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Show THE BEAVER PRESS, BEAVER, UTAH Atomic Energy Specialist Foils Kidnapers' Attempt BERLIN. Dr. Werner Heisen-ber- cently averted an attempt to kidnap him and take him to the Soviet zone of Germany, Die Neue Zeitung, official newspaper of United States military government, said. Dr. Heisenberg reported that he was called on the telephone by an unknown person and told to be present at a meeting at a certain place. The planned kidnaping was frustrated by policemen who accompanied the scientist to the meeting, the newspaper said. By PAUL JONES WNV Features. When a sparrow smokes in bed and a cockroach kicks a man down the stairs, things are getting good and wacky. Bu mars wnat happened in 1947. And that isn't all. A dead deer shot a hunter. A p cow made traffic history. A mouse upset a truck, a quai committed suicide, and some busy little bees boarded a street car and caused a honey of an accident. Yes, the annual roundup of odd accidents by National Safe ty council reveals that animals stole the show in 1947. To wit: hit-ski- cow became part ofSThe the nation's traffic problem when it bowled over Mrs. Lucy Nostrand as she alighted from a bus at a busy intersection in Milwaukee. The bound Ing bovine, fugitive from a farm. whammed into Mrs. Nostrand, KnocKea ner flat ana barreled on down the street. hit-ski- Vamp ire Stabs Two, Drinks Their Blood Stitches Taken in Chest of One Indian Victim. p Firemen In Camden, N. J., spent an hour looking for the source of smoke that poured through the home of Mrs. Marie Baugher. They finally found it a bird's nest under the A lot of hunters shoot deer, but not many deer shoot hnnters especially if the deer are dead. But a dead deer did shoot Clarence Gerkin of Hudson, Colo., in a neat bit of post humous vengeance. Gerkin had shot the deer and was preparing to dress it when a reflex kick by the animal bit his gun and discharged it. The bullet tore through Gerkin's left arm. IndiLUMBERTON. N. C.-ans have recovered here from knife wounds which they charge were the work of an Indian vampire. James Jacobs and Lamar Lock-lea- r, members of the Croatan Indian colony near here, told police a third member of the colony attacked them and forced them at knife point to allow him to drink blood from their wounds. In St. Joseph, Mo., Postman A. R They identified their assailant as Saunders, thoroughly accustomed to James Bledsoe, out on bond awaitthe threat of hostile dogs and other ing trial for bootlegging. Police mailman's maladies, found some jailed Bledsoe on assault charges. thing new had been added when Jacobs told police that Bledsoe pet goose took a look at the patron's stabbed him In the chest and then mall Just saw something held the knife against his throat to he didn't delivered, like and severely nipped him from moving while he the letter carrier. keep drank blood from the gash. Malice Not Aforethought. Jacobs said Bledsoe then ran out side shouting, "I want some of your The celebrated case of the can blood," and attacked Locklear, who tankerous cockroach occurred In was passing by. Detroit and Involved John Nantlco, Locklear charged Bledsoe cut his a bakery employee. Nantico said he arm and then held the knife to his was ascending stairs made slippery back to force him to submit to more by spilled cake frosting when he looked into the leering eyes of the Assistants at Pembroke Center hospital, where the cut Indians were treated, said 51 stitches were neces sary in Jacob's chest. Locklear's cut required about 75 Stitches. They said their condition was not critical Two blood-drinkin- roof. A sparrow had carried home a lighted cigaret And just to prove that smoking in bed isn't restricted to sparrows, a pigeon in Washing ton started a fire in an apartment building the same way. To Err Is Human. NOT TO BE OUTDONE BY ANI HUMAN BEINGS HAD MALS, SOME FANCY FREAK SQUEAKS THEMSELVES IN 1947. FQR EX AMPLE: Stanley Morrison of Newburyport, Conn., was surprised to run into his father one day at a grade crossing. When Stanley'! truck crashed into a passenger train at the crossing, the engineer hurriedly climbed down from his cab to inspect the damage. He was Stanley's dad. A Hot Seat. Fireman Horace LeBouf was diligently engaged In carrying Mrs. Catherine Markowski down a ladder from a burning building in Detroit last March, they passed a first