Dayton tribune., August 13, 1925, Image 3

Earthquake a Day
Keeps Kilauea Gay
Count 82 Shock» in Twenty
four Hour».
clouds, ami on the Hth there was
a mud ruin, producing dust balls tin
the night <>f Jun« 12 a glowing area
»gat feet long by 1MI0 feet high
seen on the north wall of the pit, tkst
feet behnv the rim.
"Eurly In July blowing noises In
Halemuumau hrmhled Iho coming
beck of the lava on the HHh. It spread
out across the pit and built up n new
con« and floor. The mllvs flooring
censed on July 31 aBd the entire
month of August was exceptionally
quiet. A sharp earthquake, f«dt gen­
erally throughout the Island of Hawaii,
took place on August 20, Its center bo-
Ing apparently In the Kau district.
Throughout September earthquakes
were frequent, the refeirt relate«!, und
there was almost Incessant avalanch­
ing w'thtn the walls of the Halemau-
windstorms swept
m»u pit. Htrong
I
up Immens«' e clouds of volcanic dual
•from the Knu district to tin south,
During the first week of October 21
earthquakes were recorded, an«l In the
Inst, 4»l. one of these, on October 28.
was strong enough to be alarming, al­
though Its effects Were only local.
During the remnlniler of the year ava-
lanchlng continued ami earthquakes
Eventually Reaches Addressee
at Tacoma, Wash.
Will Fill Gaps in
Arctic Collections
Tacoma,
Waabv—Haakon
Bader,
who left Norway In IHH*. recently re-1
reive«! ii letter mulled from Ids birth- i
place shortly afterward. During it« ;
37 years' wanderings, the missive htd
been handle«! by the postal serv,»es
In five different nations.
The letter written by Bader s fath­
er, long since dead, expressed bls love
and good wishes for his aallor son and
contained photographs of Bailer’s par­
ents.
Whet Bader, a lad of eighteen, went
to sea from Ids native village of
Krugero, Norway, the letter followed
him to Cardiff, Wales, but arrival
shortly after he ha«l sailed for Buent
Aires. Hi ha<! also left Buenos Aires
when it reached that city, nnd It was
turned over to the Danish consul
there.
There It lay In the consular files,
while Bader pursued Ids seafaring
life over most of the world. Including
a visit to hla home village. Later he
joined the gold rush to ‘Alaska and
then came to Tacoma, where be
opened a cigar store.
Home two months ago someone
covered the ancU-nt letter In the con-
aular files at Buenos Aires, and It
ret urne«! to Its place of origin. There
friends gave postal authorities Baders
last known address In Tacoma.
Fish and Bird Expert to
Study Water Fauna.
Is simple. The skins are split and
slipped off with the feathers still In
place. The ne«k Is then severed so
thut the iiead and skin remain These
are generously salted, and after dry-
Ing are packed away. Because they
can be packed fiat the bird »kins take
up Httle space. Hundreds of them
can be Mowed away in an ordinary
Back home
wooden packing
these skins will be softened by the
washing out of the salt, will be stuffed
with excelsior and mounted.
The skins of land animals will be
removed and dressed ami numerous
photographs of the animals will be
brought back to aid taxidermists In
giving them a lifelike mounting.
Ï “Static” Figure» in
Man’» House-Hunting
KpokuDf1, Wmili«—Frunk
recently purchase«! a realdem-e
here, which lie has pronounced
“the Ideal radio home.”
Mr. St«a»p passed several
weeks In his senn h for a good
radio location- After Inspecting
a li',use by daylight, if he found
It otherwise acceptable, he
would return at night with his
radio set and “tune In." if the
reception was poor, his search
was continued next day.
"I found one bouse that sure
did take my eye,” be said. "I
wanted to buy that house, tut
the static was so thick that I
I couldn't think of carrying the
deul through, I tested out mors
•Í»
I than a dozen neighborhoods by
radio before I found the right
place. But, oh boy, I get it
pretty now.”
Washington.—Dr. Walter N. Koelz. |
fish and blnl expert, who is with .
the MacMillan Arctic expedition, to
Honolulu.—Ths temiwraimntal n«i
make studies and collect spe«-lmen»
ture of Kilauea, on the Islanti of Ha­
of Arctic land an«) water fauna for
waii, which maintains a tire pit filled
the National Geographic society, Is one
with constantly spurting lava. Is
of the leading ai>eclallsts of the world
a
shown in u report by L. W, <!« Vis-
on the whitefish.
