Cyprus Bombs Kill
American, Injure 6
Explosive Tossed Into Restaurant,
U.S. Consular Official Succumbs
NICOSIA, Cyprus un Two bombs were thrown into downtown
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restaurant Saturday night killing one American and wounding six
others. All seven jtere employes of the U. S. consular service in
Nicosia. .f-
In Washington, the State Department identified the slain Amer
ican as vice consul William Bottler, a resident of Washington, D.C.
One Hot Tot Beats the Heat
Air Force Delivers Cahill by
Ambulance to Start Pen Term
The bombs exploded in .the Lit-
tie .Soho Restaurant.
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Victim
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the Big Three steel manufactur-!
ers Un ted Ststes Steek Bethle-1
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are negotiating as a group with I
1h Ilnitd stP.I Wnrk.r. nf t
America, the dominant labor or-',
ganization in the steel industry
In close touch with the Big
Three are the lesser companies,
tome of which are by no means
small concerns. Previously, ne
gotiations were with individual
companies, those with U. S. Steel
usually coming first and its
agreement setting a pattern for
all the mills. In recent years
settlements were made without
serious interruption of produc
tion, the last bad steel strike be
ing the one in 1932 when Presi
dent Truman attempted to take
over the mills. Peace has been
purchased at a price, however.
Wage increases and concessions
on benefits were followed with
price increases.
Whereas a year ago USW
withheld its demands until short
ly before contract expiration, and
banking fires in blast furnaces
was begun before Big Steel's ex
ecutives came to an agreement
with Big Labor's representatives.
This year labor demands were
presented earlier. Last week the
companies rMde their counter
offer which the USW rejected.
Negotiators resumed meetings in
New York Saturday to see if an
agreement could be hammered
ut. No disclosure has been made
as to the demands and the counter-offer.
It is reported that the
workers sought both a sizable
wage increase and some form of
guarantee as to employment, pre
sumably supplementary
(Continued on editorial page, 4)
The Dalles to
Add Fluoride
THE DALLES - This city
Is about to add fluorides to its
water.
City Manager Gifford Miller
said he was ready to ask the
state Board of Health for author
ization for the move. These would
be supplementary fluorides, he
explained, because there is some
natural fluoride in the water.
-Last February the City Council
'voted for fluoridation after a PTA
poll favored It and the Elks Lodge
guaranteed to pay for installation
of the equipment.
Weathermen Say
Rain to Follow
Sunshine Todav
Quite a lot of sunshine is fore
cast for today by weathermen at
McNary Field but clouds and
rain are expected tonight. Show
ers will probably reoccur on
Monday, forecasters said.
North Oregon beach weather
todav is forecast to be mostly
cloudy with light showers this
afternoon and tonight.
LANDMARK RAZED
PORTLAND UT The old Perkins
Hotel, a familiar downtown struc
ture with a carved life-sized wood
en steer in a tower portico, is to
be torn down.
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clined to identify the dead man
or the wounded.
He said the six wounded appar
ently were not in a serious condi
tion. The death was the first of an
American in the year of violence
marking the union-with-Greece
campaign in this British crown
colony.
Three WouaaVd
Three Americans were wounded
last December when a bomb was
lobbed into a restaurant in a sim
ilar manner.
Precautions always have been
taken in the past to guard the
restaurant against attacks by
Eoka, the underground organisa
tion demanding union with
Greece.
Doer Left Opei
Blistering summer heat has
made the little restaurant too hot
for comfort the last few davs. The
door was left open to catch any
stray air current
A woman who was in the Little
Soho when the bombs were lobbed
in nave this account:
"I was sitting at the bar ad
Joining the dining room when my
nusDand suddenly shouted to me:
"Hit the floor!"
"I did. I dropped to Uie floor
lust as the explosion went off.
"I couldn't tell -if there were
one or two bombs because it was
just a horriple roar.
Died Frtra Wouidi
; Bottler rose from his chair and
staggered toward the open door.
