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Show FRIDAY, APRIL THE BULLETIN TRACE ANCESTRY OF ODD INDIAN TRIBE Houmas May Be Remnant of Mound Builders. Philadelphia. The Houma Indiana of the Louisiana bayou country may be descended, at least indirectly, from the prehistoric races of Mississippi Valley Mound. Builders, according to Dr. F. G. Speck, professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. The scientist returned recently from a trip of several months from parts of the almost inaccessible bayou regions near the town of Houma, La., after making a preliminary investigation which, he said, represented the first study of the history, customs and civilization of the Houma group since a survey 30 years ago by the bureau of American ethnology. n Dr, Speck found the tribe, which is made up of remnants of the original Houma and several other tribes virtually wiped out in colonial Indian wars, to be flourishing. The people depend almost entirely on hunting, fishing and oyster gathering in the bayou country and live in comfort and simplicity in the vast marshes and cypress swamps in which the white man usually docs not survive, the anthropologist reported. Their homes are thatched palmetto huts and their transportation over the marsh lands is provided by swift dugout canoes. They are convirtented, peaceable, and crimeless extremely tually little-know- well-ordere- d, clean." Dr. Speck's findings indicate a link between the present tribe sr.d t!u Mound Builders who developed a high degree of civilization, living in the Mississippi valley for four centuries prior to the coming of the white man. They suggest a connection with earlier peoples on the Mexican coast and gulf whose position is still a problem in respect to the influ- ence from Mexico which may have resulted in the development of the Mound Builders civilization, he said. Are Little Known. Because the Houma have been visited by few ethnologists and therefore are comparatively little known, a preliminary investigation has been begun preparatory to a more complete study of their language and civilization. The present race of fishermen and hunters, which numbers about 1,000 men, women and children and is increasing steadily, speaks Creole French as evidence of contact with early French settlers who drove the Houma from central Louisiana in the Eighteenth century, Dr. Speck explained. In the colonial Indian wars, reprisals for uprisings of other tribes which were caused by French slave hunting expeditions among the Indians brought the Houma into conflict with French colonial troops and armed negro slaves. Dr. Speck said research had disclosed an order of the French governor of Louisiana in 1730 directing arming of negroes and sending them to wipe out the Indians bayou villages of Washa and Chawasha to remove the menace not only of the aborigines, but to arouse enmity between the negroes and Indians to ward off the possibility of a joint uprising of the two races against the French. BE THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL GROWING MASH Guaranteed to Be the Best BAG 100-L- B. MAXHELD FEED : " 8 COAL, Inc. 178 WEST. 3rd So, SALT LAKE and MURRAY, UTAH HOME OF GOLDEN M" FEEDS . Monster Snake Conveyed STATE INSPECTION Demands Good Lights Have Your LIGHT REFLECTORS RESILVERED AT in Deed Found in Ohio Mansfield, Ohio. WPA workers engaged in a survey of records of Richland county discovered an d deed conveying not only a 20 acre tract of swamp land but also a fabulous giant rattlesnake believed to dwell in the marsh. By deed dated February 10, 1858, George B. Wright, as receiver for a railroad company, conveyed the land and the monstrous snake to Allen B. Beverstock, of Lexington, eighty-year-ol- INTERMOUNTAIN PLATING CO, Was. 6819 861 So. State St. Salt Lake City, Utah "3SQSE Ky. The reptile was supposed to be of LAWN MOWERS Sharpened and Repaired Tennis Rackets Restrung PHIL and JOES SOUTHEAST REPAIR SHOP E. 21st So. 1113 H. S59C such size and strength that it could push down fences, breaking the rails with its weight. Beverstock not only had a clause of conveyance inserted in the deed to gain title to the serpent, but a pen sketch of the animal was drawn on the face of the deed. The picture was more than 10 inches long. It was that of a gray snake, its back splotched with yellow, with a longitudinal row of black spots bordered with white. What became of the snake, or whether it ever was seen, was not recorded. WHITE PORT PARADISE ANGELICA QUART - (Amber Sweet) Code No. QUART 947 Code No. GALLON 1057 Code No. GALLON 948 Code No. 1058 EXPECT TO ADD OIL TO ALASKAN RICHES by Wealth of Commodities Now Flow From Territory. Washington, D. C. Ever since Seward pushed to a successful conclusion the purchase of Alaska, his critics have been forced to eat their words. Alaska cost $7,200,000, an oversize sum for an ice box in 1887, but few investments cf United States dollars in land have given better return. Recently 500 tons of oil drilling equipment were dispatched to new oil fields of southwest Alaska in the hope of adding petroleum to the long list of commodities now flawing from the territory. Without oil figuring in the rcle of an export, Alaska, last year, shipped to the United States products valued at nearly nine times the amount paid to Russia for the territory, says