Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1930, Page 11

FRANCIS SCOTT KEY HOME PRESERVED Author of “Star-Spangled Banner” Once Resided on M Street in Washington. ‘The original home of Francis Scott Key, author of the Star Spangeld Ban- ner, is still standing at 3516-18 M street, it was revealed today, in connection with_preparations for the historic tour of Eighteenth Century Georgetown, which will be held Friday and Saturday for the benefit of St. John's Church. At the time ground ‘vas cleared at the entrance to what is now the Key Bridge it was thought by most persons that the original mansion, a brick struc- ture built in 1795, had been demolished. However, investigations by those in charge of the tour brought out the fact that the old home is still standing on its original location, between the Key Bridge and the old Aqueduct Bridge. Miss Taggart Present Owner. ‘The bullding is owned by Miss Etta L. Taggart, a local lawyer and daughter of the late Hugh T. Taggart. Mr. Tag- art was known as the Georgetown torian, and bought the property years ago, with Mrs. Mary I Ritchie, for historical reasons. Miss Taggart a few weeks ago re- ceived a letter from James P. Kenyon, the contractor who remodeled the old building in the Winter of 1912-13 into two stores. This letter confirms her own early record of the house and states further: “From plans showing the original arrangement of rooms, photos, etc. and additional data, I think it would not be a difficult 'matter by the present walls, floors, etc. to Testore the building to practically its original condition.” Original Foundations Intact. With the exception of the hipped 'Musicians Hard Hit But Dentists Thrive, World Survey Shows GENEVA (#).—Musicians, of all intellectual workers, are suf- fering most acutely from unem- ployment the world over, accord- ing to occupational experts of the International Labor Office. Next eogee 7 - umli'u'm.ehlnl velopments o music in all its forms and the sbsence of regulation in the ex- ercise of the profession are given as chief causes of the musicians’ distress. Dentists are the most fortu- nate of the white-collar folk. The report says that unemployment among them is virtually non- existent throughout the worid. BONES OF EXTINGT FLORIDANS DUG UP Warlike Calusas, Who Fought | ¥ Off De Soto, Studied by Ethnologist. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Approximately 300 human skulls, representing an extinct and peculiar people who lived in Southern Florida at the time of the first white exploreu, have been brought back to Wi by Mathew W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau of American Enthnology, after a three months’ exploration. Alive and warlike late in the sixteenth century, Stirling believes, these people had more massive lower jaws than any race now living. They were the Calusa Indians, whose ferocity prevented the roof and front walls which were re- moved when the building was re- modeled, as well as some partitions in- A‘lfl!. all of the walls, floors, windows and original foundations still remain intact. The owner has in her possession at the present time a timber taken from the roof during the remodeling, with the date 1795 chiseled in the end of the beam, which undoubtedly records ! the date of the erection. ‘With the change in the appearance of the structure, which, for years had borne a sign designating it as'the home of Francis Scott Key, people generally lost track of the building. Pictures showing the front walls being taken down also tended to the belief that + the building was being demolished to make way for the Key Bridge entrance. ‘The house, however, was not on ground needed in this connection and was saved for posterity. Scene of Memorial Services. ‘The Daughters of 1812 have held me- . morial services there every year and it is said to be their plan at some time ‘in t.he future to buy the property for uubllshmem of their national ) In late years the old building hn beén used for various com- nsg ithern Prince— Buerios ‘Aifes DUE TOMORROW. DUE SATURDAY, APRIL 5. jca—Hamburg DUE SUNDAY, APR!L 6. Monterey—Vera, Cruz.. Port March 29 vldenea—lled!urun XIII—Gijon, Coruna and Santander. DUE MONDAY, APRIL 7. ! fards from settling the west coast Florida and who almost wiped out the De Sota