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XFEDFOTCD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFOUD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1935
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BELIEVED TRACED
Vestiges of Hypothetical
Continent 'Lemuria' Be
lieved Found On Floor
of the Indian Ocean
WASHINGTON. D. C Man's Stsa4y
progress In mapping tht Unnen
world beneath the oceans by means
of echo soundings, sheds occasional
tantalising glimmers of light on the
extravagant but haunting legends or
scientific theories of lands that van
ished under the sea.
On the floor of the Indian ocean
a British oceanographlc eipedltton
recently discovered a submarine pla
teau and two burled mountain
ranges separated by a deep valley.
Immediately men wondered whether
these were vestiges of a hypothetical
continent, "Lemuria," assumed by
the late Ernst Helnrleh Haeckel, Ger
man naturalist, to have existed In
this very locality, In order to ex
plain the distribution of the monkey
like lemurs.
Storks of World-wide Floods.
The captain of an American naval
vessel, on sounding duty In the Pa
cific for yeara. has pieced together
the outlines of a huge contlnentllke
Meteorological Report
January 17, 1835,
Forecast,
Medford and vicinity: enow or rain
tonight and Friday. No change In
temperature.
Oregon: Snows eat portion: snow
or rain west portion, tonight and Fri
day. No change In temperature.
,Lca1 Data,
Temperature a year ago today:
Highest, S3: lowest, 37.
Total monthly precipitation, 1 16
Inches. Excess for the month, 0 41
Inch.
Total precipitation since September
1, 1934, 10.37 Inches, Excess for the
season, 1.37 Inches.
Relative humidity at 6 p. m. yes
terday, 89; 6 a. m. today, 89.
Sunrise tomorrow, 7:3 a. m.
Sunset tomorrow, fi-.OU p. m.
Observations Takrn lit ft a. m.,
120 Meridian Time,
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BolM ..... 40 32
Boston 38 10
Chicago 26
Denver ........ 42 28
Eureka .............. 48 40
Hln 14 -8
Um Angeles ....
MEDFORD 41
New York ....
Omaha
..... a!.- I Portland
44
33
20
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34
again the question of the one-time
existence of a continent In the
largest of oceans.
"Since the days of Plato and prob.
ably even before the Imagination of
men has been stirred by tales of a
whole continent, freighted with hu
mans, suddenly going down by the
head like a stricken ship," says a
bulletin from the Washington. D. O.,
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic society.
"In the folklore of peoples In many
parts of the world survive stories
of widespread Inundation prototypes,
perhaps, of our own Biblical ac
count of the deluge and Noah's ark.
"That Immense changes have
taken place In the distribution of
land and water areas In the long
life of our planet, has long been
known, of course, to students of sci
ence. Even elementary students of
geology know that our great moun
tain rnnges are largely composed of
rocks laid down on the bottoms of
vanished seas and then upraised.
The recent discovery of submerged
river valleys off Cape Cod and nearly
three miles below the surface of the
sea tn the Bahama region gives
proof that many areas of the present
ocean floor were once dry land.
Inlands Have Hunk In Modern Times.
"Many Islands are known to have
disappeared suddenly. Among them
Is little Sarah Ann, In the mtd-pa-
clflc. Scientists expected to use It as
a grandstand from which to observe
the solar eclipse of 1937, but re
cently United States naval vessels
sought It In vain. The Island had
vanished. Thousands of lives were
lost when Tuanakl In the Cook group
was swallowed by the Pacific In 1830.
"But wherever the changes In the
fan of the earth and sea have In
volved large areas, they are believed
to have come about with the slow
ness of time Itself. The northeastern
coast of the United States, for ex
ample, la supposed to be sinking at
the rats of two feet a century.
"Atlantis la the most famous land
lost In the sea. The poignant and
faaclnatlng story of Atlantis was
given to the world by Plato, who
had It from Solon, who In turn
had It from a priest of Egypt.
Atlantis Htory Preserved I n Orean
Name.
"The great Greek wrote of a civ
ilization which flourished some 9000
years before his time on an Island
of continental sire called Atlantis,
whtch lay beyond Gibraltar, the
Pillars of Hercules.' A mighty war
ensued between Atlantis and Greece.
After a fierce battle 'there occurred
violent earthquakes and floods' and
'In a day and s fatal night' the
rich and populous Atlantis 'disap
peared and was sunk beneath the
sea.'
"Much of the conjecture since
has centered around the Aaores
which stand on a huge elevation of
the ocran floor, the Mld-Atlantlc
rlM, extending with two short breaks
from Iceland to the latitude of Cape
Horn, and lying about midway be
tween the old and new worlds. Some J
put utile sclentlsta have maintained
-that some Islands near the Azores j
may have disappeared, perhaps ca
taRtrophtcally, aa late aa the human j
period, thus giving rise to the legend. I
Othera dismiss the whole story as ,
pure fiction.
"At any rate, the name of the 'lost
Atlantis' survives In the name of 1
the ocean Atlantic.
