Book Claims 600-Year 'Error' Puts New Light On Old Testament Data By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor NEW YORK (jP)-A new view of the Old Testament is contained in a new book by Immanuel Velikovsky. The book, "Ages in Chaos," (Doubleday) is based on the author's claim to discovery of a discrepancy of about 600 years in the timing of Egypt's history beginning with the exodus of the Jews. He finds that famous Egyptian personalities were contemporar ies of Solomon and David, instead of livine 600 years before them. The result, he says, is disrup tion of the histories of Assyria, Babylon and Medea. The history of the Hittite empire is an inven tion, he added. This is the first of two volumes. In the next he promises further untangling of historical and bibli cal events. Raised Furor Velikovsky is the author of "Worlds In Collision," the first book in the present series, which raised a scientific furor two years ago. That book claimed the amaz ing catastrophes which folklore tells in various parts of the world at about the time of the exodus from Egypt were caused by a com et, which became the planet Ven us. This astronomical explanation caused most of the opposition. "A group of scientists," Velikov sky writes in the preface of his new book, "suppressed the book in the hands of the first publisher by threat of boycott of all the com pany's textbooks when a new publisher took over the group tried to suppress it, to, by threats." Starts With Upheavals "Ages In Chaos" starts with these same upheavals, without mentioning a cause, other than the ancient records that the Christian God, or other gods, was respon sible. Velikovsky parallels the exodus story of the catastrophes, plagues, darkness, smoke, fire and rivers running red, with accounts of the same catastrophes, coming from an independent Egyptian source, the papyrus of Ipuwer. Ke says the significance of this papyrus nas not been nronerlv Eatodus has the timed before. Egyptian king drowning in the Red Sea. The papyrus has him drown in a whirlpool. Velikovsky says if his reading of records is correct, the Amalek ites, whom the Children of Israel met and fought while fleeing from Egypt, are the Hyksos of Egyptian records, who devastated and long dominated the lands of the Nile. He says that Saul, first king of the Israelites, was the conqueror who freed Egypt of the Hyskos and thereby changed the course of history. He differs about the Queen of Sheba, who visited Solomons. She has been regarded as an Ethiopian and there is a tradition that her child and Solomon's headed the royal house of Ethiopia. velikovsky says this lady pro bably was Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt, and he finds no child. Egypt and Solomon's country at that time were allies, a result of Saul's victory. Hatshepsut's successor, Thut muse III, the. author says, pillaged Solomon's temple. This was the biblical Shishak, King of Egypt, of the scriptural Kings 11:40, says Velikovsky, who adds that the pic tures in Egypt of Thutmose Ill's booty correspond very closely in shape and number to the biblical records of booty taken by a phar aoh from Solomon's temple. The Hyksos, or Amalekites, were so hated through the Near East that this hatred continued as a by word for centuries after Saul rout ed them. The beginning of Jew- 1 bating, Velikovsky says, can be traced to an error of a later his torian who confused the Children of Israel with the Hyksos. TPhhHdM HELeirdls CIRCUIT COURT Mary Bonenko vs Fred Bonen ko: Complaint for divorce alleg ing desertion seeks custody of two minor children and $50 monthly support. Married Oct. 22, 1925, in North Dakota. Dora I. Schlater va Guy Smel ser: Judgment granted defendant. Eugene Oliver vs Montgomery Ward and Co.: Defendant files petition for removal of suit to U. S. District Court for Oregon because parties are citizens of different states. Florence Eleanor Noel vs Al ton Lloyd Noel: Divorce decree to plaintiff confirms property set tlement and restores plaintiff's former name of Clark. Edna Rose Smith vs Barton Smith: Divorce decree