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By FRANK JENKINS
HERE'S the expected aftermath of
tha Fourth of July. (On the
morning after a two-dy holiday, all
eolumnlsts'and dtUirlallnta are sup
posed to writ splne-chllllng pieces
bout what happens when we Amer
loan lot down our hair and hava a
good time. I rnckon II I don't fol
low tha law ol tha trlba I'll be
thrown out.)
THE latait figure allow that ovor
tha week-end (which began on
Saturday morning and ended Mon
day midnight! Old ptrwiu were
killed In vloieut accldenU.
It that bad In a nation that num
bera In lla population somewhat
mora than 140 million people?
J WOULDN'T really know. I never
u any good at mathematlca. I
scraped through high achool algebra
and geometry by tha akin of my
teeth, and by aome atrange legerde
' main that I've never been able to
rationalize I got paining gradea In
enough more of the upper-bracket
atuff to be officially alamped an
"educated" according to the stand
ards of my time. But I've never had
(much confidence In my own figur
ing. btlU, a I make It, 600-odd violent
dratlia In a nation of nearly 150
million people In three day I a
rauo of about four TO THE MIL
LION I
TF aumebody had told you last Frl
day that your chances of aurvlval
over the holiday week-end were 250.
000 to one would you have gone to
bed and covered up your head and
atayed there till Tuesday morning?
I doubt IU You would probably
have aatd: "The odds aren't ao
bad after all."
RS I read my Insurance company
statistics, holiday week-ending
lin t much more dangeroua than
laying at home and hanging a pic
ture with the aid of a alep-ladder
and then taking a bath and going to
bed.
At any rale the actuarlea (the
harp-pencil boya who figure the In
surance odds) tell ua that falling
from alep-ladders and alippmg in
the bath-tub are among our riskiest
pursuit.
rr eerma that 39B persona died In
1 traffic fatalities over the long
week-end. That la aupposed to give
those of ua who survived a bad case
of nervea. It "spotlights" for us the
haaarda of life since Henry Ford
thoughllesaly made tin Mxzlea so
cheap that nobody could afford NOT
to own one. . . , ... ........
According to my way of figuring.
that la calculated risk of some
thing Ilka two persona to the mil
lion. Put that way. It doesn't look
like a bad gamble.
THE automobile la propagandised
for us In Uiese days as the most
rlangeroui instrument ever Invented
by man. "Juggernaut" la a popular
word for It especially around Ion
week-end holiday a. The mere
mention of It In print conjures up
vision of crushed bodies and
mashed bones.
One trouble. I thin".;, lies In the
act that almost none of our pro-.
fesalonal statisticians la old enough
to remember the horse and buggy
osys. uia you ever, In a crowded
street on a Fourth of July morn-
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Crews Bat lie
Six Blazes
OverVeek-End
Fire fighting crews who had re
n.alned on Huty over the holiday
week-end had little time to bemoan
the fact they had to work, busy aa
they were squelching six flrea over
Sunday and Monday.
The six flrea, two of which broke
out almost simultaneously Sunday,
and four Monday, were all small. All
but one burned In valuable timber
country. While crews were fluhtlng
grass fire near Ellingson's mill
u which spread over 60 acres Sunday,
tv lookouts spotted another fire in the
timber near the Alexander ranch.
Three of the four flrea Monday
blossomed out at the Weyerhaeuser
tinder pit In the Clover butte area
near Clover creek and the fourth
burned a small section at Klnga
ctibln. All except the grass fire neai
Klllngson's covered less than an acre
but burned In Ponderosa forest land.
Crab Fisherman Shot Down
By Mystery Man In Plane
CRISFIELD. Md July 6 (fl A
Maryland crab fisherman was shot
to death after a plane landed beside
his boat at the Maryland-Virginia
line In lower Chesapeake bay today.
' A witness said 'he plane bore
' markings of the Virginia state con-
S servatlon agency.
