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Show Keeping Up Vmn science ervtce & Science Service. NVNU Service. Radium Atoms Tell Age of Meteorites That Fall on Earth ExCambridge. Mass. ploding atoms of radium giving oil helium, lead anc energy, now tell scientists the ages of many meteorites which wandered into the earths gravitational field, later crashing to earth with fiery brilliance. Some of them, according to figures recently published by Dr. William D. Urry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology physical chemist, who has been analyzing rocks for many years to determine their ages, are less than 100,000,000 years old, while others are as much as 2,800,000,000 years old about as old as the solar system. Doctor Urrys analyses, painstafc ingly made from samples of the meteorite, tell the age of its solidification, and not the time when it fell. Thus, some of these wanderers from space were molten during the age of dinosaurs on earth, while others solidified just as the solar system was being formed. Chips From Creation." The oldest meteorites, according to Doctor Urrys figures, could truly be chips from creation," left over from the great mass of material pulled from the sun when the planets were formed. Others, unless they stayed melted for more than two billion years in the bitter cold of space, could not be They must have been formed some other way. Until recently, it was believed that meteorites were remains of a small planet, or group of planets, whose orbits were beyond Mars. This planet, on breaking up, created the meteorites. Now, with the ages of the meteorites shown to be different, the theory of a disrupted planet may need to be revised. Many of the stony meteorites show evidence of having been broken and recemented, while others have undergone other alterations just as a rock on earth might in the course of its history, All of the rocks, how' ever, are of the primary type they were melted once, but none of them resemble earthly sediments, such as sandstone or shale. The iron meteorites resemble the earths interior as it has been described by geophysicists. whose instruments tell them facts about places they will never see. left-over- s. Ruins of Van May Tell History of Old Kingdom American Providence, R. I. archeologists have set out for Turkey in hope that an ancient city caled Van will yield important 's of history. Ruins they plan to excavate once formed a capital and fortress of a kingdom that rose and fell between about 840 B. C. and 600 B. C. Buried records, it is believed, will explain how the kingdom dealt with its formidable neighbors, before Scythian armies destroyed the capital. The joint expedition to Van is undertaken by Brown university and the University of Pennsylvania, with such well known archeologists in charge as Frof. Robert P. Casey of Brown, Prof. Kirsopp Lake, retired professor of Biblical literature at Harvard, and Dr. Horace Jayne of the University museum. University of Pennsylvania. Three summers of excavation are planned. Professor Casey believes that, If enough cuneiform writings can be unearthed at Van, the kingdom's history can be traced, and this will add to understanding of the Biblical books of Genesis and Kings. , Surplus Crop Uses to Be Studied in Four Laboratories Washington. New ways to dispose of surplus crop pro duction, especially through industrial uses of farm and forest products, are to be sought in four new laboratories, one each in four regions of the country, for which provision is made in the recently enacted agricultural bill. A committee of the United States Department of Agriculture has been studying the provisions of the act, endeavoring to select the best locations for the research centers, and outlining lines of investigation that most need to be undertaken. Under the terms of the act, ?4,00n,000 Is authorized for research and development devoted primarily to those farm commodities In which there are regular or seasonal surpluses, and their products and byof this sum is products. to be allocated to each of four One-fourt- h While the wording of the bill provides merely that one laboratory shall be located in each of the four principal agricultural regions of the country, it is considered probable that the states will be blocked out into groups as northeast, south, midwest, and west. Each Region Has Its Problems. Each of these general regions has its own particular group of problems awaiting solution. Thus, northeast will present dairy products and potatoes; south will have cotton and tobacco; midwest will bring up corn and wheat, and west will have to deal with citrus fruits and vegetables. The foregoing of course is only a skeleton list. Each section will have a considerable number of jobs for its laboratory. In the South, for example, cotton and tobacco are joined by sweet potatoes, sugar plants, citrus fruits, peaches and naval stores. Problems to be tackled by the government scientists will not be solely a search for ways to deal with surpluses already regularly produced. Surpluses