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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-19

The discoveries announced Sunday
are one of the concluding phases in
the notable archaeological achieve
ments of Lord Carnarvon and his
assistants. 1t was in November that
the party first made their announce
ment of exceptional finds, after years
of exploration. on the sire of Ancient
Thebes, near Luxor.
The excavations have been going
on steadily since the first announce.
mcnt. with frequent unearthing of
articles of great historic value as the
work pushed forward steadily toward
the inner tomb, whose treasures were
finally disclosed within the last few
days.
In the outer chamber Of the tomb
two iife.sized statues of King Tutenk.
hamun were found, standing in ac-
cordance with the Egyptian ritual,
against the doorway to the inner NOR
tuary chamber. as though on guard,
The faces. evidently made from plas.
ter. showed the king as man of roval
mipn. The feet were shod with solid
gold sandles and each statue was
crowned with a gold diadem.
Four chariots, a throne Of wonderful
workmanship, on the back OF which
was a portrait of the Pharoah and
his bride. worked in gold and glass,
and these ceremonial couches of great
beauty. were among the other striking
objects brought from the tomb.
While the place bore evidence Of
having been visited by the ancient
tomb robbers. many articles of gold,
SET with precious stones. remained.
The discoveries, from an archaeology.
cal standpoint, are literally above es.
timation.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-19
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docked showing the efIects OF the Ter.
rifle gale. The Shipping Board liner
America arrived at Abrose light last
night nearly two days late because OF
the storm and did not dock until to-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, SUNDAY JANUARY T. 1928
What Happens to Meteors

M ETEoRs are sometimes called fal-
AfA ling stars. They shine like stars.
but there LIS little of stellar nature
about them, and even less of fall.
They are small rocks. Normally they
fly through space like planets, and
those we see have been SO unfortunate
as to strike the earth. At one time the
whole solar system was in shape of dust
and fragments. The sun and all the
planets were disntegrated and we were
a nebtfla.
Ages so vast that the human mind
possesses no numbers to describe them
have passed since then, and now, as
Prof 8. F. Maxwell says in the recent
paper quoted, most of the dust has con-
densed into globes. The earth is one
sphere, the moon another, Venus and
Mars are our nearest neighbor spheres.
There are eight large planets, some
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
ANSWERS TO PUZZLES.

ANSWERS tt
Celebrating the New Year in
AnasrAms.
fhe boys 90 calling; what a night;
fAeir fun: . New Years resolution.
A Square Of Seng.
The hopes and fears Of all the years
Are met in thee tonight.
Proverb Enigma.
He has enough who is content.
Two-in.One.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07

sun has its own particular velocity. Tho
earth travels 1873 mfles per second
along its Invisible track. Venus runs q
little faster than we, at 21.9 miles per
second. while Mars goes only 1870.
These velocities are relatively slow. and
denote mature, well balanced type Of
orbit. Meteors' orbits are neither ma
ture nor well balanced They are PRINT
tive and eccentric, 80 that each little
stone alternately rushes close IN by the
sun and then wheels far out even 3D.
lions of miles away.
When meteors cross the orbit OF the
earth they always move faster than we.
Their rate OF speed is about "a miles
per second Meteors pay no attention
whatever to the position of the earth,
and SO it frequently happens that one
crashes squarely into this globe.
An object rushing with a celestial
velocity ignites the instant It enters
our air Meteors take fire when 30 to
100 miles above the ground. and sell
dom come within five miles of the
surface. The density of the air has
nothing TO do with the temperature of
the fame; that value is determined
solely by the rate of the meteor's speed.
LIS may 6OUhQ lthc DaIdQOX at
first. However, consider the meteor at
rest, with the molecules of the earth's
air rushing up by it, AS each molecule
strikes, it generates heat, but the tenn
perature will be the same whether fifty
or five thousand strike per second To
raise the temperature It will be Beces-
sary for them to strike harder.
When an object is moving through
the air at the rate OF one mile per sec
ond the virtual temperature of its SIR
roundings is red heat. meteor going
twenty miles per second. which is mod
crate indeed for this class of objects,
finds its temperature two hundred
times as hot as red heat, or hotter than
a blewpipe.
The outside of meteor is usually
fused and whisked off by the rush of
air, so that the whole stone is soon con-
samed. Slow moving meteors burn with
a red or yellow fame. The ones we
meet in the morning sky. which are
those that hit the earth head on, have
velocaties up to AZ miles per second.
They burn with blue flashes of intensely
hot fire and never come near the
ground.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Trees Not Damaged
By Copper Wire