There Is a tense rivalry between
J watermen of the two states, all hough
(here haa never been any violence
In . the neighborhood of today's
shooting.
The victim was Earl Nelson, about
60, a former chief of police here.
Calvin Marsh, another Maryland
crabber, brought Nelson's body
ashore. Police Chief Albert Rich
aid Marsh told this story:
He was fishing a short distance
Iway from Nelson's 26-foot boat
when a plane bearing markings of
the Virginia conservation agency
landed close to tha vessel In the
water off Fox Islands.
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MSierfwdl Rallied
678 Killed
Over Long
Week-End
By The Associated Preaa
The worst accidental death tall In
the history of (he nation's observ
ance of Independence Day waa re
tarded today. The National Bafetr
council railed (he total "a. disgrace
to a civilised country.''
I.ate tabulations showed a record
tit persona killed in violent aerl
denta during the three-day week
end. The grim report on the nation's
futilities showed 2M traffic derhs,
?45 drownings and 135 deaths in
violent accidents. The country-wide
survey covered violent deaths from
6 p. m. local time Friday tn midnight
Monday.
The toll this year smashed the
irevlous record of .2S accidental
deaths set during the three-day
c.'lebratlon of the Fourth of July In
1H41. Last year, 571 deaths were re
ported over the three-day period.
Too Much Heat
Millions took to the hlghwaya for
resorts this year to escape swelter
ing heat. Traffic deaths led the fig
ures, while drownlnga fallowed. The
National Safety council had esti
mated that 29f persona would die In
traffic mishaps.
The council's president, Ned H.
Dearborn, said In a statement today
that "It Is shameful and disgraceful
that a humanitarian and civilized
nation must sacrifice more than 700
Uvea to celebrate a holiday dedicated
to a free-secure and happy people."
"Most of the trrulic deaths over
the holiday week-end were due di
rectly or Indirectly to cheating on
traffic rules and to poor sportsman
ship," Dearborn added. "A show-off
attitude also was responsible for
drowning deaths."
This year's drowning tall broke
the record 12 established In 1 944.
The survey showed no fatalities
from fireworks.
The death toll was heaviest In
Texas, where 47 died In violent accl
denU. New York and Michigan each
reported 4 deaths.
Bishops Face
Charges Of
Collaboration
PRAGUE. July S (At Czecho
slovakia's Roman Catholic bishops
were accused today by a government
official of having collaborated with
the nazla during the occupation.
This Is one of the charges the
government apparently Intends to
press against the church hierarchy
to break their resistance to com
munist control. The communist re
gime claims that the church leaders
are "unpatriotic and waging anti
state activities" because they refuse
to negotiate a new state-church ac
cord on government terms.
The charge of collaboration with
the nails was made despite the fact
that the whole nation knows that
Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague,
the nation's primate and leader of
the church In its fight with the gov
ernment, was a nazl prisoner In
Lachau concentration camp.
The collaboration charge against
the Catholic leaders was made by
Prof. Laco Novomcsky, commissioner
of education tor Slovakia.
He spoke at ceremonies commem
orating founding of the ancient
monastery at Devln, New Bratslava,
The ceremonies were part of a long
week-end of high religious holiday.
A man left the plane and boarded
Nelson's craft. There was a shot
and the man reboarded the plane,
which took off.
Marsh climbed onto the Nelson
boat and found the man still alive.
He was : pronounced dead when
Mnrsh brought him ashore,
Rich said a quick preliminary ex
amination showed Nelson had been
shot In the hip and bled to death
from a severed artery. The position
of the wound Indicated Nelson had
his back partly turned to the
weapon.
Maryland and Virginia Issue crab.
blng licenses to respective citizens
but it Is against the law to go across
Into the other state.
Chief Rich said It was possible
Nelson's boat had drifted over the
line Into Virginia waters but he
reported that Marsh was positive
that the plane was on the Maryland
side when It landed.
