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iw . v ^ THE CHRONICLE Strives To Be • Clean News* paper, Complete, Newsy and Reliable. * Olltntnn Qlljrnturb If Yon Don’t Read THE CHRONICLE Yon Don't Get The News. VOLUME XXIV CLINTON, S. C., THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1924 NUMBER 31 WHITE INDIANS IN BUT WHY ARE THEY Explorer Brings New People Prom Panama Country Discovery of White Indians In" San Bias Country Startles Scientific World. Written Specially for The Chronicle, . By Robert Puller New York, July 20.—Yes, we have ^ •.... r ..- The question now, however, is: '“What makes them white?” Many of the leading scientists in the United States are discussing the subject, poking, prodding, twisting ears and looking down the throats of three, homesick little tots in New York, brought here by Richard 0 Marsh, American explorer, who last summer discovered a tribe of 400 in the San Bias Country of Panama. Broyght from the jungle where they wore no Clothes, garbed in civili zation's modern dress and thrown suddenly into the world’s largest city —the three Children, Chepu, Olo, and Margaret, submit to a critical exami nation without seemingly a flicker of feeling passing across their stolid countenances, beneath locks of brist ling two-colored hair. The children are not alone. Older members of the tribe and parents wertf-brought aiowg—safe return to their Darien region of the Panama being assured and guaranteed. Most of the older members are of brown skins and of normal Indian charac- teristics. It was at first thought that Mr. Marsh had brought a group of stray albinos ^out*of the forests of Panama and was calling them white Indians. After a critical examination by a large group of our best scientists it was agreed that they were white In dians—but abnormal and pathological cases. Mr. Marsh described how he first saw white Indians in Panama last summer and determined , to return with a properly equipped expedition. He told how he approached the Smith sonian Institution' at Washington, the Museum of Natural History here, and the University of Rochester in order that they might send representatives on the expedition, so that its results would obtain the confidence of the scientific world. ■ These representatives were present —wh«m-he. lpft New York last January, and when he got to Panama he re ceived help by the detailing of addi tional obsercers from the United States Army, the Panama Canal Zone Government aind the Republic of Panama. He told of the march to the in terior in which great difficulties were overcome. Before the trip ended al most the entire party had been taken seriously ill, apd tyro members, the representative of the Smithsonian Institution and the Republic of Pana ma, died o£ fever. It was not until the very end of the trip, he said, that any white In dians were seen, because the rumor had preceded the party that its ob ject was to take such Indians into captivity and bring them away. Finally, after making friends with an Indian chief of a coastal tribe, and curing him and many others of vari ous ills, he got the opportunity to win the friendship of all the tribes of the region by stamping out two epi demics of smallpox. Then he was allowed- to see the white Indians whose presence had al- than those you observe in the West Indian cases. “If we could get a commission here to investigate these cases I think it would lead^ to important results. There has never been any success at getting at the cause of the disease from the West Indian Cases, and it has been tried repeatedly. But with these observations localized as they are, it seems to me there may be hope of finding' the cause and devising a cure.” 7R1! triJTffShi IM* HiHVt JdhklU to the very heart of civilization ^ u -meauB little to the three little white Indians. They are, perhaps, the lone liest children in the world. And quite Wheeler To Run With La FoUette Yields To Appeal Made By Senator From Wisconsin and Throws His Hat In the Ring. Washington, July 19—Senator Bur ton K. Wheeler, Montana, Democratic prosecutor of the Senate Daugherty committee, today announced his ac ceptance of second place on the inde pendent presidential ticket headed by Senator Robert M. LaFollette. Altho he previously had declared he would not accept such a designatio Mr. Wheeler yielded and reversed decision after he had been urged ioji, re his hi 'K do so by Senator LaFollette and by several of his principal advisers. A special committee from the group of LaFollette followers in con ference here, called on the Montana senator yesterday tactfully and ten dered him the endorsement of the con ference for the vice presidency. He promised to reply today and he so soon after he reached his office. “I will accept the nomination,” was his first terse announcement of the decision. Then he turned to the prep aration of a formal statement setting forth his position to the country and replying to the formal offer extended him by the LaFollette