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
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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.
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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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