonally. Green "dropped down”
Kouns Hill into Austin on the old
- I&GN st the then terrifying speed
of 75 miles an hour with a long
white plume of steam trailing the
length of his short passenger train,
a precursor of the inimitable whis-
tle he sounded-a cross between
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Foreign Ministers Prepare for Treaty Talks
In Opening Session Tuesday; Molotov Arrives
Doubts over the Identity
LONDON, Nov 24 ——Approx-
imately 500 aides, secretaries and
experts put the finishing louche,
todays to preparations for the Big
Four Foreign Ministers conference,
which convenes here tomorrow for
what many observers believe may
be a last attempt to reach unified
peace settlements with Germany
and Austria
Soviet Foreign Minister V M
Molotov arrived yesterday by plane
and French Foreign Minister
Georges Bidault—last of the four
principal participants in the con-
ference—was expected tonight.
iliar and popular. Those who had -
• wail and a moan. It became fam-
liked it so well stepped out of their
houses when he was due—to get
another kick. No other engineer,
try as he would to imitate his
whistle, could manage to approach
it. And when "Doc" Green whis-
tled his last station signa, his pet
whistle that had played so many
tunes along the 110-mile division
stretch of rail, was buried with
him.
“Doc” will respond to the trum-
pet blast of the Angel Gabriel at
the last day. If he bar his way
we think it will be to take the
old harmonic whistle in his hand
and break the ether with the loud,
reverberating blasts that once
made all Austin want more.
• * *
Some railroads are particular
about their whistles For instance,
the Missouri-Kansas-Texas lines
has adopted a strange sounding
siren that distinguishes the road
from all others In Fort Worth
Katy whistles scream day and
night—and any railroadman can
tell you. “That was a. , Katyen-
gine.” a
In the late 1890s the Katy had
France’s representative were clear-
ed away last night with Bidault’s
retention in the new coalition cabi-
net formed by Premier Robert
Schuman immediately after his
appointment Bidault announced his
intention of departing for London
today and named as his assistants
Rene Massigli, ambassador to Bri-
tain: Gen Georges Catroux, am-
bassador to Russia: Rene Couve
de Murville, aide on political af-
fairs, and Herve Alphand, aide on
econimic affairs.
British informants said that Bri-
ton's Foreign Secretory Ernest Be-
vin probably would see Molotov
and U. S SecreUry of State George
Marshall some time during the day
Marshall arrived here Friday. -
Soon after Molotov's arrival the
Soviet embassy announced that his
principal aide in the discussions
would be Deputy Foreign Minister
Andrei Y Vishinsky, who was ex-
pected to depart for London as soon
as his duties at the United Nations
assembly in New York would per-
mit
other leading members of the
Soviet delegation include Marshal
V. O. Sokolovsky. Russian com-
mander-in-chief in Germany: Geor-
gi N. Zarubin, Russian ambassa-
dor to London, and A. S Smirnov.
Soviet representatives in the depu-
ty foreign ministers' council dis-
cussions on Germany and Austria
London hotels were crowded with
delegation staffs as well as with
some 300 newspapermen assembled
from all over the world to cover
the conference
British government sources em-
phasized that the conference would
PRAY, DON'T HONK
PASTOR SUGGESTS
NEW YORK, Nov. 24—(P-
Prayer is better than horn-
honking in traffic tieups, the
Rev Dr Norman Vincent Peale
said in his sermon yesterday at
the Marble Collegiate Reform
Nobel Prize Plan?
HAMBURG, Nov. 24—--An .p
oean countries—went on trim WW
lay before the supreme national
ribunal.
peal for an immediate conference —
Why Thousands of Doctors
Prescribed
of Nobel peace prize winners to
consider a plan for an interim gov- |
ernment of Germany capable of
I signing a peace treaty has been
made by German pacifist, church
and resistance groups, the German
| peace movement announced today.
ed church.I—---------------------------------
Speaking on the general sub- ,
ject how to rest in a restless 40 Nazis Arraigned
age," Dr. Peale advised:
“The New York traffic prob- I KRAKOW, Poland, Nov 24--
Forty former Nazi officials at no-
orious Auschwitz (Oswiecim) ex-
termination camp-accused of re-
sponsibility for the killing of 300.-
TOO prisoners from a dozen Euro-
lem would be solved if every
taxi driver, bus driver and
motorist would stop for a mo-
ment of prayer when the light
changes at an intersection,
instead of nervously honking
their horns.”
