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Dragons? No! Alligators!

By JOSEPH L. MYLER DISCOVERY of "living fossil" redwoods in China has stirred speculation' among the Imaginative that man might one day find equally sensational survivors of

supposedly extinct

animal species,

Maybe dinosaurs; perhaps sabre-toothed tigers; possibly mastodona,

To

a question as to whether such speculation find any scientifle validity. Dr. Austin H. Clark, of tho Smithsonian Institute, replied "No."

There are, Dr Clurk sald, no places, on earth which have not been visited by man capable of supporting the glant beasts of other ages.

And if any such animals were living in any such

the African or Amazonion swamps, say rumours of

would have reached civilisa- tion by now, he

places their CAR

But persons Interested in survivors of the dim past of millenniumis ngo can find plenty of examples to absorb them if they will settle for less spectacular specimens than

the

dinosaur.

Take the camel, Dr Clark sald. In its wild state the camel has been extinct for thousands of years. It was domesticated before the dawn, of history.

The camel. Incidentally, is an American animal. How and at what point in its ancestral line the camel reached Africa and Asia nobody knows. American hemisphere survivors of the extinct camel include the llama, guanaco and vleuna., They, too, are domesticated.

The story of Humphrey

-a king

by GWYN LEWIS

ORK censed for a while on the dairy farm at Letheringham, Suffolk,

of Mr W. Kers, and he and his cownien stood by to receive nobility.

'The distinguished visitor was making the journey to Suffolk from Kilmarnock, In Scotland, and was making it by rond.

Everything was in readiness for his reception and Lwo months' stay at this and two other farms in the district run by Mr Kerr.

Now, as the group scanned the winding rural road in coun- try that Constable loved to paint, there was a cry from one of the hands of "Here ho comes."

The passing stranger would have observed nothing more re- markable than a truck of the kind used for the transport of cuttic.

among bulls

Humphrey, on his feer again, wearing the tron frame that keeps his damaged horn in postilan.

bull

of dynamic

Humphrey, n energy, became involved with Mr. Kerr's new gate.

Hic either charged at it, tried to toss or gore, it, or pushed his massive fiead between the bars and injured himself in his efforts to free It.

Another "lving fossil" 'is the latimerin, a fish. Until a few years ano science thought it had been extinet for 100,000,000 years.

BELIEF EXPLODED

That belief was exploded when a lovely specimen of the extremely primitive creature was caught off the west coast of Africa.

A great many living plants and animala are related to extinct species. But for the most part they Harry Arbon, the village blackcare evolutonary improvements of smith over at Dullinghoo, was given considerable magnitude over their a sketch of Humphrey's head and dead kin. instructed to fashion an iron splint that was to stretch from Humphrey's sound horn to the crumpled one and thus give it support.

Was coon discovered that

The men returned from their meal to find Humphrey lying inert by the Humphrey was Incapable of eating, gote. One of his horns

that his leg injury made was and crumpled and lay loose in Its socket. movement impossible. He was nearly unconscious, und a leg had also been injured.

Raced 5 miles

Mr. Kerr, shocked by the dis- covery, raced to Wickham Market, five miles away, to bring back Mr. R.W.Kingsley Kofford, veterinary surgeon..

At Leiston, 12 miles further on, Mr. W. Lisle Downic, another vet received a telephone message to hurry to help.

Mrs. Kerr was soon receiving instructions to prepare Ice packs needed to check" Inflammation.

The veterinary surgeons diagnosed

that no ellort

Not so the ginkgo tree. It is just like the ancient ginkgo tree which the once grew in great groves on

another American continent. It is "living fossil." And, like the camel, it has never been found in a wild slate.

The ginkgo, or maklenkale tree, escaped extinction because the, an- eleni Chinese placed it under cull- First dimeulty was overcome by vation. It still flourishes in the bottle feeding. Rich was the fare temple gardens, of China, and also poured down the throat of thrive in Washington. Humphrey.

HIS DAILY DIET CONSISTED or 18 FRESH EGGS. TWO PINTS OF

HONEY, AND

STOUT.

OATMEAL GRUEL

was

The second dimculty countered by making him a com- fortable as possible where he lay. He was kept warm with horse cloths and old Army blankets borrowed from neighbours.

The battle won

a fractured skull with concussion. Keen night winds were tended An injection of heart stimulant was off by trusses of straw bullt round given,

him. Mr Kerr made it clear to BULL STOCK OF WHICH eveybody concerned

Morace and Albert Williams BARGOWER LEGACY WAS was to be spared to save the life of father and son, acted as night nurses, and day nursing duty was done by THE SIRE LAST YEA-R Bargower Legacy.

head cowman Johnsen and Mr. Roy But out of that truck stepped FETCHED £12,000.

The treatment that followed was Hicke, another cowman. so lavish that it made headlines in majesty on the hoof, a king

Humphrey lost 5001b. in weight, Farmers have been glad to the newspapers, and there have been among bulls, a noble beast bear-

on the new but gradually the battle for.life was sarcastic ing the

Bargower. pay Mr Drummond £25 for the laid eggs and

given to won. Legacy. He had been loaned to atud service of Bargower Humphrey, a mere beast of the field, Mr Kerr by Mr John N. Drum Legacy. Such a bull could be

as como put it. mond, owner of the famous mated with 60 cows during a Bargower herd of Ayshire

cattle.

name

The oaken gate The ton of flesh and bone that made up the mighty proportions of Bargower Legacy ambled into a paddock.

