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.
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