Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1923, Page 17

675 RUM DEATHS PHILADELPHIA TOLL Coroner’s Office Cites Huge| Total as Warning to Holi- day Drinkers. Gpecial Dispateh to The Star. PHILADELPHIA, December 28.— "o those who plan to celebrate the voming of the mew year in an old- fashioned, pre-prohibition way Dep- uty Coroner Frank Paul say “Poison rum has been directly re- sponsible for at least $75 deaths in Thiladelphia in the year 1923." Philadelphia has had more deaths from poison rum during the last twelve months than any other city the country, New York included, Paul saj The city is wide open.” “So-called liquor is being openly on the corners. Y. all you want. But, be ca of It is poison. The only good liquor 15 that which is left over from pre- war days. But you can't buy it. No one will sell. ~ What vou buy is mostly poison. They may cail it wported or Canadian stuff, or smug- ed or aged stuff, but most of it is moonshine ‘or denatured and colored alcohol and poisonous.” a result of the investightions of the coroner’s office into the numerous polson rum deaths, u campalgn of piti- less publicity will be started with the new year, in an endcavor to educate the public to’ the danger of drinking poison TunL. sold Will Photograph Dives. “We shall photograph the dives in which the poisonous stuff is sold, the surroundings where these men die and the Victins themseives,” the coroner eald. 'And then we shall placard the entire i v, by pointing out the cvils wrought by the drinking of the pajson hooch graphically, we hope to discourage the purchase of the same «tuff by others.” A campaign against the venders also will be started by the coroner's office. *“Venders of the poison stuff,” he said, “will_be prosecuted to the iimit, and wherever it i3 possible will be charged with homicide.” REMOVE ROOF SECTION OF PHARAOH’S SHRINE Excavators Now Have Only One Part to Deal With—Will Delay Enlarging Doorway. ) T | (By Cable to The Star and the New York | by arrangement with the Carnarvon Copyright, 1823, by the New York Times.) LUXOR. Egypt, December 25.—The | mccond roof section of the 'great| shrine in the tomb of Tutankhamen ! was lifted off and taken into the, antechamber yesterday morning. Th process was the same as that em-! ployed for moving the first section | nd_section, which like- | s against now the wall, inside similar figures in | gilt of protective vultures—in this| case five. There is yet a third section to be dealt with and this will be han- | dled today. Tescribing the difficulty of remov- & the shrines from the tomb, it ha en pointed out that the roof sec tions were too large to pass through the doorway or up the steps leading from the tomb, indicating that the steps and lintel of the door were silt up after the sections had been placed in the sepulchral chamber. It is now discovered that part of | the natural rock about the doorway ! must have also been cut away to ! allow the ingress of the sections and that the gap must have subsequently | been made good by a filling, which! this wooden lintel was to hold in! place. As the gap was plastered over, | the false portion above the beam- | like false part of the stairway was | d in re. entate. ‘V/e handle oniy the better grades -nd can give you ompt delivery on A\THRACITI: and bi- tuminous coal, ali lump soft coals, coke and kindling wood. B. J. Werner 923 New York Avenue ‘convenient THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. C FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28 1923. » 2 ! 3 SCENE OF FIRST AIRPLANE LANDING IN cRATER oF vorcano | |Planes Land in Hawaiian Crater And Film Mysteries for U. S. s BTy SR HSAS . Kilauea Crater, Inland of Hawail, where four Army air wervice planes landed. Arrow shows soft volcanic ssh “fleld” on which they landed. In center is fire pit wherein ix 2 mass of white-hot bubbing lava. Air service photo- Sraph from 4,000 feet. gard to passing the roof sections out rendered close examination of the entrance necessary. The cutting away of the steps at present would make ingress and egress difficult and thus interfere with the remainder of the work. The roof sections will, therefore, have to remain inside the tomb until & more moment—that is. until the end of the season’s work. Howard Carter has called in A. M Lithgoe, curator of the Egyptian d partment of the Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art of New York. for con- sultation in regard to the disman- tiing of the shrines. | The House of Courtesy FLYERS REACH COSTA RICA. PANAMA, December 25.