Norton of the Hawaiian Volesuo Re-
Doctor Koelz was born In Waterloo.
search association, concerning the
Mich., and after elementary s< hoot­
activities of th« volcano In 1921.
ing there and preparatory work In the
"The Kilauea observatory on April
neighboring town of Chelsea. attend
7 Issued a warning of possible earth­
ed the University of Michigan where
quakes, ami shortly after this «lute
he took bachelor’s. master's and doc­
heavy sliocku were felt In the Puna
tor's degrees. He taught zoology at
district along the seacoast three miles
the University of Michigan until 1917.
away. DOrlng the 24 hours ending at
when, joining the staff of the United
JI a. m. on April 22. the observers
States bureau of fisheries, he began
counted 32 earthquake», ami during
for that organization a detailed study
the following night the shorks were
of the whitefish, the most Important
practically coat lomina. At Uda lime
commercial fish of the Great Lakes.
the ground cracked open In many
When Doctor Koelz b«-gan hla In­
places, trending roughly parallel to a
vestigations little was known of the
line of con.-s and old fissures Ahoui
whitefish Since the days of Linnaeus
29») main ahocks wer» felt In all. Lund
this family of fishes has constituted a I
subsidence» t««>k plac» In mnny sec­
stubborn problem In classification. As
tions, automobile roads were blocked
a result of Doctor Koelz's seven years I
by yawning crevices, umi In one place
of work with the fishing fleets In the l
u new ault-wuti’r lagoon
formed.
commercial fishing ports of the United I
Heavy Avalanche«.
States and Canada and In the labora­
"Meanwhile, a great subshlence was
tory. science now for the first time
The
only
fatality
In
recent
years
In
War
Vet,
Picture
Bride,
the
Hulemitumau
fire
taking pho e In
practically complete data In r«
the neighborhood of th» fire pit o<"
By
May
the
bottom
Mint Wed in Bermuda has
pit of Klluueu.
gard to the American whitefish.
ettrred on May 17. when an eruption
New York.- lie«! tape was so tightly
uf the pit wua more than «J»*» feci
Doctor Koelx lias described the ten
below the rltn nn«l heavy avalancb«« of red hot lava spread the molten rock bound around John Alexlzakes, war specie» and scores of races of this fain- •
were In progress. The observatory In­ for nearly a mile In all dlrei'tlons. A veteran, of Billings, Mont., and his pic­
lly In American waters ami has col­
struments Indicate«! lit' rense of hx-ul Hawaiian who was watching th« erup- ture bride, Theodora Glntaganas. re
lected and prepared 30J«0 Individual
pit was
from
earthquake, and this fact suggested tlon 1.800
cently arrived from Greece, that they fish, the largest collection of white­
underground lava surgings, with u |«>» knocked down by ro«ka amt Ida legs had to leave the United Htates to fish In the world. This collection Is In
•were broken. He was not found until
Slble subterranean How.
marry.
the museum of the University of Mich­
“The Kilauea volcano entered upon hours afterward. He died soon after
The two sailed on a steamer for igan at Ann Arbor.
being
taken
to
a
hospital
at
Hilo,
an explosive phase on May 11. which
Hamilton, Bermuda, where govern­
“Filing System” for Fish.
steadily Increas«'«! until ths maximum
ment officials have arrange«! for their
In
the
bourse of his work Doctor
was reached on Muy IN. Heavy expl«»- Bandit Plie» Trade While
marriage. Then they will go to Mr.
Koelz has discovered and described
slons took place from May 11 to 241
Studying to Become Cop Alexlzukea' home in Billings.
This Is a new type of airplane, called the ahtoglro. Invented by a
several entirely new species, one of
Immense clomls of dust tin«) ash rose
Theodora cume to Canada to be­
Los Angeles. Cui - Before receiving
which was found to be confined to Spanish engineer named La Clerva and demonstrated successfully before King
hla diploma from the Los Angeles po­ come John's bride. John had fallen In Lakes Nlplgnon and Winnipeg In Can­ Alfonso at the military flying field of Cuatro Vlentes. It is a variety of
•d In quantities und there were heavy
lice training school. George A, Moi- love with Theodora's picture, sent ada. This discovery was of consider­ helicopter.