leaders. announced he could not support John land convention. . The question of W. Davis, the presidential nominee of, selecting a vice presidential nominee his party, altho he intended to work was left to the meeting which began for the Democratic state ticket in here yesterday. Several days ago Senator Wheeler Montana and to give his aid toward the reelection of his colleague, Sena tor Thomas J. Walsh,,prosecutor of the oil committee and chairman of the New York Democratic national con vention. i ■ The conference which was assem bling to receive Senator Wheeler’s answer at the time he made his in formal announcement of acceptance, is being held under the auspices of the conference for progressive poli tical action, which endorsed Senator. LaFollette for president at its Cleve- Always a fighting campaigner, Sen ator Wheeler is expected to make a wide speaking circuit of the country during the coming summer. His plans are not yet completed but he has agreed to begin hostilities tonight by addressing a rally of LaFollette sup porters at a nearby town in Virginia. JAS. W. CALDWELL 59 Thornwell Street Magazines and Newspapers the most bewildered. “The little girl had worn clothes, but neither of the boys had ever worn a strip until I got them,” said Mr. Marsh. “I tied a red bandanna hand kerchief on each. When I got them to Colon I put them in shirts and pants but I had a lot of trouble at .first to keep them from undressing right in the hotel, they were so hot and un comfortable.” In New York they do’ nothing but stare. They blink their queer, squint ing blue eyes at the crowds, the build ings, the traffic. Sometimes Mar garet cries. Alo and Chepu shed never a tear; they are men, and their Stoicism is as typically Mongolian as are their prominent cheek bones and flattened noses. But they do not smile, either; and one feels that per haps, when they crawl into strange beds at the Waldorf, and the lights go out, they hug each other quite tight ly, in their utter darkness. DAVIS WILL BE NEXT PRESIDENT At Least So Four Big Democrats Think As They Meet In Washing ton To Size Up Situation. Washington,'July 19.—A quartet of Democrats who have played conspicu ous parts in recent campaigns came together in Washington this morning and, having discussed the situation as to its every phase, reached tho con clusion that as the result of Senator La Follette’s program John W. Davis would be the next president of the United States. The four were Clem Shaver, the new chairman of the Democratic na tional committee; Cordell Hull, retir ing chairman; George White, who ser ved as chairman when James M. Cox was the nominee, and Daniel C. Roper of South Carolina, long a wise poli tician and quite recently the general- in-chief behind the preconvention cam didacy of William G. McAdoo. It is stated here that no’four Demo crats in the country could have more scientifically sized up the situation than these. They resolved the doubt aa to the effect qf the La Follette candidacy, by agreeing that it would have effect identical with the candi dacy of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. The association of Senator Wheeler, reputed Democrat, with Senator La Follette, it was agreed, would have no deleterious effect on, Democratic opportunities save in those states which were already conceded to La Follette and which, in normal times, never cast a Democratic vote in the electoral college. The four leaders agreed that La Follette could not break the South and that La Follette, under no cir cumstances, could be elected. The net result, therefore, according to their diagnosis of La Follette’s candidacy, will be a deprivation from Calvin Coolidge of states which, but for La ways been denied. He persuaded the Collette’s candidacy, he would most native chiefs that their difficulties would be solved if a kinship could be established between the white Indians and the white people of the north. He saw about 400 of these Indians of all ages and photographed about a hundred of them. One scientist is of the opinion that the condition under which white In dians are produced is by leucodermia. He is Dr. Cathbert Christy, of the Smithsonian Institution, and an ex- pert on tropical diseases. He has made a thorough examination of the white Indian children. “i believe Mr. Marsh has made a great discovery,” he said. “But not so much in the field of anthoropology in the field of tropical medicine. as assuredly carry; and such a division of the normally Republican vote in New England states that the Demo cratic ticket will stand excellent chance to win therein. The result of the study today was telegraphed Mr. Davis, the Demo cratic nominee. It is estimated that in the cotton mills in China 40 per cent of the work ers are women, 40 per cent are chil dren, and only 20 per cent are men. California has made the study of the United States Constitution compulsory in all j£s public schools. 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