expedition. Reared Strange Temples. Apparently driven southward by the more advanced Indian peoples who in- vaded Northern Florida, they finally vanished in a region so nearly impene- trable that it still is almost unexplored. This is the thousand Islands region off the West Florida coast, legendary hiding place of pirates. Here, rearing temples to strange gods on artificial hills nnd burying their dead, layer upon layer, in great mounds, they spent the last years of racial existence. Stirling's excavations were near the village of Safety Harbor, which appears to have been an important site of the Calusas before they disappeared into the swamps. Here he found a flat-top mound of seashells, about 65 feet high, upon which the Indians had built a religious edifice of some kind. There are no traces of this structure. Such a temple was described in the journal of De Soto. Around were smaller mounds of shell and bone, evidently the refuse heaps of the village. About a foot of sofl, covered with vegetation, had accu- mulated on top of the shells through the centuries. The sea is cutting into the great mound, leaving exposed a vertical sur- face. The sea has washed out -'elt numbers of Calusa artifacts, pottery and shell and stone tooll. whl Stirling collected. A mile to the west he found the burial mound of the village, one of the llrtefl yet discovered in mmh. It , sur- high, dome-shaped structure, rvunded with & circular_depression in the sand, like a moat. In thll mound approximately 500 skeletons were buried. The first layer of burials was Abalt 15 feet from the bottom. Other. followed at intervals of 5 feet. Few Complete Skeletons. Stirling collected all the bones he $|could find. There were few complete skeletons. The mound was evidently a place of lectmdlry burials, let bhaving been torn apart and the bones s (arranged in neat bundles. Only about Wolmereeoverzdlkulhlreml(ood state of preservati Strictly -pu.kln. Stirling says, the mound burials were not burials at all. The skeletons were laid on top of the mound, possibly for religious reasons. ‘Then relatives carried up sand in bas- kets and poured it over them. Some of the skeletons were covered with heavy boulders. These, he says, probably were those of important people of the tribe. Unlike many prlmm les, the Ca- lusas did not bury ith the dead to supply them durin, mlr long jour- nzym'.hewuldot:pmu. ‘They did, however, place pots of food around ihe edges of the mound for the same pur- pose. These pots have long since . o !urlmgureeo:nmm hu;dnd; Ty ents, an beliwu hn can reconstruct some com- Cholce p!mml possessions were buried with the dead. The mound evi- dently was constructed after the Ca- reh 30 lusas came in contact with Euw $| The skull of one giant skeleton rested m—c-l-uov v Pnnnhnfl-Antwe? Minnewaska—London . fmerican | llng.r'lnn S OUTGOING STEAMERS. BAILING TODAY. —Port au Prince and Oristobal. Freat Rebarhctrar e nn.nm 'l‘ollonlow. ’firl Blllln—Ollfl'bolll'l. ‘Southampton and o mg.m.,.:!u‘::m. (Grigtobal, Cartagens, President erbours Roosevelt—Plymouth, Tdchira—Ban Juan, La Guayra, Puerto On- bello and lllrlcllh aracos—Euerto mbta. I—Grehads. Trinidad and Georse- virel ng: Maga: -nu—c-mx n-m Barcelona. West 151 Eli ek emachPactfe Coast. SAILING THURSDAY, APRIL 3. American Merchant—London. !Atolalr—coptnr o and Danzls. omas. Barbados and Trinida Deessen—Cobh, G and Bremerha San Lorenzo—8an Jdsn"3nd Santo Domings Haveha—Havans, Progreso and Vera Crus. concagua—Valparaiso. Engaporack-—-Copenhasen. Titania—Buenos Alres. SAILING FRIDAY. APRIL 4. Nieuw Amsterdam—Plymouth, Boulogne and am. Bouthern Cross—Bermuda, Rio de Janeiro, Santos. Montevideo and Buenos Aire Karisrube—Galway and Bremerhaven. Gripsholm—Gothenburg. MaJestic—Cherbourg and Southampton, Commewyjne—FPort-au-Prince, Curacac and Paramarivo s Island. unamar—Nassau. SAILING SATURDAY, APRIL 5, Caledonia—Moville and Glasg: Alaunia—Cobh, Plymouth, Havre and Lon- don niaBeltast and Liverpool. BiVasalirax agd Bl Sakn Bermuda— Bermuda, co;na'm-ncnm-nkceno- Naples and Gl- Panama Canal and United m;m—cnmmmna. Oslo apd Co- Tolnn—l“nnn Cristobal and Port Limon. vane. wu-{_ abda—Flymouth. Boulogne and Lon- b and Liverpool. favas et Golom lagaraHavre uron—’ Gatin—La Celba. SAILING SUNDAY, APRIL 6. “Toltec—Puerto Cortez, BAILING MONDAY, APRIL 7. Jefferson—Norfolk. SAILING TUESDAY. APRIL 8. ‘Roussiilon—Vis A Hi 3 RomarGloraltar, ‘apies 244 Genos. Alaska’s mineral production, includ- lmnhdh'lml.