"The mammoth Pacific too has Its
mysteries of vanished lands. Remark
able stotie Images found on lonesome
little Banter Inland, 3000 miles wvst
of South America, have led men to '
wonder whether this 40-square-mlle '
patch of land Is not all that Is Iclt j
of a large Island group or continent J
and an extinct civilisation. Like the
Azores It stands on a submarine ele- 1
vat Ion of continental slice, the Easter
Island rlAe. j
"Much farther to the west. In the i
Reno 30
Roseburg m .... 34
Salt Lake .... 30
San Francisco..- .... 44
Seattle 38 20
Spokane .... 28 T.
Walla Walla 40 30 .01
Washington, D C 28 .04
Cloudy
.... Cloudy
.30 Cloudy
.... Clear
.00 Cloudy
.06 Snow
.... Clear
.23 Snow
.22 Snow
.01 Clear
.... Clear
.48 Snow
T. Cloudy
Snow
Clear
.... Cloudy
.30 Snow
Cloudy
Cloudy
Rain
South Pacific, the thousands of
Islands have long been regarded aa
the possible debris of a sunken con
tinent. Unexplained ruins exist In
the Carolines and on Maiden island
between Hahltl and Hawaii. A lead
ing British oceanographer recently
published the conclusion that an
extensive continent foundered In the
central Pacific In early Tertiary
times, when the mammals were ris
ing to ascendancy over the reptiles,
and aoms of our western mountains
we-e being created.
In the Indian Ocean between
Madagascar and southern Asia, Hae
ckel placed his hypothetical conti
nent of Lemuria. He called it 'the
probable cradle of the human race,
which In all likelihood here first
de eloped out of anthropoid apes.'
"Oeology, too, has created a sup
positious continent, Qondwanaland-
T. klng Its name from a rock forma
tion found In the Oondwana section
of India and also In many other
parts of the world. It Is supposed to
have Included Lemuria, Africa, Aus
tralia, most of South America, and
Antarctica."
THE DATE PALM
STAFF OF LIFE
TO DESERT MEN;
Dates Raised and Prized
From Antiquity in Old
World Its Stoic Among
Trees Needs little Water
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WASHINGTON. D. C(Spl.) Ri
val ships from Irnq, laden with dates,
have Just reached New York, after a
spirited race across the Atlantic to
obtain a premium for bringing this
Benson's first dates. This annual 10,-000-mlle
race, Instituted In 1899, and
reminiscent of the tea-clipper races,
calls attention to the Importance of
dates as an article of food.
"Americans who eat dates chiefly
aa sweets, dessert, or as components
of puddings and cakes, seldom real
ize that dates have been raised and
prized from antiquity as one of the
most nourishing, satisfying foods In
the world," says a bulletin from the
Washington, D. C. headquarters of
the National Geographic Society.
"Over 4.000 years ago, dates were
raised on the banks of thn Euphrates.
Inhabitants of China. Spain, and
Greece, supplement their diet with
dates.
Date palms "Con Take It"
"Persians, Arublans. and North Af
ricans eat them as we eat potatoes.
They are the chief source of wealth
and the staple article or looa in ru- :
bla. Give a desert nomad a few boll- ;
ed beans, a little olive oil, milk, and
some dates, and he considers It a j
Thanksgiving dinner. In the dry
parta of North Africa, dates constl- ,
tute not only the main meal of the j
Inhabitants, but are consumed by .
dogs, horses and camels.
"Deserts would be totally unpopu- j
latcd were It not for camels and
dates. The date palm Is a stole ;
among trees, living on salty land that
kills other vegetation. Sometimes ap
pearing half burled In sand. It reach
es down for alklllne water and
thrives. Some date palms blossom
and bear In the hottest regions of
the globe, while others have endured
where the murcury falls to 12 de
grees F.
"The date palm Is noted for Its
feoundlty. From about Its sixth year
until sometimes past Its hundredth.
It bears great clusters of dates, ag
gregating between 100 and 400
pounds annually. A single ' bunch
frequently weighs as much as 41
pounds and has to be straddled
across a leaf of the palm to preven.
It from breaking off because of It:
own weight. An acre planted with
date palms will keep more people
from starvation than an acre plant
ed with anything else except plan
um. "This fecundity Is made possible
only by artificial pollination. Male
and female flowers nre borne on sep
arate date palms, Over 90 per cen
of male palms, which have sparn;
A Diuretic Stimulant
THE kidneys are
like filters that
work day and niitht
in separating the
Iiuisoui from the
ilood. Signals of
distress are oiten
swollen ankles,
drowsiness, dull
ness. Drink plenty
of pure water to
flush th kulnevs.
nd rt)Ofn it vnf iifiml dmf note iVul
diuretic MiiimUnt of In. IVrit'i rIWd
AnjtU. ktd Ut Mrs. S. t. MiiMn l
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Make 1935 a Safe
Year for Driving!
Q Too often the driver involved in a ser
ious accident meant to have his brakes
adjusted the next day. But emergencies
won't wait until you are ready for them.
