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1547 No. 221 5) Q) IB 7 nn II Ij PI nrirr ii rninnr Army, Navy Officials Silent as "Flying Saucers" Reporis Pour in From Many Parts of U.S. HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL IN NATION PAST 200 MARK 3 Persons Are Killed in Accidents During; 4th of July in Iowa By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Idaho and other states in the far west One commercial airline pilot said he had even chased one of the "saucers" and that he was unable to catch up with it Another observer, Frank Ry-man. Seattle. snapped a photograph, taken from about feet a long distance from which to photograph any kind of a flying object His print showed 2 tiny dots in the center.

One of the dots, he admitted, was a defect in the negative. The other supposedly the "object" was little larger than a pin head. The pilot and co-pilot of a United Airlines passenger plane said they turned their craft off its course near Boise, Idaho, and chased a "strange object" for 15 miles before it outdistanced them or disintegrated in the dusk. United Capt. R.

J. Smith and Second Officer R. E. Stevens, both of Seattle, said "we can definitely say that what we saw was not smoke, not a cloud, and not another, airplane." The army and navy remained silent on the flying discs except to deny certain suggested theories. A nary spokesman in Washington said Friday night that he doubted ing in a "playful manner" 10,000 feet above the ground ever the southern suburbs of Portland.

Clark county deputy sheriff Fred Krives. stationed across the river from Portland, said he saw 20 flying discs "slewing off to one side, almost in single file" over the county courthouse. Sgt Claude Cross of the Oregon state police said he saw 2 objects at an undetermined height and thought they "looked like toy balloons." The others said, however, that the objects they watched for about 90 seconds definitely were not balloons. The discs were reported seen over numerous other communities of the northwest and T. L.

Hucka-by of Pine Bluff, Ark said he saw a flying object "about the size FX511. since none of the planes were believed in the area. The army said no attempt had been made to pick up the discs with radar equipment, explaining that radar facilities were only used for training purposes in this area at present. A similar object was seen by John Corlett, United Press staff correspondent, his wife, and Mr. and Mrs.

V. H. Selby from Cor-lett's back yard in Boise. Corlett said it was a white disc flying about 10,000 feet directly overhead. It disappeared in 3 or 4 seconds.

Two Portland. Ore police scout cars 3 miles apart notified Police Radio Officer Dick Halter at 1:15 p. m. Friday that they had sighted a group of strange objects weav A XT 1 yx wr-r. 1 By THE UNITED PRESS Reports of -flying saucers" whizzing through the air at rocket speeds poured in again Saturday from many parts of the nation, causing scientists to speculate that many Americans were suffering a bad case of jitters.

One expert in the diagnosis of human behavior flatly said that the so-called "phenomena" was pure imagination, hallucination or delusion on the part of many of those who reported seeing "strange objects." Another scientist, an authority on astronomy, said he believed "some persons were seeing spots before their eyes." The new reports that "saucers" were observed came from Fennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Illinois Town Isolated by Flood Waters Grand Tower, 111., (JP) This southern Illinois river town was completely isolated Saturday by the worst flood in its flood-studded history. It could be reached from the outside only by amphibian plane or boat Food, milk and other necessities were being supplied by boat under the supervision of the coast guard. The flood waters reached almost to second story windows in some places. The Mississippi river gauge Friday night showed a reading of 40.6 feet, which was .7 of a foot above the previous high mark recorded in 1943. The gauge keeper expected the water to rise "a little higher" before receding.

The townspeople, totaling about 1,000, who had battled valiantly against invasion by the river, had to give up the fight Thursday night when their hastily erected barricade of sandbags was breach ed by the muddy waters. The business district and most of the residential area were flooded as water poured through the 30-foot break, but all residents" reached high ground safely. The homeless, numbering about 600, were being sheltered in tents and 2 schoolhouses located on high ground. Something in the nature of a Fourth of July rally was held Friday night under the direction of Mrs. L.

