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JULY 5. 1949 lfte PER COPY SUNDAY 11.25 PES MONTH 5c A COPY BY BLUffi(KILLEE 1 All-Points Bulletin Is Out for Suspected Seaman SONOMA, July 4 (UP) An all-points bulletin was dispatched tonight for a man identified as Henry Berch-enstein, Oakland, merchant seaman formerly from Brooklyn, N. who is wanted for questioning about the murder of two men and the rape of a woman near here today. The bulletin was sent by Oakland police and asked Like a Dime Pulp Story, But-Different By C. J.

LEABO Staff Writer SONOMA, July 4 It could almost be called a dime pulp murder. Except this one is here. And :4 4 that all persons In the automobile driven by Berchenstein be held on suspicion of murder. Police still believed, however, that the murders and attack, were committed by one person. The description of Berchenstein was: 34-35 years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, weight between 160 and 170, dark hair, ruddy complexion, wearing: a maritime uniform.

He had been introduced as a former roommate of one of the victims, Peter Flint, at the Alameda Maritime Academy. He was driving: the victim's 1941 dark green Buick coupe with a light colored convertible top. By FRED FLETCHER Staff Writer SONOMA, July 4 Two men it's real. Two men have been beaten to death here, in Sonoma Valley. On this Fourth of July something new hangs over the valley.

You can hear it on the streets. People are talking about it over hamburgers and across fences. Some of the celebrants dont know about it. And they are driving, talking, enjoying their holiday. But others are thinking about the recent killing of Paul Zim-Tnerman by a Sonoma State home inmate -and then today's two deaths.

Twice in less than a month a slaying has been committed in the valley. It shows its effect on the valley people. Everything except the location the double-slaying of Peter Jay Jensen and Peter J. Flint could have been torn from the pages of a mystery story I I ft I Vi Li i -i H- HERE'S THE SPOT where Mrs. Eva Paget a.

"roller" towel, a "GI" web belt and an was tied to a tree and brutally beaten, ordinary bath towel. Arrow points to Note the items attacker used to tie his blood on tree wThere Mrs. Paget's head was victim to the tree a pair of tan khaki apparently struck by her attacker, trousers lashed to a tree with a stout cord, -a, i -4 -vt tmM i Hi mi 11 'mi ifc 'I" -nili'iliim iiM I 27-year-old mother beaten and annarentlv raned todav in a sav- 1 -w where their bodies were found is THIS IS THE weapon officers believe was used to kill two almost lost in Triniti canyon near men and severely injure a woman near Glen Ellen yes-Glen Ellen, terday. It is a stone pestle, originally used by early Cali-YOU DRIVE up Triniti road for fornia Indians to grind acorns. It is a collector's item and: about two miles and then twist was the property of Peter J.

Jensen, one of the victims back off the paved road for about and owner of the Triniti Canyon cabin where the double murder took place. 71 i PETER JAY JENSEN" Then go up the steps. There are JT- red, dark red spots blood along Thousands Head Home After Big July 4 Empire Weekend the twenty or so stone steps that lead to the porch. YOu walk in the open end of the to the door right in the HighRussian Production Is Claimed center. A large splash of red is there on the front, the marl? left An auto accident on Faught road at 2:30 p.

m. yesterday resulted in by the blood of Eva Paget, now recovering from the afternoon's nightmare in Sonoma Valley Com 4 age series of brutal crimes about six miles north of here. The Sonoma county sheriff's office issued an all points bulletin for a man known only as "Hank," and driving a white-topped, green convertible coupe belonging to one of his victims. The dead were Peter J. Jensen, 55, supervisor of grounds maintenance at the Sonoma State Home, and Peter Richmond merchant marine lieutenant and brother of R.

A. Flint, Boyes Springs. They were found in Mr. Jensen's Triniti canyon cottage early yesterday afternoon by sheriff's deputies summoned by a nearly nude, badly beaten woman who fled the place, screaming that she had been raped. The woman, identified as Mrs.