Tn 1913 George B. Rigg of the UNI
L versity of Washington heard n
stated that shade trees were being
killed by driving one or two pieces Of
copper wire into each. He recently
proceeded to put this to the test, and
announces his result to Science. Sfx
young trees, he writes from two to
four inches In diameter were selected,
and on March Il, 1919, there uers
driven into each tree five pieces of thick
copper wire Is inches long. The end
OF each wire was left flush with tho
outer surface of bark. All wires were
within six feet Of the base of the tree
The trees comprised two hemlocks, tive
alders. one cedar. one willow.
On July ,. 1874, the trees were ex-
amined and found to be perfectly
healthy. In all eases they bad COM
pletely healed over the wires, and
their growth was equal 10 that Of other
similar trees In the immediate vicinity.
On cutting into the trees IT was Abund
that there was very little injury 10 the
wood. merely . brown color showing
for about is inches above and below
the wire. and about e.zs Inch to each
side.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Cheap Radium
Promised Physicians

THE distribution Of radium at re-
i markedly low price to the medical
profession is promised as the re-
suit of a consolidation of Belgian and
American interests effected at Brus-
sells, according to an announcement by
the Radium Company of Colorado. At
a meeting in the Colonial Museum at
Brussels, attended by King Albert and
500 eminent scientists. it was disclosed
that the Societe Generate de Belgidue
had erected, at cost OF 3,500,0oo
francs. plant, which already was in
operation, at Oolong, Belgium, for re-
filming radium ores brought from the
Belgian Congo.
This plant" says the Radium Com
pany of Colorado, will exceed in size
and capacity thu sum total Of all
American plants formerly in operation.
Because of the richness of the Belgian
ores this will mes the cessation of all
American manufacture of radium from
the carnotite ores az Colorado, formerly
considered the highest grade radium
deposits in the world
Tn the development of this industry
American aid has been solicited. The
Congo discovery and the combination
OF Belgian and American efforts will
result in offering radium for the first
time in tire history OF the world ut .
remarkably low price to the medical
profession. thereby comforting . bless
ing ON suffering humanity by permit
ting more extensive use Of this most
important therapeutic agent
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Useful Powders
From Waste Waters

T,HD atomizer has gone Into business
L for itself and Is making big divi-
dends out of wastes. Such evil-look-
ting liquid as the greasy waters from
fish oil plants. waste sulphite liquors
from paper mills. and the waters in
which raw wool has been washed
yield wealth when forced through the
etomizer.
Walter H. Dickerson, member OF
khe New York section of the American
Chemical Society. gives a description
of the recently invented machinery
which reduces materials from liquid
to a dry powder condition.
The process is described. briefly, as
one of reducing the material to De
dried to a finely divided state by spray
ing or atomizing; exposing the spray
to heated air OF gas and quickly ef-
fecting the evaporation of the moisture
contents"
Mr.. Dickerson believes tpat some
day the Chicago River may be run
through such a machine, to the greater
beauty of the stream itself and to
good economic advantage.
Indeed, this would be entirely pos
sible and advantageous" said he, II
the waste heat that escapes up the
flues of manufacturing plants In the
Industrial district of Chicago near the
river could be utilized for drying oper-
ations."
In paper manufacture. chemists have
found, only about SO per cent of the
wood used in making pulp goes into the
paper The remaining portion of the
wood passes off in the waste waters
from the plant. Analysis showed that
these wasteswaters contained high pro-
portions of lignin-the adhesive ma
terial in wood. This is not required in
paper but is very useful for the making
of binders-cores for use In making
polds used in foundries, and in making
coal briquettes. The spray drying
process makes the recovery OF the iig-
min a profitable operation.
The waste waters from fish oil plants
yield materials good for fertilizer and
for poultry food.
Waste waters from wool cleansing
plants give grease, nitrogen and pot
Hh.
Other industrial uses of the process
include a new method of making starch,
in that it can be reduced to the form
of fine powder, through the atomizer
and drier, cheaper and faster than by
old methods of drying.
Wastes from the sugar mills OF Cuba
and Louisiana are being made into
stock foods and the pineapple juices
which heretofore were allowed to rim
into the ocean from the canning plants
in Hawaii are now being preserved
and converted into fine sugars.
In the manufacture of powdered milk
one of the difficulties encountered has
been that of temperature control. The
product often has a burnt or caramel
taste. By the spray drying process
this has been eliminated
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Insects Use Deadly
Weapons Of Warfare

