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FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 16, 1922.
THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
MILLEOeCVILLE. G».
War Sabotage Practices
Discovered on Castings
Leesburg, Fin,—Whnt In be
lieved to be no example of sabot-
tige practiced by the enemlea of
1bls country during the World
war has come to light here. A
concern In the North manufac
turing bolts und castings for the
government had a large quantity
of material left at the time of
the armistice, and n corporation
constructing a factory here pur
chased several thousands of the
bolts. They nppenred to be per
fect until mechanics attempted
to use them. Then It was discov
ered that many lmd been sawed
almost to the center from both
sides at the thread end. leuving
a bare eighth of an Inch of metal
intact. The nuts on the damaged
bolts had been screwed down to
a point where they concealed the
cuts.
Hnd the bolts been sent abroad
they would have been useless for
the purpose for which they were
designed
'SHOE' MILLIONS
OF YEARS OLD
Specimen Found in Limestone of
the Triassio Period Amazes
Scientists.
THEY CALL IT "NATURE FAKE”
Stitching la Perfect, but Man Didn't
Exist When It Was Made, Pro-
feeaors Aeeert—Found In Ne
vada by Prospector.
With a total loss of memory as to
Ms Identity, this man, about twenty-
five years old, Is held by the police of
St. Paul, Minn., unable to determine
his name, where he lives, or give any
facts that will Identify him. He Is
well dressed and the label in his suit
Is that of L. L. & Co., ltochester, N. Y.,
and he carries a gold watch with the
engraved Inltinls I,. A. He remembers
having been In France and of buvltig
visited New York und Chicago.
POLICEMAN KILLS BIG SHARK
Monster, Full of Herring and Salmon,
Too Laty to Dodge Officer's
t-r-r. Bullet.
Seattle, Wash.—Husking after a j
feast of salmon und herring, a 700-
pound shark, the largest ever seed on
the north Pacific, was shot and killed
by u waterfront policeman.
The shark met Its doom when It I
swam lazily Into u tangle of piling at i
pier 11-H. The broad head became
fastened between two supports and It
was lashing the water Into foam when ,
the patrolman hove In sight,
A crew from the United States const
guard cutter Unalga, moored near, l
rigged up it derrick anti hauled the j
shark to the wharf, where It was of- |
llciully weighed and measured. The
huge fish was 11 feet 0 inches in length
with a tail three feet broad.
HERE’S HARD NAME TO YODEL
Paging Los Angeles Arson Suspect
Wears Down Attaches of
Superior Court.
Los Angeles, Cal.—Attaches of the
Superior court here are hoping for
a decision soon in the appeal of the
man they call "Mr. Soda Fountain,"
who was convicted of arson. They are
hoping principally that they will not
have to write his name In the court | """
records much longer. This Is his nlu
.name:
l.ieuiessueusszesszes Hurruizzlsstiz-
7.1.
Colloquially, however, he Is known
ns Leo Hirst.
Smashes Pipe He Smoked 42 Years.
Middletown, N. Y.—What Is believed
to lie a clay pipe record for the roll
ed States, If not for the world, is
held by Henry Heath, veteran printer
of Kllenvllle. He smoked one pipe for
forty-two years until one day while at
work It fell on the floor and was
shattered. The pipe was purchased
by Heath following the discovery by
hb- lather that he was smoking cigar
ettes.
pie,
oil.
the
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II..
oil,
Baby Swallowed All.
Mary's. <>. A prune small
s of cork ami a quantity of coal
This collection was taken from
stomach of Joseph Holitzhauer
en-months-old son of Joseph
by a phy.-dciuii here the
day. The baby is recovering
bis experiences. Ho made the
i t ton and swallowed It while tin-
r>ed for a few minutes.
nineteen-
:t/.turner,
New York.—What appears to be
the petrified sole of a curefully made
shoe bus been submitted by John T.
Held, a mining engineer of Lovelock,
Nev., to I»r. James F. Kemp, professor
of geology at Columbia university,
and to Dr. William D. Matthew, pa
leontologist of the American Museum
of Natural History.
