McKay Opens
-Water Level
Columbia Route
TROUS'dXlE, Ore Aug. 20-W)
-Gov. Douglas McKay' clipped a
ribbon that opened today the new
water-level section of the Colum
bia river highway east of here.
" The. dedication ceremony was
completed amid spectators' amaze
ment at the new scenic panora
- mitt viewed from the river level.
Gov. McKay predicted the road
would become as important a
route for tourists viewing the
gorge as it is assured of being a
vital commercial artery between
eastern and western Oregon sec
tion of the Columbia basin.
The section opened to traffic to
day stretches east from here to
Bridal Veil. It ts live mues snon-
er than the older route over Crown
' Point, and eliminates curves on
the old road amounting to 26 com
plete circles in ascending and de-
th nhstarle.
The second section, toward Dod-
' aoni will be opened in six weens
i a third "nortion. westward, from
"VrP. will- be opened next spring
Highway Commissioner Charles
'TCvnoids said he hopes the re
maining 41 miles from Dodson to
The Dalles will be built in the
future.
1 Mother Drqwns
IiiTubWliile
Bathing Girls
1 SPOKANE, Aug. "20 -tfrh A
young- mother bathing her two
small children slipped and fell in
to the bath tub tonight and was
drowned.
Mr. Hallie Poulton, 35, was
pronounced dead of drowning
after a lire department jnhalator
quad worked for more than an
hour in an effort to revive her.
Sheriff Ralph Smith said the
woman was standing by the side
of the tub administering a Satur-
day night batn to two of the chil
dren, Tommie Ann, 6, and Kay, 2.
He said she apparently had a
fainting spell and slipped head
first into the half filled tub.
1 The terrified- screams of the
two small girls aroused another
' child, Harry, 8, who was playing
; outside. He ran to a neighbor's
house for help.
Smith said Mrs. Poulton's hus
; band was working on a construc
tion job tonight.
Arrest I Follows j
Appearance of
Watch! in Store I
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SILVERTON. Aug. 20 -(Spe
cial)- Richard Lyle Jensen, 25,
of Silverton was charged with
larceny in a dwelling Saturday,
following his arrest by local au
thorities. ! if
The charge involved theft of a
watch and several dollars in cash
from a Silverton residence on July
4. Jensen was apprehended after
he took the watch for repairs to
the same Jewelry store Where it
had been purchased. f
He was confined at M a r 1 b n
county Jail in lieu of $2,500 bail.
tiate Sports -
Shoot Classic
Opens Monday
' B Frits Howell
VANDALIA. O . Aug. 20 -0P-Heavy
wind swept across the
Amateur Trapshooting associa
tion's home grounds today, hold
ing down scores in preliminary
events to Monday's opening of the
Golden . Grand American trap
shoot. Joe Hiestand, the Hillsboro. O.,
farmer who won the national dou
bles crown in 1935 and 1936, cap
tured the top prize in a 50-pair
event today with a score , of 96
and 100. In fourth place were
C. D. Ray of Eugene, Ore., and
Hob Allen of Des Moines, la.,
with scores of 92. In a 16-yard,
100-target event, Wayne Wilson,
37-vear-old contractor from Che
yenne, Wyo., was the victor with
100 straight M. W. Rayr 55-year-
old cattle rancher from John Day,
Ore.r broke the second 100 straight
of his career to tie Wilson. But
Wilson won the 25 tar get shoot-
off with a perfect score.
Mexican, US
Moguls Talk
FORTH WORTH. Tex., Aug. 20
. -(-Relations between organized
baseball and the Mexican league
once bitter rivals have vast
ly improved, representatives of
the two aereed here today.
George Trautman, president of
the minor leagues, and Dr. Edu-
ardo Quijano Pitman, president of
- the Mexican league, held a six
b'ir conference.
Dr. Pitman said that upon re
turn to Mexico he will plump for
the formation of a federation of
Mexican teams and leagues simi
tar to the National association.
Neither party mentioned in the
rnnouncemer.t to the press of re
sult of the conference whether
affiliation of the Mexican league
with organized baseball was dis
cussed.
Steeljlndustryj
Reclaims Slagt
Manganese! 1
CLEVELAND-(INS)-A process
which would reclaim millions of
dollars of 'manganese from cum
bersome stag piles may prove to
be a bonanza to the steel industry.
