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Euidence Ureartl1ed to Back
Homer's Story Of Fall Of Troy
Excavations Indicate Seuenth, Not Sixth,
City Fell Before Greeks-No Trace
of Famed sHOrse" Located.

quake while the seventh was burned,
probably by the attacking Greeks.
Dr.. Blegen set the dates for the
sixth settlement as about 100 to 1900
BIC. The IRE that destroyed the
seventh city that rose on the ruins of
the earthquake that occurred about
1900 BIC.
DR.. Blegen said he had found noth-
ing to justify either belief or dis
belief in the popular version If the
fall Of Troy which attributes the 10
year siege by the Greeks to anger over
the abduction of Helen by Paris.
No Trace Of Horse.
Neither is there archaeological sup
port for the Homer and Greek tradi.
ton that the victorious Greek attack
ers sacked the settlement and nut 1t
to the torch through the ruse Of the
famous wooden horse. If a horse &C.
tually was used, all trace # 1t was
destroyed In the tire that leveled the
city.
The sixth and seventh Troys have
intrigued historians and archaeolo-
gists through the ages since Homer
first sang the famous story Of Helen's
abduction and the wooden horse.
Prof. Wilhelm Doerpfeld, German
archeologist, discovered the remains
of the sixth settlement in 1893 and
1894 and interpreted data unearthed
then as ruins left when the Greeks
destroyed the city. Prof. Heinrich
Schliemann had uncovered remains
Of earlier settlements in many expe-
ditions to the site of the famous
ancient city between 1870 and 1890.
There can be no doubt that the
wreckage (of the sixth Troy was
caused by q severe earthquake which
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hurled down the upper part OF the
city wall and the superstructure Of
houses" Dr. Blegen said.
Date Of Catastrophe.
~The date of the catastrophe can
be definitely ascribed to the close Of
the sixth Troy during the early years
Of the thirteenth century BE-"
He told. Of sections Of a great wall
that showed wide cracks and disloca-
tions of stone. Since the wall was
built on hardpan, the cracks could
not have been due to natural settling.
In places, DR.. Blegen said, the wall
reaches q height Of 80 feet.
In similar manner, practically all
Of the buildings uncovered from the
early seventh Troy show just as clearly
evidence Of . destructive fire.
The Cincinnati Investigators inter-
preted as another indication that it
was the seventh Troy that fell before
the Greeks the finding beneath the
floors Of most Of the houses Of num-
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By the Associated Press.

8y tne ASSoCl&teo FIeeS.
CINCINNATI, December 28.-Picks
and shovek of archaeologists have
unearthed secrets more than 5000
years old, indicating that the poet
Homer's story of the fall of the an
cient city Of Troy in Asia Minor was
founded on fact.
DR.. Carl w. Blegen, reporting yes
terday on the 1886 diggings of the
University Of Cincinnati archaeolo-
gists at the site of the famous Trojan
city, disclosed that the fifth annual
excavations provided data further to
justify the belief that the true HON.
eric ilium was the seventh city and
not the sixth in a series Of nine on the
site of ancient Troy.
Before the Cincinnati Investigations
started in 1882. 1t was believed that
the sixth Troy was the one that fell
before the Greeks.
DR.. Blegen, professor Of classical
archaeology and fellow in the Gradu-
ate School Of Arts and Sciences at the
University Of Cincinnati, was field di-
rector of the Cincinnati work at Troy.
Evidence Is Unearthed.
While archaeologically nothing has
been found to support Homer's drama
tization Of the fall Of Troy, evidence
to indicate that the story had basis
IN historical fact was unearthed.
The discovery of huge storage jars
beneath the floors of most Of the
houses of the seventh settlement Of
Troy lent support to Homer's song of
. 10-year siege of the city by the
Greeks.
Evidence also was unearthed to in
dicate conclusively that the sixth Troy
was destroyed by a devastating earth
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'hrst" discovery by the 1896 expedi-
ton. The ground plan Of an impor-
tant house Of the original settlement
Of about 5000 BIC. was uncovered.
Floor deposits yielded pottery and
miscellaneous objects Of bone, stone
and copper.
Two infant buriak beneath the
floor and four outside the house con-
tanned skeletons Of newborn babes
and infants that lived perhaps year.
AL indicated q heavy infant mortality
rate in the early phase Of the first
Troy.
Remains OF the second Troy present
. complex problem with seven defl-
mite subperiods indicated by the
various strata. Like the seventh Troy
Of some ten centuries later, the sec
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erous pithoi or large storage jars.
They found as many as az such jars
In . single house and even small
dwelling had IL pithoi.
Those jars could have held the
enormous stores Of food which must
have been available to permit the
Trojan defenders to Withstand the
long siege chronicled in 1.-THE Had"
Traces Of wheat and other cereals
were found in some Of the jars, each
nearly 6 feet tall. Others undoubtedly
contained water and oil.
Remains Of . large building Of the
sixth Troy were exposed In part dur
ing the 1896 expedition. They give
promise Of revealing next year the
largest and most impressive structure
Of that era yet discovered.
DR.. Blegen told Of still another
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FOUR DIE IN CANAL
Trip to Aid Motorist Is Fatal to
Family.

