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the world. One of them weighed over a
thousand pounds. All of them were found
on the west side of the crater; none at the
east side. This was good evidence that
the meteor came down with slant from
the west and toward the east.
In some of the fragments diamonds
were found, colorless, yellowish, blue, and
black. Most interesting. 1t is supposed
that they were crystalliZed out by high
heat from carbon in the meteor. They
were too small to have any commercial
value, but DR.. George F. kunz, the
famous gem expert, obtained half
carat's weight of them by dissolving a
considerable quantity of the iron. Many
that were mounted on glass slides for MI
croscOpic examination exploded and dis
appeared. Big diamonds, taken from
mines, sometimes do the same thing.
Formed by volcanic agency, they may en-
close cavities filled with gas. at very high
pressure, and so fly to pieces.
The notion originally entertained. that
the hole in Canon Diablo was a volcanic
crater having long ago been dismissed
biologists Were led to speculate regarding
its origin. Prof. Grove X. Gilbert, of tn
U. s. Geological Survey, was first to call
attention to its likeness to the so-called
craters of the moon, which latter, he be-
leved, Were scars made by the impact OF
''moOnletS" that formerly travelled around
the earth in flocks, eventually to be swal-
lowed up by the lunar orb.
If so, why might not giant meteor
call it a mOonlet if you choose-strike
the earth and make just such a crater
Further study convinced biologists that
whether Prof. Gilbert's theory about the
moon was correct or not the Arizona
crater was almost certainly to be attrib-
uted to the impact of Il celestial body.
One of them, DR.. Daniel Moreau Bar
ringer, who was a man of means, backed
the idea with money, and undertook to
sink shafts in the big hole.
He found the surface rocks. limestone
and sandstone thoroughly shattered to a
depth of three hundred feet, as if by
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13
Mining Engineers Missed the Most Startling
Mineral Discovery Ever Known Because They
Neglected to Calculate That the Meteor Plunging
Down from the West Would Be Found East of the
Crater. An Angled Tunnel Has Solved
the Mystery.