K. Jackson, Red Cross canteen chairman. Plans were discussed for build ing a permanent levee along the waterfront as well as for beauti fying the town. Tribute was paid Mayor Jesse Grammer for his strenuous efforts during the fight against the flood. Previously the town has turned down proposals for a levee, because the residents felt it would obstruct the view of the river and spoil the town's river front park.

JULfClNHITS ALL-TIME PEAK Chicago, (U.R) July corn rose to a new, all-time high of $2.13 a bushel on the Chicago board of trade Saturday. It was the eighth time in two weeks that the price of corn for delivery in July had reached a new peak. Four of the record prices were set in the last 4 days of trading. Saturday price, highest in the board's 99-year history, was 7 cents above -the previous close July 3. Balsa means "raft" in Spanish and was applied to the wood after Spanish explorers found Indians of South America using rafts made of it.

"At WlrcphnU FIREMEN SEEK BODY Melvin Griffith (left) and Kenneth Ringdahl, Decorah city firemen, begin search of the wreckage of an AT-6 for the body of Marge Hurlburt, world's champion woman's speed flyer, who crashed at an air show at Decorah Friday afternoon. flying saucers" were the new "Flying Flapjack," the perimental Vought Corsair Dewey Heads West on Tour to See Sights En Route With Governor Dewey, (U.R) Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York sped west Saturday on a unofficial campaign trip to head off a reported move aimed at blocking his nomination for president by the republican national convention at Philadelphia next year. The governor, accompanied by Mrs.

Dewey, their 2 sons, a secretary and press representative, left Albany Friday night by train. The family occupied drawbigrooms on a train crowded with holiday travelers. Dewey described the 4-weeks' trip as "a sight-seeing tour for his sons but he left no doubt that his hotel room would be open to republican leaders. His first scheduled stop was Sapulpa, his wife's home town. They will spend 3 days with Mrs.

Dewey's mother and father. While in Oklahoma, the governor will meet with Lew Wentz, GOP national committeeman. Wentz said he would "drop in on his old friend" at Tulsa. Wentz will be only one of many republican leaders to meet with Dewey during the trip. He will pass through many states, and has definitely scheduled stops in Oklahoma, Montana, Missouri, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Illinois and Michigan.

Reports of the stop-Dewey move have come from Washington and it was said to have been instigated by supporters of Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, one of the New York governor's rivals for the nomination. Followers of Dewey pinned their hopes on delegates from western states and they wanted the governor to personally weigh the reported Taft maneuver. They pointed out that Dewey's chances of being nominated would be short, if not impossible, without western support. LIFE TERMS FOR NAZI GENERALS Rome, (JP) The British high command in Italy has commuted to life imprisonment the death sen tences imposed by British military courts on Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Col. Gen.

Eberhard von Mackensen and Lt. Gen. Kurt Maeltzer. Kesselring was sentenced in Venice May 6 to be shot. Von Mackensen and Maeltzer received similar sentences in Rome last Nov.

30. All 3 were convicted of responsibility in the 1944 Rome Ardeatine Caves massacre of 335 Italians in reprisal for the killing of 32 German police troops. Holder of Women's Air Speed Record Is Killed at Decorah KtVtALrKAlM, GREAT BRITAIN SEND NEW NOTE Express Hope Soviet Decision to Boycott Plan Is "Not Final" By ROMAN JIMENEZ AP Correspondent London, (JP) Britain and France have sent new notes to Russia expressing the hope that the soviet decision to boycott the Marshall plan is "not final," a foreign office spokesman said Saturday. The disclosure of the new attempt to include Russia in the program for rebuilding Europe came less than 21 hours after British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev-in warned Russia not to "provoke" the western world. The spokesman said Br tain had handed her note Friday'to Georgi Zarubin, soviet ambassador in London, for transmission to his government, and that France had given a similar communication to Alexandre Bogomolov, Russian ambassador in Paris." The new notes were dispatched while European nations studied British-French invitations to a 24-nation conference, opening in Paris July 12 which will get down to work July 15 on a plan for an integrated European economy with American financial assistance.

