Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1926, Page 16

> Secretary of State has informed him SEEKS TO SETTLE CLAIMS ONESTATE| Mellon Asks Court to Decide Disposition of John C. Landreau Property. ’ Secretary of the Treasury Mellon has filed a bill of interpleader in the District Supreme Court against Norman B. Landreau and Martin J. eNamara, executors of the estate of ohn Celestin: Landreau, and about 75 other clainwents to an award of $125,000 paid by the Republic of ’eru for the discovery of nitrate in 1844. Mr. Mellon tells the eourt that the that he is unable to agree as to the amounts due each of the various claimants, and Secretary wishes to avold embarrass tion and possible. liability if he pays any of the clalms and so asks the court to require the various claimants to prove their rights and to decree Just how the money shall be’ distrib- uted. Through VUnited States Attorney and Assistant United States Rover the Secretary of the informs the court thag the Repu=lic of Peru signed a protocol May 21, 1921, providing for an .ar- bitration over the Landreau claim before the arbitral commission, which reported October 26, 1922, that $125,000 was due the ].mdreflu heirs and - the money with in- terest of §10,062 was paid into the Treasury. resenting the cost of arbitration, and there remains a balance of $91.877 to be distributed among the persons found by the court ta be entitled. Landreau, it is explained, gave a number of assignments and later at- tempted to repudiate some of them on the claim that the provisions were not carried out. The executors as- zert a claim to the entire balance, it is stated, and Secretary Mellon passes the problem on to the court for the solution. POLISH PROFESSOR USES 240 DIALECTS Knows-36 Llnguigu—Hu ‘White Hair and Lives as Re- cluse at 38. By the Ascociated Press, POSEN, Poland, July 14.— Tassilo Schultheiss, professor at the Univer- sity of Posen, who is regarded as one of the greatest linguists in Europe to- day» knows 36 languages and 240 dialects, Few people in Posen know him, (or he leads the life of a recluse. Snow- ‘white hair—he is only 38 years old— heightens the unusual character of his appearance. For a number of years he was mere- 1y a modest teacher 'at the *‘gyrhna- sium,” or high school. When his uh- usual gifts were discovered, however, he_was called to the university. From a remote province in China therg recently- arrived a letter for a Posen merchant, who took it to the de- partment of oriéntal languages at the “university. The profesgors in charge pondered ‘over-the document for a week, and.were about ‘to gii'e up in despair, when one. of them remem- bered Schultheiss. “Why, that's such-and-such dialect, spoken by only a few thousand people in China,” he said, and locked himself up in his study for,the next 56 hours. As he emerged he ‘was able to place & faultless translation into the hands of the Posen mer r‘)wnt CATBOAT CREW SAFE. Steve de Orlo and Companions Reach Put in Bay. PUT IN BAY, Ohlo, July-14 (®) The catboat C.K.—23, owned a plloted by Steve de Orlo of the De- troit Yacht Club, sailed into Put in Bay Harbor early yesterday after searchers had patrolled Lake Erie yesterday'in the belief that’the boat had sunk. De Orlo, who_has entered the boat in Interlake Yachting - Association races here, took shelter in the lee of an island Sunday midnight. to avoid danger of capsizing in the rough seas. Accompanied by two other men, De Orlo set out in his boat for Put in Bay Sunday from Amherstburg, On- When he did not reach Put in resterday morning an alarm was sounded and searching parties from % | By the Associated Press,, Lxgh KillsMan, |: But Woman Rldmg Wlth Hini Esoape Nebrasks. Ounfior Exploring: for |4 Place ' Where Spaniards MONROE, Nebr., July 4.—-New light is’ uvect«\ to be throw: on early history ‘of the West through"excava- tions ~being “made in_the: cornfiel@l } along lmk!n: Glass Creek;, north of E. Blacknian, curator of i, toricdl Soce! v e curator, expects .to'. s and evidénce which will the site.of -the massacre By dians in 1720 ‘of a Spanish caravai under the command of Col. Villasur. The massacre, which long has been 4 matter of disputs among historians of the West, marked the halt of Spanish conquests to the North duripg the eighteenth century. Recently discovered documents, lo- - |cated in Spain and France by ‘A. B. - | Thomas of the University of Califor- nia, and the discovery of bits of chain armor and ancient coins resulted in the present search for concrete evi- dence to establish the exact location of the massacre. Col. Don Pedro de Villasur was dis- patched from Santa Fe to conduct a reconnaissance of the French along the Missouri River. In August, 1720, the caravan came upon the Pawnees. The Spanish cava- liers were received with friendly greet- ings by the Indians and an interpreter was sent to parley with the savages. For two days Villasur waited fruitless: ly for reply. Fearing treachery,he de- cided to retreat, and retraced & day’s Jjourney, where camp was mnde for] the night. The break of-dawn the !olluwlng day found the Spaniards astir making v to continue southward. Sud- v in the confusion of ~breaking camp the party was swept by a mur- | derous fire of shot and arrows. Col. 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