Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1930, Page 19

ATTACK SUSPECT 15 SLAIN BY MOB Colored Youth Is Wounded Fatally in Battle at Oklahoma Jail. By the Associated Press. CHICKASHA, Okla., May 31.—Lynch law today exacted the life of Henry Argo, 19-year-old colored youth charged ‘with attacking a white woman. A mob of more than 1,000 men and boys, which stormed the Grady County Jail intermittently throughout the night and battled National Guardsmen, in- flicted fatal injuries on him before he was removed to s hospital at Okla- homa City, where he died this after- noon. A bullet fired by an unidentified member of the mob pierced Argo’s brain as he was caged in his cell. Later, when it was believed the mob spirit had subsided and spectators were permitted in the jail, he was stabbed THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C, JUNE 1, BYRD GREETS BOLLING CREW AT BALBOA MISSING AnnRN near the heart by G. W. Skinner, hus- band of the woman alleged to have been assaulted. Six Guardsmen Are Injured. S8ix members of the Chickasha Ar- tillery battery of the Oklahoma Nation- al Guard suffered minor injuries from missiles thrown by the mob. Several citizsens were injured. Skinner and three other members of the turbulent crowd were arrested, but were released later without bond. B. F. Holding, county attorney, an- nounced after Argo's death that an in- est would be held Tuesday. Gov. W. . Holloway, who had advocated firm dealing with the mob while the attack ‘was at its height, detailed J. Berry King, sttorney gmenl, to the task of assisting Holding in the investigation. Demands Prosecution. The governor sald he would insist upon “ ediate prosecution, so law and order might be upheld.” “The ple of that community and every other in the State must under- stand that law and order must take their course” the governor said. “Be- esuse it is violated once does not war- rant citizens taking the law into their own hands. Immediate and vigorous prosecution will be demanded by me. 'nucnndvfllfivu-mmn!lg‘ o protect:life and property. With Skinner as a leader, the mob sssembled early last night after Argo had been arrested and identifled by Mrs. Skinner as the man who she said had sttacked her in their little dugout home s mile from Chickasha. BRANDS LOAN CALL “POLITICAL TRICK” New Orleans Mayor Tells Bankers People Will Loose Homes NEW ORLEANS, May 31—Property owners were scurrying today to raise to meet taxes delinquent since 1928, their action forced by the ing’ of loans to the city by the Branding the ealling of loans as “s " of Gov. Huey P. Long, and, falling, issued orders to force pay- ment of the taxes. well know that in many in- TS, “The banks had loaned the city $635,- 800, with the delinquent taxes as surety, and at & meeting with city officials and the New Orleans Clearing House the bankers announced that they had been ordered by the State banking depart- ment to call the loans. “The benks insist they have to call the 1928 loans because of the pressure brought to bear on them by the govern- or,” the mayor said. ‘The ring plunges the city into the red and then hides the books” Gov. retorted in response to the re- of the city commission council to permit the State auditor, on orders of Gov. Long, to audit the city books. The council claimed the governor had no legal right to inspect the city's books. D. A. R. OF ST. MARYS ELECT OFFICERS FOR YEAR Mrs. George P. Loker Is Retained a8 Regent—Directors Named. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEONARDTOWN. Md., May 31 —At the home of Mrs. Truman Slingluff, of Milestown, near Leonardtown, the Maj. William Thomas Chapter, D. A. R. of 8t. Marys County met on Tues- day for the annual election of officers. Mrs. George P. Loker, was re-elected regent; Mrs. Robert Blackistone, vice- t: Mrs. Wallace Dunbar of Ridge, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Stephen M. Jones, secretary; Mrs. S. Paul Hay- den, chaplain; Mrs. Wilmer Matthews, registar, all of Leonardtown. On the board of governors are Mrs. | G. Prench Owens, Chaptico; Mrs. Mar- shall Dent, jr. Oakley; Mrs. Ernest Burch, Milestown; Mrs. Robert Loker, Leonardtown: Mrs. R. V. Palmer, Oak- ley, and Mrs. Frank Coad, lotte Others attending the meeting were S. . Reeves, Mrs. G. Prench ‘Upper: Rear Admiral Byrd is shown with members of the Eleanor Bolling’s crew on deck after the ship dock: at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, where the admiral waited to greet his cumrld';. s pent 3 ST ne pilot; Arnold Clark, e s daiiee Left to right are: Bernt Balchen, air- Charles Kessler, Jack O'Brien and Admiral Byrd. Lower: The Eleanor Bolling entering the —Assoclated Press Photos. Prof. Herman Wirth, distinguished German scientist, believes he un- covered evidence which prove North Americs and not Asia wi cradle of the an race. In the fol- lowing ~article Prof. Wirth gives his reasons for arriving at this conclusion. BY AGATHA BULLITT GRABISCH. Special Dispatch to The Star. BERLIN, May 31 (N.AN.A).