Bevin's warning to Russia was contained in a speech Friday night at an Independence day dinner of the American Society in London, at which he asserted that regardless of Britain's desire for peace, others "can carry provocation too far." At one point in the address he said "I love the Russian people." Foreign Minister Georges Bi-dault of France is expected here next week to discuss with Bevin further aspects of the Marshall proposal, the foreign office spokesman announced. A Rome dispatch. said the Italian foreign ministry had accepted with pleasure a British-French invitation to attend a conference on the Marshall plan. Greece, Portugal, the Netherlands and Denmark also either have accepted or have indicated they will accept. Statements from other capitals gave reason for belief that 5 others Turkey, Belgium, Switzerland, Eire Iceland also would attend.

London diplomatic observers said they expected at least 12 countries to reply favorably. j-'onar those that probably will they said, are Yugoslavia, Luiigary, Bulgaria and Finland all under soviet influence. Official attitudes of Czechoslovakia and Poland were in the making Saturday. (In Moscow Saturday, neither the soviet press nor radio commented on the invitation, though both reported it. (However, the official Russian news agency Tass, in a Paris dispatch, said, "These separatist actions of the British and French governments, which try to force their arrangements on the question of American aid on other European countries, encounter serious criticism in democratic circles." (A Moscow dispatch by Eddy Gilmore of the Associated Press Friday quoted informed persons as saying that Russia, with good harvests in prospect and industrial production rising, was in a position to offer economic aid of her own to European countries as a counter attraction to the Marshall plan).

Two Czechoslovak officials Premier Klement Gottwald, communist and hfs foreign minister, Jan Masaryk headed for Moscow after discussions in Prague parliamentary circles Friday. 1 On the train with them was Polish Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz and 9 ministers, homeward bound for Warsaw and a Polish decision bn the conference. Poland and Czechoslovakia signed a cultural and trade treaty in Prague Friday. Former King Carol of Romania Weds Mistress as She Nears Death Rio De Janeiro, (U.R) Former King Carol of Romania Saturday married his red-haired mistress, Magda Lupescu, as she lay near death from, anemia. Carol sobbed convulsively during the ceremony in the modest Hotel Copacabana suite where the couple has been living.

Magda was reported in a semiconscious state as the wedding was performed before 6 witnesses. Carol decided on the marriage when doctors diagnosed Magda's condition as "very grave." 1 I It iv) if. FARM YOUTH, 9, DIES OF BURNS Clothing Takes Fire While Burning Trash Whittemore John Keepers, 9, died at a hospital here Friday from burns suffered the day before while burning waste paper at the farm home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Keepers, 7 miles north of here.

The paper failed to burn as fast as the lad wanted, so he poured fuel on the. embers. An explosion resulted and flames shot under his clothing, badly burning his skin. The physician described the burns as rd degree. Ine lad rolled in the grass to extinguish the flames while a brother ran into the house to call his mother.

By the time she arrived the flames were out. He was taken to the McCreery -hospital where he died. Car Accident Injuries Fatal for Iowa Youth Fonda, (Richard Carey, 17, of Fonda, died late Friday afternoon at Mercy hospital. Fort Dodge, of head injuries suffered last Sunday night in an auto crash west of Manson. The youth had not regained consciousness since the accident.

Young Carey was riding with Gerald Walterman, about 20, also of Fonda, when their auto overturned on highway No. 5 and crashed into a ditch tearing down several feet of fencing. Walter-man was slightly injured. SAME DATE 1946249 (Black flat meant traffle death in past 14 hours) Iowan Electrocuted Lowden, (JP) Louis Cook, 48. of De Witt was electrocuted while working on a transformer Friday at the sub-station here.

and color of a wash tub." He was the 3rd person to report the diics in the Pine Bluff area. The mysterious objects also were reported over Utah Friday night for the 2nd time in 2 weeks. Two Salt Lake City women, Mary Powers and Mrs. Genevieve Danger-field, said they were watering their lawn at 7 p. (MST) when they saw 3 'flat discs" moving from north to south high over the city.

