Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1925, Page 26

DEATH REMOVES BUSINESS LEADER F. Baker Weaver, Hardware Dealer for 30 Years, Victim of Heart Attack. F. Baker Weaver, 55 vears old, for many years a prominent business man here and identified also with fraternal and club circles, died at his residence, ninth street, Chevy Chase, , yesterday. Death was due to rt disease. He was in good health until stricken with an acute heart at tack a Mr. Weaver was a junior member of the firm of W. T. and F. B. Weaver, hardware dealers of Georgetown, for about 30 y. and at the time of his death wa. and a_member of the executive committee »f the I'o- tomac Savings Bank. He wax also in- terested in manufacturin and build- ing p He retired f the hardware about five years age He w Country Club, the Kiwan ing on its cd the Manor Club Whiting Lodge member of the Columbiy is Clut mittee of pu and the " A A M. Miss Lida Lee Mr. Weaver ma Weaver of 8 He leaves his widow, L David F. and Weaver Bros., of Weaver s man—and a sister, harg merchant ind Charles H Weaver, Georgetown, am will be conducted n’s Church tomorrow atter- 2 o'clock. Rev. G. C. I of the Washil Warner r will officiate. in Oak Hill Ceme- Interment will be tery. MINING CONGRESS COMPLETES SESSION Federal Trade Commissioner Ex- plains Present Method of Procedure. The twenty: h annual conven- tion of the Ame which had been in ses lard Hotel since Wednesday mornin came to an end this afternoon with the election of officer Daniel B, Wentz of Priladelphia was eélected president; E. L. Doheny of Los An- geles, Robert E. Tally of Leadville, Colo., and W. H. Lindsay of Nash- ville, Tenn., vice presidents, and J. F. Callbreath of Washington was made secretar Two the attention mission spoke on Conditlons and the Anti Gilbert H. Montague of New Y “ity spoke on “Natural Resources—a al Exemption From the Sherman Commissioner Humphrey described certain changes in the method of pro. th: ceeding against accused firms have been inaugurated by the Fed- eral Trade Commission since his iden tification with it Now, he sald, instead of advert a man or a business concern fraud before he has been tried, commission_gives the accused portunity of proving the charges un- Justified before baing held up to public censure. Another innovation has proved de cidedly economical. Under the old tem, Commissioner Humphrey sald, the Federal Trade Commission pro- ceeded to the prosecution of a case before the defendant had an_ oppor tunity of curing the offense char. As a result, the commission usu heard a about § TAX ON FIRE APPARATUS REMOVED BY TREASURY Action Taken After Loss by Gov- ernment of Suit Over Sales Levy. The Treasury today removed excise tax on all fire apparatus, in- uding fire engines, hose carts, hook- d-ladder truc water-tower trucks, This action was taken s the result of the Government los- ing a sult in Federal courts in New York State in a_test case brought by the American La Francé Fire En- gine Co. Under the Treasury decision re- funds amounting to several thou- ands of dollars will be made to the manufacturers of such apparatus for their sales over the Beyvond this time may not refund The tax removed was a levy paid by the manufacturer or sales agent upon the le to purchaser: Seize 53 Gallons. Fifty-three gallons of whisky. some intended for the Christmas bootleg trade and some for current consump tion, and an automobile were seized by the police yesterday. Forty-eight gallons of the seized liquor were in the automobile that was abandoned near Forty-eighth and Meade streecs northeast while Policemen Rone and Clagett were in pursuit. Fourteen charges of alleged violations of the dry enforcement law were filed against four persons arrested. / the Governmeat a ¥ Street afOth Buy Your Clothes for Xmas On the Herzog Budget Paying Plan U. S. PARTY SEEKING EARLY MAN’S TRACES IN REACHES OF SAHARA Pond Expedition Opens 1,000-Mile March Across Desert. First Objective Is Said to Show Evidence of Old Culture (The Logan Sahara Ecpedition of Beloit Coilege. Wis.. is about 1o penetrate the Sahra Deserl in 1he hope of unravel- ing some of itx archeologieal mysteries and "tie reports ‘of Alonzo W. Pond, Teader_ of the erpedition. 1will appear. in # Star. “Both ' Dr. Pond anc M. Rey reompanied de_Prorok embers of the Fran tion thnt discorvered the tomb o Tin-Hinan"ai Abelewsa ) as American erpedi- 7 Queen BY ALONZO W. POND. of 1 _ Expedition Leader of IN SALAH, Algeria, Decemier 1 (By French military telegraph to Paris, thence by - The Logan Sahara expedition of Be- loit College set out today on its archeological exploration of the great and unknown sert. Before us lies a long and arduous journey of a thousand miles with camels as our beasts of burden But the outcome of our explorations, which are not so much geogr i as prehistorical and archeological, | will, if our hoy re realized, throw new light on the past history of man. Burl beneath the sands and guarded by the ir cessibility of the desert, there are evidences that pre historic man once inhabited this re- gion W sort of human beings were they? What is their mod- n man and the natives of present- day northern Afrl Flow did they compare with the Neanderthal and ¢ agnon men who once roamed s evidenced by their skeletal Maurice Reygasse, sa. Algeria, who is known for his archeological and ethnolog! exploration of northern Africa and who possesses great nowledge of the region that we shall traverse, since he journeyed through it in 1 me is M governor of Tebx Protection Provided. For our protection the French gov- ernment has provided a small de tachment of mative soldiers who mounted on swift desert