—A man who seems destined to change the whole trend of human thought is stirring and rousing the public mind in Ger- many to an unwonted degree. He is Prof. Herman Wirth of Marburg. Though neither a politician nor & soldier, he is a born leader. With his almost universal knowledge and the in- spired sense of a mission he attracts men’s minds even inst their wills into the swirl of his influence. Born in Utrecht, Holland, the son of a Dutch mother and German father, Prof. Wirth unites the Nordic fearless- ness of mind and sturdy love of truth with the idealism of Germany. Studied Historical Symbols. In these times of shattered ideals and broken idols, when men in vain are seeking for some supreme law by which to adjust their lives anew, Prof. ‘Wirth th comes and revives our lost re- membrance of & cosmic bellef which in the very beginning of human existence was the spiritual force that helped raise man above the level of the beast and urged him on to ever further men- tal growth. ‘The savant, who for 12 years has de- voted himself to the study of historical symbols and signs, began his researches by inquiring into the symbols carved on the ancient wooden gables of the peasant houses in his native land on the North | Bea. To his amazement he discovered that | the written monuments he was studying | led him ever farther backward into a | period as dim and vague as the | Palaelithic, and to regions as remote as | the Polar Circle of the North. | ‘With the support of some six or seven other correlative sciences, such as| geology, palaeontology, anthropology, ethnology and the modern science of serological blood-tests, Prof. Wirth evolved his great and epoch-making idea of the origin of the white races in North America. “Can you outline me the story of the origin of the white races as you conceive it, 5o that I may put it before | a North American public, professor?” 1 asked him “I hope very soon to place a written work before the American people offer- ing the history of their palaeolithic forefathers,” he replied. “I have traced back the primordial progenitors of Homo Europeus to an Arctic-Atlantic people living in the Arctic Circle, prob- ably in the late Tertiary. People Driven to South. | “The increasing glaciation of the | Quaternary, or diluvium, drove these peoples gouthward in different directions | over North America to Eurasia, some | verging to South America and others to Northwest Europe. The earliest Eu- ropean traces of these Arctic-Atlantic peoples 1 view in_ the Auragnacian Svilization of the Upper Palacolithic, which appears contemporaneously in Siberia and Western Europe, although we can trace no overland connection between these two Auragnacian cultures. “The second wave of Atlantic peoples, whom 1 designate as the South-At- lantics, migrated in_a great diagonal across Europe, into Egypt and Arabia, comsting around Africa into the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and from there on penetrating into Indonesia and end- ing in_Oceania, as the South Atlantic ring of culture. “A body of the primitive aborigines of North America, who were Mrs. Owens of Chaptico, Mrs. George W. Maddox of Maddox, Mrs. John H. Reeder of Morganza, Miss Janice Loker, . George W. Joy of Leonardtown, . Alexander Hodgsdon, Mrs. Samuel . Young and Mrs. John Britton of W and Mrs. Olive Blackistone turhed again to the North on the ice gradually melting away. These we may regard as the progenitors of the red Indians and copper Eskimos. “A second yof kindred peoples who remained in developed an indeovaris driven | southward by the great glaciation, re- | :[SCIENTIST SAYS HUMAN RACE WAS BORN IN ARCTIC CIRCLE pt. = Prof. Wirth Unearths New Evidence After 12 Years’' Study, Disputing Belief Asia Cradled Man. Aertin Ablambi=- amd hersme the hlon der‘ll’menkd tribes which I call North- Atlantics. These white-skinned peoples formed the last invasion into Europe and settled in Northwest Scotland and Ireland, Britain and further on the coasts of the North Sea and of Scandinavia.” “But, professor, how did all these people ever get to Europe? How did they cross the ocean, I mean?” “According to Wegener’s theory, in which I fully concur, America and Eu- rope originally formed one great con- tinent, which only later became sepa- rated by the Atlantic eating its way northward. A great island continent, which remained standing, formed