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Show 384 PERISH If) HOLIDAY FATALITIES i i ' I ijy llMTKD TRESS J Violence took at least I!51 'jjve on the highways, at Lh'Ih's and resorts durinu: ij,e nation's celebration of L Lubor day week end, a kiirvpy showed today. I usual death struck L(lest on the highways. nilfic accidents accounted for jii deaths. Indications were that unplete reports from rural areas tulJ Wst tlle lHtal auove tllnt J1 last Labor Jay week end when were killed, f Brownings totaled 34. Shoot-U.;, Shoot-U.;, slabbing, airplane, and niis-(hneous niis-(hneous accidents accounted for 'wnv Vork led all other states L'.iti 33 deaths, 21 of which oc-urfj oc-urfj on highways. Ohio was fit with 30. Michigan had 28, jjjjois had 27, California 23, In-jana In-jana 22, and Pennsylvania 21. Irietona. Maryland, Nevada, New llexico, Rhode Island, South Caro-tna Caro-tna reported no violent deaths L any form. one of the most horrifying jfaths was that of Edward Ray, jl-year-old parachute jumper, fine Haunte, Ind., who was killed kill-ed yesterday while, stunting at a Puanoke, 111., air show. I He jumped from a balloon with (tree parachutes tied to his back. Hie first opened. He loosened it mil it floated away. He fell sev-il sev-il hundred feet and pulled the tip-cord of the second. The parachute para-chute opened but the jerk pulled the whole device and the third parachute from his back and he dropped to earth from an altitude of 1,000 feet. Three thousand persons per-sons saw him die. |