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Royal Observatory In No Serious Danger From Generator

Is all well with the meridian of Greenwich? The Astronomer Royal answered the question rather vaguely at the annual visitation of the Royal Observatory yesterday. His visitors included some of the greatest scientists in the land, and he had to pick his words.

He expressed general satisfaction with the report of the experts upon the relations between the Observatory and the neighbouring electrical generation station of the County Council. He trusted that if the recommendations were strictly carried out the work of the Observatory would not be seriously interfered with. At the same time he confessed that further experience when the generating station was completed and in full work might modify his view.

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Cow Puncher Will Hunt Arctic Game

Carl Dunrud to Exchange Ten Gallon Hat For Parkha; To Lasso Musk Oxen

NEW YORK, May 22.-(AP)-Carl Dunrud, famous Yellowstone national park ranger, is going to exchange his ten gallon hat for a fur parkha, his Mexican heeled boots for snowshoes and Invade the sub-Polar regions to try to lasso musk oxen and walrus.

The cowpuncher who has a national reputation for throwing and tying steers, will sail with the American Museum of National History Greenland expedition early in June.

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Scientist Explains Extinction Of Bird

Heath Hens Practically All Gone Despite Efforts, Dr. Gross Says.

Illustration of male and female heath hens (James Turvey, 1835)

The several causes of the practical extinction of the heath hen, a game bird closely resembling the grouse, were set forth by Dr. Alfred O. Gross of Bowdoin College, at a joint meeting of the Audubon Society and the Biological Society of Washington in the National Museum last night.

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Anti-Evolution Amendment Aim

Scopes Case First Rumble of Big Drive

Bar Teaching’s From All U. S. Schools, Bryan Plan.

BY WILLIAM J. LOSH.

Staff Correspondent
The United Press

DAYTON, Tenn.—A constitutional amendment banishing the evolutionary theory from all American schools forever is the distant goal of organized fundamentalism.

It seems that the proceedings in the Scopes trial which will start in this little town Friday are only the first faint rumbling of a major battle that ultimately may be fought by the entire American nation.

William Jennings Bryan, mainstay of the prosecution of Scopes, flung down the gage of battle in an address to the Progressive Dayton club at the Asqua hotel Tuesday night.

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Send Photograph by Radio, Honolulu to N.Y. in 20 Min.

New York, May 7 (AP)—An ordinary photographic negative today was placed in a photoradiographic machine in Honolulu, a beam of light played through it and the complicated apparatus began clicking. One four of a second later, another machine In New York, 5,136 miles away, began dotting and dashing out a copy of the negative. Twenty minutes later the machine in New York had linked in the last dot of a complete positive—making a success of the transmission of a photograph by radio across the Pacific Ocean.

Seven times this process was repeated and seven pictures of persons and events connected with the Hawaiian maneuvers of the American army and navy of last week appeared in early afternoon editions of New York newspapers.

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Alaska Explorers Quit Point Barrow

Geological Survey Party in Arctic Was Believed to Have Been Marooned.

Dr. Philip S. Smith of the Geological Survey and a party of three Washington engineers who were believed marooned at Point Barrow, on the Arctic coast of Alaska, have started in canoes up the Yukon River to Nanana, the northernmost point of the Alaskan railroad, according to word received yesterday at the Geological Survey offices here.

Dr. Smith, J. B. Mertie, R. K. Lynt and Gerald Fitzgerald, who entered the Colville River basin early in the Spring after a sensational dog-sled journey over the Arctic mountain range, drifted down the stream to Point Barrow, the most northernly point under the Stars and Stripes, arriving early in September. Just how they reached the mouth of the Yukon from this village was not explained in the brief message received here, it is thought probable that they were picked up by some whaler that had got through the abnormal ice along the coast this Summer.