Eva Paget, of Berkeley, 27, was taken to Sonoma Valley Community hospital, where doctors said she suffered from four gashes on the head, probably one skull fracture, and crushed hands. She was expected to survive. The death weapon apparently was a bloodied, hair-covered stone pestle, taken from among a number of Indian curios in the Jensen garden. It was found just outside the front door of the Eldridge official's picturesque, U-shaped house. Thousands traveled over Redwood Empire highways last night as the July 4 holiday, the last three-day weekend until Labor Day, ended with a record number of deaths over the nation.

At midnight last night, accidents had claimed 609 people. Traffic accidents took 265; there munity hospital. At one side lies a pestle about nine inches long and three or four minor injuries to three persons. The driver of the car, Barbara Ellis, 20, of 615 McDonald avenue, said her car went out of control and struck a culvert. She was released after first aid at the Sonoma County Hospital, as was John Woopert, 22, of Oakland.

He inches thick. It's like many others strewn around, the front of the cottage; just one. of a collection, was cut on the back when thrown For pictures of July 4 celebrations in Redwood Empire yesterday, turn to page-14. from the car. Miss Ellis' grandmother, Mrs.

Jennie Williams, 80, i. suffered bruises and cuts. She was sent to the Tanner Hospital after first aid. Lucile Debenham, 29, of 560 Hilton street, Oakland, was treated for shock at the Sonoma Coun- Continued on Page 2, Col. 4) but this one was a brutal, vicious weapon just a short time ago when it battered out the lives of two men.

After the door squeaks open you can see the dark interior, of the cottage. But you can feel it first. Something hangs heavy there. This is where the flavor of the Orient comes to you. Tapestries cover the walls and drape from the ceiling.

You bump your head and look up. It's a low-hanging candle LAKE SUCCESS, July 4 (AP) The United Nations published figures tonight claiming that Russia and her satellites increased their industrial production more in 1948 than the Marshall Plan countries did. The statistics were part, of a 117-page section of the UN's 1948 world economic report. The report goes before the 18-nation economic and social council in Geneva tomorrow. The figures used as a basis 'of the report are in most cases supplied by the individual governments.

The UN makes no attempt to check them. The UN economists presented new warnings that a recession appeared to be beginning in the United States and other countries. "The second half of 1948 and the beginning of 1949 appear to represent a turning point in postwar economic development," the report said. THE BODY OF Lt. Peter Flint of the Mari- Carl Krueger, both of Bates and Evans time Service is carried out of the Triniti Mortuary, Sonoma.

The front doorstep is Canyon cabin where two were murdered spot where Mrs. Eva Paget was struck yesterday. Men in the foreground carry- down, ing the body are, Clair Turney, left, and Sudden Gale holder there isn't any electricity. iius oeven In New York NEW YORK, July 4 (UP) A sudden and violent storm lashed the New York area briefly with gale winds up 58 miles per hour today, killing at least seven Over to the right a fat, dark Budda squats on a table and silently watches. Along a rack on the left wall is a collection of china chocolate pots, hidden by drapes that slide away.

In the midst of this strange setting not lavish or expensive, but strange two men lay dead today. Each in separate beds made of mattresses heaped one on the other, each in one of. the arms of the U. were 186 drownings; 33 died from the heat; 15 were victims of airplane crashes and 110 died in miscellaneous mishaps, the United Press said. In the Redwood Empire, traf-fice deaths were at a minimum, with two- fatalities Saturday the only accidental deaths reported.

Dead were Robert G. I Koeh-ler, 18, of San Francisco, killed when his motorcycle went out of control on the Calistoga-Napa highway and Lt. Thomas Pierce III, 24, of Hamilton Field, killed when hurled from his car near the Black Point bridge near the Marin-Sonoma county line. The Independence Day weekend saw a record crowd at the Russian River. Thousands were forced to camp on the beaches and beside the highway.

