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CARSTEN’S RACKING COMPANY
MAN'S ORIGIN TRACED
INTO DIM ANTIQUITY
BY STRANGE RECORDS
(By Associated Press)
OAKLAND, Cal., Apr. 29.—Weird
prehistoric figures, chiseled into the
red sandstone of the deeper recess
es of the Hava Supai Canyon, an un
surveyed region in northern Arizona,
and the object of a scientific expe
dition last year, reveal man in exist
ence during the dinosaur age, in the
opinion of Samuel Hubbard, curator
of archeology of the Oakland Muse
um, who acted as directer of the
party.
Deductions of Mr. Hubbard were
made public today in a brochure en
titled “The Doheny Scientific Expedi
tion.” Photographs taken from the
engraved figures on the canyon walls
lead Mr. Hubbard to the conclusion
“that some prehistoric man made a
pictograph of a dinosaur on the walls
of this canyon. This completely up
sets all our theories regarding the an
tiquity of man.”
E. L. Doheny, sponsor of the ex
pedition, visited the Hava Supai Can
yon as a young prospector in 1879.
His party comprised the first known
body of white men to invade the
canyon and one of their number was
killed in the attempt, the report
points out. Mr. Hubbard made three
previous visits to the region which
yielded' the specimens.
The scientific party, composed of
| five persons, made its way into the
j unsurveyed region of high waterfalls
located in a valley 3,195 feet above
sea level, north of Williams, Arizona,
! in the area of the Grand Canyon.
The section is ihhabited by 183 in
i dians on the Supai reservation. Mr.
i Hubbard was accompanied on his ex
’ pedition by Charles W. Gilmore, cur
i ator of vertebrate paleontology of the
; United States National Museum. Mr.
| Gilmore did not agree in all parti
I culars with the general conclusions
! of the party.
Mr. Gilmore, however, the report
| points out, identified dinosaur tracks
j located 100 miles from the valley of
the ancient figures. The dinosaur
tracks were in the area known as the
“Painted Desert.” Photographs of
the dinosaur tracks, according to the
report, show the print of the dino
saur tail as it dipped between the
foot prints and formed a balancing
point for the lumbering giant of an
tiquity.
Referring to the photograph taken
of the dinosaur figure chiseled into
the red sandstone sides of the walls
of the isolated valley Mr. Hubbard
concludes that “either man goes
back in geologic time to the Triassic
period, which is millions of years be
yond anything yet admitted, or else
j there were ‘left over’ dinosaurs which
came down into the age of mam
mals.”
Turning to conjecture on the crea
tive ability of the prehistoric man
who comes out of the findings of the
expedition, the report says “he made
and used tools and had an eye for
form and a sense of proportion. He
felt the same urge to create which
animates civilized man. In the face
of this evidence the ape man, if there
ever was such a creature, is buried
still deeper in the overwhelming
ages of time.”
On the same stone wall with the
dinosaur figures the explorers photo
graphed the outline of an elephant
attacking a man. “The elephant,”
says the report, “is striking the man
on the top of the head -with its
trunk.” A wavy line in the figure,
which is in the center of an unex- j
plained group,” represents water into
which the man has retreated up to
his knees.”
In three separated places in the
canyon the explorers found and pho
tographed chiseled figures of ibexx on
the walls. One groOp, showing “a
male and two females,” was found
immediately under the elephant pic
ture, the report asserts.
“The interesting thing about this
is that no ibex, not even fossil ones,
have ever been found in America,”
the report adds. “These drawings
would seem to indicate that they
must have been a common animal in
the Grand Canyon in the prehistoric
past. Roy Chapman Andrews, who
has hunted ibex in the Gobi desert
in Mongolia, pronounced these to be
ibex for the reason that the char
acteristic knobs on the front of the
horns are faithfully represented in
the carving.”
About a half mile down the main
Supai Canyon from the point where
the wall carvings are exposed, the
explorers found a stone figure em
bedded in the wails ot the canyon
the report declares. Indians told the
party of their legend of the figure,
which said it was once a living wo
man petrified by the action of lime
in the water. I'eside the figure, the
reports says, “lies that of a baby
wrapped in petrified skins.”
Mr. Gilmore made “hasty examina
tion of the figure,” and he believes it
to be “an aggregation of limestone
in the form of a human being.”
Dissenting from Mr. Girmore’s
opinion on the formation of the In
dian figure, the report says: “The
head is somewhat flattened and a
fragment of the forearm is very much
like that of a human being. The
body measures 5 feet, 5 1-2 inches
from the top of the head to the end
of the spine, involving a total height
of between 11 and 12 feet. While
it is quite true that nature makes
many freaks, we feel there is enough
doubt in this whole matter to war
rant a more complete examination
by a party prepared to spend the
necessary time.”
An ancient fortress uncovered in
that part oi the Grand Canyon and
known as “The Thumb” is pictured
in the booklet. The fortress is des
cribed as an “isolated island of
stone” on the very brink of the
Grand Canyon.
On the side toward • the gully a
low wall of cvclopean blocks of stone
has been constructed, the report
says. “How these immense blocks
of stone were hoisted up there is a
mystery. The whole refuge is not
over 200 feet long by 50 or 00 feet
wide. It was evidently a place of
last resort from which there was
no escape.”
SPORT REVIVED FOR THE
ANGLERS WHO FISH ONLY
FOR FUN OF FISHING
BATH, Eng., Apr. 29.—The old j
•time sport of “manfishing” has been
renewed here, a human “fish” hav-;
ing been landed at one of the Bath 1
swimming tanks in 7 minutes 35 sec- ;
onds by Dr. Charles Begg, a well
known angler of ttys district. The
“fish” was Albert Canning, a Bath
swimming master.
A ten-foot rod was used, the line
being attached to the head of the
swimmer by means of a helmet and
swivel. Dr. Begg played his “catch”
until he land him exhausted, and in
so doing beat his own record of IS
years ago by exactly one minute.
On that occasion also Canning acted
as the “fish.”
GERMAN EMIGRATION DROPS
BERLIN, Apr. 29.—Stabilization of!
currency has acted as a check on i
German emigration. During 1923
Germans who left to establish homes
in other parts of the world number
ed 115,000, while in 1924 the num
ber dropped to 57,000. North Am
erica still is the favorite destination
of the emigrants. \
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AMERICANS SPEND FREELY
AT BUENOS AIRES CARNIVAL
BUENOS AIRES, Apr. 29.—Ameri
can tourists are discovering South
America. More of them have visited
Buenos Aires this season than ever
before, three large parties having
arrived during carnival week, while
every boat from the United States
the last three months has brought
smaller groups; One party number
ed nearly 400, mostly frpm the mid
dle west, and came on the first Am
erican tourist ship that has ever
visited this port.
The North American visitors en
tered into the spirit of the carnival
celebration in a manner described by
the newspapers as adding a new ami
picturesque note to the festivities,
and contributing much to the gaiety.
Many hired automobiles and joined
the carnival parades, well armed with
multi-colored serpentines to throw a
the crowds, while others attended
the numerous masked balls and learn
ed how the Argentine tango is really
danced.
It is estimated that the three par
| ties left more than 250,000 freely
i spent American dollars behind them.
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