electrical storms accompanied by mud
from ids old home In Greece. A mar- able Importance since It supports the
rains. Mnny strange features were let. twenty-four, was u payroll bnndlt,
The bride-tobe Inadvertently tn
detectives said when they arrested the
theories of glaciologists in regard to
thls court, a notice Is sent out to the
noted, among them u surf-llke roar­
formed
Canadian officials that the two
debtor ordering him to pay at once or
ing. preceding explosions, u marked man as he walked Ida patrolman's beat were planning to make their home In the hypothetical ancient body of wa­ ANCIENT COURT
ter, called Lake Agassiz. So complex
lose bls degree and bls bedr«x>tn furni­
MAY
SIT
AGAIN
air concussion being felt before the In the Hollywood district.
the
States.
So
she
was
sent
to
Ellis
After acquiring Ids diploma and po­
did the classification of white fish
larger explosion». The seismographic
ture.
Island for deportation.
lice
uniform.
Mollat
la
allege«)
to
have
prove
to
be,
due
to
the
bewildering
The vice chancellor’s court Is formed
records of these earthquakes are pe
The
government
wouldn't
allow
the
cullnr In that mnny of them. Instead spent hla spare evenings robbing ro­ two to be marrie«! on American soli. slight differences In Individuals, that Oxford University Urged "to by the vice chancellor of the univer­
Ihx-tor Koelz found It necessary to In­
sity assuming the privileges of his posi­
of starting suddenly a» In ordinary mantic couples who parked their au­ In order to overcome the t««’hnlcnlltles
Reopen Tribunal.
vent a new method of differentiation,
tion as a Justice of the city of Oxford
earthquakes, rose gradually to a maxi­ tomobiles beshle n shaded highway In of the law. the government Informed
a
ratio
based
on
nose
length,
upper
the Hollywood hills.
and the counties of Oxford and Berk­
mum an<! then receded gradually.
Alexlzukea
and
Ids
picture
bride
that
Oxford. England —An Oxford under­ shire. As the powers of a justice sit­
Jaw length, fln length and bead depth.
He was booked at the city Jnll as a
•The force of this gre.it explosive
they
could
wed
In
Bermuda,
and
the
The fish of his huge collection have graduate is to be tried In the ordinary ting alone are very limited. It is the
eruption shows great changes at the robbery suspect
their relationship Indicated, therefore, courts of assize on a charge of man­ custom to make several beads of col­
Halemaumnu pit. which, us June
by decimals, somewhat like those on slaughter arising out of a motor acci­ leges Justices In or«ier that they may
opened, appeared ns n vast cnuhlron
the filing tags of books In a great li­ dent.
sit with the vice chancellor and in­
oval in shape, al.out 3. l«si feet In Its
The frequency of motor smashes In
brary.
two diameters nn«l 1,332 feet deep.
crease his powers.
vyhlcb
undergraduates
are
concerned
When
not
on
the
Great
Lakes
with
There was n rapid Incrense of small
his
nets
on
the
trail
of
fish.
Doctor
bu*
led
a
famous
law
don
to
sugges
’
earthquakes from June M to 10, ne-
Didn’t Raise Hi* Cotton
Koelz has spent mnny hours with trap that the court of the lord high steward
compnnled by puffs of dust-lud«*n
to Soften Flyer’» Fall
and gun obtaining specimens of birds. should try and punish the offenders.
He has gotten together, and owns per­
Washington.—O. P. Sheil, a North
This university court has been in ex­
sonally, one of the finest collections istence, since 1404, and although It has Carolina farmer, has notified the War
♦
of hawks and waders In North Amer­ no’ ttled a case ,n hundrajs of yea's department that hla cotton field can­
Ithood of finding Sumerian Influence In ica.
Vanity Ruling Passion
belief still prevails that it still has not be used for landing airplanes. He
Tt-blets Give Their 4, Greek
Six
religion, according to Doctor
Going off to the Arctic to collect fish, Jurisdiction to try members of the demands $3*) for damage done to his
of Noted German Crook
Chlera.