floor window. Flames shooting out of the window caught Fireman LeBouf in the seat of his pants. He yelped, spanked himself frantically and let go of Mrs. Markowski, who under standably fell to the ground. Fireman LeBouf lost his balance and landed smack on the lady he had been saving. Mrs. Markowski was bruised, Fireman LeBouf apolo getic. A speedboat on which Miss Geor gia Brooks of Chicago was riding during a holiday outing on Lake Geneva, Wis., swerved so sharply it threw Miss Brooks into the water. the boat Apparently swerved again, hit the struggling swimmer, tossed her 10 feet in the air and caught her neatly on its prow. When Mason Nurlck's car was stolen in Hollywood, he borrowed a neighbor's to drive to the police station and report the loss. En route home, his borrowed car was smacked from behind. Nurick got out to check up on the damage, recognized the car which had hit him as his own, held the driver for police. Lucky Is Right. Horseshoes may bring luck to some people, but not to Larry Young of Chicago. Larry was conked on the head by a flying shoe while playing with other youngsters. The only luck he could see in it was that the horse wasn't in the shoe. Fishermen Katsuml Nishitawa and Woodrow Wakatsukl would have broken all records for a catch oft Santa Monica, Calif., one day last summer had it not been for one thing. They hauled In so many mackerel the weight of the fish sank the boat. And in Seattle, John Angel drove into a service station, ordered a change of oil, stepped out, discovered too late that he was eight feet aloft on a grease rack. Patrolman Dennis Calllvan of Chicago weighs more than 300 pounds, and it is difficult for him to be inconspicuous. So passersby were understandably perplexed when one minute he was there as big as life, petroling his beat, and the next minute whoosh, he had disappeared! He had fallen Into an open manhole a king-sizemanhole, that is. As Four Terrorized by Gunmen Who Take $30,000 In Jewels CHICAGO. Two masked gunmen forced their way into the Rogers Park home of a jewelry salesman and forced him, his wife, and two children to lie on the floor while they ransacked he house of gems valued at $30,000. Victims of the intruders were Goodwin Kaplan, his wife, Freda, and their children, Sherry, 15, and Miles. 9. Kaplan, a representative for a New York Jewelry firm, said he answered the doorbell to find the two men, masked, poking a gun at him. He slammed the door shut, he said, but reopened it when the men threatened to shoot through the door. Inside, they forced him and his son to the floor in the living room. They met Mrs. Kaplan in the darkened dining room and ordered her to lie down. Sherry was forced to the floor in her bedroom where she had been studying. The men ransacked two closets before they found the satchels filled with gold and platinum rings and mountings. It was the second robbery of its type in four days. The home of Harry Teich previously was raided by bandits who made oil with $10,000 in jewelry. Suitor Booked for Murder fn Jumping Rope Garroting Case FALL RIVER, MASS.- -A suitor was booked on a murder garrotcharge in the jumping-roping of Mrs. Eugenia Oliveira, 43, mother of two children, whose body was found in a packing case in the attic of her home. He was identified by authorities as Wilfred Sylvia, a mill worker. The slaying, he allegedly said, occurred during an argument over the drinking habits of Mrs. Oliveira. e twice-divorce- d biggest cockroach any man ever saw. Nantico aimed a knockout kick at the roach with his right foot The roach ducked. Nantico's left and anchor foot slipped in the frosting and he hurtled end over end to the floor below. His kicking leg was broken. The cockroach appeared pleased. Honey of a Tarn. Possibly stung by the high cost of living, bees apparently quit riding in private automobiles in 1947 and democratically took to street cars. A merry group of them informally boarded a trolley in Cincinnati an open window and through evinced high interest in Motorman Earl Armstrong. As Armstrong frantically batted at his bumbling passengers, the street car bumped an automobile, which rammed the rear of another, which rammed the rear of another. Meanwhile, buzz. buzz, buzz, buzz, went the trolley. Just Like a Woman. It is customary each year, of course, for a mouse to run a car Into a ditch merely by sharing the car with a lady driver. But