George Sylvester, Cleveland
metallurgist who developed ihe
process, claims that the discovery
will prove of immense value to
our national security. ?1 f
Manganese is the kingpin of
steel and ; is indispensable to Ihe
industry. There is no satisfactory
substitute.' j
Mostly Imported
According to steel t officials,
barely 10 per cent of the 1,332,000
tons of this material the United
States consumed in the peak year
1947 wasproduced in this, coun
try. ! t ' V
Up until a few years ago. ine
third of our imports of manga
nese came from Russia. The jfest
is Imported by long sea voyage
from India, South Africa the Af
rican Gold Coast and Brazil, f
Within I the last few months
Russia has begun to cut off man
ganese supplies to us. Realizing
this, the government his started
to push conservation of the metal
to tide the steel industryfover ifin
til other sources can be further
exploited.! ; .
Answer Found
Sylvester, weanwhile believes he
has found an answer to the prob
lem. With Dr. Robert Al Schoen
laub, researcher for the Sylvester
organization, Sylvester has pro
cessed samples of the metal ; re
claimed ffom slag and ts seeking
patents on the discovery. $
Sylvester said that his process
of reclaiming or beneficiating
manganese is very simitar toithe
manufacture of Portland cemept.
The slag is crushed and ground
into a manganese fraction and an
agricultural stone fraction, f the
metallurgist relates. Flotation is
then employed, with jnuchjthe
same mineral dressing technique
as is used in refining gold, silver
or copper ore. . I
Sylvester and his associates ex
pect to recover about $23 worfh of
iron manganese alloy by spend
White Queen
Gets Looked
Africa Domain
FRANCISTOWN, British Bec
huanaland Protectorate, Aug. 20
-tJFl- The 24-year-old British ex
typist who some day may be white
queen of the Bamangwato tribe
arrived by plane from England
today for her first view of her
African husband's domain. J
Tribesmen danced and sang
their welcome in apparent disre
gard of the squabble kicked up
br their elder statesman over
Chief-designate Seretse Khama's
marriage to the blonde English
girl, Ruth Williams. Some of the
elders went into exile rather tnan
accept her.
Ne Interest Shawn
The small European colony
knew she was coming although
she traveled incognito as Mrs.
Jones but showed no interest
in her arrival.
The black and white couple em
braced warmly upon her arrival.
They were married while he was
studying law in England.
There were no police or gov
emment officials in the welcom
ing party.
Europe-Style House
Seretse chose a European-style
house rather than a clay hut for
their first tea. Hundreds of tribes
men gathered around, chanting
and dancing. 1
The 27-year-old chief-designate
then left by car for Serowe, capi
tal of the 100,900 Bamangwatos.
100 mues away. He refused to taiK
with reporters or to answer tele
phone calls from London.
When they reach Serowe a mod
ern home . awaits them. Seretse
has obtained a home owned for
merly by a British official! and
has spared no expense in equip
ping it with radio, electric refri
gerator and other up-to-the-min-
ute conveniences.
Chutist Fined $50 for Second
Drop into Middle of Manhattan
NEW YORK, Aug. 20 -(V A
free-lance cameraman with a pen
chant for photographing the city
from a bird's eye view parachuted
today for the second time into the
towers of Manhattan.
The repeat' performance of his
1947 leap cost him $50 the
amount of a fine imposed under
a law enacted after his first jump.
The law makes it "unlawful for
any person to jump or leave from
aircraft or any other device in
parachute within the limits of the
city except in imminent danger."
Leonardo D'Attolico, 28, a for
mer combat paratrooper, landed
safely but precariously this after
noon on a pine-story apartment
building on 38th street between
Park and Lexington avenues.
Actually, only the parachute
landed, hooking over a chimney of
the building and leaving D'Attol
ico dangling in midair.
Police got him down while a
crowd of several hundred looked
on.
In May. 1947, he also landed
without injury, in a backyard.
As in 1947. r'Attolico told po
lice he pulled the stunt to take
movies over the city. He said he
shot about 45 feet of iilm this trip.
As in 1947, he said the pilot of
the light pUiw on which be hitch
ed a ride didn't know he was go
ing to jump.
In 1947, D'Attolocio was charged
with endangering other people's
lives.
But, he said, the judge let him
off with a suspended sentence
and a warning.
A policeman asked him ; the
name of the judge.
"Magistrate Ramsgate," said D'
Attolico, "and I'll never forget
him."
The policeman said he thought
Magistrate Charles E. Ramsgate
would be sitting tonight in night
court where D'Attolico probably
would make an appearance. '
"Oh. don't say that," protested
the photographer.
But Magistrate Abraham M.