fact that mcteoric iron is one of the hard
est substances known, containing a con-
siderable percentage of nickel ordinarily.
1t is, in effect, nickel-steel, and its COM
position is said to have given the first
hint for the use of such an alloy in the
manufacture of armor for battleships.
1t is going to be big job, therefore,
to break the mass into removable frag-
ments. This is likely to be accomplished
by saving, rather than by high explosives.
But in the meantime the meteor must be
exposed to view and rendered accessible
by mining.
How, it may be asked, can the job pay,
taking the difficulties into Wv? An
equivalent quantity of iron could surely
be obtained elsewhere much more cheaply.
All! There lies the most important
point of the story. 1t is known with GER
tainty that the meteor contains three
fourths of an ounce of platinum to the
ton How this is known will presently be
explained.
Do you know how much platinum is
worth to-day? One hundred and fifteen
dollars an ounce! The weight of the mass
underground is estimated at twelve mil
lion tons. 1t should, then, contain nine
million ounces of platinum, which, at the
price above mentioned, would have a mar
ket value of more than billion dollars.
Platinum, weight for weight, has nearly
six times the value of gold 1t is an ex-
tremely scarce metal, indispensable for
many purposes. We have almost none of
it in this country, nearly all of the worlds
supply coming from the Urals in Russia
and from Colombia, South America.
But here, apparently, is a billion dol
lars worth of this precious white metal,
dropped upon our territory out of the sky.
A miracle, truly. In respect to platinum,
we shall be lifted suddenly from barest
poverty to almost incredible affluence.
Elaborate experiments made by French
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thinking on the problem and proceeded
once more to tackle the job.
He has found the meteor. Doubtless q
lot will soon he printed about it in the
newspapers, but this is the first announce
ment. There will be plenty to be said
when the mass is exposed to view and the
wealth it represents has been rendered
available.
Obviously, this meteor, if only by rea-
son of its enormous size, reduces the
largest ones hitherto found to an i'm
portance relatively trifling. The biggest
heretofore known is the famous Pearv
meteOrite, found by the Arctic explorer
at Cape York, in Greenland, weighing
thirty-six and half TONS That mcteorite
may be seen today at the Museum of
Natural History in New York.
The next largest meteorite is now in the
city of Mexico. 1t is shaped like a ham
and weighs about twenty-five tons. Il
was found in 1900 by the late Prof.
Henry A. Ward, Mexico.
The third largest meteorite, and the
biggest one ever found in the United
States, is the "Wilamette," now owned
by the Museum of Natural History in
New York. 1t is ten feet long, six and a
half feet high, and four feet three inches
thick, weighing BLOT pounds.
The finding of platinum in n meteor IS
altogether new. From a merely scientific
viewpoint, therefore, the presence of that
rare and precious metal in the Arizona
"fallen star" is of utmost interest Add
to that the diamonds it contains possibly
there may be some big ones in TIE me-
tallic mass-and you have sometime
worth getting excited about.
Think of a mass of meteorc iron five
hundred and fifty feet in diameter Con-
slider the platinum it contains the most
precious of all metals. A billion dollars
worth!
A worthwhile "star" indeed. Although
a small one, rich. How wonderful that
such a mass of wealth should be sent to
us by an accidental shot out of the void
of cosmic space.
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artillerists not long ago proved that pro-
jectile, striking a mass of rock such as
cliff, produces an "impact crater" seven
times the diameter of the projectile. The
meteor was, in effect, projectile, and,
applying this rule, it must have been about
five hundred and fifty feet in diameter
in order to produce the crater here de-
scribed in Arizona.
That crater $50 to call IT'D is most
tremendous dent in the rocky crust of the
earth. Its cup, across the top, measures
thirty-seven hundred feet one way and
thirty-eight hundred feet another way, the
two lines of measurement being at right
angles. The rim, composed of material
forced up by the impact of the meteor in
striking, is a ring-shaped hill two hundred
feet high.
Those figures are needed to give a no
ton of the mightiness of the celestial pro-
iectile that hit Arizona in the long ago.
Travelling at a speed fifty times that of
rifle bullet, its impact must have caused
the whole earth to tremble, and doubtless
all Arizona was illuminated for a few
minutes by an uprush of flaming gas.
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The huge projectile entered our atmos-
phere cold body--so cold that a chunk
of ice would be hot, comparatively speak
ing. The temperature was the absolute
zero Of outer space, 81 degrees below
the zero of the Fahrenheit thermometer
But, passing through the atmosphere with
such incredible swiftness, it was set on
fire by friction, the outer part of it being
melted and, to some extent, vapOrized,
The giant meteor struck Arizona slant
wise, coming from the west. If it had
descended vertically it would have been
found by digging inside the cup of the
crater. But, coming down at an angle, it
lodged deep down beneath the rim of the
crater, on the east side. The easiest way
to reach it was by starting an inclined tun-
mel from some distance outside the rim
on that side, driving it downward and
toward the rim as already described.
Hundreds of fragments, melted and
broken off from the meteor, have been
found in the near neighbOrhood of the
crater. Their character is unmistakable,
inasmuch as meteoric iron is in structure
and composition unlike anything else in
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Diablo, in Arizona. A lot of stories have
been printed about it, speculatively; for,
in striking the earth, it made hole two
thirds of mile in diameter and nearly
circular. The hole, four hundred feet deep,
was originally supposed to be volcanic
crater. But biologists declared that moth
ing imaginable could account for il except
the impact of a gigantic meteor, which
must be bdricd--a huge mass of iron
deep in the ground.
If the meteor was there it could pre-
sumably be reached by digging. Such an
enormous mass of metal would be worth
a lot of money, leaving out of consdera-
ton the scientific interest.
So digging was undertaken on an i'm
portant scale, shafts being sunk, supple
mented by drilling to a depth of nearly a
thousand feet. Nothing came of it.
Indeed, as is now known the drilling
might have been carried to unlimited
depths without striking the buried meteor.
1t was not there.
If not there, where was it? The an
swer, as now known, was that it was out
side the cup of the "crater," beneath its
eastern rim. Why, will be explained later.
1t was finally reached by driving an
inclined tunnel from some distance out
side the east rim, westward and down.
ward at an angle of forty-five degrees.
The tunnel, thousand feet long, came
upon the giant meteor at depth of about
fiv, hundred feet. Right there the work
mems picks struck an impenetrable OBJ
stacle.
Now the problem is to get at the mass
and remove it, necessarily in many pieces.
To lift 1t out entire is impossible. To get
il out at all is difficult engineering
operation, but, now that its location is ex-
actly known the task reduces itself TO
mere terms of labor and cost. Already
work has been begun on deep open cut.
One reason for the difficulty lies in the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13

