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ADRIFT
BRITISH PROFESSOR'S THEORY
The ground beneath you is drift- ing as you read this. It has been drifting ever since the earth was formed to a rhythm that taken 150 million years to complete.
The movement is silent, irresisti ble and perpetual. Only its results -volcanoch, earthquakes, climatio conditions--affect your life.
Dr. W. W. Waters of the Imperial College, London, writ- ing in Science, discusses this earth movement and opposes the theory the earth is shrink- ing and some day will be a dried-up crust lashed by searing winds and scorched by blazing hent.:
Hongkong, long before then will be joined to the Chinese mainland.
"There is the fact that the vigour of mountain building, of volcanoes and other manifestations of unrest has shown no sign of senility or lack of energy," he wrote.
"The Earth is a lady of a cer-1 tain age, but she haa contrived to preserve her youth and energy as well as her bonuty."
Highlights of Dr. Waters' dis- form, drift and sertation on rhythm of the continents includ- ed:
1. The earth to-day Is recover- ing from the greatest period of
building mountain
the and greatest retreat of its ocean it has i over experienced.
2. Water again will rise over present continenta because of the tremendous heat towards the cen- tre of the earth which has liquifled the rock and created on unfirm baae through which the continents must sink.
HAVENS IN CONCESSIONS |
Scones such as these that occurred in Shanghai in 1932 may again become commonplace in Chinese cities where non combatanta can flee to the protection of International settlements.
LATEST FISH STORY What
FROM AUSTRALIA
IT RAINED JELLYFISH
The latest "fish-from-the- aky" story comes from Mel- - bourne, Australia.
Residents at Frankston, a seaside suburb, were mystified to see tens of thoneatides of tiny jellyfish descending during a rainstorm.
The fish measured about half an inch in length and about one-eighth to one-quarter of an inch in width. Some were. striped, says Austral News.
When the sun shone apain the masses of deposited jelly- fish dried up into brown lumps. The waterspout explanation is the only one so far offered
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3. New land will be created Vanderbilt
when the molten rock solidifies- and pushes the continents above up through the water.
4. The new land-resting on shrunken substratum - will wrinkle like a withered apple and cause gigantic barron mountain
ranges.
6. The cycle-running from solldification to liquidification' ac companied by crustal tension back to solidification-will last about 150,000,000 years.
Chinese
G. Similarly between und Australian Coastlines consts bordering the Pacific lead to a theory that formerly they were linked together in one plain..
EXPLORER'S COMING OF AGE
New York, Nov. 12.
lost
The public is guessing as to the precise sum Mr. George Van- derbilt, son of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, who his life in the sinking of the Lusitanin in May, 1915, received. on reaching the age of 21 this week. Its curiosity has not been satisfied by the family lawyers,
ter.
7. The mountain ring from Kamchatka and Japan to the East Indies, Eastern Australia and New_who_refuse to discuss the mut- Zealand is "ablaze, with volcanoes and creeping with earthquakes,” testifying it has been formed recently and still is unfinished.
8. The earth crust of the their Rocky Mountains since formation has been crushed and shortened 20 miles, the Himalayaş 62, the Alps 76 and the Appala- chians 200.
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0. Despite effect of mountain upon evolution, Important was the growth of "mere unconquerable" grass which changed bodily features, bones,
claws, horns, teeth,
speed, strength an brain-United Press.
MUSSOLINI, 1911
Speech Against War
"Because I am an Italian and bo cause I love the land in which I was born, and whose language 1 speak, therefore in my capacity as a good Italian citizen I expressed, on the basis of economicnt and geographical facle, my opinion that is onterprise was calculated to injure
the interests of the nation,
with which are bound up the interratz of the
The speaker wae Signor Musso- lini (not yet Il Duce), and he wa defending himself when sentenced in 1911 to five months' imprison- mont for exhorting the people to do all that they could to impede the expedition to Tripoli,
SALESMAN SAM
ав the
Friends, however, ridicule' re- ports that the young man, who" married Miss Lucille Parsons carly this month, received much as £4,000,000.. Under will George and his elder brother Alfred shared their father's estate and were to receive their share in four equal parts, on renching the 'ngen of 21, 25, 30 and 85.
In 1917, two years after the will was proved, the estate was ap praised at £3,350,000, exclusivo of real estate property in States other than New York and of pro- perty in England. Debts due by. the estate were placed at £800,000.
Escapes Estate Tax
Treasury oficials in Washing- ton point out that, whatever Mr. George Vanderbilt has just re- ceived as a quarter of his sharo in his father's estate, he will not have to pay any inheritance tax on it. The United States had not estate tax laws until more than a year after his father's death.
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Mr. George Vanderbilt, who is of Commodore descendent Cornelips Vanderbilt, founder of the family fortune, has made his name familiar to the American 'public by exploits as an explorer.
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Columbus Saw 443 Years
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NEW EXPLANATION OF MYSTERIOUS LIGHTS
A strange light which Colum- bus saw on October 11, 1492,. has been a mystery ever since. Now, however, Mr. L. R. Craw shay, of the Marine Biological Association Laboratory, Ply mouth, essays a further solution in the latest issue of Nature.
This curious light was re- corded, as seen by Columbus and others from the poop of the Santa Maria about 10 p.m., ap- parently off Watling's Island. The light was seen some dis- tance away in the darkness.
It was described as "Looking like the flame of a small candle alter- nately raised and lowered." It Reems to have gone out of sight again not long after.
It is thought that the light was 35 miles or so eastward of the landfall.
"At such un estimated distance eastward of Watling's," says Mr. Crawshay, "the position of the light would be well out into the Atlantic, in some 3,000 fathoms of water, where the presence of a native canoe accounting for it, s suggested by Markham, seems in conceivable.
"Scarcely more credible is the
by view expressed
Mackenzie (1828), who makes the landfall at Cat Island, assuming-the-light-to- live been IL shore light ut Watling's, the island itself, how- ever, being missed by Columbus the darkness.
"Murdock diaposed of the dif- ficulty by the extreme course of suggesting that the light was non- existent and imaginary.
Surface Displays
"Against
the latter surmise is
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Indian Prince.
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with this are a danger. 16 Bread is made by this highly
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the definite record, not only of the light, but in such detail and in such circumstances, as strongly to sup- port the view that it was due to 20" on beer" (anng.). n surface display at the time of fleet leader. luminous marine annelids of the Kenus odontosyllis."
28 It's a heavenly spectacle to ree
me in bed!
In non-technical language, this mysterious light seems to have been displayed by the females of the species of phosphorescent marine worms to attract the males, and Columbus probably stumbled upon nothing else but a marine love. story.
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Mr. Crawshay adds that the il- luminating display of a single hava odontosyllis femalé separate short periods of excessive and declining brillance, thus ac counting for its resemblance to n candle flame alternately raised and lowered." Probably this "un accountable" light would disappear almost as soon as there was time to report it.
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shape.
31 This is artifeixlly obvious at
night.
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