Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1931, Page 27

THE EVE RECLUSE TO SEEK “REST OF MONEY" \ bers and Relics Which Smithsonian Ex~ pert, Dr. Roberts, Has Unearthed. Mrs. Ida Wood Says She Will Continue Search as Soon as Ankles Get Better. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October i4—Just as soon as her ankles get better, Mrs. Ida Wood intends to “go out and look for the rest of my money.” The folds of her old-fashioned gowns and hiding places in her hotel room al- ready have viclded a fortune in cur- rency and bonds—nearly a million dol- Jars. The 70-pound, 93-year-old lady insists, however, that there is more. Her ankle weakness, physicians said. 1< due to lack of nutrition during the months she lived frugally in her sim- ple quarters with bundles of $10,000 banknotes, diamonds and other costly jewels within arm's reach. Mrs. Wood, after years of living on guch a slender budget as to call for the purchase of a single egg at a time, would be dismayed at the amount al- ready expended in her behalf since the court has taken over her affairs. Bills filed with the court and ap- proved, it was reported today, include a physician's fee of $3.800, and $7.900 to a detective agency which has main- tained guards at the hotel since last March. The bond of Mrs. Wood's guardian, RUINS OF FOUR TOWNS FOUND ON SAME SITE IN ARIZONA| Distinct Civilizations Indicated by Tim-I BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Ruins of four ancient towns on top of | each other, representing four distinct ! “civilizations” extending about 2,000 vewurs into the past, were discovered this Summer by Dr. F. H. H. Roberts, jr., of the Smithsonian Institution, who has | just returned to Washington after four { months in the field. | This site was found on top of a low mesa in Eastern Arizona to which the Smithsonian archeologist was attracted by the standing ruins of two large stone buildings, about 1,000 years old, ad- | jacent to a small village of Navajo In- dians. The ruined buildings, he found, were pueblos built during the so-called “pueblo three” period in the pre-his- toric Southwest when the Indians reached their highest civilization, a few | centuries Spaniards. imposing structures. 120 feet long and 90 feet wide, with parts of the third story still standing. Tie other was 100 feet long and about 50 feet wide, with a great ceremonial chamber, 60 feet in diameter, in the center. Dr. Roberts found that these great buildings, all that were left of a large | settlement, were built on about 14 fest of ruins and debris left by still earlier before coming of the ‘These in themselves were the The largest was | peoples. ‘The site, commanding a wide view of the surrounding country, had been favorable for human occupancy | from the time the country first was in- habited. He confined his work to ex- cavating the bottom two layers. | ruins of pit houses, essentially cellars | covered with a timber roof, and skeletal |remains of a small-boned, . narrow- headed people. These were the ancient basketmakers who flouished in the Southwest before the coming of the apartment house dwellers. These pit houses were bullt at about the begin- ning of the Christian era. Dr. Roberts belleves that it will be possible to date them exactly because in two cases the | timber roofs of the excavations had been caved in by fire, which did not entirely destroy the wood. The old timbers are stiil so well preserved that experts can determine the exact yea | they were cut from the forest by the “rings” denoting the annual growth of the trees. Dr. Roberts and his aides dug out 15 of these pit houses. The basketmaker layer of debris, because of the peculiar nature of the houses, | was very thin. Quite Different Race. The second oldest layer revealed skeletons of a big-boned, round-headed people, racially quite different from the | because of the continuous chronologi- At the bottom of the debris he found | G STAR, WASHINGTON, basketmakers, whose skulls frequently were flattened in the back because of the practice of attaching bables to cradle boards. Usually there is a sharp differentiation between the basket- makers, and these sturdier invaders who began to bulld large structures. Here, however, the two peoples seem to have succeeded each other without any interval, and may actually have lived in the anclent town at the same time. Roberts found several instances where the invaders had simply settled down in the abandoned pit houses, altering them slightly in accordance with their own architectural ideas. On top of this were the “pueblo two” and “pueblo three” ruins, exca- vation of which was reserved for an- other year. The site is of special im- portance because of its exceptional size —500 yards long by 200 yards wide, strung along the top of the ridge—and cal sequence. It represents a contin- uously ascending civilization from the crude beginnings to the “golden age” of ancient North America. At the peak of its culture the vil- lage apparently was abandoned sud- denly. There is no trace of the “pueblo four” culture, a considerably degener- ated form which was flourishing when the Spanish explorers came to the Southwest. Inlaid Tobacco Pipe. Besides the skeletons recovered from | the 45 graves that were opened—in | many cases only small bits of bone— | FALL RUG Uiy Dr. Roberts found numerous bone and stone implements, arrowheads, axes, pottery, knives, etc. The most prized specimen was a clay tobacco pipe in- laid with turquoise, evidently the pos- session of some great chief of the first invasion of the Pueblo peoples. From the same period came a delicately carved stone effigy of a small bird, pre- sumably of a religious nature. Four strings of beads were recovered, about WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1981 ACTRESS IS THREATENED Patsy 0'Day’s Mate Hgs Gun Duel With Prowler<~—Home Guarded. HOLLYWOOD, Calif., October 14 (#). —The home of Patsy O'Day, screen actress, was guarded by police yesterday after her husband, C. J. Joynt, reported exchanging pistol shots with two prowl- 12,000 ers at the residence Sunday. Joynt _said numerous _threatening \pILE/ RELIEVED PILE-FOE acts like magic fe beads in all, together with the ancient clay pots whose designs are of great value to archeologists in de- termining culture sequences, Because of the large size of the an- clent town it is estimated that about three years will be required to excavate it completely and the Smithsonian In- stitution plans to follow up this work. Roberts tI Summer located the cor- ners and angles of the buildings so that work can be started without delay next BUY NOW and Enjoy Complete Heating Service M%LB URNER OWING TO ITS CONTINUOUS FLAME, THE SIZE OF WHICH IS AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLED; GIVES THE MOST ECONOMICAL, CLEAN, EVEN AND SATIS- FACTORY HEATING SERVIC —t PILE will lea o money refunded. $1 3t so0d drug B—11 pistol. On one occasion they returned home to find some one had broken into the house. - No_explanation was made by Joynt. 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