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Show UINTAH BASIN RECORD 'a -- ' 'X v Adventurers Keeping Up Merry Villagers A Touch of Spring Life About 2000 B. C. Upon Your Linens Witniciene Dug Up in Russia ervce Ilamlet of the Tripolje Culture Is Discovered Club jnt Science Service. M By FLOYD GIBBONS Famous Deadline Hunter tempted. Vividly Described by Garcilaso de la Vega the World war, Anita Johnson of Lynn expected , jfto be blown up by a bomb. In those days she lived in of course, is up Canada ilifax, Nova Scotia. That, way, to the Armistice, the folks up 1914 hot' through right from i e fffe took precautions against air raids and attacks by the no lights were allowed to face the har-j- r, , irmans. At night, The harbor was patrolled by boats day and night. a kid then. She didnt know n, during what all those precau-just for. exactly. But she sort of understood that one day the would come flying over the Atlantic and start show-6- 1 fcnan airplanes i bombs on the city. t But nothing even remotely resembling an air raid happened "e lb Halifax until December 6, 1317. Then something happened Bat ?as worse than a hundred air raids. Were I The . Great Halifax Explosion. Washington. Great floods on Americas great rivers are no new thing under the sun. They are recorded by the earliest Spanish explorers, who found that the Indians had adapted themselves to Wk the flood problem by buildCarrier of Nepal. ing great mounds as artificial hills of refuge for emersigned by French architects in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth gencies. t,; Anita was t Woman Goods fr(inarca by National Geographic Society, V Washington, D. C. SU Service. capital city of Nepal, centuries. You remember how two ships sequestered kingdom ang Jyou remember what happened then. When one recalls the difficult jourthe Himalayas north er ' Uded in the harbor how one of them was loaded to the into the valley over steep and gunnels ney of India, is a curious mixture wild d : ammunition that exploded and almost wrecked the whole town. mountain passes, it seems of new and old. It centers around one of the notable disasters of the f b 8ibe great Halifax explosion was strange to look upon these vast an immense beaua parade ground, alt,, toy.. And Anita was right where the big blast did some of its worst in so remote a e tiful stretch of closely buildings, standingwith the most star: as age. country, equipped cropped grass. Broadly speaking, me. AaiU was ten years old when it happened, and she was in school conveniences and luxuries. the old part of the city lies to the let t of munitions with a French roar go ship that was the The roads in the actual town are big heard fit west of this area, the new part to good and broad, and it is ;g i. jcd the world. amusing the east. We had Just been in our class rooms for five minutes, to remember that all the motors she Before the Gurkha conquest in and lorries which run on them have says, "when suddenly we heard a series of noises. I remember t 1768, the predominant and ruling been carried toward a window and thinking that a car must have bodily over the passes cc. race in Nepal was the Newar. The by swarms of coolies. outside. But it didnt take long to find out that it was :les hekflred Newars are of Mongolian extraction Though Nepal is nominally a king:fhat Anita had heard was Just a couple of little explosions that set and emigrated into Nepal from Tib- dom, the king in reality is little et in prehistoric times. They are more than a big one. The real blast didnt sound like an explosion to her religious figurehead, responsible for the origin and devel- the actual government of the counopment of Nepalese art in alk Its try falling to the lot of the prime Teacher Knew What Was Coming. branches. minister, or maharaja. ' may have thou2ht those sounds were the ORSf backfiring of a car, "Gurkha" is really a compre He is modern and enlightened in 1 teacher wasnt fooled. She seemed to sense what was coming hensive term, embracing both the his outlook and anxious to introduce J the children, "Quick! Put your heads down on your desks! foreign Rajputs and the indigenous any new invention which may benekids did as they were told. Then it came! Not a loud report. races of Kf Nepal other than the Ne- fit his country, but he prohibits imto hear the blast, for the schoolhouse was war. It comes I kidsnotwere too hear itwalk from the little state portation of certain Western creafrom the harbor. But all of a sudden it of that name in western five minutes J(h21, Nepal, tions. Foremost among these is the whole were world the down on them. AND where the .d as if n crashing immigrant Rajputs from motion picture. He believes that to lk-P-? the plains of India originally settled show vivid scenes of Intimate ocrQpJWeli, suppose we let her tell you herself how she felt These Rajputs, ancestors of the cidental life has a demoralizing efAt tha age, of she says, my mind was, course, full of war. present rulers of the kingdom, fled fect on the spectators. j L y A my own ideas about air raids, so, as my head lay on the to the hills after the Moslem sack At 10 oclock every evening a cur" , X my eyes tightly closed I felt myself traveling skyward as of Chitor in 1303. Here they estabtolls in Katmandu and the othfew U Dili ejected a bomb should send me. lished themselves, flourished, and er big towns of the kingdom and b WiCfitept traveling up and up until it seemed there must be