Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1927, Page 33

THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.” THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6 _19%. | cities, each built over the remains of - . e e anx [ncoln's Refusal of NEW DOUBT IS CAST |:: edecescors on e v Tan. archeologist, and of these the By Grandson of Man Who Made Offer ON HELEN OF TROY man_ archeologist, and of these the sixth was designated as the Troy of Correspondence of the Assoclated Press. the story run& as related bv Corning's Helen and the great stege. The date | NIW YORK.—A story that Abra-|grandson to John W. Starr, who tells colume on “Lincoln and the PR of the destruction of this city was de- Archeologist Disputes Reputed termined as about 12000 B.C. 2 3 | _But the recent exeavations of Dr. | 2 Date of Destruction of City. |Berthe have shown that though this | ham Lincoln once declined a’position |t in a . 5 destruction did take place, the destroy- | Radiroen Holds Iliad Written 600 B. C. k ers were not Gry | as general counsel for the New York | “mye pest day Co'ning called on Lin ks or Myceneans, | E \ but northern barbarians from Trace, Central Railroad becaus asked: “Would “ou enter m the New York Cen- who wanted, to cross the Hellespont | fie, efect of, the B0 falp | tral to become its general counsel at . : e g city on | ried upon the morale amily | tral to b s gener: : and st In Adi Mo T ity on | has been substanti-ted by Parker |§10.000 o year?” Lincoln, amazed at the offer, pon- dered it. ing of 1860 Lincoln came | Then, the story goes, he. replied: to deliver a ~olitical ad- | “What could T do twith $10,000 a er Ins.itute, and one of |year? It would ruin my family to was Erastus Corning, [ have that much income. I don’t he- | president of the New York Central,!licve that I had better consider it.” Correspondence of The Star, th its' b 2 thel 4 BERLIN. — I it he straits barred their way, so they | b . elen of Troy wanders | ;oC "o C0q ", and for centuries it was | Co- ing, grandson of the man who once more without a home in history. not rebuilt. Only a succession of | made the The destruction of her city by the Ho- | wretched villages stood amid the meric inbabitants of Greece and its [TUins. Al this is indicated by the # numbers and stribution of lost or islands, long thought well established | proken weapons and household uten- by archeological research, is mnow |sils dug up in the ancent mound. called in question by Dr. Brich Bethe, | The first evidences of the incoming a professor at the University . | of Greeks, Dr. Bethe states, belong to |after a call on President Coolidge. =g, S et $ TOWNER NOT TO RESIGN. | The judze, who was presented by ol sy Semator Curtis of Kansas, declared The opinion that Horace M. Towner | that “all the talk of Gov. Towner re- | has no intention of resigning as Gover- signing seems to be in the States.’” | Troys and they were all destroyed. So | nor of Porto Rico was expressed to-| Mr. Towner Is at present in his home | { in Towa on leave and is expected to much ~the earlier investigations | Chinese dwellings are heing crected |day by Judge Ira K. Wells, United|come to Washington before resuming showed. 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