may be eliminated by the substitution of other desirable crops suitable for production in the several regions. Thus, to take the South again as an example, it is thought worth while to consider the possibility of the introduction and commercial utilization of such things as the new tung-oi- l trees, new kinds of starch and fiber plants, and new plants for the production of tannin. Noteworthy among the latter is a kind of dock with dahlia-lik- e roots which contain as much as 30 per cent of tannin. crop-surpl- You Are the Part Owner of Herd of 10.000 Elk Baltimore. You and you, Mr. and Mrs. United States Citizen, are part owners of a herd of nearly 10,000 elk, that live in the northern part of Yellowstone national park. Your hired men, the rangers, count them for you once a year, working on skis and snowshoes, often battling blizzards. At the third annual North American Wildlife conference here, Victor H. Cahalane of the United States national park service, told of the 1937 elk census. Fifteen groups of rangers, working in twos and threes, as nearly as possible at the same time, counted all the elk they could find. Severe weather interfered, but it is felt that the total count of 8,318 does not represent much duplication. However, because of the probability that many were missed, hiding in small bands in thickets, the count was estimated as only 90 per cent complete. The full estimated total comes to 9,673 head of elk. There is also a southern herd on the other side of the park and In nearby territory, that is about the same size as the northern herd, or perhaps even larger. Oil Recovery Increased by Ancient Greek Acropolis Fonnl Near Marseilles Remote Control Cannon Schenectady, N. Y. Fifteen gun barrels, firing .30 caliber bullets through an oil well casing hundreds of feet below the surface, promise to increase oil production in many fields where several rock strata bear oil. During drilling, each oil stratum encountered is recorded on the well log. Later, when the well is cased to the bottom, the cannon is lowered to the level of each oil stratum, and fired, punching holes in the casing to let m the oil from that bed. Controlled electrically from the well head, this cannon may be lowered as much as two miles below the surface, and fired when it Is opposite any desired rock bed. Accurate revolution counters tell the operators exactly how far below the surface the cannon Is at any time. AbH Curb Visibility Washington. facets Reflecting cut into the cuibstone have been found the best means of making curbs visible to automobile drivcis at night. Paris. Foundations of a Greek acropolis have been discovered near Marseilles by Henri Roland, archeologist, of Saint-RemThe acropolis consists of a fort, apparently built by the Greeks who founded Massila, later Marseilles. The fort would have served to defend the plateau from Invasion, and to cut off passage towards the north. Greek coins from the period between the Sixth century B. C., to the Christian era have been unearthed at the ancient fort, and also many pieces of broken pottery. Archeologists attach special Interest to the discoveries, since ruins of the time of Greek influence In southern France are rare. Gliders Winps Flap Moscow. Test glider pilot R. Pishchuchev has completed his one hundredth flight in a glider with flapping wings, Tass, Soviet telegraphic agency, reports. Prolonged tests have shown that the glider is and built and has high (lying qualities. WHEN SITTING BULL REALLY SAT DOWN Sioux an TOlaw,VIOLATE and to do so in the presence age-ol- d of a few hundred Sioux warriors whose weapons still glistened with the white blood of the Custer massacre, to do such an unheard of thing and get away alive, such was Gen. Saturnio the feudal chieftain of the is movprovince of San Luis Potosi, No. 1 the as ruck of the ing out to the menace Gen. Cedillo Cardenas adminis-N- o 1 Menace tration, according n aU "e to Cardenas at this glean crossroads. A friend of this writer, an oil operator who has reasons for remaining anonymous, brings news from Mexico that the big, swarthy Mestihold-ou- t on zo, the most conspicuous the state agrarian program, is gainof ing a following in a long sweep Mexican provinces, and. In this view, dissident factions will swarm in behind him, if there is a further drift toward civil war. He has the friendship and backing of various foreign interests, according to my informant, and around his huge, stolid, grim person there is gathering powerful opposition to the government. e fighting man He is a who served his apprenticeship in vabefore the rious minor work-outPor-firi- o big upheaval of 1910, when old He Diaz was overthrown. himcalled but this revolt, joined self a conservative revolutionist." He never liquidated his personal army, now numbering about 10,000, and his autocratic He Keeps Up state is firmly n Army of cysted in the comMen stitutional monwealth. When he resigned as secretary of agriculture on August 16, of last year, it was reported that he had made a truce with President