New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 12, 1928, Page 2

Phlladelphia, Jan. 12.—UM—The tomb of a king who ruled in Ur of the Chaldees more than 5,000 years age, his wives, servants and musi- clans, “killed in oold blood that they acoompany their master in ’ 1 death,” has been uncovered by the Jjoint expedition of the University of _Peansylvania and the British museum. The discovery, considered by arch- aeolegists one of the most important ever made in Ur, offers the first clue that sueh brutal burial rites were practioed in Mesopotamia, according " to C. Leonard Woolley, director of the expedition. Details of the find were contained in a report from Mr. Woolley, made public here yester- day. King’s Body Missing Although the tomb coatained the bodlies of more than a score of mem- bera of the king’s household, the bedy of the king was not found. Treasures found within the grave, including & magnificently decorated chariot, a harp, gold and silver ves- sels, & gold saw and a gaming table, lllustrete the “extraordinary degree of - material eivilization which la enjoyed in the fourth millenjum B. C. and how much that country was in advance of contem- porary Egypt.” the report stated. In view of the “wholly new and unexzpected moral aspects of the early civilzation,” which the grave presenta, Mr. Woolley suggested that there may have been a con- nection between the burial ceremony in Mesopotamia and the ceremony precticed in Egypt during the fst . dynasty. “In one part of the shaft area” s8id the report, “we found no ob- jeots of any kind, but here was a - rectangle of large rough limestone tabedded in clay. It was only one courss thick and sloped down from olde of the cutting toward the ter of the grave. It may well be this was the altar on which sacrificed the human victims STU grave which belongs to the oldest series—although it need not be earlier than 3500 B. C., and might even be & century later—makes clear that the art of that day al- ready was old, sterotyped, even de- cadent. “But the moral aspects of the |early civilization which the grave presents are wholly new and unex- pected. Probably here too we have a survival of a much earlier custom. Certainly the graves of the common people show nothing of the king, and by the time men began to write history, they had either forgotten or were ashamed to record the bar- barous practices of their fore- fathers. “For the history of ecivilization the discovery is of the greatest im- portance, It has eupplied definite information which is absolutely new to science, and it affords material for theories still more far reach- ing." Thompsonville Grand List Nears 19 Million Mark Thompsonville, Jan. 13 (P—De- spite the vigilance of the new famous Horse Thief society hers, & decrease of 36 in the number of the animals over last year is shown in the new grand list just completed by the as- sessors. The automobile and not the {horse thief, however is responsible. An increase of §618,604 in the tax- able property in the town of Enfield is revealed in the list, the total of which is $18,709,184. The largest as- sessment is that of the Bigelow- Hartford company, whose valuation of $7,585,800 shows an increase of $105,000 for the year. Francis Browne, democratic can- didate for state comptroller in the last election, is the largest individual tax payer with an assessment of $109,226. CHILD SUFFOCATED North Adams, Mass., Jan. 12 (P— A collapsed rubber balloon which he sucked into his mouth while at play, caused the death of Francis 8heldon, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sheldon. Medical Examiner B. E. Howe said death was due to accidental asphyxiation. LINDBERGH AGREES TORLY FORTHER Now Plans fo Cootinne Into South America Balboa, Canal Zone, Jan. 12— —The trail of the Lone Eagle will extend to South America before he returns to his home port of 8t. Louis. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh de- cided definitely to continue his good- will tour and the Spirit of St. Louis will be thoroughly checked before it carries him on a new venture. Wish- ing to be certain of all details, such as facilities for landing, the flyer said that he. could not yet set dates for his future flights nor give their sequgpce. b Lipdbergh will fly from Colon to Venezuela, landing as near as pos- sible to Caracas. Caracas is some nine hundred miles trom Colon by afrline and the flight will be over mountainous and dangerous country. By ordinary means of travel it takes six days to make the journey from Panama to Caracas. From Caracas he will follow the Antilles making stops at 8t. Thomas one of the Virgin islands, Porto Rico, Maiti and Santo Domingo, en route to Havana, Cuba. A flight of 675 miles over water from Caracas to St. Thomas, would bring him to the nearest point of his projected |island itinerary. Sentimental young girls pilfered the flowers which were at Lind- bergh's place when he left the din- ner table at the home of General Willlam 8. Graves commandant of the Canal Zone. Lindbergh in formal black evening dress was a conspicuous figure at the dinner among ‘the white uniforms and the white evening dress of the tropics. Adding to the illumination of the tropical scene on the lawn of Geny eral Grave's home, army aviators' flew over the post dropping floating flares. These cast a weird light on the hills and valleys of the Canal Zone. Panama {s 48 hours from New York by airplane Lipdbergh said in a speech at a public reception in his honor. Twenty-seven thousand American residents of the Canal Zone attended the reception. Commercial aviation service be- tween the United States and Panama is entirely practicable, he said, and it ehould be connected with the United Btates by lines running either thrugh Cuba or Mexico. Airlines could then be extended to South . NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JANUARY J2, 1088 Americs, he sald. Informed that aviation ciscles here expeeted the Fremch flfers, Dieudonne Costes and _Jaseph Le- brix, to arrive sbortly from Guaya- quil, Ecuador, Lindbergh he hoped to meet them, He declared he the fiyers in Europe an had a4 had the highest regard for them. Condemnation to Pope Rome, Jan. 13 UP—The newspaper Brillante today sald that a “condem- nation” of Pope Plus for kaving “favored the anti-Bolshevist move- ment with funds” arrived at the Vi ican in the form of & registered. I ter from Moscow addressed directly to the pontiff. The docudient was signed by high personalities of the Orthodox 8ynod and by Alexis I. Ry- koff, Joseph M. Stalin and others. 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