It Capital Journal, Salem,
MOTHER NATURE'S FLYING MACHINE
Long-Range Bombers Have
Nothing on the Arctic Tern
Washington, Nov. 2 () Mother Nature hai taken no part in the
B-36 controversy, but ih could ay a thing or two about It If
ihe wished.
The air force people boast of the B-36 s range a little more
than 10,000 miles. But Mother Nature for thousands of yean
has had a little half-pound fly
lng machine, the Arctic Tern,
which makes two 11,000-mile
flights a year not non-stop,
but even so that's some flying.
The bird summers in the Arctic
Sought by Veep
St. Louis, Nov. 1 MV-Vice
President Barkley still hasn't
found the kind of wedding ring
he wants for his bride-to-be.
Barkley and Mrs. Carleton S.
Hadley, 38, who announced their
marriage date Sunday, ahoppea
for a ring yesterday. But they
were unable to find Just what
they wanted.
The wedding date is Nov. 18
Barkley said he planned to be
"floating around this area be
tween now and the wedding."
"I might be in St. Louis over
next week-end." he added. "I'll
be In Chicago next Monday giv
ing a speech. Also I plan to
spend some time in Kentucky."
After the wedding, the "Veep"
and his bride will move to Bark
lev's home near Paducah, Ky
The place is known as "The
Angles." "
Foresl Fires
Under Control
(Br United Frui)
A thousand weary volunteers
lowed a forest fire sweeping
through California's San Fer
nando valley like a blazing "tid
al wave" today and woodland
blazes in South Dakota and Wis
consin also were battled under
control.
Fire fighters from the Los An
geles area battled on a 10-mile
front to save five San Fernan
do communities from flames
which started Monday in Box
canyon, scene of a similar fire
two years ago.
On another fire front, relief
crews prepared to take over the
Job of stemming flames which
destroyed two ranch buildings
and threatened others on Battle
mountain, near Hot Springs, S
D.
Meanwhile, backfires built by
volunteers workers halted the
second forest fire to strike Wis
consin's Marathon county in two
days. The blaze ravaged 2,000
acres in the southern part of
the county near Wausau. Anoth
er burned over 400 acres last
Saturday.
Fighters In California were
hampered by a 90-degree tem
peratures and low humidity,
both encouraging to spread of
the San Fernando fire.
Also, the flames were fanned
by shifting gusts of winds, touch
ing 40 miles an hour, as they
spread over 10,000 acres of the
valley.
One observer said the Inrush
lng flames looked like "a tidal
wave of fire."
Plan Dedication of
Big Tillamook Dairy
Tillamook, Nov. 2 W Dairy
formers of the Tillamook Coun
ty Creamery association will
cplebrate the 80th anniversary
of commercial cheese produc
tion In the state Friday by dedi
cating a $1,900,000 plant here.
The operation Is one of the
nation's most modern dairy
production plants. It will add
to the facilities used by the .
inflation's 800 dairy herds.
The plant will process grade
A milk as well as cheese. The
association Is the largest Ched
dar cheese manufacturer In the
vest.
It Is believed that the petrified
fnrest of Arizona was once cov
ered by a sea at which time the
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and winters in the Antarctic.
Its seasonal migration, which
is going on right now. Is the
longest of any bird. Arctic terns
from Alaska and other western
parts of North America fly di
rectly south. But those who sum
mer in Eastern North America
make a mysterious side-trip to
Europe and Africa before head
ing for the South Pole.
You practically never find an
Arctic Tern on the Atlantic
coast of North America south of
northern Massachusetts.
One theory about this side-
trip is that the Arctic Terns' an
cestors came from Europe. So
before they take up their winter
residence in the Antarctic, they
make a sentimental Journey
home. They fly east across the
Atlantic towards Scotland or
France, then sail south along the
western coast of Europe and Af
rica.
People have known practical
ly nothing about the trail of the
tern until the past 20 years or
so. It was known that they turn
ed up seasonally In the Arctic
and Antarctic, but the course
they took was not understood
until the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service began banding the birds
in cooperation with similar for
?ign agencies.
Numbered anklets are fasten
ed to the birds, and a record Is
kept of where the banding took
place. About 7.846 Arctic terns
have been banded. And 10 or 12
of them have been recovered at
long distances, in Europe or Af
rica. One of the birds which had
been banded in 1929 was re
covered in 1946.
Arctic terns don't fly non
stop.
They are water fowl, so they
can snooze or feed on the ocean.
From the record of one banding,
it was learned that a tern took
three months to fly from Lab
rador to Southeast Africa.
They are relatively slow,
cruise at from 30 to 35 miles per
hour. They seem to fly rather
low. Sailors report seeing them
in flocks at an altitude of about
100 feet.
They are the size of a small
gull, with long wings and a long,
forked tall. They are pure white
underneath and pearl gray on
top. Their feet and bills are red,
and the top of their head is black
-looks like a little derby hat.
They are great lovers.
When the male Is courting, he
brings food to the female, pre
senting it to her with a. playful
little cerpmony. While she Is
brooding the eggs, he continues
to feed her and keeps up the
same little courtship ceremony.
Arctic terns lay their eggs
near the North Pole, on smail
sandy islands or in the snow on
the ice pack.
Scientists can only guess at
the reasons for their long mi
grations. It might be a matter
of food supply. Or daylight sav
ing. Or a combination of both.
At any rate, moving from pole
to pole, where they get almost
24 hours of daylight in mid-summer
and mid-winter, they prob
ibly see more of the sun than
any other creature.
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Norblad Scores
Denfeld Ouster
Portland, Nov. 2 W Rep.