WEST PALM BEACH. Fla. Decem-
Der 28 R.-Returning from assisting
. distressed motorist, Ray Strickland,
his wife and their two children
drowned yesterday when their auto
mobile skidded into a canal 20 miles
west Of here.
The submerged car, with the i'm
prisoned bodies of Strickland, Ids
Mae Strickland and their children,
Gene, 2 years. and Oscar, "a days.
was discovered by q passing Negro
several hours after the tragedy.
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YULE COURSE" LIGHTED
Death Wish Sign Replaces Bright

Bulbs Stolen From Tree.
HAWTHORNE, N. J., December %
R.-A blue and white illuminated
sign replaced last night the lights
that were stolen from q large spruce
tree on the lawn Of william Kievit.
The sign reads:
Happy New Year, everybody, but
may the one, or more, who stole the
lights of this tree drop dead"
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ond settlement was destroyed by fire
before 1000 BIC.
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Strickland, State road department
bridge tender at Twenty Mile Bend,
had taken his family with him 50 they
might enjoy the ride.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03

WEEKLY GUIDE TO FILMS
LIBELED LADY-One of Holly
woods merriest comedies that truly
sparkles with the light of its four
stars-Jean Harlow, Spencer Tracy,
Myrna 10y, and William Powell.
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT
BRIGADE - Although not particu-
larly true to history, this is an ex-
citing account of the events that pre-
luded the famous ride of the 600
into the Valley of Death.
EAST MEETS WEST-George Ar
liss featured as a sultan who out
wits the British in their colonial
aspirations. Is it possible that the
English could be fooled
LEGION OF TERROR-Everyone
will get an unpleasant jolt when
they see how easily organizations
like the Black Legion or Ku Klux
Khan can get a foothold on Ameri-
can soil, %terrorizing whole commu-
mites, by control of the job hand
out and newspaper policy, and work
ing mobs into lynch fury. Not law
ish in its production, to be sure, but
important in its subject.
LADIES IN LOVE-Showing that
too many stars can spoil the heaven
ly broth, these four ladies, Joan
Bennett, Janet Gaynor, Loretta
Young and Simone Simon (Sea-
moan, remember?) fight each other
for husbands, and Simone, the stan
of second magnitude, wins out ii
the end. Not up to expectations.
A WOMAN R"EBELS-Katherint
Hepburn puts a good deal of life int
the hackneyed role of a Victorian
lass struggling against a strict father
and the single standard. Unfortu
nately produced too late to help thu
Suffragettes.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03
Better Times Ahead
Labor Group Finds

~GENEVA=World prosperity is
coming back, industrial production
is rising, and unemployment is being
reduced, according to a report pre-
scented to the governing body of the
International Labor Office, meeting
for it's 77th session.
A special report on world eco
nomic developments in 1886 sub
mitted to the l. l.. 0. showed that
in the great majority of countries
manufacturing production is now
above the 1886 level, that though
the unemployment index is still so
per cent above the 1929 figure, it
shows a continued Decline" and
that me trend of world trade is up
wards in the United States, Japan,
and Canada, though for all the world
it is 20 per cent behind the 1929
position.
The I. L. O., in which this coun-
try is a member, is a worldwide
organization working to improve Ia
Dor standards in its 62 member ma
tions and to secure permanent peace.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03
KEEP YOUR EYE ON
RETAIL PRICES

