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Show OhioCCCEnrollee Dies From Injuries Suffered On Road Albert H. Blum, 17, C C C enrol-lee enrol-lee from Painesville, Ohio, died in the local hospital at about 5:00 o'clock o'-clock Wednesday morning from loss of blood and head injuries caused, supposedly, by a passing motor vehicle about four hours previously. The accident happened on highway 21, about 11 miles' southeast of Milford. Young Blum, with Louis Wil- lard, age about 21, CCC com-j ipanion from Toledo, Ohio, were on their way from Minersville where they had been to see girl friends Tuesday evening. They had lain down on the oiled highway to rest, according to Willard'sj story, and had fallen asleep, Blum with his head at about the center of the road, his feet toward the north, and Willard parallel with the road, his head resting on Blum's legs. From this point until a truck driven by H. B. White had been backed up to closely examine an object in the road which White and his companion, Ken Kelsey of Minersville, had just passed, thinking think-ing it was a calf or some other animal, ani-mal, things are more or less of a mystery. Willard appears to have been too dazed to give much in tho way of explanation and Blum, though still alive as they loaded him into the truck and returned re-turned to M'ilford, never regained consciousness. White and Kelsey, on their way from Milford to Minersville, tell of meeting a fast driven westbound car a few minutes before the-,-came onto the road and testimony of physicians at the inquest went to show that the injuries must have been car-inflicted but could have been done without running over the unfortunate boy's head, where the only injuries were found. The scuffing of a tire, moving at high speed and grazing the lad's head, could have caused the gashing of his ear and the side of his head which led to such heavy loss of blood almost immediately. Sheriff Niels Jensen, Deputv Sheriff Ted Kronholm and Countv Attorney Theodore Bohn investigated in-vestigated the case and a coroner's coron-er's inquest was held Wednesday afternoon before Justice Herbert Nichols. George Litchfield, Phil W. Bradfield and Al Kirk composed com-posed the jury and found that the young man came to his death froir injuries inflicter by a motor vehicle, ve-hicle, driver unknown. Both boys were comparatively (Continued on last page) Enrollee Killed (Continued from firs cage) ! new arrivals in Milford, having joined the local company in April 1 and June of this year, coming from Ohio though most of the boys at-' at-' tached to the Milford camp are 1 from Kentucky. It seems, from conversations with some of the camp boys, that it is the practice of a few of them, when away from camp and expecting a camp truck I to be coming their way, to lie 1 down in the road in such a position ! that the expected truck will not fail to see them and pick them up. This, no doubt, was what very foolishly fool-ishly pi-ompted Blum and Willard to sprawl themselves in the road Tuesday night with fatal results, j- The body of Blum was taken in charge by Pratt Root of the Southern Sou-thern Utah Mortuary and prepared pre-pared for shipment to Ohio. |