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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
MAY 21, 1946
Cave Man and Date Couldn't Take Moonlight Boat Rides, Profs Claim
If there had been a K.U. during the Pleistocene era, about 25,000 years ago, there wouldn't have been any boating parties on the Kaw river, because there was no Kaw.
There was no eastern drainage during this period, and all the rivers flowed south, according to a recent article on the "Westward Extension of the Kansas Equus Beds" by John C. Frye, geology professor, Dr. Claude W. Hibbard, curator of the museum of vertebrate paleontology, and Dr. A. B. Leonard, associate zoology professor.
A series of piracies by nature which turned the Saline river toward the east and captured other south-flowing rivers as it went, formed the rivers of Kansas.
In the vicinity of the Saline and Smoky Hill rivers is a terrace in which have been found numerous species of pre-historic life. Similar specimens have been found near McPherson leading scientists to believe the river flowed in that direction.
Specimens found in this terrace include skulls of prairie dogs, molars of pre-historic horses, and land and water mollusks, snails, and clams.
These specimens were found near a high-level valley, called Wilson valley, and were of the type usually found in wooded areas and in deep still water. This indicates the valley probably was a wide permanent stream of fairly deep water bordered by timbered slopes. So little is known of the invertebrates of the Pleistocene era that it cannot be certain whether the species are of the beginning or closing stage of the interglacial period.
In one digging the lower jaws and parts of skulls of prairie dogs were found, but there were no indications of the dog town. However, a dog town was found lower in the digging, but no skeletons or other indications of the dogs. Further searching may show the age of these remains.
Nearby excavation turned up mollars of horses, disproving the theory that no horses were present in Kansas until the Spanish came.
The tallest living tree in the United States, 364 feet high, is a California coast redwood in Humboldt State park. Some claim it is the tallest tree in the world.
Fireman Drops Dead at Banquet
Topeka. (UP) — Fred W. Baer, Washington, president of the International Association of Fire Fighters dropped dead at a banquet of the Kansas State Firemen's association here last week.
Baer had just begun to address the gathering. A former lieutenant in the Kansas City, Mo., fire department, Baer had opened his speech with a humorous story concerning his experience at a fire years ago.
He stopped the narrative and fell backwards. Many of the dinners thought it was part of the story and a wave of laughter swept the audience. However a companion sitting next to Baer at the speakers table saw that Baer was ill and called a physician.
Baer died before the physician arrived. The inhalator squad of the Topeka fire department and three physicians attempted to revive Baer unsuccessfully.
Baer had been president of the International association for 27 years.
Horace Greeley founded the New York Tribune in 1841.
'Penrod' Readers Mourn for Tarkington
Indianapolis. (UP)—A generation of Americans who grew up reading "Penrod" and "Seventeen" mourned today the death of Booth Tarkington, one of the nation's best loved novelists.
Tarkington died Sunday night at the age of 76 in his rambling, tree-shaded home just four miles from the scenes of his boyhood. He died of a bronchial obstruction.
His wife, Susannah, was with him when he died. Friends and relatives said death was not unexpected. He had been ill for almost two years and spent the last two months in bed.
Private services will be held in the big, English-style Tarkington home Thursday, and burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery here.
Even in his last illness, the "gentleman from Indiana" retained the sly wit and gentle sarcasm that made his novels among the most widely read in American literature. Before he died he had been writing a story to be published serially in the Saturday Evening Post.
Tarkington, whose understanding and love of children was written into "Penred" and "Penrod and Sam," had no control of his own life, relatives or friends.
His closest relatives were three sons of the late James, all of whom live here.
Cecil John Rhodes, the greatest of he African millionaires, went to africa for his health.
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LET DOWN YOUR HAIR
PICNICS Are Informal .and Lots of Fun
Fellows, make a date for a picnic now. Call the K.U. FOOD SERVICE and order a picnic lunch especially packed for you.
Orders should be phoned in 24 hours in advance.
Call 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. PHONE 214
K. U. FOOD SERVICE
Food Delivery to All Organized Houses Monday Through Thursday
AT YOUR MOVIES
NOW — Ends Wednesday The Lives and Loves of the Bronte Sisters "DEVOTION"
Ida Paul
LUPINO HENREID
Olivia DE HAVILLAND
Sydney GREENSTREET
THURSDAY ONE WEEK All You Hoped For and More!
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You'll Live Every Gun-Scorched Minute.
Wednesday — 4 Days
EDDIE CANTOR
"The Kid From Spain"
Ronald Colman
"ABILENE TOWN"
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RANDOLPH SCOTT
ANN DVORAK
Also: MARCH OF TIME
OWL SUNDAY FOUR SAT. DAYS Gene Tierney "DRAGONWYCK"
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"SWING PARADE OF 1946."
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