Show SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 7 1928 J j N '-- ' r " 'rvv 7 THE OGDEN j V ! tv ' II H : R j ' zz' - I! if - M pr It A M nun M tl tl ' - vi nm s T o r O I- wim7 tl - :- ' i STANDARD-EXAMINE- § - i w - tl li U 17 PI Hi 1U till U U M 1 ' 11 A o m s ! -- I - 1 tl H N U K 7 I ill IZZi PFften American Scientists Started 4 " i ' ' ' Examining Dame Nature s "Family Skeletons" They Precipitated International Complications Which May Require Years to Settle " 1 "V w ! 'I the missionaries stationed In the vicinity His frequent trips Into the desert had brought Drii Andrews in comparatively HnSA" tnirch — t with thl :r v v w r VA —j ana cnurcn cney iormea tne cmei tnembers the of the very jemall colony of "foreigners" who have pushed itti this remote! outpost With the ?big bonehead" thus distributed In mission cellars DrJ Andrews set about placating a lrtol oiifVinritips hut Hccnita t taf tnn he previously had been warmly welcomed in China and allowed to carry on his Important i 1 — — A Restoration of the Ilead of the Eocene Utanothere Discovered by Professor Andrews in 1923 The New Monster Is Baid to Be the of This Beast nd Dr Andrews with Two of His Colleagues Is Shown Standing Before the Restored Head Thus Some Idea of Relative Size May be Had Four-Hundred-Pdo- nd is '111 k £ s § 11 S 5 0 i 1 3 S! 5)1 8 S 8S 1 R SS lili i ' 1 1 Isil 81 I 5S si R" S S5i I I If llll 'fill ill! ill 11 11 'Sill A4-dre- 1 1 II 1 £1 s a 111 111 K 5s y v 5k ss III ill 1111 11 If 1 r t V i -- 1 ay v 4 v V mm Ml H 5 H B Is i B5 St rv mm ?S H - j - )S 5? s 8 0U "great-graidfathe- liattmsume Word was pispatched to the central goverjprpent! and meanwhile members! of the Fourth Central Asiatic fcxpeditiqn were forced to' sit in idleness and reflect upon the trouble which even a'little "bonehead" M H R U U 1 E: is iR 8-- 2b -- may cause j When word 1 I - waA rpnaixrAA I mi M mi km f CP - ' pucn negotiations However freauentlv ujuutiis ana iinany n became apparent to Dr Andrews that it would be futile to remain in Hattinsume any longer J he gathered his According expedition? a?nd after bidding the "worlds biggest: bonehead" a fond farewell the party started its journey toward the coast The party is expected DacK next month but they leave be- 7 A Reconstruction of the Scene in the Gobi Desert When the Andrews' Expedition Uncovered the Fossilized Remains of the "Biggest Bonehead on Earth" Artist Biedermann Has Pictured the Elaborate Precautions Which the Scientists Took to Preserve Their Find Intact : entists are unani- m0w-W- i mous in their conviction that the diplomatic tangle should be settled j at the earliest sible pos- moment so that "old bonehead may be brought to New York reconstructed studied In view of his im-- on foot to receive it when news of the delay arrived Most of the American sci- fessor Andrews has not officially advised the American Museum of Natural History of the exact that the and 'ftJfWl vf minent arrival k M4L V Ji h r -r - t" rvv Pro- museum meanwhile have expressed considerable surprise over the delay which forces the expedition to return empty handed despite the vjj - fact that their finds during the last few months probably are tHe most important yet made They had been advised by Professor Andrews of the discovery of the new monster and preparation? v ire i 1 S f - ! 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T i II I - r§tui Serrtoe U p ' ' J ''V- f 4 : - s v X V i feel situation is the di- rect outgrowth of chaotic g o vernmental A Molar of the Long Extinct Mastodon Although the Newly Discovered Beast Is Many Times the Size of the Mastodon It Is Not Believed That SuchJTeetlr 1 Were a Part of Its Equipment conditions in ' t China and few of them expect a satisfactory settlement until the internal affairs of China have been adjusted In previous expeditions Dr Andrews has enof and protection by the joyed the r!himfi (Zannrira Snrmn Thii trm i i n nf f"!hi- nese savants have been nartirulartw kpen in as sisting Dr Andrews in the prosecution of his searches and they have rendered 'valuable as In this instance however and for sistance some inexplicable reason the Chinese scientists have been unable to assist" Dr Andrews "What will happen to the biggest bonehead §n portant ana were are several hypotheses for sands of years --old and disturbed but once for packing in the "Andrews cases may continue their peaceful slumbering ' in the 'qoiet cellars of some mission outposts No maximum length yet has been iiscovered for diplomatic negotia- - 7 ("' ft it f "T i l i inclined to believe it the most logical po'ssibilify in view of the diplomatic tang-l- resulting from the discovery of the "great jboneheadV They point out that Professor Andrews never ha3 had any definite and official understanding with the Chinese Government concerning his explorations and all Of the scientists are inclined! to the belief that an arrangement whereby the Vspoils" would be divided between the two countries will be better than no arrangement at alL Dr Andrews has not expressed himself on this plan and there is some doubt as to whether or not he would care to risk his life! in the) future and spend the time and money necessary! to venture into the interior of China for archaeological treasures provided Jhe had to divide with some government And then — how : would they divid0 the "biggest bonehead on earth" so that all would be e sausiieo " -- Mb mm ' i f Wi& (''' 1S2S ' ! ! - X "- ' - ' ' v 1 far but they are - entists S ' hus S - i 111 "mi mmmmmmmtmLmmm : Officials of the American Museum tiecrare that! no such sw rangement has been j I & 1 1 1 fe § ment j hind them relics of Drehistorid ani mals of the very iirst importance 1 ! 