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r'+i * * • ■ . * •• _ U' J -' ^ , The Barnwell People-Smifttel, Barnwell, S. C, Thursday, May 30, 1935 ' ’ Natural History Given - Important New Chapters a Expedition Gathers Mammal and Bird Specimens. New York.—After six solid years of storm and still, sun and swelter, as leader of th<j Whitney South Sea ex pedition which has been collectinR birds and other specimens for the American,Museum of Natural History in the South Pacific, William F. Goul- tas, leader of the expedition, has finally returned to NeW York. Slhce 1929, when Mr Coultas took command of the expedition, sponsored by Harry Payne Whitney, and later by Mrs. Whitney, he has cruised more than 25,000 miles In the South Pacific aboard thb “France,” a 75-ton auxiliary schooner, and visited some 50 Islands aad Island groups. In the course of these visits, he collected about 10,000 speclment of birds, mammals and rep tiles for the American museum plus several thousand insect parasites and fully 75,000 varioTis kinds of shells. During the past three years. Mr. Coultas was accompanied by his wife who created a sensation among the na tives on many islands who had seen few white men and never a white woman. According to F. Trubee Davison, president of the American museum, . . . the Whitney South Sea expe dition during almost a decade -and a half of ceaseless research and explor* atlon In the south seas, has added chapters of untold value to man's knowledge -of natural history, particu larly bird life, In that .remote section of the world. Many New Specimens. Mr. Coultas contributed about four score specimens toward those new dis- coverles'^mainly ' land birds—during the six years he headed the expedi tion. Cldef among those is a type “megapode” from the Xinigo islands. erenced this owl. They say that when It cries, some one will die. And should anyone kill one of the birds, that is a sure sign of death.... “By sheer luck I bad. obtained a fe male along the. ^eacoast, but I went about 15 miles Into the interior in the middle part of the Island of Manus to Investigate some chalk caves where I was told I could find more of this par tlcular species. I arrived on a Friday, made a camp and began my hunt in the chalk caves. The old chjeX of the village accompanied me the first "two days. His name was Dpwai, from the Village of Metawari. He was friendly but uneasy. Hunting these owls was. defying the gods. - Natives Are~Surfy; “One Sunday, for some unknown rea son, the old chief became suddenly ill. and on Monday morning, when I set out on another trip to the caves, I found that he was lying unconscious in his house. This was about mx o’clock, in the morning. I went to a cave alone and obtained a beautiful male. I was highly elated, but my joy vanished when I returned to camp about D‘.30. 1 was horrified to hear the death wail of. the-women. Who had died? I learned soon enough—It was the old chief. The natives were far more surly than they had been heretofore—almost threaten ing. Our next 18 hours were un- ? Lost Gr&vfes Yield Bones of Soldiers Arras, France.—Once bloody bat tlefields,' now fiojirishing farms and busy factory sites, still are yielding the bones (ff soldiers from unmarked graves of 20 years. Many of them are identified to be sent home to rest In the village churchyard. Often a pencil, a watch or a ring is the means of naming them again after, two decades on The “Lost in Action” lists. Uniden tified bones are placed in a copimon charnel house with a last brief ab solution by the village priest. A corps of searchers, divided into teams bf three, is pacing off nearly every foot of earth where battle was known. ';i., comfortable because the natives gath- eTeTl^armrrni our camp in droves, an4 one even attempted to assault us. We were vastly relieved when we succeed; ed in getting a runner down to the' sea- coast for some of the coast dwellers to paddle us down the river and take us out” * *. The Whitney expedition had no un friendly tilts with the natives, but there were times when Coultas had to proceed with tactful diplomacy.. This was especially the case in the .Admir alty islands where he found the natives surly apd irritable. He laid the blame for their disposition on the climate, poor food and the congested'tonditions under which they live. SUGGESTION, FOJR; INDIAN DIALECTS IN STATE NAMES A writer In the Boston Transcript, ftrho. finds .the Indian names of some of the states “superbly euphonious.’* would rename those states whlch- have failed to take advantage of such excellent sources as the various In dian dialects. Thus Carter plass would become the senior senator from Potomac; the states of Katah- dln, Merrimnc and Winooski, In the northern tier of New Ffngland, would vie for the summer tourist business; Governqx I/eh man would preside over the destinies of the state of Man hattan, and Oovernor Earle .over those of Wyoming, the latter name to be expropriated from a western state which has no clear title to it. Maryland, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina an^l Geor gia, Instead of paying homage to the -memory of English royalty, would bo known,’ respectively, as Chesapeake, Shenandoah, Catawba, Santee and Alt&maha. Florida’s winter visitors might ballot on the choice between Okeechobee and Suwannee. The Transcript writer offers other names in exchange for those torne by New Jersey, Indiana, Colorado, Arizona, Washington,. Montana, Ne vada and New Mexico, but It Is profitless to dwell on the music of | these Indian syllables. Euphonious as the names of Alabama and Missis sippi and Tennessee may seem, the \ tabllsbed are not likely to be dis turbed ; not even the haunting loveli ness of Shenandoghr la enough to overturn history.