Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1932, Page 13

NATURE SEREGT MBNTAI-OF on Giayfl- Cone in Yosemite Park. P ‘ By theAssoclajed Press. YOSEMJTE, Calif,, April 2—Chip by chip gature has been bullding an”ice mountpin at the base of Upper Yosem- ite Falls in Yosemite. National Park that Bas reached a height of 230 feet Breatest in 26 years. | Whép: Fall. days shorten and Winter §s just around the corner, formation of the gigfit ice cone begins. Mist from | the 1430-foot cataract freezes to the| cliff walls at night and scales off when | Joosenéd by the warm rays of the sun | next day. Chun ice hurtle into the chasm and t ase like the sands in Day. by day t the height of the pending upon the amount of sn 1 and the severity of.the Winter. Each morning there is a perfect outline in ice of the falls. Then the warm sun begins its work and soon myriad pieces of ice are crashing down, sparklisg mn | the sun's rays and resembling the Sum- | mer spray of the falls. A thundgrous | roar echoes and re-echoes throughout | the valley as nature’s forces continue | their work, subsiding when shadows creep ‘over the brink to blot out the sun's energy. SPENCER AND WIFE POPULAR FISH THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 3 1932—PART__ONE. but there were “plenty of them through- out the day.” Meantime, the two big st: ON APRIL 1 TELEPHONE LINES 2%t Gy evitmming 1 thets aquaciten Commerce Department Operators Kept Busy Answering | Aquarium Calls. Aci Spencer and his wife Ruby were unperturbed yesterda# in their home in the Commerce Department Building as | six of the department's telephone opera- tors answered calls with husky voices and attempter to'get the elaborate tele- phone system back to a normal basis At 9 o'clock Priday morning the un- suspecting telephone operatots began answering such calls as— “Connect me with Mr. Spencer As there is no Mr. Spe liste the department’s 5,000-name tele book, the operators so informed callers. One hour later the calis increased and by noon the operators found the switchboard jammed with them Then there came a call for Ruby Spencer. “What division is Miss Spencer in estimated the cone contained 8.820.000 cubic feet of ice weighing 200,000 tons Wary Eye Kept on Cone. A wary eye is being kept on the by park rangers as it is eroding u the increased volume of the falls and cracks have appeared. These 2 warning signs that the mass may break up at any time. An entire cone has been known to crack up suddenly under the terrific pounding of the fall down the 845-foot middle cascades plunge over the 320-foot lower Often Yosemite Creek has thus been dammed by the ice mass and adjoining meadows flooded Park rangers then have a battle on their hands as they > | départment officials found it difficult : Hazardous Ascent Made. dynamite the obstruction to clear the A hazardous ascent of the giant cone | narrow creek channel and open a pas- was miade to obtain data for the park sage for ice and water to the Merced records. C. A. Harwell, park naturalist; | River. M. E. Beatty, an assistant, and Norman | Whether the great cone will break Clyde, well known scaler of California (up gradually this year or move en masse mounthins, formed the party. Chopping | will be know when Yosemite Falls Tootholds in the slippery sides of the ice | reaches its Spring volume. Tt is known | pack, they toiled for hours up its steep |that a tremendous amount of water is | sides, rzigzagging their course fo the |stored up in snowbanks that are the crest. . Often large chunks of ice|deepest in years. So park rangers are urtled down near them, but they made | prepared for what may be their hardest $he climb and descent in safety. fight to combat the movement of the' From information obtained it was!ice mountain. G G 7, iy sy Z Ny Sales from 'U. S. BURIES HATCHET WITH CITY OF CHICAGO By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 2—Now that it's please?” asked Miss Anna Hook, chiel | over, the United States Government operator. and the city of Chicago are friends “In the water division and she ain't|again and hoping it won't happen any no miss, lady, she's a married gal | more. How! Haw! Haw! April fool! Haw!| Thelr little skirmish over whether Haw! Haw!® © was in. | Policeman Patrick J. McPonnell was Haw! Haw!" the chief operator was in- | o™i handing a couple of deputy med. Inited States marshals a ticket for Miss Hook called a conference and parking an hour at one of the warlds i ¢ busiest corners was ended yesterday bv was decided to meet the United States Commisisoner Edwin K. 121y, as the calls were increasing. | waiker. he system was becoming serious and | Commisisoner Walker decided Mc- Donnell could have passed up the ticket |and the deputy marshals could have | overlooked arresting McDonnell for ob- | structing Federal justice. to get an outside connection as the operators answered calls as follows: “Yes, Mrs. Spencer is at home, but she is taking a bath, What. can you| So the Government offered fo erase see her?—certainly, Yes, Mr. Spencer | McDonnell's fingerprints from its rec- is here, t00, but he's taking a bath in|ords, the city promised not to prosecute the same tub.” the Government's marshals and Com- Miss Hook sald she made no effort | missioner Walker hoped the boys would to keep track of the number of calls, get along better in the future. 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