4 Officers at the " h U U K The opinion most generally held by scientists close to diplomatic relations is that the final solution will be founded on the precedents set by Egypt and incorporated in recent excavations in that country An arrangement patterned on this plan would result in a certain portion of the finds being retained by! the Andrews expedition while the other portion would go to the Chinese Govern- 1 tion x S gn quarters status of the products of his explora- V anti-forei- mm Having exhausted his Ingenuity in trying to persuade the' local Authorities !to permit him to take: the "bfe bonehead" out of Chinas Dr Andrews next turned to diplomatic sources for It is proV able that his messages help were refaybd through the Swedish Mission station at Hattinsume j and the communicatiops were addressed to the State! Department at Washington The whole question was- laid before American diplomats and they in turn took it up with Chinese officials' of state1 "Restore" a Ci ant Dinosaur The Men Are Specialists Restoration and They Are Seen Working on a Great iJiacuverea in titan f t!"sLtiiv'4 and one which finds many adherents in the light of the recent display of sentiment in China is tnat tne vnmese uovernment when it ceases to be occupied with hostilities and turns its attentions to other matters simply will confiscate "old bonehead" and leave the Andrews expedition to pine There is of course the hope' that the strange tangle may be quickly settled and the important relics released for speedy shipment to America This howeverj is considered highly improbable in well informed 1 nt MWwft h mm j "i'uu I S3 1 tions and governmental red tape mayl form a swathing for the "big bonehead' as effective as the bandages of the Pharaohs j ) r" n A Uf explorations tha slightest molf station he could not influence the officials Of from the Central Chinese Goy- ernment it was extremely disappointing to Dr Andrews Accordingsto the m3t accurate reports available the Centtal Government affirmed the attitude adopted by the authorities at Hattinsume and the expedition found itself ap fegainst additional barriers i Experts I i? U M ' Jt: 1 Wmi jrj ws' fin general Before they reached their objective !the expedition experienced hardships which might have forced less resolute explorers to retrace their steps Brigands tried to kill the party and a vicious sandstorm caused infinite-sufferin- g They persisted however and were rewarded when the first traces of the new beast were found Immediately the explorers started to uncover the whole beast The fossil showed clearly that in life the 'monster had been many timea the size of any yet heard of Professor Andrew declares that it must have been the of a smaller monster which his party found during explorations in 1925 and when news of the find was received at the centers of civilization the whole scientific world was set agog with excite-meMeanwhile members of the Andrews party Were laboring to uncover the'beast and crate the fossilized remains They packed eighty cases with bones small and large most of them" from the head and finally decided that they could carry no more Accordingly the rest of the skeleton was buried in the side of a hill arid tha spot marked for future exploration With their prize safely on automobile trucks with tractor wheels the expedition started the long trek to a seaport where the valuable remains of the "dawn" creature might be transF shipped to the United States But neither the expedition nor the "biggest bonehead on earth" reached the coast Instead travelers reaching Kalgan from Mongolia told of having encountered the Fourth Central Asiatic Expedition as the Andrews party is known at Hattinsume According to the reports which later were verified by government officials Professor Andrews had run afoul of the local authorities at Hattmsume The Chinese authorities had ob- jected to the removal from their country of the "great bonehead" and the expedition had been brought to a stand Faced with the of the precious fossils for which he and the members of his party had risked their lives Professor Andrews decided to farm the Crates out among possible-confiscatio- 1 - it i t - w AMILY skeletons are notably unpleasant thing to fool with and when they aire' disturbed the consequences usually are not enjoyable But the complications whih sometimes follow the' exposition of this bony gentry are comparatively insignificant whin measured by the perplexinsr diplomatic dilemina which has followed a little scientific rooting around in Old Mother Nature's closed closet of " secrets :v- Dr Roy Chapman Andrews heading an expedition from the American Museum qf Naturkl History has delved into the sands of the Greit Gobi Desert and has made a strange find— --"the biggest bonehead on earth" There is no othtb way to describe the product of Professor search for the head once belonged to ajn lanimal larger than the Woolworth Building and by far the largest thing ever to roam the surface of our sphere 1 But no sooner was the head found crated an started on it3 way to the United States than tha Chinese Government raised strenuous Objections to the removal trom China of this prized fossil The ensuing governmental tangle may take years to unravell This latest expedition of Professor! Andrews has been perhaps the most notable of the many he has conducted The party set out with a more or less definite idea of what they would) find and the discovery of the new mtmster came as a complete surprise to them and to the scientific world T !— — j I? S "Great-Grandfathe- r" — |