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Stunt Man Critically Injured in 150-Foot Suicide Bridge Jump Pasadena, Cal., Feb. IS (U.R) Stuntman Bob Niles fell and was critically injured Tuesday when he tried to make a parachute Jump Jrom the 150-foot-high Colorado St. bridge, once lamed as "suicide bridge." He was taken to emergency hospital where his condition was -pronounced critical. Niles was "rehearsing" for a proposed jump from New York's Empire State building when the accident occurred, police said. Six companions, helping with the "rehearsal," were arrested. 'Jumping Jack' Made Records San Francisco, Feb. 15 U.B Bob (Jumping Jack) Niles, 23-year-old ex-paratrooper critical ly injured in a parachute jump from a Pasadena .bridge Tues day, twice made successful jumps from bridges here. Niles eluded police to jump 500 feet from a tower of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay bridge May 10, 1949, and it took highway patrolmen nearly an hour to unsnarl a four-mile long traffic jam that resulted. Niles was less successful in the aftermath of his leap. Judge Clarence Morris sntenced him to i 30-day term on charges of violating the bridge anti-pedestrian law and committing a pub lic nusiance. He served only part of the sentence. He started his jumping career here earlier when he managed a 260-foot leap from the Golden JGate bridge April 15, 1949. Of Vhe almost 120 known suicide or stunt leaps from that span, Niles was the second person known to survive. Niles also was the second per son to survive a leap from the Bay bridge.. It was after his successful leap from the Bay span that he an nounced his intention of leaping from the Empire State building in New York. For days he waged a war of nerves with the building's guards, special police and eleva tor operators, but never made the threatened leap. Niles made unauthorized para chute jumps last summer from the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco and went to New York to jump from the Empire State building but was prevented by police. The Colorado St. bridge was named "suicide bridge" during the depression years when near ly 100 persons jumped to their deaths In the rocky Arroy Seco. A high wire fence was erected along both sides of the span to halt the wave of suicide jumps. Niles had climbed the fence and was preparing to jump Tues day morning when something went wrong. He shouted for help and one of his assistants tried to grab him, but was too late. Police said the 24-year-old stunt man had climbed over the fence, which in itself is a vio lation of a city ordinance, tied a rope to the guard rail and had climbed down the rope, below the street level. He was waiting for the .wind to fill his 'chute when his hands slipped. He screamed and fell. Emergency hospital attendants said he had fractures of both legs and internal injuries. There are an estimated 435,000 000 oil wells in the United States. East Salem Groups Arrange Variety of Social Affairs East Salem, Feb. 15 Special Mothers club programs, luncheons and dessert lunch with social afternoons make up the variety on the social program for East Salem women this week. Washington Mothers club meets at the school house Thursday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. Superintendent of the schools Frank Bennett will be the guest speaker. Auburn Mothers club meets at the school house Friday after noon at 1:30. Howard Pyfer will show moving pictures of the teeth in preparation for the den tal clinic next week. The Garden Road Neighbor hood club meets Friday in the home of Mrs. Ralph Werner on Garden road. A one o'clock luncheon is planned. The Jolly Neighbors will meet Friday af ternoon for a dessert luncheon in the home of Mrs. Wallace Se guin on Brown road. All women living on Brown road are mem bers. Mrs. Covil Case was hostess for the Merry Minglers meeting In her Salem home on Thursday afternoon. Going in for the des sert luncheon were Mrs. Albert Fabry, Mrs. J. Irvin ' Wagers, Mrs. Wade Carter, Mrs. Vicar Wagers, Mrs. Earl Malm, Mrs, Robert Pickerel, Mrs. Clyde Col- well, Mrs. Carl Snyder, Mrs. Er nest Barker, Mrs. Orlen Kring, Mrs. John Ackerman, Mrs. Har vey Page, Mrs. R. Robert Fromm, Mrs. LeRoy Barker and her grandmother, Mrs. Hattie Bickers as a guest. The special door prize was given to Mrs. Wade Carter. The annual family night no-host supper will be held at the May. flower hall the evening of March 9. Special committees were appointed. The next meet ing will be with Mrs. Leonard .Malm, Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Keppinger were hostesses for the monthly meeting of the Middle Grove Birthday club at their Lancaster drive home Saturday night. A covered dish supper was served to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Scharf, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Jaffee, Mr. and Mrs. John Cage and Marvin, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Scharf, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bassett-and Don ald, Mr. and Mrs. John Van Laa nen and Dale, Mr. and'Mrs Wil liam Massey, Mr. and Mrs. John Anglin and Sue, Mr. and Mrs Clyde Kuenze, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Charles Anglin, Linda and Mike, Mr. and Mrs. James Shardein Mr. and Mrs. Harold Anglin and children. Secret pals of the past club year were revealed. Aurora Club Plans Benefit Activity Aurora A PAL (Police Athletic League) show will be staged in the Aurora grade school gymnasium Saturday night, Feb. 18, under the spon sorship of the Aurora Lions club, and for the benefit of the club's activities fund, it was an nounced this week. . Arrangements were complet ed this week with the PAL club in Portland. Boxing and wrest ling contests and juggling per formances will be featured in the show. Local talent will be included. First to Enter Virginia L. Orr, 16, of Novato, Calif., is the first to enter the annual Junior Grand National Live stock show, to