Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 November 1923 — Page 3
FRIDAY, NOV. 30, 1923.
DINOSAUR EGGS “OLD SOL” ENDS REACH GOTHAM;
GRONTES RIVER MARES HISTORY
Head of Museum Pleased With Find in Mongolia—12 i Skeletons Found.
Doctor Abbott of Smithsonian Institution Says Sun Is Again Back to Normal
New York.—Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum of Na iral History, returned from a trip to Mongolia full of enthusiasm over the third year’s work of the expedition to the Gobi desert, which produced 25 dinosaur eggs, 72 dinosaur skulls, 12 complete dinosaur skeletons and 15 tons of fossils of many kinds. “It was the most successful and best equipped expedition I have ever known.” said Doctor Osborn. He credited the results of the expedition largely tp the leadership of Hoy Chapman Andrews, who also arrived here with the dinosaur’s eggs and the story of the achievements of three years in (tee Gobi. Doctor Osborn was interested but skeptical about an English report suggesting a rival nest of dinosaur’s eggs had been found in the Ashdown Sands in England. These were reported by George Abbott in Nature of October 13 and described as detached, round, spherical masses ten to thirty inches in diameter. The conjecture was put forward that these were reptilian eggs like that of the Iguanodon, a giant dinosaur. Doubts They Are Dinosaur Eggs. Doctor Osborn was extremely doubtful these would prove to be real dinosaur eggs. Those found in the Gobi desert, which are the first on record, carried their own evidence in the skeleton of one unhatched dinosaur. Mr. Osborn confirmed reports that leaders of the expedition were eager to resume the expedition next year and to specialize this time on the search for the remains of primitive man. Doctor Osborn made an inland journey to Iren-dubutsu in eastern Mongolia, 400 miles north of Pekin, where he studied the fossil formations on the spot and strengthened his opinion that this general region was that In which the main lines of animals and the human stock had developed. Because the ancestors of the dog, horse, cow and other of the first domesticated ancestors have been found In this part of the world, Doctor Osbosgi and his colleagues have held the theory that it was in this region that primitive tqan first reached the stage of civilization where he was able to domesticate animals. Hom» of Many Rap tile Stocks. The first men are believed to have migrated or “radiated” from here to all parts of the world, probably reaching North America while there was still a direct land connection between Asia and Africa. The 15 tons of fossils are said to include other evidence that Mongolia was the homeland of manv animal and reptile stocks.. The transport service of the expedition consisted of 70 camels, three small automobiles and two motortrucks. The camels carried the gasoline and the wool of the animals supplk.d the material in which th& specimens were packed. At one time the party went without flour because their supply was needed for a paste for the protection of the eggs. Doctor Osborn’s ship left Tokyo for Kobe just 20 hours before the earthquake. Expert Card Player Victim of Aphasia Keyser, W. Va.—Police and charity department officers are puzzled over the case of a young man suffering from aphasia who is being cared for at the county jail in Weston. He appeared recently near Burlington, acting queerly. It was discovered that his mind was a blank as to his past. He has handsome features and the manners of one well bred. He is about twenty-seven years old, 5 feet 7 inches tall, and weighs 150 pounds. He is being allowed much freedom in the hope that he may perform some action or say some word that will provide a clew to his identity. s Evincing interest when he saw jail jffteqdants playing seven-up, the atVanger was invited to sit in. He dicr&pand to the astonishment of both himself and the other players he proved himself an expert at the game.