Pope Reveals.
U. S. Gratitude
be strictly business and that enter-
tainment would be held to a mini-
mum in keeping with the country’s
austerity regulations. They said
there probably would be a recep-
tion later in the week in honor of
the visiting delegations, but nothing-
lavish was planned
The same sources said that the
CASTEL GONDOLFO, Italy,
Nov 24 —- Pope Pius XII-
in a six-minute broadcast to the
United States last night—voiced
gratitude for American aid to the
distressed of Europe and said "We
hope you will save them again,
from their hopelessness.”
The pontiff lauded Catholies for
their support of the American bis-
hops' campaign to obtain food for
Europe’s needy.------
"Under the tireless leadership of'
a large-hearted, devoted hierarchy
you, beloved sons and daughter.
, of America, are in the vanguard
welcoming the visitors on behalf of that army of Christian charity,” j
of his government, he said
On Wednesday the foreign minis- “This year you have chosen and
ters were expected to start discus-
sing an agenda—a matter on which
their deputies were unable to agree
in preliminary talks.
opening session tomorrow would oe
devoted to formalities, with Bevin
chosen well, to amass your re-
sources during a week character-
ized by the dominant note of
thanksgiving to God."
Sy *
a lot of “kettles" with ear-split-
ting, keen whistles which when
sounded in valleys and hills re-
verberated time after time Ho-
boes professed to like the whistle
ss it performed the function of an
alarm clock to awaken them from
sleep in the "jungle” near the.. ._________________.
| railroad track when they felt an after his arrival from Washington to attend the Big Four
urge to "move on.”
ROYAL GREETINGS FOR MARSHALL—Secretary of State
George C. Marshall exchanges greetings with Princess Juliana
of the Netherlands on ramp of her plane at London airport
Bugsy’s Pal Freed —
HOLLYWOOD. Nov 24=
Dapper Allen Smiley, boon com-
panion of the late racketeer Ben-
amin (Bugsy) Siegel was free
under $5,000 bond today after his
arrest on an allegation of falsely
representing himself as a United
States citizen.
Revivalist Dies
HERMOSA BEACH Calif.. Nov
24—I—Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, revi-
valist and mother of the late Aimee
Semple McPherson, one of the
world’s foremost evangelists from I
whom she was often estranged
died yesterday at the age of 78.
• • •
The Texas & Pacific locomotives
have a sort of "steamboat" twang
Foreign Ministers meeting. The princess was departing for
home after attending the wedding of Princess Elizabeth. (AP
Wirephoto).
which is "broad, net audible for
any great distance" Yet a few Victims Buried
veterans of the throttle running Vicrims Purse
through Abilene have been able
to manipulate the whistle so as
to produce a very pleasing and
CHRISTCHURCH. New Zealand
Nov 24— CP)—The 41 victims of
melodious effect Just how to pull I the fire which last Tuesday de-
the whistle cord to produce the
Trieste Guards Kill
Speeding Trucker
stroyed a large department store
: modulations that result in reson- occupying an entire city block her
ant whistle music is not in any
were buried Sunday in a common
grave. Thousands of their fellow |
citizens attended the service.
book of whistling technique, en-
gineers say. "You’ve just got to
have a musical talent,” they de-
clare proudly “We get the mu-
sical score in our heads, keep
pulling the whistle until—out . it with a' unique signal -
TRIESTE, Nov 25 — One
man was reported killed and an-
other wounded Saturday as Yugo-
slav. British and Trieste Free State
guards fired at two trucks which
crashed a frontier post at Basoviz-
——---| za. 10 miles north of here, and fled
pops and then we re on the road into Yugoslav territory from the
-----— allied zone.------——-—
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