gradually extended their territories. everybody must retire to his house. Wong with my means of transportation. was not until 1768, however, that Anyone found in the streets after It Jter all, a bomb could only send me so far, and I should be comj back by now. I was positive I would be killed when I landed, and they finally effected the complete this time has to spend the night in conquest of Nepal. prison. Gambling and drinking are kM no to prolong the agony, so I decided to investigate, see reason , un Thenceforth held the forbidden except during certain fesRajputs opened my eyes and saw the floor. Now that floor wasn't sup-j- k Him tivals. The most popular is the to have followed me, so I realized that I wasnt up in the air at alL disputed sway over this unique Internally, their great Durga Puja, which lasts ten 1 hadnt even moved, AND I COULDNT MOVE. There were so many alayan kingdom. activities directed not so days, during which time hundreds been have on top of me. I heard some yelling and I yelled too. But that much towards artistic as towards of buffaloes are beheaded in honor it help, any, so I waited." military advancement. Out of a of the goddess Durga, who is but total population of some 5,600,000, another form of the famous black Most of Them Were Dead or Disabled. they have today an army of about Kali. doesnt know mean kits how a jiif thing 45,000. In times of need they can, long she waited. Time didnt Fatan Is Picturesque. She was so dazed by the shock that she didnt feel any pain. with the aid of their Besides Katmandu, there are two (It wasnt until later that she even realized she was hurt. But she K!t at her desk until some soldiers came into the room and pulled reserve force, raise as many as other large towns in the same val70,000 troops. out of it. ley, both former capitals of NepaL Gurkha Army Really Powerful. Patan practically adjoins modern to was I able she Luckily says, walk, itra I The bulk of the soldiery is drawn Katmandu. Passing through its narHen, t ke or six of us who could. 'lhea Anita started making her way out of the school building. from the Gurung and Magar tribes. row streets you come into the fangtli"We managed to climb and crawl over things that blocked the Among these peoples are some of tastic Durbar square. w, she says. On one side, a graceful group of The stairs were all gone but there was enough the hardiest fighting men in exist are ence. therefore, When, slid they We and rises in a series of elegant to their had been take h ikjN pi'ed up where place. temples they those piles and finally got outside. placed under Rajput leaders, the red pagodas ribbed with gleaming fWdown q race, bronze. Brightly colored struts, rich f "I stayed there at the school for quite a while, too dazed to do any- - descendants of an ancient A? eke. All I could s for its deeds of cour- with delicate carving, support their see around me was fire. The soldiers kept bring- other girls out of the school age and chivalry on the battlefield, myriad roofs; shimmering bell building. VSotre of them were dead. Others so injured that they couldnt the power of this mighty Gurkha cap their airy upper stories. ST Other buildings were down all around us. army is formidable indeed. Opposite them, and dotted irreguipcognized. In Katmandu, the artistic spirit larly over the spacious square, lies dnt take us long to find out what had happened. After I had &ere for ten or fifteen minutes I saw of the Newars and the martial spira swarm of other temples, a foun-- . my sister coming out." IBKf it of the modern rulers mingle. To tain, a colossal bell, and a number ! Anita Was Covered With Blood. ,m i' the west of the vast parade ground of tall, slender pillars bearing the (IS j Anita waited for her sister to come up. But sister walked right up lies the old town with its palaces shining bronze figures of gods and and temples, its tall houses and kings. right on past her and didnt even notice her. Amfe called to her and she came back. And only then did Anita narrow streets. In the Durbar The pagoda temples have brightly I flat she was just as unrecognizable as some of those other in-- J square, that essential feature of all colored stuffs hanging in gay ripples buildUs she had been pitying. Newar cities, the principal their eaves. There are also from y4 (ER face HER CLOTHING HER WHOLE BODY ALL ings are grouped in a rich profusion temples in silvery stone built up in of pagoda roofs, painted wood, tiers of intricately carved pillars, ii' ' Them were covered with blood. SUier, she and sister started for home. They walked around chiseled stone and shining metaL and pavilions which cluster around I At one side stands the imposing the massive curvilinear tower risdodged live electric wires and stepped over dead bodies by f iiJKOfe. And when they arrived at their home they found it just palace of the former kings, built from their midst like some huge Per wreck like the schoolhouse and all the other buildings in the around a spacious courtyard. Close ing cactus plant. gray ,L jf'Dorhood. by it, raised on a high step plinth, The third large town in the valof Taleju, head was full of bits of glass, but she managed to have it towers the lofty temple ley is Bhatgaon. It can be apU exceP tor one piece which she says she thinks the doctor the household goddess of the royal proached from Patan by motor over tv and or a souvenir- family. All around are temples a bad, uneven road, a distance of cw 5 jy'! 