Show I HIA HIAWATHA W A THA REVEALED I AS MIGHTY CANNIBAL WASHINGTON May 3 C UP- UP Hiawatha mi mighty fi fighter mighty hunter of Longfellow's legend was declared today by the Smith Smith- Institution to have been nIl all ot of that and a cannibal to boot Hiawatha the Smithsonian said finally finall got ot the better of his man eating appetites and reformed reformed re- re formed into a preacher of the doctrine of human brotherhood Dr J J. J N N. N U. U Hewitt the Institutions Institutions authority on the famous league asserted today he was convinced Hiawatha was more than a legendary figure ligure and that there was proof he actually actu- actu ally lived hed between 1550 and 1600 Hiawatha he said was one of the founders lounders of oC the league sometimes sometimes some some- times known as the Six Nations which played an important partin part partin in ear early American history His cannibal traits were n a matter matter mat mat- ter of tribal custom He dropped the practice after becoming a disciple ol of the great Iroquois law lass g I v e C 1 1 who preached the doctrine or of human brotherhood and built the Iroquois Iro- Iro league around that idea Dr Hewitt said |