If It is what it looks like, it is proof
that human beings were walking
about in shoes of finer workmanship
than are made today on this continent
between 10 million and 800 million
years ago. The seeming fossil was
found in blue limestone of the Trlas-
slc period on a summit in the southern
extremity of the Humboldt mountain
range in Nevada.
Both Hr. Matthew and Dr. ICetnp
said that the object was the most sur
prising Imitation by nature of the
workmanship of man which had ever
come to their attention, hut that it
was absolutely impossible that it could
De a genuine fossil because the evi-
Jence was overwhelming that the
tareer of human beings on earth was
not over half a million years, whereas
the Triassic rock of which the neatly
sculptured sole is made is so ancient.
Shown Lines of Stitches.
It would fit nicely a hoy of ten or |
twelve years. The edges are as
smooth as if freshly cut. Hut the sur
prising part of it is what seems to
be a double line of stitches, one near
I he outside edge of the sole und the
other about a third of an Inch Inside
the first. The "leather" Is thicker in
side the inner welting and appears to
he slightly beveled, so that at the
murgln, half an inch- wide, which runs
outside, the sole Is something like an
eighth of an Inch thick.
The symmetry Is maintained per
fectly throughout. The p^pfeet lines
pursued by the welting ansi the ap
pearance of hundreds of minute holes
through which the sole was sewed to
the shoe are the things which make
the object such un extraordinary freak
In the eyes of the scientists who ex
amined It.
Under a strong glass, Mr. Held
feund that the tiny holes appeared
with such exact regularity that it set
nt naught the laws of probability to
believe that the thing was anything
except the handicraft of man. The
edges are rounded off smoothly as if it
were freshly cut leuther from the
hands of tin expert cobbler. The
heel nnd pnrt of the sole appear, the
toe end being missing.
"It Is not extraordinary.” said Pro
fessor Kemp, "to find naturnl Imita
tions of hones or man's handicraft.
They turn up frequently. But this is
by far the most perfect thing of the
kind that 1 have ever seen.
“On the other hand, 1 hnve no hesi
tation in saying that It is not a fossil
hut an accident. If It were n fossil. It
would probably be 10,CKK),(HK) years
old or older, lieeause It appenrs to
come from a Triassic formation. Man
did not exist that long ago.
Found by Prospector.
Mr. Uebl said that the object was
. found by Albert Knapp, a prospector,
f whose attention was Immediately ar
rested by the striking resemldunee to
a cobbler's work. The appearance Is
aided by the fait that the color Is
that of leather, which is due, accord
ing to Dr. Matthew, to Iron sulphide
present lit the alleged fossil, but not In
the rock on which It Is mounted.
"The two scientists that I have
talked to simply take their stand that |
the Darwinian theory Is so completely I
proved that man could not have pos
sibly existed during the Triassic peri
od, that only lower forms of life then
existed,” said Mf. Held, “and they
say that no amount of evidence that
this was n genuine fossil shoe would
convince them that It was such, al
though they admit that the resem
blance to the sole of n shoe is exact
xtends to so many particulars.
“Under a gluss, it Is perfectly plain
that the leather was first peiforated
by a tine perforating machine before
It wits sewed. They call it an acci
dental concretion. But they admitted
that they would not consider any evi
dence of the genuineness of the fos
sil because they were so wedded to a
theory which would moke It impos
sible."
"It is the most perfect piece of
natural mimicry that I have ever
seen." said I)r. Matthew. "But that Is
all. It is not the work of man. Man
has not been in existence much more
than fiOOJHK) years or so on earth, and
It Is not believed that man has existed
on this continent for more than 30,-
000 years. That Is, of course, only un
approximate guess. The Triassic
formation In which this appears to
have been found might have been
800,000,000 years old. Such finds are
mndo every now and then, though 1
hnve never seen anything so extra
ordinary ns this before. A man re
cently found, for Instance, wlmt he
thought to he a fossilized human eye
of great antiquity. It bore a very
strong resemblance to an eye, hut o'
course was no such thing." ,
Valdosta Has Shipped
118 Cars Cantaloupes
During Present Season
Valdosta, June 15.—Yn order to
speed up the movement of canta
loupes which are ripening rapidly
many growers are working day and
night. A large force of hands go on
duty late nl the afternoons and pack
and load all night, being relieved by
a new- shift next morning.