the mother country of the South Atlantics and was called Mo-Uri. In the language of these anclents this word meant | mother country, and we find it again in | the Maoris of New Zealand. This con- tinent, which, according to the story related by the Egyptian priests to | Herodotus, was submerged about 8000 B. C, I view as the land of Atlantis. Pre-Eskimo Culture Found. “Excavations in Central North Amer- ica have brought to light traces of an extremely anclent pre-Eskimo culture, which was diffused Westward toward It has been called the “Thule * by Danish researchers. It ap- pears in very early geological strata of an age when the sea had a much lower level than at prese: A later Eskimo culture has preserved vestiges of very old Atlantic cult symbols, which may be observed southward on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, but show no point of juncture with Asia. In a special | typographical study, I have in view, I shall fully substantiate this.” “Can you tell me something about the religion of these aborigines and the sig- nificance of their signs and symbols that are still in existence, professor?” “In my book on America I shall dwell very fully on this subject and bring a | vast material of illustrations. Here I can but give a very brief sketch of my | researches. The earliest records of th Atlantic culture are inscriptions of a | sicred character engraved on rocks and in caves of North America, Scotland on of a primeval monotheistic be- et ed by the cosmic experience of the Winter night of the Arctic Circle and its dictate, ‘let there be light” The main features of this monotheism, which s common to both North Amer- ica and Northwest Europe, reflect a be- lief in the God-Father as the world spirit, existing beyond the pales of time and space—eternal-infinite—but mani- fest in time and space as the cosmic order of happenings known as the year. The cycle events which constitute the ear these peoples conceived s sym- lic of the -sun, through whom the Father works.” (Copyright, 1930, 2 North o A“‘.n‘eA)Ilmtln e INSPECTORS GUARD AGAINST BEAN BEETLE Federal Officers Examine Vehicles Carrying Shrubs at Williams- port, Md. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., May 31.—Inspec- tors of the United States Department of Agriculture have been stationed at various interstate bridges over the Po- tomac River at Willlamsport Md., and Harpers Ferry, W. Va,, to examine vehi- cles for shrubs, trees, flowers, earth and sand which might harbor the Japanese bean beetle, 1t has been learned here, Inspector George C. Braun of Wil- liamsport said the beetle had been pushing southward from Philadelphis. Braun sald travelers from points North must have certificates from the nurser- les (;z::?m ‘which plants come. may be placed at Shepherds- town Bridge later, it was sald. ’pbwfih- bound vehicles only are examined. Eskimos Good Craftsmen. Frozen ruins of a large Eskimo settle- ment on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea have revealed evidences of a higher culture among those people of a thousand years ago than the present race shows. Household and hunting implements of ivory and bone and deli- cately carved objects, possibly charms or ornaments, were found at the deep- est level of the three excavated. 3 next gave objects of less intelligent workmanship and the topmost level | showed the poorest craftsmanship. The latter belonged to comparatively modern Eskimo life, those living within the past 300 years, while the best relice are and Ireland. They are the calendar | symbols, and at_the same time the ex- t?;ught to be about a thousand years old. Specials Monday and Tuesday Genuine Toric Glasses Far or Near Complete With Shell or Metal Frame GComplete Outfit, With Case and Cleaner Included Genuine Toric KRYPTOK Invisible First and best quality. Kryptok Bifocal pair to see near and far). lenses made. Sold regularly $15. Special price Monday and Tuesday. .. Lenses—(one Bifocal Lenses Toric $ Best 7 50 KAHN OPTICAL CO. Betwoen ¥ and G Streels 617 Seventh St. NW. RETURNS T0 HOME Jacksonville, Ill., Lawyer Ap- peared Weak and Suffering From Shock. By the Associated Press. JACKSONVILLE, Ill, May 31.—Paul M. Thompson, prominent Jacksonville attorney who disappeared from St. Louis four months ago following a con- ference with Chinese tong leaders, re- turned to his home here today. He was in a weakened physical condition and appeared to be suffering from shock. 