'ehas a few fancy scars, too, but theyre nothing to what she shrines and tall, slender pillars some seven miles. Far the most of kings and have had. bearing bronze statues delightful way to enter it, however, 6he says- - "x have still to find out what it feels like to be religious personalities. is on the back of an ambling Tibetf,!L the indigenous air by a bomb." The buildings in dull-rebrick an pony. I WNU Service. In the early Eighteenth century "pagoda" style are of Inby roofs supported with tiled the city was the capital of Raja The struts. feathMuscles tricately carved wooden Bhupatindra Malla, a man of exary tail of light, Centered; and the In flight. doors, too, are of wood rudder a as is ers used quisite taste and a patron of the Is Short and are invariably extended into the arts. It was he who built the Deep The birds muscles are not scatbold form brickwork, where they secret of a birds struc- - tered all over the body, but instately Durbar hall with its famous effective designs. The woodund in its , and Door one of the chief marGolden a In compact centered adaptation to stead are painted in bright vels of and its richly carved 5eems like Nepal mass. The large, heavy flight mus- work is usually . a stating sometimes the roofs arc lacewindows. yet if we look into cles of the wings are located on the colors and 8 which covered with sheets of beaten brass, Bhatgaon is a city of surprises. flight has brought breastbone. Birds have small calves in the brilliant sun. lc ure of the on Unlike Patan, its beauty is not condazzling tiie bird, we open and most of the muscles are old NeThe centrated in one colossal and orehouse of Lost in this maze of the interesting upper legs close to the body. with the modern breath-takinstands durbar square; it is war splendor an authority in body itself is short and deep, a large w e distributed throughout the length Hanuman Dokha, Press. all its parts centralized, thus bringhuge audience and breadth of the town. 11 may seem that ing the relatively heavy liver, gu- building containing used for imstaterooms cenHere you come upon a little temand the to in nothing balls common ex-- f ard and intestines close To this palace, ple of silver stone, set gracefully ceremonies. the portant an,d feathers. Yet. strip ter of gravity and affording the scarlet lancers upon a high step plinth, with an L7.n allyther and aI1 birds smallest possible bulk to Pas during a duibar, through avenue of gods and monsters leadclattering come of Nepal alike. The major- - through the air. of Katmandu. ing up to its portals. There you adaptations are directed the cobbled streets Practical. walk through a blue wooden door Quite ''5 City Albinism Modern Lnend: transform a Newar air body into a city, in a crumbling, pink brick wall Albinism occurs more flying Beyond the lovely and and k! you are In a wild, tangled Albina park bC( mammals. huge around with birds than grouped lies garden with fruit trees and flowers, the with east, the lhe body of a bird to confused away ism must not be of tall, slender palms, and in the censome creation ? J." beautiful and changes that take place with Katmandu, the roman- - ter a flourishing crop if rice. no apthe are on Here mammals 8re 8re 016 birds and Turhhas. 1 Beyond the garden you pass down upon lain ure for the,r lze proach of winter. The mountain u c pagodas rising golden tier Heavlittle streets of shops wnfascinating azure Boneare hollow hare, brown in summer, becomes g ,r towards an and houses w'ith carved windows dbut barracks, "0t heavy nnd filled white when the mountains are covpractical severely frow n d and suddenly you find yourself in a Ihose of mammals, ered with snow. The ptarmigan, On your right .fP no scnoois, European an open square. h,.avy teeth, but In- - rich mottled brown In the breeding stands another architectural marvel Immense the white are in snowy beakrny too, - The Hen, ail season, is clothed of the Five 5 L style the king, the of Nepal, the Temple cscl,cd and a second- - feathers In winter. palaces of dStager THE two-mil- te o 'th , some-RESij- , well-traine- d 1 world-famou- fin-ia- ls j 'ii fipinthe yl d lin-te- ls ,1S - g 1 1 !. Sem T - "'"i1' S.J. i OPERA composer has 1 8 yet given us on the stage the merry villages of 2000 B. C. But with evidence that archeologists are digging up, such a scene may yet be at- Spanish Explorers Saw a Great Flood on the Mississippi City of Death k WNU Service. Could you ask for a daintier, more Springlike wreath? Here a bit of embroidery thats unfailingly lovely, and always easy to do! Pattern 5570, which will give an old or new bedspread a quick beauty treatment. You can use gayly colored floss both for the - The chronicle of the expedition of Hernando de Soto, who discovered the Mississippi, tells of a terrific flood on the lower river, near Mem' phis, which lasted from until the end of May, In the year 1543. De Soto and his men had landed at Tampa, Fla., traversed the states of Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Alabama Then they discovered and crossed the Mississippi, which De Soto called the Great river. After ex ploring Arkansas and Louisiana, the Spaniards again came back to the Great river, where their leader fell sick and died and was buried in its waters so that hosUIe Indians might not find and dishonor his body. Described by De La Vega. It was during their sojourn on the river that they were given the first view of a Mississippi flood that white mens