this year the mouse got big ideas and decided to tackle a truck. Just to do it the hard way, he selected an army truck, in Daventry, England. The Christine Wooddriver, ward, had been trained, as a mem- - Plane Found Wrecked With Remains of Three Fliers SYLVA, N. C A private cargo plane, missing almost two weeks, was found wrecked in the mountainous Caney ereek region of Jackson county, 19 miles west of here. Its three occupants were dead. The plane was identified by its number as a DC-- cargo plane operated by Strato Freight, Inc., oi Pittsfleld, Mass. It had been unreported since leaving Charlotte for a r flight to Gainesville, Ga., with a load of baby chicks. 3 one-hou- Turns Wrong Cap in Cellar; Then Hospital Goes to Work ATLANTIC CITY. N. J. Abe Alianell. 52, took a lighted candle with him when he went under his house to turn olT a water pipe. At a hospital where he was treated for burns of the arms, face and chest, he said he opened the wrong cap the one on the gas pipe. Firemen estimated $200 damage was caused to Alianell's home by a fire that resulted from the explosion. contrite, field. Far less intrepid was the suicidal quail that found itself looking down the barrel of a gun held by Gene Hatfield in Joplin, Mo. Realizing Vie Jig was up, the quail decided to eikd it all. It flew straight against the bttrrel of the gun and dropped at Hatfield's feet with a broken neck. teeth in his shirt pocket one day when his automobile collided with another car. The Impact threw him forward against the steerinir wh.! and his own teeth bit the man that feeds them. World's champion frrak faller of the year, so far as distance is con cerned, was Charles Wi!fr.rf ah.. pitboy In a mine In South Yorkshire,' England. Charlie fell down a L5S4. foot shaft aad escaped with only a broken leg. Halfway down the shaft .. If m m m ' ENGLISHMAN was AN with the clerk in the Ambassador hotel. "Here's a riddle," said the clerk. "My mother gave birth to a child. It was neither my Deaf brother nor my sister. Who was it?" Englishman: "I can't guess." Clerk: "It was I." sJ "Ha, Ha, Very Fatal Gun Englishman: Is Overlook clever. I must remember that." The Englishman then told the Husband By and story at his club. Said he: "Here's a riddle, old top. My mother gave Costs His Life. I birth to a child, and it was neither CHTCAGO.-Char- les my brother nor my sister. Who was it? You can't guess? Do you give a war veteran, was shotMueller andf, up?" wounded by his wife, Luc& f Kicked; Shoot Mate to he overtook an elevator cage whicl was going down almost as fast as hi was. He landed gently on its roa and rode cozily the rest of the waj down. Out On A Limb. Nearly everyone finds himself out on a limb now and then, and so did Victor Kerklo of Chester, Pa., one day last July. Victor solved the dilemma swiftly by yes, you've guessed it sawing off the limb between himself and the tree. The drop convinced him there must be an easier way. In Indianapolis the police department proudly sent forth its brand new white safety car. A few blocks down the street it smacked into a halted line of traffic and started cars bumping each other all along the line. The crestfallen caution car was taken back to police headquarters. It's safer there. In San Francisco, Safety Leader Henry North launched the Green Cross safety drive with an impassioned plea for more care and fewer accidents. Finishing his talk to great applause, North smilingly waved his thanks as he bowed and backed toward his chair on the platform. Ha sat down but not on the chair. Instead, he landed kerplunk on the floor, with the chair atop him. No safety talk ever ended with a more appreciative audience. Leroy Thurman was helping open a case of compressed bedsprings in Oklahoma City when the springs 20-fo- "Yes." "Ha, hal It was the clerk at the Ambassador hotel." Long Jaunt When the revenuers burst from the bushes, the gangling hillbilly began running with such speed that the lawmen stood in slack-jawe- d awe and watched him disappear. Long after the revenue men had left, he still had not returned to his cabin. Hours became days and his friends were worrying. At last, on the fifth day, he stumbled in, a sorry sight. He was bearded and fatigued, and his clothes were spattered with mud. "Where you been, Ed?" someone asked. He sighed wearily. "I been comin' back," he said. A UNFAIR TACTICS Judge tate you? How