He leu across the threshold, bleed
ing from wounds in the lower part
of the stomach and legs. He died
later at a hospital.
inner witnesses said a man
openea me restaurant aoor and
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extremists,
The b!ast in ,h' m dil'n
room tremendous. Bomb
fragments pitted the walls
A British officer who investi-
gated the attack exhibited several
fragments. He said the bomb had
been sawed partlythrough in sev
eral places to insure greater
shrapnel dispersal.
All At Oh Table
The Americans apparently all
were sitting at the table. The man
fatally wounded was facing the
door when the bombs with three
second fuses were thrown in.
The assailant ran away as the
deadly missiles loaded with TNT
looped around the table. Winding
streets and alleys nearby offered
an easy escape route.
British troops and police moved
in quickly. They arrested three
Greek Cypriot youths found in the
vicinity immediately after the ex
plosion.
Blaze Strikes
Vessel at Sea
SAN FRANCISCO - The
7,620-ton steamer Wolverine State,
which sent out an SOS Saturday
night, radioed about an hour
later that it had brought under
control a fire burning in two of
its holds.
The vessel is about L4O0 miles
west of San Francisco and some
MO miles north of Honolulu.
The ship, with about 50 men
aboard, is proceeding to Honolu
lu. The Coast Guard recalled the
cutter Klamath, which started
racing toward the Wolverine State
when it first reported fire in the
No. 4 hold.
Twenty minutes after the first
SOS, the steamer reported that
the fire was raging uncontrolled
and had entered the No. I hold
The ship, loaded with cotton, left
San Francisco June 13 for Yoko
hama.
The Wolverine State is owned
by the States Marine Corp. of Del
aware, New York, N.-,Y.
Former Demo Chairman Asserts Republicans
Plan to Use
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Stephen A. Mitchell, former
Democratic national chairman,
charged at Denver Saturday night
that "the Republican Party high
command . . . will use any and
all means or devices to persuade
or force Mr. F.isenhower into the
Presidential race."
"They will do this," Mitchell
said, "regardless of the personel
cost or consequence to him and
his family, and regardless of his
health and condition during the
years 1937 to 1961 when he would
be 71 years old."
Mitchell, close friend of Adlai
Stevenson, said the Republican
leaders "have no real interest in
whether he, Eisenhower, remains
in office after he is elected
their real purpose is to keep
themselves in power for another
four years."
Democratic Presidential aspir
ants and their supporters cen
tered their activities Saturday in
Denver and Superior.
Hanimaa Rally
New York's Gov. Averell Har-
43 trr rjman rallied his western support
s' I? rrs at a'HI-state meeting in Des-j
vi ni.vef Plh railed for Gov. Rav-
oeimond Girv of Oklahoma to head
regional narriman - ior - rresi -
dent orguuxatioa.
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NEW YORK The smile of contentment that accompanies any relief
from Friday's oppressive heat is
month-old Ritthie Borgida at he
af Brooklyn home. With two
any form of relief was welcome.
Weather Bogs
Lost Fliers From Lebanon
StaUiman Ntwi S.rrlr.
LEBANON Search for two Lebanon men who disappeared on a
Thursday night flight over the Cascades will continue in the Cascadia
vicinity Sunday. Weather limited
Approximately 50 men will search
Mountain areas beginning at 6 a.m.
state aeronautics board said. I
A forestry lookout reported Sat-!
urday that he heard a plane pass
overhead about 6:30 p.m. Thurs
day. The two men. Dr. Ralph
Johnston, and Hartly Hanson,
both of Lebanon, reportedly left
Lebanon airport about 6 p.m.
Thursday. Several residents of
Cascadia also reported hearing a
plane, Scroggin said.
Brokta Trees
Searchers investigated a stand
of broken trees above Cascadia
Saturday, but sighted no wreck
age. Fifteen flights involving eight
planes and 17 flying hours were
made Saturday, but a low ceiling
curtailed the effectiveness of the
search.
State police, state and federal
forestry men and members of the
Albany sheriff's office are par
ticipating in the search.
Search Headquarters
Search headquarters has been
established at the Lebanon air
port. An auxiliary search head
quarters was set up at Redmond.
The missing plane is a single
engine Fairchild with the number
N81254.
Johnston and Hanson were fly
ing to Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs.
