Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1925, Page 13

WILL OPEN TON " OF MYSTERY KING Harvard Man to Seek Mum- my cf Pharoah Legendary Even to Tut-Ankh-Amen. OHN L. BALDERNTON. [ nt tar hopes to find T | | Lure of Buried Treasure. hunt for buri to men = was never ied with the Ph, pered 1 umon 1y at they contin- h all the dark memory of the ient Kin, pt had perished, “nd the ty ruins along the Nile were deemed the work of demons. I th k this susceptible of proof Ther blished in ro 1907 a translation from an old ic book on magic which contains mulue for finding and dealing with >d treasure. The translator A tions as to purifications b incense before the earth is oken on the magic mountai: Then ou dig, you find a stc brass W get into a nd go three doorways. You come hall which has alcoves, re packed silver, weap: of all kinds, arms. Capart thus translates the next passage Chamber of King. rd the isolated chest e right hand side, Irt-. recognized be front of its ope stones wh The ke chambe lies on an ebony zold and rwerusted with fine pearls and precious stones. He Is the King of Bgypt, and he has about him own riches and those of his You will the products of F epread o this royal ies when the ver thr into and 1gh lav treasu is still there of a king who couch adorned with nd go down steps. come to @ door of two penetrate into an- t room.” part, who prod the Arabi t seem 1ced this did not to me obvi- 00 years, so evi- complete indi ndisturbed royal burial had nd i until Carter's royal tombs plundered long before the in this Arabic piled in present hin few centuries, : adition about the rial of Pharaohs thut must have been handed down from imes of the Pharachs Leaving out the ma the description given the Ar ympiler is not far re- truth, e story of ma probably origin une long preamble, 1 come it the Tut-ankh-Amen find of all the is obvious enough to ex- not been made clear her during those ited and often ig- ical publicity, or vears that have fol. while sordid s have 1d the scenes stern nar- stories lay terial value Pearis, rubies, gold sicks of rubies, tons upor in our time have sh. and the early, . accounts of Tut's ked too much about chariots ot gold, shrines of gold, as 1tho h the Pharaoh’s resting place w repository for half the ma- terial national wealth of no heen fc manual, form certain we have and to tho! ¢ has public, months nd the tons of heen almost even the tomb have Value of Treasure. Now, even though Carter announces that the inner coffin of Tut is solid »Id, such a conception of this find as hole is altogether false. 1Ir somebody systematically smashed (o vthing in the tomb and all s come out of it, the bullion value of the gold that was left, melted down, and of the Jjewels, knocked out of their settings, would probably not be half a million dol- lars. The I yptians did not understand gilding; they applied instead to royal and other precious objec extremely thin layers of gold leaf Thus the value of the gold on many things announced as “gold” is very small. As for the course, the ch jewels, they were most precious stones known In Egypt, but they are only “semi-precious”’ 1o The stones which our jweelers tell us are m valuable—the diamond, the ruby peark—were not known or not prized | fighting in Syria between the ihirteen hundred v before Christ of | THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO! CESTOR OF TUT-ANKH-AMEN . by North A A Harvard archeologist hopes to sands of years okler than Tut. This statue in black gra finest works of of haul that Alad-| Arab who drew up that | have fancied | . it is the gift | of works by | e arts | trv that | modern ne world in all we to c1 cqualed some fiel. . even f the to Cellini would ¥ the sigl i 2d to Tt L —but T 1 to my n rticle the dif o indicate the heights that 1t this climax of the e the 1 sculpture, from examples ropean and American museums, Is generally thought of as massive and wonderful, but conventional, stolid, soulless. T am no art critic, but fortunately one of Tut-ankh-Amen's court sculptors accomplished a fes that is now, since the body has been unwrapped. susceptible of description that will, I think, prove my point and make the mention in the same breath of Michaelangelo seem less ridiculous than it sour (Copsrisht. 