Up to Wednesday morning a total
of 118 cars cf cantaloupes have been
shipped from Valdosta*, and several
cars are being loadedl today. The
prices, for the maority of the fruit
shipped lront this city have been
satisfactory, running from $900 to
$14,000 per car. •
Battle Over Rum on
River Boat Ends in Death
WASHINGTON, D. C. June. 15
| I'olce cf Washington and Alexandria
Ya., were investigating Thursday a
riot Wednesday night on the river
stsamer Charles Macalest, which re
sulted in the serious injury of a num
ber of ohers.
The boat was loaded with more
than UK o excursionists , mostly high
school students and railway workers
when a free-for-all fight started,-pre-
sumbaly over payment for some whis
key. Four M ildred persons are said
to bav 0 taken part in the fight.
Lous ill. McCormick, 20, was stabbe
dying later at an Alexandria hospital.
11tli r injured men were rushed to
hospitals here.
A numJOe.' cf arrests were made.
THE BALDWIN FURNITURE CO.
U. S CHARTER IS SOUGHT
FOR WORLD TRADE BODY
WASHINGTON, D. C\. June 1L—
Federal charter for the World Com-
tnetca Corporation is sought by a
hill introduced in the house Thursday
by Representative IJall nger, Massa
chusetts.
The corporation is to engage in
g'literal merchandise exporting and
imp: rting business, and is authorized
to own and operate ships, buy ng and
selling ships and owning necessary
lands and equipment for its business.
It asks authority front Congress jo
own and maintain free ports in the
Cnited States and its possessions
and all vessels and materials carr'ed
by such vessels shall be exempt from
duty and taxes providled the mater
ial is shipped to foreign poits.
Th e capital stock of the corpora
tion is fixed at $100,000,000 with au
thority to issue non-voting preferred
stock up to $1,000,000,000 and non-
voting common stock up to $9a0,-
000,000.
ARE PRETTY LEGS
PROPER DISPLAY
IN RADER CHOIR?
Revivalist Says “No;” Chorus Lead
er Says "Y^s”—Battle is On.
Chicago. June 15.—Angels may flap
their wings in heaven, but that does
not mean there are any Dappers
there, according to Haul Rader, not
ed evangelist anil conductor of re
vivals.
Furthermore, Rader declares there
aren't going to bo any flapp.'rs in his
800-voice choir which will sing in his
6,000-seat tabernacle where lie ex
pects to stage a big revival in the
near future.
But Mrs. C. B. Chadwick, of Bev
erly Hills, in charge of the chorus,
thinks differently Now there may not
bt any revival at all. as both are
equally emphatic.
While the evangelist was at anoth
er revival in Indianapolis. Mrs. Chad
wick was picking choristers. Rader
returned Wednesday and "fired" 12
of her selections. .Mrs. Chadwick
protested vigorously ,
Nobody ever saw a picture or
heard a description of a bobbed-hair
angel,' declared Rader, "nor one with
i: short nkirt either."
THE BALDWIN FURNITURE CO.
“Anil a hands/:
ue knee nev
t kept.
a keen observer
out of heave
n.” re-1
tortei
Mrs. Chad
wick.
1
"Bobbed hair.
tnee skirts.
rouge—
no congregation
oorlil think
of thej
salvation of soul
with such a
•horns" 1
thumb
•red the i
vangelist. "1
’erhaps'
' at large
s to blame.
I'm not 1
picking on the
girls personally, but 1
they
an t stand
up in my choir and
flap.
That goes
"A
chorus is
made up i.f
, i
voices,
not 1
>gs." observed Mrs. Ch
adwiok.
"The
girls I havt
picked ran s
ing and,
they t
re prettier
with their li
lir bob-
hi il;
prettier e\
en with thei
r short
.-.kirts
than they
would be
without
them.
li will
4o the tal
tentacle
- rovvd
s good nex
Sunday to s
•e some
youth
some life
mil si tue styl
e in Iho
hoi r
That goe
i, too!”
So
Mrs. Chad
wiik Is go ins
right
Cong
picking h
•r chorus rej
ardless
A Substantial Investment
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mors
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\; Milledgeville, Georgia