THE ancient Greeks catalogued the
"Seven Wonders of the World"
and it has remained for modern
science to now add an "eight wonder
the greatest wonder of them all.
Countless ages ago gigantic celestial
visitor, bigger than fifty Woolworth build
ings, shot through the sky and shocked
and punctured the peaceful surface of the
earth-a monster meteor of iron, literally
mixed with diamonds and precious metals
of priceless value. This monster has now
been found.
For more than dozen years digging
for it has been going on. The attempt
was abandoned, resumed, again given up
as hopeless.
All of this very quietly; advertisement
of the enterprise was not desired. Now,
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samples OF IT. Inc
observations made
were very iuterest ST.
ing, but the meteor
remained undiscov-
cred.
DR.. b arrin ger
gave it up. Then
the L. S. Smelling,
Refining & Mining
Company took up
the job and kept at
it for years, sinking
shafts and drilling.
After spending hun
dreds of thousands
of dollars, it quit.
What was the use?
The meteor was not
there.
In the meantime
DR.. Barringer had
been doing a lot of
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at III ~ llds SUI
ceeded, and of that
success this is the
first announcement.
Think of a meteor
"a "fallen star
more than five hun
dred feet in di-
ametdr and weighing
twelve million tons,
Was there ever the
like? Not so far as
known, certainly, or
anything IN the least
comparable to it.
There are other
things to be said
about it, equally re-
markable, as will
presently be seen.
1t fell a long time
at least m any
thousands of years
ago, near the Canon
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tremendous blow; and the sand grains
composing the sandstone were fused as
if by high heat. Churn drills were put
down to much greater depths, reducing
the rocky stuff to mush and bringing no
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-13

Imagine a Shrieking, Flaming Star
Weighing 100000 Tons and so
Times as Big as the Woolworth
Building Crashing with Terrific
Impact Into the Upturned Face of
New York-Picture a Gaping
Crater, a Mile Wide, Containing
the Pulverized Debris of What
Was the Heart of the Worlds
Greatest City Impossible mo
1t Really Happened, But Luckily
1t Landed in the Arizona Desert
Instead of the Metropolis.
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toj Weekly Britain Rights Reserved
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
There Is ManyR lH
Grip Between the
Teeth and the Lip

NEW YORK, Aug. 16-Charlie Chap
lin, famous film comedian is recover
ing today from blood poisoning which
threatened for time to cause his
death, according to a report buzzing
along Broadway despite the statement
of DR.. James Mckenzie, one of Chap
Inns attending physicians, that his
patient was suffering from a heart
attack brought on by overwork. Char
lie was bitten on the lip by Follies
chorus girl.
At the Ritz Carlton hotel where the
comedian has shut himself off from
friends and interviewers, his secretary
insisted Chaplin was recuperating
from a cold
The secretary did not deny the
bloodpoisoning rumor, referring all in
formation as to Chaplin's condition to
DR.. Mckenzie.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
BRYAN SOLD TONGlJE TO
REAL ESTATBEHARKS
FOR Sl04RER DAY

NEW YORK, August 1e.-tFP)-
William Jennings Bryan made over
s25o,ooo in the last few months Of
his life, believes Ed, I-ambrleht
OF Tampa, Fla, who headed the.
democratic convention delegation
from Florida last year. Bryan was
reputed worth a million last spring
but wrote Lambrieht then that his
fortune was less than half that
amount. His estate is shown to be
Ss6o,ooo.
Lambright believes Bryan made
most Of this in Florida real estate
and states that 5ryanGused his "siI-
yer tongue" at 500 day for Coral
Gables, Florida, real estate ven
ture. Bryan sold his home Villa
Serena for 100000 profit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
bus COMPANY Forces SPEEDING.

