MAY 29,1946
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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A Helping Hand?
Scientists Search For Roman Relics Amid Odors of London Fish Market
London. (UP)—A search for relics by which it is hoped the exact date of the first Roman city in the London area can be determined is being conducted today on a blitzed site in the eastern part of the old "City of London"—through the courtesy of the city's fishmongers.
Not far from the ancient Roman basilica court once stood and where sprawling "Leadenhall Market" stands today, smelling strongly of fish, archaeologists of the Society of Antiquarians and the London City Corporation Museum have uncovered "Roman layers" rating from the 1st century to about 200 A.D.
At present there is not much to see—a trench about 10 feet deep and about 16 feet below street level and about four feet wide and a dozen long. Halfway down the sides can be seen parts of an old wall.
"Tudor-period remnants of some ecclesiastical buildings which probably stood near here" is the way Adrian Oswald, City Corporation or "Guildhall" archaeologist expressed it.
Other traces—a bit of Roman pottery and green glazed Roman glass and a chip of red "dinner ware such as the Romans imported from southern France" — do not amount to much, but they do hold out hope.
Oswald, a short, stocky young man of 37, who recently was demobilized from the British army after six years, is directing the on-spot "dig." The evacuation is sponsored by and paid for by the Society of Antiquarians and under the supervision of W. F. Grimes.
"What we hope to find is the date of the first Roman city, which it is believed, but never has been comparatively proven, stood around Corn Hill."
Although the City Corporation is assisting in the search, the permission of the Fishmongers, who own the property and the hulks of battered buildings which surround the site had to be obtained before any digging started. Incidentally, the Fishmongers own the "treasures" thus far uncovered as well as the oyster shells, animal bones—including a wild boar's jaw and teeth—which inevitably are found in "Roan layers."
"In a short time we hope to have something to show for our work," Oswald said. "We have found two layers thus far in the short ditch we have uncovered. We still have live to 10 feet farther down in which we should find Roman layers.
That would be about three blocks from the present "dig" where the Bank of England now stands. The actual foundation lines of the old Basilica have been found, as well
as other traces of a Roman city in this area, but it is believed that such grand buildings actually were part of the second or third growth of the original city.
Oswald also hopes perhaps he may find below the undisturbed layers of "Roman" some traces of the existence of a "British city" which may have stood on or near this spot before the Romans began building.
The actual existence of such a city has long been debated by British students and many concursive arguments both proving and disproving its existence have been produced. If is possible that since this site apparently has long been undisturbed that some indications of a camp or town preceding Londinium may be found.
"We chose this site," Oswald said. "because it is the only one on the spot which has been blitzed and which still is not encumbered with debris. Also, it has not been torn up too much. We know the area in which we wished to dig and just looked for a spot which would not give us too much trouble."
That may seem rather a hit-or-miss way to go looking for traces of a city which has been gone for 20 centuries, but Oswald and his cohorts had produced tangible evidence that Romans had been on that spot, even if it is only a garden or a rubbish heap, and they are confident of further finds.
$64 Question Proves Simple For Hollywood Movie Researchers
Hollywood. (UP)—If you think the $64 question is the penultimate in posers, see petite Ann Harris, head of the Selznick studio research department. She answers 'em for a living.
Miss Harris doesn't look like the popular conception of a research expert with horn-rimmed glasses and a slightly musty odor about her.
expert with horn-rimmed glasses a She is young and attractive, with dark hair and snapping black eyes, and smells like nothing but Chanel No. 5.
"I thought the saturation point had been reached when I supervised the research on 'Gone With the Wind,'" the diminutive walking encyclopedia said. "But 'Duel in the Sun' has been even more of a headache.
"We learned that before 1919 you could shoot pool in Texas although it's illegal now," she said. "And that's only one. We verified that the U.S. flag had 38 stars in 1883—that one was easier than learning that ranch dinner-gongs were called 'hash hammers.'"
She also discovered that chuckwalla lizards are common to both Arizona and West Texas; that wild horses usually can't be herded into a corral if someone is sitting on the fence, and that Palominos were not as popular in West Texas during the time of the story as they were in California.
"We found that the 1873 model Winchester rifles, either 44- or 45-caliber, which used the same ammunition as the Colt revolvers of the same caliber, were the most popular in the Southwest then."
Miss Harris used 441 reference books, was asked and answered 812 questions and spent 1,528 research man-hours on David O. Selnick's $5,000,000 technicolor film of Texas in the 1870s.
Governors Convene To Discuss Problems
Board Recommends Changes In Army Regulations
Oklahoma City. (UP)—The 38th annual governors conference convened here today to discuss conservation, tax, and veterans problems, but apparently it will ignore strikes and labor legislation.
"The first requisite for anyone interested in making research a career is an insatiable curiosity." Miss Harrison said. "Equipped with that, finding the answers is not only a career, it's fun, too."
Washington (UP)—A special army investigating board today recommended revolutionary changes in army regulations to correct abuses by officers and to strengthen the rights of enlisted men.
Unless some governor bolts the prepared schedule the question of strikes and what to do about them will be overlooked. But the meeting is groggy from effects of the rail strike which compelled President Truman, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, of New York, and other headline attractions to cancel plans to come here.
The "gripe board," headed by Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle, blamed the caste system abuses on a minority of poor officers and remnants of Prussian Militarism in army routine.
"The present system does not permit full recognition of the dignity of man," the board concluded.
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