000-Year-0!d Story.
birds and mammals Is not like an aft- unlversii y on charges of treason, felony crop May 14 when Pilot Brown, driv­
Berlin.—Pride In his personal
Geographically the Mountain of ernoop’s jaunt near home with gun or or mayhem.
ing an army airplane from Langley
i attire so dominated Bernard
Philadelphia.—Man In his early Heaven an«l Earth cannot be placed, rod und little else. Hundreds of pounds
Its pow; rs are not original, as a true field, Virginia, found It necessar., to
[ Pulkowsky. a convict, that when
stages propelled himself along the although the old Babylonians may of special supplies and equipment had bill must be found against the ac­ make a forced landing.
discovered
a new
groun«! with all four limbs, "ate grass have thought It was somewhere to the to be taken along and problems of cused by the ordinary grand jury.
Mr. Sheil has reported to Senator
against him before the expira­
with his mouth, like a sheep," und north near Kurdistan or even on the packing and transportation Involved
tion of Ills sentence, tie es­
When this court is sitting at least Its Simmons that he and 1’llot Brown had
drank from the ditches, according to Caucacus range. Close to the moun­ in getting the specimens safely back Jury must be composed of half mem­ some hot words over the Injury to
caped from prison to replenish
a translation of six Sumerian tablets, tain may be placed the Garden of to the United States had to be worked bers of the university. Apparently, the his cotton. He said Brown lost his
his wardrobe nn«l then Inter vol­
Eden.
out. Doctor Koelz took aboard the chancellor lias power to make towns­ temper, and told him he didn't give
written about 200« I B. C.
untarily returned to court chid
The Sumerian tale begins with a de­ Peary, one of the MacMillan expedi­ men members for this purpose, as Is a d—n If he destroyed his entire cot­
A story of the early history of the
wltb sartorial excellence and
human ru«-e bus been pieced together scription of conditions following the tion ships, the following formidable done in the case of the so-called “Holy ton crop, and he would not recom­
carrying himself with jaunty
by Dr. Edward Chlera. assistant pro- creation by the great goti Anu of a supplies: 15 gallons of formaldehyde. Pokers.” who are matriculated to mend more than $1JJO damages.”
pride.
feasor of Assyrlology at the University lower order of deities calle«! the 20 gallons of alcohol, 100 pounds of serve on the jury of the university
Mr. Brown, according to Mr. Shell,
Before the date fixed f<»r his
Anunna. At that time there had not salt, 2,000 feet of gill nets made of
asserted that he would like to see
of Pennsylvania.
appearance on the new
coroner.
The presence of the six tablets bear­ yet come Into existence the god repre­ linen thread, trammel nets.t dozens of
Pulkowsky n»ke<! the wur«len for
The university possesses two other the picture of the dollar and a half
ing dlffi rent copies of the same text senting cereals, the story declares. thermometers, automatic water sam­ courts as well. The court of the chan- when he received It.
leave of absrtice to purchase the
Senator Simmon»' office notified the
proves that the story they tell was Hence there were no grains to eat. pling bottles, silk bolting cloth to cgllor. founded In 1331, is familiar to
proper clothes, saying: "It Is
considered quite Important by the an Likewise the god representing the seine up the almost mlscroscoplc food all thriftless undergraduates as the War department that “Mr. Shell Is
quite out of the question for me
elent Sumerians, according to Doctor flocks and henls had not yet been of the fish, dredges for creatures liv­ strong anti protecting Oxford trades­ burning with righteous wrath and
to appear bcf««re the high court
Chlera, who believes that a wide dif­ made, nnd so there were no animals ing on the sea bottom. Insect nets, men. When a bad debt is reported to wants to lay the whole matter before
In this squalid prison dress."
ference of opinion regarding the origin am! meut to eat. Even the semi- plant presses and a number of copper
It.”
When his request was tefused,
Mr. Shell has been engrossing clerk
of mankind existed as early mb *4.000 divine being more or less correspond­ tanks for use In preserving fish.
? he simply made his get-away,
ing to the Biblical Eve had not yet ap-
Because space Is at a high premium
of the North Carolina legislature for
leaving behind a courteous note £ years ago.
Six Divide $12,COO,000
peared, according to the Sumerian on the Bowdoin and Peary, there
Story Staged In Seat of the Gods,
to the warden In which he
Detroit. Mich.—Six men. who were many years.