102 paper Alliance WEDDING DAY ‘GREATEST’| IN MACEDONIAN ESTEEM | Men Treated to Wine and Brandy, | Women Get Jam, at Typical Nuptial Ceremony. | Macedonian's lite | wed- | SOFTA—In the greatest day | day. Recently I was privileged ssist at the marriage of a peasant al baker in | any is his, or h to irl with the son of the I The ceremony W performed church and afterward all the guests the companiment of weird music, not unlike that of the Scotch Lagpipes, the bridal pair were wel- comed on the threshold by their par- ents, wha offered them bread and salt in token of lasting health and prosperity. Inside, the men and women were in different rooms. The men were offered wine and brandy and the women jam. pair sat in a room apar by their nearest relative and dancing were indulg considered an affront to fore davbreak. Next day the \\hnl&" party, mounted on ho or riding in car orted the bride and bride- groom to the latter's home. There the same proceedings were re-enactec and the bride’s trousseau was ex hibited It consisted of richly em: broidered linen and it is easy to un derstand that it represents the sav- 1d laber of many ¥ De- the length of time that the estivities continued and despite the| mount of wine e med, nobody red to be at all the worse an; KANSAS COURT HALTS | KLAN PARADES INROBES Injunction Is Issued | surrounded | Singing | in. It is leave State-wide Against Order's Marches in Full Regalia. By the Associated Press. HOLTON, Kans., December A permanent injunction prohibiting des of the Ku Klux Klan in re- galia was granted today by Judge M. A. Bender. The ban is state wide in scope. The injunction was granted on a legal technicality and klan_counsel gave notice of appeal to the State Su- preme Court. The suit arose more than a year ago when Judge Bender allowed a tempo- z order to prevent an advertised parade at a county fair. ¥ klan RAID DESERT TOURISTS. to Tribesmen Hundreds Cancel Passages for Irak. BAGDAD, Kingdom of Irak, Decem- ber 19 (#) —Tourist traffic in Irak, which it had been hoped would be ) exceptionally heavy this vear, has! been adversely affected by recent] raids by tribesmen on trans.desert convoys. Hundreds of passages for Irak book ed in India, have been cancelled. Many European and American travel- lers, who would ordinary have made the desert journey from Damascus, have hesitated to do so because of the *rench forces and the Druse and ither tribes- Cause Zhe Tut-ankh-Amen reasure is not, ' men, | ing built as { the share find mummy n King thou- one of the ENLARGED HIGH SCHOOL State Superi Cook, Among Numercus Spes Present at Ceremony. tendent of s speaker upon mal seating cay The cerem: A Word of gsworth, Riv Alumni Assoc ation speech wi Owings of Hyz made by tsv Mayor | acceptance speech county superinten Prof. M. M. Profitt, the Federal Bureau i made an addre: s did Dr Wood: dent of the University of Mar behalf of that instit tion. ollowing the refreshments were and a cial hour enjoyed. Pro . J. Morris, principal of the school, I d hundreds who inspec the building. The h cost ahout § tains three stories. The firs the a itorium and th third srooms and appoin ments. A new gymnasium is also be. 1 feature of the addition. This building, however, is not ex- pected .to be completed hefore Spring. BOWERS’ ESTATE LEFT WIDOW AND OFFSPRING Inter.st in Washington Apartment Figures in Will of Former Rep- resentative Probat repre nd on program features d every new ad Special Dispatch to The St MA NSBURG, W ber 1 The will of for r Repre- sentative George M. Bowers, who died here D , was admitted to pro- bate ye The widow is given s estate guaranteed her State law. T one son, he bequeaths an or- ard at Ge stown, with equip- ment; also h share of the Walker farm, lying near this city, and part of another farm. the remainder ‘o latter farm being given to two sons. To another son, Stephen gives the Pikeside orchard, near here, nd the home here. he deceased’s re in the nandoah Valley or- chard he g to the two sons and one grandson City busin, to Stephen beth A or heir: Virgin C., he Daughe to George Decem- under George M., jr., property he bequeaths Bowers, and to a- an Bowers, a_sranddaughter c lifetime and then to their interest in the ashington, D. daughter, Jean B. h it revert Bowers jr., and hi: daughter. The other half he devises to his widow for her life und at her death to George M. Bowers, jr., and daughter, * of ‘the es- tate, after the p: ment is bequeathed, hare alike, to his children, orge M., jr.; Stephen E., Eleanor I rove and Jean B. Daugherty. George M. Bowers, and Attorney H. H. Emmert, this city, were numed execu- nd will qualify, giving bond in m of $50,000. it was indicated. FARM BUREAU TO STUDY EXPORTS CORPORATION Proposal of New Leader of Group to Be Tackled at Iowa Session This Week. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 19.—Repre- sentatives of farm organizations will take up for definite consideration next week at Des Moines, the export cor- poration id for handling the farmers’ surplus crops as advocated by Sam H. Thompson, newly elected president of the American Farm Bu- reau Federation. A two-day meeting will open Monda The American Council of Agricul- ture, formed by proponents of the rejected McNary-Haugen bill, and the Corn Belt committee, composed of representatives of farm organizations, called the meeting. arm organization representatives from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wis consin, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota . Nebraska, Kan. sas and Missouri will attend, National farm bodies also will be represented. 