WORCESTER, Mass, August l6.-
(FP)-On his third appearance in
court for speeding, Bus Driver Everett
c. Fish of Roxbury told the Judge:
"Your honor, l was driving fast be-
cause the boss made me. The line
advertises certain time from Boston
to New York and it gave me the choice
of making the time or getting fired.
Three times now I've been pinched
for speeding that bus. After being
summoned this time, refused to main
tain the rate of speed they demanded
and drove into New York the next
day two and half hours late, and was
fired on the spot. have wife and
three kids and I'm out of job now.
Who's to blame?"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
Continued from Saturdays Daily Worker
Hospitals

The former Russian town hospital establishments al
though OF the most upOdate character hopeessy
quatc to meet the requirements populations
whereas in the rural districts hardly any
existed
Very extensive had, therefore, Immediately
taken to with the situation Large country houses
had been taken by the peasants requsoned
by the end of 1922 64965 beds had been equipped the
mssariat of Health Owing however the shortage
tors and lack of medical supplies little than
regaon could be provided for the patients avail
able supplies devoted the 100000
apart for children
BY means of segregation alone however great were
made during the next is months and in May 1924
had already almost returned to the Typhus
still existed but in June of that year pa
ents under treatment typhoid patients had been
LOO and only 634 smallpox reported Influenza
and malaria however still serious scourge May
$4,000 patients under form of
lara
With the return to normal conditions Commissa-
ra of Health has been able to reorganize
mens and such had been hastily arranged
the period of epidemic
These establishments have been equipped and placed
IN five different caegories Hospitals ispensaries ou-pa-
TENTS, sanatoria, rest homes, and maternity homes
The following statistics will give idea
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
GERMANS TRYING
. TO MAKE DAWES
PLAN Save THEM
But If They Do, Other
Nations Are Ruined

WASHINGTON Aug. 16.-In Ger
many's battle to re-establish her basis
for barter with other nations, Germany
will drop her prohibitive duties
against foreign goods provided ma
tions with whom she bargains grants
similar concession to German goods.
The United States, alone of the i'm
portant capitalist nations, has nego-
tiated permanent commercial treaty
relations with Germany, the treaty
embracing a most favored nation
clause.
Germany is now launching a diplo-
matte campaign for the negotiation of
treaties with the most important coun-
tries of the western hemisphere,
Europe and the far east
BY these negotiations Germany
hopes to tear down the barriers
against her products and to obtain for
German made goods sufficiently favor
able treatment that they will suffer
no disadvantage in competition with
the output of other nations Germany
has to get this concession or fail to
carry out the Dawes plan. This is her
trump card.
Officials explained that the United
States will reap the benefit OF any
preferential treatment given to other
nations by Germany. This advantage
lies in the treatment accorded Ameri-
can exports to Germany.
Contradiction to Cause UnempIoy.
ment.
The United States is obligated to
give to German goods as favorable
treatment as that extended to prod
ucts OF other importing nations. How.
ever, II German goods, made by driven
slaves of the Dawes plan, do come in.
II means widespread unemployment
there.
In spite OF the most favored nation"
agreements, many nations find clever
methods Of discriminating against
American. made products in favor of
those OF other European countries.
Both the tariff commission and
agents of the state and treasury de-
partments have studied these discrim.
nations, but so far no m 10 of meet.
ing the situation has been brot for.
ward.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18

The above figures do not sanitary
railways waterways These
special organization and department of the
State.
During revolutionary period Unions
undertakings had organized their med
Under Economic Policy these have
taken by the Commissarat of Health The rail-
other undertakings and their medical organizations
which constitute separate department of the Commissariat
of Health still retain certain measure of autonomy.
10000 miles communications divided into
railways and 120 sections the waterways
section controlled by special medical staff consisting
inspector three sanitary
gangs according length the section Each divisional
responsible for the sanitary conditions of the whole
If his section not only as regards railway itself
passengers travelling the section In
infectious disease breaking out in section he
definite powers deal with the transport of
sengers from infected to clean
railways waterways of Russia equip
ped lab hospitals and 5725 beds These have been
increased 297 hospitals with $4,000 beds.
Health Resorts and Rest Houses
health resorts in the Caucasus the Black
Sea and the Crmea have been organized free
these dealt lOO
900 patients
country which have been converted into rest houses for
the workers establishments neither hospitals
Senatorial although they under the supervision medical
staff who suffering from fatigue down
in application to his Trade Union is sent
one establishments free of charge The houses
have attached them where
lshments suppoed by the Trade Unions the
organized social life and the general comfort and of the
surroundings.
Welfare Work
Special mention be of the Baby Mother
of the Commssariat of Health This
Department been operation for the last and
has already very fareaching effect in the industrial
In 1922 special laws Incorporated in the Civil Code
dealing with the the mother and child According
the law ilegimacy longer exists and the
the mother with child born out OF wedock the
mother whose marriage has been registered.
The establishes that any woman about to become a
shall be free from all work for certain period before
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
CARPENTERS IN
DETROIT TAKE
SWATS At FAKER
Bully Started Fight;
Others Ended 1t
tspeeIaI 70 rhe Daily workerl