Washington.—The sun’s strike is 1 ended. j The “solar vacation,” in which the sun failed to provide the normal quantity of heat to the earth, is now definitely over and whatever is the matter with the weather is not due to the “strike,” which was blamed for freaky conditions of many months. I Ending of the sun strike was announced recently by Dr. C. G. Abbott, astrophysicist of the Smithsonian institution. Abbott startled the lay and scientific world in the summer of 1922 with an announcement that the sun was on a strike—that it was supplying the earth with 4 per cent less heat than j normal. He suggested that the freakish weather then being experiemced might be due to this condition. Sunspots Come Back. From the day he enunciated his novel views, he was plagued by a horde of amateur meteorologists, who insisted that he be more specific. Now that its strike has ended, the sun is manufacturing its usual quantity of sunspots. In foreswearing long range weather predictions, Abbott has joined the rest of government scientists who study the weather. They all state that a 48-hour prediction is the maximum they can risk their reputations on. No real authority in Washington will go on record one way or another that, the coming winter will be harsh or mild. In seeking some competent views on this coming winter’s nature, however, local investigators have located Uncle Charlie Trivett, weather sage Of the mountains back of Bristol, Va. Uncle Charlie predicts a long, hard winter for the southern and eastern parts of the Unite 1 States. Signs of Hard Winter. He bases his view on the following observations: Squirrels have stored away more nuts than usual. The bark of trees is thicker. Cornhusks are more sturdy. Insects are digging their holes in the ground weeks earlier than usual. Migratory birds, such as wild geese and ducks, are winging their way Soutli about a month ahead of schedule. Fur-bearing animals have much heavier coats this year than usual and -diuging their -deru. deepen into the ground.
Stream Has Always Played Im portant Role.
UGHTNIN6 CAUSES MANY FOREST FIRES IN WEST War on Hornets With Firebrands Also Caused Blazes.
Finds Fugitive Father After Search of Years New York.—A nation-wide search of several years for her father ended for Miss Bertha Lubinsky of Richmond, Ind., when detectives arrested, at an apartment in the Bronx, Barnette Lubinsky, whom the young woman identified as her parent. He deserted her mother, herself and four other children at Richmond eight years ago, she alleged. Lubinsky was said to be wealthy. When arrested on a warrant signed by Gov. Warren T. McCray of Indiana, Charging him with being a fugitive from justice, Lubinsky denied the accusation, and said he never had seen the young woman who insisted she was Ms daughter.
School for Alton Women. Tiffin, O.—Allen women will be given equal opportunity with men In securing a knowledge of America. A school for women was opened here by the Social Service club of Heidelberg university. The Red Cross, which started classes for alien men, will cooperate in the school.
Capital Sdhoel Children Not Posted on Histojy Washington.—School children of the capital were recently shown astonishingly Ignorant of salient points in American history. Completion of the tabulation of replies from 1,170 pupils of the seventh and eighth grade j classes disgloped that* * m-Jy 50.2 p.-r cent knew Abraham Lincoln was the I tautlior of the emancipation pro ’ c tfcm. The acts of Jefferson fend Ad rfrul I Dewey were best Vwovn, 0o per cent giving the correct answers for these two. The total list of names .and the numbers of pupils able to designate their places in history, follow: Jefferson, 65 per cent; Dewey, 65 per cent; Roosevelt, 5S.4 per cent ; Lincoln, 56.2 per cent; Perrj, 51.4 per cent; Grant, 4Q.5 per cent; Jack-on, 40 per cent; Houston, 38.6 per cent; Hamilton, 31.7 per cent; Meade, 25.3 per cent; Dougids, 24.1 per cent; Decatur, 23.4 per cent; Greene, 21.2 per cent ; Taylor, 19 8 per cent.
PEOPLE 010 LICORICE ROOT
“The Orontes river, in northern Syria, which citizens of Mecca claim as the northern boundary of the Island of the Arabs, the native name for Arabia, has always played an important role in the theater of Asia where East meets West,” says a bulletin from the Washington (D. C.) headquarters of the National Geographic
society.
“Juvenal, the great Roman satirist, uttered what may seem like a geographic untruth when he said that ‘the waters of the Orontes overflowed into the Tiber,’ but many historians have claimed that the river was an important factor in bringing about the downfall of the Roman empire. Along this path made by Nature between the Mediterranean and the lands of the East the superstitions and corruption of Asia came to Rome, brought by the Roman legions, and Greek art and civilization, together with Roman law,
flowed to the rising sun. An Early Earthquake Theory.
“It has been said that the river derived its name from a man who built a bridge over it. After one of the great earthquakes In Roman times had changed the course of the river, the oracle declared that the bones of a man of colossal size found in the old river bed were those of Orontes, and on the ancient coins of Antioch, the most famous city which ever existed along its banks, the river is personified as a youth swimming at the feet of the female figure representing the city. The old name of the river was Typhon after that terrible mythological dragon buried under the mountains around Antioch whose frequent writhings and twistings were believed to be the cause of the numerous earth-
quakes along the river valley.
