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Dorchester, Sept. 5. Archaeologists excavating Malden Castle, the hill-top town near here, on which 'remains of civiliza- tions strelching from 2,000 B.C. to Roman times have been found, be- lleve they may have made one of their most important discoveries,
Digging near the Roman temple which was found in the eastern end | of the fortress, they came upon a succession of floors as they dug deeper so they, dug further into the past, until they came upon Stone Age remains.
Deep down in one cutting they un- earthed to-day remains of a massive ; timber structure.
The size of the post holes in which the frame of the building stood in- dientes that it must have been of con- siderable strength and importance. Its character is
Investigated, being but it may well be that in their third season at Maiden Costle the excava- fors have stumbled on the remains of an ancient temple almost on the same site as the temple which the Romans Talved.
The massive timbers, it is certain, date from the earliest perlod of Malden Castle, and the remains may throw light on the religion practised In England 4,000 years ago,
THREE CIVILISATIONS
Dr. R. E Mortimer Wheeler, Keeper of the London Museum, de- scribed the Intest stages of the excavations.
"Particular Interest," be sald, "attaches to the new discoveries in relation to the Stone Age occupation of the hill top some 4,000 years ago,
he cowcatcher of old Eagine 371- makes a fitting platform for part in the pageant at Port Moody, July 3, celebrating the fiffeth anniversary of the Firat C. P, R. train from Montreal to the Paclite. The old engine, driven by the original engineer, hauled into Port Moody a string of alx old-style wooden cars handled by the original conductor of the first train to a colorful re-enactment of the event. More than 6000, visitors, including acorns of rail veterans lu service in '86, flocked to Port Moody for the celebration.
G-Men Save America $30,000,000 After Deducting All Costs
Washington, Aug. 27.
J. Edgar Hoover revealed to-day that for every dollar spent in operating his bureau of investigation during the past fiscal year, approximately $7 was saved in recovered stolen property or savings effected to the government.
ALL KIDNAPPINGS SOLVED
cases
that is sixteen centuries or more be. fore Maiden Castle itself was built, Total value of property recovered Conviction of 86 persons under the Further lengths of the entrenchments and savings to the government. he Federal Extortion Act, approved in which surrounded the Neolithle town said, was $34,708,015.39, compared July, 1932, whose sentences totalled. are being excavated and large quan- with $5.000,000 spent in operating 401 years, tities
of pottery representing the the bureau.
Convletion of 73 persons charged three main civilisations of England Sunming up the bureau's ac with robbery or attempted robbery about 2,800 B.C. are being recovered:tivities during the past fiscal year, of Federal Reserve, FDIC, or untionul "These civilisations are derived Hoover revealed that 3,803 convic- banks, whose sentences totalled 1.127 partly from France, partly from tions had been obtained In cases years and one life sentence. In this that "due to Scandinavia and partly from the re-in which his G-men took part. connection, Hoover noted that fion of the Rhine. This gives Sentences imposed, he said, totalled the activities of the FBI in these Maiden Castle a special interest at 11,067 years, in addition to nine life insurance companies recently an- this period as a place convergence. and two death sentences,
nounced a reduction of 20 per cent "We find the Birre civilisations
in bank insurance rates in 35 states," 'approaching from different directions:
Location of 1,000 federal fugitives he sald. and meeting here. The occupation While not mentioning the dramatic from Justice. In addition. of this village, us Maiden Castle then two weeks this spring when the 5,331 fugitives frosn justice were wus, ended (as recent find em-
hation's four must notorious criminals found through efforts of the bureau's phasise) at the beginning of the Bronze Age, soon after the 19th or Campbell.
and kidnappa-Alvin Karpis, Harryngerprint identification division.
William Mojaan and FINGERPRINT FILES EXPANDED 18th Century 11.0.
Commenting specifically on the Theodore 11, Robinson, Jr.-were BLANK CENTURIES
said the fingerprint division, Hoover The Afteen centuries between that captured. Hoover pointed out
bureau has solved every kidnapping, that on July 1 there were 0.094,916 date and the foundation of Muiden case of which it has performed sela of fingerprint records on file, of Castle as we know it, still remalo investigative work since enactment of which 1,021,047 were received during a blunk, and it is now reasonably
the Lindbergh kidnapping law in the 1936 fiscal year. certain that occupation of the down-
Roover also pointed to creation June, 1932. lands ceased during those centuries! owing to continual drotight. Ini
"Sentences imposed have included of the National Stolen Property File, with which he hopes eventually to be those days the climate of England 31 life sentences and four death sen- able to classify all stolen property ro the 65 ble peeled stolen goods can be was much drier than it is to-day. tenc s," he said, referring to
that suspected "The sites we are exploring are kidnapping cases in which the burdentifled casily, as one of the im- implifying our knowledge of the took part, "in
#ddition to other earthwork built on the same site usi sentences totallity: 2.113 years, 11 Portant accomplishments of the year. this earlier village in about the months and two days; three culprits. carned Hoover's praise was the Fourth Century 8.c., and subsequently committed suicide; five were killed; developed into the elaborate earth- six died by murder at the hands of work which we see to-day.
their fellow gung-members and two The expiration-of-the-castern ¦were lynched." entrance, which was begun last year,j
in relation to the southern of the two
Is being continued, more especially i ACHIEVEMENTS ARE LISTED
Hoover's report also noted these openings of which the entrance con achievements of the burcuu during sists.
