Evening Star Newspaper, March 2, 1930, Page 23

" PARLEY TOBEHELD ON CRAMION BILL Montgomery Planners Anx- ious to Learn What Effect Measure Will Have. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., March 1.— Just what effect the passage of the Cramton park extension bill, without immediate provision of appropriations, will have on the present plans for start- ing, this year, the development of play spaces in the metropolitan district of Montgomery County is to be the subject of & parley Tuesday afternoon here be- tween the Montgomery County members of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission and county officials, it was learned today. Particu- larly, the commissioners and their con- ferees, it was said, will discuss the mat- te~ as to whether, if Monomery County goes ahead and develops its park system with its own funds, they will be allowed the Federal contribution if and when Conigress appropriates, May Take Years to Get Money. It was pointed out that even if the Oramton bill passes at this session, with the amendments suggested by the offi- cials of Maryland, that it may be several years before Congress provides the money. The Cramton bill itself merely provides the authority for the appro- priations. There seems to be little hope that the money will be forthcoming th! year, especially in view of the Presi- dent’s admonition to Congress about its liberality with the Federal Government’s funds. Plans for four projects of park ex- tension in metropolitan Montgomery County have been laid out and pre- sented to the planning commission. ‘The commission has directed a study of the financial situation to determine the limit in bonds which may be issued un- | der the park and planning organic act | to meet the expenses of the develop- ment, and these facts have been laid be- fore the commi Although it had been planned to start the improvement work in Rock Creek Park early in the Spring, the commission has not yet taken any definite action. None of the cummml‘:‘ner:ed o{n 3: | planning commission participa dhc\lllh:‘fi! with Mr. Cramton concern- l IN “A PRINCE Members of the cast of the play to ‘THE. SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. THERE WAS” 'FUNERM. UF Pflns be given tomorrow and Tuesday nights | for ‘St. Gahriel's Church building fund. Left to right: Sitting—Helen Ryan and | Mary McCarthy. Standing—Harold Hamill, Dorothy Collifiower and Matt Fenton, tar Staff Photo. CHURCH CLUB TO GIVE GEORGE COHAN PLAY “A Prince There Was" to Aid Bene- fit Fund for St. Gabriel's the rogud amendment to the gfi dwn:d remove some of the ob- jectionable features. As they have be- 12nas wadt devtloping. them, It was SAId ds Be. has been raised as to action of the National Congress. $150,000 Available. s ‘The county now has available for scquisition of park lands and their im- provement a total of approximately $150,000. This is made up of the $50,000 appropriated from the State treasury b, the Maryland General Assembly at its 1927 session, and the remainder is the fund which has accumulated as & result of the levy of the 7-cent tax. While the money donated by State can be used only for the acquisi- tion of land, two-sevenths of the fund rovided as a result of the tax levy may ge used for development and improve- ment, in accordence with an amend- ment to the law adopted by the last Legislature. Montgomery County will not get any benefit of the interest: that has accrued on the State fund, and no matter how long it is um it will never grow larger. It can only be paid out on warrants issued for specific purchases of land. While it is not the desire of the or the Moutgomery offictals to wait until the Pprovision of Federal money under the terms of the Cramton bill, it was indi- cated, nevertheless, the commission is us of determining whether, if thi proceed with the development planned, and if the Federal money is appropri- ated several years hence, whether the Federal Government will allow a credit on projects already developed. While }tvposed amendments provide for a lump-sum contribution, it was said that this is in reality a one-third contribu- tion based on figures compiled by the engineers of the Maryland and Federal planning commissions, showing the | areas of land necessary for the proposed n';kaags and the estimated value of e land. Suggest Federal Allowance- It already has been tentatively de- cided to suggest an amendment to the Cramton bill which would provide for a Federal allowance even for land which is acquired by the Maryland body by dedication. Officials of the commission are now working in the Rock Creek and Sligo valleys, interviewing the owners with the idea of not only ob- taining dedications of land, but where this cannot be done, to ascertain the price at which the owner will dispose oll it to the park commission for de- velopment purposes. It is the l\’r‘l‘ew of some of the officials that Montgomery County's park de- velopment should not be held up pend- ing the provision of the Federal money, but that the agents should proceed with the acquisition of land, with subsequent development, and then when the Na- tional Government provides the money to seek credit for the land already ac- quired. The matter is considered of much importance, on the eve of the county starting its park development, as the Federal funds lumped to those of the State and county will make it possible for considerable more develop- ment. Those scheduled to participate in ‘Tuesday’s conference are J. Herbert Cissel, Robert G. Hilton and George P. ol Hoover, the Montgomery County mem- bers of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission; Irving C. Root, chief engineer, and J. Bond Smith, general counsel of the com- mission; Lacy Shaw, vice president of the board of county commissioners, and E. Brooke Lee. RESERVATION TRANSFER PROTESTED BY INDIANS New York Tribes Believe Bill in Congress for State Control Means Use for Power. By the Assoctated Press. BUFFALO. N. Y., March 1.