Don't put oft safety a few minutes
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Our Electric Dynamic Brake Tester
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NINTH AND RIVKKPIDE
foliage and do not bear fruit, are!
weeded out to make way for the
frult-bearlng trees; one pollen-bearing
tree usually la surrounded by 35
to 100 fruit trees. Wind pollination
being too haphazard, It la not unus
ual to see Arabs climbing trees to
fasten with palm -leaf fibers a spray
of waxy-white, pollen -bearing flow
era on each greenish cluster of po
tential fruit. For this reason, modem
date growers often keep a supply of
pollen from one year to the next.
One supply, kept In a bottle, had not
lost Ita power when used ten years
later.
Furnlalies Wood of Deert
"Date palms grow usually between
60 and 80 feet high. Their feathery
green fronds waving against s hot
blue sky bring cheer to desert cara
vans traveling a waste of aand, as
suring them food, shade and usually
a near-by bubbling spring. People
whose sole encounter with dates la
meeting them dried, dark, and com
pressed together In sticky packages,
hardly realize the beauty of dates on
the tree, when sunset turns the clus
ters of yellow or red fruit to scarlet,
their stems to gold.
"In harvest time, boys with sick
lea scamper up the tall trunks, and
sever the sterna. Dates of Inferior
quality are tossed carelessly below
to be caught on a sheet. The best are
passed down the palm trunk from
hand to hand, often by aa many as
eight boys who have climbed up one
behind another. Once sorted, the best
dates axe usually sent by camels,
then by barges down rivers to the
Beacoast for shipment. The rest are
consumed or packed In skins or tins,
where some varieties keep Indefin
itely. "What the birch Is to the Siberian,
and the bamboo to the tropic-dweller,
the date palm Is to the North Af
rican. Not only Is the ripe fruit eat
en uncooked, cooked, or pounded
Into a paste with locusts and other
foodstuffs; but from macerated dates
steeped In water or milk various bev
erages are concocted. When the old
date palms cease bearing, a toddy Is
drawn from Incisions made In the
trunks. The trunks provide post and
furniture for North African huts;
the leaves, for thatch. Packing cases
for transporting the fruit are also
made from the leaves. The bark sup
piles fiber for rope, sacks, and mat
ting baskets. The leafstalks are used
as fuel.
Dates Grown In I'nlted States
"In other parts of the world, dates
are put to still other uses. Date palms
are grown as ornamental trees In
California, Plorlda, and Bermuda.
Their leaves are used by Christians
on Palm Sunday, and by Jews cele
brating the Passover. Dutes are not
only eaten as such, but are made
Into Jams, Jellies, date butter, and
vinegar. Date sugar, obtained from
the sap of a closely related species.
Is an Important commercial product
In the East Indies. Date-palm meal
Is obtained from the stein of another
related species growing In southern
India.
"Iraq furnishes almost 05 per cent
of the dates Imported into the Unit
ed States. In 1933. the United States
Imported 47,492,841 pounds of Iraq
dates. About 30,000.000 of these were
shipped direct from that country,
the rest transhipped through several
countries of Europe. The United
States Imports small quantities of
dates from Arabia, Algeria, Persia,
and Turkey, and also grown dates In
the Southwest, particularly in the
Coachella and Imperlnl valleys of
southern California, and the lower
Salt and Gila river valleys of Ari
zona. "In these gardens grow over a
hundred varieties of dates. Some arc
used chiefly for cooking, others for
eating. Some are dry. not sticky.
while othera 'candy on the tree,
j Preferred are the Ascheraal variety,
I probably the best dry date; and the
Deglet Nour, a very sweet, soft, melt
ing date.' Its name originally meant
'Date of the Light.' referring to the
unusual translucence of lta deep,
golden-brown flesh."
Cannon Ball Failed.
MANHATTAN, Kas. (Up) Seventy-one
years ago. during the siege of
Vlcksburg. William P. Lee was hit
by -a cannon ball and left on the
field for dead. He died recently at
the age of M. Pneumonia was tht
cause of death.
Use Uail rnouae want ds.
Isfii Auto to ( hat Kabblt.
GAYLORD6VILLE. Conn. (UP) -Birt
Anderson chased a 17 -pound
Jackrabblt a half mile In his auto
mobile and then ran over the animal.
The Jar caused him to lose control
of hla car, which climbed an em
bankment, damaging the radiator and
fenders.
Mines Employ 3,500.
RENO, Nev. (UP) Approximately
3.500 men are working tn Nevada's
gold and silver mines. It was esti
mated here. The largest number ever
employed in the state's working to-'
taled about 7,000 during the World
war.
HuIkp Kesumes Curfew. .
BOISE. Ida. ( UP) After a lapse
of two years, the curfew bell rlnrs
again here. The city council ordered
enforcement of a 50-year-old ordin
ance requiring ringing of the bell at
9 p. m. in summer and 8 p. m. In
winter.
Be mi-Annual clearance Sale
Now In progress at
Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann's.
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Dropping or Slipping
Vou needn't fear false teeth drop
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little Pasteeth on your pletes each
morning. Gives all day comfort and
teeth hold tlht. Deoroaizea. No
-rummy, pasty, taste or feeling. Get
Fosteeth from your druggist. Three
sizes.
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