Especial TO y ne OdllJ WOFkcFI
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 16.-On Aug.
3, Jack Welsh, then president of Local
Union 10 of the Brotherhood of Car
penters and Joiners of America, stated
that any members who had not signed
Hutcheson's yellow dog pledge" by
August 10 would be thrown out of the
meeting. Welsh has been feeding on
dirt from the hands of executive board
member Potts, General Organizer Bot
terill, and their local turnkey Shar-
rock so long that few considered his
remarks seriously.
Last night at the meeting Of Local
10, Welsh seemed to have forgotten
his threats, or thought better of them,
and all was brotherly love until Presi-
dent Warden, another yellow tool, re-
fused to accept a motion to refuse to
pay bill for six months per capita
tax to a district council which Hutche-
son put out of business just about that
long ago. After some discussion, one
brother who loses patience quickly
with these quibbling fiunkeys, knocked
the president gently from his platform
Altho the president had already chang
ed his mind about the notion another
of Hutcheson's ours by the name Of
Marks struck young militant by
name of Zekit with gavel, and then
things started. Everyone in reach
took swing or kick at Marks (many
did not care to dirty their hands) and
whining like the cur he is, he ran
from the meeting and did not return.
Welsh, who made so much noise last
week, sat at table writing intently
and did not even look up to see the
fate of his fellow worm, a very wise
tho cowardly policy.
The Second Lesson.
This is the second time president
of Local 10 has ne, a fistic mas
sage before he could see" a motion
which had a bearing on this struggle
between the rank and file and these
union wreckers attempting to carry
our Hutcheson's czaristic policy.
In the discussion following the
meeting, some oldtimers remarked
that the only way to peace and unity
in this district is to take Botterill and
Potts to the station and give them a
farewell party, and to put Shamrock
and Fish on one of the many scab
jobs in Detroit until they learn some
thing of the problem of men carry
ing tools in Detroit. Others remarked
that if Hutcheson were any man at
all, he would bring his big carcass
to Detroit to stop some of the blows
his stupidity brings down on his
stupid dupes. Being cunning as we'll
as cowardly and stupid, he stays clear
Of the broils his feeble belligerency
engenders. He is as yellow as the
fat saps whom he keeps on the pay
roll of the union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18

John l.. Lewis,
Hotel Ambassador,
Atlantic City, N. ].
Dear Sir and Brother: Local Union
1883, United Mine Workers of Amer
lea. in regular meeting assembled
with 500 members present unanimous
" went on record against arbitration
and Cancellation in any and every form
to settle the wage dispute of the an
thracite mine workers and at this
time state very plainly to their scale
committee that, even as last re-
course, to accept arbitration would be
detrimental to the anthracite mine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18

Workers.
Experience with President Will
sons impartial arbitration project in
1920 have taught the anthracite mine
workers a bitter lesson about i'm
partial arbitrators, a lesson which
prompts the membership of Local 1883
to instruct me to write you on the
question. $50 was
1T also was unanimously decided
to go on record against the PROPOSE
ton of continuing work after Septem-
Der 1, in case no settlement is
reached. Local 1888 fully and unan-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-18
Jail Break In orenon.

SALEM, Ore, Aug. 16-Three pris-
oners were at large early today and
two prison guards and prisoner were
dead as a result of sensational jail
break at the Oregon state prison here.