—Among the Indian chiefs of the six nations today there was a protracted pow-wow in the Longhouse at Akron, and peti- tions were being prepared to the Great White Father at Washington, protesting against a plan to take jurisdiction of Indian reservations from the United States and give it to the State of New York. Chief Frank D. Williams, turtle chief of the Tuscarora Tribe, and other Indian chieftains of the six nations see in the proposal a plan to take from the Indians the Onondaga Reservation near Syracuse and turn it into a water wer site. Under the United States ws, that property could not be con- demned for such a purpose. ‘The proposal to give jurisdigtion of Indian reservations to the State is tained in a bill, introduced th the House of Representatives by Bertrand C. Snell of Potsdam. Six nations’ Indians, meeting this week at the Allegany Reservation at Cold Springs, decided to send representatives to Washington to oppose the bill. So have the Indians on the Tonawanda Reservation and at Akron. The Senecas, the Onondagas, | have been transplanted from ancient Construction. PRI, George ' M. Cohan’s play, “A Prince There Was,” will be presented tomor- row and Tuesday nights by the Stella Maris Club of St. Gabriel's Church, at Carroll Hall, at Tenth and G streets, for the benefit of the bullding fund for the new , Now under con- struction. The play will be produced under di- rection of Charles A. Russell, who has been successful with several former w given by the club, assisted by _Helen Collins. ‘The cast includes Kathleen Baker, Phyliis. Brown, . Dorothy Collifower, | Dorothy Connor, Mary McCarthy, Helen Ryan, Robert J. Bagrett, jr.; Matthew Fenton, Kenneth Collins, Harold Hamill, %fne Luckett and Justin and George kle. gl WEYLER, SPANISH CHIEF, HAS PNEUMONIA ATTACK Serious Bronchial Tllness Makes Recovery Difficult at Advanced Age of 92. By the Associated Press. - MADRID, March 1.—Gen. Valeriano Weyler, 92-year-old _vetéran 'of Cuban ‘wars, who holds ‘the highest rank in the Spanish army #s'a cap- tain general, wag seriously ill ‘at his home tonight. with bronchial pneu- monia. ‘Two specialists were called to his bedside. They refused to comment on his condition, but said that his ad- vanced age would make his recovery difficult. Girl Disappears From Home. Washington police were requested last night to be on the lookout for Gwendolyn Schron, 17, of Berwyn, Md., | mai who left her home early yesterday | afternoon and has not been seen since. Mrs. W H. Schron, the girls' mother, was unable to give any explanation of er daughter’s disappearance. KEY TO LOST MAYAN LANGUAGE SOUGHT IN SPAIN BY DAWES’ AID Remnants of Once Greaf Civ- | ilization Believed in Papers : There. Ambassador’s Interest Only to Advance Knowledge, Says Dr. Abbot. Buried in ancient stdte archives, in boxes of f ten letters in the of me castles or mon- asteries in Spain, may be the key to the ' lost language of the Mayas and the rec- ord of nearly 2,000 ‘I"::rs of .one of the world's greatest eivi tions. In the hope that something of this sort may be found, Prof. Charles Up- | son Clark of Yale University now is {n Spain on a project. financed by former Vice President Charles * G. Dawes through the Smithsonian Institution. It is belleved . possible that shortly after the Spanish conquést of Mexico and Central America. some. Spanish priest or military office, in contact with the dying remnants of the pre-historic New World civilization which 'the con- Quesors destroyed, may have copled some of the Maya hierogiyphics and sent them back to Spain with an accom- ! Ppanying Spanish translation. This would | reveal the phonetic value. of the let- | ters and put scholars in a.position to recover the lost language of Maya | monuments, tablets' and manuscripts. Mr. Dawes’ interest inthis possibility | was first aroused by & member of the Spanish royal family- visiting Wash- ington, who told him of the vast ac- cumulations of manuscripts which had remained for many years unexamined. ‘There was a great deal of correspond- ence, it is belleved,” between the Spaniards in the New World and their ld home, Much to Be Learned. Despite a great deal of research work, it was explained at the Smithsonian, much of the Maya and Toltec civiliza- tions, with their advanced systems of agriculture and architecture comparing favorably with that of anclent t, | remain a puzzle to sclentists. Repre- senting one of the great original civil- izations of the