Herd of Charging Buffaloes Almos t Wipes Out '
v Smithsonian - Chry sler African Zoological Expedition
TCwa-Hundred Far
j Drive n An imals
H Stampede Into Party
of Scientists When Ri
jj fle is Fired. Expedi
tion Saved by Miracle
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' If yon erer find yourself hunt
ing dangerous wild animals In
Africa or In any other country for
Jthat matter, never fire Into a herd.
(That is one of the first rules of
tropical big game hunting and al
jnoat all j of the members of the
- Smithsonian-Chrysler Expedition,
pant to Tanganyika. Territory in
.East Africa by the Smithsonian In-
IfeitUation. tO Collect IIvp xrUrl ant.
' mala for the National Zoological
liiJaric, in Washington, know this,
llut recently one overzealous mem
jber of the expedition, under the
fexcitement of the moment, fired
lnto a herd of 2 Qfl buffalo and the
destruction of the expedition was
threatened.
i Dr. William M. Mann, director
' the National Zoological Park in
Washington and head of the expe
dition, writes to Walter P. Chrys
Jer, sponser of the expedition, how
-members of the party were search
ing for rhinos in the country about
iLake Manyara, almost dae north
0pt Dodoma, base camp of the ex
pedition, and almost due west
jifrom Mombasa on the east coast,
iatlre boys reported a herd, of
btlffa.1n whlrh
lbne of the' members of the expe-
jdltion wishing to bring one down,
tired. There was a splash of mud
and some one yelled:
, "Look out, they're coming."
it The animals charged directly
Howard the hunters. There was
."nothing for them to do but run,
'and run they did, 'There was no
tjtrees behind which totake refuge,
instead there was nhid,, shoe deep,
jirhe hunters might have been kill
Med had it not been for the fortu-
'nate fact that the herd parted In
the middle just before reaching
jlhe men. Part went in one direc
Hion and partrIn. the, other and the
"Iranfers were unharmed.
r Dr. Mann writes:
s "rf-tT8 KiadtO seS thorn rri and
If ever a friend of mine with me
"fires at a buffalo herd again he
will not be a friend of mine any
more. ,
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Only the splitting of the buffalo herd
saved the lives of the scientists engaged
inrapturing live wild animals for the
Smithsonian-Chrysler Expedition when
200 animals charged. Circle right
Black line shows route ot expedition in
Tanganyika Territory from Dar-es-Sa-Iaam
to Dodoma to Lake Manyara where
incident occurred.
An expedition like the Smithsonian-Chrysler
Expedition which is
collecting live, wild animals for
the national zoo, must necessarily
get as many young animals as
possible. Of course, It is practi
cally impossible to capture alive
the old ones. Dr. Mann, in writing
from Lake Manyara tells how the
expedition captured Its first ani
mal, a young gnu. -
"The lake here extends almost
to the foot of the hills," writes
Dr. Mann. Several of us crouched
in the bush and one crept through
the bush back of the herd until
we were near them when we
jumped up with the loudest .yells
possible. The herd scattered;
some shot Into the bush, some
passed us and- others turned about
and went back along the lake; but
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thirty or so took to the water.
There was a young one with them
and we went after it, running it
into a reed bed, where we finally
got a rope over its neck. It near
ly got one of our boys, but we
rigged a carrying case from a
gunny sack and two poles and got
it into camp.
"It is about six months old, fine
and husky and feeding well, and1
there is a splendid chance of get
ting it home. It is in a little cor
ral twenty feet from where I now
sit, calmly eating grass. It was a
beautiful irive, nobody hurt, ev
erybody tired, even the her of
gnu."
On another occasion Dr. Mann
writes:
"We broke camp and started
back along the lake when we saw
ARTISTS OHO
Fifth Concert of'1 927 Series
to Be Broadcast on Friday
Evening
NEW YORK, (Special)
Three youthful and distinguished
American ortists of opera and con
cert will be the unusual radio of
fering of the Victor Talking Ma
chine Company in the fifth con
cert of its 19 27 series, on next
Friday evening. They are Marion
Talley, soprano, and Lawrence
Tibbett, baritone, both of the
Metropolitan Opera Company, and
Richard Crooks, tenor. ,
Miss Talley's -triumphal entry
into opera a year-ago is still fresh
in the minds of the entire nation.