OUTING as proof Of his statement
~ an insect that kills it's assailants
with deadly poison gas, the cuttlezish
method of escaping It's enemies by
means Of q species Of smoke screen,
and the many examples Of eamoudAs>
resorted to by animals, = distinguished
French biologist declares that the in-
yentions Of the great war are all mrt
with in animals and insects"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Touch of Foot
Controls Radiator

HJHE radiator valve In this picture Is
L turned on and off by pressure of
the foot. eliminating the necessity of
bending over and turning valve and
getting dust ON your hands. P. A Rio
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Converting Auto
Into Sleigh

A N auto sleigh attachment making
possible the use of a motor car
in the worst OF winter weather has
been invented by Otto Bufe of Grand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Mystic Nature Study.

Aluminium. antimony. barium. brass.
bronze, calcium, copper, gold, indium,
iridium, iron, lead, nickel. platinum,
palladium, potassium, silver. Ain.
uranium, zinc. sodium.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07
Worlds astest River

THE fastest flowing river in the world
L is the Sutlej, In India, which rises
1900 feet above the sea and falls
II. eco feet in $50 miles.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07

gears. the larger of which is driven by
a crank, the beaten Is rapidly moved
in an up and down direction. The use
Of gears speeds up the operation OF the
device to such an extent that the work
OF beating eggs can be done in two
minutes as against fifteen inmates
which II would take to do it by hand.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-07

twenty-seven satellites and several
hundred asteroids in the solar system.
These represent the solid spots. But in
between and all around are occasional
leftover bits. each still flying in it's
own orbit They are meteors, and IL any
considerable number are grouped to-
gether they make comet.
Every object that revolves about the
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-03-10
SPANISH MAKES GREAT
STRIDES IN UNIVERSITIES

WASHINGTON, Mar 10.-More than
$4,000 persons are studying Spanish
in 404 out of the 612 universities and
colleges listed by the United State.
Bureau of Education, according to
report submitted to the Governinl
Board of the Pan American Union b,
the Assistant Director in charge
the section OF Education, Francisc,
]. Yanez.
The report points out the constan
increase Of students OF Spanish i'm thi.
country, the total given not iiiclud
Ing normal or secondary schools
where the study of Spanish is obi
gatory. Columbia University heads
the list with 1900 students, followed
ty the University of Texas with 1,64t
and the University OF Illinois with
1912. Altogether, eight universities
have over 1000 students of Spanish
There were practically no Spanish
courses in any of them five years
ago.
Interchange of professors with the
Latin American Universities an6
scholarships for Latin American stu
dents are among the measures pro
posed by Senior Yanez as part of q
comprehensive plan to encourage
closer cooperation between the high
er institutions of learning of this
country and Latin America. Alread,
Committees of Teachers are being or
ganized through his efforts in The
Latin American countries as a cen
trail information office for the stu
dents and teachers who wish to com,
to the United States.
Before the war virtually all Latir
America sent its students and teach
ers to the schools and colleges of Eu.
rope but reaction in favor of this
country took place. the number o.
Latin American students in the
United States having multiplied sew
eral times since 1919.
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-03-10
M0sLEM LEADER FORsEEs
TURKO-ENGL|SH ALLIANCE
Cry The Associated Press,

