Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1928, Page 31

LIGHT ON CUSTER'S DEATH IS SOUGHT Widow of Crow Indian Scout| Believed to Have True Massacre Story. By the Assoclated Press. LAWTON, Okla., December 27.—The widow of a Crow Indian named Curly is the object of & search by Frank Rush, veteran plainsman, who hopes 1 help him prove “historians have en the red man a square deal.” By the Associated Press. TAHITI, December 27.—The pro- posed use of modern diving suits in competition with the primitive methods of native pearl divers has aroused the people of the Paumotu Island group al- most to the fighting point. Thousands of South Sea natives dependent upon pear] fisheries feel that their means of livelihood is menaced. Reports of serious disturbance at' the island of Hikueru have come to the French administration here. Hikueru is the center of the diving activities this vear, and there the native divers | weighted with stones have been de- | scending on ropes from small boats to ; THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 Use of Diving Suit in Pearl Gathering Causes Near Riot Among Tahiti Natives pry the pearl oysters from the ocean floor. Recently a concession was granted to use diving machines, or suits. This, it is asserted, was in contravention to the law and also violated the exclusive privilege of the natives in diving. Natives stormed a warehouse at Hikueru, seized diving helmets and concealed them. More than 1,000 na- tives milled around the administrator and a gendarme, but there was no vio- lence. Passive resistance was decided upon, but the natives seemed determined that no diving apparatus should encroach upon their preserves. EX-POSTMASTER IS DEAD. went to Washington to confer with President Cleveland about the office of Century on Farm. HOPKINTON, Iowa (#).—The Liv- ii.gston family has lived on a farm here 92 years. This year's crop was the ninety-first yield cultivated by & mem- ber of the family. $1 an Hour for Farmwife. KENDRICK, Okla. 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Ave. fé/ Transportation Building § Phone Decatur 3600 B sleves an mjubics Sl Satuppm Fapes 6 in a box..........35c'a box ..4in a box... 5c a box ..4 in a box. .65¢ a box 1 in a bhox. .65¢ a box ..4 in a box. ..80c a box postmaster he: was questioned about the ownership of race horses. * Friends of Hill said he answered that by If breeding and owning fine race horses | |§ was an objection he did not want has been done the Indians by calling | Dallas Man's Remark About Horses the battle of the Little Big Horn the “Custer massacre,” when a previous attle, in which Custer routed the pahoes, is referred to as “the great vietory of the Washita.” The woman for whom Rush is look- ing is the widow of the Crow scout who | escaped the “Custer massacre” and re- ported it to Gen. Phil Sheridan. She has documents, Rush believes, which | 1 a different light the war- n white and red men, and b eal how Custer died. Curly, of whom Rush fi when Oklahoma was a spa prairie, died three yea % row Indian came to our camp " Rush relates, after describing a | scene on the site of Ponca City. “He |t boasted he was the scout who escaped the Custer massacre and reported it. | . 1 made light of the story. He motioned | . 1o his wife. She went to their covered wagon and got a packet wrapped in a purpie silk handkerchief. In it was document, bearing a Government seal identifying Curly as the Indian scou who reporteg the massacre.” o Nt The Crow said he was ordered by | &/ Custer to get through the Sioux lines | ng and Teport the death of the general| \¥ and all his troops. The scout removed | {5 all his clothes, he declared, to appear | like one of the Sioux who surrounded |\ the Custer command, and, feigning 10-inch 12-inch. . 16-inch. . 18-inch 24inch. . Won Cleveland Appointment. WDALLAS, Tex. December 27 (0|1 1o | W. M. C. 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