“The giant under the earth still turns and tosses and mutters and makes the earth tremble in the vicinity of Antioch. It is one of the few non-volcanic regions of the earth in
which earthquakes occur.
“According to Syrians, the Orontes also is peopled by water-spirits, which are believed to be the authors of fertility. When the water of the river, which has been diverted into Irrigation ditches, again is allowed to flow {xcro^s the river bed, childless Syrian women
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oncoming rush of the stream. Meanders Through Steppes.
“Rising down in the great springs of the Inter-Lebanon district, near the ancient city of Baalbek, the great river flows northward almost parallel to the Mediterranean coast, falling 2.000 feet through a rocky gorge. The groat de-
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Aged Elopers Afraid of Their Own Children Cumberland, Md.—William Henry McClellan, seventy-five, widower, retired farmer, and Mrs. Sarah Alice Bloom, seventy, widow, both of Altoona, Pa., were married here recently by Rev. Howard L. Schlinke, pastor of the First Methodist Protestant church. Both are stout and each walked with a cane on account of rheumatism. When they asked for the clerk’s office they were first directed to the orphans’ court, as it was suspected they wanted to file their wills. While the groom-to-be was answering the various questions asked applicants bis companion smiled from beneath her bonnet and over her glasses at him. After getting t^ie license they asked that no children be given, because their children and grandchildren in Altoona would likely scold and fuss.
Clown Finds Wife Ran Away. Cedar Rapids, la.—Life has played a joke on Sam Binley, circus clown, of this city. Two years ago he eloped with a nineteen-year-old girl and married her. He was arrested, however, and sent to Jail. After a few months, Sam ran away. Recently he was captured and sent back to ja*l. When he was freed he discovered his wife, having become of age, had eloped with another man.
Marl Discovered. Halifax.—An Important discovery of marl—lime not solidified in rock—has been made near Mackinnon’s harbor, close to Iona, Cape Breton. The value for agricultural purpose* is high. Marl is to be found In sections where lime and gypsum deposits are adjacent and its crop-accelerating qualities la heavy land are tremendous.
river
flows, traversing Syria from the Taurus mountains to the Sinai desert, has few outstanding physical features.
It is made up plateaus of stepy debris. The river in ah into a rich dir* *]t6s of tho ancien and Larissa; At river turns westwa plain cf Antioch. “Though in the i navigable, its valle a convenient highv north to south. R
and northeast, from Damascus and Coele-Syria convergq at Antioch, and along Jhe depression and across the Sljnal peninsula huye passed' armies bound to and from Egypt for hundreds of generations. Today the fleet-footed Arabian and the rocking camel are fast giving place to the invincible automobile and the motor lorry. Its Source and Mouth Cities. “No two cities in the world have had more romantic histories than those at its source and near Its mouth. Baalbek, the ancient citv of Baal, the sun-god, with its famous ruins of a temple made of veritable megaliths, stirs the imagination as does Antioch, which in its glorious days saw the horses of Ben-Hur crash past the chariot of the proud Roman, saw mighty Trajan, with fragments of his Roman army which he was to lead against the Parthians sheltering in its huge circus in the midst of the severe earthquake of 115 A. D., and watched with careless eye the lolling of the Roman legions in its beautiful grove of Daphne. “When the hot, malaria-breathing winds from the east blow across the valley of the Orontes, the Inhabitants take to the, mountains and plateaus where the climate Is especially agreeable. For most of them It Is convenient to do so, for excellent pasturage Is found In various areas, and it Is never difficult for these Bedouins to take up their tents and move all their household effects to pleasanter surroundings. No reliable statistics are obtainable upon the cattle In Syria, but handbooks say that the number In the Orontes valley is considerable. Apamea in the days of Antioch’s glory was the home of the great national stud which boasted 80,000 mares and 800
stallions.
“A good many of the Inhabitants have been lured by American dollars in digging licorice root on plantations where great wooden water-wheels have been lifting the Orontes into irrigation ditches In order that cough-sirup and plug-tobacco manufacturers may supply our demands.”