does your wife irri Husband Why, she keeps saying you hauled up before that old reprobate judge and see what he'll do with you!" "I'll have bald-heade- d Judge Prisoner discharged. their apartment. Less than two minutes ; ; befor shooting, Mueller had taken or made harmless two gun,', overlooked a third. This his life. A witness to the battle and .r tag was Frank A. Dell Aauil. t. his story and that of Mrs. ifo the police learned detaiU ot slaying. Wife Asks Help. Dell Aquila was working R : first floor partment for his owt when Mrs. Mueller appealed tc for aid, complaining her hi&" had beaten her. He went upa and lectured both. While' he i there, he said, Mueller went fc bedroom, took a revolver apart,! V unloaded a pistol. as Mueller led Dell At Then, toward the kitchen, Mrs. Mi threw a glass ash tray at hert band. Mueller returned, Dell police, knocked his wife to' floor and kicked her. Then the two men walked tor, the kitchen again. Mrs. Mueller-ta second bedroom and got i caliber Spanish type pistol, r. Mueller had overlooked. She fired two shots at the 6 but missed. Del Aquila ran into:, kitchen for protection, but Mat' wheeled around and faced his t She fired again, hitting him twia the abdomen. Mrs. Mueller called police, i Ing, "I just shot my husbc When a squad arrived they fc Mueller on the floor, his head t pillow placed by his wife. Shei declaring her love for him, butt saying, "You shouldn't have ts me, Charles." ' Died In Hospital. Police asked her if she shot ir She nodded. They asked how m times, and they said she cried, don't know, but if I had had 25 1 lets in the gun, I'd have used tk ! w' - ; , Oriental Ritual Once when the distinguished Dr Hu Shih was China's ambassador to the United States he received from a certain stuffy Washington dowager an invitation to dinner. Assum ing what she fondly conceived to be the oriental manner, she wrote was catapulted against the celling him thus: "O sage and honorable and went to the hospital, where sir, will you deign to honor our humbehave themselves. Die abode with your most august presence. . . ." and so on for several A Good Line. hundred words. In another mishap, Mrs. Anne Me- The following day she received Ginnis fell from a fourth-floo- r fire the telegraphic reply: "Can do. Hu escape, struck a clothes line at the Shih." third-floo- r level, was flipped through window and landed in the second- Dangerous Pep Talk floor bathroom of a startled A mother was in a midtown dime store with her son and Mrs. Lee Marksbury of Centralis. put him on a slot weighing and Mo., crawled uninjured from the soothsaying machine. The card that wreckage of her car after it had came out gave his weight as 48 turned over five times. She took a pounds and bore the following aplook at the debris, fainted and suf- praisal of his character. "You have fered a cut over the eye as she fell. an indomitable will power, enabling out in Washington, the Gray you to overcome in triumph many brothers The little Luther of Ephrata and trying circumstances." Homer of Yakima met for the first fellow's been raising heck ever time in six years, shook hands so since. hard Luther's arm was fractured. Proof Positive In Lille, France, Yvon Dherire, a A certain man's friends tile setter, slipped off a roof, fell six thought atories and landed snugly in a baby he was dead. However, when he was buggy from which an observant revived he said he knew he was not dead because his feet were cold and he was hungry. "How did those facts make you think you were still alive?" asked one of the curious. "Well, it's this way. I know that if I was in heaven I wouldn't be hungry and if I was in the other place my feet wouldn't be cold. bed-sprin- Halfway Mark Mrs. Lester could not endure the thought of remaining uncaptured, so when she encountered Mr. Telver-sosingle and quite cheerful about it, she could not avoid archly remarking, "Forty years old, Mr. and never been married? It's really too bad. But surely you have not given up hope?" "Oh, no, indeed," rejoined Mr. T. "I hope I am safe for another 40 years, anyway." n, mother had frantically snatched he child. Dherire was unhurt. The mother fainted and broke an anki The baby was utterly fascinated. This Mast Be the End. And In Chicago Miss Elinor Jones, petite young secretary, scoffed al mascuune warnings in her office that the new long skirts were a tripping hazard, proudly