- upon an iron ax of liar shape Clasped tightly between the teeth o! a 2% | woman's skeleton was a long silver bead. Mixed with other bones knives and arrowheads. One of the recovered skeletons ap- were stone 1l 3| pears to have been that of a -Calusa medicine man, whose objects of mury were buried with him. Stirling believes, they were contained ln ‘4 leather pouch which long since has begome dust. They included a bit of sandstone, shaped naturally like a duck; a fossil bone heavy as iron, two cas of fossil clams, and a geculur clay ob- rightly polished from 'constant use by the sorcerer in Tgrolul\oml practice. village site nearby yielded mmy artifacts, including fragments of pots, smoking pipes and bone and shell im- plements. Stirling also found typical Calusa sites on Horrs Island, and a North Florida Indian site at the head of the Withlacoochee River, both of which yielded skeletons and cultural material. The Calusa villages never were very populous, Stirling believes. Shellfish was the chief food article, and the population was limited by the lupply Th. Indians llao did some fishing and hunting and raised corn. In their battles with the white men, atu-unl says, they usually were the victors, bu they probably became extinct '.hmulh some epidemic disease which they ac- glred from the whites and for which ey had -acquired no resistance. Eventually Stirling hopes to_estab- ish & chronological sequence for the Indians of the Southeast, such as has been established mr the Southwest. Madrid has the hi‘helt altitude of any city in Europe. Pamt Up Now' And renew your home with Springtime freshness. MEtro. 0151 BUTLER-FLYNN 607-609 C St. Phone for Color Card Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, checks a Cold the first day, and checks Malaria in three days. 666 slse In L\ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, “MOTHER" JONES MT. RAINIER ROA PRINCE GEORGES BANK MERGER IS APPROVED LIGHT IS APPROVED: o o e s o Citizens Ask Installation of Automatic Signal on Rhode Island Avenue. By a Staft Correspondent. MOUNT RAINIER, Md, April 1— Recommendation that an auutomatic traffic light be installed at the intersec- tion of Rhode Island avenue, Thirty- fourth and Perry streets was made by the safety committee of the local citi- zens' association at the regular monthly meeting last night. The recommendation was made fol- lowing a visit by the committeemen to Baltimore, where they saw the auto- matic electric traffic light in actual ration. walurlflcfltlon of the misunderstanding which has existed locally concerning the jurisdiction of the Maryland Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission was_accomplished through an address by R. W. Rogers, landscape architect of the planning group. Rogers explained that in those cases where both the park group and the town had regulations covering the con- struction of a building or sign, the most stringent ordinance applied. Complaint that a blast furnace had been erected in the community was reg- istered by Mrs, A. W. Appell, and it was indicated the matter would be given attention by Park Commission officials. RED CROSS LECTURE Special Dispatch to The Star. FALLS CHURCH, Va., April 1.— Commodore Longfellow of National Red Cross headquarters in Washington is this afternoon giving a lecture and demonstration on first aid in the audi- tarium of the Madison School here to @ group of 50 or more women of the county. The meeting was arranged by Mrs. Herbert Seamans, Fairfax County health nurse, for the benefit of the two nursing classes now being conducted at Falls Church and Floris. MANSLAUGHTER VERDICT Special Dispatch to The S ROCKVILLE, Md., April l—-Joeeph Brightful, colored, "of Halpine, county, was found guilty of mans! |h- ter by a jury in the Circuit Court here late yesterday as a result of the fatal shooting several weeks ago of Henson c"mu, young colored resident of Rock- . Sentence was deferred. The extreme penalty in Maryland for manslaughter is 10 years in the penitentiary. of Incorporation for Two Institutions. By a Staff Correspondent. UPPER tion, permitting the Bank and the First Na- tional Bank of Hyattsville to merge and form the Prince Georges Bank & Trust ‘(':o‘.’