Cardenas, but that talk seems to have been NEW - - ; V the distinction that came, rather suddenly, to one of the smallest men ever seen in the ranks of the Mounted. The untouchables" of India had little on the old time Indian medicine men, when it came to keeping fellow humans at a distance, and one of the most famous of untouchables among American Indians was Sitting Bull, medicine g man and mad magician of the hard-fightin- Sioux. After the frightful butchery at Little Big Horn, the Sioux knew that if they stayed where they were they of would soon have thousands American soldiers on their necks, men who would wreak the fullest measure of revenge for the terrific slaughter of Custers brave troops. It was a case of fight, or fly, so after much debate and wrangling, the Sioux decided to fly to Canada, to Manitoba, and seek sanctuary under the British flag until the excitement over the Custer affair had died down. Six thousand Sioux and a few hundred Nez Perces took refuge on Canadian soil, and the Northwest Mounted Police began to be a bit curious about the newcomers, so an inspector and ten men were dispatched to contact the Sioux and find out what they intended to do in regard to the future, whether they intended to stay in Canada and become "wards, or if they planned raids and depredations against the white settlers In Canada. and parAfter much peace-pipinleying Sitting Bull, the spokesman, assured the police inspector that the Sioux were on a peaceful mission and that after a breathing spell they would probably return to the United States. Satisfied, the inspector and his men returned to quarters. The Sioux settled down to the more or less uneven tenor of their semi eabfw. YOUNG FELLOW! THERE ' ! P.I1I the cameraman, but you might at least be polite As utibOkaywe g for th y and let it go at that. put you down as a below, he merely frowned at our unpopular camera cry-bab- man, registering distaste m a more subtle way. We 11 classify him as a frown- - V Ki, , These two babies are ferent as night and day. The little chap at the left Seems is an afraid-babour cameraman gets a cold shoulder wherever he goes. But wait! ! The chap below poses very willingly, even smiles. Hes a happy-baby- , we guess. Bet his parents are proud of this picture. He was a member of the National Revolutionary party committee of 1931, which drafted Mexicos economic -- agrarian and plan, but has been a St or Jtt fOpI ;ers new and iter .ddiil, typewriter., 8 .J S j"C idffl law .hh GREAT WESTERN jor Volh balls. Athletic IDAHO SCHOOL wto1, aj itec bee ICE CREAM FRI i foi'ntains-icTer freezers mae i, la bies Fu?re' Also SI Pnit Stool., at Cr Office pi,,. tfc I , iik . no motorcycle HARLEY b. U e d Motorcycles HOPSE OF HOPPER MUSICAL will Hi f f OS (all. 1 it n, Bid, Constitution paint S000 us INSTto PRICES trades on 41)1 ra ta? FACTORY . a M BARGAIy well msde Row in p,r 6 color, and IE per gal IreKht in 12 gal PAINT CO. -3- 13 S.V., LONG DISTANCE ME (an. a MOVE BY MOTOR VIS - I MOLL! RIP MOVING tiT se So. W. Temple 15V h lesr Bartering taught in abort tut pay and stead? wort h, Now. Enroll demand MOLtRS BARBHtCOltErf good six-ye- ar determined and effective opponent of such fixings, particularly the Cardenas agrarian plan. My friend picks Senors Cardenas and Cedillo as the two strong men of Mexico, one being driven left and the other right by the present social tension. g TEACHERS h rsL ti WAT sec Teachers Wanted NORTHS TFAIHFRS AittVO SiP t Special to teachers. mercial subjects, 1 d Sonsy ie bom&i lea shorthand, tU. l bookkeeping, time work for room and k SALT LAKE B1 SIHi Atlas Bldg., Salt Uitt 8MIT11S0MAN BISINESj m Id Oedfn FARMER Hit isy A ALMAS. Ec the one- "pHE Swiss armed the circus and all such supposedly busy and preoccupied people are just snoozing along c ompared to Dr. Has Nothing Morris Fishbein. bell-ringer- 1 FVRMEB MacDONALD'S Now JUaby,-- '? 193 Bt Atlas Printing Co Up r, fat FURNITURE ring-mast- Tap-Drumm- er on Fishbein goal-keep- Dr. Fishbein is elaborately and organized for equipped timely blasts against any encroachment of subsidized or socialized medicine. As editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, with headquarters in Chicago, he commands a large staff of secre- A ... h SV ? taries and assistant secretaries, trained like a fast ball club to field any challenge or dissent. He is undoubtedly the most highly publicized medical man in America. Through the journal, he reaches the nations 125,000 doctors; through the more popularized medical publication, he carries his message to many more thousands and is a prolific writer for national maga- And this little girl is just a pretty baby no two ways about it. She boasts a sweet disposition, and look at the eyes making at our cameraman. . . xl chin. fQT, screamed Sitting My horse! Bull. At this hundreds of Sioux warriors, sensing trouble, closed in on the quarreling pair. Allen stood his -- , i ground, however. Again he par- leyed with Sitting Bull, and again received a flood of abuse and insolence and a threat of sudden death. It