Bloch was sitting, and levied the
fine.
Healthy Baby
Boy Born to
Polio Mother
SPOKANE, Aug. 20 -OV An
apparently healthy baby boy was
born in an iron lung today to a
20-year-old mother seriously ill
with polio. i
The baby a seven-pound,
four-ounce boy wr born to
Mrs. William Johnson. The birth
was described as normal.
The metal and glass respirator
encasing the sick woman's body
was opened for about 19 minutes
during the delivery. She was giv
en oxygen by an emergency de
vice for that period.
Dr. Marjorie Heitman said the
mother's condition improved af
Ter the baby's birth and that she
has a strong chance for recovery.
Mrs. Johnson was admitted to
St. Luke's hospital Thursday and
immediately placed in the respi
rator. She is seriously ill with a
severe type of polio that has para-
Elliott Denies
Making Money
From Booklet
PORTLAND. Aug. 2W.-P-Sher-
iff Marion (Mike) Elliott of Mult
nomah county asserted today he
had made "not one solitary pen
ny" from publication of Sheriff's
reserve yearbook. I
5 The head of the reserves cri
ticized the publication recently, as
serting it was packed with profit
able ads Jfhd contained virtually
no news on the reserves.
Elliott, target of a recall move
ment, said in a statement deliver
ed to newspapers, '"it seems to me
we are all victims of a hoax, and
rather than attempt to find a
scapegoat (which in my case
loaned the' newspapers a very op
portune chance to further disre
pute me) I think we should all
endeavor to see that such a state
of affairs does not arise again."
He further implied that he did
not give personal sanction to the
yearbook, shifting blame there to
one-time aide, Capt. MeaM Till
man. Elliott added: "I do not hold
Tillman wholly responsible. He
went into this with the idea of
promoting public good. He was
. . . duped."
AAF Scoffs at
'Early Model9
Flying Discs
WASHINGTON. Aug. 20
The air force said today that two
old machines found in a Maryland
tobacco shed yesterday '"have ab
solutely no connection with the
reported phenomena of flying
saucers.
The announcement ended spec
ulation that the contraptions may
have been early experimental
models of the strange objects that
have been reported whizzing
through the air from time to time.
Special agents made an; inves
tigation after Boiling Field here
was advised that "some! flying
discs had been located in'T&ary
land." State police found the relics
in a shed near Glen Burnie, Md.,
about 1 1 miles south of Baltomire.
Air force officials at first ex
pressed belief they may have been
"prototypes," or early models, of
flying saucers.
Today, however .the air force
officially disclaimed any such
view. It took the position unof
ficially that It could not recognize
anything as a "prototype" of some
thing that has not been proved to
exist.
Snake River
Canyon Fire :
Spreads Fast
McCALL, Idaho, Aug. 20-(4VA
roaring forest fire in 7,400-foot
deep Hell's canyon of the Snake
river spread over 600 acres today.
Slim Vassar, fire dispatcher of
the Payette National forest, said
330 men either are at the scene
of the blaze or are on their way
to the steep rocky gorge.
Steep bulffs are making it a
"tough battle", Vassar declared.
The blaze is in the upper end of
the canyon.
Fire Dispatcher Walt Hankins
said plans to drop smoke jumpers
into the area have been aban
doned as too dangerous and ground
crews are being trucked into the
area from two sides.
Hell's canyon is deeper than
Arizona's Grand canyon.
Meanwhile another TPP men
battled 28 other blazes started on
the Payette forest by a severe
ligthning storm two days ago.
And at Spokane. Wash, a forest
service official said 82 new fires
were burning in eastern Montana,
northern Idaho and part of eastern
Washington. All were small and
not considered dangerous.
On another Idaho forest, the Nez
Perce, 28 smoke jumpers and 220
others fought 38 more fires.
Both the male and female coy
ote help out in obtaining food
for their young pups.
I forested area."
'TiVCtA A wia I -iisiimate , their ceun
JL 11 f J JmVeS try has L290.2$0 square miles of
In U.S. Still in
Good Condition
SAN PEDRO, Calif, Aug. 20-(p)
Taffy, the pregnant elephant, ar
rived aboard the liner President
Taft today showing no effects of
her harrowing 33 day voyage from
Bangkok, Siam.
The 20-year-old pachyderm is
due for an experience that would
make any expenctant mother
shudder. Shell have an audience
of zoologists and cameramen when
her baby is born anywhere from
two to eight months hence.
The spectators, however, will
watch from behind a partition of
"one-way" glass, Taffy won't even
know they're around.
