The Monmouth herald., May 18, 1923, Image 3

Use Airplane to
Seek Old Cities
Professor MacLean of Rochester
University Finds Outline of
Ancient Irrigation Canal.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY MADE
British Pilot Finds Location of Two
Lost Cities of Opis and Sitace—
May Push Back History
Another Age.
New Haven, Conn.—Lost cities of
ancient civilizations, burled for thou­
sands of years beneath the shifting
sands of Egypt, Mesopotamia and
Arabia, will soon he located through
the use of airplanes, according to Prof.
It. A. MacLean of Rochester univer­
sity, late staff officer with the British
troops In Persia, who discussed this
problem before the Archeological In­
stitute of America
The archeologist, circling about
some 2.000 feet In the air, with a clear
sweep of vision f. r 20 miles in all di­
rections, can make out certain continu­
ous lines of depression, indicating an­
cient Irrigation channels, with mounds
strewn along these lines Indicating
burled cities.
Ordlnnry surveyr could never reveal
this because of the great distances
covered by them. Under the very
ground on which countless caravans
have pasccd for more than 5.000 years
and where even s ientlfie expeditions
may have pltched*thelr camps for the
night. He cities whose contents may
push hack history mother age, whose
wealth In gold, silver nnd precious
stones may far surpass anything un­
earthed even In Egypt.
May Find Lost Cities.
An Important discovery has already
been made by n British pilot. Involv­
ing possibly the definite location of
the lost cities of Opis and Sitace—
the famous centers of ancient culture
nnd wealth described by N«oophon
2,500 years ago, hut never heard of
since. The pilot operating last sum­
mer In Mesopotamh. noticed while on
Ills numerous air reconnaissances what
nppeared to be a long natural delign-
ment covering many miles.
This depression branched off from
the Tigris river at Bagdad, ran south
a bit. and then curved gradually back
to the river, finally running Into It
nt Satnnrra. Along this depression
were many mounds—appearing from
Hbove ns mere dlscotorntlons. Major
Beaseley, commanding the air post
there, nnd an enthusiastic archeologist
himself, when told of this passed the
news on to Professor MacLean, nnd a
series of flights were at once ar­
ranged.
On these air surveys. Professor Mae-
Lean was astonished to find unmistak­
able signs of an old channel, which
parted from the i resent Tigris river
channel at Samarra end ran a south­
erly course for a full 100 miles before
rejoining the present channel at Bag­
dad. The Importance of this discov­
ery was at once apparent to Professor
MacLean. for It was a graphic Indica­
tion that the ancient Tigris had run
through a different channel some fif­
teen miles south of the present one
nnd that the sites of ancient cities,
so carefully marked out by scientists,
who based their calculations on the
present channel of the Tigris, were
actually 15 miles south of where they
were supposed to he.
Ancient Chain of Cities.
In support of his discovery. Profes­
sor MacLean points to the many
mounds strewn along the line of this
old channel. Indicating the nncient
chain of cities once flourishing on the
hanks of the Tigris.
Some of the
most Important cities o f ancient
times. Including Opis, Sitace and
Kskl, Bagdad, with many still more
primitive towns, have thus passed
unnoticed while scientists were busy
e.-plnrlng the hanks of the present
Tigris.
Another surprising discovery was
that of the ancient Irrigation systen^
noted In the ancient chronicles, hut
never reconstructed. Prom the air
Professor MacLean and Major Ileace
ley have been able to chart out en­
tire systems of Irrigation streams and
ditches by simply sketching the lines
of depression and discoloration. The
results show a very unusual system
of Irrigation, closely resembling the
skeleton of a bony fish, with the main
ditch as the spinal column, and the
local ditches as ribs and small hones.
TO RESTORE WAR INSURANCE
Veterans Who Permitted Term Insur­
ance to Lapse Can Easily Get
It Reinstated.