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through intricate steps to thrill o huge rodeo crowd Monday.
$50 MilJon Crop Damage
Seen As
By The Associated Preaa
A scorching 43-day drought 'ap
parently has killed or spoiled more
than J50.000.000 worth of crops in
the farmlands of eight northeastern
atatea.
Moreover, farm experts warn, the
damage In the area's rich fruit, veg
etable and dairy regions win soar
to a vastly higher figure if rains do
UUI. IUUIC ill lit, uaj,.
The parched drought region
stretches from Southern New Jer
sey'a truck crop areaa up through
the dairies and farms of New York
atate, and then fans out over al
most the whole of Southern New
England.
The drought, which has Inflicted
Its searing damage for more than
six weeks, comes from a sluggUh
high pressure area that fights off
potential rail-storms.
Until that, high pressure area is;
shoved aside, the drought will last.
New Jersey's drought damaRe has
reached an estimated $28,000,000.
Loss In the po'ato crop alone ac
counts for 14,500.000.
And, along with the temperature,
prlrea of fruit and vegetables have
been climbing.
On Long Island, the big potato
crop haa suffered by $4,000,000 and
truck crops are reported aeverely
damaged. If rain doesn't come soon,
the potato crop may be depleted by
$3,000,000 worth.
Storms that hit some parti of the
state yesterday were described as a
milium dollar rain."
Scattered parts of the state got
the slaking rains, while the New
York metropolitan area was whipped
by a violent wind and rain storm
that brought destruction and death.
The utorm, though, dropped little
water on the baked land.
New England'a drought area In
cludes the vegetable, dairy and to
bacco lands that stretrh from
Southern Maine, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts and Rhode Island to Con
necticut. Professor Grant B. Syndcr, head
of the vegetable gardening depart
ment at the University of Mas
KLAMATH FALLS, OKMiON.T! r KDA V,
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sachusetts, said losses In New Eng
land now approximate five to 10
million dollars.
If there Is no real rain within a
week. Prof. Grant added, the New
England loss could approximate 30
to 40 millions.
The Connecticut valley region, he
aaid. Is In the worst state In his 28
( yw's ,rprri,n(.P,
It would take
four to six Inches of rain," Prof.
Grant aaid, to give much benefit
The valley got only .7 of an inch
rain In June Instead of Its normal
four Inchea.
Most crops, he said, are relatively
poor In quality and yields.
Tobacco is coming badly In the
valley, Prof, Grant said, and onions
are small and In poor quality.
The famous potato-farming region
of Northern Maine has escaped so
far, because the area haa had fairly
good rainfall.
Lafcevew Pilot, Passenger
Hurt In Light Plane Crash
A Lakevlew man and a young
Pordand woman were recovering
today from Injuries received late
Mondar afternoon In the crash of
a light plane alongside the Lake o'
the Woods road a mile west of the
Pelican guard station.
H. J. Rathe, 23, and Jennette
Johnson, also 33, suffered severe
facial cuts In the crash. Both were
taken to Hillside hospital.
The plane, a red and black Tay
lorcraft, was badly damaged. It was
owned by Greg Talntrr of the Goose
Lake Air service of Lakevlew.
Rathe said he had taken off from
an emergency field near Rocky
Point and made a 43 degree bank
Just before the plane crashed. The
light ship apparently came across
the Lake o' the Woods road In an
easterly direction, sheered off a
mall pine, struck a fence post and
plowed Into the ground.
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Reception
Planned For
Streamliner
-Klamath falls 1s pUJinlng jui6e
reception for the lirst Shasta Day
light to pass through here on July
7 on an exhibition run.
Opening with a streamline,4
breakfast at 7:30 a. m., the chamber
of commerce has set up a fine pro
gram for the morning.
The breakfast, to be given at the
Winem hotel. Is open lo the puo
llc, and la a no-host affair. A spe
cial prize will be award at 7:31.