human race from which sprang largely the present-day Ameri- can agriculture, the puzzle must be worked out bit by bit unless some such manuseript as Mr. Clark is seeking should turn up. The magnitude of the Maya civiliza- tion, it was pointed out, still is hardly appreciated by the general public, and when Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, flying over the jungles a few months ago, saw ruins of massive ancient buildings below him it was treated as a new discovery. Because of the superficial similarity of some of the architecture and heiro- 8lyphics there has been a general im- pression that the Maya civilization may Egypt by way of the fabulous *“lost Atlantis.” But the present day Mayas, direct descendants of the original builders, show no trace of Egyptian ancestry, but are distinctly of = American Indian stock, whose ancestors almost certainly came from Northeastern Asia and the “lost Atlantis” legend has been pretty well exploded by ocean depth sound- ings. although there may have been a land mass about as hig as the Spanish peninsula jutting out of the Atlantic on the present site of the Azores Islands at one time. Extensive Searches Made. Prof. Clark already has made exten- sive searches in the library of the Vat- ican and is now engaged in the Span- ish archives at Seville. He already has the Tuscaroras and the other tribes all have voted in opposition to the bill. LN e In the last three months 28,000 pil- s left the Netherland East lngle- Mecca. found one Mayan manuscript with a Spanish translation, but unfortunately not in Maya heiroglyphics, but a pho- netical rendering of Mayg speech into Spanish characters. Al h not the “key,” it affords a colorful glimpse of CHARLES G. DAWES. ter within a generation of the conquest. The manuseript is an account book, probably kept at a Spanish mission, of the sources and disposition of the “communal fund” of a Mayan village near Lake Amatitlan in Guatemala. How much of the culture it pictures ‘was original with the Indians and how much of Spanish importation is un- known. The “communal fund” of the vil- lage was derived from tributes, fines paid by lawbreakers and sale of the product of a community corn field. It was used for purposes somewhat the same as those of the community chest in modern American cities. Part was used for the entertainment of distin- guished visitors—neighboring chiefs, Spanish officials, etc. An exact account was kept of the prices paid for food for these entertainments — bananas, chickens, turkeys, frogs, iguanas, etc. A fair banquet could be provided for about 25 cents in American money. The money also was. used, quite in the spirit of the community chest, for the care of the town’s orphans. There were approximately 30 of these cared for from the public funds between 1559 and 1566, the time covered by the sc- count book, Prof. Clark found. In all, more than 300 entries were found in the book. But it by no means follows that “community chests” were a feature of the lost civilization. ' It looks like an importation of the Spanish priests who kept. the account book in Mayan, Aztec and - Spanish—although ths Mayan civilization itself, recent research bave shown, was by no means beneaf caring for orphans.” Compared to other Indians and to their conquerors, the Mayans are believed to have been & gentle, high-minded, charitable people. Translation Is Difficult. “Translation of the account book, Prof. Clark reports to Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Smithsonian secretory, was very diffi cult. The Mayan words evidently were from a local dialect and the words for numbers do not correspond with those recovered before. Even the Spanish | puzzled Dr. Clark, an accomplished | Spanish scholar, and local scholars in Seville. The Smithsonian Institution, Dr. Ab- bot said, is contemplating publishing another find of Prof. Clark’s in the Vatican library, a manuscript contain- ing water-color pain Spanish plants - used descriptions of medicinal by the Aztecs and prepared by.a native Aztec who was bel educated in a Spanish monastery- shortly -after the conquest. This manuscript was long believed to be lost. 3 In financing the project ‘Mr, Dawes is interested purely in the advancement of knowledge, Dr. Abbot sdid, and has the Junior ‘Theater Company Repeats 10 BE TOMORROW !Retired Commerce Depart- ment Employe Had Been Hoover Associate. The funeral of Noble Newport Potts of this city, who died at the Brooklyn Naval Hospital last Thursday will ‘be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock avenue, :with. burial in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, At the home, services will be con- ducted by Rev. tor of We Fun Arjington, with the ceremony in charge of Capt. ‘Alfred C. Oliver, chaplain of ‘Walter H ho also Reed Hospital, who is ughln of ‘the National Sojourners.