Evening Star Newspaper, September 19, 1926, Page 14

DERAL MOVING 1S NEARLY ENDED t i e 1!ansfer of 3,000,000 Pen- sion Files Only Part of Big Job Unfinished. i ! e moving of various govern- eftal agencies from one building to andther to bring about more economi- calluse of available housing facilities, which began in June, has been prac- ticdlly completad. Maj. U. S. Grant, 3d pa !"‘l"l! es and necessitated the hauling of | fro truck loads of office equipment ' one building to another. | 3,000,000 Files to Be Shifted. ost of the changes were made | with a view to piacing the Bureau of Terfsions in the Interior Bullding and | the housing of the general account- ing office in the old Pension Office | Buflding | e only part of the task still in-| moving of 3.000,000 files to | complete is the Pegsion Office Bullding AJong with the large collection of desks, typewriters and other office supblies, those in charge of the work fac€d the delicate job of moving 23 mirkors. § Mines Bureau Moved. i Following ummary of the! mofes made | The Bureau of Mines was moved the Interior fro; the Interior Building te the Wipder Ruildinz, at Seventeenth and F sreets The ir 1 revenu wag moved from the Interior Building | to ghe Walker-Johnson Building i The soliciter of the Treasury was | moged from the Interior Building i | ihedWalker-Johnson Building. | ‘The Bureau of Pensions was moved froh the Pension Building to the In teridr Building. £ The general accountin i meged from the Winder F Wagker-Johnson B nanee and the ‘Trea Rulldings to the Iensic ing cengral Frofed from ibe the; Register's Building. the Ori Department S Office Build- | e tribal claims accounting Auditor's Building 18 D street. | division AR:BOREAL “Cow™ FOUND.I Tree in Gentral American Jungle | Yields Milk. | | Ape@al Dispatch to The Star | NEW HAVEN, Conn.. September | 18 +-Explorers in_the Central Ameri can. jungle may find a substitute for theimilk of animals in a tree that has come to attention. The arbpreal cow is “milked” by cutting intd the bark and the liquid that pows forih is “rich and creamy. | paldtable and sweet to taste,” accord- | ingito its discoverer. Prof. S. J. Re-d cord of the department of fores uets at Yale Universiiy. Several other varfeiies of tregs” grow in tropical South Amer fca, but thus far the one in Guatemalu js the one found farthest north on the continent of North America. Scien tiath say that its occmrence in Guaté mala is a matter of interesi. since a related species in Colombis is said to vield chicle. the hasic principle of chewing gum g are heing erected in More huildir than for some time. Gedmany nov . director of public buildings and | s, announced erday. e e changes involved 2,500 em | birds and mammals in the natural | Huey GOATS LEARN TO CLIMB TREES AND SWIM IN OCEAN FOR FOOD Curator of Museum Reports Remarkable Conditio?.ere- vail in Pacific Isle Finds Guadalupe -Animals Eating Selves Out of House and Home. Special Dispatch to The Star. SAN DIEGO, Calif.,, September 18. in the Pacific on a nearly barren island, goats are learning to climb trees and swim in the ocean for food. Necessity is the teacher of this population of Guadalupe Island, a volcanic bit of dry land sticking up out of the sea 240 miles southwest of San Diego. For the goats are now eating them- selves out of house and home, accord- ing to Laurence M. Huey, curator of history museum here. The goats, which overrun the island, are now having to resort to tree climbing and ocean diving for an existence. Guadalupe Island, which has be- come famous during vecent years as | the only known habitat of the el phant seal, formerly was used 2s penal colofly by the Mexican govern- ment. Today the only inhabitants are a guard of Mexican soldiers to protect . the elephant seals, which have become almost extinct, and myriads of goats. | Climb to Highest Pinnacle. | These goats climb to the highest | pinnacle, and thread their dangerous way up the face of the cliffs ove hanging the sea in search of a hlade of grass or bit of herbage. During the dry season food is So scarce that the goats have resorted to eating the bark from the cypress trees, which crown the island. and desiring the lucious looking foliage they learned