2%. Year Old Girl j
Killed By Lion
In Washington Zoo
WASHINGTON, UP> — Smith
sonian Institution officials or
dered a formal investigation Sat
urday into the death of a 2Vl
year-old Canadian girl who wan
dered too close to a lion cage at
the Washington zoo.
As her horrified grandfather
fought vainly to save her Friday
little Julia Ann Vogt was hauled
screaming into the cage by a
lion and decapitated.
The grandfather. Harry Jack
son, 67, suffered a mild heart
attack and was unable until this
morning to give a coherent ac
count of what happened. From
his bed, he smjl:
“I just walked down to the
zoo with my two children. I had
each of their hands and we
walked around the cages.
“The .older one and I looked
over to the left .where there were
some lions pacing around.
“The first thing I knew the
little one on my other side had
ducked through the railing and
ran up to the cage. When I
asked her to hold pay hand, she
had a habit of saying ‘I hold my
own hand, granddaddy’ and that
was the last thing she said.
“I reached over the railing to
try to grab her but by that time
the lion had pulled her into the
cage.”
“I tried pulling on her arm
and head and I called for help,
but it was too late to do anything
for her. A lady stepped up to
help me.
“Julia Ann didn’t make a
sound.”
Seaton To Address
Alaska Press Club
May 27 in Anchorage
Secretary of the Interior Fred
A. Seaton recently accepted the
invitation of the Alaska Press
Club to appear as the featured
guest speaker at its Annual
Awards Banquet.
President Joe Brewer of the
Alaska Press Club announced
', that Secretary Seaton had agreed
to make the major address at
tne sixth annual banquet which |
honors outstanding staff mem
bers of Alaska’s newspapers,
radio and television stations and
other news media.
Secretary Seaton will arrive in
Anchorage on May 27 while on
a brief tour of the Territory.
The Awards Banquet is scheduled
to be held the following evening
at the Westward Hotel in An
chorage.
40th Anniversary of
Is* Air Mail Run
elebrated May 15
NEW YORK, UP) — History
practically repeated itself Friday
as an ir mail cargo arrived
here from Washington 24 hours
late—just as it did in 1918.
The idea of the flight, which
started Thursday, was to cele
brate the 4'lth anniversary of the
first air mail run.
On May 15, 1918, a Jenny bi
pane’s propeller snapped over
Philadelphia, it landed without
further mishap but the mail had
to be flown into New York a day
later.
On this May 15, one of the
original air mail pilots, Leon
(Windy) Smith, 68, took off from
Washington in an open cockpit
replica of the old Jenny. He
set the craft down in Phila- j
delphia, as planned this time,
but then ^is schedule went awry.
The Jenny’s radiator seams had
split.
They couldn’t fix up the an
cient biplane, so Smith and his
mail transferred Friday to a mod
ern, twin-engine Cessna.
This plane landed Friday with
out mishap at LaGuardia Field.
Security Restrictions
"’!oc,e Five Seattle
Piers To The Public
SEATTLE, UP) — Five Seattle
piers have been ordered closed
to the public effective June 1
as part of tightened Coast Guard
security restrictions, the Post
Intelligenoer said Saturday.
The P-I quoted Coast Guard
Capt. John Coffin, captain of the
port, as saying the piers are being
barred to everyone without a
Coast Guard pass “because they
are handling military cargo.”
Coffin described the action as
“just routine” but the P-I said
it had learned the order issued
because of the tense international
situation and recent reports of
sighting of unidentified submar
ines off the West Coast.
No top ranking Coast Guard
officials was immediately avail
able here for comment on the
Post-Intelligencer article.
The five piers affected were
listed as the old Seattle Army
terminal, two used by the Alaska
Steamship Co. and the East
Waterway, and the Ames Ter
minal installations of the Port
of Seattle.
Tim Tam Follows
Citation In Winning
$133,950 Preakness
BALTIMORE, UP) — Tim Tam
burst between the pace-setting
Lincoln Road and Talent Show
at the head of the Pimlico stretch
Saturday and rolled home a bril
liant winner of the $133,950
Preakness Stakes.
But Silky Sullivan, who flopped I
badly in the Kentucky Derby
won by Tim Tam two weeks ago,
again disappointed his thousands
of admirers and wound up eighth
in a field of a dozen 3-year-olds
contesting Maryland’s greatest
horse race.
Tim Tam, the Calumet hope for
another triple crown hero, thus
became the first derby winner tp
cop the Preakness since Citation
—another Calumeteer—got the
job done in 1948. Citation then
went on to sweep the elusive
triple by grabbing the Belmont
Stakes in New York.
This was the sixth Preakness
victory for Calumet Farm—and
set a record. Tim Tam’s victory
broke for Calumet a tie with
G. L. Lorillard, who had won
five Preaknesses between 1878
and 1882.
Elephant Prefers BO
FRESNO, Calif., Uf) — At least
one inhabitant of Fresno’s Roed
ing Zoo doesn’t care if she’s i
socially acceptable.
All the animals were sprayed
with deodorants after some sen
sitive citizens complained of the
odors.
Nosey the elephant took her
perfuming quietly. But as soon
as zookeeper E. M. Blocker
finished, she filled her trunk
with water and sprayed off the
deodorant. Then she picked up
dirt and hay and tossed it on her
self with a satisfied snort.
Blocker grinned:
“I kind of like the old smell
of the zoo. To me, it means the
animals are alive and well.”
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