Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 71, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1929 — Page 13

•AUG. 2, 1929.

AIRPLANES AID TO REVEAL OLD ROMAN CITIES Secrets of Early Britain Are Sought in Extensive Excavations. £v l United Pres * LONDON", Aug, 3.—A determined campaign to wrest from long-buried ruins the secrets of early Britain is being waged the length and the breadth ol the English countryside. The summer months are the “digging season" in England and the ghosts of the Celts, Romans and Saxons are trooping to new retreats, driven from their ancient haunts by I the pick and shovel assault of the archaeologists. “Probably never before has such' interest been shown in historic and j prehistoric Britan,’’ Dr. R. E. M. Wheeler, keeper of the London museum and one of England’s foremo,•• archaeologists, told the United Achaeological excavation has; cl the recognized sights! of our simmer countryside. During ! the next few months, excavators |

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Railway Built on Roadbed of Ice Will Carry Canada’s Wheat Crops

By Timet Special N r EW YORK, Aug. 2.—By the end of the present summer, passenger trains will be running on the most amazing railroad in North America, a railroad built on a bed of permanent ice. A thousand miles north of Winnipeg, it will carry the wheat and the people of western Canada to Fort Churchill, the trading post on the western shore of r'udson Bay, which is to become the port of the northermost and shortest route from the heart of Canada across the Atlantic. The building of this railroad on the ice—the Hudson Bay line —is described graphically in the current issue of World’s Work magazine byy Courtney Riley Cooper, who recently returned from a study of this remarkable engineering feat. Some competent geologists, explains Cooper, hold the entire region still is on the southern boundary of the great glacier which began withdrawing from the middle western United States thousands of years ago. The indisputable fact is that the thin

hope to throw new light on many periods of this island's existence.’’ The modern trend of the excavating methods, Dr. Wheeler pointed out, is indicated by the use of the airplane at the old Roman town of Caistor-by-Norwich. An aerial photograph was taken of the cornfield where the town was known to lie and the Roman streets were revealed in the picture as shaded lines in the ripening corn. Working from the photograph, it

soil and its scraggly growth of moss and other vegetation is merely a layer beneath which lie great impenetrable sheets of ancient blue ice.' The most remarkable phase of the achievement is that most of the work has been done in winter, often with the thermommeter registering from 40 to 60 degrees below zero. The solid ice must be preserved and to dig and blast away the tough insulating covering of moss, soil and rock in warm weather would expose the ice immediately to melting. Therefore, the digging and blasting is done in the coldest weather. Ditches are dug to drain still frozen lakes and a temporary track is laid along the solidly.frozen ground. At the first breath of spring when the gravel pits begin to thaw there is another frenzy of activity to bring up this material. Six solid feet of it are hurled into the blasted trench to ballast the rails and to serve as a permanent insulating material for the ice bed. On this the rails are finally laid.

was possible to locate the Roman temples and baths and the probable site of the forum. The Roman walls and towers also were discovered. “Air photography may henceforth be regarded as a necessity to the field-archaeologist,” Dr. Wheeler said. “In the past, the ruins of this region contributed little to the archaeology of Britain and the Roman remains of the country were al-

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most unkn >wn. Now all that is changed; the air photograph was irresistible.” Near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, the University College Anthropological Society is working on a huge mound containing stone age, bronze age and Saxon relics.

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BILLIONAIRE TO PAY SMALL TAX TO GOVERNMENT Rockefeller’s Fortune Too Reduced by Gifts to Charity. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—John D. Rockefeller Sr., once a billionaire, has so reduced his fortune by gifts and benefactions that the government will get virtually nothing when he dies, for lack of a federal tax on gifts or transfers of big fortunes. This conclusion was reached by the joint congressional committee on internal revenue taxation, after a study of a United States treasury decision under which Rockefeller received a refund of $120,000 and interest of $36,000 on his 1922 taxes. He paid a tax only of $12,035 for that year. The committee, created by Congress to keep a continuing eye on the internal revenue bureau’s han-

dling of big tax refunds, made no criticism of the decision. “But,” added L. H. Parker, its chief, “the small tax would indicate that Rockefeller has transferred his I income-producing property to his heirs or to his numerous charitable foundations. “The point is that the federal estate tax will not produce much revenue in this case. The result of not taking gifts is to leave the door ■Ride open for the avoidance of the estate tax, in the case of all our citizens who have accumulated great wealth.” The joint committee, analyzing about 100 cases in which taxpayers get back $75,000 or more, found no general cause for criticism. SWEDISH BISON THRIVE Largest Herds in Europe Rapidly Are Multiplying. Bu United Press STOCKHOLM. Aug. 3.—Sweden’s stock of wild bisons is now the largest in Europe, if not in the world, according to Alarik Behm, director of the open air museum of Skansen, in Stockholm. By means of protective legislation these animals are thriving in the vast bison park at Aegelsberg, in the province of Vestmanland, and are rapidly multiplying.

FARMS WASHING AWAY 17,500,000 Acres Are Declared Useless. By Times Special NEW YORK. Aug 3.—At least 17,500,000 acres of land formerly cultivated in the United States, an area greater than the total farm area of Japan, have been rendered useless for crop production by the v,-ashing away of the top soil during the past few generations, according

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to the estimate of HUgh H. Bennett, soil conservation expert of the department of agriculture. Mr. Bennett, writing in the current issue of the North American Review, estimates such erosion, due chiefly to deforestation and failure of farmers to protect their lands by terraces and drains, is carrying away $2,000,000,000 v orth of natural fertilizer each year and thereby adding to the expense of every acre now under cultivation.