The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 38, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 19 January 1928 — Page 6

Florida Citizens Vote for Sunday Movies \ * ? Ir- r h • ’ 4 ■ . ■ m r OKS* 1 -Aj if $ -*nnß ~ - - I 1 j lb j I [iMf ifL-JTzfiS. ■ W .amiCTiML/l Some of the 13,000 voters who cast ballots at a Sunday movie referendum in St. Petersburg, Fla., wiping out le law of 13 years* standing. They wanted Sunday movies and now they will have them.

Huge Monster of Arctic Seen

Keratosaurus Declared to Be the Equal in Size of Ten Elephants. Paris. —“And. cow, will you believe, In the name of our Lord, that I and ten of my Indians saw again, on Christmas afternoon, Leemore’s ter rible monster! “As big as ten elephants, It passed like a hurricane across the frozen river, smashing immense blocks of • thick ice into the air. Its long bristles were covered with boar frost; and its immense red eyes flamed in the twilight The monster held in its mouth a caribou of close to 700 pounds, while it careered at 20 miles an hour!” r . Such are the first mention and first description—both from Alaska —of the keratosaurus of the Arctic circle, the gigantic prehistoric creature that is now again exciting Russian sportsmen and scientists along with the discovery of an unsuspected mountain range in northeastern Siberia which may be its home. , Maps of Siberia will have to be changed by the discovery, only recently, of this newly named Cherski range 625 miles long. 180 mjles wide, and covering an area greater than the Caucasus. They have been found by the explorer, Obruchev, sent by the Soviet government in 1926 to investigate the unknown regions beyond Yakutsk, east of the river Lena. Too Big to Be Captured. “This was probably the last great mountain range remaining to be discovered on the globe," say the Russian papers. Will the Russian geo- . logical survey and Academy of .Sciences, sending special expeditions to it. come on authentic facts about the giant saurian? Os course, there seems to be no possibility to capture a terrible monster “as big as ten To kill it. even, high explosive shells would be necessary, according to Lelouvier, who went out after the keratosaurus in the first Russian exc’teine&t about ten years ago. Lelouvier. “the unkillable.” along with Prince Scipione Borghese ’ and f Goddard, had done Paris-Peking in ' specially constructed motor cars. An other great sport was the French Georges Dupuy, veteran correspondent of the Paris Auto, who brought back the original full story of the kera tosaurus from Alaska, studied by Lelouvier and the others for their expedition. The duke of Westminster certainly believed in the “Partridge creek monster"; and his Franco-English combination actually decided with a San \ Francisco banker named Butler, that an ostensible shooting trip would quietly extend to the McQueston river In the where the Klayakuk Indians waited round the post o< Armstrong creek until the good Jesuit Father Lavagneux should .give the word. ; yThey come!” - Keratosaurus Photographed. Here came the first Alaskan story to Europe. In particular, there was a miner of the Yukon, Tom Leemore, who—along with this Georges Dupuy, Banker But ler, and Father Lavagneux himself—beheld the keratosaurus in his rage, and photographed him when he kicked an avalanche of rocks close to their beads. * Pig-headedly, Leemore confided the print to Father Lavagneux alone, “to

INDIANS LOSE LAST FIGHT TO KEEP OLD STRONGHOLD

Chippewa Chief’* Descendant* Defeated in Long Struggle With Land Company. Superior, Wts.—The Wisconsin Point controversy, dating back almost threequarters of a century to the time when the half-breed Frank Lemieux came from Madeline island to marry the daughter of Chief Osagie of the Chippewas, is at an end so far as the courts of Wisconsin are concerned. The State Supreme court upholds Circuit Judge W. R. Foley tn affirming -the'title of the defendants, the Agate Land company and the city of Superior," to the barren peninsula once the stronghold of the Chippewa domain. It is the last defeat in a long war waged by the four surviving descendants of Chief Osagie against the advancing armies of modern science and the white man’s milliona. These descendants John B. and Peter Lemieux

interest some rich and serious European sports.” and insisted that “none of those Dawson crooks shall set eyes on it!”