BOMBAY, Mar. 10.-Iiis Highness
the Aga Khan, upon his recent arriva
here from Europe, spoke optimistic
ally concerning the settlement of the
present difficulties existing between
Great Britain and the Mohammedar
world. The Aga Khan is the recog
nized leader of Indian Mohammedans
and was accorded an elaborate oya
ton by the Moslem community upor
landing in Bombay.
The Aga Khan is determined Il
serve the best interests of Islam
But / am convinced" he declares
that the majority of Englishmen, an6
those who form the backbone of tn,
British Empire, desire a fair and fina
settlement of the difficulties that have
gradually grown up during the last &c
or 40 years, and that they realize the
inequity of the dead Treaty of Sevres
There are signs in England tina.
the number of people desiring a fat
and final settlement of the Turkisl
question is daily growing. To this
day our whole case about the Hol,
Piaces has not been properly under.
stood by Englishmen. and we mus
continue to enlighten them ahou,
their special treatment.
international difficulties, especial
iy after the bitter memories of a dis
astrous war, will take long to settle
and ! entreat Moslems to remember
that fact and not become impatient a.
delays. ! am a strong believer that q
powerful Turkey will be a source O.
great strength to the British govern.
ment, and that an alliance between
the two nations will be an effective
means OF securing the future peace Of
the world"
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-03-10
NEW FARM BULLETIN
DISCUSSES DISEASES OF
WATERMELON PLANTS

II is not surprising that farmers
market have been slow adopt dis
ease-control measures when frequent
ly buyers pay just as high a price to
growers OF diseased melons. as 10
those who produce healthy ones, says
the United States Department OF Ag-
riculture I'm Farmers Bulletin 1877.
Diseases OF Watermelons, just of the
press However, there is at this time
a movement toward cooperation be-
tween railroads, distributors, and
growers that promises great improve
ment In this respect.
The bulletin discusses and gives
control measures for such diseases al
wilt. root-knot, gummy stem blight
ground-rot. anthracnose, stem enc
rot. and minor diseases. II contains
convenient descriptive key to al
these diseases, hy means OF which z
grower may identify a disease in his
field.
Briefly, the control measures for Q
few of the principal diseases are as
follows:
wilt is avoided by planting on lant
not previously used for watermelons
with precautions against the use
wilt infested stable manure and the
spread OF the disease by drainag,
water and live stock. e's
Root-knot can be prevented by the
use OF land free from infestation, o.
by rotating infested fields with root
knot immune crops.
Anthracnose is controlled by thor.
clgh spraying with Bordeaux mix
tnre, during the month proceeding tho
maturity OF the crop.
For stem-end rot the most import.
ant measure is the disinfection OF the
cut stems with a bluestone paste a.
the melons are loaded into cars.
Infection by tho organisms tina
cause anthracnose, gummy stem
Light and ground-rot may lie reduc
ed by seed disinfection, provided
the crop is planted on soil that g.
free from these diseases and in cas-
barnyard manure containing the or
ganisms is not used
Copies OF the bulletin may lie haf
without cost by addressing the De
partment of Agriculture, Washington
ID. c. soN is lf
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-03-10
DESCRIBES CAPITALISM
As MORALLY BANKRUPT

fCorresDondence Associated rress.l
LONDON, Feb. 21.--Labor should
do itself the justice of ceasing to be
negative. anti-capitalist. thinking only
Of its shares" writes Ramsay Mac
donald, leader OF the Labor Opposi-
ton in the House OF Commons in the
February issue of the Socialist Re-
view" His article is called "The
Outlook for Trade Unionism."
Every counselor who advises la
Dor contrary to the spirit OF social
cooperation is misleading it," con-
tinued Mr.. Macdonald. THE building
mp OF an organization devised exclu-
siyely TO fight capitalism is an err
ror- The fight against capital
SIN has TO lie carried on by apply
ing letter spirit than that OF capt.
,alism TO social and Industrial prob
ems and difficulties"
After stating that political and NOR
Al weapons alone can undermine the
walls of capitalism, Mr.. Macdonald
adds:
Organized labor, trade union ex-
ecutyies. parliamentary parties.
should each in their own way and
n respect to their own trades and
ots make the conspiracy of capital
SIN against the communicated al
ways against the labor party-clear
This has to lie accomplished by a
persistent explanation OF the work of
capitalism, its watered stocks. its fio-
alton expenses. its useless payments.
IS methods of keeping up prices, and
such like" se1 ns35
In conclusion, Mr.. Macdonald says:
Capitalism is decaying owing to its
moral bankruptcy. II is at war with
social production, with common WELL
being. and with the spiritual love of
liberty. II the labor struggle is con.
lucted in the same spirit as the CAPT
alists shave shown. and on a class
basis, the decisive battles will he
ought with economic weapons alone
md labor will gain no great victory;
but as soon as labor frees its mind
20 as to come under the influence of
he spirit of its historic role to Gre
lte social economic organization
that will secure liberty and make
itngle minded pursuit of common
wealth interests practicable. it will
squip itself with weapons and hold
position which will make its final vic
tory certain"
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-03-10
1uckdhoe To Honor Heroes
OF The Revolutionary War