Johnston notified authorities when
her husband failed to make a
scheduled phone call to inform
i her of his progress.
Any Means to Force
Milton Weilenmann of Salt Lake
City, Utah's state Democratic
chairman and temporary chair
man of the Harriman conference,
pi edict cd six of the states repre
sented will -give Harriman at
least 63'i of their 98 votes for
GOP Claims Signs Indicate
Eisenhower Still in Race
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON - Republicin
leaders Saturday pointed out what
they believe to be a strong sign
that President Eisenhower in
tends to run again.
They noted that the White
House has not made any move
to delay final arrangements for
the Republicin national conven
tion. The Republican national com
mittee's arrangements subcom
mittee will meet here Friday tn
wrap up the last details for the
P" AU8U convention in san
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mirrored the face ef eighteen'
works his "heat relief" in yard
days of temperatures ! the 0s,
(Ar Wirephoto)
Search for
efforts to locate the pair Saturday,
the Jump Off Joe and Swamp
Sunday, Ralph Scroggin of the
Young Wren
Brood Halls
Florida Car
TAMPA, Fla. - Mrs. Myron
B. Davis won't drive her automo
bile for the next three weeks, un
til all the chirping stops.
That's right chirping, not
squeaking.
A wren built a nest between the
radiator and the front grillwork,
laid four eggs and Mrs. Davis nev
er knew it until the eggs hatched
and she happened to see the wren
enter the grillwork with a worm
in her mouth.
"Why. I've diiven the car to
town every day." said Mrs. Davis,
who lives about 10 miles out in
the suburbs.
When she discovered the nest
Mrs. Davis parked the car at the
side of her house and vowed not
to move it until the birds had
time to grow up and move.
BLAST WRECKS TRANSFORMER
MONTAUBAN. France 1 - A
mysterious explosion blew up a
giant transformer at Verlhaguest
power station near here Saturday.
the Democratic Presidential nom- dates in the event Sen. Estes Ke
ination. Ifauver should drop out of the
Wisconsin's Democratic state!
convention in Superior found sup
porters of both Harriman and Ad
lai K. Stevenson trying to line up
delegate support for their candi-
member group, headed by H.
Meade Alcorn Jr., of Connecticut,
will consider a proposal to tele
scope the. proposed four-day con
vention into three days.
If it acts on such a proposal
without any adverse White House
reaction, the move will be inter
preted as indicating that despite
his operation Eisenhower is going
along with plans for his renomin -
ation and that of Vice President
Ninon.
The original move to shorten
the convention was based on the
DresumDtion that itt e time wnu d
be required to formalize an Eis- 7 nd MenneiL Williams 44 An-enhowcr-Nuon
ticket. , other 13 votes were ScattCTWl
(Elsenhower alse ea Page 22, among other possibilities and 173
Bee, lu K . 1 W atill were uncommitted.
Girl's Nation
Post Won by
Salem Girl
(Picture h Page X. See. 1)
A 16-year-old Salem girl was
named as one of two state dele
gates to Girl's Nation at a final
meeting of Girl's State here Satur
day night.
Sally Joseph, daughter of Dr. and
Mrs. Robert Joseph. Salem Route
S, Box 28, will receive an all ex
pense paid trip to Washington, D.C.
A student at Sacred Heart Acad
emy, Sally was sponsored by Cap-
Hoi Unit No. I of the American
Legion.
Other state delegate selected was
Patricia Gotchall, Portland. Alter
nates are Denise Miller, Beaverton,
and Maureen Parmenter, McMinn
ville. The two delegates were selected
from a field of 12. Contestants
appeared in a speech contest Satur
day evening in the Fine Arts build
ing at Willamette University. Final
decision was made on the basis of
poise, voice, appearance and speak
ing ability.
Girl's Nation will be held July
7-11 in Washington.
Girls will leave Salem this morn
ing for their homes.
Marion,Polk
School Board
Vote Monday
A conservative turnout wis pre
dieted by both tne Marion ana
Polk county school superintend
ents for Monday when residents
of all first, second and third clasa
school districts will elect board
members of their respective dis
tricts. Mrs. Agnes Booth, Marion
County school superintendent,
and Frank C. Green, Polk Coun
ty superintendent, also comment
ed that no "heated" contests are
before the public.
