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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2. 1941
626 PERSONS DIE
VIOLENT DEATHS
Auto Traffic Claims 16
Six States Have None
California Leads.
(By Associated Press)
Six hundred twenty-six per
sons were killed in accidents or
bv other violence over the boil
day week-end. 423 of them in
highway traffic, heavy with
home-bound vacationists and
tourists on their final outing of
the summer.
An Associated Press survey
showed today 73 drowned and
130 died In shootings, stabbing
falls, fires, airplane accidents
and by other violent means.
The traffic toll compared with
a prediction by the National
Safety council that boo persons,
or 180 more than on a normal
summer week-end, would be
killed in traffic between 8 p. m.
Friday and midnight Monday,
The council's forecast, however,
Included those injured In noli
day crashes who might die later,
Deaths from all violent causes
over the Labor day week-end
a year ago totaled 914 as against
614 this year.
Four states Nevada, North
Dakota, South Dakota. Wyoming
reported no traffic deaths over
the week-end. Nebraska has had
no fatal automobile accidents
since Thursday when seven were
killed. Its one . violent death
over the holiday was caused by
kicking horse.
New York City had no traffic
deaths in the 24 hours ending
last midnight.
The automobile fatalities In
eluded Robert L. Ramsay, Jr.,
son of Rep. Ramsay (D., W. Va.)
who was thrown from a slde
swlped car near Rockland, Md.
He died Sunday of a broken
neck.
Near La Junta, Colo., a bump
er fell from an automobile. The
car's wheels hurled It through
a window of a passing car where
It struck and killed a 10-year-old
girl passenger.
A runaway automobile plung
ed down a steep hill and into
a wedding party outside the
bride's home in Pottsville, Pa.
The bride, bridegroom and seven
guests were injured, one seri
ously. Two-year-old Oeraldine Kosen
tos of McKeesports, Pa., burned
to death when a match acci
dentally fell Into her grass hula
skirt, setting it afire.
Duane Smith, 19, of Fort Col
lins, Colo., fell 300 feet down
a mountainside to his death.
In Chicago, four persons were
Injured and scores thrown Into
panic when a huge Brahma bull
broke from a rodeo corral and
charged into a holiday throng.
Two policemen were gored be
fore it was killed.
California led in traffic ac
cident deaths with 46. Ohio had
28 and Illinois 27. Michigan had
the most drownings, 18, and
Ohio the most fatalities from
miscellaneous causes, 13,
HALTED BY RAIN
Rain at this time Is not bene
ficial to the county's tomato
crop, the county agent's office
said today, adding that prolon
gation of the present rainy
weather would not be good for
truck crops in general.
Rain cracks ripened tomatoes
and molds set in and grow, the
office explained. It was pointed
out, however, that bulk of the
crop is not yet ripe and that
the rain would not hurt the to
matoes until they were ripe or
nearly ripe. Sunshine would
be beneficial, It was added.
The current rainy spell has
delayed harvesting of pears, the
office said. Rainfall in August
touted 1 03 Inches at the Med
ford experimental station, the
office quoted Dr. E. S. Degman,
In charge of the station, as re
porting.
Rain today and last night was
general over the Rogue River
national forest, headquarters
said. The precipitation ranged
from .22 of an inch at Dutch
man Peak station in the Apple
gate district to 1.5 inches at Lake
o' Woods.
Relieving fire danger, the rain
afforded lookouts and guards
leave today, headquarters re
ported. It was still raining to
day in parts of the forest.
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Day Off for 2 Firemen
Firemen can't get any rest
even on their day off. Take
Firemen Howard Glascock and
Gordon Barker, for example.
Having day off, they went
to Lake o' Woods yesterday to
relax from the constant vigil of
being on fire guard.
All went well enough until
the trip home last evening. They
Joined some friends who had
been vacationing at the lake and
there were four cars of them
when they started home, Gor
don being in the second, Howard
in the fourth auto. In front was
A. E. Lalng, 260 Beatty street
who had been at the lake a
couple of weeks.