1930—PART ONE. NEW PLANET PLUTO REPORTED APPROXIMATELY SIZE OF MARS| Preliminary Orbit Tentatively Deter- mined by Observations of Stellar Body by Scientists of Lowell Observatory. By the Associated Press. cometary features. “The preliminary orbit of Planet X,” Dr. Slipher reported, “has been com- puted by the Lowell Observatory staff, with the collaboration of Dr. John A. Although the Thompson family has | Miller, made no statement, and the attorney is under the care of a physician, T. C. MacVicar, & friend who met the lawyer at St. Louis this morn! after he had beeen discovered in Little Rock, Ark., last night, sald that Thompson was apparently suffering from a loss of memory. Thompson told MacVicar that he re- membered nothing from the time he left St. Louls tong leaders on the night of January 17 until he was ushered out of an automobile in Little Rock, Ark., by two strange men on Wednesday of this week. DISAPPEARED JANUARY 17. Lawyer Had Sought to Collect Money From Chinese Association. ST. LOUIS, Mo, May 31 (#).—Paul ‘Thompson, Jacksonville lawyer who re- turned to his home there today after a mysterious absence of four months, vanished in St. Louis’ Chinatown last January 17 and a widespread search had been made for him since then. He came here from Jacksonville in an_attempt to collect between $3,000 and $3,000 from a Chinese merchants’ association in connection with de- funct laundry in which he had invested. He was last reported seen leaving a ‘hine restaurant and emerging into op” alley. His pocke ater was found in the alley and his traveling bag was in hl«;‘ hotel room. His car was in a garage here. Foul play was suspected, but no evi- dence was ever obtained. CONTRACT LET FOR NEW DINING HALL FOR SCHOOL Special Dispatch to The Sta: RICHMOND, Va., May 31.—Contract for the constructien of the new dining hall building for the Fredericksburg State Teachers’ College has been award- ed to J. T. Nuckols & Co. of Richmond, whose bid was $113,872. ‘The bullding will have two dining rooms, e faculty dining room, a tea room and space will be provided fdr a laboratory for the home economics dé- Elflment“ It will be bullt with the dtchen in the center, and this kitchen will serve all the dining rooms of the building. ‘The structure will be constructed of ( ance brick, with a colonnade porch effect, and will harmonize wtih the present buildings on the campus. It has been dulfned with the view of making such additions thereto as may found necessary in the future. bruary | would be greater; and Lowell plates of Dr. C. O. Lampland, and ylelded the following elements re- ferred to mean equinox 1930.0. “Node, 100 degrees 21 minutes; incli- nation, 17 degrees 31 minutes; log, semi-major axis, 2.3359; eccentricity, 0.909; longitude perihelion, 12 degrees 52 minutes; mean daily motion is .112; mean anomaly 1930.0, 3 degrees 20 min- utes 47 seconds; distance from sun, 41.3 astronomical units. May Be Modified. “Our knowl of the orbit’s shape and size, its eccentricity and semi- major axis, must be regarded as prob- ably subject to considerable modifica- tion when more extended positions are available, but the plane of the orbit— its inclination and the line of nodes— and the present distance of the object are fairly reliably known in the pres- ent orbital data. FLOOD REFUGEES PRAISE RED CROSS Levee and Highway Force Continue Battle to Save Red River Dyke. By the Associsted Press. ALEXANDRIA, La., May 31.—Planta- tion Negroes, homeless up the Red River Valley, today sang their praises of Red Cross rations while about Alex- andria a mighty battle was in progress to curb continued inundation by the rampant river. Negro spirituals drifted out from the refugee camps in Natchitoches and Red River ‘where more than 10,000 were driven from their homes. tions were made for Sunday camp meetings with thanks for deliver- on the recession of the waters. Facing & new flood crest, levee and highway forces today threw additional crews into action to strengthen levees and attempt to hold Rapides Bayou emergency dike for the protection of the enterprise addition to the city and a “Color tests of Planet ‘X’ indicated this body is yellowish and very differ- !‘F:DC from the blue planets, us and une. This suggests density more like those of planets. “If Mars were tance of 41.3 astronomical units, its stellar magnitude would not be greater than Planet ‘X’ That is, this new body may be comparable with Mars in sive and mass. “If the albedo were lower, like Mer- cury or the moon, the size of the planet if the albedo ‘were higher, the body would be smaller. But in the case of Mars or either of the others the planetary disc would still be too small to be seen. Disc Unrecognized. “Careful visual observations have not recognized the disc of Planet ‘X, al- though on a few favorable occasions it has aj to show not quite the same type of image as the equally faint stars. Some experiments are planned to throw light on