So the duke of Westminster’s friends had equally the account of how the monster was seen again, with a caribou in its .mouth, in the letter herein already quoted at the outset, from the trustworthy .Jesuit missionary to Georges Dupuy, after the latter’s return to Paris. If the great story is believable, it seems to have finally inclosed the photograph of Leemore. Story Never Doubted. Letter, photograph, and good faith of Dupuy were never doubted in Paris. Three times the sporting correspondent of the Auto visited the Klondike, and bis tale was as follows : Better, the San Francisco banker, buying gold claims in Dawson, met Dupuy at McQueston post for a week’s hunting. It was July. Taking coffee at the home of Father Lavagneux, Butler came hurrying to them, much agitated. “Do you know that there are prehistoric giant flesh-eating lizards alive up here?” were his first words. Dupuy did not laugh, because he saw Father Lavagneux listen with sober interest. “T.ast night Grant, myself, and the Indians went after three moose,” he said. “Suddenly the male moose let out a bellow, and off they went at breakneck speed. What could it be? At the moose-leak we saw the prodigy! Fresh in thb mud was the print of a gigantic body The belly made a gully four feet deep, fifty feet long, and perhaps twenty feet wide. Four vast feet, nearly two yards across had made a lot of prints.” Roaring Shakes Earth. Next morning the priest, Dupuy, Butler and Leemore went to the tracks, accompanied by the Indians. “At noon we had given up expecting anything, when down catne sud denly an avalanche of rocks, amid such roaring and snorting that made the earth tremble—and we saw it! A keratosaurus with the colic is an apocalyptic sight! The prehistoric thing, black, bulkier than six ele phants, anyhow, lurched down the ravine beyond us. sweeping rocks aside like pebbles. “We stood petrified. ‘The keratosaurus of the Arctic circle!’ cried Father Lavagneux. In full daylight you have seeen the Eiffel tower? So. I have seen the monster of Jurassic times —from its hairy belly hung clods of mud as big as ten-year-old children !” “No use to shoot lead at such a fellow!” said Leemore, as he is claimed to have taken the snapshot ‘ I Find Duck That Pulled a “Lindy” .. Boston. —A European widgeon • • ‘ J a species of duck, which flew * ‘ ■ • across the Atlantic from Ice- • • *’ land, was shot on Cape Cod recently by G. Herbert Windeler •• “ member of a Boston Insurance • • firm. A leg band on the bird • • bore the name of Peter Skov II •• gaard, Viborg, Denmark. ” II Windeler said that he had re •• ” ceiyed a letter from Skovgaard • • stating that he banded the wid •• ” geon tn Iceland on July 2, last **

and Mrs. Maggie Martineau, eons and daughters of that first Frank Lemieux, and Philip Lebieux. a grandson, were plaintiffs in the action and the appeal to have the 300 acres of jackpine; wild grasses, brush and sand dnnes de dared theirs by right of their fore fathers’ occupation and possession. i The peninsula, jutting northeasterly from the mainland Into Lake Superior with Allouez bay on the inner side, would appear neither fertile nor valuable to the casual observer. But it means to the United States Steel corporation and its subsidiary, tbe Agate Land company, a future expenditure of between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 in building there the largest steel load Ing docks on the Great Lakes. It is estimated that well over SI,OOO, 000 has been expended by the com pany in tbe preliminaries of establish Ing title, defending its rights in legal contentions, laying a rail line from the

“To kill It would require high explosive shells!” said Lelouvier. when this story got to Russia and was confirmed by Siberian native hunters. Crosses Into Siberia. The monster disappeared from Alaska—the duke of Westminster’s combination never got at it. Appearing soon after in Siberia, It would seem to travel back and forth across Bering strait, vt’hen the ice is thick enough between the—islands. How, then, did the keravpsaurus equally disappear from when Lelouvier and friends went afjer it? Some say, of course, that the prehistoric monster actually sleeps for ten-year periods—being an astounding sole survivor in this manner! But, today, the Russians believe that the thing takes refuge in its real home —ln the hitherto unknown Cherski range of mountains just discovered by Obruchev, official explorer sent into unknown Siberia by the Soviets. The Cherski range (greater In area than the Caucasus) lies between east Siberia and the Pacific coast adjoining Alaska. And the keratosaurus is again reported by Siberian natives, just as the Cherski mountains are discovered! —Sterling Heilig in the Chicago Tribune. Stamp Helped Settle Panama Canal Site San Francisco. —A Nicaraguan postage stamp had a lot to do with the decision of the United States to build a canal across the Isthmus of Panama instead of through Nicaragua. The story is told by Judge Francis Butler Loomis, assistant secretary of state under the late John Hay. who helped negotiate for American acquisition of the Canal Zone. There was a debate in the senate over the two routes, Loomis recalls, and advocates of Nicaragua appeared to be winning when some speaker protested that volcanoes there would menace the big ditch. Champions of the Nicaragua route retorted that there were no volcanoes in that country. A foe of the Nicaragua canal rose and exhibited a letter bearing a Nicaragua postage stamp, portraying a volcano in eruption. It brought down the house, and was a factor in final approval of the Isthmus route. Ranch-House Dances Give Way to Bridge Sonora, Texas. — Ranch house dances, long the most popular diver sion on the cowboy’s social calendar, have given way to bridge, radio and house parties in this isolated stockraising section of Texas. Gatherings at which cowhands and their fair friends execute odd terpsi chorean steps to such tunes as “Cot-ton-Eye Joe” are undertaken now only as a “take-off” on days of yesteryear. Young folks on the ranches motor to the nearest towns to seek recreation or they spend, their evenings at home listening to the radio or playing bridge. Week-end house parties, in which young folks from the towns join, have become common in the new social life of the ranch country. Single Type of Passport Is Approved by Italy Rome.—A new style single type of passport for Italians has been approved by Premier Mussolini, and from the beginning of 1928 will take the place of existing passports, which were of three kinds, for diplomats, ordinary travelers, and emigrants. The new passport is materially a much more elegant and dignified document than the old. It is bound in strong blue canvas and bears the arms of Italy and the Fascist symbol tn gold lettering and ornamentation. The old emigrant’s passport is abol ished as from January 1. 1928.