camels. )\ of the territory that we s 1 ex known to be unsafe for tr at times, and in fact in several cases we shall be unable to take the exact route we had hoped because of hos- tile native: We are traveling as lightly as pos Jle in a region which affords the veler little or no help. Our supply van left three days ago in order e the first leg of the are t cara that it may ma with more leisure and ease. We are well equipped for our ex ploratory work and through the use of ample digging tools and with cam- eras to record our discoveries we expect to excavate successfully the prehistoric sites’ we shall find. From the town of In Salah, located in the Tidikelt region of the Territoire des Oas! south of the Mediter as crow flies, we shall travel southwest Aoulef C From there we shall go to Taourirt, at which point we shall change our course and go northwest to Adrar. During this part of our jour shall be out of touch with civili and not until about December 1 we are scheduled to reach Adrar, ve be able to report our further ey we tion Route Is Outlined. We had intended going directly from Adrar to Charouin, but this direct route is impossible because of hostility of the natives. We therefore plan to go from Adrar to Brinken, then to Ouled Mahoud and thence to Timi- noun. From Timinoun we shall make a side trip to visit Charouin to study a station or archeological site of old neolithic_culture that is known to be there. Returning to Timinoun, we shall travel northwest ss the Grand Erg Occidental to Beni Ounif and then to Aln Sefra, where journey will be practically at an end. M. Reygasse reports that the region around Aoulef Cheurf, our first ob jective, is known to have ancient pale- Mouster known as Grand Erg Occldental, French officer bring back reports of finding eviden of_neolithic cultures, The Imaterial we studies we make may show the rela- ¢ the prehistoric cultures of the and those of the Mediterra- coast and Europe, We shall make speclal efforts to find faunal or animal remains that will identify the exact geological eras or epochs in which the prehistoric cultures flour- ished. e collect and the 1925.) (Copyright. U. S. Experts Watch Work. Anthropologists i and Eu- rope are interes! that the Beloit-Sahara expedition under Alonzo W. Pond may supply to fill in an im- portant gap In the map of the mi- grations of prehistoric man. The re- sults achieved by the Franco-Americ expedition, in which Dr. Pond pa pated, together with the preliminary n work done in past vears by M. Mau rice Reygasse, French governor of Tebessa, are looked upon reasons to hope that the trail of early man, which is now reasonably complete on the northern side of the Mediterra- nean, may soon be equally complete along its southern shore. The map of man’s migraticns has grown in @ most remarkable manner during the present vear. At the be- inning of 1925, the only well authen- ticated human remains of the Nean- Sol Herzogs MAN’S For the young man of collegiate mighty fine as a.slip-over for the outdoor man. Mallory Hats, $5—Stetson Hats, $8 derthal and Cro-Magnon types were those which had been made in south western and central Europe. But early last Spring a Ru named Bontisch-Osmolovsky, ered in a cave in Crimea parts of for the GIFT LUMBER JACKS— tastes, and (Abov tion th De (Below or ge! is a < [two Ne: eries v of this A ke pern: ts bibl Turville gist, fo « an of ne have 1 ward th The Neande: the Beloit College, Wisc pedition of Beloit College, searching for evidences of prehistoric man. May Be Third M route that took the descendants of ham from Asia through Palestine nd eventually 1 . ](rm:\_ 5 known abundantly rom the Nile region. The 2 i skull from Rhodesia in H(’!lery tures, ‘and r tinct ‘migration HE EVENING STAR, WASH migrate across northern Africa, at a time when what is now the lifeless Sahara supported grassy plains and possibly forests? And did they, upon ching the Atlantic, complete tho i it of the Mediterranean and cross over into Europe? The “Gibraltar woman” was of the Neanderthal type, and some of the other skulls dis- covered in the more southerly of the European stations are distinctly ne- The price has a lot to do with their suc- cess—the low price, linked with quality and style! e) Alonzo W. Pond, leader of sin, expedi- the NSahara | hat is exploring w) M. Maurice Keygasse, gover- eral of Tebessa, Algeria, who | mber of the Logan Sahara ex- Photos by Science S inderthaloid skeletons, together wstly enlarged the kno: ancient human race. pbable center of n range nd set dispersal well discover aum, in I ical a re, und the a pec type. Two-strap. dull ealf Patent, $7.8: and This sug $8.85 ins of all dates Kayser Silk has some Ne ¢ represent a third dis. | to Match that branched off to-| TR T T TR TR T N he south question now stands, did the thal and Cro-Magnon races The Largest Mew's . and Boys' Wear Store in patent and satin groid. Did the earliest ‘course of empire” take its way westward in two streams, that reunited at the end of the journey? Scientists are waiting for the answers that are hidden in the sands of the Sahara. Mrs. S. S. Haas of Cleveland broke up a game of mah-jong when she held a perfect hand with 14 honors. SRS 9 Women’s 5o i Oxfords g From the very first day we offered this spe- cialized line of smart footwear for women the demand has ever been on the increase! Five of the dozens of styles in stock! Perfect fitting service always by attentive salesmen. Three-button Patent und Satin, dull calf and suede trim. Patent, 85; Satin, $8.85 FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11 Drops Suit Against Husband. 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