Walter Norblad (R-Ore) said
here yesterday the house armed
services committee may reopen
hearings when congress recon
venes. He said the dismissal of Adm.
Louis Denfeld might be taken
up, but he said he doubted any
thing could come of the situa
tion which he called a "damned
shame."
The Oregon representative, a
member of the committee that
heard naval, air force and army
officers on unification disputes,
doubted the hearings harmed na
tional security. This had been
charged in some Washington
circles because of the publicity
given the testimony.
Norblad said, however, that
removal of Adm. Denfeld from
his previous job was "contrary to
the promises" made by civilian
chiefs of the military services.
He said the committee sought to
get honest opinions from mili
tary leaders without the opinions
being cleared through depart
ment heads:
"I'm afraid," he said, "it may
lapse right back to where it was
before. High officers will be
afraid to speak honest opinions
in fear of reprisals."
To Check Drifting
Sand in Siuslaw
Portland, Nov. 2 P A proj
ect to keep shifting dune sand
from blowing into the Siuslaw
river, creating navigation and
drainage problems, was report
ed today.
Under an agreement announc
ed by Daniel L. Goldy, regional
director of the bureau of land
management, public lands at the
mouth of the Siuslaw rtver will
be planted to beach grass, Scotch
broom and other grasses.
Others cooperating are the
Siuslaw state soil conservation
district, Lane county, the federal
soil conservation service, the
forest service and the port of
Florence port commission.
Goldy said this is the first
cooperative project of its kind
the bureau has entered into in
the Pacific northwest and might
set a pattern on conservation
projects on public lands.
Woodsmen in swampy coun
tries drink the sap flowing from
a broken grapevine instead of
water.
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DEEP IN MOSLEM AREA
Nile Sands Believed Hiding
Story of Ancient Christians
Khartoum, Sudan (U.R) The unwritten story of an ancient Chris
tian civilization in Africa may be buried beneath the desert sands
around Karima and Dongola, on the banks of the Nile.
Disturbed only by the hooves of occasional gazelle, this wilder
ness is believed to conceal the
the area thickly until 1340 A.O
The people built cities, had
their own particular culture and
kept an outpost of Christendom
flourishing in the depths of the
Moslem-controlled Middle East
for nearly 800 years.
An amateur archeologist has
set out with camels and Sudan
ese bearers to survey the area at
his own expense. He is Terence
Gray, a wealthy Irishman, resi
dent of the south of France.
Hia purpose is to collect as
many "clues ' as possible about
this civilization and then to re
port to P. L. Shinnie, archeology
commissioner for the Sudan
government.
Gray's finds, though not sen
sational, have convinced Shin
nie that a full-scale scientific
expedition should be sent out to
the Karima area.
"It will fill in a blank chapter
of history if such an expedition
is financed," Shinnie said.
If the expedition is not sent, it
is likely that the "blank chap
ter" never will be written. The
Egyptian government is almost
certain to start construction of a
new dam in the locality aoon,
and the site of Shinnie's propos
ed investigations will be flood
ed by the waters of the Nile.
The archeology commission
er has drawn up a detailed plan
for a large expedition, armed
with equipment for digging deep
enough to fold back the desert
from the remains of temples and
burial grounds which he feels
certain lie under the sands.
It is believed that the Chris-
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tian population of this extinct
nation were Nubians. They were
converted by missionaries of
Greek extraction who were sent
by the Empress Theodora of
Constantinople, in 540 A D.
Theodora was at one time a
harlot dancing girl, but became
a devout and active Christian af
ter her marriage to the emper
or. Constantinople, or Byzant
ium, was at that time the capital
of the eastern half of the split
Roman empire.
It is amazing, Shinnie said, to
realize that, while the western
world was besieged by the forc
es of uncivilized barbarians
1 neooora s missionaries were
able to reach the Sudan and
found the Christian commun
ity. The Christian civilization is
believed to have been finally ov
errun in the middle of the 14th
century by Moslem forces from
the north.
No massacres are known to
have taken place, and the reason
for the gradual degeneration
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Girl Student Wins Master's
Degree for Wasp Stings
Waco, Tex. u) Carol McCall rounded up more than 8.000
wasps and even went so far as to persuade a lot of them to sting
her.
It was for the sake of science, and the master's degree in bi
ology which Baylor university subsequently awarded her.
H 4 Hf 1 1 .o jixt in HlMT -
mine why wasp stings sometimes
result In death.
Most people, she found, need
have no fear of a wasp ating.
But there have been, in 1949,
several deaths in Texas caused
by wasp venom and Miss Mc
Call wondered why.
She has yet to find the ans
wer, except in the vague sense
that "allergy to wasp venom"
might be it. And how to de
termine if you are allergic with
out actually being stung?
"It'a a mere theory, but I
suspect that if you are allergic
to pollen, food proteins or other
factors, the odds favor your
being allergic to wasp venom
she said.
"And the reaction will be even
more severe if the stinger reach
es into the veins of the allergic
person, allowing the venom to
circulate quickly throughout the
body."
In her research, Miss McCall
exposed herself t o possible
severe reaction by extracting
venom from wasps and injecting
and final disappearance of the
population of the area is another
point which Shinnie wants to
clear up.
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A Marine, home on leave, was
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A farmer was pitching hay,
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Farmer Amputates
Own Right Hand
Newcastle, lnd., Nov. 2 (AT
Charles, Rothrock, 65-year-old
farmer, amputated his own right
hand with a picket knife after
it became caught in a corn pick
ing machine Monday. Roth
rock's wife lost both her legs in
the same corn picker in 1942.
Rothrock, after freeing him
self, ran a quarter of a mile to
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Dutoit; vice president, Ed h
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mittee, Margaret Neunschw
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