Half way to Ashland over the
Dead Indian road, Lalng smelled
something burning in his car.
By the time he had stopped to
Edward and Albert Johnson,
brothers, of Montague, Calif.,
were confined in Community
hospital today with injuries they
suffered when their car, oper
ated by Edward, crashed into a
telephone pole near 1234 North
Riverside avenue shortly after 3
a. m. today, breaking off the
pole even with the ground.
Neither was seriously hurt,
Edward suffering a deep cut on
the Jaw and severe bruises, and
Albert sustaining a scalp lacera
tion and bruises, their attending
physician stated.
City police, who took them to
the hospital following the accl
dent, quoted the driver as ex
plaining that the steering gear
stuck and the car went out of
control while they were travel
ing south on North Riverside
avenue.
The car, police said, traveled
along the right hand curb for
about 10 feet, leaped the curb
and continued for 33 feet more
along the parking strip before
ramming head-on into the phone
pole. The machine was badly
damaged.
SEPTEMBER OPENS
WITH .52 IN. RAIN
Medford residents observed a
rainy Labor day yesterday while
a year ago temperatures ranged
to 88 degrees. Mercury plugged
along at a maximum of 64 de
grees yesterday but rain, total
ing .82 inches fell in the valley,
exceeding by .30 Inches the
normal September rainfall, giv
ing the valley a send off as far
as precipitation is concerned for
the month. Average September
rainfall totals .92 inches.
Although the rainfall yester
day was heavy and exceeded in
one day the monthly precipita
tion total for September the
weather bureau reports that It
was by no means a record.
Files show that September 8,
1931 rainfall totaled .09 inches.
Last year total precipitation for
September was 2.31 Inches.
Births
BEATON To Mr. and Mrs.
Allen, 333 Maple street, Sep
tember 1, girl, 6i lbs., at
Sacred Heart hospital.
WEBBER To Mr. and Mrs.
Harry, Eagle Point, August 31,
a boy, 7 lbs., at Sacred Heart
hospital.
ABBOTT To Mr. and Mrs.
Loyal, Rt. 1, Medford. Aug.
31, boy, 6U lbs., at Sacred
Heart hospital.
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First Federal
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of Medford
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investigate, Gordon had come up
and the sight of smoke sent him
Into action quickly. Just then
Howard came up also and team
work developed.
The two firemen quickly de
termined the seat of the trouble.
They flipped open the hood of
Laing's car and there on top of
the hot motor was the smolder
ing fire. It was a pack rat's
nest of pieces of wood and in
middle of the nest was an
odoriferous bone that a dog
had abandoned but the rat had
stored away on top of Mr.
Laing's engine. The two fire
men put the smoldering nest out
post haste. Aside from kind of
spoiling the firemen's day off,
there was no damage. The pack
rat evidently got out of its nest
before the blaze started.
BURGLAR ENTERS
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H. F. Brlngle of 619 West
Second street reported to city
police Monday that his house
was burglarized over the week
end of a string of pearls valued
at $50, two fountain pens and a
hunting knife.
Investigating, police discov
ered that the burglar effected
entrance to the residence by
tearing a screen off a window
on the west side of the house
and then breaking the glass of
the window. The burglar left
a pair of gloves on a bed, police
said.
Redmond Area Dranchsd
Redmond, Sept. 2. (JP) A
total of '.22 of an inch of rain
dampened Labor day picnics
and delayed harvests in central
Oregon yesterday.
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SALVATION ARMY,
ISSUES PLEA FOR
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With the advent of autumn
and the re-opening of schools,
the Salvation Army Issued a
plea today for help for Impov
erished families.
Warm clothing for children,
both boys and girls, of ail ages,
is needed urgently, said Adju
tant Charles K. Cox, head of
the Salvation Army corps in
this district. Many of the chil
dren need the clothes before
they can start to school, he
added, to emphasize the urgency
of the situation. The children s
needs Include shoes of all
sizes, he said.