eyes had ever beheld. Here is how the chronicler, Garcilaso de la Vega, was impressed: "Then God, our Lord, hindered the work with a mighty flood of the Great river, which, at that time about the eighth or tenth of March began to come down with an enormous increase of water; which in the beginning overflowed the wide level ground between the river and the cliffs; then little by little it rose to the top of the cliffs. Soon it began to flow over the fields in an immense flood, and as the land was level without any hills there was nothing to stop the inundation. "Beautiful" to Look Upon. "The flood was 40 days in reaching its greatest height, which was the twentieth of April, and it was a beautiful thing to look upon live sea where there had been fields, for on each side of the river the water extended over 20 leagues of land and all of this area was navi gated by canoes, and nothing was seen but the tops of the tallest trees. "On account of these inundations of the river the people build their houses on the high land, and where there is none, they raise mounds by hand, especially for the houses of the chiefs; the houses are constructed three or four stages above the ground, on thick posts that serve as uprights and between uprights they lay beams for the floors, and above these floors which are of wood, they make the roof, with galleries around the four sides of the house where they store their food and other supplies, and here they take refuge from the great floods. mid-Marc- h Fossil Ape Bones Show Animal Was Much Like Humans Pretoria, South Africa. New points of resemblance between man and the recentfosly discovered higher-ap- e sils of Sterkfontein have been A peasant village that might serve as a model for the piece is now being excavated In southern Russia, province of Kiev. A party of Soviet archeologists of the Marr Institute of Material Culture is digging up the ruins. They have found a complete settlement-hous-es, fences, farming equipment, costume models showing what the East European countryman and his wife were like toward the close of tiie Stone Age. These farmers bad a style of life that modern science labels the Tripolje culture, after the place where the culture was first detected a few years ago. The Tripolje people farmed the fertile black soil belt stretching across southern Russia. The Soviet scientists have not finished exploring the ruins. But they have a good idea of what the place was like. The village plan was a circle, with the houses in a single row around a central round plaza. Walls and Fences Preserved. The archeologists have found walls and fences of the village in excellent preservaUon. Houses were about 65 feet long, and the walls were painted with red ochre. Farm house floors were of baked clay. Stoves on which the Stone Age women cooked are still in their ruined and buried homes. And the great variety of painted pottery that they made for purposes has survived to show what pitchers and bowls and cooking pots and bread boxes were like In a home of that age and that part of the world. These earthenware vessels range in size from less than an inch high to 27 inches. The villagers raised crops, as is shown by stone grinders for grain and agricultural tools made of horn. to eke out Hunting was a side-lintheir other means of livelihood. Figurines Bhow Costumes. A style show of fashions worn by the villagers Is afforded by the figurines of clay that they made. About thirty of these have been found in this settlement, showing garments of both men and women. The men wore a kind of drapery that fastened across the shoulder. The womens costumes are all featured by a girdle, with ends hanging at the side. The women apparently wore their hair long and loose, but fastened It at the end into a knot. house-keepin- g Ancient Ethiopians Built Skyscrapers in the Holy City Berlin. Ethiopians built skyscrapers not for office buildings but for palaces in their holy city of Aksum, is the belief of Prof. Daniel Krencker of the University of Berlin. He finds evidence of this by studying .six curious stone monuments that have stood in a cemetery of Aksum for over 1,400 years, and that resemble skyscrapers. Tallest of these graveyard skyscrapers, now fallen, stood 103 feet high. Each monument is carved out of a single stone block to resemble a narrow, towering building, with sham doors and windows. Thirteen stories are indicated on the tallest monument. Comparing these monuments with ruins of ancient palaces in Aksum, Professor Krencker reports that the palace ground plans resemble the plan of the imitation buildings in the cemetery. Similarities lead him to believe that tiie ancient holy city of Ethiopia was dominated by tall buildings, which the graveyard stones show in exaggerated narrow form. worked out by their discoverer, Dr. R. Broom of the Transvaal museum here, as he has cleared away more and more of the bone from its encasing stony matrix. Foreca&tcrs May Predict New details of the cheek bone, thus made visible, show that the animal had less of an ape-liksnout and a straighter, more "human" facial angle than Dr, Broom had at first supposed. The eyeteeth are relatively small, and there is no molars again a man-likrather gap between them and the first an ape-likcharacter. Closer Approach to the Human. In general, says Dr. Broom, the new findings support the earlier opinions of both himself and Prof. Raymond A. 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