Olympia, Wash.—Lightning would scarcely be ascribed by the western Washington resident generally as one of the prolific causes of forest fires in Washington, yet the record of the fire season in the counties of Pend Oreille and Stevens, as reported by Ted S. Goodyear, assistant state supervisor of forests, who has just returned from spending the season in charge of the fire protection work of that district, shows that 29 fires were started In the two counties by lightning. This appeared to be the thunderstorm center of the state, however, and only a small number of lightning fires were reported from all other sec-
tions.
The northwest corner of the state, with its hot drying winds and great number of small logging operations, is one of the worst tinder boxes of the state, and got off exceptionally easy this season despite the 114 fires reported. Of these, 64 were in Pend Oreille county and 50 in Stevens. In the former county 937 acres were burned over, including 47 acres of timber, and in Stevens 2,965 acres were singed, including 050 acres of timber. Financial losses were small, however. Logging is on a smaller scale than on the west side, and, with smaller operations, horses and not donkey engines are used exclusively for the handling
of the logs in the woods.
Another curious major cause of forest fires in that section this season was the burning out of hornets’ nests. Hornets were thicker in the woods, Mr. Goodyear reports, than ever known before and loggers and campers waged war with the firebrand, in consequence | true of which eight fires got a start that
caused trouble.
For the most part, however, the fires were ascribed to campers and tourists, land clearings, cigars and cigarettes, matches, carelessly dropped, while eight were held of incendiary
origin.
Wills, working under Prohibition Director Bert Morgan and District At torney Elliott, came to Muncio and Lock up the work. They rerna.iKd
Cliff-Dwellers Found in Worcestershire Town
six weeks, making the private detective offices of Albert Rees, in the Johnson block;, their headquarters. These two efficient federal investigators interviewed hundreds of ten aud women in all walks of life nd secured in the neighborhood of ne hundred sworn 'Statements which vere turned over to Morgan. There was enough evidence to establish the fact that a liquor conspiracy existed here which involved Sheriff Hoffman, Prosecutor Van Ogle, Jury Commissioner John Hampton and many
others.
The promise was indefinitely made by the department of justice that here would be a grand jury probe. This promise has never been fulfill1 and apparently Morgan has definitely lined himself up with the Muncie and Delaware county officials un-
der fire.
In an address ' in the Methodist church here and in an authorizd interview in the Star Morgan gave Muncie officialdom a clean bill of health and declared that all complaints registered against the Muncie | saints had been investigated and
| found to he groundless and that with-
out exception the charges had been m'ade by Muncie’s “underworld.” Morgan knows better than that. He knows that his statement was unApparently he includes in the “complaints” the sworn statements secured by his own operatives, Browning and Wills. Some of these statements were signed by law breakers, a part of whom testified voluntarily while others “came through” with the idea in view of saving their own
hides.
Two affidavits, signed by citizens of irrenroaidh able intesrity. affirm that on election day Sheriff Harry Hoffnfan cave them a drink of whisky in a barn at the rear 1 of the BnTns grocery in Whitoly. They swore Hoffman bad a mbit bottle of whisky in hfs no ok of mid gave them a drink from the bottle. Others swore that on election nisrht. none of the affiants UijiNfl danvorid,” that they attended a drunken nartv in din me noom of the Delaware hotel. They swore that. Sheriff Hoffman and Jury Commis-
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iff DELAWARE C01M ' m 3S YEAH 3 Starting with an early issue the Post-Democrat = will begin the publication of a series of articles ^ which ought to make mighty interesting reading. The work will be entirely historical and will re- i count the achievements of the republican party in = Delaware county for thirty years, 1 Necessarily, in speaking of tl party it will give I the names and feats of the individuals who belonged 1 to the party, held the offices and v, r n for themselves E imperishable fame in the annals q local history. 4 1 The idea came to us through scrutinizing that ~ ever-exciting column in a local newspaper, entitled H “Twenty-Five Years Ago Today.” Wg are now busy gathering data for our rom^n- i> tic narrative and what little we have secured so far = relating to the political escapades of the dominant = party in tne dim and misty past should be a warning Ie to those now in office that there is nothing new un E der the sun. TVe expect to discuss the records of judges, p prosecutors, county auditors, congressmen, town- = ship trustees, recorders, auditors, treasurers, town- 5 ship trustees, mayors, county commissioners and § such like, and expect, as the work progresses, to re- f§ ceive much valuable information from some of our E older citizens. = We are going to be as absolutely fair as possible. In reviewing the past political history of Delaware county we will give praise where it is due, but will allow no squeamish scruples to cover up crookedness of those who robbed the county and are trying to make people forget it. It will take many weeks to conclude this series, but we hope to make it an important contribution E to local history. We suggest that readers of the 1 Post-Democrat keep a complete file of those copies § containing these memoirs of local statesmen, living E and dead, for their past performances bear heavily § on happenings of today and even cast their shadow ^ over the future. §
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If you want to read some real history order the = Post-Democrat for a year so you will be sure to get. E it. . The history of the republican nartv in any lo- § cality is interesting. Here it is positively thrilliiifr. 1 We are going through this ordeal with much the | same spirit that impelled Diogenes to fare forth 1 = with a lantern. *§• - old boy xnustfhate missed I jK'1= E ware comity in his travels, for history fails to rec- B | ord that his lantern was stolen.