.‘h? been slgnedmb‘;1 Circuit Court udge Joseph C. Mat! y. Officials of the institutions announced today that other legal steps preliminary to the consummation of the merger were being pushed and the present prospect was that the mreger would be accom- plished about April 16. WOMEN SUE HOTEL FOR FIRE DAMAGES Braddock Heights Hostelry, Which Burned August 12, Named in $20,000 Action. Spefial Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md., April 1.—Three suits, involving damages of $20,000, have been filed in the Frederick Coun- ty Circuit Court against Hotel Brad- dock, Inc., Braddock Heights, by Wash- ington women, who were guests of the hotel at the time the hotel was de- stroyed by fire on the morning of August 12, last year. Loss of property and personal injuries are claimed in each case. The plaintiffs are Miss Gertrude Roueche, Miss Catherine Virginia Halslip and Miss Kathryn cunmnnum. Miss Roueche claims $10,000 damages, the other two :ompl-tnlnu. $5,000 each. GOV. BYRD'S DAUGHTER NAMED FETE PRINCESS Appointed Clarke County Repre- sentative for Apple Blos- som Festival. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERRYVILLE Va., April 1.—Miss Westwood Beverly Byrd, daughter of former Gov. and Mrs. Harry Flood Byrd, of Berryville, has been announced as princess for Clarke County in the apple blossom festival to be held within the next few weeks at Winchester. Miss Byrd is attending school at Richmond at present. Her appointment was made by the Clarke County board of directors of the Shenandoah Valley, Incorporated. Atablan horses are of two types—the Kadischi, whose origin is unknown, and the Kochlani, of whom written genealo- gles exist dating back for 2,000 years. BODY OF FARMER FOUND IN RIVER Search 'by Neighbors for Henry Compton Ends in Shenandoah. Special Dispatch to The Star. FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 1.—The body of Henry Compton, 57, & promi- nent farmer of the Happy Creek sec- tion, was found floating in the Shen- andoah River near his home this morning. No reason for his death has been assigned. The discovery was made after the community had become alarmed over the °continued absence of Compton, who had not been seen since last Sun- day. A possee was organized yesterday afterncon to search for him. Besides the widow he leaves four daughters, Mrs. Wiley Reid, 1sses Evelyn, Sue and Pauline Compton, and two sons, Douglas and Shelby Comp- ton; five sisters, Mrs. Lulu Sonner and Mrs. Edward Cave of Washington, D C.; Mrs. Jennie Brumback of Stras- burg, Va.; Mrs. M. A. Buck and Mrs. Samuel Collins of Front Royal, and two brothers, E. H. and Claude Comp- ton of this county. M. M. HARWOOD DEAD Moorefield Mayor Passes After Brief Iliness. Special Dispatch to The St MOOREFIELD, W. April 1.— M. M. Harwood, 35, M of Moore- fleld, died at his home here late Sun- day night after a short iliness. Death was due to pneumonia. He was re-elected to the office of mayqp $wo weeks ago. He was a clerk in a Mmercantile establishment here and proprietor of an ice cream manufactur- ing company, a World War veteran and former commander of the local post of the American Legion. Surviving are his widow, formerly Miss Hazel Tanner of Moorefield; one daughter, one son ;nd his parents. Burial will be made ere. GIRL WINS MEDAL Mary E. Rogers Captures Contest at Clarendon, Special Dispatch to The Star. CLARENDON, Va, April 1—With five children competing, Mary E. Rogers won the fifth silver medal contest of the Clarendon Women's Christian Tem- perance Union, held Sunday night in the Cherrydale Methodist Church. Margaret Myers was the runner-up. Others competing were Carmen Billing- ton, Dorothy Brynes, Mabel Maffett. The judges were Mrs. Florence E. Can- non, Miss Mary Loving and Hugh Reid. Away Spring . . . and Gol{ HADDINGTON “Fore”-Piece SUIT'S $35 and $40 In the Spnng @ man’s fancy turns to Golf! Take a good “whifi” of this invigorating air , . . then, can’t you “hear the call” of the greens and fairways? We, herc, have felt that golfing urge, too . . . and the result is a most splendid collection of sports aj pnrel . « + featuring the famous Haddington ore”-Piece Suits with long trousers and