It was just a few. days after her
sensational debut at the :Metro
poHtan Opera House as Gilda that
she was heard for the first time
over the air, on a 'Victor program.
Mr. Tibbett, who is one of the
outstanding operatic figures in
America, makes his radio debut in
the coming concert. Mr. Crooks
is one of the best known concert
artists of today, and his 1925 con
cert tour f Germany won for him
an acclaim seldom accorded a
young singer. -
Beginning at 9 p. m., Eastern
Standard time, the concert will be
heard through station of the
"blue" network and the Southern
division of the National Broad
casting Company, as follows:
WJZ, New York; WBZ, Spring
field and Boston: KDKA, Pitts
burgh; KYW, Chicago; WHAS,
Louisville, Ky.; WSB, Atlanta;
WMC, Memphis, and WSM, Nash
ville. Since Miss Talley's first operatic
appearance, she has been heard
in concert in many of the principal
American cities, and her Metro
politan opera career has- been a
succession of triumphs- s In her
first concert tour in the spring
and early summer of last year,
she gave twenty concerts to over
flow audiences. . ;
Lawrence , Tibbett was born in
Bakersfield, California, and since
he became a member ot the Met
ropolitan Opera company about
three years ago he has risen to a
place among the foremost operatic
baritones. lie. has a. voice of un
usual t richness and beauty, to
which , the Prologue, from "Pag
liacci," -which Is included in his
radio program," gives full play. .
Richard Crooks has' been sing
ing in public since he first attract
ed attention as boy soloist, at the
age of nine. In Trinity: Episcopal
church choir, at Trenton .Jf." J. At
fourteen he went to New York, to
sing In the choir of All Saint's
church, and a few years later he
was. being heard . in concert by
great audiences throughout Amer
ica and on the continent.
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game herds ahead of us. In the
middle of the afternoon the herd
of wild beast had been enlarged to
more than 200 and they were rath
er tired. We walked steadily
along, but they had been in front
of us all day running backwards
and forwards and doing a lot of
prancing about. In the middle of
the afternoon they tried to cut
past us. We chased them and they
became demoralized and got into
the water, this time in a deeper
place than before. A short gallop
there tired out the youngsters. We
dashed in close, the herd passed
us, there was all sorts of confus
ion and splashing of water and
when it had quieted a bit I saw
six groups of our natives, each
with a calf, unhurt. One got
the Victor Salon orchestra, under
the direction of Nathaniel Shil
kret. The program follows:
Montmartre Rose (Lyman)
Eleanor (Deppen)
Victor Salon Orchestra -.
Forgotten- (Cowles) '
In the Wee Little Home I Love
(Johnstone-O'Hara) Richard
Crooks.
Prologue to "Pagliacci" (Leon
cavello) Lawrence Tibbett.
When I Was Seventeen (Lillje
bjorn) In the Garden (Miles) Marion
Talley.
Wee Bit O'Heart (N. Shiikret)
In the Days Gone By, from
"Countess Maritza" (Kalman)
Victor Salon Orchestra.
A Dream i Cory-Eartiett )
Richard Crooks.
Oh! That We Two Were Maying
(Neyin) Lawrence Tibbett.
I.o! Hear the Gentle Lark
(Bishop) Marion Talley.
Barcarolle, from Tal?s of
Hoffman" ( Offenbach .Marion
Talley Jfnd Lawrence Tibbett.
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trken this week at the Toledo auto
show establishes a new retail sales
record here, Toledoans signing up
for the immediate delivery of 194
Whippets and Willys-Knights the
first three days of the show, an
increase of 140 per. cent over the
126 auto show sales.
