The Winslow mail., 1925-12-18
DISCOVERY OF WAR
IMPLEMENTS LEADS
TO PEDANTIC WAR

Scientists of the University OF
Arizona are unanimous in their
declaration that leaden crosses and
implements of war discovered re-
Gently in an abandoned lime kiln
near Tucson were authentic, and
that they had been buried under
ground eight or nine hundred years
The crosses, bearing inscriptions in
Latin and Hebrew which apparent
ly tell disconnected story of the
discovery of America nearly 700
years before Columbus, were I'M
covered by a party of eXcavators
headed by DR.. J. c. SarIe, formerly
professor of geology at the Univer-
sity of Arizona.
Dr. Byron Cummings, head Of
the department. of archaeology of
the University of Arizona; Dr.
Charles T. Vorhies, entomologist;
DR.. A. e. Douglas, director Of the
Steward observatory and DR.. Frank
Fowler, head of the department Of
classical languages, inspected the
work of excavating the relics sew
eral times in the last six months,
and each declares that there is no
possibility that the crosses are
fraudulent or that they had been
buried within the last eight or nine
hundred years.
According to Douglas, who pho
tographed six of the relics as they
were being taken from the ground,
caliche, or desert limestone form
ed about the crosses, while stra-
tum of the same substance had
formed above the bed of the relics.
Several hundred years would have
been necessary for this limestone
to harden to it's present condition,
according to Cummings None of
the scientists attempted to fix the
exact age of the relics, but Cum
mings and Fowler asserted the
Latin found on the cross closely
resembled that in use about IT'S
A D., the earliest date found on
the crosses.
The inscriptions, which were
translated by Fowler and by Dr.
John A. Davis of Princeton, tell
of being carried out to sea and of
discovering an unknown land. A
dynasty of kings is referred to,
beginning with Theodorus, and in
Guiding seven Israels. The third
Israel freed Toltezus and he was
driven out" From this time, the
inscriptions deal principally with
wars and battles, in one of which
"three thousand were slain" Af-
ter this nothing but peace was
sought" and the last inscription
of the latest dated cross is God
established everything" Dates on
the crosses extend from IT'S A. D.
to 900 A. D.
81 am convinced that the articles
found were taken from undisturb-
ed deposits and bedded so deeply
and completely in caliche, or lime
stone that they must have laid
there for long period of time.
said Cummings. 'The inscriptions
that have had time to peruse were
written in a style of Latin common
not later than the eighth century.
l am convinced that the finds are
genuine and believe any scientist
who has seen the work of excava-
tion progressing will agree with
me-
Fowler, who had charge of the
translations, and who was present
during a part of the time excava-
tiOn was going on, also declared
he 70 ho
"The upper layer of earth con-
sisted of about 16 inches of soil"
he said, "and below that were three
layers of caliche, apparently sew
eral centuries old, and apparently
undisturbed. There was no evil
dence of any recent disturbance of
the materials and | cannot con-
ceive that the relics have not been
buried several hundred years."
None of the scientists at the uni
versity would express an opinion
as to when the relics were deposit
ed, but Sarle, the head of the eX-
cavating party, made public state
ment in which he declared his be-
lief that the crosses we're made by
a party of Roman Jews which land
ed in America about 775 A. D. He
expressed his belief that this party
either allied themselves with, or
enslaved a large group of the ma
tives and established a kingdom
which lasted little more than 100
years, and that the nation was
eventually destroyed in an uprising
of the natives.
The position of the crosses and
implements of war, and the scars
of battle upon the latter, he de-
clared, indicate that the present
excavation is the scene of the final
conflict between the natives and the
Europeans.