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12 Capita Journal, Salem, Ore, Tuesday, October 25, 1949
Mystery Shrouds Florida Everglades Mound
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Bronze Caldron Philip Weildling, Jr., Fort Lauderdale
Sally News reporter, examines a giant pot found in the
mysterious ghost village on an unexplained mound in the
Everglades.
By GENE PLOWDEN
AP Ntwaf.aturail
- Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Did the ancient mound-builders of the
Mississippi valley penetrate Florida and leave a sample of their
art deep in the Everglades?
- Or did a separate group inhabit the state and vanish centuries
before the white man reached these shores?
A mammoth mound some 3C
to 40 miles west of Fort Laud
erdale has given rise to such spe
culation. It has prompted these
questions:
What hands patiently piled
hundreds of tons of earth and
smoothed it out into a plot of
eight to ten acres?
Where did the dirt come from,
in a land that is largely water
rotting vegetation and coral
rock?
Maurice Hale, a Lakeland
business man who often hunts
In the Everglades, says Seminole
Indians told him about the mo
dern ghost village on the site.
"It was, he believes, started after
the Civil war, centered around
fi sugar mill.
When the sugar project fail
ed, the village was taken over
by men who smuggled Chinese
'Into the United States. Several
'Indians helped by making Sem
inole costumes to disguise the
Chinese. Trouble broke out and
the Indians killed all residents.
Indians still regard the place
as haunted and shun It, Hale
says.
Members of expeditions to
the site have found such things
as bottle-capping equipment,
Spanish-type bottles and Jugs
fnd modern wire nails. Indica
. ions are that moonshiners once
jlised the site.
They also found hand-wrought
jiails and estimated some of the
ozen tumbledown shacks on
the site date backed at least 75
..years. Historically, that is re
xent. , To explore the area fully
.would require many months of
.effort under the most trying
conditions. It would cost a great
,aeal.
a The mound is six to eight feet
above the surrounding terrain
.and many believe the real story
Jies at least three feet beneath
the surface.
It Is overgrown with tangled
tropical shrubbery almost im
possible to penetrate. Banana
plants, wild limes, mulberry
trees, papayas and two huge roy
al poinciana trees grow there.
Historians point to other Flor
ida mounds antedating both the
early Spanish explorers and the
later Seminole Indians. None Is
as large as the recent discovery
nor as difficult to reach but all
follow the same pattern.
In Hardee county, about nine
miles south and west of the
town of Ona, is a mound ap
proximately 100 by 150 feet,
eight to ten feet above the level
of the surrounding countryside
and flat on top. Huge oak acd
pine trees grow there.
The Caloosas, Timucans and
other early Indian tribes who
were members of the Hirrigua
nation that crumbled about 400
years ago and buried their dead
in mounds.
It was their custom to place
the bodies in burial groves until
the seventh moon (February).
At this normally dry season they
would be carried far inland,
placed In burial mounds and
covered with eight to ten feet
of earth to discourage wolves
and other wild animals from
digging them up.
The Caloosas, who lived in
southwestern Florida, might
have gone as far as the recently
discovered mound to bury their
dead. Or some tribe along the
lower east coast may have pen
etrated deep into the everglades
on the same mission.
The Seminole never were nu
merous enough to build such
mounds. They did not appear on
the scene until long after the
Caloosas and Timucans had vanished.
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Ship Leaves Port
Pickets Stuck
Seattle, Oct. 25 W, A trail
of would-be pickets were left
stranded here yesterday as the
cruise ship Corsair sailed out of
Seattle yesterday for Canadian
waters.
American Federation of Labor
Maritime union officials here
said the ship "will be picketed"
by AIL Canadian affiliates
"whenever she docks."
The Corsair, operated by the
Pacific Cruise lines, is schedul
ed to start winter cruise service
between Los Angeles and Mexi
co next month.
Bob Dombroff, Sailors' Union
of the Pacific agent, said the line
"broke an agreement with ma
rine unions in moving the vessel
without getting a standby crew
from the AFL hall here. The
Corsair had been held up at
Houghton on Lake Washington
by a contract dispute between
the operators and the Canadian
district of the Seafarers' Inter
national union (AFL).
The Canadian S1U is affiliat
ed with the SUP and both are
members of the Seafarers' In
ternational Union of North Ame
rica, headed by Harry Lunde
berg. Family of Three on
Hunting Trip Missing
San Francisco, Oct. 25 W) A
San Francisco family of three to
day was reported missing near
ly a month on a deer hunting
trip in northern California.