Vice President C. E. Peterson of
the Southern Pacific company will
be the main speaker at Hie breax
fast. and Assistant District Passenger
Agent C. O. Olsen will also speak.
From the breakfast, the early
risers will head for the depot where
they will make a pre-opening In
sertion of the new train. The train
will be opened to the general public
at (1:30 and will remain open until
11 a. m.
Reservations for the Streamliner
breakfast may be made by phoning
the chamber of commerce at 5193.
Jury To Get Hiss
Case Thursday
NEW YORK. July 5 P The
perjury trial of Alger Hiss will go
to the Jury Thursday afternoon.
Federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman
announced today.
A recess was taken until tomorrow
morning when Judge Kaufman said
there would be "a very lew minutes
of testimony."
Tne judge said that following
testimony tomorrow the defense
would have the rest of the day for
Its summation. The government will
sum up Its case Thursday morning.
Then the Jury will have lunch in the
custody of the U. 3. marshal.
After lunch Thursday Judge
Kaufman said he would deliver his
charge to the Jury and that body
would begin Its deliberations. The
prosecution rested Its case today
after Assistant U. S. Attorney
Thomas F. Murphy failed In an at
tempt to have the court reconsider
Its ruling last week excluding test!
money by a former wife of Gerhart
Eisler.
Rathe said It felt like the bottom
fell out of the plane."
Clifford Sargent of Fort Klamath
aaw the plune go down and put In
a rail to Sheriff Jack Franry who
In turn railed Kaler's ambulance to
bring Rathe and Miss Johnson fo
the hospital. The lake road was
heavy with traffic and many per
sons saw the plane overhead just
before It crashed.
Raymond McNabb, coming down
from the lake, was first to reach the
downed plane. He said both Rathe
and Miss Johnson were still In t e
craft and that the pilot was knocked
out. Miss Johnson was conscious and
screaming but was able to get out
herself. McNabb lifted Rathe out
and stopped Sargent to have him
call the sheriff.
Rathe Is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
HJsimar 8. Rathe of Klamath Falls
and Is employed by the American
Box company In Lakevlew.
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HugeCrovds
Jam 3-Day
Rodeo Here
Buck Rutherford, hard -riding
oiwboy of Nowata, Okla, was hand
ed the all-around cowboy buckle for
competition in the 1949 Klamath
Basin Roundup following three days
of fast riding and roping.
The buckle was awarded by Char
lie Rend s Saddle shop.
Huge crowds swarmed the fair
grounds during the three rodeo per
formances. There wasn't seal In
the house at the July Fourth after
noon show, and the Saturday night
and Sunday afternoon competition
saw near-capacity crowds as top
cowboys vied for the all-around
title.
Rutherford nabbed the average I
monev in the Brahma bull riding. I
and third money In the bareback
bronc riding.
Second, third and fourth In the i
best average for the two bull-riding
go-rounds went to Cotton Rosser,
San Luis Obispo. Calif.; Geralo
Roberts, Strong City, Kans.; and
Wag Blessing. San Fernando. Calif j
Baekaroo Billy Ward of Angel's
(amp, Calif., waa the champion
saddle bronc rider. He waa followed
bv Casey Tibba, VL Pierre, R. D.;
Roberts, and Carl Huckfeldt of Ok
" i lnhoraa.
San Jose's Duncan Brown rode
the best two go-rounds tn bareback
competition to grab high average in
that event. He was followed by
j Johnny Crethers. Ft. Worth, Texas;
Rutherford, and Tibbs.
, Dave Campbell of Reno. Nev . won
high honors in the rough bulldog
. f ing event. Lex Connolly, Tater
j Decker and Cliff Whately finished
I two, three and lour In the two go
at round'dogglng averages. -?T
Campbell's time for the two steer
wrestling go-rounds was 15 seconds
fiat.