Washington.—*-It will be news to
many World war veterans to learn
that the United Stutes veterans’ bur­
eau hus Inaugurated a reinstatement
campaign for the benefit o f those who,
either through misunderstanding or
inability to meet premium payments,
have permitted their term (war time)
insurance to lapse.
Director Forbes announces that no
matter how long a time has passed
since the last premium was paid, an
ex-service man may easily renew his
term (war time) Insurance contract If
he is in good health, or If he Is dis­
abled, provided the disability from
which he Is suffering is due to serv­
ice and is not of a total and perma­
nent nature. Veterans will be par­
ticularly Interested In learning that
they may reinstate $1,000 or any high­
er amount, In multiples of $o00, of the
amount of Insurance they carried
while In the service. It will also he
of Interest to the public to know that
over 500,000 of the men who applied
for Insurance during the war have
continued their policies in force and
that these ex-service men nnd women
are carrying insurance protection
amounting to the enormous sum of
over $3,000,000,000.
The reinstatement
requirements
have been made most liberal; in fact.
If nn ex-soldler Is In good health It Is
only necessary for him to furnish
medical proof of that fact, and pay
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Man Is Shot in Squabble
Over Duck That Cat Stole
Power Rights From This Dam Asked by Ford
San Francisco.—Charles Pal­
mer, after shooting a duck near
Belmont, a suburb, was invited
Into the cabin home of Harry
Shaw, a watchman, to get warm.
When Painter started to leave he
missed the duck, and in the argu­
ment that followed, according to
subsequent testimony, he was
shot In the ft.ee. An undersheriff
took them Into custody despite
their protests that their differ­
ence was purely a personal mat­
ter. and Palmer pleaded guilty
to assault. Shaw insisted on
paying Palm *r's $10 tine and
they went hack to Shaw’s cabin,
where they found a pile of duck
feathers aud a guilty-looklng
cat.
two monthly premiums on the amount
of term Insurance to be reinstated.
Physicians have been appointed In all
of the branch offices of the bureau
where ex-service men can secure the
necessary medical examination with­
out cost. Detailed Information may be
obtained by writing to the United
States Veterans' Bureau, Washington,
D. C„ hut In the Interest of accurute
identification and promptness, the per­
son writing should be sure to give his
full name, rank and organization when
In the service and, If possible, his serial
number.
LAUGH IS CAUSE OF MURDER
Boy Boasts of Killing Girl Who
Mocked Him When He Missed Good
Shot While Hunting Squirrels.
Iron Mountain, Mich.—Charged with
killing a twelve-year-old girl who
mocked him when he missed a good
shot while hunting squirrels, John
Shultz, seventeen years old. Is under
arrest here. The boy was arrested
when he boasted of the killing to a
boy friend, police declare.
Shultz and twelve-year-old Oustl
Jagzte were hunting near their homes
when the boy missed a shot nt a chip­
munk, he told friends.
The girl
laughed at her companion, and he
shot her. causing her death almost in
stantly, the police charge.
Ragged Genius
Gives Concert
toire of melodies. Jazz and classic.
The station house did Its usual night­
ly business of the district. Drunks
were brought In—many of them.
Vagrants were lodged
The police
surgeon made his round. And all a
glance Into the music room disclosed
to any of them was the sight of a lit­
tle ragged figure, cap tossed aside,
battered shoes, dirty swenter ami un­
Unkempt Prodigy of "Hoboes' Col­ forgivable linen, sounding chords In
a revery. Two revolver shots sound­
lege’’ Retains His Love of Music
ed. Just around the corner. Someone
Through Vicissitudes That
receiving wrong change In a nearby
Pursue Shambling Life.
cigar store had said It with gunfire.
The music never stopped.