A traffic jam between Rio Nido and Guerneville tied up hundreds of cars Sunday. Beaches were filled. Other Redwood Empire resort spots were also crowded by the holiday throng. Thousands watched motor boat races at The Petaluma Old Adobe Days celebration drew other thousands in its initial year. The fireworks last night were a highlight of the event ACCIDENTS AROUND the Empire sent several people to the "For the first time since the persons, capsizing hundreds or.

end of the war, there was a re versal in the upward trend of 1 i A i prices, a check to the expansion of production and some increase in unemployment in a number of countries." The 'report said specific measures, both national and international, were urgently needed "to small boats and causmg considerable property damage. At a late hour tonight almost a score of persons still were re ported missing from sailboat outings on Long Island Sound and other waters that were whipped into turbulent seas by the swirling winds. The Coast Guard received some 300 distress calls from upturned, sinking or otherwise disabled small craft, most of them sailboats. It dispatched every vessel and plane in this area at its command to aid in rescue efforts. raise the world level of economic activity and to counter possible recession." THEY LIE still with white sheets pulled up over them, incongruous in the darkness of the house.

Again you see the dark red stain, spattered on the sheets and in small pools on the floor. Then you go out through the kitchen, where the killer stopped to drink a bottle of beer and wash himself, into the back yard. At the base of a stubby scrub oak is a mess of -string, knotted toweling and a pair of tightly (Continued on Pare 2, CoL 6) i i HvJ si, A II f-' Si I 1 -3 The storm hit this drought- Senate Starts Pact Debate stricken area without warning at 4:15 p. m. EDT while some 000 New Yorkers lolled on th beaches and hundreds of others WASHINGTON, July 4 (AP) MRS.

PAGET sounded the alarm that led to the gruesome discovery when she stumbled down the canyon road toward the Sonoma highway and told two San Francisco picknickers she had been raped. She was covered with blood and clad only in a shirt. The picnickers, Mrs. Constance Hoover and Mrs. Margaret Smith, took the woman to the main highway and flagged down Highway Patrolman John Coon-ey, who raced Mrs.

Raget to the hospital in Sonoma. Weak and only half conscious, she managed to gasp out to Deputy Sheriff John O'Brien and Henry Maysonnave of Sonoma who accompanied him, to "not be surprised if you find two bodies." THE PAIR went back to the scene and found the bodies of Mr. Jensen and Lieutenant Flint, in two separate beds, each in an end of the U-shaped cottage. The bodies lay on bloody beds, each covered by a sheet. Both were nude.

Mrs. Paget, divorced mother of a son and daughter, had been vacationing with her children at the Londonside resort, adjacent to the Jack London ranch. Glen Ellen. This is on the opposite side of the Sonoma highway from Mr. Jensen's mountain cabin off Triniti road.

Friends said Mrs. Paget had known both lieutenant Flint and Mr. Jensen for many years. From her bed today the hysterical and sobbing woman managed to tell deputies this story: Last night Lieutenant Flint introduced her to a man she knew only as "Hank." This morning, about 10 a.m., the man went to Londonside in Lieutenant Flint's car, a 1941 Buick convertible, and told her that Flint had broken his arm. He asked her to go and help him.

She drove with the man to the Jensen home. As they walked up the front steps, the man struck her over the head, dragged her into the back yard, raped her, and then tied her to a tree with a belt, a towel and a pair of trousers. She said she had noticed that his trousers were bloodstained, officers said, and added that after the man assaulted her he entered the house for three or. four minutes. When he came out, he had changed clothes.

sailed the surrounding waters in an effort to escape the record Payroll Tax Increase Seen To Broaden Social Security 96.7 degree heat. 1 I he senate opens debate tomorrow on the North Atlantic treaty without a sign of an organized fight against it. There are indications today that In a freak accident In central Park, a boy was blown from a rock on a lake edge into trie water and drowned. But the short WASHINGTON, July 4 (AP) debate on the 12-nation against Communist aggression may lived squall took its greatest toll last no more than one week. among pleasure boaters seeKing relief from the heat.