Minnesota Steel company’s plant west of the St. Louis river in Minnesota, and the erection of a long bridge from the mainland across the marshy stretch to the point Child Dies With Smile, Soothed by Radio Voice London. —A radio announcer’s "good night everybody” enabled a child to die happily. The radio announcer was enjoying a Sunday night oft, when, in response to the request of a mother of a little girl who was seriously ill, he was summoned from his home. The child had begged to hear»‘Good night everybody” spoken by the voice which always soothed her. The announcer hurried to headquarters and gave his familiar “Good night everybody,” which, although it was heard by thousands, was meant only for the little sufferer. She heard the familiar voice, smiled happily as she murmured -‘Good night” 1n reply, and lapsed into unconsciousness.

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IPRUNE PEACHES > DURING WINTER! Thorough winter pruning of mature; bearing peach trees will save somej summer thinning of fruit, states A.i Freeman Mason, specialist in fruit; growing, New Jersey State College of: Agriculture. Furthermore, a good! growth of vigorous new wood, whichbears the buds for the following years; crop, will be stimulated. Both top-; ping back and severe thinning out! are essential in maintaining vigor of. tree growth and high quality of fruit on old peach trees. A low-headed, vase-shaped or open-: center peach tree is always desirable.. This permits ample light to reach the lower portions of the tree, causing a growth of new wood on all branches. The low Jiead makes harvesting operations easier. The peach crop should be harvested in not less than three or four pickings, especially when the fruit is sold in near-by markets, and much expense is saved if most of the harvesting can be done without the use of ladders. To keep the head of the tree open and low, all heavy branches growing into the center of the tree should be removed, and the upright vigorous growth, so often present in the upper portions of peach trees, should be cut back to a convenient height. Rangy side branches should also be headed back. After these heavier cuts are made, the smaller wood should he thoroughly thinned out. New twigs over two feet long may be cut back to a point where strong fruit buds are borne, but shorter new twigs are not cut back. A well-pruned peach tree has a rather sparse look. Varieties which customarily set'heavily, such as Carman. Hiley and Iron Mountain, may be more heavily pruned than Elberta or Hale. Taste and Appearance of Apples Compared Roger B. Corbett of the Rhode Island State college took four varie- ; ties of apples, peeled them and cut them into cubes which he placed be- ■ fore 11 men consisting of bankers, professional men, farmers and mechanics. The apple that was rated first in appearance ranked last in taste. In the ■ taste test, the Mclntosh was placed; first, Baldwin second, Rhode Island; Greening third, and the Rome Beauty last. The Rome Beauty, which is a favorite in stores and on fruit stands, was found least tasty. Four thousand questionnaires were ; mailed to I’i evidence families for the purpose of gatheripg information on : the distribution and consumption of * apples. The replies indicated that 46.7 ; per cent of the apples are eaten raw i in that city, that 48.5 per* cent are j eaten in the form of pies, sauce or baked apples, anti that 4.8 per cent are eaten in salads. Transplant Grapevines During Dormant Season Probably the best time to transplant grapevines is during the dormtint season, preferably in late winter or very early spring, and when the soil .is frozen so that a ball of earth will cling to the roots. However, it is not advisable to transplant large vines, since several years are required before they adjust themselves to their new surroundings. If it is desired to perpetuate these particular varieties it : can be done with more certainty : througli cuttings from them. It is not advisable to separate the stalks, as every wound thus made opens the way for fungus troubles. If the growth of the vine be too dense, the pruning during the dontfant period should be longer so that more fruit will be borne. And again, all ; nitrogen fertilizers and stable manure should be withheld. | Horticulture Squibs Cumberland is a. good blackcap, but so is Plum Farmer and better in some sections. • * * Nitrogen and sulphuric acid seem to be most important in the fertilization of strawberries. • • • The Dunlap strawberry is a standard kind but the Premier is worth considering in its pkwe. • • • Are there any signs of mouse injury in your orchard? If so clean the sod away from about Ihe trees and replace with cinders. It may be well also to prepare poison bait and place It in bait traps throughout the orchard. * • * Windbreaks are essential in fruit work on some of our prairie farms and sun scald as well as stiff winds are apt to injure newly planted stock severely In the absence of protection. • • • The young trees may be set in the orchard after one season’s growth or they may be allowed to grow two seasons before transplanting. • • • An open center tree is commonly preferred for the peach and there should be not more than three or four scaffold branches. • • Summer pruning, the New Jersey folks think, should be limited to giving two and three-year-old trees a correct shape. • • • As soon as the ground becomes frozen -mulch the strawberry bed with clean wheat, oat or buckwheat straw, putting three or four inches of straw all over the row.* . As part of the regular sanitary measures followed ii the apple orchard, late windfalls from the trees i should be gathered up and destroyed.