It even
Philadelphia.— Music critics have Ig­
grew stronger.
nored the concert given at the piano
Tells Life Story.
of the police station the other evening
Lieutenant Comoran finally poked his
by Harry Tunnehill of Pittsburgh and
head Into the music room and ordered
points West, more recently musical
a halt. Then they got him talking.
director of the Hoboes’ college and
By now a metamorphosis had taken
pianist extraordinary.
place. The "bum” had given way to
T u n n eh ill. cleverly disguised as a the
musician and Tannehill dis­
hobo—and one In all reality—gave coursed of music and his eventful
the police several hours of uninter­ past as If he were drinking wine with
rupted rngtlme and then tore off n intimates on a terrace In fair Capri.
lot of classical numbers that left the He was forty-six, he said. Had taken
veriest patrolman feeling like an am­ up music at fourteen, studied the
bassador. He glided through a little piano for eight years, three In the
Liszt, gave some Chopin dirges and conservatory at Mount Union. O.. nnd
then threw the whole outfit Into rap­ then for a time had gone on the con­
tures with a masterful interpretation cert stage. After that he tried teach­
of Rachmaninoff.
ing.
It was an Impromptu affair entire­
"Eight years ago,” Tannehill snld.
ly. The artist arrived at the little ” my wife deserted me and she took
hare room opposite the cell tier short­ with her our three-year-old daughter.
ly before seven o’clock, convoyed by She may be alive today, she may be
Mulholland of the "motorcycles.” Ills dead. I don’t know and 1 haven't
escort had lured him from the con­ been able to find out. My little girl
crete campus of Hoboes’ college.
was my world; when she went, ambi­
For four hours he played his reper- tion followed.”
The pianist came to Philadelphia
nearly three yea's ago, hut other
than a few movie-palace performances
he has been without work. He tried
carpentry for n while, and other work
more arduous, but was not equal to It.
“You know the rules of the Hoboes'
college, don’t you) asked the bluff
Mulholland of his protege. "If you
get work, you’re automatically ex­
pelled. You'll have to leave the In­
stitution."
A "Curtain Call.”
“ I don’t care,” answered the maes-
fro. “Give me a few decent looking
togs and several g o o d meals In suc­
cession and I’ll defy any of them to
tell the burn from the musician.' Just
once more, before I die, Pd like to
get loose In the vicinity of a grant
piano.”
A ta«»e for music, ||k# the !<•
a horse or a dog. Is a saving g r a c e ;
the last characteristic to go In the
drop to degeneratlon ; the first thing
to build upon In the climb to re­
habilitation. The police made np a
1 purse for their visitor and asked him
to play one more before he left.
"I'll give you a little ‘William Tell.1 ”
he announced. And under the manlp-
finished and unveiled as a j ulatlon o f the nimbi* fingers «,* a
This beautiful mom.meat has Ju«t 1»
memorial to the veterans of the revolution against Spain which was going 1 master, the old piano awoke to a life
on «luring the Spanish-American war and which the Americans aided. It la | It had never known.
The master
situated on the outskirts o f Manila, and la regarded as one of the moat ; arose and bowed. Then, slowly, he
artistic soldiers' memorials ever erected.
1 passed out of the room.
Wizard of Piano Entertains Po­
lice Station Inmates With
Jazz and Classic Stuff.
LIFE STORY ONE OF TRAGEDY
Soldiers’ Memorial at Manila
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An excluslte photograph, taken from an airplane, of the Mississippi river high dam between St. Paul and Mlu-
neupi Us, for which Henry Ford hus applied to the federal power commission for power rights. The Detroit motor
cur maker. If granted permission to harness this water power, has announced he will build n ten-nilliion-dollar
automobile, tractor and farm Implement plant on the hanks of the river. Also he will open a barge line to run down
the Mississippi, currying freight to St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans. On the return trips the barges would
curry coal from Kentucky and southern Illinois fields.
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Science Finds
Use for Waste
Discover Way to Make Alcohol
and Good Quality of Animal
Food From Sawdust.