the National Geographic society. Alaska Spells It Salmon. Alaska salmon canneries transported $42,026,365 worth of their products to the United States and fresh and cured salmon shipped were valued at $2,000,000. Catching and canning salmon is by far Alaskas most important industry. It employs 25,000 people every year. Salmon are rapidly cleaned by effi-- . cient machines, called iron chinks because they have replaced Chinese workers. Nearly every bay and inlet of Alaska has its waterside salmon cannery. Watch the shiploads of fresh fish pour in at one end and come out the other in a continuous stream of silvery cans, and you will realize that Alaskas factories produce more than half the canned salmon on the worlds pantry shelves. Because it is shipped to Seattle and distributed from there, Alaskans who want canned salmon usually import it from the United States. Last year they ordered $8,000 worth. Mineral wealth ranks next to fisheries in the territory. Last year Alaskan miners shipped to the United States nearly $7,000,000 worth of copper, about three times as much gold, and $71,000 worth of silver. e The territory has extensive coal deposits, but' costly transportation has hindered their exploitation. Ask a woman what Alaska means to her, and she will answer in one word: Furs! Luxurious mink, sable, soft muskrat and beaver, and fluffy fox furs; blue, red, white, black, and silver Alaska supplies these, as well as hides of hair seals, from which purses are made, and fur seal skins, w'hich become popular, durable wearing high-grad- ap-par- el. 'M v: IUiiccgUa Brothers Corp. St. Helena, San Jose, Calif. 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Wood carving is undergoing such a veritable renais-- I sance, especially in the western states where fine woods are cheap, that the University of California has g course inaugurated a for adults. wood-carvin- Gallon Fifth Quart -- nrtb nftk Gal. rink rutk Let AN EXPERT Do It LL. STEVENSON CLEANING, PRESSING, REPAIRING Ask About Our Work Oliver Wakefield, English comedian on the Paul Whiteman program, was born in Zuzuland. The name of his home town, Mahlabalapini. Try that on your loud speaker . . . There are three Charley McCarthys in the Manhattan telephone book; . Pins But no Edgar Bergen acted, and Needles, produced-anby member of needle workers unions, is showing GLEANING AHD TAILORING 4 at, of all now places, the Princess theater . . . Theres an L. L. Stevenson on street. Instead of writing a column, he gives beauty treatments. And some of his feminine patrons woste nickels by calling up and trying to make appointments with me. Because were also neigh-- ' A westhors in the phone book ern state is building a new prison and taking motion pictures of important construction steps. Allen Prescott thinks they should release the completed film under the title, A Stir Is Born. And I hope printers don't make star out of stir. We Call For and Deliver Forty-se- cond ... Hyland 8376 2200 Highland Drive FIND HAYDN SONATA LOST FOR CENTURY Pianist to Bring It to U. Publication. S. for Crrpe Ccs'.gn in Jewelry , Followed Gold Ruches Dead wood, S. D. The origin of the distinctive grape and leaf design of Black Hills gold jewelry is unknown, although it has followed every gold rush since the 49ers plowed across the dim trails to California,. according to E. P. Lampi-ne- n Paris. An unpublished Haydn piano sonata, written in 1796, has of Deadwood. been discovered by Johann Singer, When the boom died in California young New York pianist, and he has the jewelers followed the miners to arranged for the possessor of the Cripple Creek, Colo., to Idaho, Monmanuscript to take it to the United tana, and finally to the Black Hills, through it, writes Jane Pickens, States in May. Until then his iden- last stand of fresh, raw gold. They VChaperon your cigarettes. They tity is being kept secret. used, the same design in each new A shouldnt go out alone. found the work six years gold camp, partly because it was Singer columnist has achieved success, ago among a collection of old man- the only one they knew and partly says Emil Coleman, when the size uscripts in a bookshop in Antwerp because it adapted itself so well to of his head equals the size of his but he kept the discovery secret un- the various kinds of gold.. waste basket . . . Tony Wons' defitil he was able to verify its auThere is a legend that the first like nition of an oyster: A fish built and get the opinions of grape and leaf jewelry was made thenticity a nut . . . And nowadays, writes leading musicians in France told a hungry young jeweler who Arthur Godfrey, if you see a young Belgium. He is certain now that by fell asleep under the trees, wonderwoman with her hands- clasped and the sonata is a late work of Haydn, how he could create a new deing know rolled dont her eyes high you which was never published while sign that, would become popular. whether shes about to offer prayer the composer was alive and some- When he awakened he lay looking . Oscar Bradley, . or a Susie-how was overlooked by for at the grapes and leaves in the hjaeirs. rain the shortest orchestra leader 100 years." more than trees, overhead and noted how the dio, has as his publicist, .J. M. The manuscript proved to be an vine twined about the trees. There in the tallest press