Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1931 — Page 5

MAY 18, 1931

FIND TRACE OF EARLIEST TRIBE IN EVERGLADES Elaborate Earthworks Are Discovered by U. S. Official. 8 1/ Frien'e feri'lce WASHINGTON, May 13.—First traces of the unknown prehistoric Indians who.lived in the Everglades have been discovered by Matthew W. Stirling, chief of the bureau of American ethnology. Stirling has returned from several months of archeological exploration in Forida. On tV, e very edge of the everglades, near Lake Okechobee, Stirling encountered a great plan of earthworks, elaborately laid out in embankments and mounds, and covering an area a mile square. So large and conspicuous are these earthworks, Stirling said, that it is surprising that no previous explorer ever has reported their existence or their significance. The nearest approach to anything like them are the famous Ft. Ancient earthworks in Ohio, which also were made by prehistoric moundbuilding Indian tribes Excavation Planned The most prominent feature of the Everglades site is a flat-topped rectangle of earth built 30 feet high and 250 feet long. This apparently was the focusing point of attention for whatever ceremonies were held at the site. Earthen embankments inclose a court in front of this high place. Back of it a semicircular bank of earth was raised This is only a small portion of the earthworks. A curious formation consisting of a large semi-circular bank extends in front of the high place and its court. And out from the semi-circle start a number of parallel lines of banks with circular mounds at the ends. Within the great semi-circle is a platform of earth six feet high and a quarter of a mile long. Excavations into this important Rite will be made next season, Mr. Stirling said. In his exploration visit, he found potsherds on the edge of the site, showing that the inhabitants of the place were familiar with pottery. These Indians are the people who inhabited the glades before the Seminoles came there from farther north in comparatively late times. Leave Huge Shell Excavation of a large burial mound made of sand was another achievement of the expedition. This mound, south of Key Marco, contained 250 burials of Calusa Indians, together with their possessions The stone age of prehistoric America was almost the shell age tn this region, for the Indians had shell hoes and axes, shell cups and ornaments. Stone was scarce, though a few stone implements brought in by traders from farther north were had. It is Stirling's view that this mound was the burial place of the Indians who left the “biggest shell heap In the United States,” famous in Florida. The shell heap, representing the refuse of some very large settlement, is two miles from the burial mound.

FARM BOARD PREPARES GRAPE GROWERS’ LOAN Funds Will Be Provided Despite Protests of Dry Groups. By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 16.—The federal farm board is preparing to make another big loan to California grape growers, despite protests in the senate and from prohibition groups. A large portion of the money will be used in financing a grape concentrate, which ferments into real wine after it is delivered to the homes. The loan will approximate $14,000,000. The exact amount, and allotments among the grape growers’ organizations, will be determined this week upon the return from California of Ralph Merritt, Washington representative of the California grape control board and of Fruit Industries, Ltd-, manufacturers of Vine-Glo, the home fermenting grape juice, which was the subject of a senate debate some months ago. STRIKES AT DEMOCRATS Lays Passing of “Iniquitous Tariff Hates” to Help by Party. WASHINGTON, May 18.—Republicans struck back at the Democrats Sunday night through the medium of Senator P L. Goldsborough (Rep., Md.), on the tariff controversy. Goldsborough charged that the “iniquitous” rates in the SmootHawley law were enacted with the assistance of Democrats—that without that assistance the law might h&ve been restricted, as originally had been announced by President Herbert Hoover, to agricultural rates. Memorial Service Sunday By Time* Special ROCKPORT, Ind., May 18.—The fifth annual memorial service at the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, sponsored by the Spencer County Historical Society, will be held on Sunday. The speaker will be Paul H Schmidt, Evansville attorney. Former Resident Dies By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind., May 18.—Mrs. Sadie H. Jay, 73, former Kokomo resident, and widow of Gilbert D. Jay, is dead at the home a son, Gilbert Jr., in Pittsburgh. Pa.