In the calf roping, Asbury SchelL
Arizona, roped and tied In 33.4 for
the two rides to nab top spot In that
event. He was trailed by Homer
Pettigrew. New Mexico; Decker and
tddie SchelL
Cliff Whatley of Texas and C.im
McKinney of Arizona teamed up to
arab top average money in the team
tying test. Their two go-round time
was 34.4 seconds.
H. Ramsey-McKinney were sec
ond, Asbury and Eddie Schell. third,
and team Leon Smith-Eddie SchelL
fourth.
Calf roping for local cowhands
went to Stan Johnson who hung up
a 71.4 total time for his two rides.
Pete Gale was second, Howard
Curry, third.
There was a depression In good
team-tyera in the local area. Aa a
csult, Joe McAuliffe and Johnson
were the only two to finish with
registered times. They rode twice
for a Sg.4 seconds time.
Cowgal Ann Curry booted her
horse home In front twice In the
nuarter-mile stock horse race, a
contest for Klamath basin horses
only. She nipped Tiburcio Alvarez
Monday and edged In front of the
Skyline rjnen entry on Sunday's
s::ow.
In the quarter-horse race. Alvarez
und Bill Dingier staged two neck-and-neck
races Sunday and Mon
day, swapping first places. Alvarez
von Sunday and Dingier came In
fast In the home stretch to nip Al
varez during the Fourth of July
show.
The gals grabbed the racing hon-
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TWO WERE HURT H. J. Rathe, 23, of Lakeview, and Jeanette Johnson, 23, of Portland,
were injured yesterday afternoon when this light plane crashed just off the Lake o' the
Woods road. They were brought to Hillside hospital. Sheriff Jack Fianey, left, investigated
the crash along with itats police and forest tervice men. .
2 Dead, Woman
Assaulted; Net
Out For Killer
SONOMA, Calif. July I (JPi
Peace officers patrolled Northern
California highways today In their i
search for a man known aa liana
to question him In a double slaying
and rape in Jack London'e scenic I
Valley of the Moon. I
A woman clad only In a T-sh'rt j
and bleeding from a beating fled
hysterically down a mountain road
yesterday to tell a picnic party of j
the crimes. Officers who Investi
gated found two men dead In the
mountain home from which she had i
fled.
The two dead men evidently bad
been clubbed with a four-pound
: stone pestle once used by Indiana i
j to grind grain. It waa found, bloody '
and hair-covered, outside the house.
! Chief Criminal Investigator Andy j
I Johansen of the sheriff's office
; identified the victims as Pcr J. !
I Jc mien, 55. owner of the house and
! chief landscape gardener of the
Sonoma state home; and Peter J. I
I Flint, 31, newly-commiasloned mer- I
t chant marine lieutenant of Rich-
mond, Calif. i
I Flint, member of a Sonoma valley '
family which dated from the days of
1849, waa reported a longtime friend I
of Jensen. j
Officers issued an all-points bul
letln for a mystery man identified j
to them only as "Hank." He last
was seen driving Flint's ml Buick
convertible. 1
In a serious, but apparently not ;
critical condition in a hospital here ;
was Mrs. Eva Paget oi neraeiej.
Calif,
27-year-old mother of two
Coal Miners
Enter Pits,
No Contract
PITTSBURGH. July S Al
moat alt of the nation's 4M.00
hard and soft coal miners returned
to the pita today without a con
tract at the end of their annual
paid vacation.
The work resumption started the
first of an Indefinite number of
three-day work weeks expressly or
dered by John L. twis for miners
east of the Mississippi. The short
work-wee --order scrapped the
United Mine Workers' long-standing
"no contract, no work" policy.
The new plan will remain in ef
fect while negotiations between the
union and the operators continue
on a new contract to replace the
pact that expired last Thursday.
700 Idle
At least "004 of the SJ.OOt West
ern Pennsylvania soft coal diggers
were forced to remain Idle. Several
producers were unable to resume
production this week because an
tlclp ,i!ng a mine shut-down under
the old IMW policy they had
given super' otendents and other
supervisory personnel vacations.
