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...Other changes: Carl Kiefer, 71, moved up from executive vice president to assistant chairman; Henry Gayley, 51, became treasurer; Earl Gassenheimer, 41, comptroller; Richard Gilbert, 50, vice president...
...Ohio State's Yoshi Oyakawa, 18, who won first place in the 100-meter backstroke in 1 min. 5.7 sec., two-tenths of a second faster than the Olympic mark set in 1936 by the U.S.'s Adolph Kiefer...
Apparently disregarding a warning block signal, apparently blind to the glare of No. lys's approaching headlight, Motorman Jacob Kiefer took No. 192 down the section of double track and roared on into the gantlet. Markin's whistle was a shrill and hopeless warning of the rending crash of steel on steel as the two trains collided...
This week the Public Service Commission began its investigation. Both motormen, who had been riding in their cubicles on the comparatively intact right sides of the two cars, had survived. Markin had only minor injuries. Kiefer, apparently thrown clear, was suffering from severe shock. A veteran engineman of 26 years service, 55-year-old Jacob Kiefer was arrested and charged with criminal negligence...
...thought that Kiefer alone would have to bear the burden of the catastrophe. Even if he had failed to see the warning signal, why had the slipshod Long Island, unwanted and neglected stepchild of the great Pennsylvania Railroad*,failed to install automatic stopping devices, which Manhattan subways had had for 48 years? Fed up with years of gross-incompetence on a system that carries more passengers than any other U.S. railroad (300,000 daily), and appalled by the disastrous accident, commuters made an indignant demand: investigate the whole operation of the Long Island, rescue it from what passengers were sure...