Evening star. [volume], March 31, 1933, Page B-13, Image 29

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U. S. SAVANT TELLS
OF HEAD HUNTER;
Stirling Explains How Ama
zon River Got Name Be
fore University Club.
How did the Amazon River get It:
name?
This was one of the many things ex
plained last night* by M. W. Stirling
chief cf the Bureau of American
Ethnology, in a lecture entitled. "A
Journey Among the Head Hunters of the
Amazon" at the University Club.
Portuguese adventurers, once pushing
into a section of Eastern Ecuador
Isolated from civilized contacts by the
Andes Mountains to the west and
Whirling river rapids along the water
ways that are the only entrance from
the east, found tribes of roving, dark
skinned people, warlike, but, because of
their long, flowing black hair, feminine
in appearance.
Finding them powerful fighters, but
still believing they were women, they
returned with stories of the • Amazons"
—living on a river that soon bore
that name.
The "Amazons" actually were the
Jivaro Indians, whom Mr. Stirling re
cently visited, and photographs of
which were flashed on a stereopticon
screen to illustrate his talk.
A Warlike Nature.
"Warfare i- the central feature of
the Jivaro cultural pattern." Mr. Stir
ling tnid. "Though peaceable enough
towatd the visitor who is kind to them,
fcrflefs in blood revenge and their
spirit ccncepts make it nat
ural fo"1 the 30 or more tribes with a
ccmmori language to be continually
battling with each other.
"A irian is killed. Only the life of
the killer or one of his family can
avenge it. Even if a death be from
s'eknesi or ratural causes it is be
lieved due to the spirit of some foe
or the witch powers of a hostile medi
cine man or 'wishinu'.
"The tribes organiz: to avenge the
death. After days of prayer, fasting
and song, a courier is dispatched to
inform the enemy they are to be at
tacked. Violation of this courtesy is
taboo, although it is considered fair
for the enemy to kill the courier if he
is not subtle enough to get away after
delivering his message.
Prepare for Attack.
"The enemy to be attacked—usually
h tribal family of about 20 or 30
vr.rrioi.—makes a barricade of logs
outside it > bc.rr.boo home. Pits with
snam^pifces Cf hr.rd chonta wood
•e'-,Hp at thj.bcltern r.re camouflaged
**^h leaves r.nd c srlng traps set 011
^lis paths to ticlv ahede and the attack
twaited. Dots c-iained near the house
howl the laial hour—usually In the
scmi-darkr.cs i cf Czv.n.
"The atiaekers attempt to hew their
way through the legs and bamboo,
v/hile the defenders pelt them with
rocks and fire muzslc-!oe.ding shotguns
through chink;. The cuns t.iey obtain
occasionally frcm itinerant traders.
"Once inside, the only weapon that
-It is honorable to use i3 the lance—
r nd greater valor and cleverness Is
thown if the enemy 1j etatbed In the
back. If the avengers are successful
they top off their victory by slaying
enemy children and old people and
carrying marriageable women off with
them to keep house, cook and tend
their meager gardens of bananas and
manioc plants.
Beads Ave Shrunken.
i "The heads of the enemy are severed,
the skins removed, and treated so tiuu
they shrink to about the sise of smal;
oranges—molded all the while to retain
the features of their late owners. These
heads are taken back to the victors'
settlement, where they are placed on
lances and Incantations made to kerp
the spirit of the slain foe bottled up
in the head—the home of the spirit,
according to the Indian belief. Shrink
ing is believed to lessen the chances
cf that spirit for escape."
' Then very soon what survivors re
main of the defeated tribe reorganize
and att?"1! the Victors," Mr. Stirling
6a id.
The soul cl the slain warrior is be
lieved to take the form of a Jaguar
cub, which takes about two years to
mature. Hencc the body of a warrior
is placed in a coffin made of a hollowed
out log and left on a platform in a
jungle—but for two years food is
brought and left beside it. After that,
the Jivaros believe the soul can take
care of itself.
The principal food of the Indians is
a combination food and drink made
of manioc root that is called masato.
Prepared by Jivaro wives. 10-gallon
earthenware Jars are kept In each
house—often permitted to ferment so
that it becomes intoxicating.
