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Show Crazy Acc (dent Crop '-t sP rings Eterna By NEA Service ' V s-' ' " CHICAGO, Dec 13 (NEA) " Smoking in bed . cost a sparrow its borne. And, almost cost Mrs. Maria Baufhcr of Camden, N. J., 'hire.. - j r. , Puzzled 'firemen, "looking for the source of the smoke that filled fill-ed Mrs. Baughers home, found it nn nnriw ih, MHL Thf SDarTOW bad carried a lighted dgaret to its nest. To prove that sparrows arent the only off enders, the National af f . fniinHl. - In .. its annual roundup of freak accidents re ports that a-pigeoa stanea a. urc in a Washington apanmenvnouse r . Charlet Wilfred ' Arter, pltboy coal mine, set the year's record for a long-distance falL He dropped drop-ped 1554 feet down a shaft, and oni kmk hie In mid-fall he mwiMk in tlcvitor on itl rfnam. i-nrf nn ita ton with only a slight bump, and rode the rest of the way down in comparative comfort. v Nt to be outdone. Yvon Dher- 'ire, a Lille, France, tile .setter,! fell six floors into a nany ouggy (Mm whioh frantic mother had n anateharf her child. Dherire was unhurt. The baby was fas cinated, uama xaintea ana arose her ankle. . Mrs. Anne McGinni of Wash- intrton. D. C fell from a fourth floor fire escape hit a third-floor clothes line, and flipped through l . . a .... , L . -1 M a wtnaow into we Rsona-nwr bathroom of a startled neighbor. 1 'In Detroit, fireman Horace LeBouf Le-Bouf started down a rescue ladder I with Mrs.r Catherine ' Markowskl vhn flamaa from " a f irst-iloor window hotly nipped the . seat of LeBouf s - trousers. He yelled. ! dropped Mrs. Markowskl to i the ground, lost his balance, ana zeu on. top of her. Mrs. Markowskl was bruised, LeBouf f .embarrass- ed... m' . f , - John Nantlco also -of Detroit. nottfvl ' a laarinar fftant . " cock roach, and broke his leg JJan-tlco'a JJan-tlco'a not. the coackroach'a. - He saw the cockroach while "walking down - stairs, - aimed a . knockout kicfc with his. right foot, slipped wun nis iev xumoiea aown ne stairs, and fractured-his right leg. i Trn Thunnin nt ' Oklahoma City, fell up. He didn't lump, fast enpugn wnue unpacsmg com- nr&aavrl , t-ftrianrina'B. ; wu ahnt un to tne ceiling, ana wouna up in ' ' Bird brought home a lighted . clgaret, burned op nest Fir ntnnd a fireman: ha dropped his rescue mission. ..'. !j -i .1 . .a tu '. a nosDixai Deo. , Miss Georgia Brooks, f Chicago, Chi-cago, had. an off-agairl, on-agaln harrowing ' ride in a - speed boat at Lake Geneva. Wis. When the boat swerved,' she - feu - out. i ne boat .swerved back again, tossed her 10 feet In the air, and' neatly caught her on .the. prow.v;. ? . A dead deer wreaked .vengeance oh Clarence. . Gerkin, . of Hudson, Colo; who shot it The deer then shot Gerkin.' Gerkin waa prepar ing to dress the dead deer when a reflex kick bytha animal discharged dis-charged his gun. The. bullet rip ped through. Ger kin's arm. A hunted auail committed sui cide on the gun of Gen Hatfield. Hatfield flushed a covey near Joplln, Mo. One quail flew straight at Hatfield, broke Its neck on the gun barrel, and dropped drop-ped dead at Hatfield's feet, Bees brought a new trolley song to Earl Armstrong, Cincinnati motorman. They swarmed through the open window of his streetcar. Armstrong batted the bees, his trolley bumped an auto mobile, which bumped another automobile, wmcn oumpea an other automobile. Christine Woodward, 19, was trained as a member of England's Women's Land", Army - to face bombs, ballets and battle without flinching. Nothing was said about a mouse, so when one snarea tne . v f'i ' '"' ' s ' v 4 Sunday, December 14, 1947 sundaVhebald Bed springs sprang back, sent . this victim ta bosplUL truck she was driving and scam- perea across ner zopt, warn xook the course of least, resistance, and fainted. The truck went into a dl'.jh, Miss i Woodward went to a hospital, and the mouse :presum ably went back to walking. Katsumi Nlshitawa and Wood row Wakatsukl found fisherman's luck can be too much of a good thing. Off Santa Monica. Calif., they caught so many mackerel their overloaded boat sank. When Mrs. Lee Marksbury of five times, she crawled unhurt from the wreckage, took a quick look at what she had. Just lived Complicated Plane Controls Held ; Accident Cause' WASHINGTON, Dee. 13 dm An air force psychologist said to day that the confusing conglom eration of dials, instruments, lev ers and switchea in the modern airplane is. the - causa . of most crashes blamed on pilot error. Between 50 and 75 of all air crashes are blamed on mistakes by the "pilot. But Dr. Faul Fitts, chief of the psychology branch, air medical laboratory, said the complicated plane and not the man is at fault. What must be done, ha said. Is to tailor the plane to fit the man. So far, the effort' has been to fit the man into tne complications ox his plane. through, fainted, and cut her eye when she fell. Even the New Look got into the wacky accident picture. Miss Elinor Jones, orettv Chicaco sec retary, disregarded her boss warning that new long skirts were a tripping hazard, sailed out, tripped, fell and cut her face. Then she dutifully reported the accident to her employer the National Safety Council. He's Here ' Tadeuss 8. Laturskl, 25, PoIUh "war groom, waits at ran of the If. a. Batory upon arrival in New York from Poland, with corsage given him by ship's crew. He was reiuored to Euls Island when his fiancee, ex-Army Nurse Cecilia M. Mttoray of Detroit, failed to meet him. Laturakt had but nine dollars dol-lars ta his pocket . It's Not a Special. Session of Congress Several hundred . lawmake back In town last week were mi prised to learn there wasn't real a special session of congress: I nor will President Truman I . ".a a i a fi aown in nunory as a prenae who dusted off constitutional a thority and called the 13th spec! session since 1900. , J Tip-off on this situation M advaaced by House Parliament lan Lew Deschler. Red-faced set reporters and commentators I the contrary, said Deschler, the is no special session and no sr cial session can be called. Tl first session of the 80th congrc did not dissolve, it's still en. Tl 80th congress, using -a wartlr! device to keep congress' in coj tinuous session, merely adjourj ea subject to recau ny major leaders-until January 2, 1948. r Immediate results of confus members must dip into their pockets for transportation costs pass legislation to foot the toil The law provider for just c( rouna-trip per session. . 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