Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1930, Page 20

- INDIAN CULTURE: SUBJEGT OF STUDY | Dr. Cooper to Direct Survey! " of Tribes East of Mississippi 3 River. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. One of the most far-reaching studies of primitive culture ever undertaken has Been started by the department of an- ‘hropology of the Catholic University éf America, partly financed by the Social Science Research Council. This project, directed by Rev. Dr. John M. Cooper, professor of anthro- pology, consists of an ethnological,sur- vey of a3 the tribes which have lived 1 historic times n;t of the m’;‘.‘:i'“&‘;’& of approxi y mflm‘”w mecording to their tribal, ;iflnpmw and temporal _distrib B . This will require about five yea: ¥ [Eventually, Dr. Cooper says, it is prob- @ble that the survey will include all of North America and possibly South America. =a The first step In this enormous + *Seholarship project, involyes the record- ing on & specially designed card of @ach reference to each of the culture traits in each tribe, obtained from the writings of anthropologists, missionaries, traders and travelers since the discovery of the continent—a work which requires the painstaking search of thousands of wolumes. These then will be arranged in tabular form and also incorporated on maps of the tribal areas. All this .sdmay later be supplemented by fleld Works in Appalachian Aresa. jper now is working on the o plar. The next step bs ewnw'een the Appalachians and V' the M ppl. The whole is expected vide such s fundamental picture “g entire cult&l: of a nmfi, tion, social , religion, 3 mmfl:h :fl all ".he m',—uuhn pr;:v?; & primitive peop! es bfitmnqmnmn“ are the basis of Scholars now _recognise, that the distribution ts in_time and ares is basis of ethnology and that valid L8 jusions. cannot be reached of work planned intel- T research w0 without the complete picture. scholarship project an i cavr zass o] [NDIANS CONPLAIN Here is Lula Belle, who has arrived at the Zoo as a gift Chrysler. This gibbon, with two others, sity Medical School, in Baltimore, inoculate them with cold germs, which brought to the medical school for use in refused to cateh colds in any form and who are easily susceptible to the common human ailment. from Walter P. has been at the John Hopkins Univer- here they have unsuccesstully tried affect millions of humans. T! W iments on colds, but all them had to be repinced with chimpanzees, —A. P. Photo. ITCHING PALM RACKET LATEST GOUGE OF NEW YORK GANGSTERS Apartment Dwellers Have Nightmare Over Constantly Rising Demands of Servants’ Organized Clique. has | gpecia) Dispateh to The Star. i g< sirup white must sub- tivated the agri- area, com+ it NEW YORK, November 15—A fancy Tepertatre ot New York gangsters, with ew York ga TS, Briguase, which sta tho highet rental , Wl & er ren! t houses and apartment hotels of the city. With Chrisinas coming on, | f this deft and highly organized gouging is assuming menacing proportions to the much-deviled populace, or rather that portion of it which dwells in marble halls. ‘The eastest person in the world to sabotage is an apartment dweller who depends upon the house staff for the Just a little neglect in sweetening somebody in the gold-braided or frock- coated line-up and all sorts of things wml\ caller is toid that Mr. 80|, 0rment” dwellers are beginning to | have nightmares, thinking of the wolf- ish gangs lurking in the Louis Quinze + | corridors ‘woes pile on the naive victim who has been lleless enough to think that an occasional quarter, dropped here and there would square him. In the East Forties and Fifties, loca- nsils; | tion of many new luxurious apartment bulld! ls, | on the “service, compris” ly, death, embalm- in future life and re- he | hired executives,” he said. the thunde: o spirit, the skeleton being, the 2 ie or dwarfs, and the giant +moimals. All these are key figures in dian lore. to be compiled in- the the dead and %6 spirits, the S, . harvest and new - festivals, divinations and taboos, and magic practises and medicines. SEEK TO ADOPT CHILD } V' Jiverdale Couple File Petition in - Marlboro Court. By s Stafl Correspondent of The Star. RO, Md., November and et Court here for the adoption of Charles Bdward Johnson, infant son of Mrs. Lanham. pe: . | of ocourse, the stockh there has been a movement Assoclation. get the business is; that is, purchase