Rising prices are now being re-
Elected at retail" says a financial
writer in the New York Times (lo-
1886. The Fairchild retail price
index of department store articles
on October l, was over 3 per cent
above a year ago when the masses
were already complaining OF hlgher
retail prices.
Food prices: "All indications, says
a New York Herald Tribune flnan-
cial writer Cpd, point to a sharp
rise next year in that all-important
item of the family food budget"
Although government experts
such as DR.. A. G.. Black, chief OF
the Bureau of Agricultural Eco
Monies, estimate that the nations
1867 food supply is only about
3 per cent less than the apparent
consumption or disappearance OF hui
man food per person during the cor
responding period in 1885" it is
certain that prices will continue to
rise all out of proportion to the drop
in the supply due to the drouth.
AT the annual convention of the
American Institute of Meat Packers
which met at Chicago, October IL,
restricted supplies and higher
prices for meats for the next few
years were ~foreseen." New York
Times, 10-13-36).
Keep in mind that the expected
further rise in retail food prices will
come on top of the Al per cent rise
between the low of 1888 and the
September, 1886, level.
Movies: Consumers pocketbook
is also going to be attacked by way
of his amusement nerve. Admission
prices to movie theatres are going
to be raised. Wall Street Journa
600, commenting on the substan.
tial rise in profits of Warner Broth
ers, Paramount and other theatre
chains, assures us that the change
will come gradually, first "by doinI
away with bargain matinees, by put
ting evening prices into effect EARL
er in the day, and by similar means.
The result of the advance in admis
sion prices, it adds, may well re
store the former large earning pow
: er of the theatre chains" And NJ
H. Aylesworth, chairman of tn
board of Radio eth Orpheun
Corp, on October IA predicted "al
increase in motion picture theatr
admission prices and the abolition O
the double feature program on tn
! ground that I'VE have now returne,
to prosperity.
: Rents: National Industrial Con
ference Board, employers researc
! agency, finds that by September thi
, year rents had risen ia per cen
: over their level in September las
year, and 28.1 per cent over the 10y
of January, 1884. Rent rise for col
ored tenants in Harlem, New Yor
: City, has been even higher, a situs
ton that recently led to a prote:
/. parade of 1000 people under sue
slogans as Don't be a slave to you
. greedy landlord" New York Time
10-1-36.)
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03
ANACONDA UNION
ENTERS new HOME

The Mill and Smeltermen's union
at Anaconda which boasts a MEM
bership of 1900, has moved from
their old headquarters into new Of
fees at Ill North Main Street. The
visitor is delightfully."- impressed with
pleasant sensations upon entering
the building. The offices are fur
nished with new m~odernistic furni-
ture and a system of indirect light
ing lends additional charm and at
tractiveness. In fact an atmosphere
of comfort pervades the new union
headquarters.
AT last nights meeting Tom Nc
| CURE was installed as president OF
| the union succeeding John Emmons,
who will now take up his duties as
executive board member OF the In
ternational.
One can't help but feel in respect
to the innovations at the Anaconda
union headquarters that their new
residence and all of the beautiful
effects is a reflection of ideas and
thoughts of the young men in con-
troll of the union. After all it is
| the young people who make progress
and who adapt themselves SO quick
ly and excellently to new ideas. The
betterment in working conditions
which the Anaconda smeltermen are
now enjoying should also be attrib-
uted to the aggressive and youthful.
purposes of the young men in the
organization.
The older heads are still indis'
pensable, that is taken for granted
they act as a balance wheel on thu
inpetuousness of youth, but on thu
other hand old men in unions arr
often a drag, an obstacle to the for
ward looking efforts of younge.
folks.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03
Strategy CON-
mitiee Protests A.
|. Convention Action
BY Federated Press


NEW YORK (FP) = With the
Init. Mercantile Marine putting all
its strikebreakers in one container
to speed the flagship Washington on
its way to Europe, the Strike
Strategy Committee, rank-and-file
group directing the east coast walk
out, was encouraged by news that
the crew of 164 on the Southern
Cross struck in a body.
The committee claims that a large
part of the Washington's makeshift
crew consists of men without sea-
going experience. Picket lines
warned passengers that they were
risking their lives by venturing
aboard. The liner, after hurrying
down the river, was stopped in the
bay by the bureau of marine inspec-
ton, while officials checked creden-
tials and ordered several replace
ments.
AS news came that the American
Federation of Labor convention
needed the request of old-line Off
GERS of the Init. Seamen's Union and
condemned the east coast strike as
| outlaw and Communist, Joseph Cur
ran, strike leader, wired the con-
vention that it had committed q
grave error in denying 10000 I. S. u
members an opportunity to voice
their protest that the A. F. of L. has
aligned itself with every reactionary
force in the country. We have only
begun to fight" The Curran grouI
claims the I. S. U. leadership wa
not chosen by and does not repre-
sent the membership.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03
NON-CITIZENS ELIGIBLE
UNDER SECURITY ACT