—Three Army aviators who left France Field, the Canal Zone, for San Jose, Costu Ri yesterday morning, reached that city early yesterday afternoon. They will return”on January —_— CATHOLIC RELIEF, $3,000,000. ROME, December 28.—The benefi cence of the Holy See toward relief work in central Europe has reached a total of more than $3,000,000, according to the Tribuna. BILL CURBS PARIS RENTS. PARIS, December 28.—A bill limiting the power of landlords, so as to pre- vent increases in rents of more than 100 per cent over the figures obtaining in 1914, was voted by parliament yes- terday. The chamber of deputies orig- inally ‘voted a 75 per cent limit, but yielded to the senate's insistence on the more liberal figure. Not_so many years ago visitors to New York used to climb to the top of the tower of Trinity Church to see the city, which lay at their feet. Diving into a volcano crater and effecting a safe and easy landing on a “fleld” of soft ash is the latest and one of the most amazing ac- complishments of airplane fiyers, de- tails of which have just reached the office of the chlef of the air service from Luke Field, Honolulu, T. M. Kilauea crater, on the elde of Mauna Loa mountain, Island of Hawall, was the objective of four De Haviland service planes, without any speclal equipment, which left thelr base at Luke Field, on the Island of Oahu, an airline distance of 215 miles, and successfully com- pleted the mission designed for them in Maj. Gen. Patrick’s office here: Objects of the flight were to en- btlnpsbora 608 to 614 ELEVENTH ST. Encouragement of ACommeréial Flying Also Aim of Daring Feats Reported From Luke Field, Honolulu. courage establishment of commercial alr lines between Hilo and Honolulu, the two principal citles of the Ha- waifan Islands, and to obtain photo- maumau, the fire pit, tional Geographlc Society here. vious pictures of thd volcano, which at present is inactive, developed a slight hage. This haze was thought to have been due to smoke from Halemaumau, but the pictures revealed that teriorated photographic had been the cause. Mountain 13,800 Feet High. The mountain of Mauna Loa, on which the crater is located, has an elevation of 13,800 feet. The crater of Kilauea is 4,000 feet above fhe sea level. Once in this crater the planes : found themselves surrounded by an | abrupt “wall” 1,000 feet high and on later set of slightly de- apparatus Largest Ladies’ Exclusive Spe- cialty Shop in Washington As an Extra special feature of our After-Xmas Sale—we shall offer tomorrow 100 Fine Fur-Trimmed Coats Wh re-marked to this remarkable price. . ich you'll find 49 | Included are all the prevailing models—Side-tie, Straight- line and the novelty drapings—handsomely lined with silk— and with enormous Collars and Collars and Cuffs of the bet- ter types of Furs. Only 100—but they are one hundred distinct bargains Third Floor. Dresses Suits taking off they were forced to circle several times until they reached an altitude sufficient to take them out of the bowl-like phenomenon of na- ture. Tn the center of the crater is the fire pit were bubbling white-hot lava exists most of the vear round. As a result of the landing in the rater. which is thirty-two miles in- land from Hilo, the residents of that undertaken to clear a land- in its suburbs for land Already they have estab- "port” for seaplanes and fly- ( ing boats, so in a few months direct communication between Honolulu and Hilo should be established in at least two and one-half hours' fiying time, whereas water travel requires about seventeen hours. Plans to Be Extended. With the establishment of a land- | ing fleld &t Hilo will come the erec- tion of a hangar or two and the al- lotment of a few planes for the use of numerous reserve air service of- ficers on the island. Oahu is fairly well strengthened in the way of aero- 1 Squipment and personnel. ba: 17 With this gradual bulldifig-up proc- ess of aviation in the islands, air service officers look for strong forti- fication of the territory in matters of the air in the near future. Numerous photographs and a de- tailed account of the flight from the time of departure to the return. written by one of the pilots on the expedition, have heen turned over to the Geographic Society for publica- tion at a future date, So far none of the plctures of Pres- tdent Coolidge has caught him with Ws mouth open. STONELEIGH COURT Connecticut Ave., Cormer L St. hington's most exclusive apartments. lable for lease, a few desirable house- kecplog and non-housekeeping APARTMENTS. Furnished and unfurnished. specially priced Tremendous January Mark-Downs Many dollars saved by the wise buyers taking advantage of the temporarily cut prices in this !B Mark-down Sale. 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