this question. “Concerning the nature of this object, the longest exposures with the reflecter by hn:rllnd and the repeated visual observations with the refractor by E. C. Slipher have revealed no cometary tures. Besides, comets have been ob- served at nothing like this distance from the sun. As for asteroids, Planet ‘X’ would outshine one hundredfold the largest of the asteroids, Ceres, if re- moved to the same distance.” wide stretch of valuable farm lands ex- tending to Boyce. Alexandria prepared for a long siege t flood, the raising of the crest being predicted here from 30.7 feet to_from 40 to 40.5 feet by June 3. Through piling and bagging around a 15-foot crevasse in Rapides levee 60 workmen today temporarily had held back the rising tide, but little if any hope was entertained of holding the water that is in sight. The 50 families in Enterprise had deserted their homes and farm tenants in the path were ready to leave, With the river falling in Natchi- toches and Red River parishes, much improvement in the upper valley situa- tion was reported. In the Shreveport area, the river had dropped to 33.5 feet, more than five feet below flood level and refugees were be- ginning to return through the mud to their farm homes. Health authorities in Caddo, Red River and Natchitoches parishes today were making the second round of ad- mlni&teflni serum in an intehsive cam- ags t typhoid, while a State- wide appeal was being made for addi- tional funds to feed and rehabilitate the flood sufferers. Mexico Suggests Wheat Tariff. MEXICO CITY, May 31 (#).—The Mexican department of agriculture to- day submitted a proposal to the cus- toms department for a differential tariff on wheat. The customs authorities will (lukl decision on the week. for the protection of Mexican producers. ‘The tariff is deemed necessary | bec SEARCH UNDER WA FOR SHIP'S VICTIMS |16 Still Missing Off Santa | Monica, Where Boat Capsized. By the Associated Press. SANTA MONICA, Calif, May 31.— | Three persons were known to be dead, | 16 were officially listed as missing and | many more were recovering from shock | and exposure today as & result of the foundering off Santa Monica late yes- terday of the fishing boat Ameco. Meanwhile Coast Guard boats searched the wind-lashed waters for bodies of the missing. The Ameco suddenly listed in the gale-whipped billows when many of its passengers are re| to have rushed to the lee side of the craft to avoid heavy spray. The boat carried a holi- day crowd to the deep sea finshing smacks ranged along the coast. 52 Accounted feor, Fifty-two survivors had been ac- counted for late today. They were picked up by other fishing boats that came to the rescue. ‘The known dead: John W. Lockhard, barber’s appren- tice, Pasadena. Miss Margaret Keller, 18, Santa Monica, and C. C. Barnett, barber, Los Angeles. The Ameco was 45 feet long. It capsized while it headed for shore in a squall, said Capt.~William Lightfoot, the skipper, one of the survivora. Three Probes Begun. Pederal officials, police and the coun- ty coroner began a triple investigation. One report being lnvem,ned was that there were not enough life preservers. { Another said the boat was overloaded. | Police said there were but 69 life pre- | servers carried on the craft. Only the presence of another fishing boat, the Freedom, nearby, prevented & BT r mishap. This boat arrived in | time to rescue many victims flounder- ing in the water and picking others | trom precarious finger holds on the slip- | pery sides of the overturned hull. Smaller boats also raced to the rescue. HISTORIC PARADISE HOUSE BEING RESTORED of Williamsburg’s Colonial Residences Stand on Land Acquired in 1700. Special Dispatch to The Star. ‘WILLIAMSBURG, Va., May 31.—The famous Paradise House, one of the brick residences of Colonial Williams 3 standing on ground purchased in 1 by Phillp Ludwell, is now undergoing restoration. It is a link between English literature and Virginia history through its resi- dence for several years of John Parae dise, a friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and a member with him of the same Literary Club in London. The House, it is announced, will be converted into some sort of museum. The story of the house—its family associations—is almost as wonderful as an; may be displayed in it, when once it ed unit of restored Wil- 1 One New Styles in Decoration Inclucle 'CHAIRS in COLORFUL LEATHER REATER color variety, improved textures and tlxe ntlvnnced sl(ill of tl’le upllolsterer lnave created a new vogue for Chairs covered in Leathter. We Ima’ve exercised great care with our varied selection of Chairs of this sort. 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