Almost halfway across the country, at Decatur, 111., several motorists said they parked alongside a highway Thursday night to watch "mysterious, round, flat objects" fly across the sky. Claude Price, concession superintendent of the Illinois state fair, said they looked about as big as airplanes. 3 VtjllK ...0. AP Wirfphola "FLYING SAUCER" PHOTO This is the picture Coast Guardsman Frank Ryman took of the "Flying Saucer" near Seattle. Friday night He said he thought the white dot (arrow) Is it Photo is nearly 20 times enlarged from original.

REDS FAIL TO OUST RAMADIER French Premier Wins Vote of Confidence Paris, (U.R)-The French com-. munist party, failing to oust Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier in an assembly test vote, unleashed a verbal barrage Saturday against the Marshall plan sponsored by Ramadier's government Communist Leader Maurice Thorez led the attack by pledging the party's 1,000,000 members to fight that he called the forces trying to isolate Russia from the world. He condemned the western European bloc being formed by France and Britain as "a force to aid international trusts." Twenty thousand communists at a mass meeting Friday night cheered Thorez and Raymond Guyot, secretary of the Seine communist federation, in their support of Russia. Guyot called the Marshall plan "a device of capitalistic America to try to save it from its greatest depression expected next year." Ramadier won a vote of confidence in the assembly, 331 to 247. Most of the opposition was from an odd combination of the extreme left and far right the communists and republican liberty party.

The rightists were angry with the government for publicizing the "black maquis" plot as a grave threat against the nation. Joan Blondell Weds Las Vegas, (JP) Film Actress Joan Blondell and Michael Todd, well known producer, were married here early Saturday in a surprise ceremony that took place shortly after they became reconciled from a recent little spat. 0 The nation's 4th of July week nH death toll reached 253 Satur day with a day and a half of the hnliHav npriod vet remaining. Drowning led as the cause of death, with 103 persons losing their lives that way-as record rmuH Backed resorts, beaches and picnic grounds. Ninety-eight persons died In automoDue crashes.

Miscellaneous accidents took 48 lives, several of them in plane crashes. Only 4 fatalities resulted from fireworks. At least 3 Dersons were killed in accidents during the Fourth of July in Iowa, 2 dying in automobile crashes. An air show at Decorah was marred by the death of Marge Hurlburt of Fainesville, Ohio, who rrachirf in her death while per forming in a Fourth of July air show there. Harry Case, 16-year-old son of Mr.

and Mrs. Oscar Case of near Kingsley, was killed when the car in which he was riding crashed into a bridge abutment near Kingsley. In the other traffic fatality. Alexander R. Woronko, 50, of Davenport, comptroller of the Blackhawk Hotels was killed when his automobile overturned north of Davenport.

An explosion of skyrockets at a family reunion in Elk Neck, cost the lives of 3 persons, William Cameron, 33; his 8 year old daughter, Ann, and her cousin, Ruth Anne Holmes, 2. Another death was caused by fireworks in Maine. New York led the nation with 18 deaths, 5 In traffic, 9 from drowning, and 4 from miscellaneous causes. Texas was 2nd with 16 deaths, and Fennsylvania and Michigan 3rd with 13. By states, the deaths are listed, traffic, drownings, miscellaneous, as follows: Alabama 2 0 Arizona 2 0 Arkansas 1 6 California 7 2 Colorado 12 1: Connecticut 0 11: Delaware 0 0 Florida 8 2 Georgia 16 Illinois 8 1 Indiana 4 10; Iowa 2 0 Kansas 3 1 Kentucky 1 4 Louisiana 2 2 Maine 2 2 0 (1 fireworks); Maryland 3 3 0 (3 fireworks).