grants plaintiff custody of four minor children and $125 monthly sup port, with defendant awarded ownership of auto and ordered to pay current bills of parties. Lorraine Buchanan vs Helen Swan Meyers: Case dismissed with prejudice, upon plaintiff's motion as settled. Cletus Joseph Schmitz vs James O. Patrick and Benton-Lincoln Electric Cooperative, Inc.: Com plaint and cross-complaint dis missed with prejudice, following trial. Ellen Anderson vs John S. An derson: Divorce decree to plaintiff restores her former name of Coul son and orders defendant to pay current obligations of parties. State Unemployment Compen sation Commission vs Allan A. Siewert: Plaintiff's demurrer to answer sustained. State Unemployment Compen sation Commission vs Winifred Colgan: Plaintiff's demurrer to answer sustained. Dorothy Porter vs Carl C. Por ter: Divorce decree grants plain tiff custody of minor child, $50 monthly support and total of $160 for medical bills. State vs Jay McDonald, Tom and Jack Gordon: Defendant Jay McDonald found guilty by Jury on charge of assault and battery, continued to April 25 for sen tencing; defendants Gordon found innocent by jury. PROBATE COURT Riley H. Champ estate: Final decree. Ella Katherine Holm an estate: Sale of real property confirmed. Fred C Krueger estate: Closing order. Elmer B. Knight estate: Final account approved. Charles Walter Taynton estate: Appraised at $1,800. Ona Drake estate: Will admitted to .probate, and Ransom Drake appointed executor. James L. Cooke estate: Apprais ed at $49,263.66. DISTRICT COURT Donald Lee Smith, 392 S. High St., charged with injuring a guard railing erected upon a highway, pleaded guilty, continued to April 18 for sentencing, committed. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS John Samuel Abell, 59, car penter, and Alta Mae Millerke, 66, housewife, both of Ashland. Henry L. Jess, 58, and Lydia B. Fromm, 53, cannery worker, both of 4340 S. Pacific Highway, Salem. Vernon A. Groves, 20, student, and Shirley A. Clifford, 20, stu dent, both of 700 S. Church St., Salem. Gordon Joseph Weitman, 30, core sawyer, Aumsville, and Myr tle Weston Fletcher, 25, Marion. Y Father-Son Groups to Meet First Indian Guides "longhouse" in Salem, a gathering of the or ganization's five tribes here, is set for 7 o'clock Saturday night at the I YMCA. ! The Indian Guides are father I son groups, involving boys aged 6 ! to 8. I The program will include a ! council fire and program, featur- ing an archery demonstration by ! Harry Hobson; Indian story by Frank Parcher, former Indian agent: an Indian song taught by Mrs. Parcher; a movie, "Pueblo Boy," games and relays. Awards of colored feathers will be made. 1 A swim and refreshments will follow. Mdii Rescued From Attic in Flooded Area SOUTH SIOUX CITY, Neb. (JP) -Blus with cold and weak from hunger, Tom Cooper, 69, was res cued : Tuesday night after five days ; in the attic of his flooded home. Trapped by the swift rise of Missouri flood waters, Cooper said he called intermittently for help but no one heard him. He could hear motor boats going by but there was no way to give a visual signal from the enclosed attic. With only three cans of beans and two bottles of milk for food. Cooper had to cling to the rafters after flood waters reached the ceiling below. "I ' lost all track of time," he said. Cooper's son found his father and removed him by boat after learning the elderly man was not at the home of a daughter across the river as he had assumed. As Cooper and a friend rowed around the house he called for his father. "Here I am, son," came a muf fled reply from the attic. The rescuers started the boat's motor and rammed through the top of a door. The elder Cooper broke through the ceiling and dropped into the boat. The son said his father suffered no ill effects other than weak ness and some shock. At Salem Schools Children Take Mail From Box A case of "mischief in the mails" was investigated Wednesday by Salem city police and the two cul prits, one nine years old and the other five, were warned against such practice. It seems that the pair