There will soon be calls for
bedding, mattresses, springs and
covers, Adjutant Cox stated,
and an effort is being made to
procure these things now
through donation for distribu
tion as the need arises.
Needed immediately are
quart and half gallon Jars for
canning purposes. Adjutant Cox
said. Much canning is being
done at the Salvation Army
hall, Bartlett and Fourth
streets, and needy families are
putting up fruits and vegetables
in their own homes but need
Jars, he stated. Anyone with
Jars to spare was urged by the
adjutant . to get in touch with
the Salvation Army as soon as
possible.
BILLY PATTON TO
PRESENTPUPPETS
A puppet show will be given
by Billy Patton, Medford young
ster, in the recreation tent at
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the migrant farm labor camp at
8 tonight.
Prior to the show Mrs. Dwlght
L. Houghton, 813 Newton street,
will give a short talk on pup
pets. The Patton youngster made
his own stage, all the' puppets
to be used tonight, wrote the
script for his show and will play
all the parts but one. He will
be assisted by Earl Bradfish.
After the show there will be
a short community meeting to
elect a councilman to take the
place of Joe Adler who left yes
terday for the apple orchards at
Wenatchee, Wash.
Rain the past couple of days
has thrown most of the workers
at the camp temporarily out of
employment and has made liv
ing in the tent city somewhat
uncomfortable, the management
said.
Considerable I m p r o v ement
was noted in the conditions to
day of Mrs. Archie McBee of
206 Cottage street and her
daughter, Mrs. Edward Taylor
of Monterey, Cal.. both of whom
were seriously injured in the
automobile accident Sunday af
ternoon that took the life of
20-year-old Mrs. Albert R. Bar
row, Mrs. McBee's daughter.
Their attending physician said
that both appeared to be better,
although neither was entirely
out of danger as yet. Mrs. Tay
lor, the most seriously hurt, is
confined in Sacred Heart hos
pital with a fractured pelvis,
left arm and left leg. Mrs. Mc
Bee, in Community hospital, has
a broken right arm and probable
internal injuries.
The mishap occurred on the
Diamond lake highway a mile
this side of the lake, the car
plunging over a four-foot bank
and crashing into a tree.
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10 ABOARD LOST,
ON OCEAN FLIGHT
London, Sept. 2. (T Two
Americans and Count Guy De
Bail let-La tour, son of the chair
man of the international Olynv
.pic committee, Count Henri De
Baillet-Latour, were among ten
persons aboard a transport plane
of the RAF ferry command
given up for lost today by the
air ministry.
The ferry command at first
announced the Olympic official
himself was aboard the plane,
but the Belgian embassy later
confirmed that it was the son,
who is assistant military attache
of the Belgian embassy in Lon
don and son-in-law of James
Clement Dunn, political advisor
to U. S. Secretary of State Cor-
dell Hull.
Count Guy had been In Wash
ington on a mission as a mem
ber of the staff of the minister
of colonies of the emigre Bel
gian government. His father still
is in Belgium.
The Americans were Capt. S.
Picing of the U. S. navy, a
passenger; and Flight Engineer
Charles Alvan Spence, of Little
Neck, L. I., N. Y., a member
of the crew.
The plane left North America
(presumably Canada) yesterday
for England. In announcing the
craft was msising today the air
ministry said the next of kin of
those aboard had been informed.
The ferry command, whose
airmen fly new American-made
bombing planes to Britain and
bring fliers to the American side
of the ocean for more, suffered
two serious crashes recently
which took a toll of 44 lives,
including those of 18 Americans.
On August 10 a plane taking
off from England for North
America, returning pilots for
new assignments, crashed and
killed 22, including seven Amer-
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over on him about 8:15 a. m.,
Lewis Parker of 413 South Cen-f.
tral avenue was receiving treat-r'
ment for bruises, scratches and
a back injury in Community
hospital today. His attending
physician said X ray pictures
were being taken of the injured
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