Mr. Stirling pointed out that after
the Indians believe the spirit of a slain
Joe is forever imprisoned in a head—
they often trade it to white men as a
souvenir. The trade became so lucra
tive that in Central America heads are
duplicated by an artificial process ana
Bold.
Mr. Stirling was introduced by Albert
Stcphan.
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FAR EAST LECTURE
Dr. Boyd Carpenter, professor of in
ternational law at Georgetown Foreign
Service School, will give an illustrated
lecture on China and Japan tomorrow
night at 7:30 o'clock in Chevy Chase
Community Center, at Ben Murch
School, Thirty-sixth and Davenport
streets.
Dr. Carpenter lived and traveled in
the Far East for more than 20 years
and at one time was legal adviser to
the Chinese government.
RADIO COMPANIES
; SUED BY KENTUCKY
■ Franchise Tax Collection!
Sought in Action Believed
First of Kind by State.
By the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ March 31— M. J
Brennan. State revenue agent, said lasi
night that suits seeking to colled
franchise taxes from the National
Broadcasting Co. and the Columbis
Broadcasting System were filed hen
yesterday.
The actions are beliaved to mark the
first attempt on the part of a State tc
collect franchise taxes on operation ol
radio networks. The petitions assert all
other corporations or associations "ex
ercising any special or exclusive privi
lege for franchise not allowed to natural
person" pay franchise taxes to the
State, counties, eities and taxing dis
tricts wherein their franchise are ex
ercised.
Payment of taxes and penalties for
non-payment of the proportion claimed
due the State during the last Ave years
is sought. By prorating the value ol
capital stock of the two companies as
concerns Kentucky, the suits seek fran
chise taxes and penalties on (15,200,000
assessments for the National Broad
casting Co. for the five years and $1,
451,601 assessments for the Columbia
Broadcasting System for five years.
I. Jay Miller, attorney who prepared
the petitions, said the amounts the
companies would be liable to under the
suits could not yet be determined.
The petitions were approved by the
State Tax Commission at Frankfort be
fore filing, he said.
R. f: c. to lend aid
TO APARTMENT BUILDING
Edifices Costing $8,075,000 to Be
Built on East Side of New
York City.
Two modern apartment buildings
containing 6,030 rooms and costing up
to $8,075,000 are to be built on the
thickly populated East Side in New
York City, with the help of the Re
construction Finance Corporation.
Agreement was reached last night to
advance the money to Fred R. French
Operators, Inc., agents for Knicker
bocker Village, Inc.. at 5 per cent in
terest. The expenditure will be sub
ject to audit by representatives of the
R. F. C. and the New York Board of
Housing.
COUNTERFEIT DATE SET
CHICAGO, March 31 (JF).—'Trial of
Henry Dechow, alias Count Von Bue
low, and Dr. Valentine G. Burtan of
New York City on charges of passing 900
counterfeit $100 bills has been reset
for April 24 by Federal Judge Evan
A. Evans. Government agents said De
chow brought the counterfeit money,
possibly $200,000 worth, from Germany
to Mexico, thence to the United States.
Elusive Prisoner
Behind Bars Again
After 4 Escapes
Auto Thief Who Fled
From Occoquan Is
Finally Recaptured.
James H. Harley, colored, 22, whose
activities as an escape artist have kept
the authorities busy since he fled from
Occoquan Prison last Summer, was
back in police toils today following his
latest capture yesterday afternoon in
an alley in the northeast section.
Harley was arrested near Eighteenth
and Gale streets northeast by Police
man John Sirola, ninth precinct, and
W. E. Stein, superintendent of the
Occoquan wharf, who had been on the
fugitive's trail since the first escape.
The man was sentenced to prison
for stealing the automobile of Arthur
Knight, captain of guards at the Dis
trict Jail After his escape, he was at
liberty until February, when he was
captured in nearby Maryland and
lodged in the La Plata jail to await a
magistrate's hearing before being taken
back to Occoquan. He broke out of
jail in less than two hours, according
to police here.
Two days later, Harley was cornered
by police in a house on Sixth street
southeast, but got away by jumping out
of a second-story window. A week
later he again eluded his pursuers by
leaping from a second-story window on
Fourth street.
The man was convicted on a larceny
charge after taking Capt. Knight's car
from its parking place near the Dis
trict Jail.
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