Frank Whitbeck. one of her new
owners, said this precaution will
be taken to prevent Taffy from
killing her biVyShe will have
her own jirtfljpe, a non-private,
man-made affair which her own
ers are preparing for her at near
by Thousand Oaks.
Here she will give birth to the
calf she has been expecting for
the past 16 months. It will be the
first one bom in. this country since
1917, says Whitbeck.
' An ordinary elephant Is worth
about $4000. Whitbeck values Taf
fy, in her present condition, at
$10,000. She and her baby, if it
lives, will be worth 125,000,
league
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CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex.. Auf
20 -)- Schoolboy football stars
of 1948 from 27 states arrive here
tomorrow to open training for the
All-American same next Saturday
ni(ht The greatest majority of
the boys scheduled to take part In
the east-west classic at 13,000
ca parity Buccaneer stadium will
come by air from points from
Maine to California and Washing
ton tJ Florida.
slag. This will represent a saving
and gam? of $10 per ton. a factor
that should appeal to the steel in
dustry. -i t
Federal Aid in
Flodd Control
Project Sought
Federal aid for a flood control
program now being conducted by
a group pf farmers near Jefferson
was asked Saturday by Marion
County judge Murphy in a letter
to Rep. jUValter Norblajl.
Heavy; crop damage and soif ero
sion caused by overflowing waters
at the confluence of the jtforth
and South Santiam rivers prompt
ed the farmers to undertake a
project Of clearing and straighten
ing water channels to preveqt fu
ture damage.
MurpHy said the group Is mak
ing "heeoic efforts" to finisji the
project and has improved the situ
ation, but he doubts ultimate suc
cess without federal help. J
The project, if successful, would
protect about 5.000 acres of bot
tom land in both Linn and Marlon
counties! Murphy ald. a
ity rate of the bulbar type of
polio in pregnancy is so high that
we hardly expected Mrs. John
son to ' pull through.
The 22-year-old husband left
his job as a railroad telegrapher
at Wenatchee, Wash., when his
wife was stricken. The Johnsons
have another child, a two-year-old
boy.
BOWLERS TO FOLLOW NCAA
NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20 - (P)
The n;xt Sugar Bowl game will
be played under the newly pro
posed NCAA rules regulating post
acnon college football contests.
"rank Schaub, president of the
Mid - Winter j Sports association
which sponsors the annual grid
iron classic here, announced today
; the Sugar Bowl's executive com-'
1 mittee had studied the NCAA pro
posals for bowl games and would
inaugurate the plan at the next
game on Jan. 2.
Unions Seek to
Reapportion;
Legislature I
PORTTLAND, Aug. 20-P-jLabor
opened the move today to reap
portion 1 legislative representation
in Oregon. i
At a meeting called by the AFL
State Federation of Labor six
groups decided to sponsor an ini
tiative measure to go on the bal
lot in November, 1950. '
The state AFL organization vot
ed at this summer's;! convention
to promote the reapportionment
Other! groups represented ;today
were the State CIO, Young Iemo
crats. Young Republicans, the
State Grange and the Farmers'
union. The Grange and the FarmV I
er s union nave noi yet lormany
endorsed the idea.
A committee was parsed to study
procedures for reapportionment.
Pastor Silent
On Klan at
Green's Rites
By Bern Price
ATLANTAt Aug. 20 -6fV The
crosses of the Ku Klux Klan fol
lowed Imperial Wizard Samuel
Green to his grave today.
And so did hundreds of his
friends, relatives, unmasked klans
men, minor politicians and police
men. A stranger, however, would not
have known that this crowd had
gathered to bury the thin, fana
tical little man who preached
"white supremacy" for 31 years.
Not once did the minister, the
Rev. Arthur Van Gibson, mention
the name of the 59-year-old phy
sician and neither did he mention
the wizard's works on 'earth.
Dr. Gibson simply asked God
to alleviate the sufferings of Dr.
Green' family. Otherwise the
services were straight out of the
Presbyterian book of common
prayer.
Auto Thief
Hits Driver
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.City police early Sunday morn
ing . were seeking a man who
stole a car from the 200 block
of Ferry street and assaulted the
owner.
Ervin Joseph Sisk, 27. Salem
general delivery told authorities
the man was in his parked car
when he went to get it about
11:45 p.m. When Sisk attempted
tor enter the car the man struck
him in the face and drove off.
First aid men treated Sisk for
facial cuts and lacerations at the
police station.
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