ly-Wednesday, May 23, 1979-Page 7 Aide claims he protecte almadge in early probe WASHINGTON (AP)-A former aide to Sen. Herman Talmadge testified yesterday that he worked with Talmadge in 1978 to bottle up a Senate investigation of the senator's financial affairs. Daniel Minchew said his par- ticipation lasted until after he found out that the Georgia Democrat had accused him of embezzling funds from a secret account that Minchew thought was to be kept hidden. Minchew testified that he "was not totally candid" in his first interview with the Justice Department in late July 1978 because he was still operating on Talmadge's orders to "hold this between us." MINCHEW TOLD the Senate Ethics Committee the purpose of the plan was to keep any probe of Talmadge from getting into matters other than over- charges of official Senate expenses. He said he was particularly concerned that an investigation might uncover the diversion of campaign funds. Talmadge's knowledge of the diver- sions and of the overcharges of his of- ficial Senate expenses is the key to the allegations against him. The senator already has agreed that overcharges occurred as a result of staff error and has repaid $37,604 to the Senate. But Talmadge denies any knowledge of the secret account or of the conversion of campaign con- tributions and he contends that Min- chew-his top aide from 1971 through 1974-is a "liar, cheat and embezzler." THE SKULL OF A MAN believed killed in an Indian attack was unearthed in a geological dig at 360-ye'ir old Wolstenholme Towne near Williamsburg, Virginia. Ivor Hume, resident archeologist with Colonial Williamsburg, displayed the artifact in Washington yesterday. Early British Colony ma be found WASHINGTON (AP)-The earliest traces of British colonization in America have been unearthed near Williamsburg, Va., in what ar- cheologists say is the most important discovery in the country's history. Ivor Noel Hume, chief archeologist at Colonial Williamsburg, told a news con- ference here yesterday that the com- plete outline of a 17th century plan- tation town have been unearthed in ex- cavations along the banks of the James Rives. ALSO DISCOVERED in over three years of digging were the only visored military helmets found in the new world, the earliest British-American pottery ever found and the bones of a victim from the first Indian massacre. Relics found at the site already are changing historical interpretation of MORRIS GALLERY PHILADELPHIA (AP)-The work of Hitoshi Nakazato is on view at the Morris Gallery of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts through June 17. Nakazato, a painter and printmaker, directs the print-making program at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Fine Arts. the early colonial period, with definite evidence that life in the first colonies was not as crude as had been thought. Tablewear inlaid in gold and silver, clothing with golden threads, domestic conveniences brought from England as well as arms and armor have been, unearthed. THE PROJECT has provided what Noel Hume calls an American Rosetta stone for the dating of early-colonial ar- tifacts. It is considered by experts to be the most significant discovery of its kind in British America. "Archeologists don't like to speak in superlatives but I can't disagree with that statement," Noel Hume said. The first British settlement tosurvive in America was planted on Jamestown Island in 1607. Foundations of some late Jamestown houses survive, but the original stockaded settlement has never been found. ARCHEOLOGISTS HAVE long believed that the original Jamestown site was washed away by the James River, although Noel Hume said he hopes the new finds will encourage another look. The village discovered by Noel Hume's team was Wolstenholme Towne, established in 1619 by London speculators and destroyed in 1622 in the first Indian massacre to sweep the Virginia colony. "What makes these new discoveries so important is that nothing of the Jamestown settlement and fort dating from 1607 has ever been found," Noel Hume said. "Thus, the remains of buildings and artifacts unearthed at Wolstenholme provide us with our earliest evidence of life and death in colonial Virinia" The Ann Arbor Film Cooperetive presents at Aud A $1.50 WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (George Romero, 1968) 7 & 10:20-AUD A Father of Romero's sequel, DAWN OF THE DEAD. A group of people trapped in a farmhouse are surrounded by radioactive ghouls who have come out of their groves, murdering, mutiliating, and eating raw human flesh. More frightening than THE BIRDS, more grotesque than FREAKS, more menacing than IVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, as horrifying a nightmare vision as you could hope to see on film, "Kill the brain and you kill the ghouls." MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH (Renee Doolder, 1976) 0:40 only-AUD A A victimized transfer student engineers a variety of picturesquely grisly deaths to avenge himself of the "Little League Gestapo" who have crippled him. "A very fine piece of work . . . sort of a high school remake of RED HARVEST."-Dave Kehr. "Starting out like a fifties teen-rebel exercise and developing into a post-Pekinpah revenger's tragedy, this film is certainly an oddity."-Monthly Film Bulletin. Winner of the Edgard Ulmer award for excel- lence in the exploitationgenre.