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By WALLACE CARROLL , United Pre* SUff Corrunondent LONDON, May 18 —London is waiting to give Texas Guinan a great big hand—but it also be a firm hand. This wide-awake metropolis, in which merchants clamp iron shutters on their show windows at 6. m. and traffic stops about midnight, feels offended at the insinuation that It must import its night-life from New York. La Guinan proposes to come here in mid-summer after she has given Paris anew thrill. She intends to open a night club complete with Harry Pilcer, thirty genuine Guinan girls, a band, two comics, maitre d' hotel, and her white horse. And incidentally, she promises a new brand of revelry. tt u n PARIS expects Texas about May 30. Her sojourn there depends largely upon how long Paris can stand the pace. As soon as the capital begins to weaken and the “suckers” start to thin out, the Guinan will pilot her troupe toward London. From present indications it hardly would be surprising if she found the upright inhabitants of this moral nation massed at the channel ports to repel her invasion. The Press, which always has

NAB SUSPEST IN COURTROOM Curiosity Leads to Capture at Robbery Hearing. Apparently unable to resist an impulse to “see what happened,” Robert Prather, 29, of 347 South State avenue, was arrested in police headquarters today as a bandit suspect. Banditry hearing of Ben King, Negro, 734 Indiana avenue, was under way in the court of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer, and George Butcher, R. R. 18, Box 351, the state star witness was en route to the court. Butcher was standing near the dry oods store of Jacob Yarvowitz, 2644 North Harding street, last Monday afternoon, when a Negro and white man robbed the proprietor of SSO. He had identified King previously. As Butcher prepared to step into the court, he spied Prather. He called detectives and told them the man was the Negroe’s companion on the robbery. Prather was arrested by detective Tom Barnaby and denied vehemently that he was involved, but could not give authorities satisfactory explanation for his presence near the court. After the arrest, Butcher reiterated his identification of Prather. Yarowvitz said he “was almost sure” of his identification after the arrest. King’s 'case'was continued until' May 21.

HOLLYWOOD DIMMED Depression Puts Extras on Hunger Diet By Sc-'ipps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 18—Depression has dimmed the brilliance of Hollywood’s talkie boom, and crackers and milk are now the lot of thousands of film extras, the women’s bureau of the labor department declared today. The situation is such, the bureau said, as. “should give pause to the fond mother whose ambition is to train her child for a place in the Hollywood sun.” Basing its conclusions on a survey by the California industrial welfare commission, the bureau reported that during 1930 only one out of twenty persons registered in the Hollywood casting offices averaged as much as one day’s w r ork a. week for the year. The average daily earning of those who did catch on from time to time was $9.74. River Claims Victim By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind., May 18Merle Hawkins, 19, living near here, was drowned after the boat in which he was riding with two other youths, overturned when it struck a barge in the Ohio river. Ralph Swigcrt, 17? sank beneath the barge but was rescued. Clarence Zeber, the third youth, swam to safety.

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ESCAPED WOMAN HELD Pair who Broke Hoosier Prison Thought Captured in OhioTwo women who escaped from the ] Indiana woman’s prison ten days ago were believed held at Troy, 0.,! today, according to word received by Indianapolis police. They are Mrs. Jean Stamper. 23, and Mrs. Helen Bennett, 27, of Mancie, who were serving terms for complicity in robberies. They fled the prison the night of May 7 through an unlocked gate. SEVEN DIE IN CROSSINGCRASH Sunday Joyride of Boys and Girls Becomes Tragedy. By United Press CALAMUS, lowa, May 18.—A Sunday afternoon joy ride was turned suddenly into tragedy for four girls and. three boys of high school age when Walter Mumford, 17, of Dewitt drove his car into the path of a fast Northwestern passenger, train and he and his six companions were killed. The dead, besides Mumford, were: Martha Berner, 20; Medona Berner, 19; Bernadette Eerner, 16; Mona Berner, 15; Arnold Berner, 13, and Mildred Byers, 16, of Dewitt, - The~Berner boys and girls all lived at Toronto, a few miles from here. They'were all of one family and were cousins of Mumford. The passenger train was westbound. Mumford waited at the crossing for an east-bound freight to pass, then drove his car, witnesses said, directly into the path of the passenger train.