- body arrived in Washington yes- terday afternoon, widow, Mrs. Cornelia terian Church. ch Mr. Potts, who was '65 years old, was born in go_and came’ here' about 25 years ago. He was with the .De- pariment of Commerce for the past few years of his service before retirement, as chief of the Office of Transportation. || He was personally associated with Her- || ; bert Hoover for years and the President | Is known to have taken a personal in- terest in his welfare, both at Walter || Reed Hospital and ‘at Brooklyn Naval Hospital. He was a member of Richard Hardin Camp, United Spanish War Veterans. During the Spanish-American War he served at Signal Corps here under Gen. William M. Grah chief signal officer, and at the War at the Tesidence, 1239 New Hampshire ;| J. Harvey Dunham, pas- || ‘estern Presby! military “service will follow at | partment had charge of telegrams, in- cluding their decoding. He held the rank of major‘in the 6th Iflinois In- fantry, U. S. National Guard. He was one of the founders of the National || Patriotic Couricil, of which Mrs. Potts still 4s president. ¢ Surviving are the widow and three brothers — Willlam - Franklin = Potis, || Garreglus Potts, all of Nebraska. — . BOYS IN “PENROD” AGAIN SCORE HIT|| Tlxki“m‘r Play in Matinee at Belasco, Wi ppearance as rod and Sam Willlams, respec- || tively in Booth Tarkington's novel, || Penrod, presented by the Junior The- || ater Co., registered another success yes- terday when the company repeated the || play at the Belasco Theater for the || A full ‘house, composed largely of juvenile theater goers, 'applaudet the youthful stars and the ‘supporting cast. Mildréd Natwick ‘and Clifford Adams added color to -the presentation with their adept interpretation of the parts of Herman ahd Verman, while little Ralph Conkey contributed his share to the success as the zflm little gentle- man, 2 F Mary Sinclair Penrod’s -very || much grown-up young ‘sister, Mar- garet, and Willlam Johnstone John ‘were the vi . Dade. and Miss Charlsey Reed ‘In the even a Ivory Door™ the Junior Theater players repéated their: initial success of ‘the season. Mr, Johnstone gave the prin- cipal role, Perivale. ' March um% ellie 's of “The LARRICK REQUESTS THAT HE BE RETIRED Member of Police Force for 33| Years Is Praised by Shelby in Letter to Pratt. years as a meniber of the police force, Jacob B. Larrick, familiarly known as Judge Larrick because he served as a magistrate in. Woodstock, Va., coming to this city, has asked for re- meeting of the retiring board and.hfs request probably will be granted. Larrick celebrated his sixty-eighth hirthday anniversary yesterday. He has served in the detective bureau in a eler- Inspectar Willlam .S. Shelby, his com- manding officer, in a letter of trans- || mittal of his application to Msj. Pratt, ;| said: “His service has been honest and faithful to .a, degree worthy of emula- tion on the -part of all members of the force, He is a man of sterling char- || acter and of unimpeachable integrity. Loyalty to the force and to the public, which he has so capably and effectively served, has ever bzen his watchword. By his devotion to duty and by his earnest and ever-apparent effort to co- operate with the members of this bureau since -his assighment thereto, he has endeared himself to all of his asso- ciates, who will deeply regret his trans- fer from the active to the retired list, and who join in extending to him the wish that he may enjoy many years of health and rest, as a just reward for his many years of faithful service.” Obarles Sumner Potts--and Edward ||f| ‘Following ‘a continuous service of 33 | before || tirement. He wil appear at the next || ical capacity since .July 1, 1922, and || WALES TO EXTEND HUNT. for Elephant Herd. NAIROBI, Kenya Colony, March 1 (#).—The Price of Wales and his party have left the Masai reserve bere for the Vol area, where Capt. Campbell Black reported having seen a herd of elephants. ‘The prince has decided to lead a safarl into the thick bush in search of the elephant herd. He left the Masai territory last night and went by train from Kiu to Voi. Black Lands in Persia. ~JASK, Persis, March 1 (#).—Van Lear Black, en route to the Orient by air, arrived here today and will leave for Karachi, India, tomorrow. —_— from the pictograph writing of primii- tive -peoples, which usually can be in- The “pletures” had been given set forms and probably made to stand for no theories. of his own to advance on the origins of Maya culture, Prof. | ClaYk's work is certain to turn up many | manuscripts of great interest to scholars | which are now as good as “lost,” and a heiroglyphic translation, written_lan; 3 R g it explained "at the lan, :: life near the old Maya culture cen- parently was a step or two removed there is a long chance of discovering | The definite, arbitary ideas, as is the case with modern alphabets. They had reached the point where reconstruction of the process by which they evolved is practically impossible without a key. Spanish conquerors had no con- ception of the valué of the culture|; they were oceur to d it did not to keep any record of it. Will Lead Safari Into Thick Bush || Africa, || |}l plete with lock and key and terpreted by scholars familiar with the || de it of MARCH. 2; -1930-—PART ONE. & 0 ‘I v Tots' $3.95 & $4.95 Spring Coats Of All-Wool Poiret Sheen Buy the littie tot’s Spring coat tomorrow and save money—these come in pretty shades of Blue, Beige, Navy Blue and Rose. With smocked or shirred yokes, hand-embroid- ered designs or con- trast trimming. 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