of immunity by a single an- nual payment of 10 cent. This helps some in France, but the innova- tors were assured by apartment man- agers that it wouldn't work here. One of the victims, a practicing physician, who has been trying to find some means of relief, likened the system to “the Paris conclerge racket, amplified and | put on & business basis.” Lump Sum Refused, o “The larger apartments are owned by corporaf and managed by some “An owner on the ground might see what is hap- nning and do l\lnzth&:.bwt it, but, look only at dividend slips. “I now pay $4,000 a year for my apart- ment. Recently I checked up and found that the blackmailing I was pay- ing ran to considerably over 10 per cent | Conditions reached the point this week .| has just been won't ride you too hard. All they want is all you've got. You look too pros- perous.’ Existence Is Nightmare. “I am not prepared to say that managers are in on the . I am convinced that none of them dares do ng about it. The joutside gang which plants the extortionists and gets its cut has many different ways of &"L“n‘ misfortune to any who As the joyous Christmas tide nears, the and advancing stealthily across the Bokhara ruj Lots of things can go wrong at tmas time, a harvest home festival for the lobby strong-arm crew. Some of the victims, investigating quietly, have found in- dications that the 'racket heads u) with a discredited Brooklyn politiclan, who got smoked out of the beer racket with a forty-four, Officials in Conference. This is one of several new lines of racketeering which have been develop- ing here. On the showing of major statistics, New York now takes the lead from in this branch of busi- ness enterprise, with an average of one gang shooting a day for the last month. where District Attorney Crain decided to summon & meetls of the district T0 SENATE GROUP One Finds $1,050 Monthly In- adequate, While Others Face Starvation. By the Assoclated Press. MUSKOGEE, Okla, November 15.— Contrasting stories of conditions among | Oklahomsa Indians, ranging from tales of starvation among destitute Cherokees to the plaint of a Seminole woman that she could not exist on an allowance of $1,050 a month, have been heard by the Senate Subcommittee on Indian Affairs, investigating conditions in the State. L d that the Indian pay all regular -current bills, #8s, lights, groceries and gasoline and give her $1,000 a month for “inei- dentals.” The Senators were curious to learn how she spent her present income and she went into del as to cost of operating her fieet of four motor cars. “Why can't you shoot squirrels?” n J. Fragier of North Dakota asked John Manning, Cherokee, after had testified through an interpreter as to pitiful conditions of tribe members in Adair County. “In the first place there are no squir- rels,” Manning replied. “In the second place you have to have a hunting license and I have no , and in the tmm»plm there is a closed season on B J. H. Sixkiller, court clerk of Adair County, previously had testified 1,100 Indians in that county were in.a des- :::: eondlx v;n;mmno e of e exce) e cul emnlmnA ial timber. el eol;fn-lonn act that gave coun courts of Oklahoma mhu“flgnu 0':¥ restricted Indians was referred to as “the crime of 1808, by Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, committee GIVEN'IN AUTO DEATH Lesler L. Riley Is Released Fol- lowing Inquest by Coroner’s Jury in Alexandria. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 15— tA ve::ficl of accidental death was re- UIn/ and broken leg when a Lesler L. Riley, 18, of Indian Head, L, and in which Mills was skidded and struck a tree on Snake about three miles south of this city. Riley testified before the coroner that barrels left along the way, which opened to follow- ing the building of & new stretch of from Indian Head to the deceased has & wife and four chil- But | dren. CHEMICAL CORPORATION TRUSTEE IS NAMED ‘Winchester Concern Records Deed of Assignment for Benefit of Creditors. Special Dispatoh to The Star. wmcm' TER, V:., Nnmvmerdlflf— A deed of assignment was od yes- terday by the Eastern Silica & Chem- ical Corporation, through its president, John F. Penrose, for the benefit of creditors. David H. Sencindiver, Win- chester, was named trustee. s ting " $118,953. 