Show 3 Kentucky Mountaineers Charged With Taking Rare Indian Antiques I LOUISVILLE I Icy March S AP Kentucky l mountaineers In a measure alwa's always have Interested scientists Their pure puro Saxon Anglo blood their Ideals and Ideas really reany make them nn an Interesting people But an Idea evolved In recent years rs c which resulted In many celebrated northern and eastern museums displaying displaying dis- dis playing rare Indian relics purchased purchased pur- pur chased at good prices now engages the profound study or of the scientist who soon will be caned called upon to testify In a federal court In Louis Louls- yule as as to their authenticity and imd I whether or not famous museums have havo been duped by just a plain Kentucky I mountaineers mountaineer's Idea Several Sov- Sov eral Investigators say the they have htwe and heres here's the tho story what they found Cumberland City Cily Is tucked away In the Cumberland mountains of Kentucky Near It livo Mark Hanna Hanna Han Han- na Guffey W IV 31 Vade Bell BeH and andR R n. n Y V. Felt Velt Jones Cumberland City came to tho attention attention at- at of Indian relic collectors antique hunters and scientists upon discovery that the tho surrounding country abounded In a a. vast wealth of of great value Many of the relics were ot of a strange variety and unknown to science F m time of discovery until Uncle Sam took a hand band there was a steady low flow of rare pottery objects of ag old age old Indian ll art aft and decorations decora- decora Into hands of collectors according according ac- ac cording to United States District Attorney Thomas J. J Sparks of Louisville SOME LOST FAITH Certain relic collectors and experts experts ex- ex began to lose faith In their purchases and their source and complained to the government An investigation started Agents of the tho government red dred Indian relics In the hills of Clinton county count until they came upon was was when a. a strange estrange workshop then attention was directed at Guffey Bell and Jones The Tho workshop was cr crude de with implement but an old lord Ford car as chief ment and power plant It o oever ever in al- al aJ turned out wares so genuine that just justas as federal agents agents the sa say they found places among best and most authentic collections with approval ot of many eminent gentlemen of science Guffey Ben Bell and Jones have been cited to come down to the city from their mountain workshop on charges of using the tho malls mails to defraud defraud de- de fraud an and to ten tell just what they can cando cando do with an old Ford car and n. n few tew Kentucky mountain limestone rocks Along with them will come men used to the city street cars and all such like like and they thoy too will tell what they know Mr sparks district district dis- dis attorney expects to use Dr Charles E E. Guthe Arbor Mich chairman of the committee on archeological archeological ar- ar survey of the tho national council Charles H. H Brown Madison Wis secretary ot of tho Wisconsin Archeological society c H. H Howerton How How- erton Quincy Ill and William Webb Lexington Ky head o of the anthroPOlOgical and archeological department of the tho University ot of KentuCky as witnesses The Thc mountaineer will contend he has the right to do what he damned wants to with his mountain moun moun- taro tain rocks s just like Ike he has always contended he has right to his own corn and mal make e moonshine whisky out or of It Instead ot of corned pones pones-It he wants to Uncle Sam will decide the former soon just as he did the latter contention contention con con- long ago |