1tendent, Dr. Albert S.l | ) awaitin expedited is the one which would pro- HOPES T0 INCREASE D. . HEADS' POWER Capper, Committee Leader,} to Offer Bill—Lists Other ' Things Needed. | Broader powers for the District Commissioners, election of the Board tion of a board of and the granting of increased authority to the director of trafic were listed last night by Senator Arthur Capper, chairman of | the Senate District comiittee, as fore- most of District legislation action by this Congress. i The D t committee also has be- fore it for consideration the resolu- | i tion of Senator Jones of Washing- | ||| {1 of Rducation, ¢ public welfare il Wil il Lty ton providing for an amendment to the Constitution under which Congress || would be empowered to grant the peo- | ple of the District representation in both houses of Congress and the right to vote for President Although a Dill has not vet been in- troduced to confer increased powers on the Commissioners, Senator Cap- per said he regarded that question as one i should be ziven eariy con- ation by the Senate. this end in view, the ¢ the committee advised Com ¢ Rudolph yesterday that he | would be glad to introduce the meas. | ure as soon as it is in shape. ‘The | Senator told Mr. Rudolph in a lette that there feeling among the m )£ the fenate that many nor miatters which now call for n by « ess should be handled | the city Lorities At the meetlr mittee a4 few days : liam H. King, ranking m ] d the Comr bill enl is a by au first of the com Senator Wil- rity mem. ssioners to | send forward a ing their powers. Election of School Board. to have the people ard is a House bill, said last night he proposal elect the school b but iator Cap) that he plans to introduce a similar measure in the Senate. He indicated he regards this as an important bill. The Senator stated his bill might differ somewhat from the Gasque bill in the House, but would embody the | same prin He wus not ready to disclose the details of his ure Next to the powers ¢ > mis s and the propose education Lill, Senator Capper men- tloned welfare bill and the re i the trafic law as measures should be given imittee alveady has set the | i on the Wadsworth | d for depend District. the need | v Pres- to Con ree o wrly in January but of District Dbeen introduced | that the Com ] | two it is I‘y oW sioners hs v I in courss ap Welfare welf: al more import cparation Measure [l e bill | the last session, || |l| Avorabl on it by this || ~s is look The bill would | » in_the new board of pub- | c welfare the functions now dis- | tributed among several independent boards is designed to Lring about a more co-ordinated, expeditious han- | dling of welfare work. | The traffic bill would give Direc- tor Eldridge ample power to suspend and revoke operators’ permits, with a proviso that the operator could ap. peal to the District Court of Appeals. It would enable him to direct the! activities of policemen assigned to traflic enforcement and would insure the detailing of 75 motor cycle offi- | cers and 25 footmen to tra‘fic work. It | also would make street cars subject to | the traffic regulations and would au- thorize installation of the automatic traffic signal system on all of the main arteries of travel. Another bill which is expected to be | s public e to P ne 1 de for completion of the connecting etween Rock Creek and Potomac ks. The measure would authorize the final $600,000 needed to complete purchase of the land to join the two | big parkways City Plan Proposal. Another movement under lin way at to guide the growth of the One proposal is to broaden the scope of the National Capital Com jon to cover city planning. 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With all of these matters pending, the session should prove an interesting one for the District of Columbia. Among other bills Introduced and referred to the mittee are: A modern fnsurance code, a bill to enlarge the Woman's Bureau | of the Police Department and to de- fine its duties, and oue to abolish the Juvenile Court and create a children's | branch in the District Supreme Court. | Mary ireece has established a free zone at oniki for the landing, loadin porary storage and transport of e C., DECEMBER 20, 1925—PART 1. 13 extsting| PARENTS FILE CHARGE - out by the Circuit Court here, will again be|Judge Robert B. Peter, who presides in the limelight fc brief period |over the Juvenile Court in_addition next week ng of the judges of the Cir Her parents, George W. Price and surt Monday, and if the - | Mrs. Florence M. 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