Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1933, Page 29

. U.S. SAVANT TELLS OF HEAD HUNTERS Stirling Explains How Ama- zon River Got Name Be- fore University Club. How did the Amazon River get its nhame? This was one of the many things ex- plained last night*by M, W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, in & lecture entitled, “A Journey Among the Head Hunters of the Amazon” at the University Club, Portuguese adventurers, once pushing to a section of Eastern Ecuador isolated from ecivilized contacts by the fAndes Mountains to the west and Whirling river rapids along the water- Jays that are the only entrance from the east, found tribes of roving, dark- skinned people, warlike, but, because of their long, flowing black halr, feminine in appearance. Finding them powerful fighters, but ng they were women, they Teturned with stories of the “Amazons” —living on' a river that soon bore that nhame. The “Amazons” actually were the Jivare Indlans, whom Mr. Stirling re- cently visited, and photographs of Which were flashed on_ a stersopticon screen to illustrate his talk. A Warlike Nature. _“Warfars i5 the central feature of ihe Jivaro cultural pattern” Mr. Stir- ling said. in blood revenge and thei AyStiesl spirit concepts make it nat- | :é,“,: m!g” n’;en 30 or more tribes -.\-m-.“n n guage to be continually battling with each other. i A Man is killed. Only the life of the Killer or one of his family can avenge it. Even if a death be from sickness or ratural causes it is be- lieved due to the spirit of some foe | or the wiich powers of a hostile medi- o or ‘wishinu'. ] organize to avenge the death. After days of prayer; fasting and song, a courier is dispatched to inform the enemy they are to be at- tacked. Violation of this courtesy is | taboo, although it is considered fair | for the cnemy to kill the courier if he e en Qelive, R ough &o get away after Prepare for Attack. “The enemy to be attacked—usually e tribl family of about 20 or 30 warrloli_makes . a barricade of logs outside jg5 bombod house. sharp pikes of seL D at tha, Shh leaves Athe paths to tac: ted. T through ‘the lcgs and bamboo, pclt them le-lozding shotguns through chinks. The puns tasy obtain cccasionally frem itinerant traders. “Once inside, th2 only woapon ihat §t is honsrakle to use is th: lance— tnd greater valor and cleverness is &hown if the. enemy i ctatbd in the | back. If the avengers ar> successful they top off .their victory by slaying| enemy children end old people and | carrying marriageable women off with them 1o keep house, cook and tend SUED BY KENTUCKY Franchise Tax Collections Sought in Action Believed First of Kind by State. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 31.—M. J. night that suits seeking to collect franchise taxes from the National Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System were filed here yesterday. The actions are believed to mark the first attempt on the part of a State to collect franchise taxes on operation of radio networks. ‘The petitions assert all other corporations or.associations “ex- ercising any special or exclusive privi- lege for franchise not allowed to natural person” pay franchise taxes to the State, counties, eities and taxing dis- tricts wherein their franchise are ex- ercised. Payment of taxes and penalties for non-payment of the proportion claimed due the State during the last five years is sought. By prorating the value of capital stock of the two companies as concerns Kentucky, the suits seek fran- chise taxes and penalties on $15,200,000 assessments for the National Broad- casting Co. for the five years and $1,- 451,601 assessments for the Columbia Broadcasting System for five years. I Jay Miller, attorney who prepared the petitions, said the amounts the suits could not yet be determined. The petitions were approved by the State Tax ion at Frankfort be- fore filing, he said. |R. F. C. TO LEND AID TO APARTMENT BUILDING Edifices Costing $8,075,000 to Be Built on East Side of New York City. Two modern apartment buildings containing 6,030 rooms and costing up to $8,075,000 are to be built on the thickly populated East Side in New York City, with the help of the Re- construction Finance Corporation. Agreement was reached last night to advance the money to Fred R. French Operators, Inc, agents for Knicker- | bocker Village, Inc., at 5 per cent in- . The expenditure will be sub- ject to audit by representatives of the R. F. C. and the New York Board of d | Housing. P S TR COUNTERFEIT DATE SET CHICAGO, March 31 (#)—Trial of Henry Dechow, alias Count Von Bue- low, and Dr. Valentine G. Burtan of New York City on charges of ing 900 counterfeit $100 bills has been reset for_April 24 by Federal Judge Evan A. Evans. Government agents said De- chow brought the counterfeit maney, possibly $200,000 worth, from Germany to Mexico, thence to the United States. Elusive Prisoner their meager gardens of bananas and manioc plants. Heads Arve Shrunken. j “The heads of the enemy are severed, {he skins removed, and treated so tha: they shrink to about the size of smali cranges—molded all the while to retain the features of their late owners. Thesc heads are taken back to the victors' | settlement, ‘where they are placed on| Iances and incantations made to keep | the spitit of the slain foe bottled up | in the head—the home of the spirit, according to the Indian belief. Shrink- ing is believed to lessen the chances of that spirit for escape.” ' Then very soon what survivors re- | main of the defeated tribe reorganize and att>ck the Victors,” Mr. Stirling gaid. The soul cI the slain warrior is be- lieved to take the form of a jaguar cub, which takes about two years tc mature, Hence the body of a warrior 1s placed in a coffin made of a hollowed out log and left on a platform in a jungle—but for two years food is rought and left beside it. After that, | the Jivaros believe the soul can take | care of itself. The principal food of the Indians is 23 cembination food and drink made of manioc root that is called masato. Prepared by Jivaro wives, 10-gallon earthenware jars are kept in each house—often_ permitied to ferment so that it becomes intoxicating. Mr. Stirling pointed out that after the Indians believe the spirit of a slain foe is forever imprisoned in a head— they often trade it to white men as a souvenir. The trade became so lucra- tive that in Central America heads are duplicated by an artificial process ana sold. Mr. Stirling was introduced by Albert Stcphan, Behind Bars Again Brennan, State revenue agent, said last | i companies would be liable to under the | | After 4 Escapes Auto Thief Who Fled From Occoquan Is Finally Recaptured. James H. Harley, colored, 22, whose activities as an escape artist have kept the authorities busy since he fled from Occoquan Prison last Summer, was back in police toils today following his latest capture yesterday afternoon in an alley in the northeast section. Harley was arrested near Eighteenth and Gale streets northeast by Police- man John Sirola, ninth precinet, and W. E. Stein, superintendent of the Occoquan wharf, who had been on the fugitive’s trail since the first escape. 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