agent old copy made from the original was his hew design, Lampinen says radio . . . Ruth Carhart collects which is in the possession. of a mu- the legend goes. cigar bands and has more than 400 sician in Frankfort. The work has . Each piece of jewelry is hand brands. been played from the manuscript made and is manufactured from several times in Germany without Black Hflla. placer-golbrought to being identified. the local shops by placer miners A tough guy, prison pallor all Mystic, Singer himself has played it at working in Keystone, over his face, walked into a Sixth avenue greasy spoon and looked various times in concerts in the French Creek, Two Bit Gulch, Potato Creek, Whitewood Creek around for. the telephone, reports United States as an encore but did and other places. David Albeir. He found it, fished not say what it was. The work is a piano sonata in around in his pocket for a nickel and dropped it in the slot. It was four movements, Singer explained. Wounded Ducks Recover I recognized the style when I first one of those dial-lephones and in Wisconsin Hospital soon the operators voice came over played it but said nothing until 1 had time to go into it thoroughly. Green Bay, Wis. Hospital service the wire. I found it had the same thematic has been arranged here under fedNumber, please? she asked. material as was used in an earlier, eral sanction for ducks wounded in into Say, yelled the tough guy less developed Haydn, sonatine, and the annual bombardment by huntthe phone, his voice registering inthe form and exposition of the work ers. The founder and surgeon of the I cracks. smart dignation, Noneya is definitely late Haydn. Professors sanatorium for crippled ducks is been usin a name for two weeks at the Conservatoire in Paris, and Blake Posey. lie converted a piece leading musicians in Liege and Ant- of marshland northeast of this city If Walt Disney hadn't been turned werp have studied it with me and to his needs and enlisted the aid of fciehds. As soon as the Lake Michiagreed. down by an art editor, he wouldnt have been forced to set up a studio gan bay froze they made expeditions of in his father's garage where he bemercy to rescue ducks disabled W. P. A. Digs Up Oddities . friended a mouse and got the idea by gunfire. in' Oregons Old Laws . There for his famous Mickey . They found 25, .and Posey nursed is a prize fighter by the name of Portland, Ore. Bicycle .riders in 20 of them back to health after givTo dance fans, VinPhil Baker Oregon once were required to halt ing them surgical attention. He apcent Lopez is an orchestra leader. when they approached within 100 plied saints .to broken wings and To wrestling fans, Vincent Lopez is yards of a team of horses, dismount legs and removed shot from unformer worlds champion . . . One and remain standing until the healed wounds. A tool shed was of Jimmy Durantes best friends is horses had passed, according to a converted into a field hospital. The Dr. James Stotter who has made WPA survey of odd laws in the United States biological survey, which has charge of regulating hunta fortune shortening noses . . . state. Roseland gets an average of $50 At Astoria in the early eighties ing seasons for migratory water-fow- l, worth of flower orders each week. the city council ordained that no approved the salvaging of cripBecause picking up person should be allowed to ride pled birds from November 11 to 30 the telephone book, mistake a dance or drive a beast of burden faster annually. hall for a florist shop. Posey has been an agent of merthan six miles an hour within the among the crippled birds for 15 cy limits. city He began when he was a years. An economy-inspire- d ordinance at in high school. One of Genevieve Rowes sophomore cousins was visiting her last Oregon Cityis read: That it hereby made the duty week and expressed a desire to go of the watchman to keep in American College Boy Is night to the aquarium. up the street lamps I'll be busy with rehearsals for order and light Changing for the Better the same burning from the next few days, explained Miss and keep Denver. The American college dark until daylight in the morning, Rowe, so well have to put it off boy is changing and for the better. not to lit are be that provided they until next week. Thats the studied opinion of Dr. or kept burning when it is moonBut we must go there today, W. Henry McLean of Chicago, travinsisted the cousin. Tve already light. Chi A study of justice revealed that eling secretary of the Sigma noted in my diary that we were in 1875 whose national fraternity, collegiate a boy from there today. with thouMutnomah county, convicted of hav- job brings him in contact in the United of sands boys college ing stolen randy, was sentenced to There are four Broadways in three years in the penitentiary and States and Canada each year. This is the best generation of The Broadway that served his entire term. At the same Manhattan. we have ever had, Dr. students runs and Green starts at Bowling time a man, sentenced to life for on up to Albany. Old Broadway, murder, was pardoned after four McLean said on a visit here. The 1938 model college boys are World from West One Hundred Twenty-fift- h months. war babies. They are children of d to West One Hundred Thirty-thirthe depression, and they are more street, East Broadway, which