Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 June 1928 — Page 7

JUNE *5, 1928.

EXPLORERS FIND TRACES OF OLD MAYANCULTURE Expedition in Mexico Sends Report of Important Discoveries. BY EMMA REH. STEVENSON Science Service Correspondent MEXICO CITY, June Tulane University Expedition, headed by Dr. Frans Blom, is cutting its way -through much unknown Maya regions of southern Mexico and Central America, finding living and dead evidence of ancient civilization. A report received by the Mexican Direction of Archaeology, the second word from the scientists in four months, enumerates discoveries and hardships between Comitan and Ocosingo. The distance between these two points is only 150 miles but it took two months to make the trip, because a path had to be cut through the heavy woods. Food gave out, and the party had a continuous fight with mosquitos, garrapatas that burrow in the flesh and other insect pests. Deep rivers were crossed and five temporary bridges were constructed. The party made an average speed of two and onehalf miles a day. Find Dykes Ten new archaelogical sites have been discovered, and in five of them are ball courts of "pelota,” a curious ancient game. There are “juegos de pelota” at Chichen Itza and in Yucatan, but it w-aa never suspected that the game existed in the area of the old Maya empire, which had declined, long before it was boom-time in Yucatan. Another thing that surprised the explorers was the finding of two “chultunes.” These are great underground stone "water bottles” such as are found in Yucatan ruins today. They were the answer to the water problem when there were no natural wells around. They were used to collect rain water against the dry season and sometimes when their owner died his body was buried within. One of the most important discoveries of all has been the finding of a bit of prehistoric cotton goods in a pot that had been buried in ashes in a cave many hundreds of years ago. In the area between Juncana and the Guatemalan frontier many ancient artificial dykes were found that once protected the farmlands from floods caused by the torrential rains of the wet season. The party found numerous caves with bones and broken pottery,, and one of the most interesting is at HuexhaL Here in fissures in the rock were found old pots and Jars, skulls and human bones.

Movies Taken The explorers believe that this -was a man’s” burial ground, judging from the inferior grade of pottery used. At Tzajolob, a ranch in the Valley of Tzaconeja, two tombs were found each built in the shape of a cross. They contained pots filled with ashes of wood carbon and burned human bones, and several skeletons well preserved. The party has already taken about 1,000 feet of moving picture films depicting the lives and habits of the Indian races that have been encountered, as well as pictures of the various ruins, the scenery in the woods and mountains and rivers. Pictures have been taken showing the conditions under which the Indians live, and sociological and ethnological data have been gathered that will aid the Mexican department of education in its project of incorporating the native, uncivilized Indian in the white man’s civilization. INFANTILE PARALYSIS REMEDY DISCOVERED New Serum Found Beneficial In Many Cases. Bm Science, Service MINNEAPOLIS, June 15.—The successful treatment of infantile paralysis by means of convalescent :;erum was reported to the American Medical Association here today by Drs. W. Loyd Aycock and Eliot H. Luther of the Harvard Medical School and the Vermont Department of Health. When the sufferer from poliomyelitis was given injections of the seruifWmmediately after being taken sick and before paralysis set in, the serious paralysis after-effects' were prevented in many cases. Only nineteen out of a hundred of the treated cases developed total paralysis, while 65.6 per cent of the untreated nonfatal cases had this unhappy ending. As infantile paralysis is one of the nearly hopeless chidren’s diseases, increasingly prevalent during the last decade, the use of this serum may save many lives and much misery.

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