sallied forth with the "new look." tripped and fell, cut her face. Next morning she dutifully reported the accident to her employer National Safety council! Past that Stage book for an invalid," the lady told the librarian. "Something religious?" asked the librarian. "Why, er no, not now. Tou see he's a convalescent." "I want a nice all." Mueller was taken to pitaL where he died Lorettoi 10 mis; ' later. Mrs. Mueller said she was c ried to Mueller two years ago they met in Kansas. It was hist marriage and he had an daughter, she said. "He was always beating met telling me to get out," she adds "He said that I was too old for: and that he hated the sight oi a Mrs. Mueller denied that ei: was drinking that day. When! asked him to join her in their ut drink before dinner, she related, took the bottle and smashed it in: kitchen sink. Mrs. Lona Baits, who visited: Muellers before the fatal qur said that both Mueller and his r were enthusiastic hunters and tc "good shots." She said Muellers. ways praised his wife as being: t . better marksman. I Maimed Worker Is Awards:' $62,500 From Railroad Lii William E. Pv- is to receive $62,500 from railroad under Pennsylvania award entered by Judge Francii Allegretti of Superior court Judgment was entered under agreement reached after the had been on trial for two dayi. t According to testimony preset Vby his attorney, Royal W. w-- s Pavlica. then a car inspector 4T railroad, was struck at 3 a. m. 28, 1848. by a switch engine : side track in the coach yards Pr-- ; railroad. The switch engine, BP charged, approached without and without warning. Pavlica'i' leg was amputated below tne p and four toes on his right Koi ' CHICAGO. 28, amputated. f Mother Stabs Herself 107 Times to Put End to I V- NEWARK, N. J.-Curtis, 52, stabbed herseii than 100 times before she iu In taking her life. Dr. Harrisot Martland, Essex county medics' . aminer, reported. Mrs. Curtis' bodr was found f dining room closet of daughter. Irene, 24. said an autopsy disclosed W wounds. Police said a preliminary K gation indicated that Mrs. ouhad been saddened by her ter's approaching marriage J Mrs. . it- bora!-he- Worth More Bidding ceased suddenly while the ber of the British women's land Color Will Supplant Ne Longer Funny. army, to face bombs, bullets and battle without flinching. But they A lot of comedians make a lot of School Room Number hadn't thought of training her to gags about false teeth biting their COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -face a mouse. So when the ambi- owners, but it Just isn't to Children who enroll in Palmer tious little animal scampered across Walter Springer of Ann funny Arbor, Miss Woodward's toes, she did just Mich. Springer was now under construe-tion- . carrying his grade school, what came naturally. She fainted. The truck went into a ditch. Miss Woodward went to the hospital and the mouse swaggered back to the It? Human ouaient Things Are Good and Wacky But Animals Outshine Humans g, Nobel prize winner and an authority on atomic energy, re- 51 Oh, Was FREAK SQUEAKS. London auctioneer examined a slip of paper that had been sent up to him. "Gentlemen," he said. "I under-stan- d there's a gentleman those present who has lost a among wallet containing 50 pounds in bank notes He is prepared to offer 10 for M. Dili' Boys, 5 and 3 Months, W In Bathtub cf Hot pounds won't have to remember their its recovery." classroom numbers, but they A Voice "ElevenI" RAVENNA.'' OHIO.-Malcmay have trouble if they're color blind. Veigh, 5, and his brother, InDr A modern color scheme In Railroad Talk months, were found dead provides Dentist-Wh- ich for painting classroom doors tooth do you want tub of hot water in their the tn same color as the room. The vari-ou- extracted? nearby Geauga Lake, and V. rooms are painted in contrastPullman porter Barbara, Lowah seben, terical mother, suh. ing colors. taken to a hospital here to W "The child who Is too small to tioned about their deaths, read names or numbers will aSSo. Tough Characters Turner of Kent. Portage Mrs. Newed elate the color of the door with the" ... coroner, reported. The children, Did vou one of my pies, room." Architect Edward ther. Edward, 31. is in CsUI Judge Jones? explains. .uu6C no, i never did but 1 Deputy Sheriff Dorwin Ms$t dare say they deserve it. the mother later had tried too herself in a pond olra; s Jy R.. j, ? 5 |