knickers. You'll like the sporty tweeds and mixtures . . . and the full cut that allows umyle ‘swinging room”} Sweaters Pull - over styles with the po, or crew necks. Here in all col- ors ... $3.95 to $10 Golf Hose of all-wool to match sweaters or in contrasting colors . . . $1.95 to $5 Knickers Plus four Knickers in fim’n colors and good- oking patterns. Full cut ... $4.85 to $15 Golf Shoes Rubber or leather soles. In black and white and brown and white combinations... $6 to $13.50 ® Meyer’s Shop 331 F Street 1930. NEARLY 100, . PILGRIMS ASK CLEAR ROAD Many Visitors Are Expected for Her Birthday Fete. o Famous Labor Leader to Reach Century Mark on May 1. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md,, April 1.— Anticipating the visit of hundreds of persons to the present residence of “Mether” Jones, famous labor leader, on Old Powder Factory road, when she celebrates her hundredth birthday anniversary May 1, friends of the leader have asked the Prince Georges County commissioners to adjust their road-building program so as to have the road in suitable condition for the anni- versary. "Mtnher" Jones now makes her home with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Burgess, who live along a portion of the road which was graded, but not surfaced, last year and is now described as being nearly impassable, In a letter to the commissioners, Rolla G. G. Onyun, 1209 Kenyon street, Wash- ington, points out that county plans call for the completion of the road improve- ments during the current season and urges that the commissioners either finish the job before May 1 or post- pone its start until after that date. In the event the work is postponed, “MOTHER” JONES. Onyun requests that the unfinished por- tion of the road, now graded, be “scraped and put in condition tempo- rarily,” so that admirers of “Mother” Jones, whom he says “has done so much in the cause of labor lnd in behalf of humanity in general” can greet her when she reaches her hundredth birth- day_anniversary. The commissioners have not as yet taken any action on the request. HOMES AND BARN BURN Two Houses Destroyed in Benton- ville," Va.,” Blas Speclal Dispatch to The Star. FRONT ROYAL, Va., April 1.—Fire yesterday at Bentonville, Va., a small village at the southern end of this county, destroyed two dwelling houses, one owned by Carvile Brown and oc- cupled by J. L. Miller, the other a va cant house belonging to R. L. Lockhart, All Cars and a barn owned by Mrs. Mary Cook. Mr. Miller lost the entire contents of his home. The Front Royal Fire De- partment sent & truck to the scene. Rion Lucas Succumbs. SHEPHERDSTOWN, W. Va, April 1 (Special) —Rion Lucas, 59, member of a well known Virginia family, died at his home, Elmwood Farm, near here, Monday morning of heart disease after - twn-dny“mnu-. Burial will be here ALEXANDRIA VOTES AT PRIMARY TODAY Approximately 500 Ballots Only Cast Up to 10 0'Clock. Speclal Dispateh to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 1—With approximately 500 votes cast here in the Democratic primary for seats on eity council up to 10 o'clock this morning, it was apparent that a light vote would be cast in the balloting. It was expected that less than 2,500 votes in all would be cast during the da; at the six precincts, There were 4,21 voters qualified when the polls opened at. 5:45 a.m. this morning, 1,573 of which Wwere women. Seven candidates, Edmund F. Ticer, incumbent; Clyde C. Lamond, Arthur Herbert, Emmett C. Davidson, Richard B. Wi , Mrs, Dolly Peyton Shep- person and Mrs. Naomi P. Craver, were out for the nomination for the three seats. Two retiring candidates, Mayor Robert 8. Jones and J. E. W. Timber- man, were not in the race for re-election. Following the usual early morning rush of office workers, but few could be observed around the voting places around 10 o'clock. The contest has been listless one, little interest having been shown by the voters. The three candi- dates named will represent their rny in the general election June 5, but the Democratic nomination practically amounts to election. Polls close at 6:31 o'clock tonight and the results are e: to be announced within three hours, LAND TRANSFERRED By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. 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