TUCKAHOE, y. Y, Mar. 10
Whitened bones of 1876 American he
roes of the Revolution. unearthed re-
Gently in sandy trench in the "Y'
Of the old state crossroads near here.
are to be removed to memorial plot
on the highest knoll in Tuckahoe
Hills, TO rest under a monument in
scribed with the history of their last
battle
One of the 195 already has teen
taken from the trench and entombed
as the Unknown Soldier OF the Rev
olntion" tencath the ficor of the
Tuckahoe Village Hail. He was plac-
ed in the tomb on the 191st anniver-
sary of the birth OF his commander
in-chief George Washington, after ex-
ercises similar 10 those OF the "Un-
1nown." of the World War at Airing
on Cemetery, were held by the towns
| folk.
| Village officials have started fund
to purchase the plot of ground in
which the 1875 patriots. including the
| Unknown" entombed February 90,
will he reburied next washington's
Birthday. They plan also to erect
l granite shaft over the graves, and
{ will be unveiled the day of re-
| burial.
This little village of hills and dales
which lies some 20 miles from the heart
,f New York City, was a great skir-
mishing ground between the Rebel
md British forces during the Revolu-
ton. General Washington maintain
I'd temporary headquarters in the
DID Inn at the crossroads The inn
still stands. 49,
Across the road from IT, and at
he very point of the crossroads, is
! spring. Rising back of the spring
s hill, some 200 feet high, and
| around the hill winds the road.
Village historians say that a party
If American irregulars, returning
rom a foraging expedition into the
Hills, stopped at the inn to rest and
Eat. General Washington had leen
It the inn only several days efore.
A heavy force of British regulars
| surrounded the inn and began an ad-
vance upon it, their movement being
| protected by several pieces of small
artillery on the hill behind the spring.
The commander of the American out
it, realizing that he had been caught.
walked from the inn carrying a white
lag and offered, it is recorded, to sur
| Gender.
This offer. the town history says.
was refused. whereupon the American
shot the British officer dead and was
himself killed The British then fired
On the Americans, and being greatly
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-03-10
PRISONERS IN
JAIL DELIVERY
STILL AT LARGE


ment has been heard concerning the
alleged negligence and inefficiency of
night Waterman Clinton Jones, who,
according to Warden Weldon, could
have prevented the escape of Howard.
who brushed by the Waterman in the
corridor and fed out the front door.
Moreover, Jones was asleep in a near
by room lat the time the warden was
attacked. The warden states that he
.ried for several minutes to arouse
Tones when Howard, one of the pris-
)ners, called for a basin of water, but
that Jones did not happen on the
scene until the turmoil and fight was
over and the warden had been rem
dered practically helpless.
County Commissioners To Act
AS stated in yesterdays issue of
The Capital. Jones has been suspend
ed from duty by Sheriff Lovely, pend
ing the outcome of a complete in
vestigation of the whole affair. Mean
while, the County Commissioners are
n close touch with the situation, and
is not unlikely that some formal
action will be taken in the case of
tones at next Tuesdays meeting of
he Board,
The negroes attacked Warden
Weldon when. after failing to arouse
Waterman Jones, he delivered the
basin of water to Howard. 1t is the
prevailing belief that this was simply
ruse used by the two men to draw
he warden to point where they.
could set upon him and make good
heir escape. rsR -