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triotic Britishers one of their most stirring slogans since Sir Douglas Hoag laid down his famous "backs to the wall” policy along the Somme in 1918. “Texas Guinan must not come to London,” declared the Herald. “London dees not want Texas or any similar alien specialist in illicit drinking and the other ingredients of questionable night club life. “Texas Guinan boasts that she makes 20.000 pounds (about SIOO,000; a year by giving people a good time. The good time consists of featuring flimsily attired women in cabaret shows, principally notable for their utter absence of artistic merit, and in supplying her ‘guests’ with large quantities of liquor at exorbitant prices.’’ B B B DEMANDS have been made by the Daily Herald and other organizations and individuals that J. R. Clynes, the home secretary, forbid Texas to land in Britain. He has the power to do this if she comes here for professional purposes. If Clynes acts, “La Guinan” automatically will become a member of the “banned from Britain club,” which includes among its members Harry K. Thaw and Jack Diamond.

HOOVER ORDERS MILLIONSSLASH Huge Sum to Be Shaved Off Federal Expenses. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 18.—A maximum of $10,000,000 will be shaved from the budgets of the war and interior departments as a result of President Herbert Hoover’s weekend economy conferences, it appeared today. The President and officials of the interior department returned Sunday night from the Rapidan river camp bearing out departmental predictions that relatively little could be cut from its far-flung activities. Next week end the navy department may be scrutinized. Last week officials of the war department tentatively agreed to abolition of certain obsolete army posts, with a possible savings of $5,000,000. The interior department matched that amount, with the added prediction of further cuts in the two following years. CHINA WAR SPREADING Serious Threat of Civil Conflict Extends Through Six Provinces. By United Press LONDON, May 18.—The serious threat of Civil war against the national government at Nanking was believed to have spread to six provinces in western and south China today, the Shanghai correspondent of the London observer reported. 100,000 Workers on Strike By United Press ROUBAIX, France. May 18.—The textile industry in the Tourcoing region was parctically paralyzed today when a strike of 100,000 workers went into effect in Roubaix and vicinity.

WOMEN ARE IN THE CITIES AND MENONFARMS That’s What Census Report Shows; Divorces Are Going Up. BY HERBERT LITTLE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 18.—Women who want to get married should go to the farms, and men looking for spouses should go to the cities. Detailed census reports compiled for eighteen states scattered over the union show that in proportion to the number of men, women are plentiful in cities and scarce in rural territory. The reports show also that in the western states, once predeminently male to an extent where a little school teacher had the countryside at her feet, the sexes in recent decades are more nearly even in numbers. Trend Is Startling Trends somewhat startling appear from some of the figures. The number of divorced women is listed as twice that of divorced men in several states—but indicating merely that a divorced woman has less chance, or desire, to remarry, than does a divorced man. Nebraska had 105.2 males per 100 females last year, compared with a ratio of 111.2 to 100 twenty years before. Even in this western state, however, the women outnumbered the men in the cities, where the ratio was 96.3 males to 100 females. The city development is recent, as shown by Nebrasxa figures of 1910, when the urban population was made up of 106.3 males to 100 females. In the country there are 110 men to 100 Yvomen. Nebraska in the last decade, registered an increase of nearly 2 per cent in the percentage of its married population. Divorced women increased from 3,368 to 6,072, and divorced men from 3,231 to 5,645. In Maryland, with an entirely different makeup, the relative number of women also has increased. In 1910 they outnumbered men, 100 to 98.9; now the men are more numerous, 101.3 to 100. Women in Cities, as Usual In the cities however, the women, as usual, outnumber the men, 100 to 96.7. While in the rural districts there are 108.6 men to each 100 women. Here again the number of divorced persons has doubled in ten years. These indications that there is no truth in the tradition that the boys go off to the cities while the girls stay, on the farm to live out a quiet home life, are borne out even by Maine and Connecticut. In Maine, there are -107.1 men to 100 women on,the farms, only 93.3 men in the cities. ■ ONE CENT A DAY PAYS UP TO $1,000.00 The Postal Life cz Casualty Insurance Cos., 8501 Dierks Building, Kansas City, Mo., is offering anew accident policy that pays up to $10*) a month for disability and $1,000.00 for deaths—costs less than lc a day —53.50 a year. Over 68,000 already have this protection. Men, women and children, ages 10 to 70, eligible. Send no money. Simply send name, address, age, beneficiary’s name and relationship and they will send this policy on 10 days’ FREE inspection. No examination- Ls required. This offer is limited, so write them today.—Advertisement.

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