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Show Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday Morning, September 19, 1935. Pelicans and Sea Gulls PELICANS are dying on the shores of the Great Salt Lake. Starvation is the cause assigned. This seems rather strange in view of the surrounding fields of grain and orchards of ripening fruit. However, as they live almost entirely upon a fish diet, pelicans may famish in a peach tree. Inasmuch as there never were fish in Salt Lake, it is a mystery why they selected the islands therein for nesting colonies. Pelicans are peculiar, both as to habits and appearance. They belong to the same family as do storks and cormorants, with sheathed feet, short legs, rough plumage and utility bill from each of which hangs a roomy pouch used as a temporary commissary. These ungainly birds perform marvelous feats of migration. On the ground, they are awkward and uncertain in their movements. In the air and under way, they fly swiftly at great elevations in large flocks. Just why that instinct which guides them to inland fishing ponds fails to lead them away when waters recede and food becomes harder to find is something that ornithologists have not yet made clear. It is understood that the federal government is beginning the construction of a national sanctuary for water fowl north of the lake near the mouth of Bear river. A park, a fresh water lake of some considerable size, a game warden and a high fence will be dedicated to the preservation of gulls, gannets, curlew, cormorants, pelicans and other birds that wade or swim and fly. In particular, it is desirable to welcome and protect historic sea gulls that saved an early day and devoured pests devastating fields and orchards of the pioneers; pelicans with amazing bills suggestive of the first few days of every month; and the stork, that fabled messenger from a mysterious realm who brings to happy homes their most priceless treasures and to the world the hopes and prospects of the human race. Carl Wernicke (1848 to 1905) Famed German neurologist at University of Breslau. He described sensory aphasia and wrote on brain diseases and insanity. He later issued a comprehensive atlas on the brain. 301.137 MILES PER HOUR Eyes of the nation and world were turned on the Bonneville Salt Flats last week, when Sir Malcolm Campbell, In his Bluebird, traveled faster than any other human on land, at the rate of more than 300 miles per hour. (1) Sir Malcolm. (2) At the finish of the record run. (3) Campbell and daughter, Jean. (4) Donald Campbell, son of Sir Malcolm, gets a little relief at the water cooler. (5) Campbell at the wheel of his Bluebird. (6) The target at which Sir Malcolm pointed his racer. (7) The course of the race. |