Miss Frieda Johnson told po
lice her sister, Mrs. Doris Satt
ler, 32; her brother-in-law, Har
old, 33, and their six-year-old
son, Harold, Jr., left here Sept.
16 and planned to be gone two
weeks.
Miss Johnson said friends later
saw the family in A4pine county
and reported they had shot a
deer. They were preparing to go
to Susanville, but have not been
heard of since.
Fast Time to Go to
Seattle Electorate
Seattle, Oct. 25 W) Proposal
to remove some of the confusion
resulting from Seattle's daylight
savings time ordinance will go
before the voters next March.
The amendment would givo
the city council power to fix the
"fast time" period to conform
with other sections of the coun
try.
Seattle and several other- Pu
get sound cities did not set
clocks back this year until Oct.
1, almost a week after other sec
tions of the country returned to
normal time.
Stock Market's Greatest
Crash Came 20 Years Ago
By WILLIAM D. MORGAN
New York, Oct. 25 Wi Twenty years ago this week the stock
market crashed in a tragic ending to an era of prosperity.
The Coolidge bull market died a violent death that shocked
and stunned this nation and financial capitals throughout the
uorlH.
There is no standard by which
to measure the seling panic
crept into Wall Street in cat-like
silence and ripped the financial
districts wide open.
Described in generalities, the
market value of the nation's
productive machinery plunged,
in a matter of minutes, by bil
lions of dollars. The decline
lasted for three long heart
breaking years.
In human terms the losses
could be measured in dollars
and cents: In the bankruptcy
record, the destruction of life
time savings, in foreclosed mort
gages, in pawn shop tickets. It
could be measured, too, in the
desperate haggard faces of the
new poor, in dead dreams, in
the pathetic bewilderment of
little and big people all over the
country.
The prelude to panic was
enough to lull the most astute
financial men. Government and
business leaders painted the fu
ture in rosey colors.
'.'Don't sell America short!
was the rallying cry for a new
world.
"Buy Amalgamated this, Con
solidated that. You can't lose.
I've got inside information."
Everybody knew the market
was going up and up. There
were a few people who dis
agreed, but they were viewed
with the same suspicion as an
ardent supporter of the com
munist party is today.
People begged, borrowed and
stole money to buy stocks. Not
good stocks in particular, or
even bad stocks. Just stocks.
The total of broker's loans, a
figure which indicates the
amount of stock bought on
credit, soared to an astronomi
cal figure.
Stock prices advanced until
many were simply absurd in re
lation to the ability of a given
company to earn money and
pay dividends.
The first intimations that
something was wrong came in
the week which ended Oct. 19,
1929. That was a bad week for
the market but not too bad.
The bull market had paused
before. It was nothing serious.
The next week panic struck.
The bottom literally dropped out
of the market. For a while some
stocks could not be sold at any
price. The ticker taps, pound
ing out oblivion for speculators
all over the world, ran hours
beyond the market's close in or
der to catch up with an ava
lanche of transactions. Nearly
13,000,000 shares of stock
changed hands, a record that
stood for nearly a week.
The city's big bankers got to
gether, finally emerged with an
announcement which certainly
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was a masterpiece of under
statement. They found, it seems,
"a little distress selling."
The market rallied for a
while but on Monday and Tues
day, Oct. 28 and 29, the climax
was reached. Stocks of the
country's leading industries col
lapsed. Sales on "Black Tues
day" .totaled more than 16,000,
000 shares. The ticker tape ran
hours after the close of the
market. Grim brokers and their
staffs worked far into the night.
That was the day the insiders,
the big money men, the mil
lionaires, saw their fortunes
melt away. The little fellows
had already been sold out. The
big fellows lasted a few days
longer.'
An era of prosperity, and of
speculation, greed and mani
pulation ended in the night
mare of those October days.
That October, too, was the curtain-raiser
for a new set of
values, a new kind of thinking,
not in Wall Street alone but in
every city and town in the land.
Wall Street is still a whipping
boy when "the interests" have
to be damned. The financial dis
trict, though, has a sense of re
sponsibility which did not ex
ist in 1929.
The Securities & Exchange
Commission, created by congress,
is the watchdog of the securities
business. The SEC has a keen
eye and a long probing finger.
It is respected as well as feared.
For a long time while it was
hated.
The stock exchange is engaged
now In a campaign to persuade buy stocks for investment not
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