Massachusetts 0 0 Michigan 7 4 2: Minnesota 0 10; Mississippi 0 10; Missouri 110; Montana 10 Nebraska 0 11: New Hampshire 10 New Jersey 0 8 New York 5 9 North Carolina 0 5 North Dakota 0 2 Ohio 7 4 Oklahoma 3 2 3. Oregon 111; Pennsylvania 5 5 South Carolina 6 4 Tennessee 2 1 Texas 5 5 Utah 10 Vermont 0 10; Virginia 0 7 Washington 12 West Virginia 12 Wisconsin 2 2 Wyoming 0 2 District of Columbia 2 0 2. Highways across the country were crowded with cars and the National Safety Council, in estimating 30,000,000 machines would be on the highways over the 3-day holiday, predicted 275 persons would be killed in traffic In last year's 4-day weekend Fourth of July holiday there were 512 violent deaths including 231 traffic fatalities; 163 drowned, and 118 killed in miscellaneous accidents. Weather Report FORECAST Mason City: Clearing and a little cooler Saturday night; Sunday fair with little temperature change. Low Saturday night 55-60.

High Sunday 78-82. Iowa: Clearing west, and mostly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers east portion Saturday night. Fair west, clearing east portion Sunday. Cooler northwest half Saturday night. Little change in temperature Sunday.

Low Saturday night 55 to 60 northwest, and near 65 southeast. High Sunday 80-85. Minnesota: Clear and cooler Saturday night; Sunday fair with little change in temperature. IN MASON CITY Glebe-Gazette weather statistics for 24 hour period ending at 8 clock Saturday morning: 4 AP Wirphoto MARGE HURLBURT Dies In Air Crash Man Beats Girl to Find Out About Engagement Washington, (U.R) Two police men saw Lreorge Munson, strike Lillian May Barrett 30. They arested him, asked him why he did it and were told: "I wanted to find out if we were still engaged and the only way I could do it was to beat it out of her." Miss Marge Hurlburt Crashes While Trying Slow Roll With Plane Decorah.

(JP) In her first ap. pearance with a troupe of stunt fliers. Miss Marge Hurlburt, holder of the women's international air speed record, was killed Friday while performing in a Fourth of July air show here. An estimated 2,509 spectators witnessed the crash in a corn field at the east corner of the airport. The 32 year old Painesville, Ohio, woman who had joined the aerial circus troupe known as the "Flying Tigers" 3 days ago, was flying a borrowed A-T-6.

She had circled the airport, buzzed the field and completed a loop. She was executing what appeared to be a slow roll when her plane dived into the field. Her body was found in the smashed ship, which did not burn. The former WASP set a new international speed record for women at 337.635 miles an hour last March 16 at Tampa. while flying a navy Corsair over a 3-kllometer course.

Miss Hurlburt, who taught school in Ohio for several years, was entered, in the $5,000 Halle trophy race to be held at the national air races in Cleveland Aug. 30. She won that event last year at a speed of 200.5 miles an hour. She also had planned to join with 2 other women fliers in building 3 small planes for entry in the Goodyear trophy race at the national air races this year, a special contest limited to planes of 190 cubic inches engine displacement. This contest is for men fliers and the women owners had not yet named their pilots.

Miss Hurlburt served in the women's airforce service pilots (WASP) for 20 months and ferried all types of planes. Brothers Run Into Each Other With Bang Costa Mesa, (JP) The Con-ley brothers ran into each other, unexpectedly, over the holiday. On the highway near here, cars driven by Thomas Conley, 46, of Lynwood, and George Conley, 40, Costa Mesa, collided. Both families were out for drives and had no idea the other was in the vicinity, the brothers told officers. 1 K' 4 rs V' t-' srifi 1 Maximum 84 Minimum 64 At 8 a.

m. Saturday 74 Precipitation 1.59 YEAR AGO: Maximum 83 Minimum 63 I AP WirephoU dents who swarmed forth to fill the highways, parks and beaches throughout the United States, causingthe greatest traffic jam in history." EVERYBODY AND HIS BROTHER Bathers of both the ocean and sun variety pack a section of the beach at Coney Island, New York, Friday to enjoy the sun-blessed 4th of July holiday. This was typical of the exodus of city resi-.