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...story told how a Paducah, Ky. lumberman named Fain W. King found the burial mounds such as are common in Kentucky and Ohio. In one of them he discovered "1,000 skeletons," flint arrowheads, bits of metal that may have indicated a traveling and trading people. But the basis for the "3,000-year-old" guess, the delineation of civilization and culture, were obscure. No archaeologist of standing could last week be located to say whether the Wickliffe diggings were a "buried city" or another Indian burial ground...
Woodman Spared, For many months a few disgruntled bondholders have sought to put Long-Bell Lumber Co., biggest in the world, into receivership (TIME, Feb. 1). In dismissing their petition last week Judge Merrill E. Otis of Kansas City praised the management of 81-year-old Lumberman Robert Alexander Long, found all his transactions aboveboard...
...fortune, he joined in their vote to continue, promptly dispatched men into the Northwest to buy great tracts of Douglas fir. For the new venture they bought extensively, carefully. "A poor log costs as much to cut up as a good log, yes, and more," mused the little old lumberman...
...champion of progressive education, or even of that handy motto "education-for-all." Rugged Governor Hartley has, however, run things to his taste, notably six years ago when his Board of Regents ousted President Henry Suzzallo of the University of Washington (TIME, Oct. 18, 1926). Last week, like a lumberman smashing a log jam, he shook up the university once more. President Suzzallo, now head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, must have watched with interest, for many of the logs that went bobbing away were educational machinery that he had built...
Died. Mrs. Kate Stanwood Cutter Pillsbury Curtis, second wife and second cousin of Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis; of heart disease; in Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, where her husband, 81, lay seriously ill. Born in Bangor, Me. she married first Lumberman Harrison M. Pillsbury, resided in Milwaukee until after his death in 1903. In 1910 she married Publisher Curtis whose first wife (the former Louise Knapp, the first editor of Publisher Curtis' Ladies' Home Journal) had died that year...