was then that Inspector Allen violated a Sioux law as old as the Sioux, the law that decreed sudden death to anyone offering or commitHey! Take that cup ting violence upon the sacred personage of a tribal medicine man. out of your mouth! Still, Bracing himself, and reaching up- you dont seem afraid ward, Inspector Allen caught firm . . . guess you're Just hold of Sitting bull, yanked him out wondering, so well call 1 But of the saddle, and landed him you a wonder-babAs the sun bather at the squarely on his sacred a tremendous and deafening uproar right is a detective-baby- , trying to figure broke out, and several braves made dangerous passes at Allen, the lat- out why a fellow has to ter vaulted swiftly into his saddle. wear glasses while taking a sun bath first place but a fellow doesnt Without showing any of the nervoushave mJch m I ' zines. He wolfs hundreds of exchanges and eight or ten medical books ev- - tor tights on Quacks v ; i srf SONGS SONGS WANTED! fit he At w wltheit Poems with or II, (MR, C4RFIFID BIDO to jit EARTAGS Sts ."in, ii.i-- e L'StH termonntaln 1. sanpB " Every ta 1 free v- Stamp S u , - ,1 1:1 Week Vo. WNU Me Junior State Plans for the Livesttf ti 1.2' and April materializing to be one of livestock ? in ahow 30, May for I the st.' the P1, ri - growers- HOLLYWOOD-DAM- BOULDER i rt YELLOWSTONE writes books, books and, always enjoying a fight, keeps up a fast running fight against the quacks. When he finished Rush Medical school, at the age of twenty-three had the choice of becoming a pathologist for the state of Indiana, or an assistant editor of the Journal of Medicine. He chose the latter. Mrs. Fishbein, who was Anna Mantel, -' ci -" 8 8U bUlh e- the serves through the war wi,h him, traveling with him and ashim in sisting the biggest and busiest Job of medical Journalism ever attempted. They have three children. ?hbdn V; ' d k 4 And these are jus, plain babies, six bundle, for Nation.) affable, years old, also P mUSIC BT1' Mature, the drama, bridge, gulf and public af- airs, exercising a critical sharp judgment in all these fields. He is "1JSmflcent demonstration of how a knowing dodo,-- can build up his ujsal metabolisms bald, and V ) !'U Babweckl J p,umP- forty-eigh- - t Consoled arvn r.uturofc Jfi SifiJ par glacier National Th e, V' , cry week- - lec- tures, speaks on the radio, reviews Finds Tune V man-handl- e ter Hy-gei- a, a XWcty V (sri d T Til New 9 x 12 carpet ran Hi. 00; Used! coal range get 19 60: Lsed ot'iit Basement Rhp Bargain a 115 Pnuh Slate er medical against quacks, heresies, panaceas, innovations, utopias and unsanctioned experiments. When Dr. James H. Means, retiring president of the American College of Physicians, drops a few provocative words about medical reform, they scarcely hit a press wire before Dr. Fishbein swings a devastating counter-assertio- Wheres the rest of them? queried the inspector, quietly. Find em yourself, said several As Sioux simultaneously. time passed other horses were found and the Men of the Mounted were feeling quite lucky, except for the fact that the inspectors horse had not been found. Then came a moment when Inspector Allen saw his horse, and its rider was Sitting Bull himself. Giving the sign of friendship. Inspector Allen, head and shoulders shorter than any Sioux brave around him, and probably half the size of Sitting Bull, pointed to the black mare, and said: My horse. You must give it back to me. . . . Pony Soldier, horse My shouted Sitting Bull. "That horse carries my brand, my mark, said Allen, softly as he moved close enough to have Sitting Bull's left knee come under his ness that he certainly must have felt. Inspector Allen sat at stiff attention for a minute or two, then nudged his horse and guided it deftly through the pack of howling Indians. Fifteen minutes latcer, with all but a few of the stolen horses herded for the trip back to quarters, the inspector and his two men rode quietly out of the Sioux encampment. Allen carried with him the distinction of being the only white man ever to the great and sacred Sittuig Bull, and live to tell about It. St' n SCHOOLS Mounted. n mct con-10,0- savage ways. Things went along quietly until some of the braves grew restless and staged a foray. This was mistake number one. Mistake number two was that they had been foolish enough to steal some of the best horses from the Northwest Mounted Police, and among these was Inspector Allens favorite mount. This was, as Allen put it, a bit too thick," so with two men he returned to the Sioux and demanded that all the stolen horses be at once brought to him. Sitting Bull shouted and waved a few times, and soon some of the stolen horses were led up to the Men of the clean-shave- 9ur. rmDhtas"Tr' or Narcotic, ,8ut?rv;. cian if self-mad- g horse-stealin- During National Wait a minute! YORK. Air; Western u i Idaho r.iik .... , Helena-- North Floods took the Little Wood new highs, highway conne7L fo closed mines, their homes for immediate h and rellief 000 federal f!od P control of J Y ministrator at I' Rv |