COAL DUST MADE INTO BRICKS
Experts Save Smelting Industry by
Finding Way to Eliminate Bulk
of Poisonous Dust From
Flue Gases.
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Do you know of anything that
is being wasted that these
scientists might try their hands
on?
■ill
The debris of the lumber Industry
Is by no means the only dust thut Is
being conserved and put to useful pur­
poses. Coal dust Is another notable
example, and In view of the present
shortuge In the coul supply us a re­
sult of the strike Its utilization is espe­
cially Important.
For years the culm or dust produced
In sizing anthracite for the market,
was regarded ns practically worthless,
although It was for the most part per­
fectly good coal. It could not he
handled or shipped economically, how­
ever, and the consumer did not know
how to use It, so It was permitted to
go ns wuste. Smaller nnd smuller
sizes of unthraclte were found use­
ful until now the dust Itself Is being
burned, either through a powdered-coni
burner which spraya the pulverized
fuel Into the furnace or firebox, or In
the form of briquettes.
A corporation recently formed has
an establishment at Alexandria. Vlr-
glnla, where n new process of prepar­
ing n fuel that Is an amalgam of coal
dust and crude oil Is being exploited.
It Is claimed that a wholly satisfac­
tory substitute for anthracite for do­
mestic purposes Is being produced, and
It Is also said that it can be marketed
at a price that Is altogether Inter­
esting In these days when the so-called
law of supply and demand Is sending
the cost of anthracite skyward.-
Briquettes nre made of other ma­
terials In the campulgn against waste.
Metal filings nnd turnings nre sub­
jected to pressure and thus converted
Into compact masses thut can be
charged Into furnnees nnd remelted
with the leust possible loss. 1’owdered
ores and minerals that would either
blow away or clog the smelters, may
bo handled In slmllnr fashion nnd
made almost as satisfactory as lump
ore. Immense quantities of disinte­
grated Iron ore that were formerly
considered of little or ’ no economic
Importance nre thus made available.
In at least one Instance th**utiliza­
tion of dust has b«>on brought about,
not as n mere measure o f economy,
but In order to save the Industry It­
self. In smelting valuable metallic
ores, notably copper anil lend, con­
siderable quantities nf arsenic con­
tained In the ores nre driven off with
the furnace gases In the form of a
fume or very fine dust. This fume or
dust settles over the farms for great
distances surrounding the smelters
and causes great injury to nil kinds
of vegetutlnu, with the result that
the smelting companies were being
mulcted for heavy damages constantly,
nnd there was a prospect that they
■night be required to shut down their
plants.
Experts were called In nnd event­
ually a way was found to eliminate
the bulk of the poisonous dust from
the flue gases. The white arsenic thus
collected aggregates thousands of tons
annually nnd It Is devoted to many
useful purposes. It Is converted Into
pigments, compounds of value In medi­
cine nnd In the dye Industry, nml into
Insecticides for spraying orchards,
viueynrds nnd gardens.
Careful With Gold Dust.
There Is one kind of dust that every­
body hus always been more than
anxious to utilize and thnt Is gold
dust. If any of thut goes to waste It
Is because It cannot be nvolded. In all
the vnrled mining processes and wher­
ever gold Is handled In the mints or In
the arts every precaution Is taken to
conserve every particle of the precious
metal. In fact, dust Is gathered and
sav^il thnt Is so flue that It Is little
more than “ color.”
In placer mining nil the gold Is
"dust,” but It occurs In scales, grains or
nuggets, nnd all the pnrtlcles are
smooth and rounded, thus differing
from vein gold which Is sharp nnd an­
gular. The nuggets hnve varied In size
from small grains to one found In Aus­
tralia that weighed 2,520 ounces and
was worth about $-42,000. Appropriate­
ly enough this nugget was christened
“ Welcome Stranger.” The largest nug­
get found In California weighed 280
ounces. Russia has produced one of IXJ
ounces nnd the Klondike one of 85
ounces. By far the greatest proportion
of the gold recovered, however. Is In
medium and fine dust.