Congressional drafters of new social security legislation were reported today to have agreed tentatively to let payroll taxes reach 3 per cent in 15 years. They also White-haired Senator Connally chairman of the sen REVERE. Mass. A spectacular ate foreign relations committee. $250,000 fire destroyed two three- will lead off the argument for the would bring about 12,000,000 more persons under old age insurance.

story nOteiS, IOUr lOagmg nuuaea ami kitc summer cottages on the pact. He has carefully prepared Definite decisions had not Deen an uouu-word speech. made, but the house ways and Connally will speak in the Capi means committee was understood, tol's historic old supreme court room. The senate will meet there extended to 20,000,000 more. The committee appears willing to extend coverage to the self employed such as doctors, lawyers, businessmen to household workers, and several smaller categories.

But it has not put farm operators and farm' workers among those to be blanketed under the insurance. 3. Boost benefits under the insurance program, probably by more than 50 per cent, to meet increased cost of living. Payments to insured persons over 65 now average about $25 a month. This probably would jump to $40 or more.

4. New disability insurance payments, meaning that insured persons who become totally and permanently disabled would draw benefits just as though they had reached the retirement age. after weeks of closed-door sessions, to have drawn a rough draft of legislation which would: boulevard of famed Revere beach today. i Two firemen were injured battling the wind-whipped general alarm fire which converted a valuable waterfront block in the Oak island section to rubble in the three hours before the blare while workmen repair the roof of THIS IS THE bed on which Peter Flint owned by Peter J. Jensen, the 'other vic-was killed in yesterday's gruesome double tim.

Note the collection of delicate Chi-murder near Glen Ellen. The house was naware pitchers and Oriental tapestries. -Government Announces Lumber Plan V-WASHINGTON, July 4 (UP) how much lumber Marshall plan Under the plan, national for- the senate chamber. 1. Let payroll taxes, now one This means the public will get per cent against employes pay and employers' payrolls alike, in crease January 1.

19o0 to ln per countries will need this year. cent on each, and on January 1, no chance to listen to the debate which signals an important change in America's traditional policy of avoiding European alliances. The room is too small to seat anyone except senators and news 1952. to. 2 per cent each.

This is now provided by law. The new proposal would add provisions for The agriculture department moved today to protect buyers of national forest lumber from being stuck with high priced timber in a falling market. It was additional evidence of federal concern about the state the present lumber market. The economic cooperation admin The agriculture department announced that it had put an "elevator clause" in government timber sale contracts to protect purchasers. The new policy applies to the 12 chief timber producing states California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Arizona, Nevada.

Utah, New Mexico, Wyo Senator Watkins Utah), the was controlled. Several nearby buildings were singed and 23 automobiles were damaged. irTTSBUEGII Four persons were killed and eight were injured tonight when the front of an old store building on Pittsburgh's northside crumbled and crashed to the crowded sidewalk. (Continued on Page 2, CoL S) 'I an increase to 2Vz per cent in I960 and to 3 per cent on each in 1965. 2.

Add 12.000.000 to the ap est timber will continue to be sold to the highest bidder. But for the rest of 1949, the agreed price' Will not necessarily remain fixed during the period in which the timber is being cut. The department said that every three months the bid price will be adjusted, upward or downward, depending on lumber prices. pact's chief critic, will head the opposition and try to have a reservation tacked onto the treaty. Some 5,000,000 self-employed persons may be required to pay social security taxes one and one-half times greater than' other classifications of covered em proximately 30,000,000 persons already covered by old age and survivors insurance.

President Tru He wants to make sure Congress is not giving up its constitutional istration has a representative in ming, Colorado and South Da- jurope now trying to find out kota. ployes. man requested that coverage be (Continued on Page 2, CoL 1), 'right to declare war..