Voting in both countier will
be from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday. The
following Monday, June 25, union
high school districts will hold
their elections, Mrs. Booth said.
Two Running
The only issue at stake in
Salem school district is election
of a director. Candidates are
Harry Scott, present chairman of
the bpard, and Samuel H. Spom
er, a city employe.
Dallas residents will be asked
to approve a 1956-1957 school
budget that is $205,141 ouUide
the 6 per cent limitation, as well
as elect on school board mem
ber from among three esndl
dates. The three are Dwight
Webb, assistant postmaster;
Frank Neufeld. Dallas farmer;
and Dr. L. V. Casey, Dallas phy
sician. Finance Issnes
Green said several financial is
sues will be decided Monday
among Polk County's 27 school
districts. Mrs. Booth said some
of Marion County's 50 school dis
tricts will be voting on budgets
as well as board members.
SEN. MORSE IN PORTLAND
PORTLAND OH - Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore) arrived in Portland
Saturday night for a few days of
campaigning.
Ike to Run
race
But Kefauver, on hand to pro
tect his own interests, gave them
no encouragement.
"1 certainly intend to go through
the campaign with the idea of
winning the nomination," Kefauv
er said after a meeting with his
backers.
As the lone entry in Wiscon
sin's preferential primary, Ke
fauver already has first claim on
the state's 28 convention votes.
Delegates are bound to support
him until ' he voluntarily with
draws or until his convention vote
drops below 10 per cent of the
total.
Votes Tabulated
With Eisenhower assured the
Republican nomination if he wants
it, the latest Associated Press tab
ulation of pledged votes and first
ballot preferences among Demo-
crats showed Stevenson ahead by
' 122 votes.
The tabulation, with ftSfi'i need-
A In rmminate pave Klevntnn
2f voles, Kefauver I tie. Harriman
94',, Lyndon Johnson 57. Frank'
l.aurhr 54', Stuart Svminffton 45!
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A three-year struggle te stay eat'ef prisea ends for Otte W. Cahill
Air rorct amouiance a stretcner to uregen state renitenuary Friday arteraoea, Welcoming
the man convicted of taking S759 ef Delake Water District money are Guard LL Bob Cammings,
center, and ctpt. uoya E. rrancis, correction ofricer, right, relk County Deputy Sheriff K. G.
LeFort of Dallas, almost hidden by Francis, at foot of stretcher, accompanied Cahill an the amba
lance ride from Portland Air Base. Ambulance attendants are unidentified. (Statesman photo)
Quarles Says
Bomb's Error
Near 4 Miles
WASHINGTON I Secretary
of the Air Force Quarles Saturday
admitted the H-bomb dropped by
a BS2 at Bikini May 21 missed its
target by "somewhat less" than
four miles.
Quarles said the mistake in this
first test of an air-dropped hydro
gen bemb was due to human er
ror." He said there was nothing
wrong with the plane or its bomb
ing equipment.
The air secretary said the de
tonation of the bomb "somewhat
less" than four miles short of the
intended mid-air point of burst
was an error "considerably more
than normally expected."
He Issued a brief statement aft
er there had been a rash of re
ports about the miss which some
speculation placed as much as
seven miles awayJrom the target.
Quarles said the reports made
necessary a "frank admission."
In talking to a reporter Quarles
made it plain he does not sub
scribe to any belief that the re
ports of the bombing error were
deliberately spread by some rival
service to embarrass the Air
Force.
Earlier, a suggestion had come
from Brig. Gen. Robert L. Scott,
Air Force director of information,
that "only enemies of strategic
bombing would have wanted tn
bring this out in order to start
bickering '
BEACH AREA I NSAK F.
ASTORIA in The beach four
miles north and four miles south
of Camp Clatsop will be unsafe
for visitors June 20-22 and 25-27
while the Oregon National Guard
holds anti-aircraft artillery prac
tice.