decided to see what the neighbors were get ting in their mailbox so they sim ply took the contents. They were discovered by the postman on the route and warned by officials that such, an offense is against the law. SALEM HIGH SCHOOL Pat Largent, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Largent of Salem Route 9, was elected president of the student body at Salem High School for the 1952-53 school year as a result of the election held yester day. Other student body officers elected were Nancy Rust, first vice president; Jackie Jones, sec ond vice president; Arda Lien, sec retary; Sally Grieg, song queen; Margie Barge, Julie Miller and Virginia Lively, song leaders; George Matter, yell king; and R .i Anderson and Ted Henry, assistant yell leaders. LESLIE JUNIOR HIGH Fifty-six students at Leslie Jun ior High received merit awards during an assembly recently. The award for 300 points, high est given, was received by Sandra Jochimsen, Nancv Pavne, Janet Kleen and Bob Wulf. Students earning the 220 point award were Elaine Johnson, Stan ley Page, Sam Eismann, Bruce Patterson, Arlene Bishop, Delmar Funk, Ruth White. JoAnn Hoover, Jack Marshall and Pat Sexton. Winners of the award for earn ing 160 points were Janice Groff, John Wagers, Karen Thomas, Maura Deeney, Nancy Snider, Joan Wickstrom, Janet Bohnstedt, Ron ald Staples, Gil Stewart, Don Zen, Neil Kleinsmith, Pat Whalen, Gary Ramsden, June Lytle and Donna Behrens. The first award for 100 points was won by Ronnld Johnson, Ed win Boal, Clarence Baker, Jim King, Dennis Ermel, Bill Doss, Wayne Wendland, Edward Stark, Lawrence Pfeiffer, Arlene Darr, Morris Baker, Carolyn Taylor, Carrol Morris, Gary Pierpoint, Stephen Clerk, Marilyn Snook, Janet Smith, Linda Davis, Loretta Stahlman, Myrna Jean Boyce, Sha ron Strong, Steven Little, Thurman Krater, Ken Hopkins, Sharon Ol son and Carolyn Bishop. Th Statesman, Salem, Oregon, 'Thursday', April 17 1952 3 Chapman Asks Revocation of Budget Cuts WASHINGTON (JP) - The ad ministration began its drive Wed nesday to have the Senate restore at least a part of the funds which the House cut from the Interior Department money bill. Secretary Chapman testified be fore a Senate Appropriations Sub committee in favor of increased funds for the year starting July 1. The House voted $486,248,253 for the department. This is a re duction of 22 per cent in the $626,002,800 budget recommenda tions of President Truman. The House action brought the total to about 8 per cent under the cur rent year level of spending. The secretary made a special plea for restoration of funds for the Reclamation Bureau. If this is not done, he said, it will "result in a set-back to the reclamation program for Western resources development to a point that the country can ill afford to have take place even under a rigid economy policy." The House voted $180,755,400 for the Reclamation Bureau, a cut of $43,864,600 below the budget request of $224,620,000. This in cluded $153,355,400 for construc tion work, or $41,364,600 less than the budget figure. Chapman said the House cut reclamation construction on ths assumption there would be tome 30 million dollars of unobligated funds carried over from this year's appropriation. ', The secretary added that could not forecast at this time tat; such unobligated funds would be left by June 30. I PHONE BEINGS FUNERAL PETERBOROUGH, Ont. JP) -Special arrangements were made for Mrs. John Charles Wood, con fined to her home by illness, to hear the funeral service for her husband. By use of microphone and telephone receiver at the ser vices, Mrs. Wood wai aMe to hear, the service on her home phone. - It Is estimated that rats eat about 200 million bushels of grain a year in the United States. Midget Fish Hkl. All Sea Foods FRESH DAILY CRABS . . 38c lb. 2 ML North of Underpass Next to Green Apple Market Closed Mondays AT R0CKAWAY OLD TlfoE POLITICAL RALLY Torchlight Parade 2 - DAYS - 2 Saturday-Sunday April 26-27 Mi FIREMEN'S BALL J. HOWARD'S ORCHESTRA 9 P. M. Sat., April 26 MM CANDIDATES! 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