53 The claims aggrega ,953.53. largest amount owed creditor, ac- :ordlnf to the list, is $69,485.88, due in claims to as transferred comprises 56 acres of land in the vicinity | of Gore, Frederick County, where analysis has disclosed a superior grade of glass sand in almost inexhaustible' quantities. attorneys of the five boroughs of New York to see what can be done about it. Glnfi:flllflu are attributed in part to prohibition uncertainties and there is marked unrest and disturbance in the underworld. ‘There are whispers that the beer interests, over the experiments in the sale of juice con- centrates, are getting ready for a dev- astating attack on any such competi- tion, and there are dally reports of new mergers and line-ups in the do- mains of the machine gun and black- ' Jack. < (Copyright, 1930 WINCHESTER DENTIST HEADS VALLEY GROUP! 3 2 gy B4 | Dr. Edwin C. Yost Elected Presi- dent of Shenandoah Associa- tion—Papers Read. Special Dispatch to The ar. WINCHESTER, November 15— Dr. Edwin C. Yost, Winchester, was | elected president of the Shenandoah | Valley Dental Association at the eight- | eenth annual meeting, held at Harri- | sonburg. Others chosen were: [Dr. Daniel O. Via, Charlottesville, president-elect; Dr. W. H. Wunder, Woodstock, treasurer, and Dr. C. S. Grove, Strasburg, secre- | tary. The soclety is the largest dental the [body in the State, except the Virginia , | Association. 2. ) answer Mrs. Lanham states ~¥hat Ter husband was killed in an ac- L«-oident Richmond, Va., in Febru- states , 1930, and ive care by the Johnsons. %:mm states she is employed Ireland, near Halls Station. :, GIRL SCOUTS REPORT ' ‘IVAWQ Committee Receives In- quiry From Glenn Dale. The 1931 convention will be held in Staunton. ‘The speaking program included ad- dresses or papers by Dr. Guy R. Har- Va.; Dr. Clyde Nel- A. Y. Russell, Charlottesville, Va.; Dr. W. Dan! Berryville, Va.; Dr. R. B. Snapp, R. R. Bartelle and C. B. Harloe, Winchester, Visitors included Dr. S8immons, Norfolk, ent of the State soclety; Dr. Tal- N. Ballou, director of mouth hy- , Virginia State Board of Health, N, Bashor, York, Pa. s VISITS ROANOKE LIBRARY Chicago University Librarian Makes Carnegie Inspection. SALEM, Va., November 15.—Du: week and the past L librarian of the Unive: been_inspecting Mr. Central Still Wins Acquittal Of Liquor Charge Special Dispateh to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., November 15.— Central Still was tried in the Cor- poration Court yesterday on a charge of violating the prohibition law, but after she evidence was heard he was scquitted. The curious coineidence of the name and the nature of the charge is paralleled by his telephone difficulties. When his telephone rings he says, “This is Central.” “But I don’t want central,” most of the callers say, and often it re- quires some time for Still to con- vince the that he is Central and not central. - e WOMAN TO MANAGE WINCHESTER HOSPITAL! Miss Lillian Anderson Selected to Succeed Maj. Walter L. Simp- son, Who Resigned. Special Dispatch to The WINCHESTER, Va., November 15.— Winchester Memorial BIRD APARTMENT HOUSE GETS TENANTS RAPIDLY Builder Doing Rushing Business in ‘Wisconsin—S8ixty Pairs in Omne Structure. STANLEY, Wis. (N.AN.A).—Build- ing apartment - for birds is the hobby of 7 P * r, and he is doiny a rushing business. .l# Some tir: > started modestly with a house for 10 pairs of birds and that filled up almost immediately, He then hastened to build another capable of housing 40 pairs, and that many martins moved in in & single week. Amacker rubbed his hands gleefully and went to work on a gigantic mansion capable of holding comfortably 48 m ‘That filled, too, 50 now he has one to house 60 peirs, This is the mas- terplece of hic cavor- -t he says if this fills he'll build another, ¢ ‘The s are all in d p Amacker’s b2c'c yard, which makes up for its lack of size by the noise it makes on it (Copyright, 143U, by North American News. paper Alliance.) FACTS TO BE COMPILED Inter-Federation Conference to Act on Important Questions. Compilation of a code of facts and arguments in_support of the position | of the Inter-Federation Conference on a number of important matters of public interest will be the special or- der of business at the Noveml meet- ing of the conference in the United States Chamber of Commerce Building Monday nighti \ Reports of the activities of each fed- eration during the past month will also be submitted, according to W. B. Armstrong, secretary. 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