Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1927 — Page 9

AUG. 23, 1927

WORLD’S MOST 1 ANCIENT MAN WAS Denver Scientist Says Alaska Was Once Tropical Paradise. Editor’* Note:. The following: 1* the nrst of a series of articles telling: of discoveries made bv Dr. Harold J. Cook, famous paleontologist, proving that the oldest known human life In the world existed In what is now the United State* 4.000.000 years ago. The second article, j appearing tomorrow, will describe the i life of “the world's oldest mao?’

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1927, by United Press) DENVER, Colo., Aug. 23.—Evidence that the most ancient man yet discovered in the world lived In what is now the United States in a virtual Garden of Eden 4,000,000 years ago has been uncovered by Dr. Harold J. Cook, celebrated Denver paleontologist. In view of the belief held by Scientists for years that America was devoid of remains of prehistoric man, Dr. Cook’s discoveries are looked upon aj the most important ever made by archeologists in the United States. Some two million years before the ice age enveloped the northern hemisphere in a mantle of continuous snow and ice—and that was 1,250,000 years ago— the northern United States, Canada and Alaska was a veritable paradise, it was shown by fossils uncovered by Dr. Cook and his associates from the Colorado Museum of Natural History in Denver. Palms In Alaska Palm trees grew in Alaska which at thatjtime was not separated from Asia by water vas it is now. The whole area was a riot of luxuriant •tropical plants, a fantasy of strange beasts. There were awe-inspiring mammoths weighing many tons, cats the size of cattle, dogs larger than horses, huge salamanders, the giant rhinoceros, elephants, camels and all manner of tropical birds. One skull was found of a weird beast which had a head four feet long and a brain not larger than two hen’s eggs. Six horns, in pairs projected from the skull.

Man Lived, Prospered Amidst all this tropical profusion man lived and apparently prospered. So certain are scientists that man did live in America at that time that the "first American man’’ recently was named Hesperopithecus Haroldcookii, “the ape man of the West found by Harold Cook.” Dr. Cook’s discovery of evidence and remains of man in the United States was made at Agate Springs, Neb., apparently the center of life in America during the quarternary century. Deep down in a quarry, rods and rods of fossilized prehistoric animal bores were found. Among them, Dr. Cook came upon bone implements obviously fashioned by human hand. The most important discovery, however, was a tooth, the characteristics rs which showed it to be even more 1 uman than that of the pithecanthropus ape man discovered in Java. . , Because of its association with the prehistoric animal bones and with the fossilized tools, scientists believe that the tooth belonged at one time to a man living ages ago, so far back in fact that in comparison to him the American Indians were the veriest of newcomers and Columbus was a mere intruder. Finds Horses Feet It is but a matter of time, Dr. Cook believes, until much more complete remains of the Hesperopithecus Haroldcookii will be found. So far. Dr. Cook said, deposits of prehistoric remains m Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, New Mexico and California have only been scratched.

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CLOSE CHAPLIN CASE Comedian Single Man After Cash Settlement. By United Presi LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 23 Charlie Chaplin, famous comedian of the motion pictures, was a single man today after a three-year marriage which terminated in a settlement outlay of almost a million dollars. The interlocutory decree of divorce granted his girl-wife yeserday by Judge Waler Guerin, after a short formal trial, brought to an end what at one time promised to satisfy even Hollywood’s cravings for sensation. The trial consisted of four witnesses, including Lita Grey Chaplin, who asked the decree on grounds of mental cruelty. Particulars of the settlement, made public by attorneys for both sides, divulged Chaplin would pay his wife $625,000 and create a trust lund of $200,000 for his two children, the principal of which is to go to them when the youngest reaches the age of 35. FACE MURDER CHARGES By Timet Special NEW ALBANY, Ind., Aug. 23. Held on first degree charges, William Welton, a constable and Robert Kessler, a merchant pcliceman, were denied bond at a preliminary hearing in the slaying of David Hudson, 79, a paroled convict from the Kentucky State Prison.. Hudson was slain last Thursday night when officers went to his room to arrest him on an assault and battery charge preferred by a woman nurse.

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Structure to Be Re-opened to Traffic Within Four Months. College Ave bridge will be reopened to traffic within four months, it was said at city engineer’s office today. Collapse of the structure caused it to be closed on March 11. Since that time traffic has been detoured through Central Ave. and Thirtieth St. Condition of the bridge, erected in 1905 at a cost of about $90,000, was first called to attention of officials Aug. 14, 1926. A fall of nearly one foot was recorded at that time. Frequent Inspections were made by the engineers. Asa result, the structure was closed four days after the sway reached 1.27 feet. On May 2, it had settled to 3.03 feet. Eward E. Smith Construction Company started repair work more than a month ago at a contracted price of about $64,000. Time for completion was fixed by the contract at six months. ADMITS SLAYING PROBER Prisoner at Evansville, Confesses to Georgia Killing. Bn Tlmrt Special EVANSVILLE. Ind., Aug. 23. James Goodman, 34, La Grange, Fla., a prisoner of local police, has confessed to the murder of Bert Donaldson, special investigator for Solicitor-General John A. Boykin of the Atlanta (Ga.) Judicial Circuit, a case which attracted nation-wide attention a year ago. Police here had taken Goodman into custody as a safe robbery suspect. He admitted the Donaldson murder while being questioned by Chief of Detectives Ed Sutheimer.

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CAN CITY LIMIT LOAD? Question of Trucks’ Rights Put Before Service Body. Whether or not a city ordinance can limit truek. loads is the question involved in petition of the Old Trails Express Company filed with the public service commission. The petition asks that the city of Brazil be forbidden to enforce an ordinance limiting loads to 30,000 pounds. It points out that the company operates between Indianapolis and Brazil and oftentimes carries tractor trailer loads exceeding 30,000 pounds, but not more than 24,000 on any one axle.

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HOOVER FINDS BUSINESS GOOD Situation Approximates That of Year Ago. By United Prett WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Indicating optimism as to the trend of American business, Secretary of Commerce Hoover told the press today the Industrial situation Is about the same as for th ecorresponding period last year. Construction, generally regarded as a good business indicator, is 2 to 3 per cent higher than in the first seven months of 1926, he said. Exports quantitatively are 5 per cent larger than in the first seven months of 1926: freight loadings have shown a slight decrease and pig iron production is lower than

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last year, though higher than In the corresponding 1925 period. Enterprise Is being stimulated by lowered rediscount rates, and while factory employment shows a small slump, this, lie said, is offset by an increase in "service employment.” The Dole Hawaiian flight tragedies, Hoover felt, has demonstrated the wisdom of his department’s insistence on supervisory air regulations. HEAVY RAIN BRINGS NEW KANSAS FLOOD THREAT Solomon River Reported Mile Wide; Enters Towns. By United Prest SMITH CENTER, Kan., Aug. 23. —Torrenital rainfall over this section of Kansas today brought danger from floods again. The Solomon River was reported a mile wide, with the waters rising rapidly. The river is entering several small towns and residents were routed from their beds to flee.

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