The stout, brand new oaken Mr Walter gato was shut.

year.

of

Bargower Lord Nelson," "one"

Humphrey's grandsons, fetched £8,500, a record for the Ayrshire breed, which is famed for the production of milki rather than beef.

comments

stout

An

When I saw the pride of Mr. But grazing on the spring pastures Drummond's herd he was grazing of Britain this day are between 300 contentedly with never a glance at and 400 sons and daughters of the gate that caused the trouble.

charged fence Bargower Legacy, each worth many

electrically enclosed now

him. This carries hundreds of pounds.

Humphrey had been insured for just sufficient current to make him from the gate and £2,000, but his real worth was for keep away

hedges and farm buildings. hu plaster of paris. more. His broken head was bound surrounding

Persons who see in dragon lore a "racial memory" of dinosaurs that Survived to the Age of Man get no comfort for their theory from Clark. Ile has gone pretty thoroughly into the evolution of dragons.

DRAGON MODIFIED

The ancient Chinese dragon was an alligator, China's most fearsome beast. The Chinesa: alligator Is bigger, meaner, quicker. and rarer than its cousins,

When the Manchus swept down from.the north and look over Chino, they modifled the dragon symbol. Because in Manchuria the tiger was the most ferocious of animals, the Manchus endowed the Chinese dragon with

and a tiger's head claws.

Ancient Europe had dragons, too. Their inspiration was the python which, like the lion, once dwelled in southern Europe. In the course of time the European and Chinese dragons European offspring had the head and

made

feet of the Chinese parents.

a

marriage. The

อ

has the

Look at the reverse of an English sovereign and, Dr Clark pointed out, you will see St George staying dragon. Although it Chinese dragon's head and feel, a tell-tale loop in is body gives nwoy the monster's snakich origin...

"This dragon," Clark said, "is a hybrid alligator and python." United Press.

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S. scene

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the bull."

That well-made gate was to make front page news of Bar- gower Legacy.

Humphrey was introduced to members of the herd of 66 Ayr- shire cattle kept by Mr Kerr. Mr Kerr had high hopes of those meetings, and for good

When 23 of Humphrey's sons were auctioned last autumn

price being £2,205 paid for Bar- gower Home Pride.

containing butterfat.

Farmer Kerr is anxious for Humphrey to puss on these qualities to his own herd.

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"knighted" whiskies.

BAZY

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always

way of saying no to all of them."

THE U.S. PASSION for initials THE

(G. L, S. H. A. E. F., E. ́R. P.) Is They are spreading to New York. going to tear down road signs read- ing "No Parking," and "Merging Traffe," etc., so that they will read "NP," and "MT,” etc.. A New York paper protested at the change. Ils comment; "It's NG."

Groucho GANGSTER, Mark-whose entertaining. Is

non-political-col a loud U.S. Press that perhaps Perhaps it is counter propaganda American laugh by announcing he the recent exchange of Notes that American distillers are naming had wired Winston

Churchil an with Russia has not increased their whiskies Sir Some-thing-or- offer of, a bricklayer's role in his

other. There are now three forthcoming British film. his hopes of world peace. Shattered peace .

IN IJOLLYWOOD complaining And the Press' told Truman that

ESPITE the success of Holly- through Variety, the enter- Ordinary London milk con- Increased his chances of being re

his handling of these Notes has not wood's first unti-Russian pictainment weekly, that there are 37 But his visit began without tains 3 percent butterfat. Hum-elected as President.

ture" "The Iron Curtain, other ways for American film companies untoward incident. The men phrey's mother or dam, Heather

producers are toning

to get their money out of England The brickbats are flying from all Hollywood on the farm called him Hum- Honey the Fourth, yielded milk sides now—from

some of their Ideological

have found a Right, Left and down phrey.

Alms. Says producer Robert Buckner: and "the British Middle. up to 5 percent

"We must recognise that we are not The Right,

by the represented

at war with Russia, and that we New York Dally News, Recuses Truman of making America a world cannot go on making the Russians

complete scoundrels and villains. loughing stock..

is going NOW there

to be a The Left, represented by the telephone strike. Unless the

ealls New York Post,

Truman's renunciation of peace feelers

privately run telephone company "the

grants trunk operators a 15. dd-an- most Infamous welsh In current hour wage rise, which it will not, history, bar the Palestine sell out,"

the hello girls will say good-bye. THERE IS a major crisis among And the Middle, represented by No date is fixed yet.

Congress Communist-hunters.. the York Times, calls

In a burst of passion they passed B088, Emil a low banning all members of the

Workers' Union Truman's actions have Schram, has joined the No De United Federal helped no one but the Kremlin and pression chorus. He told Congress working for the Government because enemy, Henry that there is no danger of runaway the union in too Communist. Then

they werd

told that America's CARPENTER Wallace, the peace-with-Russia-at- Inflation, or a great depression. and for the past five years has AND JOINER. THE GATE, THAT any-price Independent.

which publishes all their Arat British sired offspring that have been NEARLY

Communist spacches, may not EXTINGUISHED

chip to be sunk in the war. come out. The Government printing. sold by Mr Drummond for be- HUMPIMEY.

PROшBITIONISTS; hard at work THE ATHENIA, the

again to stop Americans drink will be replaced by an American office which publishes it is staffed tween £8,000 and £10,000' n

It happened while the men were ing, have found a new and topical troopship which the Donaldson Line entirely by Federal Workers' Union year.

away at their midday meal.

argument: "Drink is the first step is buying in New York.

reason.

A month had gone by when the peaceful routine of a dairy farm was shattered by a catas

Humphrey's pedigree goes back 50 years. He was sired by the noted breeding bull Bat- trophe that was to keep every- body on tenterhooks of anxiety, gower Golden Anchor. The with many sleepless nights, for affair "the great balloon ascension." WALL STREET'S

nearly a month."

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