NORTHWEST LrAGUK
At Saltm 1, WtnatchM 4
At Eurenc 4-19, Spokane 0-0
At Uwliton 1-1, Yakima 1-4
PACIFIC COAST LEAr.ia
At Portland i, San Franrlarn 4
At Hnllvwood 7. lo Anffll R
At Srattlt 1. ..ii'ramtntn 1
At Vancouver 1-0. San Diego 1-1
1 A MFRir AN I.EAOt'K
'J k.Vmou j" BitTmoV
At rtroit 5. iwinn
At ihiraio i. ariirif inn o
NATIONAL I.EAOt'E
St Brli) J, Mjlwtuk" I
At Nw York 1. ClnrinrUff J "
At Philadflphla-Chlrafo. rata,
At PitUburJ a, at. Louis e j
Battle Ends at
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'How-to-Do-It'
Demonstration
Injures Finger
A Portland woman demonstra
ting a food product at a Salem
market Saturday provided a graph
ic example of how not to handle
the container she cut herself on
a tin can.
City first aidmen said Mary
Luoma. Portland, was treated for
a small cut on the index finger
of her right hand. The demon
stration took place at a market in
the 1100 block of South 12th Street,
they said.
Girl Attacked,
Stabbed Near
Klamath Falls
KLAMATH FALLS W - A 15-
year-old Indian girl from Chilo-
quin was raped and slabbed here
Saturday and the man who is be
lieved to be her assailant was be
ing sought in the Mt. Hebron area
of Northern California.
The girl told police from her
hospital bed here that she met the
man, a Mexican railroad section
hand, in a restaurant here early
Saturday morning.
She agreed to take a ride with
him. Stale Police Sgt. Karl Tieh
enor said the girl lold him that
(he man drove her lo a lumber
. yard in the center of town and
there raped her and stabbed hcrjfj( j 1 OrtlillMi
lour times in me rnest wun a
hunting knife
The man then drove her to the
Sandcreek area some 30 miles
north of here and dumped her out.
She was found by a passing mo
torist and brought to a Klamath
Falls hospital where her condition
was reportro as critical auiraay
night.
A ear. similar to that reported
driven by the attacker, was traced
to the community of Kegpit in
Siskiyou County. Calif. A posse
was searching the countryside for
the driver.
7th Son Arrives
For Father's Day
DETROIT, Mich. ..f-Mrs. Ar
thur B Landry came home from
the hospital Saturday with a Fath
er's Day present for her husband
It's anolher boy Now the Lan
drv's have seven sons.
Papa Landry and the rest of the
Lahdrys. including mama,Jike it
that . .
Penitentiary
V.
ef Nelscoit ae le is delivered by
Long-Missing
Air Wreckage
Said Located
WOODLAND, Wash. W A
logger Saturday found the wreck
age of a missing airplane and
bodies of four Californians who
appeared May 11 on flight from
Renton, Wash., to Eugene, Ore.
Apparently killed outright In the
crash into heavily wooded Green
Mountain. 12 miles northeast of
this southwest Washington town,
were A. D. Posten, 35; bis wife,
Dorothy, 35; Albert Leep, and his
wife, Betty, both about 35.
The Postens were from Redo
do Beach, Calif., and the Leeps
from La Mirada. They were last
seen the afternoon of May U when
they left Renton Airport, southeast
of Seattle, after visiting relatives
there.
The single engine plane and bod
ies were found on the 1.200 foot
mountain's side lale Saturday by
Alan Burgin of Woodland. Burgin
said the two women were thrown
clear of the plane but the men's
bodies still were in the wreckage.
Burgin qualified for a $1,000 re
ward posted May 17 by Carl M.
Decker, (ather of Mrs. Leep, who
resides in Southgate, Calif.
A Cowlitz County sheriff's de
tail has started after the bodies.
16 Charged Willi
(ranihliii" After
PORTLAND - Police early
Saturday raided what they said
was a gambling place and arrest
ed 16 persons.
Rooked on a charge of running
a gambling game was Hershel
Fowler, 5.1. The other 15 were ac
cused of visiting a gambling
game.