The story told by the tablets Is chroniclers, who a|>parently summed will be much Improvlslon. When his practically ¿'broke” In 1909, sat around
wrote : "My sense of decency
staged In the Mountain of Heaven and up their conception of conditions on fish have been “pickled” In alcohol and a dinner table recently nt the Detroit Buried in Cofnn Made
simply won’t allow me to Hp-
formaldehyde. Doctor Koelz plans to
pear before the court In prison
Earth, the seat of the gods nnd close earth with the following six Unes :
From Bar He Once Kept
Golf club and divided $12.000,000. The
parallel to the Olympus of Greek my­ Mankind, tn th« day of their appear­ commandeer empty gnsollne drums In dinner was In celebration of the
clothes. But don't fear. I shall
Nome, Alaska.—Barney Gibney, slx-
specimens
back
to
which
to
bring
the
thology. In fact, the Sumerian moun­
ance,
I not fall to be there at the prop­
the United States, The fish are pre­ Eureka Vacuum Cleaner company, ty-nlne, a sourdough of Dawson,
tain and Olympus might prove to be Bread for eating they knew not.
er time.” And he was.
Garments
wearing they knew not.
served whole, and will eventually re- which Fred Wardell founded In 1909, Yukon River, Nome and Teller gold
W
-w-
one and the suine because of the llke- The people for walked
with the (four)
The money divided represented ac­ rush fame, will be buried in a hand-
pose In glass jars of alcohol.
Hmba upon the ground.
cumulated profits of the company.
made coffin fashioned from the ma-
of
bird
specimens
The
preservation
They ate gras« with their mouth like
hogany
bar of the Gold saloon. In
sheep.
Dawson, of which he once was pro-
They drank water from the dltchea.
prietor.
Patrons of Foods Provided.
GILney died recently after an Illness
Then followed the creation by the
of three years. He was born In Plntts-
gods of the two pntror.s of cereals and
Y„ and was known as one
burg
docks, interesting figures because they
of the most benevolent men of the
resemble the Ceres anil Pan of ths
Northland. He preserved the bar whe.i
Itoman and Greek religions. With the
prohibition put the establishment out,
creation of these two patrons, condi­
of business, and expressed the wish
tions changed, and the Anunna had
that it be made into a coffin.
plenty of food.
Next there appears In the story the
god Enkl, who Is always represented
A
3
as being a good friend of mankind,
| Bird Dog Owner Says |
nnd who intercedes with the god Enlll
A
Pet Can Catch Trout $
In behalf of his friends by pointing out
£
Saranac Lake, N. Y.—Chapple, *
that the flocks nnd grains had multi­
X a bird dog owned by R. W. Joy *
plied In the Mountain of Heaven and
§ of Schuyler Falls, champion $
Earth nnd suggesting that they now
X muskrat catcher of the Adlron- <«
A'-.u
be permitted to leave the mountain
$ docks. has now turned his at- 4
nnd spread over the rest of the earth.
« tention to trout fishing. The *
Tlie desired permission Is granted
§ dog can switn like an otter.
nnd the cereals and flocks then replen
J-
Chapple recently arrived at $
Ish the earth for the benefit of man
* his owner's home wild with ex- S
kind. With their coming, the land ex
i cltement. He barked until his i
perlences nbundance, nnd mankind, ac­
i master accompanied him to a J
cording to the version on the Sumerian
A field about half way to Salmon v
tablets, gets Its first start toward civ-
X river, where Joy found a three- A
I lllzatton.
i pound rainbow trout the dog had *
Ki
Irrigation nmchlnes anil the yoke
i caught and started to drag *
appear,
¡♦maries
are
built
and
filled
The United .Stale'» Department of Agriculture has declared war on th«'
y home. The owner is now count- \
Japanese beetle ami has established a quarantine In parts of Pennsylvania, with food, living creatures come Into
A ing on a mess of fresh trout to $
Delaware nn«l New Jersey nff.'ctlng shipments of fruits, vegetal, es ami existence, laws are established, nnu
t he most valuable animal in a varied assortment arriving in New Yorn J be brought to his door dally.
a
wherever
the
cereals
nnd
fltH
’
ks,
as
plants. Half n million parasites that destroy the beetle have Just been re­
on board the freighter Helenua was a harmless looking little wild ass. The
exemplified
by
the
two
patrons,
appear
ceive«! from Japan. In the Illustration Is seen an agent of the department
animal Is valued ut $10,(XX) and Is now In the zoo at Central park.
prosperity reigns.
posting a quarantine notice, and a picture of the offending beetle.
Spain Has New Type of Airplane
Ancient Sumerians’
Version of Creation
*
s
This Jap Immigrant Isn’t Wanted
Wild Ass That Is Worth Big Sum