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-Non-citizens
legally residents in the United States
qualify for Federal old-age benefits
under the Social Security Act, ac-
cording to information received by
the American Committee for Protec-
ton of Foreign Born.
Citizenship is not required of en-
ployees who fill out Form SS-5, The
application for an account number
for the Federal old-age benefits sys-
tenn, Mrs. Anna M. Rosenberg, the
New York State Regional Director
of the Social Security Board ex-
planned here recently.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03

CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 49,
1t was revealed here that defense au-
thorities are investigating the posi-
bility of buying $50 fighting planes
from the United States for the Royal
Australian Force. Defense plans OF
Australia are being held up now be-
cause Britain's aircraft plants are
working night and day on the Brit
ish air force and cannot supply the
dominions' requirements.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03

Mussolini's contribution to world
peace: II offer the world an olive
branch, but I offer it on the point of
5000, 900 bayonets."
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03

"You still have Germany" Hitler
reminds his eggless, BUTTERFLIES coun-
trymen. To say nothing of Hand
some Adolf.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03

The ladder of life is full of splin-
tiers that prick-when we are sliding
down.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03


To prepare Juice, stem about 3H
pounds fully ripe grapes and crush
thoroughly. Add w cups water,
bring to a boil, and simmer, COW
cred, 10 minutes. Place fruit in jelly
cloth or bag and squeeze out juice.
Measure sugar into dry dish and
set aside until needed. Measure
juice into a s. to 6-quart saucepan,
filling up last cup with water, II
necessary; place over hottest fire.
Add powdered fruit pectin, mix
we'll, and continue stirring until
mixture come to a hard boil. At
once pour in sugar, stirring con
stantIy. Continue stirring, bring to
q full rolling boil and boil hard VI
minute. Remove from fire, skim,
pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at
once. Makes about II glasses Is
fluid ounces each).
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03

PITTsBURG, Cal. = (FP) = The
threatened strike at the Great West
ern Electro Chemical Co. has been
averted by agreement by the men
to arbitrate the dismissal of Ramon
Rebeles, discharged for union activ-
ity. About half the 300 workers had
already gone out, and few of the
others were willing to pass their
picket line.
Montana labor news., 1936-12-03
THE FILM CORNER
WEEKLY GUIDE TO FILMS

Conducted by New Films Alliance
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RESTRICTIONS URGED
ON KALMIA PARKING
Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens
Association Indorse g.
Platoon Plan.

Problems Of trafic, transportation
and liquor sale restrictions occupied
the members Of the Sixteenth Street
Heights Citizens Association at a
meeting last night at the Shepherd
School.
On motions by Earle w. Sapp,
chairman Of the Committee on Fire
and Police, resolutions were adopted
urging that parking be prohibited on
the south side of Kalmia road for
about 100 feet below Alaska avenue:
that parking be restricted to an hour
or less on the north side over an
equal distance, and that lines to guide
traffic be painted at the intersection
of Georgia avenue, Alaska avenue and
Kalmia road.
Diversion Of gasoline taxes was OPP
posed.
Robert Dougan, an official Of the
Capital Transit Co., spoke. Questioned
on the possibility Of their getting a
through bus to the Department Of
Agriculture, he suggested that petit
ton now in circulation be submitted
to the transit company.
The association also went on record
as opposing the issuance of liquor
license to store to be opened at
TITS Georgia avenue and ended by
indorsing an S-hour day for firemen
after hearing Curtis z. McGhee,
president of the City Fire Fighters
Associate ton, on the subject,
Evening star., 1936-11-17
HITS CENTRAL|z|NG
OF j. S. BUILDINGS
Interfederation Conference
to Study Plan to Spread
Activities.