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Crossword 25
Editorials 4
Garden 12-13
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Valley News
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'Dlness'Fails
To Keep Man
From Prison
By RUSSELL BIERAUGEL
Staff writer. The Statesman
Otto Cahill'i last, desperate
hope of avoiding a state dco
itentiary sentence went a'glim
mering Saturday when the Air
Force dcliveed him bv ambu
lance to the prison doors.
... .
Scheduled to begin a one-year
term Friday for taking $790 from
the Delake Water District ia
1953. he arrived almost 24 hour
late by way of Portland Air
Base hospital.
He had caused some consterna
tion when Polk County sheriffs
deputies who called at hi home
at Nelscott Friday sight with
another ambulance learned that
he had pleaded illness and had
been whisked to Portland ia ai
ambulance by the Air Force.
Earlier Call
The deputies. R. G. LeFors
and Pesrl 1L, Hmhe i. both af
Dallas, had called at the beach
community of - Nelscott for Ca
hill earlier Friday but were told
by a doctor that he was too ill
to make the trip, Hughes said.
Ha apparently left in the Air
Force ambulance while the Polk
County officers were consulting
attorneys and Judges to deter
mine weir ngnis inn duties un .
Hep tha rifVifmalBiiMM In f .ImaI
County. Hughes said.
canui. wnose inaictment wis
returned during in investigation
which he himself bid instigated
into alleged vte in Lincoln,
County, -waa accompanied by Le
Fort on h ambulance ride from
Portland to Oregon State Pea
Itentiary. ;: , . - ,
Air Fere Ceeperatea .. ...
"Those men up at the Air Base
were at cooperative m they could
be," LeFort said. "They had ab
solutely no Idea that they were
interfering la our work." .
Cahill wai carried Into the
prison on a stretcher. After e '
animation, he was placed ia the
prison hospital.
ittet
ttendanti laid
Saturday nignt.
a ai i . . ill .Lrrt
A re urea Army oiucer.-sranui
his used the facilities of Port
land Air Bise hospital la the
put. ind wis releised Vk
months ago after 60 days hos
pitalization for treitment ef
heart lilment.
Appeil Planned
Cahill, whose conviction wis
nI..IJ Kw tha firata Ilk
preme Court, said he will appeal .
to the u.s. supreme coun. no
said he understood he had 20
days to file the ippeil and hid
not expected to tie taken to the '
nenitentiinr until that . period
wis up. The most recent rulinj
by the State supreme toun wis
.Urj4viM4av 1
A former official of the witer ,
district from which the money '
fcn r-hiii waa aonieneea
to yeir In prison ana iinea
$14)00. He said in his trial that .
he hid returned tne nw liven
him to buy pipe to the district
treasurer, who died a few dsyi
liter. The trial was held In. Polk
County on a change of venue..
Fire Empties
PnrtlnnrlHntpl
a. VI HMHV4 M.-.VW-
PORTLAND ( -Fire chased
100 persons out of a hotel In the
downtown industrial district early
Saturday.
None of the tenants wis injured
but three firemen were hurt, one
seriously.
The blaie was hi tnree rooms
of the four-story, brick Foster Ho
tel, near the witerfront. Guesti
got out quickly, but some who
went down fire escipei had to
leap the last few feet to an awn
ing over the entrance.
Fire Capt. Donald Sloan, a,
suffered a skull fracture when he
fell from the back of a hook-ind-
ladder truck. Firemen Cecil Nor
ris and Larry McGraw suffered
minor hums.
Loss from the fire, blamed oa
a smoker's carelessness, wis esti
mated at $2,500.
Mystery Bone
Identified as
Whale's Jaw
SAN PEDRO. Calif. Tha
mystery of a monstrous bone
dredged up from the harbor Fri
day on a ship's anchor wu solved
Saturday.
It's the lower left Jawbone of a
gray whale that died' anywhere
from 150 to 1.000 years ago, said
John Fitch, director of the state
fish and game laboratory at near
by Terminal Island.
The bleached bone, ibout 17 feet
lnncf ann IN to 2 feet in diameter
in the center, was (looked Fndiy
hv the anchor of the coastwise
lumber freighter Cynthia Olson.
Capt. Anton Rruc, the vessel I
1 ..1,4 l ttuuiaht l a '
part ef 4 (fthiitarlQ noaettf.