The ancient roadway is now being the year: exposed to view and the relies found: Recovery of 2,496 stolen molor || on it suggest that Maiden Castic was cars, valued at $1,025,200 in cases in took part, He not anally abandoned as a town until which the bureau
enactment some years after the Roman invasion. pointed out that since
"The roadway is flanked by kerbs of limestone, beyond which floors of hats and pits used for storage and cooking are now being brought to light."
FAMOUS
ASTOR
of the National Motor Vehicle Theft Act in October, 1910, a total of 42,- 121 stolen vehicles valued at $26,- 943.515 had been recovered in cases handled by the bureau.
NAMES IN
BATTLE
Los Angeles, Aug, 20.
John Barrymore, the filmu star, and George S. Kaufman, the Broadway playwright. are now mentioned in the sensational Mary Astor case, which threatens to engulf many other Hollywood cule- brities in a wave of scandalous publicity.
Miss Astor is fighting her ex-husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, for the custody of their four-year-old daughter, Marilyn,
Counsel for Dr. Thorpe last night attempted to prove that Mr. Kauf-
man was the mysterious "George" This Postmaster
referred to in Miss Antor's diary.
She had written that she was in Has A Real
love with "George" before she and the doctor were divorced.
Nurse Nelle Richardson admitted!
MARY ASTOR
BREAKS DOWN.
Job To Fill
Still another bureau activity, which National Police Training Academy. which conducts schools in scientific crime detection for specially-picked representatives of manteițul and stule police forces,
Women Live Longer Than Men
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Washington, Aug. 30. WOMAN'S life is longer than a man's, the census bureau has discovered.
The bureau announced it is a scientine fact that every white woman may expect to live 63 years while a man, even with the best of breaks, likely to die four years earlier or at the age of 59.
These figures were computed by Director William L. Austin of the bureau of the census on the basis' of 1930 census figures and prove, Austin said, that in spite of all the hazards of modern existence. the life-span of men has been lengthened 11 years since 1900- and that of women 12 years,
Bombay, Sept. 9.
DE living. Indian postal authorities must)
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The longer fe is attributed partly to the fact that it is an easier life, to the lowering of the Infantile dentl rate, improved surgical and, medicat developments, and a higher standard in evidence that Mr. Kaufman had visited Miss Astor during the past few months, but said he was "only one of
Tables prepared by Austin revealed many" at "frequent cocktail, partles." deal with thirty-one different that at birth you have a to i chance [Mr. Kaufman. Is the co-author of languages and forty-two different of living to be 21 hind voting for 3 to 1 chance of many big stage successes, including scripts, not counting the scripts president, and a the American political satire, "Of and languages of foreign coun- living to be 50. Your chance of
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pensions is only 1 cut of 5, and 1 out, a farce on Hollywood, "Once in a Lifethine."]
This requires a special staff of two of 10 of reaching 81. hundred employees oupplied with ex-1 To put it differently, if you are 21 haustive reference libraries, work-und a man you may expect to live ing at Bombay, Calcutta, Mudras, 45.10 years more and If you are a
on down on the Lucknow,
Nagpur, Besides woman you may expect to live 47.0 Mina Astor broke
Calcuttu hus experts in years more.-United Press. witness stand while giving evidence these. concerning Dr. Tharpe's "chastise Chinese languages and scripts, and ment of Marilyn. The child feared Bumbay in European languages.
Difficulties of the Indian post offee him, she declared.
Increased by the fact that a "There was always something he'd
large number of the population lead have to discipline her for," and the nomadic fe and many are semi-
TT. Manila literate. Despite all this only 0.64 A scarlet emblém, bearing the lend TT. Catavin. "If she cried, I've seen him shake per cent of all the mall handled of the Inte King, surrounded by the
reaches the dead letter office.
title of the fund, hus been adoptedTT Bangkok.. her so hard that her teeth rattled.
The post office
at Trivandrum. in connection with the King George "He'd spunk het so hard there were Travancore State, claims the world's V. Memorial Fund.
record for the smullest postal money The emblem ly recommended to bruises on her body,"
MN Arlor swore an affidavit deny, order, which was for one kus, or local organisations raising money for Irig that she was enamoured of a about one-eightieth of a penny the fund. märeled in 11.
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