Only One Hour From a Blooming Orange Grove WML. ' ' I 1 Mt aS' wf ' x* ■ This photograph shows automobiles snowed in at the headquarters and gateway of the Los Angeles County park in California. This winter resort is up on a mountain only an hour’s drive from the orange groves in the valley below and only three- hours from the famous bathing beaches of Los Angeles. President Will Visit the Maine Monument _ s __ - r® Lt-Ml 13 Wc Mfc— A - - .s. r % v . v..-. : y.. A.x.y.• •■••• ••••:• •*■ ■ A'•> , *• ’ * * ’ ' * JjIHM’IH .-■•V .-.s > X ■<• .•■. , v When President Coolidge goes to Havana to attend the Pan-American congress one of his first formal acts will be to visit the monument erected to the memory of those who lost their lives when the battleship Maine was blown up in the harbor. A view of the monument, undergoing repairs. Is given above.

Texas Takes President to Cuba — ■W ■ n mu » ■ v Aw 1.3 i! V AS* j: —» J —''“’l " 1 ***” J ■ 111 : Bow view of the battleship Texas, flagship of the fleet, which will carry ’resident Coolidge and party to Havana, Cuba, for the Pan-American congress. Hardings Placed in the Mausoleum <»:i/ I;-.I [ ji t J J i|j jH I’l fa, affljb Bnp: ''' K 4 $ < »UF > J ■d K** " 'l'uumiuii . uwr ...............v, - .-yv ■ ■ ■ -1 The bodies of .the late President Harding and Mrs. Harding being placed in the permanent'white marble mausoleum built for the purpose at Marion, )hio. The dedication of the mausoleum probably will be next June.

FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD

A stork eats more ttian a pound of fish, Insects and frogs in a day. One hundred stations equipped , for the study of earthquakes are being established in Soviet Russia. An atlas which was given to King Charles II of England In the Seventeenth century is taller than a man. Aztec and Maya carvings show that a wide variety of fans were used by these Indians in ancient times.

The United States has 287 rivers classed as navigable. New York is planting about 5,000, 000 trees on the state forests each year. The Denver City Park zoo is said to have the finest •ollection of North American animals in existence. Trees in California prune orchards frequently bear so heavily that the limbs must be supported with props.

SIGNAL OFFICER << >M-r' AW?' -W - , £ GEJSEfife >.. -\ssMl ?'. Col. George S. Gibbs, the new chief signal officer of the United States army, entered the army as a private in 1898. TO RULE ANNAPOLIS Oik Mil as3L wMB Jplll Capt. William H. Standley, late in command of the superdreadnaught California, is to succeed Rear Admiral Louis M. Nulton as commandant and superintendent of the United States Naval academj at Whistling Barred on Ship To whistle on board a sailing ship is held to be very bad form—forbidden, in fact, except to those in authority, because in sailor belief, to whistle is to raise a breeze that may prove a gale. But if there is a dead calm, the quartermaster will solemnly whistle for a wind, which always comes—in time. —‘‘Gas Logic.” Can’t Escape the Neighbors When you make up your mind to do anything wrong, include admission that the neighbors will know about your bad conduct They are a hundred to one: you can’t escape them.— E. W. Howe’s Monthly. Parliamentary Nickname The “Devil’s Parliament" was a nickname given to the English parliament which met at Coventry, Bingland, in 1459. It attainted the leading Yorkista,