Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1926, Page 58

e | GREENLAND YIELDS CATHEDRAL RUINS Danish Archeologist Finds | . Trace of Eric the Red’s | Lost Colony. Correspondence of The Star aund New York World. LONDON, December 5.—Archeol- ogists are greatly excited over the mews from Copenhagen that Dr. Noer- lund, leader ofythe Danish archeolo- gical and geological expedition to bishop, and there were at least 12 Norse churches in the Middle Ages. republic, but later the coloniés gave allegiance to the Kings of Norway. There were some 10,000 inhabitants of Viking-breed in the Arctic Circle when the last reliable statistics were com- | piled, and the complete disappearance olonies” is more of a gedy than the story of Lost Continent” of Atlantis. The colonists had to rely mainly for supplies on regular Scandinavian expeditions which $alled every Sum- mer from Norse ports. In the four- teenth century Europe was ravaged by “The Black Death” plague and the dispatch of reief expeditions to Greenland was discontinued. Scandi- navia had enough to do to succor and feed its own resident population, and the Greenland colonists were over- looked for some years. . From 1247 to 1261 Greenland was a Ivigo, and established that it covered {some five and a half acres. It was built of red sandstone, probably in the twelfth century. The explorers have brought back the skeleton of a bishop —judged to be a bishop by the episco- | pal ring still on the finger of one hand. A bishop's crozier, made of walrus horn, is among the finds, and from historical records it is taken that the skeleton may have been that of Bishop Jon Sverre: e, an adopt- ed =on of King Sverre of Norway. There were several chapels and other buildings in the neighborhood of the palace and cathedral. In another place were found the remains of a church, presumed to have been built by the wife of Eric the Red; also a runic stone with a remarkable in- | scription, so far untranslated. Soutfl Greenland, ha reported the Further investi- STATE CONSIDERS BAN ON USE OF MACHINE GUN Tennessee Legislature May Be Asked to Outlaw Possession or Purchase of Weapon. By the Associated Press. NASHVILLE, Tenn:; December 15. —The Tennessee General Assembly probably will be petitioned to outlaw the machine gun and make It a capi- tal crime to use, possess or purchase the weapon. . W. Eggleston, attorney for the seventeenth judicial district, has an- nounced that he will sponsor at the sesslon beginning January 3 a bill providing the death penalty for vio- lation. Mr. Eggleston said that while machine guns had not been used In the State by the lawless ele- ment, they could easily be purchased. “I think thece also should be a punishment of from 5 to 20 yea the penitentiary and a fine of $5 to $20,000 for any one convicted of selling to, procuring for or assisting any person to obtain a machine gun,” he sald, adding that he would advo- cate a fine of $25.000 to $50,000 for any company or corporation making a sale. SR It is claimed that 370 deaths out of every 100,000 among women are caused by the craze for a ‘boyish figure MOTHER IN COLLAPSE WHEN CALLED IN COURT Nervousness of Woman Charged With Breaking Compact Causes Trial Postponement. Associated Prese. 3W YORK, December 15.—Mrs. nt Mersereau, defendant in her husband, rsereau, president of s Lawn Tennis Asso- d in Supreme Court Monday in so nervous a state an ad- journment was granted until Friday. Unrepresented ounsel, an attor- the | and a failure to do this resuited in a ney was assigned to her by Justice Crain, who paroled her in_her own custody until Friday. Mrs. Mersereau is charged with contempt of court in having broken conditions of guardian- ship agreed upon in relagion to her two children. Under the agreement made at the time of separation from her husband, Mrs. Mersereau was to have kept the ‘Workmen on this section. Proboscidean Skull Found. Special Dispatch to The Star. PRINCETON, Mo., December 11.+ Barber Creek, here, unearthed the skull of a probo scidean, the first ever to be found in The fossil was in a strata of sand and mud about 20 feet he surface of the earth. neat two children in a Garden City school, court order she is alleged to have ignored. A warrant, charging con- tempt was then obtained by the hus- band. Gadiinis Of the 25,000,000 children in Ameri- can public schools, says the National Education Association, there are 12, 000,000 in rural and village schools. [a[c—=|p|———=|o]———=|o]c———alc———alc——=2lalc——lalc——|alc——— o] ———=a|c———|a|—=a[—] discovery of the foundations of a large cathedral at Ivigo in the district where When after a considerable interval | . relief vessels were again sent to: Greenland, the sailors were unable to. L] old harbor entrance at Ivigo| ! , evidently, been frozen up or ’ ’ glaciers, s revealed no trace of the 10.- 000 members of the colony, and it s clear that they must have died, ted or dispersed in search of more hospitable regions. Whether any of the colonists inter- married with the Eskimos and es- ed southward has been a subject for controversy. and there were not wanting optimists during the past 200 vears who imagined that the colony nust have moved to other parts of he Arctic, and that their descendants uld still be found living in inland No such traces were ever however, and it is traditionally ood that the last Norse Bishop nland died around 1377. Dr. Noerlund’s expedition has locat- ancient bishop’s palace at the’ Norsemen lived under Eric the |W Red about the year 1000 A.D. . The Norse colony in Gr its virtual disappearance int has long been the subject discus sion and speculation among cheol and clerics, for in the Middle Age large and pr&sper ous colony simply ceased to exist and no reliable traces of the communit, have ever been found Some 900 yea ag a Viking ruler. 2 5 Erickson, planted colonies \ men in Greenland and introduced Christianity. 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