Evening Star Newspaper, November 9, 1926, Page 23

SCORNS DIAMONDS T0 STUDY OLD RACE Explorer, Shown Gems and Gold, Continues Search for | Amazonians’ Ancestors. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 9-—A who saw gold and diamonds glisten- ing the hands of untutored In- dians, but sought the ante- cedents of their race rather than of | their weaith told here yesterday his| man n who story of a year of adventure in Amazonian wilds. Dr. William M. McGovern, leader of the expedition backed by the British Museum. to the wilds of the jungle and the Peruvian deserts, aaid: “Frankly, 1 did not see any of the deposits of gold or diamonds in the Guina hinterlard, but the In- dians showed me samples and told | me that was where they found them. Found Primitive Race. “But in the depihx oi the jungle I did see a race of primilive beings whem the more aavanced Indians call Pogsa or animal tolk. There was ne nusiaking them with their sharply receding foreheads and chins. Some were very dark, like negroes except for thewr hair: some were light enough 1o give rise to “white Indian” legends, although they had more color than the white race “These rude people. speaking a Ianguage of clicks and grunts, and several ancient long skulls uncov- ered in the same disirlet, are the remains, 1 believe, of an aboriginal race which antedated the Asiatic In- vasion which peopled the Americas with our Indians “The history of early America may he pushed back further in Peru An expedition, which could remainm in one place could discover much. In splie of our great amount of trav eling 1 faund one place where there were three layers of earlier civiliza- tions underlying the Inew ruin which we once helieved most an- elent.” Heat Less Than in Indo-China. The Amazon. MeGovern de- elared. 18 not the river of death that it has been called. He sald the heat was far less hothersome than in Indo-China. He led his party of five white men back safely, although another was drowned hefore they were fairlt started. Dr. McGovern declared the Ama- %on a potential mine of go'd through ruhber plantations and said - that petrolenm and coal deposit had heen | Jocated In the eastern section of Pern, Ll | VIRGINIA BAPTISTS OPEN ! at Annual Sessions of State | Association Special Dispatch fo The 3 VILLE. Va. Tha General Baptist Virginia opened its here today with a large delegation | present and with a program which | will keep It fully occupled throngh Friday morning. Between five and #ix hundred delegates and visitorsare present from all quariers of Virginia. Charles A. Johnston of Richmond. moderator, called the hody to order at ® n'clock at the Main Street Metho- Aist Church, where the meeting ix be- ing held. Reports from State inatitu- tlons were the first business of the merning. these being presented by their presiding executives. The Vir- ginia Baptist Mission Board will pre- | sent fis report this evening, and Jo seph Watts of Richmond will present | the co-operative program tonight. | The feature of tomerrow morning’s will_be the inapirational ad . George W. McDanle. for 95 vesvs pasior of the First Baptist Church of Richmond, on “Raptists To. gether ovember 9. annual session |LACKAWANNA BAISES Association of | SHOP WORKERS’ PAY Increase Affecting 6,000 Men Ranges From 2 to 5 Cents an Hour. By the Associated Press. SCRANTON, November 9.—Approx- imately 6,000 emploves in the motive power and equipment department of the Delaware, Lackawanna and West- ern Rallroad Co. at points between Buifalo, N. Y., and Hoboken, N. J were given an advance in wages rang. ing from 2 to 5 cents an hour, the company announced yesterday. Under the revised schedule, effective as of November 1, 1926, mechanics will receive an increase of 3 cents an hour; car ollers, box packers and cellar men. 5 rents, and mechanics’ | helpers. coach cleaners and laborers, 2 | cents an hour | In announcing the increase the | Lackawanna stated that practicall: all engine and car shops of the com any were working to capacity and | hat there would be no change in | working conditions | SEEKS ANNULMENT. Nat Goodwin's Nephew Says He Will Rewed €ixth Wife. SAN FRANCISCO, November 8 (®). | —Robert (Texas Bob) Goodwin. who | expects to lexd his famous uncle. the late Goodwin. by two laps in the matrimonial sweepstakes, applied here | vesterday for annulment of his latest union. that in which he was joined to Betty Markle in Los Angeles on October 13. It wasx found after the | ceremony that the bride had not ap- | plied for final divorce papers in a pre vious marriage in West Virginia. 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Heiskell, editor of the Littl Rock Gazette, and second vice presi- | dent of the Associated Press, and Frederick I. Thompson. publisher of | Age-Herald, and a | director of the Associated Press, a: tended the meeting Others present were: Glass of the Lynchbui R. Jeffries of the Greensboro. N. News; William E. Gonzales ofs the ‘olumbia, S. C.. State: J. P. Miller, the | vannah, Ga. A. Fell of the | Birmingham . News, representing | Victor Hans publisher: Wiley I Morgan, the Knoxville, Tenn Frederick Sullens, the .Jackson, Miss., News; C. P. Ma Baton Rouge. | Humphrey, 3iovannoli. the Leader, and Morton Miami, Fla.. Dail superintendent, and W news editor of the Southern division. John Cohen, Journal, and business manager of the Atlanta Lexington. . Milford of the well Assoclated Pres Ma of the editor luncheon given by ¥ t o | ter semt to eves STAR, -WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1926. NAME IS ANNOUNCED FOR BIGGEST U. S. SHIP Largest Vessel Ever Built i America, 8oon to Be Launched, Christened ‘“‘California.” By the Associated Press. W YORK, November 9.—When the largest ship ever built in America is launched at Newport News next July she will be christened the “Cali- fornia,” the International Mercantile Marine announced vesterday. The _Califo 000 tons, is the first of three nned for inter- coastal service to the United States ports. Each will represent an invest- ment of $7,000.000. P. A. §. Franklin, head of the line. said he wanted to express his appreciation of the sup- port California interests have given the Panama-Pacific Line. MOVIE STUDIO CRAFTS MAKE STRIKE THREAT Film Producers at Los Angeles Face Demand for Observance of Union Rules. By the Associated Press. 1.OS ANGELES. m producers here yesterday were reatened with a studio craftsmen’s strike when the Studio Mechanic: Alliance served notice on all studio owners that its members would walk out unless union conditions pre- vailed in the studios by December 1. ‘The notice was contained in a let- tudio here by James Deck. secretary of the alliance. Deck sald he was acting under instructions from the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Mo- tion Picture Operators, with headquar- ters in New York. Deck explained that the studio me- chanics were demanding clgsed-shop conditions at the studios, with unlon hours and union wage scal The four local unions affected stage employes. carpenters and join- ers, electrical workers and the Brothe hood of Painters, Paperhangers and Decorators. November salad plates, vases, wide 25c¢ tal clear or in delicate col- popular. 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