"An Minneapolis this week dur
ing the first three days of the
Twin City show, retail orders for
Willys-Knights and Whippets
showed a 40 per cent increase over
last year's sales. This is taken as
a strong indication that business
m the northwest is rapidly return
ing to normal and that Willys
Overland dealers in that territory
have a good year ahead of them.
"At the regional sales confer
ence held in Detroit, Toledo, New
York, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Buf
falo, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, In
dianapolis, approximately" 4,000
dealers expressed the opinion that
with the new line of 1927 cars
they would , be able to do the
greatest volume of business in the
history of the organization. They
have supported ' this belief with a
record volume of orders placed
with ' the factory for Immediate
shipment."
Factory officials declare that it
aiready has become necessary to
increase the car building sched
ules. he.re to 'meet the flood of or
ders that has poured Into the sales
department in the last five weeks.
They say , this unprecedented de
mand for ; Willys-Knights and
Whippets is due to the engineer
ing features embraced in the new
models which has. established for
the company the position of engi
neering leadership in the automo-j
oue ma us try.
Bonesteele Motor Co., 454 S,
Com'L, has the Dodge automobile
for von. AH steal hodv. T jnt
t-Bmm. wu6o vwwn, - lurj
Will tell VOU. f
away but with the pne we had be
fore we now have an even half
dozen fine young gnu calves.
"We made hammocks of bur
lap bags and poles with holes cut
in the burlap to put the calves
feet through and got them here,
where we have just made camp.
Now they are tethered to trees
and all but the youngest are con
tentedly munching on grass. To
collect a fine little herd of good
antelope In an hour without hurt
ing an adult. or getting any boys
wounded is an event in Africa. "
The expedition was just getting
to work at the time of Dr. Mann's
writing. It is believed that two
or three months will be spent in
the field before the long journey
back to America will be started.
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Engineers Work for Quick
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Advance specifications of the
new Falcon-Knight, the six-cylin-dfer
Knight sleeve-valve motored
car, which will be presented to the
motor buying public the latter
part of March, have just been re
leased by the manufacturers.
In general, they incorporate the
features of this type of engine,
which have been conspicuous in
other Knight motored productions
in this country and in Europe.
The construction of the sliding
sleevxes which take the place of
the valves and valve mechanism
of the poppet-valve type of motor,
is conventional Knight design, and
mechanical fits and material speci
fications are identical with those
of Knight motors found in other
cars of higher price ranges.
The power development indicat
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especial attention to the present
day demand for great flexibility
with quick get-a-way ability in
traffic and with sustained pulling
power on heavy grades.
Following the general tendency
among quality built, motors, the
crankshaft In the motor is sus
pended in seven bearings, all of
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thermostatically controlled and
other items of equipment and de
sign follow equally advanced de
sign. Complete specifications will not
be released until the cars are
ready for general distribution,
which will be later In March and
it is stated by engineers of the
Falcon Motors Corporation that
they will ofter many surprises
when they are finally disclosed.
It is known that markedly rapid
acceleration and effective braking
are features of performance and
these have been widely demon
strated to motor car dealers, who
have ridden in the sample models
which are being shown in Detroit.
Advancements In the construc
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motor during the past" two years
have been rapid both in America
and in Europe and many records
have bee established by these
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economy and long life.
. The position of this type of en
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an eight-cylindered motor
by Stearns-Knight, by important
sales records of Willys-Knight
models and now by the' entry ef
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In the lower price
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ed a twelve-cylindered Knight
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products and other Euro
pean builders have shown pro
nounced activity in the building
of the Knight sleeve-valve motor.
It is characteristic of this power
plant that it has always been as
sociated with cars of the highest
quality and this position in this
country is protected by the. re
strictions placed upon builders by
the American Knight Patents Co.,
who control license rights.
In addition to the mechanical
excellence which Is claimed for the
motor in the new Falcon-Knight,
engineers for. the company state
that springing has come in for
marked attention and that the
total spring surface together with
the methods used in the construc
tion of the spring shackles and
the cradling of the body between
the springs has resulted in excep
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