Canada Is Two than their predecessors. Building serious on the starts at Chatham square Dr. McLean said the youth of Batteries at Vancouver Bowery and runs to Grand street. doesnt expect to get a job sim-- : West Broadway, which starts at Vancouver, B. C. Secondary deGreenwich street and ends at Wash- fenses for the protection of Can- ply by asking for one when he graduates. ington square. And over in Brook- adas Pacific coast port of VancouHe knows business is buying lyn, theres still another Broadway. ver are under construction. Not one of the five resembles the these days, said the fracharacter The triangular defensive zone He also knows other Up in the Bronx is Feathwill guard British Columbias prin- ternity official. erbed lane. Downtown is Great cipal cities and consist of two bat- his only chance to succeed is to pre- Jones street . . . And I think this is teries of h naval guns across pare himself thoroughly. That is enough for today. Possibly you do the strait of Juan de Fuca. All why there arent many playboys in too. water approaches to Vancouver City college this year. C Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. will be within the range of these' land batteries, which will have a r - f - Mongrel Can Count range of 14,000 yards. Famous Walnut Cut Down While technical details of CanChange for Drinks as It Grew Too Rapidly adas $36,000,000 defense program are Vancouver. Duke, Richard Chico, Calif. One of the largest secret, work is progressing on fortip monDavidsons walnut trees ever grown in the Unit- fications on the southern coast of head. can use his grel; ed States has just passed from the Vancouver island to protect the proThe educated cross between a yard of Dr. H. L. Voorhees here to vincial capita of Victoria. e German sheep dog and an no Canadian mutual the veneer factory. The tree was Although selects Irish terrier change so American defense measures have its own undoing because it grew for his' master, helps with the the Canadian big that it endangered the house been formulated, and often anticipates housework, half a more to than technical author which for century guns, according his needs. line ities, could deliver a previously it had merely shaded. Duke is also a card player. He General John Bidwell Is credited cf fire across the Juan de Fuca can sniff the cards of opposing with having planted the tree in 1871. strait in concert with batteries on players in a deck. The dog knows Although big offers had been made the United States shore. and can pick the right change houses and veneer other for it by Wore Prince Alberts for a glass or bottle of beer, a concerns dealing exclusively in walmost In the nifty nineties, nut wood, all offers were refused meal, or an ice cream cone, and will letch a broom, shovel, hat or until it. became imperative to fell United States senators wore Prince ax on request. He even helped the tree. The purchaser was a wood Alberts. The frock coat was a symhis master to build a cabin in the mosaic factory at Louisville, Ky. bol of statesmanship and a beard British Columbia wilds. The trunk and limbs weighed 65,000 was the mark of a man of maturity and substance. pounds, or thirty and a half tons. Lynn Murray describes Hollywood as a long stretch of the imagination A national on the Pacific coast forest preserve in Montana has this sign posted on the highway running ... ... - Q g, . , Tin-to- n, ' ss 1 . The Pribilof islands in the Bering sea are the breeding grounds of of the fur seals in the world. The seals are protected by the government and only immature males are killed. Last year 55,000 fur seals were taken. Nearly 1,000 blue fox pelts also were produced on the islands. Alaska Good Market. Alaska has great forest resources of hemlock and spruce that have been only partially cut over. Vast acres in the territory, worthless for agriculture or forest, are used as grazing grounds for reindeer herds. About 1,280 reindeer were dispatched to Alaska in 2 from Lapland and Siberia. In 1936 there were 600,000, although many were killed to supply Eskimos with food and clothing. Last year the United States imported $16,000 worth of surplus reindeer meat and hides. Alaska is a good market for American goods, importing $42,860,- 774 worth in 1937. Largest single import was more than $6,000,000 worth of tin cans for salmon canneries. A million dollars worth of equipment, and quantities of machinery and vehicles also were purchased by Alaskan industry. American ships brought to Alaskan ports meat and dairy products, nearly 2,000,000 dozen eggs, grains, vegetables, and fruita, including, for the first time, canned peaches and pineapple. Farmers imported pointing to 305,316 pounds of field and garden seeds. For Alaskan housewives made in the U. S. baking soda, sewing machines and brooms, fancy soaps, perfume and cosmetics, and pianos were imported. cy &BANDS' Lights of NewYork 1924 . ... out-of-to- - ld - . to-d-ay ... six-inc- four-yesr-o- ld aire-dal- 13 Unlucky? This Cop Doesnt Think So Tyler, Texas. Motorcycle Patrolman W. E. Roberts wears badge No. 13. On February 13 at 1:13 p. m, he completed 13 months, 13 days, 13 hours and 13 minutes of service with the police department. He has 13 buttons on his uniform coat, his motorcycle registered 13,000 miles and his fathers birthday is February 13. ! ' : |