be held at the San Francisco Cow Palace, April 1-6. Virginia is shown here with her yearling Guern sey bull, which won her a blue ribbon at last year's show. (Acme Telephoto) Publicity Irks Trombone Player Over His Quest for Rombnce Brieham City, Utah, Feb. 15 (U.R) Trombone player Lee Elias- son doesn't like the international publicity given his quest for romance. Eliasson speaking from his Utah home Valentine's day he was sick and tired of the whole thing. "Somebody's going to get into?" trouble if it isn't dropped," he said after refusing to answer questions about his age, occupa tion, musical ability and plans for romance. -said Reports from Canada's Que bec City said that Eliasson was expected to arrive there soon to look over some of the 18 French- Canadian mademoiselles who told the Quebec mayor they'd jump at a chance to marry the Utah musician. Eliasson admitted that he'd written to some of the Canadian girls "but how many is my busi ness. 'Now I'm writing to only a few," he asserted indignantly. Maybe there are possibilities of something more later." He declined to say if he plan ned a trip to Canada to look over the field. Nor would he comment on charges of New York girls that he's a traitor to his country for turning his at tentions on Canada. When asked if he would ac cept interviews from "scouts" for eligible American girls, in cluding those in Utah, Eliasson ended the "silly talk" by bang ing down his telephone. U. S. savings bonds which are lost are replaced by the U.S. government. Mf. Angel Academy Offering Concerts Mt. Angel The all-girl or chestra of the Mt. Angel acad emy will make its debut in the academy auditorium Sunday afternoon, February 19, with a repeat program the following night at 8 o'clock. The orchestra, under the direction of Sister Mary Clare, OSB, consists of 60 girls from high school and col lege, and was formed in 1948 when the academy string ensem ble combined with the band to form a miniature symphonic or chestra. This will be the first public appearance although it has been heard in recitals with academy and college plays at Mt. Angel. The program will in clude works of Rachmaninoff, Egypt Is Main Target of Middle East Drug Smugglers By EDWARD POLLAK Cairo, Feb. 15 W5) Egypt is the main target of Middle East drug smugglers. The Egyptian narcotics bureau, waging total war against drug smuggling, reported that in 1949 it had seized 2,000,000 pounds Egyptian ($5,660,0000 U. S.) worth of narcotics being smuggled into the Nile kingdom. Most? of these drugs, hashish, opium and heroin, were produced in neighboring countries. But, the narcotics bureau ad mitted, during the same period astute smugglers managed to sneak past coast guard posts and camel patroles narcotics valued at more than 8,000.000 pounds Egyptian ($22,640,000 U. S.) Drug smuggling has plagued Egypt from the times of the Arabian nights. After World War I it grew to such propor tions that authorities decided to launch an all-out effort to crush it. A narcotics bureau was cre ated, working in close touch with the League of Nations and laler the United Nations. The Egyptian law was stiffened to provide for long prison terms both smugglers and addicts. A strict watch on Egypt's borders was enforced. These measures did not deter smugglers allured by profits ranging from 500 to 1,000 per cent. Their efforts to out-smart the authorities led to many in genious tricks. Bedouins smuggled dope over the border in metal tubes which their camels swallowed. Once the frontier inspection was pass ed they slaughtered the animals. Inspection by X-ray machines finally put a stop to this practice. Other tricks, too, eventually were foiled by the authorities, but government statistics still are hitting the jackpot in many instances. The main offender among drugs slipped past Egyptian frontiers is hashish, which is very much like marijuana. Has hish can be either smoked or eaten and is said to create a sense of rapture and elation and to bring about wonderful dreams. At the same time, some doctors say, it ruins health and in the long run makes a wreck out of a man. So hashish remains high on the list of this country's public enemies. Three New Projects Given Club Members Albany Three new projects for Linn county 4-H club mem bers were adopted at an all-day meeting of the Linn County 4-H club Leaders' association at the Riverside community hall, H Joe Myers, Linn county 4-H club extension agent, reports Myers said the group decided upon the following events to be added to the calendar for 4-H club members of the county dur ing the year: radio tryouts for club members, some time during March; a training meeting for livestock club members during the first part of April in the vi cinity of Lebanon, and a live stock judging tour to select the two judging teams to represent Linn county at the Oregon State fair and Pacific International Livestock Exposition. This judging tour will be held during the last week in June, and in the south end of Linn county, Myers stated. It is estmated that a horse eats food from enough land to feed four people. Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1950 13 Groundling Mechanic Charlie Tucker, who taxis planes from United Airlines hangars to the loading gates at San Francisco, has 6,000 hours on the ground, none in the air. Ik 25 Forgot to Donate Blood A total of 88 pints was re ceived at the Portland regional blood center visitation in Salem Tuesday and the total would have been nearer the 100-plnt goal had 25 persons not forgot ten to keep their appointments. There were 106 persons who reported for the visitation, 18 being unable to donate blood. Several giving their blood were replacements for free blood given friends or relatives. Sev eral were persons who were "drop-ins" those unable to make previous appointments. The unit goes to Mt. Angel on February 27 and returns to Sa lem on March 14. 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