Yale Recipient Of Columbus'
Map, Used To Sail To Cuba
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8. 1962
By LEONARD A. GRANATO
United Press International
. New Haven, Conn. ll'PC
Christopher Columbus either
used a copy of a rare map
now on display at Yale uni
versity or his pinpoint lano
ing on a Caribbean island was
heer genius.
Henrieus Martellus, a Ger
man cartographer living in
Florence, Italy, painted the
map in tempera on canvas
backed paper in the late I5th
century. Martellus located the
" island of Cipangu-thought to
be Japan, but actually Cuba
90 degrees west of the Cana
ry Islands.
' By Oct. 11. 1492, Columbus
had sailed 89 degrees west
from the Canaries and was
keeping his eye peeled for Ci
pangu. He landed the next
day on Cuba.
The map, found only re
cently and given anonymous
ly to Yale, has been dated
Maurine Neuberger Lauds Modification Of Shipping Bill
Washineton - Senate Com-1 flu if vpsu fnr ihinmni nf . t.-ith ...... .... mm J
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Washington - Senate Com
merce Committee approval of
legislation to modify applica
tion of the Jones Act in inter
coastal trade has been laud-
uniber from the West Coast
lo the Atlantic seaboard mar
ket. The new bill ordered
favorably reported was intro
duced in lieu of S. 2737. a
Jones Act rerjoal hill anlhor-
Yale's curator of When you sail west, just j step toward unshackling Pa- cd by Senator Neuberger. and
"It cannot be dated earlier jgitude graduations on the
than 1488 because it shows j Martellus map is enormous,
the results of the African voy- j Vietor said, because Colum-
age of Bartolomew Diaz in I bus faced an awesome prob- ed by Sen. Maurine B. Neu-
that year. ' said Alexander O. ! lem. t berger (D-Ore.) as ' another
Vietor
maps.
Columbus himself a cartog
rapher, used every map and
globe he could obtain in plan
ning his voyage west to reach
India.
Vietor said Martin Pinzon
a captain on the first voyage.
reported seeing a map in jporary maps and globes, there
Rome that Placed Cioanau 90 fwas always the question of
how far is it from Spain to
India?
"Other maps available to
Columbus had only latitude
scales," Vietor said. "Regard
less of the distance in degrees
I from one part of the world to
I another as shown bv contem-
degrees west of the Canaries
"If the Martellus map is the
one that Pinzon said lie saw
in Italy, Pinzon could very
well have copied it or made
notes from it." Vietor said.
"One of the intriguing possi
bilities about the map is that
ii may nave Deen paimca over
the length of the degree it
self."
Columbus c a 1 c ulatcd 45
nautical miles to the degree.
While this calculation is ba
sically incorrect (Columbus
used the Roman league, four
of which equal three nautical
miles), it is accurate in terms
a printed outline.
Longitude Lines
"If this is the case, it be-
around 1489, making it the j comes obvious that if several
only existing pre - Columbus ' printed copies were ground,
voyage map of the world con-'Columbus might very well
staining both longitude and ! have had one aboard."
-'latitude graduations. 1 The significance of the Ion-
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of the Martellus map.
"In other words, Columbus
could have counted the de
grees as shown on the Martel
lus map, then multiplied by
45 to get the distance from
Spain to Cipangu," Vietor
I said. "In any event, he found
Ian island where both he and
Martellus expected it to be."
Vietor said the map, regard
ed as the most valuable in the
Yale collection, is important
in its detailed treatment of
the African coastline as well
as in its possible tie to Colum
bus. The map has been x-rayed
and photographed under ultra-violet
and infrared lights
in hopes of bringing back its
original colors with a modi
fied cleaning and restoration
program. Experts who have
Studied it attest to its authen-
i ticity.
"The map is extraordinary
in its size and precision six
'feet by four feet," Vietor said,
j "It is indeed a missing link
and its discovery will necessi
tate revisions in the analysis
of the geographical back
ground of the late 15th century."
cific Northwest lumber pro-! S. 1305, a shipper assistance
ducers so they can compete ! bill proposed by Commerce
fairly in the marketplace." Committee Chairman Warren
Her comment followed a G. Magnuson and others,
decision by the committee to ! "The new committee bill.
report new legislation permit-1 i 3517. gives full recognition
to tne necessity for Jones Act
modification if we are to pre
vent further decline of both
; the intercoastal shipping and
West Coast lumber industry,"
; Senator Neuberger declared.
"The committee action is in
ting limited use of fnreign-
and the nrnurimi aHi'mil
last week by President Ken
nedy. "Latest figures on lumber
shipments to the Atlantic
Coast market give further
own thinking proof of the need for inline- j put people back to work by i
removal of the Jones Act bar- j Educated Stripper
riers which give Canadians an i r - . .. i
advantage of si i to $13 per ! Soys Pay Substantial
thousand board feet in ship-! East Orange, N. J. -H'Pli- A
i ping costs.
diate action. In the first six
months of 1962. Canadian
sawmills in British Columbia
have shipped over 517 million
board feet of lumber by water
to the U. S. Atlantic coast
T
more lumber to the East i f of Columbia Service
Coast than they averaged in I Astoria -ilW- The ferryboat
any full year between 1950 j MV Kitsap has arrived and is m
rhis means that in six months, j Ferryboat Groomed
Lhe Canadian mills shipped ' , .
The U.S. Air Force aca
demy in Colorado has a roof
of 17 spires rising more than
150 feet in the air.
Former Oakridge
Police Chief Sued
Salem WPli An Oakridge
policeman filed a malicious
prosectilion action in circuit
court here Tuesday against a
former Oakridge police chief
he claims filed charges
against him out of pique
over a traffic ticket.
H. M. Swartz is seeking
S10.000 damages from Kirby
V. Williams In the suit, filed
in Marion County Circuit
Court.
Swartz says he gave Wil
liams a traffic ticket last
June 7. He said that while on
duty June 15. Williams went
before the Oakridge munici
pal judge and charged him
with leaving a motor vehicle
untended while its motor was
running, improper parking
and jaywalking. The charges
were dismissed.
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To Hike Milk Price
Portland - Wli - Another ;
milk company today announc-1 and 19tS0. Halfway through being groomed for service br
ed an increase in the price of j 1962, British Columbia mills tween here and Megler.
milk. possess 65.4 per cent of our The boi)1 rec,,n,v was pur.
Mayflower Farms said its j prime Atlantic seaboard mar- j cr,ased from Washington for
milk will go up one cent a i ket. $27,500. Oregon Highway De-
quart Aug. 13. Carnation Co. I "We can only overcome this partment engineers said it
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! stripper unveiled her college
degree and told the East
; Orange Optimist Club that "I
I can see no threat to society
I in a little girl taking off her
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Libby Jones, who graduated
the University of Wash
ington, explained to the 40
enthralled men Tuesday, "A
mediocre stripper will make
more than a graduate physi
cist and more than some state
governors." She said she
makes from $1,000 to $1,200
a week.
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Long-haul piping of chemi
cals, coal, paper pulp, poultry
feed and food products - al
ready handled in bulk by pipe
for short distances - is made
possible by advances in pipe
materials and installation
methods during recent years,
according to the Tube Turns
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