to climb the trees. But by constant gnawing away of the bark the trees are dying, and the goats have had to turn to the sea for their provender. “They eat the bits of seaweed that are cast upon the beach and even venture into the water for more. pretentious forays. But the goats will be no more un- less they mend their ways very soon, says, for by destroying the cypress forests they are destroving their only source of fresh water supply, and unless they learn to sub- upon the hitherto unpalatable salt water, they will die of both thirst and hunger. The goats, which were first intro- -YOU'LL WONDER AT THE TIME SAVED— When You Use Our Electrical Appliances to Do Your Work Cook, Clean, Wash, Iron, Light, Ete. Lowest Consistent Prices Guaranteed Appliances for Joseph D. Campbell 517 10th St. Main 6549 | | | JUPITER'S MOONS - DISCLOSE SECRETS | Threé Rotate Once While Re- volving Around Planet. Light Also Measured. | Special Dispatch to The Star. MOUNT HAMILTON, Calif., Sep- tember 18.—At least three of the moons of Jupiter, like the moon of the earth, rotate once on their axis in the came time that it takes them to make revolution around their parent planet, declares Dr. Joel Stebbins, pro- fessor of astronomy at the University of Wisconsin. now working at the Lick Observatory here Dr. Stebbins is using the 12-inch re. fracting telescope of the observatory and an electric photometer, by means of which the light from a star, planet measured with a delicate galvanom- eter, and so . the brightness of the object can be accurately determined. The chief difficulty is in keeping the brilliant light from Jupiter itself off the cell, but Dr. Stebbins has over- come this by the use of a small dia- or moon 1s focused on a film of metal- lic potassfum. The results in a mi- nute electric current which can be phragm with a hole through which duced in the penal colony days to supply food and milk for the colonists, have proved the nemesis of other forms of life on the island. Of the 10 forms of bird life and mammals that are endemic to Guadalupe, the goats are responsible for the extinc- tion of three. The towhee and wren were exterminated by the complete destruction of the underbrush, while the carcaras preyed upon the new horn kids and were destroved by men who had been granted the concession of exploiting the goats for their hides and tallow. The adventures-of the goats are not without peril. Huey said. Sev- eral carcasses of goats hava been | seen floating in the water beneath the | precipitous cliffs, an evidence that the | animals had fallen from the bluffs | A Big Bargam. overhanging the sea. But, as a rule, | 1736 B St. S.E. he explained. the goats cling to the | face of the precipices almost as tena- B e e S e, L ciously as a fly ascending a window- front and pane. es. electricity. built-in re. all_modern.” Large lot to $500 cash. monthly pay- Ovpen and lighted until but not the planet. However, satellite I. the nearest to Jupiter, is too close 0 be measured even with this method. | Measurements have been made of II, 1L and IV. ANl of these satellites re throughout, rear porc] frigerator. wide alley. ments to suit. 8 o'clor | LACY & BELT | Owners & Builders 493 G St. S.W. Phone Frank. 8068 - s i Cause for Thanks. | “Huh! grunted the pessimist, vou've just “vou should | have dys-| T Tine i!tbem@resthill 48 Apartments. 4 Vacant. 1430 Belmont St. N.W. 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III, IV take 3 days 13 hours, 7 days 4 hours and 16 days 18 hours, respectively, to revolve around Jupiter, and Dr. Stebbins finds that the variation of the light of the first two, at least, also follows these periods. This, he explains, is probably due to their being bodies like our moon and unequally .bright over their sur- face, so that as a greater or less area of the bright surface is exposed to the earth their light in greater or less, because this is largely reflected sun- light. In order to check the photoelectric cell, Dr. Stebbins compares the light of the satellites with nearby stars, | whose light is constant, and he sug. zests that this may be used as a possi- ble check on the variation of the sun- light. 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