Some of tha e mines' key personnel
waa scatter 1 from California to
Canada.
In other instances, repair work
undertaken during the vacation
period has not been completed.
Many of the miners will be able
to work again by next Monday.
Lewis and the soft coal operators
resume talks July 12 to try and
reach a new agreement. The mine
contract ran out June 30 while the
miners were in the midst of their
vacation. Lewis is set to confer
with the anthracite (hard coal)
operators for the first time at
Philadelphia Thursday.
BULLETIN
NEW YORK. July S W Ez
xard Charles, newly crowned NBA
heavyweight champion, today
signed to defend his title against
Gus Lesnevich. former world light
Heavyweight champion. In 15
round match at Yankee stadium.
Wednesday, August 10. Harry
Markson of Madison Square Gar
den announced the match for the
international boxing club.
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children. It waa her atory of being
beaten and raped which led offlcera
to the alaylngs.
Two San Francisco picnickers,
Constance Hoover and Margaret
Smith, told police Mrs. Paget, wear
ing only a T-shirt and bleeding from
severe blows, came upon them and
hysterically told them she had been
raped.
They rushed ber to Boyea Hprlnga,
from where a highway patrol car
too her to the hospital here.
Mia. Paget to the wife of a service
man, but the couple la eeparaiea
h husband now is aomewnrr.
'he Esst, family members said.
Pact Debate
Opens Today
In Senate
WASHINGTON. Julv S IIP Sen
ator Connally ID-Texas) today .
opened senate debate on the Atlan
tic pact with a plea for swift ap
proval aa "unmistakable proof" that
free nations will stand togrtbjr
against attack.
In the treaty, he said, "the free
rations of the North Atlantic area
lay before the nations of the world
a noble declaration that no armed
aggressor, no swaggering conqueror,
no military despot shall Invade the
North Atlantic area."
The 20-year compact haa been
signed by the United States, Canada
and 1 European nations, but It
must be ratified by a two-thirds
senate vote before It becomes bind
ing on this country. Fewer than a
dozen senators are expected to op
pose It.
Connally. chairman of the enata
foreign relations committee, urged
his colleagues to stamp their ap
proval on the alliance as quickly aa
fusible.
Consolidation
Liberty most be preserved even
though "purchased in blood. ho
declared In his prepared speech. And
he described the pact aa "an effort
to coordinate and consolidate that
doty upoa the group aa a whole
rather than to leave each individual
country the h titleless task of defend
ing Itself. - - .
But ConnaHy Insisted that tha
treaty does not automatically com
mit the United States to fight tn
case an ally is attacked.
He also made clear that no sena
tor who votes for the pact will be
bound to vote for the proposed
SI. 130.000.000 arms-for-Europe pro
giam. President Truman has not yet
sent the arms plans to congress.
Senate leaders have aaid It will be
submitted after the senate votes on
the treaty.
While opposition to the pact has
been slight, there are many senators
critical of the related arms program.
Connally told the senate that
while the anna program and the
p:ict "are not inseparable" he hopes
personally that both will be ap
proved during this session of con
gress. Seventh Fence
Is Last Straw
SEATTLE, July 5 (Pi The sev
enth fence in a running property
line dispute was the one that
Liought the feud Into the open. It
sent Mrs. Ida Mittelberger, 73-year-old
authoress, and her brother-in-law,
Fred Whisler, to Jail.
Mrs. Mittelberger put the heroine
of her last novel in jail, but this Is
her first personal appearance In
those surroundings. She admitted
helping tear down the fence on dis
puted land between her property
and that of R. C. Dillon. But she
said Dillon himself removed six pre
vious barriers. That is where mat
ters lay today while the defendants,
charged with malicious destruction
of property, contemplate! the $250
bail each required to ga.n freedom.
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