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Many other statements involving pienty of evidence was secured. The no ’ S° od? .
tore,” exclaimed Mrs. Anna Mahon as she saw her son, Clayton, nine years old, splashing in Ormond lake, near
here. While the lad was splashing these and other city and county of water and screaming at the top of ficials were secured by Messrs, his lungs, the mother ran to her motor- Browning and Wills. Practically all car, got her camera, and took a pic- of thees statements were made and
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afidavits were turned over to Morgan AND HE KEPT THEM IN HI^ OFFICE IN COLD STORAGE FOR SEVEN MONTHS BEFORE THEY
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TRICT ATTORNEY ELLIOT. It was not until a local citizen complained that the affidavits were ta-
Beateo by Crippled Wife.
New York.—-Pleading' that his crip* markable knowledge of underworld ken froril th e ir resting place in the pled wife beat him continually, Theo- conditions here is well known, ren- j ju:,. ,ji rector >o onr lce and thev NCW y °‘ k dty ^ aerea much .Wn* io his “r Z
Fo‘ eiqn Dtf votive S he .mum tmu/.i- iiis found its way ■fUo flie .li<-Hon8rie>. 111hough somf >f ‘Item mark It “colloquial ” Its t'.e* ; aio n is probably from >he Gefffimn void nansen which means ro drink, herefore booze might be regarded ig i word a lasted from •-* foreign h’Ucuage rafhei ’ban as h -mo.: ' orri
peared in court, . KPP He declared that his wife whacked acquaintanceship with many of those
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Cuts Slice Oif Side of Mountain New York.—A slice Is being taken off the side bf a mountain at Garrison, N. Y., to make room for a four-track route on the New York Central railroad. The slice is being made with drills and steam shovels to relocate the tracks and get them away from the shore of the Hudson river, where landslides have been dropping off a precipitous ledge into deep water below. The relocation is east of the river at a safe distance from the bank. Chief Engineer George W. Kitredge has been directing the work of repairing the roadbed at the point where recent slide* of newly laid rock and earth menaced the southbound track. Both main tracks are now protected against undermining.
who were in position to give govern-
ment information.
Recently, it will he recalled, Mr. Rees was threatened with punishment for contempt of court by Judge Dearth, when, in testifying as a witness, and after Prosecutor Ogle had tried to discredit him by dragging in the name of Gene Williams, he testified that Williams had assisted
in the investigation.
Morgan’s statement that investigation has proved all charges against local officials to he groundless certainly ought to be lively information for his two men. Browning and Wills, who made an honest investigation here and who discovered a state of rottenness which would put either Gary or Ft. Wayne to blush. If Muncie Is clean, from a liquor standpoint, why is the docket of City Judge Lance Coons daily dogged with intoxication cases and liquor cases In which the defendants are let off with a fine on charges of receiving from a carrier? One day recently there were four-
box in Elliots office. Morgan complained bitterly about officials at Fort Wayne and Evans-
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