—New York Sun. Tlire« Harvest* a Year By Increasing the “day” for wheat plants with electric Ulumluatt-on It has been found -possible In Australia to produce three crops a year. The ex periments were only successful with Australian bred wheats. . English wheats became like grass tufts. EVER THINK OP THAT? Getting to w.ork early gives one more time to loaf later In the day. Here’s an Odd Way to Make a Living &■« “Jim> "i - ■ Quick, Safe Relief ‘•or Eyes Irritated By Exposure To Sun, Wind and Dust — To quickly allay skkr Irritations or hurt: depend on soothin if if!. save MONCYI BUY DIRKCTt Special Shetland Floes 1 os. ball He. Boucle Wonted. Uermantown. Write for samples. 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Prompt service: qualltv plants now ready. JOHN F. LINDSAY. TIFTON. GEORGIA. dusts one off. y.y&y * vv •. . . . ‘-OP-’ ... .... , <• • w,l 4CTSfc. vT'' '' w. m i m. F* .v.We 1 ... saKa-.w. . v.. " •’''goprvv- . . eAe,- GEE, DIZZY, YOU SURE HAD SWELL CONTROL TODAY - BEATING THE TIGERS II TO O WHOA, BOBBY 1 EASY THERE. PRINCE ! The queer thing about this strange bird Is that It was first discovered and de scribed by Bougainville, one of the early - Trench Pacific explorers; and has net been seen by an ornithologist since. There tyis never been a scries of this* bird .taken previously—a drah colored bush fowl as big as a hen, anu its rhief claim to fame is that it lays a 3 , .£ inch Another bird collected by Mr. Coul tas Is the “DJnhn,” native name of a bird not unlike our barn owl. It is about 18 Inches tall and has a peculiar high-pitched cry that sounds somewhat like a traffic officer’s whistle. “My time In the Admiralty Croup Is lands,” said Mr. Coultas, "was a difli cult one. The natives were surly, ar rogant, treacherous—the most difficult we found in the whole South seas and due to their laziness and cunning they were of no assistance whatever. A case In point - Is the island of Manus, where very few whites have ever visit ed the Interior. Here tfe"were practi rally ordered *q\tt of the hush’£ But - we wanted to get a-•pjalin.’ NOT SO GOOD AS l HAD IN THE ARMY-DOWN IN (TEXAS ONE NIGHT THE HORSES started MILLIN’ 'ROUND IN THE CORRAL AND — 1 iliil mt m Wi ill When yachtsmen at Santa Monica. Calif., want their anchors laid at the bottom of the harbor they engage the service of Dave Foster and Frank Quinn, young college students, who have thought up tjjis edd way to pay their expenses in m-liool Tlndr eiitnninnm anchor puller ifl 1ft feet long and l*. propelled by an From generation, natives have rev- outboard motor. It has a lifting capacity of one-half ton. . I m , mm Mk )uwmm x V SO YOU RE THE VARMINT THAT'S CAUSIN' ALL the fuss! i'll take THE $TING OUT OF YOU HOW DO YOU UKE THAT BEAN BALL? YOU WON'T CAUSE ANY MORE TROUBLE ’ROUND THIS MAN'S Camp! A CCC Workers Find Trenches at Yorktown Search Aided by National Park Service, Maps. Washington.—Fortifications u&ed* by French troops In the siege of Yorktown have been located by members of the civilian conservation corps working on the site. - When the GCC started* work at York town the fortifications had been oblit erated by farming operations and their exact location Was in. doubt. Maps of the historical staff of the national park service had indicated the fortifications probably ran perpendicular to the York- Hampton road. Working on that information, the CCC men ran test trenches through the area parallel to the road. Points ■oon were uncovered which by soil strat ification and signs of disturbance" indi cated they once had been dug out. By connecting the points whole lines of trenches were identified and now are being reconstructed.. AT'r'rPsnlT of the CCC work and technical advice of historians It was possible to locate nbt only the first po sition of the French grand battery but STALIN TELLS THEM II I. V. Stalin, dictator of Soviet Rus sia, In characteristic pose aa be de livers a speech during the second All- Union Congress of Collective Farm Shock-Workers in Moscow. also the first of a series of parallel trenches used by the French in their advance on Cornwallis. . f The historical staff of the park serv ice believes the fortifications first were constructed by British forces for the defense of Yorktown .when It was learned that the combined French and continental troops' were marching on the Important colonial seaport. September 29. 1781, however, the con tinental forces pushed toward the York river. They were surprised to find that the British had deserted the outer for tifications and had moved back to the inner trenches immediately above York town. . By order of General Washing ton the allies took possession of the abandoned ground. Farmer’s New Fox Alarm. Proves Its Efficiency Brynntville. Mass.—Willard Snow has become the Edison of this little town with his new fox alarm. A crafty creature has been stealing Snow's poultry anjl evading capture with ease, so Snow put his inventive genius at wo^k. He-tied a string to the foot of a dead duck and ran the line throng!) a window to the table beside his bed. where hi fastened tt around a tin can full of pebbles. The other night the can went fat tling across the floor, and Snow, shot gun in hand, made a beeline for the hen coop. He found a fine red fox had Invited Itself to a duck supper. Now gnow has the brush to show for ibis new alarm. Town Election Turned * Out to Be Family Affair New Durham. N. 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