Where gold Is handled In large quan­
tities ali sweepings nnd all dust col­
lected by vacuum cleuners Is saved,
for It «contains minute particles of
gold that In the aggregate and In the
long run umount to large sums. Kv n
the clothes worn by those who handle
the gold are "mined" at stated Inter­
vals.
Washington, D. a —Savants have
shown that If the atmosphere were
not impregnated with dust there would
he no cloud effects, no radiant sunsets,
no soft afterglow of harmonious color­
ings which lend a halo to the quiet of
eventide. Also, there could be no
condensation of moisture us In ruin,
mist or fog without nuclei such as
dust particles.
That is one of the stories of the
usefulness of dust, but government
scientists and others nre more Inter­
ested Just now In determining what
can be done with dusts of specific
kinds that have long constituted big
Items of waste In vurious Industries.
Perhaps the most Interesting de­
velopment of the experimental work
that has been going on Is In connec­
tion with the problem of what to do
with sawdust. Ever since the first
saw bit Its way through a piece of
timber the enormous wuste In snwdust
has been a matter to worry over. In
time It was found that this debris
could be made commercially valuable
as the basis of various manufactures.
Oxalic acid la produced on a large
Polly Cries “ Fire,’’ Saves Home.
scale from sawdust, aud sawdust Is
I’hlladcIphltL—A pet parrot saved a
also used In the carbonating stage of
three-story nnartment house here
the process for the manufacture of
from destruction h> fire.
C. J. Doyle, who has nn apartment
soda ash.
on the top floor, had retired, but In
Alcohol From Sawdust.
a few moments he was awakened
But now It has been discovered thn^
by the shrill screams o f hie parrot,
sawdust can be converted Into a food
which he kept In the kitchen.
and by currying the process a step fur­
ther alcohol may be produced.
The sawdust food is one for benst
and not for man, hut nevertheless it
Is useful and may become a factor in |
farm economics. Sawdust alcohol will
not be used for beverage purposes, but
tl^re Is a great need for a new motor
fuel to take the place of gasoline or
to supplement the supply of that arti­
cle which is not keeping pace with the
demand, and alcohol seems to hold
out the greatest possibilities In that
direction.
White pine sawdust Is used In this
process. It Is treated with dilute sul­
phuric acid and cooked under presaure
with steam. This brings about a
chemical change In which the sawdusi
Is partially converted Into glucose, a
simple sugar which Is both digestible
and of food value. There is from It
to 18 per cent of glucose In this mix
ture, which Is then neutralized with
lime, the sugar dissolved and the so^
lutlon filtered off and I Killed down un
der reduced pressure until It Is of the
consistency of molasses. This mo­
lasses Is then mixed with the partially |
dried sawdust residue and the result
la a product closely n-sernhling bran.
Farmer Had Right Idea.
Thus It would appear that the tight-
fisted farmer who tried feeding his
mules excelsior anil sawdust aa sub
atltutea for grass and bran mash had
the right idea. His trouble was that
he did not prepare the stuff properly, j
In producing alcohol from the brnn t
mixture the essential step Is to let
The Vietountesa Xnrthcllffs, It le rumored, may wed Sir Robert Hudson,
the sugar In It ferment. It la esti­
mated that three to four hundred mil­ chief agent of the Liberal party. Sir Robert Hudson Is a widower, fifty eight,
lion gallons of alcohol could In this and has a daughter. He Is chairman of the Joint finance committee of the
way be derived from sawdust, shav­ British Red Cross and was blighted for hls service during the war. lie was a
ings and bits of lumber that are close friend of Lord Northern!«, and It la reported that It was the letter’s
wasted each year In the mill* o f tha wish thst hls widow should become Sir Robert's wife. Portraits of theta
are shown hers.
country.
Lady Norlhcliife M ay Wed Again