Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1932, Page 12

"A—12 #3 THE EVENING STAR, SHINGTON, WAS ANCIENT ALASKANS | CULTURED RACE Dr. Hrdlicka Says Kodiak Islanders Were Like Cen- tral Americans. The prehistoric inhabitants of Kodiak Island, off the southern coast of the Alaskan Peninsula, possessed culture | traits definitely linking them with the | great aboriginal civilizations which de- veloped later in Central America and Peru, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology of the National Museum, said last night in a public | lecture under auspices of the Smith- sonian Institution The first evidences of this_culture were found last Summer by Dr. Hrdlicka in his search for the routes by which the North American continent was settled by the immigrants from Siberia at some time during the neolithic period. The ancient Kodiak islanders, cannibals who had developed such ad- | vanced artifacts as artificial eyes, rep- resented one stage of the settlement, Dr. Hrdlicka believes, which is probably the most ancient that has been uncovered. Figurine in Design. In some of their graves he found figurine executed in designs strongly resembling those which appear much later in the art forms of the Mayas. Thus, he believes, the Maya and Aztec civilizations did not represent complete developments from a state of savagry but began as revivals of a culture which had been brought from Asia many cen- turies before but largely given up be- cause of the exigencies of the new en- vironment. Dr. Hrdlicka insisted that there is little basis for the theorles which hold that the aboriginal American population received large increments from the South Sea Islands and from Australia. The whole development, he insists, had its roots in Siberia and any accretions from other sources were of little conse- quence. Once primitive man had reached the desolate East Cape of Siberia, he sald, the progress to North America was in- evitable. The coast of Alaska could be seen on a clear day. The ancient people had boats in which they were able to cross the narrow Bering Strait and they would be driven to make the crossing by the scanty food supply, especially as new comers rushed them from behind. Alaska More Hospitable. Alaska, he said, must have appeared to them as a much more hospitable country than Siberia. They were largely a race of fishermen, continually seeking a fresh fish supply. From Alaska, he believes, the progress was down the Pacific Coast, so that the great devel- opments of Indian culture in the South “Miss Europe” DENMARK GIRL WINS INTER- NATIONAL BEAUTY CONTEST. | | | ‘ | NICE, France —“Miss Denmark,” who was selected by the judges of the inter- | national beauty contest at Nice, France, as the prettiest girl in all of Euro] and on whom the title of “Miss Europe | was conferred. —Wide World Photo. PLANE "CHUTES FAIL, | PILOT SAVES LIFE | Experiment Desxg’ned to Land Dis- | abled Craft Works Improperly, Resulting in Crash. By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, February 25.—Lieut. Hugh | McKee, a war-time pilot, narrowiy | escaped with his life yesterday in an attempt to land an_ airplane equipped | with parachutes on the Lansing Airport. The plane was equipped with two parachutes, designed to lower it safely | in case of an accident or motor trouble | during flight. Lieut. McKee took the ship to an elevation of 2,000 feet, wit- nesses said, shut off the motor and attempted to float to earth. One of the parachutes, contained in metal holders on the top wing, was released, but the other was not. Thci plane crashed, its descent slowed down by the one open parachute. The pilot climbed to the end of the wing before the crash, and escaped with minor injuries. may have come comparatively early, while the ancient culture exemplified by the Kodiak Island finds was not & great many generations behind them. Physiological data, he insisted, show that the whole Indian race, together with the Eskimos, is essentially homo- geneous, so that there is little likeli- hood of any large accretions from any other source. WANTS SWORD GIVEN PERSHING RETURNED Venezuelan Appeals to U. S., but Is Advised to Turn to Own Government. Any protest against the six-year-old gift of the sword of a Venezuelan patriot presented to Gen. John J. Pershing is a matter to be taken up with the Venezuelan, and not the American Gov- emment, State Department officials said today, in reply to Rafael de Nogales, Venezuelan soldier of fortune. Nogales had protested that the sword of Gen. Paez was a relic of such historic interest to Venezuela it never should have been permitted to leave the country. The sword, used by Gen. Paez, one of roes of the Venezuelan War of nce, was presented to Gen. with a decoration and other momentos of his visit to Venezuela by President Gomez through the Minister in Washington, on June 25, 1925. Gen. Pershing turned the historic sword £nd other gifts over to the State Department, where they will be kept, under the laws governing such gifts, until Gen Pershing is authorized to ac- cept them Nogales, who took part in the revolu- tion of 1911 against President Gomez, is now in Washington, and not only wrote a protest, but called at the State De- partment in connection with the mat- ter. 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CHICAGO, February 25—A dra- matic story by a woman who said she | was one of his many wives, started a | police hunt today for Ralph Root, 43, | for questioning "regarding bigamy, a prison escape, and mysterious deaths in | automobile accidents. Mrs. Jane Root made the charges |at an inquest into the deaths of Mrs. \“arch 15. Hazel Beckner Root, believed to have | been the fugitive's most recent wife,| | and her daughter, Hazel May, 10. They | were killed a week ago when Root's | automobile plunged 30 feet from a rail- road viaduct. Two Insurance Policies. Police said they had learned that Root fled from the scene of the crash, registered under a false name at a | hospital for treatment of minor injuries, and did not attepd the funerals. There were life insurance policies totaling $5,000 on the lives of Mrs. Root and | her daughter, relatives said. Mrs. Jane Root said she married Root five years ago in Blue Island, a Chi- cago suburb, and that they never were | | divorced. She said he tried several times to end her life in automobiles, on one occasion steering his car over an embankment near Spencer, Ind. Bach time, she said, Roct leaped from the car in time to escape, but she suffered serious injuries in one accident. He told her, she related, he had escaped from the Federal Peniten- tiary at Leavenworth, Kans., and that | a previous wife and her mother wer killed in the crash of an automobile he was driving. Root deserted her a few months after their marriage, Mrs. Jane Root said. adding (‘mt she believed he had been maried “at least several times since then without ever obtaining a divorce.” She said he told he had been married at l(‘fl.«t three times before he wed her and that one of the wives lived in Greencastle, Ind, under the | name of Rootkowski, his right but sel- dom used nar Mrs. Charlotte Horvath |May S. Roede, ‘kxlled last week, inquest. Mrs. H | nessed ~ Hazel's marriage to Root at | Toledo, Ohio, last November 6. 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