Concentration of Federal Govern
u1ent administration buildings in one
section of the city was criticized last
night by members of the Interfed-
Grafton Conference from Montgom-
cry, Prince Georges and Arlington
Counties and the District at meet
ing in the United States Chamber OF
Commerce Building.
A. F. E. Scheer, District delegate,
and George c. Shinn of Montgomery
County urged that new Federal build
ings would be constructed in various
parts of the Capital, contending this
plan would relieve downtown traffic
congestion.
Study Is Ordered.
A committee, headed by Shinn. was
appointed by Conference Chairman
Thomas E. Lodge to study the sub
ject, and to draw up recommenda-
tions for consideration at the next
meeting. Scheer, L. A. Day of
Prince Georges and E. l.. Bennett,
Arlington, also were named to the
committee.
While describing the Districts
practice of revoking driving licenses
of speeders as a decided aid in the
prevention of accidents, Washington
I. Cleveland, Montgomery County
representative, criticized the practice
of melting out the same punishment
to all offenders regardless of the vary
ing speed limits.
Cleveland pointed out that a driver
convicted of speeding IS miles pei
hour In a 30-nile speed limit zone
receives the same punishment as the
driver convicted of going at the same
speed in a 22-mile limit area.
Lodge suggested the Revocation
Boards action In each case should bt
based on the finding of the Police
Court Judge. rather than on the
testimony of the arresting officer
He appointed Cleveland as chairman
of a committee to investigate the
matter.
The conference will hold a dinner
In conjunction with its December
meeting, 1t was decided.
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q ground color of dark gray with q
greenish tint. The darker colors are
always on the sides and fms and blend
well with their surroundings. The
head is often mottled in light and
dark. and the underparts are gray
or white. They lie quietly on the bot
tom, plants, debris and fish passing
above them or about them. You must
look twice to see the sculpin. A canny
fish, knowing well the value of cam
outage and staying still.
Greedy is the only word to describe
the sculpin family. They are also
scavengers. While that is in their
favor, they destroy so many other fish
that you rather feel this one virtue
does not atone for their many mis-
demeanors.
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Sculpins have no commercial value.
They are not even very valuable as
bait for fish that are in demand. But
they hang around when they discover
bait is being dangled before the open
mouths of founders and cunners, and
help themselves to the proffered
dainty. Naturally this act does not
please the anglers. So when the line
is pulled in with sculpin on it, the
undesirable Is given rough treatment,
The spawning season is from No
vember until February. The sculpins
gather in great schools on the sandy
and weedy bottoms of their favorite
home grounds. The eggs sink to the
bottom. held together by sticky Sc
cretion In irregular spongy masses.
the flowing water circulates through
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BILL TO ASK SMALLER
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS
Representative Starnes Also Seeks
Deportation of Aliens on
Relief Rolls.

~ the Associated Press.
Legislation to clip immigration
quotas by 80 per cent and deport all
aliens on relief was being drafted
today by. Representative Starnes,
Democrat. of Alabama of the House
Immigration Committee.
Deportation of foreign gangsters
and spies now sheltered by flaws in
the immigration statutes" also would
be provided in his bill, Starnes said.
His proposal would reduce the an
nual number of immigrants from
$4,000 to $1,000 and would set aside
rs per cent of the remaining entry
permits for foreigners seeking to join
their families already established here.
Quotas would be established for
Mexico and Canada to check almost
unrestricted movements across the
Nations land borders"
Evening star., 1936-11-17
LEGS WITHOUT OWNER
Police of Missouri Town Find
Artificial Limbs Seeking "Body."

KENNETT, Mo-, November II
R.-Police crawled under the freight
house of the Cotton Belt Railroad
yesterday TO investigate a report that
a mans body was there.
They found two artificial legs.
Chief of Police r. Chambers said
he believed the legs belonged to a
cripple who left them hidden while
he panhandled on the streets.
Moscow plans a chain of lakes for
its princiDal parks.
Evening star., 1936-11-17
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY

THERE are many interesting
members in this Spiny family.
All of them possess armed
4 heads, wide gill-openings, large
mouths and slender, tapering bodies.
All of them have family habit Of
spreading their gill covers and fatten.
ing their heads, if you get too familiar
with them and hold them in your
hand. Besides, they even make a
sound that is mixture of grunt and
protest. Some members even swell
up when annoyed. Yes, the sculpins
are versatile for fish.
They have a dorsal of nine spines
slightly in the upper corner of the gill
opening. These are higher than the
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the spongy clump. You may find
these egg masses on any old debris
that may be on the bottom-cans,
shoes, wood, seaweed or stones.
The eggs are varying shades of yel-
low, and take from to IL weeks to
hatch. The young larvae come to the
surface and at this time millions Of
them may be taken in tow nets. After
this age, they settle to the bottom and
lead a life of silent waiting and expert
hunting.
(Copyrisht, 1850
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Natures Children
18-Spined Sculpin.

second dorsal, which has 1918 soft
rays. The pectoral is fanlike outline
which you will find characteristic Of
Evening star., 1936-11-17

Oyster Shells Unearthed.
Oyster shells have been found 1000
feet under the ground in Texas guilt
coast oil fields,